BQUNDRY SURVEY PARTY
ESCAPE DROWNING
Dan Creek, July 12.
Asa C. Baldwin reached here last
evening with his party of boundary
survey workers and proceeded toward
the head waters of the Chitina to co
operate with Mr. Eaton’s party, now
in that field. Mr. Baldwin’s work on
this trip was particularly hazardous
owing to light but continues falls of
snow up to as late as July 10.
The high water in Scolai creek and
the upper Nizina caused considerable
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I delay, the ice backing up the water
and then coming down with lightning
speed with the break-up of the Jam.
On one ocasion an ice jam gave way
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while the entire party were crossing
the river and they only reached the
shore with the greatest difficulty.
Mr. Baldwin speaks in the warmest
terms of the undaunted courage of
the men of his party, who did a lot
of perilous mountain climbing in the
Scolai mountains without ever flinch
ing. The foggy weather proved a
great drawback in taking observa
tions, and the party was considerably
later arriving here than they expect
ed. In the upper Chitina it is expect
ed that the work will be completed
early in September and that both par
ties will reach McCarthy about Sep
tember 11.
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WASHINGTON, July 22.—It has been decided to with
draw all the soldiers from Alaska and replace them with con
stabulary, which will give the territory a much more complete
policing system, somewhat simlar to the mounted police of Can
ada, and patterned after the state constabulary.
In keeping with this plan, Fort Lawton, near Seattle, will
be reorganized and made one of the important posts on the Pa
cific Coast, where the soldiers from Alaska will be stationed in
addition to the present force.
The mounted police in Alaska will be selected with regard
to their special fitness for the work in hand, and instead of be
ing stationed in a few forts the same as the soldiers at the pres
ent time, will be spread out to include every settlement in the
territory.
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WASHINGTON, July 22.—Senator Wesley L. Jones, of
Washington, has notified the Senate that the administration
leaders will oppose the adjournment of Congress unless an Alas
ka home rule bill is passed.
All the members of the Senate committee to whom the bill
was referred reported it favorably, after it was changed so as
to give Alaska full territorial rights, and there does not appear
to be any decided opposition at this time. Therefore, there is
every reason to believe that the bill will pass.
The advocates here of home rule are still active, however,
in its behalf, realizing that owing to more pressing matters it
will require constant urging to get the measure through at this
session.
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SEATTLE, July 22.—Advices received here are to the ef
fect that the strike of fisliennen employed by canneries has
spread until only two plants are now running in Southeastern
Alaska.
The agents of the canneries here declare that arrange
ments are being made to send north men to take the place of the
strikrs. They state that to give in at this time will mean only
additional demands at the hands of the strikers. They assert
that they will have no trouble in securing all of the men need
ed. The strike is also likely to result in the canneries taking
north each year enough men under contract to catch the fish,
which will exclude the employment of local fishermen.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico, July 22.—This beautiful city,
next in size and importance to Mexico City, and the capital of
the state of Jalisco, has been nearly destroyed by terrific earth
quake shocks. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands
rendered homeless.
The city is 380 miles from Mexico City on the Mexican Cen
tral Railway, at an elevation of 5,0G4 feet. It is noted for its
manufacturing, having electrical power; it is an important
headquarters for mining, has a local bank with a capital of $6,
000,000, besides agencies for other leading banking companies,
fine libraries, one of the finest cathedrals in the republic, and
numerous schools and colleges and hospitals. The architecture
of the cathedral, penitentiary, museum, governor’s palace and
other public buildings is the finest in Mexico, and the gardens
and grounds are among the most beautiful in the world.
Many of the public buildings are in ruins and it will re
quire the expenditure of an immense sum to replace the dam
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 22.—General Gomez and five
other prominent revolutionary leaders were arrested here yes
terday by the United States authorities, charged w ith violating
the neutrality compact existing between the United States and
Mexico.
The arrest is especially important as an indication that the
United States wTill hereafter become active in putting a stop
to the warfare which is destructive of American interests. The
foreign powers having financial interests in Mexico have been
insistent for some time that the United States act in the mat
ter of restoring order.
The bail of the prisoners was fixed at $10,000 each, which
was not furnished and they were remanded to jail to await a
hearing of the case.
WITH NEW BALL PARK MUCH
SPORE IS IN STORE
The people of Chitina are going
about the matter of a ball park in a
quiet, determined manner that is
producing results. The whole town
turned out Sunday afternoon and ev
erybody worked as they if they nked
it. There has been several on tae
grounds working every day for the
past two weeks. A donkey engine
was loaned to the people by Super
intendent Geiger for pulling the
stumps. It arrived on Tuesday’s train
and was pulling stumps by 9 a. m.
Thursday.
B. B. Tibbs and Harry Dean han
dle the engine and they make a pret
ty good battery. With seven men in
the field they put out every stump on
first base.
Mrs. Tibbs and Mrs. Rockefeller
served a delightful snbstaantial lunch
to the stump pulling party on Thurs
day. They are the most enthusiastic
fans in town.
The pile driving and bridge crew
claim to consist of expert ball play
ers and are anxious to see the field
finished so that they may get a game
with Chitina. They are accustomed
to hitting some hard licks all right. 1
Chitina, July 18.
To Johnny Nelson, Henry Brandt,
John Niekell, et al.
It having come to our notice that
you have an aggregation of women
and children, assisted by a few men,
clearing a tract of ground about half
a mile beyond Parmer Tibbs’ home
stead, and after inquiring what the
tract of land was going to be used
for after it was cleared of the timber
and brush, we were informed that a
few chechacos, like yourselves, in
tended to show us something about
the great national game of baseball.
Now, boys, we have a lot of old sour
doughs in this part of the Cppper
River valley that years ago helped to
make the game of baseball popular
in the states; in fact, most of used
to play the old game of town ball
and two-hole cat; also some of used
to be quite expert at ante-over and
croquet, and we don’t take very kind
ly to having a measly mob of coun
ter-jpumpers and freight checkers
coming here and making quite so
much noise, and do so much talking
about being champions and past
grand masters of baseball without
demonstrating that they can deliver
the goods. At a largely attended
miners’ meeting, held last night at
the Sour Dough Hall, we decided to
take some steps to defend the base
ball championship of tne Copper Riv
er valley, that we claim to hold, and
we think we hold it justly, for so far
we have played Good-la-taw’s Braves
and several others of some note, and
have never been defeated; so, if the
women and children don’t give out
before the land is cleared, and if you
can summon the courage to issue a
challenge to the recognized Copper
River valley champions of the great
national game, we will be pleased to
accommodate you, and also show
your high-collared, tender-handed
bunch that there is quite a difference
between checking freight, picking
eyes out of over-ripe potatoes and
picking up hot grounders. We will
also show you that there is a differ
ence between playing the game on
the diamond and playing it around
a good office fire. We await your
challenge.
JOE BROWN,
JACK PALMER.
JOHN GAGE,
DEE DAVIS,
HENRY GESSNER,
CHESTER HULL,
ANDREW BECK,
MAX GIEGOLD,
HORACE LEACH,
PAT MURPHY,
Sour Dough Baseball Committee.
RICH STRIKE OE TELLURIDE
MADE AT TEIKHELL
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A phenomenally rich strike of tel
luride ore, running into the thous
ands of dollars to the ton, has been
made at Teikhell, on the Chitina
Fairbanks trails. The property is
owned by Dan Ross, Jack Foster,
John C. Clarkson and Charles Uar
wood, of Teikhell.
The owners immediately began de
velopment work on the vein, result
ing in a tunnel being driven in on
the vein 175 feet, giving a depth
from the apex of over 100 feet.
The ores prove to be sylvanite^ a
telluride of gold, the same ore which
made Cripple Creek, Colo., and the
gold fields in Nevada famous, and
where it soon piled up immense for
tunes for the lucky owners and les
sees. Heretofore this camp has been
looked upon as a purely free milling
quartz proposition, and a year ago,
on the Fourth of July, this property
was discovered and located in the
belief that a small but rich vein of
free milling ore had been found. Dif
ferent assay tests made within the
past few days have proven the ore
to be of a phenomenal richness, in
fact, by far the richest ore ever un
covered in a body in Alaska.
The vein is a true fissure with well
defined walls, the ore body which has
been run upon varying from one to
two feet. Until very recently only
native or free gold was found in the
vein matter, as well as on the sur
face right along the strike of the
lead, when recently telluride values
began to be uncovered in the quartz
in sufficient masses to be mined prof
itably.
F. L. Wagner, of Valdez, examined
the property, taking samples, which
he assayed with the result that he
secured an option to bond, lease and
purchase on terms similar to the
lease held by the Cliff Mining Com
pany.
The news of the great strike made
naturally leaked out, and as a result
a number of outfits at Chitina secur
ed teams, loaded them with provis
ions, mining supplies and camp equip
age and started for the new camp.
DELEGATE’S COAL BILL AS
INTRODUCED IN HOUSE
Delegate Wickersham introduced a
bill in Congress on July 9 to encour
age the development of coal deposits
of Alaska, which was referred to the
j committee on territories. It is to
amend an act approved May 28, 1908,
and is as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the Act of Congress
entitled “An Act to encourage the de
velopment of coal deposits in the
Territory of Alaska,” approved May
twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and
eight, be, and the same is hereby,
amended so as to read as follows:
“Section 1. That all persons, their
heirs or assigns, who have in good
faith personaly or by an attorney in
fact made locations of coal land in
the Territory of Alaska in their own
interest prior to November twelfth,
nineteen hundred and six, or in ac
cordance with circular of instructions
issued by the Secretary of the In
terior May sixteenth, nineteen hun
dred and seven, may consolidate
their said claims or locations by in
cluding in a single claim, location or
purchase not to exceed two thousand
five hundred and sixty acres of con
tiguous lands, not exceeding in
length twice the width of the tract
thus consolidated, and for this pur
pose such persons, their heirs or as
signs, may form associations or cor
porations, who may perfect entry of
and acquire title to such lands in ac
cordance with the provisions of law
under which said locations were orig
inally made: Provided, that no cor
poration shall be permitted to con
solidate its claims under this Act un
less seventy-five per centum of its
stock shall be held by persons quali
fied to enter coal lands in Alaska.
“Sec. 2. That the United States
shall at all times have the prefer
ence right to purchase so much of
the product of any mine or nynes
opened upon the lands sold under the
provisions of this Act as may be nec
essary for the use of the Army and
Navy, and at such reasonable and re
munerative price as may be fixed by
the President; but the producers of
any coal so -purchased, who may be
dissatified with the price thus fixed
shall have the right to prosecute suits
against the United States in the Court
of claims for the recovery of any ad
ditional sum or sums they may claim
as justly due upon such purchase.
“Sec. 3. That if any of the lands
or deposits purchased under the pro
visions of this Act shall be owned,
leased, trusteed, possessed or con
trolled by any device permanently,
temporarily, directly, indirectly, tacit
ly, or in any manner whatsoever, so
tuat they form part of or in any way
effect any combination, or are in any
wise controlled by any combination
in the form of an unlawful trust, or
form the subject of any contract or
conspiracy in restraint of trade in the
mining or selling of coal, or of any
holding of such lands by any individ
ual, partnership/ association, corpor
ation, mortgage, stock ownership, or^
LOCAL HAPPENINGS IN
AND AROUND TOWN
U. S. Commissioner Nickell made
a trip to Kenneeott this week.
The Chitina Cash Store is under
going some improvements to make it
easier to handle their constantly in
creasing business. They are putting
in a better foundation to permit of
additional stories to the builoing.
Henry Gessner has remodeled his
residence.
H. Estabrook has relieved A. A.
DeLeo as operator at Chitina.
W. M. Wolf, of Cordova, is paper
ing the new hotel.
Those registered at the Hotel Chit
ina this week are Ed Hill, R. J. Bar
ry, A. C. Campbell, E. E. Holden. W.
M. Wolf, E. T. Woods. Chas. J. Mor
ris and wife, Anna Stevens, O. C.
Witherspoon, Theodore Witherspoon,
S. A. Witherspoon, J. D. Nickell, Ar
cher Pollard, F. C. Painter, P. M.
Fry and wife, J. F. Clarkin, H. R.
Lee, Mrs. Cora Kingston, A. A. Jaffa,
Mr. and Mrs. Butler, S. B. Cerf, E. H.
Denny.
The geoglogiical survey party un
der W itherspoon Is at Kuskulana,
where they will work this summer.
Jack Lawrence furnished the horses
for the party.
Nels McCrary, of Copper Center,
was in town this week. He found
the trail in good condition. The Mc
Crary’s have ti acres of oats sown
this year, which are doing well and
promise to make a good yield. Fete
Schneider is having good success this
year on his farm at Tazlina. me
weather in that part of the valley
has been warm and the prevailing
wind which is so blighting to plant
life is unknown north of Tonsina.
The road commission crew is now
camped five miles north of town.
The saloon men are considering a
plan to close up from midnight til
six o’clock in the morning, for a few
months this summer.
control, in excess of two thousand
five hundred and sixty acres in the
District of Alaska, the title tuereto
shall be forfeited to the United States
by proceedings instituted by the At
torney General of the United States
in the courts for that purpose.
“Sec. 4. That the United States
reserves the right and power to reg-i
ulate, control and suppress monopo-l
lies, conspiracies In restraint of
trade, and other illegal combinations
in buying, selling, dealing in, stor
ing, transporting or otherwise han
dling coal mined on all lands belong
ing to the United States in Alaska
to which patents have not been is
sued at the date of the approval cf
this Act; and to prevent extortion or
unreasonably excessive prices in the
sale or transportation of such coal,
the United States reserves the right
and power to control and regulate
the rates, prices and profits which
any person, corporation, mine owner,
or coal dealer, and any and all other
persons, corporations, or associations,
may charge, demand, or receive from
the sale, exchange, dealing in. stor
ing, or transportation of any of such
coal; that every patent issued by the
United States for coal lands in Alas
ka, whether for lands located or en
tered prior to the passage and ap
proval of this Act or subsequent
thereto, shall specifically recite the
terms and conditions contained in
sections two, three and four of this
Act; and tne reservations herein
made and so recited in said patents
shall forever remain a limitation up
on the title granted to the said land
by the United States.
“Sec. 5. That every person who
located or entered, or attempted in
good faith to locate or enter, any
coal land in Alaska, under the coal
land laws of the United States prior
to November twelfth, nineteen hun
dred and six, and whose location or
entry thereof has been contested, de
nied or canceled by the United
States, is hereby authorized, at any
time within one year front the date
of the approval of this Act, to bring
a suit in equity against the United
States in any court of competent
jurisdiction in the district where the
land is situated to quiet his title
thereto; and if upon the trial of such
cause it shall be found by the court
upon the evidence that the said lo
cator or entryman has complied with
the coal-land laws of the United
states in making such location or
entry, and has been prevented from
completing his said location or en
try in compliance with the coal-land
laws of the United States by any
Executive order or withdrawal made
by the President of the United States
or any action of any other officer
of the United States not made or
taken in compliance with law, and if
upon such suit the said locator or en
tryman shall make the proof requir
ed by the coal-land laws of the Unit
ed States, and if the United States
has reecived, or if the locator or en
tryman shall pay into the court for
the United States tne purchase price
fixed by said laws or the United
States, and if the said court shall
find that the locator has at the time
of the final decree fully complied
with the requirements of the coal
land laws of the United States in re
spect to his said location or entry,
then in every such case the said court
shall enter a decree in conformity
with the law and the evidence quiet
ing the title to the said land in the
said locator or entryman: Provided,
that either the locator or entryman
so bringing said suit or the United
States may appeal said cause in the
manner provided by the laws relat
ing to appeals from said court; that
if the final decree of the said court
shall be in favor of the said locator
or entryman a patent shall be issued
in the usual form, conveying the
said land to the said locator or en
tryman, which patent shall expressly
recite the terms and conditions con
tained in sections two, three and four
of this Act; that if the final decree
of said court in said cause shall be
in favor of the United States, the
said locator or entryman shall be
held to have no right to or equity in
said land, and his location or entry
shall be canceled and held for
naught.
“Sec. 6. That upon the passage and
approval of this Act every Executive
or other withdrawal or reservation
of coal lands in Alaska from location
or entry or patent shall be void and
of no effect.”
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BAXTER TO RETURN
TO STUDY CONDITIONS
It is reported that Robert W. Bax
ter, vice-president and active head of
both the Copper River & Northwest
ern Railway and Alaska Steamship
Company, will leave Seattle for Cor
dova on the Alameda, sailing next
Wednesday. Mr. Baxter will be ac
companied by his family and ex
pects to spend some time familiariz
ing himself with general conditions
and requirements of this section. He
recently paid us a visit, but did not
have sufficient time in which to
make a thorough inspection of the
road and the mining properties in the
Copper River valley. It is the aim of
Mr. Baxter, in his official capacity, to
do all in his power to aid in the de
velopment of the entire Southwestern
Alaska, and in order to accomplish
this end he desires to get reliable in
formation on the ground.
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DAWSON, July 20.—Joe Barrett,
one of the pioneer packers of the
Klondike, died in this city last night.
He left an estate worth $50,000.
Try the Chitina Hotel for cigars
and pipes, at Seattle prices.
You will find most of your friends
at the Chitina Hotel.
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