The Chitina leader., 1913-07-15

pudiated his confession of seven murders committed in Ohio.
 WASHINGTON, July S.-Mrs. May Jorgensen, sister-in-law of Sem ator Poindexter and General Charles Morton, was attacked by a negro after she had retired.
 CHICAGO, July 8.-J. Henry Scott, of San Francisco, formerly engaged in mining at Nome, Alaska, committed suicide at a local hotel last night, by blowing out his brains in his room. No cause is assigned for the rash act.
 WASHINGTON, July 8.-Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo declared that the banking conditions at Pitts burg and throughout the entire country were good and the failure of the First and Second National banks of the former city were simply a sporadic case of unsound banking.
 WASHINGTON, July S.-Forty- seven senators have agreed to vote for the Underwood tariff bill as agreed upon in caucus. Senators Hitchcock and Culbertson are absent from the city, but are known to favor the bill, thus giving a majority of one.
 LONDON, July S.-The will of the late Sir John Murray, giving $5,- 100000 to Lady Sacville, has been sustained.
 WASHINGTON, July 8. - The President today appointed Frederick c. Penfield, of Pennsylvania, am- bassador to Austria.
 LONDON, July 8+The suffragettes burned in efigy, Sir William Lever, a noted physician and founder of Port Sunlight.
 HOUSTON, July S.-Lieutenant Loren H. Call, an army aviator, was instantly killed by the collapse and fall of an aeroplane.
 WASHINGTON, July s.-"If MT. Fisk does not resign as postmaster at San Francisco, he will be re- moved" declared Postmaster Gen. eral Burleson in discussing Fisk's refusal to vacate office after having been requested to do so by the de- partment.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July s.-The west slope of Tamalpais is afire and Muir woods are also in danger of being destroyed by the flames.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July S.-A thousand soldiers, civilians and fire men saved Muir woods and the Na- tional Sequoia Park from destruc- rion by the forest fires.
 SEATTLE, July S.-After declar- ing that he was too good for servile labor and reproaching the nation for not making life easy for him, J. D. Wilhite, Spanish-American sol- dier, committed suicide.
 KETCHIKAN, July 8.-That the steamship Curacao, of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co.,, which was wrecked near Warm Chuck, on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island recently, may be raised, is the opin- ion of shipping men. The vessel is reported as resting on an even keel near shore, with about IS feet of water covering her decks at low tide.
 Eleven large steel can buoys have just been received by the lighthouse inspector to be used to marke some of the most dangerous of the num- erous uncharted rocks which abound in this vicinity.
 It is largely owing to the untiring efforts of Ray L. Hankinson, in- spector in charge of the 18th dis  trict. say shipping men, that a neglectful government is induced to give even the few aids to navigation with which the dangerous waters of Alaska are marked. Ever since his appointment to the office in the North, Hankinson has lost no oppor- tunity to impress on the government the necessity of numerous buoys and lighthouses to guide the navigator through the hazardous places along the entire Alaskan coast.
 Since the wreck of the steamships Yukon and Curacao, both of which, 1t is asserted by steamhip men, might yet be afloat had the coast of Alaska been properly surveyed and buoyed, it Is expected that the fed- eral government will awaken to the needs of the territory. Although the Yukon was steaming over a course but little used, yet the route is trav- eled enough to merit the protection of ships by buoys and lighthouses.
 The west coast of Prince of Wales Island. is for the most part not even surveyed by the government. Most of the charts fin use by the govern ment have been prepared by the captains of the numerous vessels which ply those waters.