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No. 191. ELEVENTH YEAR.
8KAGWAY, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1908
PRICE, 10 CENTS
SAY KAISER
TALKS TOO MUCH
(By United Press.)
RERUN. Nov. 11.? Final anil very
violent arguments are being made in
the reichstag today in the attempt
to muzzle the kaiser in relation to
the foreign affairs which have been
aired to a degree that has caused ir
ritation not only with public men but
the common people of the entire em
pire.
HENEY TO BE,
INVESTIGATED
(By United Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 11.? Owin.
to many unsavory tales, stories that
will not down. Mayor Taylor ha.
been constrained to appoint a com
mittee of prominent citizens to in
vestigate the conduct of the graft
prosecutions
COUNT IS NOT
COMPLETED
A good many bets are being held
up in Skagway that were placed on
general results as well as the fit ? r
phases of the late nation '1 eleiii?ti
The Alaskan has been appealed u>
In a number of these vases to re
veal the facts that will rel?-.?Ne the
money, arid lest thes.- should be
known down below and witheld to
us. a wire was sent this morning
asking for information if any there
be
The reply arriving at noon today
was to the effect that the "popular
vote has not been compiled: the
official count not completed."
"Won't you come out tonight ?*'
Big dmce at Kites' hall.
AMUNDSEN
FOB THE POLE
!( By United Press.)
CHRISTIANA. Nov. It.? Raol Am
undsen, the man who discovered and
| sailed through the northwest passage,
lias arranged another lecture tour,
i lie proceeds ot' which he hopes will
equip him for an attempt at the
north pole. The voyage is to be un
dertaken from San Francisco and the
start will be made in 1!'10. lu the
meantime preparations will be carried
forward for the building of a ship on
I plans prepared by Amundsen and
| also for his remaining in the north
I for several years.
(8y United Press.)
l?os Angeles, Nov. 11 ? A1 Kaufman,
in the fourteenth of what was to
have been a twenty round contest last
night, knocked out Terry Mustaine
Kaufman had the bettor of the tight
fr tn the start but Mustaine showed
much "linger and put up a good eoter
tainmtnt.
THE BABIES
Th<>re came lu the home of Mr.
and Mrs Frank Reynolds yesterdaj
afternoon at 2:30, a brand new baby
Jrl. we^ hint; a little less than ten
pound:. Mrs Reynolds and the lit
tie one are doint; well.
Mrs T. A. King, who became the
mother of a bouncing boy baby on
Saturday and who has been quite ill,
is today reported by Dr. Gable to be
much improved.
But our regular new-baby reporter
complains of a headache, as the re
sult of over work.
Die dance at the Elks' hall tonight.
F.verx body come.
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FOUND NUT OF IHI
STOBY OF ASTONISHING DEGRADATION REVEALED IN THE TRIAL OF GEORGE
PDSTRIAKOFF AT VALDE2
(By United Press.)
VALDEZ, Nov. 11.? George Pest
riakoff, the grandson of the Russian
commissioner of the western pre
cinct, was today found guilty of mur
der iu the first degree, for killing
Peter Skvorzoff, a farmer. The trial
was very remarkable in many re
spects and has attracted great atten
tion. Pestriakoff was in love with
the Rirl wife of the man whom he
murdered. According to the evidence
the girl instigated the murder.
Story of the Crime.
About 1 o'clock on the morning of
the 10th of August, at Ouzinkl, an
Indian village on Spruce island,
about 14 miles from Kodiak, Peter
Skvorzoff. an old resident, of Ouzlnki,
and a man highly respected by his
people was enticed from his home
and murdered by George Pestriakoff
a neighbor who lived within 150 feet
ot Skvorzoff s home. Pestriakoff is
a young man about twenty years old,
with whom Mrs. Skvorzoff was vio
lently in love. The facts brought out
at the trial, and not contradicted,
make up an astonishing story of de
pravity. culminating In a cold blooded
murder, deliberately planned by the
youug wife and executed by her
lover. The relations between Pest
riakoff and Mrs. Skvorzoff oxlsted
for some time previous to the mur
der. The girl wife would frequently
run away from her home and me. i
Pestriakoff lu the wood or i?j some
lone cabin, and spend two oi three
days with htm. and then return to
her home. When Skvorzoff was
aw;iy from hom<' Pestriakoff would
gi> and stay with his wife. Some
times during the day the woman
would be away lu the wood, and at
night would stay with the young
man in what was called "a potato
cellar." She had repeatedly urged
young Pestriakoff to kill the old
man, either by knocking him on the
head or by Klvinn him poison. The
night that the murder was com
mitted the young man and the wo
man were staying together in the
potato cellar. She was particularly
insistant that he should kill the old
man and be done with it. About 1
o'clock, therefore, he went over to
the old man's house, called him up
and told him that he could show him
where his wife was. The old man
got up at once. A boy about 12
years of age was sleeping with his
father. He also jumped up and fol
lowed them out. Pestriakoff was
so wrought up at the time and fixed
In his purpose to carry out the mur
derous plot that ho pniil no heed to
the boy. When he had none about
100 feet he dropped a step behind
the old man, grabbed an ax that
he had concealed for the purpose,
and dealt the old man a blow In the
back of the head with the poll of
the ax. The old man dropped dead
at his feet. The frightened boy be
gan to cry. Pestriakoff fearing that
the child would wake the neighbors,
took him to his step mother In the
potato cellar. He then returned,
placed a rope around the body and
dragged it to the beach, about l!0
feet from where the murder was
committed. There he dragged the
body through the water to obliterate
traces of blood, and afterward took
It around a point about 350 yards
to where there was a little cove.
Here he took the body from the
water, dragged it up the bunk, d<
poslted it under some spruce boughs
and covered it with moss.
The next night, when darkness be
gan to gather. Petriakoff took his
dory, secured the body, rowed out
to sea and tied to it a heavy stone
and threw it overboard.
The neighbors became alarmed at
the sudden disappearance of the old
man and began to search for him.
They found traces of blood from the
water's edge up tlx- bank where the
body had been laid. Word was sent
at once to Kodiak for Marshal Bow
ers He responded and arrested the
woman, but found trim t)?o young
man had shipped the day before on
the U S. survey boat Patterson,
which was then at Kodiak. The mar
shal immediately returned to Kodiak
where he arrested Pestriakoff and
charged them with murder.
The evidence showed that the pre
meditation extended over nearly a
year.
The despatch does not say what
disposition is made of the case of
the young woman.
CIVILlRlW
IN ?
(By United Press.)
BUDAPEST, Nov. 11.? Civil war
threatens Servla as the result of the
I insistence of the people that King
' Peter shall abdicate in favor of
Prince George.
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IWe Have It!
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Right from the orchards
of Oregon at 60c a gal.
GANTY & FRANDSON
A. B. BUILDING
(By United Press.)
SEATTLE, Nov. 11. ? The corner
stone and the first log in the build
ing to be dedicated by the Arctic j
Brotherhood to the A.-Y.-P. exposi
tion in their name was laid yester
day. The ceremonies were quite im
pressive. There were two hundred I
members of the brotherhood on the
ground arrayed In white and colored
parkas, the regalia of the order, pres
ent. Several short and pithy ad
dresses were made and later there
was a banquet in the city.
(By United Press.)
Seattle, Nov. 11? Otis Wade, former
ly chief clerk of the quartermaster's
department, who was charged before
tbe federal grand j'iry with embezzle
ment, was today discharged, the jury
declaring there was uot sufti lent
evidence to warrant returning a true
bill.
(By UniUd Prees)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.? The
United States took formal action to
day for the recognition of the new
government of Paraguay.
"Happy" Dan Sullivan, the well
known chief engineer of the little
steamer Scotia, plying on lake Atlin,
will be a passenger on the Princess
May for the south. He Is at the
Golden North.
MORE TROUBLE
SI VALDEZ
(By United Press.)
VALDEZ, Nov. 1 1.? Harrison Mar
tin, th<- assistant prosecuting attor
ney, today wired his resignation to
Attorney General Bonaparte. Friction
between himself and the lately ap
pointed district attorney, J. C. Cross
ley, is thought to be the cause. The
nature of the trouble between the
two officers is not given out.
hocgWoff
F0H WASHINGTON
(By United Press.)
SEATTLE, Nov 11 ?Governor
Hoggatt is here enroute to Washing
ton ITe will visit and inspect the
hospital for the Insane at Mt. Tabor,
near Portland, where the insane pa
tients from Alaska are cared for.
(By United Press.)
Hot Springs, Va., Nov. 11? After the
conference with Frank Hitchcock yes
terday, Mr. Ta(t was asked as to af.?
p-intments to be made by him. He
said be would attend to that matter In
iue time; he had noi m^de a single
pledge o* to uUioc* ia wndercd
anybody and ibm, while he had given
the matter of his cabinet some thought,
the appointments were yet to be finally
determined upon. Even if the decis
ions had been nude it would not be
proper to make tbe fact public at this
early date lie said, seeing that be, him
self, had b ' no means come into offico
yot.
"Won't >ou come out tonight?'
Big dance at Elks' hall.
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