Late Telegraph News
DENVER, Dec. 14—The Colorado
Midland has finally succombed and
has been placed In the hands of a re
ceiver. It has had difficulty for some
time past in meeting interest and run*
nlng expenses- so by arrangement of
the various interests concerned it was
agreed that president George W.
Vallery be appointed receiver by the
court. It Is expected that a reorgan
ization will follow.
BELGRADE, Dec. 14—The Aus
trian steamship lines plying between
here and Servia have discontinued
service.
BOSTON, Dec. 14—An empty
headless barrel with ‘‘Str. Titanic”
branded on its side, stands in the fish
shed of Capt. Eugene Coleman, at
Hyannisport, Mass., who pick it up
off Point Gammon, 1,000 miles from
the place where the White Star liner
sank. The barrel is one of the few
pieces of wreckage bearing the name
of the Titanic to drift ashore.
SEATTLE, Dec. 14—The steamer
Northwestern, which was late in ar
riving from the north, did not sail
on her return trip until last night.
She had the following passengers for
Cordova: H. A. Summerset, S. R.
Hedges, Mrs. E. B. Wildt, Mrs. C.
Stewart. B. Augerman, wife and son.
LONDON. Dec. 14—The chief
plenipotentiaries from the four Bal
kan states have drawn terms aginst
Turkey and all present a united front.
They have decided to conduct their
negotiations with the utmost secrecy.
Late this aftenoon the representatives
from Bulgaria and Turkey paid a
visit to Sir Edward Grey, foreign
Secretary.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14—Although
eggs of various grades are selling in
New York at prices ranging from 65
cents a dozen for ‘‘strictly fresh”
down to 38 cents for the cold storage
variety, an official report made public
today shows that more than 1,447,
000,000 eggs are being held in stor
age warehouses in New York and
vicinity.
SEATTLE, Dec. 14—Yesterday J.
Edward Chilberg was elected Presi
dent of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce. By reason of the big sum
that has been subscribed for conduct
ing the various departments of the
Chamber it was desired to continue
an alert and progressive citizen in
the position, and Mr. Chilberg was
finally induced to accept the office
and succeed J. D. Lowman. The
President has interests in Alaska and
is a known friend of the northland.
He will see that the Alaska bureau is
made even more effective than here
tofore.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 14—
Announcement has been made that C.
A.McNeil and Spencer Penrose, of
this city, and D. C. Jackling, of Salt
Lake, are largely interested in Alaska
mines. In conjunction with Hayden,
Stone & Co.,, of Boston, the local
capitalists purchased the holdings of
the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com
pany, located at and near Juneau.
It is said that the price involved in.
the recent purchase is $15,000,000.
It is expected to spend considerable
money in improvements and exten
sive development work.
CAPETOWN, Dec. 14 —Gen. Botha
has resigned the Premiership of
Union South Africa, and is anxious to
be relieved.
SEATTLE, Dec. 14—There is a
strong probability that former Chief
of Police Wappenstein, who is now
serving a term in the penitentiary for
grafting, may be pardoned. Many
prominent citizens are interesting
themselves in his behalf and it is
expected that they may prevail upon
the pardoning board to recommend
him for favor.
TOKIO, Dec. 17—This morning
the Emperor issued a rescript order
ing Prince Taro Katsuro to form a
new cabinet immediately.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The an
ual report of Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Nagle has been submitted
to Congress. In it he holds that the
federal commission to regulate in
dustrial corporations should be some
what restricted in its powers. He
further states that the annual value
of Alaska’s salmon pack is valued at
fourteen and half million dollars.
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 14—Thos.
J. Taggart, the owner of the big hotel
and resort at French Lick Springs,
was a witness yesterday in the dyna
mite cases, and testified as to the ex
plosion that only partly occurred at
his resort.
PEKIN, Dec. 13—Russian Minister
Korosteveff has issued a warning to
China that there would be a rupture
soon, in fact that negotiations were
now pending to bring it about, unless
China immediately ceases its delay
in the settlement of the Mongolian
question.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13—A fatal
family quarrel resulted yesterday
Daniel Rickart sought to whip his
elder son for some disobedience when
the younger son Martin, aged thir
teen interfered. He was admonished
to attend to his own affairs when he
pulled a gun and shot his father.
He js not expected to recover.
NORFOLK, Dec. 13—The battle
ship New Hamshire has sailed for
San Domingo, because of the report
of another serious uprising there.
It is intended to afford full protec
tion to any Americans who may be in
that country.
OTTOWA, Dec. 13—In address
ing Parliament the Liberal leader Sir
Richard Laurier referring to the Mon
roe doctrine cited Cuba as a warning.
He asserted that the United States
had made Cubans pay heavily for the
assistance rendered them, by in turn
undermining their independence.
LONDON, Dec. 13—Today a battle
is in progress between the Turkish
and Greek battleships. It is taking
place in the Aegean sea, according to
dispatches received from Constantin
ople and Athens.
L<Ub ArsCxELES, Dec. 13—Society
circles have been much excited over
the marriage nuptials of two cele
brated and much renowned tennis
players. The ceremony was perform
ed here yesterday and was witnessed
by a large contingent of eastern so
journers. The high contracting
parties were Miss May Sutton, former
world tennis champion, and Thomas
Clark Bundy, National doubles cham
pion.
DETROIT, Dec. 13—The govern
ment has instituted a civil suit
against the Horseshoe trust, as a re
sult of their violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law.
TACOMA, Dec. 13—Emil Bleedom,
a farmer residing near here, was bit
by a dog and soon developed hydro
phobia, from which he died. The at
tending physician was Dr. R. A. Rich.
He became infected and yesterday
when the first symptoms of hydro
phopia developed he took the train
for Chicago, where he will undergo
the Pasteur treatment.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13—Well
known as one of the forty-niners,
the old pioneer Benjamin Franklin
McKinley died at his home here yes
terday. He was an uncle of the late
President William McKinley.
OAKLAND, Dec. 13—This morn
ing Mrs. Lincoln Mills died at her
home. She was well along in years
and had failed gradually. She it
was who founded Mills college,
which is now one of California’s
famous institutions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—After a
lenghty investigation Congress yes
terday voted to unseat Representative
Chas. C. Bowman, Republican, who
was returned as elected from Luzenne
county, Pennsylvania. His opponent
G. R. McLean, Democrat, was de
clared seated. It was charged that
Bowman, who had a majority of 549
votes through the combined support
of the Prohibitionists and Republi
cans, had secured his election by
currupt means, and the Republicans
now say it was all on account of
those 722 Prohibition votes he re
ceived.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Repre
sentative Richard Bartholdt, of Mis
souri, has his doubts about the wis
dom of extending the term of the
President of the United States to six
years and making him ineligible to
re-election. Instead he favors the
present term of four years, making
making him ineligible to more than
two terms. Inaccordance with this
idea he yesterday introduced a bill in
the House.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13—The recent
arrest and subsequent indictment of
Mrs. George Haldern for smuggling,
has brought to light a gigantic swind
ling scheme. It develops that a con
spiracy has existed among some of
the largest dressmaking establish
ments of the country, by which hand
some and costly gowns are smuggled
in without the payment of duty.
Mrs. Haldern was the active spirit
aided by her lawyer husband, who
has offices in New York, Paris and
London.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11—Luther
McCarty, of Springfield, Mo., won the
twenty-round heavy weight champ
ionship last night, by the elimination
of “Porky” Flynn, in a test contest.
Both men put up a strong and scien
tific fight but the old-favorite Flynn
had to give way before the rapid and
scientific boxing of his new opponent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—An im
portant conference was held here to
day between President R. S. Lovett
and General Counsel Maxwell Evarts,
of the Harriman system of railroads.
They discussed the recent decision of
the Supreme Court which ordered a
dissolution of the merger of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
railroads, and tried to devise plans
upon which the order should be car
ried out.
CHICAGO. Dec. 12—The National
Progressive party has decided to
maintain permanent headquarters in
this city*. The work of organization
and building up, the party will con
tinue.
HACKENSACK. N. J„ Dec. 12—
i Last night there was a serious dem
onstration near here. A large num
ber of railroad strikers lay in am
bush at Palisades, on the Hudson,
and fired upon a boat load of strike
breakers who were on their way to
the works. Twelve of the men were
wounded and two dete'ctives connect
ed with the Erie road were killed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Mr. Taft
will continue to have the designation
of President after he leaves the
White House. This afternoon he was
re-elected President of the American
National Red Cross.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Since the
death of Chief Justice Stanton J.
Peelle of the Court of Claims, that
position has been vacant. Today
President Taft named one of the pres
ent members of the Court as Chief
Justice. He is Judge Fenton W.
Booth. Former Congressman Henry
S. Boutelle, now Minister to Switzer
land, was named to succeed Judge
Booth as a member of the Court of
Claims.
WYTHEVILLE, Dec. 12—The no
torious bandits who were convicted
of murder in connection with the
court house shooting were sentenced
yesterday. Allen gets thirty-five
years in the penitentiary and Ed
wards twenty-seven years.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—It was
agreed this morning that Congress
would take a recess on Dec. 19th
until January 2nd. This is the cus
tomary two weeks holiday at the
Christmas season, and permits most
of the members to return to their
homes to enjoy the festive occasion
with their families.
CINCNNATTI, Dec. 11—A disas
trous fire last night broke out in the
Gibson hotel. The flames spread
gradually, giving the inmates oppor
tunity to make their escape. The
building was finally destroyed, as
well as the Union Trust building ad
joining. Six women are missing and
it is feared that they were consumed
in the fire.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Secre
tary of the Interior Fisher, in a re
port to Congress, asked for an appro
priation of $100,000 to continue the
investigation of the mineral resources
of Alaska. At the last Congress he
secured $75,000 with which to make
j an investigation of the coal resources
! of the Bering river and Matanuska
coal fields. A party of thirty-five
men have been in the neighborhood
of Katalla for the past three months,
but the expedition to the Matanuska
fields has not yet been undertaken.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — The
House yesterday passed a bill provid
ing for the pay to Southerners for
property seized by the government
after June, 1865.
SEATTLE, Dec. 12—John W. Tay
lor, one of five who was sentenced to
hang tomorrow for the killing of A.
H. Pfay, in Hardy county, has had
his sentence commuted to life im
prisonment.
HAPPENINGS IN
Cordova, Dec. 17.
There will be a steamer from Seat
tle in port tomorrow afternoon
about three or four o'clock. The
Northwestern, which sailed from
Seattle on Friday night, made good
progress as far north as Juneau. She
sailed from there at three o’clock
this morning and unless she is delay
ed by storms after she gets out into
the open sea she will reach Cordova
tomorrow afternoon.
The freighter Latouche will reach
Cordova tonight about nine o’clock.
She bringe 300 tons of coal and some
gasoline. On her return trip she will
take a cargo of copper ore.
Cordova, Dec. 13.
A big shipment of copper ore from
the Bonanza mine went from Cordora
this morning on the steamer Mariposa
to the Tacoma smelter. The cargo
included thirty cars, or 1290 tons.
Valued at seventeen cents per pound
this shipment was worth $320,000.
While this was one of the largest
single shipments that has gone from
this port it has not been exceptional
to ship half a million dollars worth
of copper ore during the course of a
single month. The value of the 'up
per shipments per year from Cordova
nearly equals in value the gold out
put of either Nome or Fairbanks.
E. W. Exum came in on the train
this morning from Chitina and is at
the Windsor hotel.
The Cordova Fire department has
decided to hold their customary big
ball on New Year’s eve. This year it j
will come on Tuesday night and will j
be held at Eagle hall. There will be
good music and everything necessary
to properly celebrate the incoming
year in a spirit of gladness and gen
eral enjoyment.
The train that went out yesterday
morning got as far as Mile 87, when
it was learned that a snow slide had
occurred at Mile 95. In the mean
time the snow rotary was sent out
from Cordova and it soon did the
necessary work and cleared the track.
In order to give the train crew time
to rest the train remained at Mile 87
until midnight, when it went on to
Tiekel. Today’s train was then
started as a stub from Chitina at two
o’clock this morning and at Tiekel a
transfer was made , the passengers,
mail and freight from here going
on to Chitina and the south bound
passengers and mail coming on to
Cordova, and arriving here about ten
o'clock. Tomorrow morning’s train
will start at the regular time and go
through to Chitina as usual.
The fifth dead body has been taken
from the snow slide that occurred on
Sunday last at the workings of the
Great Northern Development Com
pany, on Copper Mountain It was
that of Leo Muth, blacksmith. Four
more bodies remain imbedded in the
snow avalanche, but a crew of men
is industriously at work in the effort
to recover them.
On the train this morning the body
of John McGavock was brought to
town by a brother of the decesed,
who had also been working at Cop
per Mountain. The body is in the
care of undertaker Lambert, and will
be taken to Denver for shipment on
the next steamer. Thu remains of
several of the other unfortunates
will be buried in the interior country.
Although this is Friday, the thir
teenth, the steamer Mariposa sailed
from Cordova at five oiclock this
morning, and the steamer Norttt west
ern will sail from Seattle tonight for
Sowestern Alaska ports.
A record breaking mail went out
this morning on the steamer Mari
posa, indicating the near approach of
the holiday season. It included 67
pouches, of which 24 were registered
pouches, 8 contained letups und 35
were sack of merchandise, etc. This
was all handled through the Cordova
post office, although much of it came
from Fairbanks and the Copper river
country.
Cordova, Dec. 12.
A. R. Heilig, of Fairbanks, is a
passenger going through from Valdez
to Seattle. He is one of the at
torneys in the banking cases now on
trial and goes to consult with one of
defendants, banker Parsons, at Seat
itie.. Mr. Heilig will spend Christ
mas at Tacoma with his parents and
^ other members of the family.
A. B. lies, who made a short trip
to Seattle and then returned and
went on to Valdez, was an arrival this
morning on the Mariposa. He will
take the first train to Strelna, to look
after his workings on Nugget creek.
Attorney C. B. Gillespie will leave
on the Mariposa and will go on to
San Francisco, where he will spend
a few weeks among his old friends
and relatives.
Mayor Henry A. Slater will be an
outgoing passenger on the Mariposa.
He will join his wife at Tucson, Ari
zona, and spend a couple of months
with her.
Mrs. Grant Reed will leave for
Seattle on the steamer in the morn
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Corser will
take a trip outside and enjoy a vaca
tion of a couple of months.
Mrs. A. J. Hennecke will leave on
the Mariposa and go back to her
folks in Wisconsin to spend a couple
of months.
John E. Berry is going out on the
Mariposa, as he has some important
business to attend to at Seattle. He
expects to be able to return in three
or four weeks.
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This morning Dr. W. H. Chase and
George Dooley went to Chitina to
arrange for the institution of an aerie
of Fraternal Order of Eagles, on Sat
urday evening. A large number
have indicated their desire to join the
order there. Dr. Chase has just
been elected Worthy President of the
Cordova aerie, while Mr. Dooley is
the Secretary. The latter may go
on to Kennecott.
Deputy Collector of Customs M. S.
Whittier will sail on the Mariposa to
night for Ketchikan, where he will
take charge of the customs affice at
that place. He succeeds John R.
Beegle, resigned, who has engaged
in the fish business. Mr. Beegle is
the oldest man in point of service in
Alaska department, having entered
on his duties March 18, 1898, at
Dyea. He served later at Skagway,
Nome and St. Mary’s island. Since
1900 he has been stationed at Ketchi
kan.
The steamer Yukon has finally pro
ceeded on her way south. Yester
day afternoon she returned from
Hinchinbrook and went to Ellamar,
taking on additional cargo of copper
ore, so as to give her greater weight.
She sailed from Ellamar at ten
o’clock last night and arrived at
Katalla at 1:30 o’clock this after
noon. She discharged some freight
and took on a few passengers and at
3 o’clock proceeded over to Wing
ham Island, where the government
coal party of 35 men are encamped.
The sea had calmed considerably,
although a strong wind was blowing.
It was expected that Capt. Durkee
would transfer the party from the
island to the steamer by means of his
launch Triton, sometime toward even
ing. The government party has been
awaiting the coming of a steamer at
the island since December 3.
The steamer Mariposa reached
port this morning about nine o’clock
and is now engaged in taking on a
cargo of copper ore from the Bonan
za mine. She is scheduled to sail
south at five o’clock tomorrow morn
ing. Mail that she will carry will
close at eight o’clock this evening at
the post office. The following are
the passengers from Cordova who are
booked for Seattle:
H. A. Slater, Tony Knowles, C. J.
Peterson and wife, Mrs. E. Kup
pashne, Miss M. Martin, John Palmer
and wife, J. Carson, A. J. Timmons,
J. M. Schurr, C. M. Williams, A. F.
Nelson, Mrs. Grant Reed, H. J. Van
Trump, H. R. Lee, Olive Briggs, Mrs.
A. J. Hennecke, Walter Stephens,
Ben Simson, G. A. Hunter, T. W.
Mack, Caleb Corser and wife, H. B.
Greenig, Jennie Smith, Alex Park,
Thos. H. White, Wm. Cannavan,
Thos. Davis and wife, C. B. Gillespie,
John C. Berry, Mrs. J. P. Rockefeller,
P. Carlson.
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Mr. Wilson will not allow his va
cation to be distubed by fears that
his work in preparation for the Presi
dency may accumulate so that he
will be unable to dispose of It when
lie gets back. He knows that thous
ands of his fePow-'drizons will keep
on making the plans ;'cr him during
his absence.
PRINCETON, Dec. 17—Governor
Woodrow Wilson has returned to his
New Jersey houie and has resumed
his duties as the state's executive.
He is in good health and spirits. A
mass of correspondence awaits his
action and much of it has to do with
the affairs of the nation and the poli
cy of the party that will soon he dom
inant.
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SEDEL, Bahr, Dec. 18—The Turk
ish warships have returned and re
port that the Greeks have retired.
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