Late Telegraph News
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—Secretary
Fisher this afternoon appeared before
a Congressional committee and made
a most sensational admission which
has aroused considerable feeling and
justifies the position of Alaskans who
claim that they have been unfairly
dealt with in the granting of patents
to their coal claims. Fisher frankly
admits that the Interior Department
has been following a dog in the man
ger attitude in reference to the Alas
ka coal fields, and now that his ten
ure of office is about at end and he
can no longer enforce his objection
able policies he offers a new sugges
tion as a solution of the tangle, for
which he is largely responsible.
Secretary Fisher states that he is
opposed to the bill introduced by
Senator Jones which gives coal claim
ants the right to have the local courts
decide as to the legality of their title
to the land. He favors a board com
posed of three lawyers and the offi
cials of the land office to pass on the
claims, and admits that the resources
of the territory are undeveloped be
cause of a lack of railroads. An ap
propriation is urged to further in
vestigate the railroad possibilities of
Alaska, but suspicious ones see a
joker in this move.
As Fisher has had an opportunity
to review the report of the Alaska
railroad commission, which has not
as yet been made public, it is believed
that the recommendations made are
not along the lines advocated by him.
That the Secretary of the Interior
now seeks to have the matter further
investigated i not surprising, but he is
not likely to receive much encourage
ment.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 — This
morning Secretary of the Interior
Fisher returned to President Taft the
report of the Alaska Railroad Com
mission, which he has been reviewing
for the past ten days. As soon as it
became public that Fisher was hold
ing up the report there was an urgent
demand made for its transmission to
Congress.
President Taft devoted several
hours today in considering the report
and making notes for a special mes
investigated is not surprising, but he
is not likely to receive much encour
agement.
RENO, Feb. 4—Great excitement
prevails over the rich quartz strikes
made at the new camp of Rochester,
to which ther is a stampede from all
parts of Nevada. Veins of gold,
averaging $400 to the ton, have been
located and a big boom is now on at
that place.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 4--At a banquet
tendered United States Senator Nel
son, in commemoration of his birth
day, the Minnesota statesman pre
dicts renewed prosperity througout
the country.
NEW YORK,vFeb. 4—Paul Far
Tell, a janitor, confesses to the send
ing of bombs which killed a number
of men and wrecked several homes.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The Bu
reau of Education reports that there
are too many unskilled teachers em
ployed in the public schools.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4—The Stand
ard Oil Company has declared a divi
dend of $40,000,000 from former
subsidiaries.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4—The Rebels
follow a train, killing the soldier es
cort. Four of the males carry off
the women.
SEATTLE, Feb. 4—Zbyszko lost
his match with Polly Grimm, last
night, by failing to throw him twice
within an hour.
TRENTON, Feb. 4—The porcelain
manufacturers and striking employes
agree to abitrate their differences.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 4—War
has been resumed by the bombard
ment of Adrianople and Tchatalja.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 4—The
state legislature adopts an amedment
in favor of the direct election of
United States Senators.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3—The St.
Nichols apartments caught fire at an
early hour this morning and the
flames raged so fiercely that all of
the occupants were unable to make
their escape in safety. Five were
killed and ten badly injured in at
tempting to jump from the burning
building.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Senator
Borah has started a tight in the Sen
ate against conservation, which is
stifling the development of the West.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The ap
peal of Jack Johnson, the colored
fighter, has been refused and his trial
on the charge of slavery will im
mediately take place at Chicago.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The Sen
ate today adopted an amendment to
the constitution fixing the Presiden
tial term at six years Tim amend
ment was offered by Senator Weeks
and it carried by a vote of 47 to 33.
One of the clauses prohibts the elec
tion of persons who have been once
elected. The amendment is effec
tive subject to the ratification of
three-fourth of the states.
SEATTLE, Feb. 3—The first issue
of Seattle's new evening paper. The
Sun, appeared today. It is a twenty
four page issue and thoroughly up-to
date.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—The Su
perme Court decides that the indicted
officers of the United States Shoe
Machinery are not violators of the
trust law.
LEWISTOWN, Feb. 3—The states
of Idaho, Washington and Oregon
are urged to hold an appropriate
Columbia Cellilo Panama Water
ways Exposition here in 1915.
SEATTLE, Feb. 3—Milo Kelly,
who received the largest vote in the
third division, as a member of Alas
ka's first legislature, has prepared a
bill which he will introduce at the
March sess;c»i, making it a misde
meanor for Alaskans whom Indians
inform on for selling whisky.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 3—The Na
tional Hobo convention disbands,
splitting over the question of Social
ism.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—A brief
has been filed by the Indian commit
tee charging Secretary of the Interior
Fisher and his subordinates with aid
ing the Standard Oil Company to se
cure oil leases.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 3—Governor
Dunn in his inaugural address re
commends legislation in favor of
cities building, buying and operating
public utilities.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3—Both the
state senate and legislature pass a
bill for the exclusion of Asiatics.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Postmas
ter General Hitchcock, in his annual
report favors reducing the parcel post
rates and increasing the weight of
packages that can be sent by mail.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 3—The Ameri
can Federation of Labor declares war
on the Steel corporation, and forty
thousand workers are expected to
strike.
PRINCETON, Feb. 3—President
elect Wilson announces that he will
likely be ready to publish the names
of the members of his Cabinet by
the end of the week.
DENVER, Feb. 3—Police Commis
sioner Creel has been ousted from
office by the Mayor, which action has
caused considerable dissension.
LONDON, Feb. 3—A Norweigan
expedition, under the leadership of
Joan Koren, with his ship Kittiwake,
which is exploring the north coast of
Siberia expects to reach Nome, Alas
ka, ia July.
SEATTLE, Feb. 2—The steamer
Northwestern will arrive at 2 o’clock
tomorrow morning, when she will be
inspected, the Alameda taking her
run on February 8.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The
American Highway Association ap
proves of federal aid to states in the
construction and maintenance of
highways.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Wyoming
ha ratified the income tax amend
mnet, completing the necssary thirty
six states. Delaware has also fol
lowed suit. Congress will now act
and raise $100,000,000 yearly.
TRENTON, Feb. 3—Woodrow Wil
son announces that his present secre
tary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty will
continue to act in the same capacity
at Washington.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1—The surface
and elevated railroads combine and
will build subways, representing an
expenditure of $500,000.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1—Dr. Fried
man, the famous specialist, sails from
England for this city where to make
a tuberculosis test on a hundred per
sons, for which he Is to receive an
enormous fee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — The
Philippine cavalry routed the Moros,
killing a hundred and wounding
many.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—State
legislatures continue to elect United
States Senators and many new faces
will be seen upon the floor of that
body at the next session. Yesterday
those selected were: Nevada, Key
Pitman; Wyoming, Francis E. War
ren; Arkansas, W. M. Kavanaugh;
Texas, Norris Sheppard; South Caro
lina, Benjamin R. Tillman; Kansas,
Judge Thompson, a Democrat; Dela
ware, Wilhard Saulsbuty, Democrat;
New Jersey, Congressman Hughes.
Netfr Mexico elects in the fall and
there is a deadlock in Illinois.
DENVER, Jan. 29—The Conven
tion of National Foresters figures
show that timber is growing faster
than it is sold.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Con
gressman Humphrey introduces a bill
levying duties on American goods
shipped back from foreign ports.
LONDON, Jan. 29—The Suffra
gettes are becoming bolder and to
day sought to force an entrance into
Parliament. As a result thirty of
the ring-leaders have been sentenced
to serve two weeks in jail.
LONDON, Jan. 29—The Peace
delegates issue a formal note break
ing off all negotiations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — The
Democrats are divided on the ques
tion of Philippine independence.
EL PASO, Jan. 29—The truce in
Northern Mexico ends and hostilities
have been resumed.
LEAVENWORTH, Jan. 29—The
Attorney General prohibts visitors to
the federal prison.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Perman
ent peace has been established at
Santo Domingo.
NEW YORK. Jan. 29—Expert
Nelson testifies before the Investiga
ting committee that the Steel Trust
excluded independents in the Lake
Superior region.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29—Col. James
Hamilton Lewis, Democrat candidate
for United States Senator, in an ad
dress declares that the federal sup
ervision of forty thousand agents has
resulted in that many spies over big
enterprises.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Repre
sentative Jones charges grafting on
the part of the present administra
tion.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—At the
extra session the Democrats plan an
income tax which will raise $100,00,
000.
VANCOUVER, Jan. 29—Mrs. Jas.
B. Wood, formerly of Nome, has been
sentenced to a year in jail for motor
boat piracy.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—It has
just been learned that the Alaska
Railroad Commission made its re
port to President Taft on Friday last
and he immediately submitted it to
Secretary Fisher. It was believed
that the President would transmit
this important document to Congress
today, with his recommendation, but
up to a late hour this afternoon fail
ed to do so.
PITTSBURG, Jan. 29—A riot takes
place between the police and the
strikers of the American Steel Com
pany, in which one is killed and
twelve are wounded.
NEW YORK. Jan. 29—Packy Mc
Farland and Jack Britton will fight
ten rounds in March.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Presi
dent Taft gave a farewell reception
last night to the Senators and Repre
senatives.
SEATTLE, Jan. 30—The Alaska
Coast Company has decided to take
the Admiral Sampson off the Seattle
San Francisco run and again put her
in service between this port and
southwestern Alaska. Her first sail
ing from here is set for March 5.
SEATTLE, Jan. 30—The steamer
Mariposa will not sail until tonight,
and the Yukon leaves Friday night.
The freighter Cordova has been re
paired and is now loading.
SEATTLE, Jan. 30—The Royal
Mail line has arranged to start a
monthly service, beginning May 7,
between London, the Orient and
Seattle.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30—A special
agent of the land department has
wired Secretary Fisher to hold up
the land claims of Louis R. Glavis,
former field agent, charging him with
fraud.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30—Before the
National Civic Federation President
Samuel Gompers denounces compul
sory arbitration.
GOVERNOR RECEIVES CIRCULAR
REGARDING MINING LAWS
Copies of the new law approved
August 1, 1912, relating to placer
claims, powers of attorney and asso
ciation mining claims, together with
a circular in relation to the new law
explaining its provisions, have been
received at the governor’s office. Be
sides prohibiting the use of powers of
attorney to two claims for each of
any two principals in any one month,
and requiring that $100 must be ex
pended for each 20 acres or excess
fraction, and that the first annual as
sesment work must be performed for
and during the calendar year in
which it is located.
The manner in which the location
must be made is fully set forth. Nei
ther the law nor the regulations of
apply to locations of placers or asso
ciation claims prior to August 1,
1912.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The wo
men friends of Mrs. William H. Taft
are subscribing to a farewell gift of
a diamond necklace for the wife of
the retiring President.
Captain Amundsen, the discoverer
of the Northwest passage and the
south pole, made the extraordinary
prediction after leaving Alaska, sub
sequent to his Northwest journey,
that the climate of Alaska would be
come milder, and already this prop
hecy seems to be verified.
The famous explorer wrote that
the great ice wedge which lay solid
between the Arctic and Atlantic
oceans was constantly moving to the
East and would eventually break
away into the Atlantic. This, he
said, would result in flowing of the
Arctic waters into the Atlantic, a
rush of the Boring sea water into the
Arctic and the flowing of the warmer
waters of the Pacific of the North
and Bering sea. Such would mean,
according to Amundsen, the change
for the better in Alaska’s climatic
conditions. The ice wedge spoken of
was the remains of the solid ice which
formerly surrounded the north and
south poles.
To the remarkable alteration that
has come in our climate is added the
fact that ice appeared in the Atlantic
in unusual quantities and in pecu
liar conditions last year, and one re
sult of the fact was the loss of the
steamship Titanic. One would seem
I to think it mostly likely that this
was due to the breaking of the ice
wedge into the Atlantic.
This seems to be a far better ex
planation of the mildness of the cli
mate than the story of the change of
the Japanese current, and has the
authority of the world’s greatest ex
plorer.
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The mine operators of the Tanana
valleyhave an opportunity of secur
ing a central power plant, with an im
mense capacity, if sufficient business
can be secured to keep it running.
John L. Timmins, who recently pas
sed through Cordova, is representing
a Los Angeles company, with practi
cally unlimited financial backing, that
will contract for the delivery of pow
er at rate such as would make easily
possible the working of ground that
otherwise could not be considered.
The company will be prepared to sup
ply power in quantities as low as 5
horsepower and as high as 2,500 or
even more. In the smaller quantity
the rate would be such as to make
the cost as low to the operator at if
he were getting wood into his boilers
at $6 per cord. To those able to con
tract for 2,500 horsepower the power
could be supplied gs low as 3 cents
per kilowatt. To a company operat
ing a dredge therefore, the power
rate would be about equal, on a com
parative basis, to wood at $2.50 per
cord. The plant at the Tatlanika
will be able to develop at least 10,
000 kilowatts, and will, in all proba
bility, have a much greater capacity.
The engineer who will have charge
of the construction of the plant, Wal
ter Gordon Clark, put in the plant
for Treadgold, on the Boyle conces
sion, and was engineer in charge of
the huge plant of the Victoria Falls
and Transvaal Power company at
■Johannesburg, South Africa. He is
acquainted with Northern conditions
and is very enthusiastic over the pro
ject. He came from Africa at the
behest of a number of Los Angeles
and New York capitalists who had
been Interested in the scheme for the
power plant near Fairbanks.
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The Fidalgo Mining Company, of
which our townsman, Judge John Y.
Ostrander is one of the principal bwn
ers, will shortly make its first ship
ment of ore. One hundred and fifty
tons of ore has been taken to the
bunkers on the beach and will be
shipped to Tacoma.
Nine hundred feet of a surface
tram is operated from the tunnel to
a small bunker with a capacity of 100
tons, and from there an aerial tram
of 2,000 feet connects the upper blin
kers with the lower, which has a
capacity of 500 tons. It is estimated
that the ore will run $20 to the ton.
Ten men are employed at present
and more will be added as work pro
gresses The company have a v.v.arf
150 feet 'ong, at which any vessel
running in northern waters can dock,
as they have 26 feet of water at low
tide. The property will soon be
come one' of the regular shippers on
the sound.
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Governor Clark in discussing mat
ters connected with Alaska's destitute
white persons referred to a bill now
pending in Congress for the relief
of white indigents. It is a matter
that has caused much comment
throughout all the Territory. In the
interior, at Fairbanks and at Nome,
the Order of Alaska Pioneers, has
done much to relieve the distress of
old time prospectors. This work and
burden belongs to the federal govern
ment, the Governor thinks, and that
the men who have worn out their
physical strength in the development
of the country should be cared for
from the Alaska Fund in the Treas
ury of the United States. Governor
Clark said:
‘‘This is a season of the year when
we must regret more than ever that
no provision has been made for the
relief of destitution in Alaska. As is
well known the cases which are ob
jects of charity are comparatively
few in this Territory and usually are
the results of physical accidents. A
bill was passed by the Senate in May,
1911, setting aside five per cent of
the Alaska Fund for the relief of in
digent white persons. When I went
to Washington last winter I urged the
House committee on territories to
take some action on this bill, which
had been pending in the House for
nearly a year. The Senate bill was
soon passed by the House, but in a
radically amended form.
“If the bil had taken its natural
course it would have then been sen,
to a conference committee of the two
houses with the cbiect of reconciling
the ui.Terences and reporting 't back
for final passage. So far as I can
l^arn no conference committee ever
act,u c:i the measure. I have gone
as far as I can appropriately in the
matter, but it is ref reattaDle that this
bill which has be-’t me so nearly a law
has not been finally acted upon.”
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