CARELESS SHOOTING
LAST MONDAY NIGHT
A mysterious shot fired through the
rear door of the Grand Hotel last Mon
day night caused a brief sensation.
At the time the shot was fired the
place was closed and the inmates were
asleep. The bullet passed through the
barroom door near the bottom, ranged
up and passed through a pane of glass
in the inside sash of the upper half of
a double front window. It dropped
down and was found next day between
the inner and outer glass.
The bullet is small—probably .22
caliber. It now seems to be the belief
that the shooting was the result of
carelessness on the part of somebody in
rear of the building, possibly on Second
street.
KOYUKUK MAIL SERVICE
ENDED FOR THE SEASON
Bob Buchan, the Tanana-Koyukuk
mail carrier, got in this morning, end
ing the winter service on that route.
This end of the run, he said, was pretty
tough, but in the Koyukuk the trail
was still intact. Spring is very back
ward in that country.
Mr. Buchan says there is nothing
out of the ordinary to report from the
Koyukuk district. Nobody from that
section is stampeding to the Iditarod.
About forty-five men left for the
Chandlar the fitst of the month, how
ever, to work on quartz propositions.
Most of thtm, it is understood, are go
ing to do assessment work.
Winter Service Nearing End
The winter mail service is very nea''
on all routes. The mail from Frirbanks
(with only first-class matter) is expect
ed tonight, having left Hot Springs
yesterday morning at 10 o’clock. It
was due Tuesday. A rumor that it
came by water from Tolovano to Hot
Springs cannot be verified. After its
arrival Harry Stockman will leave on
the last down-river trip. A1 Jordan
will leave on the last up-Yukon trip
next Saturday.
A report that the Yukon broke at
Dawson and Eagle last Monday is un
verified and discredited.
CHINA TO HAVE
GREATEST ARMY
Berlin, April 28.—A genuine
military awakening in China is
foreshadowed in an interview given
by Chinese Minister Yin-Tchang,
who is about to relinquish his post
in Berlin and return to Pekin to as
sume the ministry of war.
"We intend to introduce univer
sal military service in China," said
the minister. He added:
"If we make all the available
men jein the military, we have such
nn enormous population—some
420,000,000—that we shall over
shadow all other armed nations.
"The details of the plans have
not yet been worked out, but we
propose to make our young men
soldiers, not only through drill, but
by education. They must learn
what a shame it is for the most an
cient and in population the greatest
nation on earth to be so weak. 1
shall have excellent assistants in
the war office who have studiedj
European military systems, and
who will be of greatest help.”
Conscription in Germany, with a
population of 60,000,000, produces
an army of 4.400,000. Conscription
in China, with 420,000,000 people,
will produce an army of 30,000,000
men, which will, declares Professor
Theodore Schiemann, expert on
foreign affairs, constitute a yellow
menace to white civilization.
Was Doing Her Best
William Pruette, the singer, tells
of a servant girl who came to Mrs.
Pruette in tears and asked permis
sion to go home for a few days.
She had a telegram saying her
mother was sick,
"Certainly you may go," said
Mrs. Pruette, "only don’t stay
longer than is necessary, as we
need you ”
A week passed, and not a word
from her. Then came a note which
read:
“Dear Miss Pruette i will be
back nex week an plese kep ray
place for me mother is dying as
fast as she can.”—Success Maga
zine. _
THRIFTY FUR
DEALERS JAILED
Fort Francis, Out , April 26.—
The cases in which several while
men and Indians were charged with
buying wolf skins in Winnipeg,
Man , at $2 and $3 apiece, and
then getting $15 bounty from the
Ontario government closed yester
day, and George Westcott was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for two
years, and M T. Cathcart for two
years and a half. Thomas Codin.
Joseph Maximum, Robett Hor
rocks and Thomas Kirkpatrick got
three mouths each in the provincial
jail with a fine of $150 or nine
months additional. Two Indians,
McGinnis and Blackbird, were sent
to jail for three months, and an
other one, Baptiste, for four. Two
Winnipeg fur dealers. Moses Fink
e'.stein and Benjamin Levison, from
whom Westcott purchased hun
dreds of skins and then returned
them after clipping off the ears for
the Ontario authorities, paying $1
rental for each skin and getting the
remainder of his purchase money
back, are now being tried for com
plicity in the conspiracy.
COMET NEAREST
IN ANOTHER WEEK
It is probable that in Alaska Halley’s
comet will not become visible, because
it and the sun will be in the same part
of the sky just when the comet should
be particularly bright.
In fact, it begins to look like the
comet will nowhere play the lurid en
gagement arranged for it by the over
confident advance agents. It will com
plete the circuit, but, like a returning
sourdough soubrette, will adhere to
ancient usage and eschew new frills,
thrills and sensations.
On April 18 the comet reached its
perihelion, or nearest point to the sun.
It will reach its nearest point to the
earth on May 20. At that time its tail
will be actually spread out on the sur
face of the earth, but there will be no
evidence of this manifested to our
senses—it will be so, we will know it
is so, but it will be a mighty hard
thing to prove to anybody who chooses
to lay a claim to the contrary. The
sun’s rays will shine through it as
through the lightest of vapors; the
keenest eye will not be able to see it;
the most sensitive touch will not be
able to feel it; no nose can smell it;
breathed it will give no sign, and
monkeyed with in any manner what
soever it will be as intangible as the
stuff Hamlet’s father's ghost is made
of. But the comet’s tail will be on us
and around us, and it would bo an in
excusable exhibition of ignorance to
express a contrary thought.
The day before its nearest approach
to the earth the comet will pass across
the sun and astronomers are looking
forwaid with intense interest to this
transit. There is no recorded case of
a comet having been seen during tran
sit, and astronomers are all pretty cer
tain that if they want to see this one
cross it is important to be on band
promptly, for it will not pass that way
again soon.
After the transit the comet will be
an evening star again and in regions
where the darkness of night favors a
view of it it will become more and
more visible for a time, although it
will be actually losing in brilliance.
It so happens that in this country
the lengthening daylight just about
equals the degree by which the comet
'gradually remains above the horizon
lbnger and longer in the evening; so
that if we get to see the object at all
it will be indistinct and uninteresting
in point of starry splendor. In recom
pense for onr loss In this regard we will
have to make the most of the breaking
of the river and the human interest
that attaches to the Iditarod stampede.
BUCKLEY WAS j
BOSS LOBBYIST
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New York, April 26 —Bit by bit
was unfolded at the insurance in
quiry by the story of the career of
William H Buckley, the Albany
lawyer, who for years was a legis
lative agent at the stale capital tor
fire insurance companies.
On the face of the documentary ;
evidence produced. Buckley was i
well nigh invincible at Albany. If
the letters which were entered on
the records contained statement's of
*
the facts, and for the most part
they were letters exchanged be
tween Buckley and the late George i
P. Sheldon, who was president of
t.e Pitoenix Fire Insurance Com
pany. of Brooklyn. Buckley’s power
with the legislature was well worth
the money he admits he received.
Buckles s influence at Albany'
went even further, according to his
own words He was able to learn
in advance of a decision of the
court ot appeals, he said,and would
keep Sheldon informed as to what
was coming < fifin court.
Buckley’s opinion of his own
ability to influence legislation was
shown in several letters which he
wrote to Sheldon. In one. dated
April 8, 1903, he spoke of t e un
earned liability bifl, which was a
bill intended to..repeal the law
which exempted reinsurance re
serves flora taxation. In his letter,
Buckley said: “I agieed to allow
the bill to be reported to tlie sen-,
ate. It will probably pass the
house, but give yourself no con
cern about it, a - it will be blocked
by the rules committee There is
110 reason whatever for you to have
I
any concern about matters here in
any particular.”
At the close of the senate session
Buckley wrote to Sieldon under
date of April 23, 1903: “The legis
lature lias adjourned sine die With
the legislature died all bids affect
ing insurance companies. I en
close my bill for $4.500and requesi
your attention to same.'’
THE HARBINGER
All night long song thrilled the birchen
thicket,
With missives laden, that to bygone
days belong;
Sweet russet southron, summer’s fore
most picket,
Along the front of nature’s corps of
song.
When winter, from her icebound fast
ness leaping.
Seizes her own and thralls this wide
domain,
I dream of thee, till, summer’s short
tryst keeping,
Thrills forth thy song from yon green
birch again. J. It.
Old Signal Corps Man Here
Charley Cavanaugh, for a number of
years a meraberof the signal corps and
connected with the R impart and Hot
Springs stations, came down from the
springs a few days ago to enlist for
another term. “Cavvy” is widely
known and his friends will regret to
learn that he will be assigned to duty
in the Philippines.
See us for Cloth Posters.
POPULAR SHOW PEOPLE
TO GOME UP THE RIVER
In a letter from Sidney Cox mailed
in Seattle April 2 be says: “I hope to
come up the Yukon and be in good old
Fort Gibbon-Tanana this summer. You
will see I have the Mullallv Sisters
with me and give what I think the
people of Alaska want—a good, re
spectable comedy show, with advanced
vaudeville. I think I know what the
good Alaskans want—a show where
they can go and have a good laugh and
after the show go out and have an ice
worm cocktai'.”
Long Tunnel on Dome Lode
Dawson News, April 8: A 30-lnch
ledge was struck in the long tunnel of
the Dome Lode properties last week.
This is one of several ledges struck in
the tunnel, and is one of the finest
looking yet penetrated. While not
nearly so large as others, it is perfectly
formed, and probably will show returns
from the assays fully as good as ob
tained from much of the quartz already
penetrated. The work on the exten
sion of the tunnel continues night and
day. It is now in 1,400 feet. The plant
is working well and making 8 feet a
day.
Too Much Hilarity.
“Dad” Hamilton was fined 15 and
costs in the local court Monday on a
charge of disorderly conduct. It was
only a case of a little too much spring
“sunshine” that caused “Dad’s” feel
[ ings to overflow.
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