THE ALASKA PROSPECTOR
Vo1, * Valdez, Alaska, June 4, 1908. No. 21
PRESIDENT SIGNS
COAL LAND BILL
Alaska Properties Already
Entered Can Now Be Suc
cessfully Operated.
CONSOLIDATION PERMUTED
New Law Is Expected to Be of
Great Aid Toward Develop
ment of Northland.
Washington, May 29—The Hepburn
coal land bill to-day became a law by
virtue of being signed by the presi
dent. The bill provides for the con
solidation of present entries into
tracts of 2,600 acres in extent and the
lease by boni-flde ontrymen to cor
porations but does not provide for
n^w entries. The bill is in the nature
of a compromise between the senate
and the president, the agreement en
tered into being the acknowledg
ment by the senate of the president's
right to withdraw coal lands from en
try in roturn for his signing the bill.
The bill further provides that the
president can withdraw coal lands
and take them over for the govern
ment in case of an emergency. The
Guggenheims and the Alaska Central
Railroad projectors made a strong
but futile effort to have tht» area to be
consolidated increased.
Men familiar with the situation
with regard to operating coal lands
declare that the new coal land law
means more for Alaska than any
other form of legislation passed in
years. There is much regret that the
bill does not provide for entry.
John E. Ballaine, promoter of the
Alaska Central has declared that the
passage of the coal bill will mean
immediate resumption of work 011
that line and it also means the begin
ning of operations in the Matanuska
fields. There are various other coal
properties in this section of Alaska
that can now be operated.
IN CONFESSES
GUNNESS GRIME
Self Charged Murderer, How
ever, Turns Out to Be In
nocent and Crazy.
I,a Porte, Ind., June 2—Just when
the officers, battled in every other
direction, believed that they had a
clue that at least partly solved the
Ounness murders, Julius G. Truolson,
who yesterday afternoon confessed to
being an accomplice of Mrs. Ounness,
this morning repudiated this confes
sion. At first the oftlcers accepted
Truolson's confession as the truth but
now they see the flaws in It and are
inclined to the belief that ho is crazy.
In his confession the man gave har
rowing details of the manner in which
the murders were committed, and he
oxhonoratcd Ray Lamphere from any
complicity In the crlmo. Lamphero
is still in jail awaiting trial on the in
dictments brought by the grand jury
but there is a general exprossod be
lief that the ovidonco against him is
Insufficient to obtain a conviction.
Truelson is to bo examlnod by a
lunacy commission. It is believed
that his mind became doranged by
reading accounts of the crimes to
which ho confessed.
GOVERNMENT IS AFTER
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Lob Angelea, June 2—The fodoral
grand jury thl« morning returned
throo indietmonta againnt tho Hovth
©ro Paolflo Hallway Company, charg
ing rebating contrary to tho provis
ion* of tho Hhorman iaw. Tho aetlon
of tho grand Jury has oauned oonHldor
ablo exoltement and more Indletmonta
aro looked for.
SUICIDE'S DEATH
IS ALL IN VAIN
L. Feager Takes His Life to
Relieve Unhappiness of
Woman He Loves.
St. Louis, May 29—Mistakenly be
lieving himself responsible for the
attempt at suicide made yesterday
by Mrs. Graco Jackson of this city,
L. Feager, a soldier today committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid. The
cause of Feager's act became known
when tho coroner read a letter writ
ten by the despondent man jnst before
he drank the death potion.
Mrs. Jackson and Feager were
friends and according to the letter
Feager believed tho woman to bo
deeply in love with him. A few days
beforo Mrs. Jackson attempted suicide
she told Feager that she and her hus
band had had trouble because she re
ceived tho attentions of another man
and Feager believed himself to be
the man in question. He advised the
woman to be true to her marriage
vows and left her, taking with him
the impression that in surrendering
her to her husband he had solved her
troubles.
Then came the woman's attempt to
kill herself, and Feager, fearing that
her love for him was too great to per
mit her to give him up and knowing
that she had failed of her desire for
death, took his own life. In the letter
he left he dwelt upon his love for the
woman, asked forgivness for com
ing between her and her husband and
said that he prayed for her happiness
in life with the man she had wedded.
That Feager died in vain was es
tablished by Mrs. Jackson who, after j
being informed of his act and tho |
cause of it said that she had never :
considered Feager as other than an J
acquaintance and declared that an- {
other man is responsible of her desire
to die. The woman declares that she
will yet kill herself.
WALSH GIRLS TO
BECOME NURSES
Daughters of the Convicted
Banker Driven From So
ciety by Father's Acts.
Chicago, Juno 2—Feeling to the
quick the disgrace that has befallen
them because of their father's acts,
Adelaide and Vivian Walsh, daught
ers of John It. Walsh, former presi
dent of the Indiana Southern Rail
road and convicted banker, have fore
sworn society and have announced
their intention to become nurses.
Knowledge of the determination of
the young women has created a furor
in society, for before the trial and
conviction of thoir father, the Walsh
girls wero very prominent in the
most select circles of Chicago.
Whilo the Intimate friends of the
Walsh family stood by its members
during the scandal that enmeshed the
father, since tho conviction of John
Walsh his daughters have been out
very little and it is whispered that
these few occasions were not without
thoir heartburns bocause of the inuen
does and petty slights marking their
appearance. Now, it is believed, the
young women havo decided that the
social game with its burden of con
stantly keeping a bold front to those
who made the fathor's disgrace rea
son for gratifying joalousness is not
worth the struggle.
The young women havo not an
nounced to what purpose they will
put their ability as nurses but It is
rumorod that after a course in a
training school they will offer their
services to tho government and go to
the Philippines. Tho young women
are wealthy in their own right.
B. T. Teter, who an representative*
of the HtoekhohlorH In tho Koynokln
companion has been in Valdes for
nearly two monthH loft on the Port
land, en route for Now York where
ho will report the remit of hln In
ventlffatlonH.
VALDEZ TRAIL IS
TO BE IMPROVED
Maj. Richardson Announces
Expenditure of $100,
000 During Summer.
APPROPRIATION IS *380,000
Road Commission Officials Now
on Way North to Institute
Season's Work
Seattle, June 3—One hundred thou
sand dollars is to be expended by the
government road commission on the
trail between Valdez and Fairbanks
this year. This amount is more than
one-quarter the total appropriation
for road work in Alaska. It is plann
ed to do work all along the trail but
that portion along the Delta iH said to
be particularly in need of improve
ment.
Major Richardson" and Lieut. Orch
ard, of the road commission, departed
for Haines today. At that place a
road will be constructed into Pleasant
valley.
Before departure Major Richardson
said that the commission has $,'180,000
available for immediate expenditure
on road work and that as soon as pos
sible after bis arrival tho work now
planned will be begun. Other work
will he laid out in a short time.
HINDUS ATTEMPT
AWFUL REVENGE
Enraged at Foreman Mill
Crew Tries to Sever Him
on Circular Saw.
Vancouver, B. C. Juno 3 —Held
helplessly across 11 saw oarrago that,
was slowly travelling toward tho
whirling stool disk potent with death,
only to bo saved just as tho serrated
edgo was about to oat into his vitals
is tho oxperionco passed through yos
torday afternoon by Jarnos Bolton,
foreman of a sawmill owned by the
Columbia Iliver Mill Company and
located twenty miles from this city.
Bolton was in charge of a crew of
Hindus and ho had arousod tho angor
of tho men by reprimanding thorn and
they attempted to bo revenged by
sawing him in twain.
Bolton was taken completely un
awares, for ho boliovod that the Hin
dus would content thomsolvoB with
jabbering in their own tongue and
easting sullen glances whenovor he
chanced in their direction. His mis
taken appraisement of tho Hindus'
disposition was soon emphasized,
however, for ho was suddenly seized
from behind and forced face down
across the saw carriage.
Two facts contributed toward tho
defeat of tho Hindu's' plan for ven
geance, one being their ignorance of
how to increase tho speed of tho car
riage which at tho time was travell
ing on a slow gear. Tho other was
tho presence of the ongineer.
Bolton was only able to utter one
cry before the fingers clutching his
throat renewed tho grip momentarily
broken, but this cry was onougli to
save his life for it was heard by tho
engineer who hastened to tho scone
of the trouble. The engineer at once
realized that It would bo futile for
him to try and rescue Bolton from the
grasp of the Hindus and ho rushed
back to the enKlno room and shut off
tho steam. Ho was just In time for
as the saw was about to stop, Bolton
reached It and tho last revolution
sent, tho tooth through his clothing.
By this time tho engineer was again
on the scono, armod, and tho Hindus
retreated bofore tho menaco of his
revolver. Ho hol|>ed Bolton from the
saw carriage and tho latter soon re
covered from his fright and ordered
tho men who would havo killed him
to go back to work, which they did.
SLAYER OF EMORY
DECLARED SANE
Chester Thompson Given
Freedom and Ugly Charges
Are Openly Made.
PIERCK COUNTY CONSPIRACY
Prosecutor Rowland Is Pitiable
Spectacle in Hands of (lie
Defendant's Father.
Seattle, June l—Chester Thompson,
slayer of former Judge George Mead
Emory of this city has been declared
sane by a jury in the superior court of
Pierce county. In face of the fact
that young Thompson was, after a trial
lasting sixty-three days, acquitted of
the charge of murder on the ground
that he was insane it required only
twenty minutes for the jury that has
just given him his liberty to bring in
a verdict.
In ti»is city it is declared that the
result of the hearing and in fact the
hearing itself is and lias been a trav
esty 011 justice. It is openly charged
that the prosecuting attorney of
Pi >rce county was by the political in
fluence of Will II. Thompson, father
o» ♦•he young assassin, induced to re
fuse to turn the ease over to the pros
ecuting attorney of King county who
conducted the prosecut ion in the mur
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MISSISSIPPI IS
ON BIG RAMPAGE
St. Louis Threatened With
Destruction and Many
Towns Inundated.
St. Louis, Mo., Juno 1—Death and
destruction are threatening tin- cities
and townw along the Mississippi and
never in years has tins river been
ho high as at present. Many eellars
here are inundated and if the river
rises two feet more it will have
reached the destructive Hood stage.
From many cities along the river
come reports , that the Mississippi is
on a rampage and hundreds of men
are at work strength in ng the levee.
At Hannibal armed posses are guard
ing the houses from which the resi
dents have been driven by the rising
waters, boat patrols having been es
tablished.
Passengers Arc Marooned
Butto, Juno 4—All trains in south
ern Montana are st alled by floods and
fnlly l,r>00 persons are imprisoned in
cars, unable to get to dry land.
Near Dnunmoml four trains are
stalled and the passengers are with
out food. The farmers in the vicinity
are attempting to send relief but the
waters are so swift and so full of
debris that it is a ditllcnlt task to
navigate the email boats at. their
command.
CofBon Announces Itinerary
Seattle, .11)1)0,4—Jolin < !oraon, can
didate of the Iloggatt fact ion of tho
rcpubllcana of Alaaka will depart, for
Ketchikan Haturday to begin hiacani
paitfii for election an delegate from
Alaaka to congreaa. lie will arrive
in Ketchikan Julie H, will he in Ju
neau June 12, Hkagway June 1-1 and
will arrive In Falrbanke, ahout Juno
28. Prom Falrbanka he will go to
Nome, atopplng at Yukon River
point* enroute, and arriving there
ahout June 20.
Hi# Inereaae In Debta
Waaliington, June I—Announce*
menl wa« made today that, the public
dehta Increased $11,000,000 during
May.
A totter from John Orouae of Hlate
oreok aaya that the mining mmou Ih
late on account of the depth of anow.
A ahortago of provision* ia alno a|>
parent.
Two May Die as Result of
Bloody Battle on Vessel
Lying at Tacoma.
Tacoinu, June 2—James Uainsford,
watchman on board the steamship
Suveric, lying at a wharf here, is in a
hospital dangerously wounded and
one Chinese is so badly shot that he
is expected to die as]the result of sev
enty of the Suveric's Chinese crow
attempting to go ashore last night.
The Chinese first tried to bribe the
watchman and when that failed they
tried to gain their desires by over
powering him.
Uainsford resisted his assailants as
best he could, for quite awhile refus
ing to draw his revolver. When,
however, he saw that he was going to
be overpowered and possibly killed
he shot into the air in an effort t<>
summon assistance. The shot infur
iated the Chinese who redoubled their
efforts to beat into insensibility the)
man who opposed them and it was
then that Uainsford shot to kill.
By this time officers attracted by |
the shots arrived on the wharf and j
the Chinese retreated to their quar
ters taking their wounded comrad i
with them. Qalnsford was found to
be suffering from many wounds, and
it is feared that the skull is fractured.
The ships otllcers, all of whom were
ashore, were soon aboard their ves
sel and they unearthed the wounded
('hinese.
This is only one of several such at
tempts by Chinese crews, while their
vessels have been on the Sound. The
officers of the vessel express the be -
lief that the Chinese would have re
turned to the ship, but as the ship is
under a heavy bond to prevent the
Orientals from going ashore a watch
man is always employed.
M. H. DE YOUNG
UNDER ARREST
Proprietor of San Francisco'
Chronicle Charged With
Slandering Burns.
San Francisco, Juno 1—The bitter
feeling engendered in this city by the
graft trials, and perhaps more par
ticularly by the methods employed
by BurnH and Heney received added
impetus this morning by the arrest of
M. II. I)e Young, proprietor of the
Han Francisco Chronicle, on a charge
of criminal libel. Detective Burns is
the complaining witness, alleging
slander.
For some time the Chronicle has
editorially boon criticising the meth
ods of Burns and Heney and it has
been particularly bitter in condemna
tion of Ibirns, going so far as to at
tack his personal character and to
make specific charges of dissolute
habits.
Two Cent Postage Agreement
Washington, June, i — Beginning
October lHt lottern will be carried be
tween tliiH country and England for
2 cents an agreement to that effect
having been Hignod today by re pre
Hentatives of the EngliHh and United
Htates government*. The name rate
will prevail between England and this
country.
Hearst Gains 123 Votes
New York, June, 4—One hundred
and twenty-three votoH in seventy
throe boxen counted i« the renult. of
the Hearnt-McOlellan election con
tent ho far. Hcarat haw gained in
every box opened, and If the ratio
keeps up the result will nhow that he
wan elected mavor of Greater New
York threo years ago.
ChAmberlain Wins Primaries
Portland, Juno 4—GovernorChamb
erlain'* majority over (Jake in the
prlmarioH to determine the peoplo'n
choice f<»r Henator will exceed 1,000.
ENGLISHMAN SAYS
U. S. MUST FIGHT
Oxford Professor Declares
That Japan Is Seeking
Control of Pacific.
TIMK is XOT IWK DISTANT
Little lirow n Men Realize Task
Before Them and Are Making
liin ['reparations.
Vancouver, li. ('., May 29—That it
is only a question of time before the
t'nited States will, by force of arms,
have to oppose Japan's determination
to be supreme on the Paeifie is the
declaration made today by G. C.
Druee. a professor of Oxford Univer
sity. Prof. Druee, is in Vaneouver
on his way to Knglaml from the Ori
ent where be has spent nearly a year,
anil he says that his belief of coming
war is founded on the result of his
investigations while in Japan.
The Japanese, according to Prof.
Druee, are diverting their every effort
toward the signal purpose of extend
ing their domain to include the
Philippines, Hawaii* and possibly a
goodly portion of Southeastern Si
beria. In this plan of conquest the
Japanese are not neglecting their
home defenses and the work that it is
now being carried on at Port Arthur
will make that place impregnable.
Prof. Druee says that even now the
terms of the Manchuria agreement
are being violated and that before
long the ent ire "open door" promise
will In- abrogated. This, however, in
the belief of Prof. Druee will not be
until Japan is prepared for war and
this state of preparedness will not ar
rive so soon as it. would had not the
Atlantic fleet made its now famous
voyage. This wonderful feat in bat
tleship fleet navigation has made a
very strong impression upon the Jap
anese according to Prof. Druee. and
while it has not altered their determ
ination for the future it has brought
to them a realization that their task
is a monumental one.
PRESIDENT HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
Fractious Horse Throws
Head of Nation Who Gets
Severe Shaking Up.
Washington, Juno, I- Rresident
Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt had
narrow escapes from injury while out
horseback riding this forenoon. Ah
it was neither suffered anything more
than a seven* shaking up for the pres
ident and a slight fright for Mrs.
ltoosevelt.
According to the statement issued
from the White House, the president
and Mrs. Roosevelt were riding in
Rock Creek Park, the president being
astride a new horse. The president
tried to force his mount to climb a
steep bank and during the struggle
that followed he was thrown bv rea
son of t he saddle slipping.
While this was going o.i Mrs, Roose
velt's mount became excited and as
her saddle began to ship she would
have received a fall had not the pres
ident come to her assistance. Their
difTllcultics adjusted both rode hack
to the White House.
j HAMMOND WANTS TO
BE VICE-PRESIDENT
Wanliinglon, Juno 3—John Haye«
Hammond, formerly <*liengineer
of tho (higgonhcdni mining interontH,
and onr of (ho most famotiH mining
mon In the country haw oomo out. for
nomination aH vice-proHldont on tho
republican ticket. Mr. Hammond ha«
a«kod tho anpport of hl« friondn ami
In preparing to make a Htrong bid
for votoH at. t.ho national convention.