MRS. E. A. DIXON OF WHITEHDRSE
KILLED BY AUTO IN VANCOUVER
Measre reports were received in
♦his city yesterday, coming by way
of Whitehorse to the effect that j
I'M ward A. Dixon and wif\ of1
W'Uitehorse, who were in Yancouv- ■
(r, B. C., toad met with an accident j
In the latter city, whereby Mrs. Dix
on was instiui'ly killed and .Mr. Dix-!
on received injuries which may !
prove fatal.
Ihe advice states that Mr. and !
Mrs. Dixon toad been ruin down by i
aa automobile oai one of the prom- j
inent streets of Vancouver early '
Sunday morning, and that Mrs. Dix
ou was instantly killed and Mr. Dix- J
on fatally injured.
Mr. Dixon is cue of the propriet- 1
ors i f the Kegina Hotel ut White- 1
hP"\se bring in company with. Ch.'is.
Joluist u anil is widely known thru
oni thb entire northland.
During the early days of the
• JeiuUke stampede, he piloted par
ties thru the Mil: a canyon and
Whit eh or so rt'-pids.
Sir. Johnson, when he received
the uews, endeavored to get a pri
vate train from White horse in
order that lis might take the City
of Seattle out of this city last
night, but owing to the deep snow,
it was tlioag'hi that a train could
not get th'rough, so th/> attempt had
to be abandoned.
As we go to press, it is report
ed that Mr. Dixon has succumbed
to hi3 injur!'®, but this cannot be
confirmed.
BOOZE SHIPPED
ISSUE FISH
Seattle, Jan, 15—The Alaska
stNiamer Chicago, of the
Booth Fisheries Co., was seized re
cei'tlv by Federal officials and
searched for forty cases of whisfcey
alleged to have been ohij>y id) from
Alaska, labeled "fish."
Seattle, Jan. 15—The search of
tae Chicago resulted in. finding IS
quart bottl s of whiskey which were
shipped ia halibut boxes.
Sergt .Putma.ii, of the l>ry Squad,
beiiev>s that wheu tlje cache left
Alasta there were 40 cases but that
doub'less many bottl e were jam- j
med down the mouth of the halibut j
One of the members cf the crew j
is said to have shaved five bottles '
down the mouth of one 250-i>ouuu
fish.
Sergt. Putman insists on the ftr- I
rest cf Capt. O. A Johaiiseu by the I
federal authorities.
high official of
MOOSE COMI.NO HERE
DIKING THE SI MMER j
Junr.au, Jan. 15—Wool has been |
receive' here that James J. l>a-l
vis. International Director General
of the Loyal Order of Moose, and J
a staff of official-s and a number of
prominen* friends will visit Alaska !
thi9 year, coming north during Au- |
<ust. Mr. Davis is a leading citi
zen of Philadelphia, The local
•Moose will undoubtedly arrange for j
a biff reception during the party's
stay here.
LOCAIES If [tH
OF
For the past four years Ransom
■Alguire has been putting in much of
his spare time iu prospecting for
the ledge on the Sandon copper I
chum, whioh lies north of the Pue- j
bio and between that and the War '
Eagle mines, and the other day* he I
struck a twelve inch vein of fine
looking ore with a oross-cut tunnel |
at a depth of about twelve feet
from the surface of the outcrop. In
addition to copper* the ore carries
both t.old au' silver in small quan- j
titles.
Mr. Alguire is an old- timer in ;
Southern Yukon, a hustler of the
most 'ironownced type, and if the j
Sand* n claim turns out as he antici
pates i* will, the Whitehorse dis- I
t rict will soon have auother pro-!
ducin< copper mine.
has not bathed
FOK THIRTY YEARS
Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 15—That lier !
husband had net taken a bath in '
30 years was the testimony of Mrs. |
Da'sy Allen Brown hi her suit for
divorce from August Brown, wealth i
farmer, before Judge Brtvugh. Mr?.
Brown said her husband told her he
did not iutend to start taking b^ths
this late period in life. Mrs. Brown ;
is many years the junior of her hus
band, who was a widower. He
transferred $12,000 worth of real |
estate to her. Brown charges his
wife was not loyal to him. Mrs.
Brown seeks a divorce and a lib
eral alimony.
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JANUARY
CLEARANCE SALE
ONE-HALF Q) OFF ON
MEN'S and BOYS' SUITS
MILLINERY and CERTAIN
LINES of SHOES
A LIBERAL DISCOUNT ON
all other lines of goods with the
exception of Contract Goods
SALE STARTS
WEDNESDAY
ALBERT REINERT
—Successor to H. J. Lynch—
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
Valdez .Jan. 15—The d atb la,
Seattle late Friday afternoon, of
Samuel Blum, on# of the best
known Alaskan^, struck this city
I with a stunning blow. The suicide
'beorv is untenable. Mr. Blum had
j no financial difficulties, his losses
iu the recent firo was fully co*( red
! by insurance and he was a wealthy
man.
J. M. Latbrcp1 wired to the Pros
pector here from Seattle Saturday
that he was tli»>• last man with Mr.
Blum, wily a few minutes before bo
foil from the window' cf his office
in tlui Pacific Block. He delaires
that there were 110 signs of suicide
as his many frij aids would have de
tected this state. Mr. Lathrop is
firm iu the belief thi.it Blum's & 1 th
was purely accidental.
Mr. Dium felt keenly tbe loss of
his beautiful store h) re iii> the re
cent fire. Air. Latbrop cables that
sentimental reasons rather than fin
ancial concerned Mr. Blum over
his loss here.
For the past few days in S attle
Mr. Blum had been eufferag from
asthma with' slight heart trouble ut
tacks and had cxp, irienced many
fainting spells.
It is the firm belief in. Seattle
'by fri lids of the dead man, that
he was .mddeiily seized with a sharp
attack cf asthma, went to the win
dow t > s cure air, raised the win
dow and fell cut.
Samuel Bluui wag about 50 years
ol age. He was {wui and x* xwed iu
California. He early entered a bus
iness car er," ;uid oame to Alaska
in 1S97, purchasing the general
merchandising busiJicss of Koliier
and Jains 3 iu Juneaiu. A few years
later l e sold liis business, located
on tac site of the Goldste'n Em
porium, to Kaufman Brothers, of
Skagwa*', and removed to Valdez,
where b.2 established a general mer
chandising aai<l banking business. In
11*09 lie establish! d a similar busi
ness at Cordova. Later ho estab
lished stores and road houses in
the inferior of Alaska, including
Chitin i. Copper Center and oth| a*
pcints. He carried en an immense
business with mining men in vari
ous portions of Sou'htweitom Alas
ka. U> was also heavily interested
in Prince William Sound and inter
ior mining properties. His busi
ness operations were larger than
those if any other business man
along t.Ivj western coast of Alaska.
Mr. Blum is survived by his wid
ow and two children, the eldest
John Bium, is about 12 years of
ag \ A brother, Meyer (Blum, has
been 1 s Valdez manager far many
years.
PYw business men in Alaska had
a larger acquaintance or more
friends than Samuel Blum. His
reputation as a baisutfcBs man was
of the highest order. His broad
charity and loyalty to frineds weid
characteristics that are spoken of
more often than anything else
when b » name is mentioned today.
U. S. Deputy Marshal Frank Cooki
who was called to Juneau for the
nurpose of going out from that
city to several nearby towns for the
puroose of serving notices on per
sons /or jury service, returned home
on the City of Seattle yesterday.
James Barry, who yas bound ovo
to ' be Grand Jury ly U. S. Ras
muscir for an assault committed on
Ed. Nansen, tlie old nativVi re
siding in a slijock back of the White
Pass club c-n Sunday, October 22,
wa° brought up beiore the Grand,
Jury, which, is now in session at
Juiuau, and after the evidence in
the case had been heard, and; in
dictment w-hs returned by the Grand
Jury against him.
lie was released on bail at Ju
neau, shortly aft/ r his arrival th/6're
•some time ago, und made a trip
to th3 states, lie was 011 his
way back to Jun| au cn the City
of Seattle, but when, the ship reach
ed Petorst'urg, he went ashore to
visit some friends, and wlie,n the
boat sailed, lie was too far from
the dock to get on board. He
was consequently left at that port,
but will return to Juneau on th/i
first boat.
The date cf }iis trial h.ns not yet
been so*.
PATROL GETS AWAY OX
THE LONG Ml'SH
Hansen, Jan. 5—The Royal
Xoiiliw est Mounted Police exnedi- J
tioii for Fort McPherson got away |
a4 1", o'clock this moru'ng with'
t'tlr.j colors. Six : on wi»h four
dog teams comprise th1' party. Cor- j
noral Hutchinson is in charge, with, j
Constables Pratt, Hilliker and I
Cm'? of the police force, and John I
Mat'Sn. the Indian guide, and
Wi'liam Hartcr, a white man, as i
fr."il breaker, completing the line
it".
The dogs are in fine form, and
showe 1 their me tie jus* before l
leav'uj the barracks square by in- 1
diiln'ic.7 in a delightfully informal
farewell family mixup, in which' j
one worthy nipped the ear off anotfr
er of his yoko-fellows, thereby
precipitating an, impromptu mala
u*o vocal effort not on the bill. The
fellow taking the ear swallowed It,
tickUrs and all.
'•'he mushers intervened. A slash
with the whipe and each tug- ■
stre'ci.e*' was in place, and the to- i
bogjnns slid away along the beaten .
lii»'hwa* of the street, whence on
the trail to Twelvemile, when the j
plunse will be made frcm the Yu
kon Gold power s'aticn into the
trackless wilderness. From that
ooint they will bear northeasterly
un'il Seely pass is reached, thence
••lunge through the gap in the
Rockies, and descend the Peel,- j
ther.ce to MePherson. It is expect
c' the boys will bo back in March
and will bring advices from Her
echel isalnd and perhaps other Arc
tic ooints.
Sergeant Dempster, of Rampart
House, is expected here before long
on a visi\
W. C. T. U. MEETING
Tne Skagway brarnch of the W. C.
T. U., will mnet at the residence of
Mrs, L. A. Harrison Tuesday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
This is the first meeting of 1917
an ' all members are requested to bo
present.
(Subscribe for the Dally Alaskan)
CLAM CHOWDER-OYSTER STEW \
Just the Thing For This Cold Weather
Try our Maximum Little Neck Clams and
Preferred Stock Eastern Oysters. Put
up in I and 2 pound tins.
P. H. GANTY
HIGH PLACER GROUND IN ATLIN
DISTRICT WILL BE OPERATED
Charles Miller, tlie Boulder Creek
mining man, Atlin district, return
ed ".11 the Prince John, Saturday
morning, from a hurried business
♦ri~ »o Seattle, Victoria and Van
couver.
When seen by a representative of
this paner Mr. Miller said that lie
hag been engaged In extensive drift
mining on Boulder Creek foir the
i>asf several years just below the
Black workings which) produced
hundreds oX thousands of dollars
worth of gold in 1901, 2, 3, and
4.
There were about 20 men em
nloyicd on this work last season, "but
thjs winter there are only 8 men
employed owning up ground which
will <• liable him to work about 30
men during the summer season.
While outside Mr Miller and
Jack McLaren, a b rot lifer of the
man who discovered gold in the
PANAMA SLIDES OVER, BELIEF
Panama, 0. Z.. Jan. 15 — The
slides in Gaillaid cut, which. Juave
Lee n menacing navigation, have
besn overcome. Today the channel I
is in better shape than it ever has
been before.
For a minimum width of 180 feet I
it is 35 feet deep, and it is at least
30 fee* deep clear across the origi- j
nal prism, 300 feet wide.
The slides at Cucaracha and Cul
ebra, which have bulged! forward
tlierr mass, have been dredged away
until they looK flat and impotent. 1
Barring some unforseen: develop
ment, Buch as a new break in a
wholly unexpected place or the
ciumbling of the great cliffs of
breccia at Gold Hill or Contractors'
hill, the interruptions of traffic by
t**e slidoa are done.
ELEVEN* MEN COMPOSE
REGULAR JURY PANEL
A» the present time there are
bu» eleven men left on the regular '
panel of the petit jury, as most of j
♦hose drawn were from Skagway j
and were unable to leave their i
work They we're; excused, by judge
Jennings from attendance on the
Court .after 'hey had shown good
and sufficient caus?.(
Those left on the jury panel are
Mark Smith, G. W. Hincliman, EI
wor-d McLean, George Mowl, J. H.
Stanfield, I. ~D. Carpenter, A. C.
Williams, Frank Morris, F. M.
Harvey, L. S. Ferris, L. G. Bruner. I
—Juneau Empire.
Atlin, district, secured a lay on,
'3,000 feet of the CharUs/ Quoen.
leases, laying along Bide of Pine
Creek, just above the town of Dis
covery, and he also secured, from
I the Columbia Gold Mines Company
♦ he use of an. abundance of water
from their immense ditch, for use
(n hydraulicing thig ground on ft
large scale. These leases awj known,
to ty very rich, in gold, but the
| lack of water h^ve prevented their
operation until tlys present time,
and new that arrangements have
bee made wUareby a suuply of
water sufficient for the operation of
this property ha$ been made, tlii'3
fac' that operations on a large
scale are to he carried on will add
a great deal to making this district
one of th>> big produoers of the ncr
fheru section of British Columbia.
Mr. Miller wag a passenger for
Caribou enroute to Atlin and tho
mines on today's train.
MEHAFFEY10
REIUHN SOOTH
Seattle, Jan. 12 — Captain Jos
epn Mehaffefy, one of the mem
bers of the Alaglca Road Commis
sion, and engineer assistant to Col
onel W. P. Richardson, j>r \pident of
the commission, arrived from Wash
ingVr, D. C., this morning on his
way to Alaska. Capt. Mehaffey
gave out no interview today, but
it is understood that he intends to
go immediately to the interior and
then return to. Juneau where of
ficial business will call him.
DOUGLAS MAYOR WILL
WELCOME SALOOXLESS DAV
Douglas, Jan. 9—"I am not and
never have been a prohibitionist,
bu* I will welcome the day when
there will not be a saloon in this
town and I do not think there will
be after the first of July,' said
Mayor M. J. O'Connor last night at
the meeting of the council and dur
ing the discussion of bills-amount
ins: to over $100, which bills were
charged up against the city by 6t.
Ann Hospital for the care of super
anua<ed drunks. Continuing, the
Mayor,said: "The, saloons supply
theses old fellows with whiskey and
when sickness follows they are
sent to the hospital and the town
of Douglas must pay thfe bills. For
my part, I am disgusted with the
whole business." ''
The Overcoat
Assortment of the Town
THE RIGHT COAT FOR EVERY MAN
THE RIGHT COAT FOR EVERY PURPOSE
The Overcoat is a law unto itself, it Has big work to
do —no less than to "make the appearance of the
man" whenever he ventures out of doors.
Each season there is leading ideas in overcoats that
seem to take the nation by storm.
We pride oueselve3 on being students in overcoats.
We buy from houses who have not only the reputa
tion for making overcoats right but the right overcoat
We carry several leading makes standing out con
spicuously such as Hart, Schaffner & Marx, and the
famous waterproof Kenyon Coats.
WILL CLAYSON