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No. 202 SIXTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY ALASKA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1913
PRICE 10 CENTS
SUING OF UNDERWOOD BILL
TO BE CEREMONIOUS OCCASION
Washington, Oct. 3—Whan Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson signs the Un
derwood tariff bill tonight it will
be made the occasion of a very cer
emonious affair and will be witness
ed b. many prominent congressmen
The sfeuate passed the measure last
righ* and this morning the house
signified its concurrence by a viva
voce rote. After Speaker Clarl
i had signed the document a specia
messenger took it to the senat*
chamber where Vice President Mar
shall added his signature.
Tue United States customs ser
vice will commence making its col
j lections on the new basis tomor
row. '
S. K.
development
IXCHEASKS
Speaking of the increase In Alas
ka traffic for the year that is now
hearing its last quarter to the Se
attle Times, Special Deputy Col
lector of Customs Charles D. Gar
field said:
"The biggest iucrease this yeai
will be in the inbound commerce
that is the merchandise sent fron
the United States to Alaska. This
is due to the unusual developmeu
in mining centers in Southeastern
Alaska. The greatest increase in
outbound commerce will be in salt
ed. mild-cured, and fresh l'ish, com
mercial ores and tin. The ship
ivent of the latter metal last year
was about $85,000. This year it
i<! expected to reach about S250,0ti0,
"The shipments of canned sal
mon will be smaller than last year
and the amount of aquatic products
and furs will be greater than last
year. The increase in furs is due
to the establishment of fox farms
in the Territory. This is becoming
a business of considerable propor
tious. Jim York, who has a fox
farm on Sumiium Island, with be
tween 600 and S00 blue foxes. Ins
itfused an offer of $5rt,00t> for hi;
plant.
"The gold yield will not be a=
treat as last year. This is not be
e;.use of an exhaustion of the fields
but because of a dry season at Notu>
and Fairbanks The Iditarod viol
will be more than last year. Th
volume of copper ore will be great
ft, but much of it will be of lower
grade than was sent out in 1912
The shipments of marble and gyp
sum will be about the same as last
>ear
"Notwithstanding a dull season
in Northwestern Alaska and the in
terior, the freight shipped to Hi r
ing Sea points already totalled nt ir
ly 30,000 tons, which is a slight ad
vance oil last year.
"The amount of development ii'
the staple industries, such as quarts
mining and fishing in Southeastern
• sid Southwestern. Alaska, and th<
■j increase in the production of fur an
I agricultural products in the Terri
jtory. warrant the prediction that
| the commerce of Alaska next year
> will over-reach the $100,000,000
J mark. If the government decided
j t(, build a railroad in the Territory,
i ir will, of course, be far in excess
of that amount."
H K.WY SEAS CAUSE
DEATH OP SAILOH
Seattle, Oct. 3—A wireless dis
j patch received from the Steamshi
Victoria, says Leslie Smith, baker'
boy aboard, that vessel was washe
overboard Sunday morning an
drowned when the Victoria, bonn
for Nome, was 5HO miles out fron
Cape Flattery. The accident was th
j result of heavy seas that prevailed
'the time.
I'HK STKIKE SITUATION
IS GETTING SEIUOUS
| Calumet, Oct. 3—Asserting that
the strike situation is getting be
yond his control, Sheriff"llepting o
i Kvjeenaw county, has wired th
! Governor for troops.
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ADVOCATE!) 15V LEWI
Washington, Oct. 3—Representa
five Lewis' of Maryland is preparin
1 a bill for government ownership o
i all telegraph and telephone lines
in the United States.
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"STILL PLENTY OF GROUND III
GHISANA" BAYS OLD PROSPECTOR
Coidova, Sept. 26—Bob Adams
was a returning stampeder froraj
Chisona this morning. He is anj
cxpeieuced miner who made a small j
fortune after several years of hard
labor in the Nome country, and is'
competent to pass an intelligent
opinion on the placer fields of Chis j
ana, which he has no hesitancy ini
doing. He says:
"I believe that from the present!
showing on Bonanza and Eldorado'
(.reeks that it is a conservative es-j
timate to say that a million dollars
will be taken from those streams,'
and the Lord only knows how much
more. There is every evidenco of >
considerable bed rock concentration !
1 could not say as much for Goldi
Hill end some other streams, which j
impress me as being too close to the
glacial period and much like old'
tslacial moraine.
"While the present diggings have,
not yet been sufficiently developed,
to demonstrate their real value!
nough work has been done to'
prove that it is a gold bearing coun
try with some concentrations. I
recommend the country for the
"rough neck" prospector. It is no
place for a kid glove stampeder
Neither is it time yet for big cap
ital to go in there. Not enough
work has yet been done. With a
few thawing machines and plenty o
grub this winter something defiuit
should be known by spring.
"While a lot of returning pros
pectors say everything is located, i
is largely because they haven't
hunted very hard for likely ground
to put stakes on. Then again they
lost sight of that vast surrounding
country in various directions, that
takes in the Beaver, Nebesna and
tho headwaters of the Tauana. Wh
can tell what prospecting will devel
op on those streams and their trib
utarits? In my opinion there is
no justification for any miner to
knock the district. It certainly
shows iis good promise as did any
young mining country in Alaska."
I > AT ICS SET FOK HOLDING
TERMS OF CTR("l*IT CO 11 IT
Washington, Oct. 3—Attorney Gen
oral McRcynolds has issued instruc
lions for holding terms of the Al
aska circuit court as follows:
Judge R. W. Jennings to go to
Valdes in November and hold a
special term to try those cases in
••vhich Judge Brown is disqualified
After Judge Brown completes the
term that lie is uow holding at
Seward he will go to Valdez and op
en a term on October 14. Follow
-iairthe completion of the work of
this term the special term will
commence. At present Judge Jen
nings is presiding at Juneau. He
will open u special term at Ketchi
kau on October 13. When he fin
ishes there he will go to Valdez. It
has been determined that no cour
will be held at Cordova this fall.
SUMMERS CASE CALLED
FOR OCTOBER 14
San Francisco, Oct. 3—Albert
Fink, the Nome attorney left here
this week for Washington, D. C.,
to appear as counsel for C. M. Sum
mers, Juneau, Alaska, banker, when
the Summers appeal case comes up
before the United States supreme
court on October 14t-h. L. P. Shack
leford was to have represented Mr.
Summers, but the former's forth
coming visit to Juneau necessitated
the retention of Mr. Fink.
The Summers appeal was taken
from the decision of the Ninth cir
cuit court in San Francisco, which
upheld the decision made by Judge
Thomas R. Lyons at Ketchikan.
Mr. Summers is now in Wenat
chee, 'Washington, with his family,
awaiting the action of the supreme
court. In the event the Ninth cir
cuit court is upheld he will be tak
en to McNeills Island prison to
serve sentence Df five years, impos
ed for banking irregularities.
«OV. STRONG NAMES
DELEGATES TO CONGRESS
Juuoau, Oct. 3—Last Monday
Gov. J. F. A. Strong named B. L.
Thane, of Juneau, R. A. Kinzie, of
Tread well, Charles A. Sulzer, Hon
li. F. Millard of Valdez, R. S. Ryan
of Katalla, John Ronan of Fair
banks, William Maloney of Nome
and Hon. Milo Kelly of Knik, del
egates to the Sixteenth Annual
Convention of the American Mining
Congress, as representatives of the
different mining sections of Alaska
The convention will be held in Phil
rdelphla from October 20 to 24 in
lusive.
Heretofore it has been the custom
for the Governor of Alaska to ap
point a number of delegates to rep
resent Alaska at the convention
held by the American Mining Con
gress, and iu following the prece
dent Gov. Strong named those men
tioned for the convention that is to
be held this year.
ELEVEN PATIENTS ARE
NOW IN SITKA HOME
Juneau,—Superintendent A. G
-Shoup, of the Pioneers' Home at Sit
| ka, writes the Governor's office that
| there are now eleven inmates at
I the home. Mr. Shoup says some of
j the men are in bad shape, one, nam
ed Miller, being bedridden, and
some others are not much better
I off, they require a good deal of
! personal care and help. It has been
found necessary, says the euperin
j fendent, to employ three men, b«
' sides a cook, but a lot of their work
j so far has been in connection with
j setting the institution started. All
of these men seem delighted with
the place and their treatment. Mr
Shoup adds:
"I am sure that we can make the
home a great success, unless we run
oat of funds. It would be an awful
thing to have to turn these poor
old fellows adrift for lack of money,
and I hope things will come out all
right."
After the arrival of the S. S.
Iinmboldt GOOD CANNING
PEACHES will have reached
the lowest price for this sea
son, and all canning fruits, of
which we will receive a fresh
consignment on every boat,
will be sold at correspondingly
low prices until the canning
season is over.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
PASSENGERS AND CREW FIVE
DATS WITHOUT EOOD AND WATER
Nome, Alaska, Sept. 27—Capt.j
Charles Madsen, the crew and pas
sengers of the power schooner,
Wasp, which was wrecked off the
mouth of the Kuskowlm river, reach
d St. Michael yesterday. All freight
for Kuskowim river points, Including
shipments sent North from Seattle
by the United States bureau of ed
ucation, was delivered before the
wreck occurred. The Wasp belong
ed to Capt. Madsen. She was built
at Unalakleet, near St. Michael, by
natives.
The schooner was wrecked Aug
•lst 25. She left Good News bay,
south of Kuskowim on August 24.
The next day she was struck by i
violent storm. She tried to ancho
but the anchor dragged and the ves
set was driven upon a rock, whict
itovo a hole in the hull.
The six men who were on board
launched a dory and set out to row
to St. Michael. For live days they
were without food or water, and
were nearly exhausted when they ar
rived yesterday.
Besides Capt. Madsen and his
crew of three there were aboard the
Wasp A. N. Evans, commissioner of
••ducation for Alaska, and Frank
Waskey, former delegate to con
gress and now a trader at Scammou
bay, Yukon delta.
THE SCHOONER ARCTIC
ARRIVES IN NOME
I Nome, Sept. 27—Fears for the
I safety of the steamer Arctic, which
left Seattle August 6th, for Bering
seaports, were relieved today by
the arrival of the little craft at this
port.
The Arctic, Capt. Rarnhard Otte
son had aboard Ira Rank, her own
er, and Mrs. Rank, and a crew of
eight men. H. I. Haskins, a broth
er of Mrs. Rank, received a letter
from his sister from Chlgnik, where
the vessel put in September 6,
stating that the Arctic had been de
layed by boiler trouble. Nothing
was heard from the vessel after she
left Chignik until today.
After leaving Chignik, the vessel
was to put in at Scammon bay with
supplies for a trading post owned
by Frank Waskey. The Arctic
went north by way of Ketchikan and.
the inside passage, and into Bering
sea through False pass, instead of
going to the westward to Unimak
pass.
The steamer, which is only Bixty
four feet six inches long, was de
layed by shortage of fuel.
Yesterday a barge left Haines in
tow of Matthews' launch, bound for
Skagway, with a mare on board in
charge of a man named Couger, the
animal being the property of Mr.
A. J. Baker of this place. On the
way up rough weather was Encoun
tered during which the mare was
washed overboard and drowned.
SAN FRANCISCO MAN
BREAKS THE RECORD
San Francisco, Sept. 30—A. G.
Sutro, grand-son o£ Adoiph Sutro,
the millionaire, broke four aviation
records yesterday, flying through
thick fog banks. He carried two
passengers four and three-sixteenths
miles in three minutes and foryt
seconds. He attained a speed of 75
milee an hour, and his average
speed was 51 miles an hour. The
weight lift»d exclusive of the ma
chine was 900 pounds, and the great
est altitude 800 feet.
DNAMITER GEO. DAVIS,
AVELL GO TO INDIANAPOLIS
New York, Oct. 3—Geo. Davis,
who was arrested here yesterday by
federal agents for complicity in the
M'Namara dynamite outrages of a
few yt^rs ago, and who has con
fessed his guilt, has waived extra
dition rights and will be taken to
Indianapolis to stand trial. His
bail was placed at $10,000.
THE SULZER DEFENSE
READY FOR THE COURT
Albany, Oct. 3—The defense in
the Sulzer impeachment proceedings
will have its complete case ready
when the court of Inquiry convenes
on Monday.
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