Bo. 807 TENTH YEAR SKAGWAY. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 1908 PRICE 10 CENT8
ED BARTON COMMITS SUICIDE
Dramatic And Mysterious Tragedy This Morning By
Member Of Dawson Curling Party at Whitehorse
(Special to The Daily Alaskan)"
Whitehorse, Jan. 2y ? Edward Barton a member of the
team of curlers sent sent out by Dawson to the bonspied at
Ottawa, committed suicide at tha "White Pass hotel here
this morning. The tragedy was effected in a dramatic man
ner. There is 110 reason known to his friends why he
should have taken his life and those who were traveling
with him was nonplused.
Mr. Barton hacl l een at the hotel since Monday having
arrived up from Dawson on that day. lie was in good
spirits and continued so to the very last minute. This j
morning lie, in company with the other members of his
company, J. T. Lithgow, O. F. Kastner, E. M. Thornburg
and Alf Watson, prepared to take the train for Skagway,
expecting to catch the Princess May. Barton paid his bill :
at the hotel, shook hands with the landlord and started '
across the street, toward the train. Half way there he was i
seen to turn aud go back to the hotel.
As the train was about to pull out his friends rushed '
frantically about in search of hira without avail. They
jumped aboard hoping he would turn up on the train, or if <
not, that h e would follow in time for the boat. i
Landlord Murray hurried up to his room and found the ,
floor locked. As he turned the knob a shot was fired in
side. The landlord quickly forced the door and found the
body on the floor. The shot from a 38 revolver had been
fired through the roof of the mouth and death had been
practically instantaneous.
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IIMUNITY SAID TO HAVE BEE* OFfEBEB 13 BBEf 10 MCE HIM TO CONFESS j
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
San Fraucisc> Jan. 29 ? Rabbi Nietro, of the tabernacle
of which Abe lit t" is a member, has published in the
morning Examiner a statement which has set the whole
town agog. Over his own signature tli - rabbi makes the
declaration that Tie was the coutroling and final influence
which induced M ?. line f to make his famous confession. He
declares that he wis authorized to oiler to Ruef the positive
assurance of the prosecution of complete immunity from
prosecution in ref iru for what evidence he might give to
secure the couviction of the othei defendants in the graft
cases. He made that offer and now says he would hold the
prosecution to its pie Ige sin e he feels himself responsible.
The statement has created strong impression in favor of
granting immunity? the word of the rabbi {being generally
accepted.
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CASE GOES TO
JURY TOMORROW
(By United Press.)
New York, Jan. 2lJ? Liuletoa, chirf
c tunacl for the defense in the Thaw
casf beean his address to iho jury this
morning, tie will consume all the
t:oi3 0fthe cjurt today. Jerome will
make his address tomorrow. The ose
will be placed la tho hands of the jury
Friday.
HEM
FT. SEWARD
(By United Press.)
Port Townseot, Jan. 29? A contract
has been awardfd Mclnnes & Harring
toa, contractors of this city, for the
olacinjr of a water system at Fort
Wi liam II. Seward.
(By United Press.)
New York. Jan. 29 ?Christian Henry
is dead at his home, No 15 Lorimer
street, Brooklyn, a victim of "mental
bydrophobik." His imagination killed
him. fc'or four yeart he lived in dread
of hydrophobia, and finally ala shat
tered nr.-ves made him susceptible to
brain disease. "Henry's was the most
remarkable case we ever had," said
Dr. Em \ Hartung, of the Kings Coun
ty Hi>- ..tol. "Wo h?d all the symp
toms of hydrophophia, but there was
nothing very pec iMar about his setiens j
The autopsy sbowod r hi?t h s imngioa
tion was responsible for hia death,'' ;
(By United Press.) f"
Portland, J?n. 29.? Ed #in May, who ^
was to have been tried under a land
fraud indictment, was today dismissed,
there being no evidenoe upon which to 1
secure a conviction. He was indicted 1
in the same transaction with Hall. '
The Hall trial is now on. Prosecuting- (
Attorney fleney will return lo San
Francisco as soon as he secures a con
viction in this case? if there is to be a
conviction.
TWO MORE COUPLE WHO
RETURNED TO THE OLD LOVE
North Adame, Mass., Jan., 29? Two
recent weddings in this city, it is learn
ed today, were of couples who had
previously been divorced, After eigh
teen years' separation, Seth W. Curtis,
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"UPON THE ALTAI! OF IE
(United Presa Telegraph-Cable Service.)
Washington, Jan. 29 ? In a speech before the house
this morning representative McGavin took occasion to de
liver a warm roast directed at American girls who, through
the possession of wealth which they are willing to bestow
upon foreign husbands in consideration of a foreign title,
renounce the prouder title of American citizenship. He
declarnd them to be sacrificed, in many cases with the con
sent of their American parents, "upon the altar of vice."
He ran through the history of many such matches and grew
very heated in the recital. It was accepted that he drew
hie text from the latest marriage of the kind to be re
corded ? that of Gladys Vanderbilt? although he did not
mention the names in any case.
GORTELYOU MAKES INTERESTING STATEMENT
(By United Praaa.)
Waihlnfctoo, 29? Secretary of the
["reaaury Cortelvou la out with ? long
ness&ge to the people Id which he
;lvea a full account of the methods
aken by the government, and his de
partment in particular, to relieve the
iondlllons ariainc out of the recent pan
c. Hia statement shows that tea daya
ifter the first signs of the crisis appear
ed, one tenth of the entire monny of
the country was withdrawn from cir
culation. He was compelled, he s*ya,
to take extraordinary methods to meet
the dangerous conditions that threaten
ed one of che worst panics of history.
He shows further, however, the really
wholesome condition of the country so
far as noney is concerned, in the fact
that the Panama bond issue was over
subscribed FORTY-FOUR TIME8. He
says the possibilities of trouble seem
to be past.
HALSEY IS INDICTED FOR MURDER
(By United Prut.)
Vak'ez, Jan. 29.? The grand jury,
?hich has been In session here several
lays, devoting Itself particulatly to the
saaes growing out of the Keystone can
non riots, today returned indictments
on five counts, one being murder io tbe
?eoond decree, against E, C. Halsey,
one of the leader* of tbe riot. Tbe
trial will be taken up tomorrow and
promises to be one of tbe hardest
fought cases in tbe history of the dis?
trict.
i wealthy farmer, and Mrs. Florence
Uickerson Curtis were remarried.
During these years Mrs. Curtis had
lupported herself and her widowed
nothor by teaching school. Air. Curtis
neanwhile had been married to two
nher women, both now dead.
The socond coupls to reconsider after
being divorced are William T. Goodel,
of Wllliamstown, and Harriet A.
Aldrich. The bridegroom is seventy
years old and the bride fortj-siz years.
After being divorced several months
ago they were aRaln married on Janu
ary 4th,
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