The Chitina leader., 1911-06-24
NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF

the private hospitals TO save the lie
of his wife and both are now recoy-
ering.
Seattle, June 20.---A fire broke out
this morning in the Seattle Cracker
Company's plant and Quilted two
floors before the flames could be got
ten under control The loss is $780,
900.
London. June 20---Sixty-five thous-
and royal troops arrive for the coro-
nation pageant.
Washington. June 20. Five South
American republics are soon to con-
fer with view to uniting.
Topeka, June 20. Vice President
Melcher, of the Rock Island railroad,
was badly injured in a wreck near
here.
: Los Angeles, June 20.--Charlie Full
ton has planned to cruise Northern
Alaska in a swift motor boat.
Seattle, June 20.---The Standard
Oil Company will spend 100000
at Richmond Beach, in the erection
of a distributing plant.
Washington, June z0.---The Terri
torial Committee of the House will
recommend the home rule bill for
Alaska. as all of the Democratic and
three of the Republican members are
in favor of it. 1t will be reported
to Congress and in all probability pass
at the regular session in December.
The Senate is also believed to favor
the measure and in that event it will
become law.
Washington June 20.---The COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery against Senator
Lorimer, held it's initial session to-
day.
Little Rock, June 20.---A fourteen
carat diamond, worth $4,000, was
found in Pike county.
Pocatello, June 20.---Hugh Whit
ney. an outlaw, has terrorized this
sheriff and constable attempted to
take him in custody, but were killed
before making the arrest. Whitney
then boarded passenger train and
shot to death the conductor, brake
man and rancher, afterwards escap-
ing through Idaho.
Washington, June 20.--The GUS
toms officials discover that the gov
eminent loses $1,000,O00 annually
through the importation of cutlery.
Los Angeles, June 20.--A bomb was
discovered at an early hour this morn
ing under the city hall, where all the
records are on file and there is
strong suspicion that an attempt was
being made to do away with some of
the papers in the dynamiting case.
St. Louis, June 20.---The National
Commissary Managers Association,
composed of five hundred commissary
managers in the coal, lumber, mining,
cotton and other industries, will hold
its second convention in this city
August 1924.
Toxic, June 20.---A typhoon devas-
tates the Eastern coast of Japan, kill
ing hundreds of people.
Salt Lake, June 20.--District Judge
Morris, in declaring the white slave
law constitutional, sentenced three
men engaged in this traffic to long
terms in Jail.
San Francisco. June 90 Orville
Caviness has confessed to the rob-
berry of $4,000 in gold dust from the
steamer Humboldt, while en- route
from Fairbanks to the Seattle assay
office, and was sentenced to a year
in the penitentiary.
Bakersfield, CAL, June 20.---The oil
town of Maricopa was destroyed by
fire and many killed and injured
Lisbon, June 20.---The United
States is recognized by the Republic
of Portugal.
Washington, June 20.--Chairman
Smith says the Senate committee will
act favorably on the state constitu-
lions of Arizona and New Mexico.
Washington, June Ex-senator
Francis Emory Warren, of Cheyenne,
Wyoming, announces his engagement
to Miss Clara Lebanon Morgan, of
New York.
Seattle. June 19.-Joseph H.
Young, president of the Alaska
Steamship company, who had plan