The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-21

rested. In an interview with ths abor leaders after the conference was ,yer, they expressed themselves a. being delighted with the treatment SEATTLE, Nov. ls.-Col. Perkins, who has large interests in the Nome mining district. and who is wei snown a. an operator. left yesterday or the east to urge the directors oi he companies which he represents to add an additional number of dredges
 those alreaoy in use.
 SEATTLE, Nov. ls.-The report of he local assay office shows that there has been a big increase in the amount of gold received from the Tanana gold
 .istrict. The total amount received this year amounted to nine million, me hundred thousand dollars-an in- ,rease over last yeara's receipts O me million, seven hundred thousand dollars.
 PORT TOWNSEND. Nov. 19.-The .eport of disorder and insubordipatiou lmong the officers of the revenue cut ;er Thetis, which was published a
 ew days ago, has been absolutely oe- lied by the officers They claim that 10 officer on the Thetis was disciplin- ed ny the captain.
 SEATTLE, Nov. 'l9.-Robert Gug- .enheim has arrived here for the purpose of opening headquarters for the company. He says that it is the
 intention of the company to push ihead all their interests in Alaska. When asked concerning the accusa- tions mace in the press that illegal soting bad been induged in at Cor dova. he stated that be knew nothing ,hout the election nor the overzeal- ousness of voters.
 SEATTLE, Nov. l9.-R. k. Reed.
 he Alaska miner who was placed under arrest here last Friday on a charge of having carried on aSsystem of high grading from gold mine ID Dome creek, near Fair banks, be
 onging to Cook and Company, toda, made confession. stating that he had been carrying on his thefts for a l)ug tims. He also states that there Ia @ organized X gangs carrying ot
 imilar operations in Tanana and the creeks tributary and that the ame un, If his defalcations are insignificant in comparison to the amount the others Ire making. He claims that there are five ''planters'' on Barnette ano D me creek, who are in co ubination md that the amount of their 5hefts i> enormous. II gathered gold by the handful out of the rifles. hid it in 3 handkerchief, and carried it home an1 washed it out. My cleanup amounted .) fro fifty cents 10 four hundred dollars every day. said Reed. in tel ling of his tbefts to the officers. H. .sill be taken back to Fairbanks fol
 rial. When Reed left Fairbanks foi seattle he bragged to humber passengers about his wealth and tol them how he had acquired it. The natter was called to the attention O. officials. an investigation was made, md his arrest followed.
 SEATTLE. Nov. lS.-Senator Piles.
 in an interview today concerning ti' importation of lumber free of duty lecIared that he was unal.erabiy or posed to its being placed on the ires list, and that he would support meas ure to continue the present tariff. Int um bermen of Washingtnn have sent delegation to Washington to urge during the next session of congress upon the congressional committee ieaIing with the tarlff tue necesst, If inc uding lumber in the list of tax able imports.
 ASHING TON. Nov. 19.-A big deiegatiou of lumbermen has arrived nere from the Pacific Coast for tn purpose of opposing the proposed re- moval of the duty on lumber. The, are well organized. and will make a strong fight, not only against the re- lnoval of the duty but against tn, slightest reduction of the present tariff on lumber. They vii! also ce- mand that the duty on shingles be raised to higher figure.
 CHICAGO, Nov. 20.-Further in- vestigations.into the forgeries com mitted by Peter Vanvlissengen, the Chicago real estate dealer Yho, alter being arrested, confessed tn his crimes and was few days ago sentenced to an indefinite term of from one to four. teen years. develop the startling fact that the total amount involved in his fraudulent transactions amounts tt two million dollars. The list of losers, as far ss have teen found. reaches about one hundred persons.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2O.-Tbe
 H aas affair is causing considerable il feeling between the prosecuting attor- ney and the police officials al the tin ( Haas committed suicide, the police 1 a,nouncod that ho had tha onn cop.