The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-01-06
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Iowa and Nebraska mas broken all
past records. AS consequence
there have been many deaths and
much suffering.
Indianapolis, Jan. 4.-Charles A.
Bookwalter, former mayor of Mime
apolis, declares that long ago he had
informed other leaders that he had
a strong intimation that Samuel
Gompers and John J. Mcnamara
were directing the dynamite out
RACES.
Washington, jan 4.-The prog
ram of the big Democratic dinner
and rally on the night of January
s, following the meeting of the
Democratic national convention, fol-
lows:
Valdez is fully awake these days
and exerting effort in behalf of the
better interests of the town and
surrounding country. Efforts are
now making to induce the govern
ment to establish weekly mail
service to points on Prince William
Sound. Points like handbook, Fidal-
go, knights island, and the newer
camps, such as Golden, Port Wells,
Finsky bay. shoup bay and Glacier
are practically without mail service.
Paris, Jan. 3.-Mme. Cavalerri,
the noted singer who married the
wealthy but not wholly responsible
Robert Chandler, has been granted
divorce. He and his family soon
tired of the woman who lives on the
plaudits of men, and after he made
a handsome settlement with her she
consented to ask for divorce,
which was granted this morning.
Kansas City, Jan. 3.-Had it not
been for a juror who recently lost
his mental balance and escaped from
the custody of the bailiff the Sec
ond trial of DR.. Hyde for murder
would likely have been ended. AS
it is the court has set the matter over
until May 81.
Washington, Dec. 30.-Oscar w.
Underwood, Democratic leader in
the House. and prominently men
toned for the nomination for the
presidency, was suddenly stricken
this morning with appendicitis.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Delegate
Wickersham was on hand at the
opening of the session at noon. He
presented bills providing for light
houses at Cape St. Elias Resurrec-
ton bay, and Cape Spencer. They
were referred.
Muscatine, Iowa, Jan. 3.-A SEN
sation has been caused by the ar
rest of o. C. Wilson, a Socialist
member of the city council. He is
charged with throwing acid bombs
into button factory where the en-
ployes were on a strike. Fortu-
nately no serious damage was done
by the bombs.
Washington, Jan. 3.-Secretary
of Commerce and Labor, Charles
Nagel, has submitted his annual re-
port. In it he urges the breaking
up of all illegal combinations, al
though he calls attention to the
fact that when a corporation is di-
vided into a number of separate
parts there is no adequate law to
meet the trust question.
Washingtos, Jan. 5.-Congress
convened at noon today. In the
House William Sulzer, of New York,
offered a resolution recognizing the
republic of China. 1t was referred
to the proper committees.
Lansing, Mich, Jan. 3..Gover-
nor Osborne has come out with a
somewhat startling compromise
proposition. He has issued a pub
lie statement in which he proposes
that both President Taft and Sena-
tor LaFollette withdraw from their
candidacy for the Republican nomi-
nation for the Presidency, in favor
of Theodore Roosevelt or former
Senator Beveridge. 1t Is violating
no confidence in saying that the Re-
publican Progressive League of Ohio
will second the nomination. Presi-
dent Taft is expected to smile broad
'" when he hears the proffer.
Chicago. Jan. 3.-And now the
fascinating comic opera singer Lulu
CHASER has tired of a short season of
welded existence. So she has en-
tered a suit for divorce against her
present husband, Ralph C. Herr.
Marking Jan. Sum Yatsen has
taken the oath of office and assumed
his new duties as president of the
republic. He is selecting a provi-
sional cabinet, and has already nam
ed We Huan, Sign Lii, and Yuen
Hang.
London, Jan 3.-A telegram from
Peking states that the situation in
China was never so chaotic and in
ternationally dangerous.