MAN RUNS AMUCK
DOES QUEER STUNT
Knate Strand was yesterday morning
fined $150 and costs in the justice’s
court on a charge of assault and battery.
The evidence brought out showed
that he had fairly run amuck at about
4 o’clock Tuesday morning, and that
more serious charges could have been
laid against him. The offense of which
he was convicted was an assault com
mitted on Gertie Downs. He went to
her cabin and when she refused him
admittance lie broke the window and
smashed the door in. She ran out to
get assistance, and he struck her in the
back of the neck and knocked her down.
Shortly after that Strand was at Jack
Hunnewell’s cabin on Second street.
Hunnewell heard a racket among the
dogs, which were tied in the yard. Go
ing to the door, he saw Strand striking
a dog with what at first was taken as a
club, but was really an ax. Hunnewell
chased the man and overtook him in
Joe Anicich’s plowed lot, but, being un
dressed, went back and put on some
clothes intending to secure his arrest.
By the time Hunnewell was partly
dressed Strand was kicking in the door
of Robert Herold’s residence, further
down Front street. Chased from there,
he lay down in the yard of St. Janies’
chapel, where Special Deputy Tom
Howell found him asleep. He could not
be aroused, and it was necessary to
carry him, bodily, to jail.
It is evident that Strand had no con
ception of what he was doing while
creating the disturbance. Hunnewell
testified that he saw the man was clearly
insane; otherwise liewonld have knock
ed him down. When Hunnewell chased
him across Anicicli’s lot Strand pulled
uj) a root to strike him with, but seemed
to forget what he had taken it up for,
and his actions and the expression of
his face gave no evidence of sanity.
The peculiar condition may have been
caused by hootch—perhaps the hootch
itself was of an extraordinary blend.
Strand exhibited no signs of insanity
in the courtroom. He said he never
was affected that way before. He did not
appear, however, to possess a very ro
bust mentality. He had been in Tanana
but a few days. He said he formerly
lived at fishing stations on the coast,
worked in the mines on Douglas Island j
for the past three years, came from
there to Fairbanks, from Fairbanks to j
Hot Springs and from Hot Springs to :
Tanana.
RELATIVE’S WHIM
LEAVES MAN LOSER
The following will be read with in
terest by the many friends and acquaint
anees of H. W. Strangman, who for a ;
year past lias been connected with the
Mission of Our Savior, near Tanana.
The extract is from the Boston Herald
of a late date:
Isaac C. Wyman, the wealthy resi
dent of Salem*, who died on Thursday,
is related to the Strangman family of
this city and Harry Wyman Strangman,
now of'Alaska, was named for him. As j
the deceased was very wealthy, leaves !
no direct relatives, and as young Strang- 1
man was a general favorite of the de- j
ceased, it is believed in some circles that
he will be remembered in the will of Mr.
Wyman.
It was stated yesterday that Prince
ton will get at least $5,000,000 and prob
ably more. The exact si/.e of the es
tate is not known. Mr. Wyman him
self did not know what he was worth, |
and he never attempted to reckon it up.
Even John M. liavmond, his lawyer,
and one of the trustees of the estate, has
no adequate idea of how much was left.
The lowest estimate is $6,000,000.
Dean Andrew F. West of the Prince
ton graduate school, who is the cotrustee
with A tty. Raymond under the will, was
here yesterday, but left immediately
after the funeral. Dean West brought
with him from Princeton a spray of ivy
which he placed on Mr. Wyman’s grave.
Later reports in the outside papers
place the value of the dead man’s es
tate at $10,000,000, but it appears that
by his will but $10,000 has been be
queathed to his relatives, of whom he
had many. If Mr. Strangman was re
membered at all no mention of the fact
has been seen in the long reports print
ed about the disposition of the property.
Nearly all of it was willed to the Prince
ton University. His housekeeper re
ceives $5,000 and several minor bequests
are covered by $5,200.
Mr. Strangman’s sole consolation is a
knowledge that .only an eccentric rela
tive’s whim stood between him and in
dependent fortune. Mr. Wyman in his
long life never experienced a reverse of
fortune, and was prejudiced against poor
people because, he said, it was so easy
to make money there was something
wrong with anybody who remained
poor.
He made his money in real estate,
and owned much property in Massachu
setts as well as in the western states
and in Canada.
Headquarters for the Traveling Public
Pioneer and Tower Houses
Two First-class Resorts
The Rooms just fitted up and furnished at the Tower House may cost a
little more—they are certain to afford a lot more comfort
than can be had at other places.
Joe Anicich, Prop. Tanana, Alaska
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DEVELOPMENT
ON KUSKOKWIM
From the Nome Industrial Worker.
Duncan McDonald, whom many were
accustomed to think possessed hallucin
ations as to the wealth of his posses
sions in the Kuskokwim country, has
apparently made good. Letters to his
friends in this town show that Dune’ has i
been successful in interesting outside1
capital in his cinnabar proposition and
Paul Denliart has raised for the pursose '
of its exploitaiion some $2">0,000 and will
bring into the Kuskokwim country ma
chinery and men to open up the prop
erty. This is good news and McDonald’s
friends will be glad to see him flvfng high
; in the financial world after staying with
it so long.
: The property is, by all accounts, a
valuable one and consists of a regular
' mountain of ore which is permeated
| with valuable stringers of high grade
i cinnabar. It was first located by some
pioneers and afterwards abandoned to
| be relocated by Duncan McDonald, Ma
! jor J. F. A Strong and others. Mac
■ was the first commissioner in that dis
| trict and has been lately to the Iditarod,
; where he wrote to some friends here of
' his (at that time) whereabouts. Hein
! tended to return at once to the Kusko
kwim to be on hand when the material
was shipped in for the development of
his ground. Mac formerly was on the
Industrial Worker printing staff and
oftimes after the fatigues of his labors
with the composing stick would regale
us with the prospects he had in view in
the Kuskokwim country. And now he
has made good.
Authentic reports show that consider
able capital will be invested in the Kus
kokwim country and some merchants
are endeavoring to build up a big dis
tributing station for the interior includ
ing the new camp in the Iditarod. They
have liad men locating trails across the
divide which will be more accessible
than those hitherto explored and bv
this means winter communication will j
be at all times available for the Kusko
kwim watershed 1
RAMPART MAN
LOSES A FINGER
“Sourdough Mike” Engels, the well
known Rampart freighter, who came
to Tanana on the steamer St. Michael
Tuesday night, had a finger amputated
on the trip down from Rampart.
The first of May.Mr. Engels was using
a miner’s candlestick to perforate a tin
can, and the instrument slipped and
was driven through the forefinger of the
left hand. The wound failed to heal
and blood poisoning finally set in. Dr.
Hudgin had resolved to operate on the
finger, but when the St. Michael arrived
at Rampart it was learned that two phy
sicians were aboard and at Dr. Hudgin’s
advice the patient placed hfmself in
their care.
The physicians are Dr. Heinrich Wort
inann and Dr. 11. W. Stirewalt, both of
California. The linger was taken off
close up to the hand and no complica
tions are looked for.
Mr. Engels left to return to Rampart
on the St. Michael this morning.
Go toNussbaum’s barbershop for first
class' woi k.
Butte, Mont., June 1.—An autopsy
over the body of \V. C. Moffat, who
dropped dead today, revealed a vermi
form appendix 9*a inches long, the end
being wrapped around a portion of the
liver. No similar case is known in med
ical annals.
See Jack Cavunaugh for light express de
livery of all kinds.
Malcolm Jenkins, a member of the
signal corps from Circle, has been in
hospital at Fort Gibbon fora week un
der treatment for a minor ailment.
The Northern Commercial Company
is putting down a well directly in front
of the mail superintendent’s office.
JUST
■NEW GOODS
■RECEIVED
At $4.00
WATCHES AT OUTSIDE PRICES
BEMIS
To $110.00
Souvenir Rings $3.00 to $12.50.—Pins, Brooches, Bracelets, Charms
and all Kinds of Souvenir Jewelry
WATCHMAKER, MANUFACTURING JEWELER
Next Door to Postoffice
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