The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-03-17
LATE TELEGRAPH NEWS

SKAGWAY, March 16.-Judge
Walker, district attorney for the
Third Judicial division, who is
passenger on the Northwestern en-
route to his home in Valdez, has in
timated that he received telegram
requesting his resignation last Fri
Iiay while he was in Juneau. He
Immediately wired his resignation
and on Saturday received a message
3, stating that his resignation had been
' accepted and that his successor
would be appointed. 1t is under
stood that C. E. Bunnell, of Valdez,
and William Whittlesey, of Seward,
are candidates for the position.
JUNEAU, March 16.-District At
torney George R. Walker, of the
Third Judicial division, is return
ing passenger to Valdez on the
Northwestern which sailed from
here this afternoon.
Judge Walker came here to solicit
the assistance of Governor Strong in
securing the appointment of a
deputy prosecuting attorney to be
stationed at Cordova He induced
the governor to write Attorney
General McReynods urging the
appointment.
CONCORD, N. H., March 16.-
Harry K. Thaw has issued an appeal
the press to end the case against
him. He does not ask for a pardon
on the grounds of sympathy but
Justice, stating that he had killed
White in moment when l learned
that sorrow had wrecked my home.
Thaw is still being kept in prison
although commission appointed by
the governor of the state filed a re-
port that he would not prove
menace to public safety if given his
freedom" Jerome has waged a re-
lentless war against Thaw and is
now seeking to have him returned
to the New York prison, since he
had been declared sane by the
courts.
CHRISTIANA, March 16.-That
the last year was a prosperous one
for Norway is shown by the official
government report issued today
showing that the national wealth
of the country increased from
200 crowns in 1912 to
.3,SS3,619 5000 in 1913, an increase
of approximately $250,000, 1000.
EKATINODAR, Russia, March 16.
The towns of Stanitza and AchtyT-
sAaja on the shore of the Sea of
AVof, were completely destroyed by
a tidal wave which inundated them
following an upheaval of the bottom
re ;res,,
total 1,150 persons.
The upheaval was so tremendous
that the entire shore line of the sea
immense damage to property and
shipping. The inundated towns
were nearest the center of disturb
ance. The tidal wave was estimated
by survivors to have been more
than 20 feet high and when it re-
coded carried many buildings and
hundreds of those who had persisted
into the sea.
Ell PASO, March ia federal
army numbering 5000 men, has
been ordered by President Huerta
to take up the march northward
from Torreon. The army is re-
ported to be we'll equipped and is
the first sign of the promised
aggressive campaign to be made for
the suppression of the rebellion in
the northern Mexican states.
VEL PASO, March 16.-General
Villa, commanding the Constitution
alists troops in northern Mexico, has
ordered General Urbina, with an
army of 1000 men, to march south
ward to meet the approaching
federal army.
SAN DIEGO, March 16.-Mexican
bandits raided the small town of
Tecate near the boundary on Satur-
day night and murdered Frank v.
Johnson, an American, who was
acting as postmaster. They also
seriously wounded Warren Widen
back, an Americanized German, who
went to the assistance of the post
master.
After footing the stores the
bandits burned the postoffice, GUS
toms >office and the residences of the
officials. The outrage has caused in
tense indignation here. The par
ticulars of the affair have been tele-
graphed to Washington.
TOXIC, March 16.-Many per-
sons were killed and. number of
houses destroyed by an earthquake
which occurred in the prefecture of
Akiata on the island of Hondo last
night. The disturbance was violent
and of several minutes duration,
but the center of disturbance is be-
lieved to have been some distance
away 1t is feared that volcano
on some other island has become
active and may have resulted in an
appalling loss of life.
4 LOS ANGELES, March ia
young woman who has been living
here for the past two years under
the name of Ella Evans, declares
that she is Dorothy Dor, n.y. Arnold aI, I, who
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