The Chitina leader., 1913-11-18
Late Telegraph News

SEATTLE, NOV. 1S.-Ine steamer Alameda sailed from this port last night, taking a number of miners who will go to the Chisana diggings The passengers for Cordova are as follows:
 W. c. Underwood, Mrs. J. E Clark, Elizabeth and Virginia Fad dis, James A. Nicolet, H. G. Ray Mrs. c. R. Byers, Charles Nursler Mrs. M. Brock, Fred Waidlich, F Schmitz, Charles Kitsman, John Sundin, Carl Anderson, F. A. Douse N. F. Pickle and wife and four second class.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 1s.-A defi- nite agreement has been made with the several wings of the Senate banking and currency committee to submit their drafts of the currency bill on Thursday next.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-Presi- dent Wilson won another signal victory when the currency bill was practically agreed upon today. The Senate committee has been wrestling with the proposition for many weeks past and while the bill finally is not just what the President wanted it is fairly satisfactory to him and has received his approval. All the con- tested points have been agreed upon and the bill will soon be re- ported to the Senate.
 COLOGNE, Nov. 15.-The gov ernment has instituted suit to col lect the largest fine ever imposed in Germany. The Schwarz Brothers at Offenburg were sentenced to pay a fine of S750,000 and given several years in prison in addition on sev- eral convictions for smuggling alcohol from Switzerland to avoid duty. They are in jail but refuse to pay the fine on the ground that it is exhorbitant.
 SARNIA, Ont, Nov. 13.-A life boat upon which there was no name was picked up last night at Port Frank. It contained eight frozen corpses, presumed victims of re- cent storm.
 PEKIN, Nov. 14.-The Chinese parliament has been suspended. This action was taken this morning by vote of the joint session of the re- maining members of the two houses. It was on November that the struggle between the Chinese parlia ment and President Yuan Shi Kai brought about drastic action by the president. Lengthy presidential proclamations were issued at mid night expelling the Kwo Ming Tang party, numbering more than 300 members, from parliament.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.-| Quickly following the action of the Senate yesterday, the House this afternoon passed the bill relieving the Nome miners and others from doing assessment work this year on Seward peninsula. The bill was introduced by Senator Pittman and was a result of a recent appeal to Congress by the miners of the Nome district, urging that body to pass an act to suspend the annual assessment work on mining claims in the district for the year 1913. It is set forth in the appeal that the past season has been most disas trous one in the Nome district. Scarcity of water during the entire summer has prevented the miners from making cleanups and the out put of the camp was only 50 per cent of what it would have been under favorable conditions. The re- cent disaster at Nome has also de- prived many of the miners of their places of residence, and also of their winter outfits.
 HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 14.-This morning 5000 trainmen and engine men on the Atlantic division of the Southern Pacific railroad went out on a strike. The differences in clude 67 grievances, that of wages being among the number. If the tie-up continues it will prove dis astrous to the business interests of this section of the country. Efforts will be made to have both sides agree to arbitrate their differences.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. The bill introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Pitman, provid- ing that the miners of the Seward Peninsula shall be relieved from per-