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THE HEW HAVEN L
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.
mam 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 —i
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.
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane to-
day, in an interview, stated that the government would make the first sur-
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 E
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.
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
W. H. over on