The Ketchikan miner., 1907-06-01

ene 1anaulan fOStal authorities, claiming that they deliberately delay Americn mail for down river points and indulge in other unfair practices with United States mail.
 Chicago, May 24-The sudden cool ing of pipes in the cold storage de- partment of the Amour Packing plant caused the ammonia pipes to burst, and the fumes escaping therefrom smothered to death five employees of the concern.
 Washington, May 24.-Five officers of the Eighth Cavalry are under arrest and will be court-martialed for d runkenness and insubordination An army scandal of large proportions is promised.
 Seattle. May 25-Owing to the coal famine which has reappeared in this city all the boats plying between Seattle and Alaskan ports are filling their bunkers either at Tacoma ol British Columbia ports.
 Washington, May 29.-A great sur prise is said to be in store for many of the prominent politicians of Colo rado, Oregon and Idaho. Recent de- velopmentS in the land fraud cases in the states mentioned implicate some of the best known people in these states. Warrants for the arrest oi these men have been prepared and will be served within the next ten days. Fraud is clear upon the face oi nearly five thousand cases of lana entries in these three states and R. A. Ballinger the new commissioner ol public lands, is determined to prose- cute every case for which he has sufficient evidence.
 San Francisco, May 29.-Prosecutor Heney made the complaint to Judge Dunne today that the police force o1 this city were interfering with the Schmitz jury. During the course oi his remarks he said : Il have abso- lute proof, your honor, that the lists of eligibles for service on the jury of the case now before this court have been prepared unfairly, that the great preponderance of the men whose names appear thereon are sympa- thizels with the prisoner now be- fore the bar, and the police force of this city is combining with the sheriff and his deputies to see that no mistakes are made in selecting these men. With jury drawn under such conditions fair impartial trial is an impossi bility."
 Fairbanks. Alaska, May 29.-Both papers in this city, the News and Times today contain editorials pro. testing against Governor Hoggatt representing Alaska at the formal breaking of ground at the Alaska Yukon exposition in Seattle Saturday June l. The papers at Nome, Seward and Valdez and the Dispatch at Juneau join in with the Fairbanks papers, claming that Mir. Hoggatt is not representative of the masses in Alaska but rather of officialdom and few outside corporations whose only interest in Alaska is to get all out of her they can and give absolutely nothing in return.
 Boise, Idaho, May 29.-A notor- ious socialist with we'll known anarchistic ideas was arrested in the courtroom of the Haywood trial this morning. The man was disguised having on false beard-and was heavily armed. The first intimation the police had that the man was suspicious character, was the way in which he continually crowded for ward toward the prisoners seat When arrested, two revolvers with extra ammunition for both, together with bottle of nitro-glycerine with fuse and cap attached were found upon him, and the general opinion is that he intended furnishing the pris- oner with a weapon and then demor- alizing opposition by exploding the bottle of nitro. He has been placed in jail and will be held there until the trials are over.
 Cleveland Ohio, May 29.-Senator Foraker's record and his position on several issues of importance to the people of this state is being made public in various Ways. Tn e latest charges against him are that he has, at all times since the contest against trusts and trust methods has narrowed down to fight between those in- stitutions and President Roosevelt, sided in with the trusts and has been their open defender on the floor of thee senate. This was apparent when the beef trust was fighting the Ohio bill. The Ohio Farmer which is one of the most generally read papers in the state in the country districts makes an editorial attack on Mir. Foraker claiming that Foraker introduced an