Alaska Hlei ftrarff
No. 134. TWELFTH YEAR.
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER. 3 1909
PRICE, 10 CENTS
FUNS REJECT HI
(By United Press)
SAN FRANCSICO. Nov. 3? Charles
McCarthy, the Union Labor candl
date was elected iuayor yesterday.
panels J. Heney was defeated for
district attorney, Henry Flckert win
ning by a big plurality.
PREDICTS A BIG INCREASE
II 1UE TRAFFIC ON RIVER
"Doc" P. F. Scharschmidt, superin
tendent of the river division for the
15. V. X. company, who left on the
Princess Royal yesterday, states that
the rush to the Idiarod in the spring
should cause considerable increase in
ihe business of the White Pass corn
I-any.
"The Casca and the Pauline and La
France are at the foot of Le Barge."
Said Mr. Scharschmidt. "and with
fairly early season we can land pav
senjjers and freight at the mouth of
the Innoko anywhere from May 24 to
June 1. This is thirty or forty days
earlier than passengers can be landed
at the Iditarod by any other route.
They can not raech the Iditarod by
the mouth of the river before July
10."
.Mr. Scharschmldt stated that the
freight and passenger business ou the
river held up well this year and that
ho expects an increase next year in
both the traffic to Fairbanks and Da\
REPUBLICANS
CARRY 1SS.
(By Unrted Press.)
BOSTON. Mass. Nov. 3? The Ripub
licans carried .Massachusetts and Gov.
I>raper was re-elected. His plurality
of SO.OOO last election was reduced
to S.iioo votes.
FRISCO ILL
(By United Press.)
SAN' FRANCISCO. Nov. Francis
Heney today admitted he had been
badly defeated for the office of dis
trict attorney. He said the election ,
of McCarthy as mayor will mean a J
wide open town.
JERSEY DEI
ARE BEATEN
(By United Press.)
TREXTOX, X. J. Nov. 3? The Re
publicans < arrtcd Xew Jersey anil
will retain control of both branches
of the state legislature.
1IM IS
RE-ELECTED
(By United Press.)
TOLEDO, O. Nov. 3? Brand Whit
look was re-elected mayor of Toledo.
William Meyers was arrested yester
day for vagrancy and sentenced to
o' the cash he will buck the municipal
woodpile for six days.
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PARIS, France. Nov. 3? The trial ol
Mme. Stelnhell, the famous Parisian
beauty, charged with the murder of
her husband Is expected to reveal thill
the late President Paure of Prance
was poisoned by the woman.
GRAND GAMP
III SESSION
(By United Press.)
SEATTLE. Nov. 3? The grand camp
of the Arctic Brotherhood met at 10
o'clock yesterday morning and went
Into executlvo session. Claypool de
clines to be a candidate for grand arc
tic chief and the race lies between
Scearco and Hill.
The meeting today Is being held
down towu as the building at the
exposition grounds is too far from the
hotels of the delegates.
Officers will be elected tomorrow.
Ernest Moore, a famous English art*
1st, has been commissioned to paint
a portrait of President Taft for the
Arctic Brotherhood.
VIRGINIA IS
DEMOCRATIC
(By United Pre??)
RICHMOND, Va. Nov. 3? Judge Wil
liam Mann, Democrat, was " elected
governor of Virginia.
TAFT TOURING
SUNNY SOUTH
(By United Press.)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Nov. 3? Presi
dent Taft arrived here at 2 o'clock
this afternoon and will leave tomor
row morning for Macon.
TOM JOHNSON
IS DEFEATED
(By United Press.)
CLEVELAND, 0. Nov. 3? Tom Joh
son, for three terms mayor of Cleve
land, was defeated yesterday by Her
man Baehr, the Republican candidate.
(By United Proas.)
PROVIDENCE, R. I. Nov. 3? Gov
A. J. Potheir was ro-elected by the
Republican party by a plurality of
one thousand votes.
eLIND NEGRO
SHOOTS TWO
PATTERSON, N. J.? When William
Fason, a blind negro, was denied a
drink in a saloon, he drew a revolver
and fired promiscuously around the
barroom. Although he could see noth
InR, his bullets killed two men and
wounded two others. As a penalty,
the court has Just decided that Fason
must spend 40 years in state's prison.
OPEN HEARING
FOR DE LAI
LOS ANGELES, Cal. ? The De Larc
Defense League, of this city, formed
for the purpose of aiding L Gulterrez
De Lare, alleged alien anarchist, in
his efforts to resist deportation to
Mexico, tonight sent to Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Charles Nagle a
telegram requesting him to permit tho
hearing of De Lare bforc Immigration
Inspector Rldgeway to be open to the
public. The hearing probably will be
held some time during the present
week and will be secret unless Sec
retary Nagle gives consent for an
open hearing.
George Woodburn left yesterday on
the Royal for a trip to Lancashire,
England, where ho will visit his par
ents whom he has not seen for four
teen years. Mr. Woodburn will be
Joined In Vancouver by his brother
who will also make the trip to Eng
land. Before returning to Skagway
Mr. Woodburn will visit the Contin
ent and make a trip through France
and Germany. He expects to be gone
about four months.
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I GANTY & FRANDSON;
(By United Press.)
NEW YORK. Nov. 3? Judge WilliaH
Gaynor, the Democratic candidate,
was elected mayor of New York yes
terday, defeating Otto Bannard, the
Republican candidate, by a plurality
of 70,000 votes. William It. Hearst,
candidate of the Civic Alliance, ran
behind Bannard.
Although electing Gaynor mayor,
1 the Tammany Hall organization will
be crippled somewhat in the next city
administration for the reason that tlie
i'usionlots elected a majority on the
board of estimates which will control
i ho expenditure of many millions of
dollars.
BIG THING MINE WILL
SHIP ORE IIS WINTER
That the Big Thing mine at Caribou'
will be shipping 50 or CO tons of ore
a day all winter and shipments will I
start within thirty days Is the state
men made by H. \V. Vance, manager
ot the Conrad mining interests, who
arrived in Skagway on the Princess
Iloyal after a trip to Ottawa and left
for Caribou this morning accompanied
by Mrs. Vance.
Mr. Vance brought with him a four
drill air compressor to be used on the
Big Thing mine and a G drill air com
pressor for the Venus mine at Conrad
will arrive on one of the first boats.
"We will continue work on the Ve
nus and Big Thing mines all winter,"
said Mr. Vance, "and the concentrato
at Conrad will also be operated. We
will employ about GO men at the Ve
nus mine and concentrator and about
35 men at the Big Thing mine, in
cluding the teamsters.
"The teams that haul ore from tho
mine to Caribou will bring back ma
terial for the tramway that will be
built next spring from the 'mine to
Caribou at a cost of about $80,1)00.
"If the indications warrant we will
also start a big cross cut tunnel in
the spring which will tap all the
leads in the mine and then ore produe
tlon will commence on a big scale."
Mr. Vance stated that very satis
factory rates had been arranged with
the White Pass & Yukon and that
large quantities of ore could be ship
ped with a profit.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 19? The
use of the words "So help me God," |
at the end of oaths may be prohibited i
In the courts of the District of Co
lumbia if congress passes a law which
is now being drafted by the commis-;
sioners of the District of Columbia.
The bill under consideration is sim
ilar to one enacted by the Maryland j
legislature, and leaders of the bench
and bar in Washington are being con
bulted as to the advisability of recom
mending Its enactment.
G. 8LAIGHARD
WINS TROPHY
George Blanchard won the prize "for
the highest average and Montlfe Snow
won the prize for high score in the
Elks bowling tournament which ended
Saturday night after each of the
contestants had rolled fifty games.
The results were: high average,
George Blancliard 181; E. F. Pitman
177; Tuck Flaharty 173.
High score: Montle Snow 242 ; Nor
man Black 240; George Blanchard
235. '
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