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Morgan Made Mellen Pre*ident and
Wa* on the Intide When-Mel
on* Were Cut.
WASHINGTON, May 15.—The tes
timony today before the Interstate
Commerce Commission regarding the
New Haven railroad developed the
fact that J. P.. Morgan, the banker,
made Charles Mellen president of the
road and that the Morgan interests
held control of the system for many
years, handling the loans by which
means the railroad was gutted of its
resources and that they participated
in the cutting of the melons when the
insiders bought side lines for little or
nothing and sold them to the big
road at a big advance over the pur
chase price.
President Mellen, who has been
subpoenaed by the commission, has
agreed to tell of all the inside work
ings of the road and has promised
to reveal the negotiations with form
er Chief of Police Byrnes, by which
means the charter for the West
chester road was changed. Byrnes re
ceived a million dollars for his work,
according to Mellen and was also tak
ne in on the stock deals.
The manipulation of the stock will
also be investigated and It is hoped
that enough . evidence will be se
cured to cause indictments against
bankers in New York and stock brok
ers for looting the system.
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LEASING BILL
Administration Will Endeavor to
Force It'Through This Session
in Spite of Caucus.
WASHINGTON. May 15.—In spite
of the action of the caucus of Dem
ocrats of the House limiting the leg
islation to be passed at the remain
der of the session to appropriation
and trust bills, President Wilson Will
endeavor to have the Alaska le&sirig
bill providing for the opening of the
coal fields passed at the present ses
sion so that, the coal fields may be
surveyed and thq wofk Of opening the
mines started and in readiness when
the railroad to be built to the coal
fields shal lhave been completed.
The powerful influence of the ad
ministration Is now at Work to se
cure the passage of the bill and it is
hoped by Alaskans now in this city
that the administration will be suc
cessful.
TUI TO BURY
LIVING CHILD
CALCUTTA, May 15—An extra
ordinary case of superstition was
disclosed by the arrest of three men
who were caught in the act of bury
ing alive a baby a month old. The
baby was born with a tooth, and a
few days afterwards six suckling pigs
and a calf died In the neighborhood.
Thereupon a soothsayer declared that
the child had a devil, and undertook
to exercise it, but on the following
night the father became ill. He then
decided that the devil had been too
'strong for the soothsayer, ahd that
he must get rid of the child to escape
Its malignity.
BRIGHTON LEAVES
TOMORROW MORNING
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The launch Brighton, the crack
liner on the fort Welle run, will,leave
Vhldex totnorrcUr morning at 10
o’clttfci Ittr Pmm iftteila Alai Ittir
ports. ^
THANKS
PRESIDENT
Tells President Wilson That Alaskans
Feel Very Grateful to Him for His
Work for the Northland.
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Governor
Strong of Alaska today called upon
President Wilson and thanked him
on behalf of Alaskans for the work
he has done to open up the territory
and provide transportation from the
interior to the coast.
“All Alaskans feel grateful to you,
Mr. President, for your efforts in our
behalf and the present administra
tion has done more for the north
land than all the administrations
since the purchase of the territory
from Russia,” said the governor.
The president is pleased with the
appreciation shown by Alaskans and
promised to continue his efforts in
behalf of Alaska, and said that he
hoped to see a large population of
farmers located on the agricultural
lands of Alaska.
LANE PREFERS
SUSITNA ROUTE
Says That Line Up Cook Inlet From
Seward or Portage Bay Taps Mat
anuska Coal Fields.
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WASHINGTON, May 15.—Secretary
of the Interior Franklin K. Lane to
day, in an interview, stated that the
government would make the first sur- i
vey up the Susitna valley, because
that route would not only tap the
Matanuska coal fields, but would al
iso reach the Nenana, thus reaching
two large coal districts, where the
government would be able to secure
tonnage for the road.
“We must also determine whether
Seward or Portage Bay is preferable
for the terminus of the Alaska rail
road and the engineers will make an
exhaustive examination of both routes
and a careful survey of the two har
bors.”
The secretary also intimated that
if the present board of'engineers made
ogod afid the department became Con
vinced that the yhad done a good
job of surveying that they would be
retained to construct the road, but
that at present the entire energies of
the engineers would be to secure sur
veys and data on the different routes,
but more especially the Setrard or
Portage Bay route to the coal fields
and to the Tanana.
“The present board Is a ‘bully good
board,’ ” said Secretary Lane, "and
not a one Of the commission was an
applicant for the positions but have
been selected because of especial fit
ness.”
The announcement was also made
of the appointment of Benjamin
Campbell, of the New Haven railroad,
to be engineer of the commission and
he will leave for the West In a few
weeks.
The department is swamped with
applications from men all over the
country who desire work with the
commission or upon the road con
struction.
Charities and Correction Conference.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 15—With
zepresentatlves present from almost
ever ystate in the union the forty
sixth annual meeting of the National
Conference of Charities And Correc
tion convened kerb today. Sessions
will continue through May 20.
Missouri Delegation Off.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., key 16.—Mis
souri's delegation to the National Con
ference at Cb^ritles and Corrections
left here last night to attend th$
week's session beginning today.
Gettto tffcrtnifl fR'ttfei&bfh
Ing for Pot t Wells.
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Judge Fuller.HoMs Washington-Alas
ka Directors for Dividends They
Passed to Themselves.
FAIRBANKS, May 15.—Late yes
terday afternoon Judge Fuller handed
down a decision in the case of F. G.
Noyes, receiver of the defunct bank,
against John Jesson, John L. McGinn,
R. C. Wood, E. R. Peoples, Raymond
Brumbaugh, J. A. Healey, John Clark
and George Preston, all former direct
ors of the bank.
Jesson, McGinn, Wood, Peoples
and Brumbaugh were held responsi
ble for having paid out the dividends
of the bank when it was insolvent,
and that they knew it was insolvent
at the time, therefore Judge Fuller
gave a verdict against them for
$54,720. Clark, Preston and Healey
were exonerated and the suit against
them was dismissed by the judge.
The case will be appealed at once
to the circuit court of the Ninth di
vision and carried to the highest
courts.
Receiver Noyes is endeavoring to
collect from the men in charge of the
bank before its failure the money
they are alleged to have misappro
priated by paying dividends.
Railroad Town’s Chamber of Com
merce Gets Reply From Riggs—
Says Survey Chitina-Tanana.
CORDOVA, May In.—In answer tc
a telegram from the Cordova Chambei
of Commerce to Commissioner Thos
Riggs regarding the intentions of the
commission in the matter of inves
tigating the proposed route for a
government railroad from Chitina to
Fairbanks, the chamber received from
Commissioner Riggs the information
that the commission already had con
siderable data regarding that route,
in fact more than on any other route,
as the surveys made by the Copper
River and Northwestern road- had
been turned over to the government,
yet the commission would make an
independent survey and would have
a party in the field to locate a pos
sible route between Chitina and Fair
banks.
The business men of this commun
ity .are hopeful that the commission
will follow the recommendations of
the former railroad commission, which
reported so favorably on this route.
ELECTRIC [1
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COPENHAGEN, May lSv-s-'Soi}ie re
markable result" In the frektgient by
electric light of “surgicar^iuberculo
sis” are annouie&f'Bj^Dr. Reyn, head
of the Pinson flight Institute. A
number of patibhts who otherwise
would have had to undergo opera
tions, have bebh discharged as cured,
while many others have shown won
derful improvement.
The treatment consists In placing
the patient about a yard’s distance
hi front of an ordinary arc lamp and
directing thh rays nga&iatth&iiMctei
pirts for .pnrleds of from M gtinutes
at,first to rorb bdiirs.hhd a hdlt, ttye
length ot tube foUiig gradually Ifi
c teased ih>W daj t& djij. fceyii
hhlibVbs thdtjbe|ii)tt'cttfe Way al
IC prtfi niiWhl ld cases of long tu
MtclllosU. Wit this fids not Jet befeh
determined.
Chinese Constitution Gives Power of
Despot to President—Can Veto
All Legislation.
PEKING, China. May 15—The
amended constitution for the repub
lic of China, which is to be formally
promulgated tomorrow, is notable for
the wide powers that is given to the
president.
The document, as it now stands, is
the Work of the constitutional con
vention, which has been laboring
here since the middle of March.
The president is empowered to
convoke, open, suspend, close and
dissolve the legislature; submit to
it the budget as well as other bills,
and refer back to the legislature for
reconsideration bills already passed
by it. If such measures are re
passed by a three-fourths majority
the president nfay, with the approv
al of the administrative council, still
withhold his consent to their pro
mulgation.
The president obtains sole pow
er to appoint and dismiss civil and
military officials, to declare war and
conclude peace, and he will be in com
. plete control of the army and navy
as well as of all the expenditures for
these branches of the government.
OCEAN LINERS
WILL SOON RACE
The Hamburg Liner Vaterland and
Cunarder Mauretania Leave New'
York on May 26th.
LONDON, May 15.—The fact that
the new Hamburg-American liner Va
terland and the Mauretania will sail
from New York on May 26 is aroous
ing great interest in Germany, where,
it is said, a transatlantic race is be
ing talked of and heavy wagers are
being laid on the German vessel.
The managements of both the Ham
burg-American and Cunard Lines de
ny any intention of racing; never
theless the public will be interested in
the comparison of the speeds shown
by the two liners. Englishmen are
inclined to scoff at the idea of the
Vaterland’s capturing the blue rib
bon of the Atlanticc from the Mau
retania. pointing out the fact that
the latter has registered 26 knots,
whereas the Vaterland is understood
to be a twenty-three-knot steamer.
A Berlin message reports, however,
that the Vaterland made more than
25 knots against the wind during her
trials, and 26 knots with the wind,
her engines developing an average
of 90,000 horse power.
Mill PMK
LOSES MONEY
BERLIN. May 15— Prince Henry
of Reuss (younger Une) is another
German princeling who has burned
hla fingers trying his hand at busi
ness, Not being wealthy enough, or
sufficiently important to Join the fa
mous Princes’ Trust, Henry served
an apprenticeship in a Hamburg ex
port hohse, and after studying at
the Cologne Commercial high school,
he made a tHp to German But Af
rica, whore he aculred rtibber plan
tations. He ttirhed his property into
.a company capitalised at $180,000, bill
jOh the: first year’s working <1011}
there Was a got deficit, Of $10,000.
(in' the second year the loss was $7,
,$00 Wd' Ih 1913 $87,500. Thd coin
.paay is no# disnUs^idi many em
ployes and reducing salaries all round.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
NOTED SINGER
Mme. Nordica, American Singer, Left
Jewels Worth $1,000,000 and
Other Property.
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NEW YORK, May 15—The will of
Mme. Lillian Nordica (Mrs. George
W. Young), the opera singer who
died recently at Batavia, Java, was
opened today and lier jewels, val
ued at $1,000,000, and he* large hold
ings of real estate, were* left to her
husband and her three sisters.
Mrs. Young died while on a tour
of the world and left this city in
April, 1913, and while on the Dutch
steamer Tasman suffered from ner
vous prostration when the vessel
went aground on December 28 in
Bramble bay, in the Gulf of Papua.
Pneumonia followed the two days of
exposure on the wreck.
ST1MBS
ME INDICTED
Grand Jury Holds Officials and 100
Members of Union Are Guilty of
Conspiracy to Murder.
DENVER, May 15.—The grand
jury in session here today returned
indictments against Secretary Doyle
and John Lawson, of the district board
of the miners’ union; William Hickey,
of the state federation of labor, and
100 members of the United Mine
Workers of America, charging the
men with conspiracy to murder.
Most of the warrants have been serv
ed and the men liberated on bail
furnished by the union.
The strikers are greatly enraged at
the action of the jury in indicting on
ly strikers and they threaten to have
J. D. Rockefeller indicted for con
spiracy to murder because of the hir
ing of armed guards and the subse
quent killings which followed at
tacks upon the mine property.
The Mine Owners’ Association to
day issued a statement • that under
no circumstances will they deal with
the strikers. They claim that they
have 10,000 men employed in dif
ferent mines and that the 1,500 men
on strike cannot intimidate them in
to discharging all of the men or forc
ing he mto join the unions.
The federal troops are not exper
iencing any difficulty in maintaining
quiet in the "terror zone” and all the
mining property is now under gov
ernment protection. The state troops
have beep withdrawn in many In
stances.
Belva Lockwood Benefit.
CHICAGO, May 15.—Mrs. Belva
Lockwood, noted suffragist, and the
only woman candidate for president,
is to occupy a box at the pageant to
be given for her benefit in the Hotel
La Salle tonight by Chicago society
and clubw'omen. The proceeds of the
pageant will go toward a fund of $3,—
000 to be used in paying off a $3,000
balance due on a mortgage on Mrs.
Lockwood’s home In Washington, D.
C. Mrs. Edward Cudahy, Mrs. Chas.
R. Crane, Mrs. P. D. Armour and
Mrs. William Wrigley, Jr„ are among
the boxholders.
Austria Raise* Money for Air Craft.
VIENNA, May 16.—About 160 the
aters In Viefiha and other cities Id
Austria gave “movie” shows today,
the entire proceeds of Which are to
swell the fund for Austria’s military
aerial fleet. Preceded by much pub
licity. the theaters Were crowded for
daeh “film show.” SMmgh Was realla
ed to tmrchass tea aeroplane*.
Lieut. Dougherty returned this
morning on the steamer Mariposa
from Seward, where he west on a
trip of inspection of the military cable
office in the westward town.
IS INDICTED
John Burke, Head of Canal Commits
•ion Supply Department, Charged
With Accepting a Bribe.
NEW YORK, May 15—The fed
eral grand jury for the southern di
vision of New Y'ork yesterday brought
in an indictment against John Burke,
former head of the commissary de -
partment of the Panama commission,
charging him with having accepted
a bribe of ?10,000, for which be
agreed to favor certain merchants of
this city in the placing of orders for
supplies for the canal commission.
Five merchants of this city were also
indicted.
Burke was not in court when the
indictments were rendered, but ap -
peared in answer to a telephone mes -
sage sent him and his attorneys by
the district attorney. Bail was im •
mediately furnished.
The government charges that Burke
forced certain merchants to pay him
a commission on all supplies pur -
chased and when they failed to come
across he would buy from European
merchants. So far the government
has been unable to secure evidence
that Burke did not give the lowest
bidder the contract, even when they
did not come through to him. but
he forced many contractors to pay
commissions although they had the
lowest bid. ’
CANALOPENEDTO
BARGE TRAFFIC
Closing Down of the Mexican Rail
road Forced Premature Opening
of Big Water Way.
WASHINGTON, May 15- The Sec
retary of War loday received noti
fication from Colonel Goethals that
the Panama canal had een opened
to traffic for barges because of the
closing down of the Mexican railroad
across the Isthmus to Tehuantepec.
Freight formerly shipped via the
Mexican road is now taken to Pan
ama on the Pacific or to Colon on
the Atlantic side and transhipped
through the canal in large barges to
steamers waiting on the opposite side.
The Tehuantepec railroad is own
ed and operated by ah English syn
dicate, but the blockading of the ports
at both ends of the road prevents
the transhipment of freight.
No large vessels are allowed to use
the canal at this time and the gov
ernment is operating the barge line,
charging $4 a ton for hauling the
freight from coast to coast.
LEAD PENCILS
MAY COST MORE
BERLIN, May 15.—There is a
threatening Increase in the prices of
lead pencils due to the effect of the
nwe conservation laws in the United
3tates. Germany supplies the world
with lead pencils, but obtains its ce
dar from America.
The devastation of the American
cedar and cypress forests together
areas now set aside to Which
nd saw may not be laid, has
a great scarcity of this wood
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