The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-30
disanreared from her roval home and

Ibe nlan aas 0eeona well AnaWn tn ahe upper circles oi society and even to the royal household and has been unusually successful in the prosecution of his business, but this denouement was utterly unexpected.
 Washington, May 27. The confer ence committee which has been strug gling for many days with the Aldrch and Vreeland currency bills, and which reached deadlock on the cur rency question last week, has agreed to straight ten per cent for national banks in all reserve cities, witout any reference to classicfiation. The limit on the issuance of emergency curren cy has been placed at half a million.
 Oakland May 27.-Great excite ment was created this morning by the announcement that three dwelling houses owned by Ex-Supervisor James Gallagher, star witness in the San Francisco graft cases, had been blown up with dynamite last night Gallagher has given much startling and damaging testimony on the stand, and tho he has received threats of vengeance has paid no at tention to them. The houses are worth about s25, ,OC0, and no clue has been found, so far, to the guilty parties.
 Oklahoma City, May 27.-The death losses of the terrible flood which has swept over this entire region were increased by fourteen last night, when that number of unfortunate people who had taken refuge on an island in the Red River were swept away to their death. The island is situated near Colbert and was believed to afford safe height from the river. The water rose at an unprecedented rate, and as no boat was available the fourteen refugees were swept away without a chance for their lives.
 Vancouver, B. C., May 27.-The petition recently presented to the gov ernment asking that the Chinalnen who armed themselves in self defense at the time of the Vancouver riots be repaid for their expenditure, has been turned down. Hundreds of Chinese purchased arms that time fearing for their lives on account of the mobs that paraded the Vancouver streets, threatening to clean out the entire foreign quarter. The Chinamen some time ago asked that the Dominion Government reimburse them for their expense, which they placed at twenty five thousand dollars.
 Seattle, Wash, May 27.-Blamey Stevens, well known mining eng ineer formerly located at Ketchikan, but more recently connected with the Reynolds company at Valdez, has pre- sented petition to the Mining. Con- vention now in session., setting forth the wrongs practiced hy certain Alas kan monopoles and asking for an in- vestigation by competent government officials of their alleged corrupt and overbearing methods. The Conven- tion promptly passed the resolution.
 Washington. May 7.-The Alaska Central and Guggenheim interests have entered an emphatic protest against the Alaska Coal Lands bill as just passed, stating that they are not satisfied with the provision allowing consolidation of claims up to twenty five hundred acres. They assert that owing to the enormous expense of operating n Alaska. no company of any foresight will enter the coal fields unless they combine enough property to assure them a field of operation for many years They claim that the initial expense ferns so large ap item in the investment as 10 be prohibitive unless heavier grouping is permitted. They will attempt to alter the meas ure to allow the com hination of claims to a much higher limit.
 Seattle, May 2s. s.-L;euterant Juenet, of the Signal Corps, United States Army, will leave on the City of Se- attle for Alaska with a big party of men who under his direction. will in- stall complete wireless ou fits at Fort Egbert and at Fora Gibbou. Fort Egg bert is at Eagle City, and it is the plan of this party to complete a chain of stations which vii furnish wireless communication to Fairbanks.
 Colville, Wash. May 2s.-General Evan Ali s, retired officer of the United States Army died here today. General Allies has long and splen- did record a. an officer. He came to the West in ,he early days and was one of the GT>t officers to take an im- portant part in the pactcat ol of u e Northwest. He was vel known thru out the country at one time for his activity against the Indians.
 (From yesterdays daily)
 John Raber and Ed. Williams, ac- companied d ny their very much better halves, have gone away for two weeks outing in the wilds of Chol- mondely Sound. They will go to Walter Eubank S logging camp, where