No. S-'7. TENTH YEAB. 8KAOWAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1908. PRICE, 10 CENTS..
FISH GETS ?
IT AGAIN
The Daily Alaskan Cable.
Chicago, Feb. 21.? Jud^o Ball has
handed down a decltioa In the famous
case Id which Hsrriman contests with
Siujvesant Fish for control in which
the point at issue devolves upon the
right of voting stock by proxy. The
decision favors Harriman. Who will
therefore, retain control of the Illinois
Central railroad.
V.
(By United Presa.)
Chicago. Feb. 21? The great storm
that baa swept over the middle west
durtag the post week Is now abaltlng.
The railroad blockade is partially lifted
and relief is experienced in the matter
of food supplies. Street railroads are
again la operation. Reports from the
surrounding country is to the same ef
fect .
ill pass 10 lira
Ottawa, Feb. 21 ? ' The British Yukon
Railroad company, wbtch Is another
name for the White Pass h Yukon, has
asked of Parliament the pover to ex
tend Its line to Tabkeena r.rer, a dis
tance of aboat, 35 miles, to reach the
mines. The bill introduced to the pur
pose bas been under coosideratlon by
the railway committee.
Mr. Galllher pointed oat that part of
the British Yukon r llro*d is in Alas
ka. and ? part in Canada, and, therefore,
It was impossible to control freight
rates.
Mr. Bristol, Toronto, said that the
Yukon as a placer camp had disappear
p<J. Attention wm now called to the
development of the Yukon hydraulic
mining, but tbej were met with frieght
rates over ihl? line which made this
almost impossible. It cost more to take
a dredger over this line, a distance of
112 miles, than the original cost.
Mr. Thompson, of Yukon, who bad
oharee of the bill, said that the rsilwsy
i commission had no power to interfere.
Mr. Graham, minister of railways,
said that he proposed to have a state
ment from the railway commission
before the bill wjs proceeded with,
and it ?i>, therefore decided to hold it
over.
HARD CASE OF
PET*
(By United Presa.)
San Diego, Feb. 21.? An operation is
found to be necessary in the case of
Pettibone, secretary of the Western
Federation of Miaers, 1. tely acquitted
of the charge of conspiracy at Boise.
The operation is a verj delicate and
dangerous one and mfoUes the removal
of one of his kidney*, which is focndto
be diseased and beyond cure.
' (By United Pr*M.)
Cbic eo, Feb. 21.? Monte Roberta
the American, is le dinar the great su*
tomobile New York-to-Par.s race. He
is having' yery bard sledding through
the fierce storm. Instead of lying up
till conditions improve, however, be
keeps going. He made but thirteen
milea during the last twenty-four hottrs
orer roads that can literally be de
scribed as impassable, piled deep
snow ss they are.
L. A. HARRISON CO.
New Carpets,
New Rugs
New Portiers
New Draperies
Agents for the CHAIN CURTAIN
MFG. CO. Makers ot the new Chain
Curtains made ot chain with wood balls
and acorns made to fit any door and
shaded to match any room colors. <
Stores Open Evenings Phones 4~&^55|
TWENTY-EIGHT PEOPLE BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS AT BERKELEY
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.) '????
Berkeley, Feb 21 ? The great store houses of the Her
cules Powder company located near here this morning blew
up. Four white men and twenty four Chinamen were
killed. The bodies of the men were blown to pieces and in
many cases nothing of the remains that might be identified
could be found, while in others the bodies were gathered
up in fragments.
The packing house contained ten tons of dynamite at
the time of the explosion and the detonation shook the
surrounding country like an earthquake. Windows were
broken for miles around.
The building was completely wrecked, almost nothing
being left standing above the foundation stones. Fire fol
lowed in the neighboring buildings.
The gelatine factory was destroyed and the hundreds
of girls employed there had a narrow escape, being nearly
suffocated before, in the excitement aud dazed condition of
the whole people in the neighborhood, following the terri
fic explosion, rescue parties could be formed and relief of
fered.
The fire department from Berkeley and Oakland re
sponded to the call, the police force also to render aid. The
scene of the explosion presents a picture of appalling havoc.
Berkeley, Feb. 21 ? 2 p. m. The police and fire de
partments have been working with great energy to clear
away wreckage in the neighborhood of the explosion.
Thousands of people are trooping to tbe scene, the street
cars being thronged and every manner of conveyance being
brought into requisition. The police are finding difficulty
in,keeping the crowd back of the guard lines. The horror of
the disaster is tempered by rejoicing that the army of
joung women employed in the works escaped.
STOESSEL IS FOUND GUILTY
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
St. Petersburg, Feb. 21 ? General Stoessel has been
adjudged guilty by the military court that tried him for
cowardice or inefficiency in the prematnre surrender of Port
Arthur. The technical designation of the crime is "capital
misconduct." A sentence is recommended of ten years im
prisonment at the end of which he be dismissed from the
service.
The sentence has created little comment in public as
interest has died out but there is a sharp division of
opinion among military men, many of .whom declare a great
injustice has been done. All believe that a sentence of
death after the manner of a soldier would be less severe
than that which is recommended because less degrading.
"GOLD MEDAL FLOUR"
We now carry. this celebrated brand of Patt
ern hard wheat floiir. Washburn, Crosby
Milling Cos, product at
$2.50 oer sack
GANTY & FRANDSON
inn u lie Hi hoi
A spccial to the Seattle P. -I., Feb. 11,
says: The richest pay ever struck In
Alaska, 80 far as known, has just been
found on the Lake View claim, on the
tundra near Fort Davis. It Ib richer
than the Bessie bench. Gold taken
from the ground on the Lake View
averages $40 to the pin, with excep
tional pans that yield enormously. The
Lake View is operated by Niebhur &
Co. The pay streak Is fifty feet wide.
The average makes such a showing that
Nome, used to big strikes, is excited.
J. E. Chllber*, well acquainted with
the characteristics of the country about
Nome, being interviewed in Seattle,
said the strike raennt thit a new beach
line bad been discovered.
"The claims where the strike was
made lie east of Nome about one mile
I aod a half and about a mile from the
i beach," said be. "Taere has beeu no
big pay strca'c uncovered there until
' this strike. The beach lines heretofore
known have been worked out. I be
lieve that the mo9t significant part of
the strike is that a new bench line has
been opened, in which case it may
mean that anywhere from $12,000,000
to $20,000,000 will oe taken out.
The Daily Alaskan Cable.
New York, Feb. 21. ? f. Pierpont
Morgan has received notice by letter,
with the usu&i skull and crossbone
decoration, saying he bas been singled
out for assassination, and that be may
expect to meet his fate at any day or
hour or at any place.
Warning has also been given that a
bomb is to be thrown into the miriat of
the brokers and finaaciers on the floor
of the Stock Exchange. The sessio. s
of the exchange goon without interrup
tion although the brokers manifest no
little anxiety on account of the matter,
and the door to the public gallery has
beeD closed as a measure of precaution.
HI ROAD FOR AUTOMOBILE
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VALDEZ TRAIL S?!D TO BE IMPASSABLE FOR THEM
E. R. Sondheim;who was io thisc'ty a
few days ago on bis way to the Klon
dike, in the interests of the Ogilvie
dredging enterprise, made the state
ment while here that he had been over
the Valdez trail many times and so
recently as lo be familiar with its pres
ent condition, and that it was his belief
that tho automobiles that are now
racing westward with the purpose of
crossing Alaska by way of that trail
would never be able to make it. He
says there is more than one place be
tween Valdes and Fairbanks where the
autos cannot possibly travel because
the trail is not wide enough. He said
these pl-ces are not wide enough
to permit the stages to pass, and that
passengers and freight are required to
transfer to bob sleds, about thirty
inches wide, and that these latter can
barely get over them.
Derbyshire, of the local cable
service, who was for some time station
ed at Valdez, agrees with thu state
ment. Derbyshire says a place known
as Icy Point is particularly forbidding
to such an enterprise; that the trail
here has on one side a rocky and over
hanging cliff and on the other a rocky
precipice huodreds of feet deep. The
trail is barely wide enou -h to admit of
the passage of the bob sled, and at this
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