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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-07
Investigation Was Long

Washington, March 6-The investiga- tion which led to the indictment return ed tonight against Bushnell and other men accused of attempting to defraud the government of Alaskan coal lands was begun about four years ago, while the present Secretary of the Interior, MT. Bal finger, was commissioner of the general land office. It was by MT. Ballinger S orders that field service agents of the land offices started the probe. During the last few months, Secretary Ballinger stated tonight, more vigorous attention has been paid to the investigation with the result that the case has been ready for some time to turn over to the de- partment of justice for prosecution.
 The alleged attempt to defraud were in what were generally known as the W att son group of claims in southern Alaska.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-07
ALLEGED COAL LAND ' FRAUD DISCOVERED 4S,O00 Acres Alaskan Lands Are Involved VALUED AT S50,O00,000 Federal Grand Jury Issues Indict- ment Charging Seven Big Mining
 Men With Conspiracy to
 Defraud Government
VALUED AT s5O,OoO,OOO

Detroit, March 6.-Government investi- gation into alleged Alaskan coal land frauds involving approximately 4s,00O acres of land valued at more than $50,00o,- coo resulted in the issuance tonight of an indictment by the local federal grand jury, charging seven individuals with con- spiracy against the United States. The defendants are: Wilbur W. McAlpine. AL bert H. Roehem, George W. Ross Frank D. Andrus, Arthur L. Holmes and Mo- Curdy c. LeBeau, all of Detroit, and John M. Bushnell of Chicago. The fore- going are officials of a company known as the Michigan-Alaska Development com pany.
 The contention of the government is that the defendants conspired to induce between 2C0 and 300 individuals to become stockholders in the Michigan Alaska company by making fraudulent and fic- titious locations of certain Alaska coal lands, thereby violating the land entry laws of 1910. which made it illegal for more than four persons to form a com- pany for locating Alaska coal lands and taking out patents on more than $40
 
 stockholders or coal land claimants were led to believe they were locating the lands for their exclusive use, but in truth and in fact for the use and bene- fit of the seven defendants and the Mich igan-AIaska Development company Many Persons Involved The Michigan-Alaska Development com- pany was organized under the laws of Arizona. w. w. McAlpine is the presi- dent The coal lands involved are at Juneau, Alaska, and several continuous tracts in the vicinity of Homer, upon the western end of Kenai peninsula, border ing upon Cook inlet. The claims are said to have been located by about 200 Detroit and Michigan residents and 100 other claimants from New l ork, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and other western points.
 It is declared by the defendants that strictly individual entry of the lands had been made and that the Michigan Alaska company was organized as a benefit as- sociation to aid the stockholders or claim ants to better protect their title and de- velop their lands. They deny stock was to be sold and they insist the corpora tion was not formed for the exploitation of the coal lands in the general market.
 District Attorney Watson announced tonight that he would prepare for an early trial for the defendants. The pen atty for conviction on a charge of con spiracy against the government of this nature is two years imprisonment or a fine of not more than sl0,o00.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Una asanblea
de .Gobernadores
Las Leyes de los Estados

Nueva York, Jueves.-
Aver Sc celebr6 en- Spring Lake, New
Jersey. mna asamblea de Gobernado-
res para tratar sobre la uniformidad
en- las leyes dc los Estados A dicha
asamblea concurrieron % gobernado-
res. FL GObernadOr Wilson fue ell
campe6n de los derechos de inlciativa
y referendum, combati6ndolo el Go
bernador O'Neal, de Alabama. =
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Los chinos
en- Washington
MIR. Winthrop les dio un lunch"

. :Nueva York, jueves- !.
Ell Almirante Chingpinkwang of
ciales del crucero chino Haichi vista
ron hoy Washington Ell secretario in
terino de la Armada, Mr.. Beekman
Winthrop, les obsequi6 con un lunch
Manana seran recibidos por ell Presi-
dente en- su residencia de Beverley. :,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Una gran revuelta
en- Chin a
Sc proclanaa la Ley MarciaI

'Nueva York, meves.-
Sc informa que en- Chan-tu, China,
estallo una fuerte rebellion Los solda-
dos Sc negaron a obedecer instructor
mes recibidas. Sc ha decretado la Ley
Marcial en- Chung king En- este dis
trito existe un n1mero de misioneros
americanos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Un temporal (:
en- Nicaragua
Edificios destruidos
Nueva York. iueves.-

Nueva York, Jueves.-
La Ciudad dc CorintO, Nicaragua,
fnG aver azotada por un fuerte cicloai,
que destruy6 unO de los muelles y va
rios edificios de importancia. Ell editi-
clio. dc la aduana fue inundadO, per-:
diendose grandes cantidades de mer-
eancias.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Horrorosa erupcion
d el Etna
El panico en- Italia

Nueva York, jneves.-
El Etna esta lanzando un tOrrente
sie lava, cuya anchura se calcula en-
1900 pies, que destruye cuanto en-
cuentra su paso. Los habitantes de
a4inguaglossa v Randazzo estan ate
rr0rizadOs.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
- ~
Graves rnotines
e N Bib a o
Un choque sangriento

Nueva York; >jueves.-
Todas las unio:nes obreras de Bilbao,
.Espana, Sc han declarado en- huelga.
Durante un motin ocurrido, la Guar
dia Civil hizo fuego contra los amoti-
nados, hiriendo ocho personas, de
las cuales dos 10 fueron fatalmente. =
!:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Dona Francisco Moret

Aver tuvinos el gusto dc conOcer d
Oordo del Carolina la distinguida
DANA dona Francisco Moret espOsa de
auestro particular amigo don Francis
90. La Sra. de Ballester va pasar una
semporada en- Espaiia y visitara Palma
sie Mallorca.
Dessamos q La alnable sonora m feliz
viaje.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Otra vez Weyler
"MI MANDO EN- CUBA.

Acaba de llegar San Juan el tercer
tomo de la interesantisima obra, e.
crlta por ell general don Valeriano Wey-
Ter, y que Sc titula HI neassdo en- Cuba.
Avisamos este a las personas que ad-
quirieron Ell primer tomo de la inportan-
hsima obra.
Pedid el segundo tomo la libreria
del BOLETIN.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Triunfaron
los tenperantes
Ell plebiscito de la bebida

= Nueva York, jueves-
Despachos posteriores de Maine
informan que en- ell plebiscito celebra
do ALI para la derogacion de la ley
prohibiendo la venta de licores, sali6
derrotada la proposition derogato
ria 'por una mayoria de 531 votos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Ell avance espanol
en- Marruecos
Combate entire espanoles y moros
York. .ineVes.-

; Nueva York, jmeves.-
Despachos de Madrid dan. cuenta
de una batalla Ell Marruecos. Los mo-
ros tuvieron 600 bajas, y los espanoles
Is mlertos y n heridos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
Una gran conflag--aa-
cior1 en- An1loeres
Millones perdidos

Nueva York, jueves-
Un fuego ocurrido en- Amberes, Bel
gica, La noche Ultima, destruyo la es-
tacion del ferrocarril y varios almace-
nes y edifcios de MADEIRA, calculando-
dose las perdidas en- dos millones de
dollars
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
AIos ssuserIpto|esyAgentes

Para la buana narcha de esta admi-
nlstraci6n, no admitimos ATLAS de
snscripci6n q este diario sino desde
el primero de eada mes. Las BAJAS
Sc avisaran los dias 30 8 81; advir
5ie,l>ltse que las que dieren con pos
terioridad no SO tomaran en- cuenta nj
surtiran efecto en- Ia contabilidad hasta
eq dia 1ltimo del mes siguiente al en-
que se solieiten.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-09-14
DE VIAJE

Aver embarco hacia los Estados Uni
dos, la simpatica senorita Josefina Mo-
ret hija del prestigioso caballero, don ST.
mon Moret Gallart.
Tan pronto zarp6 el "Carolina" Ell
senOr Moret Gallart salio para su resi-
dcncia de Ponce.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

ror among all other natives of that
island.
We found their village of grass and
palm huts a short distance inland. The
instant we broke the place we poured
volleys of shot into the houses, but no.
body came out Every man, woman
and child had fed into the dense
thicket. Even the wounded had been
spirited away. We wasted no time
hunting them. Hayes was for teach
ing his lesson and departing quickly.
Sending some of the crew to guard
against a possible return attack he
headed the rest in a search of the
houses. We looted the place of every
thing of value and piled the stuff away
from the huts. Then the lesson was
taught.
AS soon as the flames began to lick
up the houses, and those fiimsy huts
burned quickly, more men were sent to
the sides of the settlement to keep up
continuous rifle and revolver dis.
charge into the brush. But if the ma.
tives, driven to desperation, had ever
planned to attack us this action caused
them to give up any such idea.
I Within an hours time from the mo.
ment Captain Hayes leaped ashore
nothing but ashes marked the spot
where once had lived a settlement OF
three hundred to four hundred ma
tives.
And there were the bodies out or
the beach to further mark Hayes trail
of red in those seas.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
YOUR LIFE

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THE WONDERS
CONTINUED from Page seventeen)

souled purpose of warning prospect
i've burglars of his approach and
causing them to abstain from sin
ming, makes the night hideous by per
petually Gathering a powerful wooden
rattle. He grasps it firmly in his
hand, and from dusk to dawn pa
rades the streets, whirling it round
AMI round at every few PAGES. The
night watchmen did the same thing
in the streets of old wooden London
up to the time of the Great Fire $50
years ago. Today Irkutsk is probably
the only city in the world in which so
extraordinary a practice prevails
nightly and is regarded as quite a
commonplace 1t is the only city in
Siberia which is cursed with the GUS
tom.
OF the tens of thousands of con-
victs in Siberia, a large proportion
make their way into Irkutsk at the
expiration of their sentences, anxious
to get a few weeks enjoyment of
the sights and sounds of this crude,
overgrown town before making plans
for the future Every Russian sub
ject, of course, equally with the for
eigner, must hold passport. At the
end of their term the dangerous
criminals get "black passports"
which generally prevent their being
able to find employment, So they
are beggars by day, thieves and cut
, Threats by night
They keep on good terms with the
police and any detachment of troops
that may happen to be detailed at
the moment for patrol work in the
streets, and do not find it difficult to
bride them to abstain from interior.
ence. The police are paid only
twenty roubles a month"; princely
stipend, however, when compared
with the seventy-five kopecks re
ceived monthly by the common sol
diers. The soldiers are presented
with their wages in four weekly in
stalIments of four pence-halfpenny
to prevent their squandering the
whole eighteenpence on vodka.
From the lawless side of poverty
stricken Irkutsk to the gaiety of the
gilded hotels and dance halls fire
quented by the wealthy is not so fal
a cry as you might suppose. For, un
suspected by the casual visitor tC
the big town of Siberia, the obse
quious walters who hustle to and fro
so swiftly to fulfill ones every wisf
are often enough murderers who
have served their time and decided
to settle down in the East. For in
stance, one tall, portly head waite
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

brush But they went with fewer num-
bers than when they began their at
tack. twenty-five were dead, or near
" So a dozen more were limping
away, while others had been put out
of the fight and skunk into the brush.
Kill EN-, JIM" yelled. Drive EN-
off,"
So, bowling like the devil, we dashed
after the fleeing niggers. But we did
not venture far from the beach. There
still remained the danger of poisoned
arrows, so | ordered my crowd back
to the boats. Three of our men were
dead. four others were SCARED with
wounds and all the trade had been
ruined. The trip had been very costly.
Captain coming, boss" exclaimed
one of my men, We saw the brig
standing closer inshore, and rowing
from her were three boatloads of arm
ed men. Steering the leading boat
stood a massive figure we knew to be
the captain himself.
Every man of us guessed what his
coming meant Before the boat
grounded the captain leaped out. His
blue eyes seemed to shoot fire. Never
did I see such look of DEVILS rage or
the face of man. Only once did he
show those beautiful white teeth Of
his. and then they looked like the
fangs of a blood tapping tiger. 1t was
when he took look at the forms or
the beach, and he gave a yelp of Z
laugh
"By my soul" he roared you die
good. I couldn't train the deck guns
there was such a mixup on the beach
But I'll teach those black dogs what il
means to cut down a boat crew from
Captain Bully Hayes!"
Followed by all but the boat head
ers he rushed from the beach. Ever
our wounded followed, too, for every
man of them felt he had few more
kills coming The captain headec
straight for the village. Through tn,
brush, past the cleared space where
the niggers first gathered and bearing
down on the settlement, we raced il
three columns. There was no knowing
how the savages might resist Us, no
was there any telling the size of thei
village. Judging from the crowd tina
had attacked us, a big settlement la.
close by Hayes showed not the slight
= est fear, nor took the slightest eau
lion. He ragged and stormed like
mad bull But he was careful of hi
men
Take cover as you find it," h
yelled, land follow mel"
So poisoned arrow or no poisone
arrow, in we rushed.
Hayes proposed to teach not onl
the remaining natives of that villag
E a lesson, but he intended that the yer
, mention of his name should strike tie
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lNONllultu ElhNH' Hta' 40.
out and said it wanted their recruits
| must hurry, the chief might come
back and call the deal off.
The brig lay too far off to send out
for the trading guns, yet hated to go
back empty handed. I'd almost de-
cided to make the trade, but hest
tated for fear the captain might get
into q rage at me for giving up part
of the briggs arms, which were the
latest model rifle instead of the old
style muzzle loading trade gun Final
~ one of the blacks got saucy and
said.
You like labor boy, you hurry. You
no like, we no care. German mans
take, allite."
CoaMns Them to the Boat.
The idea Of a niger talking like
that got me some and l was for VI
and knocking him over, but | got oh
stinate instead and started to coa>
them down by the boat.
"Once we got them there" though
well take the salt water men along
too, just to keep the bushmen com
pany."
OF course | expected some more
niggers'd come as a guard to the re
cruits and | didn't know what kind O.
a fight the recruiting might lead to
but back to the boat we started. Thi.
surprised and confused the niggers
who stood hesitaing Just then jim
yelled out for me to watch sharp.
He'd followed us with his boat anC
lay afloat where he could look into
that cleared space. Other natives hat
beeen gathering there, but we couldn
see them. Then, as | first supposed
the niggers, prompted by curiosity
suddenly trailed out onto the beach
Soon twenty-five men and women were
following us.
When we got nearer my boat thu
boy spread the trade out again.
figured it would be just as we'll TO
the recovering boat to back a piec,
further off shore, so, without turning
l motioned to Jim to haul her off. Blu
he still kept his boat nearer that clear
ed space, and it proved well for u
that he held her there.
We noticed now that some of the ne
tiyes carried war clubs and spears
This seemed odd, since the men ha
told me the chief had his warriors il
the mountains. Usually when peopl
went ashore on the islands in thos
ATTITUDES the niggers would gathe
round them and give wild yells, bu
this crowd stood still, simply jabbel
ing lowlike to each other. Once in
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
BLACKBIR0ING WITH THE BUCCANEERS

while some Of them would glance back
toward the bush. But didn't get very
because l thought they were
the captives.
But finally another thing started me
The women didn't push
forward like they usually acted The
bright pieces of calico and looking
glasses seldom failed to attract native
women, yet this crowd stood still like
a ship before her sails begin to draw
An instant later my man called
more niggers we're coming, and then
the crowd began to mutter. A second
more and we heard a chorus of fear
full yells from the brush on our left
followed by the trampling of many
| feet, cry from my lookout, and
them
Bang! Bang!'
The band of niggers in front of u!
turned to aid the attacking force
bearing down on us. The only hope
lay in beating our way back to the
boat
Crash! One of my men fell to the
beach. his skull smashed with a wal
club. The crowd rushed forward
stamping on my trade, to close in anC
throw us. They surrounded us ant
the three men who had come to my
help. The natives grabbed hold oil
our rifles so the fellows couldn't use
them. Another crowd rushed from the
brush to swell the numbers that hem
med us in on the beach. Unless we
could cut our way out we must fal
beneath the shower of blows from
war clubs aimed at us from all sides
There's one good thing about it
though, l had two revolvers and coult
fight at close range. And did. A bis
warrior struck at me with a spear.
Jumped aside, knocking another Niger
lover, but l killed the first man. Tht
women were just as savage and des
Iperate as men trying to drag us down
For an instant l fought the GROVE
off 1t gave me time to down two mel
attacking the boat boy to my left, /
second later l saw the other boatmal
surrounded, but l dropped all four o
those niggers. Yet down them a
we could-and the other boys wer,
Strengthening them like demons-w,
were hemmed in. If somebody didn'
come to our aid we were doomed. /
crash and another crowd came rush
, ing through the brush.
: In the name of heaven, why don
? jim recover u.s." l shrieked.
t Then from the left came a wild vel
e of triumph. The savages had crushe
I in the skull of another boatman. Wit
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

with restless eye and big bifur-
Gated Slavonic beard, who may be
recollected by the traveller, slew his
wife and her lover, and has served
a long term of Imprisonment in bar
racks of the frozen north. Three
murderers are on the waiting staff of
a hotel in Irkutsk
Irkutsk is pretty gay at nights
now, but the citizens look back envi-
ously to the zenith of its career-to
the days of the recent Japanese war.
linen champagne and costly wines
were cautiously transported, free of
duty and freight charge from st.
Petersburg and Moscow in steel cars
labeled Powder" cars militant with
painted imperial two-headed eagles
and regimental guards At Irkutsk
the powder cars were shunted off
along the barrack sidings and found a
final house of refuge at the end of
the rails, entering the officers mess
store shed in the barracks west OF
the big red girder bridge over the
Irkut. A colonel of a locally sta
toned line regiment openly boosted
in the Metropole restaurant the other
night that more champagne was con-
sumed in Irkutsk in one month dur
, ing the Japanese war than is sold in
Broadway, New York-that back
bone of the champagne industry-ln
half a year.
Midnight oaiety.
The fun at Irkutsk starts at mid
night An hour before the city is as
dead as a Dunferline Sunday. Then
the theater and the moving picture
shows, of which there are a dozen on
the Boloshioskaia, spin off their last
films and the officers and mine own
, ers crowd into the restaurants.
You enter a pair of swing doors,
kick off your felt snow boots, hand
your furs to an attendant, and pass
into a long room thronged with diners
gay with the unifroms of the garri-
son and women in smart Partisan
costumes. At the far end is small
stage on which a score of girls in a
minimum of skirt and a maximum of
smile go through fatuous double
shuffles and dances executed with a
degree of incompetency that would
leave a Philadelphia trial night audi
ence dumb with scorn. A turn" fin
ished, the chansonettes skip down to
mingle with the audience, scatter
ing around the tables and ordering
the costliest fruits and the rarest
wines that the management surpasses
itself in providing.
There are songs, curious yelping
vocal performances by unframed
feminine voices; and sleek swarthy
Poles sing their national comic songs
with snatches of patter and pathetic
attempts at cellar-fap clog lances.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
NEW RICE MILL.

The X. Yamamoto Rice Mill is the
largest as we'll as the finest in the is
lands. All machinery is of the very
latest pattern. The famous Tengu
Rice is cleaned at this mill. With the
large cleaning capacity they are able
to handle considerable outside partic-
ular work which they guarantee.