The Chitina leader., 1912-10-08
A request has been received from


 New York, signed by members of the National Retail Tobacco Deal- CTS Association demanding of Chair man Clapp an investigation of the relation of the American Tobacco Company to campaign funds of re- cent years. The retailers asked that the Senate committee investi- gate the affairs of the so-called ''to- bacco trust" and of large individual companies, to determine whether they had contributed to presidential <, or congressional campaigns. The desire will be acceded to.
 MILWAUKEE. Oct. 2. - David Bruce Brown, New York million aire and sportsman. has paid the pen 1 alty for fast racing. He was driv- ing his automobile at the rate of 96 miles an hour when he collided with dray wagon, throwing him from the machine and resulting in his almost | instant death.
 QUINCY, Ill.,, Oct. 2.-The town has been thrown into intense excite ment over the murder of several we'll known people, who were re- ! turning from a funeral some little distance from here. Charles P. Fanschmidt, one of the wealthy men of the town, accompanied by his wife, daughter Blanche and friend named Miss Emma Kawpen, were driving home when they were held Up and all shot to death. The mur- derers then made their escape and although searchers have been out for the past day no trace has been found of the bandits. Neither has their motive been discovered.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. The Senate Committee appointed to in- vestigate the campaign contribu tions to various national committees, resumed it's work today. Senator Clapp is chairman of the committee and he has its work we'll outlined for the next few days. This morn ing Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., was the first to take the stand. He submit ted various letters and documents which had been received by his father. Among them were letters from Wm. H. Taft and Col. Roose- welt, urging the senior Bliss to ac- cept the chairmanship of the nation al committee. Col. Roosevelt is ex- pected to appear late this afternoon or tomorrow and will be heard re- garding the alleged contribution of 1 s100,000 by the Standard Oil Com pany to his 1904 campaign fund.
 c. c. Tegethoff, private secretary of the late Edward H. Hartman, i "hS ediieu upOu lo PiOuuSc dHs pa pers belonging to the estate of MT Hartman that might throw light on the charges made by John D. Arch bold that the Standard Oil Company had been asked to contribute to the Roosevelt fund of 1904. MT. Tege- thoff, as we'll as Charles A. Pea body, appeared before the committee early this afternoon. They submit ted many thousands and both tes- tified that Mir. Hartman had raised campaign contributions at the per sonal request of Col. Roosevelt.
 George W. Perkins has requested that Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Repu blican national committee, be called before the committee to testify fully as to his charge" that Colonel Roosevelt had "spent mill lions of dollars of harvester trust money" Senator Clapp stated that MT. Hilles undoubtedly would be called before the committee.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. This af- ternoon E. H. Hooker, present treasurer of the Progressive party. testified before the committee that Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, gave $7O,OO0 to the recent campa,gns of Senator La Toilette and Governor Wilson.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 5-Herbert Hockin, designated by Artie McMani- gal as one of the organizers of the dynamite crew that is largely re- sponsible for many of the dynamite outrages throuhout the country, has given information against many of the defendants that are now on trial. At least District Attorney Miller is responsible for a statement of this nature
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