The Chitina leader., 1914-12-29

homeless people Of Belgium.
 T INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 26.-Mayol
 Roberts of Terra Haute and 64
 others have been arrested on the charge of committing election fraud:
 last November.
 | SEATTLE, Dec. 26.-A. K. Beat
 son, discoverer of the big copper mine at Latouche now operated by the Alaska Syndicate, died here to. day. Mir. Beatson was about 6C
 years of age- For his half interest
 in the Latouche island property he received half a million dollars. it js claimed by people in his confidence five years ago, since which time he has resided in Seattle.
 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.-Gov- ernor J. F. A. Strong stated before l leaving here for home that Alaska s insane in the. Morningside asylum at Portland are not being properly cared for. He will call the atten- 1 tion of the authorities at Washing 1 ton to the matter.
 MANILA, Dec. 26.-Eight Fili- ] pines have been arrested here j,charged with sedition as a result of an abortiye instruction in the en- Tifons of this city From army sources it is learned that a warning was sent all officers Thursday that 10000 Filipinos in Manila alone were ready for a concerted attack on the forts at Santiago, Curatel Es- l pana, Cuarta Infantia and the madi- i cal depot. The insurrectionists ex- pected to take the city by surprise during Christmas festivities. It is believed in official circles that the arrest and punishment of the most prominent leaders will deter their followers from making any further demonstrations. Among these lead CTS are several who caused trouble during the first uprising after the Spanish-American war.
 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.-John Muir, famous naturalist, geologiss, and explorer died at his home here today. He was the discoverer of the Muir glacier in Southeastern Alaska, which bears his name, spent several seasons engaged in research in the north and was a member of the party sent out on the old revenue cutter Corwin to search in the Arctic for the lost DeLong ex- petition. Mir. Muir was born at Dunbar, Scotland, April 21, 1888. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Charles M. Schwab, one of the big stock holders in the steel trust, who has just returned from abroad, said that the warning nations have placed contracts in this country amounting to more than S300,0UO,000, since the beginning of the war. Mr. l Schwab predicted the greatest era of prosperity this country has ever | known will be the result of indus trial activities now being inaugur- ated here.
 EVERETT, Wash, Dec. 24.-The city commission has in part solved the problem submitted to them by the unemployed, by providing a fund of $3,5O0 which is to be ex- pended in employment of married men in clearing a new park and in improving streets. This sum, it is contemplated, will keep until mills and camps open in the spring those who are in the most destitute con dition. A wage of $2.65 was fixed. Sixty men took advantage of this opportunity for work, the first day, and about the same number are em- ployed at smaller wages by an indi- vidual land owner who has set aside | s4,000 for the purpose.
 TUCSON, Dec. 24-The entire country from Phoenix to the Mexi- can border is devastated by floods caused by unusually heavy winter rains. Several persons have been drowned and the property damage
 will amount to several millions ot dollars.
 SEATTLE, Dec. 24.-Forty shots
 were exchanged in running fight
 between policemen and cracksmen
 last night on Ninth avenue, in the
 residence district. Two of the crooks
 were wounded but succeeded in
 escaping. None of the police force was injured.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Mrs
 Mary Corse and her three little chil
 dren and her niece were. burned tc
 death today, when trapped by flames
 in an apartment house.
 I SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. "A. The
 transport Buford, carrying the Thir- teenth Infantry regiment, sailed fol New York today, having been
 ordered to the Plattsburg barracks i OTYMpIA Dac cdrsh p,ovapnant