SEATTLE, Nov. 23.—Three plans,
•co-ordinated into one big campaign,
for solving the problem of Seattle's
unemployed have been definitely
launched today by the new Chamber
of Commerce, working in conjunc
tion with Henry Pauley, leader.of
the itinerant workers now in the
city, and a number of county and
city officials. The scheme, evolved
after consideration of several
months, contemplates taking care of
all classes of the unemployed—the
married resident, married and single
itinerant and the common variety of
street beggar.
Through the plan worked out by
the charities endorsement bureau of
the commercial organisation, 1,000
acres of logged-off land in Wash
ington. the greater part of which is
located in King county, have become
availab'e and gangs of men will be
placed at work clearing this ground
as soon as possible, and at reason
able wages. This acreage has been
listed by the bureau and information
bearing on the amount of ground to
be. cleared, its location and the num
ber of men required for the iaoo\
is being prepared.
VERA CRUZ, Nov. 23.—The Am
erican forces began embarking for
the United States at 9 o’clock this
morning. General Funjston estab
lished his headquarters aboard the
transport' Christobal, a souvenir of
the Sapnish-American war.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. — Tne
■five warships now in Mexican waters
will remain there to protect Ameri
«an interests until the Mexicans can
establish a stable government.
BOULDER, Mont., Nov. 23.—
Miekie McDonald, leader of the
Butte Mineworkers and Joseph
Bradley were convicted yesterday
for forcibly deporting miners during
the labor troubles in Butte in Sep
tember. The former was sentenced
£0 three and the latter to five years
in the penitentiary.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—W. L. Dis
ton, former surveyor general of
Alaska, is dead here. Mr. Diston
came to Chicago soon after being
succeeded by the present Incumbent,
Chas. Davidson. He was popular
with all classes jn the territory and
had a wide acquaintance there be
cause of his long term of service in
t$ie office. He was a member of the
G. A. R. and several other fraternal
and patriotic orders, which will take
part in the funeral ceremonies.
SEATTLE, Nov. 21—Bishop Peter
Trimble Rowe, who is here prepar
ing to return to the North early in
Oecember for a winter on the trail,
will visit the coast cities as far up
as Cook's Inlet, and will then strike
into the interior from Cordova or
Valdez, visiting the stations along
tlie Tanana and the Yukon, and even
north of the Yukon and into the
interior territory off the rivers.
•'I do not start out with a pro
gram completely mapped out,” he
said, “so I cannot say when I start
just where I may get to before I
come out again. I find it best to do
some of my traveling in winter
rather than summer, s'nee some
places are more easily reached in
January and February- Tanana
Crossing is one of these. I’ll prob
ably be back in Seattle, which is
practically headquarters for the
diocese of Alaska, in July or August
of next year.”
Bishop Rowe has be.en spending
several months in Washington. Hard
work and the death of Mrs. Rowe
combined in producing a physical
breakdown from which the bishop
has been successfully endeavoring
to recuperate.
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 21.—Jack
Johnson, colored terror of white
hopes, and Sam Langford, another
contestant for the world’s heavy
weight championship, will probably
fight at Havana late in February,
according to Joe Woodman, Lang
gord’s manager.
SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—Mrs. Kate
Kennedy secured a divorce here to
day from J. D. Kennedy, of Candle,
Alaska on the grounds of desertion.
The decree awards her alimony <o
the amount of $60 a month. The
Kennedys are well konwn through
out Alaska.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 19.—General
Carranza has issued a proclamation
declaring that Orizaba is now the
capital of Mexico. Train service at
Vera Cruz has been suspended and
military operations there indicate
that an early battle is probable be
tween the new forces contending for
control of this battle-scarred repub
lic. The probable point at which
this contest will occur is Quefetano,
with Villa at the head of the forces
which are now supposed to be up
holding the Guitearoz adm'nistra
PORTLAND.. Nov. 21.—As a re
sult of the disappearance of J. H.
Van Zandt of Bellingham, a guest at
the Oregon hotel. Captain and Mrs.
A. L. Loomis, proprietors of a
rooming house, have been arrested
pending developments as to Van
Zandt’s whereabouts. The missing
man borrowed $1,300 on a Willam
ette valley farm Thursday and that
night he and the Loomises were
members of a party that visited the
Milwaukee road house. Mr. Van
Zandt hasn't been seen since.
CINCINNATI. Nov. 20.—"There
is nothing about afternoon calls in
the scriptures.” said.Rev. Frederick
Taylor of Indianapolis in an address
:o an assembly of ministers here
today. "I go down town to see the
business men in their places of
business.”
Speaking against the practice of
ministers calling on church women
■rh'de their husbands are at work.
Rev Taylor declared that it “made
more trouble, for the church than it
dees good.”
“I wish I could find the man who
started this thing.” said Taylor.
“You can't land the men in a net of
that sort. You must use a hook and
line and when you have landed one
vou know you have done some
thing.”
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.—Consul
Silliman. in a dispatch filed at
Mexico City last night, reported that
General Obregon’s troops Jiad en
trained for Orizaba and are moving
the offices of the provisional gov
ernment with them from Aguas
Calientes. With this dispatch also
came news that Queretaro had been
abandoned by the federal forces and
occupied by General Villa and his
followers. The city is to be nsed
as a concentration point for Villa’s
army before it is ready for the ad
vance on the City of Mexico.
The national convention will move
from Aguas Calientes to San Louis
Potosi. which will be the temporary
capital.
It Is reported that Puebla has
been captured after a severe engage
ment with Zapata’s forces.
CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—A cable
from Peking tells of propaganda
proceedings towards restoration of
the emperor to the throne. Sun Yu
Gen, a scholar of the old school and
an official, has been Impeached and
imprisoned and twenty other lead
ers have been executed. The former
emperor wrote discouraging the
movement to replace him in power.
FAIRBANKS. Nov. 18. — Jas.
Sherard, who is the locator of sev
eral claims on Tolorana creek has
applied to the local United States
land office for a permit in the names
of himself and J. C. Kinney to cut1
1,000,000 feet of saw timber in the
new Tolovana mining district. Kin
ney has a sawmll over in the Koyu
kuk whch will probably be moved
over the snow as soon as travel be
comes possible or a mill may be
taken out from here.
This is one of the encouraging
signs of the new camp No one as yet
’s willing to assert that a paystreak
has been found, for according to re
liable reports one hasn’t been dis
covered. but the prospects are fine.
Sherard reports that bedrock was
struck at close to 30 feet in two
thaws and that gold was found on it.
There seems to be several feet of
ground carrying gold. He did not
see the bottom of this hole, but
says he understood that it showed
*hrec-cent pans. It lies on the left
limit on the north side of Liven
good creek and Sherard and other
experienced miners believe that the
pay will finally be uncovered on the
south side, where it has been found
in all the Fairbanks districts.
A great many holes have been
sunk by Kinney & Conrad and their
partners. With their little prospect
ing boiler they generally make two
thaws which they find sufficient to
send the hole dowm from 25 to 30
feet. Thi3 gives them their location
work, required by law', before, re
cording can be done, and they have
been going no further than this
| work.
Mr. Sherard does not know how
many men are in the district but
says that at one time at least 500
were staking claims.
Mike Hess Creek is staked from
its head down several miles. The
divide separating it from Livengood
is not over 40 or 50 feet high, Sher
ard says, and it is nil inpractieallv
the same, district. Kinney, Hanson
and Sherard staked the first claims
•n Mike Hess at the head of the
narrows between Livengood and
Mike Hess domes. It all prospects
well, as does also the, gro.ind at the
■’onfluenee of Livengood creek and
the middle fork of the Tolovana
river wvr*’
WASHINGTON, Nor. 18.—Declar
ing it impossible to defend the
Manama canal and American terri
torial possessions by present or pro
posed garrisons, unless they can be
rapidly reinforced, Major General
William W. Wotherspoon, chief of
the general st^ff and president of the
board of ordnance and fortication,
has again recommended increase of
the regular army to a membership
of 205,000.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Mid
shipman Claud O. Kell, from Nome,
Alaska, because of his high standing
while a cadet has been promoted to
the rank of lieutenant and has been
assigned to the command of one of
the twelve companies in the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. Mr. Kell was
formerly a drug clerk at Nome and
was appointed to the academy by
Delegate Wickersham
NEW YORK. Nov. 18.—John
Treadwell, one of the original own
ers of the famous Treadwell mine at
Douglas, has filed a petition In hank,
ruptcy, the liabilities being placed
at S3.000.000 with no asse.ts.
Mr. Treadwell realized a substan
tial fortune out of the sale of his
interest in the mine, taking part .if
his pay in stock.. He removed to
New York but made investments in
California where, he is supposed to
have met with reverses. Among the
investments which proved unprofit
able were coal mines.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. IS.—CoL
D. C. Jacklin, the mining magnate
who is the head of the syndicate
which is developing at Juneau, what
is to be the largest quartz mine m
the world, expressed the belief today
that Great Britain’s pronouncement
that copper will be considered abso
lutely a contraband article, will
cause a reduction of 800.000,000
pounds a year in the production of
the metal in the United States.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 18.—Presi
dent Wilson, in a letter to Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo, summed up
the business outlook of the United
States as bright with the promise of
the best things. “With fundamental
wrongs, righted," he said, “all dif
ferences will now clear away.” Using
a rural figure of speech, he said that
the soil had everywhere been laid
bare and out of It monopoly will
slowly be eradicated: that the Euro
pean war had made it necessary for
the United States to mobilize its
resources in the most effective way.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Secre
tary William B. Wilson, of tne de
partment of labor, has started
things going, and the newly organ
ized federal department of labor is
going to try and help the jobless
man to the manless job.
secretary Wilson has arranged for
practical co-operation between his
own force, the post-office department
and the department of agriculture,
something out of the ordinary, for
these big departments of the gov
ernment seldom work together.
In pratccial operation he is organ.,
izing the United States into a num
ber of districts. In each of which he
will have a labor employment head
quarters, under an officer of the
government from the immigration
service, who, through the news
papers. local immigration offices and
rural mail carriers, postmaster, etc.,
will advise farmers and others need
ing ires of the wnereabouts of men
wanting work, and will attend to
bring'ng the man and the job
together.
For the past six or seven years
the Immigration Bureau has con
ducted a division of information i'i
Washington designed to let people
know where work was plentiful; it
has run an employment on a small
scale in New York City. At last
Secretary Wilson has taken hold of
and intends making it a practical,
living organixation. It is hoped to
have it in working order before the
first of the New Year.
SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Lieut. Fred,
erick Mears of the Alaska Engineer
ing Commission will leave tonight
for Prince Rupert to observe the
operations of the elaborate coal
handling terminals at that city. He
will also traverse a portion of the.
Grand Trunk railway studying con
struction of the mountain division
before proceeding to Washington.
Messrs. Edes and Riggs, the other
members of the commission, will
leave for the capital in a few days.
PASADENA, Nov. 20.—Robert J.
Burdette, the famous humorist, is
dead here after a long and linger
ing illness. As lecturer and for many
years editor of the Burlington
Hawkeye and later on the staffs of
the Brooklyn Eagle and the Los
Angeles Times, he created laughs
for and drove dull care away from
many thousands of admirers in **
country as well as in foreign lands.
He was 70 years old, and a native
of Pennsylvania.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 23.—
All the officials and other employes
of the municipality of Vancouver, B.
C., have, by order of the. city coun
cil, had their salaries .seduced from
20 to 30 per cent, to take effect im
mediately. 1
SAN FRANCISCO. Not. 18.—The
cruiser Maryland returned today
from her latest test of Alaskan coal
and proceeded to the Mare Island
station. The result of this trial will
be forwarded to Washington and
will remain an official secret until
made public by tbe war department.
This test was the first on coal from
the Matanuska fields, taken out by
Jaek Dalton last* winter and shipped
to Bremerton, where it was held
awaiting the return of the Maryland
from Mexican waters. •
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 18.—Capt. E.
T. Barnette and wife have filed a
complaint asking the federal court
to set aside the famous trust deed
allowing the receiver of the Wash
ington-AIaska bank to take posses
sion today of a large Mexican ranch
and the Fairbanks city property, for
the benefit of depositors. The deed
executed in 1911, was not contested
until the day before becoming effec
tive.
The Barnettes claim duress and
fear of their lives or serious injury
caused them to sign the trust deed.
The property was once valued at a
million dollars, but is worth much
less now. It is about the last asset
of the bank. The receiver is in the
south.
VALDEZ. Nov. IS.—Tony Licho
takus, alias Papas, convicted in the
IT. s district court here last week
for assault with intent to commit
murder, was sentenced by Judge
Brown to serve a term of twenty
years in the penitentiary at McNeil’s
Island.
LONDON. Nov. 24.—The House
of Commons will petition the king
for permission to erect a memorial
monument to Lord Roberts, field
marshal, recently deceased.
SEATTLE. Nov 19—Captain Glen
Edgerton of the Alaska Road Com
mission, will leave tonight for
Charleston, North Carolina, where
he is to be married on December IS,
to Miss Hessin of that sftv.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19—Addres
sing the National Association of
Railways, Commissioner Charles A.
Prouty, director of valuations of the
Intertafe commerce commission, said
the freight rate problem and public
ownership must wait untiT a physical
valuation of railway property can be
made, which work will cost at least
$50,0150,000. Two thirds of this
nost, he said, will be in the prepara
tion of maps.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
ro C. M. Gage. Peter COnaton, Wil
liam Farrell, Maurice O’Donnell
aiad John Ryan:
You are hereby notified that we
the undersigned, have expended in
labor and improvements the sum of
Ore Hundred Dollars during the
years -1911, 1912, 1913, and 1914 on
eech of the placer etainas known as
New York Association claim an i
Boston Association claim, located on
Young creek, a tributary of Nisina
river, Nizina mining district, Chltlna
recording district. Third Judicial
division. Territory of Alaska, and
where, the said claims are more fully
described.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to bold said claims
under provisions of the law concern
ing annual labor npon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said claime.
And you are further notified that
if within 90 days after the last pub
lication of this notice you fail to con
tribute your proportion of said vex
penditure. your interest in said
claims will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owners,
under Section 2324, Revised Statutes
of the United States.
ELI McQUADE,
GEORGE DEMPSEY,
Agents Dexter C. Cayouette,
Co-owners.
Date of first pub Nov. 17, 1914.
Date of last pub., Feb. 23. 1915.
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.—The
American Federation of Labor at its
session today voted down a resolu
tion endorsing eight-hour law legis
lation.
The federation re-elected the old
officers and voted to meet at San
Francisco in ID15.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 18.—The special
grand jury called last week because,
of numerous and serious charges
against city and county officials, was
dismissed today, the supreme court
having held in a case appealed from
Whatcom county, where the Jury
was called unde.r similar conditions,
that the handpicking of a jury by
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