GOVERNOR LIUEY
GIVEN “ROUNCr
.Washington, Jan. 27;—Governor Lilley of Connecticut, also a congressman
at-large from that state, has been excelled from the house of representatives,
charges of graft having been made and sustained against him. Lilley made a
great howl about grafting in the last session against some of his fellow mem
bers in connection with the letting of contracts for construction on submarine
vessels, and the matter going to a committee for investigation, it was fount
that Lilley himself was the greatest criminal—his charges having been pre
ferred in the interests of a company of which ho himself was a member, and
far which he had sought contracts on the work. There was no dissenting vote
when the motion was made—members on both sides voting for expulsion. Tlu
members of the house were inclined to be charitable towards their erring fel
low-member, but when he refused to resign from the house after being inaugu
rated governor of Connecticut, and insisted on holding down both offices at
once, they deemed some action necessary, and the expulsion followed.
AFRAID TO CONVICT
THE NIGHT RIDERS
Union City, Tenn., Jan. 29.—After being: out 16 hours, the jury in the eas<
of Ed Williams, an alleged night rider, who is charged with complicity in tin
murders of Attorney Rankin and Col. Taylor hist October, failed to agree on a
verdict, and were discharged by the court.
The prosecution made a very strong case against the accused and confi
dently expected a verdict of conviction, but the eontinous and violent threats
made by sympathizers of the six night riders who were recently sentenced t<
death seem to have had some influence and the jury, and would not convict on
evidence that was in the least circumstantial.
Will Marry “Kitty"
Whether Or ftSo
London, Jan. 27.--The Duke of Abruz/.i, who is shortly to marry Miss
Kitty Elkins, daughter of Senator Steve Elkins of West Virginia, and to whos<
marriage to anyone of anything but royal blood great opposition has developer
in the royal family of Italy, has been living here quietly for some time past,
endeavoring to get royal assent to the marriage. The duke (whom Case;
*Moran always calls just plain “Ab*'*) has publicly announced that unless sucl
assent is given, he will abandon all liis rights and titles in Italy, and will
marry the lady of his choice without further delay.
Eighteen Passengers
Killed in Collision
Glenwood Springs, Col., Jan. 29.—The Rio Grande limited, of the Denvei
& Rio Grande railway, while running at a high rate of speed, today collider
with a freight train. Eighteen passengers were instantly killed and thirty
others injured.
Scenes of indescribable horror were when fire broke out in the wreck, con
suming the entire mass of debris, and burning fhe victims still held in th<
wreck before the%eves of the horror stricken spectators. The bodies were all
burned beyond a state of identificafion, nothing being, left but the charrec
trunks of the victims.
Arkansaw Reformer
Warned to Let Up
Little Rock, Jan. 29.—Rev. Ames, a leader of the reform element, which
is endeavoring to purify the civic life of this city by the suppression of gamb
ling and other crimes against the state law, has leceived many letters inform
ing him that he must either withdraw from the campaign he has inaugurated
or die, and he is given but very little time in which to make up tfis mind on
thd subject.
Standard Oil Case
Hearing Next Month
Chicago, Jan. 29.—Judge Anderson, of the United States district court, of
the District of Indiana, who takes the place of Judge K. M. Landis in the re
hearing of the Standard Oil case, which goes to a retrial, has fixed February
23 as the date upon which the rehearing will be begun.
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.Stanley House.
Fine Furnished Rooms $1.50 and $1. Spring Bunks 50c
FINE RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION OPEN DAY AND NI6HT
Warm Dog Houses F. B. Stanley
Discovery Roadhouse
JIM DRUMMOND, PROP.
Good, Clean, Comfortable Beds.
Warm Horse and Dog Stables
NO BAR SULLIVAN CITY
Raising Money
For Maloney
Billy Ford, a friend of J. C.
Maloney, has been very, active
during the past two weeks in an
endeavor to raise enough money
among the people of this com
munity to pay the latter’s fine,
which; with costs, amounts to
loout $450.
He reports that he is meeting
with considerable success, and
expects to have enough money to
release Maloney by the end ot
the month.
The last piece of machinery fo
the pulp mill at Swanson Bay.
B. C., has been shipped from
Glasgow, Scotland, and it is ex
pected that the mill will be in op
eration by the last of May, 1909.
The mill has a capacity of 30 tons
of sulphite a day; 30 tons of sul
phite will make 125 tons of ordi
nary print paper.
CORDOV/T
In reply to an inquiry, the Cor
dova Alaskan, publishes the fol
lowing:
You can’t go to a better place
than Cordova. The people here
are the best in the world; they
will welcome you. You can se
cure most any kind of a house
you want from the Hotel Burke
that cost over $50,000 to a cot
’age that cost 5500. Kents are
reasonable. A three-room cot
tage will rent for $20 or $25 pet
nonth,.furnished probably $40.
Puel is also reasonable, consider
ing all things. You can get coal
for $16 per ton; wood for $7 pet
cord, or cut it yourself for noth
ing. You need not bring your
provisions unless you wish to.
There are four or five big gro
ceries carrying a full line of all
kinds of the very best provisions
at reasonable prices. Groceries
are some higher than in Wash
ington, but the prices are not un
reasonable. Common laborers
get $3 per day. Carpenters get
$6.50 per day, ten hours. Other
skilled workmen the same prices.
If a Newspaper
Told Everything
A reader of the Ketchikan
Miner wants to know if it expects
to always tell the truth in record
ing all matters of local interest.
To this inquiry the paper an
swers an emphatic no, and says:
“The Miner will simply con
tinue the manner and style of all
successful newspapers, and will
deal in only what it considers
clean and reliable news items ol
general interest. If the newspa
pers publish half the stuff they
hear there would be ten divorce
suits to one now’. There would
be social ostracism of many who
now shine in the ‘400.’ There
would be shotgun matinees,
lynching bees, hatchet parties,
imprisonment, desolation and
misery. An editor learns of
nearly all the sin and hypocrisy
of life, and it is a wonder he be
lieves in man or woman, witch or
devil, heaven or hell. Many
people are continually finding
fault with the newspapers when
as a matter of fact they owe their
very standing in the community
to the editor’s waste basket.”
Rod McKenzie who is erecting a
a building at Tofty, was in fhe city on
Wednesday.
J. H. Porter, who is cutting wood on
the^Tanana, was at the Stanley House
Wednesday.
James Hunnewell, one of the propri
etors of the Northern saloon on Sulli
van, was in the city Tuesday.
Mrs. Sylvia H. Hayner returned last
Saturday from a two weeks’ trip to
Fairbanks.
C. Kane, of Sullivan, was registered
at the Stanley House on Thursdny.
John Gray was in Hot Springs from
Sullivan Friday,.
Will Work
on Quartz
Robert Shenkel, who recently
resigned the portfolio of “princi
pal swineherd” in the Hot Springs
menagerie, is in from Sullivan,
where he now makes his head
quarters.
Mr. Shenkel recently pur
chased an interest in a claim or.
Quartz creek, and is preparing to
go ahead with extensive opera
tions as soon as he has com
pleted all arrangements.
Prince Rupert fishermen have
organized with the intention ol
>utfitt<ing a fast cruiser to sink
the boats of the New England
Pish Co. found poaching in Can
idian waters. These men are de
termined to make a desperate at
tempt to bring the rights and
wrongs of the fish business to the
attention of the Canadian gov
ernment.
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Albert H. Brooks, chief of the
Alaska division of the United
States geological purvey, in an
address before the American
Mining Congress at Pittsburg
recently, drew attention strongly
to the possibilities which are
latent in the coal fields of Alaska.
In some portions of his addres>
he was evidently misquoted by
the reporters who furnished the
summaries for the telegraphic
story, for he is quoted as author
ity for the absurd statement tha;
the Pacific seaboard offers ni
good harbors. The Pacific sea
board of Alaska, as a matter ol
fact, furnishes more good har
bors by far than can be found on
the full length of the Atlantic
seaboard and Gulf. What he
probably did say was that one
harbor, from which it was pro
posed to construct a railroad to
reach one of the most important
coal fields of Alaska was not suit
able, and would require a large
expenditure in the construction
of a breakwater before it could be
made of use as a coal-shipping
point. There are other harbors
and other coal fields, however.
In regard to Alaska coal, Mr.
Brooks made the conservative
statement that the coal of Alaska
is higher in fuel value than any
other wTest of the Rocky moun
tains, a statement which can
hardly be disputed. He could
have added that, for marine uses,
Alaska has coal within easy reach
of the seaboard which is equal to
the best now in use on either
coast, coal which contrasts favor
ably wdth the best Pocahontas
coal, long the standard of the
navy.
The navy department is at
present shipping to the Pacific
coast something like 30,000 tons
of coal monthly for the use of-the
Pacific fleet alone. Incidentally,
that coal is brought in foreign
tramp steamships which, on ar
rival here, promptly compete in
the trans-Pacific carrying trade
with American steamships and
fast driving them out of the busi
ness.
When the coal mines are op
ened in Alaska, with the comple
tion of the railroads now building
for them, the navy can draw its
entire supply of coal for the Pa
cific fleet from Alaska, thus ef
fecting a large annual saving in
the department, and furnishing a
splendid business for those coal
mines at the same time.—P.-I.
According; to the late papers received
from the interior, the Tanana country
is getting so moral that it is no longer
safe for anybody to exist unless he has
his marriage certificate in his vest
pocket, and a bible or a hymn book in
his coat pocket. The credit for this
state of affairs is given to Judge Reid
and Marshal Love, It is nothing less
than a penitentiary offense to indulge
in “high man out” for the drinks or
cig&rs.—Juneau Transcript,
See us for Cloth Posters.
Xhe Eagle Bar
The Popular Resort for Miners While in Hot Springs
We have several new specialties which are the best obtainable.
Le Grande Marque Cognac
Twelve years old, bulk, branded, and imported in the wood
direct from Prance.
Watermill Whisky
A ten-year-old Rye, that cannot be excelled.
All the first-class case goods, including
Sunny Brook, Mt. Vernon, Hunter, Green River, Marquette, Etc.
Besides these we have the famous
Gibson Rye
roy Moseley &. Rockwell tom
NEW STRIKE REPORTED
ON SULLIVAN CREEK
A report to the effect that pay had
leen struck on the Liberty Bench, on
sullivan creek, was given wide circu
ation on Wednesday, both in the city
end on tiie creeks.
The claim in question is about a half
mile above the Midnight Sun associa
tion and has iong been regarded by the
miners on that creek as one of the most
promising pieces of ground in the coun
try. J. J. Cooney and Gus Benson,
owners in the ground, are pro-pecting
there this winter and havedone a great
deal of work. Although they have al
ways reported poor success,, there are
i hose who maintain the pay must be
in the ground and cannot account for
its having not been found.
The rumor Wednesday was to the
effect that bedrock had been reached
in a new hole and pans averaging a
dollar each were the usual thing.
This would seem to indicate that Lib
erty Bench possesses the same rich
paystreak that is now being worked on
the Dakota and Midnight Sun associa
tions.
If this strike is confirmed it will
cause the greatest boom yet experi
enced in Sullivan creek prapsrty, as it
will show beyond a reasonable doubt
that a continuous paystreak follows the
left limit of that stream. Heretofore
there has been a gap in the paystreak
between the American Bench and
Quartz creek, and if this pay was found
on Liberty Bench as reported, it will
fill in that hiatus and make the loca
tion of the balance of the paystreak a
comparatively ea svtask for those who
own the intervening property.
Mr. Cooney has denied the truth of
the report to several, but many believe
his is done for a purpose and that if
the report were true neither Mr.
| Cooney nor his partner would be the
one to shout it from the housetops.
John Westfield was a visitor in Hot
Springs Friday.
COLLISION MAKES
BIG DAMAGE SUIT
New York, Jan. 29.—The Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., owners of the
steamer Republic which was sunk last Saturday in a collision with the steamer
Florida, today filed a libel suit against the Florida for'$2,0t)0,000, claiming that
damage through loss of freight :#id passage money.
'While the suit is ostensibly one to recover damages, the real issue is to de
termine the responsibility for the accident, both crews claiming the other was
entirely to blame for the collision.
Japanese Officials
Killed With Bombs
Seoul, Korea, January 29.—Several Japanese officials
were killed here yesterday by bombs thrown from the midst
of a mob making a popular demonstration against the con
tinued occupancy of the country by the Japanese. The
Japanese have already taken active measures for the pun
ishment of the guilty parties, and it is expected that a
large number of executions will result from the frightful
assassination.
Former President Castro, of Venezuela, who has been seri
ously ill for some days in Berlin, following two severe operations,
s now reported to be rapidly recovering.
Progress on
Killarney
Miller & Reynolds, on Killar
ney creek, are making good prog
ress toward opening their ground
and will have a good-sized dump
on the surface before spring.
They have their tunnels run for
90 feet, and are now preparing to
work back toward the shaft.
The entire body of gravel car
ries the same pay which these
two men struck about three
months ago, and will average at i
least $1.50 to the square foot.
The owners of the claim ad
joining Miller & Reynolds, on
the lower side, are now sinking,
and should reach bedrock this
week. • They have every reason
to believe they will strike the
same pay that is now being
worked by their neighbors, and if
they do, a big dump will be taken
out before spring.
Arthur W. Frame, a young attorney
of Fairbanks, was recently appointed
by Judge Reid to the position of United
States commissioner for that precinct,
to take office on February 1. Even the
Tanana Miner will admit that this par
ticular appointment doesn’t look like a
“carpetbag frameup.”
J. H. Saul, the manager of Morrison’s
Kemperville store, will leave for Fair
banks on Monday’s stage on a business
trip of about two weeks’ duration.
During his absence the store will be
under the care of Fred Howard.
Fred Wagner, of Sullivan, was iu
the city op Wednesday,