Sec’y Straus In Seattle
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Seattle, July 17 — Secretary
Strauss, of the department of com
merce and labor, arrived here last*
night and will devote several days
to investigating the naval needs
and conditions on Paget sou ad.
He refuses to accept a banquet in
his honor or to tike part in the
proposed sight seeing trip around
this section.
Seattle, July 17—Because he
abandoned her, Ella Fay wife of a
Pike street butcher, attempted to
kill her husband this morning, tak
ing two shot at him, but failing to
hit the mark. She is now in jail.
San Francisco, July 17—The ex
ecutive committee of the telegraph
ers union announced this morning
that they will’not call a sympa
thetic strike. Frisco and Oakland
must win without assistance from
other towns.
Seattle. July 17-“The city of Se
attle has offered a reward of $5,
000 for the return of Piplinger to
this place so that action can Ve
started against him for embezzle
ment. He is said to be in'Hondu
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ras, where he has a large planta
tation,
Boise, July 17-**-The introduc
tion of evidence in rebuttal in the
Haywood trial will occupy two
tTays more. Witnesses for the
,’state'yesterday denied the state
meats made by Dr. McGee* one of
'the defenses witnesses.
Butte, July 17—Nicholas Kent,
assistant postmaster at this place,
has disappeared, leaving a shortage
iivhis office accounts,of about $10,
000. He has be&\ acting queerly ,
for some time and it is believed
%'iat he is demented.
Seattle, July 17—Dr. Anton, of
Nome, one of the employees of the
Guggenheim interests in that sec
tion, says that the report being cir
culated that the Gugg< nheims were
trying to control all of Alaska is a
foolish one. He says they may
buy some more property in the
Seward peninsula country, but
they have no intention of trying to
acquire the whole country.
Enid, Okla., July 17—Thomas
Gore has been nominated by the
democrats of Oklahoma to go to
the United States senate. This is
equivalent to election. Gore is to
tally blind, and will be the only
man in the senate who is afflicted
in ,hat manner.
San Francisco, July 17—The
city supervisors have elected Ed
ward R. Tavlor mavor ofSttn Fran
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cisco in place of SchmiU. Taylor
is a lawyer and the appoittlfnent
is heartily approved by thb'se who
are fighting the graft rule in the
city. -
The Hubbard-Elliott company htte
acquired the Stamey-Kfather property
'bo Drier bay adjoining the etaims df
Ed. Reed. The group "consists of she
claims.
Hand's Cafe, the hew te'stAtaraut in
the Kauitz block, was opened yester
day. The place will be conducted by
Chas. Hand and Roy Cooper, Mr,
Cooperj who is now in the States, will
return in a few weeks.
Arrivals from Taznnna yesterday
report that a part of the steam winch
for the Chityna was lost in the river a
few days a<?o, but the boat people ex
pected to be able to get along without
the part lost.
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The transport Crook, whick was here
last week with soldiers for Liscum, has
f died St. Michaels.
A. Holman reports that ha has
nearly 600 hundred cords of wood cut
aud on the bank of the Copper at the
Center, f r the steamer Chittyna. He
expects 1 !ie boat to be at the Center in
a few da . for a load of the wood.
It is estimated that $1,000,000 has
been taken from the placer mines of
Juneau a .d vicidity to date,
Dr. Somebody, of Nome, says the
Guggenheims are not trying to ac
quire all of Alaska. We are glad to
have that question settled.
The co lector of the port reports that
for the n.outh of April the valuation of
copper < re, matte and bars received
from Ala at Port Townsend, Seat
tie’s port of entry, is fixed at $(>82,754,
the red metal leading the imports from
Alaska for that mouth.
The Treadwell mine paid $8,385,000
in dividends up to last October.
Will Patronise Malls.
The Seattle Times says:
'Several prominent miners from Alas
ka are authority for the statement that
'if the express companies do not reduca
their rate on carrying gold from
Alaska the shippers will use the
United States mail almost entirely to
forward treasure to the United States.
When gold is shipped south by mail
the custom of the ship is to insure it
The postal rates on gold is the same as
letter postage. It‘is carried as first
class matter and the registry fee is
the same—eight cents on each package.
The express rates on gold from
Fairbanks is 85 for every thousand
dollars worth. This would make a
difference df 84.04 between the mail
shipment and the expiess shipment
The insurance rate on gold from Fair
banks would be 82 a thousand, makir g
a total expense of 82 96 per thousand
by*mail, against $7 per thousand dol
lars by express.
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