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wTl98 SIXTEENTH YEAR 8KAGWAY ALASKA, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1913 PRICE 10 CENTS
010 TIMERS CHOOSE JOE
SAFE AND COMFORTABLE Ml
Saillug from Dawson 011 the
steamer Casca, which left thnt city
cn Sept. 26, William James and
wife. Mr. Nelson, Fletcher T.
tlumnhaw, and many other Chlsaua
people will arrive In Skagway Wed
nesday evening.
These people were all In the
t'hlsana country, and left the Don
jvk for Dawson euroute to Vancouv
er and the states fur the purpose
of securing additional supplies for
working their claims in the new
gold fltlds.
Mr. Haiushaw will sail south ou
the Sophia and expects to return
with about ISO tons of supplies at
a date sufficiently early to unable
tilm to land them at the mouth of
the White before the close of nav
igation on the Yukoi;, so as to get
them into the Chisana ou or be
fore Christmas.
This first shipment will consist
of about 40 tons of provisions and
groceries, the balance to be horse
feed, machinery and building ma
terial, and will be put In over the
White River to the new diggings
Just as soon as It is possible to
sled ou the Ice. Mr. Haiushaw will
work his claims to tho fullest ca
pacity during the comlug spring an
summer and will employ the white
mouths in preparatory work. Short
ly after Christmas a like sized ship
men will follow, which will be sent
.over tho Kluane trail from Whlto
horse.
Nelson and James are also Oolug
to ship supplies via tbo Whltehorse
Whlte Ulver route, and many of the
others coming out from Chlsaua will
return before tbo cloao of naviga
tion with large shipments of sup
plies.
The fact that theso men are all
old timers in the country, and arc
perfectly conversant with the condi
tions of all the trails. Including the
Skolal and McCarthy route, and
choose tho Skagway, Whltehorse,
White River or Kluane route to go
into the Chlsana, should bo suffic
ient evldenco that this is the most
i feasible way Into tho now diggings.
Fletcher T. Hamshaw purposely
went out a short time ago over the
Skolal Pass route to ascertain the
advantages, if auy, of that route
over the Skugway Yukon river
routes, and his declaration of tak
ing In his needed supplies this way
should bo considered as a suffici
ent evldenco that he passes up the
Cordova-Skolal or McCarthy trail.
Gradually the boom for the west
tru route Is bursting, ar.d as the
stampeders settle down to a caro
ful utudv of the question of lugrens
?nd egress, the Inducoment of a i
shorter route fades into luslgnlfl
otuco when compared to safety ii
and comfort. I
TKDDY AM) KKKMIT
OKK TO THK JI XOLKS
New Yurie, Sept. 22? Ex-president
Kooaevelt announced today that he
wan preparing to Kill for South
America on an exploring and hunt
ing trip. He announced that ac
companied by Kermit and three ^
other prominent men he would Pen
etrate far Into the interior and
would iu all probability be gone in
the neighborhood of a year hetore
he returned.
TWO MU'XKS ATTACK
Jl'XKAl' HOTKL MAX
Juneau, Sept. 27 ? I?wt evening
two drunken men came to the Or
pheum Hotel and demanded lodg
lugs. On being informed that there;
way no room nor .icconimo'latlons ;
av. lable, they iittacVid Sir. Spick
etc. who -vaa nfired ou'j in it d*ew- 1
Ing gown. While they were scuf- '
lllng one of the brutes inflicted a
, uoutid lu the right aide of Mr l
Splckett, using his teeth to tniike i
| the assault.
Mrs. John T. Si>lekett. who wa I
painfully bruised, and mlraculousl
capeU serious Injury by beln 4
thrown from a horse wheu the lat
lor broke through the street plauk i
lug, is now able to bo about. i
Among the reservations engagw 1
tiius far for the next Ha'llng of the 1
Princess Sophia aro Mr. and Mrs
Fletcher T. Hanishaw. Mr. aud Mrs 1
James and Mr. Nelson, all from 1
the Chisiina country
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The Alaska Steamship company'^ ,
steamship Jefferson Is due to ar- |
rive In this port tomorrow (
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II. S. SOLDIERS LAUGH III
GREASERS' IMRKSMANSHIP
El Paso, Sept. 29 ? Word was
brought to this city this morning
statlug that a dotachment of Amer
ican soldiers, stationed on tho Mex
ican border fifteen miles east of
this city, were flrod upon by a
force of Mexican Federal cavalry.
While the Greasers each took sev
oral shots at Uncle Sam's boys, and
several were slightly wounded, none
wero killed. Th U. S. troops woro
kept In perfect control by their of
ficers, and while the mon showed
the wildcat desire to return the fire,
oboyed their commanding officer's
ordors,' and stood firm.
Just what effect this action on
the part of the Mexican govern
ment will haro on the peace situa
tion It is hard from this point to
determine.
JOHNSON POUND NOT GUILTY
OP HKKIOl'g CHARGE
Juneau, 8ept. 25 ? James Johnson,
u native boy w:ls found uot guilty of
rb|<M by a Jury In the raso, after a
deliberation Umting tbroo and one
half hours. The Jurors retired at
10:00 o'clock last Sight after Judge
Robert W. Jennings of the federal
court, hud Instructed them as to
tho law lu tho esse. At 1:30 this
morning th^y arrived at their ver
dict.
Johnson wag accused of crlmln
ully assaulting a tea year old In
dian glr| named -Ttllle Jacobs at
Sitka last December. He was ar
rested . early lu .Jasua/y, hold to
await the action of the grand Jury
hy the United States commissioner
ut Sitka, and placed In Jail on Jau
uury 9th.
When the grand Jury met this
year Johnson was Indicted. He
was then in Jail awaiting kCtlon on
Ills case. Judge Fred M. Brown,
who was then presiding, appointed
It. K. Robertson to defond Johnson,
the latter saying he had no money
tt tho tlmo ho plead guilty.
The result Is quite a victory for
Mr. Robertson, as. he was trying
.lis first big case.
Associated *1Ui Mr. Robertson In
he defease was his law partner,
ludgo R. A. Gunulsou. The Juuior
member of the firm, however, ?n
(Inei|red ths , defeniw unit Joi his
jrllllaut work ho came In >'for not a
low compliments from follow mem
bers of tho bar today.
All of the partlos Interested wore
ludlans. The government's chief
wltntiag being teu-year-old Tllllo
[acobs, and the .defoudaut an lu-.
Han youth, Jamcfi Johnson, whose
?go was claimed to be 18 or over
>y the government and 18 by the
lefense.
Moro than twenty-four hundred
lollars was expended lu paying off
he wltueesos slone. Tho total
:ost of the trial has uot yet been
computed.
UKKHAI. UKPrnUCAXH
NOMINATK F1T5XTA
Mexico City, Sep':. 29? At the con
tention of the Lljeral Ropubllcun
party, hold in thla city today, Col
>nel David Fuebta wan placed lu
nomination, for the prealdonty to bo
iroted for at ^tho prtc^dqntlal elec
tion to bo hold lu Octobor.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Dlckoson, W.
II. Close and John Blanchard aro
booked to sail for Vancouver on the
Sophia itoxt Thursday evening.
I IAN RYAN PICKS NEW
ROUTE TO CHI8ANA
Dan Ryan of Douglas ono of the
original Chlsaua locators who has
been In tho country sluco laat Ap
ril, arrived liomo on tho Admiral
Sampsou, says tho Juneau Kniplro
Mr. Ryan say* that tho country wll
turn out all right. llo was with
Robert Wllley aud endorses all
thkt the latter said lu regard to
the ultimate richness of tho new dig
Kings
Mr. Ryan will bo returning to the
Chinaua as soon a u it froexes strong
enough to travel. Provisions are
wlthla oasy dtstaaco as sledding gets
good according to Mr. Ryan aud it
will not be long before there will be
plenty of grub In the camp to sup- 1
ply the wnuts of tho prospectors. i
Mr. Ryan started for the Chlsana
country in 1900 but was drlvou back
on account of the shortago of pro
visions. He went In at that timo
from the west arm of I.ako Bennett
and crossed country. He thinks
that tho most feasible way to roach 1
tho intorlor is from Hainea and the
Chllcat river divide.
Sl'IJSKK'H PI106RCITT0K8 SKKK
MYSTKllIOrs WOMAN 1
.. Albany, Sept. 29? Tho Impoach
miiiit trial of Oovrnor Sulrer as- '
sumod an Interesting phase this
morning when it was lntlmatod that
(hero was a certain woman lu tho i
caua who kuow all about tho Oovor- 1
nor'a transactions in tho stock mar- 1
ket. Those Interested lu the pros- I
ecutlon of tho caso are uslnj; cTory i
effort to obtain tho Idoutlty of the i
woman, and whon this Is discovered, :
It Is claimed that eho will bo put on ,
the staad to give testimony, which
In said to bo of a very damaging >
uaturo.
l'QUTKRHOCSK HTEAKS
MAT GO TO ?1 A POUND
Chicago, Sopt. 22 ? Unless there
Is an Increase In meat production
within tho next ton years portor
houso steaks will be selling at over
$1 a pound, according to President
Gustavo Dlschoff, of the American
Moat Packers" Association, which
hold Its annual meeting jrcstorday.
"If tho production of cattlo do
creases", ho added, "at tho samo
ratio that tho population increases,
as has boon the caso. we will boo
American worklngmon eating rlco
and spuds but no moat."
CANNING FITS
11
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After the arrival of the S. S.
Hnmboldt GOOD CANNING
PEACHES will have reached
the lowest price for this sea
son, and all canning fruits, of
whioh we will receive a fresh
consignment on every boat,
will be sold at correspondingly
low prices "until the canning
season is over.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
(Special to tho Dully Alaskan)
Atlln, Sept. 29 ? Yesterday morn
ing Georgo Wrong, In company with
Qeorgo Casldy and Dan Iiollaud,
loft hero In a small sail boat for a
lew days hunting trip.
When the party hud reached a
point about four miles north of
town, and just as Wrong had huc
cecdod In gottlng the gull raised,
after making soma needed repairs
and everything was shipshape for
tho trip, he hunded the main sheet
to Holland and with tho romark that
bo was golug an ho re. without any
warning, Jumped overboard. The
boat was running beforo tho wind,
which waB fair, and boforc It could
bo brought to, had reached a con
siderable dlstanco from the spot
whore Wrong had Jumped over
board. Tho man was seen to come
to tho surface once, and aftor mak- i
Ing one or two strokes towards the
boat deliberately dovo beneath tho J I
surface, and although Holland and
Cnaldy remained In tho liniuedlatu
vicinity for some time, ho nover
again camc to the surface.
The two men finally decided to
return to town. When they arriv
ed tli >y told what had happened,
and a party of It. N. W. M. Police
Immediately left for the scono of
the drowning, and grappled for tho
body until lato last "Ight, resum
ing their search today, but up to a
late hour their efforts were fruit
less.
It is believed by Wrong's frieuds
that he deliberately planned to
commit suicide, as ho has threat
ened several tlmw durin tho past
few year* to end his llfo. There was
no apparent reason for the man's
rash act, as he was In comiortable
financial circumstances and was
well liked by all who know him,
und nevor told of any difficulty
which might cause him to wish to
take his own llfo.
HAIXKS SHU'S RUTABAGA8
TO MARKET AT SEATTLE i
What the country around Haines
la capablo of producing, was demon
strated a week affJTwhen Tito Vogei
shipped one 'hundred sacks of rut
abugas to a firm lu Seattle 011 the
Steamship Humboldt.
There are thousands of acres of
land in the Chilcat anu Chllkoot
valleys, that is rich, fertile soil,
and only, need bo brought into cul
tivation, to bring the producor largo
profits for his labor, and make that'
part of Southeastern Alaska noted
for its exports of farm products tut
well in mineral exports.
This Is believed to bo the first
shipment of agricultural products
that was ever exported from Alaska
In a purely commercial transaction
with nil th? elements of experiment
slimiuatcd.
Mrs. Athelson Day, and baby, wifo
?nd child of Athelton Day, Govern
ment assayer at Dawson for the
Bank of British North America will
l>e outgoing passengers on the So
l>hia Thursday. Thoy will arrive to
night from Dawson. 1
SUIT AGAINST CHISANA
DISCOVERER IS BEGUN
Dawson, Sept. 27 ? Henry Du
bois and Hugh Brady, hotel keep
ers of tbls cliy, have filed suit In
tho Territorial court against Wil
liam James, tho discovero of tho
Chisana gold district, Matilda Wales
and William Johnson, (or an ac
counting and asking an injunction
against tho sale of their Chisana
holdings to Fletcher T. Hamshaw,
to whom they arc bonded in the
sum o* $500,000.
Dubois and Brady allege that they
with Johnson, grubstaked James and
Matilda Wales In tho Nugget mino
at Dawson and that they were
counted out of tho final division of
tho rich claims in tho Chisana dis
trict, but that Johnson was granted
a quarter interest In all the prop
erties acquired on account of th?
grubstake.
Tho suit was precipitated when
it was learned that Hamshaw had
bonded tho Chisana holdings of
James and associates.
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