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QUINCY, &aM., ° July 13.—On
Saturday afternoon the battleship
Nevada was launched from the ‘ship
yard at this place. The vessel was
christened by Eleanor Ann Sibert,
the 10-year-old neice of Governor
Oddie.
ST. LOUIS, July 13.—Eight bal
loons sailed yesterday in an effort
to determine the American entrant
to the International Balloon Race
for the Be.nnett cup, which will
start from Kansas City in October
next.
WASHINGTON, July 131—Repre
sentative William A. Jones, of Vir
ginia, has introduced a bill in the
House providing for a more autono
mous government in the. Philip
pines. This measure has the ap
proval of the administration.
VERA CRUZ, July 11.—Former
Minister of Commerce Moheno has
departed for New York. Prior to
boarding the steamer this morning
he asserted that he. was ready to
prove that there existed a secret
platform in the Progressive party, of
which Roosevelt was cognizant, look
ing to the acqusition of everything
between the Rio Grande and
Panama. It is expected that when
he reaches New York he will be
called upon by Col. Roosevelt to
make good his assertion.
! BISMARK, July 10.—The lumber
plant of the Coml.v Mill Co. caught
fire this morning and spread with
such rapidity that soon the intense
flames were sweeping over buildings
and piles of finished lumber. ■ All
efforts to stay the flames proved un
availing and in a few hours practic
ally everything had been destroyed.
In some, instances workmen were
unable to escape from buildings with
the result that three were killed and
two others, missing, are supposed
to have perished. Fifteen we.re in
jured, some of them seriously. y*
WASHINGTON, July 11.—/’he
House has voted an appropriation of
$200,000 to be used for benefit
of the many victims pjr the recent
devastating fire at^£le.m, Mass. Hun
dreds lost all Aheir property and
earthly possesions.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—This
morning /Secretary Daniels an
r,OuncecL''that the next four dread
nau^hJfs to be built wrould be named
Arizona, California, Mississippi and
Idaho. Battleships bearing the two
latter names have, just been sold to
Greece.
NEW YORK, July 11.—Former
Governor William Sulzer and asso
ciates have been cited to appear be
fore Speial Investigator Laurence
Millet, on August 3, to show why
they should not be dispossessed of
certain coal claims in Alaska. This
is in line with the investigation
which is now being made by the
interior department, which see.ks to
secure an early termination of all
pending cases. Those claimants who
have failed to comply with the ordi
nary and well understood provisions
of the law will have the,ir claims
annuled. Many others will likely be
granted patent, where it is shown
that they have honestly tried to com
ply with the requirements of the
law.
QUEBEC, July 11.—The commis
sion that was appointed to investi
gate the wreck of the Empress of
Ireland, and the, loss of nearly 1,000
people, reported today. In their
findings the blame for the wreck is
laid to the collier Storstad. It wes
due to a change of course ordered by
the third officer without instructions
from the first officer, who was in
charge at the time the big Canadian
Pacific liner was rammed by the
collier.
NEWi YORK, July 11.—A state
ment has been issued by William
R. Hearst, publisher of a chain of
Hearst newspapers throughout the
country, in which he criticizes the
policy of the, Wilson administration.
He predicts that the, next House of
Congress will be Republican, unless
Roosevelt’s aggressive leadership of
Progressives tends to divide the vote
against the Democratic Congres
sional candidates. He states that
with a number of friends he expects
to visit Alaska next summer. In his
party will be Mrs. Glynn, wife of the
present governor of New York, to be
accompanied by Martin H. Glynn if
he should be defeated for renomina
tion and re-election as governor.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 11.—The
Sunset Magazine has stirred up a lot
<Jf trouble for the government and
others. An article recently appeared
concerning the fortifications of the
Panama Canal and since then fed
eral offiials have been busy. Last
evening Charles K. Field, editor,
Riley A. Scott, author of the article
in question, Roy A Duhem, photog
rapher and Robert G. Fowler,
aviator, were placed under arrest.
They are charged with divulging
secrets of the fortifications and pub
lishing pictures and a descriptive
article.
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Secre
tary of £>tate Bryan and the Japanese.
Ambassador Viscount Sutemi Chimla
were in conference late yesterday
ifternoon over the Raker Asiatic ex
clusion bill.1
WASHINGTON, July 10.—The
Senate banking committee has re
jected the nomination of Thomas D.
lones, of Chicago, to serve six years
is a member of the federal reserve
jank board. Mr. Jones practiced
aw in Chicago for 20 years but re
ired in 1900. He has long been a
jersonal friend of Woodrow Wilson,
)eing a Princeton aluinrii. He is a
-ery wealthy man and objection has
)een made to him because he waS
nixed up with the Harvester and
>ther trusts. Action was indefi- 1
litely postponed on the nomination
>f Paul Warburg, of New Yocte'f to
lerve four years. It is expec/£ed that
^resident Wilson will withdraw this
lomination, in accordance with the 1
■equest made by Mr. Warburg a
ouple of days a.f'o.
WASHINGTON, July 8—Mr. War
>urg has addressed a letter to the
^resident , "requesting that his name
>e withdrawn as a member
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Secre
tary Garrison has ordered Fred
Boalt, a Seattle war correspondent,
leported font Vea Cruz. It had been
charged that he was sending out un
true and sensational dispatches. An
investigation proved this to be true,
and on the recommendation of Gen.
Funston the secre.tafy took the
action stated.
WASHINGTON, July 10.—Henry
Ford, of the big automobile firm
had an hour’s conference with Presi
dent Wilson yesterday afternoon.
The business conditions in the coun
try we,re thoroughly gone over.
VALDEZ, July 10.—This morning
Councilman Albert White announced
his candidacy for election as a mem
ber of the lower house, of the Terri
torial legislature. The announce
ment was expected by his friends
who had urged him to run, believing
that his election will naturally fol
low. He has twice been elected a
member of the Town Council, and is
one of the largest property owners in
Valdez and one of the most public
spirited citzens. In announcing his
candidacy he stated: “I will appeal
to the voters of this division on my
record in the Valdez Council, and
my promise to work for the passage
of laws that will tend to build up
the territory, and especially this
division, and will come out on a con
structive and progressive platform.”
FRBEPORT, July 9.—The wife
of Dr. Carmen, who has been ar
rested on the charge of shooting and
killing Mrs. Louise Bailey, broke
down this morning in jail. She be
came hysterical and it is expected
that she will make confession of her
knowledge of the murder.
SEATTLE, July 9.—Jesse P.
Houser, who has been in the hos
pital here and underwent an opera
tion for an injury received as a
result of a hunting accident a decade
ago, die.d last night. He was a
judge for Skagit and San Juan
counties.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.—
When Marshal Nelms read in the
papers of the expressed intention of
his sister to come, here to kill him
he made immediate preparations for
joining his mother at Atlanta;
NEW ORLEANS, July 10.—The
police report that they have heard
nothing of the killing of Beatrice
Nelms, although they have not yet
been able to locate her. The two sis
ters were he.re recently and cashed
a bank draft for a large sum of
money. It is thought that Mrs.
Dennis must be temporarily out of
her mind.
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OYSTER BAY, July 10.—Several
conferences have been held during
the past two days between Col.
Roosevelt and leaders of the Pro
gressive party. Although he has not
yet definitely decided to be a candi
date for governor, the general feel
ing here is that he will be forced
into the fight. If the Col. should
decline there are many Progrehafves
who teltevd tfcftt they could win
■with Yoriner Governed- William Bul-i
ser as thdir standard bearer? And
this the" Col/ abW not Yavor.
Wibuld’ like Yo dtetfeat District' Attor
ney1 Whitman, who will’ likely be
the Republican candidate for gov
ernor. So there are many reasons
why Roosevelt may consent to be
the candidate of his party.
WASHINGTON,'July'9.—The In
terstate Commerce Commission has
reported to the Senate Interstate
Commerce committee that the Louis
ville & Nashville Railroad last year
issued a number of passes to vari
ous people in every walk of life. In
the list are United States Senators,
federal judges and others. The
railroad runs south from St. Louis
and Cincinnati, with terminal points
at Memphis, Atlanta and New
Orleans. The, matter has caused
somewhat of a sensation among the
national legislators.
WASHINGTON, July 9. — New
grades for commercial corn, estab
lished by the department of agri
culture have gone into effect. The
corn grades, as promulgated, are
practically the same as the tentative
grades formulated August 22, 1913.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—Yester
day afternoon President Wilson
conferred with ten leading men of
Chicago, representing the Chicago
Association of Commerce concern
ing the proper form of a trade com
mission. After listening to their
ideas the President was-so impressed
with the arguments advanced that
he imme.diately telegraphed Repre
sentative J. Harry Covington, who
was absents in his home district of
Maryland, to return. He desires
that lye confer with the delegation,
is^ue was the framer of the bill
Inde.r discussion.
WASHINGTON, July 8—The Sen
ate has confirmed the nominations
of Hamlin, Harding and Miller as
members of the federal reserve
board. This board will be composed
of five members, in addition to the
secretary of the treasury and the
comptroller of the currency ex
officio. Charles S. Hamlin, of Bos
ton, was nominated for the two-year
term; Paul Warburg, of New York,
for four years; Thomas D. Jones,
of Chicago, for six years; W. P. G.
Harding of Birmingham, Ala., for
eight years, and A. C. Miller, of San
Francisco, for ten years. Thus
eventually, all appointments to the
board will be for ten-year terms, the
term of one member expiring every
two years.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 10.—Gen.
Obergon telegraphed this morning
from the governor’s palace at Guad
alajara stating that he had captured
the city and taken 5,000 Mexican
federals as prisoners.
WASHINGTON, July 8.—Secre
tary of Commerce Redfield has an
nounce^ that foreign manufacturers
have sent 8 8-10 per cent more, of
their products into the United States
during the eight months of the new
tariff than they did under the old
tariff.
ST. PAUL, July 8.—The National
Educational Association is now in
session in this city with a large at
tendance from every section of the
country. One of the important con
siderations of the sessions is the
consideration of a plan to establish
libraries throughout the country dis
tricts at a cost of $100,000,000. The
chief contributor will be Andrew
Carnegie. Last evening David Starr
Jordan, of California, was elected
president of the Association.
SEATTLE, July 8—Frank Blanch
ard, a clerk in one of the stores
here, had a quarrel with his wife
and became so depressed afterward
that he. committed suicide.
OTTAWA, July 8.—Eight mem
bers of the Stefansson expedition
who were in the Arctic Ocean when
the Karluk was sunk, are supposed
to have wande.red away from their
companions and headquarters and
possibly become lost or ' drowned.
This view is taken here by reason
of a wire that was received by the
Minister of Marine,. It indicates
that there were two parties of four
men in each. Their names are:
Charles Bartlett, John Bredy, Archi
bald King, Henry Beuche.t, Allister
Forbes McKay, James Murray, Thos.
Morris and an unknown.
PARIS, July 8.—Harry Savage
Landor has just returned from
Rome and has created a mild sen
sation by his pronounced assertion
that Col. Roosevelt is a fake, ex
plorer. He declares that the Colonel
first announced that he had dis
covered the river, previously un
known to man, and then later ad
mitted that he had crossed it on a
bridge of tight wire that spanned
the stream. !
Receiver Walker and Register
Boyle, of the Juneau land office,
have sent us a circular giving notice
that plat of survey of Township No.
1, north, and Range 1, east, of the
Copper River meridian will be filed
in that office on August 31st, 1914
and that on and after August 11,
1914, th^t 'offide will be prepared *.o
'receive 'ApjJlftfctfOTte of-qutrtiffed per
sons property fexeculcfa Tor lands em
braced Within shid township, whtch
is*situated in the1 vicinity of Gripped
Center.'? *!t«r •' .nwt
Land applied for prior to August
31, 1914, ate' not subject to entry
by the allowance of the application
prior to said date of August 31,
1914. Applications presented after
August 31,' 1914, will be received
And noted in the order of their pre
sentation. >■' Applications received
prior to August 31, 1914; will be dis
posed of by the 'local officers under
the provisions of the Circular of the
General Lind Office, of May 22, 1914.
Settlers on any of said land prior to
the date of the filing of the township
plat, have a preference right of
entry for a period of three months
from the. date of the filing of the plat.
Such persons are urged to present
their applications, alleging their set
tlement and the date thereo, prior
to August 31, 1914, if they wi)l
avoid possible controversy.
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The noted painters Mr. and Mrs.
Robert von Vor*t Sewell, who are
making headquarters at Mile 52 for
a few days painting the Miles and
Childs glaciers, will later go over the !
railroad as far as Strelna. From 1
there they will go into the mountains
and join Baron Ton Ravens party
on the Kuskulana river, at the min
ing camps of the Alaska Copper
Corporation, it was ^principally to
portray scenes from these mines and
the surrounding country that the '
Sewells were induced to come to !
Alaska with the Baron and other [
stockholders of the corporation. 1
The first issue of the Juneau- i
Douglas city directory has just been '
Issued By Walter G. Fox, who was 1
in Cordi&va a couple of weeks last !
winter. It contains exclusive of \
churches, schools, business firms, 1
:orporatfons, ete., 2,447 names of .
persons 16 years of age and over J
residing fn Juneau; and 1,279 resid- '
ing in Douglas. A careful census <
shows 674 children under the age of |
16 residing in Juneau, and 436 resid- '
ing in Douglas, making a total popu. i
lation of 3,121 for Juneau, and 1,714 !
’or Douglas. The total population J
’or the cities of Juneau and Douglas <
ind the adjacent communities within !
i radius of five miles is, according J
:o the census takers of the directory, <
7,533. J
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A teym of court will be held at |
Seward commencing October 2nd, \
ind the Clerk of the District Court •
ind Jury Commissioner Martin on I j
ruesday selected the following from ■
200 names to serve as jurors;
Ed Schultz, Harry Nettleton, Jas. i
Smith, J. W. Fillinger, Frank Cole* ;
J. K. Smart, of Cordova; H. D. Hall, j
of Hope; George H. Hill, of Tiekhell; !
Julius Jensen, of Ellamar; F. A. '
Schmaker, W. C. McCall, of La- j
touche; John Abrahamson, Oscar
Brink, Len Meenach, of Cliff Mine, '
Charles Schlosser, of Fidalgo Bay;
W. H. Seagrave of Kenencott; Henry
Deyo; John Ereckson, J. S. Heckey,
A. S. Jensen, H. J. Paulson, William
Lufkin, Sidney Drake, J. A. McGil
vray, G. W. Long, of Valdez; H. E.
Ellsworth, Charles Crawford, Geo.
C. Long, of Seward.
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H. J. Paulson has been appointed
deputy marshal at Dillingham to
take the place made vacant by the
resignation of Robert Coles, who
was appointed several months ago
and wejit west on the last trip of the
steamer Dirigo, but sent his resigna
tion back on the same boat,
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PARIS, July 10.—The municipal
council has authorized the loan of
$44,500,000 for municipal improve
ments, at 4 per cent.
LITTLE ROCK, July 10.—Clar.
ence Lee Dewejn, 20, formerly of
Belleville, 111., has been doomed to
die in the electric chair at the peni
tentiary here for the murder of L.
H. Thompson an aged merchant of
Benton.
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ATLANTA, July 10.—A letter re
ceived by Mrs. John W. rselms, of an
old and wealthy family, has caused •
great excitement in the city, f'lt is
from her daughter, Mrs. Eloise'
Nelms Dennis, and in it she states
that she, had killed her sister, Miss
Beatrice Nelms in New Orleans and
that she was going to San Francisco
to kill her young brother, Marshal
Nelms.
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