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One Dollar Per Month.
HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, PEBBUARY 20, 1909.
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Two Bits a Throw
CAUGHT BY CLEVER RUSE
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Presence of Mind of Kansas City Man Outwits Daring Robber Armed With
Revolver and Dynamite Bomb—Demanded $7,000, But
Was Captured and Imprisoned
Kansas City, Feb. 19.—Charles
Carnett, a desperate criminal with a
long record of crime whom the au
thorities have sought for mouths,
last night entered the home of Law
rence Jones, a millionaire merchant
of this city, and with a big revolver
in one,hand and a dynamite bomb
in the other, demanded that Jones
give him $7000 in cash immediately
or he would blow up the house and
kill the inmates. Jones, who is an
old frontier merchant and has had
experience with “bad men,” did not
get excited at the bold threat, but
coolly acted in a manner that as
sured the desperado that his demand
would be complied with, and made
a move as though he was ‘ ‘digging
up” the money. The bandit, by
this clever ruse, was thrown mo
mentarily off his guard, whereupon
Jones, in a second, knocked the ban
dit flat upon the floor, and with the
ready assistance of servants he was
quickly disarmed and bound hand
and foot. When the police patrol
automobile arrived a few minutes
later the much-sought criminal had
but to be carried to it and driven to
police headquarters. Carnett is
recognized a member of a large gang
of well-organized thieves whose bold
operations extend all over the
United States, and his capture is
considered an important one.
CROSSLEY AND LOVE SENT HOME
Valdez, Feb. 1$.—Judge Reid
has received the resignation of O. A.
Wells as clerk of the district court
of the Third division, and has ac
cepted thb same. Prosecuting At
torney Crossley and UL S. Marshal
Love, who accompanied Judge Reid
when the later came to this city to
be investigated by a special commis
sioner from the Department of Jus
tice, have been ordered to return to
Fairbanks to their duties as their
presence was not needed at the in
vestigation of Judge Reid. It is
now well understood the charges
Judge Reid were filed by James A,
Haight, attorney for President A. C,
Frost, of the Alaska Central Rail
way Company. Haight was form
erly assistant attorney general of
Washington state, and is one of the
most widely-known corporation law
yers in the West. Wells’ successor
has not yet been appointed.
GOOD PAY LOCATED ON CRIPPLE
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Fairbanks, Feb. 1&- -A strike of
*good pay is reposted to have been
made on No. 1, below, on Cripple
<areek by Messrs. McCormick and
‘SusseH, vvhieh, it true, 'willaoon*pot
'that creek in the list of producers.
This creek has been staked, pros*
pected and abandoned, and restaked
many times during the past six
years; dozens of holes have been
sank to bedrock, some of which are
200 feet deep, but nothing of conse
quence was ever found until the re
cent strike on No. 1-b. Cripple
creek comes into Ester at the Berry
Bigelow claims, and lies between
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a distance of about two miles from
tile town of Chena. For years it has
been claimed by many miners in the
vicinity that the gold found on the
lower end of Ester creek came from
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much excitement hereabouts.
PULITZER AND SMITH INDICTED
Washington* .Feb. 19.—The spe
coal gramfi jjnaay called for the pur*
pose of investigating the charges of
graft in connection with the pur
chase of the Panama canal by the
United States government from the
Frenchsyndicate, yesterday returned
indictments against Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World,
and Delevan Smith, editor of the
Indianapolis News, two prominent
newspapers that gave wide circula
tion to stories of stupendous graft
in which the names of President
r Roosevelt and Candidate Taft were
i
used in very uncomplimentary terms.
Smith says he will resist extradition
as the offense, if any was committed,
took place in Indiana, the place the
newspaper is published.
Maine Anniversary
Observed at Capital
Washington, *Feb. 19.—The eleventh anniversary of
the blowing up of the battleship Maine was appropriately
celebrated in this city last Monday by military display and
Impressive religious ceremonies. Rear-Admiral Sigsbee,
who was in command of the ill-fated ship at the time, made
the principal address. _
ZODIAC AGAIN AFLOAT
The constant flow of springs
water on the ice of the north side
has caused that part of the
slough’s surface near the saw
mill to be about two feet higher
than the level elsewhere which is
not so affected. As a conse
quence, Hot Springs' glorious
flagship, the Zodiac, which is an
chored for the winter in those
troubled waters was almost sub
merged by a recent overflow.
Tile. Zodiac never was intended
for * submarine vessel - a glance
ml her open countenance demon
strates that fact—and all day
Thursday workmen were engaged
in cutting the ice from around
the vessel, and with liberal ap
plications of steam from rubber
hose, the grand old ship is once
more as bouyant- looking as she
oyer was in the good old summer
time. _
Jack Slpp started for Fairbanks yas
tSTfoy With # big load of sugar.
Leftenant Jacob Schick returned to
Fort Gibbon this week from Fairbanks,
where be has been in attendance on
the district court.
INSPECTS LOCAL OFFICE
Capt. M. K. Cunningham, su
perintendent of telegraph for the
Third division—extending from
K&ltag, on the Yukon river, to
McCullum’s, on the Valdez trail,
arrived in town last Tuesday on
a tour of inspection of the signal
corps station.
Capt. Cunningham came by
way of Rampart, and travels be
hind a fine string of ten huskies.
He spent Wednesday inspecting
the local station, and also looked
over the government reservation
in this camp, and continued his
journey up river on Thursday.
Big Purse Offered
Nelson and Welsh
Los Angeles, Feb. 19.—Jim Jeffries’ club lias made an
offer of 45 per cent, of the gross receipts for a fight between
Freddie Welsh and Battling Nelson.
Jim Driscoll, the featherweight champion of England,
and Abe Attell will fight ten rounds in this city tonight.
They will weight in at 125 pounds.
Capt. T. A. Pope and John Zug, of
the Alaska road commission, came up
from Tanana last Sunday, and resumed
their journey to Fairbanks on Monday.
Grand Ball...
Washington’s Birthday,
Monday Night, Feb. 22,
AT HOT SPRINGS HOTEL
FREE
EXCURSION
From Sullivan City for Over-Night
Guests of the Hotel. Come and
enjoy the Dance and sleigh ride.
'I Special Music for the Occasion Good Floor Everybody Welcome
.1 s Lunch Furnished to All by Hotel Management
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EUREKA DRILL DAMAGED
M. W. Sinclair, of Chute & Sinclair,
the Eureka creek miners, started a
team to Fairbanks last Tuesday morn
ing with the stem and bit of the big
Star drilling machine with which they
are boring for water at the head of that
stream. The part was broken last
week at a depth of 25 feet, just as bed
rock was encountered, and as it was
impossible for local mechanics to re
pair the damage, the long trip to Fair
banks was necessary. The drill has al
ready bored one hole 175 feet deep, and
a flow of half a sluicehead of water is
available from it. Mr. Sinclair feels .
quite certain that he will hare the nec
essary water for his operations when
the four holes he contemplates drilling
ate completed. Two sires of bits are
used—8- and 6-inch—and with the ex
ception of this accident, the machine
has been working quite satisfactorily.
The piece which was sent to Fairbanks
weighed nearly 1200 pounds, and the re
pairs can be made in a da.y or two.'
Mr. Sinclair returned vo Eureka on