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COMMITTEE 10 INVESTIGATE
MUG LIS OF ALASKA
DENVER. ? The American Mining
Congress is preparing to make nn ex
haustive inquiry into mining condi
tions in Alaska, with special referent*
to needed changes in the mining laws
and to tliis end has appointed a com
mittee of five men who will spend]
most of the summer conducting in- '
vestlgattons and preparing recommen-j
dations. The report of this committi<|
will be one of the chief topics for dis
cussion at the next annual session of
the Mining Congress, which will be
held at Ooldfleld Nevada. Sept. 27th
to Oct. 2nd. 1901*.
The names of the members of the
committee are: J. L. Steele. Chair
man. Landlock. Alaska: Maurice l>.
Leehev. Falcon Joslvn and 11. K. liar
riman of Seattle, and \V. L. I. eland,
of San Francisco. All five are heav
ily interested in Alaska, and are more
or less thoroughly acquainted with
mining conditions in that district.
Several meetings of the committee
have already been held in Seattle,
and after a subdivision of work, j
the men respectively departed for Al
aska to make their special investiga
tions. The questions to be taken- up
together with the name of the party
to whom the task of investigating has
been assigned, are as follows:
1st. Corporation Laws and Preven
Mr. Steele:
2nd. Trans|>ortation, especially with
reference to mining roads, assigned
to Mr. Joslyn:
:5rd. Laws relating to water rights,
assigned to Mr. Leland;
4th. Laws relating to coal and oil
lands, assigned to Mr. Harriman;
5th. Mining Laws, both lode and
placer, assigned to Mr. Leehey.
It is especially desired that all Al
aska Mining men who have any re
commendations or suggestions to of
fer to the committee with reference
to any of the above, should corres
pond with the Chairman as promptly
as possible, addressing Mr. J. L.
Steele, of Land look, Alaska.
No movement of recent years has
meant so much for Alaska as this ef
fort of the Mining Congress to re
move the restrictions which are hind
ering the development of that terri
tory. The rapid rise of Alaska in gold
production, the opening up of vast
bodies of copper ore. and the discov
ery of large bods of good coal have
so attracted capital that demand is
now arising for needed changes in
the laws so as to secure protection
and justice for all concerned. This
Committee's report, if adopted at the
session of the Mining Congress in
(loldfield will be made the basis of
an appeal to the Congress of the I'n
ited States, at its regular session next
December, to take up the question of
amending the mining laws of Alaska
in line with these recommendations.
It is hoped that all mining men wh
have any interest in this matter, and
who recognize the handicaps resting
upon Alaska, will communicate with
the chairman of the committee, and
lend such assistance and co-operation
in making these investigations, as
will enable the committee to iuak<* it.s
work thorough and with greatest ad
vantage to 'the territory.
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(By United Press. )
SAX FRANCISCO. Cal. July i::? '
Tin- wife ot Thomas T. Lane, the well
known Nome and Southeastern Al
aska mining operator, obtained a di
vorce from him yesterday on the
grounds of neglect. In her complaint
she alleged that he lost SoT.not) gam
bling during the recent race meet in
California. She was given alimony. .
NATIVES SELL
SEAL SIS
(Special to tlif Daily Alaskan)
SITKA. July 13 ? llernard Hirst to
day bought 150 fur seal skins from
th?* natives at $17 apiece, leaving j
250 skins in the hands of the natives
which are being held at $19. This;
breaks the deadlock which has pre
vailed between the native syndicate
and the fur buyers since June 1. I
We could make clothes
expressly for you here at home, but
a local tailor shop today is impractical
and unprofitable.
?AA?? (Ml* IUITIMI >M?
It has no labor market from which to secure
desirable cutters and tailors ?
It cannot afford to install a modern plant
designed to reduce cost of production ?
It doesn't do sufficient business to enable it
to buy woolens direct from the mills ?
It cannot keep abreast of metropolitan styles
and workmanship.
Therefore, we send our orders
for fine made-to-measure clothes to
Ed. V. Price & Co., of Chicago.
We can take your measure the
same way we would if running shops
here, and furnish you your clothes,
made as you want them, at 50 $ less
than we could make them locally.
JUL Won't you call today?
LYNCH & KENNEDY
The Up-To-Date Haberdashers and Ladies' Furnishers
? MS SEHTORS
ELECTED Bt 1 PEOPLE
(By United Press.)
LINCOLN, Neb. July 13? William
Jennings Bryan today addressed an
opim letter to Pr?>sident Taft request
ing him as leader of the Republican
party, to take steps so that at the
same time the question of the income
tax was submitted to the vote of the
people for ratification, that the ques
tion of electing United States Sen
ators by the direct vote of the people
will also be submitted.
J. J. ROGERS DIES AT VICTORIA
(By United Press.)
VICTORIA. B. C. July 13 ? J. J.
Rogers, formerly United States com
missioner at Skagway, died in a local ;
liospital late yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Rogers will be burled by the
Clks" Lodge. The funeral will be
held Wednesday. Ills last request
was to be buried by the Elks."
"Judge" Rogers, as he was famil
iarly called, left many acquaintances
in Skagway. He came to Alaska In
obout 181*7 and was appointed clerk
of the district court by Judge John
stone. His- headquarters were at Sitka
and he succeeded Mr. Elliott, who
had made a fortune out of the office,
as it was then on a fee basis and the ?
only recording district Ir. Alaska.
Rogers came to Skagway in 1 SOS j
and was appointed clerk of court. In
1001 he was appointed U. S. commis-j
sioner and ho held this offlco for four
years. In 1905 ho left Skagway and
went to Fairbanks, where he prac
ticed law and was very successful.
If was in Fairbanks throe years ago
that he married Miss Adelaide Cohen
daughter of A. J. Cohen of Skagway.
They left Fairbanks about a year ago
and Judge Rogers delivered the
Fourth of July oration in Skagway
last year while on the way outside.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers made a trip
to England and Mrs. Rogers studied
music and appeared in several oon
certs. When they returned to the Un
ited States, Judge Rogers was taken
ill and was confined to the Green
River sanitarium for some time. Dur
Ing his Illness his wife had an engage
ment on the Pantages vaudeville cir
cuit.
Mr. Rogers was about T>2 years of
age. .
WITNESSES SAY
THAW IS BUGS
(By United Presb.)
WHITE PLAINS. N. Y. July 13?
That Harry Thav,- Is insane ia the k<"
era! opinion of the witnesses who tea
ifU'tl today In the lunacy hearing. It
is probable that n commission of
three alienists will be appointed to
pass upon the question of his sanity.
MR. CHENEY'S MOTHER DIED
Word was received in this town
that the mother of Z. R. Cheney, the
well known Juneau attorney, died at
Worthlngton, Minn., on June 10, just
a few days before her son arrived
there from Seattle to introduce his
bride to his mother. Mr. Cheney will
remain in Worthington for some time
settling up his mother's estate.
DEMOCRATS
BEAT BILL
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 13?
Champ Clark, Democratic leader in
the House, aided by the Democratic
congressmen, succeeded today in vot
ing down a bill providing for the ap (
polntiuent of a committee of fifteen
to visit Seattle and inspect the A.-Y.
P. exposition.
S. SAVIOURS' SUNDAY SCHOOL
OUTING
The place of holding the Sunday
School picnic has been changed from
Fortune Bay to Burro Creek. It will
be on Wednesday and the boat will
leave promptly at 9 o'clock. Every
one going is asked to be at the dock |
at 15 minutes before nine. Particulars!
may be hail from Mr. Yeomans, Mr.
Lowle, Mrs. Geo. Howard or Rev. j
Jenkins.
Hot and Cold Baths at White Passj
Hotel, Whitehorse, Y. T.
Call Bolls and Best Service at
V.Tilte Pass Hotel, Whitehorse, Y. T. ]
Stop at the Caribou hotel when In
Carcross. Fine fishing and hunting
in the immediate vicinity. Overlooks
the beautiful shores of the lake. E. j
\V. Gideon, prop. ,
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PERSONS REBEL AGIST
TYRANT AND WIN BATTLE
(By United Preso.)
TEHERAN, Persia. July 13? Aftor
a terrific battle with the rebels, the
forces of Shah Muzaffard-Dim were
defeated today and the Shah himself ]
has taken refuge at the Russian con-'
sulate, where he is guarded by a
large force of Cossacks.
The rebels are massacring all those
suspected of of being in sympathy
with the Shah and the streets are
literally running with blood. Many
foreigners have been massacred, as
the rebels are very bitter against all
outsiders since the Cossacks have
been supporting the Shah and contin
uing him in power.
RICHES IN REAL ESTATE.
Claiming it by right of conquest a
regiment of railroad engineers has ta
ken possession of an empire in the Fa
cific Northwest more than 1,000 miles
long and approximately 400 miles In
width. Take the map and find where
the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound begins its westward trek, on
tiie Missouri river in No'Vr Dakota,
and you have a pretty good point from
which to reckon the region westward
to where the Pacific ocean washes the
coast of Washington, in every import
ant part of which the railroad giants
of America are today carrying on the
mightiest struggle for empire in the
history of the world.
Over four big mountain ranges the
engineers of the Northern Pacific,
Great Northern, Milwaukee and the
Harriman systems have worked
through sun and storm, in winter and
blizzards, seeking out and mapping j
every available pass where railroad ]
trains can be run safely and profit- 1
ably. The Itocky mountains on the
east, the Bitter Hoot range in Idaho
and Montana, the Cascades and Olym
pics in Washington have been pene-j
trated and mapped as never before.
When the Chicago, Milwaukee & St,
Paul projected its extension to Seattle !
A. J. Earllng, president of the road,|
got together in conference his trusted
men in the engineering corps. Addi-j
tions to the staff were taken from the
ranks of the best equipped railroad j
engineers in the country. They were|
told, first, that money didn't count forj
much, but that secrecy counted for
everything. Then they were directed i
to seek out and locate the best routes |
for the St. Paul's coast extension and
its branch line construction to follow]
later, the whole involving an expendi
ture of $200,000,000 or more.
Since that day the railroad engineer
has been king of the Pacific North
west. He has gone about his work
by devious but at all times certain
ways. More than one man in charge
of secret parties for the Milwaukee
and Harriman systems has had sums
running into the hundreds of thou
sands at his disposal for the purchase
of rights-of-way in narrow canyons on
the Olympic peninsula, or through the
steep defiles of the Cascades and the
Bitter Root mountains.
It is of record that in one instance
a St. Paul engineer saved his company
$700,000 by quick and judicious ap
plication of the money test to a man
who owned a body of timber in the
Olympic peninsula, where future oper
ations of the Earling road will be on
a magnificent scale.
For two years past these secret
highly-paid emissaries of Harriman,
Rockefeller, Hill and Morgan have
threaded every mountain pass and tim
bered area in the Pacific Northwest.
The map of Washington shows the
Olympic peninsula ? west of Puget
Sound ? a vast territory, larger than
several eastern states, unoccupied by
any railroads. This rich territory is
now the scene of the greatest railroad
activity in the country. Colby or Man
chester, thirty minutes away ? nine
miles from Seattle ? will inevitably see
their ferry terminals. There is now a
survey into both places. Why not buy
an acre of ground there now and see
it develop into suburban home sites?
Liebly & Blutner now offer acre tracts
which will cut into 10 lots 30x130 for
$200, on $10.00 monthly payments.
Stop at the Dominion Hotel when i
Whitehorso and get home cooking
and clean conifortabla beds.
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