The Alaska citizen., 1912-11-18

1 Elizabeth Myers was shot and kill. ed at an early hour this moraing | while entering her berth in sleeping car on the Pennsylvania railway. Her ! daughter. Gladys aged lS. who oc- gupled the same berth. mistook her mother for a burglar. and killed her. Miss Gladys is frantic with grief over her fatal error.
 SEATTLE BONDS VALID. SEATTLE. Nov l3 -. The SUI preme court today rendered de Disiuu upholdng the validity of the bonds issued by this city for harbur ] improvements near here
 ANOTHER EDITOR CONE CLIFTON Ariz.. Nov IL Frank 1 lin E. n Orr. former editor and pro prietor of the Douglas Dispatch. was ] today shot and killed by William Alexander of this city. While sur rounded by officers who had arrest i ed him for the murder. Alexander turned his own gun upon himself and committed suicide Both men 1 were prominent in this city
 NEW TREATY WITH RUSSIA. ! WASHINGTON. Nov IA An l agreement for treaty between the i United States and Russia to replace l the old one. has virtually been reach ! ed
 i NEW MINISTER TO JAPAN ! WASHINGTON. Nov II - Lars i Anderson. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotcntiary to Belgium. 1 has been appointed ambassador tp l Japan. to succeed Charles Page Bry- Ian. resigned.
 WILL CARRY OUT PLEDGES. PRINCETON. Nov. II Woodrow l Wilson has announced his intention +of carrying out all the pledges made i in his campaign speeches. and of starting the work thereon immediate fly upon assuming office. He will see ] that all special privileges are cut out of the tariff laws. and will in i every way labor to prevent unfair compcti ion in trade and destroy all private monopolics in the United States.
 PLANNING ANOTHER TRIP. l WASHlNGTON Nov. II Con l yircpd by lh" results of his recent i investisations in the Arctic region north of Canada that there is a large island continent somcN here in l the Beaufort sea, Explorer Stef1s son is planning another trip to the far North during the coming year.
 According to advices received from l the explorer. who is now in Europe. i The proposed expedition will start for 1 the North next June, equipped for d stay of three years in that DOT l ton of the North polar region be- yond the mouth of the MacKcnzi" i river. along the outer edge of which l Steffansson passed on his recent return to civilization from the land of the blond Eskimo
 NEW PENN. R. R. PRESIDENT.
 PHIiADEIPHlA, NoV If Pres ilont James McCrea, Of the Penn sylyania Railroad company, rcsignod i his position today and was succeed ed hy samuel Rra. who was once first assistant To the president Of the company The new president is one of the greatest railroad engineers Jof thc age He had charge of the l construction of the famous tunnel under the Hudson river and of the erection of the PennsFNania rail road extension and station in New l York. for the success of which work he was given the degree of Sc. b. by the University of Pennsylvania. Under the new management the Penn slINauia system is expected to un- dertake all of the new railroad re- forms
 S35.ooo HOLD-UP.
 LAKE CHARLES, La. Nov. li.-. ! The local office of Wells-Fargo X 1 CO.,. was held up today by gang ol desperadocs, and the safe re Icvrd of $&5.0uo. after which the ! bandits made their escape from tn" city. The holdup was the boldest act of the kind recorded ill local history and an equally astonishing feature of the ease is the manner in which the robbers have disan- Ipcared from sight without leaving a hint as to the probable direction oi their exit from the city.
 TRANSFERS ON STRIKE.
 CHICAGO. Nov II. The general strike Of teamsters which has been
 brewing in this city for several weeks has been called The action of the drivers is the result of the refusal of employers to grant an increase in wages which the team. sters assert they must have in order 10 meet the increased cost Of liv- ing.
 CANAL RATES FIXED, WASHINGTON. Nov. II. Pres ident Taft this morning issued proclamation fixing the rates and foreign policy of the Panama canal. The rates are. for merchant vessels
 SEQ per ton for net carrying ca
 pacity. no matter how small the cargo. with reduction of 10 per cent for ballast allowances. Naval ships and other transports and col
 Hers. 10 cents displacement per
 ton. Transports, colliers and hos
 pital ships of other nations will pay the same rate as merchant ships.
 LONGWORTH LOSES OUT. CINCINNATl Nov. II. Con
 gressman LongWorth, son-in-laW oi Colonel Roosevelt has been defeated in his race for reelection oy margin of 97 votes.
 SUPREME COURT CALL ON TAFT WASHINGTON. Nov. l4 - The members of the United States su preme court paid an official Vlsil Ito President Taft yesterday. Whlcl is in accordance with their annual custom.
 STRANGE MOTHER.
 SACRAMENTO, Nov. II. - Henry
 Hudson. a prominent resident oi