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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