The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-01-19

panic in some sections of Italy was
occasioned by the earthquake. The
famous column of Marcus Aurelius
and also many churches were
damaged.
/ WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Chas
Houston and H. w. Bullock OF
Seattle have presented petition for
a writ of ,certiorari to the federal
court of the ninth district. Bullock
! and Houston were convicted of con-
! spiracy to defraud the government
through the sale of coal at Nome,
Alaska. ut>,..,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Chair-
man Fitzgerald. of the appropriation
committee. today denied the charge
that he would fight a large appro-
lpriation for the Alaska railroad
While the interior department de
| clines to make public the figure a
which the Alaska Northern was of
fered, it is reported on excellen
authority that the offer was to TAX
over bonds aggregating between 81,
100000 and s5,0OO,000 and pa!
s350.000 cash to wipe out existing
claims. ~'
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.-Mrs
Dodge, wife of Captain Dodge. late
commander of the revenue cutter
Manning, has formally complained
to the government that the captain
is being ill treated at the marine
hospital here
SEATTLE, Jan. 13.-Ike Cohn
the pugilist fro mthe San Franciscj
Athletic Club, who inflicted sucn
severe injuries on L. Anderson dur
ing their match here last Friday
that the latter died few hours
later, is under arrest on the charge
of manslaughter. Anderson was
known in boxing circles as Jack
Newton.
DENVER, Jan. 13.-Governor
Ammons wept as he retired from
the governors chair at the Inaugural
ton today of George A. Carlson, hi
successor. God bless you George
he said as the new executive took
his place.
SEATTLE, Jan. thames A.
Moore. the former Seattle real estate
plunger and promoter of large bust
ness buildings, is now engaged in
promoting a railroad through the
everglades of Florida which will
open to settlement large tracts OF
Kind owned or on which options are
held by himself and associates.
SEATTLE, Jan. 14.-Seattle. coal
claimants are respondent and mos
of them have reached the conclu
sion that it is the policy of the in-
terror department to refuse to gran
patents to any great number
Alaska locators.. This view has
been strengthened by the recea
action of Land Commissioner Tall
man, who ordered Cancelled 27 coz
claims in the Boring River field.
Practically all of them were held by
Seattle residents.
Modifying the ruling of the
Juneau land office. the commls-
sioner holds that under the rule
laid down in the Cunningham cases
tthe claimants have not complied
with the law as to opening and
developing mines, also he holds
| that there was unlawful combina
1tion among the claimants in the in
terests of the Alaska Petroleum
Company.
Commissioner Tallman based his
decision on the ground that two oil
the groups included the Lippy-Davis
| group and the Chezum group, were
sought in the interests of corpora
tons operating in the territory. The
former was said to have been en-
tered on behalf of the Alaska
Petroleum Company and the latter
in the, interest of the Northern I'm
tprovement Company.
In addition to these, the commits
sioner cancelled the F. A. viii
loughby group of three claims ano
another claim filed by G. c. Britton
former United States commissioner
Local claimants have announced
that an appeal will be taken direct
to the secretary of the, interior
Franklin X. Lane. from the decision
and it was admitted that an unfav
orable ruling from the land offic'
had not been unexpected.
\ Among those interested are T. S
: Lippy, a we'll known local capitalist
and Clark Davis, of Clark Davis &
Company. The Lippy-Davis grouI
comprises 1859 acres, on which
L more than 100000 was spent IL
} improvements, including construc
: ttion of bunkers., cars and tunnels
Jvpdor tho Iau of 1919 which Der