The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-02-02

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Tne Dill
providing for the creation of ten min
ing experiment stations was brought
up in the House this afternoon and
passed. The measure provides that
one of the stations will be located
in Cordova. This measure was
strongly recommended by the Bureau
of Mines of the Interior department,
which now maintains six mine rescue
stations. They are located in vari-
GUS sections of the country and the
mine experiment stations will be in
line with this rescue work, as it will
tend to educate the miners to an ap-
probation of their dangers.
ROME, Feb. 2.-The recent earth
quakes in parts of Italy caused much
devastation and many peculiar Incl
dents are reported of it's effect. One
of these is that the level of Lake
Palermo has been lowered over Is
feet since the seismic disturbance.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Testify-
ing before the Federal Industrial
Committee, j. P. Morgan denied
that he dominates half the railroads
of the United States. He declared
that there is about as much truth in
an assertion of this kind as in many
other rumors concerning his bust
ness activities.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-This af
ternoon President Wilson conferred
with the Progressive Republicans re-
garding the changes they desire in
the government ship purchasing bill.
In preliminary matters pertaining to
the. bill Senator Poindexter and other
Progressives have voted with the
Republicans.
PANAMA, Feb. Great Britain
has inquired whether the reports are
true that the Panama canal has been
closed Indefinitely on account of
slides. 1t has been learned that
erroneous reports to this effect have
reached various foreign countries.
There have been several slides
within the past few weeks but they
have not proven serious.
NEW YORK, Feb. ii. P Nor
gan and John Mitchell will testify
tomorrow before the Federal Indus
trial committee. Other prominent
men will follow them.
James Mackay called on the COM
mittee today and expressed himself
as anxious TO outline a scheme he
had for a-dling coal at the mines
in ALASKA He will likely be given
a hearin Liter.
SEAT = =, Feb. Cecil Edward
Rowe, son Of Bishop 7. T. Rowe,
was seriously burned yesterday by
the explosion of a gasoline lamp.
Bishop Rowe had only left a week
ago on trip through Alaska and is
now at Juneau, where information
of the accident was sent him.
SEATTLE, Feb. Quite SEN
sation was caused by the arrest Of
a prominent business man on a
serious charge. He was given a
hearing and held without bail for
an attempted criminal assault on a
woman whose name is withheld. The
man is Frank E. Harmon, owner CT
the Harmon Motor Car Company.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-The
President, addressing the American
Electric Railway Association in ses-
sion here today, declared that pros
perity is about to dawn and that the
a maize of interrogation points
which have checked enterprise in the
United States for the. past 20 years
have been cleared away.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Science
forward vessels in the revenue cutter
service known as coast guard cutters
will have coast guard officers in
charge, instead of revenue officers.
ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 2s.-Rev.
c. B. Ragsdale has confessed that he
made false affidavit in favor of Leo
Frank, a wealthy manufacturer con-
victed and sentenced to hang for as
saulting and numbering one of his
young girl employees. Rev. Ragsdale
admits he received 5000 for making
the false affidavit. The supreme
court of the United States recently
granted an indefinite stay of execu-
ton, influential Jews throughout the
eastern states having interested
themselves in Franks behalf. Sew
eral yellow journals sent their most
lurid writer's down to this city to
secure data on the case and these
writer's and papers have retired
Frank to their own satisfaction and
acquitted him.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Dele-
gate Wickersham, Representative
Humphrey and President Wilson en-