TAMMANY WILL
HELP WHITMAN
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Endorses Fusion (Nominee for
District Attorney--Tammany
Weloomes Police Probe.
New York, Aug. 29.—District
Attorney Whitman, the fusion
nominee for district attorney to
succeed himself, has accepted
the nomination for the same of
fice from Tammany and will have
his name on both tickets.
Boss Murphy has stated that
Tamjmany would not nominate
anyone for the position against
Whitman, because Tammany did
not want to be in the position
of opposing the man who is
cleaning up the police depart
ment .
“We welcome the police inves
tigation,'’ he is reported to have
said.
Whitman was beaten for the
nomination for mayor on the fu
sion ticket by two votes. Boss
Woodruff, of the Bull Moose
party, and Hearst, the Inedepend
ence League boss, being opposed
fp him.
SENATORS WANT
CROOKS PARDONED
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Jones, Chamberlain and Lane Are
Working for Pardon of Bul
lock and Houston.
Washington, Aug. i’O.—Sena
tors Jones, Chamberlain and I.ane
are working to influence west
ern senators and congressmen lo
go to the president and attorney
general and recommend to them
lhat Bullock and Houston be par
doned.
The pardon clerk of Hie- De
partment of Justice has reviewed
the evidence and lias reported lo
the attorney general that Lite evi
dence was insufficient to convict.
Bullock and Houston were
found guilty of defrauding the
government in the sale of coal at
high prices to the Alaskan forts.
The case was tried before Judge
Cushman.
moil sues
CITY OF MO
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Reports That 60 People Killed;
fi .1,600 Houses Demolished
toy Waters. ,, r,r.r
Tokio,'' Aug. 29.—The reports
received by the police from all
parts of the city indicate that a
total of till people were Rilled
pesterday'in the 1,/phoon which
swept this city afad that 1:500
houses'Were ddstroyetl ' -by' t he
waters, which swept the build
ings into the bay.
The water rushed intiythe city,
smashing many buildimrs and
drowning 60 people, who were
unable to get out of the way.'
. Relief forces are aWwork riid
. tg those who lost thtir.honi.es.
and providing for the'many peo
ple who were injured in the
wrecking of the' houses.
The Prospector for job work.
~ BILL
PASSES CAUCUS
'Democrats of Lower House Will
Push Administration Meas
ure Through.
Washington, Aug. 29.--The
House caucus of ttye majority
party met last night and finished
the administration currency bill,
which will now be turned over to
the currency coniimittee, who will
report it to the Honse and it will
receive the1 majority party’s sup
port in the lower House.
The efl'orL of many representa
tives to.amend the bill and strike
out the more drastic portions,
against which the bankers of the
country have protested, were in
vain and the large majority of
the administration forces in the
House of Representatives make's
a light in the lower House futile.
The bankers are hopeful that
•When the bill reaches the Senate
i it will be amended.
Tlie plan ol tile admimstratoin
bill which was introduced by
Representative Glass is to have
not less than 10 federal reserve
cities. A federal reserve district
shall be formed surrounding each
reserve city. Each federal re
serve district shall contain not
less than 10 National banks.
Each National bank withing each
district shall be required to
subscribe an amount not less
than -'0 per cent of its own cap
ital towards the capital of the
| federal reservje bank of its dis
| I riot. No federal reserve bank
; shall be organized with less than
$5,000,000 paid iqi capital. Each
federal reserve bank shall have
3 classes of directors—classes A,
B and C. Class A shall e-.nsist
of 3 members who shall be chos
en by and rcpre cnt the stock
In id ng banks Class B shall
ci nt isl of 3 in ' nbers who snail I
be representatives of the general
public. Class C shall consist of
3 members who shall be desig
nated by the federal resrve
board. —
All earnings ni a leuerai re- i
serve bank, above 5 per rent per
annum, after a surplus of 20
per cent of its capital stock has
been accumulated shall revert to
Ihe United States.
All National banks now exist
ing must within, one year com
ply with the provisions of this
act or be; dissolved.
Any bank or trust company j
may become members of a fed
eral resrVe bank by purchasing
stock'of reserve bank in district
which it is located: The federal
reserve board who shall desig
nate reserve cities ami have con
trol of reserve banks shall con
sist of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, Secreary of Agriculture,
| Comptroller of the Currency and
four mfembers chosen by the
president of the United States.
All money now held in Ihe U.
S. Treasury shall'be deposited in
the federal reserve banks and
hereafter all revenues of the U*.
S. shall be so deposited. The
Secretary Of the Treasury shall
fix the interest rate to be phid
the U. S., and h,e may changed tils
. rate from rrtdnth to month, at firs
6Wn discretion'." " ‘
No reserve bank shall pa?~1n
i terest on any deposit not belong
ing to thei U. S.
Federal reserve treasury notes,
not exceed $500,000,000 sh^ll he.
issued, and in addition to this', hr.
• atnTouhtr’ noi ekce!6iiti'rtgt' ftie'dif
ference'b'efweenttjVs'amount'and
the outstanding notes of exist
ing National banks. These notes
cwteney
be mVecmed ir. gold coin b.fariv
federal reserve bank -upon'. de+
maniu .
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Mrs. Jepson and her daughter,
Jessie Klutina Jepson, are in
town for a short visit. They came
in with Joe Stanton, the mail car
rier.
AMERICANS FILL CONSULATE
SEEK WASHINGTON NEWS
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MANY ARE PREPARING TO LEA VE THE MEXICAN CAP.ITAL, AF
TER REGISTERING THEIR PROPERTY—ENGLAND SARCAS
TIC ABOUT WILSON, SPEECH—FRANCE PRAISES IT.
Mexico City, Aug. 29.—The
American consulate here is
crowded with Americans who are
seeking information from the
State department regarding the
status of Americans in Mexico
and are verifying the statements
published in Mexican papers that
President Wilson has ordered all
Americans to leave Mexico at
once.
Many Americans plan to leave
here in a few days after they have
registered all property owned bp
them in the country, which will
be filed at the consulate and at
the foreign office of the repub
lic. Only a few are defmant, most I
all realizing that conditions in
the republic are unsafe and that
an outbreak may come at any
time.
Paris, Aug. |29.—The French
papers praise President Wilson’s
message on the Mexican situation
and applaud his stand of non
interference, but strict neutrality.
London, Aug. 29—The English
papers are sarcastically referring
to the Wilson message on the
Mexican situation and are doubt
ful of the result. They predict
that the administration cannot
maintain its present attitude to
wards its neighbor and that long
before the Americans now in
Mexico are out of the country the
war will break. Some papers
make the prophecy that the ruse
lo get Americans out of harm’s
way before the break will be frus
trated by the Mexican people, who
are likely to murder all those in
the distant mining camps.
Vera Cruz, Aug. 29—Provis
ional President Huerta has noti
ced Gov. Limb the special envoy
.of President Wilson, who is here
en route to Washington, that his
government is willing to accept
certain terms in the way of a
compromise in order to effect a
settlement of the differences be
tween the two countries. The
special ambassador has not made
public the nature of the teVms
’offered.
Washington, Aug. 29.—The
State department a'nd influential
Democrats and Republicans are
hopeful that a peaceful settle
ment of the difficulties between
the United States and Mexico can
be arranged and that a stable
government can be syecured for
the neighboring republic, also to
protect all foreigners and their
properly.
No let up has been noticed in
the activities in the army and
havy departments in the matter
of the concentration of troops on
the border and the sending of the
big war ships to southern ports
ready for instant action. The
gathering of stores in southern
ports continues and tin* repair
work on the war vessels is being
rushed .
SENATORS WOULD
TIO FORTUNES
At Heavy Rate, 3ut Opposition is
Too Great and Amendment
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Is Defeated.
Washington, Aug. 21).—The* ef
fort. to increase the income lax
on .large fortunes was defeated
in the Senate yesterday.
Some of the senators would
have la.^ed large incomes, espec
ially bequests by will, at 10 per]
cent, but others claimed that the
state taxes on bequests and the
income tax, as provided in the
present bill, placed all the burden
on an estate possible, and that to
further tax it by raising the in
come tax would be to confiscate
property.
patch was received today by Col.
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William C. Gorgas, chief sani
tary officer or the Panama Canal
Commission, from the. Chamber
of lilfnes,' JOhairtieS'buTji, * South
AfrlttaiJ'TriBtitiesiihg hiA ■setvifctes in
organizing sanitation work for
the bettetrineh'of the health con
ditimis'amojttt; the mines of the
\Vitvi«sWi«y R** The requestfiln
the resuff of n recent- visit to tla
;f|ihniii? W4|atbu;ejf:|5v.anK’ a minis
ing official of Johannesburg, who
yngiritt a full investigafidn of tin*
sanitary methods in operation
here. Col. Gorgas cabled his
willingness to go to South Africa |
if his visit could lie deferred un- :
til November. I
I FLOATING COURT
I HERE TOMORROW
j
Revenue Cutter Thetis Reached
Seward at Noon Today, Com- i
ing to Valdez.
The Revenue cutter Thetis,
with Judge eJnnings, of Juneau,
and the other officers of I he
floating court reached Seward at
noon today and is expected to ar
rive at Valdez tomorrow at i p.
m.
The prisoners who have been
found guilty will be brought to
Valdez and the three insane men
\viil be sent out on one of the
next steamers to Portland.
Paul Kaiser came in last night
from the interior.
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Madison, Wisu.Aug. 29.—The
“state board of control of Wis
consin, which has the manage
ment of the state charitable, pen
al and reformatory institutions,
is receiving a large number of
inquiries from relatives and
frielnds of criminal insane, fee
ple-mfnded and epileptics con
fined in state institutions re
flrding the new law providing
for the sterilization of degener
ates. •’
The board intends to begin
with the female degenerates and
later take up the males. Several
hundred female degenerates will
be sterilized this ye'ar.
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FIRE THREATENS
LARGEST SHIP
Imperator in Danger When the
Wharf at Hoboken is Swept
by Fire—Little Damaged.
New York, Aug. 29.—A fire
swept the docks at Hoboken yes
terday and threatened to destroy
the big German liner, Imperator,
which was tied up to the dock,
and only the quick work of the
many tugs, the prompt response
of the Hoboken fire engines and
the many fire boats from this
city, saved the ship with but little
damage to her upper works.
Second Officer Gobrecht was
suffocated while working to save
'the ship.
The1 Imperator made her maid
en voyage to America in June,
1913, and is the largest ship
afloat.
To realize I lie massiveness of
this great ocean liner one lias
merely to glance at the follow
ing data:
Measures 919 feet in length
over all, 9 feet beam, and lias a
gross tonnage of 50,000.
Her bridge is 900 feet above
water, and her three1 funnels ex
tend 09 feet above upper deck,
her masts being 240 feet from
keel to truck.
Five Captains, with Captain
Hans Ruser, in supreme com
mand, are among her officers.
Wireless can transmit mes
sages 1,500 miles and she car
ries three operators.
Five anchors, one weighing
20,1 45 pounds, two weighing 17,
030, one 11.103 and a kedge an
chor weighing 4,900.
Seven of her ten decks are for
Ihe use of lirst-class passengers.
Roman balh, two stories high,
| 05x11 feel, is in marble and
bronze. There are also Turkish
baths, eleclrie balh, mineral bath,
needle balh and chiropodist, bar
bar and imjnicuiisl cnonected
with the Roman.
Three privale dining rooms, a
glass-inclosed private deck to the
imperial suite, bed rooms larg
er than hotel chambers, gardens,
shops, a ball room and a theater.
Hath robes are supplied and
telephones connect every slate
room with central.
Public rooms include social
hall, women’s saloon and writ
ing room, palm court and sun
parlor, Rilz-Carllon restaurant,
grill room, candy store and Mow
er shop.
On her trip across Ihe Atlan
tic the Imperalor used 48,000
pounds of fresh meats, 18,000
eggs, 121,000 pounds of potatoes,
27,000 pounds of fresh vegeta
bles, 27,000 pounds of fowl and
game, 9,000 pounds of lish, 12,
500 quarts of milk, 400 pounds
of tea, 7.000 pounds of coffee and
800 pound's of mushrooms.
She carries a crew of 1,180, and
the linen alone, including 30,000
towels, 9,700 sheets and 50,000
napkins, cost $50,000.
Indians Hav« Debauch.
A fyarrel of <£larel washed
ashore' frdin' trie wrecked Califor
nia at Gambier Bay, The Indians
of the place surrounded it at a
convenient point and tapping the
barrel commenced a drunken de
bauch. They used toolies and
sucked the red wine from the
harrdl. When a native could
drink no’more his'friends would
bdndle hiiiii nto a canoe and pad
dle him to his: home and give
another native a chance with the
foolies. This is the story brought
to JiVneair by persons who have
visited the scene of the wreck.-&
•Juneau Empire. {vM" •
Bjorn and Raymond left Wed
nesday on the launch Pioneer for
Port Wells to investigate some
mining claims in that section.
Nick Nicolson returned to Val
dez from the Sweepstake mine at
purl Wells.
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Nanaimo Troops Do Not Want
to Use Big Guns on
Union Strikers.
Nanaimo. B. C., Aug. 29.—The
Canadian troops stationed at the
fcoal mines in this city, threaten
to desert if the gatling guns now
turned on. the strikers are not
withdrawn. The militiamen are
members of the unions of Van
couver and Victoria and do not
want to use the big guns on the
rioters. In the frequent clashes
between troops and strikers many
of the militiamen have made no
effort to obey the orders of the
officers to use I he bayonet and to
club their guns and use them
freely, and much dissatisfaction
and strife has broken out in Ibe
ranks between the men who sym
pathize with the strikers and
those who are following prders.
The troops yesterday arrested
50 more of the strikers, who were
rioting near one of the colleries
and now have several hundred
strikers in the bull pen and are
contemplating deporting the en
tire bunch to Victoria to be held
until the strike is settled.
TRAPPER POUND
BLOND ESKIMOS
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George Deschambeault, Canadian
Trapper, Informed Steffenson
of Tribe’s Location.
Kdinonlmi. 'Cun.. Aug. 20.—
George Deschambeault. who has
spent I lie past few years in the
Arctic trapping, reached here to
day and staled that he had dis
covered the blond Ksipiiino while
on a trapping' trip and had later
met Steffenson, to whom he had
reported the iind, and the explor
er had visited the tribe of white
native's and had been heralded to
the world as the discoverer, while
in reality Steffenson had only fol
lowed the information of the
trapper in locating the blondes.
Deschambeault is much peeved
that the explorer never mention
ed him as the original discoverer
nor gave him any credit for the
information which lead to Steff
enson receiving many medals of
honor and decorations from for
eign nations and societies.
PEACE PALACE
IS DEDICATED
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Oarnegle Makes Presentation—
'Foreign Secretary.Accepts Gift
—Queen Attend^ Ceremony.
The Hague, Holland, Aug. 29—
The Carnegie Peace Palace, one
of the linest buildings in Europe,
jvas dedicated yesterday. The
ceremony was Ih^e most imposing
ever held in the City, the diplo
matic representatives of all na
tions being present in full regalia.
Queen Wilhelinina attended the
ceremony and welcomed,the dipT
lortiats. Andrew Carnegie, the
Scotch-American millionaire,
made the presentation speech
and I he foreign secretary replied
and accepted the gift.
l«'OR SALE cheap, all my furni
ture. Mrs. Horace DeLine.