The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-04

abandoned until such time as congress shall have passed upon the question involving the ownership of the coal mines located in that district. The Cordova branch of the road will, how ever, be rushed to completion as rap idly as possible.
 Washington, March 30.-It has de- veloped that there were deeper mat ters involved in the appointments to government positions in Alaska than was at first supposed. The opposition to Delegate Gales appointment of postmasters was withdrawn, it now appears, at the instance of Alexander Mckenzie, who is prominent in Alas ka affairs and who took an active part in the Juneau convention. Mckenzie procured the reconsideration of the presidents appointments upon a prom ise made to the Taft members of the national republican committee that National Committeeman Held would join the Taft forces of the national committee in support of Taft provided the Gale appointments were made, since they represented the desire ol the majority of the republicans oI Alaska. The advantage to be gained in favor of Taft was considerable un. der the circumstances, since the na. tional committee was evenly divided It is stated that the same influence had been promised in relation to other appointments for Alaska.
 Washington. March 30.-Delegate Gale is in trouble again. This time he claims he has been jobbed by the post-office department. When Presi. dent Roosevelt reappointed J. M. Shoup as marshal for the first divi- sion, Gale opposed the appointment upon the grounds that Shoup was moi the choice Of the people. Later he withdrew his opposition. Gale now claims that deal was made whereby, in consideration for the withdraal o1 his opposition to the appointment o1 Shoup, his appointments in connection with postmasterships in Alaska towns was not to be interfered with. Gale now claims that the agreement re. garding postmasters has not been liv' ed up to and consequently he has agair declared himself as opposed to the confirmation of the presidents ap- pointment of Shoup. When the pres. ident was asked whether he would withdraw his appointment to the mar shalship, he stated that he would not, under any consideration, do so.
 Hanna, Wyoming, March o.-An. other disaster, intensified by circum. stances, has been added to the already long list of coal mine horrors. While work wai progressing in the Unior Pacific mine near here today, an ex' plosion of gas occurred. Twenty mer were known to have lost their lives as a result. A crowd of rescuers was organized for the purpose of getting out the dead bodies. Fifty men wen1 into the mine. Shortly after they had entered second explosion occur red and the entire party of rescuer: lost their lives. None of the bodie: will be recovered, as fire followed the second explosion and the mine i. now burning tiercely.
 New York, March 30.-During the illness of Silverstein, the notoriou: omb-thrower, his room has been en- tered and searched by detectives who are being employed in the campaign now being carried on to rid the Unit ed States of anarchists. They discov cred number of letters, correspond ence carried on between Silversteir and Alexander Berkman, another no torious anarchist, which developed the fact that Berkman has been chos. en as the assassin of Henry Prick, Berkman is the consort of Emma Goldman, the woman leader of the anarchists in the United States who has given the police of all large east ern cities great deal of trouble ir times past. It is reported that Emma Goldman is dying.
 Tallahassee, Fla, March 2S.-Hal Milton was today appointed to the DO. sition of United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death o1 the late William J. Bryan. He vii leave for Washington at once to qual. ify for the pS ition.
 Seattle, March 3l.-The much her. aided automobile race around the world has again undergone a change )f plans. They have decided to aban.