The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-05-04
SEATTLE, May 3.-George +

erty tnat made MIN m1l1Ona1re
died at his home last night. One Of
his most valuable pieces of property
is the Frye Hotel, which was COM
pleted within the last two years.
i VALLEJO, May 3.-Wireless out.
fits for the stations at Cordova and
Unalga have arrived here. They will
be taken north on the collier Nero
scheduled to sail from here on May
18th.
Il OMAHA, May ACTING chairman
of the Republican national commit
tee, Victor Rosewater, has notified
the members to prepare for meet
ing the first week in June to take up
contests, His letter says: "The i'm
tpotrance of having a full attendance
will, of course, be appreciated by
ALL"
| CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2.-The
Italian battleship Rumberto got on
the rocks off Zurara during a fierce
storm and was sunk. 1t is believed
that practically all the men aboard
her were rescued.
CINCINNATI, May 2.-E. I. Gal
breath, former president of the Sec
ond National Bank, was arrested
here today on the charge of having
Incorporated $4,000. Experts
have been examining the books and
they claim to have strong evidence
that the former president secured
the funds that are now found to be
short.
LONDON, May 2.-The British
court opened yesterday in an inquiry
Of the recent Titanic wreck. Lord
Mersey is presiding, and is 1t said
that searching investigation will
follow.
NEW YORK, May 2.-Homer Cal
vim Davenport, the famous cartoonist,
died at his home in Morris Plains, N.
j., last night. He had not been well
for several months past. Davenport
was only As years of age and lived
the fore part of his life on farm at
Silverton, Oregon. He first won
some little prominence as a cartoon
list in 1892, on the San Francisco Ex-
aminer. Editor Hearst took him to
New York in 1895, where he made
a big hit throughout the country for
his original ideas in cartooning. He
was responsible for the Mark Hanna
$-mark suit of clothes, and the giant
figure of the trusts in 1899. In 1896
he was granted permission by the
Sultan of Turkey to export q Arab
ian horses to America. His recent
work in cartooning has been done
for the Evening Mail, of this city.
| WASHINGTON, April 29.-The
President has returned from his short
tour into Massachusetts,. He person
ally renewed his denial of a Roose-
welt charge, and in statement de-
clares positively that the Colonels
statement that he approved of the
policy of not prosecuting the Inter-
national Harvester Company, is I'M
true.
| SEATTLE, May 2.-The North
western Development Congress will
be held in this city, commencing on
Wednesday, June S, and continuing
until Saturday. A call abs just been
issued and it is signed by the follow
ing governors: John Burke, North
Dakota; Robert s. Vessey, South Da-
kota; Edwin L. Norris, Montana;
James H. Hawley, Idaho; Oswald
West Oregon; Adolph o. Eberhart,
i. Minnesota; M. E. Hay, Washington.
i NEW YORK, May "A bronze
tablet was unveiled at Hartman, N.
Y today by the Association of Old
Time Telegraphers to commemorate
the sending of the first Geographic
train order in 1851. The tablet is
!. six feet high and three feet wide and
cost $4,000. The $4,000 base upon
which the tablet will rest was quar-
red from the Hartman estate and
was given by Mrs. e. H. Hartman
The next largest contributor was
. Andrew Carnegie, who became tele-
graph operator when he was IA years
. old, and sent the first Geographic
l train order on the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Pittsburg in 1851.
ATLANTA, May 2.-Democratit
, Leader Of the House Oscar w. I'm
derwood, of Alabama, took his for
NAL stand among the Presidential
) possibilities when he yesterday Sc
cured the delegates to the Nationa