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DAYTON. O., May 24.—Wilbur
Wright, who has been lying in a "hos
pital here for several days with a
high fever, from which he was not
expected to recover, regained con
sciousness yesterday. There is now
a faint hope that he may yet pull
through.
CHICAGO. May 24.—Ty Cobb" the
famous fielder of the' Detholts, has
ben reinstated and will be back in
tne game tomorrow.
LONDON, May 24.—There ti mbre
trouble for the shipping interests,
•the federation haiOrderbd' the trans
port workers to enter upon a general
strike out of sympathy with the light
ermen. This morning thi order was
complied with and as'a result many
vessels are tied up.
TRENTON. May 24.—President
Taft has made speeches in" Csimden,
Burlington andTrenton, large crowds
, «* .,<« s
attending his meetings. In all his
addresses he has warned the voters
against the anarchistic talk of Col.
Roosevelt and made strong appeals
for the people to prevent the dan
gers that are threatened our consti
tutional government. He declared
that the country can well do without
i-e continued presidency of Theodore
Roosevelt.
HAVANA. May 24.—The situation
at Santiago Is so serious that' lt is
probable'American intervention may
soon be necessary. The British
cruiser" Melpbbmene has arrived at
Guantanamo to afford protection to
British subjects.
BOSTON. May 24.—Yesterday was
a day full of interest to the college
men and general public. In botn
scull races the Cornell varsity was
victorious. Harvard was second and
Princeton third. Man? thousands
witnessed the contests and it was a
gala occasion.
DALLAS, May 24.—The advertis
ing men of the United States are
uoldlng an unprecedented convention
for attendance and interest. ' It has
exceeded all expectations. Last
evening it was deelded to hold the
next convention at Boston. A spir
ited contest was entered Into for the
honor.
PORT HANCOCK, Tex., May 24.—
Had it not been for the prevention
of American customs inspectors, Vho
were armed, two refugees who were
swimming in the river would have
been shot by Mexican revolutionists.
The rebels were about to fire when
they were commanded in the name
of the United States to desist, which
tuey reluctantly did.
~PARIS, May 23.—GeorgesTarpen
tler, the middleweight champion of
Lngland and France, added ‘ another
triumph last night to his long list of
victories. He defeated itfiiife tewls,
Uie American favorite, in the twen
tieth round.
NEW ORLEANS,' MajTlS.—The
government is now feeding 140,000
victims of the flood. The work is
being done through the army forces.
The unfortunate men, woman and
children are without homes and ut
terly impoverished.
COLUMBlfSL May 23.—Almost
complete returns show that Roose
velt had a majority over Taft, in the
state of Ohio, 6f 25,000, which will
assure him of the four delegates-at
large. Governor Harmon, on the
Democratic side, carried the state by
io.ooo;
SALEM, May 23 —^ohn B. Dim
ick, one of the leading lawyers of
Oregon, perished slat night during
the burning of his home. The other
members of the housetibld had
sought safety, but the attorney in
endeavoring' to get out some valu
able effects was enveloped in the
flames and was burned to death.
RELLPO, May 23.—The federate
yesterday attacked Huerta, one of the
Orozco strongholds. At the end of
five hours' fighting the rebels were
compelled to retreat, leaving- - many
dead and wounded.
MONTEVIDEO, May 23.—Roald
Amundsen, tre recent discoverer ol
tue South Pole, will leave San Fran
cisco next April on an expedition to
the North Pole.
BUDAPEST, May 23.—The police
and 50,000 striking "Socialisls had a
serious clakh 'this morning'at which
six of the strikers were killed. The
uprising was to protest against the
election of Count Tisza as speaker
of the lower house.
WASHINGTON, May 23.—The
HouBe committee reported adversely
this morning on the wool tariff bill
'which it has been considering for
some time past.
WASHINGTON, May 23.—The
House this morning passed the Pana
ma Canal government bill. It con
tains a provision prohibiting the rail
roads from operating ships through
the canal.
WASHINGTON, May 23.—The
Navy Department has ordered five
hundred marines to Cuba on the
transport Prairie. They are directed
to embark at Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON, May 23.—Con
gressman Wm. B. McKinley, manager
of the Taft campaign, professes to
have confidence that President Taft
will have 600 votes on the first bal
lot, and declares that he will un
doubtedly be nominated. After a
conference with some of his friends
President Taft declares that he be
lieves he already has 570 votes
pledged to him, but that he was go
ing to New Jersey to do some cam
paigning', "to make assurance doubly
sure,” In the effort to secure 21 ad
ditional votes
PORT TOWNSEND, May 23.—It
develops that Norway interests have
been systematically transferring their
h
whaling business to Alaskan «raters.
In order to protect the fisheries their
government has held that in chasing
the whales tney drove them into
shallow water, and that this must
be stopped.
HAVANA, May 22.—Troops have
been rushed to four of the disaffect
ed provinces with the expectation of
quelling the uprising. The cruiser
Cuba has also been ordered to Guan
tanamo.
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Offi
cial circles were somewhat surprised
this morning by the announcement
that Senator Winthrop Murray Crane
would not seek re-election, and that
he would retire from politics at the
expiration of his term, March 13,
1913. He is the present political
manager of President Taft, and his
announcement is taken by some of
his opponents to mean that the
shrewd senator anticipates a gener
al mfet-upr in Republican politics, and
the'elimination of Mr. Taft.
CHICAGO, May 22.—A general
strike of the railway freight han
dlers has been ordered. This will
likely prove of great inconvenience
t
to the large merchants of the coun
try, at least temporarily, as it vdil
take some time before other men suf
ficient to take care of the great vol
umes of freight passing through and
originating here, can be secured.
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Director
of Census Durand has given to the
public a report that places the num
ber of'farms in Alaska at 222, com
Tprrfslng "to,544' acres.'
V * ‘
uuLiUMtfus, May zz.—me ngni
made upon Governor Harmon in his
Home state has' had Its effect, and
early this morning it looked as if
he would lose many of the districts.
But later returns show that Harmon
has not only carried the state, which
also means the four delegates-at
large, but that he will at least con
trol two-thirds of the district dele
gates in the state. Governor Wilson
was his strong-opponent and will get
possibly fourteen votes from the
state.
BOSTON, May 21.—Rev. Richeson
paid the penalty yesterday for the
murder of the young girl to whom
he had been engaged to be marriad
He was electrocuted at 12:17, and
his last words were: “God will care
for. my soul. I repent of all my s’ns
and freely forgive everybody. I am
willing to die.”
CAMBRIDGE, May 21.—Colonel
Roosevelt asserted that there would
be no compromise at the Republican
convention at Chicago. He said yes
terday ‘afternoon,' "I’ll name' the
compromise candidate, "and he'll be
ini”
JIMINEZ, May 21.—Each day the
Mexican Insurrection seems to come
nearer to an end. This morning many
were killed fighting Bouthwest of
Torreon. Among the number were
bfenerals Caesar banales and Abelar
do Amaya, two of the best officers
that Gbnerkl Grbico has had to assist
him. 1 Escalon Citjr, where Orozco
has been making his headquarters,
was evacuated today.
DALLAS, May 21.—The Associat
ed Advertising Club of America are
meeting here today in annual ses
sion. This is one of the largest gath
erings that the association has ever
ueld, representatives being present
from every state in the Union.
DAYTON, O., May 21.—Wilbur
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Wright, the famous aviator, is at t^ie
point of death. He is laid low with
a raging fever and it is not expected
that he can survive.
HAVANA, May 21.—There is trou
ble among the negroes throughout
the island. They are on the verge of
a revolt because of the denial of po
litical rewards to whicn they claim
they are entitled. A war of inde
pendence is threatened.
PRINCE RUPERT, May 21.—Mat
uev Dow, one of Seattle’s most
prominent contractors and a man
who has always been prominent in
politics, died here this morning
from an attack of heart disease, to
which he was subject.
CHICAGO, May 21.—Harry S.
New, chairman of a sub-committee on
arrangements for the national Re
publican convention, announced to
day that Senator Elihu Root, of New
York, has been selected as temporary
chairman of the Chicago convention.
FRIESACK, Prussia, May 21.—
Prince George, son of the Duke of
Cumberland, was killed in an an* -
mobile accident. He was on his way
to attend the funeral of his uncle,
King Frederick.
WASHINGTON, May 21.—The
senate committee that has been in
vestigating Senator Lorimer’s right
to retain his seat, submitted a ma:
jority report that is favorable to the
gentleman from Illinois.
WASHINGTON, May 21.—Repre
sentative Wyatt Atkin, of South Car
olina, created a mild sensation in the
House this morning. He introduced
a resolution instructing Secretary
Wilson to explain why his son had
been appointed to a position with the
Colorado Irrigation Company.
mauaua x .~ixjuu, iuaj «x.
thur Stringer, the poet and novelist,
had an untimely ending this morning
of a brilliant career. He was work
ing with an oil stove when an explo
sion occurred and he was almost in
stantly killed. His wife and baby
were standing by watching him, and
they were also injured, it is feared
dangerously.
LOS ANGELES, May 21.—Federal
officials have announced that within
six weeks the entire holdings of oil
lands in California, by the Southern
Pacific railroad, will revert to the
government.
CINCINNATI, May 21.—President
Taft yesterday said that if Colonel
Roosevelt is defeated for the nomi
nation he will try to wreck the Re
publican party. He compared Teddy
to Louis XIV, who said: ‘‘The state,
I am it.”
NEW ORLEANS, May 20.—The
steamship Santona was seized here
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for endeavoring to transport arms
into Mexico. She had a large num
ber of guns and ammunition on
board.
niswjrutu inejvvs, va., may du.—
The latest and greatest of the Amer
ican dreadnaugnts, the Texas, was
launched on Saturday afternoon amid
much splendor and imposing cere
monies.
BARROW INFERNES, England,
May 20.—The Japanese cruiser Kon
go, the largest ever built for the Jap
anese, was launched on Saturday.
EL PASO, Mey 20.—The rebels
have fallen back eleven miles north
of Escalon, with the federals in pur
suit. It is believed that a conflict
is inevitable and that by reason of
their weakened forces the rebels will
be severely punished, with large loss
of life.
. CHICAGO, May 20.—This morn
ing two men and three women were
diving in an automobile when an ac
dent occurred to the machinery, and
being unable to properly control the
automobile, it plunged into the Calu
met river. All five persons were
drowned. Although the accident was
witnessed by many, no one noticed
the number of the machine and thus
far it has been Impossible to secure
the names of the unfortunates.
CHICAGO, May 20.—C. C. Dillon,
who was under suspicion of having
murdered an unknown woman in a
bungalow at Los Angeles some time
ago, and who realized that he was
under guard, committed suicide this
morning by throwing himself under
a train on the elevated railroad. It
is thought that the murdered woman
was Mary Quinn, of this city, who is
missing, and who had gone west.
She was a friend of Dillon’s.
Shortly before five o’clock this af
ternoon Judge Cushman re-assigned
the trial of the Fairbanks bank cases.
He vacated the order fixing the date
on June 24 and set the case against
Capt. E. T. Barnette for December
2 and the cases against Hawkins and
others for, December 9. The marshal
wgs instructed to so notify the mar
shal and district attorney at Fair
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banks, and copies of the official or
der will be sent to the attorneys for
the government and defendants as
soon as the same is made.
E. A. Patrick, of Spokane, and W.
A. Patrick, of Victoria, are mining
men who arrived on the Mariposa.
Tney will go to the interior country,
where they are interested in some
valuable copper property.
L. G. Hinckle, a mining man who
is on his way to the interior copper
country, arrived last night and is at
the Rainier-Grand.
Another candidate for delegate to
Congress from Alaska has formally
been launched. He is u-e nominee of
the Socialists of Alaska, and by name
is Kazis Krauczunas, of Ketchikan,
the man who is now chief inspector
in charge of the immigration depart
ment for the Alaska district.
A convention was held in Fair
banks at whicn the choice was made,
the coast local organizations of the
party being represented by proxy
through national organizer John C.
Chase.
The nomination of Mr. Krauczu
nas was unanimous. The locals par
ticipating in the convention, either
by proxy or by delegates present,
were Ketchikan, Cordova, Juneau,
Valdez, Nome, Deadwood, Cleary. Ol
nes, Petersburg and Fairbanks.
In the district court this morn
ing various motions were disposed
of and seven applicants were exam
ined and admitted to citizenship.
With their witnesses, they are as
follows:
Julius Rooning; witnesses, W. J.
Feaster and H. W. Ross.
Henry Theodor Hoffman; wit
nesses, Rudolph Voigt and Edward
Hegner.
Arthur William Gough; witnesses,
H. I. O’Xeill and M. A. Koonce.
Thomas Joseph Tallent; witnesses,
R. J. Barry and J. Rowan.
Robert Michael Healy; witnesses.
M. J. Sullivan and M. O. Breedman.
When court convened this after
noon the Fagerberg case was again
resumed and was before the court all
afternoon.
Mining Engineer W. E. Dunkle,
repreesnting the Guggenheims, de
parted on the steamer Dora, en route
to the Willow’ Creek gold camp. The
Guggenheims have organized a com
pany to take over and develop pros
pects, and Mr. Dunkle is the engineer
who examines the property and
makes recommendations thereon.—
Seward..Gateway.
Recent information indicates that
Robert W. Baxter, the newly elected
head of the transportation interests
of the Alaska Syndicate, will sail
from Seattle for Cordova on June
first. He assumed his official duties
at Seattle, as executive head of the
various companies on May 15. It
was at a special meeting of the direc
tors of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany and other Alaska enterprises,
held in the company’s office in Seat
tle, on May 10th, when the resigna
tion of J. H. Young was reecived. The
following is the official list of the
companies as now’ constituted:
Alaska Steamship Company
S. W. Eccles, of New York, presi
lent.
Robert W. Baxter, of Seattle, first
Vice-president.
W. H. Bogle, of Seattle, second
vice-president.
Charles J. Jones, of Seattle, traffic
manager.
Copper River & Northwestern Rail
way Company.
S. W. Eccles, of New York, presi
lent.
Robert W. Baxter, of Seattle, first
vice-president.
Charles J. Jones, of Seattle, traffic
manager.
R. W. Baxter was also elected as
president of the North Coast Lighter
age Company, the Northwestern
Commercial Company and the North
western Steamship Company, Ltd.
W;hen Mr. Baxter comes to Alaska
he will be accompanied by Stephen
Birch, vice-president and general
manager of the Kennecott Mines
Company.
WASHINGTON. May 25.—The
Navy Department has issued an order
for the third and fourth -divisions of
the Atlantic fleet to sail for Key
West.
(From Cordova Dally Alaskan.)
A. J. Elliott, of Cnica o, one of the
officers in the company that controls
the Hubbard-Elliott property, in the
Kuskulana district, arrived on the
Mariposa last night and is a guest at
the Rainier-Grand.
Grant Reed and wife arrived on
the Mariposa last night. Mr. Reed
this morning assumed his former du
ties as agent at the depot of the Cop
per River & Northwestern railway.
The position was temporarily filled
by H. J. Brandt, formerly of Califor
nia. He has been assigned to duty
at Chitina. relieving the experienced
agent Win. Lawson, and took the
train this morning to assume his new
duties. :
C. H. Buschman, manager of ti e
Northwestern Fisheries Compan r,
was an arrival on the Mariposa. I e
will go to Orca and inspect the can
nery these, which is operated by his
company. He will then continue to
the westward.
Elmer E. Ritchie, attorney and
mayor of Valdez, is in attendance at
court, having four or five cases on the
calendar.
The U. S. survey boat Taku. which
has been laid up during the winter
in Eyak slough, has been placed In
commission for the summer’s workj.
Capt. Rude, who is in command, wilfl
spend most of the summer making
a survey of the Port Wells district.
Tom Cloninger, one of the propri
etors of the Chitina hotel, is in towty
purchasing material for an enlarge
ed building. He is adding two stot
ries to the Log Cabin building,
which will give him fourteen addi-f
tional rooms, with bath. The new|
building will be used in connection
with the present hotel, and will be
known as the Hotel Chitina Annex.
Mr. Cloninger states that increasing
business makes necesasry the new
| improvement. j
Manager c. W. Joint of the Ta
nana Valley Railway, at Fairbanks,
has received word from President
Falcon Joslin to the effect that the
electric car ordered by the president
for the local run has been started
across the continent from the New
Jersey factory. For three years Mr.
Joslin has been watching the devel
opment of the storage battery and
has had his order in for a car as
soon as they proved thoroughly satis
factory. Last season the order could
not be filled before navigation closed.
The new carr •will have a carrying
capacity of 25 persons and is to make
three round trips dally between Fair
banks and Gilmore. The batteries
can be recharged from the current
supplied by the N. C. Co. It is ex
pected that the auto will arrive at
Fairbanks about July 1, and will be
in operation ten days later.
F. C. Gorom, master mechanic for
the Copper River & Northwestern
Railway, who recently resigned his
position and who leaves for the out
side tonight, was given a pleasant
surprise last night. Every man who
worked under him at the shops rec
ognized his great ability, fairness
and consideration of the rights of
employes. So they decided to give
him some expression of the real af
fection and high regard with which
he was held. A banquet w-as ar
ranged at he Lakeview hotel last
night and at the hour of nine Mr.
Gorom was summoned. When he
entered the big room and found it
full of the men who worked with him
ue was greatly surprised.
After all enjoyed an appetizing re
past, the toastmaster, A. N. Hayes,
commanded the guest of the evening
to arise, and then announced that in
his departure he was carrying with
him the high regard and esteem of
all those who worked under him.
Also that they wished to chain their
affection with bars of gold so that it
might never escape. Upon behalf of
those assembled he then presented
Mr. Gorom with a beautiful gold nug
get watch chain. Attached to it was
a nugget of native copper contain
ing a gold plate, with suitable in
scription. In addition he was pre
sented with an ivory cribbage board.
Mr. Gorom w’as the most surprised
man in the community and bad dif
ficulty in expressing his deep appre
ciation of these testimonials from his
friends. After a few general re
marks from many present the gath
ering adjourned. The former mas
ter mechanic will spend a couple of
days at Portland, to confer with J.
H. Young, now president of the North
Bank road, and then will go on to
Cheyenne.
Boost for the Alaska Semi-Centen
nial Exposition, Fairbanks, 1017.
XOTICE OF FOBFBrrVBB
To DAN S. ItAiW and JOE WIL
LIAMS, their heirs or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby noti
fied that Clifford Cayonette, the sub
scribed, and your co-owner, has ex
pended the following sums In the per
formance of the annual labor for the
years 1909, 1910 and 1911, for your and
each of your respective interests, in the
following described mineral claims, to
wit. the sum of $125.00 for the com
pletion of the work required for the
interest of Joe Williams: the sum of |
$625.00 for the completion of the work
required for the Interest of Dan S. Kaln,
in the property on Copper Creek, Nazi
na Mining District, ahd known as
Claims No. 2, No. 3, No. 7. No. 8 and
No. 10.
If within ninety days after the per
sonal sort tee of this notice upon you, or
within ninety days after the publication
thereof, you fail or refuse to contribute
your, and each of your, portions of such
expenditure, as hereinbefore set forth,
and pay to said Clifford Cayonette the
several amounts so expended by him for
the completion of the work required for
your several interests, you, and each
of you. upon whom this notice is serv
ed. will forfeit your, and each of your
several interests in said claims to said
Clifford Cayonette, your co-owner, who
has made the said required expenditure,
all ns provided In said Section 2324 R. S.
U. S.
CLIFFORD CAYONETTE.
February 24, 1912.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
Notice of Forfeiture to Co-Owners.
To W. E. Gilkey, M. Gilkey, C. Gil
key, and to their heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that prior to January 1st,
1912, I, the undersigned, expended
the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars in
labor, improvements and assessment
work upon the Company Group No. 2
of Placer Mining Claims, the Alice
Group of Placer Mining Claims, and
the Lake Placer Mining Claim, and
conveying water to and upon said
claims situate in the Chisna Mining
District, on the Middle Fork River.
If within ninety days after the publi
cation of this notice you, W. E. Gil
key, M. Gilkey, C. Gilkey and heirs
and assigns, and any other persons
having or claiming an interest in and
to said above described placer claims
and water rights, fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure as a co-owner, your in
terest in the said above described
placer claims and water rights will
become the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, who has made
the necessary expenditures required
under the U. S. Statutes.
MRS. E. STEVENS.
First publication March 23, 1912.
Last publication June 22, 1912.
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Have you tried those meals at the
Overland Restaurant? They’re great.
LONDON, May 14.—Victor Louis
Mason seems to have been destined
to an early death. He had been
booked for passage on the Titanic,
but at the last minute changed his
plans. He had a narrow escape there,
but In a later instance he was not
so successful. Yesterday he accom
panied E. V. Fisher, the English
aviator, in an aerial flight. An ac
cident happened and both men were
precipitated to the ground, resulting
in almost instant death to botn. Ma
son was formerly a well known
young man about Washington, where
he served as private secretary to
Secretaries of War Russell A. Alger
and Elihu Root.
L. P. Schumacher, the big meat
man of the interior, brought up 7S
nead of cattle and 200 sheep. These
he shipped out to Chitina this morn
ing where his man will arrange to
take them over the trail to Fair
banks.
A big line of fishing tackle at the
Chitina Pharmacy, bee it.
I Saddle horses
t"
I am prepared to handle
anything from Chitina to
Kennecott at the!best rates.
T\
Jack Lawrence 5
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