The Chitina leader., 1912-11-12
1sH ~ d Late Telegraph News.
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last night and will go via Cape Flat
 tery and the outside passage. She
 has about thirty passengers, those for Cordova being as follows: Mrs.
 Joseph F. Diggs, Mrs. K. Fisher, John
 Reidy, Chas. Cochrane, J. J. Mullal- Hey, William Cookston and T. Burton. l BEDDING Nov. 9-The north
 bound Shasta Limited, coming from San Francisco, was held up by ban
 dits last evening. One of them was
 killed by Thorb Sanford, breakman
 on the train. The other escaped with registered mail sack. Othcers
 are after the bandit and it is expect
 ed that he will be captured before might. | WASHINGTON, Nov 9-The Agri- cultural Department makes the an- inouncement that the corn crop in the | United States is 3,170, 100000 bush els. This is the largest crop ever
 produced by any country in the his tory of the world. :aGt CHICAGO, Nov. 9-An effort was made by Jack Johnson to raise S30,- 900 bail, but failing in that he was re- manded to jail, and there he is likely to remain. The feeling against him lis intense. The Chicago club women started a national fight against Jack Johnson through the medium of the National Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Sara Webb Helm, who represents the Chicago club women has taken the matter up with Presi- ident Taft and Attorney General Wick ersham urging the Federal prosecu tion against Johnson to the utmost. John R. Lynch, former negro Con- gressman and Federal officeholder, This man is physically strong, but mentally weak. Some of his race have been proud of him as a prize fighter, never as anything else. At all times they have looked on him as undesirable citizen, never given ac- cess to their houses. I'm satisfied no fair minded white man or woman will pass judgment on the colored people by reason of the acts and utterances of Johnson" ,-- ... WASHINGTON, Nov. S-Lieut Augustus Norton has made the an- |nouncement here that the war de- partment will establish a chain of aeroplane depots on the Pacific coast.
 CHICAGO, Nov. S-As a result of the recent federal grand jury inves- tigations Jack Johnson was yesterday arrested for violation of the Mann act. He is specifically charged with the transportation of Belle Schreiber, white girl, from Pittsburg to Chi eago, for unlawful purposes. The evidence also duplicates him in vari- ous other acts. When the officers
 read the warrant to Johnson and placed the handcuffs on him he broke
 down and cried.
 l SEATTLE, Nov. 8-The Alaska
 Whaling Company had a successful season in the north. A total of BIO whales were caught, the largest about
 seventy-six feet long. The weather
 was rough at Akutan throughout the
 season. The company's fertilizer
 plant was not completed until in July
 and a serious loss of the catch oc-
 cured during one of the severe
 storms which swept the coast near
 Akutan. The carcasses of nearly
 200 of the mammals which had been
 beached were carried off shore by the heavy wind and sea and are now
 adrift in Boring sea.
 These were the dead whales which
 Capt. Louis Knafich, of the power
 schooner Bender Brothers, sighted
 while bound from Bethel, on the Kus- lkokwim river, for Seattle He said
 they were menace to navigation and
 might cause serious damage 10 the
 smaller vessels plying Bering sea.
 The whaling steamers Unimak and
 Kodiak were built at yards iii this
 city and have just completed their first season in the North.
 1 PHILADELPHIA, v.9-An as-
 founding story of bigamy and crime
 was told today when Addison F. Beaton had hearing on charge of
 embezzlement. It was testified by city detectives that Ellsworth had at least ten wives in different parts oi the country, including several in this ) city. Ellsworth was arrested at i No-xL