The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-02-17

| many delegation to the National
democratic Convention in Baltimore,
unable to secure suitable hotel &C
commodations, hope to charter two
steamers, which will anchor in the
bay and provide sleeping quarters
for the $500 New York Democrats
who have signified their intention of
attending the gathering. BY sleeping
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Gus Rub
lin, the ex prize fighter and more re-
Gently athletic instructor, died last
night of apoplexy. Formerly known
as the Akron giant, Rubin engaged
n his last public contest about six
years ago when Jeffries put him to
sleep in San Francisco.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 15.-Forty-
one persons have been arrested to
late as the result os indictments re
turned by the federal grand jury in
the dynamite Investigations. Four
teen of them We're released today by
furnishing $4,000 bonds each.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Now
that Henry Watterson has subsidized,
George Fred Williams of Massachu-
sets is about to take hand in
batting" Governor Woodrow Wilon.
Mr. Williams has written a letter to
R. F. Pettigrew, former Populist
senator from South Dakota, which,
from the standpoint of explosive po-
tentiality. promises to make the re-
cent vitriolic epistolary attacks of
The Kentucky editor seem mild in
comparison.
1t is expected the publication of
the letter will mark the beginning of
a big slump away from Governor
Wilson, slump that will carry with
it considerable element of w. j.
Bryan's friends and perhaps Mr..
Bryan himself.
The Williams letter is compila
ton of the alleged Incorporate and
extravagant utterances and speeches
of Governor Wilson, the trained and
penetrating mind of the former Mas
sachusetts representative apparently
overlooking nothing and every cita-
ton looking like a bareback for
Governor Wilson. Every utterance
| is catalogued with date and place of
delivery to aid in verifioation.
The whole tenor of the citations
| goes to create the impression that
| Wilson has reversed Roosevelt's poll
cy of going after the big fellows and
that it has been the Wilson policy
to go after the little fellowship
common people who toll.
/ An experienced gardener will b.
placed incharge of the experimental
railroad farm at Mile 1879 this sum
mer
| Last season fifteen acres wer,
grubbed and plowed and made read.
for planting but it was too late il
the summer to seed.
This year, however, a thorough
test will be made of many varietie
of vegetables and grains, and som
grass seed will be sown. The severa
kinds of vegetables which were sue
cessfully grown on Deyo's homestea
near Chitina will be planted, as wei
, as other kinds, but the most atten
ton will be paid to grains an
grasses.
!, The raising of vegetables in tn
| Ln4lina and Copper river valleys
/ no longer considered an experiment
for the roadhouses and embryo farm
/ have made a success of them, but s
! far efforts towards getting grain t
. properly mature has not proved a
. entire success. 1t is believed b
: those who have studied soil cond
t tions in the interior that certain VI
r rieties of the more hardy grains wi
t prove success, but, before adverti
$ ing for farmers the railroad comps
ny desires to prove that this is {
and have the facts to back up i
: statements.