SAYS GUGGIES WERE TRYING
TO CORNER TRE COAL LANDS
C. N. Pring. now in town, and who
is by the way. one of the sourest of
sourdoughs, having first come to Al
aska in 18S3, and who mined in both
l>awson and Fairbanks in the early
?lays, is Interested in coal lands to th
Westward and has an intimate know
ledge of the ins and outs of the
present Balltnger-Pinchot controversy
which is centered about the Alaska
coal fields.
"There is absolutely no doubt but
that the O.uggenheims were attempt
ing to corner the coal fields." said ,
Mr. Pring today, "and they would
have succeeded had it not been for
Glavts and Pinchot. But at the same
time the storm that was stirred up
has hurt the development of the
country behind Cordova. Seward and
Katalla. for there were many Individ
ual investors who had located coal
<laims and had done development
work In a legal manner anil with le
gitimate intentions. These men have
suffered along with the guilty, for
the controversy has niafle it impos
sible to get patents for any claims
and capital has been scared off. 1
had almost succeeded in bonding 8,
300 acres of coal lands, but when the
Ballinger-Pinchot storm broke loose
my plans were knocked into a cocked
hat. At the same time I'm glad that
the Guggies were blocked, for if they
had not been interfered with they
would have coppered the whole coal
section eventually."
Mr. Prlng states that ho believes
it would be fair to all interested in
the coal fields to mine the coal on a
royalty basis, giving the government
about L'5 cents far every ton of coal
taken out. He says this would insure
the development of the country and
pay the government a rich return
for .wars to conn-.
GETS CUTTER
FOR GUSHMAN
(Sy Alaska Naws Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 25? Go;,
Walter Clark has completed arrange
ments with the Treasury department
whereby he has secured a revenue
cutter to bo placed at the disposal
of the district court of Alaska. Judge
Cushman, a deputy marshal, assistant
district attorney, clerk of the court
and a grand or petit Jury will visit
the section between Seward, I'nalaska
and the mouth of the Yukon this sum
mer and hold court.
Nome reports more snow this year
than at any previous time in its his
tory.
Michael J. Powers, a pioneer pros
pector and miner of Alaska, was tak
en sick at Yakataga. It took eight
men thirteen days to get him to Ka
talla, where he was placed on a
steamer bound for Seattle. He died
iwd days after reaching that city.
BLAME DBIVER
FOR accident!
j
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON. D. C. Mar. 25? At
the inquest held this morning to de
termine the responsibility of the auto
mobile collision in which Mrs. Major
Slocuin was killed and Major Gen
eral Bell injured, the coroner's Jury
decided that the chauffeur was negli
gent in having failed to observe the
proper precautions. Major General
Bell was sufficiently recovered to be
able to attend the inquest. ,
The Cottage City reached Ketchikan
this afternoon and Captain Jensen
wired to Agent Stunrt that the boat
will reach Skagway early Monday
morning. The Cottage has 30 passen
gers and TO tons of freight for Skag
way.
The Georgia left Juneau at S o'
clock this morning and will arrive
In Skagway tonight. The Georgia
will sail for Juneau and wayports at
S tomorrow morning.
Royal
Worces
ter
Corsets
LYNCH & KENNEDY
The Up-To-Date Haberdashers and Ladies' Furnishers
(Special to The Daily Alaskan)
NOME. Mar. LM? At the bluest Re
publican mass meeting ever held on
Seward peninsula. Dr. John H. Mus
t a rd announcod himself as a cnndi
(1hU> for the Republican nomination
as delegate to Congress from Alaska.
Great enthusiasm was shown at the
meeting. Dr. Mustard will get the
endorsement of the Nome delegation.
DEMS SELECT
COHITTEEH
(By Alaska News 8ureau)
WASHINGTON. 1). ('. Mar. IT.? The
House Democrats at a caucus hold
last night selected Champ Clark of
Missouri, O. \V. Underwood of Ala
bama, Lincoln Dixon of Indiana and
John Fitzgerald of New York as mem
bers of the new rules committee.
E
D
R. L. Kuny, a railroad construction
engineer, wired V. I. Hahn today that
he would accept a position as assist
ant superintendent of the construc
tion work on the White Pass spur
Mr. -frimy Js now at Madras, Ore.,
and will leave for Ska?\vay on the j
Jefferson March 2S.
Mr. Kuny was formerly employed by
the Copper River and Northwestern
railroad and comes to the White Pass
with flattering reomiuendatlons from
M. J. Heeney and Alfred Williams.
V. I. llahn will have charge of the 1
construction work and Mr. Kuny will
be his chief assistant.
Ill KILLED
(By Alaska News Bureau)
WASHINGTON, r>. C. Mar. 24? The)
wife of Major Slocum was killed in
an automobile accident yesterday af
ternoon and Major General Franklin
Bell, who was with Mrs. Slocum. sus
tained two broken ribs and was badly
i bruised. The automobile collided
I with a street car.
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 24? The |
House passed a bill late yesterday
aft :rnoon authorizing the removal of j
tlio wfock of the battleship Maine
from Havana harbor.
L
101 10 BUMEi
I BRIDE HAS
(By Alaska News Bureau)
SEATTLE. Mar. 24? John C. Mc
Bride loft for Juneau today. .Mr. Mc
Bride in discussing northern polities,
said Delegate Wickersham would be
defeated for renomlnation and that !
he was hurting Alaska by his asser
tions that the Guggenheims were
back of the Beveridgo and Hamilton
bills. Mr. McBride is a receptive
candidate for delegate.
Send The Alaskan to a friend for
a month.
(By Alaska Newt Bureau. ^
SEATTLE. Mar. 24? After a care
ful investigation the coroner's Jury <lix
cided that the Wellington snow slides
were caused by agencies beyond hu
man control and that the Great NortU
ern railroad was in no way to blame
and had not lieen negligent In any
respect.
REPUBLICANS SELECT MEN
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. .Mar. 24?' Tho;
Tti publicans today selected Represent
atives Smith of Iowa, Dalzell of Penn
sylvania. Kasscts of New York. Houtell
of Illinois., Lawrence of Massachu
setts and Smith of California to serve
as members of the rules eommittee.
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HOGGATT AID WICKERSHM
CLASH BEFORE COMMITTEE
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 25? W.
li. Hoggatt and Delegate Wickersham
renewed hostilities yesterday before
the House committee on territories
where Hoggatt appeared to testify in
regard to. the Hamilton bill providing
for an appointive government for Al
aska.
Wickersham took exception to soma
of Hoggatt's testimony.
"Didn't you support me until I rend
ered the Cobb case decision?" asked
Hoggatt.
"I did," promptly replied Wicker
sham, "but that decision convinced
me that you were unfit."
Hoggatt then referred to the letter
which Wickersham had written him
several years ago
Wickersham told the members of
the committee that the letter was con
fidential and he had considered Hog
gatt a gentleman who would not mak
confidential letters public property.
He also stated conditions wera differ
ent when the letter was written and
that Hoggatt had only shown a por
tion of the epistle. Ho said that
the rest of the letter qualified the
meaning of the quoted portions.
Hoggatt rejoined to this statement
by asserting that Wickersham was a
trimmer who changed his course to
suit the wishes of his constituents.
Representative Lloyd of Missouri
said the members of the territories
committee did not object to Hog
gatt and Wickersham fighting but It
was becoming rather tiresome.
CARMEN REFUSE
TO ARBITRATE
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Mar. 22? The
striking carmen have rejected a pro
posal to compromise and now state
they will not return to work unless all
their demands are granted.
Today is Good Friday and a holi
day in the Yukon. Consequently
there were no weather reports outsid
of Whitehorse.
SHE WILL
IT SPREAD
(By Alaska N'ews Bureau)
WILKESBARRE, Penn. Mar. 24?
The State federation of Labor today
decided after a three days' session
not to call a state wide strike of the
labor unions as a means of showing
sympathy for the striking carmen of
Philadelphia.
0. N. Pring will leave for Haines
on the Gt'orgia.
STUMP MILL IN CHATDLAR CAMP
VALDEZ, Mar. 10? The installation
of two stamp mill outfits in the
Chandlar country this year will mark
the beginning of an era of real gold
quartz mining in that camp. A three
stamp mill and outfit, weighing about
900 pounds, was started on the 250
mile trip over the ice from Fairbanks
to Chandlar via Circle last week. An
other mill consisting of four stamps
of 900 pounds capacity each, has been
ordered from the States, and will be
shipped North as soon as navigation
opens.
The locations on which the mills
are to established consist of twenty
five claims situatde on Big Squaw,
Little Squaw and big creeks tributar
ies of Chandlar. The company, a
close corporation, known as the Alas
ka-Chandlar company, is composed of
twenty-eight mine owners in the
Chandlar district The claims have
been thoroughly prospected and open
ed up during the past three years, an
the ore uncovered is a very rich, free
milling rock.
Fifty-three thousand pounds of ma
chinery and about 15,000 pounds of
supplies will be shipped during the
summer to Beaver, a point on the Yu
kon river seventy miles below Port
Yukon. Next fall this outfit will be
taken across the snow trail to the
mines. *
Just Received The
Spring and Summer Samples Of
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