Prospector
August 27, 1908. No. 30
Grewsome Details of Crime on Afognak Become
Public Upon Confession of Wife Who Witli Para
mour is Under Arrest Awaiting Grand Jury.
Admitting hor pari in t ho affair 11ml
charging her lover, George IVstria
lcoff, with the actual deed, IMucrcna
Kavorzoff, a I!) year-old Russian
girl is under arrest, at Afognak
accused of instigating the murder of
her husband, Peter Kavorzoff. lVs
triakoff is also under arrest and lie
fore the grand jury will be charged
with murder in the llrst degee. The
murder was committed August. 10 in
Oll'/inski.
According to the reports of the
crime brought by the steamship Port
land the woman has taken upon her
self the entire responsibility for caus
ing the murder. Her story is one of
cold bloodedness and deliberation al
most. transcending belief. While her
lover went forth to do murder she lay
cowering in the cellar of his house
and after the husband had been kill
ed she greeted the murderer warmly
and then went with him while be at
tempted to dispose of the body.
Afterward, the woman spent two
days and nights in company with her
lover and then confessed the crime.
Aside from tin; murderer the only
person to witness the deed was Ly
eamlray, the 12 year-old son of the
murdered man, and cautioned by
both the murderer and his woman ac
complice,he kepi tohimself his know
ledge of what he had witnessed on
the night that, he started with his fa
ther for a walk. The lad also lent
his feeble aid to the efforts to dispose
of the body of his father.
The woman's story is that she wed
ded Kavorsoff at her father's demand
although she never liked the man.
This was in September, 1!)07 atW tin
first month or so (lie newly married
couple lived happily. Then the litis
Imml began t<> be jealous of the man
who later did murder, and to threaten
the woman with punishment. The
woman says that she began to feai
her husband and that she sent word
to her lover and discussed what they
had best do.
The alTair drifted along until Aug
ust 7, when the woman wrote to IVs
triakotf telling him to "(let some
thing for Peter." Pestriakolf did not
I do this, although the woman meant
for him lo get poison, but upon bis
return the two discussed the question
of disposing of the husband and on
tin- evening of the tenth decided
tii.it the lover should go to the hus
band and tell him that the wife waa
at the lover's home. While l'estria
koff went on this mission, the woman
remained in the cellar of his house
until he returned accompanied by the
son of Karvor/olf, who, according to
the woman was in tears.
Pestriakotf told that, ho had attack
led his victim as the latter and the
I son were on the way to the house of
the murderer,and that the body had
been hidden temporarily. Then, in
( lie presence of the son of the mur
dered man, the lovers planned to dis
pose of the body by taUing it away in
the murderer's dory and sinking it in
the bay.
It is remarks made by \oung Kav
orzoll' after t lie disappearance of his
father led to conjecture that resulted
in the arrest of I'estnaked and the
woman.
CONGO TO BE FREE
FROM THRA1UOK
Brussels, Aug. 21 — King Leopold's
long aiul harsh dominion over I ho
Congo is noon to boeomo a thing of
tho past. Tho chamber of deputies
this morning brought to an oiul a
struggle among its members lasting
for more than a month and by a vote
of oighty-threo to tifty-llvo decided in
favor of the Congo annexation treaty, j
Tho action pf tho chamber spells de
feat to tho hopes of the king who lias
used every i 11II uenco at his command
to defeat tho annexation proposition. |
For years tho Congo has been un
der tho absolute dominion of King
Leopold and the manner in which he j
has exercised this power has become
an international disgrace. Time and
again has effort been made to induce
Home country to step in and give to
the natives some measure of relief
from tho cruelty to which they have
been subjoctcd but every such effort,
has been for naught.
His dominion over the Congo has
made King Leopold immensely weal
thy for tho country is prodigal in
commercial resources. Several years
ago, fearing American intervention
in behalf of the natives, King Leo
pold granted certain eoneessions to
Now York financiers hoping that
their influence in their own country
would successfully oppose any at
tempt. at. interference with his loot
ing of tho richest spot In nil Africa.
Time goes to show that tho aged
monarch noted wisely for although
tho horrors of his domination in the
Congo have been exposed by maga
zine writers and by missionaries the
United Htntes, ns well an other na
tions, has remained quiescent .
One of tho largest placers operated
In HoutheaHtern Alaska is the Rainy
Hollow property. Tho largest flume
In Alaska Is now complete nt this
property and Is more than a mile In
length, measuring forty foot wide at
tho intake and thirty-six feet at tho
lower end. The property Is siliiOted
forty miles from Halnon,
Tho fisheries of Alaska alone rot urn
and havo for many years, annually
more than the full purchase prion
paid for the territory.
Tho report of a cannon hns been
hoard 100 miles.
FLEiii ISLAND
HAS COPPER BOOM
A m>l lici* copper bonanza hi rcjioried,
(his l-ime on Pleniniing island, and ac
cording to the account of the diseov
cry given to Judge Crandall it in de
signed to "make Meatson's Bonanza
look like .'50 cents." At least thin is
the descript ion given hy Judge Cran
dall. Tlio discoverers don't know
how wide the ore body is because
they haven't completed their survey
of it, hut it is yards wide and ore at
the surface is alleged to run 7 per
cent. There you have it.
The new strike is on the west side
of b'lcmming island and is approached
from Port Bainbrldge. More or less
prospecting was done on the island
last year and when Thomas Coatos
Mid Howard Stevens saw something
that looked good to them they started
work, which they have pursued In
termittently ever since, and last week
they found the Bonanza. When they
took ore specimens over to the Mad
house on Latouehe island everybody
in t hat viilaga jumped Into a boat and
hustled to Port Hainbridge to get what
was left.
Martin Johnson and Jim Feeney
are working on an extension of the
strike and the Indications there are
the same as on the big discovery.
They got. t he hunch several months
ago that there might be something
doing on this ledge and got. in on the
ground floor without delay.
Bcattle Man Is Champion Archcr.
Chicago, Aug. '21—Will II. Thomp
son of Seattle, yesterday afternoon
won the national archery champion
ship by the second highest, score ever
made In a tournament. The winner
is a man well along in years and Is a
prominent, lawyer. Ife was pitted
against the best, archers the United
States can produce,
Seattle, Aug. '21—Will If. Thomp
son, who won the national archery
championship in Chicago yesterday,
Is .he father of Chester Thompson,
the youth who a year ago last July
shot, and killed former Judge (lonrgo
Meade Kmory of this city and who
was acquitted on t he ground of In
sanity.
There are r»r»,8H8 railroad locomo
tives In use in the United Stntrs.
CRflSSLEY NAMES
IIALOEZ DEPUTY
Seattle, Aug. 21—Harrison 15. Mar
j tin, a young lawyer of this city, lias
boon appointed assistant United States
district attorney for the Third .In
dieial district of Alaska. The ap
pointment eoinos through District
Attorney Crossley of Fairbanks and
Mr. Martin will 011 Monday take pas
sago on the Yucatan for Valdey. where
ho will he stationed.
The foregoing eable dispatch means
that with the arrival here of Mr.
Martin, Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney L. V. Kay will return
to his former headquarters in Seward.
Mr. Hay was ordered to Valdey, at the
time of the llasey trial in Juneau,
coining here to take the place of the
late Assistant District Attorney Scott,
and, because of the death of the lat
ter, remaining here.
Recently Mr. Ray received from i
Mr. Crossley the request to remain i
in the service as an assistant, the re-1
quest carrying tin* information that
Mr. Ray would be assigned to Seward (
and the district to the westward.
I
Juneau, A lift. 21—President Moyer
o'i the Western Federation of .Miners
in .'i passenger on the steamship Hum
boldt, hound for this city. Once
here President .Mover will inatigur
ato a vigorous campaign to n-oipui
i/.c the minors of Alaska aiul to lino
tlicmnp as member* of t he Federa
tion.
It is understood here that President
Moyi r will cover the ent ire territory
and that he is to pay particular at
tonlion to oondit ions in tin* Tanana.
lie will begin operations by trying to
lino up the miners world n."; fort ho
Treadwoll company.
FINANCIERS AFTER j
ALASKA CENTRAL!
J
(Mnitllo Times.)
Tho foroelosuro sale «<f the Alaska
Central Kaihvay to a now company
promises developments which may
ill vol vo Homo of t-ho most important,
groups of capitalists in the United
States, Canada and Hrig,lnnd.
Three groups of prospective buyers
are already in tho field and more are
likely to conic in, all known lo com
mand largo capital.
Tho great coal Holds of Central
Alaska, 210 miles long nnd 100 miles
wide, through wlilcli (■lie roivl is pro
jected and partly completed. and the
vast deposits of gold and copper in
tho Damn district, together with the
central position and good harbor of
the road, make it' an inviting connec
tion for the big mining, smelting and
transcontinental railror.d interests.
W. J. Tiradloy, general manager of
the Hunker Mill and Sullivan mine in
Idaho, which is eontroUed by tho
Ouggonhcim interests, and a mining
expert who is said to stand clone to
John Hays Hammond, has boon in
tho Held of tho Alaska Central Mail
way lor the last, six weeks examining
; tho mineral deposits, including eop
! per and coal.
Englncera Arc Butty
Two on^lnoorn, A. T. Kolrohlld unci
John T. London, worn In Hoottlo nil
of lout wook and oro now on roufco to
AliiHka to oxamino tho railroad «i( tui
tion In Ronoral, hut tho Alaska Oon
tral in particular. Thoy nro hollovod
to ho co-oporatlng with Mr. Hradloy.
Thoy j?o flrwt to Hkiitfway, tlionoo
ovor tho White Pawn & Yukon, hook
to Hkogwoy and to tho wootword,
Htoppinfc lit. Cordova, Voidest and How
ard. Thoy aro from Cleveland, Ohio.
A hoooiuI party in in ado up of Coniv
dliniH itud I'/U^IIhIi onplfaliwtH and Ih
making im examination of tho Alimkn
Control property under tho gufdanoo
of Preiildant A. front, of tlio Alas
ka Central. When Mr. Front, fallod
to «ot tho oupport of tho hondholdorn
In IiIh effort* to vaoalo tho roeoivor
hIiip, and now that foreclosure wan
Inevitable, ho and hln ftHHOolatOS In
Canada, who nro wild to ho olonoly
MK GIVES 80
VOTES TO CORSON
F.leetion returns from Afognak re
ceived 011 the Portland by the Pros
pector give the vole :il that place as
follows: Corson, SO, Wiekersham, 7,
Clum, 1. The result is taken as an in
dication that the trip made by (Seorgc
Shea to the westward shortly before
election was not without its results
and returns from other places where
the natives and Chinese cannery em-1
ployes form the great bulk of the pop
ulation are awaited with interest.
No matter how many Chinese vole,
it cannot change the result so far as
Wiekersham is concerned but I he
polilieians are anxious to ascertain
just how far the 1loggatt-Corson com
bination was willing to go in order to
bring about the election of its candi
date.
Official returns from Drier bay,
forwarded on the Portland to Deputy ;
Clerk lUirton, give tin* total vote as
Wiekersham. 10. The complete re
turns to date are as follows:
1st Hist. | IL'S | :{:{:{ | 1 is | 217 | I
'Jin! Dist. | 11 l!» | »Hl j H70 | 272 | 125
:tcl Dist. | Hi I » | I ts-» | 11 (Mi | I7«t | 2.">0
Total I :U22 I li»r»:t I 20!M I »«s | :{7t>
New York Idea
A western'!- vi.-iitNVw Yorlc was
held up l>y a highwayman with the
demand: "( live me your money or
I'I! .blow your brains out!"
"Blow *>v •' said the westerner,
"you (tai in New York without
hraiiu', hm . u can't wit liout money
-- Chvisl ian degister.
(leu. I,. Dclker, clerk, Philadelphia,
lias jiisl swam fifteen miles in four
lioui'M and t liirt y-eight minutes, es
I iblishi.ng a record.
Franklin county, Missouri, shipped
■ lit 'JJ.tiOS, tss corncob pipes in 15107.
allied with the McKenzie and Maun
and <'anadian Northern interests, be
gan active preparations ti> have a
new eonip:i»iy ready to hid the prop
erty in at foreclosure sale. W. ('.
Morris, the Knglish engineer who ac
eompanied Mr. I**i*t»sl and his parly to
Seward on the Pennsylvania last
Saturday, is making the trip as a rail
road expert in the interest of Cana
dian and Hnglish enpital.
Four Millions Invested
Of the § 1,000,000 so far invested in
the Alaska Central, practically all is
Canadian and Fniglish money. To
save their investment these Huglish
and Ciinadian capitalists realize, it is
said, t hai I he road must he speedily
reorganized and completed to the
eoal lields and the Tanami Kiver.
Mr. Frost told some of his friends]
in Seattle before his departure on the,
Pennsylvania that he was confident
the examination would result satis
factorily and I hat the newjeompany
would be prepared to lake over I he
properly. In this manner he said ho
expected to be able to save some of
his interests in the Alaska Central,
although he admitted thai he did not.
expect to be the president of the new
company. Tlio speedy completion of
the road to the Mafanuska coal lields,
when? he and his associates have
more than 1(),0(H) acres, would give
the eoal proportion immediate value
and lielp to repair their finances.
Moiltnun Men Interested
The third parly in the llehl in sur
rounded with hoiiio inyHtery. It is
headed hy Molilalia eapitalists, hul
whether they are eonneeted with any
of the important milling or railroad
eompanies In not pulilicly known. An
Alaska Central Hallway Company ol
Montana is said to have boon ineor
porated a( Hullo lanl week. A party
<»f Montana mining mon eonneeted
with Cornier Honator W. A. (Mark,
and another eonneetedwith I'1. Augus
tus Ileinzo, are in Central Alnskn, It
is tho opinion of Seattle otlieers of
the Alaska Central that the Moii
tana. eouipai^ is fathered hy either
Mr. (Mark or Mr. Ilein/.e. Moth of
theso men aro known to have heen
hiking an active part in Alaskan de
velopment* for the last I wo years.
The foree'osuro sale of the Alaska
Central Is ex poo tod to he made some
t ime during the eomlug fall or winter.
The preliminary Hlepa to that end
will ho taken hy the bondholders as
soon as .Judge Iteld'a eoutl eonvene*
In Fairbanks next month.
LONE MIT HOLDS UP
ELEVEN STAGES IN DAY
Yellowstone Park Seene of Act Which Breaks West*
em Record, 127 Persons Being Forced at Muzzle
of Single Revolver to Deliver Valuables.
Luke Hold, Yellowstone Park, Aug. |
'J.r)—Kleven slap,*' coaches, containing;
a total or 1'27 p.'r.ions, u >re held up
and i\>I>1k»;1 yesterday afternoon by a
lone highwayman. Tii • work of the
desperado breaks the record of wes
tern stage robberies. Due of the]
man's acts consisted in holding up
eight coaches at one time, stopping
them as they eame frcin along the
main road from Maniiii >ih Springs
Tlie man is described as being of
medium build. He was masked and
weli mounted and worked with the
utmost coolness. None of the women
passengers were molested but the
molt were ordered to get out ot the
couches and line up along t lie road.
The man's reward consists of sj.ouo
in cash, sto,(.0;t in exchange and a
large amount ot valuable jewelry.
As soon us the bandit had vanished
t he stages drove to this place andthe
facts were telephoned to headquar
ters of the troops stationed in the
park. The cavalrymen were soon in
the saddle and a half dozen detach
ments have since late yesterday af»
ternoon been scouring tho territory
in the vicinity of the hold-ups. In
addition every detachment of cavalry
at the various stations throughout
the park lias been notified, and sol
diers lead by government scouts are
<>n every trail but so far not the
slightest trace of the bandit has been
discovered.
The country throughout the park
is very wild and given a good start a
man familiar with the territory can
easily make his escape into either
Idaho, Montana or Wyoming.
;he
E
Along in tin' spring I Ik* lloggutl
push «»!'.In n can on Hi I led A. 15. (>' Hri- I
en, now • ir <»r I In- .Juneau Iteeord, !
Io go into tin* eneiney \s country along '
tlii! Honthnrn roast and gather up '
proxies fort ho Kct chikaa con vent ion.
1 lis instructions were t > follow the
plan of Olo .Mis' .Means in " The I loos- I
ier Schoolmaster," "<iit a nlonlv
%» 1
while you're git I in."
I nilust riotisi lieaeli combing around
Prince William sound brought meaner
results hut .Mr. O'Krien did not re
turn cmpfy-liandcd. lie lislied one
proxy oul of Valdc/., one ai Lafouche
and one at Kllamar. I'ho proxies
from I <:it(iiiche and V'alde/, were al
lowed liiin by that high court ot cipi
ty, iMuralie's packed connnittec on
credential ;. Thai from Kllamar wtis
dropped becau e it was not needed
alter about sixty valid credentials
were t liro wn oul.
Now what Valdc/, would like to
know is this. Who helped Mr. O'
lirien hold that caucus al Kllamar?
Nobody voted the lloggatt ticket
there in the election. Al Kaloucho
it. was different. One man voted I lie
I loggat| ticket there, lie must lie
tho follow who helped "(Ius" hold tlie
caucus and lix up a credential and
proxy after the regularly elected del
egate from liatouche had refused to
give his proxy.
Wickershani received thirty-seven
votes at liatouche and I won I y'three
at Kllamar to one for ('orson, a some
what different ratio from the division
of delegate* hy the (•rodent ials com
mittee.
Returns from three Sound precincts
add a little to .Judge Wiekersorni's
lead for delegate to congress. The
following (tamo in on the Pennsylva
nia :
Heatson's—Wickersham 2!i, Uonnn
3, Corson I.
Horseshoe Hay—Wickersham H.
Ilogan Hay—Corson 15.
It is reported that Drier Hay voted
II for Wiekorshain but I lie report hi
not olHeial.
Returns are practically all in now
except from Cook Inlet and Alaska
poniiiHiila. The total ol the territory
now stands as follows:
Wlckershani :52(tl; Chilhcrg 212(1;
Corson 17.'i7; Itonnn 771; Clnin 111).
Tho remaining westward precincts
will probably bo nearly all NVicker
shani except Nuahiigak, which i» ex
pected to return a big vote for Cor
son. It In known til lit II was the hope
of the corporations which backed
Corson !o elect him by casting an
immense padded vote at Cordova and
Nushagak. Cordova panned out all
right and Nushagak is likely to give
similar returns.
As evidence of this ofllcers of the
steamer Dora reported in Howard oil
returning from the westward that
(leorge A. Shea, instead of going to
llliamna to look at mining property,
went, to Nnsbagak to round up the
Chinese, .Japanese And Aleul vote
for Corson. There are not loo legal
votes ai the Nushagak canneries.
ESTERLY FACING
SERIOUS CHARGE
Charge-.!. which, if they prove true,
will result seriously for George Eh
terly, special deputy United States
marshal, ami Frank Kernan, United
States commissioner for the Nizina
district, are made by Harvey Hearing
who has just arrived from Nizina.
Hearing has told friends here that ho
i« going to place the cane before
Deputy Marshal Dreihelbis but be baa
not done so up to the time the Pros
o'etor goes to press.
Hearing declares that one of the
men working for Ksterly, Kirby by
name, went insane some weeks ago
and that lie is now living about the
camp, practically unattended and
more like a wild thing than a human
being. Hearing desired to briny;
Kirby out but says t hat he was denied
permission despite the fact that III*
offered to do so at his own expenHO.
Hearing says that Kirby has relatives
in the east who will earo for him
and that at present he is permitted to
run around the camp, sonietimo
naked, and that his food is thrown in
front of the tent in which lie lives
without (Iforl being made to feed
him.
Kirby, according to Hearing, was
injured near Katalla last, year, a rock
thrown by a blast striking him on the
head. At that time nothing serious
resulted hut after going into the Na
z.ina country Kirby became ho tyad
that a jury was impaneled and de
cided that he is insane.
Deputy Marshal Dreihelbis Hayp
that he can take no action at* the can?
| is in the hands of a deputy marshal
| and a commissioner, but thfit if ttye
story is true the facts should .tye pre
sented before the xrand jury. 'Ffap
law prescribe* that in the cam* of a
' person being found insane it is f h$>
t duty of the marshal to, as soou hb
possible, take the patient to an asylum/
Mr. Dreihelbis sa.Vf that'it is not in
t he province of t he marshal at Nn*
zinsi to turn Kirby over to a privita
individual but that special guard
could have been appointed for the
purpose of bringing him out.
Court Will Open October 19
Dr. Rui'ton, United Htates deputy
clerk, Friday received from Judge
Held u cable Htallng Mint court In
Valdc/, will open October 10. It |»
lit it known here whether or not Judge
Held will !<• Fairbanks before coin*
Iiik to Vairiest. The mcHHRge come*
from Heattlc.
Captain (luntave Ncihaum, presi
dent of (he Alaska Commercial Oom«
pany, died at Man Frandaco Auguflt
7.
Half an ounce of pure gold wm
found In the body of a wild turkey
killed on a farm on the Tarwlne river,
Victoria.
The New York, New Haven A Hart
ford Railroad company Ih now o|>crat
inf? forty-two electric locomotive*,
and it Ih Htaled that there In not the
|)0M( dl8Mtl>fMtIon With till result*.^