THIRD YEAR.
CHITINA. ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 29,1913.
NUMBER 41.
Late Telegraph News
BINGHAMPTON, N. Y„ July 23.—
An investigation reveals that the
number of girls who were burned to
death in the fire which destroyed the
Freeman Overall factory yesterday
afternoon had been underestimated,
and that the total reaches 50 instead
*of 40 as at first reported.
Inadequate means of escape in
case of fire is the principal cause of
the great loss of life, and an investi
gation has been ordered.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Charge
de Affairs Williams, of the United
States embassy at Pekin, today wired
the state department requesting that
the Asiatic squadron be sent at once
to China to protect Americans in the
southern provinces of the republic,
where the rebellion is gaining
ground, and threatens to result in a
war upon all foreigners.
MEXICO CITY" July 23.—This
city is in the hands of a turbulent
mob, and all efforts on the part of
the officials to preserve order have
proven futile. The Huerta govern
ment fears to issue orders to adopt
stringent methods to put down the
rioting, fearful that the disorder
would only inedease if any of the
rioters were injured, and result in
an uprising that would place the city
in the control of the rebels.
An incident of the disorder which
is almost sure to bring on interna
tional complications, and may bring
about the immediate intervention of
the United States, is the tact that the i
mob tore down and trampled in the
mud, the flags of the United States
and Great Britain from their re
spective embassies. Foreign resi
dents of the city are moving to the
embassies, as the disorder is likely
to increase instead of subsiding.
Another feature of the disorder,
which is viewed with considerable
apprehension is the open display of
the Japanese flag, which was carried
at the head of the procession of the
rioters. There remains but little
doubt in the minds of the foreign
residents of the city that Japan is
instrumental in fomenting the
trouble, and it is believed there is a
secret understanding between Mexico
and Japan, and that the latter coun
try will probably come to the assist
ance of Mexico in case there is an
invasion of the country by the
United States.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Con
siderable apprehension is felt in offi
cial circles here over the desecrating
of the American and British flags
by a mob in Mexico City. It is
practically certain that Great Brit
ain, aside from demanding repara
tion from Mexico, will also make a
demand upon the United States to
prevent further disorder in Mexico.
Under these conditions there is little
prospect that the government can
escape intervening in the southern
republic, an act which must inevit
r ably result in war.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23.—
The Porte today announced that
Tukrish troops had retaken the city
of Adrianople from the Bulgarians.
The city wa8 taken by the Bulgars
from Turkey during the recent war
after desperate fighting lasting sev
eral weeks.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Presi
dent Wilson today sent to the senate
the name of Preston C. West, of
Oklahoma, as assistant attorney gen
eral, to be attached to the interior
department. The President also
nominated Royal Meeker, of Newr
Jersey, a commissioner of labor
statistics.
WASHINGTON, July 24.—A dis
patch from the American consul at
Shanghai, to the state department,
states that a fierce battle is in prog
ress in the city between the rebels
and the federal troops for possession
of the government arsenal. The gov
ernment troops have succeeded in re
pulsing the rebel attacks, and it is
said will destroy the arsenal and all
arms before permitting them to fall
into the hands of the rebels.
SHANGHAI, July 24.—Ten thou
sand rebels, who were engaged in the
attack upon the government arsenal
have been driven back with a loss of
more than 800 killed. The fleet in
the harbor came to the aid of the
government troops and did great
execution among the rebel forces.
Many Japanese were fighting with
the rebels.
SEATTLE, July 22.—Ser
geant A. F. Wallace, who was
stabbed and beaten dnring
the riot Thursday night be
tween the soldiers and sailors
and the I. W. W„ died from
blood poisoning today as a
result of the wounds.
FASHIXGTOX, July 22.—
Congressman Murray of Okla
homa. introduced a resolution
in the house, calling for the
intervention of the govern
ment in Mexico unless order
was restored in that country
within thirty days.
SOFIA, July 23.—Servia and
Greece have agreed upon Peace
negotiations with Bulgaria, and com
missioners from the several govern
ments will meet in Bucharest to pre
pare and sign the treaty.
MEXICO CITY. July 23.—The
Huerta administration is nearing an
end and can last but a few weeks
longer at the utmost, is the belief
prevailing here. The rebels are
slowly but surely driving back the
federal troops and approaching the
capital. Today President Huerta
issued an order recalling all the fed
eral troops from the north to the
defense of this city, and will make a
last stand here. The constitutionalist
forces are massing and preparing an
attack upon the state of Fidalgo,
which adjoins the capital, and a
battle is expected within a few days.
WASHINGTON, July 23. — Col.
Martin Mulliall, before the senate
lobby investigating committee, with
drew his charges that former Senator
Watson had been in the employ of
private interests while in congress to
work on the tariff commission with
a view to securing recommendations
of that body favorable to the manu
facturers.
LANSING, Mich., July 25.—In
response to the call from the sheriff
of Calumet, 1,500 state troops were
dispatched to that place to maintain
order. Fifteen thousand miners
have quit work, and several riots
have occurred.
TULSA, Okla., July 25.—A cigar
ette stub, accidently dropped in a
gas well near here this morning, re
sulted in an explosion which killed
seven persons.
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ July 25.—
Serious trouble has 'again broken
out between the striking miners and
the operators in the coal district. At
Paint Creek a battle occurred this
morning between the strikers and
the watchmen employed at the mines,
resulting in the killing of four men.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—Henry
Lane Wilson, the United States am
bassador to Mexico, and Secretary of
State Bryan held a conference on
the Mexican situation this afternoon.
The conference lasted about 40 min
utes. AVMson was instructed to sub
mit to the cabinet a complete written
report of his actions since the fall
of Madero.
Following the conference, Secre
tary Bryan informed the senate com
mittee on foreign relations that the
administration would make no im
mediate change in the enforcement of
the neutrality laws. He also stated
that the government was prepared to
j meet any development in Mexican
I affairs.
SEATTLE, July 21.—The Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer is fully covering the news of the big strike at
Sushanna and all the old-time Alaskans and practically
everybody is greatly excited over the reports. The
Times, Star and Sun are also running big stories and
the Associated Press is sending it all over the country.
The interest here is intense and many are planning
to go to Cordova, and are only awaiting further details
as to the extent of the richness of the strike.
President J. E. Chilberg, of the Chamber of Com
merce and Scandinavian-American Bank, says that
there will immediately be an exodus of a thousand
people from Seattle, if rich strike is verified.
Every report coming out from the interior but more
strongly confirms the richness of the strike on the Sushanna
river, as the details begin to come in it is indicated that beside
the two creeks on which pay lias been found. Eldorado and
Bonanza, there exists a wide stretch of country fully as prom
ising as that already located, and that there will be many
claims staked which will yield big returns before the show flies.
With each succeeding report the excitement grows greater
and the stampede for the Sushanna grows apace. Parties
returning from the Copper River country report that Dan
Creek, Chittitu and other placer camps are practically deserted,
and that the desertions from the Bonanza mine force has been
so great as to seriously hamper the work, and if it continues
for a few days longer will compel the mine to close down. The
Mother Lode crew is also deserting, hut as yet not in such
numbers as to seriously effect the work.
McCarthy, Blackburn and Cliitina are nearly depopulated,
everybody who is able to get away having started for the new
strike, some of them starting out with only enough food to !a>1
them to the diggings, and without blankets or proper clothing.
Six men from the mines on the Strelna have already started
for the Sushanna. and ten more will leave tomorrow, leaving
but a few men at that camp.
Twenty-five men nd twelve horses left Cliitina yester
day and ten more started this morning. Among the stampeders
are: Brady Howard, George Frazer. J. S. Brown. Chris
Mikelson, John Delander. Dick Waters and Ed Whalen.
On the train which left Cordova yesterday morning there
were twenty-five men enroute to tiie new strike. Among them
were: C. E. Nichols, Jas. Barkley, Gns .Jobson, George Burleigh,
A. J. Hennneke. A1 Johnson. Dr. C. F. Montgomery, M. C. St.
Clair. Sam Werner, George C. Hazelet, Calvin Hazelet, Craig
Hazelet, Jack Costello, Floyd Smith, .James Clark, Grant Reed,
Frank O’Neil, J. F. Clarkinn, Ben Hinna, D. M. Lynch, Bert
Bollinger, James Brown and others are preparing to leave on
the next train.
There is no longer any doubt that the strike is a big one,
both as to the extent of territory bearing auriferous gravel, but
the richness of the ground is also confirmed. In a letter dated
yesterday, received by E. V. Boyle, from Dan Stacey, who first
[brought the news to Blackburn, he says: “I leave here in the
j morning with 200 pounds of grub to work my claim and find
I out what I have over there. 1 have two claims, one on Bonanza
and one on Shamrock and have raised colors on both. There
were about twenty men on the ground ahead of me. The rich
claim is on what they call Eldorado creek. It empties into the
Bonanza, and Bonanza into the Chathonda, and the latter into
the Chisiana (Sushanna). The names of the creeks on which
[gold has been so far found are Eldorado, Bonanza, Snow Gulch,
Shamrock, Coarse Meney, Alder, Wilson and Ohathenda. 1
panned gold on Eldorado, Bonanza and Shamrock, but do not
know anything regarding the other creeks except what I have
heard, although I have been on them and they carry the same
wash as Eldorado and Bonanza. The diggings are very shallow
to bedrock and the ground is all thawed. A Mr. James and
Pete Nelson own the rich claim on Eldorado, known as No. 1,
and Art Whitman owns No. 2. It is also very rich.”
Stacey further says that he was nine days on his trip from
: McCarthy to the Sushanna and six days returning, and that the
worst part of the trail is between McCarthy and the Nizina
River, and the crossing of the Russel glacier.
The strike has been kept secret for a longer period than is
usual. Made early in June, no news of it reached the outside
until a comparatively short time ago, when it first came from
Dawson, where one of the discoverers went to procure an outfit.
From there it went to Fairbanks and not until several days
later did it reach this section. In the meantime parties from
Dawson and Fairbanks started for the scene, those from the
former place going via the Forty-mile country, and the latter
via the Tanana.
C. L. Hoyt, of Gnlkana, who arrived on the steamer this
morning from Valdez, will leave on a motor car tomorrow
morning for Cliitina with Tom Kinney and James Healey, and
from there will go to the Sushanna. On his arrival here Mr.
Hovt received a telegram from CHaude Stewart stating that
Whitam had made a big strike on the Sushanna, and in this
connection Mr. Hoyt says that early in June, two men from
Fairbanks, passed his place at Gnlkana bound for the head of
the White River, and stated that a strike had been made there,
[but that he placed little faith in it. However, he has the most
confidence in Stewart’s communication from the fact that the
latter is in constant communication with Bud Sergeant, who is
representing Henry Bratnober in that section, and he has
learned that Sergeant has been to the strike and returned to his
camp on the Nabesna for more provisions. Whitam is well
known throughout this section of the country, and any report
from him may be relied upon as being authentic. Stewart is
now enoute to Cliitina, and is expected to arrive there tomor
row, and it is expected further particulars will be forthcoming
on his arrival there.
About ten days ago Sergeant sent a messenger out to
Gulkana with a message to Cordova, asking that a copy of the
new mining laws of the territory be sent to him at once, which
is taken as still further evidence that the strike is a good one,
and that he wishes to be posted on the law so that no trouble
may arise over irregular staking of his claims.
FAIRBANKS, July 21.—The stampede from here to the
reported new strike has started and W. If Merritt chartered
the Dusty Diamond, hauled her with 30 tons of freight and with
twelve stampeders started up the Tanana for the headwaters
last Tuesday.
He will establish a trading post on the Sushanna river, and
will have more supplies brought up the river this fall.
Several outfits have started for the Sushanna going over
land using stock while a/ew are poling boats up the river.
The reports received here regarding the new strike are
meager and conflicting, coming mostly from Dawson. Some
reports say that men are taking out $90 a day, others that the
returns are barely enough to pay good wages.
From Dawson comes warnings to all who intend to go to
the new strike to take plantv of provisions with them as no grub
can be secured in the district. Those who expect to subsist on
game will also be disappointed as much of it has been driven
away and the natives are killing moose and caribou and selling
the meat to the miners.
Leon Jacques, C. Tetu, B. Guesson and L. Guesson, in two
| poling boats, loaded down with an outfit sufficient for a year’s
(stay in the wildness of the Upper Tanana, are well on their
I tedious, back-breaking journey.
The men have no little amount of prospecting work in mind,
and they intend to make a thorough search for bodiea of gold
j bearing gravel.before they return. In particular, they will look
j mto the reported find that is said to have been made on the
! Sushanna river near the head of the White during the earlv
! spring. From Dawson came a report some weeks ago, to the
effect that two men had shoveled $900 in a few days about 15
miles from the copper eamn at the head of the White river.
To aid in the prospecting, they are taking along a supply
of hydraulic hose and a nozzle, meaning to use it in working
I any shallow ground that they may encounter.
The trip is nearly 500 miles in length and for long stretches
it will be necessary for the men to line, because of the swift
| current. •
The four man came up last winter from Ruby, after"*
j prospecting there unsuccessfully for a good part of
: the winter.
(From Cordova Daily Alaskan, July 22)
The excitement over the Sushanna strike still continues at
fever heat and stampeders are exhausting every means to
i reach the new strike at the earliest possible moment. Today,
within a few minutes time, a party of about twenty got together
and chartered a special train on the Copper River tk North
western Railway, which will leave at 7 o’clock tomorrow
morning, for McCarthy, the point at which the trail to Seolai
' pass leaves the railroad line.
'1 he travel over this route is becoming so large that a
reconnaissance party is out selecting the best and safest route
to the pass, and as soon as a report is made, which is expected
: within a day or two, a force of men will be put at work cutting
out and putting the trail in as good condition for travel as
j possible. It is expected that the new trail will cut out several
! dangerous river crossings, and such as cannot be avoided will
j be bridged where possible, or a ferry installed where this is
not feasible.
I he latest reports received from the interior last evening
were to the effect that men were still leaving daily from every
camp on this side of the range, and that the shortage of labor
at the several copper mines was becoming acute, and that
unless more men were secured the work would have to be
considerably curtailed or cease entirely.
Horses are in great demand by the stampeders. Chitina
reports not a horse to be had at any price. Animals that were
sold by E. F. Gray for $50 a short time before the news of the
strike reached the place, brought from $250 to $300 when the
stampede commenced, and a cable message has been sent to
Beattie to ship 32 head on the first steamer.
It is said that a movement is on foot to secure Captain
Martin, the aviator who made the aeroplane flights at Fair
banks, July Fourth, and who is expected to reach Juneau within
a day or two, and prevail upon him to go to McCarthy and run
an aerial express for passengers from that point to the
Sushanna. The distance is little over 100 miles, and it is
believed that many of the stampeders would avail themselves
of this means of travel.
Those who chartered the train this afternoon were: J. IT.
Murray, of Valdez, Curley Heckman, I. Verdouw, Andy
Meehan, James MacCormac. Nels Smith, Ben Bennett, Carl
Johnson, Ed Lindberg, A1 Martin, Elmer Weed, Fred Young,
Harry Cook, Pete Carlson, and a number of others, including
Jack Carlysle, J. Brabazon and a number of others who will
get away if possible on tomorrow's train, and it is probable
that another special train will be run within a day or two to
accommodate those desirous of reaching the diggings, as it is
known that a party is on the way from KatalJa, and it is
expected that several persons from Valdez will come here to
go to the strike this way.
Several parties in Valdez have received messages from
parties who are now in the Sushanna, advising them to come
at once, and several have already started over the government
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