Yukon Valley news., 1906-11-21
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up to the ShafthOuSe Ot the MOhaWk mine at Goldfields, New, and forced the watchmen to load 1000 pounds of ore worth $50 a pound into a wagon, and escaped with the booty.
 The city council of Seattle refused to grant d request by Chief Wappenstein for money to pay for thirty more police men. The chief said the coast is over run with criminals, and he will appeal to the public for funds to keep them from operating in Seattle.
 There is an island in the Missouri river between Clay county, Missouri, and Wyandotte county, Kansas. Neither state holds title to the island and prize fights are occurring there in defiance of the authorities of both states. Governor Folk is endeavoring to prove Missouri's s title in order to stop the fights.
 Warden Kees of the Washington state penitentiary has been dismissed from office for speculating in prison made grain sacks. Cruelty and other offenses are also alleged. Kees declares he is a victim of Internal Revenue Collector Crocker and has declared war against Crocker and the entire following of United States SenatoI Ankeny.
 Mrs. Will H. Thompson, mother of the boy who murdered Judge Mead Emory in Seattle last summer, died Oct p after a protracted illness. She died ignorant of her sons awful deed. At the time of the murder she was so low the doctors declared knowledge of her sons crime would kill her. She was told that her son was attending school in Europe.
 Secretary Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and General Funston re- turned to the United States from Cuba the middle of October. As soon as the party had taken its leave Governor Ma goon issued an official proclamation to the effect that as soOu as absolute peace Is attained he will bring about the ordi- nary agencies of government and return the reins to the Cuban people. He de- clared that he would fulfill every prom ise that Secretary Taft had made, and hoped for the friendly cooperation of all Cubans.
 The Colorado river has been turned back into it's own channel. By cutting through an irrigating canal the river left it's old channel and caused a prop erty loss of $20,OO0,OOO. Salton sink, into which the river poured, is now an immense lake, with level far below that of the ocean, and it will take years for the water to evaporate and leave the ground dry again. Many engineers had declared the effort to turn the river back into its own bed would fail, but it was perfectly successful.
 Colonel Chamberlain's report of his inquiry into the charges preferred by Major. Ballaine against Colonel Glass ford, head of the Alaskan telegraph and cable service, completely exonerates the officer. Ballaine charged that Colonel Glassford was censoring all press matter sent from Seattle to Alaska papers and that he was discriminating against Bal laine's railroad at Seward. It is now stated that Ballaine tried to use the wires to get advertising for his scheme sent to Alaska papers as straight news matter.
 An awful hurricane devastated the Atlantic coast line of Florida Oct. r.. The storm was fu fly a severe as the one which caused such widespread ruin around the gulf of Mexico in September, but the track of the last storm was con fined to a narrower belt. The loss of life will never be accurately known. More than fifty barges engaged in the government work along the coast were blown to sea and lost with all on board. Hundreds of bodies washed ashore and were sent to Fernandina, where q, norge was established. The extensive oRVprufuaut worka in ,r...xx...s .l. ..