The Chitina leader., 1913-07-22
Late Telegraph News


 indorsement of President Wilson and Attofney-General McReynolds, the Southern Pacific-Union Pacific merg. CT dissolution plan was presented tc the United States district court to. day. It provides for the sale of 338.000,000 of Southern Pacific stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad and the acceptance by the Union Pacific Of $42,oO0,oOO of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad stock in return.
 SPOKANE, July 17.-Executors of the estate of John Enos, stockman, who died here in 1911, are prepar- ing to carry out the verdict of the jury which held Kampitke Syelo, an Indian squaw, is entitled to half the property. valued at $250,000.
 It was shown the Indian woman, now more than 50 years old, had been the wife of Enos in the early days. bore him three children and was then deserted, the white man marrying a Portuguese woman at Boston. The second wife is awarded the remainder of the fortune.
 PARIS, July 16.-Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, widow of the late South ern Pacific Railroad magnate, was married here this morning to Henry K. Huntington, nephew of her former husband.
 MILWAUKEE, July 16.-After leaving her home in Decatur, Ill.,, and coming to Milwaukee with the man who promised to marry her, Miss Pansy Reynolds. aged 19, finds her self penniless and deserted in strange city. At police headquarters the girl told her story and her par ents have been notified.
 SALISBURY, Md, June 30.- Harold Smith, general manager of the Home Gas Company of this place, was held by the coroner's jury as an accessory before and after the fact to the criminal operation that resulted In the death of Florence Wainwright. Smith was arrested later and arraigned before justice of tho peace.
 Miss Wainwright was the book keeper of the gas company and was s4 years of age. Her body was found in the office of the company. A med teal sexamination showed that death had been caused by a criminal opera ton performed few hours before. Smith is about 40 years of age, mar fied, and prominent in business here.
 ROCHESTER. Minn.. July IT, Upon the deftness and skill of sur geons at the Minnesota State Hos pitsl here depends the solution of what has for four years been one of the most mysterious cases of lost identity in the Middle West. After four years. surgeons at the hospital announced today they will operate on "J. c. R." man of 40 or 45 years of aSe. who was found wandering aimlessly about the depot at Waseca, Minn., one evening in June, 1903. The man is known as U. c. R." because those initials were found sewed to the lining of his coat. In the four years the man has been at the hospital he has not uttered a word. At first he was sickly. but he Is now robust and healthy. The man appears to hear and understand, but when 1t comes to expressing his thoughts by means of signs his mind seerns to fail him, and it has been with greatest difficulty that the physicians have learned the little they know about him. It is believed he was sailor. Through showing him pictures it has been decided he was an officer, probably in the navy or possibly as member of some Arctic expedition. Through pub licity given the case during the past four years, state officials have re. ceived thousands of letters from persons in search of missing loved ones.
 Physicians would have operated long ago, but they feared the mans health would not permit it. The oper ation will be performed at once.
 NEW YORK, July 1S.-Presiden Mellin, of the New York, New Haver { Hartford Railroad Company, ha rendered his resignation as head O that company and it's subsidiar! corporations.
 WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Presi dent Wilson today sent to the senat the names of Charles s. Hartman, a minister to Ecquador and John Mon tom n. aypt<n1 9toknns vvn n vuhol fo