The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-03-02

special appropriations for river and
harbor works were stricken and pro-
vision only made for work now under
construction. An emergency clause
was offered and adopted, making pro-
vision for the survey of the entrance
to Dry Straits, Alaska, and the mouth
of Snake river at Nome. When the
necessity for this provision was fully
explained there was no difficulty in
securing the appropriation.
VERA CRUZ, March 2.-Yester-
day 10 Spanish priests, who Were
brought here from Mexico City,
were deported on the steamship
Montevideo, by order of General
Obregon. Secretary of State Bryan,
through General Carranza, has tried
to intervene on behalf of the $50
priests who are under arrest at
Mexico City and held for 100000
pesos ransom. But nothing has re-
suited as yet. All the native Roman
Catholic. clergy in Mexico City are
being held for a half million pesos
ransom, official advices from diplo-
matists in the MeXicon capital re-
ceived here today say, and the only
priests exempted are those of foreign
nationality, who have been ordered
to leave the country.
q L Ac
has been some question about the
Alaska Steamship Company inaugur-
ating their summer schedule this
month Vice President Baxter this
morning again announces that the
schedule will become effective on
March "a, when the steamer North
western will again go on the Alaska
run. Schedules will be so arranged
that the Northwestern, Alameda and
Mariposa will sail north from Seattle
every six days, on the Gath, list, 9Th,
18th and 18th of every month. They
will include Ketchikan, Juneau,
Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward
and Cooks Inlet. With the steamers
running exclusively to Southeastern
Alaska, as far north as Skagway,
that section will have a service of &
sailing every three days, by the
Alaska Steamship Company.
WASHINGTON, March at was
announced with authority this morn
ing that President Wilson would not
call spec,a session of the Senate.
There is m lch activity about the
capitol II the effort to dispose of
as much legislation as possible be-
fore ADJOURNMENT of Congress tomor-
row night.
HINTON, w. Va, March "A
disastrous explosion in a coal mine
at the neighboring town of Thur
mond has caused much distress
hereabouts. One hundred and sixty
men are entombed and it is feared
that the rescue party now at work
may not be able to bring them ont
alive.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-This
afternoon the Senate passed the Sea-
mans bill, over which there has been
a long and stubborn fight, but prin-
cipally in committee.
ALBANY, N. Y, March 2.-Plans
for the establishment of farm
bureau here are today being per-
fected by the local chamber of COM
merce. The purpose of the bureau
will be the reduction of the cost of
living and the peopling of the vacant
farms at Albany county.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 1-Supt.
R. R. Pierson and Captain Fred
Warner, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, are now in the city and
have taken over the steamer
Redondo, which was purchased a
few days ago by President Baxter,
from the C. A. Smith Lumber Co.
This vessel is both a passenger and
freight carrier, and it is the inten-
LlOn VI lH6 AldShd OlGdIuSulp W. "
operate her in the Southeastern
Alaska cannery trade.
Capt. Warner, who will be on the
bridge of the Redondo during her
voyage up the coast, is master of the
liner Alameda and one Of the best
known steamship captains on the
North Pacific. He took the liner
Mariposa to Seattle from San Fran
cisco at the time of her purchase in
the south. The Redondo will re-
place the steamer Santa Ana, which
is now on her first regular trip as
a freight and passenger. carrier be-
tween Seward and Western Alaska
on the route which has been served
by the little steamer Dora.
WASHINGTON, March An i'm
portant discovery was announced
this morning by DIR. Walter F. RIFT
man, chemical engineer for the
bureau of mines. 1t is a process for