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Douglas Island news., 1912-04-03

As result of the refusal of the.oper- ators of the Alaskan canneries to place in the contracts with their packers a minimum summer wage guarantee of S2OO the packers have refused to sign the agreements and setback is threat. ened in the output of the Alaskan can neries in the coming busy season. Eff teen hundred packers in San Francisco refused to sign the summer contracts.
 Chief Good-la tah, of the Taral Indian tribe, has filed an action in the district court against the Copper River x Northwestern railway to recover dam ages for the alleged ruthless disturb ance of his grandfather's grave and re- mains. The chief sets his damages at S1O,OOO. 1t is alleged in the complaint that the skeleton of the deceased chief was left lying on the surface of the ground until found several months later.
 A dispatch received at Cordova from Kenuecot and the Bonanza says that the people at those places have held mass meetings in which they have made vigorous protests against the holding of the office of commissioners of the Chitina district by the present commissioner, M. R. Healy, who is re- garded there as a foreigner, having failed, upon coming to the United States to take out his naturalization papers.
 Alterations to the steamship Mari posa, the latest addition to the fleet of the Alaska Steamship Company, are nearing completion, and the vessel will be sent on her maiden voyage to Alaska ports about April l5. The Mariposa will go to Prince William souOd ports via the inside passage, calling at Ketch- ikan and Juneau, and, with her sister liner, the Alameda, on the same route, will give much improved service to Alaska ports.
 The democrats of Alaska, in conVen- tion assembled, at Valdez, nominated Robert w. Jennings, of Juneau, as a candidate for delegate to congress, and elected A. J. Daly national committee man. The convention was old-fashioned in many respects, as there was bolt or stampede and a free-for-all fight, The stampeders held a convention of their own and nominated Martin liar rias, of Fairbanks for delegate. Wm. IO'Connor, labor candidate for congress two years ago, was prominent and striking figure in both conventions.
 Attorney General Wickersham, in his annual report for 1911, takes up sug- .gestion offered by District Attorney Rodey, of Nome, and recommends an amendment to the present law govern ing jury trial in the commissioners courts. The present law requires a commissioners jury to be composed of twelve men in every case, even when the sum involved in the case is less than $50 The attorney general there fore recommends that in the trial of such petty claims the number of jury men be reduced below twelve, or to none at all; providing, of course, that this change would not affect the appeal to the district court where new trial before a common.law jury of twelve could be had. The proposed change would greatly facilitate the dispatch of business and reduce the cost of petty Mitigation.
Douglas Island news., 1912-04-03
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. InfOrmatiOn for Everybody.

The pussy willows ore out all around Dawson.
 Cable tolls in Alaska will be cut in two July lst.
 A plan is afoot to install loO-ton shelter at Valdez.
 The new camp on the Yukon, Ruby, is in need of dentist.
 Vae Alaska Coast Steamship Com pany will land it's freight at the Valdez municipal dock.
 pr. L. s. Keller, owner of the Skag- way Daily Alaskan, is on his way home from the States.
 Cordova is not as fast as it formerly was. All the clocks in town were re- gently set back an hour.
 With Seward at one end of the pro- posed government railroad and Ruby at the Yukon end-say, wouldn't that be great?-Ruby Record.
 The school election at Seward re- sulted in the selection of s. o. Morford, director; J. J. Finnegan, treasurer, and pr. J. H. Romig, clerk.
 The Brown & Hawkins bank at Sew ard, and the Bank of Seward will con. solidate and do business under the name of the latter institution. Judge F. M. Brown, of Valdez, re- gently operated on by the Mayo Brothers, the celebrated surgeons of Rochester, N. r., will recover.
 It is charged that some of the mem bers of the court martial which tried Lieut.. Orchard at Valdez last fall were intoxicated during the hearings.
 The Nome igloo of the Pioneers Of Alaska has telegraphed President Taft asking for an appropriation for the re- lief of indigent persons in Alaska.
 The U. s. revenue cutter Rush, sta tioned at Juneau, is off for a two months cruise policing the North Pa cifc to guard against illegal sealing.
 The steamship Humboldt recently completed her 4Ooth voyage. She has been in the Alaska service for fourteen years, and never had serious accident.
 H. G. Robinson, for many years chief clerk in the W.P Mills general mer- chandise store at Sitka, has resigned his position and has left Sibka for the States.
 Recent arrivals in Valdoz from the westward state that brown bear killed fifteen sheep belonging to Fred Rier, on Raspberry island, the first night he landed them there.
 John N. Cobb, who recently resigned the position of U. S. fish commissioners for Alaska, has accepted the manage ment of the Union Fish Co.,, with head ,quarters at San Francisca.
Douglas Island news., 1912-04-03

Flocks of wild geese arriving at Val dez from their sojourn in the sunny south, are taken as harbingers of spring and have nothing to do with the demo- cratic convention.
 Fairbanks merchants are said tt have enjoyed better trade this past winter than at any season since 1908. The quartz prospects are having good in- AUence on the camp.
 The KetchiIan Shingle Go. is making a shipment of close to hundred thou sand shingles to West Coast of Prince of Wales island points this week. The mill7S product is frst-class and meets with steady market.
 Perhaps most of the residents of Alaska are unaware that in nearly every school in the states, geographies credit ing Sitka as the capital of Alaska are used. Juneau, in the institutions of learning, is unheard of.
 Charles Shelly, a Valdeg Pioneer, went hunting and did not come back. Friends went to search for him and found his liteless body with one side of his head blown off. It is thought the accidental discharge of his own gun killed the unfortunate man,
 Small shipments of gold from Alaska are beginning to arrive at the United States assay office at Seattle. The larger gold receipts from Alaska camps will not begin to arrive until the latter part of June, when spring opens ready communication with the northern camps.
 The Yukon Gold Company, which operates dredges in the Dawson dis. trict, only paid 115 per cent dividend, as against,2 per cent in 1910. Samuel Guggenheim says the chief reason for the decline is the fact that two new dredges were only able to work part of the season.
 Valdez was in debt S3OOO about g year ago. The debt at present is be tween S15,009 and SI7,OOO. The fight against the glacier stream last summer cost the city S12,OOO, while the repairs to the city dock cost in the neighbdr, hood of S7,O0O. Many of the taxpayers of that city have not paid their assess ments and it has 9eep decided to bring suit against them:'
 The Yukon Gold Company, of which the Guggenheims are the chief owners is hauling one of its largest dredges from upper Hunker creek, where it has worked out the ground the company owns, to Dawson, to be shipped to Fair banks by one of the first steamers after the opening of navigation. The officials say they are not aware upon what creek the dredge will be placed there.
 
 In letter to the Reverend Betticher of Fairbanks, written at the mouth oi south fork of the Koyukuk, Archdeacon Stuck says that he has been making g very successful trip through the Koyu- kuk. From Fort Yukon, he started after Christmas, and has visited Care and gone across the divide from the Chandlar into the Koyukuk. There he has visited Wiseman, Nelson, and was at Allakakat mission when the letter was written on Feb. 3. Within short time, he said, he would be in Tanans and would reach Fairbanks about March 1N.
Douglas Island news., 1912-04-03

Some ldea or the extreme mllQueSS bt the winter along the Alaska coast Ia given by the data collated at Seward For example, it shows that during the month of February, while the greater portion of the American continent east of the Rocky mountains was suffering from severely cold weather, the lowest temperature recorded on the Kenai peninsula was above zero, while the thermometer ranged for feir share of the time well above 50.
 On September l7 last, Uncle Ben," as he is familiarly called, accidentally shot himself with double barreled shot gun. The charge passed through the palm of his right hand, shattering the fingers, and lodged in the left fore arm. The wounds were dressed by pr. Green, commissioner at Takotna, who has done all that medical skill could do for the unfortunate man, but the injuries received were so severe that Atwater is absolutely dependent upon others for every service.
 A late report frem Dawson is that on March l3 the Dawson camp of the Arc tic Brotherhood voted unanimously to invite the Princess Patricia to visit Dawson this summer with the Dutchess of COnnaught to open the first grand annual exposition of the North, show ing Yukon's agricultural. mineral, for estry, fishery and other products. The fair is under the direction of the Broth erLood, and although the exact date of the exposition is not fixed, it will prob ably be on August IF, Discovery Day unless the Duke requests some other more convenient date.
 The Alaska people have another grievance, and substantial one, in the action of the forestry service in raising the price of stumpage charged for cut ting cordwood on the government land in Alaska to 50 cents cord. As the government has tied up all of the coal mines, it is necessity to use wood, not only for ordinary heating purposes, but to thaw the gravel in the fruzen placer ground remote from transportation All of the timber is tied up in reserVa- tions, so that it is necessary to go on government land to get the cordwood- Now a heavy tax is placed upon this privilege, tax which will not bdng the government income enough to cover the expenses of collecting it, in the manner in which the forestry service Is run, but which imposes an entire un- necessary burden upon the people of Alaska. Within two miles of the city limits of Seattle, a city of some 3OO,OOO people, cerdwood can be had for a stumpage price of one.quarter that which the government charges the iso- lated miner or prospector for the wood necessary to his existence in remote wilderness, where he is doing the work of pioneering. The forestry service, it is true, while administering an estate greater in area than the empire of Ger many, costs the government for it's operating expenses five dollars in real money for every dollar of revenue which it succeeds in drawing from this vast estate. This is hardly warrant, for cinching the people of Alaska by making them pay four times as much for stumpage on cordwood in 'Sbe will derness as charged for stnmpsge ny ISeattle.-P.-I
Arizona republican., 1912-05-25
 IN SUGAR CANE
Glendale Farmers Watch New Crop With Interest; Advantages and Cost Dis cussed; Grammar School Holds Exercises

few months ago the local sugar company imported some sugar cane from Mexico to try it out in Glendale and vicinity Since it arrived and has been planted very little has ever been heard of the crop. Many of the farmers have been in quiring what has become of the cane, and whether it is going to amount to anything in the valley.
 The cane had to be shipped a long distance, there were several bad de- ! lays in shipping that could not be 1 avoided. and finally when it arrived 1 it was not soaked before planting. i In planting the cane it was put out l in several ways to see which method of cultivation would bring the best results. The cane Tt this time is i looking as well as can be expected ! under the circumstances.
 That cane is q coming crop for this; 1 locality there is little doubt. If beets are successfully raised, cane certainly ought to be q profitable crop. It is true, however. that cane has not thus far been cultivated under conditions similar to this valley, making it an entirely new venture. It may be well to consider the beet agaInSt cane comparing with results from other localities These figures are only ! estimates and will have to be demon ! strated.
 Beets can not be successfully raised on the same land for more than two years in succession without a rota- tion of crops. The land must be Ot the first quality to start with and must contain a large amount o1 humus The beet uses up a great deal of humus from the soil ant above all requires planting every year.
 Cane on the other hand, has a very large and powerful root system anC does not have to be planted an nualy.
 A slip is a section of cane hay
 ing a bud from which the stall
 grows. After the first year a ranch
 CT can plant more land from bud
 taken from his own crop thus dOint
 away with the seed question. Tn
 plants are good for three years with
 out repIanting, provided the grove
 will place buds in the hills that di
 each year Every third year tn
 cane should be ploWed up and COW
 peas or a similar crop planted am
 Dlowed in This will not interfer
 with growing another crop on tn
Arizona republican., 1912-05-25
same ground the same year.

same ground the same year.
 The cane with its large root eys- tenn does not continually extract humus from the soil thus tending to improving the ground. The absence Of humidity does not affect the cane in any way Where il is raised in western Mexico the climate is eX- cecdingly dry but the cane is not affected in any way by dryness
 Beets in this locality cost on the dverage-delivercd at the factory $425 ton Cane the first year ought not to cost over $3.50 per ton at the factory Beets bring $5.25 at the factory while can should bring $45O per ton. Beet growers in Glendale know that fifteen tons to the acre is a good average. Cane ought to produce from twenty five to thirty-five tons to the acre Cane syrup which requires no refining at all and is known in the east as New Orleans molasses or ConfectiOners' molasses could be made.
 It is well known fact that the sugar and other products sold right here in the territory net much more to the manufacturer than those ship ped to eastern points. If the cane sugar project is a success as ranch CTS firmly believe it will be, brown sugar and . good quality of cane syrup should be available at q req sonablc price.
 The crushed canes, q by-pToduct are also gotten rid of to advantage as they are used as fuel to operate the factory
 The class day exercises of the Glen dale grammar school were held last 1 evening at the school building. Or account of the lack of q suitable hal
 in the town to accommodate the large number of people who always attenC : these exercises, the committee had { ! stage erected on the east side of tht building and arranged seats i'll th' school yard The whole was yer, prettiIy arranged and illuminated D, electric lights The exercises Thurs day evening were as follows:
 Welcome, first grade. Spear drill first and second grades. The Pub lie school Will Make Us True Amer icans," Arthur FIagg, Raymond Con ner. Velpo COffelt and William Cof felt. How Girls Fish. Doris OttC T The SunflOwers. third and fourt
 grade boys. Spring Echoes. third an
 fourth grades. Union Forever, lift
 and sixth grade girls. Elpiru, Spanis
 girls. Hoop and Flag drill, first an
 second grades. JubiIate Oearned D note). It's Time to Tell You A Goodbye" fifth and sixth grades.
Arizona republican., 1912-05-25

man lines and become it's eastern
 outlet to the seaboard. thus cztab-
 fishing what George J. Could sought. is said to have been formulated by the late H. II. Hartman long before his death. and he would probably have been able to carry it through had he lived six months longer. Ever
Arizona republican., 1912-05-25

though he has passed away, it is sure to be consummated. say some off cials of the Hartman lines. The prediction is based on the double tracking of the Erie. for that is all the proposition waits on before being carried out The success of the pro iect will round out the Hartman system as between the two SeabOards
Arizona republican., 1912-05-25
The Brazilian government has ap-

The Brazilian government has ap- pointed commission to study ways and means of cultivating rubber on the plan followed in Malaysia. The members report that there is in gov ernment circles d strong current of opinion in favor of cultivation as against the system of exploitation ob- taining. The expedition is being fol lowed with a great deal of interest and is widely discussed.
Arizona republican., 1912-05-25

It is predicted that within year the Erie will be added to the Harri-
Arizona republican., 1912-05-25

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Arizona republican., 1912-05-25

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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-26
WOMEN FIGHT MAD DOG
ARE BITTEN MANY TIMES IN EN-
COUNTER WITH FERocIoUs
ANIMAL.
Policeman Finally Kills Beast After
Battle In Which Many Wounds
Are Received.

=
New York.--In a terrific battle with
pet English bulldog which had sud-
denly gone mad three women were
mangled by the animal. One of the
women was bitten 81 times, another is
and the third 10.
The bulldog, which is usually tied,
was released for few minutes and
was brought upon the porch. For
while he sat with the women. Sud
denly he 1eaped at Miss Hostetter and
sank his teeth into the woman's arm.
Screaming, she sprang from the porch,
with the dog after her. Both the Cree
man sisters followed their friend. The
dog kept at Miss Hostetter, who had
been knocked to the ground. Sudden
~ his anger shifted to his two mis-
tresses. and he attacked them. First
he bit one sitter and then the other.
One OF the Creman sisters stagger-
ed to telephone and called the POI
lice Policeman Shotwell, who was
sent to the house, found the mad ami
NAL running blindly about the lawn.
When the dog saw the policeman he
leaped at his throat. With a Well-di-
rected blow the officer stunned the
dog Then he shot it.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-26
PROBE MONEY TRUST
HOUSE COMMITTEE INvEsTIGA-
TON TO BE THOROUGH.
Charles w. Morse and J. PIerpont
Morgan Among Prominent Men
Men to Be Called.

New York, Sept. 2o.-Among the
first witnesses to be called in the
money trust investigation. to be re-
sumed by the house committee on
banking and currency in this city
about the middle of November, will be
J. Pierpont Morgan and Charles w.
Morse This was learned from Off
Gals Of the committee. Deputy Ser
geant-atArms White of the house Of
representatives is supposed to have
served these two and several other
financiers with subpoenas.
1t is known, however, that he has
subpoenas for Messrs. Morgan and
Morse, and also for William Rockefel-
Ter, James Stillman, Thomas F. Ryan,
George F. Baker, president of the
First National bank; Otto T. Barnard,
president of the New York Trust COM
pany; William Nash and Walter r..
Frew, respectively chairman Of the
board and president OF the Corn Elk
change bank The two latter are
made subject to the jurisdiction of
the committee by reason of their
service on the clearing house COM
mittee. Mr.. Nash was a member of
that allpowerful organization in 1907,
when the committee took charge of
the financial situation during the
panic, and has been charged by wit
nesses heretofore examined in the
money trust investigation with par
ticipating in conferences that pre-
coded the closing Of the old Oriental
National bank, which SO quickly was
followed by the collapse of what were
known as the Morse banks+-the Ma
tional Of North America, the New Am
sterdam and the Mechanics and Trad
ers Mr.. Frew is now member OF
the clearing house committee.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-26
DEPUTIES ARE FIRED UPON
Striking Miners and Sheriff's Men
Exchange Shots at Blng-
ham, Utah.

Bingham, Utah, Sept. 23.-Sixty-two
hundred men now compose the army
of mine workers made idle by the
strike in the mines here Wednesday
morning, and present indications are
that this number will be greatly in
creased unless a settlement of DIFF
ficulties is brought about within the
next few days.
The Greeks and Cretans, who until
Wednesday afternoon we're fortified in
trenches overlooking the mines. have
remained true to their promise to
Governor Spry to give up the strong
hold, but have not relaxed their vigil
lance on the mines. Pickets patroled
the roads leading to the mines on
Thursday night and early In the morn
ing several shots were exchanged
with deputy sheriffs who attempted to
cross the highways leading into the
hills
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-09-26
STILL HOLD MEETS
OFFICIALS OF LATE OIL TRUST
GATHER, BUT TALK "GEN-
ERALlTiEs."
RocKEFELLERs ARE THERE
Richard C. Welt at New York Hear
Ing Denies, However, That subs''
diaries Are Connected - Each
Transacts Its Own Business.

New York, Sept. 23.-That the for
mer directors OF the Standard Oil
company still gather daily at the
same table in a dining-room at rs
Broadway, as was their custom when
they directed the affairs Of the COM
pany, was the testimony Of Richard
C. Welt secretary of the Standard OIL
company Of New York on Friday be-
fore a referee in the Standard Oil
Waters-Pierce investigation.
who meets there?" inquired
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the
Waters-Pierce interests.
Il don't know all of them"
Does John D. Archbold still sit
at that table?"
Eyes"
Does Percy Rockefeller"
YES"
Similar questions elected the infor-
nation that others who sat at the
big table" were John D. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller, J.. A. Moffett, A.
C. Bedford, H. c. Folger, Jr.; G.. M
Pratt, Walter Jennings, w. G. Teagle
M. F. Elliott and others who were
formerly officers and directors of the
trust, but are now officers or directors
Of the former subsidiaries.
Don't these men discuss their
business there daily?"
mo"
You hear them talking don't
your"
Eyes, they talk in generalities;
hear them laughing and joking"
How long have you been listening
to them as they talked and joked ant
| laughed"
"Since last December"
Interlocking directorates. consulta
tions. confidential plans and exchanges
OF views among the Standard Oh
company OF New Jersey and its former
subsidiaries, comprising the oil trus
which the federal supreme court or
dered dissolved, have been abolished
utterly according to testimony Of Mr.
Veit
Prior to the dissolution Of the trus
last December" Mr.. Welt said. "th'
/ officers Of the Standard Oil subsidi
j aries continually conferred with mi
and the managers of other subsidiar.
companies. also conferred will
other managers regarding the situa
ton. Since the dissolution this ha
been stopped absolutely"