Saturday's Telegrams
Toronto, Jan. 18—The Sovereign
Bank of Canada, with seventy-six
branches throughout the Dominion,
went into liquidation today. It is
Announced that depositors will be
faid in full.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada has
keen back of the Alaska Central rail
road, building from Seward, and has
furnished a large share of the money
for that enterprise. It was an
nounced a few months ago that it had
keen taken over by J. P. Morgan &
Company of New York.
New York, Jan. 18—As Evelyn Nes
kit Thaw will unfold a new chapter
•f her life when she testifies in be
kalf of her husband next week, Dis
trict Attorney Jerome moved the
•ourt yesterday evening to exclude
*11 persons from the court room while
•he is on the witness stand except
those interested in the case, placing
kis motion upon the ground of public
morals. Martin W. Littleton,, chief
•ounsel for the defense, agreed to this
And the court has the motion under
Advisement. An adjournment was
taken until Monday.
Washington, D. 0., Jail 18—Attor
ney General Bonaparte says the re
port that the department of justice is
trying to railroad District Attorney
Harlan of the Third division of Alas
ka out of office is untrue. He says
.Judge Harlan will be given every op
portunity to clear himself of the
•harges against him, and that there
\h no thought of naming a successor
to him until the charges have- been
determined one way or another.
Gov. Hoggatt denies that he over
tied any charges against Marshal
Perry of the Third division.
Both sides in the present contro
versy over Third division affairs blame
the Valdez ra'Iroad riots for all th«
trouble.
Seattle, Jan. 18—The clearinghouse
kanks will return to a cash basis next
Monday, paying all demands in real
money. They have been loosening
up ever since the first of the year.
Ban Francisco, Jan. 18—The local
banks are redeeming clearinghouse
certificates at. the rate of $'500,000 a
day.
Seattle, Jan. 18—The Guggenheim
office announces plans for coal bunk
ers at Cordova, Alaska, of 20,000 ton*
capacity.
Washington, I). 0., Jan. 18—1The
naval committees of the House will
recommend an appropriation for sub
marineB for the Pacitlc coast.
New York, Jan. 18—Refined cupper
•hows an upward tendency and \»
quoted today at $13.75.
Washington, 1). 0., Jan. 18—The
Senate will take up the currency bill
■ext Monday. The provision which
limits the amount of extra bank is
iuos for emergency purposes will
probably be amended to raise the limit
from $250,000,000 to $500,000,000.
Rome, Jan. 18—It is rumored that
Pope Piu9 is suffering from a stroke of
apoplexy. Papal audiences have been
suspended.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 18—Leroy
Tozier of Fairbanks, Alaska called 011
President lloosevelt today, and
asked a commutation of the sentence
of Vuke Perovich, sentenced to hang
f >r murder at Fairbanks, February 3,
but the President refused to inter
fere. A commutation to life im
prisonment was asked.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 18—Major
Abercrombie, formerly of the regular
army service in Alaska*, was made a
colonel today.
Maj. Abercrombie located the Val
dez-Fairbanks trail and superintended
the first work.
Chicago, Jan, 18—John R. Walsh
was found guilty by a jury 0:1 fifty
three counts of misappropriation of
bank funds.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 18—The
Western Federation of Miners sent an
appeal here today asking Congress to
make an investigation of the strike
troubles at Goldfield, Nevada. The
charge is made that the mine owners
have misrepresented the situation.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 18—The Amer
ican revenue cutters Thetis and Perry
arrived here today after a fruitless
search for victims of the lost ship
JIartiield. No trace of wreckage or
bodies was found aside from the
cabin, which first, iloated ashore. The
search has been abandoned.
Washington, 1). C., Jan. 17—0 yn
gressman Kali 11 of California is urging
the war and treasury departments to
take steps to establish a wireless sta
tion at Unalaslca in the interest of
Nome shipping.
Washington, D. 0., Jan. 17—Regie
Post was confirmed to-day by the
Senate as governor of Porto Rico.
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Monday's Telegrams
Chicago, Jan. 20—President Wil
liams of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul railroad in answer to a di
rect query staled (<,day that the Mil
waukee & St. Paul has no interest in
the Alaska Central railway nor in the
coal fields adjacent t*> Seward, Alas
ka. The report has been frequently
circulated that the Milwaukee & HI-.
Paul had t aken a controlling interest
in the Alaska Central to gel the coal
of that region.
lily, Nevada, Jan. 21)—Afier beiiuv
entombed forty-six days in the G irons
mine, during which time they were
fed through a tube, Albert ttailey,
Peter Johnson and 'Fred McDonald
wore released today. A crowd
gathered when it was announced that
the miners digging to reach the im
prisoned men were about to break
through the wall and when the men
were brought out they were greeted
with cheers while all the whistles of
the town were set blowing.
Rio Janeiro, Jan 20—The city police
to-day discovered a plot to ,, low up
the American warships in the arbor
here. Jean Pedher, leader ot thf* con
tpiracy, escaped and lied from the
city, but the police of the entire re
public are looking for him. The con
spiritors included men of several
nationalities,
I Seattle, Jan. 20—Olaf Lystad was
j arrested as he came off the steamei ]
Jefferson today, upon the charge that
he is short in his accounts as the Ju
| neau representative of the lish com
; pany of B. Linderberger, operating
in Southern Alaska.
Seattle, Jan. 2 J—The executive
committee of the Alaska-Yukon-Pa
cilic exposition today rejected tl.e
proposition to postpone the year of
the fair until after ICOi) because of the
tight financial situation.
New York, Jan. 20—Martin W. Lit
tleton, chief counsel for Harry Thaw, I
refuses to consent to closing the
doors against the public while Evelyn
! Nesbit Thaw is testif ying. He says
District Attorney Jerome merely
wants to protect new names which
will be involved by Evelyn's additional
story.
Philadelphia, January 2C—Charles
Emory Smith, postmaster-general in
President McKinley's cabinet from
1898 to 1901 and for a short time in
Roosevelt's cabinet, and for a long
time editor of tl 1 o. Philadelphia Press,
nrrwi mm. aHNif»
was found dead in b^i in nis hjma of
heart disease this m >rning.
Seattle, Jan. 2J—Col. May, former
ly commissioner of lands in Alaska,
is totally paralyzed on his right side.
Chicago, Jan. 20—The bankers7 as
sociation in session here today drafted
an asset currency bill to present to
Congress. It psrmits the issuance
of emergency notes to the amount of
one-quarter of a bank's capital, th#
issue to be secured by the deposit of
any good commercial securities in a
government depository.
San Francisco, Jan. 20—District
Attorney Langdon today abandoned
the plan of getting Abe Rucf's testi
mony by granting him complete im
munity from prosecution. Ho will
ask that Unci's trial on < ne of t>h«
indictments against him be set im
mediately.
Washington, I). C., Jan. 20—Secre
tary Taft's managers claim that h«
has 502 delegates assured on the' first
ballot in the Republican national con
vention. The number necessary to
nominate is 40I.
Columbus, ()., Jail. 'J(»—Primaries
have been eailecl in seven t.y-thrc«
legislative districts of Ohio. In mori
than half of them the committees am
pledged to Taft.
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