HOT SPRINGS POST
One Dollar Per Month.
HOT SPRINGS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1909.
Two Bits a Throw
WINTER MAIL SER VICE ABOUT OFF
The winter schedule for the mail is now a
thing of the past. It has been a splendid service
in and out of Hot Springs since its inception last
fall—the mails arriving and departing with
clockwork regularity. Much credit for the splen
did service is due the careful and painstaking
set of stagedrivers on the various runs—they were
always at the posts of duty whatever the weather
conditions.
From now until the opening of navigation
the mails will be forwarded at intervals on double
ender sleds, or on horseback, or by dogteam.
When the N. C. Oo.’s mythical “public-be
damned summer schedule” takes its place among
things, and has the mail forwarding in its charge,
mails will arrive at the various postoffices when it
gets there—that is about as definitely as it is pos
sible to interpret that fearful “service.” During
the good old summertime the N. C. Co. will de
liver the mails whenever “it gets good and ready,
and what t’ ’ell, Bill, you go to do ’bout it, see?”
Charley Surridge, driver of the Hot Springs
Gribbon stage, arrived here Friday afternoon at 1
o’clock with two single-horse sleds and one pas
senger.
The mail for Fairbanks left last night by
dogteam.
SULLIVAN MINERS HOLD MEETING
A largely attended meeting of the Sullivan Creek
Miners’Association was held at Tofty City last Sunday
evening, April 17.
The meeting was called to order by G. W. Ledger,
president of the Rampart Miners’ Association, who also
presided during the meeting.
The purpose of the meeting was to bring the influ
ence of the association and residents of the community
to bear upon Mr. Price, the recently-appointed road
overseer, to have the monies collected from the Burn
ham road tax for road work in this district applied on
the new slough road.
A resolution was unanimously adopted that a peti
tion be submitted to the people for their signatures
making this request. A committee of three—consisting
of Messrs. Jepson, Snyder and Eglar—was appointed
to attend to the entire matter and forward the petition'
Letters were read from Messrs. Wickersham and
Cale telling of the remedial measures that were being
adopted for the betterment of the miners and mining
industries of Alaska in general. Both gentlemen re
quested that they be kept posted on matters taking
place here, that they may be of assistance. The meet
ing adjourned. __
New York, April 1.—Mrs. Leo Baumann,
wife of a wealthy New York furniture dealer, was
struck and killed tonight by an automobile owned
by Tully C. Estee, a flour merchant. Mrs. Bau
raann and hen 4-year-old son were waiting for a
street car at a corner in the Bronx. Just as their
car reached the corner, and they turned to board
it the Estee automobile swung out of the dark
ness from a cross street. The mother saw her
danger just in time to throw her weight against
the child, pushing him against the. car so that
the automobile hit him a glancing blow. His
injuries, as a result were slight. Mrs. Baumann
herself was thrown 80 feet across the street, and
died a few minutes later.
EX-TREASURERS ACCOUNTS
SHORT
Salt Lake City, Utah, April 20.- -James
Christensen, former state treasurer, who retired
from office January 1, is under arrest on the
charge of being a defaulter to the amount of
$70,000. The arrest followed Christensen’s con
fession of his responsibility for the shortage. He
ia now in jail here. The money^it is acknowl
edged, was used in speculations in Nevada min
ing ventures. Christensen was state treasurer
for the four years’ term ending at the beginning
of the present year. The amount of the shortage
has been deposited to the credit of the state gov
ernment by the bondsmen and friends of the ex
official. Expert auditors are still at work on his
books.
ZEPPELIN’S NEW AIRSHIP A WONDER
Friedrichshafen, April 20.—Count von Zep
pelin’s new model airship, with the inventor and
four other men on board, made a successful de
scent in a field on the shore of the Lake of Con
stance. It has been asserted that he could not
land on the ground without a specially built plat
form, but the airship came easily to the earth and
after remaining for some time re-ascended and
returned to the balloon shed on the lake.
WEALTHY GERMAN LANDOWNER KILLS TWO OFFICERS
Eisenach, Germany, April 20.—A civilian
fought two duels here in one day recently with
officers of the army and killed both. Pistols were
used. The civilian’^ name is Schutzbar Milg, and
he is a wealthy landowner residing near Henen
aus. His opponents were a lieutenant named
Von Buttlar, and an army surgeon whose ident
ity has been concealed. Herr Milg’s wife is said
to be an American. Jealousy caused the daels.
DETECTIVE
PETROSINO
New York, April 20.—The
death of Joe Petrosieo, the fam
ous New York detective who was
recently assassinated in Italy,
bids fair to do more in the way
of wiping out organized black
mail and murder among Italian
banditS' in this country than all
the work an efficient secret ser
vice organization could accom
plish in years.
It shows,with compelling force,
that the chain of crime extends
irom Italy to this country and
penetrates to every large city
which shelters Italian immi
grants. For political and other
reasons individual policemen
have been handicapped in fight
ing the so-called Black Hand.
The death of Petrosino has wiped
<mt these handicaps. Inspector
McCafferty has started out a
picked staff of men to make a
round-up of the various “Little
Its lies,” and gathei in certain
known criminals. He sent tele
grams to the chiefs of police of
police of all the large cities of
thecountry asking that a similar
round-up be made in their com
munities.
Petrosino was something more
than a policeman on detached
'service when he went to Italy.
He carried credentials from the
State depaitmmt, and had been
acting as a diplomatic agent in
attempting to bring about an un
derstanding between Italy and
this country as to dealing with
Italian criminals.
O. A. Carruthers, one of the old tim
ers of Alaska, arrived from Valdez yes
terday with a double-ender and a fine
little horse.
Jim Lavin, of the Duggan creek road
house, was in town Thursday on a short
business trip.
Thep first rainfall for 1909 occurred on
the morning of Wednesday last.
COMING AND GOING
The Doctor Farrell left for Fairbanks
last Sunday.' He will probably not re
turn until after the opening of naviga
tion.
C. B. Allen, the Rampart attorney,
arrived in town last Sunday and in
tended to start for home on Monday but
law business kept him employed here a
couple of days longer.* He reports that
Mrs. Allen had been quite ill for a
couple of weeks prior to his departure
but was now almost entirely recovered.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. McNeil, of Tofty
City, arrived in town Tuesday last.
John the Rustler, the erstwhile bear
hunter, The Post’s fleet-footed carrier
on Sullivan creek, came to town last
Tuesday to attend court. John only
last week celebrated his 72nd birthday,
and it will be a great surprise to many
of his lady friends to learn that he has
passed even his 50th birthday.
Eddie Shenkle, Incline Roy and Jack
Hunnewell came to town to give testi
mony in the assault cases on trial oe
fore Commissioner Bevington on Tues
day last.
On Tuesday night many friends of
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Calderhead gave
an enjoyable social dance in their
honor, as they were to depart on the
following morning for their new home
ac Olsonopolis, where they have re
cently erected a roadhouse.
The townsite of Hot Springs and the
surrounding flat country is almost clear
of snow. The slough is at least 18
inches higher than it was ten days ago.
Howard Yeargin, of the local signal
corps office, has been under the care of
Dr. Conley for the past ten days, but is
now almost entirely recovered his ushal
health. _
FINE LINE OF FRESH DRUGS
Morrison’s store now has a splendid
and complete drug department. Its
variety cannot be surpassed anywhere
in the North. The stock of carefully
selected goods brought to this city late
last fall by “Doc” Farrell was recently
purchased by Morrison, and is now on
display in their big store. This stock
is certainly a fine one—one which re
quired much time to select. The drugs
are pure and fresh, all the standard
proprietory remedies are in the outfit,
and so many of those desirable and nec
essary toilet articles are here. A nicer
assortment of brushes for the clothes,
bath, fingers and shoes were never dis
played in the Tanana valley. The fra
grant perfumes are a pleasing feature
of this department.
See us for Cloth Posters.
IMPRESSION
Quite a number of people seem
to have the impression that
United States commissioners
pocket the fines collected from >
those imposed in criminal cases.
The idea is erroneous.
Sec. 332, part IV. of Chap. 35,
Code of Alaska, provides that all
fines imposed by commissioners
shall be by them forwarded to
the clerk of the district court,
where it is placed in a certain
fund for expense of the United
States government.
A job-lot of good serviceable shoe*
just added to the stock of Dr. Carter’s
store on Sullivan creek. Waterproof
and rubber shoes of standard makes in
all sizes and styles. Prices right, too.
Housekeepers! Go to Stanley’s for
beef, poultry, mutton, salmon, white
fish—by the pound.