LESSON IN PRACTICAL GEOGRAPHY
District Attorney J. J. Crossley of the
thin) judicial division will sail south to
Seattle on the Jefferson and there take
ship for Valdez where court is to cou
T-f ne on the 19th. This Is the 18th.
He is getting his lirst lesson in the
"p-actical geography" of the third ju
dicial divis on and if the lesson could be
brought home to tbe makers of our
laws at Washington it at least ought
to serve to hasten the passage of a law
for which the people of that divisiou
have been clamoring for many years in
vain? but with hope springing eternal.
Judge Reiit hai called a session of court
to be held at Fairbanks in the early
sutnmer. Hut the judge for some reason
did not gut iu and the term lapsed and
another term was called to be held In
August. Again, probably because tile
the judge, himself a neq^omer to <
the big countn , discovered too late
the impossibility of reaching Fairbanks
iu time from Seattle, or somewhere
down in the states, where he has been
summering ? and again the term lapsed.
Recently another order was issued by
Judge lield by wire from S at'.le calling
asf s-ion at Valdez Mr. Crossley was
in Fairbanks. It w> uid ordinarily be i
the dis'rict attorney's business tout
osce direct the marshal to call a <'raml <
jury, but Mr. Crosslej is of the opinion
that an order issued by the judge while
out of the jurisdiction, well enough to
apprise Che court offlcials of bis inten
tion, is not binding la law, aud there,
fore he did cot call the grand jury.
There are three murder and other Im
portant casts and an Improperly drawn
grand jury would not do. Mr. Crowley
started for Valdez at once from Fair
banks, hoping to make connection with
a steamer to the westward from Juneau.
But on arriving here he Odds
t?at he would have to wait ten days for
a steamer at Juneau and that he can
iu:ike a little time and incur no more
expense by going to Seattle and taking
a boat from there by the outside. So
he will go that way, thereby adding an
other 180o mile* to bis journey? alto
gether a distance, Fairbanks to Valdez,
summer traveling, for the district at
torney to attend court in the third ju
dicial dis rict, of THREE THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED MILES. A
month's time will have been consumed.
There has been as great a waste of or
miscalculation in time as in distance.
Tbo term of court was cailtd for the
lyth. It Is now the 18th. It will take
Mr. Crossley four days to reach Seattle,
leaving tonight, and if he makes close
connection it will lake him another
four and more likely live day9, or nine
ilays in all, from today? with court
railed for tomorrow. This little story
is respectfuily referred to the next con
cress.
RON PIPE
Charles Johnson, arrived out a few
days with a check for ?500, presum
ably rcp.-es^nting his summer's labor.
He took to <lriok while waiting for the
boat however, ?nd how much he has
of the three hundred left is con j ,'Ctural.
Anyhow Chief of I'olic : Gaor ;e Dillon
was signaled for do*n at the Miscot
saloon (hi" after oon and upon arrival
there Johnson wasfoundon thesidewilk
He was a si^'ht to see-drenched with
bit od which w s s' reaming from several
cashes in his head. He was taken to
the oflice of Dr. Hrawjnd who dressed
his wcunJs, Assistant District Attor
ney Barnhill swore /out a complaint
charging assiult with a deadly weapon
.palest Albert Rinehart, proprietor of
the Mascot, and his bartender, W. J.
Charles.
Johnson alleges that in a controversy
the two men attacked hira when he was
ilone w ith * hem in the 9aloon, Rlnehart
using a piece of #as pine.
RUEFATHiS"
OLD TRICKS
(By United Pre*' )
San Francisco, Sep'. 13 -Frank Mur
phy and Adolph Newburgh, Fuel's
attorneys, were today arrested and
placed under heavy bonds to answer
indictments found by the errand jury
yesterday, charging them with jurj
bribing. ?
Cyncb and Kennedy
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(By United Pre??-)
Chicago, Sept. 18. -No less than fif
teen young girls have been kidnaped
Inthlsolty within a period of two weeks.
In no case has any hint of their whert
abouts or their fate been discovered.
The police aro in a dilemma. Chief
Shippey has organized a special corps
of detectives to follow every clue. The
girls are from various walks of life,
some of them working gii^s and some of
| thorn daughters from prominent fami
nes, and the greatest alarm has been
created. The disappearances were
clouded in mystery and there ?re varl
ous theories Somo of the police are
at first of the opinion that the dltap
pearances were voluntary and the fac's
were kept secret, but the number re
ported has led to the belief that the
cases are kidnaping and that an organ
ized band is at work, for various ends.
WHERE IKE GET HE WORSE OF II
District Attorney J. J. Crowley, of
the third judicial division is of the
opinion that the penally provided for
deal poaching is not severe enough if
the seals are to te saved from extinc
tion. By treaty with Great Britain
both the United States and the sealer*
of Canada and Great Rritain must keep
far out to sea from the rookeries while
the Japs patrol the circle of the three
mile limit ? not being bound by treaty ?
and slaugnter the mother and other
seals mercilessly. If captured within
this limit they are liable to *ix month*'
imprisonment and confiscation of the'r
fishing outfit. The penaltv docs nut
deter them. Mr. Crowley thinks it
should be heavier. That our own men
a.- well a* those of Hog land and Canada
khould bo fended ofT from participation
in these operations for the sako of th
seal* and then that the Ja|<s should h?
allowed to get in and reap the profit*
and exterminate the seals at the same
time ho thinks Is pretty tough. Ai d
so do some others. There are 85 J?p
sealers awaiting trial at V alder. for
poaching.
SOLVING THE
SEVEN PUZZLES
Assittant District Attorney I?arohltl
held the conter of the stage before the
city council last evening from $ until 11
o'clock. He had reduced the 1*8 ordin
ances of that l>ody to a comprehensible
form and greatly Compressed in bulk
and was reading the result to tho cou
cil. At 11 o'clock the weary watcher*
and listeners adjourned until this eve
ning and will take up the busiuess
where they left off.
Mr. Barnhill has been working night
and day since the work was given him
to do. He has struggled with a multi.
tude of contradictions and repetitions
and reduced the mass to a singleness
of purpose that will solve six, perhaps,
of the seven puzzles.
WILL LEAVE NOTHING UNDONE
Col. Sol Ripin9ky h*s received a letter
from Judge Wickersham, dated Fair
banks, Alaska. Aug. 27, 1908, which
reads as follows:
Hon. Sol Rlpinsky, Haines, Alaska,
My Dear Colonel:? I wish you would
thank tny many friends at Haines and
southeastern Alaska and assure them
thai I shall leave nothing undone which
will be of aid to southeastern Alaoka
and which shall be within my power,
I am, very truly, your friend,
James Wickersham.
FORTUNES MADE BY NEWSBOYS IN
.KLONDIKE
Fred Wonderland, former carrier or
tho Yukon Sun on the crcekn near
Dawson, died recently In Des Moines,
fowa. where ho was proprietor of a
grocery. Wonderland carried the Sun
four years and by great hustling ami
carc assembled 510,000, which he tcok
to Des Moines, and with which he
started himself In business. Re w?s
a brother-in-law to Max Lang, former
News circulatior on bunker and Do
fainion. Lang left here with ? stake
of $50,000 which he tnaJe by carrying
papers, delivering ^ooda as special
messenger, fiddling for roadhouse
hops, and Investing in Dawson real
estate. He once owned the West block
?Dawson News.
FIEET IS OFF AGAIN
(By United Press.)
Albany, Australia, Sept. 18 ?The
American fleet sailed this morning at
5. Thousands lining the ivharves
cheered farwell.
Subscribe for The Alaskan
Want ads in tffe Alaskan bring re
sults. Everybody reads them.
All the dellcaclea of the season ai
the Pack Train restaurant.
"Paradise"
That is the name ot our new
SODA CRACKERS
*
Crisp- --Flaky Delicious
Cost no more than the other kind
GANTY & FRANDSON
(By United Proa.)
Washington, Sept. li?Lleut. Thom
as Selfridge, of the signal corn*, died
last night as the mult of Injuries
received In an accident which befell
the aeroplane of Orvllle Wright, which
has been conducting experiments nesr
here. Wright himself was badly
Injured, but will recover. The aero
plant was doing beaut fully. performing
diRicult evolutions before a tbroog of
thousands of spectators when the
propeller broke, the machine beiog
seventy. five feel in the air. It fell and
with a crash. Orvllle Wright la broth
er to Wilbur Wright, who, with a
duplicate of Orvilie's machine, It creat
ing such aa'onishment in Krance. The
brothers have b.*n working on their
Invention lor five year*.
Washington, Sept. )S? The Injuries
sustained by Orrllle White consist of
eeversl broken r!U and a badly frac
tared thigh. He will, however, recover
Lemans, France, 19 ? Wilbur Wright
!> grief stricken over the accident
which befell hit brother at Washington
and is inoooaolable. He baa canceled
all dates for making ascentlons. of
which there were many.
Berlin, Sept. 18? Emperor William
has cabled his personal condolences to
Orville Wright.
Washington. Sept. 1#? It ts declared
the government w|i| accept the sero
plane of the Wflght brothers without
farther trial as a means of showing Its
eonfiderce.
NELSON LAUGHS
SI DEW
(By United Preaa.)
San Francisco, Sept. 17.? BUly I)e
laney ha* been choaen by AUell i? bit
now manner. Mr says lo future fight*
he w| 1 not null. He want* a match
with Nc1.->od and Nelson laugh*.
DAWSON WANTS LABORERS
Th> Dawson labor maiket it *hr of
able-bodied men. The Yukon Go?d
compiuj want* 70 able bodied laborer*,
and ww Doable to ret them this room
lie. A sign asking for men ba* been
In the window for tome time, and the
responds arc alow.
C A. Thoina* manager, state* that
the work on the ditch will cootlnue a*
long a* (he weather will permit, pov
?ibly until October 10 or 12. Some few
of the men arc quitting and going out
side, but that is bocaune of their own
choice. Some of the work along the
ditch it being fin'shed, but that Is ooly
In spots, and the men, as toon at they
have finished In one place, usually more
on to another.
A new camp hat been opened within
the last week at the head of I/>reu
gulch. Fifty men are there.? Dawaon
Newn.
(By United Preea.)
I.oodoo, Sept. IS? Unable to iiand
af*io?i tb? charge* thai he murdered
hi* wife. Major General Kdward L art]
threw himself from and under the
^heeliof a train running to the city
from hl? country home tbia morning
and wfi llterallr chopped to piece*.
Hi* wife wa* found murdered at their
borne at Seven Oak* on tbe morning of
Aogu*t 24 and tbe c**e h*? been a
Scot I am! yard myatery ever since.
HEARST AFTER
FORMER
(By United Preaa.)
Columbu*. Oblo, Sept. 18? Wm R.
H?ar*l, In ae addrea* delivered here
la*t night read leuer* whlcb strongly
Indicate that Senator Foraker and
others, high in the country's couocll*.
hare been receitlng pay from the
Standard Oft compaor for influencing
legUlatioo.
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BUT WE DO KNO W
That We Are Going to Sell the
Hen's Suits
Look at Our Window?.
Note the Style and Kffect
of the Clothing, and then
Note the Price*
$15.00 Up to $22.50
Such Clothing Ha* Never
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Skagway at Such Prices.
Walk Around and See Our Window Dis
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