[ate T_ ews
PORTLAND, Ore., March 23—The
big turbine steamer Great North
ern, of the Great Northern-Pacific
Steamship Company, is now at
Fiavel, the new port near the mouth
of the Columbia river.- She broke
all records for ocean travel between
that point and San Francisco, matt
ing the run in 28 hours, which is
two hours longer than will be re
quired when she goes on her regular
schedule, in connection with her
sister ship, the Northern Pacific.
Soon both will be on the run and it
is expected that most of the Exposi
tion traffic from the north will go
via Portland and Fiavel.
NEW YORK, March 23.—A most
extraordinary and sensational trag
edy has set society tongues a wag
ging. Last night Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Boocock. both prominent in
high society, were giving an enter
tainment at their home. A large
number of people had assembled and
as Mrs. Boocock was p'.aying the
piano the husband stepped forward
and shot and killed his wife. While
assistance was being rendered her he
directed the gun to his own head
and dropped to the floor dead. Mr.
Boocock was treasurer of the Astor
Trust Company and was well known
in financial and society circles. The 1
motive for his strange act is un
known.
PITTSBURG. March 23.—Prince
ton Alumni to the number of 600
gathered at the Hotel Schenley Sat
urday night for the annual dinner of
their association. Assistant Secre
tary of War Breckenridge and Coach
John Rush of Princeton, were the
principal speakers.
NEW YORK, March 23.—Single
flowers worth thousands of dollars
each are on exhibition at the third
International Flower Show, given
under the auspices of the Horticul
tural Society at Grand Central
Paiace. The show will end tomor
row. A collection of orchids, valued j
at $75,000, were brought here for ;
the show- by Henry J. Black, Ameri- j
can horticulturist. Senor Diego j
Gibson, of Buenos Ayres, and Se.nor j
Ramon Caceras of Montevideo. The j
plants were passed through the cus- j
toms house ::i bond.
VANCOUVER, March 22.—It is
believ ' at many miners perished
today ; i - slide that occurred at the
Britan;: cal mines on Howe Sound.
A rescue crew immediately went to
work.
WASHINGTON, March 23.—Sec
retary Bryan announced this morn
ing that both Zapata and Salazar ex
pressed regret at the killing of
McManus. They stated that they
would arrange to pay his family an
inde.mnity.
WASHINGTON, March 23. — It
was stated this afte.rnoon that Villa
had apologized, through the Brazilian
minister, to the United States for the
murder of McManus. McManus was
the American who was shot while
entering Mexico City on his way
home.
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 23.—
This morning 18 bodies were re
covered from the slide at the Bri
tania coal mine. Strenuous efforts
are being put forth to recover the
other entombed men, but who are
supposed to be dead.
BORDEAUX, France, March 23.
—Sarah Bernhardt left the. hospital
here more than a week ago and
motored to her home at Andernos in
company with her son Maurice. She
has completely recovered from the
operation that amputated her right
leg and reports today say that she^ is
very comfortable and in good health.
EL PASO, March 23.—One of the
greatest battles of the recent engage
ments in Mexico is imminent be
tween the Villa and Carranza forces.
Large numbers of followers of both
sides are massing along the coast in
northern Mexico. It is expected
that fighting will soon start.
SEATTLE, March 22.—Mrs. Clara
Robinson, an attractive widow, is
believed to have been fatally shot by
Wallace Webb, a rejected suitor. He
was persistent in his attentions and
the widow finally asked that he
cease to bother her further when he
drew his revolver and shot her. She
was taken to a hospital and little
hope is held out for her recovery.
WASHINGTON, March 22—It was
announced from the White House
this morning that the President had
no intention of calling an extra ses
sion of Congress. He stated that he
did not anticipate any contingency
likely to arise that would warrant
him in calling the lawmakers to
gether before the regular time on
Monday, December 6. The state
ment was made because of various
reports that had been in circulation
regarding the possibility of the
President issuing an early call for
an extra session.
SEATTLE, March 22.—This after
noon Wallace. Webb, the assailant of
Mrs. Clara Robinson, fearing that
the widow would die, secured a gun
and killed himself.
SAN FANCISCO, March 22.—
Everything passed off very pleas
antly on Saturday at the formal
opening of the Panama exposition. A
number of noted officials and speak
ers were, present, including Vice
President Marshall, Secretary of the
Interior Lane and Governor Hiram
Johnson. In their talks both Mar
shall and Johnson exchanged a few
political broadsides, without eithe.r
hitting the target, as the former ex
pressed it. He said that he and the
governor had previously passed like
ships in a turbule.nt sea. but that
the good old ship Democracy had
landed him safely in the presiding
officer’s chair of the Senate, while
Johnson was compelled to keep
guard at the Golden Gate.
SEATTLE. March 22.—Yesterday
quite a sensation was created at the
morgue by Edward Fleming, a rail
read man. He stood at the morgue
looking at the corpse of Myrtle
Cookman. a Bellingham girl who
had suicided because he. had refused
to marry her. Suddenly he drew his
gun and before there could be any
interference he shot and killed him
self. It is said that she was very
devoted to him and that he became
very remorseful after she. took her
own life.
SEATTLE, March 22.—Yesterday
evening Samuel C. Shay, manager of
the credit bureau of the King County
Medical Societv, committed suicide.
He had been in ill health and it is
believed that he allowed that fact
to so prey on his mind that he be
came temporarily affected.
SEATTLE, Marc'1 22.—Two gov
ernment agents have arrived here
and are making an e.ffort to reopen
the famous Humboldt gold robbery
case. Thousands of dollars in gold
which was being brought out from
the Tanana mysteriously disappeared
from the steamer on the way south j
from Skagway, several years ago.
The age.nts claim that in New York
recently a woman, the consort of one
of the robbers, made a confession
giving full details of the robbery.
SEATTLE, March 22—Capt. A. E.
LeBallister, formerly of the Tanana
country, is now out on a bond in the
sum of $3,000, furnished by Joseph
31ethen and F. L. Webster. He, is
accused of having forged a mate’s
name to a salary check for $100. He
will not be returned to the northern
territory by the federal authorities
until navigation in the interior of
Alaska opens up in June. Judge
Dykeman gave this assurance when
he continued until June 1 the hear
ing on the petition of Cant. LeBa'.
lister to obtain his release on bail
until next summer. The accused
gave as a reason for his application
for bail the poor condition of his
health, declaring that the. trip over
the winter trail to Fairbanks would
likely prove fatal to him.
The two factions of the Arctic
Brotherhood have gotte.n nicely to
gether and complete harmony again
reigns, with only one organization.
At the fifth session, held at Juneau
last week, the following officers of
the combined camp were duly in
stalled:
Grand Arctic Chief—John T.
Reed, of Camp Juneau, No. 32.
Grand Vice Arctic Chief—C. C.
Georgeson, of Camp Sitka No. 6.
Grand Arctic Chaplain—W. B.
Stout, of Camp Sitka, No. 6.
Grand Arctic Recorder—D. Smith
Harris, Camp Ketchikan, No. 20.
Grand Arctic Keeper of Nuggets—
H. H. Post, Camp Juneau No. 32.
Grand Camp Arctic Cook—N. f.
Svindseth—Camp Wrangell, No. 28.
Grand Arctic Trail Guide—A. J.
Atchison, Camp Skagway, No. 1.
Grand Arctic Trail Blazer—O. P.
Gaustad, Camp Cleary, No. 22.
Grand Arctic Keeper of the Inner
Toll Gate—H. Buyer, Camp Nome
No. 9.
Grand Arctic Keeper of Outer
Toll Gate—John Noon, Camp Seward
No. 21.
Grand Arctic Trustees—A. O.
Shoup, Camp Sitka No. 6; C. A.
Sulzer, Camp Ketchikan No. 20; B.
F. Millard, Camp Valdez No. 10; E.
B. Collins, Camp Fairbanks No. 12;
H. F. Englehardt, Camp Dawson No.
4.
Owing to the fact that Camp
Chitina is known as Camp 31 and
had the prior right over Juneau,
which has the same number, it was
moved by members of the Juneau
camp and adopted that the latter be
'•hanged to No. 32, allowing the
Chitina number to stand. Juneau
originally had No. 4, but this was
allowed to lapse
SAN PANCISCO, March 20.—
Vice President Thomas Marshal ar
rived here this morning and repre
sented the President at the formal
opening of the Panama-Pacific expo
sition. The attendance is large and
the ceremonies were participated in
by a number of visiting officials
from neighboring states. In the
presence of a number of newspaper
men the Vice President declared
that Woodrow Wilson would be the
next President of the United States,
and he further expressed the belief
that he would be renominated by
acclamation. When it was suggested
that his running mate would again
be Thomas Marshall the Vice Presi
dent only smiled.
WASHINGTON, March 19.—Re
ports received here indicate that
there is soon to be a resumption of
open hostilities in Mexico. General
Villa, with 30,000 men, is now with
in 50 miles of Carranza's forces at
Tampico.
DENVER, March 22.—Brig. Gen.
Hugh L. Scott, of the general staff
corps of the army, returned today
from Bluff. Utah. It is stated that
through his diplomacy the Indian
troubles were satisfactorily settled.
Some of the leading Piutes wanted
for murder by the federal authorities
were surrendered. It is cxpe.cted
that peace will again re'gn and that
for the present, a least, no further
depredations will be committed.
WASHINGTON, March 20.—It
was announced this afternoon that
the final figures had just been re
ceived on the cotton production in
the United States for the. year 1914.
They are given as 16,102,143 bales,
of 500 pounds per bale. This was
the greatest record in the history
of any country. In 1913 the
United States also held the record
for the greatest maximum produc
tion, it then being 14,156,468 bales.
The country then holding second
place was British India, with
4,776,800 bales.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.—
The early days of Nome were again
voiced in the courts here yesterdav,
and in a sensational way. A big
suit is on trial in which Mrs. Ella
Heim is the claimant for a share in
Nome mining property that is vari
ously estimated as worth from three
to six million dollars. Her attorney
is W. T. Hume, who was assistant
District Attorney under Joe Woods,
during Judge Noyes reign. Josenn
Wright, former postmaster at Nome
is out in an affidavit charging Hume
with attempting to influence, testi
mony in the case. The matter was
presented to court and will be in
vestigated. Old time Alaskans here
say that the occurrence, reminds
them forcibly of the good old days
of litigation in Nome, when all kinds
of questionable methods were re
sorted to in the effort to •'secure
mining property.
BARABOO, Wis., March 19.—
Arthur H. Noyes, after a lingering
illness died here this afternoon. He i
was a federal judge at Nome,
Alaska, during the early days when
big mining litigation was on. Judge
Noyes and his party of court offi
cials first arrived at the northern
camp early in .July, 1900. He re
mained there until the fall of 1901,
when he was summoned to San
Francisco before, the circuit court of
appeals, for disobedience of the
court’s orders. He was found guilty
but because of ill health was allowed
his liberty, after a severe reprimand.
Alex. McKenzie, receiver for the
Pioneer Mining Company, and whom
the Judge favored, was also before
the circuit court and was sentenced
to the penitentiary serving a few
months before be was pardoned by
President McKinley.
oALii LAKK, March la.—The leg
islature of the state of Utah has ad
journed and among the last legisla
tion passed was a state-wide prohibi
tion bill. This was vigorously fought
both before the House and Senate
but the sentiment was too strong for
it for the members to resist. After
its passage the liquor interests im
mediately started to work on Gov
ernor William Spry, and with good
effect. This morning he announced
that he had vetoed the bill.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March
19.—United States Senator James
Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, ad
dressed the members of the legisla
ture this morning. He declared that
the United States must now decide
on a definite foreign relations
policy, which would concern the
Philippine Islands. He said it must
now be determined whether to re
tain the Philippines and maintain
two fleets to protect them against
foreign aggression or to leave the
Philippines and return to a policy of
isolation.
SALT LAKE, Mafch 19.—There
was great consternation about the
state university this morning when
it was stated that four of the non
Morman members of the institution
had been dismissed. Immediately
four of the professors resigned in a
body.
WASHINGTON. March 19.—As &
result of investigations made on
Pribilof Islands last July an order
was issued this morning by Secre
tary of Commerce Redfield. It en
joins strict and absolute prohibition
on all the islands. No liquor is al
lowed to be made there, taken there,
or sold there. Last summer serious
charges were sent to the department,
involving some of the officials on St.
Paul island. Drunkenness and gen
eral immorality was charged. Dr.
E. Lester Jones, deputy commis
sioner of of fisheries, was sent to
investigate and on his recommenda
tion se.veral officials were dismissed.
NEW YORK, March 19.—It was
expected that Justice Page would
issue an order today returning
Harry Thaw to the asylum at Mat
teawan. But another delay has been
occasioned by the asking of two
writs of habeas corpus, upon which
it is hoped to secure nis release.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash., March
18.—This morning an intense excite
ment was created throughout the
town by a sensational killing that
occurred on the street. Birdeen
Peterson, an auto salesman and son
of a rich farmer, was met by his
sweetheart Mae Agezed and they en
gaged in an animated conversation, j
Suddenly she was seen to pull a gun
and a shot followed. Peterson
dropped to the ground and it wus
found that he had been instantly i
killed. While the crowd was looking
after the man, the young woman
swallowed poison and is expected to
die at any moment. The friends of
Miss Age.zed claimed that Peterson
had promised to marry her but that
of late his attentions had been
directed elsewhere.
WASHINGTON. March 19.—The
United States has entered a vigor
ous protest against Americans and
other foreigners front being forced
to pay part of the million pesos, as
a tax levied by Villa at Monterey,
Mexico. He had declared that it was
his intention to have everyone par
ticipate in the. taxation.
LOS ANGELES, March 19.—
David A. Epstein, a prominent
Juneau merchant, died here today.
He came south for his health but
instead of improving, death soon
came.
SAN FRANCISCO, March IS—The
federal circuit court of appeals gave
a decision in a case that has been
before the court for a year or more
past. It is an appeal in the case of
Maury Diggs and Caminetti. They
had both been found guilty of white
slavery in having induced a couple
of girls to go with them to a neigh
boring state. During the appeal the
men have been out on bail. The
decision sustains the action in the
lower court in sentencing Diggs and
Caminetti to terms in the federal
penitentiary at McNeil’s Island.
PHILADELPHIA. March 18.—(
Champ Clark, speaker of the House,
delivered a St. Patrick’s Day address
here last night. He declared that
President Wilson was bearing the.
heaviest load of any President since
the days of Lincoln. He further
added that Wilson is one of the
great Presidents of the. republic, and
that their names can be counted on
the fingers of one hand. His remarks
were greeted with extraordinary ap
plause, showing clearly that the
sympathies of the people in the
audience were with President Wil
son.
GALVESTON, March 17.—The
tender of the battleship Delaware
was fired on by snipers March 10 at
Vera Cruz. This information was
brought here today by passengers on
the Norwegian steamship Tampico.
They say that the tender went into
the harbor for Captain Rogers of the
Delaware, and was fired upon while
in-bound and again while returning
to the warship, although no one was
injured.
We Carry a Full Line of
General Merchandise
Including
GROCERIES
HARDWARE
DOG HARNESS
HORSE HARNESS
FURNISHING GOODS
BLANKETS
FUR CAPS
SHOES AND RUBBER PACS
Also
HAY AND GRAIN
CHITINA CASH STORE
Forwarding Agent, S. BLUM & CO.
CORDOVA’S BIG STORE
HOTElT C PUTINA
==- AND —-■
Hotel Bar
T. W. CLONINGER, Proprietor
Chilina, Alaska
Only P’irst Class Hotel i u Town.
Heated Rooms, First-class Cafe, Courteous Attention
The best and most complete Cigar Star.-1 in Chitina
PRICES REASONABLE
We are general agents for the famous
PARKFORD
WHISKY
and can fill your orders promptly
Remember the Brand
;ei»arkford
l Bottled in bond and guaranteed by the makers|
WOOLNER DISTILLING CO.|
MADRID, March 23.—Three hun
dred dock laborers perished last
night in a storm that raged off
Alge.ciras. They were passengers
aboard four sailing vessels. A storm
suddenly came up and it continued
with such velocity that the vessels
were unable to resist it and went
under. The crews we.re also lost.
SEATTLE, March 18.—A warrant
was issued today for the arrest of
Col. A. J. Blethen, e.ditor-in-chief
of the Daily Times. An order was
issued in the libel case brought
against him by the Burns Detective
Agency. The Col. disobeyed the
order and went to California, where
he now is. He is charged with con
tempt of court.
Copper River & Northwestern Railway
Good Passenger and Freight
Service to Interior Alaska
For Rates and Other Information Apply at
DEPOT OFFICE
♦