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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1915.
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NUMBER 58.
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* NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—The Kennecott Copper Corpora
| tion, which has been astounding the financial world with the
barged its field' of operations since being organized last sum
larged its fiel dof operations since being organized last sum
mer, is preparing to make a further increase in its activities,
that will make it the biggest mining concern in the world. The
company but recently took over the Guggenheim Exploration
Company, acquiring all their Alaska interests, and is now plan
ning to buy the Copper River & Northwestern and the Alaska
Steamship Company. The Utah Copper Company will be pur
chased and the steamship plans of the concern contemplate an
extension of their lines by the purchase of additional boats and
the inauguration of a service between Seattle and San Fran
cisco and points on the west coast of Sojith America. The
holdings of the company in Chile will be developed rapidly and
the company will have its own line of boats carrying supplies]
to their properties as well as doing a general freight and pas
senger business.
' KENNECOTT DEAL
NEW YORK, Nov. 26. — A syndi
^ cate has been organized here to un
derwrite the new consolidation plan,
whereby the Kennecott Copper Cor
poration will take over the Guggen
heim Exploration Company, with all
its assets. The syndicate agrees to
furnish sixty-five millions of the
amount necessary to finance the deal.
Eighty-nine millions will be involved
In the purchase of the stocks of the
Braden and Utah Copper Companies
and the bonds of the Kennecott Com
pany, but the Braden and Utah stock
holders have agreed to take stock In
the Kennecott company in exchange
_ for their present holdings.
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> FIDE STEAMERS
SEWARD, Nov. 27. — Navigation
In Cook Inlet has closed, five steam
ers bound for Anchorage with forty
five hundred tons of railroad material
being forced to discharge their car
goes at this port. The stuff will have
to lie here until next spring, although
* it is needed at Anchorage for the
continuation of the railroad work
which was projected for the winter.
The temperature in the Inlet is at
zero.
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TACOMA, Nov. 27. — William R.
Rust, president of the Tacoma Smelt
ing Company, has resigned his posi
tion, after many years of service, ana
formerly at the head of the Guggen
heim interests in Alaska Mr. Rust
Is leaving his old employers to de
vote his entire time to the manage
ment of special properties, including
several mines located in Alaska.
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COPPED ORE OCCUPIES ALL
VACANT SPACE
Copper ore continues to be piled
up all around Cordova, and at the
present time there are over 7,000
tons of this metal here awaiting
shipment to the Tacoma smelter,
representing a value of over $1,500,
000. Every incoming train is bringing
a capacity load of ore from the Ken
necott mines.
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ARKANSAS STORM
LITTLE ROCK, Nov. 27. — During
a terrific storm that raged today
twenty people were killed and eighty
injured.
EVANS LEAVES SEATTLE
NEXT BOAT BEG. 3
SEATTLE, Nov. 27. — The steamer
Admiral Evans sailed this mornmg
for Southwestern Alaska. August
Erickson was the only passenger for
Cordova.
The nest boat leaving here for
Prince William Sound will be the
steamer Northwestern, on Friday,
December 3.
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NOGALES, Nov. 27. — The troops
under General Villa commenced last
night to evacuate the city of Nogales,
in the State of Sonora, evidently
fearing that they would be unable to
make a stand against the Carranza
troops that are marching on the city.
NOGALES, Nov. 27. — The troops
of Carranza, under General Obregon,
have taken possession of Nogales,
which was evacuated last night by the
Villa commander.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — The
American troops stationed on the
Mexican border at Nogales were fired
upon yesterday by both the Carranza
and Villa soldiers. The Americans
returned the Mexican fire. Private
Little, of the Twelfth U. S. infantry,
was killed and two others wounded,
neither seriously.
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At a meeting of the Democratic
Club, held at the city hall last night,
Charles H. Seheffler received the en
dorsement of that organization as its
choice for postmaster of Cordova, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of the present incumbent. The
resolution adopted follows:
Whereas, the present postmaster of
Cordova, Alaska, has resigned, and it
is fitting and proper that his succes
sor be a known Democrat and a citi
zen of Cordova;
And whereas, this organization, as
the representative Democratic Club
of Cordova and the Copper River Val
ley, has always advocated the ap
pointment of Alaskan Democrats to
the federal offices throughout this
Territory;
Therefore, Be it Resolved, that the
Cordova Democratic Club, in regular
meeting assembled, endorse the ap
plication of Charles H. Seheffler,
Democratic Territorial Committeee -
man for Alaska, for the position of
postmaster at Cordova;
And be it further resolved, that
copies of this resolution be sent to
the Postmaster-General at Washing
ton, D. C„ as evidence of the desire
of the local Democrats for the selec
tion of Mr. Seheffler.
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LONDON, Nov. 27. — The news
papers of this city regard Ford’s
peace plan ap advertising scheme,
and his efforts are the subject of
much ridicule.
NEW YORK, Nov. 27. — The tracks
of the Lackawanna railroad are
choked with loaded freight cars all
the way back as far as Scranton,
Pennsylvania, and the company has
ordered its agents to accept no more
freight for export until the blockade
has been lifted. The cars are filled
with supplies of steel manufactures
and explosives, most of them ror the
allies, and the lack of steamers in
this port to transport the goods
across the Atlantic is causing the
tieup of the railroad freight business.
NEW YORK, Nov. 27. — Six thou
said freight cars from the west, an
containing grain, feed, flour, copper
and other commodities, Bound for
Europe, have turned the railroad ter
minals and sidings here into storage
warehouses, as there are not ships
enough to move the freight as fast
as it arrives. The yards are all
congested, and the railroads are
facing new and difficult problems
every day, the flood of freight visibly
increasing all the time. Some of the
cars have already been here eighty
days waiting for steamers to take
their freight.
PITTSBURG, Nov. 27. — The
enormous exports leaving Pittsburg
for the export cities are being con
tinued despite the blockade conditions
which prevail, between here and the
seaports. All the railroads running
from here are overburdened with
freight business, but the cars are
being loaded and taken from Pitts
burg to be stored at the Atlantic ter
minals, and the various yards be
tween here and New York. The rail
roads are all expending large sum*
for building addiional terminals.
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CHICAGO TO GET
CHICAGO, Nov. 27. — There is
every indication that the Republican
national convention will be held in
this city next summer. In ract so
sure are the members of the G. O. P.
of this decision by the national com
mittee that meets in Washington on
December 14, to choose a meeting
place, that Republican delegations
from nine states have already made
hotel reservation here for the big
convention.
The Democrats of Alaska are also
figuring on meeting at Seward in the
spring, to place local tickets in the
field.
The Republicans of Seward have
organized a club, and as the Demo
crats there are already organized,
there promises to be something do
ing to the westward in local politics
next year.
Ex-Mayor W. A. Gilmore, of Nome,
candidate for Delegate to Congress
last year, will attend the Republican
territorial convention, he and Attor
ney Geo. Schofield holding the prox
ies from Seward peninsula.
The Democrats of the third division
have united in a big fight to secure
the removal of District Attorney
Spence, of Georgia, and knowing ones
claim that his successor will soon be
appointed, and that he will be an
Alaskan.
It is unofficially announced that
the Republican territorial convention
will be held at Seward in March, when
nominations will be made for a Dele
gate to Congress and members of
both houses of the territorial Legis
lature. The selection of two dele
gates to the national convention will
also be made.
Now that the Democrats of Alaska
see an opportunity of getting on the
federal payroll, there is considerable
activity being shown for the plums in
sight. There are six hold-over Re
publican postmasters in the territory,
who have been practically forced to
resign on account of the questionable
methods adopted by the Department
to "clear the decks” for hungry
Democrats. The mere matter of de
moralizing the service was of little
importance, when it was found neces
sary to get rid of the Republicans,
and Inspector Neil was evidently the
willing tool to do the dirty work.
Realizing that the Republicans in
the States are getting together for
the purpose of electing the next
President of the United States, the
members of the G. O. P. feel that
they, too, should present a united
front so that the next Delegate to
Congress will be a member of their
faith. In a recent issue of the Fair
banks News-Miner appears the fol
lowing plea for harmony.
"It is the prevailing opinion here
that the members of the Republican
party and the various Republican
clubs which should be, and will be,
formed throughout the territory,
should vote for whom they please in
the primaries just as long as the
man they vote for and the voters
themselves subscribe to the Republi
can principles and indicate their
good faith. If such a method is
adopted throughout the territory it
is the belief of the Republicans here
that the man named at he primaries,
and accepting the nomination at the
hands of the territorial convention,
will be the successful candidate Tor
delegate from Alaska at the next
convention.”
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CONVICTION SECURED AGAINST
MRS. DUNLAP.
Advices from Anchorage state that
Mrs. Dunlap, arrested upon complaint
, of the district attorney’s office on
the charge of selling liquor without
a license, and who elected to contest
the case in the U. S. commissioner’s
court at Anchorage, has been con
victed and will receive sentence to
morrow. Mrs. Dunlap is the twenry
second person to be convicted at An
chorage on the charge of selling li
quor without licenses.
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HOW WOMAN GOT THE ATTOR
NEY’S GOAT.
A certain assistant prosecuting at
torney -of the first division is re
ported as very careful of the ques
tions which he asks women of the
restricted district when they appear
before the court when he is a prose
cutor. During the recent term of
court a Ketchikan woman was be
fore the court on a charge of main
taining a disorderly house, and when
the prosecutor asked her if she owned
the house, she replied. “You ought
to know, you're there oftener than
I am.”
SEWARD P. M. TO
RESIGN RIS
POSITION
SEWARD, Nov. 23. — It is reported
that Phil J. Hickey intends resigning
as postmaster at this place. Mr.
Hickey is a hold-over Republican, and
he feels that his services are no
longer required, as the department
has cut his allowance for clerk hire.
With an increased mail service, in
cluding dispatches to Anchorage and
Iditarod, a request was made for an
additional clerk, but instead it being
allowed the salary of the present
clerk was reduced to $80 per month.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 23. — Ed. Krause,
suspected of having murdered a num
ber of Alaskans for their money and
property, has been identified as a man
who deserted from the United States
army at Fort Law’ton twelve years
ago.
The United States marshal from
Juneau is in Seattle to claim the
prisoner, who has engaged counsel
and will make a fight to prevent his
being taken back to Alaska to stand
rial.
Detective Tennant of Seattle, who
arrested Krause after his arrival from
the north on the steamer Jefferson,
has claimed the reward of $500 of
fered for his apprehension by the
Alaskan authorities.
Advices from Ketchikan, where
Krause boarded the Jefferson under
the name of O. E. Moore, state that
Krause's launch has been found in a
bay about four miles from Ketchikan.
A search of the launch revealed let
ters addressed to Miller, and Krause
has since admitted that he received
mail under that name.
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THREE YEARS TO
COMPLETE THE
SEATTLE, Nov. 26. — Mr. James
Wickersham, delegate to Congress
from Alaska, and Mr. William Edes,
chairman of the Alaska Engineering
Commission, were the guests of honor
at a banquet given by the Arctic Club
the night before Thanksgiving. Both
of the guests addressed the members
in an interesting manner, and dis
cussed the coming development of
Alaska in glowing terms. Mr. Wick
ersham said that he would introduce
a bill in the coming Congress to con
fer statehood upon Alaska, and also
a bill which would serve to conserve
the fish supply in the waters of the
territory, so as to prevent this great
potential wealth of Alaska from being
depleted. Mr. Edes confined his talk
to the government railroad, whose
building he is supervising, and said
that the commission had experienced
no difficulty in construction, and that
many roads in the States were built
under more adverse conditions. He
said that the road would be carrying
coal from the Matanuska fields in the
spring of 1917, and that the complete
line into Fairbanks would be fin
ished and in operation within three
years.
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The body of H. E. Peterson, who
was killed and mangled by a brown
bear near Hope, was taken to Anchor
age.
The dead man was found shortly
after being killed. He evidently shot
and wounded the bear and Sen fol
lowed it into the brush, where the ani
mal suddenly charged him and tore
him to pieces. The corpse was in a
badly mangled condition.
SKA GW AY POSTMASTER
THROWS UP HIS JOB
According to the Skagway Alaskan.
Postmaster A. E. Kindall, of Skagway.
sent to the Postoffice Department an
alternative to restore the allowance
for assistance in his office to $1,500
or accept his resignation. The cut
was recently announced, and Mr.
Kindall. writing to the Postmaster
General, under date of November 2.
said:
“I beg to advise that $1,000 is not
enough for clerical assistance, and
unless 1 am given $1,500 as before,
you may consider this my resignation.
My one ambition has been to serve
to the end of my term, which expires
on the second day of August, but this
cut in clerk hire allowance is an in
sult. and fortunately, I do not have
to put up with it.”
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SEATTLE, Nov. 24. — Edward
Krause, the man wanted in Juneau
on a charge of kidnapping William
Christie, was released today on a
writ of habeas corpus. Krause was
arrested when he got off the Jeffer
son here last week, and has been in
custody ever since. He was at once
rearrested as a fugitive from Justice
from Alaska, extradition papers from
Governor Strong at Juueau being on
their way by mail, addressed to the
governor of Washington. The ex
tradition papers change the charge
against Krause from kidnapping to
murder of Christie, and on being
honored will cause the removal of
Krause for trial in Alaska.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 24. — The govern
ment has issued a patent to a second
claim in the Bering River coal fields.
The patent was given to the Alaska
Petroleum Company for the location
known as the Fremont coal claim.
Nine other claims by the same com
pany were disallowed by the Land
Department and the entries cancelled.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27. — A
special agent of the Department of
Justice today accused C. C. Crowley,
who was formerly a special investi
gator for the District Attorney's of
fice in this city, with being connected
with the plots to dynamite munition
facories in the United States, and
specifically charged Crowley with
having a hand in the blowing up ot
the barges containing dynamite in the
Seattle harbor.
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BOOSTS FOR ALASKA.
If Alaska is to be developed to the
extent har resources warrant, she
must be treated as a part or the
mother nation, not as a colony, Miss
Bessie A. Vandivert told the members
of Seattle Chapter, Daughters or tn»
American Revolution, assembled yes
terday at the Hotel Otis. “Alaska”
was made the subject of a special dis
cussion, Miss Vandivert and J. L. Mc
Pherson, secretary of the Alaska
bureau of the New Chamber of Com
merce. participating.—Seattle Times.
OF STATE FOR
SEATTLE. Nov. 22. — Startling
disclosures were revealed today, when
the funds of the Rtate Industrial
commission were audited, and It was
found that the fund had been looted
to the extent of $58,000. The method
of diverting the money was by pre
senting forged warrants. The work
was cleverly done, and has been con
ducted systematically for some time.
The forged warrants were usually
cashed in saloons, and many of them
had got by the financial officials of
the commission, until one warrant
not so well forged as the previous
ones, was presented for payment and
discovered. This immediately started
an investigation, and the big short
age was found. A claim agent for
the commission and a former agent
are under suspicion of being the guilty
parties, and they are both under
surveillance. No arrests have beefi
made so far.
COPPER iCHES
NEW YORK .Nov. 22.—The price
of the refined copper is still advanc
ing, and the metal shares continue
to pre-empt the spotlight on the local
stock exchange. Electrolytic copper
has advanced to twenty cents, an In
crease of one-half cent since the early
part of last week.
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PARIS, Nov. 23.—A fire occurred In
the famous Bon Marche store In this
city yesterday, causing a damage of
six million dollars. The etire store,
which is the most famous mercantile
establishment in Europe, was not
destroyed, but those sections contain
ing the art objects, the old furniture
and heirlooms, the general merchan
dise department and the oriental rug
department were destroyed. Rugs or
fabulous value were lost, as the store
had the finest and largest collection
in the world. Genuine antique furni
ture of the middle ages, which can
never be duplicated, and which was
of peculiar interest and vaiue owing
to its rarity, was either totally de
stroyed or ruined by the flames and
water.
lumbeFpbicesIe now
TACOMA, Nov. 27. — The price Of
lumber is higher now than it has been
at any time since 1913, which was
a banner year for that industry.
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ALASKA HOME PRODUCT.
He got off of a Chicago-made bed,
buttoned his Boston-made suspenders
to his New York pants, washed his
face with Seattle soap in an Omaha
basin; walked through a house cov
ered with a San Francisco mortgage;
built a fire in a New Jersey stove
with coal from British Columbia;
fried Oregon eggs in Kansas City
lard and ate them with his Olympic
flour pancakes and Mexican coffee;
shouldered his Connecticut gun load
ed with Remington shot, and went
hunting on the mud flats with his
red dog. The last two of which were
the only Alaska products.