The Chitina leader., 1914-11-03
Late Telegraph News

| OOnl-lnQlcatlOnS are that
 Woman's suffrage is overwhelmingl, defeated. Home rule for cities will probably carry.
 i RENO, Nov. 2.-Senator Key Pitt mann, Supreme Justice P. A. McCar
 ran and several politicians engaged
 in a heated discussion on a street
 corner yesterday and soon drew { big crowd, causing considerable :, excitement.
 l LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2.-Genera,
 Chaffee, former chief of staff of the
 army, died here this morning, hay.
 ing resided here. for some time past I ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2.-Scott Stone
 an army recruit, was arrested yes
 terday on the charge of murder. He
 afterwards confessed that he had
 killed his wife and four children at
 Ioiono, H., administering poison. I ABERDEEN, Nov. 2.-Drilling at the second we'll of the Jefferson Oil Co. at Hoh has been suspended be- cause oil was not struck within a | depth of 1000 feet as several ex- 1 perts had estimated. This well 1 reached depth of 1,0OS feet and Will not be sunk further until spring. Extensive seepages of gas and high grade oil occur over a wide. area in this district. The first oil we'll reached depth of about $50 rect when gas exploson occurred, imprisoning the drill and rendering further wo k there impossible.
 EVERETT, Wash, Nov. 2.-An error in the wording of the titles of initiative measure No. 3, the pro- hibition measure, discovered here recently, probably prevented all votes cast for and against this propo- sltion at the election from being thrown out, making the gigantic campaign carried on in this state by the dry advocates a useless waste of time as far as results would have been concerned. The error was made in the office of the secretary of state at Olympia and the wording of the certified copies of the title sent to every auditor in the state to be placed on the official ballots are meaningless.
 The error was discovered at al local printing office after a large number of the ballots had been printed. The wording of the title of the prohibition measure as it ap- pears upon the certified copy and the ballots already printed reads, ''An act prohibiting the manufacture, sale or disposition of intoxicating liquors, except in certain cases; regulating and keeping, use and transportation of the same," etc. This should read. regulating the keeping" instead of regulating and keeping
 MEXICO CITY, Nov. "A dis patch from Aguas Calientes says that General Eulalio Gutierrez was last night elected provisional president of Mexico, the election to continue for only twenty days. Gutierrez was appointed provisional governor of the state of San Louis Potosi by Car ranza at the beginning of the consti- tutionalist revolution. However, he is now regarded as more of a sym pathizer of Villa in the present controversy.
 MEXICO CITY. Nov. 2.-The Mexican foreign minister gave out a statement last evening to the effect that Carranza would never leave the executive chair unless the peace en- voys order Villa and Zapata to leave Mexico. If that is done, even for while, then Carranza would be will ing to do likewise.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Capt. J. Campbell Besley, formerly of Nome, has returned from South America. He declares that he there discovered lost city.
 WATERLOO, Iowa, Oct. 30.- Secretary of State. Bryan, in an address last night, stated that if the people of Iowa wanted to stab Presi- dent Wilson in the back, then they should vote to return Senator Cum mings. He pleaded for the election of Maurice Connolly. the Democratic nominee.
 PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 29. A serious revolutionary outbreak occurred here, which has caused considerable excitement. It resulted because of the landing here of Charles zamor, brother of the presi- | dent of the republic
 MEXICO CITY, Oct. 31.-The Carranza government has handed Paul Muy, the Belgian minister, his passports. The reason for it is be- cause of disrespectful notes respect ing the operation of tramways, in foJ, Dol ID;o AVo fo1J Ivy