? he J?cril n Alaskan
No. :U0. ELEVENTH YEAR.
SKAKWAY. ALASKA. SATURDAY APRIL X 190S PRICK, 10 CENTS
Governor Files A Written
Communication Declar
ing That Delegate Wick
ersham Only Represents
Saloon and Gambling In
terests?Wants To Abol
ish Municipal Courts.
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
WASHINGTON, 0. C. April 3?
Gov. Hoggatt and Louis Shackleford,
national committeeman, made a des
perate attempt today to destroy Dele
gat? Wickersham's Influence in Wash
ington by filing a written communica
tion with Postmaster General Hitch
cock decloring that the people of Alas
ka wanted to be permitted to gamble
and run "wide opon" towns and that
the gambling and saloon elements
had elected Wickersham to represent
them.
WICKERSHAM REPRESENTS
SPORTS
The communication claimed that
James Wickersham was selected by
the gambling and saloon men of
Fairbanks and that he should not be
recognized as representing the true
Alaskan sentiment, but only th e
votes of the liquor and gambling int
erests.
WOULD TIGHTEN FEDERAL
CONTROL
Hoggatt and Shackleford also ob- j
jeeted to petty criminal offences such
a* petty larceny, disorderly conduct,
gambling and drunkeness being tried
in the municipal courts of the dif
ferent towns of Alacka. They assert
that these case:, should be tried by'
federal officials and that the fine
should go to the government.
NVESTIGATE
LAND F
(By Unitad Prees)
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April
Secretary of the Interior Rallinger
has appointed Clarence Booth of In
diana am' Joseph Hendrick of Kan
sas to go to Seattle to Investigate
the alleged land frauds. They will
probably go to Alaska and investigate
land frauds.
ROOSEVELT 12
5101 BOUND
(By United Press.)
NAPLES, Italy. April 3? Wireless
reports received from the ship which
u bringing Theodore Roosevelt from
Gibraltar i>> Naples n t ;i t ? ? that i?a<l
storms have been encountered anil
that Roosevelt would not reach N;>
l>les until Monday.
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askans
8R0KEKS GO BROKE
(By United Press.)
NEW YOltK. April 3? The first
blK failure resulting from the "bull"
wheat market resulted today when
it was announced at noon that John
Dickinson & Co., brokers, had sus
pended business with liabilities of
$250, 000.00.
MURDERER IS
SLOWLY DYING
(By United Press.)
LA PORTB. Ind., April 3? Roy
Lamphere, who was sentenced to Oe
state penitentiary in connection with
the notorious "Gunness muriler faint
mysteries," is dying of consumptl >n
in the Indiana penitentiary. He still
maintains he is innocent <>f the crime
charged.
The United Wireless company will
probably establish a wireless station
ir Skagway in the near future.
The operator on the Princess May
who is employed by the United Wire
less company, made this statement
last night. He said that the United
Wireless company intended to estab
lish stations in all the southeastern
Alaska coast towns and that Skagway
station will be installed as soon as a
competent operator can be secured.
The United Wireless company have
already established a station at Ketch
ikan.
(By United Press)
LONDON, England, April S ? Upset
ting all tin* predictions of exports,
Oxford college today defeat. wl Cam
bridge In the annual four mile row
ins ran1 on the Thames rivor The
Oxford crew to. I, rh?? l.-nd at I ho
start and despite tlio desperate ef
forts nf tlio Cambridge eight main
talnod tin ir lead all the way.
At tin I'liil of the third mile the
Cambriduo oarsmen heranio exhaust
ed and their stroke was fast becom
ing ragged. Tbej still spurted, how
ever. and Oxford onulj finished three
and one-half lengths ahead.
The race was witnessed by thous
ands of people.
HEG6 HAD TRIAL TRIP
The Hogg, with ('apt. lVte Madsen
in command, made her first trip to
Haines today since the new gasoline
<;igine was installed. The engines
worked well and the Hogg made the
trip to llaines in one hour and forty
five minutes and did equally well on
the return trip. Matt Sundcen. .lack
Chambers, Judge Stout. "Shorty"
Monro and several natives made the
trip,
Sergt. Fred Kieber, who has been
confined to the post hospital at Port
Seward for several weeks, came ui
on the Peterson today and visited in
Skagway for a few hours. Mr. Kie
ber is much improved. r
Mrs. G corgi' \V. Dillon, the wife of
Chief of Police Dillon. died at 12:10
o'clock 'his morning at the family
residence after a long Illness cansei!
by a complication of diseases M-s
Dillon had every attention hut h? :
health was broken by the long sleg.
ol illness and her death was Inewi
able.
Mrs. Dillon came to Skagway el?
ven years ago from Seattle She
was a quiet, reserved woman, and de
vo'ed to her home and children; but
she had a lovable disposition and
leaves many friends who will mourn
l.er death.
Mrs. Dillon was born .*!s years aso
n* Chicago, ller maiden name was
Isabella Lodge. She marrl'-d Mr. I ?il
lon twenty years ago and for a num
ber of years they made their home
in Seattle.
Itesides her husband Mrs Dillon Is
survived by the following children:
Mrs Eugene Smith, Kdwin D . Mary.
Elsie, Stanley, George. Elizabeth ami
Hoatricc Dillon.
The funeral will be held at 1'.""
o'clock tomorrow at the S Saviour's
Episcopal church. The body is now
at the Harrison 1'ndertaklng parlors
On account of the absense of the
Rev. Mr. Good from th> city, there
w< ' be no preaching at the Prcsby
! terian church tomorrow. Sunday
pchool at the regular hour, and Chris
tian Endeavor at 6:30 Instead of T
1 o'clock in the evening.
finnan fiaddic
i A special price of 20 cents per pound -j*
t on a lot just received by express on the ?
X Jefferson.
$ Unexcelled as a breakfast dish
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nriniNH
(United Pre?? Telegraph C?bl? Serviea.)
WASHINGTON, I). C. April 3?;
Not sntixfli>d with tho recent "white- j
u.ishlnR" of .Indue Silas If. Hold of
I h<- Tlilnl Judicial division of Alaska,
.'?gainst whom nerlous charge*
j?r>-f?Tr?'?l by citizens of Fairbanks.
Attortirj General Wirkeraham today
announced that another investigation
had been ordered.
Judge Rdd will not be permltt?*d to
return to Falrbanka to hold court,^
but miint remain In Valde* until he
Ir ord?>r??d to Washington. D C? to
aniiwer th<? charge* which ha?e been
flt< * again*' him.
The char**4* againut RHd accn???
him of appointing hi* brother-in-law
a* redever of U>e Alaska Central
railroad In open def.atire of the law,
of manlfewtlng too groat a political
?otlvl'jr. and of ahowing partiality In
trying owe*.
(United Pre*t Telegraph-Cable 8?rvlce.)
CHICAGO, 111 . April 3? Vonoenio
(;<Tra<i, believed to bo chief of the
Black Hand blackmailer* in this city
was aiTMrtod today by the police af
ter a fisrht. Ho Is now in jail under a
charge of blackmail and coercion.
Gercacl railed at. the office of a
wmino** man to wnom iam??-nmn
1? tier* had Ix^'n a'tit and -I nil ind^d
a ttim o' mon?y. He threat^nx-d ?lo
lenro if thl* ??<< not paid. Tho man
mimmonH the police and ?v 7 aireat
ed the Black Hand lo*d? .* tft r a
hard fluht.
II YEARS AGO
Today s the eleventh annl\er*ar>
of the Pvea nvalanrhe.
On April 3, 1S!?8. the Know slide
swept down ihe Pye* trail and snuf
fed out the live* of <50 men, who
were mushing m?>r the trnil to the
interior.
There are a number of ponton* In
Ska g way today who will remember
the ex< tomont raimnl by the new*
of tho snowallde. There was a ru#h
to the spot and for several day* a
largo crow of men work<-d to re*rue
IIimo who wore entombed.
A rtlnnber of bodies worn never re
covered and several more were not
identified. Many of the bodies were
shipped outside for burial and the
res? of ih m were burled at I>ye*.
?ID CRIME
WAS PLANNED
VANCOrVER, B C ?A ahookln*
atory of po?*lb|.? crime 1* reported
to tho police authortti''* of Saakatcn
owan. from a Oalllenn aettlemont. near
Buchanan. A widower de?lrod to mar
ry a yoxinj; ?rtrl hut ahc told him ho
must flrat *et rid of hi* two ch'ldron.
both little Rlrla, right and four y>-ara
of age Thn older one hoard her fath
er talking with hi* proapoctlro bride
that, by which aho learned her iilaler
anf* heraolf worn to bo burned up in a
largo clay ov?m, commonly uaed by
tho*o people The elder older girl o?
capod to a nolghbc.r'a. where aho told
hor irtory. Hot alator haa dlaappoar?d
Jnat whoro no ono know*.
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