Valdez, Alaska, September 24, 1908.
Vol. 7
DIVISION BILL
Judge Reid Says That In Washington He Was As
sured That Congress At Next Session Will Take
Action Creating New Judicial District.
Alaska will l>e given the Fourth
judicial division by cou&iokh ;»( the
coming short session but it will not
take elfect until July I, is the assur
ance Judge 11oi< 1 1 rings rrojn Wash
ington. There is lie opposition to
the bill,.in any directhtn and the de
partment of justice hi urging it so
that even the senate will probably
allow it lo grind through. It banal
ready passed the house. The depart
ment prefers to have it go into effect
at the beginning H the fiscal year. "
Judge Iloid will elean up the dis
trict court docket in Valilcz, begin
ning October 10, and will go over the
trail to Fairbanks early in the winter.
Alter July 1, unions all promises fail,
the Tanana aiul VaUUte will each
have a resident judge.
During his trip to the states Judge
Heid visited the president at. Oyster
Bay and spent some time at Wash
ington. lie was much pleased with
his reception at the department of
justice and acquired increased ad
I miration of Attorney-General Hona
I parte. The department officials who
lo«»k after Alaska are well satis lied
with the present operation of judicial
machinery in the territory.
Judge Roid is accompanied by Mrs.
lteid and they have taken a house on
Sherman street, on the Reservation.
PLACER PLATINUM
STRIKE IS IDE
News of u |>1 -it iitm discovers that,
ma) result in eHtrtblidhing l ho
fact that there is a 1»i«.> deposit, of that
minora! in tlu> interior is brougnt to
Valdoz hy Mof.sor Mriggs and (.nut/
who recently uiuno outside. 1m the,
safe of t he Seattle Hotel it* a sack j
eontaining *2/ |t«mi•<(■-> of what is prao
tically pure platinum, and about
lifty p«>niitIh more of black sand be
lieved fro oo.itain heavy platinum
values, that tho inon brought out.
hunt/ is an old timer in the country,
coming to Valdoz nearly ton years i
ago and going over the glacier with1
the lirst rush. This year he wont, in
again to more thoroughly investigate
the signs of platinum ho discovered
at that time. Neither man will tell
exactly w'horo the discovery is looa-,
tod hut it, is some whore near Mt. i
Wrangle. Th'c-y are very consorva-j
t ivo in talking of their tlnd but say;
that, they will go in this winter, tak
ing a big outfit.
Platinum in one of the most valua
ble of metals being worth close to $30
an ounce. Jn their present poke the
men have a small fortune.
CHOLERA RAGES III
RUSSIA'S CAPITAL
St. Petersburg, Sept. 21 Four hun
dred soldiers stationed at (he garri*
Hon 111 this eity art) \ loUmn of cholera
ami the disease in spreading with
alarming vapidity. Among llio poor
er elanH of civilians the (11 no a 90 i« cre
ating havoc, yofdovdjly'* record being
new eases anil I'JtldenthM.
Tho authorities are doing all in
1 lieir power to cheek (ho epidemic,
lad. so far all elroiTs hnvc heen fu
lilt*. Tho medical corps haw boon
greatly increased and ni:iny privale
phyflieiani haw volunteered their
services. Public funerals have been
forbidden and tho government!, is at
tending to the burial of nil cholera
victinei.
CANADIAN SCHOONER
ACCUSED 0f: POACHING
Washington, 8ept. %\ -The com
mander of the revenue cutter Hear,
now off the Alaska coast, hu» to
Washington went word that th© C'nna
dliln nchooner ll.iy.'ird hfm been foal
pOaehfng in Abnka wa'tofH. There
pbftfittitetf Ihnf fishermen at Khnborn
harbor assert that l.'i .July th< Muvard
has t wehty-el£ht /Sfttha in hov hold.
The affair will ho' brought to tho
at tent Inn of the Cn pVuIIoii govern
menl.
What 1)1(1 lie Moan?
taMlVifr (n<, illnncrl"*!'unli !<<fi tin Ihlx
"N Who coolml Hut
. Former1'^" ,Jimbotu'
pfjccnnd an ©dlti^.^0 «*{ "
nor cm acoount oVv.
L V
SENATOR FORMER
QUITS UNDER FIRE
( incinnati, Sept. 22—Inn letter to
Presidential Nominee Tnft Senator
Foraker has expressed the belief that
owing to the recent attack on him it
will he hest for him not to appear to
night in .Music Mali on (lie occasion
t»l Mr. Taft 'a campaign address. In
his letter Si'U:itor Foraker says thai
Iro'in eerlain sonrees known (<> he
friendly Imve eoin" doubts as (<» 111«
propriety of the joint appearance of
himself and Mr. Tuft and that he has
decided not to attend the meeting.
Benn tor Forakcr expresses the
opinion that his reply to the charges
made by William K. Hearst in sufll
cient vindication of the Foraker con
nection with the Standard Oil people,
but that he does not want to injure
the cause and embarrass Taft. Sena
tor Foraker has cancelled his other
speaking dates and it is improbable
that ho will take any active part in
the.presidential campaign.
HASKELL IS AGAIN
UNDER HEARST GUNj
Mompljl*, • Bept//'22—William H.
lle.H/fjt ban rrniotyed liin attack on
Ootfe'ijudv- Hanked and in Insisting
that cno ^ovotfnyr ip using, and has
used, his j>oajfttdin to favor the SfaOd
ard Oil Conipanw In, a ^ooeh 'de-.
Ilvered hero last' nightv»M^. Hearst,
charged that OoverA^'OJr^T^f^kel1>.pre
vented the at torney//jfe^Viwi .Wy^lfla-'
lioinn from enjoining >tlfe fitahdard'a'
uilhsidinry company in this ntaty, and
that had it not been for the action of
the stato'M chief executive prosecu
tion of the Standard would have bo
gun long ago.
Further along in hiH address Mr.
Hearst road what he allegCH to boa
corrcapondence between John I).
Arehbold of the Standard Oil Com
pany and the late Congressman Hib
iey of Pennsylvania and having to do
with Senator Bailey's friendship for
the Standard Oil Company.
Gold Production Decreaaca
Statistics recently compiled from
figures furnished by the varloua gold
and allvcr producing counties of Cal
ifornia hIiow that during 1907 the
stato produced a total of 809,218.62
fltic ouncea of gold valued at $10,727,
928 and 1,138,869 fine ounces of ailver
valued nt *761,010. Compared with
tfie mine production of 1906, these
figures mIiow a decrease of |2,004,624
in value of gold find of $00,182 in value
ot (diver, a total foiling off in value
of the precious-metal out-put of $2,
070.708. The average commercial
value of silver hi New York per fine
ounce In 1900 wna 07 cent*, and in
1907 waft 00 cent*. The standard
value of gold I* $20.071884636939 a fine
ounce.
The Klondike gold output thin year
in estimat ed at $6,000,000. Last year
It'was $3,000,000.
ONE n AND TEN
DROWN NEAR WRMiGELL
Cannery Bark Star of Bengal Goes ASliore On Coro
nation Island and Out of 137 Whites, Chinese
H.
and Japanese Aboard Only 27 Are Saved
■4 " s
Wrangell, Sept. 23—One hundred
and ten persons went to their death
yesterday afternoon and last, night
when the Alaska Packers' Company
hark Star of Bengal crumbled to
pieces on the storm heaten shore of
Coronation island. Only twenty-sev
en of those aboard the vessel were
saved. Of those on the Star of Ben
gal thirty-seven were whites and the
remainder Chinese and Japanese can
nery employes.
The Star of Bengal, in tow of the
tug Ilattie Cage, was 011 her way to
San Francisco after the close of the
cannery season at Kyak, where she
has been during the summer. There
was a heavy wind and sea and the
bark broke away from the tug. Every
effort, of the tug to regain control of
her tow was futile and driven fast he
ore the wind the ill-fated Star of
Bengal and her doomed cargo of hu
inanity went oil the rucks.
After finding it impossible lo render
any assistance the Ifa11i<> (i;ige came
to this port for reinforcements in the
hope that something- might'he done
from the land side of the island. H\
the time tlie trip hack to the scene of
theAVreck had been' made the hark
was fast going to pieces under the
battering she was receiving.
The rescue crew made heroic*
efforts to bring to safety those who
were clinging helplessly to the wreck
age but in only a few cases were t heir
efforts successful. Many of those,
the bodies of whom now lie on the
island, came to their death by being
hammered against the rocks.
Coronation island lies a short dis
tance off Prince of Wales island and
is exposed to the full fury of the
storm.
INTERIOR COPPER
PROSPECTS GOOD
That the White river nnd the ftyrft- I
ina (listrids ill**- w• • 11 wortl»''lfie iit-j
(<•111 ion of prospectors am! tin- i*x-;
pciulltiuv of ftiifllcicnt money to es
tablish whether or not the surface
indicatioiiH of eopper are borne out is
the bolief expressed by Fred II. Mof
fltt of the United States Geological
Htirvey. Mr. MoftHt is back in Val
de/. after three months spent in the
districts in (|ueHtion, having left hero
June 15 with four assistants and a
paek train in the charge of James
Bartlett.
The outfit went into the Nabesna
by the way of Sargent's camp and
then to Orange hill whore there are
several copper properties being pros
pected, and where also is the Fjeld
gold quartz mine. On the latter
property tho season has been spent in
running a tunnel and when Mr. Mof
fltt left it was expected that t he ore
body would be reached within thirty
feet. The vein carries free milling
gold, but the three stamp mill on tho
property has not been operated this
season.
Tho MoQltt party then went, over
to the head of the BhUHhoiiA and to
Copper creek where Home work ia
being done. The mineral in thin
loeallty in native copper and huI
phiden, but nothing of a definite
nature han ho far been established by
.the Work done, and Mr. Moflltt Hays
tlittt thin is truo of the country aH a
whole although in many easeH the
proHpeetn are exceptional, and in the
Chitina country the utincrtil has been
well uhown up.
The party then went on the head of
White river, making mapn of the
region at the head of thin and the
Bhushena river, the work being in the
nature of an extension of that done
in 1902 by the Sehrador party, and in
cluding the White river valley to the
boundary line. Topographical maps
were alao made and copper properties
were examined at the head of Whit©
river, Olacier ereek and Lime ereek.
Adolph Knopf, a member of tho party
went to Canyon City, on the Canadi
an boundary line, and thence to Beav*
er ereek. The latter part of Auguat,
while Mr. Knopf waa there, tho boun
dary aurvey party came into Canyon
City, having had a hard experience
owing to lack of food. Mr. Knopf
alao visited the Honanzamlne.
Mr. Moflflt went over the Bkolai
glacier to the NlrJna river and thence
to Dan creek and Chittltu, where
Katcrly and Kernan are hydraullcing.
Mr. Mofflt came out by the way off
Cordova, while tho pack train eame
out over the trail. Lack off feed ne«
ecHHltated killing three of tho eleven
horaea, and one was given away.
Mr. Bartlett says that the country
Inside I* suffering from lack of rain
and that there l« pract ically no ffeed.
BUTTE LOTHARIOS
ARE BADLY FOOLED
Butte,'" Hept. *21—"Butti*,M men :il»on(
town are 1:11111ii»at a juke i>| which
a number «>f th.v'■'.'I Vl h i\v< :,,v 'he
hull. The p<»l:ftt»y^re responsible ami
a snake charniejr^'orstwhilc an attrac
tion in one of the local museums, is
the cause.
On the stage the snake charmer
presented an attractive appearance
and when the attraction was adver
tised the gay Lotharios of Butte soon
found much business in the museum.
Boquets of rare flowers adorned the
dressing room of the charmer, at
least they went in that direction
across the foot lights, and invitations
to dinner followed.
It is not of record that the charmer
accepted any luros tending to result
in close acquaintance with admirers
but coy smiles came from lips that
broadened above some slowly crawl
ing snake as the charmer performed
the "act" that drew the crowd and
the salary.
Tt is hard to say to what lengths
the Lotharios would have gone had
not the police stepped in and sprung
the joke. /Somehow t he police be
came suspicious of the charmer and
the resultant invest igat ion established
the fact that the object of so much
masculine admiration is a mau-a
Hwede man f.t that- and that his name
is Iver Nwanson.
There is a great dropping oil of mu
seum gate receipts since the expose.
WISCONSIN TOWNS
IN FIRE'S GRASP
Rhineiaud, VVIh., H«-j»t. 23—(lagcn
and Wood, two Hinall towna near
here, wore yeatorday aftornoon total
ly deatroyed by a lire which atftrted
In tho forest that hems in the Hottle
menta. Women and children joined
in fighting the (Ire, but in vain, and
thia morning flnda4,000 pernona home
leaa.
From New Richmond cornea word
that. Flflold, near Aahland, l«ln flames
and that a Hpooial train carrying tlr«'
fighting apparattiH ha» hccn din
patched from Minneapolis. The en
tire country haH auffered for wnelo
from a drought and in parched and
dry.
Rtiefa 1/ftwyera Are Indicted
Han Franelnco, Hopt. 10- The grand
jury thia morning returned Indict
menta agalnat Attorney a iVTurphy am
Nowhurg, two of Abo knef'a Inwyora
chargcd with attempting to bribe
jnrora. Murphy gave bond* in th<
mm of $A,000 and Nowhurg In th«
•um of $10,000.
Denis Donohoe Says He Is
Satisfied that Values Go
to Great Depth
Denis Donohoe, head of the Dono
hoe Kxploration Company, owner of
copper property in the Kennec.ott
district is in Vuldcz having arrived
last night. Accompanying htm is
John 10. Barrett, also interested in
Hie company. Mr. Donohoe is not
only well pleased with the showing
! resultant from the season's work on
' his own properties hut declares that
' no longer is there question as to the
future of the interior copper district.
He says that the work done on his
own and the other claims in the Ken
neeott district establishes beyond the
peradventure of a doubt that the sur
face showings continue in depth and
that high values exist.
t'ntil this year Mr. Donohoe was
inclined to be skeptical as to the re
sult consequent upon seeking depth.
' lb- has had much experience in cop
per camps and realized that nowhere
does the present age furnish such
surface showings as are plentiful in
! the interior of Alaska. He is con
vinced now that the values on the
surface are true indications of what
tlie depths contain. On his property
fifteen men have been employed (hir
ing the season and have run 1W> feet
of tunnel and an equal distance o!
open cuts. The workings arc down
| about 100 feet.
Mr. Donohocvame out by the way
i of < 'ordova so as to investigate the
feasibility of hiking in supplies by
that route but he is satislled dial
such ;t course will mil l»e practicable,
and lie will send his oiittil in by die
wav of Valdax, the llrst of it going in
I in December. Mr. Donohoe will go
to Seattle on the Santa Clara.
James Godfrey Expresses his
Gratification At Report
Made By Expert
James J. (iodftyy, secretary of (lie
Mother Lode i'opper Mining Com
pany, accompanied by A. \V. .Icnks,
a Now York mining expert, is back
from an inspecth u ol the companies
properties on MeC'ariy Creek. Mr.
(Jodfrey is elated at tli.v result, of his
trip and says (hat Mr. Jenks lias es
tablished tin1 truth of tin- suppositioti
that the mot Iter lode propert y is an
extenlion ol the Bonanza lead.
When Mr. (Jodfrey arrived in Yal
dez on his way inside he was mot
with Mattering' reports of tlie season's
work on the property in wliieh ho is
interested and he says that his visit
more than verilled the truth of these
reports. There is a vein of chalcorite,
twelve feet wide assay ing from 70 to
75 per eent and running the entire
100 feet of I he < «i:n.
Mr. (Jodfrey i.\s that inside the
ntwsot the Hit-sell deal was received
with iituelt satisfaction and that it is
believed that once the railroad is ex
tended from Valdez to. where it affords
transportation for the copper mines
the < ntire district will he tin- scene of
the greatest activity, lie says that
not only in t he ease of lifs own pro
perty hut in the case of niHiiy other
properties the fact that permanent
valiu-s exist lias been satisfactorily
established, lie expects to send in a
big outfit this winter and next season
will resume operations on a large
scale
Mr. (iodfr<*\ t-*.«• • • • to t'ordova lo
look into I lie eondiiioti ol Oscar Sail
and expeet.-i i<> bring Sail lo S'aldex
and place him under medical treat
ment.
I
WORRY ROOSEVELT
Oyster Bay, Sept. 23—That Presi
dent Roosevelt is in fear that the at
tacks being made by William it.
Hearst on Senator Foraker and other
members of the republican party is
having a bad effect on Presidential
Nominee Taft.'s campaign is evidenced
by the energy displa>cd by the pree
ident in refuting and trying in other j
ways to counteract these charges.
Following the letter recently sent to |
Congressman MeKinley of Illinois, and
more recently made public, the pres
ident has issued another appeal for
support of Mr. Taft.
President' Roosevelt's attitude in
connection with the light heing in
the doubt fill states waged against
Taft, and whieh is being led by Mr.
Hearst, has caused other members of
the republican party to take alarm
and to view hs serious the situation
conii'ontiuK them. In his latest ap
peal, Mr. Itoosevell makes public n
letter written in July IH07 by Mr.1
Taft in which the candidate refuses]
to acquiesce to the plan of the Ohloi
state central committee to in the
same resolution endorse Mr. Taft for
president and Senator Foraker for re
election to the senate.
From all prominent republican
sources effort is being *nadc to con
vince the voters that Senator Foraker
is in very poor standing with the ad
ministration and with Mr. Taft. The
Hearst assertions that Foraker is
hand and glove with the Standard
oil Company has from a political
standpoint, made this course neces
sary.
F/Xpresslng his personal views with
regard to the situation President
Roosevelt says that the defeat of
Taft will cause satisfaction to one set
of men only, namely those who havo
by lleiirst been shown to bo behind
Foraker as an opponent of Taft. In
, Taft.'s own party, and those of the
j other party who are behind (lovernor
'J Haskell of Oklahoma.
The Russian Greek Church has
i eighty-five churches in Alaska, asem
' Inary, numerous mission schools, aijd
i more than U',000 members among the
natives.
WOMAN OUPIO IS
IN TOILS OF LAW
Fresno, ('«!., Sept. vj'»—Mrs. Mui'
garct Waldcr, a comelj appearing
woman about 10 years old, is in jail
here e barged by the federal authori
ties with fraud in connection with tin>
line of the mails. Mrs. Walder has
for a year or nunc !»«*<• :i conducting a
matrimonial agency uikI the offioera
assert that she ha: heen the Mole at
traction alt hough sh > Imfl widely ad
vertised as her agency having many
clients.
From records taken from Mrs. Wal
der by the officers and from other
eyidenee in the officers' poscssion the
woman is shown t > have reaped a
good livinir from tin* matrimonially
inclined hut unsophiseated men who
have succumbed to the lure ol the
advertiseinents she has caused to he
pid>1islied in the many newnpapcra
throughout the country
In her correspondence with her
vi<,tims. Mrs. Walder luis represented
•herself to he whatever in feinine form
the man in search of a wife desired.
The men Would pay sums of various
amounts for the privilege of heing
placed in communication with the
one whose (•harms were advertised.
The democratic vote at the Wash
ington state primaries was less than
10 percent of the total, wherefore
according to stale law it will he
necessary to place the democratic
candidates on the official ballot, hy
petition.
Army OfHcern I,ose *'Velvet"
Washington Sept *21 Army officers
on foreign service are hy an order just
placed in effect deprived of ;i fat
perquisite in the shape of travel pay.
The order provides that hereafter
army officers shall he allowed only
the actual expense of tiav.cllng in
Hen of the payment on a mileage
basis as has heretofore prcviiiled.
jThln new rule will particularly effect
officers on duty in Ahiika for these
officers have been receiving a trans
portation allowance of » cents a mile,
thus enabling tbej.i t In on • cases
make a profit of » to $.'10 on a single
trip.