The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-03-10
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| TERRA HAUTE, Ind, March IL.
Bert Dickens. carpenter, has
been indicted by federal grand
jury for conspiracy to kill Judge
Charles M. Fortune, of the circuit
court, Felix Blankenber, special
judge who is hearing the election
fraud cases and Joseph Roach, spe-
cial United States prosecutor in the
case.
The court officials recently re-
| ceived information that an attempt
would be made upon their lives
and secret service detectives were
| indictment of Dickens. The detect
ives claim that the accused is only
tool in the case having been hired
/ to destroy the court officials and as
much of the evidence as possible in
the hopes that the principals might
escape. Sensational developments
! are promised as it is understood
that some of the most prominent
| men in the district are implicated
| in the conspiracy.
! PORTLAND, March. 11.-W. c
Barker, a millionaire clubman, has
| been sentenced to serve five days on
| the rock pile for auto speeding
within the city limits. He will take
an appeal and declares he will spend
! half his fortune before serving the
sentence.
Barker has already appeared in
court on two former occasions when
he was fined $40 and $50 respec-
| lively He was cautioned that under
the ordinance the third offense was
| punishable only by Imprisonment.
The speed ordinance was ordered
rigidly enforced after two children
had been killed in one day by joy
| riders. In one case the driver was
SO intoxicated that he was unable
to tell the police where he lived.
| PORTLAND, March 11.-Port-
land claims the honor of being the
first Pacific coast city to begin
boom for the appointment of one of
] its citizens as member of the
/ Alaska Railroad commission which
it is believed President Wilson will
appoint.
Captain Ellicott, the retired in
spector of the 18th lighthouse dis
trict, is the man whom the citizens
! of this city would like to see become
a member of the commission. 1t
is realized that Seattle and other
cities will shortly begin pulling
wires for the appointments and
Portland decided to beat them to it.
Captain Ellicott will have the en-
dorsement of all the commercial
organizations of the city and as the
| senators and representatives from
this state took a prominent part in
| the fight for the passage of the
Alaska railroad bill, making the APP
ointment of the commission neces-
sary, it is hoped he may be able to
| land the situation.
| PARIS, March 11.-Official infor-
nation has been received reporting
heavy loss of life on the island OF
Madagascar from tidal wave
caused by a cyclonic storm which
swept in from the ocean. The wind
gained a velocity of more than 70
miles per hour and caused noun
famous waves to roll in engulfing
many towns along the coast.
PEKING, March 11.-Cninese
brigands sacked and burned the city
of Las Hakow last night and car
ried off a number of Europeans as
hostages for ransom. DR.. 7. Froy-
land, a Norwegian missionary, was
killed during the battle between the
citizens of the town and the bandits
before the capture of the city.
Hundreds of Chinese merchants
who resisted the bandits in their
raids on the business houses were
killed and their bodies thrown into
the streets. 1T is estimated that the
army of bandits number fully 5000
men.
SEATTLE, March Ill. H.
Howe, city health inspector, was
. shot and dangerously wounded to-
day by G. ]. Butterworth, a painter,
whose home and premises he was
examining. Howe is in the hospital
and is not expected to recover
Butterwortn gave himself up to the
police after the shooting, which is
believed to have been due to
jealousy.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March H..
DR.. Barton w. Everman, chief or
the Alaska fisheries service, has sent
his resignation to the bureau. He
has accepted the dictatorship of the
museum in the California Academy
of Sciences in San Francisco. He
. mas Deen In the government SURVIVE
for a numbr of years and was slated
, for the appointment as chief OF the
. bureau which the department IS
urging the government to establish
;; in Seattle.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 10.
. The supreme court of the United
!, States has refused to review the tes-
, timony in the appeal case of the
Indianapolis dynamiters who were
convicted and sentenced to long
terms in prison.