OF 6EHEH INilU
The folder which Mr. Hazelet
prepared and had printed in Seattle,
advertising the advantages of Cor
dova as the gateway to the Nel
china and Shushanna mining camps
will prove of great assistance to
newcomers who join the stamped
ers. The necessity of persons
going to the new camps taking at
least six or eight month's provisions
is strongly emphasized. For the
benefit of inexperienced outfitters a
list of essentials has been prepared
and those who order by the list
will find that nothing has been over
looked.
The tables of distances have been
accurately compile* and should
leave no room for doubt in the
minds of travelers which is the
shorter and better route to both the
new camps. From Cordova to Nel
china the distance is 238 miles, but
of this distance 131 miles to Chitina
is by rail, leaving 127 miles as com
pared to 179 miles from Valdez.
The actual sledding distance to
Shushanna over the different
routes are as follows: Cordova
via McCarthy to Shushanna, 75
miles; Cordova via Chitina to
Shushanna, 235 miles; Valdez via
Copper Center to Shushanna, 285
miles; Skagway via Whitehorse to
Sfyushanna. 300 miles.
From Cordova to McCarthy it is
191 miles by rail. From McCarthy
to Shushanna the distances between
roadhouses are as follows: McCar
thy to Handy’s road house, 10
miles; to Clarkin’s, 12, David’s 18,
Janeys 22, Homestead 29, McLeod
& Hills 32, Clark’s 41, Gwin’s 46,
1st relief cabin 49, 2nd relief cabin
52, Boggs & Young’s 1st roadhouse
57, Boggs & Young’s 2nd roadhouse
68, Shushanna 75 miles.
The map was compiled from maps
of the Geological Survey, the Alaska ■
Road Commission and the Alaska
Railway commission.
Henry O. Smith, chief represen
tative of the United States bureau
of fisheries in Alaska, is authority
for the statement that 50,000,000
pounds of fish were taken from the
waters of the Pacific along the coast
of Alaska during the year just
closed. The salmon catch was be
low expectations and the prevail
ing prices were lower than usual.
He believes that the fishing in
dustry in Alaska is only in its in
fancy but that much must be done
to increase the, propagation of the
choicest varieties. He believes
there should be more hatcheries and
that fishermen should be prevented
from catching salt water fish after
they have entered fresh water to
spawn. The “humpies” are unfit to
can after they have been in fresh
water more than 24 hours. They
lose weight rapidly in fresh water
and develop the hump after 4 8
hours in fresh water.
Halibut are fast disappearing
from the inside waters of Alaska.
The spawning habits of the halibut
have baffled the experts of things
piscatorial. It is conjectured that
the fish come to the inside waters
to spawn from the fact that the eggs
in the females caught in the open
waters have not reached the same
stage of maturity as in those
caught in inside waters. Mr. Smith
believes that sea gulls, fish ducks
and other varieties of birds which
destroy the spawn of the salmon
should be destroyed. The Dolly
Varden trout is also an enemy of
the young salmon and should be
exterminated.
J. C. Duff arrived on the -Mari
posa yesterday with three norses
and a big outiit of supplies ea route
to Shushanna. Mr. Duff has been
in the camp and succeeded in locat
ing ground which he considers has
a good chance of proving rich. He
will give it a thorough testing this
winter.
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n McParlane, who ts soon to
Wish a expwsw *nai»
ness from Shushanna Junction to
the diggings, is in town on a busi
ness trip. With his partner, Crowe,
he made the trip from the end of
the railroad to Shushanna and re
turn in less than one week. He be
lieves that better time can be made
In case of an emergency as they did
not rush, remaining 20 hours in the
camp. He states that good road
houses have been established at
short intervals along the route and
that travel is now as safe as it can
made anywhere.
NOTICE
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f, the undersigned, will not be
responsible for any debt made by
anybody without my written order.
PETER FRANKS
Thomas Riggs, Jr., who is in
charge of the Alaska-Yukon boun
dary survey, and who was an aspir
ant to the governorship of Alaska,
has declared in favor of a system
of police for Alaska similar to the
mounted police of Yukon. Mr.
Riggs is a next door neighbor to
Col. Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, and
would have been governor of Alaska
but for the change in administra
tion. He says:
“Had Alaska a system of mounted
police similar to that of Canada, the
tragic tales of the trails between
McCarthy and the Chisana would
never have been told. There would
have been no deaths at the fording
of the streams on the way; the illy
equipped efoeechaco would not be
stumbling along the trail without
food and facing a winter in which
he must either starve or steal, and
thegovernment would not be ap
pealed to later on to rescue these
illy prepared persons. 1 have advo
cated for years a system of polic
ing Alaska similar to that which
Canadian authorities have installed
in the Yukon Territory and British
Columbia.”
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The coroner's jury in the case of
Sophia Sexton, who was fouud dead
in John King's cabin on Tuesday
morning, returned a verdict that de
ceased came to her death at her
own hands through taking arsenic.
The jury was enabled to reach this
conclusion through the knowledge
gained by the autopsy performed by
Dr. Chase and Dr. Council.
The deceased was a native woman
who had been married to a white
man, Charles Sexton, and leaves sev
eral children. One of the children
is at the Cheemawa Native School in
Oregon, while another is in the Bap
tist mission at Wood Island, near
Kodiak. About three years ago
Sexton and his wife started outside
and while on the steamer the hus
band attempted to commit suicide
as a result of a family quarrel. He
fired a bullet from a revolver into
his head, but failed to end his life.
He was, however, rendered totally
blind and is now an inmate of the
King county alms house.
Mrs. Sexton returned to Cordova
but apparently did not improve her
habits. She had several times
threatened to kill herself but her
utterances were not taken seriously
by her associates. She had been in
the habit of frequenting King’s
cabin. King is a taxidermist and
as arsenic is one of the principal
constituents in tanning, the deceased
was enabled to carry out her plan
to take her own life. The testimony
before the coroner’s jury showed
that King and another man who
slept in the cabin on Tuesday night
were cognizant that deceased had
taken poison but they failed to sum
mon medical assistance to the suf
fering woman.
The finding of the coroner’s jury
is as follows: “We, the jury duly
empanneled in the above entitled
case find that the true name of the
decedent was Sophia Sexton and that
the cause of death of the deceased
was arsenic taken with suicidal
intent administered by - her own
hands, at the residence- of John
King, through presumably uninten
tional carelessness and negligence
of said John King.”
The members of the jury were:
M. Finkelstein. foreman; E. W.
Exum, A. L. Martin, J. R. Austin, J.
Costello.
SHARKS DESTROY MUCH
GOOD FOOD FISH
The Halibut fishing schooners
Gjoa and Dewey arrived in port
yesterday with a fair catch. The
Gjoa was fishing off Montague
island and reports a loss from the
mud sharks which appear to be
numerous there. A storm prevailed
one day necessitating leaving the
eaten hundreds of the halibut, leav
ing nothing but the heads. The
fishermen estimate that between
800 and 1,000 pounds of halibut
were destroyed. Halibut is worth
8 cents per pound in the Seattle
market so the loss to the fishermen
was considerable.
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FIXXEGAJi GOING
TO THE XELCKIXA
J. J. Finnegan, who was eommis
I sioner at Seward and resigned to go
*o Shushanua will leave Seward for
! the Nelchina in a few days. He is
; en route to Shushanna again but is
! going via Nelchina to see for him
self if that camp has a future. -.He
will be joined in the spring by Mrs.
Finnegan and son.
IDITAROD MAILS
Col. H. E. Kevelle, of Seward, re
ceived notice from Washington re
cently that his bid for carrying the
Seward-Iditarod mail for the next
four years had been accepted and he
; has been awarded the contract.
The contract calls for the carry
ing of the mail from Seward to
Iditarod each week beginning No
vember 1, 1914 and ending April 1,
1915, and thereafter during these
months for a period of four years.
Colonel Revelle will establish re
lay stations along the trail and will
have the mail leave Seward and
Iditarod simulatneously each week
from November 1 until April 1,
making 24 trips each year during
the life of the contract. He will
equip himself with the best dog
teams available and proposes to be
prepared to give the citizens of the
interior towns the best winter mail
service they have ever had.
There were several other bids
sent in to the department at Wash
ington. but the Colonel's bid seemed
the most apeeptable.
The mail to Iditarod has hereto
fore and is now being taken in via 1
Fairbanks, but has never been satis
factory to the government or to the
people of the interior.
IS OPPOSED TO THE
PARTY SPOILS SYSTEM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—
President Wilson has let it become
known that he is opposed to a re
turn of the party spoils system in
connection with the appointment of
postmasters.
| TIM XALLY LAID
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TO REST TODAY
The funeral of Tim Xally, who
: died from the effects of being
| severely frozen in a deserted cabin
; near Chitina, was held from Lam
bert’s Undertaking parlors at 3
o'clock this afternoon. Rev. E. P.
Zeigler officiated and delivered an
appropriate sermon.
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VALDEZ HOME IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Valdez was recently vtsited by a
fire which destroyed the home of
; Jack Surryhne, the well known
| musician. The loss amounted to
$1,500. The origin of the fire is a
mystery as there had not been a fire
in the stove for some time. No
efTort was made to string the fire
hose as the department is short and
will not order sufficient to reach
1 most of the residencs.
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WOMEN PRISONERS TO
GO TO LEAVENWORTH
—
Under orders from the attorney
general, all women convicts of
; Alaska will hereafter be sentenced
j to serve time at the federal prison
; at Leavenworth.
The new order has been made by
the department of justics because
| of the crowded condition of the
woman’s ward at McNeil’s Island
and it was found necessary to send
j the women back east.
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j COLORS OF THE
* PANAMA-PACIFIC FAIR
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13—Blue,
| gold and orange have been chosen
1 as the official colors of the Panama
! Pacific International Exposition and
1 will be employed on the exposition
flags and banners. The diagonals
of the flag are blue and the body
orange. In the center ia tbe setting
with ,* battleship in
outline pawing throng*, the PpMma
Canal...
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SIBERIAN ALFALFA WOULD
THIRVE IN ALASKA
Prof. Hanson, who was sent to
the heart of Asia by the United
; States government to search for
'.hardy forage plants which would
stand transplanting to Alaska, has
been successful in finding a potato
and alfalfa which defy frost in the
• early stages. I)r. Alfred Thompson,
M. P. for Yukon, has asked the
Dominion government to introduce
i *he plants into Yukon. The alfalfa
is said to grow wild and provide
excellent feed for animals and
grows in the higher altitudes as
vel> as in the valleys and river
bottoms.
CAMPAIGN OPENS
FOR DELEGATE
John Chilberg, of Nome, was nom
inated for territorial representative
in congress, by the Garden Island
local Socialist party of Fairbanks.
The Fairbanks Socialist local have
nominated Lena Lewis, who now
resides in Fairbanks. She was in
Cordova during the last campaign
and will be remembered as a fluent
speaker. Mr. Chilberg was the
Socialist candidate for delegate once
and polled a good vote. According
to the party’s constitution, two
locals must concur in the nomina
tion of a candidate, after wuich the
territorial party officers at Peters
burg send out ballots to other locals
for a final membership vote on a
candidate for the nomination, which !
amounts to a direct primary system.!
Miss Lewis is said to be the most
likely nominee from interior Alaska.
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WHITE PASS AFTER
PORTLAND LINE BUSINESS
The White Pass & Yukon Route
has established an office in Portland J
in order to take care of passengers
and freight front that point to
Alaska and Yukon territory. The
company guarantees the Portland
shippers to land freight in the
Yukon basin two weeks earlier if
sent via their line than via the
mouth of the Yukon river.
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LONDON, Jan. 19—A widespread
movement having for its object the
care of the women afid children of
Ulster in the event civil war should
follow the enactment of the Home
Rule bill is under way in England.
At the instance of the British
League for the Support of Ulster,
many women throughout the coun
try who are favorable to the cause
of the anti home rulers have agreed
to take a certain number of mothers
and children to house them during
the continuance of hostilities.
Others are forming nursing corps,
and from various sections reports
are coming in of large numbers of
volunteers for this service. The
League claims to have more than
300 recruiting agents in the field
throughout England, Scotland ana
Wales, and that men are pledging
themselves at the rate of a hundred
a day to join the proposed Ulster
Auxiliary Force.
LONDON, Jan. 19.—The in
creasing industrial unrest in Eng
land is graphically shown in a spe
cial report issued by the Board of
Trade. More than a million work
ing days have been lost by woiking
men throughout the country since
the first of the year on account of
strikes and lockouts, of which there
have been 960, a greater number
than during the whole of any pro
ceeding year in the past decade. De
mands for higher wages were
responsible for 86 per cent of the
disputes in the past year, and ques
tions of trade union principles for
10 per cent. In an unusually high
proportion of cases—To per cent—
the employees obtained their de
mands, and the number of settle
ments by arbitration, or mediation,
was the highest on record.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 19.—
Settlers who squatted on 55,000
acres of government lands, known
as the sunk and lake lands, and
failed to homestead the land will
be compelled to vacate and permit
other persons to homestead it.
It was announced several years
ago that because of survey errors in
that part of the state no title had
been given to several townships. Re
vised plats have been approved by
the department of the interior. Per
sons living on the tracts were given
the first opportunity to bomeeted if,
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PARIS,, Jan, 19.—The Interna
tional Congress of Chambers , of
Commerce, which will be held here
next June, will be the most Impor
tant gathering of its kind ever held
according to those who today are
planning the convention.
President B. J. Shoninger, of the
American Chamber here has been
appointed a mmber of the organiza
tion committee by the associations
of French Chambers of Commerce.
Mj\ Shoninger, with Frederick
Bede, of Chicago, will represent j
America at the International Con- j
gress. *
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Sidney D. CImles, *he well known
newspaper man, returned from a
trip to Juneau on the Sampson this
afternoon.
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Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez,
and Seward, via l.NSIDK PASSAGE.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
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hour before sailing time.
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WHEN YOU ARE IN CHITINA
Why Don’t You Stop at the
overland hotel
The Best Hotel on the Copper River
A large reading room and lobby on tile second floor for the
omfort of the traveler.
If you stop with us, you are sure to meet all your friends.
First-class Bar and Cafe in connection
H. T. STAFSHOLT and JAMES HYLAND, Proprietors.
HORACE LEACH, Manager.
K. X* H. M A R S H A»L L
freighting
From McCarthy to Chisana
We Deliver the Goods i
Shushana Stage & Express Co
3lakes Itegular Trips from McCarthy to Shushanna Kvery Four
Hays Carrying Passengers and Freight
I lit EE POST directed to McCartlsy, in care of our company
will he delivered to addressee in new diggings at 50 cents per pound.
Charges can either he sent to us or will he collected upon delivery,
'Ye guarantee delivery of Passengers, Express and Parcel Post
from McCarthy to Shushanna in Four Days. We also route freight
at regular freight rates.
McFarland & crow
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