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No. 230. TWELFTH YEAR. SKAGWAY. ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1910 PRICE, 10 CENTS
Slide Obliterates 1 own
Great Avalanche Of Rocks And
Debris Overwhelms Little
Mining Camp ? More Than
100 Lives Are Lost
| (Bv Alaska News Bureau)
| WALLACE. Idaho. Feb. 2S ? With a roar that could bo heard miles
? away, a great slide of rocks and debris swept down upon the little
| mining town of Mace, five miles from here, and utterly obliterated
? it yesterday afternoon.
? More than 100 persons are believed to have lost their lives in
I the slide. About fifty families are missing. Few bodies have been
| recovered as yet.
? Trains were brought to the scene from miles around and today
| several thousand people are searching for bodies.
? The disaster Is one of the worst In the history of Idaho.
TOWN OF Bl/BKE IS ALSO BURIED
(By Alaska News Bureau)
WALLACE. Idaho. Feb. 28? Early
this morning the town of Burke was
burl d by a land slide. Sixty persons
are missing. So far fourteen bodies
have boon recovered.
Many of those burled dup their
way to liberty.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered
:;t Mac.
MISS ROBSON
IS HIED
(By Alaska New* Bureau.)
NEW YORK. Feb. 2S? Eleanor
Robson, the well known actress,
*vas married to August Belmont
yesterday.
The Cottage City sailed from Se
attle Saturday night and is sched
uled to arrlOe in Skagway Thursday
night.
H. H. Draper, who was confined
to his home with a severe case of
urippe all last week, is now able to
be about auain.
FLOODS WILL
FOLLOW 01
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Feb. 2S? The heaviest
rains of years fell throughout west
<rn Washington yesterday and dam
aging floods are certain to follow.
Charles Joseph, section foreman
at Glacier, came to town Saturday i
night to attend the A. B. Smoker.
He returned to Glacier this morning.
The Peterson came up from Kort )
Seward today and returned this after
noon. Those on board say that they
encountered some very rough going
off Chllcoot Inlet.
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JURORS WILL
! 60 UK
(By Alaska News Bureau)
SEATTLE. Feb. 28 ? The KIhk coun
ty grand Jury will remain in session
for another week. The jurors will
spend the week in a slumming tour
in an attempt to Rain evidence re
lating to conditions in Seattle's ten
derloin district.
LURTQN SAVES
SUGAR CROOK
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON. I). C. Feb. 28? A
writ of error In the cnse of Secretary
Helke of the National Sugar Refiner's
association was allowed today by
Judge Horace Lurton of the l\ S.
supreme court.
Secretary Helke was indicted for
complicity In the conspiracy to de
fraud the customs ' by short weight
en'rle8. He claimed immunity be
cause of his testimony before the
grand Jury. Judge Lurton upheld his
c I a i m.
SEC. BALLINGER MAKES DENIAL
(By Alaska New* Bureau)
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 28?
Hereafter the Ballinger investigation
committee hearings will be held on
Tuesdays. Fridays and Saturdays un
til tlii' testimony is :tli taken.
Sec. Balllnger will attempt to ills
prove the charges made against him
Saturday by Glfford Pinchot. He
submitted a statement today denying
all the charges.
Ballingcr may be called before the
1-onnniHtv to testify.
Two men. Lowell and Wada. well
known mushers, are now blazing the
trail to the new Iditarod diggings. ac
cording to Information received by tl:a|
Commercial Dock company through
the Alaska Steamship company. Jan
uary 7 they were about 200 miles
from Idltarod and should be there by
this time unless they have met some
accident.
The following special dispatch to
the Seward Gateway gives a brief
account o* their Journey:
"Ix>well and myself reached Dlska
ket at 1 p. tn. January 7. The actual
traveling time from Seward to this
point was 173 hours. I estimate that
we have traveled H'iO miles and art
Still about :?00 miles from the Idlta
rod diggings. Wo passed several
parties before we reached Rainy Sum
mlt, which we were the first to
cross.
"There are plenty of moose In the
Happy River country and all the par
ties fared well. We saw moose
signs on the Kuskokwim side also.
Rainy pass is very low and easy to
pass over. The traveling; is better
after you reach the Kuskokwim side
of the range. Plenty of "grub" can
be obtained SO miles from the summit,
on the "outh fork of ?he diggings
Roadhouses and cabins are at Inter- ;
vals along the route.
MEET MURPHY
(By Alaska News Bureau)
SAX FRANCISCO. Feb.- 28? Owen
Moran, the English feather weight
ami Tommy Murphy, the Harlem
lightweight will fight twenty rounds j
tonight at the Mission street arena
Moran is a four to five favorite in
the betting.
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(By Alaska News Bureau.)
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 28? A<1 Wol
gast, lightweight champion of the j
world, has signed a ten weeks' con
tract to appear on the vaudeville
stage, lie will receive $1,000 a week
"We broke and staked 25 miles of
trail from the mouth of the Big river
to the forks on the Lacoutna, which
cuts off. 20 miles. On our way back
we will flag the trail where it strikes j
a river, a creek or a lake, or any
place where necessary. Regarding thl
diggings, we hear all sorts of reports.
Some boost, others knock. WADA."
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PHILADELPHIA LABORERS
PLAN SYMPATHETIC SHE
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 28? The la
bor unions of this city held a refer
endum vote yesterday on the ques
tion of going out on a sympathetic
strike to help the carmen's union.
The vote showed an overwhelming
disposition to strike and unless the
traction company comes to friendly
terms with the strikers by Friday
more than 125,000 laboring men and
women, representing every branch
of industry in the city, will go on a
strike Saturday.
The clergymen of the city are mak
ing efforts to arbitrate the strike.
ROOSEVELT FOB PRESIDENT;
FAVORITE IN STRAW VOTE
CHICAGO. Bob. M? The Tribune
today announces the result of a can
vass, which it says has been made of
the republican editors of newspapers
west of the Allegheny mountains, re
garding their present choice for Pres
ident. with the following total re
results:
Roosevelt, 1.360.
Taft, 1,093.
La Follette, 197.
Hughes, 122.
Cummins, 65
Pinchot, 30.
Camion, 14.
Bryan, 40.
Scattering, 144.
Roosevelt has not only a majority
of the votes, but his strength runs
&o uniformly that he is Indorsed by
a majority of the states.
Roosevelt leads in 15 of the 22
states ? Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Illinois, Nebraska, Oklahoma,
Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana,
Washington, Oregon, California, Ken
tucky and Nevada. These states
have a population of 5,501,665 and
will poll 294 votes in the Republican
national convention.
Taft leads in Ohio, Missouri, Idaho,
Colorado, Wyoming, Tennessee and
Arizona. These states together have
a popular vote of 2,493. 757. a total
o' 116 votes In the Republican nation
al convention, or less than half of
Uiat of the Roosevelt states.
INVESTIGATION
IS POSTPONED
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Feb. 28? The Yucatan
Investigation has been postponed un
til the arrival of Capt. Porter.
Mrs. Fred Alley of Whltehorse.
who has been at the White Pass
hospital for several days, returned
to Whltehorse this morning.
Today Is one of the coldest days
of the present year. At 8 oclock
this morning the temperature was 4
degresss above zero with a strong
north wind blowing.
The "Porch Climbers" trimmed the
."Never Sweats" in two games of
basket ball played yesterday after
noon at the White Pass gymnasium.
The "Porch Climbers" took the first
game by a score of 39 to 10 and won
the second contest 24 to 14. There
will be another game Tuesday even
ing.
W. H. Nansen, who came north
with E. J Shaw, re'urned from a trip
to Whitehorse tod ay.
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