THIRD YEAR.
CHITIXA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1012.
NUMBER 1.
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(From Tuesday's Daily Alaskan)
E. F. Gray is in town from Copper
Mountain. He states that at his
camp he has had a sufficiency of sup
plies for his workmen but that there
is a dire shortage of feed for horses.
Unless they are able to get in a ship
ment within the next few days, it will
be necessary to send out the horses.
His Rex camp over at Kennecott
glacier has practically been closed
down because of the shortage of sup
plies. Mr. Gray is hopeful.however,
that it will be possible to get freight
through by Saturday.
After a visit o.f several weeks
among her people in the Eastern
states Miss Ruby L. DeGraff return
ed on the steamer Mariposa last
night.
Joe Diggs was a returning passen
ger on the Mariposa, and today is
busy circling among his old-time
friends.
S. O. Breedman was a passenger
last night to Valdez. He went to see
whether the court intends to grant
him a license for a hotel at Me
Carthy’s.
George Handy returned on the
Mariposa and will leave again in r..
few days for the White Kiver coun
v try, where he has located mineral
'•property.
i Judge Chas. E. Scott and his sister.
Miss Dora, went to Valdez last night
and will soon return to Seattle.
'The setainer Mariposa got into
PQrt last night shortly after eleven
o'clock after having made a pleasant
hnd speedy voyage from Seattle,
h’he passengers for Cordova included
Mrs '.V. H. Seagraves, Joe i'iggs.
Mrs. Bcrtlev Howard, Miss K. L. De
Graff, and Geo. Handy. A couple of
hours later the vessel got away for
the westward with the following
passengers from this port:
For Valdez—Mrs. A. C.Carlton,
Thos. Scott, Miss Dora Scott, Mrs. K.
Kinsman, W. J. Lewis, J. Lindley
Green, J. H. D. Bouse, G. B. Bru
baker. Geo. E. Baldwin, S. O. Breed
man, W. C. Nelson, Chas. E. Scott.
For Seward—E. L. Whittemore, Miss
Ida Russel.
Mrs. W. H. Seagrave returned on
the steamer Mariposa last night and
was met by Mr. Seagraves. They
will go to Kennecott on Thursday's
train.
(From Monday’s Daily Alaskan)
The freighter Latouehe was off
Cane St. Elias at 1:30 this afternoon
and is due at Cordova at two o’clock
tomorrow morning. She brings a
cargo, of coal and explosives, and will
be busy tomorrow discharging. She
will return to Puget Sound with a
cargo of copper ore.
Ed. Rodey, one of the old-timers
on the railroad, and who has recent
ly been working at the slide at Mile
87, came into town on Saturday
night. He will likely spend the
balance of the year in doing work on
some mining claims which he owns
At the city hall on Saturday night
a T. B. Tansey club wia organized.
M. Finkelstein was elected president
of the newr organization and Judge
S. P. Chapin was elected Secretary
and Treasurer. Various sugges
tions were made as to the most effec
tive way to secure beneficial results
for Cordova’s candidate for the Sen
ate. It wTas finally decided that a
campaign committee of five be ap
pointed, and in connection with the
President and Secretay, that this
committee have exclusive charge of
the fight. It was believed that what
ever plans were outlined would be as
sisted by the voters of the town.
President Finkelstein named as mem
bers of the committee the following:
John Y. Ostrander, chairman. Geo.
C. Hazelet, Geo. Dooley, Capt. A. E.
Lathrop and O. A. Tucker. This
Committee is expected to get together
at once and devise ways and means
to secure the election of Mr. Tansey.
R. J. Bor.ver went out on the train
this morning, expecting to transfer
at Mile 87 and go on to Chitina.
Everything is now looking prom
ising out the line and it is expected
that the train to leave Cordova on
Thusdav morning will go through to
Chitina by night. Practically all re
pairs have been made except on one
small strech in the neighborhood of
Mile 87. And this it is now believed
will be in good order by Thursday
morning. If the Alaska Railroad
Commission reaches Chitina by
Thursday or Friday there will be no
delay in bringing the members
through at once, or after they view
the Kennecott branch, if they so
desire.
A work train came in this after
noon, bringing a few passengers from
the interior. Among the number
was W. H. Seagrave, manager of the
Bononza mine at Kennecott, who
comes to meet his wife, who is a pas
senger from Seattle on t.he Mariposa
E. F. Gray, manager of the Gicut
Northern Development Company
came in from Copper Mountain to
attend to business.
United States Marshal Harvey Sul-'
livan came over on the Alameda
yesterday morning and found that all
the business of his office had been
satisfactorily disposed of here by
his chief deputy, John H. Bouse. As
a consequence they will both return
to Valdez tonight on the steamer
Mariposa. Deputy District Attorney
Guy C. Brubaker, expert stenographer
Hayes, and deputy District Clerk
Tom Scott, will also return to head
quarters until it is again time to
come over for the special term of
court on November 14. Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Green, who has had a
pleasant sojourn in our midst, will
return to Seward tonight and will not
likely come from the westward until
he attends the sittings of the grand
jury at Valdez on December 2.
This morning Samuel E. Hood as
sumed the duties of an assistant in
the Cordova post office. Additional
aid is needed during the handling of
the interior winter mail.
William Fursman returned last
night from a trip out the line. He
went as far as Mile 87, where he
viewed the repair work to the rail
road that was being done there. He
states that the officials fully expect
to get a train through to Chitina on
Saturday.
(From Saturday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
The steamer Admiral Sampson left
Seward with nearly forty witnesses
who had been summoned to appear
before the grand jury at Cordova.
After Judge Overfield decided that
there W'ould be no meeting of the
grand jury here, the coming witnesses
were instructed by wire to come only
so far as Valdez. It was then intend
ed to return them on the steamer
Alameda. But it was soon figured
out that it might be a question
whether these men could, again leave
their homes at Afognak and on
Cook’s Inlet in time to appear be
foie the grand jury at Valdez on
December 2. So to make certain of
it about thirty of them are being
held at Valdez for a month and a
half so that they will be certain to
be present when warned. Those who
came from Seward were paid off at
Valdez and permitted to return home,
having been served with new sub
poenaes to appear at the term of
court on December 2. The special
term at Cordova on November 14
will be short and will have to do prin
cipally with the post office cases.
There seems to be no difficulty in
getting the interior mail through ou
contract time. A train arrived this
afternoon shortly after two o'clock,
bringing a few passengers and the
mail that left Fairbanks fourteen
days ago. A work train will go out
early tomorrow morning, while the
passenger and mail train will leave
as usual on Monday morning. To
day it snowed some out on the line,
but it has since turned to rain.
Satisfactory progress is making on
the track repairs and it is expected
to get a train through to Chitina on
Thursday or Friday next.
The steamer Alameda sailed from
Seward shortly after seven o’clock
this morning and is due to arrive at
Cordova about three o’clock Sunday
morning, sailing an hour or two later
foe Yakatat, Juneau and Seatt.el
There will be a few outgoing passen
gers, including Mayor R. J. Barry.
Archie _W. Shiels, F. H. Moffatt, J.
B. Martin. B. C. Palmer, Glen Con
nelly, G. Bannett. A. G. Jaffa. W. A.
Williams J. F. Williams and Theo
dore Chapin. In addition four Yu
kon river steamboat men who came
from Fairbanks this afternoon will
take passage. They are Capt. Jules
Oliver, Capt. Geo. Green. C. A. Liv
ingstone, and O. A. Anderson.
(From Friday’s Cordova Alaskan.)
After Judge Overfield arrived yes
terday morning Chas. Scott, recently
appointed United States Commis
sioner for the Cordova precinct, ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
on Monday, October 21. It was re
luctantly accepted by the Judge, who
realized, however, that the emolu
ments of the office were not sufficient
ly attractive to induce a man of
Judge Scott’s ability to remain very
long in the place. He has decided to
return to Seattle, first going to Val
dez for a couple of weeks. Prior to
coming to Alaska Judge Scott was
chief clerk in the office of the Cor- j
poration Counsel, at Seattle. Since 1
his short term of office at Cordova he
got the records in good shape and
was conducting the office in a manner ,
entirely satisfactory to the general
public. In their departure from our
midst Judge Scott and his sister will
leave a large circle of friends who
will wish them both all the blessings
of health and prosperity. It is re-.
ported that O. A. Tucker will again
be appoited to fill the posit: >n of U.
S. Commissioner.
Dr. W. H. Chase has posted a notice :
of his withdrawal as an independent |
candidate' for Senator. And he
further announces that he has been
placed on the non-partisan ticket for
Representative. His colleagues on
this ticket are Dr. F. M. Boyle, of
Valdez; Milo Kelly, of Knik, and
Robert D. Gray, of Katalla. The
candidates for Senator are Col. B. F. j
Millard, of Valdez, and L. V. Ray, of
Seward.
Legislative candidates from the
westward paid their respects to the
voters of Cordova in various an
noucements that came through the
mail this morning.
O. L. Willoughby and wife, who
came up from Seattle a week ago,
left on the Sampson this morning for
Katalla. Mr. Willoughby is largely
interested in coal and oil properties
in the Bering river district, where
he has spent considerable time dur
ing the past eight years. He will be
busy during the next two or three
months superintending work on var
ious properties over there.
Ed. Currier left on the Sampson for
Juneau. He will be employed there
at the Perserverance mine.
The familiar figure of Dan Pen
dergast wilt not be seen on the
streets for a few days or weeks. He
went to Katalla this morning.
The steamer Admiral Sampson
came from the westward this morn
ing, reaching here about six o’clock
and departing for Katalla, Juneau
and Seattle at 9:30. She had a num
ber passengers. From here she car
ries J. G. Bellows and Ed. Currier to
Juneau; Mrs. L. A. Damon and Mrs.
Carl Strout to Seattle as well as
twenty steerage.
F. Wr. Smith, the postal inspector
who came from Washington, D. C., to
testify in the post office cases, will
remain in Cordova and vicinity until
the cases are tried at the new term
of court, on November 14. He will
go to Katalla on the Sampson to in
spect the office there, and later will
go to Chitina.
Col. B. F. Millard, candidate for
the Senate, and “Dad” Ingram, as
pirant for Representative, returned
to Valdez this morning on the steam
er Alameda.
(From Wed. Cordova Alaskan.)
The Alaska Railroad Commission
is now on its way out from Fairbanks,
coming over the trail. The Com
mission were at Donnelly's this morn
ing, which is a distance of 115 miles
from Fairbanks and 195 miles front
Chitina. There has been snow dy
ing for a couple of days, but not
enough to cause any annoyance.
The expedition hopes to reach Chitina
about the 24th. when they will likely
take a ride over the branch line to
Kennecott. In the meantime it is
expected to have done wliat little re
pairing is necessary on the branch.
Reports from the Superintendant’s
office indicate that the slides will
have l>een cleared away and necessary
repairs made to the main line so that
trains can get through between Chiti
na and Cordova alxmt the 26th or
27th. In that event the Commission
will have a comfortable ride to Cor
dova. Here they will board a pas
senger steamer for Juneau, and from
there go to Haines.
(From Tuesday’s Daily Alaskan)
The members of the Alaska Rail
road Commission left Copper Center
this morning. They are coming with
three teams and are expected to ar
rive at Chitina on Thursday about
noon. Their plans will not be defin
itely decided upon until after they ar
' rive at Chitina. It is possible that
a trip will be taken out over the line
to Kennecott. In that event the
! Commission may not reach Cordova
until Sunday night. However, it is
possible that the Commission may
wish to come through to the coast
at once, in which event they will like
ly brought to Cordova on Friday.
j Dean Milnor Roberts of the school
of mines at the Washington State
i University passed through Cordova
early last month on his return from
an examination of mining property
near Seward. He stated then that
he wanted the Daily Alaskan to give
: publication to the fact that Alaskans
] would have an opportunity this win
ter to take advantage of the facilities
: offered by the University for modern
| scientific study. And he now wishes
' us to announce that the laboratories
1 of his department are open to special
'students from the north.
There will be no scheduled hours,
i but those who wish to learn more
| scientific methods of mining and met
allurgy may arrange their hours at
the university to suit their business
or other affairs. The regular three
month course in mining will be given
this year, starting on January 8, but
Dean Roberts thought it advisable
to allow miners and propectors to use
the university equipment at irregu
lar hours, either at day or night.
The available equipment in mining
and metallurgy includes machinery,
furnaces and apparatus of the latest
type as well as variety of ores used
for testing purposes Twelve hun
dred lantern slides, illustrating the
practice of mine mills and smelters,
; will be used by Dean Roberts and
Prof. Joseph Daniels in their lectures
| in the difTesent courses.
Trips to mines and smelters, to ex
; plain modern methods, are also plan
. ned by the mining faculty. Tne col
lege of engineering will co-operate
with the school of mines in aiding
special students. The work in min
ing and ore dressing will be given
by Dean Roberts and Prof. Daniels,
while Prof. C. R. Corey will direct
the courses in assaying and metal
lurgy. There will be no tuition
charges, but the usual laboratory
deposit will be required to cover sup
plies used by the student.
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The Orr stage company will make
an attempt to have their horses put
: over the line of the C-opper River
road instead of sending them over the
i
Government trail as at first intended,
j—Valdez Prospector.
The various elements in the Third
judicial division of Alaska have got
ten together and united upon tickets
to be voted for at the election on
November 5. Two Senators and
four Representatives will be chosen,
from the following announced candi
dates:
HOME RULE TICKET
For Senator—
Geo. E. Baldwin, of Valdez.
T. B. Tansey, of Cordova.
For Representative—
Dr. F. M. Boyle, of Valdez.
Frank E. Youngs, of Seward.
John Barrett, of McCarthy’s.
E. H. Gilman, of Chitina.
NON-PARTISAN TICKET
For Senator—
Col. B. F. Millard, of Valdez.
L. V. Ray, of Seward.
For Representative—
Dr. W. H. Chase, of Cordova.
Robert D. Gray, of Katalla.
H. B. Ingram, of Valdez.
Milo Kelly, of Knik.
SOCIALIST TICKET
For Senator—
F. M. O’Neill, of Cordova.
E. F. German, of Valdez.
For Representative—
R. E. Hegner, of Cordova.
M. J. Barry, of Cliff.
Chas. McCullum, of Valdez.
W. T. Stuart, of Valdez.
In the first judicial division two
regularly called and harmoniously
conducted conventions have been held
at Juneau and complete Legislative
| tickets placed in the field. One is
known as the Non-Partisan ticket,
and 27 delegates from every section
of the division named the following
candidates:
For Senator—Herman T. Tripp, of
Juneau, and J. M. Tanner, of Skag
way.
For Representative—William Stub
bins. of Douglas,N. J. Swindseth, of
Wrangell, Charles E. Ingersoll, of
Ketchikan, and Arthur G. Slioup, of
Sitka
The Progressive Ticket, named by
a regularly called convention, was
unanimously selected, as follows:
For Senator—Emery Valentine ,of
Juneau; H. B. LeFevre. of Skagway.
For Represenative—John Reck, of
Juneau; Martin Olson, of Douglas;
A. W. Thomas, of Ketchikan; L. P.
Dawes, of Wrangell.
For a time it looked as though the
W’ickershamites in the Fourth divi
I
sion would name a legislative ticket.
In that event both the Democratic j
and Republican followers contem
plated an endorsement of the Social
ist ticket. But matters have been1
adjusted by a “get together” meet
ing. At Fairbanks the other night,
in the interest of harmony three com
mittees, each composed of nine mem
bers, representing the Republican,
Democratic and Progressive parties,
met in the city hall and nominated a
full ticket for two senators and four
representatives. There was consid
erable jangling and argufying, but.
after the men were named a motion
that they be endorsed by the three
parties was unanimously carried.
The ticket is known as the “non-part
isan,” and the nominees are as fol
lows:
For Senator—Henry Roden, Idita
rod; Dan Sutherland, Ruby. For
Representatives—J. J. Mullally, Fox;
E. B. Collins, Dome; Dan Driscoll,
Fairbanks; William Burns, Chatham.
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(From Tuesday’s Daily Alaskan)
Mr. and Mrs. I. B. lies came in on
the train last night from Strelna.
Mrs. lies will fake the Mariposa for
Seattle, intending to go on to Wash
ington. Mr. lies will go to Valdez
on business and will then return to
Kuskulina river, where he is devel
oping the property of the Alaska Con
solidated Copper Cr mpany.
Advertising r'v Try the Chit
ina Leader. Hr. r now.
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There is now less than half a mile of
slide between Cordova and Chitina.
This is all on Mile 87. The track is
in pretty good condition otherwise.
A few days work will also clean up
everything above Chitina and on to
Kennecott.
Mre. George Geiger has enjoyed
quite a long visit in Chitina.
God sent the rain that caused the
slides.
Hans Rasmunson got full of the
fighting brand of boose this week.
He undertook to clean up the town.
He failed completely and is now get
ting free lodging at the expense of
Uncle Sam.
E. A. Patrick and son Will who
have been doing development work
on their promising property at Long
Lake left this morning for the out
side. They will return in February.
Jack Lawrence is building another
barn.
The shortage of fuel which the tie
up has caused has been the most
keenly felt. The Road Commission
was forced to. leave for feed, but will
return shortly.
It was discovered a few days ago
that a numeber of forged checks were
in circulation in Chitina amounting
to two or three hundred dollars.
They were all traced back to one
party who claimed ne had received
them in exchange for a larger check
at McCarthy some time ago but he
could not remeber who had »iven him
the checks. He claims to know
nothing more about the checks but
says he feels morally obligated and
offers to take back the checks, giving
his note in return, and he will then
go to work and earn tne money and
make good the amount.
In the meantime nothing much is
being done and aparantly the matter
will soon be forgotten. The inci
cident indicates that this is a fertile
and safe field for a few Wallingford
get-rich-quick schemes.
SEATTLE, Oct. 22—Nearly every
one has heard or read of the most
northerly gold camp in the world,
the most northerly trading post, the
most northerly church, etc., but it re
mained for Thomas Riggs, jr.. leader
of the survey party which in con
junction with Canadian engineers,
surveyed the international boundary
line from Mount St. Elias to the Arc
tic ocean, cutting a vista twenty feet
in width where there was timber
and placing mounments to mark the
trail at an average of four miles over
the entire distance, to give an au
thentic report of what is. without
doubt, the most northerly forest re
serve.
“We are coming back inland from
the Arctic shore,” said Mr. Riggs.
“We hadn't seen a stick of timber
for more than a month, nothing but
the Arctic waste everywhere, and
just as we came over a ridge about
thirty miles inland, we came in sight
of one little bit of a forlorn-looking,
lonesome runt fir. We were not back
to the timber line yet and there was
not another tree or shrub of any sort
in sight anywhere, just that one fir.
Max M. Pope, of Baltimore, the hun
ter of the party, stopped and stared
iat it. ‘Well, I’ll be darned,’ he said
finally, ‘if there ain’t the Pinchot
forest reserve.’
“The fact was recorded on the tree
by letters carved in the bark, and
1 photographs taken of it bear the
| label: ‘Pinchot forest reserve, the
| most northerly in the world.' ”
In speaking of the recent report
I that the Alameda and Mariposa were
i to be put in the California trade,
| R. W. Baxter, vice president of the
Alaska Steamship Company says:
“We have been merely planning
such action, but as yet have reached
no decision in the matter.” How
ever we have just chartered the
freighter Seward to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company for a period of
five months. She will enter the
Panama trade.
“We have also chartered the
freighter Edith to the Alaska Pacific
Steamship Company far the Seattie
| San Francisco trade. However, no
j definite action has been taken in re
gard to the Alameda and the Mari
posa.”
The charter of the big steel freigh
ter Edith, to the Alaska Pacific
Steamship Company is for two voy
| ages from Seattle to San Francisco.
I The vessel is to be used to aid in
moving a large accumulation of
freight for the South. She saRed on
her first tovate under the charter on
October 16.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—A food
shortage is reported at Vera Cruz
While General Diaz is in possessl >n of
the town and has captured some of
the war vessels, there are sti'l three
vessels in the harbor that ri main
H. J. Christoffers, of Washington,
D. C.. a special investigator of the
fur-bearing animals of Alaska for
the United States bureau of fisheries,
has arrived in Seattle. He went in
to Alaska IS months ago in charge
of a party of five men. Their duties
were to secure furs of all Alaskan
animals in all seasons of the year and
ship them to Washington, so that it
can be judged just what season of
the year the furs are prime. This
information is used in framing a new
law and a new set of regulations
governing the killing of Alaska fur
bearing animals. Mr. Christoffers
n ade his headquarters at Fairbanks,
end the others were sen* to other
parts of the country. The whole
country was covered, and hundreds
of, furs were shipped to Washing
ton.
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Hearing in the famous W. G.
Whorf coal claim case at present un
der consideration by the United
States government was held Monday
in Seattle before Special Agent An
drew L. Christensen, chief of the
field division, interior department.
Various parties claiming to have in
terest in the Whorf claim testified as
to those interests, the government
endeavoring to ascertain the facts
concerning the matter. The govern
ment was represented at the hearing
by Special Agent H. S. Hendricks.
(From Tuesday's Daily Alaskan*
The train that arrived last evening
at seven o'clock brought the mall
from Fairbanks as well as about forty
| passengers. Four of them came
! through from Fairbanks. The rest
j are from the Copper river country.
' A train left Chitina early yesterday
I morning and went as far as Mile 88.
: The passengers were transferred over
a portion of the railroad that is not
yet repaired, and a train again start
ed from Mile 87 and had no trouble
in making a good run to Cordova.
Many of the passengers had walked
from Chitina to Mile 87.
Tomorrow morning at seven o’clock
a train will leave Cordova, carrying
the mail and such passengers, with
hand baggage, as wish to be trans
ferred at Mile 87. On Saturday
morning at four o’clock a through
train to Chitina will leave here. It
is expected to have the road open
through by Friday night. The early
start is made so that Chitina may be
reached before darkness sets in, as
it is necessary to run slowly over cer
tain portions of the road. This train
| will also take out a number of cars
j of freight, containing consignments
of fresh vegetables, eggs, butter, pota
toes and general supplies for the peo
ple In addition considerable feed
for horses will be transported. It is
expected that a train will leave Chiti
na early Saturday morning to come
through to Corodva that night.