The Chitina leader., 1914-11-24

an Indicated chart depth of nine and one-half fatnoms to a bare two fathoms at high water, making it impossible for vessels of large Idraught to use the passage.
 Captain Peterson believes the change Is due to volcanic disturb ances on Bogoslof Island and III unalaska.
 VERA CRUZ, Nov. 24.-General Agular has succeeded General Funs- ton of the American forces as mili- tary governor of this port and has announced that he will execute any one found footing.
 CHICAGO, Nov. 24.-Frederick 5. Fish, 8 South Bend, Ind, manufac- turer has returned from London
 with 15,o00.oOo order for auto mobiles. wagons. sleds and harness. l. VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 23.-
 Four football players, returning from a game at Coquitlam, were drowned when their auto plunged of the wharf into Pitt River. SEATTLE, Nov. 23.-A man
 answering the description of the lone surviving member of the gang ! which robbed the Sedro-Woolley
 bank October IT, was arrested here
 on suspicion and taken to Mt. Vei-
 non, where he was identified as tht one who stood guard outside while
 his companions, who were subse-
 quently killed, robbed the bank If $12,000. Skagit county authoritie.
 are searching for cache supposed
 to contain s6,000, of the money. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-On be-
 half of Alaska, Secretary of Con- merce Re.dfeld in his annual report asks Congress for a uqarter Of |;
 million dollars for a new lighthouse tender to replace the Armeria, which was lost off Hinchinbrook Island ill 1912, and also for three new survey
 ships to replace the Endeavor, Ged ney and McArthur, which have about
 outlived their usefulness. He also
 urges an appropriation for the ex- tension of the wireless system iI
 Alaska.
 BORDEAUX, Nov. 24.-France
 will participatae in the Panama ex- position as an expression of gool | will towards the American govern
 ment and has placed at the disposal lof exhibitors a naval vessel which
 will leave French port in January
 George Hutchinson, cashier of the
 First National Bank at Fairbanks
 arrived on the train from the ln- terior this afternoon and is going l outside for the first time in 15 Iyears.
 FAIRBANKS, Nov. 1S.-John l Howie, Jr., head of the Independent | service and pioneer of 1898, died
 suddenly yesterday of appendicitis
 and complications. He was former resident of Seattle and was employed by the Moran Company.
 | SKAGNAY, Nov. 23-The Oomin- | ion government has notified the
 White Pass & Yukon Railway Com pany that all mail must be carried between White Horse and Dawson 1 each trip of the stage during the | winter. Formerly, the railway company suited it's own convenience as to the amount taken, because of
 trail conditions. Full service is now possible because of the government
 expenditure of over $200,000 on the road in three years in maintenance, l repairs, shortcuts and ferries on
 the Yukon, the Pelly and the Stew art rivers. From now on the Yukon terri tory will be on the same mail basis
 as any other part of Canada, as all
 former onerous restrictions of the postoffice department have been removed.
 TENNESSEE, Nov. 24.-Henry Siegel. the defunct New York mer- chant who did a big banking busi-
 ness cn the side with deposits of his
 employees and patrons, was found guilty of a misdemeanor and was
 sentenced to ten months imprison-
 ment and to pay fine of $5,OO0. | OLYMPIA, Nov. 24.-Prohibition becomes a law next month, but US
 provisions are not effective until
 January l, 1916, according to an
 opinion given Governor Lister by
 Attorney General Tanner. The con stitution provides that initiative
 measures become effective 30 days
 after the election but the prohibition
 bill set January 1, 1916. Ruling on the question of the conflict, Tanner