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L. C. Olson is among the recent
arrivals in town from the canyon
district.
OLDTIMER HAD CLOSE CALL
IN FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY
Alex Hanot, well known oldtimex
of Pedro creek, who returned from
the Outside yesterday, after an ab
sence of two years, figured prom
inently in the fatal Seattle shoot
ing affray for which John Schmidt
was executed at Walla Walla last
week. Hanot was in the thick of
affray, being; within few feet of two
of the policemen when they were
shot down in cold blood by the
bandit-murderer. And he has not yet
figured out why Schmidt did not
turn his gun on him also.
Hanot was walking down the
street on the fatal evening, just a
short distance behind two policemen,
who were trying the doors as they
passed along the block. He saw a
man come across from the other
side of the street, hesitate when
about half way across, and then
continue toward the policemen. He
wore a cap and mackinaw and had
the appearance of a suspicious
character and, when close to the
two officers he was accosted by
them, whereupon he stooped to al
most a kneeling posture and began
shooting at them. One of the police
men fell in his tracks, while the
other sought refuge behind a near
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by tree, but not quick enough to;
escape the accurate aim of Schmidt.
The first policeman received two
bullets in his body and the second
one four, and both died sometime j
later.
After the two men had been shot
down, Schmidt took to his heels,
and Hanot rushed to the prostrate
men and, taking one of their guns, i
set off after the bandit. He saw \
Schmidt dodge in between some ■
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automobiles in his flight and disap- j
peared and that is the last that J
Hanot saw of him, but he heard
two shots that were fired by the j
bandit as he ran down another,
i
street. Returning to the two dying
officers, who still lay where they had
fallen, one flat on the sidewalk and ■
the other in a crouching position, j
he called to a woman in a doorway i
to phone to the police station and ■
inside a few moments there was
a small army of officers on the
scene, and a big crowd of spectators.
Hanot described Schmidt as best he
could and a search was started, re-'
suiting less than an hour later, in
the discovery of the murderer in
another part of the city. It appears
that he had run down a side street,
after disappearing among the autos,
thence through a vacant, muddy lot
to another street, where he boarded
a street car, and rode for some
distance. After he had left the car,
he was spied by Detective O’Brion
and another officer, his description
tallying with the one Hanot had
given. But when O’Brion reached
out to put his hand on Schmidt's
shoulder, the bandit shot him in the
head, killing him instantly. Then an
other chase started, resulting finally
in the capture of the bandit, and
a speedy trial, following which he
was sentenced to death.
Previous to the Seattle murders,,
Schmidt killed a man in Olympia
and, as already recorded in the
j press dispatches to The News, the
! bandit made a clean breast of all
his misdeeds, after being taken into
custody. He was an expert shot and
as familiar with the various makes
of revolvers as a hardware man.
Hanot’s name did not appear in
the early accounts of the shooting
for the reason that he requested
that it be not used. He thought per
haps Schmidt might have a pal in
the city and he did not care for
any more experiences of the kind
he had been through. In fact, he
says he did not realize what risks
he took until the thing was all over.
And then he almost had a nervous
breakdown.
Aside from the Schmidt experi
ence, and getting married, the old
timer says that he did not have
any excitement Outside, and the
city life and roaming around by
auto had become wearisome when he
started back for Pedro creek. It’s
all very nice for a time, he says,
but in the end Alaska has the big
appeal. And he says there are many
in the States who feel just as he
does about the North. He predicts
that most of the oldtimers who can
do so, will be coming back before
the summer is over, and quite a
number of them are already on the
way. All the boats are crowded and
reservations are spoken for far in
advance.
Conditions Outside, Mr. Hanot
says, are not improving very fast,
if at all. There are three bread lines
in Seattle where, a short time ago,
he saw shipyard workers going to
their work dressed in $14 silk shirts
and $16 dress shoes.—All the money
went for clothes and autos and other
things as fast as it was earned,
and faster, in many cases. And
now there are no jobs and no money
in the bank.
Notwithstanding the fact that
conditions generally are bad in
Seattle, rents continue high, due
largely to the fact that taxes are
excessive. Prices on food and cloth
ing, however, have declined consid
erably.
The suspension of numerous of
Seattle’s industries, Mr. Hanot says,
is attributed to the increasing de
mands of labor and the unwilling
ness of workers to give a fair ex
change of labor for the pay re
ceived. Too much unionism, is the
way many of the big employers ex
plain the situation, and the present
unemployment throughout the en
tire country is calculated to put
labor in a frame of mind to be less
exacting in their demands.
Pending a readjustment of con
ditions in the States, the trend of
travel appears to be toward Alaska j
and Mr. Hanot asserts that the
Alaskan Engineering commission
could easily recruit 10,000 men in
Seattle, by the offer of a summer’s
work.
Speaking of the railroad, Mr.
Hanot, who mushed over the trail
between ends of steel and had an
opportunity to observe the work
along the way, believes the com
mission will have no difficulty in
connecting the road according to
plans. The project does not present
the obstacles that he had expected
to see.
Like others who have returned
to Alaska from the States recent
ly, Mr. Hanot says the Outside is
far from being dry, and it is his
opinion that it would break the
Government to enforce the dry law.
Canada, whence most of the liquor
comes, is getting rich from the
illicit traffic and it is the boast of
Canadians that they will be able to
pay off their war debt within a very
short time if the traffic continues.
Good Canadian whisky, Mr. Hanot
says, can be bought in Seattle for
$8 a quart and $2 cheaper by the
case. And from what he saw, it
does not require difficult maneuver
ing to get it, so numerous and bold
are the bootleggers. Good whisky is j
so plentiful there is no market for i
“mule”.
Mr. Hanot will spend the summer
on his ground on Pedro creek, put
ting it in shape for open cut oper
ations a year hence. He estimates
that he has enough work ahead of
him to keep him busy for half a
dozen years.
Mr. Hanot went to Fairbanks to
day and will be joined by Mrs.
Hanot shortly after the water runs. -
H. W. Attwood, who has a grad
ing contract in the canyon district,
arrived in town yesterday, enroute
to Fairbanks. He reports that his
big Bagley scraping outfit is in
stalled, ready for operations, but
anticipates that it will be necessary
to “shoot” a considerable part of the
material he has contracted to move.
He will return in a few days, ready
to begin operations.
Manager R. S. Donaldson, of the
Healy coal mine, came in yesterday,,
for a brief visit in town. j'
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C. D. McCauley went to Fairbanks
this afternoon and will be employ
ed during the coming summer, on
Fairbanks creek, as carpenter for ■
the dredge company.
George Gravdahl, G. S Abbott,
B. E. Douglas, A. Anderson, J. Gil
bert were among the guests regis
tered at the Southern last night.
A shipment of first class mail ar- i
rived from the States .yesterday.
Sheet Metal Work
Plumbing, Heating Plants
Stoves and Ranges
Nenana Sheet Metal Works
PAUL PALFY, Prop.
— Now Location on A Street
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New Prices
ON
Men’sSuits
AND
Furnishings
3.50
5.00
1.50
5.00
3.50
$40 Suits now selling at $25
Highest grade band-tailored suits
$12.50 Single Trousers, Best Worsted $9.50
6.50 Single Trousers, special, .
John B. Stetson Hats at . .
Caps, best grades, now
Union Suits, worth $9 now .
6.50 Suits of Pajamas at . .
6.50 medium weight Flannel shirts, 2.20
14.00 Fine Dress Shoes now 7.50
Overalls, No. 1 Levi Strauss, . 2.00
Khaki Pants, Carhartt’s best, . 2.50
Mammoth Mitts at 1.50 and 1.00
Lisle Sox, brown and black, .25
Engineer’s Bib Overalls 1.50
Medium weight good wool sox, .50
Blue Wrist canvas gloves, . . .25
Brown wrist canvas gloves, 3 pr., 50
White Handkerchiefs, 2 for 25c
SIMSON’S
Department Store
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Thirty men are now employed at
die Pacific Coast Gypsum mine, at
gypsum, from which place ship*
ments are being made regularly to
he States. Further development is
under way.
Fine Stock Staple and Fancy Gro
ceries. Fowler tk Morris.
The Peoria, Illinois, Chamber of
commerce has announced that at the
annual dinner in that city in the
near future, Alaska reindeer meat
will be featured on the menu.
There is promise of considerable
mining activity this year in the
Cassiar region, near Wrangell.