The Chitina leader., 1915-06-01

worried the president of the repub
lie, Manuel de Arriaga, that this
morning he rendered his resignation
There is a feeling of unrest among
the people and various threats tc
assassinate the president have salts
fed him that safety only lies in re
tirement. He was elected to his
Office in August 1911, since which
time there have been serious mon
archial uprisings, which were sup.
pressed with much difficulty.
NEW YORK, May 2S.-Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt has sought to make
up for the days he spent in confine-
ment at the court house in Syracuse
by taking more than his usual
amount of outdoor exercise. Early
this morning after he had mounted
his horse and was riding away from
his home at Oyster Bay, he fell from
the horse and broke a rib. Word
comes from him, however that he
has only been checked temporarily
and that soon he will be feeling
bully" again.
DENVER, Colo, May 26-Women
workers were divided into two great
classes-those who work until their
husbands can support them and
those who are working until they
get husbands says Mrs. Catherine
Van Deusen, secretary of the staue
minimum wage commission of Colo
RADIO. Mrs. Van Deusen emphatic
ally declared also statistics prove
that the vice problem has nothing
to do with the wage problem, but it
is the high salaried girl who has the
temptations. She can afford to make
herself attractive and it is she with
her good clothes and not her
shabbily clad underpaid sister who
receives attention. OF the girls
who make low wages not more than
one out of every hundred goes
wrong. The percentage of the high
salaried girls who travel away from
the straight and narrow path is
large
PARIS, May 27.-ShouId France
issue victorious from the present
war, her success Will have been due,
more than any one other thing, to
her "Soixante-quinze'- famous
rapid fire, explosive she'll rs milf
meter cannon. This fact is now in
contestably recognized in technical
military circles the world over. The
wonderful superiority of the instru-
ment of destruction over all rivals
was first demonstrated in the two
recent Balkan wars. Used by most
of the Balkan states it wrought
terrible destruction against the
Turks equipped with artillery Of
German manufacture. In the pres
ent war, this superiority has so
itself every day for the
past seven months that the "SoiX-
ante-quinze' has been elevated in
the French public mind to a place Of
worship almost alongside. that &C
corded to Joan of Arc.
WASHINGTON, May 26.-The
Pan-American financial conference,
which opened in this city on Monday
by an address from President Will
son, is having interesting sessions
and will continue until Saturday
afternoon. This is proving the most
notable meeting of the kind ever
held anywhere, largely due to the
arrangements made by Secretary of
the. Treasury McAdoo. In addition
to the regularly appointed official
delegates from twenty Latin-Ameri-
can republics, the diplomatic repre-
sentatives of the countries con-
cerned, others in attendance are:
Secretary Bryan, Secretary Redfield,
the members of the federal reserve
board. Director General Barrett, of
the Pan-American Union. and a
number of representative bankers,
financiers and commercial headers
from different parts of the country.
The questions of paramount impor-
lance under discussion include the
following:
The improvement of banking. eX-
change, credit, discount and trade
facilities in inter-American financial
and commercial relations.
The development of conditions
favorable to the placing in the
United States of governmental, pro-
vincial and responsible private loans
of Latin American countries which
were formerly almost entirely in
Europe.
The betterment of first-class pas
senger, mail and freight steamship
facilities between the principal ports
of the United States and those OF
r o+;p Arooricop countries