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VOL, S. T S£l v*! rr VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY SEPTEMBER
Prospector
ALASKA R. R. COMMISSION
NOW ON THE WAY NORTH
THE COMMISSION WILL GO INTO INTERIOR BY WAY OF SEWARD
BUT WILL COME TO VALDE Z AND EXAMINE THIS ROUTE
INTO FAIRBANKS AND STUDY TONSINA ROUTE.
Seattle, Sept. 10.—The Alaska rail
road commission left this morning on
board the revenue cutter McCullough.
They will first go to Controller bay
and then to Seward, and the Matan
uska coal fields, thence returning to
Resurrection Bay. They will not at
tempt to make their way into the
interior by that route owing to the
lateness of the season and the im
practicability of reaching the interior
by that route at this time and from
tiie fact their orders were changed
so as to embrace an examination of
the Valdez route. They are expected
to reach Valdez from Seward on the
27th day of September, going over
the pass and on to Fairbanks.
Upon their return they will reach
the coast by way of ChLtlna and Cor
dova, returning direct to Washington
where they will submit their report
to the government. It is thought the
facts laid before the president, giving
the actual surveys of ho Valdez route
had much to do with the change of
the commission's itinery. The com
mission will also obtain data regard
ing the practicability of taking out
the Matanuska coal by way of the
Valdez route.
OLD PROSPECTOR
ENDS HIS QUEST<
ATTACKED BY MUSCULAR ATRO
PHY IN ALASKA MEETS
DEATH IN STATES.
H. F. Marshall, prospector and
miner, a man who knew the hills froi
the Dakotas to Alaska, died at his
home 1548 West Fifty-fourth street,
yesterday morning, after a long ill
ness.
Marshall returned to Seattle last
October from Alaska on account of a
muscular atrophy contracted there.
He had lived in the north since 1897
Tlie deceased was born in Maine
sixty years ago. At the age of
24 he went into the Black Hills with
the argonauts of 1876. For the next
twenty-four yoars he was engaged
in mining or lumber.
Marshall is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Jennie Marshall, a daughter,
Ada Marshall, and a step-daughter,
Mrs. J. W. Datie, the latter of Val
dez, Alaska.
Ilnliy js rcsliiiK »»" her nars,
waiting fur I he expeel.Ml hip: fall
rush lu Ih«> camp. Huhy's priM.
peels are said I<» he K"u<|, ilespile
(he many reports ! » llit* eunlrary.
OIL IS STRUCK
AT WALLA
n Boring Deeper Wells Amalga
mated Company Strikes Oil
al 850 Feet
i .
Tin* Amalgamated Oil company
management, of Katalla, is in high
!glee over a strike a week ago that
has given 40 barrels of oil. It
,was struck at a depth of 850 feet.
It. is the intention to hore deeper,
.and there is every prospect of in
creasing the flow.
Manager Manson is also run
ning a rotary drilling onlfit on
another excellent prospect from
,which he is already getting a good
flow of oil. It is the intention to
^ncrease the capacity of the re
finery and to actively push the oil
development from now on. The
company is employing about thirty
'men and many thousands of dol
lars have been expended in the
'plan to develop what it is hoped
|will prove to be a field similar to
the great gushing fields of south
ern California.
Don't forget the Woman's Guild
will give a dinner next Thursday ev
ening in the Ames Building, McKir
ley and Keystone streets.
SIUKM UN NOME COAST
SMALL VESSELS ASHORE
THE POWER 8CHOONER DWYER TORN FROM HER ANCHORAGE
18 POUNDED TO PIECE8. THE 8TORM EXTEND8 ALONG
THE ENTIRE COAST FAR WEST OF THE SOUND.
On Auguflt 14th during a big atorm
In Bering sea the power schooner
Dwjrer, owned by Alexander Allen, j
was driven ashore and Is now a total i
wreck In Port Clarence. The Dwyer
was riding at anchor when the storm
broke with unprecedented fury. Al
though two anchors were out the
small craft began to drag her mud
hooks and she drifted onto the shone
at Kennedy's wharf. The surf had
reached terrible fury, and soon was
bounding upon the doomed vessel. All
on board escaped with some difficulty
but are safe and sound.
The vessel soon gave way under
tbef terlffid pounding to which the
furious seas rs^lng subjected her.
The cargo was completely loat, and
all that was saved waa a few deer
skins of comparatively iKtle value.
The cargo was consigned to various
way points for <tthe Bureau of Educa
tion, and represented aimoat compl<*f
1 y a government shipment.
The Dwyer waa a comparatively re
cent arrival in the northern waters,
and came up through the Gulf of
Alaska after taking the Inside pas
sage part of the way. This vessel
made record time to the Pass across
the Gulf, and Allen who purchased
the Dwyer last spring was very proud
of hla schooner,
The storm which broke out waa
about the worst which has driven
through Granttey harbor or Port
Clarenoe In a long time. It moder
ated considerably but hat again rla
en to a great fury. Only one side
of the vessel remains practically sound
here at the preaent time, and the
schooner Is a total wreck—Worker.
TEDDY INVADES
NORTH PACIFIC
THE IRRIPRES8IBLE COLONEL 13
TALKING IN 8EATTLE—PRI
MARIES ON.
Seattle, Sept. 10.—Col. Roosevelt
arrived here la at night and will make
two speeches here today, it being
the day of the regular state primar
ies. On his arrival he was met by
the usual Bull Moose contingent who
have been promoting the Oyster Bay
man's political campaign in this por
tion of th© state.
STATE OE MAINE
CARRY THEIR PARTY THROUGH
TO VICTORY BY SLENDER
PLURALITY.
Portland, Sept. 10.—The Republi
cans have regained the state of
Maine by a slender plurality after a
hard-fought campaign. Haines, Re
publican, defeats Governor Plalsted,
Democrat, by a plurality of four
thousand. The legislature will have
a slglht Republican majority, enough
to elect Congressman Burleigh to the
Senate over Senator Gardner R.
Paine. They have also regained one
congressional district lost in 1910.
The smallness of the plurality is a
disappointment to friends of the ad
ministration.
A few wandering pigs had a
loyal feast on a l»ig shipment of
npplies lo miners on Coldstream
not long ago. Only a few cans of
condensed cream were lefl by the
f.nir-footed foragers.
MANY ARE DEAD
IN BID TYPHOON
FORTY THOUSANDS FELL VIC
TIMS TO A TERRIBLE TY
PHOON.
Shanghai, Sept. 10.—It is estimat
ed tlmt forty thousand people lost
their lives in a typhoon which swept
over the province of Chekiang. The
property damage is very great. Sur
vivors are suffering for food.
Mr. (i. K. TopljfT will leave for
I'eikhell in the morning to be ab
sent from the city for n week or
f*o.
JUDGEOVERFIELD
ON WAY SOUTH
Seattle, Sept. 10.—Judge Peter D
Overfleld it expected to reach this
place during the week having taken
the ateamer Victoria at Nome.
Don* forget the Woman'i Ouild
will give a dinner next Thursday ev
ening In the Amen Building, McKin
ley and Keystone street*.
■ ■ 1
; A Tacoma school ma'am killed
i black bear near Wrangell last
sveek. From now on Tacoma
/oung«ter« will walk the chalk
ine.
INTENSE HEAT
AND MAD DOGS
HEAT WAVE OF GREAT EXTENT
—MAKE8 DOGS MAD— SIX
PEOPLE ARE BITTEN.
Chicago, Sept. 10.—A sizzling heat
wave extends from the Rocky Moun
tains to the Atlantic coast, prostrat
ing many people in all sections. The
beat here has caused many dogs to
go mad and a half dozen people have
been bitten. At LaCrosse, Wis., the
heat was so Intense that business wa
entirely suspended.
ATTEMPTING TO RAISE FUNDS
FOR A MYTHICAL ORPHAN
ASYLUM.
Some of the Alaskan papers tell
of the tour of reported elders . of
the alleged Assyrian church to raise
funds for an orphans' school, so it
is probable that Valdez will be
visited duringg the season. Those
who have had experience with these
elders of Assyrian and Armenian
churches say ithat if these are like
the others they are the rankest kind
of grafters, and are probably travel
ing out of New York under forged
Arabaic credentials, there being a
bureau In New York which makes a
business of supplying phoney church
credentials, all In Arabic, to these
grafters.
William Slubbius, mayor «»1
JioiiKlns, is bring I a 1 of a* a
possible candidal*' fo I lie lerrilor
al legislature.
FRENCH FLYER
WORLD'S CHAMPION
FRENCHMAN WON ALL THE HON
ORS A7 THE INTERNATION
AL RACES.
Chicago, Sept. 10.—In tho interna
tional aeroplane contest, Vedrines
won In a Deperdussin monoplane, tak
lng tho James Gordon Bennett tro
phy from the Americans, making ono
hundred and twenty-four and eight
tenth miles In seventy-one minutes,
an average of one hundred and five
miles and a half an hour. All the
near competitors were Frenchmen.
PROMS LOSE
IN ARKANSAS
Little Rock, 8ept. 10.—After a
most exciting and bitter campaign,
state wide prohibition was defeated
by a substantial majority.
FOUND—A Columbia river boat,
wltth two horee power gasoline en
gine, outside pained white, red trim
iblngs. Owner call at William Fin
loal'a.
The northern press Is polntinK
to the fact that the dummer of
1912 in Alaska was mosqultoloM.
THE BERING TREASURE SHIP
CARRIES $1,250,000 BULLION
EXPLORER STEPHANSON DISCOV RS RACE OF BLUE EYED BLOND
NORSEMEN WHO WERE DESCENDANTS OF ANCIENT
ESKIMOS, SUPPOSED TO BE HERE MANY AGES AGO.
Seattle. Sept. 10.—The steamship
Senator arrived from Nome last night
with a million and a quarter in bul
lion on board. Explorer Stephansoa,
who went north Into the Arctic four
years ago under the auspices of the
American Museum of Natural History,
was a returning passenger. While on
his explorations he discovered two
thousand white Eskimo in Coronation
Gulf, many of whom had blue eyes,
blondo eyebrows and red beards and
arc believed to be the descendants of
the lost tribe of Lief Erickson, .the
Vising, who first made Uu> New
1
World known to the northern races
of Europe. The discovery is con
slndered one of the greatest import
ance to science.
Norman Merchant arrived on
the Mariposa, from the westward,
when- lie has been all summer as
(raveling deputy marshal between
Seward. HrisHol hay and the west
ward. Norman is glad lo gH back
In his "l<l haunts and dry land
again.
Subscribe 17.r llie Prospector.
MUCH PROGRESS
AT WHITEHQRSE
Development of Copper Properties
May Lead to Building of
Smelter
When \V. ft. Close and
Pickeson witp in the interior two
weeks ag<>, Mr. Close wired tlie
T>awson News from Careross lln;
following reply (• > an inquiry re
garding* liis view on I lie Tukon:
"I have jusl reached I he Yu
kon, and completed a hurried first
trip to the copper mines al
.Whitehorse. "These properties
look very encouraging, and there
is every indication of their perin
nnyney. When Ihese bodies of ore
are sufficiently developed they un
doubtedly will support a smelter
for which capital will be found."
-Skagway Alaskan.
THE GRAND ARMY
IS NOW IN SESSION.
Los Angeles, Sept. 10.—The forty
sixth session of the Grand Army En
campment is now on. The city is
crowded with old soldiers.
S. A. Hemple will leave for the
Hcmplo mine at Landlock, and C. E.
C-unobeli will accompany Ihm.
ANOTHER STORY
OF THE ERUPTION
A TRADER SAYS THAT MT. SEV
ENOFSKY DID BUSINESS
IMMENSE VENT.
Cliarlcs Broudry, the trader at
the head of Cold Bay says that the
)cn<pt.ion attributed to Alt. Katniai
was in reality caused by Alt. Seven
ofsky. Katmal and a new crater op
ened between the two, the later l>e
ing the largest, coming up out of a
creek bed, extending two miles and
txtlftying forth fire all the time and
is still active. Broudry la about
eighteen miles from 'the scene and
is thus enabled to give first hand
information.
The reason that no one at Katniai
was killed is given by him as fol
lows: "The men were away fishing
at Alt. Douglas and Old Katmai and
none but tho women and children
and old men were In the village, but
the quakes were so severe and fre
quent the natives took to their bi
darkas and made for Cold Bay and
had Just arrived at the station when
tho eruption proper took place."
For weeks he was compelled to
feed them and no effort was inado
by the cutter ito find out If he or
the natives were liv'iii.
A HEAVY THUNDER STORM
WRECKS ELECTRIC PLANT
PUT8 NOME ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT OUT OF BU8INE3S FOR
8EVERAL HOURS.— THE SECOND ELECTRICAL PHENOM
ENA KNOWN SINCE ARRIVAL OF WHITE MEN
During the thuivder storm which
prevailed at Nome on August 4th,
two bright flashes of lightning struck
the Bourbon power plant, putting the
same clean out of business.
The lightning struck the Wonder
Creek line at the first flash, enter
ing the power plant, making the at
mosphere blue In the building for a
while, burning out a transformer, and
letting off a grand pyrotechnic dis
play of bright flashes.
Inside of another few minutes the
town line was hit by a f1*sh of light
nlng and although part of the strike
came towards Nome, and was witness
ed In town, the Dourbon plant again
got the full force of the shock, burn
ing out another transformer.
or an hour everytFhing was con
fusion and a mass of wreckage at
the power plant, but the efficient «m
ployes had the wreckage cleared
away, and the dynamos running awajt
again Inside of an hour. The dam
age amounted to between four and
five hundred dollars.—Worker
Joseph A. Spenard is completely
remodelling the Saratoga house, mak
ing a new Interior plan. When com
pleted, the house will be newly fur
nished and open for the reoeptlon of
guests, permanent and transient.
The regular weekly meeting of
Camp Valdex, Arctic Brothers will
take place this evening In Eagle
Hall.
While traveling upjjlream be
low Circle, the sleamcr Schwatka
blew out a cylinder head recent