The Chitina leader., 1913-07-08
Late Telegraph News

SHERIDAN, Ore, July Lou w. Davis, who was paroled from the asylum, shot and killed his mother in-law, Mrs. G. w. Stewart and fatally wounded Ben Agee.
 LAWRENCE, Mass, July 1.-The wooden walk leading to the munich pal bath house at Merrimac collapsed and eleven boys were plunged into the water and drowned.
 SEATTLE, July 1.-Reports from the Central West show that the scorching rays of the sun killed S1 people yesterday.
 CHICAGO, July 1.-The heat wave of yesterday resulted in ten deaths and hundreds of prostrations.
 WASHINGTON, July 1.-Director Holmes of the bureau of mines has left for Seattle to take personal charge of the expedition which sails from Puget Sound on July for the Matanuska coal fields, where a thou sand tons of fuel will be mined for naval test as to its steamipg quali- ties. The expedition, which includes thirty men and equipment will be in charge of Engineers w. G. Evans and John T. Ryan and departs on the Admiral Sampson. The party will go direct to Knik and proceed from there to the coal fields by pack train
 PITTSBURG, July IA receiver for the Monongahela River Consoli- dated Coal & Coke Company, ESQ., 000,000 corporation, has been asked for by Alexander Dempster, a former president.
 ST. PAUL, July Judges San- born, Hook and Smith, sitting as a federal district court for the district of Utah, approved of the dissolution of the Union Pacific railway.
 DOUGLAS, Mexico, July 1.-One of the fiercest battles between the Constitutionalists and Federals took place on the streets of Guaymas yes. terday.
 WASHINGTON, July 1.-Congres- sional circles were thrown into an uproar yesterday by the sensational charges made by Martin M. Mulhall in reference to the "insiduous lobby which is now being investigated at the instigation of President Wilson Mulhall has issued published state. ment in which he declares that as a lobbyist for nine years for the National Association of Manufac- turers he had reached" and ''influ- enced" many representatives and senators. He goes into the matter at length, stating that he conducted his operations from room in the capi- tol. The publication of the article came like a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky, after so many legislators testifying that they knew nothing about the existence of any alleged lobby. The President told the cor respondents that he favored a thor ough investigation of the Mulhall charges.
 Mulhall today gave a list of those whom he alleged could be easily reached and influenced through busi- ness, political and sympathetic req sons, as follows: Former President Taft, Former Vice President Sher- man, Senators Lodge, Foraker, Nel- son, Aldrich, Gallagher, Stephenson, Hemenway and Scott: "Uncle Joe'' Cannon, Ambassadors, Governors Guild and Herrick, Former Post master General Gary and many representatives.
 NEW HAVEN, July 1.-Hon. Will liam H. Taft characterized the Null hall charges as another attempt at undertaking and absolutely untrue so far as he knew.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-John Kirby, jr., president of the National Association of Manufacturers, flatly repudiated MulhalPs statement that he ever acted as a lobbyist for their association.
 WASHINGTON, July 1.-There is now reason to believe that the ad- ministration is in earnest in it's ef- forts to secure the passage of the Alaska railroad bill before congress adjourns. After a poll of the Senate which showed that 5S members fav- ored the Jones' mberlain measure, while 3S are opposed to government ownership of railroads, it's passage by that body became certainty. Secretary of Interior Lane immedi- ately got busy with the house com- mittee on territories, which has ordered that hearings on the Alaska railroad bill will begin July g. The chairman of the committee an nnnnced that Secretary Lane urged