The Chitina leader., 1912-09-17


can interests, and prevent foreign
complications.
1t is a task of considerable mo-
ment the senate committees are I'M
dertaking. The senate has been dis
department has adopted with respect
tc Mexico and Central America.
Senator Lodge, senior member of
the foreign relations committee;
Senator Root, and others condemned
the indifferences of the administra-
ton with respect to the projected
transfer of Magdalena bay, Mexico,
a magnificent harbor for naval pur-
poses, to a Japanese syndicate. They
introduced a strong resolution, re-
iterating the Monroe doctrine.
1t has been charged that Ameri-
lean interests, dissatisfied with the
government in power, financed the
Nicaragua revolution in the hope of
precipitating American Intervention
and forcing the ratification of the
agreement for the fiscal administra-
ton of Nicaragua entered into by
the secretary of state and the Man
aqua authorities.
Nicaragua is to be visited by sub
committee consisting of Senators
Lodge of Massachusetts, Sutherland
of Utah, Burton of Ohio, Bacon of
Georgia, and Clark of Arkansas.
Mexico is to be investigated by a
subcommittee comprising Senators
Smith of Michigan, McCumber of
North Dakota, Borah of Idaho, Shiv-
ley of Indiana, and Hitchcock of Ne
braska.
None of the senators named have
ever been in Mexico or Central
America. The information they will
bring back thus will enable the SEN
ate to act authoritatively, either in
the way of adopting Independent
resolutions which will bind the up
per house in its attitude toward any
questions that may arise, or amend
ing or ratifying any treaties that
may be submitted by the president.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-William
H. Cooper, former wee president
of the Siegel-Cooper Company, and
ex-president of the New York Cen
trail Realty Company, and Ernest
Sharp, an officer of the realty COM
pany, who were indicted by the Fed
eral grand jury recently, charged
with using the mails to defraud,
surrendered themselves and were re-
leased on bail. Claude J. Van Slyke,
president, and James A. Robinson,
treasurer of the realty company, had,
previously been arrested.
CHICAGO, Sept. 13, = Aviator
Peck, who won the record for dura-
ton of flying, had fall from his
machine yesterday with the result
that he was instantly killed. A
number of people saw the accident.
| BOISE, Sept. 13.-Col. Roosevelt
arrived her late last night after hav-
| ing finished his swing through Ore
gon, where he made a number of
short speeches. From here he will
go on to Ogden, Reno, Sacramento
and San Francisco, spending Sun
day in the latter city.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The thous-
ands of automobiles produced an
| nually by individual makers in this
| country must seem Enthusiastically i'm
possible to the Frenchman who has
a chance to find out how many cars
are produced in the factories of his
native land, once the leader of the
automobile industry of the world. A
statistical expert here figures that
the 81 leading French makers pro-
duced a total of less than $4,000
cars in 1911. There are at least
half a dozen concerns in this coun-
try which individually produce more
cars than all of France, and few
of them that produce more than
twice as many.
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 49,
Frank Wilson, who was arrested as
a sneak thief while going through
guests rooms at the Hotel Rudolph
at Atlantic City three weeks ago
and later attempted suicide, re-
ceived hearing and sentence was
suspended. A purse had been
raised for Wilson, and he will go to
New York to begin life anew.
After his arrest Wilson broke w
his eyeglasses and swallowed the
broken bits in order to kill himself
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