The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-09-07


legislature, was married in this city
last night to Miss Rose Kempe. Mr..
Shoup besides being member of the
Legislature is Superintendent of the
Alaska Pioneers Home at Sitka, and
is in business there. He is one of the
best known men of the northern terri
tory and has a wide circle of friends
throughout Alaska
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O-General
Zapata and all the other Mexican lead
ers with the single exception of Gen
eral Carranza. have replied favorably
to the peace proposals submitted to
them by the conference recently held
in this city between leading Latin
American diplomats and officials of
the Wilson administration. Generals
Villa and Zapata will arrange to hold
a peace conference on neutral terri
tory when details will be considered
for terminating the civil war now
| raging in Mexico. 1t is expected that
representatives of the Latin Ameri-
can conference will attend the meeting
between Villa and Zapata.
BINGHAM, Mass, Aug. 3O-John
D. Long, former Secretary of the
Navy, and who acted in that capacity
during the Spanish-American war died
here today at the age of n. Born in
Maine, his reputation was made in
Massachusetts, serving four terms in
State Legislature, three of which were
as Speaker of the House. He was
elected Lieutenant Governor and in
1879 defeated General Ben Butler, the
democratic candidate for governor by
q plurality of $4,000. He was twice
reelected governor of Massachusetts
and served three terms in Congress.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3O-The
American flag is now floating over
more ships in the foreign trade than
since 1868, and this country is now
pressing France and Germany as the
maritime nation. This years in
crease has been 1886 ships with a ton
mage of 1,S14,O0O tons.
SEATTLE, Aug. 3O-Robert Turner,
a United States Inspector of Boilers
was instantly killed yesterday while
autOmobiling in Snohomsh County.
The accident occurred while taking a
sharp turn at high speed along a road
running into the town of Sultan. The
automobile capsized throwing out the
occupants, Captain Turner being i'm
prisoned beneath the overturned car.
The other members of the party were
only slightly injured.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3O-The English
sterling pond has dropped to 81 90 on
the market, which establishes a new
low record despite the arrival of more
gold and securities from England.
WASHINGTON, Aug. so-Abnorm-
ally low temperatures are prevailing
in the upper Mississippi and upper
Missouri valleys and the lake regions.
The temperature at Chicago today
dropped to AZ degrees and there was
frost in many places. There is a cold
wave in the Canadian northwest,
which is sweeping toward the Atlantic.
HONOLULU, Aug The United
States suken submarine F-4 has finally
been raised and drydocked here.
There was crew of twenty-five on
board when the catastrophe occurred,
and several bodies have been recov-
cred with the hulk. In no case were
the bodies recognizable.
NEW YORK, Aug. 31-The cotton
market experienced a small panic yes
terday afternoon when the report of
the government statisticians was
made public showing that the cotton
crop for the current year would be
only 81 per cent of the normal. The
condition of the growing crops is not
Of the best and while the decrease in
acreage is small if any, yet adverse
weather conditions will greatly restrict
the harvest.
HAVANA, Cuba. Aug. 31-Expecta-
tons now run high that Cuba's sugar
crop will reach the unprecedented fig
ure of four million tons and will not
improbabbly considerably exceed that
figure. The planting of additional
acreage on a great scale, the fact that
owing to the unreasonable rains of
last season 1t was impossible to cut a
large proportion of the cane and that
this will be ground at the close of the
coming season, and reports that the
growing crop is doing splendidly. com.
bine to justify the high estimates.
With this goes an unprecedented i'm