The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-06-29

he would find it convenient to meet
and speak to the people on his return
to Washington.
CORNISH, N. H., June 25.-The
presidents special pulled into this
town today, and the whole village
turned out to welcome its dis
guests Wilson warmly
greeted the many residents of the
town with whom he became
acquainted last year, and expressed
his pleasure at being once more with
them. The president will remain with
his family here for about two weeks,
returning to Washington on July 9Th.
a big celebration is planned here for
the Fourth of July, which will take
on added interest because of the
presence Of the president.
PETROGRAD, June 25.-Dispatches
received here from kazan, a city 400
miles east of Moscow, state that over
a hundred lives were lost when a river
pier at a pleasure garden collapsed.
Most of the dead are women and chill
dren, and the bodies have all been
recovered. Too many people had
crowded onto the pier to watch the
festivities in the river, and the sud-
den collapse of the structure threw
them all into the water.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June U.s.
The battle between the Zapata forces
defending Mexico City, and the Consti-
nationalist troops under General Con-
zales, is now on, and the fate of the
capital hangs in the balance. Zapata
did not wait, but started hostitlities
himself by opening heavy artillery
fire upon the enemy. The artillery of
Gonzales, behind the advance guard
of his army, which has reached the
suburbs of the city, is replying to the
fire of Zapata. The artillery battle
will act as a delay to the final clash
between the opposing forces.
CALEXICO, June 25.-Five severe
earthquakes occurred last night
through the quake zone in the I'M
perial valley. No severe damage was
caused by the shocks, none of which
approached the proportions of the first
one felt on Tuesday night. Some
walls which had been weakened by
the previous quakes collapsed as the
result of the last shocks.
NEW LONDON, June 25.-The an
nual rowing regatta between the uni
versities of Harvard and Yale COM
menced On the Thames today. Four
races are held, the first being between
the second varsity eight oar crews.
This race was run off this afternoon,
and was won by the Yale crew by a
third of a length. The time of the
winning eight for the two-mile course
was ten minutes and forty seconds.
The Harvard crew made the distance
in 10 minutes 43 seconds.
Immediately after this race the
freshman Fights were scheduled to
meet, but a sudden wind made the
water toe choppy for the crews to
start out, and it was postponed until
after the varsity tours had been raced
later this afternoon. The regatta will
end with the big event, the varsity
Fights. Yale won hits race last year.
NEW LONDON, June 25.-The race
between the varsity Fights of Yale and
Harvard, has been postponed until
late this evening, when it is expected
the wind will die down, and the river
will lose some of it's roughness. The
observation trains are all sold out, and
the biggest crowd in years is here to
see the race. The crews are said to
be evenly matched and a close race is
looked for.
NEW LONDON, June 25.-The
varsity eight race over the four-mile
course on the Thames was won by
the Yale crew from Harvard by FIVE
lengths. The Yale boat got away in
the lead and was never headed. The
unofficial time is 81, minutes and 2
seconds.
PARIS, June 25.-France is in ex-
cellent health. None of the epidem-
les dreaded with the coming of hot
weather have developed. There were
839 deaths in Paris last week as
against 919 the preceding week and