SEATTLE, Nov. 3.—The steamer
Northwestern will sail on Tuesday
evening for Southwestern Alaska.
She will carry a number of stamped
ers to Cordova and considerable
freight. It is realized that the only
safe and quick way to reach the
Chisana is via Cordova and Mc
Carthy. On the Northwestern will be
22 horses for the Chisana and 30
porcupine boilers. In the 100 tons
of supplies for the new gold diggings
will be a ton of baking powder, five
tons of sugar and five tons of dried
fruit. On later steamers the crowds
will begin to leave for Cordova and
the Chisana.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—A wire
has been received from Captain Bal
linger, commander of the revenue
cutter Bear, asking for $2,000 to aid
the Eskimo at Nome. He repre
sents that they are destitute and
badly in need of assistance.
SEATTLE, Nov. 1.—Mayor Geo.
Cotterill has publicly announced
that he will not be a candidate for
re-election. It is believed that he
will allow his name to go before
the primaries as a candidate for
United States Senator, to succeed
Senator Wesley L. Jones, whose
successor will be elected in Novem
ber, 1914. It is expected that the
support of the mayor and his
friends will go to W. H. Moore,
formerly mayor and superior court
judge. Councilman Griffith! has
announced that he will resign his
present office and be a candidate
for mayor. Several others are pre
paring to cast their hats into the
ring.
BERLIN, Nov. 1.—The Mexican
minister of finance has communi
cated the announcement that Mexico
has arranged to borrow $25,000,000
in Paris, to pay the federal army.
DULUTH, Nov. 1.—The United
States Steel Corporation paid into
the treasury of Minnesota during
the last half of 1912, the sum of a
million and a half dollars, for taxes.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — The
Canadian consul reports the arrival
of Danil and Everaristo Madero at
Vera Cruz. They were aboard a
Mexican gunboat and were brought
ashore and lodged in prison.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3.—This morning
Edward Morris, one of the wealthy
meat packers of the city, died at his
home. He was 57 years of age and
was an officer and director in a large
number of banks and various com
panies.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Judge Mc
Call made an address last night dur
ing which he scathingly criticized
William Sulzer and his attorney,
Hennessey, ‘ the graft investigator.”
He said that “by their perfidiouBness
shall the Fusion cause be known.”
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — The
resolution presented yesterday after
noon by Representative Frank O.
Smith, of Maryland, with reference
to ceding the Southeastern Alaska
panhandle to Canada also provided
that the President may exchange this
strip of territory for either money
or British territory. The resolution
was referred to the committee on
Foreign Relations, where it is ex
pected that it will peacefully slum
ber.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Construc
tion work is soon to begin on the
greatest road-building project ever
attempted since the time when the
Caesars, in building the highways
which are still the main thorough
fares of Europe, gave rise to the
saying that “All roads lead to
Rome.” The modern counterpart of
these ancient roads is the Lincoln
Highway, a national thoroughfare
that will extend 3,100 miles across
the American continent from New
York to San Francisco. Unlike the
Roman roads, which were a mani
festation of imperial power, the
Lincoln Highway is the result of a
popular movement and is to be
built by popular subscription. After
over a year of careful Investigation
and after numerous conferences with
the officials of the different states
that the highway is to pass through,
the route has been definitely decided
on, while, of the $10,000,000 needed
for carrying out the work, over
$4,000,000 has already been sub
scribed. Twelve states will be
crossed by this highway which is to
serve to future generations as a fit
ting memorial to the martyred
president whose name it bears.
SEATTLE, Nov. 3—Reflecting the
sentiment of the Alaska territorial
legislature three senators, Millard,
of Valdez, Roden, of Iditarod and
Bruner, of Nome, will leave for
Washington this week to aid in the
passage of the Alaska railroad bill.
The legislature declared in favor of
government aid in the construction
of railroads in the northland and the
senators named will add their
personal prestige to secure favorable
action by Congress.
ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 1.—Com
missioner of Corporations Davis
announces that under the direction
of the President a scientific investi
gation of the industrial situation
will be made. This is to be in con
nection with the administration's
proposed trust legislation.
John V. Thomas was found guilty
of pocket picking, the jury return
ing a verdict on Saturday evening
at 7 o’colck, after being out three
hours. The act was committed at
Chitina. Tnomas was without funds
so the court appointed Attorney C.
E. Bunnell to defend him.
VIENNA, Oct. 31.—“The first few
years of the twentieth century indi
cate that it will attain to the doubt
ful fame and characterization of the
“suicide century,” declared Neritz
Wertmann, Secretary of the Volun
tary Rescue Society, at the second
International Congress of Rescue
Workers which has just come to a
close here. Wertmann declared that
statistics from all parts of the world
showed an appalling increase of sui
cides and suicidal attempts.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31—The Fusion
party held a big demonstration last
night at Madison Square Garden.
Chairman Seth Low delivered a stir
ring speech. Among other things
he declared that the way to destroy
Tammany was “by putting it on the
hunger strike and not trying to
forcibly feed it.”
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 30.—The
greatest human interest drama of
the year in this state was staged
on October 14 when Mrs. Jennie May
Eaton faced court charged with the
murder of her husband, Rear Ad
miral Joseph Giles Eaton, retired.
Since that time until the case
went to the jury last evening at 6
o’clock the most intense interest has
been manifested in the case. This
morning the jury brought in a ver
dict of not guilty, and considerable
of a demonstration followed.
NEW YORK, Oct 30.—Clarence
Mackey caused his wife to be served
with papers in an action for divorce,
while she was stopping at the Hotel
Plaza last evening.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 30.—In the will
of the late Adolphus Busch there is
provision for a fortune, in trust, for
the widows of Charles Nagle and
August A. Busch.
TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct. 30.—Mine
strikers routed the guards at
Aguilar after a short contest. The
strikers are charged with then up
setting a stove in the store of the
Southwestern Fuel Co., which
started a conflagration. In the store
was located the post office. The
structure burned, destroying the
contents and most of the mail, in
cluding money orders. The post
master, however, claims to have
evidence that the mail was first
rifled before the fire was started.
While the firemen were fighting the
flames they were fired upon by men
having guns.
WASHINGTON, Oct 30.—The
President this afternoon sent to the
Senate the name of Albert Wile, to
be postmaster at Iditarod. The
term of the present incumbent has
expired.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—It is re
ported from the navy department
that the trial trip of the collier
Jupiter has been a pronounced suc
cess. She is electrically driven and
during her trial trip along the Cali
fornia coast maintained a speed of
14 % knots per hour.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Edward
Everett McCall, Tammany candidate
for mayor, opened his campaign a
week or more ago in a speech in
which he referred to the rate of tax
ation and the subway contracts as
the paramount issues faced by the
cify. The police situation he de
scr'bed as “rather a minor feature.”
He has since continued, in his
speeches, to ignore the police con
ditions in the city.
SEATTLE, Oct. 30.—When Dr. J.
A. Holmes recently returned from a
several weeks visit to the Matanuska
and Nenana coal fields he was re
ticent as to the nature of the re
port he would make. While admit
ting that it might have some bearing
on the route of the proposed govern
ment railroad in Alaska, he would
give no indication of which route he
favored. He said:
“The best immediate use for the
lignite to be found in Nenana coal
fields is for the operation of quartz
mills. This would make the min
ing of the low grade rock, which is
so plentiful about Fairbanks, a
profitable venture.”
He said that the thing which had
impressed him most while in the
Fairbanks district was' the great
amount of quartz there and the fact
that practically nothing had been
done towards mining it.
“Practically every prospector I
met during my stay up there was
looking for placer,” Dr. Holmes
said, "and of course placer mining is
the poor man’s game. But it is the
quartz mines that make for the
steady and sure development of any
mining country, and Alaska has
quartz in abundance. Of course, the
operators must have cheaper trans
portation before they can handle low
grade propositions at a profit, but
once they have secured satisfactory
transportation they have the cheap
power right at their doors.
“There is an immense deposit of
lignite in the Nenana field, which is
only about three-fourths the value
of anthracite, but can be made use
of up there to operate power plants
and railroads all over the district.
“The government reclamation sta
tion at Williston, N. D., uses lignite
mined there for the operation of the
power plant writh success, and the
same can be done with the Nenana
coal.”
Dr. Holmes said that there was
nothing but lignite in the Nenana
fields, but he found both anthracite
and bituminous deposits in the Mat
anuska. He would give no opinion
of the quality of the Matanuska an
thracite, 800 tons of which has been
mined and will be brought out this
winter and treated by the navy.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 31.—James J.
Hill, formerly president of the Great
Northern railroad, made a lengthy
address last night before the In
vestment Bankers Association, of
America. He took as his subject
“Railroad Financing of the Future.”
Among other things he declared that
“the country is water-logged with
bonds.”
Chltlna Is now In direct touch with
Fairbanks, Valdez and Cordova. The
enterprising citizens of the interim
metropolis raised the funds neces
sary to connect Chitina by wire with
the government line at Willow
Creek, a distance of 40 miles. Now
wires can be sent direct to Fair
banks from either Chitina or Cor
dova. Heretofore it was necessary
to send messages by cable from Cor
dova to Valdez and from there over
the government line to the interior.
The office at Chitina is at the
Chitina Hotel.
J. Randolph Tucker, President
Wilson’s appointee for federal judge
of the Second district of Alaska, ar
rived in Seattle on October 21 and
sailed for Nome Saturday, October
25 on the steamer Victoria.
Judge Tucker, is a native of Vir
ginia, where he served for several
years as a state circuit judge. When
in Seattle Judge Tucker said that
this was his first visit to the North
west, and that thus far he was
greatly impressed with the country
and he was looking forward to his
judicial duties in Alaska with con
siderable pleasure, “for I am used
to the hard grind of the bench,” he
said, "and have always concerned
myself with seeing justice done,
whatever the results.”
The new judge from Virginia was
guided through Seattle's shopping
centers by Joe Warren, govern
mental special agent for Alaska. To
gether the search was made for furs
and warm clothing to stave off the
cold of the north.
Judge Tucker is personally ac
quainted with President Wilson,
having known him in Virginia, and
expresses the highest esteem for
him. At the start of his journey to
the coast he stopped off in Wash
ington, D. ,C., where he met the
President and members of the cabi
net.
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Valdez now has two electric light
and water plants. A. B. lies has
brought his power and water to the
city edge and now asks council for
an electric light, power and tele
phone franchise for the city. He
makes material reductions in the
rates charged by the old company,
but it is expected that before grant
,ng the franchise still further reduc
tions will be demanded.
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OGDEN, Nov. 4.—A sensation
was created here this morning when
Myron A. bmith, a prominent rail
road and mining man was placed
under arrest. He is charged with
blackmailing Mrs. Ralph E. Bristol
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eighteen months.
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Cable advices received by Gov. J.
F. A. Strong from W. D’Arcy Chace,
assistant health commissioner at
Nome states that ten of the bodies
washed out by the great storm had
been reburied; also fifteen from the
old cemetery along the beach at
Nome, and that there were ten cof
fins still exposed in the old cemetery.
The expense of doing the work had
been taken from the relief fund.
The city council of Valdez has
fixed their tax levy at one and a
half per cent, which is the lowest it
nas been in several years. The
valuation is only $450,000, and the
assessment will bring in $6,700,
which in addition to the $8,000 re
ceived from licenses will be suffi
cient to pay the running expenses of
the city, «•
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INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 3.—The
street car strikers have again broken
out in riots and general disorder.
An appeal was made Saturday to
Governor Ralston "o take action in
the matter and send troops here to
quell the disturbance. This the gov
ernor refused to do and told the
mayor that the police were not
doing their duty in the matter, and
that in his opinion the situation
could easily be handled by the city.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—The streets
near the wharves were the scene this
morning of Intense excitement. Six
teen steers escaped and made a
break for up town. Policemen
started in the chase and sought to
kill the animals by firing shots from
their guns. They first succeeded
in killing a pedestrian named George
Beattie, and wounded two others.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The in
come tax is effective today. Banks,
corporations and others responsible
for the payment on bonds are re
quired to withhold the tax "at the
source.”
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