The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-05-11

ing in the last act to save Leo M.
Frank form hanging will not be
heard until the first Monday in
June. Attorneys for Frank filed a
petition with Governor Slaton and
the Georgia Prison Commission ask
ing that the sentence of death i'm
posed upon Frank for the murder of
Mary Phagan be committed to life
imprisonment. Among the grounds
set forth by Frank in his appeal for
executive clemency are that he is
innocent and that the principal evil
dence upon which he was convicted
was of "a questionable and unreli-
able character" His application, he
states, does not undertake to set out
in full the reasons for his appeal,
but he asks permission to do so at
the hearing before the prison COM
mission.
SYRACUSE, May Cool. Roose-
welt again took the stand late yes
terday afternoon and explained boss
rule and machine politics as he al
legged Barnes expounded them. He
showed the attitude that the boss
politicians took with reference to
the corruption of politics and then
went on to explain the fair and hon
est way of conducting politics. He
alleged that the progressive way of
conducting campaigns was by the
educational method, and no longer
by intimidation and the purchase If
votes. And then he gave his ideas
about how officials should conduct
their offices with fidelity, honesty
and high regard for the interests
of the public, whose servants they
are.
WASHINGTON, May cit is on
the political cards that an issue TO
be fought out in Washington next
winter will be Philippine independ-
ence and the Republican leader
against it, in the House, is to be
Congressman Miller, it is said. He
has made one trip to the islands and
expects to make still another this
summer to gather campaign ma
terial to fight the Jones bill, pro-
viding partial independence, which
died in the last Congress, but will
be revived in the next. Mr.. Miller
is a former school teacher and law
yer. He has represented Minnesota
in Congress for three terms.
SYRACUSE, May 5.-This after
noon some damaging testimony was
given against William Barnes. It
came out when Manager Winchester
of the Lyon Printing Company took
the stand. He alleged that there was
state. printing graft and that
Barnes as the owner of the Albany
Journal received a commission on
state and city printing.
Los ANGELES, May 5.-Charles
Sebastian, the suspended chief of
police is certain to be the next
mayor of this city. At the primaries
yesterday he missed actual election
by a narrow margin. He led the
field two to one for first place, and
the big vote he received assures his
selection at the municipal election
later. The. fact that an attempt was
made to assassinate him yesterday
afternoon added largely to his vote
during the remaining hours of the
election.
RENO, May CONTRARY to eX-
pectation the women's vote defeated
the reform program at the election
yesterday. The females had their
first vote and they failed to do the
expected things. They voted down
prohibition clause that had for its
object the limiting of the number
of saloons in the city.
SEATTLE, May 5.-Trial has
started in the federal court of the
case against the Booth Fisheries
Company, for violation of the anti
trust laws. A number of other par
ties may later be prosecuted if a
conviction is found in the present
case.
OMAHA, May 5.-James Dahl
man, who has been the popular
mayor of this city for several years
past, was again elected yesterday.