Iditarod pioneer., 1911-03-11

Washington state senator at the last c!eetioa died at Sacramento, Gal, last month.
 Rectors restaurant in the heart of the city of Chicago, was held up recently and the cashier was robbed of $2,ooo. Filbusters active along the Mexican bor- der Hundreds of ofAmcricans are enlistiug on the rebel side at Los Angeles.
 Colonel Goethal3 is authority for the state ment that the Panama canal will be opened daring the month of September, 19!3.
 A telegraphc dispatch from Cordova an nonnccs that John w. Frame editor and pro pretor of the Cordova Truth, will break into the daily field immediately.
 A Juneau message states that a new daily newspaper will shortly be started at Seward
 All indications point to q victory for the United States and Canadian reciprocity meas ure. The Democratic have lined up with Presi- dent Taft, who has strenuously advocated the passage of the law. and the sole opposition comes from tariff-protected industries.
 The ship subsidy investigation which has been going ill the House for many mont ths has ended, and report is expected at an early date
 George Conan, one of the cleverest comedians ot the American stage, and author of many song hits, opened his new theater in New York with an afternoon matinee on February B.
 Owensen's Palace hotel, to be one of the finest hostelries in the United States, is now under course of construction in San Francisco the intention being to have everything in read mess for the Panama exposition in 1918.
 An explosion of gasoline occurred Feb at the railroad shops at Jamaica, Long Island by which five persons were killed and four in jured
 An outbreak of fire at the Standard Oil Co. s acid plant, situated at Point Richmond, Cal, re suited i'll loss of half million dollars.
 Charles Smith, who was arrested at Oklahoma City on charge of complicty in the Los An geles dynamite outrage ha been released for want of evidence.
 The warden of the Missouri state penitentiarv has issued instructions that Dr Hyde who was convicted of murdeIiug Millionaire Syvope at Kansas City, is to receive no special privileges pending his latest appeal. It has been discovered that B coal claims, embracing valuable lands in Wyoming, were entered fraudulentlv.
 Commissioner of Corporations Smith has urged the passage of drastic laws for the con- trol of the lumber trust. He charges that the lurnheImen playing right into the hands of the railroads i'll their efforts to maintain high rates.
 John " Troy, who was formerly editor of the Skagway Ala;Ean, and later business marager of the "Westerner," has obtained control ofthc ItNask2-Yukon Magazine. The other directors oi the publication include Mrs. r.. s Harrison George Boucher and Clyde Morris.
 Baron Alfonzo or Baron Louis will be the new head of the house of Rothschild at Vienna,
 The treasurer Of ofVerrnillon county Illinois, has been arrested charged with embezzlement of funds.
 The merchants and real estate dealers of San Francisco are beginning agitation to dis Countenance boosting of prices on account of the approaching exposition. As matter of public policy the British gov ernment has awarded onehalf of Crippen $ estate to his sister Mrs. Hum, of Brooklyn,
 The California state senate has defeated the woman's suffrage bill.
 The coaling station at Magdalena may be abandoned.
 1 The United States supreme court will shortly decide whether Christian Science headers have the right to practice anywhere ill the country.