soon to appear. . When this convul
sion comes, then the changes in the isl
and ’s physiognomy are made.
HOONAH NOTES
Dr. Mahone, the government doctor
at Juneau, called at Hoonah recently
on professional business. He found
several that needed his services.
Captain Pete Fourney, of the Comet,
has returned here from Juneau, where
he had gone for medical treatment, and
has left for the head of Port Freder
ick to hunt ducks and to trail bruin be
fore he enters winter quarters. Bert
Jones will accompany him as gun bear
Charles Swanstrom, pile dirver fore
man of Bell’s cannery, will winter at
Hoonah this year. He will spend his
time hunting ducks and bears. The
hunting of bears will be a side issue.
The launch Comet took the following
hunters to Neka Bay: Captain, Steve
Kane; engineer, Bert Jones; mate, C.
Alexander; deck hand, Brandt. The
ducks were so plentiful that there was
no time to rest, not so much as time to
eat. The did take a few soda crackers
in their pockets, but beforo the day was
over each hunter had to use his soda
crackers as packing for his shoulder,
so fierce was the fray.
Claude Alexander, pile driver foreman
for Forbes cannery, and who has been
helping to repair the Hoonah wharf,
has left for his home at Orcas Island,
Washington.
William Brandt, who has been employ
ed on the wharf, will soon leave for Ju
enau.
Charles Nelson left last week for the
Sound cities. This is his first trip out
in many years. All join in wishing him
a pleasant and profitable visit.
Henry Partridge, who has been visit
ing his brother Frank, has returned to
Juneau.
Mrs. Kane and Mrs. Page have arriv
ed from Victoria.
Billie Douglas and family will soon
leave for Gypsum. Mr. Douglas will
do contract work at that place.
John Dunawalk has begun a new
two-story dwelling house.
Minnie Williams will enter the Sit
ka training school in the near future.
Many of our young people have entered
the Sitka school this fall. We feel
sure they will return to us better equip
ped for life’s work.
The Minnie, the Dundas B;„y cannery
tender, called at Hoonah for mail this
•week.
The ^f. E. C., of Bell's cannery also
called for mail, and brought over the
rest of the cannery crow for the winter.
Ben Bell was in charge.
The gas boat Helen arrived from
Kane’s sawmill with lumber last Tues
day.
The halibut schooner, the Highland
Queen, with Captain Knute in com
mand, has arrived from Seattle. She
is the first of the halibut fleet to ar
rive. While here she discharged 80
barrels of distilate on the Hoonah
wharf.
The halibut boat Porpoise called for
supplies.
Two large steamers and six large gas
oline halibut boats have been fishing
for halibut in Icy Straits during the
last three weeks.
RESTAURANT TRUST DISSOLVED
The indications are that the Douglas
restaurant , trust. has been ^dissolved
without. any assistance from the su
preme court.
The trust was organized during the
summer, when Tom Kimnro arrived
from Cordova,, with the big scheme un
der his hat. There were at that time
two restaurants, the Grand and the
Owl, both Japanese. One operated by
T. Matsumato and the other by S. Nak*
imuro. Kimuro amalgamated the eat
ing houses, and the Douglasite who fed
at the restaurants were made to feel th|
iron heel of the monopoly.
LaBt week Nakimura went out of
the organization, and took the inter
est of Matsumato in the Grand res
taurant. The trust magnates deny
that the trust is busted or that Naka
mura intends to open a restaurant in
the place formerly occupied by the
Grand. It is said however that a Sec
ond avenue boarding house has eaten
heavily into the patronage of the res
taurant trust, and that a change of tac
tics has been deemed abvisable.
THE GUPTIIi CASE
According to the Sourdough’s Skag
wav correspondent, the general opin
ion prevailing in Skagway is that the
arrest of Berryman in connection with
the assault on Guptil, was simply a
sad mistake by an old man. This cor
respondent says:
The circumstances of the assault on
Guptil are as follows: Guptil slept
alone in a room directly back of his
office; back of this bed room is a va
cant room and still further back a
room used as a wood shed. All the
lights in the office are kept burning all
night and the safe is in full view from
the street. Guptil had been to the
show with his girl on Wednesday night
and was seen to enter his office about
midnight. The next morning, Berri
man, the clerk, in the office, got there
about eight o’clock, opened the office
and went through to the rear room
for wood. Here he discovered Guptil
lying on the floor with his feet to
wards the rear door, which was partly
open, and his face, hands and upper
clothing covered with blood. His
head and face were badly battered and
cut, his eyes swollen shut and his face
so swollen and covered with dried
blood that it was impossible to recog
nize him. He was fully dressed with
the exception of his hat, which was
on the floor near him. In the vacant
room between the bed room and the
wood shed where he was lying and
near the door opening into the wood
shed was a large pool of blood some
three feet in diameter and it appears
that this is where he had first fallen,
doubtless being hit as he passed
through the door into the wood shed,
and from the quantity of blood in this
place the doctor thinks he must have
been in this spot for some hours.
There was very little blood on the
floor where he was lying when found
but there was a smear of blood from
the large pool in the other room to
the place where he was lying as
though he had been dragged by the
feet across the floor some hours after
he had been struck down and after
the blood had stopped flowing. A
small two pound axe belonging in the
wood shed was found there with blood
on the axe and handle. His hat was
lying near him and had a large dent
in it corresponding to one of the
wounds on his head. The keys to the
safe were found in his pocket and
nothing in the office seems to have
been disturbed. Later it was discov
ered that the combination of the safe
was not turned far enough to throw
it clear off, being turned only a few
points. The contents of the safe were
intact. On examination the doctor
found that he had been hit about six
times. One blow, probably the first,
waB on the right side of the top of the
head depressing but not penetrating
the skull. One on the bridge of the
nose, breaking it. One on the right
cheek. One behind the right ear, and
one on the back of the head making
a small cut from which the cerebro
spinal fluid was flowing when he was
found.
At first it was thought he could not
live but he is still alive this, Tuesday,
afternoon and seems to be stronger
though he has not recovered conscious
ness. It is thought he will pull
through and they will operate only as
a last resort. ;
Later in the day an old man, eighty
years , old, who does janitor, work in
the Pacific Coast office, said he was
passing, the Alaska Steamship office at
i a. ,m., and, saw a manr who looked
like Berrvman, at the safe; that when
he heard his passing this fellow left
the safe and went into the rear rooms.
Berriman was arrested on the strength
of this statement but he has furnished
a complete alibi and the district attor
ney yesterday morning asked that he
be completely exonerated and discharg
ed, thus leaving the case as much in
the dark as ever. The guilty party
brought nothing with him, took nothing
away, and committed the assault with
the axe belonging in the building. Ru
mors and suspicions have been rife
and, during the intense excitement
Thursday, had the guilty party been
apprehended there would no doubt
have been a lynching.
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enough for present needs; then bring
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