The Chitina leader., 1912-05-11

Seattle, May THE first boats
to leave for Nome this year will be
the revenue cutter Bear, which will
set sail on Thursday, and the Wave
scheduled to leave on Sunday next
Neither will take passengers, al
though both will have consignment
of mail. The Wave will have a cargo
of perishables.
WASHINGTON, May s.-Alaska
received additional recognition yes
terday in the Senate. The compul-
sorry educational bill was passed, also
! the bill providing for an increased
allowance out of the Alaska fund for
the erection of public school build
ings in Alaska.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Four
hundred fleeing Chinese from Mexico
have applied to the government for
protection. They wish to Temperate
| ly enter the United States, otherwise
they fear that they will lose their
lives in the south.
HATTIESBURG, Miss, May g.
Texas Confederate veterans who
were enroute to attend a convention
had their train wrecked. They were
on a special and it collided with a
freight train, killing sixteen of the
veterans and injuring many others.
SEATTLE May George Ed
wards Adams, formerly cashier of
the Seattle assay office, and who
took advantage of his position to re-
lieve the pokes of many miners of
several hundred thousand dollars,
was today given his parole from Nc
Neils Island prison. After trial
he was found guilty and considerable
of the money was recovered. All who
proved their claim of shortage were
reimbursed by the government.
TACOMA, May Two boys were
playing in an alley yesterday, one of
them having gun which accidental
ly went off and killed the other, a
boy ten years of age named Daniel
Sven, and a son of D. r. Sven, of
this city. A 12-year-old son of the
late William Hofius, of Seattle, held
the gun that killed his companion.
NEW YORK, May 6.-The will of
the late Benjamin Guggenheim has
been filed. He leaves an estate of
$92 100000. His widow receives
one-third, while the balance is divid-
ed among his three daughters.
HALIFAX, May .6-On Sunday af-
ternoon fifty-nine unidentified VIC
Tins of the Titanic wreck were bur-
led here. Business was suspended
and practically all the people of the
dIJcuuSu IuC IuACldl.
NEW ORLEANS, May 6-Early
this morning a levee broke in Pointe
Coupee parish, not a great distance
from Baton Rouge, destroying sever
al towns and drowning thirty people.
The flood rushed in on the people so
suddenly that hundreds had barely
time to escape with their lives.
NEW ORLEANS, May Cover one
hundred thousand people are home
less in nineteen parishes in the state
Of Louisiana, by reason of the floods.
The water has not ceased to rise, and
each day some section feels the de-
vastating effect of the unprecedent-
ed condition. Aid is being extended
the impoverished by government Of
ficials, who have been provided with
funds by reason of the recent appro-
priations by Congress.
CLINTON. B. c., May "a lot of
outlaw Indians were shooting up the
town when Provisional Constable
Alexander Kindness sought to inter-
fere. He summoned others to his
aid and a pitched battle ensued, dur
ing which the constable was killed.
BALTIMORE May 6.-President
Taft declares that Col Roosevelt
wished a perfect benevolent despot-
ism that discriminates between good
and bad trusts"
WASHINGTON, May Cuba is
in bad financial straits, and her obli-
cations are maturing without the
means of liquidation. Creditors are
urging American fiscal Intervention
OYSTER BAY, May 6.-The Col
onel was not in good frame of mind
this morning. He relieved himself
however, by making another denial
He asserted that President Taft knew
that he was making an untrue state.
nhent when he declared that the for
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