Washington. April 27—
Through their various repre
sentatives at this capital the
republics of Brazil, Argentine,
end Chile have offered their
se. vices as mediators in the
trouble between the Costed
>.ates and Mexico. President
W ilson has conditionally accep
ted their offer and the matter
was referred to Congress today.
There seems to be little prob
ability. however, that Congress
will back the President up in
the matter as there is a strong
i iercurrent which declares
that the only way to establish
peace is to declare war and tc
fight it out. Spanish Embassa
dor Blanco is in receipt of word
from rhe City of Mexico -that
Huerta is w illing to put the mat
ter into the hands of the coun
tries mentioned.
War preparations continue
a? if no attempt looking to
wards peace. Ships are being
gotten info s" medicine
and supplies r e being rushed
to central points and the war
department evidently intends to
be prepared for any emerganey.
Chihuahua. April 27—Upon re
of word thal the Mexican
;erals are insulting and abus
. g Americans. General Car
ranza is* :ed orders this morn
ing Instructing I he officers in
command of the rebel forces
Tamp; o to p -h the seige as
— ■ : v as possible. He has
ordered 5,bod additional troops
i he sent to Tampico to ass—t
the fighting there.
Vera Cr ;z. Apr ! 27—Admiral
Fletcher has asked for author
ity to declare martial law de
claring that it is the only way
in which "sniping" can be
it- pped. As thorough a sear h
a* possible has been made of
he house* for arms but of
course many have been over
eked. His pi now i* to de
clare martial i%w and move the
resident* of the city into dif
feiect !•: a. e- than they now
occupy, th — ceiling them away
f -m the *?, reted arms and
ammunition.
Reports from Mexico City are
t the effect that American
w men and children are being
■ ker. from the trains and are
refused permission to leave the
country- All Mexico is being
c,flamed against the Americans
and the Mexican government
instead of preserving peace and
enforcing law to protect these
r. n-ombaUnts :* furnishing
ctr excuse for the mobs in their
fiuseks on these defeoie.c-s
people.
A dm i. 11 Badge r h i * p *: - led .::
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American oco-combfiidiiS-s my?i
tiie coaatff on the i.r>r.
. fugee steamer available. This
. sr women object so because of
the fact that their husband*
and other male relatives are in
• interior of Mexico and the.,
fate is unknown.
Gi've-vn. Apr 27—Torpedo
boats sen! up* he river near
Tampico after a .;vely engage
• t w.th Mex. ans brought
tack several Americans vh,
were held prisoners by the
federal forces.
Three batteries of mountain
guns and a battery' of field ar
tillery sail for Vera Cruz this
afternoon by special chartered
- • - mer.
it is expected that General
Frederick Funston will arrive at
Vera Cruz today and take
charge of the forward move
ment by the army tow ir is the
C. y of Mexico
New York Apr. 27—Word
v - received h-e this morning
that Colonel Roosevelt and
party have cut sh.rt their slay
M oth America sad are hur
!’■ g home Th- Colonel with
the avowed intention of geltinz
i to the fight in Mexico, should
any take place
Eagle Pas-. Ap . 2—Amerl
* r-fngee* are arriving in
tins city in considerable num
bers. They tell tales of the
terrible abuse to w h they
were subjected by the Mexi
can* along the route.
HAD ROUGH TRIP
—
B-ly Semar arrived over
ivm Waterfall on the Forester
esterday alter a tempestuous
ayage. For two days the boa!
j sad to anchor wailing for the
weather to moderate suffieiens
5y to qet around Chacon, and
when it did slack off a little the
trip was made, and it was a
rough one.
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NEWLY WEDS RETURN
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Among She p?<sengers on the
* Spokane yesterday morning
were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hall
elurning from their honey
noon trip. They report having j
had a very pleasant time, vis-j
: ng at Skagway. Haines and;
' Juneau. They got into town j
'iriclly on the quiet so were'
overlooked by the reception
mm it tee, which will proLabiy
' lend to their duties later
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READY FOR BUSINESS
—
George Chesnev now has his
"ectric supply >!ock displayed,
has been able to secure a
Pr y of the General Electric
>Gipaiir'$ good- including the
’?i :s Mazda imps and will
cep a supply of these goods
stantly or hand. His head
arters are in the Hunt store
■n Front street across from
neshan’s Baker.
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TAKES FRESH SALMON
—
The Spokane was in early
yesterday morning on her wav
' : uth and leaded fifty boxes of
sresh salmon and fifty-five'
•ierees of mud cure at this port
ior the s uth. H. R. Tfoomp
--■n and wife. Joseph St.Croix
and wife were passengers south
on her from Ketchikan.
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"'EPUTY SHERIFF ARRIVES
—
Deputy .'sheriff Thompson of,
-Fin J A rum county. California.
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:rived t-'-isy on the Spokane
• take iYiiidm Daken. wanted
Ackton f- r the forgery of
-ee *i.'***>» checks, back to
•ce trial. Daken was arrested
t the PerseverARce mine three:
voceki ago. He was working
.’.der the name of Yeach.—Dis
patch.
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THE RAIN SAVED
HIS BACf'*
Fred P’-arinton was t k:ed o
death yesterday every time he
went out and saw it raining be-j
cause that was the only wav
he ana hi~ alleged Champs w-re
saved from a drubbing by
King s Kol'.s. King -ays he and
*• - aggregation are ready to
f:ght it out any old time and are
prepared to show Fred that
there ere sever <1 thing- he
does not know about baseball,
h is altogether probable that a
i’ame will be pulled off some
evening this week and if not
then surely next Sunday.
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IN FRO* CHOMLV
Tom Hr- kman. -::perinten
d-rr! of the Chomly cannery,
was :n town Friday on business
r. nested with his plant. He
reports to She Miner Man that
• work of making cans for
- year- salmon pack is mov
ine right 'dong. The expec
aiions are that 80,000 ca~*s
will be put up.
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RUSH A BROWN
WILL SHIP ORE
The Northland is expected
i'w:. sonthbound Thursday of
"his week. Iri case she is able
Jo dispose of the coa! she had
on board she will go direct to
Fo-h & Brown .amp and there
I -ad 400 ton- of ore for ship
ment to the Tacoma Smelter.
hi the event that she does not
-po-e of the coal she will
; to Ketchikan and dis
*-e before going to the
H jsh & Brown mine.
NEW STOCK ARRIVES
I
: :y Schaffer, propietor of
c Ketchikan Dairy was in re
pt of :> head of thorough
'ti n cattle on tl^e Al
vobably the first ever ro
\ d in Alaska. Mr. Schaefer
vets to move his plant to
' na Island within the next
! f« w weeks and will have the
I model dairy of the North.
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SALMON COMING IN FAST
Many salmon, some of them
fcliows, are being received
he local mild cure plants,
e record thus far for size is
=e‘d by the two which arrived
‘his morning for the Salmon;
kin r Co., one of which
c gheJ T3 and the other To
,;ids.
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TV.NTTB VOLUNTEERS
J. P. Meeker is organizing
e \Iaska volunteers, at Juneau
v' ith the war excitement ablaze
there, and if the company is
ceded by the war department
*he men will be ready to leave
i'T Mexico at a moment's
notice.
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h e has been nothing
•re foolish published about
Alaska than the stories that a
government railroad running
from Portage Bay would have
t tunnel under a glacier," said
J -eph Morningside recently at
Seattle. “Portage Bay is the
-*al harbor of the western
st cf Alaska from every
'* ndpoint. The harbor can be
protected with one fort at the
entrance and a railroad into
what is now the sixty-mile post
on the Alaska Northern rail
read would have no bad
grades." he continued. “The
harbors of Southwestern Alas
are such that suitable anch
orage is a big question, aceord
h g to reports macle by marine
men, and with everything ei-e
considered, this makes Portage
the ideal harbor of Alaska. All
old timers who know the coun
try agree upon this point, and
the result has been of wonder
fa' influx of former pioneers
- ?to our section. Many of the
men going in and locating are
the kind who left the country
live years ago swearing that
they would never come back."
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MINERAL EXHIBITS WANTED
BY CHAMBER IN SEATTLE
R. H. Stretch, assistant sec
r tary os' the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce, asks the Miner
to give publicity to the fact that
, the organization is very
de-irous of getting a good min
eral exhibit from Alaska. He
jsays:
-There are many mines in
y«*ur district which are -till un
represented by specimens in
our mineral exhibit. We ear
nestly desire to make this ex
hibit as complete as possible
for each region.in view of the
increa-ing number of visitors
i> our rooms, seeking informa
tion along these lines, and ask
>oiir aid in accomplishing this.
Specimens from properties in
process of development will be
equally as acceptable a- those
from shipping mines. The
specimens should weigh from
five to ten pounds, so as to at
tract attention and be wrapped
iu heavy paper or sacking with
label inside showing name of
, ihe mine and the donor so
• hat due credit can be given. If
lef! at the office of any of the
-kamship lines and addressed
to the Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
they will be forwarded at our
expense. We need your assist
ance to do justice to the min
eral resources of Alaska.”
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Have you a friend In the
States?—Send them the Daily
Miner, Phone f»
SAMPSON IN AND OUT
W I-, over two hundred pas
g . o i hoard, the Admiral
pson made port about three
. i«t> his morning and got a
ageiu about five o’clock,
/ad seventeen tons of
ghl and fifteen* passengers
*-r this point. Among the lat
ter were J. R. Heckman and
.v.ife and George P. Reilly.
’"ITH MANY LAURELS
LAWYER RETURNS HOME
\mong the outgoing passen
- . the Sampson this after
noon will be Attorney Maurice
R. Leehey. He represented the
various defendants in the ro
Shu'-hanna raining eases
.tturns to Seattle with the
• '•<';ra »ion of having won out
e ca>es.—Cordova Aias
kan.
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ITS A BUSY PLACE
—
Ketchikan people do not real
ize the amount of business
a sacted at the Standard Oil
k It is no uncommon sight
>tv a steamer oiling up, and
from three to half a dozen hal
l-eats waiting for a chance
ip and take gas on board,
e probabilities are that an
i slant will be appointed
y to Frank McCurdy now
Zi of l he dock. The com
- aIso planning putting on
b:g motor delivery wagon
" ' . h will cany in oils for local
s .mption.
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J DOLDT ARRIVES
FROM THE SOUTH
The Humboldt tied up at the
oil dock shortly after six last
tght after a fast trip up. and
i . for the north after discharg
iiig the freight she had for
Ketchikan. On leaving hero
she proceeded to Yes Bay,
v here she discharged a big con
- gnment of cannery supplies
at the cannery at that place.
he will be in southbound Fri
day.
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I'.L BE SOME FLOAT
Williams Hubbard's newj
float in front of Walker's store, j
i.*e:ng overhauled and enlarg-i
ed. The dock has been extern,
t and the slip and float'
ried out with it. so that j
e fy of water will now be
available at all times, and the
•- will be able to lie on
e. her side of it.
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BACK FOR THE 8UMMER
Among the passengers on the
Admiral Sampson this morn
ieg were J. R. Heckman and
v-ife up for the summer from
Ha s Francisco. Mr. Heckman
states that he looks forward to
a busy season in this region, as
*!a-ka is the main topic of
ver-ation everywhere in the
■te- up and down the coast.
! -ds of people will come j
rjth this season he says, and
r.any of them will come pre
P red to slay.
" ETT BEING REPAIRED
"""
1 be power boat Alert was on
e beach at the Northern
Machine Works having a new
r 'h g put in her stern bear
I? -eeros that she was fit
' 'v !h a new bronze towing
wheel and new bushings re
c-’iiUy, and the latter was too
tight, so that they burned out.
"tr engines are now in perfect
condition and her new wheel
-• ves her lots of power for tow
ing purposes.
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Howard H. Fields a mining
engineer of the Bhushanna and
Mi-- Irma Rodi of Calamut,
Michigan, were maried Fecentlj
■ tn Cordova.
A mixture of had whiskey
and natives resulted in the
ueath of one of the latter by
drowning yesterday afternoon
'■chile on the way home to Met
kahtla. It appears that Rob
( Fawcett and Fred Yerney,
r., were in Ketchikan yester
day morning and managed to
get hold of enough liquor to en
jnble to make them so drunk
[that sometime in the early
afternoon they broke into the
store of Ed. Yerney on the cor
ner of Mission and Stedmau
streets. Ed. Yerney swore out
» complaint against the two
young men, and they expecting
same boarded the launch Sun
set to get away in. In addition
to the two mentioned Richard
Y.wcet, father of Robert Faw
v tt, James Mason and James
Grid were on board the launch
ail more or less intoxicated. Ac
cording to the stories of the
men, Fawcett,Sr., Mason and
Oriel were down in the cabin
of the launch as she rounded
Fennock Island, while Robert
Fawcett and Yerney were on
leek, both the latter being in a!
ate of maudlin drunkeness.
Some little time afterwards,
ie of those in the cabin came i
on deck and made the discov-j
tty that Fawcett had disappear
ed and the latter's father came
back and demanded to know of
Yerney what had become of his;
on. The latter was just able.
0 say that he had fallen over
board. and that was all. When ;
be father heard this, the story
goes, he seized Yerney and
threw him overboard with the'
remark that he, too could
drown. Mason and Oriel here
launched the skiff off the Sun-!
?el and went after Yerney, who
was struggling in the water
-d pulled him out into the;
skiff. They then rowed back
1 the launch to put him back
on board and were told by Fav.’
cet that he would kill him if he
came on board again. At this1
juncture the power boat Good
Tidings with Marshal Davies on
board arrived on the scene with
the warrant for the arrest of
Yerney and Fawcett, and took
the former on board and
brought him to town, and he is
now lodged in the U. S. jail on
i charge of breaking into the
erney store.
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VISITING RELATIVES
Mrs. M. A. Griffith of Dos
rigele-. is a local visit >r, a
guest of her mother Mrs. G. H.
Field. This is Mrs. Griffith’s
f.rst trip north and she finds it
somewhat chilly after living in
be sunny south.
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BAR FIXTURES ARRIVES
The fixtures for the Lotus
Buffet arrived on the Meteor
last night, after being looked
lor for several days. Ther are
35 tons of them in all, and they
will be put in position at once.
The Meteor had a big cargo of
cannery supplies on board.
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DIRECTOR IS
BEING OVERHAULED
The halibut schooner Direr- 1
tor, which bumped on Rose ■
Hpit recently losing her rudder,
is being overhauled at Brown's
ship yard in Newtown. A new
-hoe will be put on and the
Northern Machine Shop will
build a new rudder for her.
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If. 8. Finch, of Petersburg,
has been chosen manager of
the Pacific Coast and Norway
Packing company to succeed
John Kildall, who recently went
South. Mr. Finch has been act
ing manager during the ab
sence of Mr. Koldall, who rec
ommended him for the perm
anent apitoinhEftfnt
[ ROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
Washington, April 29—Presi
dent Wilson has made tho de
mand that Huerta apologize,
|salute the American flag and
j ilion stop down and out as
; president of Mexico. These
jun the three conditions he says
he will order the withdrawl of
American troops from Mexico
on, and no other.
Vera Cruz, April 29—History
repeated itself yesterday after
noon when amid (he cheers of
•lie Mexicans of this city the
American soldiers of General
Funstnn's command landed
from the transports and raised
the. Stars and Stripes on the
same spot where in 1S J7 Gen.
Scott broke colors on the begin
ning of his march to the inter -
ior. The ceremony was fitt
ingly observed by both Mexi
cans and Americans.
Quiet has been restored in
this city and business in gen
eral lias resumed its normal
channels.
Scouts from the interior bring,
ii- word that General Maas and
(he Federal army are retiring'
further into the interior to
wards the City of Mexico.
The new civil government
was organized in this city la-!
night with Attorney R. .1. Kerr
oi Chicago, governor; Conunan.
dor Stickney, inspector of port
customs; and Attorney Buciil'
administrator of justice.
Word comes from the City of
Mexico that Huerta has recall
ed Maas to the defense of the
capital and is strengthening the
fort'iieations of the city.
Washington, April 29—I', is
generally eonseded here that
the Mexican crisis over, and the
Gifferences will be settled with
in the next few days. Several
European countries have made
the suggestion that a provis
ional commission form of gov
ernment be created for Mex
ico, similiar to that now in j
force in the Island ofCrete, and
the suggestion meets with the
approval of many of the gov
ernment officials of this city.
Sir Lionel Carden wires that
apparently all Americans in the
territory governed by Huerta
ore safe.
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Washington, April 29—Uncon.
firmed rumors are current here
to the effect that the mediators I
in the Mexican affair are to1
ask both sides to refrain from
any movement of either army
or navy pending the restoration
of peace.
I
The Grand Jury yesterday,
brought in true bills against j
Joe Sousa charged with burgl
ary; Jimmy Johnnie and Fred
W. Patterson, “booze” peddl
ing; and Harry Kimura, assault
with a deadly weapon. This
morning true hills were
hi ought in against W. Ray
mond, J. Furlong, and Georg S.
Murphy for breaking into the j
warehouse on Strong’s Dock j
I his last winter; David Fitzger-J
aid,burglary on the Gene
Worker residence, and Dan
I.ott for giving liquor to natives.
The grand jury also reported
not true bills in the G. M.
Summer’s case, which was
{brought down from Juneau,
where the last grand jury had;
also refused to indict.
Simeon Aquio, a Filipino,
charged with supplying Jumbo
McPhee a native, with liquor at
| Wrangell, was being tried this
morning by the petty jury.
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George Hajukovich, a Pair
banks restaurant keeper, had
his arm sawed almost off in a
woodcutting machine last week.
I The machinery started in
motion while lie was trying to
move a large stick of wood
Eeoles, \V. Va. April 20- As
a result of an explosion in a
coal mine near this place 2fi0
miners ami helpers arc entomb,
•’it with little hope of recovery.
I Eater information from (he ex
plosion stales Ihnl iso of iho
i ei,loinbe(| miners arc Unown to
have smothered in the gas lilt
ed tunnels. J’athotie scenes
ere reported from the mouth of
the mine where relatives of the
missing men and hoys await
news of their rescue.
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FROM THURSDAYS DAILY
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WRANGELL ASKS FOR
DRY STRAIT CHANNEL
The Wrangell Chamber of
Commerce has begun work n
gain lo secure an appropriation
for dredging a channel through
Dry strait so as lo obviate the
necessity of vessels running
through Wrangell Narrows. It
is contended that the r movnl
of 20,000,000 cubic yards of
-and would make a deep chan
nel through Dry strait that
would accomodate any class of
vessels, making a saving in a
round Crip lo any point north of
Wrangell of 300 miles for those
vessels that are (oo large for
W rangell Narrows, of more than
20 miles for those that use Die
narrows, and make navigation
safe for both classes, besides
obviating the necessity that
o"Wen rises lo await for weather
conditions. Other Alaska towns
are to be asked to aid in getting
an appropriation for the work.
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HEARING ON THE FROST
CASES STARTS SOON
The Juneau land office will
have a hearing on the Frost
coal land cases shortly. The
hearing will be in I he nature of
a civil suit to determine the
lawful or unlawful character of
the locations. The coal lands
involved are in the Matanuska
fields. The government began
a criminal prosecution against
A. C. Frost and others charging
them with conspiracy lo de
fraud the government out of
these coal lands and Die cases
went to trial in Chicago last
year. The last of the deposi
tions submitted in the Frost
case including a large pari of
tiie testimony used as evidence
ir; the prosecution have been re
ceived. The record consists
of about 5,000 pages of testi
mony.
DELEGATE INDICATES
ROUTE OF RAILWAY
Iii a business Idler to Will
iam Kramer, Delegate Wicker
sham devotes several para
graphs to the outlook for Ihe
railroad, and the possible route
to be selected by the president,
which are of interest to the
general public. In speaking of
the report of the Alaska rail
road commission, Mr. Wicker
sham says:
“We are unable to get any
more of them for distribution
However, all the routes lead
strait to Fairbanks, and I think
you need have no doubt that a
main trunkline will be built
straight from Seward, Valdez
or OJiilina to Fairbanks.”
The delegate also gave the in
formation that all the congress
men expect the present session
to come lo an end during the
middle of June, arid he ex
pects lo leave for the north as
soon as possible after that dale.
—Fairbanks Times.
The gasboat Venus was in
port this morning with 20,000
pounds of halibut, which it will
take sou Hi to Seal lie.
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For Sale on 25-35 Winches
ter rifle in first class shape,
apply at Ihe Minor Office, adv.
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The Dally Miner, $1. per. mo,