Vo'* 7 Valdez, Alaska,
KINGDOM PLAYS
CUPIO FOR ORPHANS
Working Men Of Italy Take
For Wives Girls Bereaved
By Earthquake
Naples, Jan. IS—Hundreds of girh
made orphans by the recent earth
quake are objects of the government'*
matchmaking facilities, and resultant
weddings are daily taking place. In
the majority of cases the husbanda
are from the working class, and are
young men of good reputations who
are willing to provide homes ft r their
brides.
Naples and other cities not made des
olate by tht' earthquake are (hose se
lected by the government in its search
for possible husbands for the girls
who are practically wards of the gov
ernment, for their parents dead, they
have no means of earning a livelihood.
In every case agents of the govern
ment investigate the character of
those applying for brides, and in
some eases, where the man is deserv
ing but poor, the government extends
financial aid in order that he may
make a home for his wife.
This action on the part of tne gov
ernment if impelled by the fear that
unless they are married many of the
destitute young women will be driven
to immoral lives. A great per cent
age of these girls are from the coun
try and are entirely unsophisticated.
ROOSEVELT AFRAID
OF AMP LAW
Sacramento, Jan, 19—Governor
Glllett this morning received a mes
sage from President Roosevelt ask
ing that the state legislature delay
action with regard to the anti-Japan
ese bill until the president can pre
sent in detail his case in objection.
The message declares that the pas
sage of the bill do incalculable dam
age to the entire nation.
The president's communication was
submitted to the legislature and it
caused much discussion. The feoling
against the Japanese is very strong
in California and many of the mem
bers of the legislature are pledged to
pass the anti-Japanese bill. Presi
dent Roosevelt's attitude in connec
tion with the question of Japanese at
tending the public schools in Sail
Francisco has not been forgotten and
011 the part of many of the leislators
there is a disposition to ignore the
present request. No definite action
has been taken.
WOMAN OF KATALLA
CAUSE OF MURDER
Juneau, .Ian. 19—-T. H. Strand,
recently the proprietor r»f a restau
rant in Katalia is under arrest here
charged with the murder of Charles
Da/her, a bartender in the Montana
saloon. Kittle O'Brleri, also from
Katalia, Is alleged to be the caule of
tho shooting although the slayer de
clares that an Indebtedness of ?l> Is
the cause of the crime. The O'Hrien
woman Is under arrest.
There were no witnesses to tho
killing which took place in the cabin
Of tho murdered man. Strand is
about'21 years old and has always
been a reader of cheap stories of de
tcctlvo exploits. lie declares that
his victim owed him and refused
to pay it and that in the dispute fol
lowing the demand and the refusal
the killing took place In self defense
FRANK MANLEY IS
Fairbanks lYlillionaire Charg
ed In Texas With Sixteen
Year-Old Crime
San Augelo, Tex., Jan. 18—Frank
Mauley, (he Fairbanks millionaire ar
rested in Sesttlo last Tall on a war
rant charging pnrjnry committed in
thin state fifteen years ago, will have
to stand trial on a charge of murder.
The warrant on this latter charge was
issued this morning, the alleged vic
tim being a Mexican found murdered
sixteen years ago. Mauley after be
ing brought here last fall was released
on bail and his present whereabouts
is unknown.
When he lived here Mauley was
known as Milliard Knowles. He dis
appeared about fifteen years ago.
The jury charge on which Manl«\v was
arrested grew out of the allegation
that he filed with a railway company
a claim for $1"> as the value of a mule
j killed by a locomotive. The claim
was paid and later it was fouml that
Mauley did not own the mule.
When Mauley was arrested in Seat
tle he declared that the charge against
I him is the result of the mechinations
of enemies 01 his in the Tanana coun
try who are desirous of gaining
posession of valuable mining property
owned !>v him. Matdcv declared that!
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his release would be only a question !
of formality.
SEATTLE LAWYER
MURDERS FAMILY
S at tie, Jan. IS—'flic bodies of \V.
1,. Seeley. a prominent lawyer and
former national bank examiner, his
wife and hi* daughter were yesterday
afternoon found in the bath tub in
their Capitol Mill home. The discov
ery of the tragedy was made by (iny
Smelser, who was engaged to be mar
ried to Miss See ley.
V'rom investigations made by the
police it is evident that Seeley mur
dered bis wife and his daughter with
a hammer and then drowned himself
after pulling the bodies of the women
into the tub on top of himself. The
belief is that the crime was commit
ted Thursday night, and that Seeley
was insane, driven so by financial
embarassinent.
The Seeleya bad always been prom
inent socially and the tragedy has
come as'a shock to friends and to pro
fessional acquaintances.
WILLIE GUGGIE IS
SUED FOR DIVORCE
New York, Jan. 19—For the second
time in seven years the William Gug
genheim* arc Involved In domestic
! diflleulties. Graco Guggenheim this
morning flledi in the state supreme
court application for a divorce.
The fitiggenheiniH wore divorced
seven years ago, Mrs. Guggenheim
being given $160,000. Moth parties to
the action have since been married,
bnt recently a French court, annulled
the second marriage of she who was
Mrs. Guggenheim, the first divorce
i being beclared illegal.
William Guggenheim's lawyer says
that the woman's only purpose Is to
obtain more money.
liar sliver crawled tip to 51-•„ on
January 0.
Lak<> copper reached 14*62-}$ on
January !>.
'SAVANNAH, THIRSTY
SAYS "LETS QUIT"
Georgia's Big City Threatens
To Cut Loose From State
Just Gone Dry
Atlanta, (5a., Jan. 18—''Whether to
abide by majority opinion, go dry
and remain a part of tHo united com
monwealth of Georgia, or to assert
individual preference, remain wet and
cut loose from the commonwealth."
Such is the problem that the people
I of Savannah are today endeavoring
j to solve.
So tar the wots and the secession
ists seem to be in the majority, and
today Savannah is to all practical
purposes an entity, separate from
tl»e dominion of the rest of the state.
Whether or not bloodshed will result
is a serious question, for (Jovernor
Smith has ordered the city to resume
its allegiance to the state as a whole,
and while he lias not so declared it is
the general belief that is necessary
he will enforce the order with the
militia.
The prohibition law just passed by
the state legislature is the cause of
all the trouble. Savannah does not
object to the remainder of the state
going [ hibilion if it so sees tit, but
it does strongly object to being forced
to adopt the same system with regard
to the sale of liquor. Savannah has
all along during the temperance agi
tation stood out for local option, es
pecially for cities, and now that the
legislation has made the state dry,
Savannah is sore. Hence the sediti
ous tendencies of its people.
SPECIAL AGENT TO
INVESTIGATE REID
Washington, Jan. 18—Attorney
General Bonaparte decided today to
send a special agent to Alaska to in
vestigate the charges against Judge
Reid of the Third division. Judge
lie id has wired an answer in compli
ance with tlie president's request for
an explanation of the acts complained
of, and after consideration of the
whole matter the decision was
reached to send an agent to Alaska,
pursuant to precedent established in
previous eases of attacks upon judges
in the territory.
The matter upon which the attor
ney-general especially seeks informa
tion is the allowance to Judge IJeid's
brother-in-law as receiver of the Al
aska Cent ral of a compensation which
Bonaparte thinks too large, in the
absence of facts showing it to be reas
onable.
Hob Lawson, who a few days ago
started freighting into Seattle creek,
is in a cabin 011 McKlnley street suf
fering from a broken collar bone.
Lawson was returning from the sum
mit on a relay, and aw ho was coming
out of the canyon a zephyr caught
bin sled and Lawson was thrown
against a stump. lie walked into
('amp Comfort before be found out
I that he was badly hurt.
AMERICAN COMMERCE
SHOWS BIG DECREASE
Washington, Jan. 10—The export
commerce of the United Hfales shows
a decrease of $r>oo,ooo,ono for the year
ending January 1, 190#, and of this
[ amount the value of t)le export** from
the Atlantic coast dec reaped $400,000,•
000.
The value of the exports from the
Pacific coast show! ji decrease of Ml
per cent. I
YAK8HAW TRAIL HTOVEtt FOR
HAfiK By J. (1. sSfYDKI!.
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, Local Copper Magnates Hope
Recent Invention Will
Solve Difficulties
A number of men owning copper
mines on Prince William sound are
greatly interested in a new smelting
project. Several mining men, now
in Seattle, are inspecting the propo
sition with a view of utilizing it on
their own property. The plant is
comparatively inexpensive, and ac
j eerding t»» the following description
published in Lite Seattle Times of re
cent datt is successful of operation:
"If a new process < f smelting ore
| which was exhibited publicly for the
lirst time yesterday afternoon at West
Seattle proves as successful commer
cially as if appeared to be at the dem
onstration, it will revolutionize the
mining industry <>i the world, in the
opinionvt several <>t" the mining men |
who saw it.
''The demonstration took place at a
small smelter creeled for the purpose
on the west side of the hay, by the
Gold Creek Mining <Sc Smeltin g Co.. :
which owns the patent to the process.
"Copper ore was dumped into the j
top of the furnace, and half an hour
later was taken out in what tin* in- (
ventor asserts is much, purer form
than that in which it comes from any
other smelter in the country. The j
one Iting i- done by what is called a
hydro-oxygen-carbon process. The
heat, instead of being generated by
coke and ehaieo. which aie expen
sive as fuel, is ma by the union of
crude oil with s!,e;» and air, produc
ing a temperature of f»,2(!0 degrees j
Farenheit, or twice that in an ordi
nary smelter The heat comes in
from the top, and passes over the heap
of ore in one end of the furnace and
then over another pile in the other
end. It is in the utilization of the j
heat wasted i:i smelting the ore in j
roasting it at the other end, where
much of the economy of the process'
is said to be.
"According to Catton. the inventor,
90 percent of the valuable mineral in
this country cannot be touched be
cause of the expense of handling it by
the present process of smelting. One
drawback of the process in use is that
only the highest grade ore can be
handled profitably by it. Besides,
the cost of erecting a smelter runs
from §100,000 t<> $-">,000,000.
"As compared to this, oiic of the I
now smelter;.*, with a capacity of 50
tons, can be creeled for $»5,000. All '
the material required for its construe- j
tion can be hauled to the most inac
cessible mine without much cost, and
be erected at the spot. Then the re- \
lined ore may be shipped ;it compara
tively little expense. If necessary, it
can betaken out on pack horses. At
the present time it is impracticable,
except in a few instances, to erect a
smelter on the ground, owing to the I
groat expense, and to transport the (
ore by railroad or steamship is costly. !
Often it is impraetieahie to build a
railroad to a mine.
"It is said, for instance, that the
Tubal Cain property in the Olympic |
mountains, owned by Frank Han-1
ford, Hainuel Hill and associates, and
rich with a very high grade ore, is
valueless as it now stands, owing to
the impossibility of reaching it with 1
present transportation facilities. If
thenew smelting process is all that
the InventoV claims for it, this dilll
eulty could bo obviated, and this
mine, liko thousands of others all
over the country, will be made avail-j
able.
"Hherwood Oillespie, a local insur
ance broker, is so Interested in the
new process that he intends to erect
one of the smelters on some mining
property he has in the Met.how dis
trict. He say« he recently received
a letter from a mining man telling of
70,000 tons of copper ore, which could
bo smelted by the new process, that !
now lies valueless on the dump of one
Denver mine."
FAIRBANKS POLICE CHIEF "
KILLS HJSJAN IN DUEL
J. K. Riggs Escapes From Jail, Seeks To Blow Up
Schoolhouse To Obtain Revenge On Girl Witness
Against Him. Then Seeks Life of Father of
Child And Is Finally Shot To Death
Fairbanks, .Ian. Hi— J. K. Kiggs, i
serving sentence of one year iis the
result of a conviction on an adultery I
charge, broke jail yesterda\ unl was
a short time later shot and killed by
Chief of Police Pat O'Conner. Death
came to Itiggs just as he was at
tempting to blow upthc school house,
prompted by desire to be revenged
on a little girl named Harrington who
was the principal witness against
him during the trial, her mother hav -
ing been Higgs' paramour.
Uiggs, after escaping, went imme- j
di.at.ely to the schorl house and de-;
maiuled that he be allowed l«> see the
Harrington child, 'this demand was |
refused and he then obtained a can !
of gasoline which he placed under
the school building and attempted to i
explode it by tiring two bullets into
it. Only the (act that tin* gasoline
was cold pn vented an explosion that
would have caused injury, if not
death, to a number of children.
Chief O'Conner was notified of
lliggs' acts and set out in search for
him. tiuding him in Harrington's cab
i i pn parinj; to kill Harrington, who
was asleep. When O'Conner entered
Iiig.\- sIn11 at the chief, powderburn
ing the latt« ;-'s face badly, but mis
sing lo.a. < >'< oiincr returned the tire
shouting lligs through the heart and
killing him instantly.
O'Connor's act is applaueed by all
^nod > iti/.ensof the t »wn, particularly
this being the case because of the re
dent death of Chief Miller at the
hands «»f P.lanch Ibivall. an insane
woman.
K. F. MoClelUn, who succeeds
Cieorgo Haldwin as superintendent 01
the Kcnneeott Mines < 'on 11»:ii»\
operations in at tho itonanx.a, ar
aived on tin- Yucatan, and immedi
ately proceeded to busy himseii with
the arrangements preliminary tn
starting inside with the supplit i 'now
in Valdez. With Superintendent Mc
Clollan came twenty men and I .in
tons or freight. About sixty tons of
freight came on the Santa Clara and
is stored in town.
Tho lirst work to he undertakt u b\
Superintendent MeCleliar., after lie
gets his freight into the mine, will be
the eonstruetion <>t* a11 aerial tramway
by means of which the ore taken
from the mine will bo transported a
distance of 1.1,000 feet, where a dump
will be established to await the ar
rival of the railroad. It is estimated
that the tram will cost to complete
$12.1,000, and that tho work will take
until this coining fall.
Cordova extended to the manage
ment of the mining company per
mission to take the freight through
that town and thence np tho wind
swept reacho» of the Copper river,
but through some oversight on the
part of the management the freight
was landed at Valdez, and so will go
in over the trail from this town.
WICKERSHAM NAMES
PRIVATE SECRETARY
In an addrosu made at tin- Kagle
mooting 'ast night.ludgoWlckerHlnm
announced, that in making his •»rl"c
lion of the private secretary allowed
him as a member of congress h«» had
picked out an Kaglc, no othor In f«et
than the retiring president of I ho
local aerie, Harney (Jons. Mr. tioss
will therefore accompany the judge
when he leaven Paii-hank* in February
for the special eongrcss to he called
hy President-Elect Taft after his In
auguration.- Tannna Tribune.
The Nome Nugget says I hat when
winter struck the town there wan on
hand, t<» tide through the dark days,
l.ooo barrels of beer, 2fi0 barrel* of
whiskey, 7"» raur* of wherry wine, I'ifi
cases of port, 200 eases Of clflrot, 200
canes of saliteme, :k)0 cases *>f cham
pagne, loo barrels of ansortei wlnas
and 1,(KM),000 cigars.
('apt. F. A. I'ope of the Alaska
: road commission arrived on the Yu
jcatan, ami has spoilt the day in con
ciliation with the road commission's
Val'ii ■/. •'ipcrintcndent. Jack Ingram,
t'apl. I'ope is on hi- way to Fairbanks
and < xp< eN to start <»nt on Monday.
I This trip will he the first time he has
|c.<-r lii-i'ii over ihc trail in the winter.
Cap:.. Pope aOirms all that has
h'-en published concerning the in
' tent ion- >it the commission with re
gard to the Valde/.-Fairbanks trail,
but l.e says a great deal will depend
upon ilie success attending the efforts
■ >t Maj. Kichards'in, now in Washing
ton for the purpose of getting a good
big appropriation from congress.
("apt. l'ope says that nothing has
b i i decided with regard to
moving tit • commission headquarters
| from Skagway to Valde/.; this too,
i depends upon Maj. Richardson and
the maimer in which congress pays
heed to his demands.
MYSTERY IS SOLVED BY
GRISTLY SKELETONS
T:• 1« >graph < reck, H. Jan. 18—
Two keletoms, bleached and eloquent
in their muteness of the tragedy res
ponsible for their denudation c»f flesh,
( wor 11 *iml on the hanks of Nahanni
creek hy two minors yesterday after
noon. The find solves the mystery
ot tin- fate of Frank and of Will Mc'«
l/i o<l. Port Simpson mining men.
The Med,cod brothers departed
from Port Simpson in the fall of 1908*
Two days later they were seen hy
several men. bnt rom that time on
nothing lias over heen seen or heard
of them, until tin* discovery of the
skeletons. Despite the long time to
have rlapsed since death the skele
tons were surrounded hy prospec
tor's equipment and hy other articles
that clearly establish the identity of
the men who perished. It is believed,
from cold.
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Philippine Volcano In Active
Manila, .Ian. 20—The volcanic peak
, of I.uko-4 is active and the falling
ashes have done much damage to the
surrounding eonntrv. Ho far no one
has been killed.