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CARL LINDSTROM, ALIAS LIND,
ACCUSED OF ROBBING DEP
UTY MARSHAL.
11 Carl Lindstrom, alias Lind, is in the
hospital with bullet wounds in the arm
■ and chest as the result, it is said, of
an attempt to hold up Deputy Mar
shal Jack Sturgis shortly after ?!
o’clock Sunday morning near the base
ball grounds on C street. Lind’s com
i panion in the affair ran when Sturgis
pulled his revolver, and is still at lib
erty. The shooting was the culmina
tion of four holdups Saturday night
; and Sunday morning. Two of the
; robberies were successful.
! Lind and his partner, according to
| Sturgis, were standing on the side
’ | walk as the officer walked toward
j them. They separated and then closed
> in on him as he came upon them.
1 Sturgis immediately pulled his re
! volver, commanded the men to stop
j and warned them he was an officer.
! One of the men ran but Lind, who was
J in the rear of Sturgis, was fast ap
J proaching the marshal when the offi
\ cer turned and warned his assailant to
J i halt- Lind continued coming toward
j Sturgis, who then shot. Six shots
were fired, two taking effect.
Struggled When Wounded.
, Even when wounded, Lind made a
lunge at Sturgis’ knees and a hand to
hand battle ensued before Sturgis
succeeding in handcuffing Lind. A tax,'
icab was called by a woman living
nearby and Lind was removed to the
hospital. Although seriously wounded
his recovery is expected.
Shortly before midnight Saturday
an attempted holdup on South C street
was frustrated when friends of the
victim, whose identity has not been re-j
vealed, came to his assistance and
drove the two assailants off.
Later Gus Gill was held up near:
Ninth avenue and C street and was re
lieved of $10 and a watch by two men i
after they had knocked hm out.
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Anton Hrundstrom, a young Swede,
was attacked shortly afterward at
Eight and C and gave light to two
men, whose desorption tallies with the
men whom Sturgis met. Brundstrom
was finally bested and $12 in money
was taken from him. Before depart
ing, his assailants kicked his face and
lacerated one eye.
Has Borne Good Reputation.
Lind, who is a partner in a station
contract let by the Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission at Camp i)8 on Turn
again Arm, has always borne a good
reputation among his fellow workers,
who are of the opinion that he had no
intention of perpetrating a robbery
but that he mistook the deputy mar
shal for a highwayman.
Lind’s stories of the affair, told to
friends to Marshal Mossman, vary
considerably, however, and the officers
are confident of the prisoner’s guilt.
At the hospital Lind claimed to
friends to have been attacked without
warning by two men, who struck him
on the back of the neck and then shot
him without provocation. He also
told acquaintances that he was walk
ing down C street with two friends
when attacked. His story to the mar
shal was to the effect that he was
alone when attacked.
That the antimony industry, which
during the early days of the war,
promised to put Interior Alaska on
the map as a producer of the metal
second to no other place in the
world, but which later failed on ac
count of a slump in the market, is
not yet a dead one by any means, is
the statement of Jack Pomeroy, of
Fairbanks, who as the partner of Si
Scrafford, the one time antimony
king, so-called, probably knows more
about the mining and handling of the
metal than any other man ir. the in
terim', says a recent issue of the Fair
banks Citizen. And his faith in the
The culprit who stole the enlist
ment papers from Lieutenant Clark,
a naval recruiting officer, at Peters
burg recently, was found to be one
James O’Donnell. He claimed that he
was intoxicated at the time and that
he picked up the papers thinking it
was his bundle of laundry. He is be
ing held by the police and is likely to
get a severe sentence.
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General changes in marine routes
and sea schedules on the North Pa
j cific following the commercial open
ing of the Matanuska coal fields are
I being contemplated by the shipping
i interests of countries on both sides
of the Pacific, which are so extensive
as to practically revolutionize sea
traffic from North America to the
Orient, says a recent article issued
from the office of th Associated Press
at Sattle.
i The full value of high-grade bitu
! minus coal to the Pacific has not yet
been realized here, people being too
| close to the situation to take in its full
! scope.
Conveyer to All Ports.
An idea can be gained, however, by
considring the fact that coal from
England and from Virginia is convev
: ed by ships to ports in every part of
the world, including the Pacific coast
and Asia. It is at once apparent that
l the shorter haul from Alaska will
! mean that consumers on both sides
of the Pacific will avail themselves of
this opportunity, once the coal is on
the market.
This is realized by interests back
of the big Japanese steamship lines
land in preliminary arrangements are
| already under discussion for the rout
ing of Japanese ships between Seat
tle and the Orient to more northerly
course taking in Alaskan ports. Jap
anese consular reports have already
been filed for the benefit of steel and
iron interests in Nippon showing the
value of Alaskan fuel.
Plans are now under way by the
Admiral line by which its agents will
be able to sell tickets from Alaska
ports to Hawaii on their own boats,
and by the time coal from Matanuska
is available for commercial use, Alas
ka people will be able to go to San
Francisco via the beautiful isles of the
southern sea.
I riangular Icun.
The opportunity for a triangular
run between Pacific Coast, Hawaiian
and Alaskan ports is at once appar
ent, because of the general demand
for merchandise and muel, as well as
the passengers possibilities.
Vessels leaving Seattle with full
cargoes for Alaska can take on coal
here for Hawaii, and take sugar and
Hawaiian products to Seattle. The
tourist possibilities of such a route
are trenmendous.
The first step by the Admiral line
has been to put the S. S. Senator on
a direct run from Puget Sound to
Honolulu and return, which will be
continued until coal production here
is a reality. The Senator left Seat
tle on its first trip August 11. The
trans-Paeific business between Puget
sound and Hawaii is in its infancy
and is necessarily being encouraged
by shippers, but by the time fuel is
is available here it will be built up to
a substantial condition.
The run of salmon has been unusu
ally large this year in streams near
Nome.
COAL OPERATORS FIND FAULT WITH THE PRESENT
LEASING SYSTEM
Walter A. Gompertz, an experienced
coal operator of thirty-five years’ ex
perience, representing California cap
italists, accompanied by Lars Net
land, a coal mining engineer of many
years’ experience in the West Vir
ginia and Pennsylvania fields, passed
through Juneau, recently, returning to
California to perfect the arrange
ments for a company to work two
tracts of coal lands which they have j
leased in the Matanuska fields on the'
Chickaloon River, says the Juneau
Empire.
Price to Be Reasonable.
| They stated that before this time
next year they will be selling Matanu
ska coal on the Juneau market at a'
price which will be cut materially un
der the present price of coal.
They have leased tracts ten and
eleven, on the same vein and imme
diately adjoining the tract being
worked by Sumner S. Smith for the
government and from which the coal
was taken which passed such a high
test in the Navy.
“The coal is good, there is lots of
it, and it is equally as good for all
j purposes as the famous Pocahontas
coal of West Virginia,” one of the
men is quoted by the Juneau Empire.
“It is a semi-bituminous and will give
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neporcs nave reacneo rsome tnat
; drilling on a creek in the Marshall
section resulted in the discovery of a
narrow streak of exceedingly rich pay.
Its general extent has not been deter
mined, but it is very narrow where the
: drill encountered it, as has been shown
i after drilling across it. It is, however,.
said to make up for this narrowness 1
* by its extreme richness of concentra
tion. The story concerning this strike
: is to the effect that one of the owners j
j who gave a corporation an option on
the ground and which option lead to
the drilling received a wire to this ef
fect. Further detatils or their accur
[
acv are not known. 1
During recent heavv rainstorms I
i I
j the Nenana river changed its course
| and the high water carried out sev-,
| eral bridges and forced the Engineer-1
ing Commission to blow up one rail-1
road bridge to prevent further and
| more serious damage. The scene of
the disaster was Lost Slough, twen
ty miles south of Nenana, where the
river changed its course and so far
has failed to return to its old channel.
! Max Poehlman, who has been con
! ducting experiments for the Midnight
Sun Fish Products company at Sew
ard, tanning shark hide leather and
trying out shark oil, has secured suf
ficient of the former to make a ship
ment to the outside, and will send it to
a tannery for thorough test. The hides
have been pickled, but not tanned.
Sylvester Chance of the Society of
Friends, arrived in Nome recently to
take charge of a missio nat Kotzue
'oue Sound. He reports that about
1500 Indians have become converts
of his church in that region.
—
Dick Jones, a well known Fair- j
| banksan, is reported to have been
! killed recently in the Koyukuk coun
more heat anti last longer in the
stoves being used in Juneau and
throughout Alaska than any coal on
the Alaskan market at the present
time.
Present System Inadequate.
“The present system of leasing is
entirely inadequate, in our opinion,
and we found the government officials
more than anxious to please. They
did everything possible to help us out,
giving valuable data on request and
assisting us in every way. J. Watkins
Evans and Sumner S. Smith have
been appointed consulting engineexs
and are at the disposal of anyone
working coal mines, free of cost to
the operator.
“It is our intention to start deliv
ering coal along the coast from
Anchoi*age to Ketchikan, as soon as
possible after the railroad reaches our
property. The railroad will reach us
about the middle of October. We will
either put in a line of barges and tugs
or if we find it necessary, will run a
line of steamers to handle our pro
duct. It is our belief that Matanuska
coal can be sold at the dock at Juneau
for $8 per ton, and at the same time
make a good profit. We will either re
tail to the dealers or establish an
agency of our own.”
try. No praticulars accompanied the
report. He was a native of Portland.
Sergeant Lee Murphy, formerly in
charge of the Sewarv. cable office, has
been promoted to a first lieutenant in
the signal corps and left recently for
Monterey, California, to report for
duty.
There is a bull moose visiting Fair
banks at the present tim. He is yet
very young, having been captured
near Salcha and brought to town by
Freeh John, who has placed him on
sale.
H. J. Gaunt, one of the lessees of
the Fleming & Dale group of claims
on the Little Windy Arm, near
Whitehorse, recently returned to that
city with the news of an unusually
rich strike on his property.
Emil Johnson of Livingood and
Miss Esther Carlson of Seattle were
united in marriage at Fairbanks re
cently and left for the Tolovana coun
try wher the groom is interested in
mining Ventures.
Ptarmigan are again becoming
plentiful at and near Nome.
Jeanette Feldman won the $25 prize
offered by the committee for selling
the most tickets on Tag Day. Miss
Feldman turned in $201 of the $600
realized from the result of Saturday’s
sale.
C. M. Murphy, contractor and build
er in charge of the government work
at Eska creek coal mine, came down
to take in the fair.
During a lesson in natural history,
the teacher asked one of his litle pu
pils: “Can you name a mammal which
has no teeth?” The child replied:
“Yes, my grandmother.”