The Chitina leader., 1914-12-15
Late Telegraph News|

 telephone systems of Hawaii and Porto Rico by the postottice depart ment. is recommended by Secretary Bufleson in his annual report. He says this department for the first time is self supporting and that the current fiscal year will show sur plus of $3,5O0,0OO.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 14.-- Rear Admiral Joseph Straus, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, recom- mends that Puget Sound be selected as the place at which to concentrate warsmunitions for the Pacific. !.
 WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.-Secre- tary3of the Navy Daniels has let the contract for six torpedo boat de- .stroyers-five. of them to be built .on the Atlantic coast and one on the Pacific at the Mare Island navI. yard Governor George W. eGoethals asks that destroyers be sent.4at once to the canal, for the purpose of enforcing neutrality while the European war is in progress
 CENTRALLY, Wash, Dec. IA Twenty-nlne strikers pickets were arrested at the Eastern Railway x Lumber Company's plant here under the new city ordinance which pro- hibits crowds from obstructing streets and forbids acts tending 10 provoke assaults. Eighteen pleaded guilty and were fined S5 and costs. Women took their places on the picket line, and were not molested. The men struck last September after their demands for 10 per cent 1n- crease were refused.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-The Gridiron Club, noted for the origin ality and humor of it's entertain ments, held it's first banquet of the season last night, President Wilson being present. The regular ami versary affair will take place in the near future, with a variety of enter taining features, when there will be served Alaska roast seal, seal cut let's and seal steaks with compil- n,ents of Dr. F. Lester Jones of the Fish Commission.
 VERA CRUZ, Dec. I4.-Generai Carranza in a statement issued to- day said that if the American troops returned the fire of Mexicans on the border at Naco, as threatened un- less shooting across into American territory was discontinued, it would be regarded as an act of war.
 KELSO, Dec. 14.-J. T. Van Horn, a farmer living short dis tance west of Kelso, is thinking Of applying somewhere or other for a prize for one of his Holstein cattle for her propensity for rapidly in creasing the herd. This COW gave birth to three calves, all perfectly normal and strong. N.-
 TACOMA, Dec. 12.-Asa Parker, a we'll knwon western trall-blazer and pioneer of Oregon, is dead at his home here. He was 92 years of age.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Emery Edwards, a stranger, registered at an uptown hotel from Colville. Wash, died last night. Old deeds found among his effects by the coroner show he was the represen- tative of an estate which once owned Park Row and the Astor House site, and also an interest in an estate in Holland valued at $S,OOO,000.
 NEW YORK Dec. 12.-Richard Garfield, widely known crooked gambler who, at the height of his career, was the owner of the most magnificently furnished resort in this city, died here last night.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-The New York Stock Exchange, closed since the commencement of the European war, reopened today and trading was active.
 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12-Twice a week, 1,2O0 Polish Falcons, resi- dents of this city, undergo gruelling military drill. Once a month they participate in field maneuvers. Sev- eral hundred women folk of Polish descent undergo training no less rigorous, some as nurses for wounded. some as amazons.
 These are but a part of the 10000 men and 4,O00 organized Polish women in America, who are await ing the opportune moment to strike for the freedom of Poland. Three previous uprisings of the roles-in 1880, l1S48, and lS63-failed to bring Independence to Poland as 3 nation, and that country is now divided between Austria, Russia and Germany. s4