The Chitina leader., 1914-12-22
Late Telegraph News

out property to the value o
 $2,000,O00.
 l WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Finan
 cial conditions throughout the country are greatly. improved, ac
 cording to reports received by the
 federal reserve board
 I The steamer Admiral Evans was aground on Bird Island reef neal Port Graham for several hours Tuesday, but tloated of on the next high tide without having sustained any serious injury. This informa- 1 tion reached Cordova Wednesday
 evening through passengers arriv- l ing from the westward on the Mari
 posa. The Evans reached Seward
 yesterday and is expected to arrive
 here tomorrow on her way south.
 DENVER, Dec. 17.-Frank P. Walsh, one of it's members, an- | nounced today that the Federal Commission on Industrial relations
 will resume it's hearings here Janu- ary II, when the probe will be in- serted into the coal strike. situation.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The Senate today ratified the London conventions action intended to bring about greater safety at sea through addition of life-boats and other equipment for passenger vessels.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. IT, The cruiser Tacoma has been ordered to the Panama Canal to aid in enforcing neutrality. She left Guantanamo, Cuba, today for Chris tobal.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-An inves- Irtigation is to be commenced here by the large institutions engaged in charitable and benevolent work, of the charge that the Rockefeller and other foundations established by multimillionaires are engaged in an effort to perpetuate the present posi- tion of depradatory wealth. This effort is manifested, it is claimed, through the corruption of public sources of information, thus consti- tuting menace to the nation.
 SEATTLE, Dec. 19.-Cutting the railroad rate almost in half, the American-Hawaiian steamer Ohioan will carry the first shipment of Washington apples to New York through the Panama Canal. The Ohioan is now loading general cargo at Sound ports. The first shipment of 20 carloads. 12,000 boxes. al- though experimental, is probably the first rivulet of an immense stream which will pour out from the north west. About 3O,000 carloads of apples are raised every year in the four northwestern states, and these must find an outlet. The railroad rate is s1 hundred pounds, but the new rate by water is only 5 cents, or 271a cents box.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. = The war in Europe has developed at least one new line of governmental activity wherein the United States is now acting as bureau Of infor- nation and clearing house for over i 9O,O0O American mineral producers and manufacturers
 The interference with shipping on lthe beginning of hostilities called sharp attention to the fact that the i United States had been importing many minerals and mineral products 1 the raw materials which exist Tn large and workable quantities in the i United States. It has been, how ever, little easier, or possibly, a i little cheaper, to import such ores than to develop them at home. The shutting off of imports immediately
 raised such questions as Have We magnesite?" or Have we ferro-
 manganese?" or "What clays have we in the United States?" and the public statements at once given out
 by Secretary of the Interior Lane and by the Geological Survey re-
 garding our American mineral re
 serves naturally resulted in in quiries from thousands of American firms.
 I A heavy correspondence has
 grown out of this condition, ane
 often a single mail brings requests
 from certain manufacturers to be
 placed in touch with producers o raw material, and also statement: , from the producers themselves tha , they are ready to supply the demand l for raw material.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Th' Eleventh, Eighteenth and Twenty second regiments from Texas Cit.
 and three regiments from Galveston l have been ordered to Naco, Ariz, to enforce the order intended t' } prohibit Mexicans from firing acros