Late Telegraph News
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7—Californ
ians who are here lobbying in the in
terest of an appropriation for the
Panama Exposition, acknowledge the
oefeat of the bill, but will euueavor
to secure the desired $2,000,000 by
tacking it on the Sundry Service bill.
AIKEN, S. C„ Feb. 6—Millionaire
Beach who is on trial for assault
ing his wife testifies that a negro
stabbed her and his wife corrobo
rates his testimony.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6—Police Cap
tain Walsh made a death-bed con
fession last night, in which he stated
that he had been receiving graft for
the past five years.
ANN HARBOR, Mich., Feb. 6—As
a scientific experiment a dog's brain
has been transferred to man's skull.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6—The en
gagement of Capt. Beastly, formerly
of Nome, to the wealthy Elizabeth
Wood was broken by the latter upon
the discovery that Beastly had a wife
in San Francisco.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—The fight
starts in the Senate for the control of
the water power of the country.
Senator Burton favors the govern
ment control, while Senator Weeks
contends that the fixing of the rates
should be left to the states.
DAWSON, Feb. 6—The wireless
station at Eagle yesterday talked with
the Key West station.
SEATTLE, Feb. 6—The govern
ment has commenced suit against the
Pncific Coast Steamship Company, the
Northwestern Commercial and J. J.
Sesnon Litherage Companies, of
Nome, for a refund of the excessive
amounts charged for coal furnished
Vncle Sam on Seward peninsula.
District Attorney Rodey, of Nome,
will conduct the prosecution and he
demand $106,000 paid these corpora
tions in 1900, together with interest
and $30,000 damages.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6—Manager
Frohman has formed a $1,000,000
company to produced moving picture
films, in which will be starred Maude
Adams, Billie Burke, Nazimova, John
Drew, William Gillette and others
equally well known in the theatrical
profession.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6—Helen Keller
has regained her voice and will speak
at a Socialist meeting tonight.
CHICAGO, Feb. 6—The federal
prosecutors are arriving to prepare
for the trial of Frost and other Alas
kans charged with attempting to de
fraud the government in the location
of Matanuska coal claims, which
takes place on N'arch 3.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—The Bu
reau of Corporations expose the or
ganization of a $140,000,000 harves
ter trust and the control of that btisi
ness.
WASHINGTON, Feb.6—Dr. Kru
lisli, who is charge of the Bureau of
Education in Alaska, has submitted
his annual report, and says that the
natives of that territory will be ex
terminated in sixty years with tuber
culosis, unless rescue work is wide
spread.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—William
Jennings Bryan has accepted on in
vitation to attend the inauguration.
NEWPORT NEWS. Feb. 6—The
Norweigan bark Remittent was pick
ed up near Azores. The little craft
was well provisioned and apparently
seaworthy, but there was not a soul
aboard. This is a most mysterious
case and an investigation will likely
follow.
CHICAGO, Feb. 6—The officers of
the Western Fuel Company have been
summoned before the federal grand
jury, charged with gigantic customs
frauds.
OTTAWA, Feb. 5—Explorer Stef
anson seeks aid for a three year ex
pedition to unknown land north of
Canada.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 5—The
Turks and Bulgarians engage in a
desperate fight at Gallipole peninsula
and thousands were killed.
HONOLULU, Feb. 5—The cruiser
California has been selected as the
flagship of the Atlantic fleet of the
navy.
DULUTH, Feb. 5—The United
Steel corporation has increased the
wages of the surface workers fifteen
cents a day.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—Some idea
of the extent of the graft practiced
in this city .can be gathered from the
confession of Eugene Fox, a police
man, who states that he collected
$75,000 as tribute from the law
breakers on his beat.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—Falcon
Joslln, of Fairbanks, appeared before
a House committee today and defend
ed the individual locators of coal
claims in Alaska. He stated that he
knew of them personally, some of
whom were old pioneers and all of
them of integrity and Industry, whose
rights had been deprived them and
their characters assailed. He made
a strong plea for legislation that
would open up Alaska.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—President
and Mrs. W. H. Taft gave a reception
yesterday to the officers of the Army
and Navy.
tendent Wm. T. Loop, reports that
the reindeer of Alaska, during the
past twenty years netted the govern
ment $800,000.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—Since the
opening of the pacel post service, one
express company with headquarters
in this city has discharged 75 em
ployes. In substantiation of this re
port it was pointed out that Uncle
Sam's own express service, even at
this early stage, is transacting an
enormous amount of buiness far in
excess of the predictions made by
the stanchest advocates of its adop
tion.
WASHINGTON , Feb. 5 — The
House is fighting the bill to appropri
ate $2,000,000 for the Panama Ex
position at San Francisco.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—Editor Will
iam Randolph Hearst enjoins the
signing of contracts for the construc
tion of a $300,000,000 subway.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—The Re
publicans in the Senate yesterday
made another ineffectual effort to se
cure the confirmation of the many
federal nominations recently made
by President Taft.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—A score of
hungry pets—cats and dogs, and a
parrot and a turtle—crying for food,
led neighbors to break into a Brook
lyn apartment during the night,
where they found Fannie Luff, a
charity worker, 60 years old dead.
It is believed she had been dead since
Saturday, probably having succumb
ed to heart disease. A policeman
who led the invading party of neigh
bors was almost bowled over by the
rush of hungry dogs and cats which
had long before pick clean to the
bone a number of lamb chops strewn
about the floor.
W. H. Holden, of Boston, arrived
today on his way to the interior,
where he is interested in some good
quartz property.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—George Prim
rose, the well-known ministrel, has
been divorced from his wife.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—From a New
York banker and broker to an ex
pressman is the unusual and sudden
transition of Clarence Pierce Brok
aw, son of the late Theodore Pierce
Brokaw, prominent New York bank
er. Brokaw, who is a cousin of W.
Gould Brokaw, millionaire club man,
is working as an expressman at Colo
rado Springs to regain his health.
WASHINGON, Feb. 5—Andrew
Carnegie urges the linking of North
and South America by railroads, as
it would be of a great value in a
peace propaganda.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 5—The
federal grand jury has returned in
dictments against ten large commis
sion men, charging them with con
spiracy.
CONCORD, Feb. 5—Attorney Hen
ry F. Hollis, a Democrat is within
seven votes of being elected United
States Senator by the New' Hamp
shire legislature and as there appears
to be no hope of breaking the dead
lock the Republicans are willing to
submit the choice of Senator Burn
ham’s successor to preferencial pri
maries.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6—Thomas A.
Edison said that he believed that the
end of the present legitimate stage
was at hand as a result of his newest
invention, a talking motion picture
machine called the kinetophone,
which proved succesful in a recent
demonstration. 'The inventor ex
plained why he thinks the present $2
show must give way to the cheaper
form of amusement, which he de
clared will give almose as much as
the other for one-twentieth of the
price.
There will be no more barnstorm
ers, either, because no one will be
willing to pay for second-class acting
when the foremost stars are perform
ing for the “talkies” and can be seen
and heard for a dime. The pictures
will be in operation this month.
“Is the machine perfected?” was
asked.
"Nothing’s perfect," replied Edi
son, “but it works. It dettvers at
the exact instant of occurrence on the
film any sound made at the moment
such action took place. Every word
uttered by the actors is recorded and
delivered in time with the acMo.i; the
creaking of a gate, a whistle, the
noise of hoof beats, even the Click of
cocking a revolver comes apparently
from the screen and in unison with
the motion.
“The phonograph, which is placed
behind the screen, is wired to the
picture machine. The spped of the
talking part acts as a brake on the
film, so that neither can get ahead of
the other. There are special records
which run as long as the film last.”
“How long did it take to work out
the plan for taking motion pictures?”
was asked.
“Thirty-seven years,” replied Edi
son. “It is all of that time since I
made a motion picture show inside of
a box by dropping the succession of
record to ear tubes.
“Will there be a great fortune in
the kinetophone.”
“Money?" said Edison, “why all
the money I make on an invention
goes into furthering my experiments. •
I do not seek money.”
Mr. Edison did not believe his new j
invention would be hard on actors.
"On the contray,” he said, "I can see
nothing but studios centralized, em
ploying all the actors all the year
round, and at a better figure than
they now get.”
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5—A de
cided sensation was created in this
usually staid and proper city by a
number of the leading society young
girls appearing at a masquerade in
tights and wearing hoods. Such a
furore resulted that the participants
made their escape before their iden
ity became known, excepting to a few
close friends.
PRINCETON, Feb. 5—Woodrow
Wilson has declared himself in favor
of direct primaries for the election of
governors and United States Senators.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—Eighty per
cent, of the firemen on the locomo
tives of the Eastern railroads vote to
strike unless their demands are con
ceded.
This action was taken after medi
ation had failed to settle the dispute
between fifty-for railroads and the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers over the demands of !
the roads’ firemen for increased
wages and better working conditions,
This resulted in a strike ballot being
taken.
Charles P. Neill, United States
Commissioner of Labor, and Martin
A. Knapp, presiding judge of the
United States Commerce Co art, acted
as mediators under the Erdman act,
which had been invoked by the par
ties to the controversy, and decided
that the time was not ripe for efforts
along 'this line.
About 35,000 men are affected, of
whom some 25,000 are locomotive
firemen and 10,000 locomotive en
gineers, who recently have been pro
moted from the position of firemen,
but retain their membership in the
firemen’s organization.
Fifty-four railroads, including all
lines east of Chicago and north of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers, are involv
ed in the dispute.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—President
elect Wilson has modified in import
ant particulars his original announce
ment of an open-door policy at the
White House. The White House is
to barred to all seekers after jobs un
less they come in response to an in
vitation from the President-elect.
The persistent efforts of job
hunters to gain the ear of Governor
Wilson regardless of his public state
ment that by forcing claims in per
son they were prejudicing their
chances is responsible for the
change of policy. Governor Wilson
has informed the Senators who have
called upon him that he does not
propose to deal with job-hunters in
person, and has urged members of
Congress not to give letters of in
troduction to seekers after places on
the Federal payroll.
In adopting this course Governor
Wilson is mindful of the experience
of President Cleveland, who was over
whelmed with such a horde of office
seekers that he was obliged to call
for help.
Governor Clark ;has appointed F.
C. Irons, of Fairbtfiks, a special em
ployee under th&’ appropriation for
suppression of tjie traffic in intoxi
cating liquors a^iiong the natives in
Alaska. For the past year and a
half Mr. Irons has held the position
of game warden'with headquarters at
Fairbanks, and resigned that position
to accept the new appointment. Mr.
Irons at one time served as a deputy
marshal in the Fourth division and
is a man well qualified for his new
work. The vacancy in the game ser
vice will probably not be filled for the
present, the field being covered by
Mr. William Lloyd, another game
warden having his headquarters at
Fairbanks and heretofore working in
conjunction with Mr. Irons.
The Governor has also arranged
for the appointment of a special em
ployee with headquarters at Valdez,
to work in the Third division in the
enforcement of the law for the sup
pression of the liquor traffic among
the natives. John H. Robinson,
formerly a deputy marshal in the
Fourth division, will be appointed to
this position. He will arrive in June
au in a few days, enroute to his new
field. Air. Robinson is an experi
enced and capable man
The appointment of these men
marks the beginning of a vigorous
campaign in the Third and Fourth
judicial divisions and there is every
reason to believe that much good
will result.
The Governor is also arranging for
the apponitment of several native
police officers in the second division
to assit in the apprehension of whis
key peddlers in the Nome region.
The high cost of living is an awful
thing in Alaska. Very often it costs
as much as a dollar six bits to get
an appetite for a six-bit meal. Some
thing should be done about this
when the Democrats get into power.
—Nome Nugget.
-O—O
The members of the legislature
from the Fourth division have held
a caucus and the subjects agreed on
that need immediate attention may
be indexed under the following
heads:
Tax on foreign corporation.
Amenment to the road law.
Amendment to the banking law.
Amendment to the corporation act
for the incorporation of companies.
Amendment to the mining laws,
with regard to recording and what
shall contitute annual assessment
work on mining claims.
Care of indigents.
Amendment of the election laws.
Tax on transient traders.
Small debt court.
Amendment to the criminal code
regarding notaries.
Penalty for passing checks when
drawer has no funds in bank.
Appointments of a mining inspec
tor for each division.
Revision of the Alaska Code.
Creation of the office of superin
tendent of public instruction, de
fining who shall be teachers.
-o—o—o
Eskimo reindeer herders at Kav
alina, on Bering sea, recently aban
doned their herds fearing an attack
from a hostile tribe. Agent McGuire,
Df the Bureau of Education, had much
difficulty in persuading them that
heir fears were imaginary.
A man over at Nome got five years
for raising a check from $2 to $22.
He wasn’t wise. He ought to have
taken the bank and then hired emi
nent counsel.—Ruby Record.
Petersburg has added nine fire ex
tinguishers to its equipment.
-~o—o—o
The tax levy of the tawn of Idita
rod has been fixed at 1 % per cent, on
a valuation of $500,000.
-u-o—o
The city council of Fairbanks has
fixed the tax levy for the year at fif
teen mills.
-o—o—o
Deputy Marshal Harry P. Sheppard,
of tdltarod, fell on the trail and dis
located his shoulder.
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Albert McKay, an old-time Yukon
hunter and trapper, was accidentally
shot and killed by Harry McWhoter,
on the Sewart river. McWhoter
thought he was firing at a wolf.
A Nome man, mushing over the
trail last month, slipped on the ice
and broke his toe. He camped as
best he could on the trail for nine
days and then crawled into Nome.
Among the names of men mention
ed to succeed Governor Clark as gov
ernor of Alaska, a new one has ap
peared which promises a chance of
winning the honored appointment.
Thos. Riggs, Jr., of the Alaska boun
dary survey has yielded to the solici
tation of his friends all over Alaska
and has enrolled himseif as an as
pirant for the place.
Garfield Thompson, a native of
Ohio, 36 years old, attemped to sucide
at Ketchikan, while temporariy in
sane, by stabbing himself with a pen
knife.
-o—o—o ■ —
Isadore and Sam Bayless, both well
known Alaskans, will open a depart
ment store in Iditarod next spring.
-o—o—o
It is reported in Tanana that the
output from the Indian river district,
Koykukuk, last year amounted to
$30,000—as compared with $13,000
last season.
-0-0—o
While dog-racing as a sport has
never been very popular in Fairbanks,
dog fanciers are trying to arrange a
series of races. There are several
crack teams in the Fairbanks district,
and good sport is expected.
-o—o—o
Alaska has 200 varitics of fish
having born in that town.
-o—o—o
A pair of blooming pansies, grown
outdoors, and blossoming since the
recent warm rains, were picked in
the garden of Mrs. L. S. Keller, on
Jan. 29, according to the Skagway
Alaskan.
-o—o—o
Louise Jacquote, of Kluane, has 25
head of horses wintering in that coun
try. He cuts plenty of wild grass to
furnish hay for his stock during the
winter
-o—o—o
Nome has 139 white children,
which were born in that town.
-o—o—o
The Alaska Packers’ Association
put up 1,202,779 cases of salmon, and
8,988 barrels of salt salmon last year.
The A. P. A. operates fourteen can
neries in Alaska and one at Semiah- 1
moo, Washington.
-o—o—o
According to Sidney Smith, of the
Algunican Development Company, the
Marconi Company contemplates in
stalling a perfect and complete chain <
of stations all along the Pacific Coast <
—a system that will give uninterrupt- <
ed service between Alaska points, San >
Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Van
couver.
The Algunican Development Com
pany co-operates with the Marconi
Company in maintaining a 5-kilowat ,
station at Jualin at the present time.
It is the intention of the Marconi
Company to install six or eight more
stations in the North. There will be
ione at Yakutat, another at Chicha
goff, probably one at Skgway, or
Haines.
The plant at Juneau is to be in
creased from its present inefficient <
capacity to a 5- or 10-kilowat station. 1
There has been a lot of unjust crit- <
icism by uniformed persons about
the management of the Juneau sta
tion Mr. Smith thinks—the fault is in
the station not the operation. The
other day the Jefferson was attempt
ing to let Juneau Know of her ap
proach. Juneau heard the Jefferson
all right, but the Jefferson could not
hear Juneau. However, Jualin did
hear Juneau and picking up Juneau's
reply to the Jefferson, sent it to the
ship. But Juneau was not able to
hear Jualin and kept repeating the
answer to the Jefferson’s notice until
the Jefferson made known that the
answer was received through Jualin.
Tne other day there was an accident
at Jualin. The story was sent to
Juneau—Prince Rupert got it but Ju
neau failed to respond. This dem
onstrates that the Juneau station is
inefficient both for receiving and
sending.
The plant at Petersbug will un
doubtedly be enlarged and there will
probably be one built at Wrangell.
It is planned to establish stations
all along the coast until the chain is
complete. The commercial rate will
be made much lower ban the present
cable rates, bat whether or not there
will be a press rate has not been an
nounced.
-Mr. Smith is enthusiastic over the
prospect of getting direct communica
tion from the isolated mining camps
like Jualin, with the outside world.
Die prospect should also appeal to
the Alaska business men. The prom
ise of direct communication, not only
with the large commercial cities of
:he States, but with their customers
tt a distance from the trade centers
ihouid be welcomed by all Alaska
pusiness men. The proposed enter
prise will probably receive universal
mcouragement.
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