Work at the Port Walter herring
packing plants, in southeastern Alas
ka, is so rushing that the companies
are employing a number of additional
hands to keep up with the work.
Jack Allman, of Tolovana, has clos
ed out all his mining interests in that
section and will leave soon for the
states, where he will join the U. S.
army aviation corps.
Emil Mullenbeck, for some time
past a member of the Juneau police
force, has resigned his position and
has been succeeded by Albert Forsyth.
Mullenback will leave for the states
to enter the service of the United
States.
The first snow of the season fell at
Fairbanks on September 14, but the
weather being warm it did not stay.
In an order entered in the office of
the clerk of the United States district
court at Fairbanks Judge Charles E.
Bunnell appointed Joseph C. Van Ors
del a United States commissioner for
the Kantishna precinct. The head
quarters of the new appointee will be
on Glacier creek, the former town of
Glacier city having been washed away
and practically deserted. Judge Van
Orsdel succeeds William R. Taylor
in the position. He has, it is stated,
already gone to the Kantishna from
Xenana. It is understood that a pe
tition has been sent to Washington
asking for a post office for the Kan
tishna country and requesting the ap
pointment of Mrs. Van Orsdel as
postmistress.
A plant has been established in
Juneau to convert shark skin into
leather and to extract oil from car
casses of the fish. If the venture
Vroves a success the plant will be en
larged.
Herschel island, away off up the
Canadian Arctic coast, near the Alas
kan boundary, which years ago was
the winter station and rendezvous of
whaling boats, will be deserted this
winter, according to reports reach
ing here, on account of the gradual
decline of the fur catch. Alexander
Allen, a Herschel island trader, known
all over the Arctic country, is said to
have left the island and was believed
to be the last man to leave. None
of the traders ralized much on their
catch of last winter, it is believed.
Word has been received in Fair
banks to the effect that Vincent
(Spud) Buttorovieh, a well known
y Fairbanks young man who has been
attending the Oregon Agricultural
college during the past year, met
with a sad misfortune this summer
while working in a sawmill at Ho
quiam, Washington. Shortly after
the summer vacation started young
Buttorovieh commenced work in a
sawmill. He had only worked four
days when in some unaccountable
manner his right hand was caught in
the ccg wheels of some of the machin
ery. It took twenty-eight minutes
for the crew to release him, during
wi 'ch time he was conscious of ev
erything that was going on. He lost
all excepting a portion of the middle
finger, and all of the fourth and little
finger to the wrist. He still has the
thumb and index finger. For twenty
six days Buttorovieh was confined
to his bed, not being able to sit up
or move about. The young man is
now feeling real well and contem
plates returning to the Oregon Agri
cultural college for this year, where
he will major in mining engineering.
The board of trustees of the Alaska
Pioneers’ home has just awarded pen
sions to the following old-time Alas
kans: Alfred J. Clark, of Seldovia,
$10 monthly; Sam Kimmel, Fair
banks, $12.50; and Mrs. Lena Hill, of
Nome, $12.50.
B. B. Neiding, superintendent of the
Perseverance mine for the Alaska
Gastineau Gold Mining company, at
Juneau, has resigned from that posi
tion and will leave for Ray, Arizona,
where he will become assistant super
intendent of the Ray Consolidated
Mining company, which, like the Alas
ka Gastineau company, is also a Jack
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ling property. D. J. Argali, at pres
ent assistant superintendent at the
Perseverance will succeed Mr. Neidig
as superintendent.
Word has been received in Fair
banks that the former wife of United
States Marshal L. T. Erwin, of Fair- :
banks, was recently married to John '
Edwar^l Haynes, of Cleveland, Ohio,
and is now residing in Cedar Rapids,;
Iowa.
Chief of Police Harding, of Juneau,
has received from the Spokane Stock j
Exchange a check for $500, the re
ward offered for the arrest of W. H.
Burke, who was recently taken into
custody by the Juneau police on a
telegraphic warrant from Spokane.
Fleading guilty to exploding a rifle
in the creek for the purpose of catch
ing fish, Joe Enos, of Fairbanks, was
fined $25 and costs. He was arrested
upon a complaint made by Cal Town
send, the fur and fish warden.
“Dad” Martin’s roadhouse, on the
Delta, will soon be open to the pub
lic. Ernest Eburn and John Ryan, of
Fairbanks, have taken the place for
the winter and expect to open a first
class hostelry.
The first mail over the Seward-Idit
arod trail left Seward on November
1, in charge of Col. H. E. Revell, who
has the contract for carrying the mail;
between these two points.
Reports brought to Fairbanks show
that a number of game hogs are not
sparing the few grouse that are in the
country, but are slaughtering them
as in years when they were plentiful.
Several weeks ago the game wardens
issued an appeal, asking the hunters
to spare the grouse and other birds
this year, believing that by next
year they would again be plentiful
but some of the hunters, who are not
sportsmen, heed not this appeal, and
kill the birds whenever the oppor
tunity presents. The majority of the
hunters, however, report that the ap- !
peal is being observed, except by the
few who care not whether the birds
ever become abundant again.
United States Commissioner Mar
tin Moran has handed in his resigna
tion to the district court at Nome as
commissioner of the Fortuna Ledge
district and will leave shortly for the
Kobuk section to look after his fox
farm and also a number of valuable
copper mining interests located in
that locality.
The Scurvy Kid, while working for
the Alaskan Engineering commission
at Nenana fell off a barge recently,
splitting bis knee cap.
Upon instructions from Washing
ton, Rene L. Hullier, who was held in
the Federal jail at Fairbanks as an
alien enemy, has been allowed his lib
erty on parole. He is a native of
Alsace-Lorraine and was taken into
custody during the summer for al
leged disloyal statements, made at
Nenana. A few days ago orders
were received at Fairbanks to deliver
him to the commanding officer at Fort
Liscum, but these instructions were
changed later and the marshal was
instructed to allow him his liberty on
parole. If L’Huillier behaves him
self he will not be bothered by the of
ficials, but if he becomes active in
the anti-American propaganda he will
be arrested again.
The steamer Vidette, of the White
Pass Canadian fleet, sank just before i
the close of navigation in Lake La
berge. No effort will be made to
raise the old steamer. The Vidette
was formerly owned by the Side
Streams Navigation company and op
j erated in Yukon waters and naviga
! ble streams in that district. She had
been in the “boneyard” for several
months and at the time she sank was
being towed across Lake Laberge by
!the steamer Canadian. She was to
have been used as winter quarters
for workmen at lower Laberge this
year. Since the accident the company
has taken the boilers out of the boat
and nothing else was salvaged.
JOSEPH LAUBNER SAYS COAL
DEPOSITS ARE WONDERFUL
IN EXTENT AND VALUE.
OTHER MINERALS OCCUR THERE
Government Has Erected Comfortable
Quarters for Men at Eska Creek
and Citizens Are Urged to Make
Excursion Trip.
Joseph Laubner, heavy owner of
business property in Anchorage, has
just returned from a trip to the end
of the branch railroad to the Chicka
loon coal fields. He says that he was
greatly surprised at the amount of
work accomplished and in progress
along the branch line.
He declares that the amount of coal
in sight is something that surprised
him more than all other things com
bined. Mr. Laubner is no chechaco
about a coal mine for he has been in
and around some of the largest pro
perties of this character in the eastern
states. He states that the outlook for
coal at Chickaloon, surpasses anything
that he ever saw in any country. He
was at the Chickaloon mine for two
days, went through all the tunnels, ex
amined many of the ledges and de
clares that he will risk all he has that
the camp within two years will sur
prise the world in the large amount of
its coal production.
Mr. Laubner says that Dave Skaar
stad is there as one of the “watchful
waiters,” and when the government
gives the public an opportunity to in
vest money Mr. Skarstad is willing
to “go some.” Mr. Laubner, himself
has a man on the ground watching for
a place to enter an investment wedge
Railroad Station Moved.
The railroad station house at King
river was moved to Chicakloon. Mr.
Laubner was there and he says that
the place at the end of steel is already
taking on a business aspect. There
was no wind at Chicakloon although
he says there was a strong gale on the
Matanuska. It has l'ained at Chicka
loon only two days since September 6.
It is the general belief there that the
surrounding country is a rich gold
mining district tnat win next season
be a bee-hive of activity.
Charles Davis has a saw mill at
Camp 36 on the branch line and has
fifty sixty men at work in the timber
gettting out logs for his mill, timbers
for the mines, and ties and bridge
timbers for the Alaskan Engineering
commission. Mr. Davis’ contracts, for
timbers of different kinds, aggregate
more than $80,000.
Walter Jones, known to all the old
Alaska Northern railroad men, is at
Chickaloon. He will pin his faith to
the place if the government continues
the work of opening the mines, as he
declares the coal alone will make a
Pittsburgh of the place.
Visited Eska Creek Mines.
Mr. Laubner also visited the mines
at Eska creek where the government
is operating coal property. He says
that the government quarters there
for the men surpass that of any place
he ever saw. The buildings are all
painted dark-green color giving the
place the appearance of a summer re
sort, and every building is furnished in
the most modern style with every con
venience and comfort. The food is of
the very best and served in the most
palatable manner.
Mr. Laubner thinks it would be an
excellent idea for the engineering com
mission to give an excursion to the
end of the line before the deep snow
falls so residents of Anchorage might
see for themselves what a remarkable
change has taken place in that sec
tion and know the wonderful indus
tries that it is now possible to open up
as resources for Anchorage.
Claims Made for Ruined Wells.
LONDON, Nov. 1.—In connection
with the destruction of the Rumanian
old w-ells, the Rumanian Consolidated
Oil fields have lodged claims with the
British government amounting to 1,
270,724 pounds.
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SECRET ROUTE
LED TO MEXICO
ARREST OF ERNEST LOHEN
DORFF AT EL PASO LEADS TO
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT.
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 3.—In the ar
rest of Ernest Lohendorff, agents of
the United States government believe
they have discovered the underground
route by which information was
transmitted between the United States
and Mexico for relay to Germany.
TOSTARTEARLY
lEXTSPRfNG
PREPARATIONS ARE MADE TO
LAND SEVERAL THOUSAND
RAILS ON BANK OF TANANA.
ALL SEVENTY-POUND WEIGHT
Laying of Track Reported As Likely
to Continue for Some Time and
Some Operations Will Be Conducted
Throughout Winter.
That railroad construction work on
the north bank of the Tanana river op
posite Nenana will start early next
spring, is indicated by the prepara
tions being made by the Alaskan En
gineering commision to land several
thousand seventy-pound rails on that
side of the river, according to word
from Nenana. The fact that seventy
pounders are being placed there is also
evidence that the work next spring
will be of a permanent nature; that is,
that standard gauge railroad will Sbe
constructed, as forty-pounders are be
ing used only in narrow gauge work.
Site for Landing Rails,
i Jack Bellerby, head wharfinger of
I the American-Yukon Navigation com
pany, and Roy Lamb, mechanical fore
man of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission have selected a suitable site
' for landing the rails. A derrick is to
! rigged for landing the rails at the site.
These preparations are taken as a
certain indication that the line to Fair
banks is to be of the same construc
tion as the remainder of the road.
They also indicate that work on that
I side of the river will stai’t as early as
possible next spring.
Will Continue After Freeze-Up.
It is understood here that the laying
of track south of Nenana is to continue
after the freeze-up. The object of con
tinuing the work at this time, it is
stated, is to get a steam shovel out to
Mile Thirty-five, where there is a hill
of dry gravel. This gravel will be used
j as ballast. It is further understood
that a small force is to be kept on
the work of building grade all winter.
LETTERS WONT BE
ELD FOR POSTAGE
POSTMASTERS DIRECTED TO
| FORWARD COLLECT ALL MAIL
WITH INSUFFICIENT STAMPS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—With
three-cent letter postage rate effect
j ive tomorrow, the postoffice depart
1 merit has instructed postmasters to
return to senders, if they are known,
all letters mailed tomorrow, bearing
! insufficient postage. If the senders
iare not known to the postmasters the
j letters are to be sent to the persons
| addressed and the deficient postage
! collected from them.
TIME EXTENDED IN
PROPERTY REPORTS
ENEMY ALIENS HAVE UNTIL DE
CEMBER 5 TO ACCOUNT ON
HOLDINGS TO GOVERNMENT
WSAHINGTON, Nov. 2.—An order
extending from November 6 to De
cember 5 next, as the time when per
sons holding alien property or prop
erty belonging to enemy allies must
file reports was issued today by the
enemy property custodian of the fed
eral government.
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CLYDE A. THOMPSON CHARGED
WITH HAVING TAKEN $6,000
OF POSTAL FUNDS.
INSPECTORS MAKE COMPLAINT.
Hearing Is Held Before Commission
er and Defendant Refused to Make
Statement and Is Bound Over to
Grand Jury on $6,000 Bail.
Clyde A. Thompson, postmaster at
Eagle, has been arrested on a charge
of embezzlement of $6,000 of postof
fice funds, and is held under bonds to j
the federal grand jury.
Charles Riddleford, inspector and j
Arthur Paisley, postoffice inspectors, i
both of Spokane, Washington, made
the complaint against Thompson.
The inspectors who acted in the
case arrived in Eagle September 21
and immediately upon arrival there
went to make an investigation of the
office. After the inspection the post
master was charged by the inspectors
with being short of funds to the
amount of $6,000. The charge of j
embezzlement was made before the j
commissioner at Eagle by Riddeford |
and Paisley, and the defendant waiv- j
ed the right of securing counsel and j
refused to give any statement in
court.
Thompson was bound over to the
grand jury on bail in the sum of J
$6,000. The bail was furnished by j
J. J. Hilliard and J. B. Howard, $4,000 I
and $2,000 being furnished respect-}
lively.
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GRAND JURY AT VALDEZ IN-1
DICTS W. A. GOODMAN AND DIS
I CHARGES EDWARD KRAUSE.
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FILIPINO JURY DISAGREES j
Residents of Anchorage Who Were
Defendants or Witnesses in Cases
Before District Court Will Return
Home on Admiral Evans Saturday.
VALDEZ, Nov.j 2.—W. A. Goodman
today was indicted on the charge of
having violated at Anchorage the fed
eral liquor law. >
In the case of Edward Krause, who
j was bound over on a similar accusa
tion by the commissioner at Anchor
age, the grand jury here today failed
to return a true bill, reporting that
there was not sufficient evidence to
| support the charge.
Trials in Anchorage.
The trials of Joseph Morris and
William Peterson, who were indicted
for liquor violations yesterday, and of
| Goodman will take place at the term
of court which will be held in An
chorage next spring.
Deputy Sheriffs Clarence W. Moss
man and J. J. Kavanaugh and other
Anchorage residents, who have been
as witnesses or defendants in cases be
fore the district court, will return
home on the steamship Admiral
Evans, which is scheduled to arrive in
Anchorage tomorrow afternoon.
Disagreement of Jury.
In the case of Arsenio Vincento,
who was tried for murder in connec
tion with the killing of J. J. Cunning
ham, the cannery foreman on Kodiak
island, the jury reported a disagree
ment after twenty hours’ deliberation
and was discharged by the court.
AIRMEN KILL EIGHT.
LONDON, Nov. 2.—German raiders,
who bombed London yesterday, killed
eight and injured twenty-one persons.
The raiders took advantage of heavy
clouds, and escaped without experienc
ing any damage.
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AMERICA LENDS
RUSSIA $30,000,000
UNITED STATES SHOWS HER
FAITH IN SUBSTANTIAL WAY
IN MUSCOVITE NATION.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. ?>.—
The United States government's faith
in Russia was reiterated today when
American officials authorized a loan
for $31,000,000 to Russia out of cred
its, that had been previously arranged.
AFFHUTS DDE
JOSEPH DORAN WOUNDS AXEL
R. NELSON BY MISTAKE AND
THEN FIRES ON HIMSELF.
TRIED TO KILL J. DEMPSEY
Description of Man That Tried to Hold
Up John Young at His Home Tallies
Exactly With That of Dangerouly
Wounded Hospital Patient.
Investigation by the United States
marshal’s office establishes the fact
that both cases of shooting here late
Wednesday night were perpetrated by
Joseph Doran, who with a bullet
wound in his abdomen is at the gov
ernment hospital not expected to live.
Doran shot himself, whether acci
dentally or intentionally, has not been
ascertained, while he was standing or*
the sidewalk at he corner of K street
and Fifth avenue. Earlier in the even
ing he entered the Eureka lodging
house on Fifth avenue between B and
C streets and, thinking he was firing
at Joseph Dempsey, emptied a revol
ver at Axel R. Nelson, inflicting two
flesh wounds of a comparatively tri
vial character.
Nelson, Dempsey and Doran had
eaten a meal at a restaurant on Fourth
avenue, when Dempsey and Doran had
engaged in a quarrel. From the res
taurant Nelson and Dempsey went to
the lodging house and, unknown to
them, were followed by Doran. Nel
son and Dempsey had bunks in the
same room, and while they were get
ting ready to go to bed in the dimly
lighted room, Doran appeared in the
doorway and with a threat and an oath
began shooting at Dempsey. At the
first shot, Dempsey jumped behind a
door, and Doran, not realizing there
had been two men in the room, con
tinued firing at the Only remaining
person, who was Nelson. Nelson was
wounded in the thigh and leg.
- Revolver Was Reloaded.
After hastily leaving the lodging
house, Doran reloaded his revolver, for
there was only one empty chamber
in it when it was found beside him
after he had shot himself.
According to Deputy Marshal A.
Frank Hoffman, who investigated the
affair, Doran may have accidentally
shot himself while reloading his re
volver, or, he may attempted suicide
while under the impression that he
had killed Dempsey.
The attempted suicide theory is giv
en more ordinary credence because, ir
respective of intervening clothing,
Doran’s abdomen was discolored with
a large heavy powder mark, indicat
ing that the revolver must have been
pressed aaginst the body, which would
scarcely be likely in the case of acci
dental shooting.
Tallies with Robber’s Description.
Details of the description of the man
that attempted to hold up John Young
at his home on the Spenard road cor
respond exactly with the appearance
of Doran. The attempted robbery of
Mr. Young took place an hour or so
before either of the shooting affrays.
No formal charge has ben placed
against Doran. In the event of his re
covery, which is regarded as impos
sible, the authorities declare it is like
ly he will be taken into custody.
BOLIVIA HONORS CARRANZA.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 3.—The con
gress of Bolivia has voted to bestow
on President Venustiano Carranza the
order of the grand cross of Mariscal.
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