Seward weekly gateway., 1906-10-20
Burton Must dO to Prison

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 Topeka, Oct. l6-On receipt of news that the United States supreme court had denied his petition for 8 rehearing in the matter of his conviction of accepting a fee for appearing as attor- ncy before one of the departments of the government while a United States senator, Ex-Senator Joseph R. Burton notified his attorneys that he was pre- pared to go to prison.
 Castro at Point of Death
 Caracas, Venezuela, Oct l6-Presi- dent Castro k critically ill and is be- Geved to be dying, He is SpeechleSS this morning and physicians have no hope of his recovery.
 The announcement of Casro's ap- preaching end is the signal for the organization of all the discontented forces in the country. They are pre- pairing for a general uprising as soon as Castro k dead, to overthrow the administration of which he has been dictator.
 Killed by Highwayman
 Spokane. Oct. l6-Reno Hutchinson, secretary of the Spokane Y. NJ. C. A. was shot last night in the street by a highwaymau. He staggered to the lawn of Postmaster Harrison near by and expired. The robber escaped
 Evangelist Sam p. Jones Dead
 Little Rock. Ark, Oct. l6- sam P. Jones. the evangelist, died last night of heart disease on a train coming to this cftv. He was on the way to his home in Georgia to spend his birthday with his family
 Sails on Secret Mission
 Seattle. Oct l6-Assistant U. s. Dis ,rtct Attorney Hutson sailed today for Valdez on secret government mis- sion. The object of his errand cannot be learned.
 Bandits Hold Up Rio Grand Train
 Leadviue, Colo, Oct. l7-Bandits held up a Denver X Rio Grande train last night and took the engine with the baggage and express cars two miles from the coaches. There they blew open the express safe and secured a small amount of money. A posse with bloodhounds are on trail of the robbers.
 Irs. Jefferson Davis Dead
 New York, Oct. l7-Mrs. Jefferson Davis died last night at 10 o'clock. Coming With Gans-NeIsOn Pictures
 Sitka, Oct. I7-Harry A. Van is on the steamer Portland with moving pictures of the Gans-Nelson fight. He will exhibit first at Seward. The steamer passed Sitka yesterday.
 Princess Victoria Aground
 Victoria, B. C., Oct. IT. Steamer Princess Victoria went aground on Fiddler's reef, near Vancouver, this morning. A boat was sent ashore to obtain assistance. No danger to pas sengers is apprehended and it is hoped to haul off the steamer at high tide. She is a Canadian Pacific boat on the Seattle-Vaucouver run.
 Sergeant Kills Lieutenant
 Manila, P. l., Oct. Sergeant Tay- Tor of the Tweuty-fourth infantry shot and killed Lieutenant Robert Calvert in the province of Leyte a few days ago. The news just arrived today but no particulars were given.
 Root Reports on Panama Canal
 Washington, D. C., Oct. 17-Secre- tary Root in a letter to the president made public today states that from personal inspection of the Panama canal work he is able to say that it is being done well, and that the greatest danger to it lies in the difficulty of getting competent men to direct the construction because of the indiscrimi- nate misrepresentation and abuse ,nowcred upon all connected with it.
 May Discharge Whole Regiment
 Washington, D. C., Oct l7-Presi- dent Roosevelt today directed In- specror Darlington to tell the troops of the Twenty-ffth colored infantry that unless they give the names of the men implicated in the recent disorder at Brownsville, Texas, the entire regi' menJ will be dishonorably discharged.
 Found Guilty of Relating
 New York, Oct. l8-A verdict of guilty was rendered today in the prosecution of officials of the New York Central Railroad Company for granting freight rebates to the sugar trust. Sentence was deferred.
 Attorney Fox, of the railroad com