The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-03-16

LINCOLN, Neb., March ia
riot occurred among the prisoners
today. For a time the penitentiary
was a scene of great excitement and
disorder. Warden James Delahunty,
Deputy Charles Wagner and Guard
Hellman were all killed, while many
of the prisoners were injured.
WASHINGTON, March 1s.-con-
gresham Wyatt Aiken. of South
Carolina, has a speech in the Con-
gressional Record that assails the
President. And now he regrets It,
and has duly offered an apology.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-At-
torney General Wickersham has gone
into the supreme court and started
the preliminary fight in an effort to
dissolve the merger that now exists
between the Southern Pacific and the
Union Pacific railroads.
LONDON, March 13.-The Pekin
correspondent of the Mail says that
the eastern half of the city of Can
ton has been burned and sacked. The
work has been done by disbanded
soldiers.
HONG KONG, March 13.-The
brigand chief, LUX, is endeavoring to
GUST the local provisional govern
ment at Canton. A battle has been
in progress, on and off, for several
days. In the meantime the residents
are terrorized and thousands are
fleeing from the city.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-The
excise tax bill to raise revenue suffi-
cient to make up for the loss by rea-
son of the reduction on sugar, was
reported this morning by Chairman
Underwood. 1t is concurrent meas
ure and already passed by the House.
oCItA1A, N1dlCA AulAbCl
of fatal clashes have occurred among
the miners and the police in the dis
trict of the Seine. There is very bad
feeling existing between the two ele-
ments.
FRANKFORT, KY, March IL
Champ Clark addressed the members
of the legislature here on Saturday.
He was given quite an ovation. He
declared that the tariff issue is the
great overshadowing consideration
that Democracy has to deal with.
SEATTLE, March 13.-The wife
of Scott Calhoun died this morning
at the. hospital, shortly after an op-
Grafton. Until recently Mr.. Calhoun
was corporation counsel and he and
his wife were among the most pop
ular young people in the city.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-Pres-
ident Taft is determined that SO far
as he. is concerned the Presidential
contest shall be conducted with dig
nifty and fairness. He has made a
request of the managers of his cam
paign and to friends generally that
they make on personal attacks on
Theodore Roosevelt.
NEW YORK, March 13-Scores of
documents in the possession of the
federal district attorneys office re-
lating to the indictments of the SUI
gar barons, have disappeared. These
papers are necessary to convict the
men who are being investigated.
SEATTLE, March 1.-THE Bo
nanza copper mine, the Guggenheim
property in Alaska, has just made an
initial disbursement of $1,000,000.
The declaration of the dividend was
made possible by the completion OF
the Copper River & Northwestern
Railroad, which enabled the company
to ship ore. Shipments commenced
last April. The Wall Street Journal
in recent issue, discussing the Bo-
nanza dividend, said: During the
last few months the mine has shipped
more than 10000 tons of ore aver
aging close to 70 per cent copper.
Reducing this to pounds gives $751;
100000 pounds, with actual copper
contents of over 100000 pounds,
valued at s3,5O0,0OO on the basis of
present copper prices. The installa-
ton Of concentrating machinery has
been about completed and the mine
will soon begin to ship low grade
ore.
"The extraordinary showing of the
Bonanza mine is sufficient to i'm
press one of the Importance of Alas
ka as a copper producing district.
The Bonanza dividend is practically