The Chitina leader., 1913-02-11

Joslin, of Fairbanks, appeared before
a House committee today and defend.
ed the individual locators of coal
claims in Alaska. He stated that he
knew of them personally, some OF
whom were old pioneers and all OF
them of integrity and industry, whose
rights had been deprived them and
their characters assailed He made
strong plea for legislation that
would open up Alaska.
WASHINGTON, Feb. president
and Mrs. w. H. Taft gave reception
yesterday to the officers of the Army
and Navy.
tendent VIM. T. Loop, reports that
the reindeer of Alaska, during the
past twenty years Melted the govern
ment 100000.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5-Since the
opening of the pacel post service, one
express company with headquarters
in this city has discharged IS en-
ployes. In substantiation of this re-
port it was pointed out that Uncle
Sans own express service, even at
this early stage, is transacting an
enormous amount of buiness far in
excess of the predictions made by
the stanchest advocates of it's adop-
ton.
WASHINGTON Feb. = The
House is fighting the bill to appropri-
ate 100000 for the Panama Ex-
position at San Francisco.
NEW YORK, Feb. editor Will
lam Randolph Hearst enjoins the
signing of contracts for the construc-
ton of s3O0,000,O00 subway.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-The Re-
publicans in the Senate yesterday
made another Intellectual effort to Sc
cure the confirmation of the many
federal nominations recently made
by President Taft.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5-A score of
hungry pets-cats and dogs, and a
parrot and turtle-crying for food,
led neighbors to break into Brook
Ign apartment during the night,
where they found Fannie Luff, a
charity worker, so years old dead.
1t is believed she had been dead since
Saturday, probably having succumb-
ed to heart disease. A policeman
who led the invading party of neigh
bors was almost bowled over by the
rush of hungry dogs and cats which
had long before pick clean to the
bone number of lamb chops strewn
about the floor.
w. H. Holden, of Boston, arrived
today on his way to the interior,
where he is interested in some good
quartz property.
NEW YORK, Feb. George Prim-
rose, the well-known minstrel, has
been divorced from his wife.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5-From New
York banker and broker to an ex-
pressman is the unusual and sudden
of Clarence Pierce Brok-
aw, son of the late Theodore Pierce
Brokaw, prominent New York bank
er. Brokaw, who is cousin of w.
Gould Brokaw, millionaire club man,
is working as an expressman at Colo
RADIO Springs to regain his health.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-Andrew
Carnegie urges the linking of North
and South America by railroads, as
it would be of a great value in a
peace propaganda.
PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 5-The
federal grand jury has returned in
dictments against ten large commits
sion men, charging them with con-
spiracy.
CONCORD, Feb. attorney Hen
ry F. Hollis, a Democrat is within
seven votes of being elected United
States Senator by the New Hamp-
shire legislature and as there appears
to be no hope of breaking the dead
lock the Republicans are willing to
submit the choice of Senator Burn
hams successor to preferential pri-
maries.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5-Thomas A.
Edison said that he believed that the
end of the present legitimate stage
was at hand as result of his newest
invention, talking motion picture
machine called the kinetophone,
which proved successful in recent
demonstration. The inventor ex-
planned why he thinks the present SO
show must give way to the cheaper
form of amusement, which he de-