TELEGRAPH NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
Seattle, July 18-—During the past
twenty-four hours eight drownings
have occurred among bathers of the
northwest.
Brussells, July 18.—The Belgian
aviator Olieslagers, has beaten the
world's record by making a mono
plane flight of 388 miles without a
stop.
Washington, July 18.—The gov
ernment has filed a suit against the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad to
compel a separation of its coal com
panies, which road is alleged to have
advanced its earnings to $70,000,000
a year.
Washington. July 18. The senate
today adopted a most drastic cam
paign publicity bill. The provisions
are such that no candidate for the
senate or congress shall spend over
ten cents for each voter in the dis
trict. The state limit of senatorial
candidates at general elections is
one for each 10,000 voters and one
congressman for each 5,000 voters.
Publicity must also be made of all
primary campaign contributions.
London, July 18.—Experts declare
that cholera will menace the world
wide, chiefly because the Italian gov
ernment permitted the infection to
spread.
Belleplaine, la., July 18.—W. J
Morris, a masked bandit, attempted
to hold up a Chicago & Northwest
ern passenger train, but a brakeman
interfered and in the struggle that
followed the robber was shot and
killed.
Mexico City, July 18.—President
Delaburr and General Madero have
clashed, the latter demanding the
dismissal of all Diaz’s hold over of
ficials, whom he claims are respon
sible for the recent troubles in
Pueblo.
Washington, July 18.—Dr. Wiley,
the pure food expert, has answered
the charges presented to President
Taft in a letter from Secretary Wil
son, and the former is considering
it and probably reprimand the de
cision.
Arkon, Ohio, July 18.—Edna
Cable, a 13-year old girl, attempted
to hold up the Cuyahogu Falls bank.
She was armed with a revolver, but
the weapon was wrenched from her
hand by a depositor standing before
the counter and the young robber
placed under arrest.
Victoria, B. C., July 18.—Lloyd’s
agency will make another advance
in the rates of vessels taking the in
side passage to Alaska.
Badnanheim, July 18.—Diaz’s
physicians have ordered him to Swit
zerland, on account of its climate.
Grand Junction, Colo., July 18.—
The coroner’s jury has held Gladys
Thompson and Lillian Osborne, aged
seventeen and fourteen years re
spectively, for the felonious drown
ing of Clark Wolfkill, a rich batch
elor and ranchman.
Atlanta, July 18.—A resolution
was introduced in the house of rep
resentatives in which Governor Hoke
Smith is called upon to resign as
the Chief Executive of the state and
proceed to Washington and assume
his new duties as United States Sen
ator, thus giving Georgia its full
representation.
San Francisco, July 18.—After de
liberating for a month the directors
of the Panama Exposition are again
deadlocked upon the selection of a
site and the longer this matter is
held in abeyance (he more bitter is
becoming the factional feeling, which
bodes no good to the success of the
fair.
Cape Haytian, Hayti, July 18.—
At the request of the American Min
ister the gunboat Petrel has arrived
and business has been suspended as
a result of the outcome of the fight
ing between the troops and the
rebels
Washington, July 17.—Senator
Knute Nelson has resigned as chair
man of the joint committee appoint
ed to investigate conditions in Alas
ka. He said that he didn't believe
the committee would be able to go
north this season.
DuBoise, Pa., July 17.—A fatal
accident occurred this morning in a
shaft of the Cascade Coal & Coke
company’s coal mine near this city.
By an explosion of afterdamp twen
ty-one men were instantly killed and
a number of others Injured.
Corovalis, Ore., July 17.—Ur.
Edward North, a well known local
dentist, has been arrested and char
ged with slaying Mrs. Eliza Griffith
whose body was found in the brush
New York, July 17.—An epidem
ic of Cholera in this city has caused
considerable alarm and exports arc
hastening here from Washington
Three deaths have already resulted
and there are still fifteen cases, hall
of which are serious.
Paris. July 17.—John W, Gates
the New York capitalist, is report
ed sinking and his friends fear that
death will soon overtake him.
St. Petersburg, July 17.—Rosen
will not return to his post as Am
bassador at Washington.
Washington, July 17.—Announce
ment is made that the Prince of
Wales will embark on a tour of the
world, visiting the United States.
Washington, July 17.—There is
i every indication of an adjournment
: of congress immediately after a vote
| has been taken on the Arizona and
New Mexico statehood bills on Aug
ust 7.
Oakland, July 17.—James Euch
enfraugh committed suicide by tak
ing the pistol route.
Elcentro, Cal., June 17.—The Pa
cific coast yesterday experienced its
first cyclone, which swept this sec
tion, killing two persons and wreck
ing the business portion of the city.
Oakland, July 17.—George P.
Euchler shot and dangerously woun
ded H. K. Kelton, manager of the
Traction company.
Seattle, July 17,—The grand jury
has taken a recess until October 9.
vlhicago, July 17.—Dr. Patrick S.
O’Donnell, an X-ray expert, claims to
have made an important scientific
discovery, that electrical currents
control the actions of the body. Many
physicians were present at the dem
onstration on four women subjects.
New York, July 17.—Delegate
Wickersham’s attack upon the At
torney General and the Alaska Syn
dicate has precipitated the publica
tion of the letter written by James
Wickersham to Stephen Birch, in
which the writer sought a position
as counsel for the Guggenheims at
a salary of $15,000 a year and ex
| penses. At the time he was living
! in Fairbanks and wrote Birch that
he was tired of Alaska and ‘ longed
i for the fleshpots of the outside.”
1 San Francisco, July 17.—Capt.
! Amundson's sloop Gjoa. with which
i he a few years ago discovered the
| Northwest Passage and is now at
Golden Gate park, was set upon by
i youthful pirates who sought to re
| enact the capture of the vessel, hav
ing read about such adventures in
I such literature as “Bloody Dick, the
Avenger.”
Seattle, July 17.—The Golden Pot
! latch opened this morning and will
last all week. There is an imposing
crowd in attendance and the affair
resembles almost a great exposition.
Warsaw Ind., June 17.—Billy
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Sunday, the evangelist, and Aviator
| Glen Curtiss made a two mile trip
in an aeroplane yesterday.
London, July 17.—Jack Johnson
and Bombardies Wells have signed
articles of agreement to flbht in
London before September 30 for the
i heavyweight championship of the
world and a purse of $40,000.
San Francisco, July 17.—A con
solidation of the steel interests of
the Pacific coast is contemplated by
representatives from Seattle, Port
land and San Francisco.
Louvier, Col., July 17.—There
were three explosions of dynamite
at Dupont’s plant at Denemours,
which did considerable damage.
Washington, July 17.—The entire
machinery of the Health Department
is in motion to fight the cholera in
vasion from Europe.
London, July 17.—King George
and Queen Mary leave for Scot
land on a pleasure trip.
Seattle, July 19.—While out hunt
ing at Baker lake Superior Court
Judge Robert W. Prigmore, of this
city, was shot and killed by Robert
H. Evans, his former law partner,
wh omistook him for a cougar.
Santa Rosa, Cal., July 19.—Dr. B.
C. Chisholm has confessed to the
murder of John D. Powell, whose
body was found in a spring.
Seattle, July 19.—Former Chief of
Police Wappenstein, who was convic
ted of grafting, will be sentenced
to from three to ten years in the
penitentiary.
Washington, July 19.—Discrimi
nation by the Alaska Syndicate
against the Humboldt Steamship
company, is the latest charge being
investigated by the House Committee.
It is also claimed that the White
Pass & Yukon railroad is control
led by the Guggenheims, and that
they annulled the traffic agreement
with the steamer Humboldt at the
alleged behest of a syndicate of
steamship companies.
London, July 20.—Cholera is
spreading at an alarming rate
thiough the province of Samara, Rus
sia, and thus far fifty-six deaths
have resulted.
Grand Forks, N. .D., July 20.—
The most daring holdup ever com
mltted in this, state took place' today
i on the North Coast Limited of the
i Northern Pacific railroad. The ban
dits resisted the interference of S.
P. Olsen, the engineer, whom the}
-shot twice, but his wounds are not
fatal. They then proceeded to ran
sack the coaches, compelling the pas
sengers to line up in the ailses, whi
they were searched. The booty
amounted to $500 in cash and a
quantity of valuable jewelry.
Canyon City, Col., July 19.—C. H.
Everett, the bank forger, who was
arrested for Swindling Seattle and
Ketchikan institutions and escaped
from Hot Springs, Arkansas, was
captured here today.
Columbus, July 19.—“Everybody
in congress is playing politics,” was
the declaration of Representative
Berger in addressing the Socialists
of this city.
Havana, July 19.—The water in
the cofferdam has lowered eighteen
feet more and reveals confirmatory,
| evidence in the belief that the battle
ship Maine was sunk by an exterior
explosion.
Duluth, July 19.—Attorney Gener
al Wiekersham, in addressing the
members of the Bar Association, ad
vocated the creation of an Interstate
Corporations Commissions, with pow
er to fix the market quotations of
trusts.
Los Angeles, July 19.—Mrs. Mc
Manigal, wife of one of the labor
leaders indicted for dynamiting the
Times plant, was dismissed on the
charge of contempt of court.
San Diego, July 19.—Ground was
broken this morning for the San Die
go-Panaraa exposition. John Bar
rett, representing President Taft,
turned the first spadeful of earth.
Washington, July 19.—The report
of Castro's landing at Venezuela con
sular agents say is erroneous and
the world search for a man without
a country has thus far been unre
warded.
New York, July 19.—Five “chol
era carriers” have been discovered
among the immigrants at Hoffman's
island and heroic measures are be
ing taken to prevent a spread of
this plague.
Washington, July 20.—Declaring
that his machine was a weight pack
er, Harry N. Atwood insisted upon
taking President Taft for a ride, but
the latter only smiled and shook his
head.
Peoria, 111., July 20.—Bobby Car
ruthers, the famous pitcher, who has
endeared himself to thousands of
fans, is dying.
Sabinas, Mexico, July 20.—The
commissary at the Rosita mines,
owned by General Madero, was raid
ed by women and boys armed with
mathetes, who looted the stock of
a hundred thousand pesos.
Kansas City, July 30.—Imitating
the robbery of a Seattle jewelry store
two men entered Franklin’s estab
lishment and secured a tray contain
ing $5,000 worth of diamonds. One
of the robbers was captured, but the
other escaped with the loot,
r Spokane, July 20.—The contract
for the building of the Canadian
Northern railroad from Port Ar
j thur to Ludbury, Ontario, has been
awarded to Patrick Welch and as
sociates for $12,000,000.
Blue River, Wis., July 20.—Lewis
Strang, the noted racer, was killed
in an automobile accident, his car
going over an embankment.
Erie, Pa., July 20.—Aviator Mars,
who fell from his machine several
hundred feet iast Saturday and sus
tained serious injuries, is out of the
hospital. He says that if he recov
ers he will abandon aviation.
Chraseo, Italy, July 21.—Italy’s
official cholera report shows sixty
j two deaths thus far and two hundred
and ninety-three cases.
Washington, July 21.—The joint
congressional committee, appointed
to go to Alaska this summer and
make a thorough investigation of
conditions in that territory, with a
view to providing remedial legis
lation, has definitely decided not to
make the trip on account of the pro
j traeted session of congress.
Washington, July 21.—Senator
j Bois Penrose, chairman of the fi
nance committee, today promised
j President Taft that he would lay the
! Canadian reciprocity bill, with the
approval of both the senate and house
on the President’s table, for his sig
nature, tomorrow afternoon.
Port au Prince, July 21.—The
revolutionists have captured Cape
Hytien. Americans and other for
eigners took refuge in an Ameri
can yacht, pending the arrival of
a United States warship.
Chicago, July 21.—Packey Mc
Farland and Ad Wolgast are match
ed to fight ten rounds at Milwaukee
September 18.
Burlington, Iowa, July 21.—The
steamboat Dubuque, with a hundred
passengers on board, struck a snag
down four feet above Keokuk, but
not a single life was lost.
New York, July 21—John E. Good
win, a young lad 20 years of age,
who was London born, has set up
a claim of being the son of Nat
Goodwin the actor, which the latter
denies.
Richmond. Va., July 21.—Beulah
Binford, a seiioolday sweetheart of
Lewis Beattie, Jr., ft Manchester
i banker, is held ijn connection with
i the killing of Mrs. Beattie, who was
shot by a footman while out auto
I mobile riding yesterday. Beattie
is also imder suspicion for the mur
oder of hi3 wife.'
Here in
CHIT1NA
Have you ever visited a more beautiful spot for a town in your
life?
Don’t you think that the arrangement of our streets are the finest
ever?
Can’t you see how the concentration of business to three short
blocks add to the value of the business section?
Don’t you realize the advantage of the switch track along the back
of the business lots for handling freight cheaply?
Don’t you know that the fire risks are less than in any town you
ever lived in?
What do you know about the scenery and natural beauty? Can
you beat it?
Do you know this is going to be one of the largest towns in
Alaska?
Wouldn’t you like to live and do business in such a delightful spot?
Do you know you can buy lots in this best of towns on easy pay
ments?
Do you know that the price of lots are from $50.00 to $700.00?
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