The Chitina leader., 1914-09-08

$500
today Considerable interest centers
in the fight for the Democratic
nomination for United States seu
ator.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-Presi
dent Wilson announced today thai
owing to the unlocked for interna
tional situation he would not make
speaking tour during the coming
campaign, Previous arrangements
and promises had been maze before
the war spectre hove in sight.
WINNIPEG, Sept S.-Explorer
Stefansson is marooned in the ice
off Herschell Island. A statement
to this effect was made today by
Rev. w. H Frye, who just arrived
from the Arctic. Frye bases his as
sertion from a letter which he re-
ceived on June Sth from an Eskimo.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-The
President has sought to end the
Colorado strike, which has been a
menace to the prosperity and peace
of large mining section of the
state. He has appealed to the en-
ployees to adopt the tentative basis
of adjustment drawn by Secretary OF
Labor Wilson. Word has come that
the matter would be given due con-
sideration. There is a general hope
in administration circles that the
plan of Secretary Wilson will be
adopted. He. was international
secretary-treasurer of the United
Mine Workers of America for eight
years, prior to being elected 10
Congress and is supposed to know
the real needs of the miners.
WASHINGTON, Sept. THE
Democratic members of the ways
and means committee have virtually
agreed upon the commodities sus-
ceptible to taxation to raise the
deficit of 0O,O0O,000 in revenues,
caused by the war. The tax will
include half a dollar on a barrel of
beer, 20 cents per gallon on domes-
tic wines, tax on all distilled
liquors and soft drinks, and on
proprietary medicines.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-Under
the auspices of the American Anti
tuberculosis Associations, national
"consumptive census" was begun to-
day through all American churches.
Church ministers will report the
number of tubercular deaths and
cases in their charges for submission
to the Fifth Annual Anti-Tubercu-
losis Congress, November %.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Report
was received here of a serious riot
that occurred last night aboard the
German steamship Butcher in the
harbor of Pernambuco, Brazil. The
war question was under discussion
among the steerage passengers and
it became so boisterous that officers
were compelled to interfere The re-
suit was a general riot in which guns,
knives and various heavy articles
were freely used. Before order was
finally restored three officers and SO
of the steerage passengers had been
killed.
ST PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 4.-Pros-
poets for suffrage victories in North
and South Dakota this fall look SO
rosy to suffrage leaders in those
two states and the northwest in
general that the Dakotas are being
placed positively in the Votes for
women" column by enthusiastic cam
paigners. Next to the harvests,
nothing is creating so much interest
in these great wheat raising belts as
the suffrage campaigns. The women
count upon the enormous wheat crop
to help pile up their VOTE Organiza-
ton workers say they have found
farmers in such a cheerful frame OF
mind that boosting the campaign in
the rural districts has been an easy
matter.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.-The
settled market conditions and the
lack of quotations have resulted in
smelters making provisional settle
ments on shipments of ore. Advances
on the copper content of ore will be
made at the rate of 10 cents per
pound and final settlement will be
made with producers when market
conditions again become settled. AT
the present time the copper produc'
ers are curtailing production to the
extent of about 30,000,O00 pounds
per month, and there is reason to be
lieve that this figure will be e.x
ceeded before long, as copper being
contraband of war is liable tt
seizure If consigned to the ports o.
belligerent countries and producer!
can look to no market for the pres
ent in this direction. The magni
tude of the European market is evi
denced by the fact that the presen