The Chitina leader., 1912-09-10
MILWAUKEE, Sept. A..

ticket, and promises to put up a
good fight for the Gubernatorial cleo
ton, expecting to win if the Pro-
gressives name state ticket.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-When
Police Lieutenant Becker was ar
raigned yesterday afternoon for his
alleged completely in the murder of
gambler Rosenthal. he refused to
plead. His trial was then set for
next Monday.
BOSTON, Sept. 4.-President Taft
delivered a stirring speech last night
at Faneuil hall. He attacked the
policy of the Democratic House in
attempting to limit the tenure of
government employees. He declared
that no faithful government clerk
ought to be discharged only on a
pension, unless the government sys-
tenn of civil service was proved to
| be a failure.
Ell PASO, Sept. General Oroz-
co has taken up his quarters at Ac-
cension, from which point he Is di-
recting his forces in their attacks on
Sonora.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. An his
speech last night Col. Roosevelt
took occasion to assail the policy
of the Democrats on the question of
free trade. He declares that if Gov
ernor Wilson is sincere in his adj
vocacy of his policy, and that if he
we're successful, widespread disast-
ter would result.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.-Poli-
tics has rent the home of Joaquin
Miller, poet of the Sierras, into three
factions. Miller, being lifelong
Jacksonian, has registered as DEM
ocrat; Mrs. Miller is a Republican
of the Taft school, while Miss Juan
tia, the daughter, declares herself
an ardent admirer of Roosevelt.
LINCOLN. Sept. 4.-The Pro-
gressive Republicans held well at
tended state convention today. The
principal business done was the en-
dorsement of Governor Aldrich and
Representative Norris, both of whom
are strong Bull Moosers. They also
endorsed six Roosevelt electors.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. After a
long fought contest, legal battle
over a large fortune, has just been
settled. Mrs. Ellen Babcock, mother
| in-law of Vice President James S.
Sherman, has been awarded half a
million dollars from the estate of
her relative, hrs. Mary S. DECKER
son, who died a couple of years ago.
WEST HAMMOND, Ind, Sept. 4.
There is great excitement and COM
motion in the town over the myster-
ious deaths of twenty residents,
which have occurred within the past
| few weeks. One of the latest vic
tins is John Messmaker, a wealthy
contractor, whose body was found in
dive on the outskirts of town. The
authorities have taken the matter up
and are securing the best talent to
try to ferret out the reasons for
these deaths.
BERLIN, Sept. A directory of
German millionaires, just published
in Berlin, shows that the fortune OF
Bertha Krupp Won Bohlen, the rich
est woman in Germany, if not in the
world, has increased in three years
from 100000 to s7O,OOO,OO0.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-Late yesterday
evening the Foreign Office issued a
statement denying that a demand
had been made that the Panama
canal question of tolls be submitted
to arbitration.
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 4.-There
was lots doing in this city yester-
day afternoon. Seventy-five convicts
had been liberated from the bull pen
and they made so merry over the
event that the militia was called out
to restore order and protect the peo-
pie of the city from depradations of
various kinds.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 4.-Returns
from throughout the state of Ohio
indicate the defeat of woman's suf-
frage yesterday. The initiative and
referendum was adopted.
MUNICE, Sept. 4. Yesterday
when Col. Roosevelt made short
speech here on his way to st. Louis
he gave little novelty to it by de-
claring, we're going to win
LOS ANGELES, Sept. A disas-
trous fire swept over Ocean Park