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The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT

X. \. Wakefield and P. F. Gilmore attended the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Goldstream Mining com. pany at Seattle, Dec. 20. The meeting showed that the company is in a prosperous con dition, with good prospects for the future. p. F. Gilmore was elected Vice President of the company.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27


 Chicago. Dec. 2i-Practically every paper in this city last night and this morning con. tained personally signed atic.. les from the leading ministers pleading for a quiet sane and orderly New Years Eve. The better element in every quarter is backing mp the pre-. achers in their efforts, and a decided change from the reg. ular turmoil of New Years eve is expected.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Washington, Dec. 24-Speak.. CT Champ Clark left for New York this morning. He would not state where he was going- but the understanding is Una he is headed for Trenton to have a talk on cabinet matters with Woodrow Wilson. Bryan Is also i'll New York.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Blanche Bates husband says she need not quit the stage. And he appears quite emphatic about it too. Perhaps "there'S a reason"
 It wouldn't be surprising if many of those who are headed towards Washington looking for pie would end up on soup and free soup at that.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27
HADlEY a POSTOFFlCE

After considerable delay. the p. 0. Department has made Hadley a post office, with K. Foss as postmaster. No arrangements have been made as vet for carrying the mail from ketchikan to Hadley and provisions for that work will be left in the hands of the postmaster for the first six months.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27
SOME CLASSY WINDOWS

More effort has been put forth this Christmas than ever before in the history of tho town in the window dressing line. Ryus has the others beat all right, but several others, notably Heckman's and the Citizens Light, Power and Wat CT company's windows are close behind it.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27
HUM MBOLDT MAKES
 A QUICK TRIP

Compared with the schedules the other boats are operating on, the Humboldt made a quick trip this time, calling in on her way south this morning. She had considerable fresh fish on board, and about twenty. five passengers, nine of whom boarded the vessel at this port. The Humboldt will be back on the 30th day later than her schedule provides.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27
DOLPHIN BRINGS THE
 CHRISTMAS GOODS

The steamer Dolphin arrived up about seven this morning with the Christmas freight on board. She had no passengers for ketchikan. Among the freight received were live tur keys for the butchers and Christmas cheer of all kinds.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27
NNashington, Dec. 24-In the

Washington, Dec. 24-In the report of the government ex.. perts in the Bureau of Fisher. ies touching on the sanitary conditions existing in the Alas. ka canneries the charge is made that in many of the canneries Indian women and children pack the raw material by hand, and that cleanliness is a quail. ity conspicious by its absence.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

London, Dec. 24-The Pow CTS are backing the allies in their demands that Turkey sur render a great deal more terri tory than she has offered to. and 1t looks as though the willy Turk will be compelled to dis. gorge.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

New York, Dec. 24-Members of the United Garment Workers Union is voting on the question of striking for higher wages. Thirty six thousand workers are affected.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Princeton, Dec. 2l-The Board of Pardons is in annual session in this city for the pnr pose of passing on applications and petitions for pardons of people now in the penitentiarics of New Jersey. Governor Vii son is chairman, ex..officio, of the board, and is objecting to the task as one distastcful to him.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Washington, Dec. 23-The land office has decided that on his own initiative the receiver in any Alaskan land office may extend the time for objecting to patents being issued up to sixty days.
 Rome., Dec. 23-Recently an anarchistic gathering in this city elected one of their num-. Der to assassinate the Italian King. Failing to get an oppor. tunity to do so or losing his courage, the anarchist made all attempt at suicide, leaving a note exposing the whole plot.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Ell Pas0, Dec. 24-The report reaches this city of the attack of the rebel forces on the fed. eral garrison at AscunsiOn, Mexico. The rebels captured the town after hard struggle and massacred in cold blood blood every government soldier and supporter in the town. After footing the place, the rebels withdrew leaving it in flames in a dozen places.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

A Chicago man claims to have invented a dollar which will re turn to it's owner after it has been spent. There is sus.. picion that Rockefeller has been using this kind of money for a good many years.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Mrs. C. II. Field and daughter Miss Eyadnah left on the Hum-- Doldt for the south. They will spend part of the winter visit. ing friends and relatives in California.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

London, Dec. 23-The gener.. al impression here is that the crisis has been reached in the peace negotiations, and that the next twenty four hours will witness either the resumption of the war or q tangible peace assured. The whole matter now hinges on Turkeys atti.. tude with regards to Adrianople and the territory surrounding it. Bulgaria has done the brunt of the fighting in the present war and the territory she now occupies is that which Turkey demands she be allowed to retain, thus depriving Bull. garia of her hard won spells. The recognition Of the indep.. endence of Albania will deprive Servia of the country she has been striving for for years, and unless Greece is able to hold the islands she has captured, none of the the countries in the fighting with the exception of Montenegro stand to gain anything by the war. Bulgaria says she stands ready to fight for every foot of territory she is now in possession of, and says it is case of Turkey be-. ing driven out to where she be longs, in Asia Miner. Servia is for from satisfied with the Al. banian situation, but as AL. bania's independence is rec. ognized by the three nations she igured on for support, England, France and Russia, she is in poor position to op.. pose the movement.
 Boston, Dec. 2i-A heavy snowstorm prevails along the entire northern Atlantic coast. Considerable wind accompanies the snow.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Colon, Dec. 24-The Arkansas with President Taft and party on board arrived here this morning with all we'll on board The President will land at once and start on his tour of investigation. Col. Goethals is making his formal call this morning.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

The Portland vice commis. sion has been increased to fifty. Better not stretch it too far or some undesirable might become member,
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

N. W. Catlin is back in town arriving up on the MaripOsa.
 \. \. Wake field and daughter Luella returned home on the Mariposa.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

X million dollars was spent in the effort to reelect Presi. dent Taft. With thirty or for ty millions more he might quite a respectable showing.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Delhi, Dec. 2i-Nieeroy Lord Hardinge is reported to be resting easy, and there is every prospect of his speedy recovery
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

Mrs. Frank Burkhart was among the passengers up on the Mariposa last night after a visit of several months in Cal. ifornia.
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27
PINcHorism IN ALASKA

What is "pinchotism" West ern people, and especially Alas. kans, know the meaning of it to their sorrow, but some of our eastern readers will need a definition.
 Politically it is a subdivision .of. despotism called bureau. cracy. Clifford Pinchot, rich aristocrat, studied forestry in Germany and bureaucracy in Russia, then returned to the United States and got clerk. ship in the Agricultural De-. partment because he was rich and could play "ping pong" with Roosevelt. And as the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior were only figure heads, Pin. chot, with the cooperation of Roosevelt, proceeded to "Rus.. sianize" all the natural resour.. ces of the western states and Alaska, i. e., suspended the land and mineral laws, and is.. sus decrees from the throne in stead. They placed the public land and a great deal of private land, in reserves, and proceed. cd to govern them by a despotic bureau in Washington. This despot spent about $S0,000 oi the peoples money annually tc advertise and educate eastern people to look with favor on this powerful bureau. This despot posed as tho friend of the people, just as demagogues always do, and made a scrape. goat of the Guggenheims be. cause they spent money freely in developing some of Alaska's resources in @ legitimate way.
 These despots, Roosevelt and Pinchot, suspended the coal land law in Alaska in 1906, which they had no right to do, but before this suspension over eleven hundred citizens had filed on coal claims in Alaska under the law as it had always been interpreted. These citi., zens (prospectors) discovered coal, located claims, developed and surveyed them and paid the government for these claims at. the rat of $tO per acre and got he government receipt, with a promise of pat. tent. But up to- the present time not a single arce of coal land in Alaska has been paten.. ted, and the government re-. fuses to return this money, which runs into millions, to these poor prOspecters. Many of these claimants had spent all their money and several years time and work on these claims, and they have perfect right to them. Instead of get. ing their claims or their money back they are prosecuted. There is no court of appeals for land cases. The Interior Department is both prosecutor and judge; makes its own laws and always wins it's cases.
 The present Secretary of the Interior is a curious person. He was appointed because of his PinchOtism and he is under the domination of the PinchOt idea. In the Cunningham coal claim case he decided that "no man could get a patent to coal claim until he has made a mine of it, and no man could make a mine of it until he gets a patent to claim"!
The Ketchikan miner., 1912-12-27

H. R. Thompson made a ship ment of mild cured salmon or board the Curacao Saturday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
A PECULIAR COMPLAINT.
Rats and Lizards Interfere With the Operation of Electrical
 Machinery. -

A small rat revolving at the rate of fifteen hundred revolutions per minute has been found extremely de- trimental to the proper operation of electrical machinery. Lizards rotat- ing at a similar speed have been found equally detrimental. An arma- ture was recently returned from Cos to Rica to the Crocker-Wheeier Com pany at Ampere, N. J., with the re- quest that the ventiIating holes bc screened with gauge or in some other fashion. The Costa Rican correspond ents wrote: tsei
 There are openings or holes ia the end of this armature and when it is not running small animals find in ft an attractive hiding place. When the power is turned on they are thrown against the casing and the centrf- fugaA force makes a distribution of their contents and in this way the. armature is short circuited and burn- ed out. The trouble has occurred twice. and afterward, on one occasion the remains of a lizard were found, and on the other, a small rat"
 The rotors of Crocker-WheeIer small motors and generators revo1ye at the rate of one to two thousand revolutions per minute. This is an unusual number of revolutions per minute even for South America, and the rat and lizard must have become extremely dizzy before venting their wrath by causing the motors to burn out
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
Fadeless curtains
 of fancy madras.

N .t< C "a
 Yes, curtains in colored patterns and those ,colors of such a sort that are actually sunproof. That means they retain their natural hue even when exposed to the light of the sun. Madras of nice texture and in tasteful patterns. Green yellow blue red or old rose. Of full size,- $3.75 Sunproof drapery by the yard, nice colors and effects, 50 inches wide,-59c to $1.50 Handsome laces for drap- cry, new patterns, Cluny filet and other styles, AS inches wide,-39c to soc yd.
 Third floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
DIED.

FAXON.-In this city. August 11th, 1912, Elizabeth Prescott, Faxon, widow of Nathan Smith Faxon, late of Philadelphia, Penn. asp MCORD.-On Sunday, August. II, 1912, John McCord.
 Funeral services at his late residence, 35S John street, on Tues day, August 1 g at s22--3 O D, m.
 c-Please zorpit flowers. a.p SWASs-fn Enfield Conn, Aug. 11th, 1912, Henrietta F. Swan, widow of Samuel Swan.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral in the chapel of tke South Congregational church, this city, on Tuesday, 18th inst. at zoo o'clock p. m.
 --Burial in Mountain Grove Cemetery. a*p SHERMAN.-In, Long, nHill, August yeafs fEbofn5anffiflzs E mon ffs, T T Gs aays. avs Friends are invited. to attend <he funeral at his late hone, Long 1 Hill, on Thursday, 18th inst, at zoo o'clock D. m.
 - Burial in stepney cemetery. SIfANNON.-In this city, Aug. il, 1912, Mary, widow of John shan non.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, No. as Linen avenue, on Wednes-, day. Aug. fl, at S:S9 a. 1n., and from St. Augustine's church at g m.
 -Interment at St. Miehaers cemetery. L12 D* CASSIDY.-In Hartford, Aug. Ii, 1912, Bryan Cassidy, aged TO years. Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his son, Frank Cassidy, No. STE Park avenue, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at S:30 a.. m., and from Sacred Heart church at g a. m.
 -Interment at St: Michael's DEFEREAUX.-Tn this city, Aug 10 1912, Margaret. widow of Nicholas Devereaux, aged 93 years, 10 months.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, No- 245 Nichols street, on Tuesday, Aug 13. at eS:30 a. m., and from St Mary's- church at 3 a. m, with solemn high mass
 -Interment at St. Michaers cemetery.
 The third. order of St. Francis please take notice v as RYAN.-In this city, Aug. 10, 1912. William J. Ryan, aged 65 years.
 Friends are Invited to attend the funeral from his late residence. No 722 Arctic street, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 9:30 a. rl., and from St Charles church at 9 a. m.
 Interment at Chicopee, Mass.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
Police, Continuing Lowe Investigation,
 Find Nothing of Chase

Continued investigation of the death of Motorcycle Policeman Lowe has confirmed the belief existing at police headquarters that Lowe was trying out his engine rather than pursuing an automobile when he met with his fatal accident on Thursday afternoon
 Several stories told to the police by people in the vicinity of the accident, to the effect that Lowe was pursuing a car, particularly a story told by Mrs. Robert H. Dobbs and Mrs. Rich ard J. Fray, that he was in pursuit of a gray automobile, have been run down. The chase for the gray car took place some time before Lowe was hunt. The finding of Acting Coroner Stevenson is to the effect that Lowe s death was due to his own reckless ness
 tertffy aftern0on from his home, 1891 Park avenue, at o'clock and was fol- lowed by services in St. Augustine's church at 2:30 o'clock. Fifty-three policemen in command of Captains w. H. Anderson, J. H. Redgate, J. Fl. Re- gan and Sergeants Philip T. @Blans- field. J. A. Hazel and A. L. Prout at tended the funeral and escorted the body to the church and then to the yellow Mill bridge. where they lined up at attention while the funeral coreteg5 passed on to the cemetery. Rev J. J.. Kennedy oficiated at the services. Ir1ternent was in St. Mich aeTs cemetery. The bearers were Pa trolmen George F.. Murphy, Terry Rogers, Charles Meyers, Thomas Ma lone, Joseph T.. Coughlin and George Benedetti. : A wealth of floral trib- utes rested on the casket, including shield six feet in height. In the cen- ter of the shield was the figure 94, the number of the shield of the pa trOLman
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
IOWA CLAIMED IN
 WILSON COLUMN
Followers of Cummins, Who Won't Support Taft or Roosevelt, Will Vote for Democratic Candidate.

New York, Aug. 12-It was announc- ed at Democratic national headquar- ters, today, that Governor Wilson will attend the. annual Farmers Picnic at Washington Park, N. J., opposite Phil adelphia, on Tuesday. He will be ac- companied by Edward Grosscup, chair man of the state committee, who, to- day. conferred at headquarters with all of the Democratic congressman from New Jersey perfecting plans thoroughly to canvass the sta te for Wilson and Marshall. A telegram from Congressman Kepper of Iowa, was re- ceived by Chairman McCombs, today claiming Iowa for Wilson and Mar sail. Kepper declared that Cummins will not support either Roosevelt or Taft and that therefore his followers will all vote for Wilson.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
Wool-and-fiber
 rugs wear and wear.


 For sleeping-roorns, rugs of wool interwoven with fiber are specially good.
 They are cleanly and light of weight. They are attrac- tive in both color and pat tern. Patterns are diverse, too.
 /And they have a great ability to withstand hard service: wear for a long long time.
 To all these, they add the feature of being inexpen- sive. Such rug in the 6 by 9 feet size sells at $6. Other sizes are from $7.50 up to $12.D for the best of the 9 by 12 foot ones.
 carpet Hall, third floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12

Sea Girt Aug 12-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the Democratic can- didate for President, has got her wires crossed with Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, novelist, former wife of Governor Will sons cousin, J. Wilson Woodrow The misunderstanding has come over the question of women smoking. Mrs Wilson Woodrow smokes and believes in other women smoking. Mrs Wood row Wilson abhors the idea of totNcco smoke coming from a woman's mouth
 Today, Mrs Woodrow Wilson decid- ed to correct the report which has been published in many newspap pers that she indorses smoking for women She decided it by making public let ter written to a woman who asked her if the report were true. Mrs Will son declared most emphatica1ly that she does not smoke and that she dis approves of women smoking.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
MENTALLY MORBID
 VASS CUT THROAT
 ACCUSED FO|OTPADS


 Investigation of the tale of attempt ed murder by two highwayn1en upon Alexander Vass, who was found on the Fairfield Library steps with his throat cut, has shown that the story told by Vass came from his imagination. Vass is mentally unbalanced, it is believed, from worry over financial and domes- ic troubles.
 z Vass' home is at 187 Spruce street. He has been living here about three months, and he sends them all he can spare of his earnings as labor CT. He worried because his family showed no inclination to join him in ths country, and was walking home, penniless, after a trip to New York when he slashed his throat in a. fit of despondency as he reached Fairfield.
 He is at St. Vincent's hospital, re- covering physically, but mentally morbid. The Charities department has taken charge of his case.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
RELIANCE SINKS
 IN TRIAL SPIN

Chicago, Aug. 12-Reliance III, Michigan entry in the international championship powerboat regatta here, sank off the Chicago Yacht club, this afternoon No one was drowned.
 The high powered. craft had just been taken from her moorings for q trial spin, preparatory to this after noon's racing events. Making more than 35 miles an hour she rounded the judges boat and shot away over the course When off the Chicago Yacht club, the Reliance passed one of the new hydroplanes. The wash from this craft ewan4ped the Michigan boat. She went down in 25 feet of water, the hydroplane picking up the crew.
 John J. Ryan of Algonic, Mich, own- CT of the Reliance stable of power boats. said he would raise the craft and put her into commission again,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
Mrs. Clark Would Abolish
 Capital Punishment Now
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Monsignor Russell, pastor of :. St. Patrick's church, while depioring the death penalty, said he was not cei- tain that it would be wise to abolish it.
 1T fear that the abolition of capital punishment would remove the eie- ment of power which, standing before the prospective murderer, now tends to restrain some from his act. I do not believe, in the death penalty as Eindictive measure but purely. as a deterient of crime. A life sentence would be more effective if it could be carried out with the certainty of com pletion, but at present there is too much of a chance that political or other considerations will set the clim- inal at large before he has given am- ple proof of a. changed life.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
SOCIALISTS AND POLICE.
 OF PITTSBURGH IN FEUD

hacing spent night ine police sta- tiohe cell two score Socialists today continued to assert that they will hold open air meetings in the Homewood district, at places where the police insist such meetings shall not be held
 The feud between the police and So- cialists has been on for two weeks. An Interesting chapter was added when 4S persons arrested at the meet ings Saturday night were arraigned before Magistrate Natali Several were fined $5 but the majority were | Edischarged The police claim that residents of the vicinity of Kelly street and Honewood avenue com plained because of the disturbance in- cident to open air meetings and asked to have them stopped. The Socialists demand the right of free speech.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
PROMOTION FOR
 LOU p. BRISTOL

general yardnaster in the local rail- road yards, has been promoted to the post of trainmaster of the New York division of the New Haven road. suc- ceeding R. D. F'btzmaurice. MT. Bris- tol expects to make his headquarters in New Haven.
 MT. Bristol will continue to reside in this city, and it is not expected that his new duties will in any way interfere with his continuing as a member of the Board of Police Com missioners to which he was appointed this year.
 Mir. Bristol filled the new post tenn porarily several months ago.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
Sea Side Club Members
 Enjoy Bake and Outing

One of the features of the Seaside clubs outing and sheep roast which furnished great amusement Saturday afternoon was the six round boxing bout between ''Mawruss, the Boy Rooter''. and Red F'arfel, the Fight ing Newsboysn ! Several dist guished members Of the club acted as seconds for the gladiators and offered much valuable advice. Mawruss has bet ter voice than his opponent and his line of conversation was so choice that the fighting newsboy was stunned by his opponents barbed thrusts.
 There was a comedy baseball game which was a scream, and also a mis- cellaneous line of sports which proved amusing. The bake itself was under the supervision Of Mark Nagle and was a gastrodornic success. About 100 members attended thesoucng and all voted the affair a. success.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-12
SOCIETY BURGLAR SETS HIMSELF ON
 FIRE IN HIS CELL

Chicago. Aug. ,12.-Jacob Foy Guthrie, society burglar who admit ted stealing nearly $350,OO0 worth. of art treasures, jewelry and other Valu- able articles from the homes of Chi cago's wealthy residents, set his cloth ing on fire in an attempt, today, to die in his cell in the county jail. A turnkey was attracted to- his door by the cries of other prisoners.
 ''Go away and let me die" shouted the college graduate-b burglar. 'Its fun to burn. Go away
 Six deputies overpowered the young man and extinguished the flames.