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CAXE SEES THE I<IOHT
Hon. Thomas Cale, delegate in con
gress from AlaHka, has seen u great
liglit. He has found that Washing
ton life is not worth while to u sane,
sensible man, haunting the capital as
representative of a friendless colony
in the far northwest, and he wants to
come home.
This decision on the part of Mr
Cale Is not surprising. Some wise oo
server noted a good while ago that the
average congresman is merely an
errand l>oy for his constituants. The
budding statesman from the 'Steenth
district of South Utopia who had
quite a reputation 'in his own and
adjacent counties as a stump speaker
and who goes to Washington for his
llrst term expecting to occupy the
floor of the house most of the time
and t<» have the papers tilled up with
speeches and descriptions of his
spectacular career, finds after a few
weeks that it is harder to connect
with the speaker's eye than to catch
a wireless message, and he also finds
that it takes most of his time to see
the departments about the personal
requests of people in his district.
Still the country congressman has
a vote and he is in on the log
rolling and in a small way he counts
as a sort of pawn on the legislative
chessboard, and he gets a kind of
parasitic joy from his association
with the great and the near great.
But the delegate from Alaska.
Well, the best thing about his job is
the mileage and he only gets that
from Seattle. Some watch dog from
the treasury injected into the bill
allotting a delegate to Alaska a pro
vision that he should receive only
actual expenses from Alaska to
Seattle. From Seattle he gets 20
cents a mile both ways.
Mr. Cale has done as well as any
man could in his place and he has
made some progress in pushing Alas
ka legislation, but the delegate from
Alaska is only a lobbyist and no man
can long be a lobbyist around any
legislative body and retain any self
respect.
OI/D CUSTOMS REVIVED
The story from Sandusky, Ohio
that Homebody injected strychnine
into the chicken served at a church
social in order to interfere with the
festivities indicates a return to
mediaeval customs in religious con
troversy. The church is said to have
been rent into factions over the issue
of the pastor's merits and demerit*.
Presumably the dominant faction
Have the social and some members of
the minority put strychnine sauce on
the chicken to signify disapproval of
the platform adopted by the majority
or else cherished the hope that the
strychnine might convert the maj
ority into a minority.
In either case the effect on relig
ious effort in Ohio is liable to be dis
couraging. Not only will people
hesitate to attend church socials here
after but they may become seized
by foar that somebody who doesn't like
tho style of somebody else in the church
may plant a dynamite bomb under
the church edifice and touch it off.
The church in Sandusky seems to be
in a parlous state. Not even the
Foraker-Taft muss has reached tho
poisoning stage.
The incident suggests the good old
days a few centuries back when John
Calvin and other gentle enthusiasts
cremated live opponents in theologi
cal controversy, and poison was a
favorite method of creating a vacancy
in the papal chair. The most >ptimis
tle viow of the Sandusky case is
likoly to MtUHe a shrinkage in patron
age of church socials in that town.
mm.mm <■ —' - il* ■ 1 *
Chairman Connors of the New York
democratic state committee, better or
more widely known as "Piiigey"
Connors, is op|>oscd to Hryanbut that
may not hurt Bryan. The only time
that ,,Pingoy" ever rone out of
ward jK)liticH was in 190H, when he
made a deal with W. It. Hearst to
help olect that person governor of
New York and things didn't happen
right.
If the American battleship and tor
pedo boat fleet, start* ncroHH the Pa
ciflc July a it will pass the seal islands
Just about the right time to Iwither
tho Japanese poachers.
Probably Noah IJrusso think* it wa
smart for a French Canadian to go to
Dublin and lick an Irishman on his
own dunghill on Ht. Patrick's day.
Pope PI nun Insists on written bo
throthals and witnesses thereto. But
will he Insiiit next on witnesses to all
the preliminaries?
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The United Htato* customs j.ost at <
the summit of the White Pass is to be ,
abandoned.
THE NEW BONANZA
Tho Prospector publishes today a j
message from Pote Monahan telling
of a now strike on Valdez creek. The j
output achieved last year l»y a hand
fui of men and the constant discovery
of rich deposits in many other places
seems to justify the drift of minors
into the region at a rate which begins
to look something like a stampede.
The Tanana is taking as much in
terest in the upper Susitna district as:
Valdez, and Fairbanks papers are
busily telling their constituents that
it is much easier to get into the dist
rict from that town than from Valdez
and therefore Fairbanks should cap
ture the t».de. Valdez has no need to
worry about the trade of the district
and should do everything possible to
stimulate interost in tlie region.
That the upper Susitna is destined
to be a great mining camp every old
Alaska prospector has believed for a
longtime. Many of them have ex
plored the region and every one of
these men reports that the gold in
dications, like the frogs of ICgypt,
cover the whole land,butjbecause they
did not happen to strike anything
phenomenal at tlrst they passed on,
after the manner of prospectors.
This has been the history of every
big mining camp of the north. Kvery
one was scratched in desultory
fashion for several years before it
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blossomed into a groat district and
every one was industriously knocked
by men who failed to realize their
I llrst hopes. The upper Susitna dist
rict looks like (lie next Alaska bonan
za, and it belongs to Valdez.
The cable correspondent wires that
i Queen Victoria wept when King
Alfonso returned home safe, but it is
not clear why he thinks anybody in
Alaska cares whether the queen cried
or gave the kinn some jawbone for
staying out so late.
Anna (Sould is coming to tin*
United States under the alias of Mrs.
Miller, but there is no occasion to!
make a fuss about it. Better men
than Anna have found it convenient
to change their names as they came
west. _______________
If Judge Wickcrsham was going to
run for congress he wouldn't send out
the news by way of Juneau. 11 is law
practice at Fairbanks is worth two or
three jobs like delegate in congress
and brings just as much glory.
The question is what is the trust
trying to do with the price of copper?
LOCAL MASONS
TO HAVE LODGE
A telegram was received by Arthur
Lang yesterday from 11. ('. McAllis
ter, grand master of the (J rand Lodge
of Washington, Free and Accepted
Masons, stilting that he had signed a
dispensation to certain Masons at
Valdez to organize a lodge of Masons
and to confer the degree.
The organization of a lodge at Val
dez has heen under way for several
months. The entire McKinley hall
has been leased and a part of this has
been partitioned oft for a lodge room.
The paraphernalia and furniture
have all been ordered and when re
ceived, Valdez will have the l>est
equidped lodge room in Alaska.
The ofllcers selected to serve for
the first term are: worshipful master,
Arthur Lang; senior warden, James
| Fish; junior warden, Wm. T. Scott;
secretary, W. A. 1'aino; treasurer,
S. A. Homple; junior deacon, (Irani
Sweet. There will be a meeting in
the lodge room tonight to which all
Masons are invited.
The Alaska cannery Meet will sail
from tho sout h for northern waters
the latter part of this month. The
first will he the hark J. I). Peter*,
which nailH from Hoattlo March 20
with 12/> men and supplies for tho can
nery at Orca. The Harvester follows
on March 2H with 100 omployos and
supplies for Duiium. She will he
towed hy tin* tug Hhollkoff. The h)iii>
Jaho/. Howe sails for Kyak ahouttho
2H, and the Guy C. (loss and the Ht.
Paul will Hall for other points a few
days later.
The Mt. MeKlnloy Development
Company has heen incorjM)rated
under the lawH of tho state of Wa»h
liqjton, with a capital stock of $50,000.
The company will operate on l<«ko '
crock, in the Yontna district. The •
lncor|M»raU)rH nrc 10. M. Walters,
llonry AnderHon, Howard Waterman
»nd Anna Waterman.
William and Kugeno Hartholf, mln- <
lng men of the Kenai peninsula, are 1
expected on the next steamer
from tho onhddo with a flvc
itnmp mill and necessary equipment <
U> ho installed on a free gold quarts I
property located near the head of <
[Jook Inlet. i
License* collected In Alaska during
the flucal year ended Juno 30, 1007
imountod to a grand total of $;i«4,.W),
>1; of which $100,010,01 was from In
corporated towns and $217,470,00 outr
ildo of Inhorporated towns. (
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TEN DAYS FROM
GIBBON 10 VALOEZ
From Fort Gibbon to Valdez, about
800 mil oh, in ton days cumo Jack La
mont, a mail carrier for the Northern
Commercial Co., arriving Sunday
night. His «led was pulled by live of
the linos huskies that over hit the
trail, with Siwatdi harness.
The telegraph line from Valdez to
Fort Gibbon is 781 miles long and the
trail is about the same. Layout left
Gibbon the morning of March 3 at 2
o'clock. He reached Valdez last
night, March 12, at o'clock, and
went out on the Northwestern this
morning.
AMERICANS FIND
GOLD IN SIBERIA
American prospectators have pene
t rated the wilds of Siberia, and after
several years of persistent work, have
nneovered pay placer diggings. The
now gold Hold in the czar's domain is
located across Bering sea from Nome
and is undoubtedly a continuation of
the same gold belt.
Information concerning this gold
discovery comes in a letter from a
leading official of the Siberian Devel
opment Company, operating under a
snb-concession from the Northeast
Siberian Company, to a friend in Val
dcz, and the news is therefore authen
tic. The original discovery was made
by L. C. 1'. Nadcan.on a creek named
for him, and is on a watershed of the
Anadir river, flowing into Boring sea.
The find was made last season, and
#l,0()0 in gold was mined from dis
covery claim by the most primitive
method. Other prospectors found
good prospects on neighboring creeks.
The news reached Nome and a num
ber of miners immediately sailed |<>r
the new Kldorada. Forty-one men
wintered at Anadir. They are equip
ped with thawing plants, drills, ete.,
for expeditious prospecting, and will
undoubtedly show up some rich pay
st reaks.
At the mouth of the Anadir river
is a Cossack station, with a force of
twenty-five men. Some 300 miles lip
tins magnificent stream a penal
colony is located.
The Siberian Development. Com
pany has a trading station near the
mouth of the Anadir, and docs a
profitable business trading with t he
I'iskimos of tin- region.
MINERS DON'T LIKE
KUSKOWIM COUNTRY
A letter from Kahiltna roadhouse,
<>n the Yentna river says:
"Fourteen men have come over tlie
divide from the Kuskowiin country
up to this time (January 27) Most, of
them had heen prospecting iu that
region. They do not^npeak very fav
orable of prospects there. Just he
yond the range the country is low
and flat, and the prospectors say they
found little indications of gold. The
Happy river country looks better to
♦ hem and to others. A dozen pros
pectors have gone into Happy river
this winter."
District Court Adjourns
After a short session Monday after
noon Judge lleid adjourned the dis
trict court at Valde/, for the term.
John (lardner of Fairbanks is in
Valde/, awaiting t he arrival of a drovo
of cattle from the outside which ho
will take to the interior.
^
door^c K Baldwin, superintendent
of the Monan/.a mine, left for the in
terior Sunday, to assume the duties
of Ids position.
II. it. FJliott, a special representa
tive of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany, Is making the round trip on the
Saratoga.
Falcon Joslyn, organizer and a
leading spirit in the Tanana Mines
Itailroad Company, will arrive here
>n t.ho steamer Yucalan, on route to
Fairbanks.
Fdmund Smith, the attorney, sails
>n tho steamer Haratogo for Seattlo
>n professional business in connection
with the Reynolds-Alaska Develop
nont Company.
Ttjeost the ITnitod Statea 7f» cents to
jolloct each dollar of cuhIouih in Alas
ta last year.
Tho recently published Htatement
>f operations of the (lugKonhcini Fe
deration Company for tho year 1007
iontalns the followi»Kilctns: Increase
n asset*,
,121,146, making the eom
>any's total asset* In mining Intor
ist* fcW,W>7,70l; surplus at the end of i
he year, $13,7M,2M. The company's
nore Important, holdings Include tho
Itah Copper Co., CumlKvr1n.nd-F.loy,
Nevada-Cons., Ksperan/.a of Mexico
ind Yukon Cold.
MOUNT AUGUSTINE
BLAZES UP AGAIN
Mount Augustine, a slumbering
volcanic peak on Mfc. Augustine is
land, near Iliamna in lower Cook in
let, in in eruption for the first timo in
several years. When the steamer
Dora came in from the, west the
flames could bo seen shooting upward
eighty miles away. A great volume
of smoke was also rising.
TO PUT MINE ON
PRODUCING BASIS.
As soon as the snow disappears the
work of installing a tramway and
erecting ore bunkers on the property
of the Land lock Hay Copper' Mining
Company, located on Landlock bay,
will begin and be prosecuted with the
utmost vigor until completed. De
velopment work is stexidily progress
ing on fins property and the ore bod
ies already blocked out justify the
management in 'putting the mine on
a shipping basis as soon as i>ossible.
PROSPECTORS LOCATE
COPPER DISCOVERY
Two well known sound prospectors,
Mason and Olcason, have recently
located a favorable surface showing
of copper on Fidalgo bay, near the
Schlosser property. The outcrop
shows a lodgo nearly two feet in
width, practically solid ore, ehalco
pyrito in character. They are now
engaged in development of tho pros
pect.
Fight On Cordova Incorporation*
Owners of t.lie new Cordova town
sight will oppose incorporation of the
town. They are taking depositions
now before the clerk of the court in
Valdez to he used at tho hearing in
Fairbanks April 10. Deeds to town
site lots reserve all public franchise
rights in the streets and this is said to
be tho cause of the yearning for in
corporation by residents, who want
tho community to control franchises
Thornton Commits Suicide.
Thomas Thornton, sentenced for a
gold robbery on a Yukon steamer to
McNeil's island penitentiary, and la
ter transferred to the Leavenworth,
Kansas, penitentiary, committed sui
3idc on March 7. While on the way
down from Alaska ho jumj ed ovor
board and swam two miles to shore,
but was afterward recaptured. While
at McNeil's island he attempted sui
cide by severing an artery with 11
piece of tin.
Oeorge M. Esterly and family and
the children's nurse started Mondaj
morning for Ni/.ina creek, where Mr.
lOstcrly will direct tho operation o!
tho biggest hydraulic plant in Alaska.
The capacity of the equipment hat
been trebled this year and all the
latest devices for working placet
ground by the hydraulic process have
been added.
Summonb (or Publication
IN TIIK DISTRICT COURT FOR THK TKRRI
TORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION,
routing Mngnnssen, I'lnintlff, >
vs. > No.'/I8
Olio 11hiisoii, Defendant. )
Tlio I*rcwlcloiit of the United States of Ameri
en, (irccting: To the above named defendant
von are hereby reuulrcd to appear In the
District Court lor the Territory of Alaska
Third Division, within thirty days nfler the
ilny of the service of this summon*
niton yon, and answer the complaint
of the above nntneil |>lnlntiff, 11 copy ol
which complaint is herewith delivered to
yon; niul unless you so appear and answer the
piniutiff will apply to the court for the relief
demanded in said complaint, which Is, Hrst:
that plaintiff he adjudged and decreed to he
the owner of nil undivided one-sixteenth In
tcrest in and to live certain lode mining
claims, situated on (ilaclcr Creek, Nl/.ina Min
ing District, Valdez Recording District, Alaska,
and that plaintiff bfc decreed to Ik; entitled to
a conveyance of said mining claims to htm
from defendant and that defendant he for
ever onjolnad from claiming said one-six
teenth Interest In said mining claims. Second,
that plaintiff be adjudged entitled to the
specific performance of a certain contract set
out in the complaint between the parties
hereto, in that lie have conveyed to him, the
plaintiff, an additional one-sixteenth interest
in ami to said five l»xle mining c'^lms, under a
contract In which defendant agreed to con
vey to plaintiff said one-sixteenth interest in
snl'd claims. The said live lode mining claims
above referred lo arc known ami called as fol
lows: I'anllne I/ode Mining Claim; Iowa Lode
Mining Claim; Montcicy l/>do Milting claim ;
Kldora l-ode Mining Claim and Chltty Ixtde
Mining (Malm The date of the order for the
publication of this summons is March 1th,
loos, said order Itelng made by the Honorable
Silas II Reld. Judge of our District Court, and
this publication is to be made for six weeks In
the "Alaska Prospector," a weekly newspaper
published and printed at Valdes, Alaslca.
And you the al>ove named defendant are re
quired to appear as above set nut within thirty
days from the day of the Inst publication of
this summons, which is on the Iftth day of
April, 1ft w.
Witness the Honorable Hilas II. Reld, judge
nf said Court, this fourth day of March, Iww,
mid thescal thereof hereto attached.
(Seal) F„ j. Slier. Clerk,
By W. T. Ileeks, Deputy,
Dstrander «t: Donohoe,
Plaintiff's attorneys.
First publication March •'». Itsw.
t,«iht publication April la, 190ft
In the Probate Court, Valdc* Precinct, Terrl
tory of Alaska, Ifon. John Lyons, Judge.
In the matter of the Kstatc of fxittls brown,
Deceased. Notice of Final Settlement
Not'ce Is hereby given that Knut Srantset,
executor of the above named estate, has ren
lercd and presented for settlement and tiled
In said court his final account as admln'stra
lor of said c«tate, and that on tho 20th day of
March. Woa, at the honor of 10 a. in. at the
'Oiirthotise, before said court, In the town of
/aides, having been duly appointed by the
Indge for the settlement of such accounts, at
which time any person Interested In said
>stale, may appear and Ale exceptions In
writing to the same and make resistance
iheretn.
Dated this 13th day of January, I0W.
Knut Srantset,
F.xeentor of said Will.
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DRY CREEK ROADHOUSE
I/. G. and O. B. RORER, Proprietors.
118 MILES ON FAIRBANKS
FROM VALDEZ AND EAGLE TRAILS
The Tacoma Roadhouse
55 miles from Valdcz on government trail. One mile from
telegraph station nt Teikhell. First-class Accommodations
for man and hen^t. Hnv :md Grnin for sale.
l'lilVATE ROOMS Dick Windmiller, Prop.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Do the Traveling Public:
The reason why I am able to give you mor accomoda
dation and better service for your money than you get at
any other place on the Route between Valdez and Fair
banks, is, that I am a Bachelor and do not need to
make a profit on the maintenance of a wife and children.
But, if you rre one of the Traveling Public who
passes through Copper Center, Stop at Hotel
Holman and get your moneys worth.
Try it once and vou will stop again.
RINGWALD BLIX, Proprietor
Telegraph and Mail ^ TToWfl in Itself Blasksmitb Shop,
Station. eto., etc.
Wortman's Roadhouse
FOOT OF SUMMIT, TWENTY MILKS FROM VALDBZ
Accommodation for 40 horses. Warm Doghouses
A FULL STOCK OF GENERAL SUPPLIES
* {ronV 'v h iri ob' to' V tic" Hinn in 11 ^>Pontius Magnuson Prop
The Teikhell Roadhouse
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
IioHt of accorfimodations for man and beast. Fresh Moat
alwayB on hand. Horso and Dor Feed All tho latest
improvements. PRIVATE ROOMS.
M rs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
Wines,Liquors and Cigars.
The Senate.
T. A. COBB & CO., "Props
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it should be remembered that Syrup of Figs and
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the approval of the most eminent physicians and
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inown Quality, Known Excellence and
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attained to world-wide acceptance as the most excell
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