THE ALASKA PROSPECTOR
Vol. 7
No 5
JEFFERSON NAMED
FOR POSTMASTER
President Again Sends to
Senate Appointment cf
Present Assistant.
HOGGATT DROPS OBJECTION
Kendall Once More Designated at
Skagway and John T. Spickett
Gets Place at Juneau.
Washington, Maroh 4—President
Roosevelt sent in to the Bonato yes
terday afternoon tho uamos of Dole
gate Calo's candidates for postmaster
at Valdez and Skagway—J. D. Jeffer
son and A. S Kendall.
Gov. Hoggatt decided to make no
further objection to thu nominations.
John T. Spickett was nominated to
bo postmaster at Junoau. He was also
Indorsed by Cale.
SCHOOLHOUSE FIRE
BURNS 100 ALIVE
More Than Five Score Chil
dren Cremated Because
Unable to Escape.
Cleveland, March 4—-More than 100
school children were burned to death
in a flro which destroyed the Colling*
wood school building this morning.
Fifty bodies havo so far been recover
ed. A cordon of polico wan required
to keop back the frantic parents and
other relatives of tho missing child
ren. Many who oscaped or woro
rescued were badly injured.
When tho flames broke out tho
teachcrs attempted to march the
pupils out and somo succeeded but
in sovjral rooms tho childr n bo
camo }>anic-strickon and uncontroll
able find started a crush which
penned them up.
STA3T BOYCOTT ON
FAIRBANKS TIMES
Nearly ull advertising was with
drawn from the Fairbanks Times
about February 20 by business njon
of Uio town becauso they wero ills
pleased with tho attitude of the paper
toward the minors' strike. Tho Times
has occupied a mlddlo position ever
since tho fight started, urging concil
iation and arbltrstlon. This course
haa not. suited tho business men, who
ttldo almost unanimously with the
mining operators and against the
strikers.
Late Fairbanks papora indicate that
the feeling in the Tanana engendered
by the strlko is very bitter, although
good order seoms to be maintained.
The News Is making a savage fight
on the miners' union, while tho Times
tries to bo noutral. Tho News ac
cuses It of being an orgrui of the
strikers but to an outsider Its position
seoms rather to bo on top of the
fen co.
Tho strikers havoa paper called the
Union Bulletin. Of the weekllee the
Tanana Tribune supports the operas
tors and tho Tanana Miner Is wltli
the striker*.
Tho News claims that the operator*
are steadily adding to their force o1
working minors.
LIFE SAVING BOAT
FOR WADDAH ISLAND
Boattle, Fob. 26—Tlio first life aav
ing boat la ready for tho atatlon es
tablishod at Waddah Island, In Bonth
eastern Alaska.
BALLINGER FAVORS
GOAL UNO LAW
Retiring Commissioner Urges
Chance to Dispose cf
Public Resources.
Washington, March 4—Judge Ballln
ger, commissioner of the genoral land
offloe, who retire* today, oppoared
before the house committee on public
lands in support of the pending coal
land bill, largo homesteads and com
bination homestead and mineral en
trios.
Propose Sale of Coal I*ands
Washington, Fob. '29 — Delegate
Cale Introduced a bill in tho house to
day providing for tho salo of Alaska
coal lands. It opens tho coal areas
of tho territory to salo without the
restrictions imposed by tho existing
land laws.
GOV. HOGGATT ANO
MISS MILLARD WED
Utlca, N. Y., Feb. 28—Gov. IJog
gatt of Alaska was married today to
Miss OlarlBsa Eames Millard of this
city. They will go to Washington
and remain a while and will proeeod
to Juneau in May, The two met last
Hummer in Alaska whore Minn Millard
waa touring.
MILLER ELECTED
SEATTLE MAYOR
Republican Nominee Wins
by 5000 Plurality Over
Moore, City Party.
Seattle, March 4—John P. Miller
waa eleotod mayor by 6000 plurality
over Mayor William H. Mooro, candi
date of the city party, running for
re-election
The entire republican ticket waa
elected by pluralities running from
10,000 to 16,000, with Col. W. F. Pros
per for treasurer leading the ticket.
The total vote was close to 30,000, the
largest ever caet, due partly to the
annexation of outlying territory.
Seattle is the first largo city of the
northwest to vote this year, aud given
a greatly Increased republican ma
jority.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
BOW OVER HINDUS
Vancouver, B. O., March 4—Provin
cial ami Dominion officials art) at war
over tho Hindus in British Columbia.
The provincial and municipal offi
cials want to deport them while the
Dominion government insists on al
lowing them to remain if they wish,
on tho ground that they nro British
subject*.
CANADA TO KEEP OUT
UNDESIRABLE PERSONS
Ottawa, Fob. 28—The Dominion
government plans to regulate immi
gration hereafter so as to keep out
undeelrablo foreigners. Closo res*
trlotions will probably be placed upon
the admission of Asiatics.
i Dr. Cushman, a noted physicist,
' says the rnsting of iron is caused by
electrloity. He say» hydrogen not
oxygen, make* the first attack on
Iron.
Oscar A. Wells started this morn
I lug for Fairbanks, whore he will
qualify aa olerk of tho district court
and take charge of tho ofHco.
The Australia state of Queensland
IU advertising for farmers.
MENDS CABLES
AND SAILS AWAY
Burnside Repairs Connec
tion From Valdez to Sit
ka and Seward.
THREE BREAKS IN MAIN LINE
Complete Wire Communication
Restored After Interruption
Caused by Earthquake.
Both cables wore duly mended by
tbo Burualde exports Sunday and tho
cableshlp Hailed south In tho evening.
Tho Sitka line was hooked up early In
tho morning and the Soward line In
tho aftornoon. Tho work on tho
Sitka cable would have been com
pleted Saturday aftornoon but for a
stiff breeze which stopped operations.
Cablo splicing' caunot proceed when
tho ship is bobbing "ou a choppy aea.
The Sitka lino was broken iu throo
places. One break occurred when
tho cablo was picked up. It was
burled under many tons of mud.
Tho Burnside will return in Apall
and will probably lay a cable into
Cordova then. Slio has tho wire on
board now. Before coming north she
will go 011 a dry dock to have her
bollors llxed and other ropairs
executed.
Tho cable was out ot commission
sixteen days. It was brokon on tho
14th by tho earthquako.
BUBONIC PLAGUE
STILL SPREADING
Reports Received at San |
Francisco Show Increase
In Many Places.
San Frauclsoo, March 6—lU>porta
show that tho bubonic plaguo in in
creasing in Paciflo porta, particularly
those of Equador and Peru, and in
Nagasaki and Osaka.
HASEY WITNESESS
SAIL FOR JUNEAU
Forty-throo witne&sen »ubjM>euaed
by tho govornmont in tho Hasey caso
Bailed last night (or Juneau on the
steamor Bertha. Deputy Marshal
Wybrant wont along ns escort. Tho
trial la sot for March 21. Witnesses
and attorneys for tho defenso will
sail on the Farallon about next Sun
day.
Tho Bertha sailed at 10 o'clock
Sunday night. • She returned from
the westward Sunday morning.
The followiug paaaongers sailed on
tho Berthai Frederick A. Abbott, J.
II. Briggs, J. II. Bowker, Fred Oooh
rau, E. Christy, O. K. Clarke, Patrick
Doegau, Oeorgo Dooley, T. M. Dau
iels, Duncan Dixon. Oscar Fish, W.
S. Frazef, Wra. It. Oarstor, E. It.
Gray, James Orahain, Carroll Hurl
burt, John Hoge, Henry Ilook, Wm.
Koch, James Kelley, M. B. Morrlsey,
Cordova; Ueo. W. Nolsou, James
O'Roilloy, Ed. Opdal, Johu Phillips, L.
T. Payne, C. S. Patton, T. A. Parker,
Wm. Quitch, David Rood, Ambrose
Ramp, W. A. Rood, Howard Rey
nolds, Ceo. Sanborn, Blamoy Stevens,
Mrs. Stevens, L. Voss, J. AWostman,
Tom Workman, H. P. Wybrant, Geo.
Wolffshngon, Ja«. Kelley, Joo Vane,
MnOL. Roberto.
presideFt advocates
IMPROVED WATERWAYS
Washington, Feb. - Presldon*
Roosevelt announces thnJL ha to lit fa
vor of large appropriations to Inprdvrf
the waterways of tho country.
MONEYLESS MEN
GOING OVER TRAIL
Judge Harlan Wires That
Roadhouse Keepers Com
plain of Dead Ones.
SAID TO BE STRIKE BREAKERS
District Attorney States That
Operators Seem to Be Getting
Plenty of Workers.
Roadliouso keepers along tho Fair
banks trail aro complaining that a
large number of men aro going
through without money to pay for
food or lodging*, wires District At
toruoy Harlan to tho Valdez ofllco.
It la claimed that these are chiefly
men who aro going inaido to work for
tho mining operators.
Judge Harlan also stat-es that the
operators seem to he getting plenty
of men to work.
Nick Yednak informs the Pros
pector that tho current opinion that
nearly all tho men who have been
sent from Seattle to work In tho Tan
ana aro Slavs Is incorrect, lie bays
that of tho lot who came on tho Sara
toga only 28 wero Slavonians, Rus
sians and Austrian^, as he talked with
them himself. Tho others, he says,
were Greeks, Italians and Portuguese.
He says also that tho half dczen who
got cold feet on tho trail and returned
woro Greeks.
BRINGING 25010
WORK IN TANANA
Steamer Northwestern Saifs
With Large Company of
Mine Operatives.
Seattle, March 2—8teamer Norlh
vostern nallod yesterday for Valdez,
t iking 250 men to work in tho^JL'anana
mines. She also carries a largo
freight cargo.
OUTFITS ON TRAIL
MOVING RAPIDLY
Noarly all the big outilts going in
elde aro now beyond tho summit and
a groat deal of freight is a long dis
tance in. It in estimated that the
raining outflta going In aro al least a
weok ahead of last year's timo. This
In splto of Lho fact that most of them
started later than last year and dol
orous complaints flllod tho air when
early January found tho canyon un
frozen.
Trail men do not account for this
rapid progress but tho faot is palpa
ble. One reason, no doubt, is that
vhero has boou less deep snow and
storms to conteud against. Auo her
may be that the men in tho business
aro learning more oaoh year about
trail movement*, and still another
may be that they have mado an ex
tra effort to hustle becauso they
started late.
LOVESICK IDIOT KILLS
TWO AND THEN HIMSELF
Portland, Ore., Feb. 28—Rocauae of
hla unrequited Infatuation for Mrs.
Omar Khun of thUclty WUllaiu Bur*
tell today shot and killed the woman
and her hunband and then hlinttolf.
Jamea W. Dart.lott roturned lant
nl^ht from a trip to the Nabeona,
whore he took wnpplloa for the goo<
logical party that will work tberc
thin aurnmer.
Bnow In Valdet ihlfl morning li
' oonpled with report# of buow frocr
■ teveral Interior point*. Tho only lov
1 temperature reported la zero at Fair
bank*
MAKES REPORT ;
FOB JUDGE REID
Senate Committee Recom
mends Confirmation to
Bench of Third Division. I
Washington, March 3—Tho senate
Jndlciary committee today reported
favorably ou the nomination of Silas
II. Reld to bo Judge of the Third
judicial division of Alaska. It in ox
pected that tho nomination will be
continued by the senate soon.
Row Over Reld and Qrlgnbv
Washington, March 2—Much strife
lias arisen over tho confirmation of
SilaB II. Iieid to be Judge of tho Third
division of Alaska and George Grlga
by to bo district attorney of the
Second division.
WANT MORE LIGHT
ON ALASKA COAST
.Seattle, March i—Mariner* will or
ganize a movement to establish lights
and buoys on all unguarded ami dan
gerous portions of th« Alaska ooast.
The subject will bo strongly urged at
Washington on tho ground of the In
creasing Importance aud value of;
Alaska commerce.
BELGIUM GOBBLES
CONGO FREE STATE!
New Treaty Provides for
Annexation cf Big South
African Domain.
Brussels, March 6—King Leopold
In a new treaty providea for tho an
nexation of the Congo Free State to
Belgium, with other African terri
tory. Tho king fears Intervention by
Great Britain or America and will not
actively assert sovereignty uutll cer
tain that he will not be opj>osod,
In 1800 Belgium made a loan of
26,000,000 trancs to tho Congo stato
with the privilege of annexing the
country if the loan wus not paid at
the end of ten years, or of extending
tho loan unother ten yeu.r*. Since
then the Congo has boon treated as a
personal dependency of the Belgian
king.
NELSON BEATS
JIMMY BRUT
Lou Angelea, March 4—Jimmy Brltt
wau saved by the gong 1" sixth
round of his tight with Battling Nel
hoii hint night and barely stalled
through to the end of tho ten-round
content. Brltt landed oft-oner than
Nelson but did no damage while Nel
»K>n noarly put him out Heveral timed.
SAYS NOLAN CREEK
BEATS ELDORADO
Nolan creek, the bonanza of the
Koyukuk, In described In a letter to
Falrbanktt a* richer than the fatnoun
Eldorado in tho Klondike. The letter
toll* of a pan wawhlng $1H00 and three
other* whioh turned out over $10( 0
each. Tho letter In printed In tho
Falrbauka Tlmee. Tho New* tellw of
a letter which *ay» tlOO |>an« are fre
quently found
Huge Chunk of Copper
A huge ohunk of topper ore from
i the Landlook Bay Copper Company1*
i ledge In on display In the Northoru
' aaloon. It is m big aa a pri*e water*
• melon and too heavy for Dr. Ry«
•trom to carry around
REYNOLDS PEOPLE
REPORT PROGRESS
Annual Meeting in Seattle
Ratifies Action of East
ern Stockholders.
READY TO MAKE SETTLEMENT
Boston Trust Company Will Act
as Trustee If Bankruptcy
Proceedings Are Dropped.
Heattle, Fob. 28— At the annual
mooting of the stockholder* cf the
Reynolds-Alaska Development Com
pany the action of the eastern stock
holders was completely ratified by au
overwhelming vote. The Seattle
creditors nre greatly pleasod. The
Boston Trust Company is now ijultc
willing to act as trustee provided the
bankruptcy proceedings ut Valdez
are dlauiisMod. If this is done H. D.
Reynolds will proceed to Valdezirota
tho east to make settlement with the
creditors in the north.
CHARGE PACKING
OF TANANA JURY
Enemies cf Barrette Say
He Has Filled Ccurt
Panel With Friends.
Fairbanks, Alaska, March 3 -Opou
charges of jury pac king in tlio inter
cut of the Barnettc faction are made
since the drawing of t.lie jury tor the
coining term of tho district court.
Nine of the 17 Jnrorw drawn are OnuJu
cially interested In Barnette's bank,
tho Fairbanks Hanking Company, and
othors are claimed to be under B&r
nott-o control.
A good deal ot feolirg has beeu
stirred up and ton lawyers represent
ing various mining interests hostile
to Barnotle say Ihoy will make a tight
when court convenes to have the
panel sot aside and a new one drawn.
All tho Fairbanks newspapers except
the News, which is owned by Capt.
Barnotte, severely criticise the jury
drawing.
HEAD OF REINDEER
SERVICE ARRIVES
W. 'I'. Lopp, c*liIff of tho govern
lueut reindeer aorvlco in Alaska, with
headquarters at Cape l'rlnce of Wale*,
came to Valdoz on the Orr stage from
Fairbanks last night. Ho Is on hi*
way outside. Another pastR'ngor was
8. O. Adams, of tho Alaska Mercan
tile Company at Nome, who brings
tho news that Capt. EJnar Mlkkelsen,
the explorer who went north ou the
Duchess of Bedford in 1000, will reach
Valdcz on the next stage.
Mr. Adams and Capt. Mlkkelson
had a narrow eseapo when croaalng
Norton sound. Tho trail is on the loe
along the shore lino. An extrome
high tide swept over theieo and drove
them to week refuge on a high rock,
where they wore obliged to stay all
one night.
Mr. Lopp is the man who did the
hardest work in rescuing the loe*
bound whalers In tho Arctic «ea in
1B07. He led the party which drove
reindeer across Kotzebuo sound to
furnish food for tho whalers.
WOMAN GETS $14,000
BY HYPNOTIZING MAN
Hpokano, Feb. 23—John Bhanuootn
i plained today to the police that a
woman hypnctliod him and took
914,000 away from him while he was
subjeet to her Inlluonce.
Tho Unltod States treasury ha*
ttf IS,000,000 gold on hand