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ABOUT JUDGlv RIvII)
Judge Keid lias the support of nearly
everybody in Valdez in the present
light. Most of the tali; is in his favor.
It is admitted that Judge Keid has
made mistakes, particularly in his
appoint incuts, and his worst mistake
has hern in standing by fool friends.
To lie specific the Prospector wishes)
to designate Oscar A. Wells, clerk of :
the court at Fairbanks, and A. L.
McDonald, deputy clerk there. These i
men have been millstones around
Judge lb-id's eck for many months
^ and he ought lo have lired both ol
j them long ago. They have brought
more disrepute upon him than all
other eaU'Cs combined.
A few months ago the entire bar of
Yaldez. and many prominent citizens
signed a request to tlie department
of justice that in the event of a
division of the Third judicial division
by act of congress Judge Keid be as
signed to the coast district. It is
doubtful if any man who signed that
petition wislu s t« withdraw bis name
now. Public opinion all around
town in Valdez almost unanimously
expresses belief in the integrity of
Judge Keid.
It is reported from various reliable
s uirecs that <!ov. lloggatt is opposing
Judge P,cid. The governor lias a j
right to do an lie pleases but there is
ii" reason why he should meddle in
the aITairs <>f the Third division, and
it may be casually mentioned that in j
Valde/. a knock from (low lloggatt is:
a boost. Whatever may be the;
merits of (iov. lloggatt as a man and |
an ojlicial those merits lack appre
ciation in this town for reasons which
have not yet become embalmed in j
history. Valde* prefers Judge Keid
a- judge of the court here to anybody
<lov. lloggatt is likely to endorse.
Anybody who disagrees with these j
views will he given space in the |
Prospector to express them, if he so |
desires.
STIKRINGUP Till: ANIMATES
The Juneau ltccord h.is started a|
flight on Marshal Sin.up of tic First
di\ ision bf cause, as ii alleges, ''he
fails to offer a more zeab us demon- (
stratum of otlicial activity in cos nee i
tion with the olliee of I'nited Slates |
Marshal in this cil\ than in smoking,
good cigars, looking wise and keeping
the jail full of Si washes charged with j
oilieuscs of a petty character.''
The Record is adding steadily and !
frequently to its list of undesirable of- i
ficials and may be expected to go af- j
ter fourth-class postmasters soon.
What a brand <>f dope houh body j
must have handed tot ho president to
induce him to eall a cabinet meeting
to consider t h< 'barges against Judge
Reid. The administration seems to !
have been persuaded that an insur
rection was going on in Valde/, con
cerning a subject which was never!
even the subject of local gossip.
The Juneau Record is engaged now
in a ferocious war upon President '
Roosevelt. Lots of people will en
thusiastically indorse all the Record
prints <m the subject but the query
arises; What has happened to cause
Gov. Iloggatt's organ to cut loose
t his way against the president who
has made a pet of the governor?
A man was held up and robbed near
the buiddoHH district in Seattle the
other night. Evidently the Seattle
folk* are practicing to work on the
fair visitors.
Mr. Bryan'* daughter is suing for
a divorce with better prospects of
getting it than the democratic party
has of getting a separation from Mr.
Itiy no's bed and board.
When Missouri went republican
gome people thought the state bud re
formed but here it turns up with
On murine Hill 8 tone in the senate for
another term.
The Kntalla Herald is publishing a
lint of application* for patent for coal
lands so long that it is too big a job
to count them.
Are those animals the Northwestern
In bringing for Fairbanks going In over
the Copger rivor?
GIVING OUT INFORMATION
Press dispatches inform Alaska
that James A. llaight, attorney and
secretary of tho Alaska Central, has
given a lot of information about the
receivership of that comatose corpo
ration to Mr. Wilmer, the special
agent of the department of justice
who is coming to Valdez to investigate
court business in the Third division,
.lust what information Mr. llaight
gave Mr. Wilmer is not vouchsafed
hut light on the subject will no doubt
be obtained later.
For example, if Mr llaight failed to
furnish Mr. Wilmer a copy of John
K. Iiallaine's circular on the Alaska
Central receivership giving the "Cau
ses which led to the wrecking of the
property b\ the Frost management"
a copy of tlu same will be supplied
to Mr. Wilmer in Valdez. It may be
that Mr. Mallaiir-'s circular is lacking
in accuracy, but neither A. C. Frost
nor anyone for him has teen lit to
attack Hallainc en the charge of li
bel although the circular accuses
Front of gigantic frauds, including
the falsification of c.t| < into records.
Mr. Wilmer can also learn by con
sulting the court record* in Valdez
that all the charges of fraud, incom
petence and misinanag> ni< nt of the
Alaska Central mad" in the original
suit in which temporary receiver
was appointed, were reiterated ver
batim in the complaint o >r foreclosure
of the trust dre.l in the case in which
|iernianei.t ive< iv< r ■ \v> r> appointed
without re^i.iai.e. troin Mr. llaight,
wlio was peiMenaik present in court.
Mr. Wilmer can further find in the
court record* in the Alaska Central
ca es verified pleadings and allida
vits charging that Frost and others
acting with him f«»rg> d interpolations
into the minutes ot ilie Alaska ( '< u
tial stockholders' ami tru.-tees' meet
ings giving Frost apparent jiowerand
authority to issue railroad bonds
without limit.
11 is probahle that before Mr. Wil
mer gets through with the Alaska
Central iu<ji:ir\ he will tind out sev
eral things which Mr. llaight might
have told him but did not.
"I/IKlv MASTER I,IKE MAN"
Francis .1. lb-ney, who is conduct
ing the graft prosecution at San Fran
cisco, is known all over the country
as a fearless and independent thinker
:ts a man who is striving fyr and ob
taining purity in politico. Honey l>as
no political afliliat ions and probably
was never nearer to Alaska than
Port land, (>ro. lie is a man no one
ean use for a eats-paw.
Y« t Francis lleney felt, compelled
to call upon President Uoosevelt early
last week and protest in the strong
est terms against the appointment of
Pcwells as Failed States marshal at
Nome, lleney said that Powells had
a hod record and was implicated in
the Oregon land frauds.
(iovernor Iloggat.t i-j the man who
is advocating the appointment of
Powells. Doubtless lie linds hiin use
fill and adept in a political way. It
is instructive to all Alaskans as well
as to the president t<> bo informed by
lleney as to the calibre of the candi
dates approved of by lloggatt. It is
a case of "like master—like man." —
Hkagway Alaskan.
(leorge Max Ksterly's Nizina out
lit caino to Valdez after all, in spite
of proclamations that, it would be;
transported up the Copper river.
Now who is to blame for this?
Th»» cable eorronpondent ,\vn» nuro
wo couldn't be happy unless wo
loomed by wlro the imnir of I lio
young lady who hunted a bottle of
Wllio over the bow of the Delaware
at the christening of the big hattle
hI»i|». Now who In thunder or Alaska
over heard of her before?
The bill for a fourth judicial divln
loti in Alaska niakOH the Taunua oud
the Fourth but assigns the ofNc^rn
of the present Third to the fourth.
However it adds the provision that
the president may assign them to
the Third if he noon lit.
Ho New Orient)*in nhy ondrcsn suite
for the Taft banquet. Alnt that a
shame? If Alaska was a little nearer
we would nhip them a ntaek of par
quo#.
The fellow who butt* into a light
between a man and bin wlfo most, nl
wayn get* licked but lie doesn't often
even lip by killing the hunbatid.
GIST IT STRAIGHT
An impression seems to have gained
some currency in Valdez that t lie
Prospector is charging Gov. lloggatt
with making the light on Judtre He id
and that it obtained information to
that effect from Gen. Wilmer, the
representative of the attorney-gen
eral who is here to investigate Un
charges.
Hot hot these charges arc erroneous.
Gen. Wilmer lias never named anyone
as th" author of the charges so far
as the Prospector haw any knowledge
or report. Neither has the Prospec
tor said that Gov. lloggatt is back of
the light. Simply as news it has
printed the fact that the impression
is wide-spread that Gov. lloggatt is
in the light.
This statement is based upon the
fact that when the charges we're first
made the Washington correspondents!
«>i all the Pacific coast pape^rs laid the !
light at the door of Gov. lloggalt.
This was tabled tothe Alaska papers
and nearly if not quite every one of
tin in has published it including the
governor's personal organ at .Juneau. |
It may not be true, but the Prospec
| tor is not responsible lor first giving
circulation to the story and does not
now vouch for anything but the eir
cut l^tantiai c vidcnce, which it prints
solely as news
| The Seattle cable correspondent 1
sends l>y wiro the valuable in form a- j
t ion that an admission fee of 'J<r> cents I
will bo extravtod troni visitors to tin* j
exposition grounds after March l.i
It was highly important to send ttiisi
by win- because it enables a lot of j
Alaska people to hurry to Seattle be
fore that time in order to net in for
a dime. Incidentally i' del ton I rates
anew that Sea.tie correspondents,
will never learn that Alaska is not a :
suburb «.f Seattle and that Alaska |
i people do not earc a tinker's dam !
for local Seattle m-ws.
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The wireless telephone is being
steadily pushed toward commercial
practicability by the inventors. The
work of the French naval lieutenants,
('olin, .b anco and Mereior, and Mr.
Lee I)e Forest, of this city, seems
already to have opened the ether to
wireless converse, of an experimental
nature, over distances of from 300 to
"i00 miles, and .Mr. Poulsen, of Copen
hagen, has promised a transatlantic i
wireless soon.—New York Globe.
j FOURTH DIVISION BILL
i TRANSFERS OFFICIALS
Following are the provisions relat
ing to ollieials in the Fourth judicial
division bill for Alaska, which passed
I
the house last spring and is now ;
under considoration in the senate:
"Sections. Provided, that nothing
in this act shall be construed to limit
or terminate the term of olliee of any
of the judges, district, attorneys or
marshals now serving in Alaska, but
each shall serve out the term for
which he was appointed unless sooner
removed.
"The judge, district attorney and
marshal now serving in the Third
division of said district shall hero
after have their rosidoneo or hold
their respective ofllees in the Fourth
division created by this act, provided
that the president in his discretion
change the assignment of any of said
oHiecu from one division to another."
' CHEER UP, EGGS ARE
ONLY 60 CENTS HERE
(Tniimirt Tribune)
fhero is nn egg war on In the city
among proprietors of local henneryH,
Mike lialton having rinon in wrath
against aonic of lii« competitors who
have cut prices without reason in t-lio
(lead of winter, and gone them one
better by putting the tax on homo
grown eggn down to &J. It in needless
to add that Mik«- is swamped with
orders for lion fruit from the various
citizens who are making haste to
avail themselves of this opportunity
to taste fresh eggs without that un
comfof table feeling that they are
eating money straight. However, it
is a matter of indifference to the pro
prietor of the hen raneh on Hoventh
and C.'owles whether or not he sells
ids egsra, for he possesses woven ir.
cnhatofS, part of which are already
fin d upt And lie can easily turn all of
hi* eggs Into chickens, at a handsome
profit.
The Tbilton chicken raneh will be
open to the public each Hnnday after
noon between the hours of 2 and
^ p. m.
!
OUTFITTING
Our outfits have stood the test for over TEN years.
We carry a complete line of Supplies, Provisions, Clothing, Bed
ding, Foot Ware, Hardware, Camp Outfits and seven foot can
vas Tarpaulins, Miners Supplies, Powder, Caps, Fuse, Gasoline,
Dog Sleds, james Patterson Horse Sleds, Hoffman Horse Sleds,
Yakshaw Camp Stoves, made in Valdez*
We are the sole agents for <& W. Canned Goods, Holly
Flourt Chase & Sanborn coffee*
Our packers are men of long experience and your outfit will be
properly packed if placed with us.
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Details Of Masquerade In
clude Change Of Date To
Night Of Feb. 12
The night of February 12 instead
til February KJ lias been decided upon
as 1 lie date for the big masquerade
ball to be given in McKinley hall by
the baseball boys. This was decided
upon at the meeting held last night
in the cigar store of Hush & Ingram,
as were many other details of the
dance, which is purposed to be one
of the hig affairs of Valdcz social
history.
The last dance given by the base
ball boys was a huge success, finan
cially and otherwise, and the hoys
are determined thai the coining
affair will make the first one appear
like a chess match by comparison.
The prizes for the Friday night's
dance will be worth striving for, for
the boys realize that it is considerable
work to get up a good masquerade
costume.
The committee named last, night to
look after the various phases of the
coming affair consists of "Due." Wil
liam II. Caswell, Dr. E. F. German,
II. S. lless, Hus Manthey and L. F.
Sliaw. Ill addition to his other duties
"Doe." Caswell will attend to get
ting the prizes.
The Cordova contingent promises
to be a large olio, and Capt. Svenson
of the F.lsie is spending all his spare
time In that town rustling up en
thusiasm ami expatiating on what a
"time there will be."
(Juy Cameron •« to havo charge of
tlie munlo end of the affair, and he
promises that It will bo the boat ever.
While they are going to spare no
expenoo to make the drineo the mie
c'Ohh they promise, the befya oxpeot. to
havo a tidy mini to he devoted to the
Inifurovetnont of the ball gronndn and
ho all tbono who attend will not only
benefit by the good time they will
have, l>nt will derive the benefit of
*eplng the national game played this
glimmer cinder mtich bolter cofidl
Mona that wa« fcbe eaan ln»(. aeaaon.
The Hot Bpflngn Pout reports that
Internal Ktfvemie Collector J. A.
OH moron haa diatippoared from Fair
banks and haa n6t boon heard from
for the pant t.\Vo ityonth*.
Ja'-k the fTnggoAha»i mfld« hla ap
pearanee at Nomoland the men of
that elty are maklag an awful howl
about It. The Wow on don't Koetn to
complain.
man's Roadhouse
Bar and General Merchandise
Accomodations for Travelers
Pontius Magnuson Prop.
The Teikhell Roadhouse
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
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always on hand. Ilorse and Don Feed All the latest
improvements. PRIVATE ROOMS.
Mrs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
•a
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8. S. BERTHA, 8th »f <*<* ■««*•
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From Valdez for
.1 unenu and all I'uget Bound I'orts
iliglits Reserved to Change Steamers or Sailing Dates Without Notice.
A. S. PAUTIilCK. General Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Reservation Ave. near Court House
Private Rooms for Patients Graduate Nurses
Hospital Tickets, $1.50 per Month.
Phone 77
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FRIEND AND MUNSON
ARE BOUND FOR JAIL
Heaitle, Feb, 8—Oh a rl on Friend and
Frrd Munaon, pin cod under nrrcst. In
this city on telegraphic warranto
from Valdofc, are aboard the Hteam
ahlp Pennsylvania, departing north
ward ihla mornkig.
The men mentioned in the foregoing
dlwpateb were Indicted by the Inst
grand Jury. Friend la charged with
grnnd larceny, hl« nllcgod crime eon
Hiatlng In converting to bis own use
n barrel of crockery that. wa« on the
Valdez wharf. Muiwon Ih one of thou©
coming under the ban of tho law
ngaifiHt. affinities. He Ih accused of
being the paramotir of Mr«. Mercer
of Heldovla, who wan also Indicted
an<l who Ih now out on ball.
Arixonn Wottld Adopt Fornker
Phoenix, Feb. 8 Henator Poraker
of Ohio, whoHo term of office oxplrea
with the present Howlon of conffreaa
may l>e aHk*»d to become a mident of
Arizona to the effect that In caao
utatehood In granted ho may return
to OOflgrem a« "senator from
Arizona."