The Chitina leader., 1912-03-23
Late Telegraph News


 Sidney Edwards, nephew of Sidney Allen, leader of the desperadoes, was wounded in the mountains. He was unable to keep up with the gang as they were changing their place oi base so the sheriff's posse were en. abled to capture him and place him under arrest at Lambsburg, Va.
 LONDON, March .2.-Premier Asquith and the House of Commons refused to accept the amendment to the wages bill offered by represent atives of the miners, and which fixed the minimum pay at s1.25 per day.
 WASHINGTON, March 22.-Rep- resentative William Atkinson Jones' of Virginia, who has served ten con- tinuous terms in Congress and has kept close tab on our relations with the Philippines, believes that the time has arrived when we should be- gin to get from under the burden. In accordance with that idea he yester- day introduced a bill in the House providing for probationary inde- pendence'' of the Philippines.
 SAN FRANCISCO, March zz-The Governors of the various states had been wired to send their eommis- sioners here after the 14th of this month, for the purpose of selecting sites for state buildings at the Pana- ma Pacific International Exposition. The state of Oregon sent a large delegation here on that day to choose a location for it's building, being the first to respond to the invitation. Yesterday three other Governors were in the city and made selections for their various states. They were Governor NJ. E. Hay of Washington, Governor James H. Hawley of Idaho, and Governor Edwin L. Norris of Montana. All seemed pleased with their respective selections.
 NEW YORK, March 22.-Theo- dore Roosevelt will start tomorrow on tour of the country. He has in timated that he will do considerable campaigning until the time of the national convention.
 WASHINGTON, March 1s.-Dem- ocratic Leader Underwood charges that the annulment by the supreme court of the income tax measure, in 1895, is directly responsible for the great growth of Socialism in this country.
 NEW YORK, March 20.-Mrs. Blanche Carson, a handsome widow of San Francisco, who is prominent in society circles in that city, had a sad ending yesterday to an active career. Sc had just returned from Europe and was detected in snug gling jewels. She was placed under arrest, but felt so humiliated by the occurrence that she committed sui eide by hanging herself.
 ABERDEEN, Wash, March 20.- There has been considerable agita- tion among the lumber mill hands for some weeks past. They have de- manded an incerase in wages, which was not forthcoming. AS a conse- quence there was strike this morn ing by 1900 hands employed in va rious mills on Gray's Harbor.
 WASHINGTON, March 20.-Yes- terday afternoon the excise bill, pro- viding for the raising of revenue by assessing the gross income of com panies doing business in excess of $5,000 annually, passed the House by a vote of 249 to 51.
 WASHINGTON, March 1S.-John Fremont Hill, governor of the State of Maine from 1901 to 1905, died in Boston yesterday. At the last meet ing of the Republican national com- mittee Governor Hill was elected as chairman, having held the position of vice and acting chairman since March, 1909, when Frank Hitchcock resigned the chairmanship. Victor Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee, will succeed Governor Hill as chair man of the committee, until the new committee is elected in June.
 PHILADELPHIA, March 1S.- Read Admiral George Wallace Mel vile, who resided in this city since his retirement, died yesterday at the age of II years. He won distinction through his three voyages to the Arctic, and was awarded a gold med al by Congress in 1890 for bravery