The Chitina leader., 1914-01-27

ana Otner up-tO-Qato Ameflc0l
cities. For the present. until tn
municipal authorities can be con
WINGED of the practicability of tn
system it will be under thefauspice
of the two women societies, to tn,
Union Feminist and the Friends o
the Young Girl. and the femal,
members of the force will be volun
teers.
The chief objects are to lool
after the morals of girls in thu
shops and streets, to assist female
prisoners. on their liberation and IL
general to fight the white slave
traffic. Similar movements are OF
foot in Zurich and Lausanne.
DENVER, Jan. 23.-Whether the
City of Denver shall issue $4,000.
900 in bonds to finance the con.
struction of tunnel for the Moffa,
Road through James Peak, in the
Rockies, is being decided spe-
cial election today, If the bonds
pass, the city's credit will be ex-
tended to Newman Erb and his asso-
,oiates who bought the Moffat Road
last year. They will borrow the
100000 from the city, paying it
back with interest after a term of
years.
ANACORTES, Jan. 23.-It has
developed that John H. Day, who
died here recently alone and amidst
squallor, is a brother of James R.
Day, chancellor of the Syracuse
University. He had become es-
tranged from his relatives years ago
and no communication had been re-
ceived from him for several years.
His brother would have cared for
him had the dead mans pride per-
mitted him to let his circumstances
become known. He was buried in
the potter's field but his grave will
be marked with headstone to be
erected by his brother.
?, WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. a.
Representative Webb of North Caro-
lima, Floyd of Arkansas, and Vol
stead of Minnesota left here today
for Macon, Georgia to begin i'm.
parchment proceedings against Fed
eral Judge Emory Speer, under spe-
cia1 order of Congress. Judge
Speer has been ill for several
months.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-New in
door records are looked for at to-
nights field and track games to be
held under the auspices of the
Paterson Elks. Mel Sheppard in the
middle distances is to be the star
attraction. Many of the best field
and track athletes of this section are
entered.
ROME, Jan. 23.-Italy's hopes of
being able to secure from the pres
ent parliament, a divorce law, are
again confidently believed to have
gone a glimmering. Of the 500
deputies which compose the cham
Der, Count Gentilioni, who eng
neered the Catholic vote during the
recent elections, has just made it
known that 223 of those in return
for Catholic reform, pledged them
selves to the Catholic program Of
legislation. The latter Is irrevoc-
ably against permitting divorce, and
Italians. as in the past, will have to
continue to go to Switzerland and
Austria, taking out naturalization
papers in those countries, secure
their divorce. return to Italy, re-
take that of Italy.
OAKLAND, Jan. ga tragedy
when John F. Howard, president of
the Western Fuel Company,
dropped dead just as the govern
ment prosecution mad closed it's
case against him on the charge of
defrauding the government by short
weights on coal.
Physicians were hastily sum-
moned to the court room but the
defendant had expired before their
arrival. Death was due to apoplexy
caused by the excitement of the
trial.
TRINIDAD, Colo, Jan. pa
Mounted militiameA, with drawn
swords, repeatedly charged moi
of strikers who attempted to attack
the Jail where Mother" Jones is
confined by. the military authorities
The mob numbered thousands ant
we're reluctant to give way before
the soldiers, and scores received
flesh. wounds requiring the services
OF physicians -
Nineteen of the. strike leader!
who took part in the attempt tt
liberate the prisoner have been ar
rested and are lodged in the same
jail THE strikers are in an ugly
mood and threats are made tina
the swords of the militiamen will BIZ