The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-05-18

| ST. PAUL, Mimi, May 13.-At
the primaries held throughout the
state on Saturday Col. Roosevelt
was the victor, with LaFollette Sec
ond, and Taft third.
| CLOVIS, 4uay 15.-New Mexico in
structed her six delegates to the
democratic convention to vote for
Champ Clark.
! SEATTLE, May 17.-The forest
fires continue to rage in the northern
part of the state. Many lives have
been lost, while millions of feet OF
valuable timber have been burned
There are possibly hundred differ
emit fires raging near the boundary
of British Columbia and Washington.
Railroad trains and their passengers
lave been endangered and it is fear
ed that they will be unable to take
chances much longer unless rain
comes to extinguis.. --e fires.
| SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.-One
of the hardest political battles ever
waged in California ended last night
in a triumphant tvictory at the pri-
| maries for Col. Roosevelt. He car
ried the state overwhelmingly, with
Taft. distant second and LaFollette
a close third. And thus rs addi-
tional votes have been placed in the
Roosevelt column. On the Demo-
cratic side Champ Clark had matters
pretty much his own way, winning
an easy victory.
PARIS, May 15.-Another fierce
battle that ragged for five hours oc-
Cured between the police and Octave
Garnies, the leader of eight desperate
automobile bandits. Garnies was in
barricaded garage and kept con-
tinuous fire on the attacking party.
He wounded five policemen before
the force succeeded in making the
connection that dynamited the gar
age and blew the bandits to pieces.
LOS ANGELES, May 15.-The
trial of Attorney Clarence barrow
again started this morning. barrow
is accused of bribery in connection
with the jury in the recent McNa-
mara cases. He has persistently
maintained that if there was any
tampering with jurymen that it was
without his knowledge, although the
evidence before the grand jury indi-
Gated to the contrary.
| STEUBENvILLE, O., May IA
In ending speech last night Presi-
dentt Taft paid his respects to Col.
| Roosevelt His verbal chastisement
was direct and to the point. In clos
ing he added, 81 beg of you to ask
him when he comes here whether he
will take a fourth tenn, a fifth term,
and why he shodsFnot continue in
office for life
People of Ruby are much encour-
aged by recent developments down
| there" says VIM. Hopkins, who has
| just come up the river, "as it is GER
tain that they will have a small
camp. In particular, Trail creek has
shown up four and one-half miles of
narrow, low grade pay. The stream
varies in width from 25 to 40 feet
and runs in value from 81 to 81.
| Operators are taking plants onto
this ground and getting ready to
work it.
| One of these, when asked if he had
another Cleary, replied, "No, but
Trail is as good as Chatham was. -
Other spots of pay are showing up
in different points on other creeks.
Duncan Niche, the old-timer of the
Fairbanks camp, was so much i'm
pressed with Ruby after spending
six weeks there that he decided to
come back and locate as soon as he
could attend to his Iditarod business.
He had been called back by the Gug-
genheim deal for Flat.-Fairbanks
News-Miner.
BOISE, Idaho, May 13.-Reports
received from the various counties
throughout Idaho give the friends of
Roosevelt control of the state con-
vention to be held on the 18th. This
will insure a full delegation for
Teddy.
CHICAGO, May 14.-Many of the
western delegates to the Democratic
national convention seek to have the
Hon. James Hamilton Lewis named
as the temporary chairman of the
Baltimore convention. Col. Lewis