LOSE ONE SPAN
or n BRIDGE
Word was received late yesterday
afternoon from R. S. Giddings. the
engineer of the Alaska road commis
sion who is in the Nlziua country to
locate and construct a tra:l to the
new bridge across the Nlziua river,
that the recent high water had
washed out the big center pier and
that two 150-foot spans of the
government bridge had been carried
away.
Tie bridge was the best and
most substantial ever built in Al
aska by the road commission and
was expected to hold, but the Nl
zi-.ia, which is said to be the most
treacherous river in Alaska and is
fed fron. a dozen large glaciers at
the head of the Xisina, Chittistona,
Pan creek, Chittitu. Young creek
and many other streajna and at
limes is exceptionally high, carried
it away. A terrific rush of water
bringing down driftwood and trees
from the upper river swept the
I'ier out and the two spans were
li>st last week.
The report says that the water
i- still high and that several other
piers may go.
Lieut. Edgerton left this morn
ing for the Xizina and will take
riiarge of the work of saving the
remainder of the bridge and also
plan for the rebuilding of the span
next wir.ter, as no work can be
one during the summer on account
of the high water.—Valdez Pros
pector.
•sKKKS TO RECOVER PROM
UESTERV FUEL COMPANY
Sail Francisco, July 51—The gov- i
• rnrneut will seek to recover $861,
"■ S>5 from the Western Fuel com
I'.iny in a suit soou to come up in
he federal court here. According to
I ired States District Attorney Prea
t >:i, more suits are to follow to a to
1 imount approximating $2,000,
sutt already oa Hie represents
full value of sooie forty ahip
>ads of coal sold by the company
' • the government, n:.-luly for the
; rmv transport service. The gov
trnment asserts that the coal waa
underweight. The law allows it to
(onfiscate sucb cargoes and om the
• oa! is no longer available, Preston
tsks the money instead.
While the government charges
t hat when the company sold the
i-oal it did not give as much as the
recorded weights Indicated, It
charges also that la importing It,
the corporation brought In more
thaa the weights It gave, thereby
defrauding the custom*. These pay
ment*, together with heavy penal
ties, are what Preston •will seek to
recover through la'er suits. As a
result of criminal trials involving
the same transactions, General Man
ager Jamea B. Smith, superintend
ent Frederick C. Mills and Weigh
er Edward M. Maer of the com
pany wore convicted and their cases
are pending on appeal. The con
cern's higher offlcei-s got off on the
ground that they did not know
their subordinates were cheating the
government.
GHARLTON LOSES
HIS PRIVILEGES
Como, Italy July 31—Aa a result
ot the recent socialistic riota In
Italy, Porter Charlton, the American
wife murderer la having to undergo
for the first time the full rigors
of Italian prison life.
Since Charlton was returned to
Italy fr< m the United States lust
August, he has be?* the sole oc
cupant of the Jail here. Aa such
he has been allowed the most
unusual privileges, such as the re
ceiving of an occaalonai visitor, an
unlimited coreepondeace, daily news
papers, magazine and novels. Dur
ing the recent riota the jail here
was filled up with socialists and
others who ran afoul of the police
and military. That thcee may not
be able to take advantage .of the
many privileges heretofore accorded
Charl'oii, all his privileges have
been curtailed. The toading of a
daily Italian paper was prohibited ort
the rround that this might give the
other prisoner* information of the
strike. As Charlton baa mastered
Italian perfectly during his year of
Italian prison life, his daily Ameri
can paper was also tabooed as he
would be able to communicate to
bis fellow prisoners prohibited in
formation.
Present indications are that
young Charlton will have to contiuu
his present restricted regime until
his trial comes off next November.
He continues In the oeat of health.
SAN FRAXCIBOO MUNICIPAL
STREET RAILWAY PAYS
San Francisco, July 21—San
Francisco's municipal street rail
road, known as the Geary street
line, about six miles long, earned
$136,430.20 net during the fiscal
year ended Juno 30, according to
figures Just made public here.
Gentlemen: Our
Spring and Summer
Suits
Hats, Shoes
Rain Coats, Furnishing Goods, Etc
JAre Now On Display
Suits Hade to Your Heasure
2 At $18 and Up
{When in Need of Goods in Our Line Come In
and Look Over Our Stock
No Hard Feelings and No Harm Done'
If You Do Not Buy
STORE OPEN EVENINGS
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The Up To Date Haberdasher
and Ladies' Furnisher
PHONE 41 SKAGWAY
On Way Outside After Several Months
Spent at the Head of the Nebesna and
Tanana Rivers—-Mr. Bratnober is Op
timistic as to Future of that Section
Henry Bratnober, one of tl«c best
known mining men in the whole of
he North, arrived out on the train
aat night from his headquarters
:amp at the head of the Nabesna
"iver, in company with Major S. A.
Huntington, who has his heailquar
ers in Tacoma, Wash.
It was these who neu who early j
ast March made the reco.-d trip
>ver the Nizini glacier 011 the II«c
et trail. On the morning of March
Llth, they ltrft Shorty Quinn's with
t team of 11 dogs and a 900
lound outfit and Tossed tlie glac
er, a distance of 86 Miles, in S
lours and 40 miuutts, reducing
ind beating all previous records by
no re than an hour.
Mr. Bratnober and \i -v Hunt
ugton have since their trip into the
nterior spoken of above spent the
;reater part of their time at the
lead of the Tanana and Nabesna
•iver, where the for met is inter
ssted in some of the highest grade
;opper properties in the world, and
vhicta with proper transportation
'acilities will become tlie greatest
iroducers of that metal of any
:amp yet discovered.
They left tho uppor readies of
he Nabesna in a So loot open boat
ind traveled down S'JO miles of
iwift water and rapids in 7 days.
3n this journey Major Huntington
3 ad charge of the naviga
tion of tho boat for the
;ntire distance with the
ixception of the last dav when they
ook on board a mustier at the
"Delta" who was induced by the
najor to lend his assistance with a
iair of oars until Chena was reach
id, while Mr. Bratnober liad charge
>f the commissary. Although the
lourney was souiojvhat strenuous
?very minute of the time was eujoy
?d by the voyageurs until Fairbanks
ivas reached at wiiicn point they
took the steamer to Whitehorse,
ind from there to Skagway by train.
Major Huntington vfis very re
ticent as to the object of bis
journey into the interior but from
Mr. Bratnober we lea;ued that the
:ondition of things 'b greatly im
proved since "he went in last winter
Said he.
"The country around the head of
the Nabesna and Tanana is a
highly mineralized zone, both as to
luartz and placer, but in the lat
ter there has not been enough de
relopment work done to base any
reliable estimate. Tha extent and
richness of the quartz is fairly well
Icnown, but it requires better trans
portation facilities than are now of
fered to work them to advantage."
When asked as to the probable
relief which ^would be afforded
along these lines by the completion
of the government owned railroad,
-Mr. Bratnober said; "Moat certain
ly tlie reliaf will come .when that
country is traversed by railroads,
and in my opinion the sooner these
activities begin the sooner greater
developement will take place and
open up the richest uart of Alaska."
Asked how far his headquarters
on the Nabesna ars from the
Chlsana camp Mr. P.ratnober said:
"It is about 22 miles, and we were
in 'he Cliisana camp a part o' our
time since we have been inside. A
partner of mine named Sergeant lo
cated eight claims in the district on
Skookum creek, a sidf gulch coming
into the main canyon a short dis
tance above the discovery claims
taken up by James and his partner._
"Sergeant took in a boiler and
last winter got down to bedrock,
from which he took 20 pans of
gravel and carried to a rocker where
a little water could be had. Trom
the 20 pans lie recovered $35 in
gold dust and small nuggets.
"Sergeant has sincj given lays
on some of the claims while others
he is going to work himself.
"When I got Into Chisaiia in
M irch everything looked gloomy as
there were at least 200 idle men
There, the most of whom were
knocking the camp, nnd saying it
was no good, for at that timo no
discoveries bad been made other
than those of the James claims.
"Since then however, there has
teen a better class of men for the
development of the country going In,
most of them practical miners who
aro not afraid of hard work and
who know how to go about getting
out the values.
"Taken as a whole the Chisaua
is bound to be a winner 111 my
opinion for there la an immense
country surrounding it which has
practically never be„»ii prospected
and which has overy appearance of
being productive, but regard
less of that what has already
beeu discoverey is enough
to insure its being a good camp.
"The .great drawback to the Chls
; ana, as it is to all of that country,
is the lack of cheap transportation
facilities, and when that difficulty
is overcome it is hard to predict
what the future may have in store
for it, but that it will be some
thing great there can be no doubt."
^lajor Huntington's experience in
the North has been a refutation of
the old saying that a man alter a
certain period of his life has been
passed is unable to "come back."
When he left Tacomi he weighed
21S>£ pounds and was soft and out
of condition, but his travels
through the interior have reduced
this by 35 pounds, and he is now
New Goods Just Received
Libby's Green Olives, ner jar ..... . 65c
Libby's Chow Chow, jars in two sizes, 20c and 35c
Libby's Prepared Mustard, per jar .... 15c
Quaker Breakfast Biscuit, per package . . 15c
French String Beans in glass 55c
Also a complete line of Crosse &
Blackwell and H. J. Heinz Com
pauy's goods at popular prices
On arrival of the Mariposa tomorrow
we will receive a
Complete Line of Perishables
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
as hard as nails and fit to tackle
a grizzly bear with his bare hands
with a. good chance of coming out
first best.
Accompanying Major Huntington
and Mr. Bratnober are five Koyu
kuk miners, John and Chas Sco
fleld, John Bowman, Chaa Moery
and Jos. Shubert, who made big
cleanups in that country la3t fall,
and aro going to the outside for
Lha first time in from 12 to 20
years. Pour, of them have about
$15,000 each, which they forwarded
by express beforo thoy left the
Interior, but they- havo along with
them nuggets which are valued at
from $350 to 1500 each. One nug
Pet taken out by them last fall on
Hammond river was aoid for $2,487,
and is the second largest ever dis
covered in Alaska or the Yukon.
ARE COMPETING
Portland, Ore., Jul/ 21—Scatter
guu artist from the northwest and
California were competing today in
[he nluth Pacific Coist Handicap
ahoot, being held under the aus
pices of the Portland Gun club. Be
sides the prize money put up by the
local organization, the Iuterstate as
sociation has added $500. The grand
3lioot off will be staged tomorrow.
FliEfPlTS
LEFT WITH UNCLE
Cleveland, O., July 21—Cleve
land police officials are pushing
a movement to brin'j before the
city council lugislat;on lo widen
the use ot the finger print system
in the prevention of crime.
City Bertilliou exports propose
that every person who pawns an
article to required to leave prints
with iho pawnbroker. By comparing
these records with thcso of known
criminals already on file, police
hope to trace stolen property and
catch pick-pockets and burglars who
specialize in petty "house jobs."
NEBRASKA I'ROH IIVITIOXISTS
AHE IX CONVENTION
Lincoln, Neb., July 21—The pro
hibitionists of Nebraska are gather
ed here today in the l.arty's annual
state convention. Tho leaders arc
counting on the largest attendance
of any o* the party's conventions
in this etate during recent, years.
MONASTIC LIFE
STILL POPUUIR
Home, July 21—That the mon
astic life has lost noua of its hold
on present da/ humanity haa Juat
been demonstrated by the rei>ort
made of the growth at tha Capu
! chin order, the general chapter of
which just closed here. Despitq tha
llnct that several of the leading
■ countries of Europe no longer per
, mlt moiiftstries of the order, the
I Capuchins now have 771 convert*,
scattered through 53 provinces, with
j 10,176 full members. In addition
| thc-y have throughout tha world
5,789 congregations of "tertiarias,"
or members of the order who, while
.10', living in convents secluded tram
j '-he world, devote their livee to the
work o' the order. iThe total m«m
i bership of these congregation* t%lta
[just a little below 1,000,000.
Hamilton, O., July 21—Mora than
two hundred delegates from all
parts of the United States and Can
ada gathered here today for thj
biennial convention of the Intaroa
tionai Stove Mounter's union. Ses
sions wJI close July 24. Social
£sutures have an important place
on the program.
' MOVI NO PICTURES DEVOTED
TO MUNICIPAL TOPICS
Madison, Wis., July 21—Moving
pictures devoted to municipal topics
and especially to city improvement*,
j were to be shown before members
of the Wisconsin league of munlci
! pallties which met bore today wltli
' about 20U city officials present. A
| thro.3 days session was opened by
j President Joseph Fisher.
TURNED INTO BACHELORS 4
J5Y THE CITY DIRECTORY
3.m Francisco, July 21—The uew
San Francisco directory, just out,
professes to publish, after the name
of each married man listed, the
maiden name of his wife. But by
oversight, several men who have
[ been long happily wed and have
1 families figures in it as bachelors.
| Among such are Gov. Hiram Johi
I sou, liis son, Hiram J'/., and Mayor
i Roiph. '
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