?he Alaskan
N?. Is* SIXTEENTH YKAK SKAHWAY ALASKA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 80, 191.1 PRICE 10 CENTS
PROMINENT II. I POLITICIAN
SICKEN AT MASS MEETING
New York. Sept. 30? 'Immediate-:
ly following a ?pocch which he ?le-,
llvered In Carnegie llall last night,
in which he save notification of the
fnslon of the two political parties,
? pposlng Tammany, Former Lieut.
Coventor Timothy I.oatcr Woodruff,
was stlcken with a stroke of par
alysis which neceasltated him being
carried from tho hall.
He was Immediately taken to his
homo and physicians worked over
the unconscious man all night. This
morning his condition Is stated to
he very serious.
fEDENL HUM SEEMS
FARTHER OFF THAN EVER
Juneau, Sei>t. 30? Work on the
federal building whore the postof
lice and customs house will be even
tually located, will not be begun thla
jour. lu a letter received today
front William N. Collier, the gov
. rumcut construction engineer, Mr.
Collier says: "I w:ls In to seo the
riipervising architect while in \S ash
iuKton and it is his opinion that no
more work will be done on the fed
eral building site at Juneau until
next year."
The sito of the federal building.
13 ill the block bounded by Fourth
Fifth, Seward and Main streets. It
was cleared early last year. This
year tho only work done was the
slnklue of holes to dettrmlno tho
nuture of the soil before excavatlo
figures could bo compiled. This
work was done Rt the suggestion of
Mr. Collier, who built the Governor"
House lu this city.
Mr. Collier is at present lu 11 os
ton directing the construction o
the new J2,0u0,000 customs house
\ feature of thw building is a tow
ir which will be 606 feet In height
itlVHY IS \cyl ITTKI)
?>K SKKIOI'S CIlAIUiK
I.os Angeles, Sept. 30 ? Million
aire (Jeorgc Blxby, who has been on
trial in this city, charged with the
crimes of contributing to the delin
quency of young girls. wns this
morning acquitted by the Jury. Th<\
jury lu tho case was composed of
: ?elve married men. and after they
had retired to the jury room, it re-|
quired but a few moments for them
to arrive at a verdict.
( HIV \ TO HE ISKI>
KOK 1IATTLK OROl'.Vl)
London. Sept. 30? Advices re
ceived in this city state that plans
r.ave been uncovered In which it is
found that Japan Is preparing to
:-gaiu go to war with Russia. Jap
an's plans for the coming conflict
to be laid in China.
ADAMS SAYS CHISANA
WILL l'HODl'CK MH.IilOX
Cordova, Alaska, Sept. 27 ? "Hob"
Adams reached her? from Chlsana
yesterday.
"Krom the present showing", ho
said, "Kldorado and Boaan*a creeks
will produce a million !n dust. The
showing is as Rood as that over
piade in now Alaskan camps."
"The Chlsana Is a Rood place fo
rough-neck prospector, but no
place for a kid-glove stampeder,'
says Adams. .
E. M. Mold, president and roii
? ral manager of the Nold Furniture
company. Inc., of Pasadena, Cal.
vas a visitor in Skagway during tho
Btajr of the Alameda In this port.
Mr. Xold made the round trip to
| ( ordova on the Alaska Steamship
' company's boat purely for pleasuro
! and to seek a rest before takhiR up
jihe strenuous strain of business
affairs this fall.
OUR NEWJFALL LINE OF
Ladies' and Misses'
La Vogue Coats,
Suits and Skirts
ARE'NOWJREING shown
AS WELL AS
Fall Millinery
SEE OUR
WINDOW
DISPLAY
STYLES THE LATEST
PRICES ARE RIGHT
H. J. LYNCH
Leading Ladies' Furnisher and Haber
dasher of Skagway
STATEROOMS ROBBED WHILE
PASSENGERS EAT BREAKFAST
Sealtlo, Sept. 30 ? When the S. S.
Northwestern arrived at this dock
(his morning, It whs learned that
while the passengers wore at break
fast in tho dining saloon yesterday
morning a snoakthlof ransacked ^
the state rooms and securod money
anioni ting to over four humlrod dol
lars.
H. Bergman, manager of the Hoe
cannery, was tho heaviest Individual
loser, the thieves securing over one
hundred dollars from I1I3 stateroom1
while ho was at breakfast. |
Immediately upon learning of the
pnssenger?' losses, tho officers of 1
the ship caused a thorough dcurch to
!>e made, but without results.
' Tho police of tli lit city were no
tified by wlrcli'SH of tho robbery,
I i.nd a number of detectives were at
| he plor when the big liner docked.
Ilofore any of the passengers were
^ allowed to land a thorough lnvestl
gatlon was made of the boat, and a
number of suspicious persons will bo
kept uuder strict surveillance for
a short time.
Among tho passengers wero a
number of men who have been cm
ployod at the cannorlos during the
past summer, and there were a
number of stampeders returning
from the Chlsana gold fields, who
it Is known wore very hard up.
OLDEST Sine 13 BACK
FROM THE CHiSANA CAW
Thomas Charlton, the oldest man
to stampedo to tho Cblsauu diggings |
according to tho Dawson News, got
back Saturday night aft or baring!
walked In over tho Olaclor trail [
from Dawsou and walked back down'
tho Beaver to Donjek, whero he
look the boat to Dawson. Ho -was
sixteen days, actual traveling time,
going In, and seven coming out. The
actual lapsed time ou tho trip In
wa? twenty-two ijays, and on the
way out from Bonanza creek to Daw
son nine days.
Mr. Charlton Is Over 70" years of
age, but come* .back as hard as
nails, and as spry ns a cat, and Ib |
ready for another go at thq drop of(
the hat. He Is, about . t(>wn. today j
greeting his friends : and tilling of
the country, and declaring bin con
fidence lu the field. On the vyiy In
he struck gold on Snag creek, two
miles below the boundary, and pan
ned two- uuggcts larger than, grains
o* wheat, which he dtS'ilayod In n
bottle today at the News.
Mr. Charlton Is well pleusod with
I lie proposition 011 Snag. Ho nays
others have gone to stake. He sank
two holes, one struck water at five
feet, unil tho other at four. Tho
discovery Is on tho Canadian side,
mid Mr. Charlton la much pleased
with It. Ho says there will be
much prospecting 011 this side of the
'line this winter.
Mr. Charlton took in horses, and
traveled with a party of flvo men
(Kach had ti horse, but tho men walk
ed until one horso guvo out. Tim
men then divided tho horse's load
and carried it on tholr backs, and
tho veteran stampedor took Ills
share. On the way back he had a
horse to carry his outfit to Donjek.
Mr. ^Charlton l"ft' Bonanza crook
tho eleventh. He reports that tho
day before the minors of tho dls
ti let, fifty strong, met on Johnson
(Trek and elected another man omer
gency rocorder, and sent him up to
take over the records from Morgan
011 the grounds that they woro not
satisfied. Mr. Charlton was not at
the meeting, but was told of the
matter. <
$15 FIXK cost:, city
OF* TACOMA si. *>,000
Ta?oma,.vSept. .30? When n Ta
coma pollccunn mounts on ti it.
orcycle arroete-l Mrs Loary, a rich
Seattle .wom;.n for tie dli
not know who sho wis nn 1 when
the police magistrate taxed 'her
{15 ho <lld not know that in dolus
sc he waft costing a Tuconia lnstltt -
tion one thousand dollars for every
dollar he was taxing her.
Mre. Leary recently promised to
make a donation o( $15,0Q0 to the
Tacoma museum, which la being en
Inrged and 'n ueed of money. Her
family was among the pioneera of
the state and she '? believed It her
duty to help . perpetuate the early
history of the pioneers. Sho declares
that she was uot exceeding tho le
gal speed limit and was so peeved
over being taken to the police cdurt
that ?ho cancelled her eubscrlptlpn
i to the Tacoma InstWitton.
CKIMlNAIi CHARGE MADE
w AGAINST HUGH C. WALLACE
Tncoraa, Sept. 30? Information
lins boon filed In the Superior Court
charging Hugh C. Wallace, of Ta
coraa and Washington, D. C., prom
inent In society and politics, and
Mra. Mildred Wallace, hia wife, of
violating the recently enacted Wash
ington red light law. It la allegod
that they are the owners of the Ant
lers Hotel property which Is said to
bo a resort for fallen women The
place was raided by tho polico a
day or two ago, and the develop
ments that followed the raid result
ed fn tho filing of a criminal charge
against tho owuors of tho proporty.
Mrs. M. E. Weeloy, of Vancouvor
who has boon spending tho past sev
eral days In Skagway, a guest ol
the I'ullon House, was a passonger
for homo on tho Steamship Alameda
from this port last evening.
CMC FRITS
After the arrival of the S. S.
Hnmboldt GOOD CANNING
PEACHES will have reached
the lowest price for this sea
son, and all canning fruits, of
which we will receive a fresh
consignment on every boat,
will be sold at correspondingly
low prices until the canning
season is over.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
Albany, Sept. 30? The impeach- j
ment court, now hearing the evi
dence In tho Impeachment proceed- j
ings against Governor William Sui
ter, this morning made a ruling
against the Introduction of cvl
dcnco relative to any legislation!
deals, and stated that all evidence,
must be confined to substantiation
of the charges as preferred, that
of the misappropriation of campaign
fnnds by diverting them for person
al expenses.
It Is believed that tho prosecu
tion will have completed its casa
by a late hour this afternoon.
Washington, Sopt. 30? Tho Unit
ed States has boon losiug lta posi
tion In tho cotton goods trade of
Asia, especially In China, where 28
million dollars' worth of American
cloth was sold in 1906 and 30 mil
lion dollars' worth in 1906. These
exports to China had a value of only
$7,371,968 in 1912, and docllned to
$5,796,327 In 1913. This loss of
trade has boon seriously felt by
American cotton manufacturers anil
exporters, and this had led the De
partment of Commerce to undcrtaku
an Investigation of the underlying
conditions. Commercial Agent W.
A. Grnham Clark, Is now en route
to China and Japan to study indus
trial and commercial changee .which
cause these declining sales.
FRIENDS CLAIM M' DONALD
WAH IK WASHINGTON
Admitting that Joseph MacDonald
Id not in Washington, D. C., now,
but that bo waa there recently,
frlenda of MacDonald said that
while lo Waahington he had pre
ferred chargea ngalnat United States
Attorney John Rustgard, claiming
that the latter had resurrected the
J ones case and had forced the mat
ter of trial here ten years after
Joneu waa killed at Treadwell, and
ten years after a coroner's Jury
had exonerated MacDonald.
This Is the meat of a story pub
lished by the Juneau Dispatch Tues
day.
The district attorney is now hur
rying to the national capital to de
fend himself. MacDonald Is back
In Guanajuato, Mexico, where he
operates a big silver mine, as let
ters dated September 9th and sign
ed by MacDonald woro received
here this week.
Friends of MaoDonald further
claim that It was tho district attor
ney and no one elso who worked up
tho prosecution of MacDonald, which
resulted la tlio complete vindica
tion of the defendant.
MacDonald's alleged bitterness to
ward his prosecutor is said to have
developed during the time Mrs. Mac
Donald was on the wlttnoss stand.
MacDonald alleged tho district attor
ney showed undue harshness In cross
examining her.
Also fighting the district attorney
ts John P. Hartman, prominent Se
attle attorney, member of tho board
of regents of the University of Wash
lngton, and owner of the Seattle
Dally Sun. Jlustgard secured Hart
man's indictment In the district
court here on charges of conspiracy
In the transportation cases. Hart
roan had at one time acted as coun
sel for ono if the companies nam
ed as defendant ot the charges of
monopoly and discrimination.
The Pacific Coast Steamship com
pany's steamship City of Seattle ar
rived in port this morning at 4:20
o'clock. The ship will remain here
until after the arrival of the train
this evening, sailing as soon there
after as passengers coming from
the outside have had time to trans
fer baggage and socure tickets.
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at prices to suit
your purse
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