The Chitina leader., 1914-12-22
for nation-wids prohibition. It is

for nation-wide prohibition. It Is expected that an aye and nay vote will be taken before midnight, as a night session is being heid With probability of debate lasting ten
 hours. Friends of the measure are confident it will be. passed. while opponents are equally as sanguine
 that it will be defeated. SEATTLE, Dec. 22.-O. c. Eaton,
 H. G. Godfrey and. Carl Harger,
 Americans, bound fro mtne Colum-
 bia River in sloop to Alaska, for
 the alleged purpose Of hunting and
 trapping, were wrecked at Pachona
 Bay, British Columbia The author
 ities, extra watchfui and suspicious
 because Of the fear of invasion by
 Germans or bombardmeat of the
 province's larger seaports. arrested
 them and they were deported to Seattle as German spies. The boat and outfit were eonfiscated.
 WASHINGToN, Dec. 22.--Presi- dent Wilson stated today that the preliminary reports of the Alaska
 Engineering Commission are nearly ready and that it will soon be de- termined how soon work on the railway will be started and how it will be constructed. Two plans cf construction have been under cor sideration-one by day labor under supervision of the government, as at the Panama Canal; the other, bv contract.
 NACO, Ariz., Dec. 22.-General Hill, commander of the Mexican in surrectionists operating near here, entered into an agreement today with United States army officers that the Carranza forces will not pursue the Villa army if the latter with draws from Naco.
 WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.-The United States Commission on Indus trial Relations has commenced an inquiry into the land question at Dallas, Texas. The commission ;- thus getting close to one of the objects for which it was created-l to find the cause of industrial unrest and to propose to Congress construe- tive remedial measures. That taxa tion as a means of destroying land ! will have consideration is 1 also announced by the commission.
 Texas Es a good place to begin l such an investigation- Land mon opoly has made such progress there | that majority of the farmers are tenants. The state has had for some | time a Renters Union, which has just been changed into the Land League of America. This organiza- ton demands in it's platform that idle land should be taxed sufficiently to force it into use. its influence has been felt even by the Democratici politicians of the state. Governor olCCl T CI oCSui CSi hio ton by promising to take measures to curb lsndlordism- 1t remains to | be seen how practical or impractical he may turn out to be.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Wm. T. Jerome, one of the attorneys en- 1 gagged in the prosecution of Harry i Thaw, says that he has reason to be- ] lieve the defendant will start new habeas corpus proceedings.
 SAN DIEGO. Dec. 22.-Lieut. Jerstner of the army aviation corps was drowned today when his machine fell into the ocean while he was engaged in a trial flight here. L. c. Miller, his pilot, was rescued uninjured.
 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 21.-I Theodore J. Richardson, for p years a painter of Alaska scenery, died here today He made several trips along the coast and also in the interior securing subjects for paint ings which have attracted wide at tention wherever shown.
 Dae;5on+c of nnuoIaS Island