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VOL tL SICWAHD, ALASKa7tUKsT>A\ EV i:MN(L NOVEMHKIt 25, 1913 ^^44
EX-AMBASSADOR
AIRS HIS VIEWS
ABOUT MEXICO!
" Washington, Nov. 25-Former
United States Ambassador Henry Lane
Wilson, who represented this count r\
in Mexico, lectured to a large audience
here last night, and gave his version i
of how things should he handled with |
reference to the southern republic and
intimated that if the administration
had left him alone, all would have
«otue out about right.
Discussing intervention Wilson said:
“We have already intervened in Mex
ico. The result of such intervention
will be that we must retreat and suffer
the humiliation attending such a
course, or else play schoolmaster to
every South American republic.”
LAND SLIDES
DELAY OPENING
Washington, Nov. 25—The date; of
the opening of the Panama canal, sa\s
Col. Goethals in his annual report to
the war department, depends wholly on
the ability of the engineers to pre-1
vent slides in the Culebra cut.
REHEARSING FOR
THE WEDDING
Washington, Nov. 25—The partici
pants iu the Wilson-Sayre wedding
held their tirst rehearsal yesterday ,
afternoon. The modistes are swamped |
with orders.
The wedding will taK§ place at 4|
o'clock this afternoon.
Washington, Nov. 25—Mrs. \\ ilson, .
mother of Miss Jessie Wilson, savs her
daughters wedding cake is only nine
inches high and just two feet in cir
cumference.
SALOON MEN
WIN FIGHT
Des Moines, la.. Nov. 25—The action
of a girl stenographer in taking the
affidavits of two t housand petitioners,
praying that saloons be closed in Iowa,
without attaching there a notarial
seal, caused the state supreme court j
to deside tlie salooi case in favor of
the saloon men.
Army Aviators Meet Death
San Diego, Nov. 25—Lieutenants
Kelley and Ellington, of the U. S.
army aerial corps, were killed in an
aeroplane accident here yesterday.
The machine dropped eighty feet into
the bay and the aviators were drowned
Field glasses at J. L. Graef’s. *
LoDg distance telephone booth at the
Branch.
HOUSE WIVES
WILL BOYCOTT
HEN PRODUCT
New York, Nov. 25-The House
Wives’ League, an organization Imviug
a membership of 750.000 throughout
the United States, has placed a boy
cott on eggs, due to the prevailing
high price. The boycott is effective
all over the country, in an effort to ;
make the dealers reduce tlte price to a
reasonable basis.
Washington, Nov. 25—Attorney
Geueral McRoynolds has ordered a
federal probe int<. what is said to he
a huge egg combine, controlling the
product throughout the country.
EMPLOYES WIN
GREAT VICTORY
New York, Nov. 25—Four thousand j
shrinkers and spongers, employed in
the big garment making concerns here,
and who have been out on strike, have
won a deceive victory and today all
returned to work. The strikers are
granted a nine-hour day and a closed
shop.
Fifty thousand other garment work
ers, who were thrown out of employ
ment by the strike, returned to work
this morning.
OWEN DEFENDS
CURRENCY BILL!
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Washington, Nov. 25—Chairman
Oxven. of the senate committee on j
banking and currency, in speaking to
the currency bill in the senate yester
day afternoon, asserted that the panic
of 1917, it has been amply proven, was
manufactured by Wall street money
sharks. It is to prevent a recurrence
of such panics, made at the whim or
caprice of Wall street financial buc
caneers, that the Glass-Owenscurrency
bill was introduced.
Owens also said that the democratic
campaign book, in the last campaign,
garbled the currency question.
Carstens Packing Co.
Just arrived on the Alameda--A]
cl) a ice lot of fancy dry picked young i
turkeys and chickens for Thanksgiv
COLOMBIA SOLONS
PAN ROOSEVELT
Bogata, Colombia, Nov. 25—The
Colombian senate passed a resolution
yesterday strongly condemning the
Roosevelt despoliation of Panama.
Special offer until Tuesday on
the $1,000 Diamond.
George, the Jeweler.
Meet me at the Brancn.
A
ADVENTURESS
CONFESSES TO
TWO MURDERS
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Los Angeles, Nov. 25 That truth is
stranger than fiction is revealed
through a confession made today by
Mrs. Vera Scott, a pretty widow,
whose sensational career of crime and
debauchery is seldom equaled, and
whose shocking revelations followed j
her arrest on the charge of working
what is known as the Badger game on
wealthy residents, thereby defrauding j
the over-rich patrons of her machina
tions.
Mrs. Scott confessed that she killed j
her divorced husband, Reese Prosser j
of Seattle, in 1910 while riding on a>
train. She told the authorities who;
investigated the death that Prosser
had committed suicide and the circum
rtances appeared to bear out t his state
ment.
The vile adventuress also admits
that she shot and killed Marshall
Field, jr., a son of the great Chicago |
merchant, at the swell Fbetly Club, j
following a quarrel during a drunken j
debauch. She said the Field family !
gave her $20,000 to leave Chicago and
hush the matter up, although they
tirmly believed that he had accident
ally shot and killed himself,
She tells of escapades with the sons j
of rich parents in nearly all the princi- I
pal cities in the United States. Her
play was tocompromise the young men
and then blackmail the family, gain-j
ing large sums thereby.
Chicago, Nov. 25— Lieut. Fnright,
of the Chicago police department, who j
investigated the death ot Marshall j
Field, jr., says that the young man!
killed himself accidentally. He says!
there is nothing in the Scott woman's!
confession and denounces it as a fake.
BRAVE PRIESTS
RESCUE VESSELS
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New York, Nov. 25—Hundreds of
Catholics Knelt in the s’reets and
prayed while five priests entered the
burning St. Marie’s cathedral and
took therefrom the sacred vessels.
The priests were badly singed, but suf
fered no fatal wounds. The cathedral
was destroyed.
fifty" pounds
FOR MAXIMUM
Washington, Nov. 25—Postmaster
General Burleson recommends that
the maximum weight for parcel post
packages in the first and second zones
shall be fifty pounds.
Meet me at the Branch. *
Sun burst pocket flash lamps at J. L.
Graef ’s. *
Pabsts blue ribbon beer at The
Branch. _ *
For reliable information write Can
non, Pioneer hotel, Knik, Alaska, t
B. S. GEOLOGICAL
DIRECTOR FAVORS
LEASING SYSTEM
The disposition of the natural re
sources on the public domain was one
of the principal subjects under discus
sion at the sessions of the American
Mining Congress in Philadelphia.
Director George Otis Smith, in hts con
tribution to this discussion stated that
both advances in public opinion and
changes in economic conditions have
placed demands on legislation, for the
mineral laws of 20, 40, or- 50 years ago
can not meet the requirementsof today.
“To illustrate this point,” he said,
“the coal mined west of the Mississ
ippi River in 1873 amounted to less
than 2 million tons, hut last year it
was over 58 million tons. 'The oil pro
duction in the public-land States iu
18(17 was 2 million barrels and last year
141 million barrels, yet 1873 and 1897
are the dates of the largest enactments
providing for the acquisition of coal
and oil lands, respectively. Here are
some infant industries that have g»*owu
up and deserve laws to tit.
“Regarding the future status of
mining on the public lands the follow
ing propositions are believed to stand
out plainly: Tire mining men, like the
rest of the people,will see that the big
productive business belongs in the
public-service class Because its pro
ducts are so largely necessaries of life,
the mining industr-y will be regulated
by the people. The control of public
mineral lands will be < xi rc'sed largely
through a leasing system, simply be
cause in this way the public owner
and private operator* can best cooper
ate, and the purpose of this systematic
cooperation will be to lower costs <f
production in order to permit reason
able prices to the consumer, aud at t he
same time provide fair wages to the
mine worker- and adequate profit to
the capitalist and operator.
“The new laws need to recogt ize
every factor in the complex task of
taking something ont of the ground
and making it useful. Every man who
has a part in this undertaking, from
prospector to ultimate consumer, has
his rights and these rights must be
recognized, measured, and protected.
All these men are in reality partners
in the enterprise.”
NO POTLATCH
NEXT YEAR
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Seattle, Nov. 25—The committee in
charge of the annual potlatch cele
bration has called it off for 1914. due to
the fact that the naval fleet will not be
able to attend until the following year.
The steamer Alameda reached port
at 8 o’clock this morning and sailed
east-bound at noon.
J. L. Reed, the attorney, formerly of
Seward, but now at Seattle, will re
turn here next year.
Fresh Eastern Oysters.
Twenty-gauge, 1913 model shot guns
at J. L. Graef’s. X
Budweiser beer at the Branch. *