The Chitina leader., 1913-02-11

/ CHICAGO, Feb. 11-Capt. Road
Amunsen. says that in his coming ex-
petition, after getting we'll into the
Arctic he will build an ice wall around
his ship aid settle down to five years
drifting.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11-Attorney
General Wiekersham declined to state
ito the House committee why he with
held the warrants against the officials
of the Standard Oil Company. of
Texas.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. IL The
House has passed the agricultural ap-
preparation bin of $17, 100000.
CHARLESTON, w. ", Feb. lin
a pitched battle between the striking
miners and authorities at Muchlow
seventeen people were killed and
forty injured. Twelve strikers, who
were acting as guards at the mine,
were arrested.
PRINCETON, Feb. 1O-President-
elect Wilson completed the first
draft of his inaugural address, but
was not satisfied with it and said that
he would rewrite it.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. ia
bill has been introduced in the Duma
for Consulates to be stationed at
Nome, Sitka, Seattle and Honolulu.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE SEN
ate has passed the House bill which
prohibits the shipment of liquor into
dry states.
PORTLAND, Feb. 11-Banker
Biehl was found guilty of irregulari-
ties in the conduct of the banks
business and sentenced to two year
term at McNeils island.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11-Presi-
dent-elect Woodrow Wilson has
reached the final state of elimination
in his painstaking process of select
ing Cabinet With nine Cabinet
posts to fill, the President-elect has
narrowed the list of possibilities to
less than 20, out of more than 100
whose fitness and claims for seat at
Cabinet table have been given extend
ed and serious consideration. AL
though all information has been ac-
companied by an injunction of strict
secrecy it became known in Wash
ington that in considering his Cabinet
the President-elect has had upper
most in his mind four obligations in
Cured in connection with his cam
paign for the Baltimore nomination.
Those obligations have been CLASH
fled in two ways. First comes the
personal obligation to William F. Nc
Combs, chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, closely followed
by the obligation to William Jennings
Bryan. Next, as it appeals to Gov
ernor Wilson, comes his obligation to
two States-Pennsylva and Texas.
Through all the ups and downs of the
Baltimore convention, 70 of the rs
delegates from Pennsylvania and the
solid delegation of 40 from Texas
stood unwaveringly behind the Will
son candidacy, refusing to break in
the face of the unprecedented situa-
ton created when Champ Clark Sc
cured majority of the convention,
and yet could not land the nomina-
ton. Governor Wilson recognizes
that break in either the Pennsylva-
MIA or Texas elegations would have
made his nomination impossible.
Under the circumstances President
elect Wilson, it was learned today,
feels it incumbent in selecting his
Cabinet to consider first of all Nc
Combs and Bryan and the States of
pennsylvania and Texas. McCombs,
however, it is learned, has been set
aside as Cabinet possibility. This
young lawyer organized the Wilson
pre-convention movement, and not
only gave literally of his own money,
but sacrificed his health in the heart
breaking work eliminating in the
Spectacular Baltimore fight. Gov
ernor Wilson, so it is stated, and Nc
Combs are agreed that the latter is
not to into the Cabinet.