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A Prince Rupert, 13. C., dispatch of April 20 says: Charles Heaton,
better known as the “Colorado Kid” and reputed to be a very desper
ate character, was last night fatally shot by Detective McKenzie in a
street fight. McKenzie was formerly a newspaper man in Cincinnati.
William Jennings Bryan paid President Taft a formal call on the
night of April 19, and on the following day was in conference with the
Democratic leaders in the capital.
Joe Thomas and Billy Papke have been matched to fight for 25
rounds in San Francisco on May 14.
John D. Rockefeller has refused the invitation to serve upon the
eommitiee being appointed in New York to take charge of the welcome
home for Col. Roosevelt, saying that he was no “Teddy booster.”
The city of Seattle has been officially apprised of the coming of the
King of Siam and all his wives, who will visit that city during the com
ing summer.
In a landslide which occurred April 20 along the line of construe
lions of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, 40 workmen in one construc
tion crew were killed by being buried beneath the slide. A large crew
of workmen are employed in disinterring them.
The mammoth petition for a pardon for Banker Walsh, tiow serv
ing time at Leavenworth for bank wrecking, was preseuted to Presi
dent Taft last week, and is being considered by him.
The life of Chief of Police Sullivan of Spokane is threatened, sup
posedly by members of the Industrial Workers of the World, because
of his activity iu preventing their disorderliuess in that city.
The Wickersham miner’s lien bill, giving to the working mineis of
Alaska the first lien upon the dump and tl.e mine itself, passed the
house April 19. It gives to the workmen all the security that the mine
and the owner thereof possesses.
■ Mary Spiers, private secretary to Mrs Taft, after a quatrel with
Mrs. Taft on the morning of April 19 resigned her position. The inci
dent is causing considerable talk in Washington society circles.
John L Sulliv.m, who is now in London on his honeymoon trip,
will shortly leave for the United States to report the Jeffries Johnson
fight at San Francisco for one of the big New York dailies.
The United States supreme court on April 19 rendered a decision
jn the Oberlin Carter-Equitable Life Insurance Company claim which
sweeps away from Carter $400,000 of his ill-gotten gains and re-tore*
th?m to the government he robbed while connected with the quarter
master’s department of the United States army.
The great telescopic camera in the Yerkes observatory, Chicago,
has succeeded in obtaining an excellent photograph of Halley’s comet
This is the first photograph of the kind ever ibtaitud and is creating a
ecnsatipn in the scientific world.
MISCELLANEOUS
Coast papers state that it is the in
tention of Delegate Wickersliara to
serve out his present term at Washing
ton and then settle down in Seattle in
the practice of law. The opinion is as
forcibly expressed in other quarters
that he wants to be re-elected. One
item seen in print lately says after
congress adjourns he will climb Mount
McKinley.
William Boyes, an associate of Thos.
A. Edison, was in Seattle April 10 ex
pecting to come north in company with
a Valdez booster to study the possibili
ties of a monorail road from Valdez to
Fairbanks.
An Eskimo named Allekuk did not
want his wife to attend church in Nome
recently and when she persisted he bit
oflf her nose.
A dispatch f.-om Hamburg says Gif
ford Pinchot called himself Gay lord
Smith in that seaport and denied his
identity when spoken to by newspaper
men who knew him.
Representative Good, of Iowa, has
introduced a bill in congress providing
that neither coal nor oil lands in Alaska
be sold by the government, but that
they shall be disposed of by leasing,
the lessees to pay a certain prescribed
royalty upon the product mined or ex
tracted, the royalties so derived to bo
placed in a fund for internal improve
ments in the territory.
Arthur Butzin has been appointed
postmaster at Bethel, Alaska, on the
Kuskokwim river.
The state Republican convention at
Indianapolis, Ind., passed resolutions
indorsing the policies of ex-President
Roosevelt, the administration of Presi
dent Taft and the stand taken by Sena
tor Beveridge on the tariff question.
They should adopt as their slogan, ‘‘If
you can’t boost don’t knock.”
W. A. Kelly, for years assistant su
perintendent of education for Alaska
under Dr. Sheldon Jackson, is now the
national bank examiner for the terri
tory.
Sixteen gold dredges will be shipped
to Nome on the opening of navigation.
Among those having dredges built are
the following well-known operators in
Nome: Frank Reed, C. O. Silvertson,
Stuart Weatherley, Herman Carlson,
Ben Bernard, Adolph Johnson, John
Webb, A. E. Boyd, Otto Halla, the
latter three having: two; Joe Plein;
three for the Kougarok by Frank H.
Waskey, Joe Vint and Jerry Galvin,
and S. L. Gednev.
A radium bank is to be established
in London, the object of which is to
acquire radium and lend it to scientific
men. A doctor wishing to employ ra
dium in the treatment of a patient ora
scientist desiring to experiment along
certain lines will be accommodated on
furnishing approved security. Some
what similar institutions are already in
existence in Paris, Berlin and New
York.
Thomas F. Walsh, the noted Color
ado millionaire mining man, is dead.
He started as a moneyless prospector
and studied the scientific aspects of his
chosen calling. It is through his aid
that the Colorado School of Alines is
posting prospectors on the character
istics and appearance of pitchblende,
in a hope that the production of radium
may be increased.
One story was recently circulated to
the effect that Roosevelt itad declared
his candidacy for President, and about
the same time it was given out that he
will stump New Yew York stale in the
interest of the Republican party this
fall.
The official returns of moose killed
in Nova Scotia the past season show a
total of 405, all bulls, as the cows are
having a closed season for a few years.
But allowance must be made for a
number of killed that are not reported
to the game wardens and do not there
fore appear in the official reports. This
would possibly briDg the total up to
500. Last year, when the closed season
for cows hud not gone into effect, the
number reported killed was 088, and
allowance for the killings not reported
would bring the total up to 800 or per-;
haps more.
! Sidney Cox, writing from Astoria,
Ote., has written to Dawson people
that he will be back in that city this
summer with just what is appreciated
by shuwgoers there—something that
will send them home light hearted and
merry. The work will run mostly to
abbreviated light opera and suchlike
musical pleasantries; but he will bring
along Mademoiselle Sylph, a Salome
and fancy toe dancer, whom he will
feature with the Mulally sisters, who
were with him in the Taylor Company
last season.
Tanana Restaurant
Under New Management
BEST MEALS IN THE CAMP
SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS
last if Enrytkiag or the Marital Sarriaa Baaxcallad ia Iba lortk
Fresh and Delicious Bread, Plat aad Pastries Always oa Haad
Returns From Koyukuk
On Thursday evening last Cy
Nuble (he of the merry “ha haM)
returned from a three-weeks’ trip
into the Koyukuk country. His
long exposure to the sun and snow
placed upon Mr. Noble’s classic
countenance a sj»t of eyebrows and
mustachios that have been the envy;
of many peroxide blondes.
Mr. Noble left for Hot Springs
last evening, mid will probably go
to the Iditnrod after the opening ot
navigation.
Mm. Frank M. Johnson, wife of a
Boston surgeon, has devised a method
of keeping fish alive without Vrater.
She enclosed fish in a glass jar into
which she pumped oxygen, and they
thrived for weeks. It is believed the
discovety will be utilized by the gov
ernment in transporting fish long dis
tances for stocking lakes and stream^.
An expedition forwarded by the Zep
pelin North Pole Exploration Commit
tee, of Hamburg, Germany, will start
for Spitzbergen July 1 for a prelimi
nary study of ice conditions. An air
ship will be taken for summer use.
The matt who can Mgn a larg?
check has writes that are univer
sally lespected.
FRED T, C0N6D0N
IS A FREE TRADER
Here is an extract from a letter writ
ten by Fred T. Congdon, M. P. for
Yukon, to James Grant, the Dawsor
painter, who is visiting in Inverness,
Scotland: “I am, as you know, an out
and-out free trader, and I hate tariff
reform as I hate the devil, because I
believe it is merely the entering wedge
of protection, and that instead of weld
ing the empire more closely together,
it will create friction and lead to disa
greements. To my mind, the noblest
policy to be adopted on this subject is
the one which I have, I think, fre
quently discussed with, you—the policy
>f absolute free trade within the cm
pire, with notice to the United States,
and, in fact, to all the nations of the
earth, that any of them which see fit
can come within the free-trade zone."
The Canadian who can write like that
has not only got sense, lie’s got re
ligion. .
MISSIONARY’S ODD WORK
' AMONG ALASKA ESKIMOS
Rev. A. R. Hoare. who is in charge
of the mission at Point Hope, on the
Arctic coast of Alaska, has sent to
headquarters in New York city photo
graphs of a graveyard fence const fuel
ed from the jawbones of whales. The
pictures were reproduced in the New
York Sun.
The fence is an improvement recent
ly made by the mission. Previously
the Eskimos were accustomed to de
posit their dead on platforms built on
jawbones of whales. . All the wood to
be found there is driftwood brought in
by the tide. The mission having de
cided' to establish a graveyard, and a
fence being necessary to keep out tlie
wild beasts, it became necessary in the
absence of a supply of wood to collect
the jawbonesof whales which had been
killed in time past. In former times it
was the custom of the Eskimos to bring
ashore the largest jawbones of every
four whales killed, and as there are
over 2,000 jawbones in the fence they
represent 8.000 whales.
The jawbones are from 6 to 10 feet
long and curved like ribs. The butt
ends were buried and the bones curve
outwardly, forming a picket fence.
Previously to the building of the
fence the bodies of the Eskimo dead
were deposited on top of platforms
supported by the jawbonesof whales to
protect .them .fronq bears and .otheri
beasts. ..r- - *•-•’ r „
Mr. Hoare says that the graveyard
was completed in one day, every living
person of working age assisting. While
some were building the fence others
were collecting the skulls and bones of
those who in time past had been laid
on the surface of the ground when dy
ing. In one common grave over 300
skulls and three cartloads of bones
were buried. In former years Eskimos
who were about to die were carried
~ut of doors and a superstition of the
people forbade any one to touch the
bodies for several months.
In another letter Mr. Hoare told of
a Christmas celebration in which four
willow trees lashed together answered
the purpose of a Christmas tree. A
good many of the white men at Point
Hope have married Eskimo women and
make their living by whaling; they
also attended the Christmas tree cele
bration, at which thirty gallons of teg
and many boxes of doughnuts were
distributed. Experience at Point Hope
shows that one sack of flour, plus two
buckets of whale oil, plus sugar and
butter, equals 800 doughnuts.
Mr. Hoare was formsrly resident at
the Mission of Our Savior, Tanana.
Evils of Ganjah Smoking
In California and down through Cen
tral America and the West Indies ihe
practice of smoking ganjah, or Indian
hemp, has been introduced within re
cent years. A rubber planter from
British Honduras, who is familiar with
the Pacific coast and all tropical Amer
ica, described the practice and some of
|ts effects the other day.
' ‘‘Ganjah smoking,” he said, “follows
the Hindu. The plant is indiginous to
the tropics and was Used to a limited
extent by the Aztecs of Mexico. In
India it has been a curse for centuries.
"When the East Indian laborer was
introduced into the West Indies about
thirty years ago he brought it with
him, and revived and encouraged the
use of the weed among the natives.
More recently he did the same evil
turn for California, so at the present
time ganjah smoking is prevalent from
the Canadian bonier to Panama.
"The plant needs no cultivation. It
grows luxuriant1.*', usually in patches,
wherever the climate.is warm and the
ground is moist. The leaves are charged
with a powerful narcotic, and the meth
od ef use merely consist* of gathering
them when they are half dry, cramming
them into a pipe and inhaling the
heavy white smoke.
“Ten or twelve inhalations produces
a pleasant stut>or. This gives way to a
buoyancy of limb and a desire for ac
tion. The smoker becomes very quar
relsome and is obsessed with the idea
of blood. Ttiis is backed up by a con
viction of his owo courage, no matter
how timid he may be in his normal
state. As the drug gains further hold
upon him he snatches up the first
weapon at hand and rushes forth to
kill.
"Wherever ganjah is smoked murder
is a comparatively common crime. Most.
Hindus are common cowards, hut on
the other hand they do not regard deal li
with horror. Therefore when they
have a grouch against any one they
use ganjah to key themselves up to the
point of killing him and do not worry
about, the consequences.
“Taken in smaller quantities, say five
or six inhalations, and on an empty
stomach, the drug imparts an unnatural
energy. Tasks requiring great strength
and powers iff endurance become easy,
and for several hours the smoker feels
no fatigue. The persistent use of g.nt
j ih weakens tiie b itin and impairs
physical strength, file victim becomes
a wreck.”—New York Sun.
It) spite of all news items to the
c nitraiy, the oldest inhabitant is
never dead.
Want of principle is the ptit cij. :!
want i,l tnany men
DEMOCRATS ELECT
A CONGRESSMAN
R'Chester. N. Y , April 26 —The feeling of the people regarding
the Taft admitii* iafion was evidenced here last week when James
Hive D.innniit'. -was el-cted to succeed James Ureck Perkins, Repub
lics! , in congress. P rkins had held the seat during the past five con*
g es es, winnii g ai he ele- lion 01 19’.8 hv 10 000 majority, yet because
of t - e u’ poj u’arity i f ihe Taft administration the Democratic candidate
eaiilv won.
President Taft Asks for
ftloney for Alaska Roads
Washington, April 26 —In a specisil message to congress last
Wednesday, Pr'-ii'ent Taft reviewed the report of the Alaska Road
C > nmiision, as i dered by M j n Ricl'arilson, and endorsed the same,
asking congress gnm Hie r.eces-arv assj-tance asked by the Alaska
R'l.id Commission to carry on the work of building roads and trails
throughout the territory
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Socialists in Control of
Milwaukee’s City Council
Mil'v uk-e, \Vi'., April 26.— Mayor Sidel took the oath office ye*
erd v. am! is ; nw in full control of ’he city government The new
nuiiiii ’p.1 rou ti o 1 -i '* of 22 Sociali-ts 4 Republicans ami 10 Demo
crats, a d drns’ic changes in municipal vtrument are expected from
them and ’heir admini-’ra’lnn during the coming rear
The Al sic a St amsi ip Company
Ita p'..o d an rdt r with 'in- Mot an
C’tmvtmv .>f Sea"ie t<>» a to".*
ste im •! vltieh i $ .5 > o •
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It is iiniKiiiTic-etl that 2<t I nines ot lie
Alberta and Givat Waterways (t'auu
dian) milvviy will lie built non li from
Edmonton to Lake la Biclie tliissnm
tuei-. It is in'opu.-ed to extend slit* line
next year to Fort Mc.YUn uy. 35) mi es
north of Edmonton, where connection
will be made with internal waterways
3,5: >0 miles in ex:**r,t.
A slock c-'tup.iuy lias been
lot tried to contiol ti:e hoot and sho
trade. Her- a' last is a c rpot
tion which will have a v le
Wicked Outside Contraption
Indianapolis March 12.—Paul Wal
lace. of < .'hieago, and John French and
Joseph Meisel, of Si. Louis, were ar
rested here today. On being searched
a device was found in the shape of a
little tin box made something like a
flat metal faro box and equipped with
straps that fitted about the waistband
s i that the box could be held in posi
tion just below tlie edge of poker
tables. A string attached extended to
ti e floor and could be manipulated
| a it'o the foot. By pushing the foot
down on '.he string any card or cards
that might he in the box would slide
up and out of the box into the nianipu
| lator’s hand without being noticed.
| The shrewd manipulator could thus
put in and take fri m the box at will
i any card lie wished.
A sperm whale was recently captured
near Sabine, Texas, the first one known
to have been taken in the waters of the
Gulf of Mexico.
Baths — luxurious —Wednesdays and
Saturdays—Williams’ new barber shop
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