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No. 21 TWELFTH YEAH. SKABWAY, ALASKA, MONDAY JUNE 21, 190a PRICE, 10 CENTS
GOMPERS GIVEN
GREAT OVATION
(By United Press)
NKW YORK. Juno 21.? Two thou
sand friends of Samuel Gompers.
1>i esident of the American Federation
of Labor. gathered on the dock to
bid hiui goodby when he sailed for
Europe today to be gone for several
months. Gompers was tendered a
great ovation as he walked up the
gang plank.
POLICE CAN'T
CATCH CHINK
(By United Pres?.)
NEW YORK. June 21? The police
have been unable to find any trace
of the Chinaman who is supposed to
have murdered Miss Elizabeth Sisel
whose body was discovered in C liina
town last Friday night. The police
of other cull's are assisting In tin
search.
(By United Press.)
SAX FRANCISCO, June 21. ? After
deliberating for thirteen hours, the
jury who were trying the case of Pat
rick Calhoun, were unable to arrive
at an agreement anil were discharged
\esterday noon by Judge Lawler.
It is understood that the Jury stood
ten for acquittal and two for convic
tion.
Special Prosecutor Heney an
nounced that he would retry the case
immediately.
The Calhoun case has been in tlio
courts for nearly four months. It
took thirteen weeks to secure th<
jury. Calhoun, who is president of
the United Railroads, was charged
with bribing members of the board ol'
supervisors of San Francisco to ob
tain certain legislation.
Tlie trial was marked with great
bitterness and Heney and Rogers.
Calhoun's chief attorney, nearly cam:*
to blows on' several occasions.
WIGKERSHAM
STARTS WEST
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON. L>. C.. June 21.?
Delegate Jaiues Wickersham of Al
aska left Washington yesterday for
Seattle. From Seattle he will go to
Alaska. Delegate Wlckersham has
been delayed in Washington by the
illn?-ss of his son. who is now better.
HUMBOLT DUE TONIBHT
The Humboldt left Juneau abont
noon and is expected to arrive in
Skagway between 6 and 7 o'clock this
evening. She will sail tonight.
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AUTOS SPEESING FAST
(By United Press.)
BAKER CITY. Or.?.. Juno 21.? The
Ford racing oar, leader in tho cross
country auto race from Now \ ork
to Seattle, arrived here this morn
ing.
WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Juno 21.?
Kord car No. 2 arrived bore this morn
ing and left after being overhauled.
SEARCHING FOR BODIES
(By United Press)
COPPENHAGEN. Denmark. June
21. ? ('apt. Mikkelson set sail from
here today for Greenland where he
will search for the bodies of the Er
ickson party. If recovered they will
be taken back to Denmark for burial.
V. I. Hahn left for Whitohorse this
morning and will remain there for
several days.
We could make clothes
,N <% expressly for you here at home, but
llFklviW* a local tailor shop today is impractical
JY and unprofitable.
iuruii
It has no labor market from which to secure
desirable cutters and tailors ?
It cannot afford to install a modern plant
designed to reduce cost of production ?
It doesn't do sufficient business to enable it
to buy woolens direct from the mills ?
It cannot keep abreast of metropolitan styles
and workmanship.
Therefore, we send our orders
for fine made-to-measure clothes to
Ed. V. Price & Co., of Chicago.
We can take your measure the
same way we would if running shops
here, and furnish you your clothes,
made as you want them, at 50$ less
than we could make them locally.
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Breaking through the dam erected
by the North Columbia ("iold Mining
company at the head of Pine creek
on Surprise lake, a solid wall of
water about five feet high rolled
down the creek carrying out flume
boxes and damaging four of the five
bridges between Discovery and Atlln.
The sawmill owned by James Clark
at the half way house was also
[ washed away by the raging waters.
The road from Discovery to Atlln was
also badly damaged in several places.
The dredge of another company was
also broken.
The dam went out at 1 o'clock last
Thursday afternoon. Recent rains
!:ad caused exceptionally high water
in the lake. The dam, which was
built by the North Columbia Gold
[ company, of which J. M. Rueffner is
manager, was built at the outlet of
Surprise lake. The dam was made
of cribbing and was about eight feet
high. The North Columbia company
have been improving their property
on Pine -creek for ten years and the
unfortunate accident will delay their
placer work this season.
Rich dirt had been struck on Pine
creek and last week a cleanup of
about $30,000 was taken south by
Frank Breeze.
The total damag?, Including that
done to the bridges, saw mill and
load and to other mining concerns,
n ill amount to close to $00,000.
John McCauley of Skagway was in
Atlin Friday and brought down the
news of the accident.
FOURTH OF JUL! COMMITTEE
makes mm PUNS
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The committees from the various
crders which have' charge of the
Fourth of July celebration met Sat
urday night at the town hall and
after organizing, made the preliminary
plans for this year's celebration.
\V. C. Blanchard was elected chair
man, E. L. Miller, secretary, and C.
('. Kunncr treasurer. The financial
committee, consisting of E. L. Mil
ler and C. C. Runner will at once
start soliciting subscriptions and
r.ext Wednesday, when the joint com
mittee will have an estimate of the
amount of money available, definite
plans will be made.
The celebration will be held on
Saturday, July and invitations will j
!>e sent to the people of Whltehorse, |
Haines, Juneau and Douglas. Inas-,
much as Douglas and Juneau will |
celebrate on Monday and the Georgia
leaves here Sunday night, the Juneau
oiid Douglas baseball teams with a
goodly contingent of rooters will
probably be in Skagway.
The celebration will consist of
baseball games for big cash prizes,
a 10 mile Marathon race, shorter run
ning races, jumps and weight throw
ing contests for prizes, juvenile con
tests, possibly a motor boat race, and
bowling contests. There will be
dances Friday and Saturday nights.
The public parade will be held as
usual and a Goddess of Liberty vot
ing contest is to be a feature as in
former years.
The following sub-committees wen
appointed: C. C. Runner and 13. L.
Miller, finance; \\\ \V. Liggett and
Herb Taylor, sports; M. A. McLean, J.
Bender, decoration; Fred Rosenberg,
and \V. C. Blanchard, reception enter
tainment and Invitation; J. M. Kel
ler and J. J. Chambers, printing and
publicity; Wallace Grant and Henry
Freldenthal, danc> and music.
The committees appointed by the
various orders were: \V. C. Blanchard
and Herb Taylor, Council; E. L. Mil
ler and \V. W. Liggett, White Pass
club; C. C. Runner and Wallace
Grant, Elks; Fred Rosenberg and J.
J. Chambers, Arctic Brothers; J. M.
Keller and Henry Freidenthal, Eagles;
Mark Phelps and John Bender, Fire
men; Mrs. Stinebaugh and Mrs. Mul
\ihlli, Maccabees.
ROLLER AND TURK AGAIN
(By United Pre??.)
SEATTLE, June 21? .Dr. B. F. Rol
ler and Yous'lf, "The Torrlble Turk,"
will wrestle a return match next Fri
day night at the A.-Y.-P exposition.
Roller easily disposed of the Turk in
the match last Friday night.
There are no river reports today
as the wires are down between Skag
way and Whitehorse.
Major John P. Cluin of Fairbanks,
accompanied by Mrs. Clum, arrived
In Skagway Saturday afternoon and
left for Seattle on the Dolphin. Ma
jor Clum has been delayed In his trip
and did not have time to arrange for
a lecture in Skagway, as he had
planned. He is going direct to
Washington, D. C .
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NEW JUDGE IS
FOOTBALL MAN
Peter D. Overfield, who has Just
been confirmed as Judge of the Third
judicial division of Alaska is known
to fame in the eastern states as one
of the greatest football players who |
ever donned moleskins.
Overfield played on the famous
University of Pennsylvania eleven
which mowed down all opponents In j
the years of 1808 and 1899 and Over-|
f.eld, who played center-rush, was!
picked by Walter Camp, the expert,
on his All-American team.
Graduating from the Pennsylvania
Law school in 190.r> Overfield came
< est and after spending a year In
Portland went to Nome In 190C, where
1 e has been practicing law ever
t'ince. Overfield was married in 1906.
LABORERS ARE
SEEKING WORK
Judge John F. Maloney of Juneau
returned to Skagway Saturday after
a six week's absence In the interior,
on business affairs. He was met here
by Mrs. Maloney and Miss Maloney,
who came up from Juneau on the
Dolphin. They will return to Juneau
on the Humboldt.
Judge Maloney stated that there
were many unemployed men in both
Fairbanks and Dawson and that hun
dreds of men had left Fairbanks and
Dawson and started for the mouth of
the Yukon in small boats.
"If there Is plenty of water there
will be a big cleanup this season,"
said Judge Maloney, "but the interior
just now Is a poor place for a man
who is looking for work'.'
(By United Press.)
TENEREIFFE, Canary Islands, June
21. ? The entire group of Canary Is
lands were shaken by a violent earth
quake this morning. Many buildings
in Tenereiffe were demolished. The
people are greatly alarmed, fearing
renewed and more disastrous shocks.
TRANSIT HAD
LARGE CARGO
The freighter Transit of the .Mc
Kenzie fleet arrived from Vancouver
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
with a cargo of 500 tons of mer
chandise, 3C0 sheep, 103 head of
cattle, 110 hogs and about 30 crates
of chickens. She also had 10 tons
of dynamite. The merchan
dise consisted of sugar, flour
and oats and was consigned to the
interior. Most of the live stock will
be taken into Dawson and Atlin.
This will be the last voyage north
that the Transit will make for some
time, as she has been chartered by
Rudolph R. von Guttman, a million
GUSH IS
OK HIS WHY
(By United Press.)
SEATTLE, June 1!1 ? J.udge E. E.
Cushman of Taconia, the new judge
of the Fourth judicial division of Al
aska, left here last night for Juneau.
From there he will go to Valdez,
where he will hold court.
E. M. Larkin, for two years treas
urer of Pierce county, Washington,
has been appointed clerk of courts of
the Fourth division. He leaves with
Judge Cushman.
aire from Vienna who will take a
big party of friends on a hunting trip
to Alaska and Siberia. They will
leave Vancouver July 1.
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