The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-07

HE Sii1D sa1 1hO NACn OA "hANh was recently tried and some of them convicted released, but says severe punishment will be meted out to the next poaehers taken.
 Attorney general Bonaparte denies that he has any intention of resigning from the cabinet. He says however that the trusts are trying to oust him, but doesn't fear them in the least.
 Panama, Aug. 31.-Advices receiv- ed here are to the effect that vio- lent suboeean earthquake occurred recently in the vicinity of the Friend l ly islands. The disturbance raised a large new island, which was at last a counts still projecting itself upward, and emitting vast volumes of smoke and flames from its peak.
 Washington. Aug. 3l.-Secretary of the Interior Garfield is authority for the statement that. President Roosevelt has abandoned his plan of joint statehood for New Mexico and Arizona, and will, in his forthcoming message recommend the passage of an enabling act providing for their ad- mission as separate states.
 Bremerton, Wash. Aug. 31.-A court of inquiry, consisting of com missioned officers of the navy, is in session here investigating the killing of enlisted fireman Lefebre, of the battleship Nebraska, some time ago by sentry. while the former was at tempting to scale the navy yard fence to reach saloon, where he could find beer with which to quench consum- ing thirst. The defense sets up plea that the sentry was only obeying or ders when he fired the shot, but Com mandant Burwell denies that he ever issued orders to shoot guard runners, who refused to stop when ordered to do so.
 Bremerton, Aug. 31.-There is a well founded report and belief here that q fight occurred among the fire men on board the battleship Nebraska last night, in which knives and other dangerous weapons were used. The report is that one of the participants is in the hospital with a bad cut in his throat, and that the others are in irons. The officers refuse to give the details.
 San Francisco, Aug. 31.-The jury in the case of Louis Glass, on trial on an indictment for bribery of Supervi- sors, by which he secured the fran ehise for his company, returned a verdict of guilty in just ten minutes after being sent to their room. Sent ence has been deferred till next Wednesday.
 Casa Blanca. Aug. 31.-The Moors fiercely attacked the French troops yesterday, forcing them to retreat to the shelter of the warships, under the protection of whose guns they rallied and defeated the Moors upon whom they inflicted great slaughter.
 New London. Aug. 31.-The physi- cians in attendance on Richard Mans field. the actor who died yesterday unite in the publication of state- ment that death was caused by disease of the liver. and was not due to soft ening of the brain.
 Portland Aug. 31.-Impelled by shame at being brought to face the ju- veniie court, Edith Wilson a girl of fourteen years, swallowed poison in the court room yesterday. Physicians present succeeded in saving her life.
 Shanghai. Aug. 31.-Cholera is rag ing in the lower Yang-tse province, where it's reported two hundred people are dying daily in the streets of the towns and cities. The disease is ot the most virulent type, and is spread ing.
 St. Petersburg. Aug. 3O-Count H'itte has quit his official position with the government to accept tie dictatorship of the bank of Russia.
 A court martial which has been hearing the cases of nearly hundred persons charged with being in con- spiracy having for its purpose the assassination of the Czar found yer diets of acquittal in the cases of six of the accused. sentencing six to to death by hanging and banishing seventy others to Siberia.
 San Francisco. Sept. 2-The steam CT Homer arrived in port this morn- ing from the north bringing letters and dispatches from the revenue fleet patrolling St. George and St. Paul islands in Beripg Sea. The Japanese seal poachers are becoming more num- erous than ever and are capturing great many seals in spite of the efforts Of the patrol. Naval guns have been mounted on the islands and several times during the present season the Doaching schooners have been frC q upon. Judging from the actions of the Japanese who have been captured, the revenue officers are confident that the Japanese government is aiding