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N,, w KIKTKKNT11 YEAR 3KASWAY ALASKA. THURSDAY. OOTOBK ?. 1912 PKICK ? CKXTS
A tiOii-iMrt Is* n caucus was held
>t the city hall last evenin* to whlc
there vm a gcnervua attendance.
The meeting ?M calle?S to order ><jr
J VI T?iintr who imiI a rail which
in- aniiuiiiiriil ha<i been signed
by many of the mayors of
mmiI heaatern Alaska. He then
? k?sl the meeting to select a chair
man anal K. J. Shaw ? as elected to
I he place without opposition. Mr.
Shaw \ try gracefully acknow ledged
the honor, and announced that the
il^t business was the nomination of
? .? miniate* Tor clerk. H F Taylor
bring nominate*!. wan elected unani
mously
After aonie discussion and a lit -
tl> oratory and explaining. the fol
ic w lng gentlemen were uoaUnatel
to attend a convention to be held in
Juneau on the 9th. for the |>un?o*e of
placing a non-partisau legislative
ticket in the field: J. M. Tanner, Ma
Cutfeldt and Master Mechanic How
; rd Ashley of the White Pass
A motion was Introduced by K. J
Dougherty which was seconded by 1'
Bowman, directing that the delegate
be instructed to use their efforts to
nominate Mr. Tanner as a candi
date for the legislature "!r. Tan
ner asked that the motior. be modi
fied by Instructing the t'-ilegateB tu
nominate him for whatever he could
set. either senator or representative.
The original motion was rescinded
and the substitute enacted.
Some time was given over to
speeches and remarks for the good
of the non-partisan assemblage. Mr.
Shaw ridiculed the Home Rule plat
form which nominated and elected
James Wickersham and his remarks
were applauded by the opi>onents o*
home rule who had gathered under
the banner of non-partisanship.
Mr. Mowl expressed some surprise
.it the manner In which the lions
and lambs wire lying down together
and kissing each other. With that
'the meeting broke up vecgr harmon
i ioualy.
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York. Oct J? William Ran
dolph Hearst Jmi? the article in
Collier's that the letters publia.V
?>d in the Arrhibold caae are for?
? ri?-? Hearst *ay? he has photo
graphs of the original* and that his
letter* ar* authentic, notwithstand
ing the claim by Collier th.it
mauv of ? hew arc forffri"*
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The following news Item appeared
in the Marshfleld. Oregon Record
of ?Ne 2st of September Mr. Dlsrs
? , once a resident of Ska* way.
Ilv the breaking of steering
? it the Janie* Allen auto this after -
ikmm the machine went into the mud
Hat* off the Ion* bridge and I Hank
H ?' IHers was caught underneith.
Mis inuries may be internal, as he
i? suffering greatly. He was taken
to M?rcy hospital, after first beintj
brought to Marsh field. Mr. Allen
-.a|>od wi'h a few brnl es
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Mexico City, Oct 3? The news
' item sent out yesterday that Consul
McCaughen had been murdered l>v
rebels. proves to l>e false The reb
els attacked the manager of the
ranch owned by the consul and kill
ed him. In reporting the affair it
was erronlouelv stated that the con
sul was the one to m?'et death.
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Washington, Oct. 3 ? Commtosloii
,.r of Fisheries Mowers, issued his
innual statement this morning. A
:nong the affairs relating to Alas.ta
ie states that the se#l herds of the
I north are Increasing.
The Princess Sophia will not Mil
intll ten o'clock Friday evening. It
is expected that there will be a pas
senger list of ninety from the north
This evening, which will be supple
mented with about sixty tomorrow
I evening. It is for the purpose of
getting this business that the Sophia
1 is waiting over.
OUR
NEW
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FOR LADIES
NOW ON DISPLAY
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DENOTES STYLE ,
AND QUALITY j
OUR NEW
FALL MILLINERY
NOW ON DISPLAY
H. J . LYNCH
I Alt V IS <JOT BRIBK MONEY
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Tacoma, Oct. 3 ? During the gov
| ment Investigation of the coal
cases some unusually Interesting tea
| limony was Introduced during the
I past week, among which was the
following:
H. 8. House, expert accountant,
said Houston, then general saies
agent for the Pacific Coast Coal
* Company, told him of giving Capt%
1). H. Jarvis, deceased, $fi,892, * as
commission on coal carried to Alas
ka by the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company for the Northwest Com
mercial Company, another of the
companies alleged to have been
involved in the conspiracy. House
testified that Houston told him he
had always believed that Capt.
larvis personally pocketed the mono
A. H. Kellog, of Seattle, man
ager for John J. Sesnon Company,
identified a voucher for $5,162 ex
tracted front the company's funds
ind placed to the personal account
1 of Itullock. without explanation be
ing made. Documentary evidence
figured In the hearing, showing coal
sold for from $15 to $21 to the
L'eneral public cost the government
| is high as $29 a ton.
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Mr. Paul Jamleson, who haB b?*en
i resident of Alaska and the Yukon
for the past fifteu years, came over
from Whitehorse yesterday and will
leave tomorrow for a trip to Ntn
: Zealand and Australia.
Mr. Jamleson Is an enthusiasts
worker for the l.egion of Frontiers
men, a s?ml-milltary organization
j which grew out of the Boer war,
.and which has the recognition of th?
British war department. The mem
Itership is composed of all those whc
have lived or live on the frontiers
of civilization. He has been suffer
ing for some time with impaired
eyesight and hopes to find relief in
the change of climate and environ
ment.
One of the things which is taking
Mr. Jamieson to New Zealand is the
recent opening of some new terri
tory in North Island into which a
railroad has been built His in
stincts as a frontiersman is urging
him to go into all the new and un
settled places of the world, most of
which he has already visited.
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Syracuse. Oct 3 ?Congressman
William SuUer received the demo
cratic nomination for Governor of
York thin morning on the
fourth ballot Martin Glynn was
nominated for Lieutenant Governor,
md then things were made easy for
the nomination of an entire state
ticket.
William Sulzer Is one of the
prominent democrats of the nation.
He has been In the New York state,
legislature where lie was m*de
speaker of the assembly, has been
a delegate to national democratic
conventions and is serving hlR ninth
consecutive term in congress from
the Tenth District of New York.
Sulzer owns the Sulzer mine, a
copper property on Prince of Walea
island In southeastern Alaska, and
lias made fifteen trips to the north,
having been interested in Nome In
the early days, and was always a
fighter for home rule for this ter
ritory.
Washington, Oct. 3 ? A "father
loss" frog Is visiting Washington.
It Is performing at one of the ex
hibition buildings erected for the
benefit of the congress of hygiene
and demography This frog was
developed chemically by Prof. Jac
ques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Insti
tute of research.
It was brought forth from the egK
by chemical means and its growth
to life is one successful experiment
along the line of parthenogenesis.
At Prof, I.oeb's first claims the
oligians fell on him and the contro
versy raged for weeks
S. I. S. NOTICE
A special meeting of the Skagway
Improvement Society will be held
on Saturday next at the home of j
Mrs H D. Kirmse. Time. 3 o'clock
p. m. Important business will b<>
brought before the meeting; there
fore a full attendance is earnestly (
requested.
Secretary.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Feero came
up from Haines on the launch Cor
rlne, this morning for the purpose
of taking passage on the Princess
Sophia for the south The Sophia
not sailing until ten o'clock tomor
row night, gives them an opportuni
ty to visit their friends in Skagway.
Mr. Feero is the manager of Keller
Mros. drug store in Haines Mrs.
Feero, who is best known In Skag
way by her maiden name Edna
Hlack, will be taking her first trip
out of Alaska in fourteen years
when she leaves tomorrow night.
They intend to visit Seattle, Tacoma
and Portland before returning,
which will be In a month or six
weeks,
Mrs. G. Humphreys and two chil
dren Thelma and Clyde, arrived here
>esterday on the Princess Sophia
from Detroit. They will remain here
until Mr. Humphreys completes the
shipments of machinery for the Can
adian-Yukon mining company, when
they will go to Dawson for the win
ter.
GREEN
TOM A TOES
A large shipment just received
We sell them at 5c per pound
or 75c per box
Better Order Now if you are
going to put up any
SEASON ABOUT OVER
P. H. GANTY, Grocer
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STRIKE ii no SUITES
Kly, Oct. 2 Thre- thousand five
? hundred miners went on a strike
1 yesterday, us had been determined
' upon in case their demands of an
' increase in pay were dot granted.
Today the men are all out -and
) not a wheel is turning in any of the
i mines of the district. From Itri.,'
ham, Utah, comes the news that
the men are aM out in the copper dH
trlct in the state and a board of ar
bitration is in session trying to
bring about a settlement.
Over five thousand men In the two
states are out, and many attempts are
being made to supply their places
but without much success. When
ever a crew of strike breakers is
imported, mom of them are imme
diately won over to the sid e of M.e
.striking m*f? or are coerced Info re
fusing to go to work. Governor
J^prjr of f'tah says he will not rail
out the militia aa Ionic a* the stri<
'?rs make no attempt to destroy
property, but has warned them that
lie will tolerate no violence. The
men reply that they will allow no
| violence on the part of their mem
bership, and farther say that If
the xoven.or rioe* not assist the
operators with a show of military
force, when there is no reason for it,
that no violence will take pl?<*e
and they will win the strike.
LIPPY-DAVI8 COAL CASKS
BIS HEARD Tills MONTH
Settle, Oct. 3 ? Hearings on
ninny cases involving valuable coal
lands are announced to be held at
I be Seattle land office during Oct
ober in a dispatch sent out last
night from Washington, D. C. The
i-ases involve questions of prior a-j
greeinents, alleged dummy entri"8
and non-open'ng and non-develop
ment of coal lands.
The dispatch further announces
that the Hunt group of coal lands,
known as the Uppy-Davis cas?M,
! adjoining the Bering river Cunning
ham claims, will probably not be
' reached before Commissioner Den
nett on appeal from the Juneau land
1 office for several months.
Charles D. Davis said that 'he
> statement contained in the dispat'-n
1 that the coal operators in the latter
group were stockholders of the Al
aska Petroleum Company was not
correct, but that the latter company
had taken over the Hunt group un
der the act of 1908 was true.
The 12 Lippy-Davis coal claims
in the Bering river district have
been ordered cancelled by Fred Den
nett, commissioner of the general
land office. The claims were lo
cated by Mayor George K. Cotter
Ill of Seattle, Thos S. l-ippy, a Se
attle millionaire, and others. The
charges against the claims we.*e
made in June, 1911, and charged
that the party had not filed "he
location in their own interests.
TEDDY MOST OTREM'CH H
M.t\ t.\ AMERICA
New Yo*k, Oct. 3-Theodore Roos?*
"fit today completed an eleven
thousand mile trip during which
time he has spoken to hundreds of
audiences and dictated hundreds cf
letters. His activity is one of *t?e
most remarkable things about ihia
remarkable man. Thi-re is scarcely
a minute in the day or night that he
is not engaged in doing something.
HAICD TO (iET J TRY TO
TRY STRIKE LEADERS
Salem, Oct. 3- -An evtra panel of
:<50 veniremen have be^n summoned
to try the rases against Ettor *nd
Giovanniti, who have l?een placed
on trial for their lives on the charge
of having been accessories before
the fact of the murder of Anna
La Peiia, the Lawrence working
girl, who was shot dead by a police
man. when the men r|alm, they were
two miles away.
THE TWO SECRETARIES
ARE COMI HOME
Honolulu, Oct. 3 ? Secretary Kn ?<
arrived this morning and will remain
for a few day*. Then In company
with Secretary Fisher they will sail
for Seattle.
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