SECOND YEAR
CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER S, 1912.
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(From Tuesday’s Cordova Alaskan.) i
J. Orwln, who is known as one of
the competent pile driver engineers
on the railroad, was a passenger to
Valdez yesterday.
The twelve head of cattle that
were brought up on the steamer Alr
ameda yesterday were taken on to
Valdez and will be taken over the
trail into Fairbanks.
Today C. M. Rooswog assumed the
duty of night watchman at the Alas
ka Steamship Company’s wharf, suc
ceeding Ed. Lee. He has turned the
management of his store in the post
office building over to his daughter
Miss Clara. Charley will be missed
from his post, but patrons will con
tinue to receive every possible at
tention and accommodation.
Mike Sullivan was a Valdez pas
renger on the steamer Alame la.
The other night at Juneau a Bull
Moose convention was held to elect
delegates to a legislative conven
tion of the first division, at Juneau,
Oct. 5. As at all similar meetings
there was entire harmony and a
slate was put through without any
opposition. It only required seven
minutes to nominate the following
delegates: Emory Valentine, John
Reck, J. Montgomery Davis. M. E.
Russell, John T. Spickett. F. Wol
land, T. A. Mauzey.
The many friends of Sal Reed,
formerly engineer on the Copper
River and Northwestern railway,
were surprised to note his return
yesterday on the steamer on which
he had gone to Seattle. His services
had been dispensed with by Super
intendent Geiger. Mr. Reed was
sent back by Vice President R. W.
Baxter, with a letter to the super
intendent directing that he he im
mediately reinstated, which was ac
cordingly done this morning. Friends
of engineer Price Nettleton look for
his reinstatement in the near fu
ture.
Attorney R. J. Boryer went over
to Valdez yesterday on a profession
al mission.
There was a happy termination
last night of a romance that
started during the early days of the
Spanish-American war and after
long years culminated in Cordova.
Fred Schiller and Miss Elizabeth
Kiley were very much enamored one
of the other, but when the summons
to arms came Fred patriotically
trudged off to foreign lands, instead
of into that state of hymneneal bliss
that he might otherwise have en
joyed. As years went on the couple
became widely separated, altnough
they were constnatly in communica
tion with each other. For several
years past Mr. Schiller has been a
resident of Cordova while Miss Kiley
has resided at Greenfield, Mass. The
latter was kept informed of the de
velopment and conditions of tnis sec
tion of the country through the col
umns of the Daily Alaskan. And
when Fred insisted that she come
out and occupy with him the com
fortable home that he had prepared,
she consented, believing that she
was not coming among strangers or
to an unknown land. The steamer
Alameda brought her yesterday af
ternoon and soon after the ceremony
was performed that united their for
tunes and started them off on the
sea of matrimony. In the evening
there was a celebration of the event
and today all are wishing the newly
made couple all kinds of good luck
and happiness. Mr. Schiller is one
of the reliable and respected men of
Cordova and a host of friends are
glad of his good fortune in securing
such a delightful helpmate.
-Gus Boone, who is known as one
of the mighty hunters of this region,
went to Valdez on the Alameda.
11. C. Feldman, the hardware mer
'hunt, made a business trip to Val
dez on the Alameda.
Geo. C. Hazelet continued over to
Seward yesterday on the Alameda
and will return tomorrow evening.
J. M. Simpson was one of the early
settlers in Cordova, having worked
as a machinist at Oldtown five or
six years ago. Yesterday while out
walking he suddenly had an attack
of heart trouble. He was taken to
the Rainier-Grand, but before medi
cal aid could be secured he quietly
passed away. He was about 55 years
of age and has a grown family in
the states. George Dooley wired to
a brother in Seattle to learn what
disposition should be made of the
body, and expects to hear this after
noon.
H. A. Bishop, Mayor of Juneau,
Wm. C. Stubbins, Mayor of Douglas,
and James M. Taner, Mayor of Skag
way, have united in a call for a non
partisan convention for the first di
vision. It will be held at Juneau on
Oct. 9, for the purpose of nominat
ing a non-partisan ticket, consisting
of two senators and four representa
tives for election to the First Terri
torial Legislature. Among other
things the call sets forth.
“The interests of the territory and
the citizens thereof will be best sub
served by the election to the legisla
ture of the Territory of Alaska of
senators and representatives who
shall owe allegiance to no party, but
shall be chosen regardless of party
affiliations and upon a strictly non
partisan basis.”
The many friends of Miss Trena
Hege will regret to learn that she
intends to leave Cordova, after a
residence here of two years past.
She will depart on the steamer Ala
meda tomorrow evening and join her
parents and sisters at North Bend,
in the Coos bay country of Oregon.
Miss Hege is a very charming young
lady and a general favorite in the
town. She will carry with her the
well wishes of all.
It is not expected that a train will
run through to Chitina for two or
three weeks, owing to more slides
and wash-outs. The interior mail,
however, will start on Thursday
morning anu will be packed across
the bad places by a number of men.
The train that went out on Friday
is still at Mile 78. Some passengers
have mushed through, others will be
brought back as soon as it is possi
ble to get a train through. Several
women and children on the train will
be returned to Cordova.
(From Wed. Cordova Alaskan.)
Mark Roscovich will be a pas
senger tonight on the Alameda for
Juneau, where he expects to fill an
electrical position. His many friends
in Cordova and the Copper river
country w'ill hope for his early re
turn.
A party of nineteen men came in
last night from the interior. From
Chitina they came down in three
boats to Mile 55, where they boarded
a train and reached Cordova at sev
en o’clock. In the party were Lieut.
D. W. Eaton, J. R. Bryson, Geo. J.
Wenderoth, L. Surnerlin and J.
Bryson, members of the Alaska
Boundary Survey. They will take
the steamer Alameda to Seattle to
night and go on to Washington.
Another section of the survey par
ty, under charge of A. C. Baldwin,
with fifteen others, arrived at Mile
55 this morning. At ten o’clock a
train was sent out and these men are
due to arrive at nine o’clock this eve
ning. They will also be outgoing
passengers on the Alameda.
The steamer Alameda sailed from
Valdez this afternoon shortly before
two o’clock and affer going to El
lamar for ore will arriva at Cor
dova about trn this evening. As
she will not take ore from this port
she is expected to sail for Juneau
and Seattle before midnight. She
will carry a number of interior pas
sengers, who will leave from here.
Advices from Seattle stale that the
steamers for Cordova and the west
ward, operated by the Alaska Steam
ship Company, will continue to run
both ways via inside passage. The
steamer Mariposa sailed from Seat
tle this morning at ten o’clock.
Edgar J. Davis, cashier and pay
master for the Copper River and
Northwestern railway, returned to
town last night after having attend
ed to duties in the interior. He
mushed from Chitina down to Tie
kel. He reports that there have been
some wash-outs between Miles 116
and 127, and that at 116 parts of
the grade are gone. There are also
some bad places between Miles 86
and 89, which are being looked af
ter by division engineer Caleb Corsar.
Superintendent Geiger is at the Chit
ina end, Mr. Davis says he has put
all men to work that lie can se
cure. Yesterday a wire was sent to
Seattle to send 250 men up. Mr.
Davis with others came from Tiekel
to Mile 55 in a small boat, and
from there they came in on the train.
A bridge that has delayed traffic at
Mile 69 will be repaired m a day
or two, so that trains will then be
able to run through to S6. The in
tenor mail of 800 pounds will start
out tomorrow morning and will be
packed across the bad places. This
train will leave at six o’clock. It
will go as far as Mile 66 where the
mail and passengers will be trans
ferred and then proceed to Mile 78.
The passengers who went out on Fri
day’s train as far as Mile 7S. and
who did not mush beyond, will re
turn to Cordova or. the train due here
tonight at nine o' lock.
C. H. Saindon came down from
Kennecott on a business trip. He
and his wife were detained at Chit
ina, and while there they purchased
the grill at the Chitina Hotel, which
they hereafter will conduct. They
are both old-timers and will be glad
to see their friends, passing to and
from the interior.
(From Thursday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
B. F. Watson, the popular and
accommodating general agent for the
Alaska Coast Company, came over
from Seward last night and will re
turn on the Admiral Sampson. He
states that this steamer was late in
arriving at Seattle and was further
delayed by reason of the annual in
spection. He says that the Sampson
will not sail from Seattle until to
night.
C. H. Bennett, who has been work
ing on Rex creek since last Spring,
and E. L. Range, who has placer
property on Dan creek, left for Seat
tle on the steamer this morning.
R. E. Lewis, a brother of Howell
Lewis, and who has been working in
the interior, came in on the train
last night and returned to Seattle on
on the steamer.
James G. Godfrey, President *f the
Mother Lode Copper Mines Company,
returned last night from a several
weeks trip to the property of the
company on McCarthy creek, and
went to Seattle on the Alameda to
day, expecting to go to the New
York office. It will be remembered
that the celebrated mining expert
Herman Kellar, made an examina
tion of the Mother Lode property
last year and reported favorable on
its prospects.. A force of men have
been working there all season and
Mr. Godfrey states that the devel
opments have been entirely satisfac
tory and that work will continue
through the winter. There was some
litigation with Jack Miller over an
ownership in the property, which Mr.
Godfrey says is being amicably and
after this done it is expected New
York men will be induced to take
hold push development work on a
large scale.
Men who came from the interior
last night state that orders were
received from Steven Birch, manager
of the Kennecott Mines Company,
to close down the Bonanza mine for
the present. It is understood that
this was done yesterday and that
some of the men have gone to work
for the railroad company. The'lat
ter need all the men they can now
secure as the colder weather and
let-up in the rain make it possible
to do effective work in the way of
repairing the damage that has been
done to the roadbed. A few men
were secured from the westward,
while a wire was sent to Seattle on
Monday for 250 men.
R. W. Baxter, Vice President of
the Copper River and Northwestern,
recently went from Seattle to Salt
Lake for a conference with S. W.
Eccles, Stephen Birch and others in
terested in the Alaska Syndicate.
He went from there yesterday to San
Francisco to attend to some business
matters. Advices indicate that soon
after his return to Seattle he will
make a trip to Cordova.
Miss Hull, who came from Iowa to
accept a position as stenographer for
Supt. Seagraves at the Kennecott
mine, and who left on last Friday's
train, returned last evening from
mile 86 and will await orders here.
Clerk of the Court Ed. C. Lakin,
accompanied by his stenographer
Miss Monahan, came over from
Valdez last night to make arrange
ments for holding the term of court
here on the 14th. Judge Overfield,
who is now in Seattle, has advised
the clerk that he will leave there on
the 8th. The post office cases are
the principal matters to come before
the court at this session. Postal in
spectors Smith and Cookston also are
expected to leave Seattle on the 8th.
The cases are set for the 16th.
(From Friday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
The new’ freight and passenger
steamer Cordova reached this port
at eleven o’clock this morning. The
collier Nero saluted the new arrival
as she slid into the dock with flags
flying. Capt. Hunter, formerly of
the Northwestern, is in command.
The new vessel brought north con
siderable freight. She will leave
here at six o’clock this evening and
go to Valdez, Landlock, Ellamar and
Latouche, returning to Seattle with
a cargo of copper ore. A number of
our people took occasion to inspect
the steamer during the afternoon.
Yesterday the United States sur
vey boat Taku completed its labors
for the season and will be tied up
for the winter in Alganic slough.
Capt. Rude and his family will de
part for the states on the sailing of
the Mariposa next week. The past
season was so exceptional in rainy
and windy weather that Capt. Rude
and his force labored under many
difficulties in surveying the harbors
in the vicinity of Cordova and Port
Wells.
Father Van der Pohl came over
from the westward on the Alameda
and will remain among his parish
ioners here for a week or two. He
received a warm welcome from our
people generally.
The freighter Bertha will leave
Seattle on October 15, with a cargo
of freight for Southwestern Alaska
ports.
(From Saturday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
E. M. Lakin, clerk of the court,
and C. P. Michaelson, jury commis
sioner, met at the city hall this after
noon at four o’clock and drew the
following jurors for the term of court
that convenes at Cordova on Octo
ber 14.
GRAND JURORS
L. F. Cox, J. E. Nebbe, Frank Cole,
Ed. Shultz, George Kennedy, F. H.
Sheldon, T. B. Tansy, A. N. Hayes,
E. P. Ziegler, William Roswell, John
Konnelly, Ben Elliot, Clyde Nettle
ton, Joe Emperly, F. M. O’Neil, H. C.
Ross, George Long, Harry Hayse, A.
B. Cooper, Rudolph Voigt, H. I. Lew
is, A. Boone and Geo. E. Scott.
PETIT JURORS
M. C. Woodring. Harry T. O’Neill,
Louis Belter, H. M. Daniels, A1 Mc
Laren, Albert Ohman, Chas. Canna
vaH, Charles Eklund, C. H. Soule, H.
W. Ross, O. L. Meyer, O. M. Kenney,
Tom Harris, E. J. Davis, Len A.
White, Thomas Davis , James Mac
Cormac, M. A. Classon, James Ken
nedy, W. D. Rowe, Robert Weber, V.
G. Vance, Wjn. J. McDonald, Tom
Teets, W. C. Thompson, M. J. Black,
J. Ponnet, J. B. Ferrel, Karl O.
Peterson and Norman Rice.
The United States light house ten
der, Columbine, in command of Capt.
Gregory, reached port this afternoon
at five o’clock. She has been to
the westward lately and after tak
ing on coal at Cordova will proceed
to Southeastern Alaska.
(From Monday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
The steamer Mariposa arrived In
port at one o’clock this afternoon.
She brought a few passengers and a
couple hundred tons of freight for
Cordova. She will sail for Valdez
about midnight.The following were
the passengers for this port: Mrs.
W. H. Chase, Mrs. J. W. Flllinger. E.
Hoel, S. Guyot. J. F. McKenzie, Mrs.
W. Solomon, Miss Mary Neville, Mr.
and Mrs.F. W. Smith.
Capt. Kelton, of the Nero stated
this morning that the work at the
Whiteshed wireless station was prac
tically completed, and that after two
or three days of minor improve
ments the vessel would be abe to sail
to the westward. He now expects
to leave on Friday next, and states
that it will be convenient for the offi
cers and the men to participate in
the smoker to be tendered by the
business men, o n Wednesday even
ing. All are looking forward with
much pleasure to the big event.
F. W. Smith and bride were ar
rivals on the steamer Mariposa this
afternoon. Mr. Smith is w-ell and fa
vorable known throuhout Alaska as
possibly the most efficient represen
tative of the post office department
who has been sent to this territory
to improve the postal service.
The lighthouse tender Columbine,
which reached port Saturday has
placed an acetelyne light at Channel
harbor, replacing the oil lamp that
was formerly there. From here
the Columbine will sail tomorrow for
Busby island, where the steamer
Olympia was wrecked, and place a
light there. She will then go to Seal
Rock, off from Valdez Narrows.
(From Tuesday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
A train came into Cordova this
morning at 11:30, having left Mile
86 early this morning. A number
of interior passengers from Kenne
eott, Copper Mountain and Chitina
arrived, as well as all the mail that
had accumulated at Chitina up to
yesterday morning. The mail that
left Cordova on Thursday’s train
reached Chitina on Sunday and the
mail that left here on Monday will
be at Chitina tomorrow morning. It
is expected that tne through mail
from Fairbanks will reach Chitina on
Thursday, and if it does arrange
ments have made to rush it through
to Cordova, expecting to have it here
Friday evening. The next train with
passengers and the through mail for
Fairbanks will leave Cordova on
Thursday morning.
R. D. Gray, of Katalla, came over
on the launch Triton last night. He
is an old-timer in the country and is
the owner of the dock at our neigh
boring town. At the recent non
partisan primary at Katalla Mr. Gray
was endorsed as a candidate for the
House of Representatives. All ele
ments are united on him and he ex
pects to poll practically the solid si)
votes that it is expected will be cast
at Katalla on November 5. He is
circulating among his many Cordo
va friends today and receiving many
assurances of support.
A wire received from Seward this
afternoon states that Milo Kelly will
leave there on the Mariposa late
tonight for Cordova. It will be re
membered that Mr. Kelly is the
choice of the Knik country for Repre
sentative at the coming Legislative
fight. He was formerly a resident of
this section and no doubt looks for
considerable support here.
SEATTLE, Oct. 8—Major Oen
Wood, chief of the general staff
corps of the army,arrived here this
morning on his tour of inspection
through the country. He stated that
his principal object in coming here
was to study Puget Sound with ref
erence to the location of one of the
three heavy garrisons on the Pacific
coast.
The steamer Mariposa sailed for
the westward last night about ten
o’clock. She is expected back to
morrow night about midnight and
may sail shortly thereafter for June
au and Seattle. The passengers
from here for the westward were as
follows: Seward, B. W. Pritchard
and four second-class. Valdez, Geo.
E. Baldwin, Frank Frazier, R. H.
Chadwick, R. H. Hunt, John Savoy,
Sam Blum, Archie Schields and F. W.
Smith.
The Smoker given by the Elks,
Eagles and business men will take
place at Eagle Hall, Wednesday even
ing, at 8:30, and i’ o Public in gen
eral is invited. TV...-; r"ioker is given
in honor cT the .03 cf the Nero
There is a strong probability that
on Oct. 16th Cordova will lose one
of her foremost citizens. After a
residence of nearly two and a half
years. R. J. Barry will return to
California. On yesterday’s steamer
he was surprised to receive several
letters, containing the offer of two
positions and other letters urging
that he accept at once. These offers
came entirely unsolicited, and dem
onstrate the high esteem and regard
with which Mr. Barry is held by of
ficials among whom he formerly
worked. One offer is from \V. D.
Foster, traffic manager and superin
tendent of the Tonopah & Goldfield
railroad, tendering him the position
of Assistant Superintendent, with of
fices at Tonopah. The other was
from W. H. Sheridan, sueprintendent
of the Sacramento division of the
Southern Pacific, with headquarters
at Sacramento, who desires Mr. Bar
ry to assist him and to assume his
new duties on Nov. 1.
Mr. Barry is particularly wedded
to this country and has the most op
timistic idea about the future de
velopment of the Copper river coun
try, and is very reluctant to leave
it. But after much deliberation he
has practically decided to acept the
offer to return to the Southern Pa
cific railroad, where the opportun
ity for promotion is greater, as he
formerly worked among the officials
of that line. He came to Cordova
as the general agent of the Alaska
Steamship Company and freight and
passenger agent of the Copper River
and Northwestern railway. These
positions he resigned last spring and
has since loked after mining inter
ests for himself and others. Mr. Bar
ry is at present the Mayor of Cor
dova and a member of the city coun
cil, Secretary of the Cordova Cham
ber of Commerce, and Secretary and
Manager of the Cordova Fish Pack
ers’ Association. He recently re
fused the general demand of his
friends to become a candidate for
membership in Alaska’s first Legis
lative Assembly.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 9—At a meeting
last night to make preparations for
the 1913 potlach, Josiah Collins was
elected president, and will have the
Senoral direction of the coming fete.
Mr. Collins is at present a state
Senator, and was prominent in the
affairs of the big Seattle exposition,
as well as the potlach of this year.
WASHINGTON, Oct 7— When
the Supreme Court convenes on Octo
ber 14 one of the first cases to be
considered will be that of Porter
Charlton. In the meantime the
young man is behind the bars of a
New Jersey prison for the final word
as to whether he must return to
Italy to answer for the murder of his
wife at Lake Como two years ago.
Charlton’s appeal is .the most noted
murder case before the court. The
decision will be looked to as a guide
in diplomatic intercourse.
ALBANY, Oct. 8—Col. Roosevelt
is very much incensed at the state
ment made by Governor Wilson that
the steel corporation is backing the,
Progressives. In a speech here to-'
day Teddy demands that he either
prove or retract his statement.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—James M.
Sherdian, chief of the field service in
the general land office, has resigned
to accept the appointment of assistant
to the Attorney General in the prose
cution of the Arizona and California
land case. Mr. Sherdian was the
successor to Louis Glavis, the young
man who gained so much notoriety
through his connection with the
Cunningham coal claims of Alaska,
and the connection therewith of
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger.
CHALESTCN, W. Va„ Oct. 8—
rhere continues to be serious trouble
among the striking coal miners and
the operators. This morning the
bneriff evicted a number of the fami
lies whose men folks are on a strike
at Cabin creek.
Subscribe for the Chltlna Leader.
Pursuant to call c ty hall was well
filled on Saturday night with voters
of Cordova. Men of every political
affilation were invited to be present
to discuss the political situation as
affects Cordova's representation in
the Senate of the coming Legislative
Assembly. The meeting was called
to order by George Dooley, and
James Flynn was elected temporary
Secretary. By unanimous vote these
men were afterwards made the per
manent officers of the meeting.
Geo. C. Hazelet was called for.
He referred to his nomination by a
large majority of the voters of Cor
dova and reviewed the situation as
he saw it throughout the division.
He declared that in order that Cordo
va and the Copper river country
might have a member in the Senate
that it was necessary that all ele
ments in Cordova get together and
give a practically unanimous en
dorsement, and then to give that
man a united support. He then an
nounced that after consultation with
many friends he had concluded to
Withdraw from the contest, and to
give a vigrous support to any man
that the meeting or primary might
endorse as Cordova’s candidate for
the Senate.
A substitute motion was then of
fered that the meeting proceed to an
endorsement of a candidate for the
Senate, whereupon the motion for a
primary was withdrawn, and the mo
tion to endorse by ballot was unani
mously adopted. Nominations being
declared in order Mr. Tansey, Dr.
Chase and Mr. O’Neill were named.
A ballot resulted as follows: Tan
sey, 50; Chase, 5; O’Neill, 9. Mr.
Tansey was declared the choice of
Cordova for the Senate, the only
office that the town asks for. And
the vote means that he has practi
cally the entire support of the town.
None of the members of the Home
Rule party voted, numbering over
forty men. And an additional forty
or fifty voters who were absent and
had previously voted for My. Hazelet
will undoubtedly be bound by the
action of the mass meeting.
SEATTLE, Oct. 8—R. W. Baxter,
President of the Alaska Steamship
Company, has returned frojn Salt
Lake and San Francisco. He states
that the report sent out from Cali
fornia with reference to an arrange
ment having been made to run the
Mariposa and Alameda from San
Francisco via Seattle to Alaska, in
connection with the Southern Paci
fic, was premature. He says that
the arrangement was not entered
into and that for the present at least
no change is contemplated in the run
ning of the company's steamers to
Alaska.
QUINCY, 111., Oct. 8—The recent
murder of the family of thePfamsch
midts has remained a mystery until
the past few days. Various suspi
cious circumstances has led to the ar
rest yesterday of the surving son,
Ray,twenty years of age. He was
placed under arrest yesterday for the
murder, it being the theory that his
object was to secure the insurance
money, as both his parents were
heavily Insured and by doing away
with them and the other children he
would be the sole heir.
PHILDELPHIA, Oct. 8—Last eve
ning nine joy riders occupied an
automobile and were having a good
time in the outskirts of the city.
The driver finally became reckless,
with the result that he turned his
machine into a coal yard, throwing
the occupants out and killing all of
them.
MANCHESTER, Vt., Oct. 8—Pres
ident Taft talked of the sturdy sons
produced in the green mountains and
expressed the belief that they would
prove true to past traditions and
not allow themselves to be swayed
from their support of the Republican
principles by the visionary i^eas of
constitution destroyers. President
Taft from here went to West. Town
send, the birthplace of his father.