TELEGRAPH NEWS
San Francisco, Aug. 12 Jimmy Brin
and Battling Nelson signed articles to
day to fight twenty-five rounds before
the Colma athletic club September 9,
for a purse of $20,000, and a side bet of
of $10,000, winner to take all;
Colma, Cal., Aug. 12—Gus Kuhlin
knocked out Jim McCormack ldst night
in the eighteenth round. Ruhlin now
claims the heavy weight championship
of the world and says he is ready at
any time to take on Marvin Hart or
anybody else.
Anacortes, Wash , Aug; 12—Annie
Hood, 30 years old, of Seattle, last night
committed suicide while temporrily In
sane by leaping into the blazing fur
nace of a shingle mill.
Chicago, Aug. 12—The International
Brotherhood of Teamsters in conten
tion here has re-elected Cornelius
.Shea president. Shea was in charge
of the big teamsters’ strike at Chicago
last spring.
Tokyo, Aug. 12—The Japanese have
raised the Russian cruiser Pallada,
stujk at Port Arthur.
. Christiana,Norway, Aug. II—Returns
of the popular vote in Norway yes
terday on the question of dissolution
with Sweden show a total of 320,000 in
favor and 140,000 against the proposit
ion. The vote was very heavy.
Tokyo. Aug. 14—It is reported here
that Japanese warships will be sent to
seize the Russian seal rocks at Kom
.andoraski in Bering sea, Copper island,
off Kamchatka, and Robin island in
the Olikotsk sea, off Saghalien.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 14—General
Lineviteh, commander-ln-cheif of the
Russian army in Manchuria, lias re
quested more troops, saying that re-en
forceraents are absolutely necessary to
protect Vladivostok.
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 14—Twelve
persons were killed and twenty-five in
jured in a collision between a pussenger
train and a freight near Kishman last
night.
Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Aug. 14
—A mountain slide 100 miles north of
here yesterday wiped out an Indian
village, killing twenty Indians, and
seriously injuring twelve.
New York, Aug. 14—The special
train carring President Roosevelt from
Chautauqua to this city last ^Saturday
was run over a branch line because of
a letter received by the railroad offici
als stating that an, attenyjt wop 1(1 be
made to blow up the tnyn, The Pres
ident is now at Oyster Pay. •
Saratoga. N. Y. Aug.. It—Booker t!
Washington, |he.noted colored educa
tor, escorted John Wanamaker’s
xiaughter, Mrs*. Barclay Warburton, to
dinner in the United States hotel yes
terday. ,
: Washington, D. C., Aug. 14—Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury H. A.
Taylor has returned from an exten
sive tour of Alaska and speaks in en
thusiastic terms of What he saw there.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 14—President
Roosevelt says he may not call an extra
session of Congress to convene in Nov
ember. He has about decided to wait
for the regular session in December to
take up proposed reform legislation.
V Seattle, Aug. 14—A petition with
^numerous signatures has been forward
ed from this city to President Roose
velt asking a pardon for the Alaska
Indian murderer, Jim Hahson, or
Kebeth, who is sorving a life sentence
at McNeil’s island for the fnurdor of
Bert Horton and Mrs. Horton near
Skagway In 1809.. .
Another petition to the president
asks for the construction of a federal
prison in Alaska. Attention is called
to the inadequacy of the McNeil’s
island penitentiary and the frequent
escapes from it. It is also urged that
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the increased population of Alaska
makes a prison there a necessity.
Seattle, Aug. 15—Jim Hanson, the
Indian murderer, for whose pardon a
petition^ was forwarded from this city
to President Rooevelt yesterday, ilied
last night of consumption in the Me1
Neil’s island penitentiary.
Hanson’s death came suddenly al
though he was not expected to live
long. It was on that ground that the
hope of pardon mainly rested.
New Orleans, Augi 15—Yellow fever
is spreading through the plantations
near this city and general terror exists
among the colored population in con
sequence.
Nome, Aug. io—The bark Coryphene,
bound for this port, from Seattle, is re
ported wrecked PIT Cape Prince of
Wales island. No lives were lost.
Sitka, Aug. 15—9o,y. Brady express
es doubt as to the tyuth of the stories
regarding the slavery of native girls in
the Aleutian archipelago, as reported
by Prof. Dav^s, superintendent of
schools at Unulaska. The governor
says the reports are sensational.
Aix Les Baines, France, Aug. 16—
Florence Croker, youngest daughter of
Richard Croker, the nqted ex-leader of
Tammany in New York, has eloped
with Louis Martino, an italian mer
chant here. Ti^e-girl’s mother objected
to the marriage. The couple are un
derstood to be enroute to Crokcr’s Ire
land residence, where he now is.
St. Paul, Aug. 16—The telegraph
operators have formally abandoned the
strike on the Greaf, Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads and have
asked for re-instatement.
Ormonde, Pa., Aug. 16-Thirty-live
quarrymen were buried here in a rock
slide. Fifteen bodies have been re
covered and it is believed that all the
others are dead.
Seattle, Aug. 16—Farmers in .tin
Big Bend and Palouse wheat districts
are sending to ; the Sound for harvest
hands. It is reported that the crop is
suffering because of the lack of men to
harvest it. The men are demading
higher wages, which the farmers re
fuse to pay, trusting to be able to im
port men in time to save the crop
without raising wages.
Dawson, Y. T., Aug. 16—An inter
national polar institute has been organ
ized here with Dr. Thompson, Yukon
member of the Canadian parliament as
president. Gov. Mclnnes of Yukon
territory is taking an active interest in
the orgunizntion. It proposes to send
a discovery expedition to the north
pole.
Skagway, Aug. 16—The Alaska road
commission has decided to expend
$10,000 in improving the trail between
Fairbanks and Valdez. Of this $5,000
will be spent between Valdez and Cop
per Center, which Is now the roughest
part of the trril.
Sjiokane, Aug. 16—John T. Fenn,
a former Spokane man, who has been
workihg at his trade as a carpenter in
Dawson for three years past, has re
turned to lind his 15-year old daughter
married to his wife’s brother, and his
wife and younger daughter living with
the brother in Spokane. All refused
to return to him and Fenn is now in
Seattle. Ho will probably return to
the north.
Washington! D. C., Aug. 16—The
state department has instructed the
American consul at Shanghai to notify
the Chinese Authorities there that the
existing (^hlqe&e-Atnorican treaty for
bids thq,boycotting of American goods
or any other hostile commercial act.
Mwpila, D. 1.1, Aug. 10—Thu dowager
efm>i|'ess ofChina.hqs saqt An .invita
tion to Miss Allco Roosevelt to. Visit
her at Pekin. Miss Roosevelt is here
with the Taft party.
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Chicago Aug. 16—The National R,q
ciprocity convention in session here
passed a resolution this, morning In
favor of fuiror trade relations with
foreign nations and more amicable
treatment of foreigners of all races.
T-iincolh, Neb., Aug. 18—It is report
ed here upon what is regarded as good
authority that William J. Bryan
will be a candidate fdr the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination In
11108.
Chicago; Aug. 17-Ih the National
Reciprocity Congress today Oov. Cum
mins of Iowa made an impassioned
speech criticising the attitude of the
high.protection wing of the Republi
can party bn the tariff question. Ho
declared that the principle of reciproc
ity, which hod been rejteatedly indors
ed by the party in its national plat
forms, bod been caUcifled in Congress,
Edward Rosewater, editor of the
Omaha Bee, replied to Oov. Cummins:
fiercely, taking strong ground in favor;
of the most advanced protection. Oth
er delegates took part in the debate,'
which became very warm.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Beattie, Wash., June 15, 1905
To N. W. ARMSTRONG! #»' P. McGETTI*
OAN» W. H. BUSH. H. C. SMYTH und C. B
HUBBARD, each and all of you are hereby
notified that we bavo expended during tho year
of 1904 six hundred dollars (1000.00) In labor
upon the following Sulphur Mining Claims:*
Idaho" No. li "Wushimftob" No. 2; "Ala!-!
kun" No. 8: "California" No. 4 und "Oregon"
No. 5, the property of the Dutch Harbor Sul
Shur Mninitr Association und tho Sulphur
[ountuin Minintr Association, and a twenty
acre claim k notohns the "New York" claiml
all situuted on Mt. Makushin. Unalasku Re
cording District. District of Alaska.
In order to hold said claims under the pre
visions of Section 2224 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States, and the amendments
thereto, approved January 22nd. 1WMJ. concern
ing annual labor upoli mining claims, boing
the amount required to hold such claims for
the period ending December 81st. 1905. And if
within ninety days from the personal service
of this notice, or ninety days after the publica
tion thereof, you fail or refuse to contribute
your portion of slfch exi»cnditurc as t» co-own*
er. your interest !h said dims will beedme the
property of the subscribers your co-6wnurs
who have mud# the required expenditure by
the terms of said section.
GEORGE B. LAZIER
T. W. BOA RDM AN
A. K. MURPHY *<«.'
WILLIAM GAUNTLEfT
A. T. WAT4DECK
E. McOETTIOAN
VICTOR ST, C PAINE
RICHARD TIERNEY
MRS. A. DU IRON
F. B. LAZIER
DANIEL BUCK
BJ* A. T. WALDKCK. Trustee.
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a to timer Excelsior arrived in port
from Seattle last Friday night bring
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Supplies for the railroad, although
some goods were carried for Seward
merchants. Most of the railroad con
signment was commissary supplies and
was sent on to Seldovla to be token to
Turnagain Arm. The Excelsior
towed a barge from Valdes, which she
took on to Cook inlet. It will be used
as it lighter by the railroad at Turn;
again Arm.
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