The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
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ander Knox was today offered the secretay stateship which it is under. stood he will accept. Mr. Knox has
 for several years been identified
 with national affairs at Washington
 and should prove an efficient officer ir
 the Presidents cabinet.
 PORTLAND, Dec. 1S.-Another daring train robbery took place just outside Portland last night. The Oregon Short Line express being held up and the express car dynamit' ed, the robbers securing but little booty from the wrecked safe. It is thought this is part of the same gang of robbers that has been giving the Northern Pacific so much trouble for the last few months and the rail- roads of the west will combine in an endeavor to run the criminals to earth, even increasing the already enormous reward now offered for thier capture.
 SEATTLE, Dec. 1S.-A bloody riot occurred at Socialist meeting here last night which started by the "lie" being passed between M. Parks and James Nelson and for fully thirty minutes ragged all over the hall A riot call was sent to police ..heaqduart- CTS which was quickly responded to,
 but it was some time before order was finally restored, and not then until the police had beaten some of the ringleaders into insensibility. Mrs. Parks, wife of the above, Occu- pied the center of the stage for some time wildly gestulating and screaming and had to be carried from the ball lighting, scratching and kicking like a maniac. When order was restored it was found that many were seriously injured. some of which may die.
 TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 19.- g. termined to settle once and for all the dispute among scientists in New York relative to whether or not men con- demped to be electrocuted are killed by the electric current or by either the surgeons knife in the autopsy CT the quicklime in which they ID iy be buried, Dr. Frank c. Sea.nn Ill, official physician of Mercer county. and Dr. Thomas F. Mackenzie, chl9f of the medical and surgical staff of the state prison here, are to make ex- haustive tests at the next electrocut- ion here which is to be during the week of Dec. 2l, with John Mantas- anua, an Essex county murderer, as the victim.
 As soon as Mantasanua is declared legally dead the doctors will take him in charge and try every possible means of resuscitation. If they fail to re- store him 10 consciousness they will conduct an exhaustive autopsy in order to ascertain the exact effect of the current on the vital organs. If they succeed they will have a remarkable case on their hands-a man legally dead and yet alive-a murderer over whom the law will have no jurisdict- ion, victim of the electric chair free 10 walk forth from the chamber of death. -Marquett Daily Journal
 NEW YORK, Dec, 10. Some time ago s. Carvalho, pre,ident of the Hearst newspapers, caused lengthy article to be printed regarding the treatment of Standard oil employees near Chicago and among her things said that they were not paid sufficient wages to live upon and were treated no better than slaves in some instan- ces llvpg in novels in poverty and want. John D. Jr., becoming highly insensed. at the article caused the arrest of Carva ,ho who was released shortly afterward. Rockefeller de- mes he story and says that the men are treated as well as the ordinary laborer and that his conitions are just as good. The outcome of the case is looked forward to by the newspaper world in general.
 VANCOUVER, Dec. 19.-The hail but steamer Zapora of Tacoma, was seized by the Dominion cruiser Kes trel for an infraction of the fisheries law and released upon the payment Of fine of S1, ,GOO. It appears that the Zapora held the law in total disre- gard and the Canadian government becoming tired of so many attractions by this and other crafts nave decided to strictly inforce the law hereafter. there being no valid excuse for such vessels to fish within tho limits pre- scribed by law.
 NEW YORK. Dec 1a.-Dapiel Guggenheim in an interview with a reporter for the National Press Association says there is nothing alarming in the Ryan-Cole copper combine from the fact that his com pany owns an exclusive copper smelt- CTS. Also declared that it was unlike ly that he would be interested in any exclusive plants as he looked upon it
 as an annoying business. Despite the assertions of Mir Guygenheim the fact