STUMER ALASKA
’ CROWD RERE
SEATTLE, March 3. — The flag
ship Alaska sailed on Wednesday
night, her principal passenger list be
ing for Cordova, and Includes the fol i
.lowing 87 for that place: Ernest Jar
f penning, Kenneth Case, Peter Miers.
Miss Austin, Mrs. G. Courtland, John
son Jarpenning, E. Bonney and wife,
Joe Poulet and wife, R. Burns, Dan '
Brown, C. Erickson and wife, S. Pow-|
ell, Mrs. P. Malone, H. McDav. W. P. ]
Patrick, J. Brandt, O. Keehn, W.
Schmidt. J. Moregan, Mrs. L. Golden,
C. Leonard, R. Carpenter, Peter Mon
ahan, W. Jean, N. Jean. Alex Carey,
J. Anderson, J. Dalton, E. Tracy and
wife, L. Schooling and wife. H. Lewis
and wife, Mrs. Frank Clarke, R. J.
Brown, F. Jean. Hans Peterson, Christ
Musckovich, S. Jones, J. Tanter, ('has.
Dittmeer, J. Cohens. John Johnson, A.
Swekes, S. Malone, and thirty-seven
steerage.
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e IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, March 3.—Dr. M. M.
Hopkins, formerly connected with the
public health service, and stationed
in Alaska for a number of years, died
here today from injuries sustained in
an automobile accident last year.
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VALDEZ, March — Miss Kather
ine Monahan, a deputy in the office of
the clerk of the district court, will go
to Cordova on the return trip of the
Admiral Watson for the purpose of re
ceiving applications for naturaliza
tion. Miss Monahan will establish ner
office in the office of the U. S. com
missioner In the Adams building, and
all persons desiring to take out their
first papers, and those wishing infor
mation in regard to securing their
final papers can call on her. She
will remain in Cordova for about a
week.
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ANCHORAGE. March 1. — Fears
are entertained for the safety of Alex
on, the mail carrier, who has the run
between Rohn river and over Rainy
Pass to Happy river. A big snow
storm occurred on the Pass the day
A* Alexon was scheduled to cross, and
' he has not since been heard of. Joe
Richards and Jimmie McConaghy, the
mail carriers, have started out to the
rescue. v
yris NOW IN POSTOFFICE.
C. H. Scheffler, who was recently
appointed postmaster of Cordova, is
now in the local office familiarizing
f himself with his new duties, so that
when his commission arrives he will
be able to take charge.
BERLIN. March 2. — It is predicted
hy the director of the famous Krupp
gun works that German artillery will
he able to bombard the coast of Eng
land from tlte continent before the
close of sixty days. He has declined
to make public the facts upon which
his predictions are based, but it is
believed that his company is now
building guns which can be used for
shelling London.
It is reported in the Berlin press
that the Krupp works are building a
gtm capable of hurling a shell for
more than forty miles, and wjhich is
expected to outrange the largest Eng
lish guns.
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WASHINGTON, March 3. — Senat
or Gore's resolution warning all Am
ericans not to travel on armed mer
chant ships was today defeated in the
Senate by a vote of fi8 to 14, thereby
quelling the agitation which has. to an
extent, interfered with President Wil
son’s submarine negotiations with
Germany. Gore's resolution was
strengthened by an amendment of
fered by Senator McOumber, but the
whole measure was tabled at one
time on a rollcall. The fight is now
transferred to the House.
Advices from the White House are
to the effect tlint the Senate's action
has met with the approval of the
President, who will now concentrate
his attention to having the House pur
sue the same course.
Senator Gore, who introduced the
resolution, voted in favor of tabling
it. Senators Chamberlain and O'Gor
man were the only Democrats voting
against the administration measure,
although twelve other Democrats were
opposed to it. Forty-seven Republi
cans and twenty-one Democrats voted
against the resolution.
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15100 BRITISH
SOLDIERS III
SIDNEY, Australia, March 2. — Fir
teen thousand sollders training in
camp here for service with the British
army, revolted today because of an
order increasing the daily hours de
voted to training. In the resultant
disorder several of the soldiers were
killed and many wounded. The au
thorities finally subdued the men, and
the trouble has been ended.
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SAM SILVERMAN SAID TO BE
BLACKMAILED.
Advices from Seattle say that Sam
Silverman, of Seward, is one of many
who have been blackmailed by a gang
which operated all over the country.
A man named Sichler, two women
named Isabella ('lark and Lillian Pat
terson. and others have been arrested.
The photographs of Silverman and
others are said to have been taken
while he was in a house where the
women wrere, and to which he had
probably been decoyed. Ills photo
and those of the others were pub
lished in New York papers.
QUEEN ROUi!
PASSES AWAY
AT BUCHAREST
BUCHAREST, March 3. — Queen
Mother Elizabeth of Roumania, died
here today.
The pen name, “Carmen Sylvn." by
which the queen mother was most j
widely known, was chosen by her fn I
expression of her love for song and [
the woods. She was one of the most
charming figures in the courts of Eu
rope, ami practically the only one of
recent generations to gain fame as a
poetess.
In her own words, she was horn |
“far from a throne," for although ahei
was a princess of Wled, one of the
many tiny principalities with which
Germany abounded, her youth was;
that of an ordinary robust girl, who
learned to eook and sew and who
romped in the open with her compan
ions at the village school. She was
horn December 29, 1843, and in her
girlhood she showed predilection for
Iho poetical fancies that had such an
Influence on her later life. She ab
sorbed innumerable fairy stories and,
with some of her own imagination ad
ded, she delighted her playmates with
her fancies. At home she received
Spartan training, and with a father
who was an invalid for life, and a bro
ther who was incurably ill. she ex-i
perienced many sorrows and hard-!
ships.
SERIOUS RIOTS
OVER PRICE
OF FLOOR
MADRID, March 2. — The high
price of flour has led to a strike of
the bakers in this city. Following the
strike were serious riots by the work
ing people demanding bread. The sol -
diers were called upon to restore or
der. and in the melees which followed
many people were hurt. The mayor of
tlie city resigned today because of the
general dissatisfaction which has fol
lowed the increase in the cost of liv
ing.
SELDOVIA MAN ARRESTED FOR
ASSAULT ON NATIVE.
Gus Holstrom. one of the men who
went west with H. H. Waller in his
race for the $35,000 cannery site on
Bering sea, was taken into custody to
day by the United States deputy mar
shal at Seward, when he returned
from the trip. The charge against
him was disorderly conduct, but it is
understood that a more serious charge ,
will be pressed by the authorities.
Holstrom is alleged to have shot a
native in the head while on a ram
page at Seldovia several months ago. j
LINCOLN. Neb., March 2. — Form
er Senator Theodore Burton, of Ohio,
has notified the secretary of state
that he did not wish his name to go
on the Republican primary ballot in
Nebraska as a candidate for the nom
ination of president. He requested
the secretary of state to remove his
name from the official ballot.
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The steamer Admiral Farragut will
sail from Seattle tomorrow night at 9
o’clock.
WASHINGTON. March 3. — Sec
retary of Commerce Wilson, lias ap
pointed a commission to investigate
labor conditions at Anchorage in con
nection with the construction of the
government railroad. It is composed
of John A. Moffitt, of New Jersey;
Hywell Davies, of Kentucky; and Mr.
Foster, of the department of labor.
They will sail from Seattle on March
18 for Seward, and go from there over
the trail to Anchorage. The Ameri
can Federation of Labor telegraphed
the strikers, advising them to return
to work pending the investigation.
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Alaskan trade, which now amounts
to $100,000,000 a year, has attracted
the attention of San Francisco whole
salers to such an extent that they
have launched a determined campaign
to get a slice of It.
Every effort is being made by com
mercial organizations in California to
institute direct stenmshlp service with
Alaskan ports, and it is believed by
many Golden Gate merchants that
this will be achieved this season.
The success of the project depends
on the amount of trade and a strong
effort is now being made to build up
a demand for California products be
fore a boat is put on the run.
To this end California merchants
are offering to pay the freight from
San Francisco to Seattle on all goods
ordered until such time as a direct
service is started.
fly absorbing the coastwise charge
this gives them a chance to compete
with Seattle on prices on all canned
goods, in which California excels in
quality.
Putting on a direct boat to I.os An
geles and San Francisco involves con
siderable difficulty at present owing
to the great demand for vessels of
every description. But the project
has been launched, and It is up to
Alaskans and Calofirnia commercial
bottles to help. Markets should be
secured In California for Alaska pro
ducts, including fresh and salt fish.
Alaskan marble and mineral products
to provide freight for the return trip.
A through boat to San Francisco will
give an opportunity to ship smelting
ores direct to San Francisco smelters
in competition with the Tacoma plant.
Charles Suizer. for member of the
national committee: George Grigsby,
for delegate to Congress, and Hugh
[VNeil. for attorney general of the
territory of Alaska, were the endor
sees of the Democratic delegates of
the Second division which was held
it Nome.
The meeting was a hot sosslon, and
here was no dilly-dallying with any
question, the delegates seemed unani
mous in the work before them.
The appointment of butlanders to
federal offices was strongly de
nounced, but the delegation solidly
pointed with pride to the appoint
ments to the judicial bench of it. \V.
Jennings and Chas. E. Bunnell.
NEW STRIKE ON
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I. B. Hurd, of McCarthy, has just
returned from a trip to the Shushan |
; na. and he says things are looking |
j very good in there at the present time.
He writes the Daily Times as follows:
"I had a very good trip going in and
out. with the exception of.a little storm
on the summit, which one must ex
pect at this time of year, but the trail
is in very good condition, and there
is going to be quite a large amount
of freight go in this spring, and there
will be more actual mining and devel
opment work done this summer than
ever before.
“There are some parties down 60
feet on the left limit of Johnson, and
were getting some very good pros
pects, and expect to strike it very
good.
“There are several parties working
on Notch creek, and are also getting
some very good prospects, and while
j I was in there they made arrange
ments for a big boiler and moved it
[ over and are going after it right,
j “The best strike of all has been
made on Gold linn, on No. 1 belowr dis
covery. the pay is sixteen feet wide,
and is about twenty feet to bedrock;
[they have had three and four cent
| pans from the surface dow’n. and on
j bedrock they have had as high as $3
! pans, and they don' think that they
) have found the best pay yet.
"James & Nelson are putting in a
big hydraulic plant this spring, their
! entire outfit will amount to about 35
j tons, and there are several other good
sized outfits going in. and take it is
a whole the Shushanna district has
never looked better than it does at the
present time.”
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PARTY DRIVER
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STOCKHOLM. March 2. — Louis
I*. Lochner, general secretary of the
Ford peace expedition, arrived here
today. Lochner said that he had been
ordered out of Germany by the Ber
lin military authorities, and told
never to return.
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Judge Fred M. Brown, of the dis
trict court, has dismissed the petit
jury, which had been called to be iu
attendance on the court on March 15,
and providing for the drawing of an
other jury, to report on April 10.
The jury term has been set back
owing to there being very few cases
on the calendar which are ready to
come to trial, and as there^ are a num
ber of fishery law violations and other
cases to come up later the court deter
mined to arrange the calling of the
petit Jury accordingly.
The citizens who were drawn on
the jury, which was to have reported
on March 15. wii) be notified by de
puties or by registered letter that fhe
jury has been dismissed and that they
will not be required to report.
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The Admiral Evans arrived from
the westward yesterday morning, and
sailed south with few passengers
from here.
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AERIAL SERVICE
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WASHINGTON. March 2 — Fal
con Joslin, president of the Tatiana
Railway Company, is dissatisfied that
the postal department in calling for
aerial mail services in Alaska did not
Include service from Fairbanks to
Brooks, in the new Tolovana camp.
He is trying to Interest the depart
ment in a plan he has for operating
a mail service by aeroplane fin miles
from Fairbanks to Brooks daily
throughout the year.
.Mr. Joslin is convinced that the
aeroplane service is feasible and can
be depended upon, and lhat economy
and efficiency in handling the mails
in Alaska can be best secured by this
system. He has pointed out that the
Canadian government is handling the
mails regularly and successfully to
the Hudson Bay district by aeroplane,
and believes that they will be equally
as successful in Alaska.
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NEW YORK. March 2. — Theodore
Roosevelt has ordered that his name
be withdrawn from the Illinois prim
ary ballot as a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for President.
The ex-president had previously taken
similar action in regard to withdraw
ing his name from Republican prim
ary ballots in Nebraska and Minne
sota. i
QUARTZ LODE IS
FOUND IN THE
ANCHORAGE. March 1. — The
news has just arrived of the discov
ery of a monster lode In the Squentna
country, and considerable excitement
has resulted here. Several are al
ready departing for the scene of the
strike, and quite a stampede may be
looked for. The lode is fifteen hun
dred feet iu width and carries gold
values of five dollars a ton and up
ward. The rock is of a bluish color
and good looking. Ten locations have
already been made, but this number is
expected to increase very much right
away. The ledge Is ten miles from
the Byers road house.
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VALDEZ. March 3. — Judge Brown.
3f the district court, has issued an
jrder which directs that the jury
[•ailed for March 15 need not appear.
\ new jury will be drawn to appear
jn April 10. when the court win com
mence the consideration of jury cases.
Those who were due at Valdez on
March 15, and who do not now have
:o leave Cordova are Geo. Hickman,
ft. T. Herron and H. R. Lee.
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The steamer Admiral Watson is due
tere this morning at 8 o'clock.