Washington, Nov. 4.—Delegations
from the states of Washington, Cal
ifornia, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Mis
souri have appeared here to supple
ment the arguments of Oregon be
fore the Supreme Court on the con
stitutionality of direct legislation.
JORUisf)NE
SHORT
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,Los Angeles, Nov. 4.—Eleven jur
ors have been secured for the Mac
Namara trial.
POISON PLOT IS
Chicago. Nov. 4.—Acting under
the belief expressed by Coroner in
the Hoffman case, that the biggest
poison plot in the country will be
disclosed when all of the facts come
out. the police have arrested Mrs.
Vermilya, and are holding her on
the charge of murder.
hlmF his
Imperial Junction. Cal. Nov. 4.—
Rodgers plans on reaching Pasadena
tomorrow, thus completing his trip.
Shanghai. Nov. 4.—Except for
the foreign consuls the entire city is
in the hands of the rebels.
All of tne Imperial troops laid
down their arms and joined the reb
• els, and the police and firemen are
in active sympathy.
DEATH AFTERFUN
Longbeaeh. Cal., Nov, 3.—After a
merry-making party given in her be
half, Mrs. Concle, wife of C. C. Concle
a Seattle engineer, committs suicide
by taking poison.
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Berlin. :;ov. 4.—Reports received
here from tne scene or conflict state
that all the outer forts of Tripoli
have fallen into the hands of the
Turkish troops. Later news confirm
ed the report.
Princeton, Nov. 4.—Princeton, to
day won from Harvard, the score be
ing 6 to 0.
DYNAMITE IS PUT
IN MAKE
Harrison, Idaho, Nov. 4.—A dyna
mite explosion In the Powder Horn
schoolhouse has injured a number of
children, some of them probably fat
ally. A stick of the explosive was
placed in the stove by a disgruntled
pupil.
CLARK IS NOW IN
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 4.—Champ
Clark in a speech here predicted that
the Republicans will have' two can
didates—Taft and Lafollette.
The Fairbanks Commercial Club
has drafted the following resolu
tions regarding the desired $5,000,
000 appropriation for the Chitina
trail, which will be sent to President
Taft and the members of Congress:
, “One half the total gold output of
Alaska is eaten up in transportation
charges. This burden on the min
ing industry would be reduced one
half by a system of good roads. Good
roads would make it possible to open
mines on an immense area of tei
ritory in Alaska which cannot be
touched today because of the high
cost of transportation. The growth
of Alaska in industry and in popula
tion depends upon good roads.
“The civic and commercial bodies
of Alaska therefore unite in request
ing Congress to appropriate the sum
of $1,000,000 annually for the next
five years for the improvement, con
struction and maintenance of roads
in Alaska. And they request the
president of the United States to
incorporate a recommendation for
such an appropriation in his annual
message to Congress.”
There seems to he good foundation
in fact for the report that a consoli
dation is pending which will affect
the three principal mining concerns
of the Nome district—the Wild Goose
Mining company the Pioneer Mining
company, and the Consolidated
Dredging company. Officials of the
companies refuse to make statements
but not any of them deny the rumors
outright.
Prior to the consolidattion the
Pioneer Mining company will dis
tribute in the neighborhood of $250,
000 in dividends. The greater part
of the stock of this company is held
by Alaskans and former Alaskans
now in the states.
'
Sam Bonnifield, of Fairbanks, has
again been taken into custody on an
insanity charge, and is now in the
federal jail. He has been unbalanc
ed Tor some time, but it wras only
recently that his condition became
noticeable.
When the banks went on the
script basis in 1907-8 Bonnifield was
president of the First National Bank,
and the worries incident to that
strain caused a mental breakdown.
He was taken outside and cared for
in a private sanitarium until a year
ago, when he walked back over the
trail.
Since his return he has never
been right, although his insanity has
J been of a harmless nature. This
summer he walked to Richardson,
and spent the summer hunting for a
letter that contained only a few
cents.
A few weeks ago he drew two or
three thousand dollars, part of whlcn
he scattered around promiscuously
among some laborers, while the re
mainder he took across the river
and played witn it in the sand.
When taken into custody he
was rather violent, declaiming against
President Taft, Cardinal Gibbon and
others of prominence, declaring that
money is their god.
FOKFKITC UK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby givetj Charles Gar
wood that his interest in the Tjose
vig rgoup of mines, will cease at the
expiration of the publication of this
notice, unless he pays $50 as his
share of the assessment work for
1904, $50 for 1905, $50 for 1906
and $50 for 1909.
CHRISTIAN TJOSEVIG.
Dated this 14th day of Aug., 1911.
London, Nov, —Lieut. Herbert
Montague, a British officer of the
Fifth Fusiliers, serving with the
Turks, has sent a telegraphic appeal
in the name of Christianity against
the Italian atrocities at Tripoli, in
which women and children were ex
ecuted.
Seattle, Nov. 4.—Today homecom
ing Alaskans are being royally en
tertainetTby the Arctic Club. Prep
arations have been making for some
days past, in charge of Maurice D.
Leehey, chairman of the entertain
ment committee, while a special sub
committee composed of Harry Wood
ruff, J. W. Merriman, P. H. Watt,
A. J. Daly, and Frank L. Willtens, has
prepared an elaborate musical prog
ram.
There is ‘open house” for all
Alaskans and their frineds, includ
ing their women, relatives and
ritnds, in the big, comfortable club
quarters on Third Avenue. '1 his eve
ning there will be a smoking concert
in which Alaskan stories and reminis
tenes will be featured.
An Alaskan camp scene with
spruce logs blazing on the snows, and
icicles hanging from the whiskers of
the entertainers is one of the feat
ures. The entertainers sit around
the camp fire,. Some of them sing.
Some tell Alaskan stories, and oth
ers perform stunts of a different na
ture. i^e rooms are appropriately
decorated for the occasion.
FREE TOLLS
Seattle, Nov. 3.—A notable meet
ing was heid tms afternoon by the
Chamber of Commerce, at which
there was present delegations from
Bellingham, Everett, Tacoma, Hoqu
iam and Aberdeen. Amid much en
thusiasm resolutions were adopted
declaring that Congress at its com
ing session should decree against tolls
to vessels flying the American flag
and engaged in inter-ocean commerce
that might ply between the Panama
anal. There were a number of
speakers although the principal ad
dress was made by former Senator
John L. Wilson.
EOT FROM THE WIRES.
Seattle, Nov. 4.—Ala; - a day is
being celebrated by the Arctic Club
today. An interesting program is be
ing carried out.
New Westminister, B. C., Nov. 4.
—John Bozyt Austrian, charged with
robbing a bank, has been arrested
with several thousand dollars on his
person.
Shanghai, Nov. 4.—Details receiv
ed -of the Hankow battle show that
the battle was one of the bloodiest
of the war, 1300 government troops
having been killed.
According to the latest steamer ad
vices the Alameda will arrive from
the westward at midnight and sail
half an hour afterwards. The
Northwestern is expected to arrive
from Seattle at 5 o’clock Monday
morning.
MANY LOST III
BATTLE
Pekin, Nov. 4.—Fierce hand-to
hand fighting continues between the
Imperial troops and the rebels at
Hankow.
Wusung, China, Nov. 4.—Rebels
are massing in large numbers at the
mouth of the Wlusung river. They
have received marching orders and
it is believed that all forts up river
will be captured before night.
Hankow, China, Nov. 4.—Practl
cally the entire portion of the city
occupied by natives is being swept
by flames, set on fire by the Imperial
troops. The Weslayan mission, in
which are many blind, seems doomed.
A great artillery battle is in prog
ress.
t
Berlin, Nov. 4.—Lokal AuzeigerS,
a war-correspondent, wires from the
scene of action that the Italians
lost 1500 in the battle which result
ed in the outer forts being taken by
the Turks. He also states that the
Italians executed 4000 Turks, includ
ing 400 women and children. Chol
era has broken out among the Jews
and Arabs.
THE PACIFIC MONTHLY
Special rates on the leading maga
zines of the west.
The Pacific Monthly, of Portland,
Ore., is publishing a series of splen
did articles about the various indus
tries in the west. The September
number contained an article on suc
cess with cherries. The October
number had a beautifully illustrated
article on success in growing apples.
Other articles shortly to be published
are success with live stock, success
in growing walnuts, , success with
fodder crops. These articles are
written by experts, and are not only
authorative, but very interesting.
I
In addition to the above, The Pa
cific Monthly each month publishes
a large number of clean, wholesome,
readable stories and strong independ
ent articles on the questions of the
day. The price of the Pacific Month
ly is $1.50 a year. To introduce it
to new readers> it will be sent for six
months for $.50 if this paper is
mentioned.
Address": Pacific Monthly( Port- j
land, Ore.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that no or
ders or assignments of wages by em
ployes of either the ICatalla company
or the Copper River & Northwestern
Railway company will be accepted or
honored by either the Katalla com
pany or Copper River & Northwest
ern Railway company.
GEO. GEIGER,
Superintendent C. R. &. N. W.
railway.
Dated this 1st day of Nov. 1911.
NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the Cbit
ina Grill prior to this date are here
by notified that said bills are due
me personally.
JOE JANET,
Chitina, Sept. 25. 1911.
MAT SETTLE ALASKA COAL CASES.
It is easily within the bounds of possibility that the whole
Alaska coal land situation may be clarified by the decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases which are
to be argued before that court this week. Should the sup
reme court uphold the decision of the lower court and should
the interior department follow, as it is bound to do, the de
cision of that court, the great majority of the coal land claim
ants in Alaska will secure patents for their lands.
The point in issue is not vague, although it has been per
sistently clouded by muckraking writers on the subject. It is
he contention of the attorneys for the coal land entrvmen that
the special coal land laws applicable to Alaska is complete in
itself; that all a claimant has to do to be entitled to patent is
to comply literally and exactly with the provisions of the
Alaska coal land law, and practically every claimant has done
tthis. The interior department, however, has insisted on read
ing into the law the provisions found in the general laws of the
United States, which laws do not apply to Alaska in any other
respect.
A particular provision is the one which makes the re
quirement that each claimant shall take up his laud for his
own exclusive use and benefit- The interior department in
sists that, reading this section into the Alaska coal land act, it
renders it unlawful for any group of claimants to agree to
operate their claims in harmony, or to unite together for the
purpose of providing any transportation facilities, or, in short,
to do any of the things which must be done if coal lands sit
uated many miles back from tidewater in Alaska are ever to
be opened up.
The fraud cases all turn on this one point, whether such
agreements are permissible or whether they are unlawful. The
district court for this state has held that such agreements are
permissible and do not constitute fraud- The interior depart
ment holds to the direct contrary. The supreme court of the
United states in its decision will settle this point. If the de
cision is in favor of the coal locators, the situation in Alaska
will be cleared up at once, so far as concerns existing locations.
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
It is reported that prominent insurgents will spend $2,000,
000 to start a national organ. This paper is to be published in
Chicago, and the first edition is scheduled to make its appear
ance about the middle of November. The original intention of
the promoters was to start an afternoon daily, but this plan
was abandoned some weeks ago when it was discovered that
a big publisher living in the west had laid plans to start an
afternoon paper in Chicago. Overtures have been made to the
publishers of one or two Chicago papers in an effort to get
them to sell their properties, but these met with little or no
success.
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