HAAS COMMITS
Burn6' Charges Chief of Po
lice Biggy with Com
plicity. Heney Getting"
Better. ? j
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
Sail Francisco, Nov. 16 ? Late Saturday night, Morris;
Haas, the would be assassin of Francis Heney, committed
suicide in jail by putting a ball through his head, using a
Deringer revolver which he had concealed in his shoe.
Haas had covered himself with a blanket in bed so that his
actions might not attract the attention of the guards. I
Death was instantaneous. Three officers' stood guard over
him at the time.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TELEGRAPHS SYMPATHIES
San Francisco, Nov. U? ? On Saturday afternoon, Mrs.
Heney and also liandolph Spreckles each received messages
from President Roosevelt expressing sympathy and also
pleasure at the hopeful reports of the physicians. He said
that such a man as Francis Heney alway took his life in liis
hands in such business as the prosecution of grafters.
HENEY WILL GET WELL
The condition of Heney improves right along. At 11
o'clock this morning the bullet was removed from the neck
where the X-ray had revealed its lodgment. The operation
was entirely successful and was immediately followed by
notable improvement.
Detective Burns today prefered charges against Chief
of Police Biggy in an effort to discover who was responsible
for Haas having a revolver in his possession in jail.
TflFT 10 !
TALK TARIFF
i
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON. Nov. 16.? A spt
cial session of congress will be call-|
rj at once bv Mr. Tuft U|?ou his tak |
ing office on the 1th of March, the!
purpose being to consider tariff legis- j
lation. His message to congress will
be devoted to the subject.
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Rube Shearer sailed south on the
City of Seattle to visit his father who
is very ill. J. W. Shearer, his broth- ,
t-r. who has been south for some
weeks, returned on the May. 1
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SUICIDE IN JAIL
MORE DISBARMENT PROCEEDINGS
Assistant District Attorney Barn
hill this morning filed an information
with the court, being the first step
of what is in the nature of disbar
men' proceedings, against John II.
Cobb, of the firm of Maloney & Cobb,
lawyers, of Juneau. Judge GunnlSou
allowed the filing of the complaint,
which is drawn by District Attorney
John J. Boyce, and issued an order
summoning the respondent to show
cause why he should not be punished,
made returnable December 7.
The action grows out of previous
proceedings of a similar nature, the
direct complaint being on account of
a communication which Cobb caused
to be printed in the Juneau Alaska
Dispatch, a copy of which is made a
part of the complaint, and is as fol
lows:
COMMUNICATION.
Editor of the Dispatch: I am in-|
formed that the Record, on yesterday,
among other things, charged the firm
of which I am a member with hav
ing written or dictated a notice of
the decision of the disbarment ease.
This is not true, and I wish you to
so state. I do not care to discuss
the case at all at this time, since
the whole matter will, in the near
future, be made the subject of a
thorough investigation in other dis
barment proceedings.
Of course, I realize that if there
had been the slightest grounds shown
for my disbarment, I would certainly
have been disbarred. As no such
grounds Were shown, thq best the
court could do for the gang whose
sinister influences paralyzed the
Judge for the past two years, was to
seek an excuse to save their faces
cr ' Cwi'.j. ?> had kepi ;'u
"sQ'icro deal'' pr*m!.o he nade
In ICC", there would hr
been some disbarments before thl9,
but mine would not have been one
of them. Under the shameful condi
1 Hons from which southeastern Alas
ka is suffering so much, 1 suppose 1
should be thankful, and to continue
to wait. J. H. COBB.
GRAND DUKE
ALEXIS IS DEAD
(By United Press.)
PARIS, Nov. 16.? The Grand Duk<
Alexis, uncle to the czar of Russia,
died here Saturday
MAHONEY INCOGNITO.
A recent issue of the Dawson News
lias the following to say of Labor
Leader Mahoney, who recently visited
"Fairbanks: "Mahoney in Tanana ?
Labor leader discards disguise after
passing Dawson ? C. R. Mahoney. vice
president of the Western Federation
of Miners, who visited Dawson in
cognito three weeks ago, and left
here after quietly reviewing the labor
situation in this camp, and pronounc
ing it satisfactory, has been looking
over the Fairbanks situation, and will
continue to the outside by way of
Nome. While In Dawson he regis
tered at the King Edward under the
name of "J. B. Jones, of Springfield,
111." His headquarters are in Den
ver. and he was one of the men on
whom the burden of organization
rested while Moyer, Pettibone and
Hayward wore on trial for their
lives."
KAISER 10 DO
US HE PLEASES
(By United Press.)
BERLIN, Nov. Itf? The kaiser to
day made a public statement to the
effect that he will not allow the reich
stag to dictate to him. He says he
will do as he pleases. An open
breach has occurred between the em- j
peror and the people. A public de- 1
man? has been made upon him to ac- ,
cept the resignation of Chancelor von
Buelow, which was presented some
days ago. In some respects the sit- ,
nation is unprecedented. delations
between the emperor and the people 1
and between the emperor and the
reichstag and also within his own offi
cial family are strained.
HE HUMBOLDT
The P. C. SS Humboldt is reported
from below as due in Juneau at 5
o'clock this evening and is not to be
expected here before niorning. The
City of Seattle arrived up at 3 A. M.
and left the same morning.
We Have It!
FRESH APPLE CIDER
'
Right from the orchards
of Oregon at 60c a gal.
GANTY & FRANDSON
THINGS DM III CHIM
(By United Press.)
LONDON, Nov. 16. ? Although the
foreign office is exercising every
means in its power to do so the re
ported death of the emperor of China
cannot be confirmed. Many in offi
cials circles believe he is still alive.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.? Authen
tic information received here by the
state department is to the effect
that the dowager empress died Sat
urday morning and the empress that
same night. The death of both was
caused by slow poison.
PEKIN, Nov. 16.? The dowager
empress died yesterday afternoon.
Prlnc? Chun rules as regent. Puyl, a
nephew of the empress will be placed
on the tbcgne.
MANILA, Nov. 16. ? The entire Am
erican fleet Is held here in readiness
to proceed to China to protect Amer
ican Interests. Revolution is feared
as result of the advocacy by the
dead emperor of the open door pol
icy. The fear is heightened since
the news of the death of the empress
dowago- and the cause of death.
WATER QUESTION
AT HAINES
George Vogel of Haines, was in
town today on a business trip. He
says the Incorporation matter Is not
asleep in Haines but will be revived
the minute the growing population
will ? warrant. He says the town is
in a bad way for water service; that
the rcliance upon wells is certain to
result in sickness sooner than later,
lie says thero is ample water to sup
p'y the whole town now being run
into the bay as the overflow from the
service of excellent mountain-lake
water at the fort, but that the gov
eminent will not permit of it being
Ullloil l?y ii private oompaiiy 101" aalc.
which would be done in short order
if it was permissable. If the town
wiib incorporated then the fort people
would give the water free to the
town. Until there Is Incorporation 1
there is no means by which the diffi
culty can be overcome, and the water
which the town would be glad to
avail itself of, must run to waste.
The danger from fire Is also very !
sroat under the present conditions.
And by the same token, Mr. Vogel
nays, there was a fire at the resi
lience of W. G. Russell on Saturday
night which was fortunately stamped
out before it got any headway.
Business is reported to be good at
Haines.
BOB SHELDON
GOES MHO
The Alaskan is In receipt of a let
ter from "Bob" Sheldon, dated at
Fairbanks, Oct. 14. Robert reports
himself as having become the real
thing as a miner; that he has se
cured some placer claims on Little
Unknown creck In the Fairbanks dis
trict and that, with J. F. Bradley, he
intends doing development work dur
ing the winter. He is none too confi
dent about it, however, since he pre
dict"! "a hard winter" and "perhaps
before spring Yours Truly will wish
hlmseH back in dear old Skagway,
selling postage stamps." He sends
his best wiaiics to HKagway camp, A.
B. and says that as P. A. C. of that
camp he was given a hearty welcome
by Dawson camp. He also refers to
the activity manifested In Fairbanks
camp and that he was present
at the Installation of the newly el
ected officers of that camp.
Ed Woods, John- O'Neill and John
Wltmark are in town on business be
fore the court.
? * ?
The case of the U. 3. against Al
bert Relnert, charged with an assault
with a deadly weapon, was called
thin morning and turned over -to the
grand Jury for Inquiry at Juneau at
the December term. A number of
witnesses were cited to appear In
Juneau at that time.
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