®he Alaskan
No. 181 NINETEENTH YEAR SKAWWAY, ALASKA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1916 PRICK 10 CENTS
BIG STEAMER CONGRESS BINS TO WATER EDGE
FAMED AUTHOR
MUSHES OVER
LAST TRAIL
Thomas Mvtlndale thy merchant
author and big ^mD hunter, has
i*uM>ed o*er the trail of the last
dfrlde ai.d answered to the last call,
Mr. Itartindale pai&efci thru this
cit» in the early part of August,
euroute to the interior to hunt
tor big game. He was ia porr
luwl-.h at that time and was under
th« close attention ol his shy^ician.
Dir. babcoek.
Uuder >he guidance of the well
*nowu uorthara guide, "Shorty"
Autfiu, tt" ^urty left here on Au
gust 9 th, and secured tranaporta
♦iob to L<« GuWn. Prom there
thejr branched) out Into the wilds
of th« ill'trior and pitched, oamp
at & place oa til* m-iy at) out forty
mil** on a hue, direct X»*om Log
Oabift to AtUn.
The uews Is meager and all of
the details surrounding the pass
ing itujr of thig big eastern, mer
chant, arij not known. It Is un
derstood tl»at Q passed away We<J
ne«}ay night and that his body is
t»e!ug brought over the trail at
U>e prteent time and should be In
Sfcagway tomorrow night.
The deceased) tos occupied a
promtaeut place la commercial and
business circles in the state of
Pennsylvania for a number of
ye<w«. HJ» home Is at Philadel
phia. He was aeiveiity years old.
Some of his most prominent writ
lug ar*» "Hunting Big Game in the
Upper Yukon," "With Gun and
Rod," "Hunting Bie Game," "Sport
Iadeed," 6nd "Down East Wilds."
VICTORIA WILL GO DRY
VICTORIA, Sept. 15 — Final
count ou the wet and dry issue
which was voted upon by the vot
er* of 'his city yesterday have not
been completely counted. Indica
ting point to a dry majority by
* T«ry close margin.
TIFT ATTACKS
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 — Howard
Tait, ex-pr«®ident ^ »iiQ United
States, » bis first campaign; speech
attacked the present administration
very severely. He told his audience
that coodltkma after the war will
require that the United States
matntnin a very conservative policy.
This policy will have ta be layed (
with an 1:oa hand and the course
of the nation t>e kept strictly with
in the narrow confines of the chan
nel or we will becomei implicated
In a series of serious complications.
TUB
HELPLESS MEN
PARIS, Sept. 15—Reports reach
la 'lie war office here tell the
awful tale of a Turkish massacre
of the citizens of Kavala, Kavala
is a Greek port and used to he a j
garrison. When the garrison was
removed it left the part unprotcet-1
ed. The Turks aj>i>roached via wat
er, lauded and did not give the
inhabitants a chance to escape, but
launchgl forth* on a bloody mass
acre of tUe Inhabitants of the town. |
Very few escaped.
1
PARIS. Sept. 15 — French ac
tivities cn the Sorame are meeting
with decided success. New posi
tion have been captured, and those
recently won have beeu enlarged.
Ccmnr.icaers directing troops in i
tu:s campaign «Te meeting with
usual success.
Store Closed
For a Few Days
While Taking
inventory
H| I \7 TV U THE haberdasher and
• J» Ll i\ w n LADIES' FURNISHER ;
Broadway between fhird and Fourth Phone 41
SEATTLE, Sept. 15—A general
alarm was turn d Id to police head
quarters isat night whea four hun
dred striking longshoremen* gath
ered on *he waterfront In oipen de
fiance to the orders of the chief of
polic-6 at'il the n*ayx>r thai such
meetiur should not be held.
The u'£-rm was no sooner turned
lu by the dock pa'rol than down
the streo* whizzed special auto con
veyance taking extra squads of po
lice tc. the scene. The longshore
men refused to disperse and a gen
eral rounding up of the strikers
was begun by the police. Every
police conveyance in the city was
called in'o operation. Seventy tw
were taken to the city hostile and
then the strikere decided to dis
perse. No further airreets were
m;ide. They will appear before po
lice Magistrate Gordon this morn
ing
MANY SETTLERS
I
Eight hundred aettlers were
found in the Matanusku. and Susit
na country by C. R. Aruudell, the
new thiol oi the Alaska field divi
sion «i the .general U. S. Land
Df>iarfnifcijt, wiko has arrived in Se
ward irorn that district. Mr. Aruu
dell is tlie official who took the
place i>f Mr. Christensen when the
latter was attached to the Al
aska engineering commission. One
of the remarkable facts noU-d up
there by him was that some oi
the a tilers are now cutting red
top that grows six and eight feet
in heigh'. Other conditions are
also most promising in the farm
ing line. Mr. Ardunell visited the
coal mine of Dick Dougherty and at
that time Mr. Dougherty had gone
in 492 feet an-d had' 12 or 1400
tons of coal on tlie dump.
A communication Just received
br Mr. Ardunell from the depart
ment Indicates that the parcels of
lands not carrying coal in >he Mat
anuska coal area will be thrown
open for settlement under the gen
eral rules governing land allottmen
JiAXD BIG ORDERS
BEATTI.E, Sept. 15 —c Com
mercial manufacturers (Operating in
this city l«ave landed some big San
Francisco orders. Those who have
secured the contracts will imme
diately commence manufacturing
the artie'es.
DRYS WILL WIN 1
B. C. ELECTION
1 VANCOUVER. B. C.f Bert. 16 —j
U-turns from the election held in !
'his province to determine whether j
w not the liquor traffic would be
allowed to continue for the ensu- J
lug year, show that Jn all probabili
ties, the province will go dry
Practically all of thy pnecinfcts
have been heard from. The rot® I
fri.m outside towns and precincts j
r" xrns a vote of 1S00 for the drys
and 1200 for the wet«. The out- |
lvii g sections have carried dry by '
700 votes. The vo»o in Vancouver
and Victoria is near completion ]
with the drys in the lead by a verry
clt se margin. No* until all off the
votes are counted will tho resul: be
Irno'an. in any event it will be
close ai'd neither side will carry
the election by a big majority.
mmm
TOiRROm
The City of Seattle hag cleared
for the north from Wrangell and j
is thalKtd up oa the boards of the
P. C. S. S. Co., to make this port
by noon on Saturday. It oarries
seven interior nassengere and a
number of local and round trippers.
It is believed t-c carry a heavy
freight cargo. lis clecaring date
from tMs port has not been an
nounced but in all probability it
will clear for the south as soon as
its freight cargo has been unload
ed from the holds of the ship.
RURAL DISTRICTS
^rATTLE, Sep». 15 —The dry
tickct is the likely -winner iu the
province of British Columfoa. In
comjilete returns iudic&te en in
dorsement by a smi'l margin of the
new law. If this be •■he c^se the
law o» the conservative government
will be overturned by a complete
reversal of public sentiment.
TRAIN BRINGING SURVIVORS j
SEATTLE, Sept. 15—Company
| officials cf the Pacific Coast Steam
j 3liip Company, iu this city announce
that a special tralu will bring the
survivors from the Congress to
this el'y.
Full Line of
Perishables
on Humboldt
PEACHES ARE CHEAP
P. H. GANTY
J.
SCR ANTON, PA., Setft- 15 — A
meeting ol Independent Workers or
the Weld was raided last nlftit bj
the count; sheriff, lils deputies and
state guardsmen. Three hundred
and eighteen memtxTi of the I. W.
W. »rgsju*ation were marched from
the meeting to the county jail
and i>j« . ed In the lock up.
The !. W. W. members ba<Tbeea
warned to not hold their meeting
and j* wae held ttgandles-« of the i
«'«ra!ig issued by the sheriff. At
first it stempd like a free for all
would follow but the arrival of the
guudsmen aoon quieted the mob j
and th»r marched to tho Jal with- I
win fight .
FIVE IRE KILLED
BT EXPLOSION
NEW YORK, Sipt. 15 — An
ammonia tank la a iarge o.rea.mery
in this city erplocUd K>-1 night
a*Tund the nine <»'clock hour and
sent live workmen to their death.
A scoie of others were injured by
the exii'.oslon. Tho part of the
building In whk h tb« ammonia tan
was'etandlug was completely wra.k
ed. Glass fronts for a bl.<ck around
were broken by the concussion.
F'KE SWEEPING T HEAD WELL
Ui^uhbtdrtlated rumors pained •
frc oi passengers pasting- thru this
city river fo>rth the laformation |
'ha' a bfg fh"e is rsging at Tr«?«d- J
well When the Rupert passed by
there a heavy fog was hanging over
tic water, whittles were blowing
fend a bie red light was showing
thru the fog. No further infor
taeMon lias been received other tha
the Turner that the fire was raging
iu tlat city
P. Larson wae a pouth bound So
vhia passenger last night.
PIE Of PACIFIC
MAKES IIS LAST
MAR6HF1KL0. ORE, S*xl. IS—
Special Kla-b — The a.eamshtp
Loa^reea, j>rtui c* tt« Pacific and
out- of the 4h>!!m «iid be*t bull:
»>li.4i» ia tht Pviflc C«*t fleet.
*k» destroyed by lite e«rly ih»
morning ofI the «.J«M of Oregon.
The f aid crtw »e«
eared to the dredge, Col. W.
8. l&tchie ;u*t in the atot time
to wt« being burnrd to death or
meeting de*LU ic a watery grave.
Two members ol the crew were *uf
ftouted by smoke wtile trjnng to
ri>cu« pa«iee&fer» on board the
ship. The lor* will be over a mil
lion and a quarter. It wa« heavily
i:i>ured .
Sail Ftar North
The 111 faUrd kbiy eaUed from
cj^u Francisco 'v teal lie oa the
uiuruiaf of Sepl emitr lit lb. Lull a
ii.a the two huudred ami fifty three
putfi^ort > Uo tx-arvlixi u.e ship
ua taat autwbiny muuiAng reaui.
'tU three daja later tUrj would go
thru «uch a uatix » escape. It
biowljr driftta cut of the Uoldeu
Ga't barlor aDa »ot>id it* way m>
th* California coast. The second
u^iit out a little s'onn bivke over
tue good »hlp( but oubede of that
nothing uuufiuiil wa* noted lor the
journey. Karlj ou the morning of
lh«i 'bird day, one of the cur* niem
u<sre discovtred *t.e blase. The
aUrm was ?j>r»-d 'o the com&HUid
'ug iffaars. It •'&<< immediately ln
Msticatcd artd strict ardors iswued
not to spre;.<i the gene.-al ak*rm
a:>d create a panic amonprt the
I«as»(\cger». The wlreleea operator
h> rr'Pdly ^ent forMi hi* S. O. S.
calls, but fchru wmi> mechanics] de
left 'he wirele<« rotuped to work
and Ms call waa no* picked up by
an* cf the coart stations. The cap
tain ordered the boat sw-uni: to
.<irtx>«rd and 'he engines wo.e
thrown into tho highest tg>eed. Then
the race *r roach, the sNore was on.
Tu« fl-imea fanned by a -heavy
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