The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-03-17
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SEATTLE, March II. - Mayor
Gill has appointed DIR. j. G. Mcbride
health commissioner of the city. He
is making his appointments from
the ranks of all parties and declares
that competency and honesty is the
basis upon which he is making his
selections.
LONDON, March Thames Cor
don Bennett, proprietor of the New
York Herald, is seriously i'll aboard
of his yacht at Suez. He is rs
years of age and has been in i'll
health for some time and was
advised to take the southern trip il
the hope of regaining his health
AUBURN, March 1.-THE private
bank of Auburn in this county, has
Fclosed its doors, after a short run
on it's funds. The deposits amount to
more than 100000 with little
prospect of more than small frac-
tion being realized. There are
rumors that the officers have been
specializing with the funds of the
| Jain inc SOuIIS Will Ue dShGu
to order an investigation.
SEATTLE, March 17.-Captain !.
H. Griffith, disbursing officer in the
quartermaster' office here, has been
suspended and is confined to his
quarters under guard while a re-
ported shortage in his accounts IS
being investigated. There is
rumor that he is many thousands of
dollars short and that others are
implicated. His arrest has caused
a sensation as he was one of the
most popular officers.
SAN FRANCISCO, March IL
| President Charles c. Moore of the
Panama-Pacific International EXPOSE
ton has announced that all main
exhibit palaces will be ready for
installation of exhibits by July Of
this year. When the exposition
opens on February 90, 1915, more
than $4,000 exhibitors from all
parts of the globe will be installed
i in the huge palaces.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE
National Child Labor committee,
which convened here on Sunday
afternoon last, will continue their
sessions until March 49, Two score
of the most prominent advocates Of
better child labor laws, representing
as many states, are in attendance.
The subjects which will be dis
cussed today are: THE backward
ness of the Southern states and the
exemptions that weakens the laws of
other states" and "Devising WAYS
and means of raising funds to carry
on the work in a more compre-
hensive scale than it has been in the
past
SEATTLE, March 17.-Mayor Gill
was banquetted last night at the
New Washington Hotel in honor of
his having again en- elected as
chief executive of the city by the
citizens, after wing been recalled
Gill declared that he would never
again run for public office and that
he had only entered the mayoralty
race to secure complete vindication
of any stigma which might be at
tached to his recall. He had been
vindicated and would show the citi-
zens of Seattle that their confidence
in his honesty had not been mis-
placed.
4 PARIS, March 17.-Victo~ Augag-
neur, vice president of the Chamber
of deputies, was assaulted by
woman today during the opening
ceremonies of the parliament, while
surrounded by the members of the
cabinet The woman has been sing
ing in a music hall but is a stranger
to her intended victim.
The police believe that the attack
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Callmette of Figaro, by the wife of
Minister Cuillaux, but are taking
precautions to guard all public
officials fearing that the unsuccess-
full attempt to take the life of the
vice-president is part of a plot by
anarchists. The singer is evidently
mentally unbalanced by the killing
of the editor and has declared that
his death must be avenged.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March IT,
Women suffragettes are organizing
in this state under the leadership of
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw of the Ma
tlonal Sutfragette organization, and
will make an attempt to secure the
defeat of Representative Underwood
who is a candidate for the United
States Senate
Representative Underwood has de-
clared against suffrage and has
pledged the Democratic party
against it. The women will cam
paign for Hobson who is in the race
for the senatorship against the
leader of the Democratic majority in
the House.
PARIS, March 17.-Gaston CAL
mette editor of the Daily Figaro,
was shot and dangerously wounded
in his office by Madame Henriette
Callaux, wife of the French minister
of finance. The journalist had at
tackled her husband in his editorials
charging grating and incompetency.
After firing two bullets into her
victim the woman calmly submitted
to arrest and accompanied the officer