The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-03-17

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 16
The international tribunal assem-
bled here this morning to hear
testimony in the American and
British claims arising out of the
seizure of schooners in the Bering
Sea for violation of the sealing laws
CHICAGO, March Is. Mrs
Sophie Nieman, who identified the
body of an unknown man as her
husband and collected $1,000 life
insurance which Nieman carried,
has confessed to the coroner, that
the body was not that of her hus-
band. Nieman disappeared several
months ago and has never been
heard from although he is a men,
Der of several fraternal organiza-
lions who have been trying to locate
him.
CHICAGO, March 16.-Charles
Ellis, the Cincinnati leather mer-
chant, was convicted of numbering
his wife in this city, and was sem
fenced to Is years Imprisonment
this morning. The couple had been
married a number of years and had
two children. Mrs. Ellis had fallen
in love with Frank Caldwell, of
Brantford, Ontario, and had wired
him to meet her in Chicago. Her
husband followed her and made at
tempts to induce her to return to
her home and children When she
refused he shot her through the
heart and turned the revolver on
himself but failed to inflict a fatal
wound.
The federal judge before whom
the case was tried, after sentencing
the prisoner denounced Attorney
Remus, who had defended Ellis He
said, THE attorney for the defense
is disgrace to the bar. He accepted
the fees but abandoned his client at
the preliminary stage of the case"
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 10.
Clifford Pinchot was charged in the
House yesterday by Representative
William E. Humphrey, of Washing
terests to the detriment of the
nation. He said that Pinchot had
favored the government land ex-
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Fee Railroad Company, which he
characterized as "he greatest and
most outrageous footing of the pub
lie domain which has ever occurred
in the history of the nation"
Mr.. Humphrey was asked to offer
an explanation of the transaction for
not familiar with the facts of the
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said: 81 challenge any man to show
that Clifford Pinchot ever protested
against the steal under which the
Santa Fe Railroad Company secured
100000 acres of the best public
land in America in exchange for a
like number of acres of utterly
worthless land. The Santa Fe owned
100000 acres of untimbered,
worthless land which the officials of
the company estimated to be worth
in forest reserve and the company
advanced a proposition to trade the
land included in the reserve for
other land in a different part of the
state. Pinchot approved of the deal,
although he must have known that
the land was untimbered, on the
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induced to settle on the railroad
lands in the reserve might endanger
the rest of the forest through start
ing forest fires. 1t was land steal
whereby the Santa Fee was enriched
to the extent of many millions of
dollars at the expense of the nation.
Pinchot could see a man in Alaska
cutting a fishing pole put he could
not see the Santa Fee Railroad Com
pany getting 100000 acres at one
time
NEW ORLEANS, La, March ID.
The first draft of plan for the
United States reserve banks has
been obtained here. There will be
-, the full number authorized by
law. Three of the banks will be in
the East, at New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, four in the West, at
Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and
Minneapolis, two in the South, at
Atlanta and New Orleans; one in
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