The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-01-20
Late Telegraph News

PLYMOUTH, Jan. 16.-ihe Brit
ish submarine Al while maneuver
I ing in the sound failed to come tt
the surface and it is feared that al
OF board have persisted.
TOXIC, Jan. 16.-The commander
of the naval squadron who is il
charge of the rescue work in the
earthquake district estimates that
the dead on Sakura island alone will
number 1000. The stricken resi-.
dents are being taken from the
island as it is covered several fee,
deep with ashes. The shore of the
gulf near Kogshima is strewn with
the bodies of those who were
drowned while trying to swim across
when the earthquake was at its
severest.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Isaac o. Jor-
dan, a wealthy clubman and son-in-
law of Judge Peter S. Grosscup,
killed himself in the parlor of the
Palmer House last night. His wife
recently. secured divorce on the
grounds that he was Incorporate.
He has been on a spree for more
than a month and was under sur
veillance by his friends as he had
threatened suicide.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. IL
General Bliss, commanding the
troops on the Texas border, has
notified the department that his
men have arrested General Salazar,
the Mexican general. The message
also conveys the information that
refugees have reported the death of
General Orozco, the rebel leader.
SAN FRANCISCO, JAM, IL
Blanche Wood, "a years of age and
of striking appearances, shot her
self yesterday in the presence of
her uncle, A. B. Wood. Police were
summoned and while they were
present the grief stricken relative
seized the revolver and sent bull
let through his brain.
SEATTLE, Jan. 1.-THE schoon-
er Grams, with six members of the
crew, have arrived in tow of the
tug Goliath. The revenue cutter
with the captain and
five members of the crew who left
has reported at Port Townsend.
SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 19.-F.
Lewis Clark, the Spokane million
aire mining man, is believed to
have committed suicide here yes
terday His coat and hat were found
at a place which indicates that he
may have jumped from the cliff.
Mystery surrounds the finding of
the articles as the man who wore
them registered at a hotel under
name and shortly after
Papers in the coat iden-
titles it as the property of Clark.
The police have wired Spokane for
particulars.
CAPETOWN, Jan. 19.-The rail-
way strike was brought to sudden
close yesterday when the operating
force decided to resume work and
trust their case to arbitration. Traf-
fic has been tied up for more than
a week, only mail trains being oper-
ated under government supervision.
The men were striking for better
wages and a recognition of their
union.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 19.-All hope
has been abandoned of saving the
lives of the crew of the submarine
AT which stopped on the bottom OF
the sound while being tested and
failed to come to the surface. No
signals have been answered since
Saturday morning and the crew Of
II men have undoubtedly persisted.
forts are being made to bring ..4e
tain the cause of the disaster. The
officers signalled that the machin-
cry of the vessel was out of COM
mission when she failed to come to
the surface and reported "all safe
but no more messages have been
received.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 19.-Thirteen
members of the crew of the schoon-
er Fuller Palmer were rescued from
the ship when in a sinking condi-
ton off Cape Cod by ting. steamer
mariana. The crew were exhausted
from their long battle to keep the
leaking schooner afloat.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 49,
Formr Senator George Turner, Of
Washington state, has resigned
from the International boundary
commission and left for his home in
Spokane last night. He will enter
the senatorial race. He is a repub
lican in politics but was elected te
the senate for the 1S97-1903 tern
by the Peoples Party, fusion Of