Cablegrama in
Brief
Seattle, Jan. 13.—The officers of
the Financiers Alaska Investment
Company have been arrested for the
fraudulent use of the mails In ad
vertising water rights and minipg
property alleged to be owned by the
corporatiton.
Seattle Jan. 13.—The hearing in
the case of the wreck of the steam
er Olympia, which went on a rock off
Bligh Island, will take place before
the inspectors on Tuesday next. Capt.
Daniels is charged with unskilled
navigation.
Seattle, Jan. 13.—The weather
continues cold and is below freez
ing. Heavy snows have fallen in the
mountains, where many passenger
t!a:;is are blockaded and the passen
gers without food.
Washington, Jan. 13.—Congress
man Humphries, of Seattle, is mak
ing a hard fight to get an improved
mail service for the Iditarod, but the
department is disinclined to do any
thing, claiming that the business does
not justify it.
Washington, Jan. 13.—According
to official figures given out the state
of Washington produced 3,500,000
tons of coal last year.
Washington, Jan. 13.'—At a ban
quet of the National Tariff Associa
tion, held last night, President Taft
was endorsed, also Congressman
Longworth’s bill for a permanent
tariff commission.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 13.—Prof.
Charles Henry Chandler and others
declare that $2,000,000 gift to the
Mother Church by Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy founder of Christian Science,
is void, as the statutes of New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts do not per
mit more than $5,000 annually be
given to any church.
Washington, Jan. 13.—The House
sub-committee is favorable to tend
ering Peary a vote of thanks for dis
covering the North pole and retir
ing him with the rank of Rear Ad
miral.
Salt Lake, Jan. 15.—Senator Suth
erland was today renominated at a
caucus of the Republican members ol
the legislature.
Washington, Jan. 13.—The fisher
ies regulations between the United
States and Canada, which have been
in dispute for some time past, have
been amicably settled.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 13.—The
Czarina is seriously ill and consider
able alarm is felt in official circles.
Washington, Jan. 13.—The Repub
lican members of the Ways and
Means Committee have been sum
moned to the White House, where
President Taft urged them to har
monize their differences and secure
the passage of the tariff commission
bill.
St. Louis Jan. 13.—While under
a jail sentence, on the charge
of bigamy, Charles Drummond has
eloped with Agnes McClanahau, a 22
year-old stenographer.
Washington, Jan. 15.—Judson C.
Clements, of Georgia, a member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
has been elected chairman of that
body, vice Martin C. Knapp, of New
York, resigned.
Washington Jan. 13.—Protests
have been made against the confirm
ation of Judge Hunt as a member of
the Commerce Commission. He is
charged with favoring the smelter
trust of Montana.
Washington, Jan. 13.—Announce
ment is made that the western rail
roads will suspend the advance in
freight rates until March 15.
Tokyo, Jan. 13.—The $40,000,
000 naval increase is unsatisfactory,
as the naval officials wanted $200,
000,000.
Helena, Jan. 12.—There is a dead
lock in Montana over the election of
a senator to succeed Hon. Thomas
Carter. In a joint ballot today Car
ter received 34 votes, while the
strength of the Democrats was divid
ed, Walsh polling 29 votes and Con
rad 16. The other twenty-two mem
bers cast complimentary votes for
personal friends.
New York, Jan. 12.—Nearly $2,
000,000 has been pledged for Young
Men's Christian Association buildings
In foreign lands.
Tokio, Jan. 12.—The government
officials are greatly disappointed at
California’s anti-Japanese policy.
Washington, Jan. 12.—Secretary
of Interior Ballinger made a strong
speech today in the Senate in favor
of the ship subsidy bill.
Denver, Jan. 12.—United States
Senator Charles J. Hughes, Jr., died
yesterday after a short illness. De
ceased was born in Kingston. Mo.,
February 16, 1853, and began the
practice of law in 1877, locating in
Denver two years later. From the
beginning of his practice in Colorado,
Senator Hughes has given special at
tention to mining and irrigation liti
gation, and has been for many years
professor of mining law in the law
school of the University of Denver.
He was elected to succeed Senator
Teller a year ago, after having been
the unanimous choice of the Demo
cratic state convention for the po
sition.
Madison, Wis., Jan. 12.—Charges
of fraud have been made against the
election of United States Senator
Stephenson, who was elected May 17,
1907, to fill out the unexpired term
of Hon. J. C. Spooner, who resigned
in March of that year, and was re
elected March 4, 1909.
Washington, Jan. 12.—For the
complete marking of the boundary
line and making surveys betw-een
Alaska and Canada an appropriation
of $200,000 is asked.
Washington, Jan. 12.—The census
committee reports favorably in the
Crumpacker bill, which increases the
membership of the House to 435.
Washington. Jan. 12.—The parcels
post has proven a failure, on account
of its inefficiency, and the loss to the
government last year was $17,000,
000.
Washington, Jan. 12.—The Judic
ary committee of the Senate has
recommended the submission of an
amendment to the constitution for
'.he election of senators.
Indianapolis, Jan. 12.—A bill has
been introduced in the legislature
compelling lobbyists to register,
showing who they represent as sal
try men and the bills advocated by
them.
Seattle, Jan. 12.—The steamer
Bertha arrived this morning from
Southwestern Alaska.
New York, Jan. 12.—The largest
aviation school in the world is to be
opened next summer at Long Island.
New York, Jan. 12.—Misogynists
may well view with alarm the in
creasing numbers of women in the
learned professions. Their gloomiest
predictions have again been fulfilled,
for Harris Koppelman, a lawyer of
this city, has just married Miss Es
ther Kunstler, also a lawyer, who
measured wits with him in a mu
nicipal court case here a few months
ago and won for her client a ver
dict, “together with the costs of said
action.” Koppelman not only lost
his case, but his heart as well, and
he and his Portia were married yes
terday in the presence of many
friends.
Boston, Jan. 12.—Senator Henry
2abot Lodge, against whom Governor
Poss is making a bitter fight for re
election, seems impossible to defeat
.nd he will undoubtedly be returned
to the Senate, where he has repre
sented Massachusetts for the past
eighteen years, having served four
terms in Congress prior to that time.
Washington, Jan. 12.—Minister
Wilson has wired the State Depart
ment that the backbone of the Mexi
can revolution is broken.
Washington, Jan. 12.—Congress
man John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
introduces a bill in the House which
virtually continues the present non
partisan tariff.
Seattle, Jan. 12.—The commercial
clubs of this city have united in a
demand of the Postoffice Department
that a weekly mail be established
between Iditarod and Kuskokwim.
Chicago, Jan. 12.—Another store
has been wrecked by a bomb, mak
ing the fiftieth, which work is at
tributed to gambling and labor In
fluence.
Washington, Jan. 13.—PresidentTaft
sent a special message to Congress
today recommending the appropria
tion of $5,000,000 for the initial
work on the fortification of the Pan
ama canal.
Chicago, Jan. 12.—The garment
workers’ strike, which has caused so
much trouble in the city, is about at
an end, as the details of a compro
mise are nearly adjusted.
London, Jan. 12.—A world-wide
strike is imminent, which It is be
lieved is aimed at the shipping in
terests.
Washington, jan. 14.—Congress is
considering an army appropriation
bill of $92,000 000.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 14.—A vio
lent earthquake at Kebery killed sev
eral hundred people and wrecked a
number of buildings.
Washington, Jan. 12.—The Lands
committee of the House is consider
ing the Nelson bul for the leasing
of the Alaska coal lands, and Chair
man Mondell believes the measure
will be favorably reported on by
the committee.
Seattle, Jan. 12.—At a dinner giv
en last night in honor of Bishop
Rowe he declared against Pinchot
ism ana strongly advocated the open
ing of the Alaska coal fields, either
upon a lease, royalty or in any other
way so long as the fuel can be mined.
Minden, Mo., Jan. 12.—Henry Dor
man today reached the age of 112
and the event was properly commem
orated by his friends.
Nashville, Jan. 14.—Senator J. B.
Frazier has lost his seat at Wash
ington, the legislature having elected
Mr. Millinn as his successor.
Seattle, Jan. 14.—The cold weath
er continues on the coast and
throughout the middle west. At Ed
monton, Canada, the thermometer
ugisters 52 below zero.
Ottawa, Jan. 14.—The Canadian
Railway Commisison has declared
that the freight and passenger rates
charged on the White Pass & Yukon
railway are exorbitant and a third
reduction has been ordered.
Kansas City, Jan. 14.—Carrie Na
tion is suffering from a nervous
break-down and it is believed that
her active days are over.
Passaic, Jan. 14.—Jacob Casteline,
aged 78 years, has been given a jail
sentence for beating his wife.
Seattle, Jan. 14.—Jack Smith, one
of the discoverers of the Bonanza
copper mine, near Cordova, is ser
iously afflicted with dropsy.
Camden, Jan. 14.—The battleship
Arkansas has been launched and is
the largest dreadnaught afloat.
Seattle, Jan. 14.—Meal, daughter
of Jessie Webb, the printer, who has
been condemned to die for the mur
der of William Johnson, of Portland,
was stricken with paralysis and ex
pired yesterday. Webb is seeking
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a stay of execution, but says that he
will give up the fight and is willing
to die, as he has nothing to live
for.
Wellington, Jan. 14.—In the trial
of Mrs. Schenk, for the murder of
her husband, it develops that Wil
liam Phelps, a wealthy clubman of
this city, is her affinity.
West Union, O., Jan. 14.—Fifteen
hundred residents of this section have
been sentenced and disfranchised for
illegal voting. .
Cheyenne, Jan. 12.—The Repub
licans caucus has selected Clark as
its candidate for senator from Wyom
ing.
Schnectady, N. Y., Jan. 14.—Edith
Melber, a widow 22 years of age,
confesses that she gave a five-year
old boy carbolic acid, causing his
death. Friends of the woman claim
she is insane.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 14.—Heirs of
the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy have
begun a fight to break her will.
Seattle, Jan. 14.—The Lake Wash
ington Canal, which Seattle has for
so many years been trying to build
or have built, has struck another
stumbling block. At the last session
Congress appropriated an amount
sufficient to complete the canal an
condition that Seattle or King coun
ty should dig the necessary excava
tion. Bonds for this purpose were
voted at the last general election in
the county and everybody seemed
happy. But the validity of these
bonds have now been attacked in the
courts and as the State Supreme
Court once held that a similar bond
issue for the same purpose was void,
it looks as though the canal were
up against it once more.
Seattle Jan. 14.—Shall the time
of the legislative session be wasted
in an unprofitable renewal of the
fight for the removal of the state
capital from Olympia? The ques
tion has oeen settled repeatedly by
the people of the state. Olympia is
the preference of the very great ma
jority. It had been supposed that
the question would never again be
raised. On that assumption the state
authorities have proceeded, with ap
propriations by past legislatures, to
acquire large holdings of valuable
property In Olympia. Thousands of
dollars have been spent on the pres
ent capitol building and the recently
completed executive mansion. The
state owns a magnificent site for a
new capitol building, the foundations
for which were laid some time ago.
No reasonable excuse for removal has
been advanced and there will certain
ly be plenty of really important mat
ters to occupy the time of the com
bing session.
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