TELEGRAPH NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
Washington, Jan. 26.—The Public
Lands committee of the Senate yes
terday considered the Nelson leasing
bill- of the coal lands and a favor
able report, with some amendments,
is expected on Saturday.
W'ashington, Jan. 26.—Realizing
that his bill, introduced at the last
session of Congress, providing that
the claimants of Alaska coal lands
have the right of appeal from the
Department of the Interior to the
Court of Appeals of the District of
Columbia, will fail of passage, Rep
resentative Mondell, of Wyoming, to
day presented another measure in the
House for the leasing of the Alaska
coal lands. It provides that the lease
is not to exceed thirty years and the
number of acres is limited to 3,200.
A i-cutal charge is to be collected in
royalties of from three to ten cents
per ton on all coal mined. Provision
is made for the purchase of all coal
required by the government for the
navy, the price of the same to be
fixed by the President. Seventy-five i
per cent, of the revenue derived from
this resource is to go to Alaska.
Olympia, Jan. 26.—After strong
opposition on the part of the Pinchot
followers the Washington state sen
ate today passed the house memor
ial bill asking Congress to determine
the rights of locators of Alaska coa!
lands and pass the Nelson leasing
bill.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Senator
Oliver, of Pennsylvania, has intro
duced a bill in the Senate extending
the time of the commencement of the
Valdez, Marshall Pass & Northern
railway until Congress passes a bill
opening the coal fields of Alaska
|Dover, 111., Jan. 26.—Senator Hen
ry A. Dupont was today re-elected
on a joint ballot of the state senate
and legislature.
New York, Jan. 26.—In view of
the situation in banking circles and
the prominent part he is playing as
strengthener of weak institutions, J.
P. Morgan has postponed indefinitely
his annual trip abroad.
New York, Jan. 26.—Theodore
Roosevelt will start on a talking tour
March 9, when he visits Atlanta. Af
ter a number of stops in the South
he will appear in San Francisco on
March 22, and remain there ten days,
delivering six lectures at the Univer
sity of California and return via
Portland, Seattle and Spokane.
Leadville, Colo., Jan. 26.—There
was a big celebration here this morn
ing over the discovery of an ore
waste which contains carbonate zinc
of high grades, which is believed to
be worth hundreds of millions of dol
lars.
Washington, Jan 26.—The Re
publicans of the House will caucus
on February 2 and decide upon the
reapportionment of that body.
San Francisco, Jan. 26.—Shortly
after the steamer Queen sailed from
this port for Seattle fire broke out on
the veasel and for a time it was fear
ed it would result seriously. Boats
were immediately dispatched to her
relief and after the flames were got
ten under control the Queen return
ed to this port.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 26.—The
Women’s suffrage bill was defeated
today in tue state senate.
New York, Jan. 26.—The case
which was commenced to decide the
right of Christian Science healers to
practice anywhere in the United
States will be taken to the Supreme
Court for final decision.
Los Angeles, Jan. 26.—Last even
ing at 6 o’clock two masked men
boarded a street car and commanded
the 22 passengers to hold up their
hands, while the bandits proceeded to
rob them. After having relieved the
terror-stricken passengers of their
valuables the motorman opened fire
and shot one of the bandits, who
was captured, the other making his
escape.
|New York, Jan. 26.—Loot valued
at 320,000 was found by the police
in a midnight raid last night in the
basement of a flat house in the
Bronx. Five prisoner? were taken,
who are believed to be the leaders
of a gang of burglars which has op
erated extensively in the upper part
of the city. Among the stolen arti
cles are a hundred bicycles.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Mrs. Hum
phrey’s, wife of the Seattle congress
man. eollected 303 silver dollars, by
voluntary offerings, and presented
them to the blind chaplain of the
House.
Washington, Jan. 26.—The Navy
Department has decided to abandon
the coaling station at Magdalena Bay.
Trenton, N. J., Jan. 26.—James
E. Martin has been elected to suc
ceed United States Senator Briggs.
Washington, Jan. 26.—The amend
ment to increase the salaries of the
circuit court judges to $8,500 has
been killed in committee.
Helena, Jan. 26.—The Montana
state legislature today passed the di
rect primary law.
New York, Jan. 26.—Tne old
Brooklyn home of Dr. Frederick A.
Cook will shortly be torn down to
make room for an apartment house.
The house has been occupied for two
years by the Hebrew Home for Aged
Women, which moves into new quar
ters. At the time of Cook’s triumph
ant return from the North some of
the explorer’s enthusiastic admirers
proposed to buy the house and con
vert it into a Cook polar museum
in his honor.
New York, Jan. 27.—The arrest
of Mrs. Margaret McCormick, who is
held here on a charge of bigamy,
should have a peculiar interest for
army men. According to the police
Mrs. McCormick frequented army
posts and at each post her custom
was to pick out the handsomest and
richest non-commissioned officer and
marry him. Then she moved to an
other post and repeated, it is al
leged. Her last victim, it is said,
was Sergeant John A. McCormick,
stationed at Fort Dupont, Pa. It is
alleged in the warrant that she wooed
him under the name of Margaret
Douty, married him on June 14,
1910, and left with some of his be
longings soon afterward. Sergeant
McCormick traced her to this city
and asked for her arrest.
Washington, Jan. 27.—President
Taft and the Secretary of War have
recommended an appropriation of
$50,000 for the construction of the
Seward-Iditarod trail and there is
every probability that Congress will
include this amount in its appropria
tion for the War Department.
New York, Jan. 27.—Francis J.
Heney, the famous prosecutor, has
rceeived a wire from San Francisco
announcing the death of his wife in
that city.
Washington Jan. 27.—The House
Committee on Territories has killed
Delegate Wickersham’s bill to amend
the Alaska fisheries law. This meas
ure was aimed directly against the
Guggenheims and it was class legis
lation and did not tend to correct
the alleged existing evils, so the
committee refused to even consider
the act, and it was pigeon-holed.
Washington, Jan. 27.—Admiral
Barry has been forced to resign, by
President Taft, for the good of the
service. He was recently retired and
che immorality charges against him
are to be pressed.
San Dego, Jan. 27.—Navy officials
witnessed Curtiss start in his aero
plane from tne water. He rose and
returned lightly on the water, dem
onstrating that it is as easy to fly
from water as land.
Washington, Jan. 27.—Pesident
Taft today sent a special message to
Congress, urging the passage of a
reciprocity treaty between Canada
and the United States.
Seattle, Jan. 27.—Editor Fenwick,
of the Post-Intelligencer, has been
sued for criminally libeling the Bleth
en papers in connection with Banker
Welty of Bellingham.
Boston, Jan. 27.—At a banquet
given in this city last night Secre
tary Ballinger declared that good
men cannot be pulled down and the
shocks of battle only strengthen him
in his position.
San Francisco, Jan. 27.—Million
aire Eugene De Roode has been
granted a divorce from Grace Wal
ton, the actress, whose affinity is
Burrows McNair, a New York brok
er and personal friend of Roose
velt’s.
Washington, Jan. 27.—The salary
of the President’s secretary has been
increased to $10,000 a year.
Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 27.—The
jury in the case of Mrs. Laura
Schenk, accused of giving her
wealthy husband poison in gradual
doses, was unable to agree on a ver
dict and was today discharged by the
court, It stood eleven to one for
acquittal. This trial has attracted
much Interest and when it became
known that the Jury was ready to
report the court room was packed
and hundreds of men, women and
children were fairly driven from the
blockaded corridors by deputy sher
iffs irritated to the end of their pa
tience.
Seattle, Jan. 27.—Collector of Cus
toms Willis, of Juneau, reports that
$22,000,000 worth of merchandise
was shipped to Alaska last year. The
gold, copper, fish and other resour
ces sent cut amounted to $33,500,
000. During 1910 there were 24,
800 people who went into the terri
tory and 24,000 were outgoing pas
sengers.
New York, Jan. 27.—The Francis
co Ferrer School, which aims to train
the young Anarchist in the doctrines
of his belief, has been organized in
New York by Emma Goldman, Alex
ander Berkman and others. Bayard
Boyesen, an instructor of Columbia
University, will be in charge of the
work of instruction. The school pro
poses to have day, night and Sunday
classes, and to spread the education
al ideas of Ferrer.
FREIGHTING OUTFITS TO
INTERIOR, VIA CHITINA
(From Cordova Daily Alaskan)
In yesterday’s Daily Alaskan men
tion was made of the fact that D. C.
Sargent, and the Great Northern De
velopment Company had shipped
large outfits to their mines in the in
terior and upon investigation it was
learned that these supplies were
supplied from Cordova, having been
purchased from S. Blum & Co.
Mr. Sargent represents Henry
Brotnober, one of the best known and
largest operators in Alaska, who
owns considerable property in the
Nabesna country, to which place the
outfit was consigned. This is 300
miles inland and was shipped to Chit
ina, being freighted from there to
the mines.
The Great Norihern Development
Company has a number of properties
in the Chitina valley and is this win
ter working a large force of men and
will shortly be a factor in the pro
duction of copper. Under the man
agement of E. F. Grey the ledges are
being opened up and ere long the
shipments of ore will commence.
Mr. Grey has great faith in the
mineral resources of the interior,
which he believes will furnish ample
tonnage for a double track railroad.
He is a mining maa of considerable
experience and his opinion carries
considerable weight. For years he
was manager of the famous copper
mine at Ely, Nevada, which is still
a producer and putting ore on the
market at the lowest possible price.
Being a shrewd business man, as
well as an expert miner, the sending
of his freight over the C. P. & N. W.
railroad is of considerable import to
Cordova. Heretofore it was freight
ed from Valdez and the fact that
such large operators as he and Mr.
Sargent purchased their supplies
here demonstrates that our merch
ants are in a position to compete with
the wholesale houses in the states.
Cordova, on account of its geo
graphical location and the further
fact that it is the terminus of Alas
ka’s one substantially built and perm
anent railroad, is the natural sup
ply point for the entire interior
country and offers opportunities
which our business men should not
fail to take advantage of.
witn tne opening or tne coal fields
tributary to Cordova there will be a
revival of business here such as will
make every old-time Alaskan sit up
and take notice, It will mean the
immediate construction of a branch
line of the railroad from mile 42
and the subsequent employment of
thousands of wage-earners at the
mines. This will open up another
and important market, whioh will be
supplied from uere.
All things considered, the outlook
for Cordova is exceptionally bright,
and while conditions throughout the
territory are at present not as en
couraging as might De hoped for, on
account of the asinine policy of the
government in withholding our re
sources from be'ng developed, the
silver lining to the cloud cannot be
much longer obscured. When the
long delayed legislation is enacted
there will be an impetus given to
business throughout the whole of
Alaska, and Cordova in particular,
will reap much of the benefit from
the good times that will come with
opening of the coal.
Bead the Leader for the news.
Here in
CHITINA
Is a genuine opportunity for a man or
woman with a few hundred dollars to in
vest in lots, for either a home or for busi
ness purposes, if the advantages of this great
undeveloped empire are accepted now.
Thousands of settlers, prospectors and
tourists will come into this country next
spring to make this their home and add their
mite to the development of this vicinity.
You cannot afford to miss this oppor
tunity to get in on the ground floor and to
get established for the business that is sure
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to come.
DO IT NOW
Chitina Townsite Co.
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