The Chitina leader., 1913-12-30

that her house was on fire and tn
 President allayed her fears whil
 directing the men at their work I President Wilson had been t,
 Gulfport where he had spent tn
 morning on the golf course and wa
 returning home to Pass Christian. | LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec. 27.-
 Solomon Jackson and Edward Tate
 founders of Pineville, fought a due
 to the death here yesterday. The.
 clasped their left hands and witt
 revolvers in their right hand
 fought it out. Both are dead.
 The men had been friends fol many years but recently quarrelet and were very bitter. Mutua friends attempted to bring about al understanding but without avail. l SEATTLE, Dec. 27.-Mrs. Haz gard, the starvation cure doctor took her departure this morning fol the penitentiary unattended by guards. She will have to serve two years unless sooner pardoned. Mrs. Hazard was convicted of having been instrumental in hasten ing the death of Claire Williamson, a patient at her Olalla sanitarium, through starvation. She was con- victed here and appealed to the supreme court for new trial on a writ of error. The lower court was sustained and she must serve her sentence.
 SEATTLE, Dec. 27.-A mail sack which had been slit open and the letters rifled was discovered float ing in the bay this afternoon. The sack belonged to the Anacortes mail and contained 1,50O letters.
 When the mail clerk on the steamer was checking out here there was one sack missing and it was be- lieved that the error had been made at Anacortes. A warrant has been issued for his arrest pending an investigation of the affair.
 CHICAGO, Dec. 29.-President Mover, of the Western Federation of Miners, is under treatment here. Physicians state that his wound where he was shot in the back is not dangerous and he will speedily recover.
 The attorney for the Federation has announced that he will demand a grand jury investigation of the affair." Mover is fully convinced that his assailants, who entered his room in the hotel at Hancock were in the employ of the Citizens Ali ance. He has received hundreds of messages from unions in all parts of the country hoping for speedy recovery.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Uncle Sam, it was announced, will play Santa Claus during the year 1915 to hundreds of crippled soldiers and sailors of the United States army and navy, if he can secure an ap- propriation of $275,O0O from Con- gress. This large amount will be spent for wooden legs, artificial arms, glass-eyes, false teeth and similar articles. The year 1915 is the specified time for the renewal of this equipment"
 NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Crazed with the fear that he was the vic- tim of heart disease Henry Knell, secretary of the Philadelphia Steel | & Forge Company, killed his wife and their two children. He then wrote will and called an attorney and two neighbors to witness the instrument. When they had con- pleted the task he informed them what he had done and before they could interfere he placed the re volver to his head and fired bullet through his brain. He died instantly He willed the property to his owr and his wife's relatives.
 PARIS, Dec. 29.-Convicted last week of a series of thefts which he inspired his dog to commit, Will
 helm Volkamps, a German baker is serving a sentence of 30 days. Al
 Volkamps' trial it was shown tha
 he had subsisted for eight month; on choice cuts of beef, poultry, fisf and sausages which he had taugh
 his dog to steal from neighborins shops. The dog has been adopted