The Ketchikan miner., 1909-04-17


 Port Said. April 9-Roosevelt ar rived here today. All well.
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 San Francisco, April 9-Sidney HeS- ter has offered Johnson and Kaufman sixty-fiye per cent of the gate receipts for a fight to be pulled of here.
 United Press special | Washington, April, 9-Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior under President Mckinley, died today during an operation for kidney trouble.
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 Buffalo, April 9-Citizenship papers were today denied Jacob Kersner. hus- band ot Emma Goldman. They were both ordered deported as undesirable citizens.
 United Press special Washington, April. 9-The senate yesterday in executive session con- tirmed the appointment of Harry Sull- ivan of Nome for Marshal of the Third Division of Alaska.
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 Setatle. April 9-Major Richardson who has charge of the road construc- tion and trail building for Alaska, sailed north today on the Ohio for Valdez.
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 St. Louis, April 9-Rasenthal has entered a sweeping denial of all charges by the state in its attempt at a dissolution of the Standard Holding Concern, and denies relating in each and every instance.
 United Press special Philadelphia. April 9-Representa- tives of the coal miners of Pennsyl- vania and the operators met here to- day and after two hours session failed to come ta an agreement. Pre- sent indications are that strike is probable.
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 Washington, April 9-This afternoon the house as committee of the whole placed petroleum and all it's products on the free list. This was done in spite of the fight of the Standard Oil in- ] terests who have maintained lobbyists here to oppose it. l United Press special Manchester, April 9-The great fire has been checked, late yesterday alter noon the fremeu got it under control. | The fire burned an area of a mile l long by half mile wide. Two thous- and people are homeless. Property damage unestimated.
 United Press special 1 Rome, April, 9-An explosion Of improperly stored dynamite today bad | ly damaged St. Peters Cathedral and ] injured twenty people. St. Peters Cathedral is the greatest and one of 1 the most imposing structures in the world, and damage to it is considered a worldwide calamity. 1 United Press special ! Washington, April, 9-Armed with a petition signed ny quarter million women, four prominent Chicago wo- men from the Federated Clubs, have besieged speaker Cannon in protest against the proposed increase of tariff on women's wearing apparel. ! United Press special Lyons, April 9-The prosecution in the Georgia Sampson murder case rests today and 1t is generally conceded did not make good case against her Thee defense has begun its presenta- tion of the evidence in rebuttal, and her dismissal is a foregone conclu- sion.
 United Press special Mansfield, Ohio, April 9-S. r. Westen, the aged pedestrian, who is walking from new York to the A. Y. Y P. Exposition, was knocked down and injured by an automobile here this morning. IL is expected he will be laid up for several days.
 The chauffeur did not stop to ascer- tain the extent of the old mans in- juries.
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 Reno. April 9-The court ruled today that only Donaiide residents of the state for six months may bring action for divorce. This decree has caused consternation among scores ofpeople in the state who have come here to take advantage of the lax divorce laws and who have been residents but three months.
 United Press special Seattle, April 9-The Chamber of