Late Telegraph News
OYSTER BAY, March 25—Pre
parations are busily making for the
wedding of Miss Ethel Carew Roose
t elt, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Theo
dore Roosevelt, to Dr. Richard Der
hv, of this city, on Friday April 4.
The wedding will be in the Episcopal
Church here and a reception will fol
low at the Roosevelt residence on
Saeamore Hill. The bridal couple
will sail the next day for a honey
moon trip to Europe.
WASHINGTON, March 25—Robert
M. x-inoell, Jr., chief of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, has re
signed and gone to Wilmington, Del.
Heads of the two scientific bureaus
of the department of commerce, Dr.
Otto H. Tittman of the Coast and
geodetic survey and Dr. Samuel W.
Stratton of the bureau of standards,
have been advised by Secretary Red
field that they are to retain their po
sitions.
CAMBRIDGE, March 25—Prof.
Charles W. Eliot, president of Har
vard University, has declined the post
of Ambassador to Great Britain.
President Wilson was anxious that he
accept, but Dr. Eliot is reluctant
about entering upon diplomatic
duties at his advanced age of 79.
SEATTLE, March 25—The report
comes from the south that a tornado
has practically cut off Alabama from
the rest of the world. Six are known
to have been killed. Florida also
felt the effects of the tornado’s
blight. * x>ffR!R
SEATTLE, March 25—The fine
new steamship Santa Cruz, which
will be the first passenger vessel in
<the first all-water service between
here and New York, will arrive, at
San Francisco April 5. The Santa
Cruz is coming through the Strait of
Magellan and will sail by that route
until the completion of the Panama
Canal. The Santa Clara and other
steamships for the freight and pas
senger traffic of the Atlantic and Pa.
cific Steamship Company, as the
Grace Company is called, are now
building.
CHICAGO, March 22—Albert Fink,
attorney for the defendants in the
trial of the Matanuska coal cases,
made a sensational allegation yes
terday afternoon. He said, “I don’t
want to charge any one with con
siracy, in the absence of conclusive
proof, but there ars suspicious cir
cumstances that lead me to think that'
this trial is being managed in the in.
terest of the Guggenheims and
Morgan, with the intent of driving the
independent operators out of the
country.” The observation caused
a sensation in the court room, which
led the presiding Judge Kenesaw M.
Landis, to at once reply, “You will
have the assistance of the Court in
bringing such witnesses to testify as
will tend to substantiate your
charge.”
WASHINGTON, March 24—An
other old-time Republican office hold
er has resigned. It is Willis L.
Moore, chief of the weather bureau.
He is in the department of agrlcul.
ture and it is said that Secretary
Houston will soon announce his suc
cessor.
SALEM, March 22—George and
Charles Humphreys, brothers, who
were convicted of the murder of Mrs.
Eliza Griffith, have been sentenced to
hang on June 11.
PRIS, March 24—The Eiffel tower
caught a complete message that was
flashed from the Arlington naval sta
tion in America. This is regarded as
cne of the notable accomplishments
of the system that is gradually be.
coming perfected.
WASHINGTON, March 24—On
■'Tturday National Committeeman Z.
R Cheney called at the department of
justice and urged the appointment of
L. T. Erwin, as Marshal for the
fourth Alaska division. Marshal
Love was recently reappointed by
President. Taft, but his nomination
was not'.(tyjf&rined by the Senate, so
that a new appointment may be made
at opge. ^nd this Mr. Cheney re
«rBS^ena*';,ii.'V,-"
SEATTLE, March 20—A syndicate
of well-known Alaskans have obtain
ed control of the famous old steam
ship Corwin and intend fiting her up
for the freight and passenger trade
between Nome and Kotzebue, an
Alaska settlement well within the
Arctic Circle. The vessel will have
new boilers installed and her cabins
remodeled to accommodate 102 pas
sengers. She will carry about 250
tons of freight.
Under present plans the vessel is
to be ready to leave Seattle for Nome
May 15 and she is expected to be the
first vessel from the South to reach
SewardPeninsula this spring. After
the Corwin delivers her supplies at
Nome she will be put on the Kee
walik and Kotzebue. Included in
the cargo the vessel will take from
Seattle will be a dredging outfit for
operation on Candle Creek.
WASHINGTON, March 22—Many
members of Congress who have iven
considerable thought to the methods
by whicu the coal lands of Alaska
may be opened up realize that it will
be necessary to move cautiously in
older to avoid complications. Tne
Interior department has canceled
hundreds of claims and while, under
present laws it is not possible for the
locators to bring action against the
government, many of them are wait
ing some move that will permit them
to go into the courts against the in
divduals or companies who might se
cure leasing or other rights from the
Government. The claimants might
succeed in delaying maters, and a
sentiment is growing in favor of the
bill introduced by Senator Wesley L.
Jones. This provides that an appeal
may be taken from the Interior De
partment to the courts in cases affect
ing the public domain.
Various organizations in Seattle
are following the suggestion of the
Cordova Chamber of Commerce and
memorializing President Wilson and
Congress to open up Alaska. Among
the recent actions taken was the fol
lowing:
Whereas, Despite the fact that the
territory of Alaska has never been
given proper consideration by the
government at Washington, but has
been hampered by unjust restric
tions which have hindered the devel
opment of its marvelous resources,
and prevented its progress, yet, dur
ing the forty-six years of American
j occupancy, it has added $500,000,000
to the wealth of the United States,
and,
Wheras, The first recognition of
justice to Alaska was given when the
Democratic party following its prin
ciples of self-government, forced the
passage of a law creating a territorial
Legislature for Alaska, and,
Whereas, A definite government
policy is necessary to promote the de
velopment of Alaska, and some defi
nite course should be adopted by the
government without further delay,
now therefore be it
Resolved, By the King County
Democratic Club of Seattle, Wash
ing ton, as follows:
1. That we deeply appreciate the
action initiated by the Democratic
House of Representatives in the last
Congress.
2. That we respectfully urge up
on the President that he recommend
to Congress that the consideration of
Aia^kans affairs be made a part of the
program for the special session to
the end that a definite government
policy, as liberal as possible, but defi
nite in any event, be promptly estab
lished for the development of the
natural resources of Alaska, especi
ally the coal, deposits, and that rail
roads be constructed from the Paci
fic Coast of Alaska to the great in
terior waterways.
Be it further resolved, That copies
of these resolutions be forwarded to
the President of the United States, to
the delegates in Congress from Alas
ka, to the secretary of the interior,
and to the chairman of the commit
tees on territories in the Senate and
House of Representatives.
Delegate Wickersham, who is now
on his return to Washington, after
having spent a few days at Juneau,
has other hobbies besides politics.
One of the principle ones is the his,
tory of the land of his adoption. He
is proud of Alaska’s record, and in
order that others may have a better
knowledge of the country he is going
to issue a history of the territory one
of these days that will contain every
bit of information on development
and growth from the time the first
white man arrived .here. He has
been gathering the facts for many
years, and since going to Washing
ton; as a delegate, he has had .two
other men helping him. It will still
be some years before his history is
issued, but when it does appear he
says it will be complete. Aside from
the several Russian books on the sub
ject, which he has had translated, he
has a copy of every report on Alaska
and her indsutries issued by the
government, as well as a list of the
names of every man that ever held
office in the territory.
John H. Bunch, freight and pas
senger agent of the Alaska Steamship
Company and the Copper River &
Northwestern Railway recently as
sumed the duties of general freight
and passenger agent of those two cor
porations. Mr. Bunch was employed
in the traffic department of the
Northern Pacific Railway Company at
Seattle and Tacoma for ten years,
and before coming to the Northwest
was with the Burlington route in
Iowa. He was in the service of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
about ten years. Mr. Bunch served
with both the Northwestern Steam,
ship Company and the old Alaska
Steamship Company before theii
consolidation. He joined the Alas
ka Steamship Company as clerk tc
President Charles E. Peabody in
1903.
A recent order requires a hearing
to be heid at the Juneau land office
on April 15, in a number of coal
land case wherein the claimants have
had charges preferred against theii
entry of the land.
The lands involved are in what is
known as the Cook inlet coal fields
on Kenai peninsula. The charges
are to the effect that there was un
lawful collusion in the matter oi
making the locations and that the
locators did not make the locations in
good faith and that the locators did
not proceed to open up or improve
any mine or mines embraced in theii
locations. The following claimants
most of whom live in Detroit, are in
volved in the order:
Toney Biggeo, Francis Gzella, Her
man Roehn, Estelle Chamberlain, Ka
tinka McD. Ross, Benjamin B. Ball,
Allen S. McDougall, Lawrence W.
Snell, John A. Bruch, Ernest F. Has
senzahl, Carl L. Brumme, William B.
Colville, Frank D. Andrus, Albert H.
Roehn, H. W. Paton, James E. Cur
tice, William M. Bockes, Alexander
B, C. Hardy, Charles G. Wihet, Myn
dert H. Hunt.
Information comes from Washing
ton that there is a growing sentiment
among many Congressmen favorable
to the construction of but one rail
road in Alaska to start with. If this
policy should be adopted it would
likely result in the building from
Chitina to Fairbanks and from Mile
39 on the Copper River & Northwest
ern railroad to the Bering river coal
fields.
Mr. Donald A. McKenzie, who
spends much of his time in Washing
ton in the interest of Alaska legisla.
tion, is the principal champion for
the Cordova route, recommended by
the commission and by President
Taft, and Mr. John E. Ballaine, own
er of the Seward town site, is ex
erting every effort to swing senti
ment back to the Seward route.
There are others who are taking
sides with regard to the matter of a
route for the through railroad, and
as a result of this growing inclina
tion there is a probability that what,
ever Congress is asked to authorze
as to construction of government rail
roads in Alaska,.it also will be asked
merely to make the necessary finan
cial arrangements for the road. .
TO THE
Alaska is on the eve of great development.
The Railroad Commission has reported favorably, on extend,
ing the line from Chitina to Fairbanks.
Ex-President Taft has recommended favorable action by
Congress.
The New York Legislature, realizing the great injustice done
Alaska in the past ten years by withdrawing all its natural re
sources, and thus stopping railroad building has unanimously
passed a resolution, endorsing the Railroad Commission report;
Calling on President Wilson to make Alaska Legislation a special
feature of his message to the special Congress called for April 1st.
The first act passed by the Alaska Legislature was in the form
of a memorial to Congress and the President asking that Railroad
construction be begun at once in accord with the Railroad Com
missions report, and that our Coal be opened for use.
Every town Council, and every Chamber of Commerce in
Alaska has sent wires and petitions to the President and Congress
to the same effect.
The cities of Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco—and
a great many others as far East as Denver, Colorado—have joined
in the good work and are bringing all the pressure in their power
to bear.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon has prepared a bill in line
with the Commission’s report to be introduced at the Special
Session to convene April 1st.
Is there any one that doubts that something will be accom
plished, and that soon?
If so, she or he had better quit looking at the hole in the
doughnut and look at the doughnut awhile. If you keep on look
ing at that hole you will loose your chance—for here is a chance
that you will never have again in this section of the country.
I will sell you any lot in Chitina not already sold,.up to
April 1st, 1313, for 100 per cent less than you can buy it 0
months from now.
1 he price of all lots has been reduced in order to give all a
chance. They run from $40 up to $1000.
I will be at the Overland Hotel on or about March 20th and
will remain till the 25th. If you desire to purchase come and see
tne.
The terms will be XA cash, and the balance in six, twelve and
eighteen months.
GEO. C. HAZEI.ET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
ii loons as tnougn Juneau was fin
ally to have a much needed and sub
stantial new hotel structure, to cost
$20,000. The Juneau Construction
Company has finished plans and com
menced work on the building, to be
erected by James McCloskey, John
MeCloskey, Jules B. Caro and Charles
E. Hooker for P. J. Gemmett on
Franklin street, near Front street. *
The building is to be 46x95, and
will be three stories in height, with
a concrete face. The street floor will
provide a lobby, buffet, dining room,
and kitchen, all of which will be con
structed and finished according to the
modern conception of buildings,The
two upper floors will contain 46
rooms, finished in an up_to-date man
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