The Ketchikan miner., 1909-05-15
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 Pittsburg, May 12-Twenty persons were drowned in the Alleghany river last evening by the explosion and sinking of gasoline launch. An ex- curson party of thirty were out for q picnic when the accident occurred, ten of them being picked up before drown ing.
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 Omaha. May 12-Forty-one signal corps men left here today for various stations throughout Alaska.
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 Seattle, May l2-The steamsh p Jeff erson sailed last night with Bishop Rowe as passenger for Ketchkan. Vancouver May 12-The Princess Beatrice sailed last night. She took two surveying parties from here con- sisting of forty men, to mark the boundary line between Canada and Alaska.
 One of the parties will dsembark at Wrangell and the other goes to Ju- neau.
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 Paris, May l2-The mail service of France is again tied up. Today six thousand postal clerks walked out as result of the government not grant ing them an increase in wages. The telegraph and telephone opera tors will quit tonight and the whole of France will be tied and business prac- tically suspended.
 Cordova, May 12-Peter Hamilton, fisherman. was shot through the heart and died instantly this morning, by J. Jacobsen who was fooling with a rifle that he thought was not loaded. The men were fishing at Yakatat United Press special
 San Francisco, May 12-Luther Brown, head of United Railroads de tective agency, was today acquitted of the charge of kidnapping Fremont Older, editor of the Bulletin.
 When the graft exposures became the one topic of discussion, the Bulle- tin took active interest in securing and publishing evidence against the CO., terie of grafters. He was kidnapped and taken to Los Angeles and afterward charged the United Railroads with tho crime.
 Flushing, May 12-The extreme penalty under conviction for the crime of mansaughter which Peter Hains was found guilty of, is twenty years in the penitentary, and sentence will be passed today, unless an appeal is taken.
 General Haips, father of the defen- dant and Major Hains, his brother, were the only relatives present when the verdict was brought in. They ap- reared stunned at the unexpected de- cision of the jury as they had all along believed he would be acquitted. The mother was telephoned to at her hotel and the shock caused her to collapse.
 Hains is unreconciled to the verdict. He has been remanded to the custody of the sheriff, and on Monday wiIl start proceedings for all appeal. United Press special San Francisco. May 13-Rudolph Spreckles will be witness in the Cal. houn bribery case tomorrow. United Press special Tonopah, May 13-The notorious dance hall, the Big Casino, was totally destroyed by fire today.
 The origin of the fire is not known, but IS supposed to be of incendiary origin.
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 Wash ngton, May 13-President Taft, who is an inveterate golf play CT, has wired congratulations to cham pion Travis for his recent victory over all opponents in the golf champion ship series.
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 Tomorrow he will go to the Judja ranch and rest from his hunting un-