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The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
WOULD ELECT BY
 POPULAR VOTE
CALIFORNIA SENATORS WOULD ABOLISH ELECTORAL
 COLLEGE
IBy Alaska News Bureau)

SACRAMENTO. Ca. Dee l4-The zlate senate yesterday passed reso- .auan calling on the Congress of the United States to submit consum- aarM amendment for the election Of ha President and Woe President by popular vote
 This amendment would do away with hat old institution. the electoral .rEa. composed Of electors who are elected by popular vote of the D an,a and who in turn cast tho bal lois r.- tsc President and Vioa pres
 The electors are rroporaone5 by n-nu, inn each state having the same ~nmlar or electors a he elect
 oral college as they have seuata~ arI r~asarta-trgs in ConEress
 There has baea much aE.tation Of
 r-~ Ha ano, shtrg or the r-T custom CT ele- tior
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
RACERS AHEAD
 IF ALL RECORDS
y Alaska \, vs Burea

Alaska Nyvs Bureaaa
 NEW YORK Dec. 1.-The Euel linz pace is sHu being kep, up in thc bicycle race here
 This rhe fourth day of the six day race or the fifteen teams en- -.f five have given Up the race There are five teams neck and neck. s-Gni0z for first place
 The leaders are ahead Of all pre- .rs records If the sane pace is held throughout the week new records win be set which win stand for years % come is the opinion Of experts who arc watching the race
 HuEa crowds attend every day and s- for hours watching the racers as h-y make lap after lap around the small track
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
WILL CHRISTEN PRINCESS

lBy Alaska News Duresu.)
 MADRID. Spain. Dec. 1.-The htue daughter of King Alphorso, who was born yesterday. win b,s christened Princess Christina
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
FANS FEAR
 LEAGUE FEET
sckLPING SCANDAL THREATENS RUPTURE BETWEEN
 LEAGUES
IBv NIL M. Rareaul

NEW YORK. Dec14-A great TOW is being kicked up over the ticket soalping scandal in the Worhs Series
 Much bad feeling has been shown and a break in threatened between the American and National Leagues here. Fans wait with bated breath fer the outcome. fearing that a rup tre may take place. which VIII cause tEe cessation Of the annual encoun- t,rs between these leagues for the worlds championship in Che baseball world
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
MAKER
 OF EXPLOSIVES
fRv Alaska News Bureau,

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. If-The gov cument probe ia the dyuamitinz eases Is being pushed vigorously. It is wide reaching in It's scope An effort iz now being made Co determine who manufactured the dynamite and other explosives which were used and ship ped in violation Of the interstate law. The viofato-s viH be punished 70 ihe flLl eHtent of De Iaw.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
GiSE NIL. GO
 ID JURY TONIGHT
0By Alaska News BureauJ

NEW YORK. Dec. 14-Ethel Con rad. charged with Lillian Graham with She Stokes shooting began her testi- mony on behalf Of the Graham girl yesterday.
 She stated on the stand that lkas had ruined her Miss Conrad
 the last witness tor the defense. AC.sr Che arguments cf counsel the .ase will go Co the jury It is eN- pectad that the case will go to the jury tonight.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
TEDDY AFTER
 PRESIDENCY

CBy Alaska N=z= Eureau1
 WASHINGTON. D. c. Dec. 12-Ac- Carding Co the National Republican Committee. Theodore Roosevelt is op- enIy in the race for the presidency.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
WILL BOOST
 IA TOILETTE
wal TOUR OREGON STuM9lNG FOR INSURGENT
 SENATOR
.By Alaska News Buroau2

PORTLAND peJ l#-The poauea. lee IS teEuuiuE to hum \ LaNoE Ia-e hoCm wEI be started throughout .ha ssate F-auGs HeDey lawyer and -at p0oSeeuto-. Will begin a tou Of The state. boosting Robert LaFo} I.ra Progressive Republican senator from W5<eo0St1. for tha Republican nomination for President
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
CHICAGO WANTS
 EDITH MEETINGS
'By AlasEa News Rurea1.I

CHICAGO. Dec 1E-Not Co be oui drne by the Republicans. the Demo crats are putting forth great efforts to draw the democratic national nom fuatng convention 10 this city The convention last year was held in Den. Yer.
 The Republican convention has bee secured for this city It win be held h are June IS
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
PRINCESS IS
 SHIP WRECKED
lRy Alaska News Bureau)

GIBRALTAR. Dec. l4-wovd has been received here that the Oriental steamer Delhi went on the reefs of Cape Spartel. to the west of here on the rocky Moroccan coast
 The passengers. including the Prin- cess Victoria. sister of King George, . Easiaud and her daughters, marrow lv escaped drowning, while endeavo-- ing Co reach shore. A terrific storm was raging
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14

The Alaska Steamship Company $ S-aaue- Ta1te7sou lei, kelchlSaa s7.S m----- a- eleven o'clock and .w..l -aaah this port late tomorrow night.
 Mrs. Samuc- Lind i> o'1va-'Ssa1g from her recent sickness.
 Snp- Y. l. Hahn was a passenger on the train co Nh.Jeho-Se yeslaraas-
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
POSTPONE ATTEL.
 KILBANE FIGHT
lBy Alaska News RureauD

LOS ANGELES. Cal Dec. 1.-The .hamplonsht0 fight which was to take Naac New Years day between Abe Aueu and Johnny KiIhane has been
 ncnaa ut NashiDEtOD's birth day. Feb 22
 They vv Hght twenty rounds at the Vernon pavilion.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-12-14
KAUFMAN WILL
 FIGHT FLYNN
By A,.Sza Nsvs Bu7eau3

CHICAGO Dec ---A- ha1-tll-- and F-.-a- MS. Fl-. have been matched H"
 -r --- r- rE. 1a.a >a1
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
WASHINGTON.

Capt. John B. Scoeffel, tenth infantry
has been ordered to Fort Logan. Colo
When the governments fiscal year
closed June 80 the federal treasury
held a cash surplus of at least $780,
100000.
Another investigation is proposed.
Representative Raker of California in
troduced resolution for the investi-
CATION of the public land laws.
The Canadian reciprocity situation
has cleared to marked degree and a
was in every way assuring to the
friends of the measure.
Senator Guggenheim's bill authoriz-
ing the President to appoint an addi-
tional federal Judge for the District
of Colorado was reported favorably
from the Senate committee on judici-
ary by Senator Clark of Wyoming and
probably will pass the Senate when
bills on the calendar are again taken
up for consideration.
A weather record for the season
was made here July 2nd. The official
temperature was ninety-eight and the
suffering was increased by the humid
lty. No immediate relief, it was said,
is in sight. Downtown thermometers
registered 107. Twenty deaths from
severe heat and forty-seven from
drowning when relief was sought in
the water, were reported from various
sections, with one suicide due to the
high temperature.
All formalities necessary to the fl
nal conclusion of the general arbitra
ton treaty between America and
England could be completed within
four hours, assuming that the machin-
cry was working properly and smooth
ly, is the official declaration.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, in
announcing the addition of fifty more
postal savings repositories, noted with
satisfaction that the opposition of
banking institutions had almost dis
appeared Applications for authority
to receive postal funds are being re-
ceived from forty banks day
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
FOREIGN.

Returns for the five days ending
June 26 show that there are ninety
seven cases of cholera in Naples.
The sensations caused by Ger
many's action in sending a warship to
Agadir, Morocco. showed no signs of
abating, and diplomatic circles are
said to be in a ferment.
It is estimated that sixty persons
received more or less severe bruises
in the street panic following the ex-
plosion of bomb in Gale Bordedaros,
Italy, near the corner of Gale Mayor,
at the moment that a parade was pass.
ing through the latter thoroughfare.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o N G s, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Fire of unknown origin, starting IN
the rear of saloon at. Hawthorne,
Mineral county, Nevada, caused loss
Of $4,000.
Leslie Miller, who lived near New
Hampton, Iowa, murdered his wife and
two of mis- five children, and then com
mitted suicide.
Jim Mcward, flying a biplane at
Wichita, Kans., made spectacular
flight over the city attaining a height
of more than 1000 feet.
Fifty men are working desperately
to rescue two miners imprisoned IN
the Whirwind tunnel at American
Fork, Utah, by an earth cave.
Crazed by heat, Mrs. Maud McCrary
Of Los Angeles, Cal, killed her three
small children and ended her own life
in a vacant house in Lockney, TeXas'
Texas is to have a banner crop
this year, unless indications fall de
clared E. F. Adams, assistant general
passenger agent of the Santa Fe rail
road at Galveston.
Separated only by a few seconds
two earthquake shocks, the heaviest
since the big shake of 1906, Jared the
central portion of California and west.
ern Nevada. Each shock lasted about
five seconds.
1t required the services of a detail
of the state militia to prevent a long
suffering but disappointed crowd at
Glendive, Mont, from running an
airship into the Yellowstone river be-
cause 1t would not fly.
Six hundred thousand acres of land
will be opened to settlers under the
registration plan, 10000 acres being
within Fort Berthold Indian reserva-
ton, North Dakota, and 100000 acres
in the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reser-
vations in South Dakota.
Clyde Mattox, who is known to have
slain four men and has been accused
of killing a fifth and who was famed
as an outlaw in the territorial days OF
Oklahoma, has been released from
state prison and his citizenship re-
stored after he had served twelve
years.
Accompanied by very heavy rains,
destructive cyclones swept over south
central South Dakota. Farmers wit
messed the demolition Of their barns,
outbuildings and trees with compla-
cency, as the rain will benefit the
crops sufficiently to cover the cyclone
damage a thousand fold.
Closely pursued by the town marsh
al, a pickpocket leaped into the bas-
ket of a balloon near Sayre, Okla.
lust as the air craft was leaving the
ground and sailed away to safety. The
balloon had been filled with gas and
the aeronaut, George Harvey, was in
the basket ready to start when the
marshal discovered the pickpockes
taking a purse from pocket of citi-
zen whose attention was centered on
the balloon.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
SPORT
WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING

The Cheyenne Indians have defeat
ed the Laramie Cowboys for the sixth
straight game.
The Colonials of Denver went down
to defeat at Central City in the midst
of heavy rain, to 5.
In a closely contested game at
Santa Fe the Albuquerque baseball
team defeated Santa Fe by score OF
4 to 0.
Cheyenen fans are worried over a
persistent rumor that Manager Bid
well is to lose two or three of his star
players.
In the thirteenth round of lively
fight in San Francisco, Ad Wolgast
defeated owen Moran, the English
champion.
President Lynch of the National
league suspended infielders Miller and
McKechnie of the Pittsburg club for
three days. Manager Clarke of Pitts
burg was fined So for discoloring the
ball.
The War Eagles baseball team of
Denver came out on the short end of a
to score in an eleven-inning game
at Aztec. The game was a pitcher
battle between Neill and Chester. the
latter a full-blooded Navajo Indian.
"Chalky" German of Leadville, and
kid" Ross of New York have been
matched for a twenty-round bout
which will take place at Leadville
July IA. German who can do 12O
pounds easily, has consented to let
Ross weigh in at 1873 pounds.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
GENE ERAI.

The home of Mrs. VIM. Thaw of
Pittsburg, Pa, has been robbed of $780,
900 worth of jewels.
In many parts of Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma the temperature is re-
ported to be higher than 100.
Federal Judge Newman denied the
application of Charles w. Morse for
release from the federal prison, at At
lanta, Ga.
The Connecticut House of Represen-
tatives has passed a bill to pay Civil
War veterans state pension of $50
year.
DR.. Henry NJ. Walden of New, York
fell nearly hundred feet in his mono
plane, at Mineola, l.. l., smashing it
to pieces.
Forty-nine automobiles, valued at
more than s125,000, have been stolen
in Chicago since June 1, according to
the police records.
Five persons, four of them women,
were killed and two injured in
grade crossing accident near Ozone
park, in the suburbs of New York.
Two persons were killed and seven
teen others injured when a Pennsyl-
vania express train for Atlantic City
sideswlped a local passenger train at
Lucaston, little station, north of
Camden, N. ].
ames Conroy, who was struck by
lightning while working 1,500 feet un-
der ground in the Courtdale tunnel
of the Kingston Coal Coanpany, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is in such a precari-
GUS condition that his recovery is not
expected.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has issued an order to the at
torney general directing him to in
struct the lower courts to carry out
the Supreme Courts decision provid-
ing for the dissolution of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. The thirty
days allowed the company to ask for
rehearing has expired.
From the old-fashioned celebration
of the Fourth thirteen deaths was the
total reported in the United States.
The nationwide spread of the sane
Fourth movement brought fruit in the
smallest number of celebration casual
ties ever recorded. In nearly every
city where the use of explosives by
individuals was prohibited, no acci-
dents were recorded.
The Missouri Pacific railway and
the Cumberland Gap Despatch. operat-
ing via the Old Dominion steamship
and Norfolk & Western lines, have en-
tered into a traffic alliance for the
operation of daily through merchan-
disc cars from Norfolk, Va, to Denver,
Pueblo and Salt Lake, handling busi-
ness originating at New York, Phila-
Celphia and other seaboard territory.
From cities east of the Rockies.
broiling in a temperature of 100 or
higher, ninety-five deaths are reported,
which, added to siXty-nine brings the
death toll of forty-eight hours to 164.
Hundreds of prostrations are reported.
Many of the victims were babies.
Recently the state of Idaho made ar
rangements to extensively advertise
that state, and one of the schemes was
to send good takers about over the
country talking for the state on the
street corners with groups of men or
individuals, as the case may be, in
sort of heart to heart way
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
OVER 500 ARE
KILLED BY HEAT
THOUSANDS SUFFER FROM SUN
STROKES IN LARGE CITIES
OF THE EAST.
RECORDS ARE BROKEN
PERIOD MEMORABLE FOR WIDE
EXTENT, DURATION AND
LIST OF FATALITIES.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
Urges Land Investigation.

Washington Representative Baker
of California urged the adoption of his
resolution providing for an investiga-
ton of public land laws and their ad-
ministration. He said so many COM
plants had been received that the pub
lie lands commission should familiar
ize itself with conditions.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
Maine EXPLOSION From Within.

Washington.-The loss of the battle-
ship Maine was caused by the explo-
sion of her three magazines. No
such effect as that produced upon the
vessel could have been caused by an
explosion from without. Such is the
opinion of Gen. William H. BiXby,
chief of engineers, U. S. A.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
Demand for Postal Bonds.

Washington. = Postmaster General
Hitchcock says applications from de-
positors to purchase postal savings
bonds July 1st aggregated $4,000.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08


Neutrality-suspicious. than 500 deaths
are to be credited to the great Eeat
wave of July to 5, 1911, which has
somewhat abated.
The torrid period will be memorable
in weather annals for its wide extent,
it's long duration, its record breaking
temperatures and the long list of ia
talities which it has caused.
The hundreds of news dispatches
which cities from the north Atlantic
seaboard west to the plains states
have exchanged in the last four Gays
account, according to careful
review for the deaths of 491 persons
from the heat and eighty from drown
ing, total of 511.
Incomplete as the record is from the
failure of many points to report spe-
officially the number of deaths, it is
as serious showing as is remembered
for many years, if not a record.
The number of prostrations is still
more difficult to compute, but it ap
pears that thousands have been over
The hot wave is breaking. Al.
though temperatures in some local.
ties are above 100, the torridity is
about to be dissipated, according to
the weather bureau experts.
The middle West, especially beyond
the Mississippi valley, still is in the
grip of the hot wave, but cooler
weather is expected there within the
next few days. Weather bureau Off
cials took an optimistic view of the
situation and held out promise for
early relief.
There was much suffering here, the
temperature on the street reaching
1O41A, although the weather bureau
gave the official temperature as 9S.
Three persons are dead. There were
many prostrations.
Reports received from eastern and
Atlantic coast states show decided |
falling in temperature in twenty-four
hours. Boston, which sweltered at
II. found relief when the thermome-
ter rose only to "a. Portland, Maine.
is 20 degrees cooler, SO being the
highest recorded, Philadelphia and
Buffalo, n. Y, with "a; New York
City with 80, and Baltimore and Wash
ington with 9S are other Eastern
cities which showed drops in tempera-
lures.
Light showers were reported in the
upper lake region and brought relief
to that section.
At other points in the West the
weather was fair, with the thermome-
ter lowering above 100.
Concordia, Kan. was the hottest
place, with an official record Of 10S.
Chicago and Dodge City, Kan, report
ed 1902; Des Moines, Iowa. and Oma-
ha, Neb., LOG; Kansas City, keokuk
and Dubuque, Iowa, 1O4; Wichita,
Kan, 100 and st. Louis, 9S.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
Rain Gives Relief.

Topeka, Kans.-Rain has fallen in
many sections of Kansas and the long
drought is broken. Farmers are
happy.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08

New York-Although the forecas-
ter's prediction of mot quite so
warm" was fulfilled, the maximum
temperature being only 92, as against
"a, sweltering humanity in New York
found little satisfaction in lower ther-
mometer readings. The exhausting
effects were manifested in the record
tally of heat prostrations and swol-
len death list.
The health board issued circular
advising prompt medical treatment
for even slightly ailing children.
Thirty-six deaths in one day is the
record for New York.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-08
Eleven Stabbed at Country DaI

Muskogee, Okla.-In fight over
girl at a country dance nine miles
south of this city, eleven men were
stabbed. All may die.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-06
MRS. M'NAMARA WEEPS
Il Want to See My Boys" Cries
Mother of Dynamiters.

Cincinnati. Dec. 5.-Mrs. Mary Nc
Namara, the mother OF James Is. and John
j. McNsmara, wept when the news of the
sentences imposed on her sons was con
voyed to her at the Mcnamara home in this
city to-day. Il can stand anything that
may come now" she sobbed, after the first
grief over the news of her boys plea of
guilty had worn off, but the knowledge that
they had been actually sentenced overcamc
her. 81 want 10 sec my boys" she moaned
Mrs Mcnamara had boon i'll Since size re
ceiyed the news that her sons had con-
fesSed.
William Bell and Joseph Schaefcr, Of the
Cincinnati detective force who Swallowed
Frank Eckhof for months before the Burns
detectives decided to take him with them as
a witness in tho McNama IA case. say that
he is more important witness than Ortio
McManigsl in the dynamiting outrages.
lie has told more than McManigal, / be-
ievc" said Schaefer. II was learned to-
day that just before his arrest John j.
Mcnamara suspected things had gone a~ry,
and he sent word TO Eckhoff, the detectives
say. TO dispose Of tho clocks that were in
charge Of Iccl;hon in Cincinnati. Eckhon
according to his own admission. did not de-
Stroy all OF them, as lie was ordered to DO
but sold five of them. and AL Of these have
been recovered by the Burns detectives, the
police say.
Schaefcr and Bell said Isckho0 did not 20
very deeply into details until after he lett
Cincinnati but that he later told more than
MECHANICAL. and placed in the possession
Of the Burns men explosives and clocks
that were hidden In other parts Of the coun-
try.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-06
FREE USE OF LABOR FUNDS
President Of Ironworkers Not Required
TO Make Detailed Accounting

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. Prank VI Ryan. as
president of the Iron Workers Association,
has fund Of 500. continually rcpenished.
ana ne is privileged 20 disbursc it as inc secs
81 without making a detailed account. sc-
cordinS To a statement made to-day by Leo
". Rappaport counsel Tor the association
This money and funds appropriated TO
John j. Mcnamara were for use in orsdni-
zatIcn work. and labor unions generally DO
not require spec;fic accounting in such
cases" said Mr.. Rappaport.
Mr. Ryan and other officials Of the union
do not fear the federal investigation Of
their affairs, tie attorney added. And We
can show IN court, If necessary he said,
that employers have been responsible for
some Of the acts Of destruction charged to
the Iron Workers Union
The association makes no secret of the
fact that sums were voted 10 Mcnamara
to be used at his discretion In organization
work" added Mr.. Rappaport. The rec
Ords now in the hands Of the federal grand
jury in this district show it. If Secretary
John j. Mcnamara diverted funds at his
disposition To dynamiting purposes. 1t by
no means follows that other officials knew
If II. He had complete control OF head
quarters and was fully trusted in the ad-
ministration OF the Office
Steps were taken to-day at a meeting
of the conference of International Trades
Unions Of indianapolis composed OF inter
national officers. Ia protect It's members
from becoming victims at unfriendiy or
ganizatiOns
Resolutions were adopted condemning the
McNamaras. but maintaining the procedure
in taking John j. Mcnamara from lhdf-
ana. was wrong. Believing that the same
procedure might be adopted ia the arrest
and deportation of other union officials. the
conference decided To- be prepared to make
a stronger acht than was mad, IN th" Nc
Namara case.
The resolutions ask what is TO prevent
organizations fghuns union labor from h'r-
.ng detectives 10 break into international
union Offices and carry away records.