The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-23

that the officials of The state prison farm at MHledgeyiilc were impli- ca'ed in the plot. notwithstanding ! the fact that they have been eN- Oucrat,d Of all blame by the prison board. which claims to have made an investigation uf the Eidnapiug Jf Frank. The governor will de mand an inquiry regarding conditions at the farm and there is a proba- bility that he will take personal ] charge of the investigation to insure desired results.
 The lynchiug of Frank is con deuued by a majority of the leading newspapers of Georgia and by many ] of the more prominent officials. i Mayor Woodward of this city. is an i exception. however. In an interview given out today he declared that Frank received lis just desserts" The body of the murdered man. guarded by a detail of 30 policemen. was shipped to New York at mid night Mrs. Frank accompanying the remains The funeral will be held
 at Brooklyn.
 MANY PERISH. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 1S.-Wire- | less adyiCes received from the ! Texas storm zone today indicate that l Hundreds have perished in the flood ! "7 districts The number is ya!i- ously estimated at from 800 to 800 la late report received al Houston stating that at least 800 residents og Galveston were drowned Many i at the bodies have been washed 1 ashore
 Ej-hteen regular soldiers perished
 at Texas City, the army camp near i Galveston. and three are reported to l have been killed at Houston
 The storm. witch swept the entire i Gulf Of Mexico, is abatinG tonight
 Loss IS HEAVY.
 DALLAS Aug. 1S.-Late arrivals from Galveston express the belief ] that the damage sustained by that l city as the result of the storm will exceed that of the storm which swept | the city in 1900. The water. gae l 'ishting and street car systems are out of commission. and the damage | to buildings is enormous Forty 1 five hundred feet of the Galveston l causeway also was destroyed, en- | railine a further heavy loss.
 Advices from Houston indicate that not a single building in that ely escaped injury. The wind blew from all directions and the rain is de ! scribed a. the heaviest 24-hour down pour in the history of the state. The l property damage is estimated | &5 LOCO 900.
 Fort Crockett is reported to have
 been entirely wiped out, but with 1 out loss of life. The troops were transferred to the transports Buford and Fitzpatrick. Many of the horses and mules belonging to the post. l however, were lost.
 | Observers on the mainland declare that a big fire is now sweeping Gal weston. but details of the conflagra-
 ton cannot be obtained
 | When the causeway was swept ] away by the storm ii carried with l t an interurban car loaded with | passengers. all of whom are be- ] lieyed to have been drowned
 REWARD OFFERED. | ATLANTA, Aug. Ex-Governor l Nat Harris announces today that l the state will pay a liberal reward i for the arrest and conviction of the i first five men who were concerned 1 in the lynching of Leo NJ Frank ! lIt s1oh EI HUI iS fi ttjdlt tt tO bl btt l the outrage to the bottom and will begin his inyestigations immediately l The determined attitude of the | executive has aroused considerable | opposition attempts already having
 been made to prevent the promised investigation The opposition has appeared in the form of unsigned 1 letters threatening the governor with l 1..th h jet in, | his plans 10 punish those responsible i for the outrage.
 | Reports from Marietta claim that | Frank protested his innocence to the 1 last The body of the murdered man
 reached New York today the re- l ports from the metropolis stating 1 that the journey was made without
 incident.
 COTTON IS CONTRABAND. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 19- Official ady,ces received from London i today announce that cotton has been ! placed on the contraband list by the allied nations. The date upon which
 he new order becomes effective is not announced, however.
 The announcement causes little surprise here, as it has been eX-
 
 is general in local official circles that
 he order will eliminate many of the controversies resulting from the cotton traffic.
 Loss ENORMOUS. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 19.-Ad- vices received from various parts of
 he South today indicate that the | losses sustained as the result of the gulf storm will exceed $60,000 000 Forty million of that amount repre- sents damage to buildings, chiefly in Texas. twenty million is given as the loss ill crops and the oil inter- ests estimate their loss at $2,O00 900 or more. In addition many yes sels were lost during the storm, the dispatches from Galveston indicat- ing that forty small boats were wrecked in that harbor.
 The loss of life is now believed to be less than 900 the adyices re- ceived today indicating that the re ports sent out yesterday were greatly exaggerated; there is a possibility, however. that the number will be increased by deaths off shore. Sev- eral large vessels, carrying many passengers, are known 10 have been
 caught in the storm, and the number
 of casualties will not be known until
 the boats have reported. The steam CT Bluefelds is one of the vessels about which much anxiety is felt.