The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1911-01-14

committee of the House is consider
ing the Nelson bill for the leasing
of the Alaska coal lands. and Chair
man Mondell believes the measure
will be favorably reported on by
the committee.
Seattle, Jan. 12.-At a dinner CIV
en- last night in honor of Bishop
Rowe he declared against Pinchot-
ism ana strongly advocated the open
ing of the Alaska coal fields, either
upon lease, royalty or in any other
way so long as the fuel can be mined.
Minden. Mo-, Jan. 12.-Henry Dor
man today reached the age of 112
and the event was properly commem-
Grated by his friends.
Nashville, Jan. 14.-Senator ]. B.
Frazier has lost his seat at Wash
ington, the legislature having elected
Mr.. Millinn as his successor.
Seattle, Jan. 14.-The cold wealth
er continues on the coast and
throughout the middle west. At Ed
monitor, Canada, the thermometer
r. gisters So below zero.
Ottawa, Jan. 1.-THE Canadian
Railway Commission has declared
that the freight and passenger rates
charged on the White Pass & Yukon
railway are exorbitant and a third
reduction has been ordered.
Kansas City, Jan. 14.-Carrie Ma
ton is suffering from nervous
breakdown and it is believed that
her active days are over.
Passaic, Jan. 14.-Jacob Casteline,
aged IS years, has been given a jail
sentence for beating his wife.
Seattle, Jan. 14.-Jack Smith, one
of the discoveries of the Bonanza
copper mine, near Cordova, is SER
iously afflicted with dropsy.
Camden, Jan. 14.-The battleship
Arkansas has been launched and is
the largest dreadnaught afloat.
Seattle, Jan. 14.-Meal, daughter
of Jessie Webb, the printer, who has
been condemned to die for the muir
der of William Johnson, of Portland,
was stricken with paralysis and ex-
pired yesterday. Webb is seeking
a stay of execution, but says that he
will give up the fight and is willing
to die, as he has nothing to live
for.
Wellington, Jan. 14.-In the trial
of Mrs. Schenk, for the murder of
her husband, it develops that Will
liam Phelps, a wealthy clubman OF
this city, is her affinity.
West Union, O., Jan. 14.-Fifteen
hundred residents of this section have
been sentenced and DISTINGUISHED for
illegal voting.
Cheyenne, Jan. 12.-The Repub-
licans caucus has selected Clark as
it's candidate for senator from Wyom-
ing.
Schenectady, N. Y, Jan. 14.-Edith
Melber, widow % years of age,
confesses that she gave five-year-
old boy carbolic acid. causing his
death. Friends of the woman claim
she is insane.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 14.-Heirs of
the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy have
begun fight to break her will.
Seattle, Jan. 14.-The Lake Wash
ington Canal, which Seattle has for
so many years been trying to build
or have built. has struck another
stumbling block. At the last session
Congress appropriated an amount
sufficient to complete the canal ON
condition that Seattle or King coun-
ty should dig the necessary excava
ton. Bonds for this purpose were
voted at the last general election in
the county and everybody seemed
happy. But the validity of these
bonds have now been attacked in the
courts and as the State Supreme
Court once held that similar bond
issue for the same purpose was void,
it looks as though the canal were
up against it once more.
Seattle Jan. 14.-Shall the time
of the legislative session be wasted
in an improbable renewal of the
fight for the removal of the state
capital from Olympia? The ques-
ton has Deen settled repeatedly by
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