OF GENERAL
Governor Strong has appointed
William Maloney, of Nome, terri
torial mine inspector, under the pro
visions of chapter 72 of the Alaska
seBBion laws. Under this law the
territorial mine inspector lias been
assigned to the mining sections of
the second and fourth judicial divi
sions, with headquarters at Nome.
The office carries a salary of $2,500
a year, with actual and necessary
traveling expenses when in perform
ance of duty, but not exceeding the
' Sum of $2,500 a year. Mr. Maloney
will enter upon his official duties on
'August 1. The appointment Is for
a period of two years. J. Wi. Wood
ford of this city was the only appli
cant from this division.
Mr. Maloney is a well known
miner and mine operator of Seward
Peninsula, where he has been en
gaged in mining for the past twelve
years. Besides being a practical
miner, he possesses the necessary
technical knowledge of mining pre
crlbed by the law creating the office.
The territorial mine inspector will
be under the supervision and direc
tion of the governor and the federal
mine inspector.
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The fact that the Morgan-Guggen
heim interests have distributed in
the last twenty months of their oper
ations on Copper River, Alaska, $3,
000,000 in dividends, should draw
attention to the copper resources of
that country. These dividends
amount to 120 per cent on the capi-;
tal of the Kennecott Mines company, j
the subsidiary organization under
which the operations of the Bonanza
mine are conducted.—Mining and
Engineering Record.
E. F. Gray, manager of the Great
Northern Development Company, ar
rived from the interior on a speeder
yesterday afternoon and will leave
. on the steamer Mariposa, going
direct to Nevada, where he will take
personal charge of the properties of
the Copper Mines merger in the Ely
district.
The Coppermines property consists
Of 33 claims which were acquired in
1907 from the Ely Mines Company.
According to a report by Mr. Henry
Krumb, there has been developed
1,900,000 tons of 1.29 per cent cop
per ore, underlying an area of about
five acres. Since nearly 60 acres of
the property is underlain by the
porphyry in which ore occurs, the
new management is hopeful of de
veloping larger ore bodies with fur
ther work. Not the least of its assets
are the water rights on Steptoe
creek, of which the Coppermines
owns 7-9 and the Giroux 2-9. The
Giroux is a well known property
which awakened great expectations,
but has so far proved disappointing,
as the ore bodies in the porphyry
were neither large enough nor rich
enough for profitable mining with
■team shovels, and the hoped-for
deep-seated rich ore bodies along the
limestone contact zone, while offering
much encouragement, show no great
extent, so far as disclosed in the
development w'ork already done. The
Butte & Ely is a comparatively small
property, one-half of which is owned
by the Giroux, in which disseminated
ores occur in the porphyry. Through
an agreement with the Nevada Con
solidated, which adjoins them, these
ore bodies have already been stripped
and are ready for steam shovel min
ing. The Chamman is one of the
olest mining properties in the dis
trict, having been first opened in
1869, and has been worked for gold,
occurring in large bodies of iron
oxide, which were of rather low
grade even at the surface and proved
refractory in depth. In their former
situation these four properties of
fered little hope of profit, but con
solidated under one management and
more thoroughly explored they may
prove to contain reserves of ore suffi
ciently large and rich to yield a good
operating profit. It is announced
that the efforts of the new company
will be concentrated upon explora
tion work and the development of ore
reserves of ample magnitude before
incurring capital expenditure for new
plant. The general management will
be In the hands of Edwin F. Gray,
who has had long experience in the
district. The gentlemen who have
already Invested considerable sums
in these properties deserve much
credit for their faith and persistence
under adverse conditions, and it is
to be hoped that the final outcome
may reward their perseverance.
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Seward has gone bug crazy.
No longer does the agile prospector
trace the elusive paystreak. Instead
Of proudly showing rare specimens
of country rock gilded or flecked
with the precious yellow metal, he
now proudly displays specimens of
the bug family that would drive
Trevor Kincaid wild with envy.
It is not the frisky specimen that
haunts the Hudson bay point 4's of
the road house that is using the sour
dough's time and worry, but the real
up-to-the-minute beetle and butter
fly effects that “outside” school boys
stick a pin through and seal up in an
empty cigar box.
I The new .prospecting was started
by scientists with Capt. Kleinschmidt
on the schooner Abler.
When the schooner was in Seward
one scientist, after an hour in the
hills back of town, returned with
more than $20.. worth of insects.
The next morning he organized for
the hunt and came in with speci
mens worth more than $100. That
last find started the bug stampede.
Now every time a bumblebee or a
caterpillar starts some place it is a
safe bet that he will be tracked
down inside of the'first 100 yards
of his flight. Every one in the town
has a list of the valuable specimens,
and the waterfront is patrolled by
parties looking for sea gulls with
red feathers under their wings or
with red feet.
Woodpockers and camprobbers are
not above par yet, but if the craze
keeps on there is no telling to what
point they may be boosted. Any kind
of a bug is worth an examination,
and as fast as new specimens are
discovered the lucky finder is be
sieged by offers to trade for some
other kind.
A. E. Light, of Ruby, has been ap
pointed to succeed F. C. Irons, of
Fairbanks, as special employee for
the supression of the traffic in intoxi
cating liquors among the natives,
assigning him to duty in the fourth
judicial division, wdth headquarters
at Fairbanks.
The appointment is effective to
day, and is for a period of one
year. The salary is $17 5 per month,
with an allowance of $225 for travel
and other expenses. Light has been
a resident of Alaska for many years,
spending most of his time in the
interior. During the recent session
of the territorial legislature he was
chief clerk of the Senate. He was
also private secretary to Delegate
Cale in 1907-8.
Light has had experience in the
work to which he has been assigned,
having been connected with the
Indian police of Oklahoma and
Southern Kansas for several years.
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Mrs. Mary E. Hart, official lecturer
for the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, who accompanies all the Spo
kane excursions to Alaska, is presi
dent of the Alaska Cruise Club, a
club that all those that have made
the cruise on the Spokane may join.
Mrs. Hart says the club now has 700
members. The club proposes to
have a clubhouse at San Francisco
during the Panama Pacific Exposition
which will cost not less than $20,000,
and be decorated with curios, sam
ples of carving, furs, native wearing
apparel, and other specimens of
Alaska products.
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Under the provisions of Chapter
51, of the Territorial Session Laws,
entitled: “An Act to relieve destitu
tion in the Territory of Alaska,” ap
proved April 30, 1913, the governor
of the territory is vested with entire
and exclusive superintendence of the
poor, with authority to appoint an
advisory board in each judicial
division of the territory, composed of
sucli oflicei'9 charged with the admin
istration and enforcement of the laws
of the territory as he may designate.
Under the authority given by this act
the governor has appointed the fol
lowing advisory boards:
First Division—H. L. Faulkner,
United States marshal; John Rust
gard, United States district attorney.
Second Division—United States
Marshal E. R. Jordan, United States
District Attorney B. S. Rodey.
Third Division—United States
Marshal H. P. Sullivan, United States
District Attorney George R. Walker.
Fourth Division—United States
Marshal L. T. Erwin, United States
District Attorney J. J. Crossley.
The act carries an appropriation of
$10,000 for the relief of destitution
in the territory.
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The Copper River & Northwestern
railway train for ICennecott, which
left here yesterday morning, was
making excellent time when it en
countered a small land slide, late in
the afternoon, at the south end of
Mile 127. A crew of men were at
once put to work and just as the
slide was cleared away, and the train
ready to proceed on its way, another
one thirty by one hundred feet oc
curred. This consisted mostly of large
rock and filled the track again and
the steam shovel was dispatched to
the scene and is doing good work.
The passengers and mail aboard
the train were transferred to a hand
car and taken to Chitina. As the
distance was short some preferred
to walk and with the exception of
Mrs. R. J. De Leo and Mrs. Horace
Leach, who stayed in the private car,
all reached Chitina last night. It is
expected that the track will be
cleared by tonight, when through
traffic will again be resumed.
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SEWARD, July 3.—One of the
strikes that is standing the acid test
'of prospecting is the find that was
made last fall on Carribou creek, in
the Valdez creek country. Since
early spring there has been a steady
stampede into that section from Knik
and Susitna Station, and all that
have returned bring out only the best
reports, and signify their intention
of returning just as soon as they can
make arrangements and get grub into
the* country.
Carribou creek is across a divide
from Valdez creek and is about 120
miles from Knik. The trail3 leads
up to Matanuska, past the coal lands,
and then over the hills into the latest
Eldorado.
Last fall two miners who had been
in that country all summer came out
to Knik. One had something over
100 ounces of dust and the other a
trifle less. The gold was sold to
Herning of Knik. The miners pur
chased an outfit and returned.
This spring Zimmerman and
Meyers, two well known mining men
from the interior, heard of the find,
and Zimmerman made the trip in.
He was so favorably impressed with
the new strike that he bonded one
entire creek and sent out for his
pardner, Meyers, who left immedi
ately for the scene of the latest
stampede.
At the present time there are iu
the neighborhood of 100 men at the
new camp all digging and trying to
line up the pay crack. The pay is
described as coarse, heavy, shotty
gold, and runs about ?18.40 to the
ounce.
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Judge Brown in the district court
announced his adherence to the
policy of allowing incorporated towns
in Alaka to control their domestic
affairs unless a strong case is made j
for federal interference. The declar
ation was made in granting liquor
licenses to the three saloons on the
lower side of McKinley street, whose
rear opens to the “alley,” as the
local red light district is known.
The saloons in question are the
Exchange, Senate and Northern. Dis
trict Attorney Whlker some time ago
asked the city to move the restricted
district to a more remote part of the
town. The council considered the
matter and replied that the district
is fenced on three sides with a high
board fence and obscured on the
other by the business blocks in
front, and that public opinion takes
the view that this social problem as
at present regulated is less obtrusive
and disorderly and easier to handle
than if removed to a remote locality,
where it would be more conspicuous
and less easily reached.
The council, therefore, refused to
take any action unless required to
do so by the federal authorities.
Judge Walker then decided that pub
lic morality would be promoted by
the erection of a high board fence
between the alley and the rear of the
saloons, and he objected to allowing
licenses to the saloons near the alley
until the fence was built. The matter
was stated to Judge Brown and after
a lengthy argument by Judge Walker
Judge Brown said:
“I think I understand the situa
tion pretty well. The department of
justice has adopted the policy of
allowing these problems to be dealt
with by the municipal governments,
and only in cases where they have
shown themselves unable to deal with
them or have permitted abuses so
flagrant as to excite opposition and
protest has the federal government
interfered.”
Judge Brown added an admoni
tion, applying to all saloon men alike,
stating that they should be careful
to keep their places orderly and
should carefully observe all regula
tions laid down for their conduct. He
told them this would be better for
them, as disorderly bar rooms
aroused hostility to the business. All
the local saloon application} were
granted.-- Valdez Prospector.
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Frank Kernan, one of the demo
cratic candidates for marshal of this
division, Ed. Dickey and Charles
Schlosser came over from Valdez on
the Mariposa and will leave on the
next train for the Nizina section,
where Mr. Dickey goes to inspect
the placer claim? owned there by Mr.
Kernan, with a view to the purchase
of the same. It is said that Mr,
Dickey is representing Tom Aiken,
the well known mine owner of Fair
banks and Iditarod, who is inter
ested in securing some good placet
ground in the Copper River valley.
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Col. Jim Lathrop is authority for
the statement that he has received
a dispatch from Washington inform
ing him that duties Simonstadt,
formerly of Valdez, but now living
in Seattle, was most likely to re
ceive the appointment as United
States marshal of this division.
Mr. Simonstadt is a well known
mining man. He sold the Galena Bay
copper property to Col. Millard from
which he realized quite a sum of
| money. During the past few years
the has spent considerable time in
opening up the Nikoli copper prop
erties located on McCarthy creek.
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Mrs. W. T. Ford, of Seattle, wife
of the general auditor of the Copper
Rliver & Northwestern Railway, will
arrive on the steamer Northwestern
for a short visit with Mrs. W. J.
Seagrave, of Kennecott.
H. J. Brandt, former station agent
at Chitina, is returning on the
Northwestern, accompanied by a
bride.
Judge Frederick Brown passed
through Cordova on the steamer
Mariposa en route to Juneau, where
he will preside over a term of court,
the principal case being the Mc
Donald murder trial. Before leaving
Valdez Judge Brown passed on the
liquor licenses presented and granted
those of all the old stands in Cor
dova and the Copper River valley.
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That practically every big railroad
man or corporation is prepared to go
into Alaska and do business if the
country is opened to development is
the opinion of Robert W. Baxter,
president of the Alaska Steamship
Company and vice-president of the
Copper River & Northwestern Rail
road. Mr. Baxter bases his opinion
on the fact that during the past six
weeks—during which time the
Chamberlain bill, which provides for
me construction oi a government
railroad in the territory, has been
before the senate—he has received
innumerable inquiries font railroad
men and corporations.
Ed Dickinson, former vice-presi
dent and general manager of the
Harriman system and now receiver
of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
Railroad, wired for accommodations
for August. He is taking a party of
railroad men with him, and asks
that four rooms be reserved for
them. J. F. Evans, of the Western
Pacific Railroad, has made reserva
tions for the latter part of July, and
Joseph A. Edson, president of the
Kansas City & Southern has made
definite arrangements to take a
party of railroad engineers and
traffic men to the North early in
(August. Inquiries as to sailing
dates and requests for information
about the territory have been re
ceived by Mr. Baxter from a number
of other railroad men.
The keen interest manifested in
the Alaska transportation problem by
the railroad operators of the United
States, it is believed, springs from
the fact that the bill introduced by
Senator George E. Chamberlain, and
which already has been reported for
passage by the territorial committee,
provides that the President may
lease the proposed railroad to pri
vate parties or corporations for
periods not to exceed ten years; that
the proposed railroads shall be oper
ated under regulations to be made
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and that the President, or his
lessee, is empowered to make
through traffic arrangements with
any railroads already existing or that
may later be built in the territory.
With a market for 400,000 tons of
coal to the United States navy and
consumers on the Pacific Coast, it is
believed the proposed railroad can
be made to pay operating expenses
from the day of its completion from
the coast to the coal fields, and there
is a strong probability of a further
market being found in the establish
ment of smelters for the production
of steel and other metals.
Mr. Baxter thinks railroad men of
the United States are anxious to look
the country over before the building
of the government road so they will
be in a position to compete for the
privilege in the event the President
decides to enter into a leasing agree
ment. i
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It is reported that the Brlttania
Smelter Co. has taken over the Mt.
Andrew copper property near Ketchi
kan. The property has been bonded
and a resumption of copper activities
in the Ketchikan district is looked
for.
FISHERMEN’S BUREAU
BUYS PATROL BOAT
The United States fisheries ser
vice is to have a new boat in commis
sion in Alaska waters, The new boat
is to be known as the ‘‘Osprey.-’ It
was purchased by the bureau of fish
eries from the Alaska Packers’ Asso
ciation and was formerly known as
the "Wigwam.” It was used by the
directors of the Alaska Packers’
Association as a yacht and has seen
service on Bering Sea. During the
past winter the craft, a forty-ton,
sea-going steamer, has been laid up
at Blaine, Wash.
The "Osprey” is the first vessel
: to be purchased by the bureau for i
service in Alaska waters and marks j
the commencement of a more thor- i
i
ough prosecution in the developing!
and protection of the fishing re
sources in the waters of this terri
tory. It is planned by Mr. Bower |
to place two or three launches in j
commission under charter for the,
season. These will assist him in I
maintaining a patrol of the coast
during the canning season to see
that the regulations are not being
violated.
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ACRE OF RHUBARB AVERAGES
FIVE FEET IN HEIGHT
While Skagway is rapidly gaining
notoriety for her vegetables and
ranch products, we wish to call at
tnetion particularly to about an acre
of rhubarb now growing on the Clark
ranch in the north part of the city.
This rhubarb will average five feet
in height, with stocks measuring
from seven to ten inches in circum
ference. One stalk pulled up by the
editor measured five feet, five and
one-lialf inches in length and
weighed three pounds, every inch of
it being crisp and edible.—Skagway
Daily Alaskan.
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NEW YORK, July o.—President
Wilson arrived here today, on his
way heme from Gettysburg. When
the train attained a speed of TO
miles an hour, going through Penn
sylvania, the President sent word to
the engineer to slow down.
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NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court. Ex.Officio Judge in Pro
bate, Chitina Precinct, Territory
of Alaska, Third Judicial Division.
In the matter of the estate of C. W.
Babbage, deceased, A. G. Morey,
administrator.
Notice is hereby given that A. G.
Morey, administrator of the estate of
C. \V. Babbage, deceased, has ren
dered, filed and presented for settle
ment his Final Account and report of
his administration of the said estate,
and that the 29th day of May, 1913,
at the hour of 2o’clock, p. id. of the
said day, at the office of Paul d'Heir
rv ex-officio Judge in Probate, of the
Chitina Precinct, at Chitina, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the said
court, as the time and place of settle
ment of said final account and report,
at which time and place any person
interested in said estate may appear
and file his objections and exceptions
to said final account and report.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, this 20th
day of March, 1913.
A. G. MOREY,
Adminstrator of the estate of C. W.
Babbage, deceased.
Date of first publication, Apr. 8, 1913
late of last publication May 27, 1913.
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HENRY GESSNER, Prop.
FRESH BREAD, CAKES AND
PIES ALWAYS ON HAND
George Osborne, a fisherman, is
believed to have been drowned in
Kyak river yesterday afternoon. In
company with Charles Ecklund, S.
R. Carlson and a man named Jack
son, he was coining down the river
in a canoe, but on account of the
fact that Osborne insisted upon
rocking the boat, the other members
of the party quit him and started
to walk home. As Osborne failed to
show up, the men started back to
hunt for him and at the mouth of
the river found the canoe afloat,
but its occupant was missing. A
search was made for Osborne, but
up to late this afternoon, no trace
could be found of him and it is now
feared that he met his death in the
water.
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SEATTLE, July 7.—Mayor Cot
terili welcomed the delegates to this
city of the National Conference of
Charities and Correction at their
fortietli annual meeting to which
address President Frank Tucker
responded.
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ALASKA THE GARDEN OF EDEN’
That Alaska is the site of the
original Garden of Eden, and that in
the northern reaches of this vast
territory once flourished the famous
apple tree which was responsible for
so many of man’s woes, long has been
the pet theory of many students of
geology, astronomy and history.
Mrs. W. T. Ford, wife of the
auditor of the Alaska Syndicate, ac
companied by her daughter, Kath
erine Ford, arrived on today's
steamer and will leave tomorrow
for Kenneeott, to visit Mrs. W. H.
Seagrave.
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Bishop Rowe is now journeying
down the Yukon river, on his annual
tour of the Episcopal missions of
AJaska.
SYSTEM
WASHINGTON, July 7.—Investi
gation of the so-called "underground
system” at the capitol not only by
the lobby committee, but by a select
committee of the house also, prom
ises to be tlie first result of the sen
sational charges by Martin M. M.ul
hall, who claims to have been the
general field "lobbyist" for the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers.
Mulhall’s allegations that re *re
sentatives, senators and high officials
had been "reached” or “influenced”
that the lobby conducted its opera
tions from a room in the capitol,
paid money to employes there, took
an active hand In making up com
mittees and went out actively In the
political compaigns to defeat con
gressmen who opposed legislation the
“lobby” wanted, have thrown con
gressional circles into an uproar.
Congressmen named in the Mul
hall charges are issuing statements,
some of them denouncing the allega
tions as "malicious lies." Many
congressmen he mentioned feel that
their names have been brought in
without any specific charges being
made, and declare they will not bo
satisfied with the senate committee's
investigation alone, but will insist
I on a select committee of the house
to sife tli hurges.
\\ il- n's Views on Lobby
President Wilson, discussing the
Mulhall urges today with Wash
ington ct -onclents, said he be
lieved the lobby on tariff legislation
had ceased to "embarras anybody
but itself.”
When the President made his first
declaration that “a numerous and
insidious lobby” was operating in
Washington, he had no idea that
such charges as made by Mulhall
would be brought out, but he added
lie was in favor of investigating all
charges and had no doubt the senate
committee would have a free hand.
The President told his callers the
accusations in the Mulhall statement
had been called to his attention just
before their publication. It was
j learned today that Senator Over
man's attention had been also called
to a portion of the charges.
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H. J. Brandt has returned from
a trip to California and brought a
bride back with him.
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