The Alaska tfospcctor
Hubllaacd at Valdez, Alaska, every Thursday
by tho Prospector Ptblishino Co.
Phone Main 1.
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THOSE JUNEAU VIOLETS
James L. Farmer, chief agent who
lias been in Alaska gathering a gov
ernment exhibit for the AlaBka-Yu
kon-Paciflo exposition, picked a
bunch of violets outdoors in Juneau,
December 12. If ho speaks about this
fact when he goes east he will see
skeptical winks and grins, for thous
ands and thousands of persons in the
United States have a chill when they
hear the word Alaska. The unin
formed still have an impression about
Alaska that existed thirty or forty
years ago. It was a popular misap
prehension about Alaska that caused
opposition to the purchase by tho
United States for a sum far less than
one year's present output of gold.
That Alaska is rich in gold is now
generally known. Misconceptions
about the climate still prevail and
little is known of the agricultural
possibilities. Alaska is so vast that
it lias various kinds of climate. This
fact is not usually understood in the
oast, where they think of Alaska as
little more extensive than an average
eastern state.
Southeastern Alaska lias a climate
much like that of western Washing
ton and Oregon.
Mr. Farmer told the truth when ho
said he picked a bunch of violets in
Juneau, December l'J. Curiously
enough the easteners who will wink
skeptically when he tells them about
it have been shivering with the ther
mometer below zero for several days.
—Tacoma Ledger.
Robert Bacon, assistant secretary
of state, who succeeds Elihu Hoot at
the head of the department, used to
have a hand in Pierpont Morgan's
game. The Morgan influence, which
it all-powerful with the present ad
ministration, got him in as assistant
secretary. In the secretary's chair
he will rattle around like a mouse in
a cracker box, but he will last only
until Taft comes in.
A Southeastern Alaska paper is
much excited over the charges
against Judge Held and is busy fak
ing telegrams on the subject. How
ever, the paper is run by a tinhorn
press agent of a busted four-flusher
in the world of high finance, and the
press agent has to earn his stipend.
Assistant District Attorney Martin
is quoted in the Post-Intelligencer as
saying in Heattlo that the talk of
^ Cordova election frauds was a buga
boo. Well, everybody in Alaska who
knows anything about it knows that
the Cordova election fraud was a
bald, brazen fact, but gross as the
fraud was it was not big enough to
make a dent in the result. Requiescat
in pace.
So Judge Held is to have the dis
tinction of an inveatigat ion by u
apodal agent of the department of
juatlce, like all the other judges who
have nat 011 the Alaska beneh. This
leada Barrister Joseph Murray to re
mark that the open aeaaon for judgea
in Alaska ia the year round.
All the broken-down, spavined ex
gladlators In the heavy-weight class
are threatening to take a fall out of
John Arthur Johnson. They say It
hurta thorn to soe the championship
baggod by a man ho black that ho
makea a spado flush look like white
waah. Incidentally they get their
names printed in the paper again.
Benator Bailey of Texas objocted to
printing Lincoln'* emancipation pro
clamation in the congressional direc
tory. Probably he in sore because
ho thinks if slavery had not been
abolished he might bny an army of
slaves with that Htandard Oil money.
Heattle had n novere cold snap this
month. Binee the real estate boom
busted down there hot air has been
scarce in the town.
Benator Tillman has only onfc eye
and it looks like taking a mean
advantage for secret service men t-o
slip up on his blind side.
"AN INTERESTING STORY."
Frequently thero is "interest" in
the story of a murder, near murder
or death directly due to an attempted
murder. When there is no prosecu
tion because the complaining witness
"makes no complaiut iu considera
tion of a sum of money" it would ap
pear as though the story should "in
terest" some one higher in authority
than the casual reader of a newspa
per. Any how and apropos of the
foregoing, the following from the
Skagway Alaskan is "interesting:"
"Jack Benson brings an interesting
story from Douglas. Jack has just
returned from Juneau and vicinity.
He says that a young native woman,
one of the handsomest of her people,
came to her death recently in a trag
ic manner. Willie Jackson and she
have not been married very long but
their life was very unhappy, their
time being sp«mt mostly in quarreling.
Finally Maggie's mother went to
their home and induced her daughter
to return with her to the parental
roof. Her husband, when lie saw his
wife leaving him, ran for a revolver
and opened a fusilade upon tho two
as they were crossing a high trestle.
The shots went wild hut the young
woman in her fright, fell from the
trestle and was so badly injured that
she died. Her remains were buried
last Monday. The matter has not
gotten into public notice, it is said,
as the mother was given a sum of
money in consideration of which she
made no complaint. The mother's
name is Emma Phillips."
Governor Hoggatt says officially,
that there arc only .'JO,000 white peo
ple in all Alaska! Why, one-thirtieth
I of that number voted at the small
i town of Cordova, last August, for the
governor's candidate for delegate to
congress, and, perhaps at his request.
| And the governor's defenders and
I apologists aver that each and every
one of the near-thousand voters were
all-wool-and-a-yard-wide, citizens of
: Alaska, none of them being of less
than four, and many of forty years'
j vintage. Assuredly the governor is
I "quick at figures," but still a poor
| mathemtician.—Katalla Herald.
Well, perhaps Mr. Reynolds had
enough to make a man crazy. But to
begin with he wore long hair and
did'nt wear a hat. That was enough
to bring him under suspicion.—SkaR
way Alaskan.
A. C. SETTLEMENT
WILL BE DELAYED
John Lyons of the Valdez law firm
of Brown and Lyons yesterday after
noon took the first step in the fight '
that in to ho made against the fore
closure of the mortgago on the Alas
ka Central Railway, now in the hands
of a receiver. Attornoy Lyons filed
in the federal court here a demur rer
to the complaint in bankruptcy filed
by the Trust and Guarantee Company
of Canada, holder of the first mort
gage bonds against the railroad.
The complaint filed yesterday is
signed by James A. Haight, of Se
attle, general attornoy for the Alaska
Central Itailroad and for the Tanana
Railway Construction Company.
Brown and Lyons are the local attor
neys. The grounds of the demurrer
are that the Trust and Guaranteo
Company haH not legal capacity to
sue, that several causes of action are
improperly united in the complaint
and that the facts set forth are in
sufficient to constitute a cause of ac
tion.
The action taken yesterday means
that the affairs of the Alaska Central
will l>e tied up, at least until the noxt
term of court in Valdez. It has been
the beliof that, providing no oppo
sition aroso, the affairs of the Alaska
Central would be adjusted by the
coming March, and that the property
would l>e sold under foreclosure pro
ceedings. This is now an ImiHwslbil
ity as the only manner In which tho
mortgage can bo foreclosed without
a long logal fight Is to have tho de
murrer dismissed by Judge Rold In
Fairbanks on motion of the attorneys
filing the proceeding.
Witneimeii Are Secretive
Washington, Jan. 85---Hecretary of
Htate Root, former Attorney-General
Knox and Assistant Attornoy-Goneral
ltusflol are back from New York
whither they went to testify In tho
lll»el case growing out of charges of
graft In connection with the Panama
canal purchase. The witnesses de
cline to make public tho nat ure of
their testimony.
TNUUMTO BECOME
DIG QUARTZ GAMP
Although new placer discoveries in
the Taiuina oacli year give it promise
of long life an a placer camp the dis
trict is basing its hopes of perpetuity
upon the recent great quartz discov
ery. Hays W. H. Parsons, of theWash
ington-Alaska Bank of Fairbanks,
who went out on the Yucatan last
night.
This quartz deposit has been traced
continuously fifteen miles, extending
across the heads of Chatham, Pedro
and Cleary creeks. The rock is ap
parently very rich and while it is too
early, Mr. Parsons says conserva
tively, to make great claims regard
ing it, the extent of the surface area
included leads Tanana people to hope
that a quartz gold district richer
than the Goldileld district of Nevada
has been discovered. Mr. Parsons
says of development at the head of
Chatham creek:
"1 was out to the quartz mines on
Chatham creek, ft certainly has the
aspect of a quartz mine. They have
sunk fifty-five feet in depth on the
ledge, which is approximately thirty
inches in width, an increase over the
surface of eighteen inches. At flic
fifty-foot level they had an assay
made from samples across t lie face,
which showed an average of §2,8so to
the ton. You can see the free gold
and it is the opinion of the man in
charge, who is now proceeding to
sink to the hundred-foot level, that
they will have richer ore and a much
wider ledge.
"There is great activity in quartz,
extending from Fairbanks creek to
Dome creek; there seems to be the
same ledge extending this entire dis
tance and there must be at the pres
ent time in the neighborhood of 200
men on these various claims. They
have ore on the dumps now sufficient
ly good to sack and ship, and there
is an effort on foot now to get a stamp
mill of three stamps in town here.-"
CHESNENA COMPANY
READY FOR TRAIL
Twenty-flve tons^of Mipnpes for the
Chesnena Mines Copper Company ar
rived on the Pennsylvania. Also
came five fine big horses that are to
be used to freight the supplies into
the property of the company, where
it. is purposed to do considerable
work this coming season.
George (1. Cantwell of Yaldez, and
Robert Weber and 15. Von Zoipel are
the active owners of the property,
and the two last named came to Val
dess on the Pennsylvania. They will
have charge of the freighting oper
ations and also of the work to be done
on the property (his season. The
work of freighting will begin in a dav
or so.
The company's property is in tho
Kotsina district, and is on the Clies
nona river. The work done hereto
fore has convinced the owners of the
value of t heir holdings.
TILLMAN ATTACKS
FEDERAL JUDGES
Washington, Jan. 22—Senator Till
man this morning made a vitupera
tive but incffoctual effort to prevent
tho sonate from increasing the pay
of federal circuit court judges. Dur
ing t he dobato the senator from South
Carolina insinuated that some of tho
judges are in the pay of corporations
and that they are not in need of any
more financial assistance from the
government.
The'senato voted to increase the
pay of the circuit court judges to ffl,
000 a year and that of the district
judges to $8,000.
Tho Japanese society of Seattle has
asked it* homo government to send
two warships to Seattle to remain in
tho harbOr during the progress of the
Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
FIRE ON WATER CRIB
KILLS THIRTY-FIVE
Chicago, Jan. 21—Thirty-five men
are either drowned or burned to death
as the result of a (Ire on one of the
water cribs on tho shore of bake
Michigan this morning.
House Favors Two Hattlesliips
WaMhlngfon, Jan The house thin j
morning voted to construct, two l>nt
HoshipM.
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OUTFITTING
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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.
W e are the sole agents for ^ \faf. Canned Goods, Holly
Flour, Chase & Sanborn coffee*
Our packers are men of long experience and your outfit will be
properly packed if placed with us.
COLDFOOT CAMP
GIVES SATISFACTION
An old time Dawsonite, writing
| from Coldfoot, Koyukuk, says that
I the conditions in that camp during
! the summer were highly satisfactory
10 very one had money, and plenty of
.it. Nuggets which had been taken
j out weighed as much as $110 to $180
! each, and looked as though they had
j come from a ledge.
The country has made a good show
ing with scarcely more than 100 men
scattered over the lleld. They have
st ruck it rich on several parts of No
lan. A man picked up nearly §2.000.
It had been walked over for years.
Still no real prospect work has been
done.
The real need here is men of stay*
j ing qualities and machinery. A boil
er one must have. Lays can be had
j here near good paying ground. Ev
eryone is loaded down with ground,
| trying to hold it together. The'
. mountains everywhere are covered
j with wood and deep moss.
There is a dome at the head of ten
; or twelve creeks from which the gold
| has come. All the gold is very coarse
and much of it is quartz. If a new
! lot of men who will work will come
I here there will bo a stir.—Tanana
j miner.
VIC OLSON HAS A
BADLY FROZEN FOOT
Vic Olson, who has the contract to
cut cord wood for tho steamboats to
bo operated on the Copper river, in
reported to he in his camp some miles
above the rapids with a badly frozen
foot. It is also reported that the
camp is very short of food and that
owing to tho wind blowing down the
Copper it is impossible for tho teams
to movo tho supplies np from the
cache at the rapids.
H. Fitzgerald, one of the men who
went out .to work for Olson, returned
on the Pennsylvania to Valdez. IIo
says that Olson's foot is in bad shape
and that it is probable that he will
have to be brought out to Cordova.
Fitzgerald Hays that when he left the
camp there was only a very small
amount of food, but that the teams
were going to make an heroic effort
to get up tho river. IIo says that
the wind coming down tho Copper
has averaged sevonty-tlvA miles an
hour for weeks and that the weather
conditions make it almost, impossible
to work to any advantage.
A SNAP-FOR SALE-A SNAP
PTARMIGAN DROP ROAD
hottso thirty miles from Valdez on
Fnfrhank trail. Has accommodations
for forty persons- -private rooms for
women guests. Stable room for fifty
horses. Owner called to states by
business affairs. For term* apply to
Mrs. K. 10. Doty, I'/nrmigin Drop,
Alaska*
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer /and U. S.
Deputy Surveyor.
Hurvoys aeoiyately
and promptly made.
Office at I'esfdeneo, MrKlnley Ht. on
Reservation 1
Bar and General Merchandise
Accomodations for Travelers
Pontius Magnuson Prop.
The lciklicll Roadhouse
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
Heat. of accommodations for man and beast. Fresh Meat
always on hand. Ilorse and Don Feed All the latest
improvements. PRIVATE ROOMS.
Mrs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
Alaska Coast Co.
8th of each month.
S.S.
25th of each month.
From Vttldez for
Juneau and all Puget Sound Ports
Rights Reserved to Change Steamers or Sailing Dates Without Notice,
A. H. DAUTRICK. Cieneral Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Reservation Ave. near Court House
Private Rooms for Patients Graduate Nurses
Hospital Tickets, $1.50 per Month.
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Bither The Daily or Weekly Bent to The
States Will Be a Tyetter Sent Home.
Daily, $1.00 per. Month In Advance.
Weekly, $3.00 per. Year hi Advance.
Toft Oocrt To Paoania
Charleston, Jan. 2/V- -PrOHldeftt-Rleet
Taft and Mrn. Taft. douartOd this
morning for Panama. They will re
turn February 13. The Taft party in
being convoyed by the ernioor North
Carolina.
Atactica Tlftehora Want 8tar»
Waohlnfftofi, Jan. 38—The bureau
of education wan to oohool teaehora
In Alaska given the powor of pence
oftleero, and to thla offeet n bill was
this morning Introduced before eon
gross,
Alaska Produce# Fifth Of Gold
Seattle, Jan. 23—Alaska ln«t. year
pro<1uco<1 ono fifth of the eotintfy's
gold crop, according lo a atatemont
mado thla morning hy tho Director of
the Mint Leach, flow In this city on a
visit of Inspection.
Cable Appropriation Ih Favored
Washington, Jan. 23—Ono hundred
thousand dollars for tho purpose of
extending and maintaining tho Alaw
ka cable 1m carried In tho army ap*
proprlatlon hill to ho reported hy tho
honsot