Late Telegraph News
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 3.—George
O’Shaughnessy, the representative
of the Uited States in Mexico, is
understood to have informed Presi
dent Huerta and other officials of
the government unofficially that ar
rangements had been made to give
them the protection of the United
States in case the Constitutionalists
capture the city. The rebels are
marching on the capital from both
north and south and it Is believed
that the end of President Huerta’s
reign is drawing to a close. Owing
to the failure to consummate the
French loan the federal soldiers
have not received any pay for sev
eral months and many of them are
deserting and joining the rebel
army.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—
Secretary Redfield, of the depart
ment of commerce, has ordered
charges of negligence preferred
against Captain Osman Berry of the
steamer Nantucket which sunk the
Monroe in a collision off Norfolk,
when 49 lives were lost. Passengers
on the ill-fated Mnre have appeared
before the marine board and gave
evidence that the accident could
have been avoided had Captain
Berry used proper care. Many assert
that he appeared to be intoxicated
when the collision took place.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—
The amendment to the immigration
bill which would eliminate the
literacy test has been rejected by
the House by an overwhelming ma
jority. The tendency of congress is
to tighten the lines to immigrants
especially from the southern Euro
pean countries. During the past the
cost of the inspection of immi
grants to the government has been
12 cents each for medical inspec
tion. It is proposed to enforce a
more rigid inspection in the future
and American representatives in
foreign countries will be instructed
to advertise the fact in order to save
thousands needless expense and dis
appointment by being turned back
at the threshold of their land of
promise.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—
All Asiatic exclusion amendments to
the immigration measure in the
House have been defeated and the
bill as it now stands is merely an
immigration measure without re
strictions as to race or color. The
members of the president’s cabinet
are pleased that the bill has been
trimmed of its load ol amendments
as it will leave President Wilsou
and Secretary Bryan free to treat
diplomatically with foreign nations
concerning immigration.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The meet
ing of the National Democratic club
broke up in a row last night and
demonstrated that Boss Murphy, of
Tammany, does not sway the af
fairs of the city as in former years
before the Sulzer impeachment. The
row was participated over a resolu
tion which was introduced to re
tire Murphy from the leadership of
the club. The resolution was
adopted and the Tammanyites with
drew from the club and threaten to
start another National Democratic
club of their own with Murphy as
its president.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—
President Wilson has decided to
lift the embargo on the exportation
of arms and ammunition from the
United States into Mexico, and it is
believed that this will speedily re
sult in the overthrow of the Huerta
government. The Mexican Consti
tutionalists have repeatedly asserted
'that given ammunition they would
win control of the country in a few
weeks and the president has evi
0p||t]y decided to give them an
opportunity.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—General
James Grant Wilson, soldier, editor
and author, died at his home here
last night, in his 82nd year. He was
born in Edinburgh, Scotland but
came to America in his boyhood and
settled in New Jersey. In 1857 he
founded the Chicago Record, a jour
nal devoted to arts and literature.
When the war broke out he was
given command of the 4th United
States colored cavalry, and in 1865
was made brigadier-general “for
faithful and meritorius services."
He was a prolific writer and the
author of many books treating with
events during the W’ar. He was also j
considered one of America’s ablest
speakers.
DULUTH, Feb. 2.—Mrs. D. H.
Murrain of this city, has received a
Cablegram stating that her brother,
William H. Myers, had died at
Candle, Alaska. Myers was engaged
to a Kentucky young lady and was
to have been married next spring.
The girl is now in Seattle with
relatives. "
NORFOLK, Feb. 2.—The owners
of the steamship Monroe, which
was wrecked off the coast here on
Thursday last when 50 lives were
lost, have filed suit in the federal
court here for $1,000,000 damages
against the steamer Nantucket. The
plaintiffs claim that the collision
was due to carelessness on the part
of the officers on the Nantucket
which failed to answer the fog sig
nals of the Monroe.
LONDON, Feb. 3.—For the first
time in the history of the British
Isles a school teacher’s strike is in
full swing throughout the county of
Herford. The teachers demand an
increase of salary equal to 25 per
cent. The county is well organized
and all the schools are closed.
LORAINE, O., Feb. 2.—The will
of Charles Hough, 35 years old, who
suicided on the porch of the resi
dence of 15-year-old Harriet Frye,
because she refused to marry him,
was probated here today. He left
his property to his sweetheart.
SRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 2.—The
late Senator Cullom’s body was laid
to rest in the Oakridge ctmetery at
sundown yesterday. He was buried
between the graves of his two
wives, Hanna H. and Julia Fisher,
sisters. When he was a struggling
lawyer Senator Cullom married
Hanna Fisher who died in 1861, and
two years later married her sister
Julia. His last wife died on August
18, 1909. The funeral was attended
by friends from all parts of the
state.
TOKIO, Feb. 2. — It has been
officially announced that Japan will
participate in the Panama exposi
tion in San Francisco, next year. A
bill is now before parliament appro
priating $1,000,000 for buildings to
be erected as soon as the contro
versy regarding the site is settled.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2.—Wil
liam D. Haywood, leader of the
Industrial Workers of the World,
addressed a big crowd of Socialists
and Industrialists here last night.
He severely scored the American
Federation of Labor as a hindrance
to organized labor in this country.
The federation had called the Indus
trialists rebels which he denied but
declared that they would get their
rights even if they had to arm
themselves and fight against the
paid hirelings of the capitalists.
DUBOIS, Pa., Feb. 2.—Much will
depend upon the convention ot the
United Mine Workers of America,
District No. 2, which will begin here
on February 24. It is feared that
trouble is brewing which may result
in tying up the coal mines and
throwing thousands of miners out
of work. The operators claim the
union has been guilty of flagrant
violations of the working agree
ment, while the miners claim the
operators have been the leaders in
the matter of violations of the
agreement. The Central Bitumin
ous Operators’ association has
threatened to start suit against the
union and has refused to meet the
convention and make a new working
scale.
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Julius Redel
sheimer, the clothier, and a pioneer
of this city, suffered a stroke of
paralysis last night and is in a
critical condition. He amassed a
fortune by investing in real estate
in Seattle in the early days. He is
also interested in several canneries
in Alaska, having a controlling in
terest in the cannery at Seldovia.
FALMOUTH, Eng., Feb. 2—Capt.
Lorenz and 18 members of the crew
of the German bark Hera, from
Chile, struck a reef as she was en
tering the harbor here at the end
of her voyage. A terrific storm was
raging and the bark apparently
failed to answer her helm. The
wreck was witnessed by hundreds
of people on shore who were unable
to launch a boat to go to the assist
ance of the doomed sailors.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 4.—
Information has been received here
by officials from W. T. Lopp, chief
of the bureau of education for
natives in Alaska, which leads to
the belief that the Karluk, the
steamer belonging to the Steffanson
exploration party, has been crushed
in the ice with the loss of all on
board. A life preserver bearing the
mark “Karluk” has been washed
ashore and picked up by an Eskimo
near Kavalina, on Kotzebue Sound,
Alaska.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—It has
been learned that Lord Strathcona,
the “grand old man of Canada”
ho deid recently left $fi00,000 to
Yale college wth the request that it
be used spec'ally to enable the Pons
of the employes of the college to
enter that institution. His w*U s
said to contain many bequest® e >*
educational institutions.
FIND GOOD PAY
Fred Haggren was an arrival in
town, on last night's train, having
come direct from Shushanna, where
he is interested in a number of
claims and is also engaged in the
mercantile business. He brought
out with him a small poke of coarse
gold, some of which he says he took
out of Discovery on Coarse Money
bench and the balance was received
in trade at his store. Haggren made
the trip across the Hazelet trail in
24% hours actual traveling time,
with the Shushanna Stage line and
reports that the trail is in excellent
condition. Freight is now being
delivered to the diggings, from Mc
Carthy, for 15 cents a pound and
he beileves this rate will be cut to
10 cents by the end of February.
Haggren reports that he struck
bedrock at a depth of seven feet on
Discovery of Coarse Money bench,
and is taking out good pay. In
sinking he encountered no wet
ground and believes that he has a
valuable piece of property, on which
he has given a bond to Karl Aase
for $50,000. The latter intends to
proceed with the development work
and has agreed to pay 15 per cent
of the purphase price on April 1,
the balance of the payment to be
made August 1,
Jack Wash of Cordova, has sunk
to a depth of 16 feet on his claim
on Wash creek and has found en
couraging prospects.
A strike is reported on No. 7
Bonanza creek, but the layman has
refused to divulge the extent of the
pay.
Curtis has received his boiler and
it will be used in prospecting Bow
creek. Lake, who is now sinking
on this creek, claims that he was on
the same ground eleven years ago
and with the crude methods em
ployed at that time made good
wages by shoveling in the boxes, but
that he never got to bedrock.
Haggren leaves on the Mariposa
for Seattle, to bring back his wife
with him. While outside he will
purchase 35 tons of machinery and
supplies for residents of Shushanna,
including a drill, hay, 50 barrels of
beer and 100 cases of whiskey and
cigars. The latter order is for
Frank Miller who conducts the
only saloon in the new diggings.
Letters from Shushanna tell of
many strikes being made there re
cently. George Smith, who is well
known in Cordova, has written P. L.
Simpson that the ground is fast
freezing to bedrock and the miners
are able to get down without being
driven out by water.
Smith tells of a find made by
Louie Dahl, who is considered one
of the most reliable men in the
camp. Dahl has found pay in two
holes on Johnson creek. Pay has
also been discovered on Ryalite
creek, but the miners are not giving
out information as to their find. A
strike is also reported as having
been made on Big Eldorado creek
and the miners are building a cabin
and getting up wood anl otherwise
preparing for next summer’s activi
ties. The reported discovery on
Powell creek has failed to material
ize as the miners were driven out
before reaching bedrock. Gold Hill
is attracting the attention of the
miners as good prospects have been
found in a deep shaft there.
The friends of Harry Dewey, of
Fairbanks, are anxious as to his
safety. He l|ef t Fairbanks last
summer intending to go to Shu
shanna via Dawson. He is known
to have purchased an outfit at Daw
son and started for the diggings
since which time he has not been
heard from. His friends hope he
may have abandoned the trip and
gone to some other section of the
country, or to tthe states. Impor
tant business in Fairbanks awaits
his attention and it is believed tha't
he would have attended to them had
he been in a position to do so.
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C. S. W. Barwell, of Dawson,
who has been in the north since the
early days of the Klondike camp,
says that the adverse reports com
ing from the Chisana should not be
accepted as sealing the fate of that
region. He points out that Klon
dike and Fairbanks were a long
time developing area after their
first gold was discovered.
“Bonanza creek,” says Mr. Bar
well, “was struck in August, 1896.
I was not in the country at the
time, but bv June 1897, I remember,
there had been -comparatively little
geld taken out. The high benches
Bonanza ami Eldorado were not
'-nnwn UTit'1 t*>o soring of 1898, that
is to say, until the big stampede
occurred. In ’97 not more than
one-third of Hunker creek had been
staked, and lower Hunker Was
looked on as a moose pasture. It
was not until three years after the
original strike that Sulphur and
Quartz creeks amounted to any
thing. While Dominion was par
tially developed in ’99, Gold Run
was not developed until 1900, and
gold was not ever discovered there
until the spring of ’99. Granville
was discovered still later.
“All in all, I should say that in
this camp not more than one
twelfth of the gold-bearing area
that has since been developed was
"known in the first year after the
original discovery and that it took
four years before the camp was fully
developed. When you consider that
the most distant portion of the gold
bearing area was not more than 50
miles from a steamboat landing,
this seems quite a long time, and I
consider it only foolishness for peo
ple to knock the new camp just be
cause there have been no startling
developments this winter.
“I might add that it took three
years to develop the Fairbanks
country, and that the original an
nouncer of the discovery came near
being lynched because the ground
did not show up quick enough to
suit the more anxious ones. I have
had a good many talks with the real
miners in the new diggings, and
they tell me that gold has been
found wherever they got to bedrock.
That ought to be good enough for
anyone.”
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For the second time this winter
the postoffiice department has en
deavored to furnish the residents of
interior Alaska with all of the ac
cumulated mail at the Cordova post
office, which is the distributing point
for 95 per cent of the mail matter
Uncle Sam dispatches eight months
in the year to Fairbanks, Yukon
river points and as far as Nome and
Seward Peninsula.
Tomorrow morning a shipment of
10,000 pounds of parcel post and
second class matter will be dis
patched from here, being taken by
rail to Chitina on a special car over
the Copper River Railway and trans
ported from there to Fairbanks by
special contract. On December
1 there was also an extra shipment
of 12,000 pounds, which practically
cleaned up all the surplus mail here
at that time. Both of these ship
ments are in addition to the regular
1,600 pounds sent forward thrice a
week, and furnishes a service 1o
| the interior people which gives
them practically .all of the mail re
ceived from the states, as there will
be comparatively no accumulation
of mail at Cordova after next w-eek.
i In the future all kinds of mail arriv
ing here on each steamer will go
through without any delay.
Dan McDonald, road foreman of
the Orr Stage Company, reports
that there is much movement to
wards both of the new placer camps,
the Chisana and the Nelchina. He
says large outfits are moving both
ways and it is therefore evident
that, wThen spring comes, prospect
ing will be going on in good earnest
in both camps.
Mr. McDonald corroborates for
mer reports received of movements
towards the Chisana country and
states that equally large outfits are
moving toward the Nelchina. How
ever, those going to the latter
place are ciehfly mining outfits and
grub, the reports received from that
country being but meager.
Immediately upon receipt of the
cablegram announcing the passage
of the Alaska railroad bill by the
Senate the First National Bank of
Fairbanks wired the department
that it would take $50,000 worth
of the government bonds which are
to be issued for the purpose of
financing the Alaska railroads.
The offer of the Fairbanks bank
created favorable comment in the
national capital as it indicated the
faith of the business men of Alaksa
in the ultimate success of the enter
prise. The easterners figure, and
rightly so, that if the railroads were
doomed to be other than paying
propositions that Alaskans would
not offer to buy the bonds. The
application from Fairbanks was the
first to be received by the govern
ment, but others have since been
made notwithstanding the fact that
the measure has not yet been passed
by the lower house. /
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Canadian gold production in 1913
is estimated by the Mines Branch of
the Department of Mines of Canada
at $15,350,000, as compared with
$12,559,443 in 1912. Silver pro
duction is similarly estimated at
33,500,000 oz., which may be com
pared with 31,931,710 in 1912.
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