TELEGRAPH NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
San Francisco, Feb. 9.—Wbltelaw
Reid. American ambassador to Eng
land, while visiting the Mills estate,
was robbed of valuable jewlery.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The Senate
Finance Committee reports favorably
on a permanent tariff board.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The armis
tice in Honduras has been deferred
as Bonilla is revolutionary and will
only consent if allowed to occupy
Puerto Cortex.
New York, Feb. 9.—Mrs. Hay,
treasurer of the Suffragist League,
declares that the recall of Mayor Gill,
at Seattle, is a triumph for modern
decency and an endorsement of wom
an suffrage.
Washington. Feb. 9.—The House
passes a bill in favor of the purchase
or erection of American embassy
and consular buildings abroad.
New York, Feb. 9.—The federal
authorities raid shops here on ac
count of the enormous trade in opi
um and smuggling which is carried
on in many of the cities.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 9.—George
Sharp and bride have started on
horseback for Seattle on their honey
moon.
Seattle, Feb. 9.—The steamer
Dora sailed today with a cargo of
explosives for Southwestern Alaska.
Albany, Feb. 9.—At a conference
of the Democratic members of the
legislature the insurgents demand the
withdrawal of Sheehan as a candi
date for United States senator.
Washington, Feb. 9.—An officer of
the National Conservation Associa
tion declares that Senator Nelson's
proposed five cents per ton royalty
on Alaska coal is too low and that it
should be 50 cents.
Seattle, Feb. 9.—The steamer
Alameda sailed last night with the
following passengers for Cordova:
Mrs. E. N. Thompson, Mrs. L. S.
Turk, Mrs. N. Harber, Misses Lu'u
York, M. Barton and Nellie Adams,
G. L. Boyle and wife, T. Kinsley,
Joseph Brough, H. Pierson, A. Rus
sell, Wm. Wooden, H. Ough, John
Shee G. Frame, M. Welliner, Chas.
Pines, Link Wain, E. Moss, A.
Whitley, A. Carauthers and fifty
trackmen for Contractor Heney’s
construction work; for Fairbanks.
Wm. Chisholm and wife, Mrs. Fal
zina, Mrs. J. Brown, Henry Cook, D.
Michie, A. Johnson, Oscar Lind and
B. Dusenbury.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The navy
department decides to extend the
wireless to the Aleutian Islands,
where the stations will be useful for
military purposes and merchant ship
ping.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The Senate
concurs in the House amendment ap
’ propriating 12,000,000 for a statute
to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The inter
ested maritime powers assent to a
regulation of the fisheries calculated
to replenish the seal herd of Bering
sea.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Senator
Jones yesterday declared himself
against the continuance in office of
Senator Lorimer and it begins to
look as though the member from Illi
nois will be forced to resign.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 9.—The Su
preme Court has decided that this
city shall be the permanent capitol.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The Senate
Committee on Expositions votes un
animously in favor of holding the
Panama fair at San Francisco and
as the House has already declared
in favor of that city the matter is
practically disposed of.
Sheyboygan, Feb. 9.—A street car
plunges into an open drawbridge to
the river and five of the passengers
are drowned.
Washington, Feb. 9.—President
Taft is determined to secure the pass
age of the Canadian reciprocity meas
ure and yesterday informed Senators
Crane and Carter that if Congress
fails to vote on this legislation he
will call an extra session soon after
March 4.
Newark, O., Feb. 9.—William Mc
Kinley was sentenced to 20 years for
his connection with the lynching of
Carl Etherington.
Brooklyn, Feb. 9.—Frank Bern
hard and wife, who were impover
ished, agreed to end their existence
They turned on the gas after they
and their two children had retired
and all four were asphyxiated.
Beattie, Feb. 9.—Mrs. Little Mag*
nuson arrived in the city from Val
dez on Monday, intending to return
to Alaska with her sixteen year old
daughter, Marjory Rieman then at
tending school at Tacoma. Together
they went to the theatre Tuesday
evening, when the girl mysteriously
disappeared, and the mother thinks
she committed suicide by jumping
in the bay.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The big
Roosevelt dam near Phoenix, Arizona,
will be opened on March 10 and will
irrigate 200,000 acres of land.
Washington, Feb. 9.—John Hays
Hammond, the famous expert mining
engineer, has expressed his disap
proval of the Progressive League,
which, he declares is a political move
to defeat the re-election of President
Taft.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The House
cf Representatives, after an exten
sive debate, adopted a provision in
the post office appropriation bill that
after July 1, 1916, all mail cars used
on inter-state railroads shall be cf
ail-steel construction. Many speech
es were made by members on the
necessity of better protection for rail
way mail clerks.
The new provision as to steel care
does not affect the acceptance of
equipment now under construction or
contracted for under plans approved
by the Postmaster General. This
was as far as the Postoffice Commit
tee desired to go. but it was the sense
of the House that a definite time lim
it as to the use of wooden cars should
be fixed by Congress. Representa
tive Madden af Illinois offered tb<
amendment as to 1916 and it tias
adopted 93 to c4.
The House also adopted a com
mittee amendment providing tnat no
wooden mail car shall be placed
ahead of a steel car in any train.
Seattle, Feb. 10.—“Swift water
Bill” Gates is charged with non-sup
port and an attempt to kidnap his
son from the home of Mrs. lola Bee
be, his mother-in-law.
Sacramento, Feb. 10.—The legis
lature of California has unanimous
ly adopted the eight hour law for fe
male employes.
Washington, Feb. 10.—Matt Piles,
brother of Senator Piles, of Seattle,
has been appointed Collector of Cus
toms for Puget Sound and his con
firmation is assured.
New York, Feb. 10.—Miss Ellen
Terry was presented today by the
founders of the New Theater with
a gold medal as a token of gratitude
for her life of service to dramatic
art. The exercises were held on the
stage of the New Theater. Miss Ter
ry was seated in the center, while
grouped about her were twenty or
thirty men and women famous in
arts and letters. Preceding the cere
mony there was a special perform
ance of “Sister Beatrice,” Maeter
linck’s two-act miracle play.
Seattle, Feb. 10.—-The sailing ship
Moody, with a capacity for 2,000
tons, has been purchased to replace
the bark John D. Peters in handling
the shipments of salmon from the Or
ca cannery, near Cordova.
New York, Feb. 10.—Two Italian
boys, mounted on horses they had
borrowed from a stable and armed
with 22-calibre revolvers, terrorized
women and children in the Bronx for
several hours last night until arrest
ed. They charged down upon every
youngster they encountered and sev_
eral girls barely escaped being tramp
led upon.
Washington, Feb. 10.—The Dem
ocrats, aided by a few Republicans,
have passed the reapportionment bill,
making the membership of the House
433 and the Senate will likely ratify
the action.
Los Angeles, Feb. 10.—President
Alexander, of the Alaska Coast Com
pany, states that he is trying to buy
two steamers for the Alaska run.
Forth Worth, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Lucie
Owens, aged 136, and the oldest
woman in the world today died at the
home of her daughter, who is 98
years old.
Olympia, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Leopold
Schmidt, wife of the president of the
Olympia Brewing Company, died very
suddenly last night.
Ottawa, Feb. 10.—The House de
bates the reciprocity agreement with
the United States, which Ministei
Fielding says Parliament should im
mediately adopt.
New York. Feb. 10.—Miss Ida Tar
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bell is a leader of the anti-suffragette
movement. Speaking of the political
life of Marie Antoinette and Mme.
Roland, she said: “These women
were politicians, but they met with
the politician's fate. Women are
never good politicians when they are
in love. That is where our sex fails
and will fail again. We will stand
by the few who are dear to us and
who depend upon us, and we are not
willing to sacrifice everything for the
government.”
Seattle, Feb. 10.—E. C. Hawkins,
general manager of the Copper River
& Northwestern railroad, was a pas
senger on the steamer Alameda for
Cordova, after having spent several
weeks here and at New York in con
ference with the other officials of
the Katalla Company.
Mulato, Feb. 10.—The regulars
were repulsed today In a hard fight,
during which many of the shells fell
among American troops.
New York, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Leslie
Carter, actress, through her attor.
ney, went before Justice Gerard in
the Supreme Court today and asked
him to continue an injunction re
straining the proprietors of the Strat
ford House from advertising for sale
or disposing of 42 pair of long-sleev
ed kid gloves, nighties, silk wrappers,
ankle bangles, picture hats and ki
monos. Decision was reversed.
Chadwick & Davies, the hotel pro
prietors, declare that the property
belongs to Mrs. Carter, or did until
she left the hotel four years ago ow
ing. they allege, a bill of $2,900.
Mrs. Carter insists that she does
not owe the hotel anything and that
the nighties, etc., advertised as hers
do not belong to her.
San Francisco, Feb. 10.—Jack
Johnson, the colored champion, has
arrived here and says that a purse
of $30,000 will get a fight.
| • Trinidad, Feb. 10.—There was a
mysterious explosion at the Guggen
heim mine at Cokedale, which result
ed in fifteen men being entombed
Washington, Feb. 10.—The naval
appropriation bill passed includes
$1,000,000 to be spent at the Brem
erton navy yard.
Washington, Feb. 10.—Secretary
of State Knox is to have his salary
restored to $12,000 a year, the same
as that of other Cabinet officers, ov
er his protest. At present Mr. Knox
draws $8,000 a year.
The Senate Committee on Appro
priations amended the legislative, ex
! ecutive and judicial appropriation
bill to restore the salary of the Sec
retary of State. When the bill was
under consideration in the House,
the Secretary indicated he did not
desire the salary restored during his
term of office and the House respect
ed his wish. The Senate Committee
took a different view of the matter
and decided that the office of Secre
tary of State should have the full pay
belonging to it.
The salary of the Secretary of
State was reduced from $12,000 to
$8,000 to permit Mr. Knox to become
Secretary of State. While Mr. Knox
was senator he voted to increase the
pay of cabinet officers from $8,000
to $12,000 a year and, under the
constitution he could not take an of
fice the salary of which had been in
creased during his term as senator.
“The Crime ot the Century” was
unconsciously written into the bien
nial report of State Mine Inspector
David C. Botting of Washington,
when he submitted his findings of
1909 and 1910 and showed that Alas,
ka, with its untold wealth of coal
measures, had been forced to pur
chase $82,000 worth of Washington
state coal last year. Instead of us
ing the coal which was within its
borders—because of the blighting
blanket of conservation that cover
ed its coal development—Alaska was
obliged to import 18,725 tons of the
Evergreen state’s dusky diamonds.
The Botting report, and its im
plication, emphasizes the Importation
of coal by Alaska. The Washing
ton fuel is practically a drop in the
bucket, for Alaska consumed up
wards of $700,000 worth of British
Columbia coal, mostly from the Na
naimo mines, during 1910. Cordova
alone used $360,000 worth of British
Columbia coal and all Alaska united
in paying the United States the grand
total of 1100,000 in duty on this
same coal importation made from a
foreign country.
Upwards, then, of one million dol
lars was paid by Alaska in 1910
for the coal it had to import from
British Columbia and Washington,
its sole source of supply, except the
small quantity it scratches from its
own sides.
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