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Another Cashier Goes Wrong
Somersworth, X. H., Dee. in—Fred
Varney, cashier of the First National
Rank of the eity is under arrest
charged with einbc/./.i>lment, and the
bank has closed its doors. Varney
was arrested last night, and this
morning the bank posted a notice to
its depositors stating that the cashier
is short $80,000 and that the institu
tion will remain closed until some
adjustment is made.
Schwab And Carnegie Disagree
Washington, Dec. If — Charles
Schwab, tin' steel man, this morning
testifying before the house commit tee
having in hand the tariff revision sub
ject, declared that he does not agree
with the statement made by Andrew
Carnegie that the steel industry is no
longer in need of a protective tariff.
The house insurgents have lost their
light for a revision ol the rides.
Boxing Match Proves Fatal
Philadelphia, Dec. 1!>—.James f ur
ran of this city was killed last night
ina boxing match with lJenjamine
Harrett. Barrett has been arrested
and will be tried on a manslaughter
charge. The bout was a friendly one,
and it is believed that a weak heart
was the direct cause of the death of
('urran.
Wireless In Alaska Successful
Seattle, Dee. 1!»—l/n-ut. Jennet,
who has had charge of the govern
ment wireless stations installed in
Alaska, says that the use of wireless
is entirely satisfactory and is in every
way a success. The lieutenant is in
Seattle on his way to Washington
where he will make a repent t<> the
war department.
Hxprcss Car Is Dynamited
Portland, Dee. !!• The « xpress
train on the Oregon Short line was
held np last night and the express
ear dynamited. No one was injured,
and the rohhers obtained only a small
amount of treasure for their pains.
Vino Kills Ivleven Soldiers
Manila, Dee. lit Kleveii soldiers
are dead and thirteen more are in a
serious condition as the result of
drinking vino, the native intoxicant.
The drinking hout took place in
Camp Kcithley.
Haines Jury Is Obtained
Flushing, I.. I. Dee. 17—The jury to
try ('apt. Peter Haines for the min
der of William Annis, the publisher,
has heon obtained. The case promises
to be of a very sensational nature.
Haines, last summer shot and killed
Annis as the latter and his wile were
stepping from a boat. Haines asser
ted that Annis and Mrs. Haines had
been intimate.
Hammond, Ind.,— A woman living
near Martenton, soul beast of this
city, has all her life been endowed
with strange names. She lias married
three times. Her maiden name was
Patridge, her first husband's name
was Iiobin, her second Sparrow, and
her present husband's name is (}uaylc.
There are now two Robins, one Spar
row and three little (Juayhs in the
family. One of the woman's grand
fathers was named Swann.
Nervous Divine Seeks Death
Fresno, Dee. 18—Rev. K. Donncll,
a prominent divine of this city, this
morning attempted suicide by shoot
ing himself, lie is alive, but his
physicians hold lortli little hope of
recovery. Kev. Mr. Donncll has for
a long time boon a sufferer from ner
vous diseases.
Ruef Sentence Is Postponed
San Francisco, Dec. '21—Judge Law
ler has posponcd until Thursday the
time for pronouncing sentence on Abe
lluof. The original date was set for
last Saturday, hut Kuef's attorneys
asked for time to prepare their mo
tion for a new trial.
Alnnka I/lquor 1)111 Will Pohb
Washington, Don. 17—It iw proba
ble til At' ibi« Alnnkn liquor hill will
paww tbl« work. Tbo bill haw boon
wtrongly favorod and »hor»> iw no n|>
parmit opposition.
Boatonian to Race I/ongbont
Howl-on, Deo. 18— Alfred Sobrnbb
of tblH city Ih to faeo Tom longboat
ovor a marathon dintanro on Janu*
Hry 0.
Congrcaa Tnkca Vacation
Wawhlnffton, Dee. 21-At the com
pletion of biiwluoww Saturday after
noon oongroww ad Jon rood until .fan
nary 4.
SALMON PACKERS
PAY REAL MONEY
A. P. Association Sends The
Clerk Of Court Check For
$8,843,58 As Tax
Kight thousand eight hundred and
' forty-t hree dollars and fifty-eight
cents, represented by a certified
I cluck drawn on the bank account of
1
the Alaska Packers' Association yes
terday camc to Deputy Clerk Burton
as payment of the Association's taxes
Ion the salmon pack for 190S, Ac
companying the check came certifi
cates of salmon fry distribution cred
iting the Association with $2S),<itiS.H0,
: the combined amounts being in liqui
dation of the $.S8,r>12.S8 tax due the
government according to the Assoeia
| tion's own bookkeeping.
Ordinarily the receipt by a deputy
clerk of the amount due as a tax on
any business or commodity is not
more worthy of consideration than
is any other affair in connection with
the routine duties of the ofllce, but in
this ease, in view of past experience
| witli the Alaska Packers' Association,
the voluntary action of the Associa
tion in rendering unto the govern
ment that which is the government's
has caused surprise. For the salmon
pack of 1(107 tin* Alaska Packers' As
sociation gave to the deputy clerk in
Valdez .'12 cents in cash and $32,272
in salmon fry certificates.
In Mto7 the Alaska Packers' Associ
ation, according to its own statement
packed a little more than 800,000
1 rases of salmon, the tax on which
was I cents a case. The eanners are
| allowed a rebate of 10 cents for each
l,i)00 fry liberated, and the oflieials of
the government must accept as a
truthful document the eanners'state
ment of the pack and of the number
, ol Iry liberated. This year, accord
ing to the statement tiled by the ean
ners the pack is 1KJ9,172 eases, the tax
on which is $57,578.80, and bar
rels, the tax on which is $933.50, at 10
cents a barrel.
The foregoing figures show that the
dillcrcnce in the tax is a little more
I than $5,000. Thd number of salmon
| fry liberated this year according to
1 tlie returns made l>y the packers is in
round numbers 74,000,000, while last
year the number was 80,000,000, a
I difference of 0,000,000 fry represent
ing a rebate of £'2,100. To make up
this falling off in the fry liberation
and the increasing pack tax the Alas
ka Packers' Association sends its
check for $S,81X58.
Since the salmon packers operat
ing in Alaska induced congress to
permit them to pay the tax on their
pack by liberating salmon fry, there
has been much complaint tluit the
government has been despoiled. The
Valde/. grand jury of a year ago
severely criticised the rebate law,
and the publicity given the subject
hy reason of the news and editorial
stand taken by the Prospector caused
a hue and cry that, reverberated
throughout Alaska and the echoes
even caused certain stirring among
the somulcnt oflieials of the depart
ment of justice.
The tax assessed against the salmon
packers is supposed to create a fund
to be devoted to the maintenance of
roads, educational facilities and for
the care of the insane in the territory.
RIOT BREAKS UP
SOCIALIST MEETING
Brothers Pass Lie, Sister
Kicks And Scratches, And
Police Arrive
Seattle, Poo, 10—H1oo<l was shod,
heads worn broken and for a fow
mi mi ten riot reigned supremo last
night nt n mooting of tho Socialists
party of this city. In tho midst c»f
tlio uproar a special dot-all of polico
officers Invaded the socialist tomplo
and quiet was soon restored.
Tho trouble started when Brother
W. Parks and Brother .lumen Nollson
hooamo Involved In an argument.
Brother Barks called Brother Nollson
a liar, and then Sister Barks joined
foroes with her husband and the
vooal storm became fearsome. It
resulted In a vote to oxpoll from the
organization Mister Parks and Brother
Barks.
The decision to oxpoll Yarrlod with
it physical ejectment and then the
real trouble began. Brother Barks
and Hlster Barks ohjoetod, the one
with fists and the other with finger
nails ami kicks. Ulster Parks kicked,
scratched and screamed, whllo
Brother Barks struck and cursed, but
both wero on the sidewalk when
the |M>lice arrived.
INNOKO DISTRICT
REPORT IS MADE
Government Bulletin Gives
Statement Of Conditions
In New Country
The United States (Icologleal Sur
vey l'ress Bulletin, in its issue of De
cember 7 lias the following to say
concerning the Innoko district :
"The Innoko district is more widely
known and discussed than the (!old
Ilill or the Ruby creek district. Since
ihe discovery of placer gold in paying
quantities, in 1900, on some of the
headwater tributariesof Innoko river,
that part of Alaska has received more
attention from prospectors looking for
new fields than any other district in
j the Yukon Valley. Probably as many
| as 2,OIK) men have visited the Innoko
country and remained there for the
) whole or part of a season. Many of
these men have come from the older
! placer districts up the Yukon, especi
I ally from Fairbanks; some have come
from Nome, and a few from the
smaller settlements on the lower Yn
j Icon.
"The Innoko, the lowest noteworthy
I tributary of the Yukon entering from
the left, is about 500 miles long and
■ lias been the principal route to and
I from the diggings on its headwaters.
During 1906 small stern-wheel steam
boats ran up the river to Dichkakat,
about 250 miles from Anvik, on the
Yukon. From Dichkakat it is 190
miles farther by the river to Ophir,
the principal settlement at the dig
gings, and this distance is traveled in
poling boats that will hold about one
ton of freight. The most seriousdraw
baek to prospecting in the Innoko
country is the difliculty and cost ol
getting supplies to a centrally located
distributing point convenient to tin
creeks on which pay gravel has been
discovered. So far most of the pro
visions have been shipped into t lie dis
trict from Fairbanks, and by the time
the freight is delivered at the town
of Ophir the transportation cost has
reached the enormous sum ol £500 a
ton.
"The Innoko country has been
staked in a wholesale manner, about
1,200 locations being on record. Of
this number only about twenty-live
claims were worked during the sum
mer of 190H, and prael ieally all of i liese
were on (lanes, Little and Ophir
creeks. About 150 persons are now
wintering in the Innoko district."
PROPOSALS WANTED FOR
ANOTHER MAIL ROUTE
Bids arc wanted for delivering mail
on another route out of Valde/., the
first bids for which were not satisfac
tory to t lie postal department. The
specifications provided lor in the call
for proposals are as follows:
"Sealed proposals will he received
at the office of The Honorable Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General un
til February 10th, 1000, tor carrying
the United States mail for the term
from June 1st, 100*) to .tunc .'10th,
1910, on the following described route
by the schedule stated, or such other
schedule of like running time as t lie
Postmaster General may prescribe:
" From Valde/. by Tonsina, Copper
Center and Gulkaua in. o.,) to Ga
kona, 136 miles and hack, three times
a month, Juno 1 to September :?0 in
each year; any class of mail to be
carried the Department may elect;
total weight not to exceed four hun
dred and fifty (450) pounds per sinyle
trip each way. Bids must, state the
rate for the period of rervice each
year.
"Leave Valde/. on the 1st, 10th and
20th of each month during the period
named. Arrive at Gakona in four
days. Leave Gakona twenty-four
hours after arrival, arrive ait Valde/.
in four days. Pond required with bid,
$10,000.00."
NOME MINERS ARE TO
LEASE MEXICAN MINES
Han Francisco, Dec. 18 — Jafot
Lindeberg niul Brie Llndhloom, prom
inent Nome mining men, are In thin
city for tho ptirjH)Hf of organizing A
pool to lease valuable gold mlnoH and
silver mines In Mexico. Recently the
Mexican government created su'eh
legislation ns to remove nil the flilll
oaltlCH heretofore enconntofed l>y mi
alien engaged In mining in Mexico.
The Llndebcrg-Llndhlooni pool Iims
neveral valuable mines in view, and
It Is intended to operate on a mom
moth sealo if tho purposed arrange
ment* aro successful. A number of
mon prominent In the mining world
have signified their intenMon of con
tributing to the pool, and Its p«omo
ters say that there is no question as
to It* success.
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and Carry the LARGEST STOCK In
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Having been established since 1900 our experience
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Criminal Libel Is Charge In
Connection With Slavery
Story Publication
New York, Dep. 10--John D. Rock
efeller, .1 r., this morning filed charge*
agabiHt S. Carvalho, preshlont of tlio
1 (carat Nownpnper Syndicate, charg
ing criminal libel, Carvaiho was ar-1
Tohtod and Immediately reloaded on
bin own recognisance.
Recently the HoarHt paper** pnb
liwliocl a Htory to the effect that. In
one of Rockefellcr'a fnetorien near
Chicago, white worklngmon Are hold
in what amounts to bondage. Rocke
feller HayH that the Htory Sh untrue.
The body of Private lionnio, a mem
bor of Uio nigiull Mervlee who waw
frozen to death ion the trail near
Kagio oarly thl* winter, wa« brought
to Valdoz by an Oir Rtage. The body
will bo uhlpped R> rolativos in I he
cant. Bonnie had keen in the nerv|ee
Iohh than u year.
ALASKA COMMERCIAL CO.
Are now building a powerful light draft stern whele
river steamer to ply on the Yentna and Susitna rivers,
carrying passengers and freight from Tyoonok, Cook In
let, to the head of navigation-F'irst trip will be made im
mediately upon opening of navigation in the spring, J 909
In addition to the store now located at Susitna Station,
other stations will be established on the river where com
plete stocks of miners* supplies will be carried.
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MINERS STAMPEDE
FOR CACHE CREEK
flood pay ban been found In tho
bonohoH on Cache crook, In tho Yont.
mi district, northwost of Cook Inlet,
according to reports of rocont nrrl
vhIh in Howard from tho crook. Iloro
toforo lltldo ban boon found in tho
benches Of tho Yontn.n oreokf, and
tbo beat rcmdtn have boon no on rod
from nniall tributaries of tho larger
streams. On two mnall pups,—Nug
got and Poor Man's—hh high |t0()
a day ban boon nhoveled, but nn rule
only wages have been taken out On
tho Yent.na crooks, and while good
Indications havo boon found In the
benches oven doop sinking has not
previously struck rloh pay.
The report in Howard of the Cache
creek bonoh strike started sevoral
prospoctors out in a hurry, although
the trail will not bo good until next
month. Oaohe ereok 1h about 275
miles from He ward by tho winter
trail and about ninety from Husltna
station.