The Chitina leader., 1915-04-27
Late Telegraph News;

| International Peace Conference
called by Queen Wilhelmina of Hol-
land to meet at The Hague the lat.
| ter part of this month, arrived on
the Dutch steamer Ryndam. Jane
Adams of Chicago is chairman uf
the Woman's Peace Party OF
! America.
,, FAIRBANKS, April 24.-The ex-
lipected early thaw has gone a glim-
mering. Nearly a week ago cold
weather, again set in and it is now
generally accepted that the opening
of navigation will be delayed so that
it will not be any earlier than last
year
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-It is
expected that the fore part of the
week Rear Admiral Charles F. Pond
will succeed Rear Admiral Robert
NJ. Doyle as Communicated Of
the Pacific reserve fleet, who will
retire. from active service on May 5.
Rear Admiral Pond is commandaut
of the Twelfth naval and lighthouse
district, with headquarters at San
Francisco, and president of the
naval examining and retiring boards
at Mare island. His last sea duty
was in command of the armored
cruiser Pittsburgh, then the Pennsyl-
vania, stationed at the Bremerton
yard, and who left there on April
26, 1912, to take up his duties in
San Francisco. He has been in
charge of enforcing President Will
sons neutrality order at that port.
He is So and will retire from active
service October 26, 1918.
LEAVENWORTH, April %. -
Dom NJ Roberts, mayor of Terra
-Haute, who was convicted of election
frauds and sentenced, to six years IN
the penitentiaEy, was. unable to give
bond of 100000, pending an
appeal, so was brought to the fell
eral penitentiary here on Monday
Since then ne has been directing the
municipal affairs at Terra Haute by
telegraph. The City Council has
made a request that he resign and
this morning he replied by wire that
he would not resign as he expects
70 have the circuit court of appeals
decide in his favor. He claims that
he was not guilty of participating IN
the various frauds. Judge Ander-
son in passing sentence designated
Roberts as the arch conspirator and
then went on to hit the saloon men
in these words:
my notion is that the saloon viii
have to go. I believe the time will
come when people will rise up and
smash the saloon, at least as We
have it now. The evidence in this
case showed that the saloons were
the centers of nearly all the corrup-
ton in the election at Terra Haute.' "
COPENHAGEN, April 23.-By
reason of action taken today in
parliament universal suffrage will
henceforth prevail in Denmark. This
question had been much agitated
during the past year. A strong
central organization, with it's many
minor organizations has been work
ing night and day to bring about 4
sentiment that would result in MAX
ing the sentiment so strong that
parliament would be compelled to
take favorable action on their re-
STATIONS everywhere tonight to cele-
brate the great victory that has been
won
NEW YORK, April 23.-Harry
Thaw is again in luck. After long
legal battle the Supreme Court of
the state has granted him a jury
trial to determine his sanity And
the friends of the unfortunate man
declare that there will be but little
difficulty in establishing the fact
that Thaw is rational and that he
has fully recovered his mental
faculties. And they are particn-
larly confident because w. T. Jerome
is no longer connected with the
prosecution of Thaw. Out of the
more than 100000 that Thaw cost
the state, Jerome received $4,000
alienists and experts receiving much
of the balance.
SEATTLE, April 23-The Seattle
| Construction & Dry Dock Company
| is arranging to increase it's force
and shortly after May 1st will have
$50 additional men at work Next
month the start will be made or
| the building of three submarines
| for the United States government
involving an expenditure of nearly 9
million and a half dollars. AL