The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1911-01-28
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them to the DIlnd chaplain OF the
House.
Washington, Jan. 26.-The Navy
Department has decided to abandon
the coaling station at Magdalena Bay.
Trenton, N. j., Jan. 26.-James
E. Martin has been elected to sue
coed United States Senator Briggs.
Washington, Jan. 26.-The amend
ment to increase the salaries of the
circuit court judges to $500 has
been killed in committee.
Helena, Jan. 26.-The Montana
state legislature today passed the di-
rect primary law.
New York, Jan. 26.-The old
Brooklyn home of DR.. Frederick A.
Cook will shortly be torn down to
make room for an apartment house.
The house has been occupied for two
years by the Hebrew Home for Aged
Women, which moves into new quar-
tiers. At the time of Cooks triumph
ant return from the North some of
the explorers enthusiastic admirers
proposed to buy the house and con-
vert it into Cook polar museum
in his honor.
New York, Jan. 27.-The arrest
of Mrs. Margaret Mccormick, who is
held here on charge of bigamy,
should have peculiar interest for
army men, According to the police
Mrs. Mccormick frequented army
posts and at each post her custom
was to pick out the handsomest and
richest non-commissioned officer and
marry him. Then she moved to an
other post. and repeated, it is al
legged. Her last victim, it is said,
was Sergeant John A. Mccormick
stationed at Fort Dupont, Pa. 1t is
alleged in the warrant that she wooed
him under the name of Margaret
Douty, married him on June IA,
1910, and left with some of his be-
longings soon afterward Sergeant
Mccormick traced her to this city
and asked for her arrest
Washington, JAN 27.-President
Taft and the Secretary of War have
recommended an appropriation of
$4,000 for the construction of the
Seward-Iditarod trail and there is
every proba bility that Congress will
include this amount in it's appropria-
ton for the War Department.
New York, Jan. 27-Francis j.
Heney, the famous prosecutor, has
received wire from San Francisco
announcing the death of his wife in
that city.
Washington Jan. 27.-The House
Committee on Territories has killed
Delegate Wickersham' bill to amend
the Alaska fisheries law. This meas
ure was aimed directly against the
Guggenheims and it was class legis-
lation and did not tend to correct
the alleged existing evils, so the
committee refused to even consider
the act, and it was pigeon-holed.
Washington, Jan. 27.-Admiral
Barry has been forced to resign, by
President Taft, for the good of the
service. He was recently retired and
the immortality charges against him
are to be pressed.
San Diego, Jan. 27.-Navy officials
witnessed Curtiss start in his aero
plane from the water. He rose and
returned lightly on the water, dem
onstrating that it is as easy to fly
from water as land.
Washington, Jan. 27.-Pesident
Taft today sent special Message TO
Congress, urging the passage of
reciprocity treaty between Canada
and the United States.
Seattle, Jan. 27.-Editor Fenwick,
of the Post-Intelligencer, has been
sued for criminally libeling the Bleth-
en- papers in connection with Banker
Welty of Bellingham.
Boston, Jan. 27.-At a banquet
given in this city last night Secre-
tary Ballinger declared that good
men cannot be pulled down and the
shocks of battle only strengthen him
in his position.
San Francisco, Jan. 27.-Million-
aire Eugene De Roode has been
granted a divorce from Grace Wal
ton, the actress, whose affinity is
Burrows McNair, a New York brok-