The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-26
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 garet Waider was arrested here today by the United States authorities for fraudulent use of the mails. Mrs. Waider has heen initiating the mo- torious La Porte, Indiana woman. She has been conducting a thriving matri- ,nonial bureau with herself as the only attraction for her numerous clients. Love was the deep seated motive oi her ventures. but chiefly love ol money. Just how much she has made from ,hose she has duped is unknown. Her heavy mails attracted the atten- tion of the postal authorities, and in vestigation revealed the crime.
 St. Petersburg. Sept. 22.-The mu- nicjpai government is making des- perate efforts to check the terrible scourge of cholera which has over ~helmed this city. The authorities ordered all tue places where liquor is sold to be closed from Saturday until Monday, hoping to stop somewhat the inrOads of the plague. The police rig idly enforced the order and closed ali vodka shops snd places for the sale 0. Intoxicating liquors. While this pre- vented the concourse of people and aided in the checking of the cholera. vet so great is its hold on this capital of the empire that from noon Sunday until noon Monday. three hundred and eis hIy ne@ cases were reported and there were one hundred and fifty-fve deaths.
 Toulon. France, Sept. g. During the naval display and the fall maneu- gers of the French feet in the Med iterrauean sea near here today. one oi she guns CD the French armoured cruisre Latouehe Treyille exploded. killing thirteen men who were oper- ating the gun. The shock and flying .ebris created havoc throughout the
 shole ship and many were fatally wounded beside those who met instant death in the turret. The accident put a stop to the brilliant maneuver and has thrown gloom over this city.
 Washington. Sept. 23.-The United States Forestry Service is receiving reports of the vast des astation being caused this rear hy forest fires throug- out the nation. Hardly part of the country has escaped From the Maine woods to the Tanna country in Alaska fire has swept the forests. In the Ad- irondacks Mountains in New York sta'e between Lake Champlain and , lhe valley of the St. Lawerence the fires have been especially severe. And reports show loss alone in that re- zion of a million dollars a day for the las. month. The shores of the lakes in the Adirondacks are dotted with elegant sumner homes and many campers have also gone in. Here the loss to private property is great.
 Wraugell, Alaska, Sept. 22.-The Uni ed States Cable Ship Burnside. the Hattie Gage and the Kayak have .ust got in from Coronation Island and she scere of the wreck of the Star Of Bengal,' bringing the sur yiyors of tine ill-.ated ship One hun- Jred aud ten Of those on board were drowned ard twenty seven rescued and brought in safe to Wrangell. The list of ihoss lost is as follows 1 Ben Johnson. foreman Of the WraDgell Cannery. Frank Healey, bOokkeeper fer the canrery tIom San Francesca, | Nrman Haw kins. brother in law to Superintendent BabIer of the cannery, 1 Chas Moore. John Peterson, Olaf Peterson, William Periscke. Andrew Hanson, Jas. Griffith, Geo. Hendrick- i son. EIssor Saenson, Sigmund Nebo1 ! Chas. Burns and Carl Rose, seamen. ! The 8 others < ho were drowned were l Japanese and Chinese who had been employed in the cannery here this season and were returning to their homes in California. Everything pos sibIe to be done as done. The tugs cut loose only .hen the control of the ship vas impossible and the Burnside and other boats went Out to the rescue as soon as they could after the news
 reached here.
 The Star Of Bengal'' was ship whose net tonnage was seventeen hundred. She was 2l2 feet long, 10 feet beam and 2 feet depth Of hold. She was a steel ship, vas amply sup piled with small boats and life pre- servers, and was owned by the Alaska Packers Association. She vas built in Ireland in 1873 and vas formerly the British ship ''Balclutha." Her home port was San Francisco. The ship is total wreck and a total loss. The loss of the pack of 52, GO cases Of salmon is covered by insurance.
 The last dispatch says the survivors of the wreck will be sent down on the Kayak to Loring to go south on the "Star Of England" from there.
 Later. .--Mr. Hickman received q message at noon stating that the crew of the lost vessel would come south or the Humboldt.
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