The Chitina leader., 1914-01-06
Late Telegraph News

was averted.
 \ After the payment the two tribe engaged in an elaborate festival, tn, principal event being an eight da.
 peace dance. Each tribe danced fou
 days and nights, and no one left tn, circle until he was entirely ex
 hausted.
 | Had not the indemnity been pait
 to the Crow tribe, fo rthe injury o their member, Chief Mckinley woult have declared war against the Crows and for time at least lawIessness and bloodshed would have run rife among the two factions.
 ROME. Jan. Pope Plus has just called to Rome and conferred unusual decorations and honors upon Signora Angela de Oliveria Coasre de Costa. Signora De Cli- veria is president of the South Am- erican Association for Universal Peace and was called to Rome from the Hague where she had just un- yelled statue to peace which she had presented as one of the orna- ments to Andrew Carnegie's peace palace.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Morgan & Co.,, bankers, have announced that they have severed connections with some of the greatest corporations of operations more closely to a strictly banking and financial business.
 The directors state that the change is due to the apparent pub- lie sentiment respecting the inter- locking directorate system which has been followed by the big cor porations as means of protecting their investments. They announce that before the end of the year they will have withdrawn from scores of corporations and will resign from the board of directors of the differ ent corporations as fast as possible.
 PEKIN, Jan. 3.-Official figures issued by the government shows that 24,0O0 persons were executed in the province of Szechuen alone during the year 1913. The offenders were convicted of robberies or politi- cal offences punishable with death sentence.
 In one instance a whole company of soldiers who revolted against the government were executed, not an officer or soldier escaping. The country has also been overrun with bandits who were soldiers in the revolution which resulted in the overthrow of the Manuchurian dyn- asty and the establishment of the Republic of China. Thousands of sold :ers who had responded to the call of arms when the rebellion broke out failed to find employment when the war closed and continued to live by raiding the country.
 Political offenders are hastily brought to judgment and thousands of sympathizers with the old order of things have been tried and exc cuted on charges of being in con- spiracy to overthrow the republic.
 PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 3.-Mrs. Fern Hobbs, private secretary of Governor Oswald West, went to Copperfield yesterday and read the governors orders to the saloon men there tn close their places of busi- ness. The saloon men paid no at tention to the order and now Gov ernor West declares he will close the saloons even if he has to declare martial law and patrol the town with state troops.
 The town of Copperfield went dry at the last election but the law did not come into effect until January 1. The proprietors of the liquor houses have formed an association and engaged attorneys to defend their cases. They are keeping open on instructions of the attorney who desires to make a test case and will carry it to the higher court.
 COPPERFIELD, Ore, Jan. B. Governor West has carried out his threat to close the saloons in this town. He landed the state troops