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No. m. TWELFTH YEAR. .^K AO WAY, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1910 PRICE, 10 CENTS
DEMOCRATS ARE VICTORIOUS
IN REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLD
(By Alaska News Bureau)
BROCKTON. Mass. Mar. 23? Eugene
FV>ss, Democrat, has been elected to
Congress from the Fourteenth district
of Massachusetts, succeeding the late
William Loverlng. Republican. At tho
last election Lovering was elected by
a majority of three to on?'.
The Democrats won by making the
tariff betrayal by the Republican par
ty and the present high cost of liv
ing their Issue.
The result of the election has caus
ed consternation among the Republi
can loaders of the state, as the Four
teenth district was considered one of
the Republican strong holds.
PUGH HAS TWO
MIGHTY HEADS
Judge Peter D. Overfleld of Val
ilfz. at one time a star football player
on the Pennsylvania team, belnj:
picked as All- American center. Is an
enthusiastic hunter as well and by th<
last bjat. Jack Pugh, the taxidermist,
received two splendid moose heads
which Judge Overfield bagged on the
Kenai penninsula.
.Mr. Pugh. who Is mounting the
heads, says they are two of the finest
and largest heads he has ever seen.
The smaller of the heads is 39*; inch
is from tip to tip and the larger
head is 6t inches at its widest
spread. The horn of the larger moos*i
is 1 4 inches in circumference where
i* joins the skull.
Mr. Pugh is rapidly getting togeth
er a splendid collection of furs of all
kinds and heads. He has a ram head
which is 32 inches from tip to tip
end the horn is 13% inches in clr
i u inference at the base.
Mr. pugh is getting the business
and is now get'ing orders for heads
from all over the Pacific coast. Sev
eral heads have been sent to him to
mount from Seattle.
There will be band practice tonight
a' the town hall.
Herb Taylor says he will organize
a basket ball team to play the "Sky
Scrapers" In the near future.
The Woman's Guild of S. Saviour's
church will meet at 2:30 tomorrow af
ternoon at the home of Mrs. Vande
w all. _
WORK WILL BE
STARTED SOON
V. t. Hahn, F. B. U'urzbacher, How
aril Ashley and Byron Olson U- ft for
: U'hltehorse this morning to inspect
the spur track and the right of way
J for the four additional miles that will
i be laid this summer.
1 Byron Olsen, who has been tempor
; arily acting as section man at Lou
? Cabin, is an experienced rock man.
having had considerable experience in
construction work in California, and
he will have charge of the prelimin
ary rock work.
Mr. Ashley went over to inspect
the machinery that will be used in
the construction work so that every
thing will be in order for an early
j start.
Names are now being taken at the
i general offices of the Whiu IV.ss for ?
1 the construction crew and in another
j week the crew will be sent to the
front. One hundred men will be put
tc work April I and another 100 men
1 will be added just as soon as the
\ weather conditions permit.
PICTURE SHOW WAS PLEASING
A good sized audience witnessed |
I the moving picture show at Klks' hall
: last night and went away well pleased :l
: with the long and interesting program] (
j The films are very clear and all of y
I them are new. never having been
] shewn in the north before. Mr.
' tlross left for Haines ihls morning j 1
i and will probably be back in Skasway i
early next month for another perforn*
1 ance. [
Late
Spring ^
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Corsets
Bon
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Corsets
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WHOM
MIME COUNCIL Bill
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON. D. C. Mar. 2:t?
Falcon Joslin, president of the Tan
ana Valley railroad, appeared before
the House committee on territories
yesterday and testified about condi
tions In Alaska in regard to the bill
providing for an appointive council.
.Mr. Joslin stated that he thought
the council should be partly elective
and partly appointive. He spoke in
glowing U'rins of tin- argicultural pus
slbllitles in the interior of Alaska and
stated that most of the camps would
become permanent towns. He said h<
had great faith in the future of the
country.
Capt. William Hall of Nome also
testified before the committee. Capt.
Hall said he favored an elective leg
islature and was opposed to an ap
pointive commission. Ho said that
an overwhelming majority of the peo
ple of Alaska were of the same op
inion.
REPUBLICAN SflVS LEADERS
HAVE BETRAYED THE PARI!
(By Alaska News Bureau)
WASHINGTON. I). C. Mar. 23? Kt-i ?
resentative Palmer. Republican, of
Pennsylvania made a speech in tht
House today in which he scored the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill as being a
betrayal of the Republican voters by
he party leaders. Palmer also at
acked Taft for having signed the bill
?nd for his recent remarks praising
t. Palmer asserted that the tariff
?aused the present high prices of liv
Representative Palmer also scored
Taft for his action in attempting to
force the Boveridge bill on Alaskan
government through Congress. Taft,
Palmer .said, was unfamiliar with Alas
kan conditions and had merely been
used as a pliant tool by certain big
interests who were seeking to con
trol Alaska.
In concluding Mr. Palmer said that
the Republicans had been derelict in
keeping their campaign promises and
predicted Democratic victories .In the
roinins congressional elections.
DEATH CLAIMS
CLAUDE KINNEY
Claude B. Kinney, the son of Mr.
iml Mrs. O. M. Kinney, located at
'ordova, but formerly of Skagway,
vhore Mr. Kinney was editor of the
llaska Dally Guide, recently died of
onsumption at Oak Grove sanitarium
lear Portland. Ore.
Claude Kinney was 23 years old anl
tad spent most of his life in Alaska,
le was a young man of exceptional
tromise and was liked by all who i
mew him. He was the founder of the
Cordova Alaskan, leaving Skagway in
905 for Cordova.
Claude was born in Pendleton. Ore.,
mi received his education in the pul
ic schools, completing his education
it Whitworth college near Tacoina.
?\>r the last two years he has been
lelping his father, who has a grocery
?tore at Cordova. Clande lias been
uffering from consumption for about
wo years. His mother was with him
vhen he died.
.Mrs. Clara Volke, wife of Chris |
Volke, who works 011 the section for j
the White Pass road, was declared
insane yesterday afternoon by a Jury
in U. S. Commissioner Conway's couit
Mrs. Volke has been suffering from
dementia for some months and her
husband lias done all in his power to
( are for her. She has grown worse,
however, and at last, upon the advice
of friends, he filed insanity informa
tion against her so that she can be |
taken below and given proper treat
ment in a sanitarium. The case is a I
\ cry sad one and the sympathy of |
the community will be extended to |
Mr. Volke, who has tried in every
way to avoid sending his wife to the I
sanitarium. Under the circumstances |
it was the only thing to do.
Dr. Gable, Deputy Marshal Holmes |
and Mr. Volke were the witnesses.
The jury was Messrs: Dillon, Moore!
Kelton, Grant, Chambers and McDon
ald:
Mrs. Volke will probably be taken
to the Alt. Tabor sanitarium on the !
Cottage City.
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LOUIS MS ARGUES THAT
END JUSTIFIED TUE WEANS
(By Alaska Newt Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 23?
Louis Glavis today admitted on the
witness stand in the Balllnger invest
igation hearing that he had deceived
Clarence Cunningham so that he could
gain access to his lodger and journal
containing the records of the coal
claims transactions.
Glavis said he did this to copy the
contents of the ledger.
In explaining this action Glavis
said he was convinced that the Cun
ningham claims were fraudulent and
felt Justified in using deceit to ob
tain evidence of tills fact.
MOTHER FOOLS MOUNTED POLICE
Many cunning criminals and hard
ened desperadoes have tried In vain
to escape from the Yukon under the
watchful eyes of the Royal Northwest
.Mounted Police, but actuated by mo
tiv b of mother love and fearful that
she would lose possession of her
children, Mrs. P. D. Cameron, now j
in Skagway, escaped from Whitehorso
Monday with her two little girls, fair
ly outwitting the police who had or
ders to detain her children.
Twice Mrs. Cameron boarded the
train at Whitehorge for Skagway and
both times the Mounted Police, who '
searched the train each morning, dis- 1
covered her and forcibly removed her
children, under orders from the Daw
son sheriff. Mrs. Cameron was de
termined to get out of the Yukon with
her children, however, and last Mon
day morning she arose at 2 o'clock
and carrying her youngest daughter,
Lottie, a little tot of three years, and
leading the other little girl, Doris,
she walked up the White Pass tracks
about five miles to Canyon. She waiti
ed there until the train came and
stood by the track and signalled for
it to stop. The train stopped and
Mrs. Cameron and her children were
taken aboard and reached Skagway
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Cameron is now in town and
will sail south on the Cottage city to
her home in the States.
Mrs. Cameron left her husband, who
had a roadhouse at Indian river on
the Whitehorse-Dawson trail because
of alleged drunkeness and cruelty on
liis part. There was no legal separ
Ulon. bnl taking her two children
she came out on the stage from Daw
son.
In the meantime her husband had ap
pealed to the sheriff at Dawson aTid
as .Mrs. Cameron had no legal right
to take the children until the action
of the court had given them in cus
tody, the sheriff wired the Whltehorse
Mounted Police not to.allow the child
ren to leave the Yukon. The Police,
of cuorse, were compelled to act ac
cording to orders.
The pec pie of Whltehorse who
knew the facts in the case generally
sympathized with Mrs. Cameron and
are glad that she escaped from the
Yukon with her children. She is out
of the jurisdiction of the Yukon; court
and her children cannot be taken
from her by any process of law un
less she touches Canadian soil and she
is pretty sure not to do this.
mkIm,
RAISES BATES
(By Alaska New* Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Mar. 22? The Alaska
Steamship company announces that it
will restore its old passenger rates
April 1. The freight rates will be
restored to the former figure before
the summer season opens.
The Cottage City sailed from Se
attle last night and Is due in Skagway
Sunday.
Just Received The
Spring and Summer Samples Of
DAVID ADLER
& SONS
Clothing
The Finest Lot of Samples That Has Ever Come
To Skagway
Come and Look Them Over
WILL CU CL oil ER