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No. 116. TWELFTH YEAR. SKAGWAY, ALASKA, WEDESDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1909 PRICE, 10 CENTS
IN FM I if RILE
Great Commoner Takes Issue
With Taft ? Says Alaskans
Entitled to Self-Govemment
(By United Press.)
SEATTLE Oct. 13? Speaking before
a law crowd a: the A.-Y.-P. open
air auditorium. William Jennings Bry
an yesterday took Issue ^ith the re
marks made by President Taft two
weeks ago on the same stand on the
question of home rule for Alaska.
Bryan emphatically declared that /I
aska should have home rule. H?
said that Taft himself was responsibla
for giving the Filippinos home rule
and if they were capable of self gov
ernment that surely the pioneers of
Alaska should be permitted to have
a voice In conducting their own af- !
fairs.
The Xebraskan commented upon the
! fact that practically every newspaper
'and mayor in Alaska had Joined in
, requesting home rule and said this
[showed the overwhelming sentiment
of the people. In no undecided
words Bryan criticised Taft's
scheme to govern Alaska by
a bureaucracy and concluded by
' stating it was the inalienable
duct their own affairs.
Kryan'a remarks were cheered en
thusiastically by the large crowd. The
demonstration at the conclusion of
bis remarks was greater than the ova
tlon given Taft after his speoch.
Judge W. H. Melliu presented Brya
with a twenty foot high Alaskan to
tftn pole to be placed In front of his
residence at Lincoln. Neb.
(By United Press.)
PITTSBURG. Oct. 13? The Pitts
burg Nationals took the fifth game of
the world's championship series from
the Detroit Americans today by a
score of 8 to 4.
Summers did the flinging for the
Tigers and was opposed by Adams,
who pitched for the Pirates. Adams
had the better of the argument and
his team mates played all around bet
ter ball than the Tigers.
Detroit scored one run in the first
inning and Pittsburg tied the score.
The Tigers could not score In the
second, but Pittsburg scored on* run
in the second, third, fourth, sixth, sev
| enth and eigtith lutings.
'.Vtrolt scored twc r.ins In the sixth
and one in the eighth.
Heavy hitting marked .the play, the
Tigers getting two home runs and the
Pirates one.
The batteries were: Pittsburg, Ad
ams and Gibson; Detroit, Summers,
' Stanuse and Schmidt.
-.Twenty-two thousand people saw
the game.
OOLPKIN ARRIVES 3 P.M.
The Dolphin arrived in port at 3
o'clock this afternoon with about
; eight passengers and 38 tons of
j freight. She \Jill sail south early this
evening.
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According to a wireless message re
ceived by Lloyd Glrard, wireless op
erator on the Princess Royal, the
barge Charger loaded with copper ore
sank In Karta bay early Monday mom
Ing. The barge Is submerged and It
Is hardly probable she will be salved.
The Tyee of the Puget Sound Tug
Boat company towed the barges
Charger and Palmyra to Kasaan bay.
The Charger was loaded with ore
last sunday at the Mt. Andrew mine
dock. Sunday night it was discovered
that she was leaking badly.
The water could not be pumped out
and to prevent her from obstructing
the approach to the dock she was
towed tc Karta bay, where she sank
with 2,400 tons of copper ore on
board.
mllLLED
Br HURRICANE
(By United Pre**.)
EKY WEST, Fla. Oct. 13? The hur
ricane that wrecked this city Monday
night has swept out to sea and the
storm has subsided. The list of dead
Is not complete and only estimates
can be made of the total number of
dead.
E. C. Stahl, a reporter on the Daw
son News and an old sourdough,
bavingNjeen in Alaska since 1894, ar
rived in Skagway yesterday and will
go south on the Royal. Mr. Stahl Is
on a vacation trip and will visit Van
couver, Seattle, Tacoma, San Francis
co and Los Angeles and then return
to his old home In Chicago. He ex
pects to be back In Dawson about
March. It Is Mr. Stabl's first trip out
In fifteen year?.
Mr. Stahl formerly was editor of
the Alaska Record at Juneau and it
was bis paper that first published the
news of Carmack's big strike in the
SHOW TO NIGHT
AT ELKS HALL
Tonight at Elks ball the Frawlcy
Stock company will produce the well
known three act comedy, "Are You A
Mason?" The play Is a clover com
edy and the FYawley company will do
It full Justice.
The FVawleys arrived In town this
afternoon after a succsesful season
In Fairbanks and Dawson where they
have earned the unstinted praise of
the press. The company supporting
Dan Frawlay Includes Miss Virginia
Thornton, Miss Serbrie, Corrlne Wal
ton, H. Gettus Lonsdale, Arthur El
ton and several others.
-The curtain will rise at 8:30 o'clock
and tickets for the performance are
on sale at Brltt's The people of
Skagway can go to Elks hall tonight
with the absolute assurance that they
will see a caste competent enough to
make good anywhere.
TUFT PASSING
OVER DESEHT
(By United Pre**.)
LOS ANGELES, Cal. Oct. 13? Taft
Is crossing the Colorado desert In his
special train. He will pass through
Phoenix, Prescott and Mariposa today
making short stops in all the towns.
(By United Press)
CHICAGO, 111. Oct. 13? The entire
middle west Is under a mantle of
snow and the temperature Is quite
cold.
LINCOLN. Neb. Oct. 13? A blizzard
Is raging here today. The snow fall
i? heavy and the temperature is 12
above zero.
DES MOINES, la. Oct 13? The tern
perature is below freezing over the
entire state. Snow has fallen In mauj]
places.
Klondlko. Mr. Stahl has been a min
er as well as a newspaperman and
can tell many Intarwjllng stories
about the old timers of Alaska and
the Yukon
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GANTY & FRANDSON
HES m DROWNED
(Special correspondence from Haines)
While crossing the Klehinl river In
a four horse stage, Mike McNeil,
Quentln Orenshaw, Johnny Nelll and
two na'lves were drowned. The ac
cident occurred about 200 yards abova
Orenshaw'B roadhouse at 5 o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Two other passengros on the stage
were saved by clinging to the wagon
box. They were taken out of the
river nt tho bridge. One was a na
tive woman and the other a white
man. Only one body was recovered,
that of a native woman.
The stage belonged to Merritt and
Mike McNeil was driver. He attempt
ed to ford the river at the usual point
but the river was about four feet
higher than usual and the swift cur
rent soon swept the horses Into deep
water, 'over turning the stage.
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(By United Press.)
NEW YORK. Oct. 13? Commander
Robert Peary through the Arctic Club
has submitted to the world alleged
proofs showing that Cook did not
reach the North polo but only went aa
far north as Cape Thomas Hubbard,
which lies between the eighty-first
and eighty-second parallel.
Peary submitted a map with his ev
idence showing the Journey made by
I Cook. Peary secured his information
j from the two Eskimos whom Cook
said were with him when he discover
led the pole.
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(By United Prets.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana. Oct. 13?
Judge Anderson of the federal circuit
court today dismissed proceedings
brought against Delovan Smith, pub
lisher of the Indianapolis News, to
force him to appear before the federal
court in the District of Columbia to
stand trial for publishing criminal li
bels in connection with the Panama
scandal.
connection wtth the Panama scandal.
Judge Anderson held that the art
icles printed by the News did not con
stitute libel, as the. editor of the pa
per was only publishing the news and
believed the articles in question were
true.
(Editor's Note) Delevan Smith and
Joseph Pulllitzer, editor of the New
York World, were charged with crim
inal libel at the instigation of Presi
dent Roosevelt for publishing news
articles accusing Charles Taft and
Special Agent Cromwell of graft.
Roosevelt's brother-in-law, a Mr. Oli
ver was also Implicated.
H. Fletcher, and old time priuter,
who has been on the Inside for sever
al- years, engaged In mining and gen
eral contract work, arrived in town
Monday and will be with the Alaskan
for a number of days until Jack Kel
ler returns.
Mrs. Arthur Gibson, wife of the
well known Dawson druggist, came
out yesterday and left for Juneau on
the Georgia. From there she will go
to Valdez where she fill spend some
months visiting with her sister and
i mother.
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