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No. h'U. TWELFTH year 8KAUWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER to. -WW : PRICE, 10 CENTS
(By United P'ess)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Oct. 16? Forty,
persona arc dead as the result of yes
terday's storm which swept Tennes
see, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and
South Carolina. The devastation was
wide spread. Many towns were to
tally wrecked.
ST. YVES WINS MARATHON RACE
(By United Press.)
SEATTLE. Oct. IS? St. Yves won
the Marathon race at Dugdale's park
yesterday for the $10,000 purse of for
cd by Robert Guggenheim. rnnnlng the
I'd miles 3 So yards In 2 hours. .12
minutes and 39 seconds, breaking the
world's record for the distance.
John Marsh of Vancouver was sec
ond and Hayes, the winner of the
London Olvpian Marathon, was third. !
Marsh's time was 2 hours, 35 min
utes and 42 seconds. Hayes' time
j was 2 hours, 44 minutes and 5 sec
onds.
Wada, the Jap nnisher. failed to
show up and forfeited Ills entrance
u>y.
Reindeer Bill Iluber of Alaska was
the clown of the race. He finished
Ernest Rheininuth of Skagway did
not enter the race, although news
paper men arranged to pay his ent
rance fee.
Ten thousand people saw the con
?
CASTLE GETS
FEDERAL JOB
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 16? Nev
ille Castle has been appointed assist
ant United States attorney for th>'
Second judicial district with headqunrt
ers at Nome.
(By United Presn.)
SEATTLE. Oct. 16? Capt. Ranch
man of the Humboldt has filed a sal
vage suit of $25,000 against the Cot
tage City of the Pacific Coast Steam
ship company, for towing the Cottage
City to Bella Bella when she lost her
propeller in Fitzhugh Sound about
two weeks ago.
PRESIDENT HI
SAN ANTONIO
(By UnHed Press.)
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. Oct. IS?
President Taft arrived hero this morn
ing and will leave this afternoon for
Corpus Christ). He will arrive there
tomorrow morning and remain for
four days at the big cattle ranch of
his brother. Charles Taft.
HPS DEAD
IN LONDON
(By UnHed P-ess.)
LONDON, Eng. Oct. 18? William
ttuchanan of Buffalo. N. Y., who was
here on an important mission from
the Department of State of Washing
ton. was suddenly stricken with heart
failure on the street yesterday and
died almost Immediately.
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A cable dispatch to the Associated
l>ress from Valdez yesterday an
nounced the sale of the Alaska Cen
tral railroad to Interests representing
a syndicate headed by George W Per
kins, of New York, partner of J. P.
Morgan. The sale, made for Receiver
0. G. Labaree, of Spokane, by Deputy
United States Marshal Sullivan for
$600,000, marks the end of the long
period of Ballalne-Ffost litigation
which has Involved the Alaska Cen
tral almost since its inception, and
means the withdrawal of the A. C.
Prost interests from connection with
the line.
It is stated that while J. P. Morgan
Co. are to be agents and bankers
for the company, the control Is not
to be the same as that of the Copper
River & Northwestern, In which J. P.
Morgan controls 50 per cent, and the
Guggenheim Interests the other half.
Construction contracts are 6oon to
be signed for the extension of the lln
up the rich Susltna valley to a junc
tion with the Tanana rlvpr near Fair
banks, 425 miles to the northward. A
branch northwesterly from Knlk
through the Yentna and tic Kuskck
wlm to Nulato or Kaltag, jn th j Yu
kon, Is also projected and i.uty be put
.
| t\r?.ugh slmu)tai ?'>*isly n!tli t!.e line
to the Tanana. This will :a4< a rich
mining district, as the Susltna line
will develop a region rich In agricul
tural posslbiltes, and the system will
then consist of about 1300 miles, hand
ling the traffic of gold, copper and
coal mining and the farming of the
Susltna. Between the two branches
the system, steamers will be operated
on the Yukon. Some extension work
may be done during the winter.
Two thousand or three thousand
men are to be employed early in the
spring in extending the line, and the
Tanana extension Is expected to be
completed within two years. Later
the road will be extended eastward
into the hard coal region of the Mat
anuska.
The extension up the Susltna and t
the Tanana Is to be comparatively
easy and cheap. It is estimated tlyU
it will not run more than $30,006 a
mile, making a total of $12,7">0,000 for
the whole. The expensive part of the
construction Is believed to be over.
The- Alaska Central now has seven
ty-two miles of line, extending from
Seward northward, Just beyond Turn
again arm. T1k* construction was
started by the promoter, John E. Bal
laine, Ln 1903 ? Seattle P. I.
COOK WOULD
CLEAR FAME]
(By United PrM*.)
NEW YORK. Oct. 18? Dr. FrederWId
Cook stated today that he wilt- aban
don his lecture tour and make' prepa c
tions to scale Mt. McKlnley to obtain
the records of his earlier ascent and
to dear his reputation of the suspic
ion which is now prevalent about- his
ascent of the Alaskan mountain.
The explorer's club have asked him
to explain his ascent of Mt. McKinley.
SITKA MINE
MAY BE SOLD
(By UnlUd Press.)
SITKA. Oct. 18? James Freeburn,
who experted the DeOroff mines
last June for the Rratnober syndi
cate, today went to Chlchagoff to
open negotiations for the purchase of
this property. C. E. La tiger also wen
to Chlchagoff with a cyanide plant to
work the tailings from the mill which
will average $1.60 a ton.
FOREIGN BERTH FOR MM.
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON. D. C. Oct, 18? Ch:K
Magoon, formerly governor of Cuba,
will undoubtedly succeed Crane as
minister to China.
A discovery which will be of inter
est to the antiquarian and geologist,
was a number of caves found by
Ix>uls Hlnckel In the Elliott creek
Country during the past summer.
While hunting, mountain sheep at
the head of Deception creek Hlnckel
found a series of caves in the lime
stone Just above where the contact of
the limestone and greenstone occurs.
The caves are twelve In number and
are at an attitude of about 5,000 feet.
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EXPOSITIOH CLOSES ITS GATES
(By United Press.)
SEATTLE. Oct. 18? The Alaska-Yu
kon-pacific exposition closed Satur
day at midnight. The total attend
ance at the A.-Y.-P. waq 3,740,561.
The exposition was a financial suc
cess.
CLIMB MOUNTAIN TO FIND
WHETHER DR. COOK IS Li
(By United Presi.)
NEW YORK. Oct. 1C? Dr. Freder
ick Cook has taken the preliminary
steps to organize an expedition to as
cend Mt. McKlnley In Alaska so as
to procure the records which Dr. Co? Id
alleges he left there when he ascend
ed the summit In 190G.
Anthony Fiala, the explorer, has
been asked to head the expedition and
Prof Parker of Columbia university
will accompany the party as scient
ist.
Cook asserts that Edward Barrill
was paid by friends of Peary to make
his sensational affidavit which stated
that Cook never reached the top of
Mt. McKlnley.
The two longest of the caves are 137
and 200 feet respectively.
In the longer of these two caves
which has the ap^jmuice of being
wlnterquartera^'<QNitrge band
ftr* rikxintaln sheiip^WHttk found
two ancient huntlngspcl^^it'nd a
quantity of wood. Hlnckel
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by (ho action of the wave?r-#fobaM^
during the Trlasslc age, and that tRe
wood Is drift wood which was carried
there In bygone ages. He Is con
vinced that the wood is not now na
tive to this country, and Is taking
samples of it to the states with him
where he will have It classified by a
famous aborist attached to the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Skittetaw, a medicine man of the
Copper River Indians, better known
lo prospectors as Doctor Billum,
states that the spears were those
used by his ancestors COO years ago.
? Valdefc Prospector.
KIEBER OWNS
MARBLE HOUSE
Fred Kleber's new house on Monro
street, for which excavations are now
being made, will embody several new
ideas in its construction. It will be a
commodious frame structure with out
side walls "veneered" with cement
blocks. Owing to the manner of their
making the blocks and consequently
the building will present a very fine
appearance. Varying the usual sand
and cement mixture the exposed sur
pice of each block will 'oe a mixture
o* white marble dust and cement.
When laid wUh a white mortar the
blocks will af^^T a fine surface of
uniform and perfOT^ent whiteness, dif
fering but little from solid marble.
The Idea was original with Mr. Kio
ber who is now busily engaged mak
ing several hundred blocks. The pro
gress of the building will be watched
with Interest. ? Brooklyn (Mich.) Ex
ponent.
RIVER REPORTS
The LaPrance passed Coffee Creek
bound up stream at 7:30 a. m. today.
The Pauline passed Yukon Cross
ing bound up stream at 11:30 a. m.
yesterday.
Mrs. E. .T. Shaw returned home on
the Princess May after an absence
of about a month. Mrs. Shaw has
been in Seattle.
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