ATTEMPT TO
UP COAL
But the Lie is Promptly Nailed, Notwithstanding Which
Fact Delegate Wickersham Immediately Trumps
Up Another False Charge
Washington, April 22.—A correspondent of the Washington Star wires a most sensational
and untrue story in reference to the Alaska coal fields, evidently in the hope of further compli
cating the issuance of patents and also for the purpose of keeping up the agitation of '.he hire
lings paid to prevent, if possible, the opening up and the development of the coal and copper
resources of that territory.
The statement is made that President Taft is giving the Cunningham coal claims to the
Guggenheims, which is so absurd that the intended injury has proven a boomerang. The en
ergetic correspondent goes still further and says that in October last Taft signed an order
throwing open a strip of land in the Chugach reserve on the Katalla shores. That this was
. then scripped by the Copper River & Northwestern Railway for a right of way in building a
branch line to the coal fields and that no reference was made to coal titles.
Washington, April 22.—The withdrawal of the Chugach reserve strip commands control
of Controller bay, located upon by Clark Davis, Richard S. Ryan and Thos. Lippy for the peo
ple they represent and not by the Guggenheims, as erroneously reported. This is an opposi
tion corporation to tho Alaska Syndioato, hnt despite this fact Delegate Wickersham, the
alarmist, says that the Guggenheims have purchased this coal outlet, which he, as well as
everyone else familiar with conditions at Katalla, knows to be a deliberate falsehood.
Washington, April 22.—Senator LaFollette’s resolution has been adopted by the Senate
requesting the Secretary of the Interior to furnish the facts in connection with the coal land
Withdrawals in the Chugach reserve.
WANTS VACCINATION
ORDER REVOK I
Alaskans and Seattleites Greatly Aroused Over the At
tempt of the Government to Create a Scare that
will Prove a Detriment to the North
Seattle, April 22.—A vigorous protest is being entered against the order compelling the
vaccination of all passengers leaving this port for Alaska. All of the commercial bodies,
steamship companies and hundreds of business men have wired Surgeon General Wyman at
Washington that there is no justification for the order and asking that it be rescinded, as it
was detrimental to Alaska travel. Every Alaskan town is also asked to wire a protest imme
diately.
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Seattle, April 22.—It has been learned that the cause of the above order is the existence
of eighteen mild cases of smallpox here, but why the government should be so solicitous at
this time about the welfare of Alaskans is a mystery. All of the cases have been isclated and
not a single death has resulted. In fact there is no justification for the action taken and the
wires to Washington are being kept hot bearing news of the indignation here and among the
residents of Alaska.
Seattle, April 22.—The more the people realize the significance of the injustice of the vac
cination order the more intense the feeling becomes and nothing is being left undone to have
it revoked.
Seattle, April 21.—The successor to L. A. Levensaler, expert mining engineer an* geologist
for the Morgan-Guggenheim Syndicate, is J. F. B. Erdlets, of New York City. The latter has
been in Seattle for several days and unless ne is required to make a trip back to lew York,
he will soon sail for Cordova, to take up his new duties in the Copper River county.
Mr Erdlets is a young man, but has had considerable mining experience. During the past
two years he spent most of the time in Mexico, looking after the interests of the men who are
now sending him to Alaska. Superintendent Emory, the new official who will soon take charge
of the Bonanza mine, has been delayed in going North because of illness in San Francisco.
INDICTED FOR MURDER.
Satina Dowling, the halfbreed girl
of Douglas, was Indicted at Ketchi- j
kan for murdering her mother, and ,
her case will be transferred to Ju- ,
neau. The girl is now in the feder-:
al Jail there, all the witnesses for the
government appearing ^ before the
Ketchikan grand Jury. It is prob
able the girl will be allowed to plead
guilty and later be sent to a reform !
school.
Professor Parish, of Seattle, is to
be the new head of the Juneau pub
lic school.
It Is none too early to begin to
talk base ball.
THEY DO ALL THE STINGING.
The Seattle commercial clubs are
after the Alaska wildcatters. Anyone
who could sting a Seattleite on Alas
ka speculation could rob the sub
treasury vaults in ' broad daylight.
The nearest Seattle ever came to
paying a just price for an Alaska
product was when Assay Office Clerk
Adams managed to let the Alaska
miners get away with $19 for every
$20 worth of gold dust deposited.
At that he was sent to prison for
not grabbing it all.
It is estimated it will coBt $300,000
to provide the proper number of
lighting houses and beacons in Alas
ka.
OLD-TIMKK DEAD.
Josh Wilson, known to ill old-tim
ers as “Whiskers Wilson," who came
to Alaska in 1886, died at the Sis
ters’ hospital in Juneau. Wilson had
for years been a sufferer from asth
ma, which was directly responsible
for his death.
The deceased w'as a member of the
’87 Pioneers, and also $ veteran of
the civil war.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
may visit the coal towns of Alaska
this season.
John W. Troy is making a fine
publication out of the Alaska-Yukon
Magazine, published at Seattle.
Job work at the Deader office.
Chicago, April 22.—The engineers
and firemen employed on twenty-four
western railroads, threaten to strike
on account of a dispute over the
wage scale.
Chicago, April 22.—This after
noon while an exprrap wagun woo go
ing from the station to the office, a
trunk containing $20,000 worth of
gold watches was stolen.
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Seattle. April 22.—Four men rid
ing on a box car near Tacoma were
held up by two bandits. They" were
all gagged and one of them murder
ed but he only had 4 0 cents to re
ward the assassins for their crime.
Washington, April 22.—-President
Taft’s Canadian reciprocity bill' today
passed the House, the vote being 265
in favor and 89 against. The meas
ure also renueoL* -Ku- th
secure additional reciprocity relations
with Canada.
iestifiesFfice
Springfield, 111., April 21.—Form
er Senator Hopkins and others testi
fied before the investigating commit
tee that money was paid to secure the
election of Senator Lorimer.
FOREIGN GIRLS
Indianapolis, April 22.—Grace Ab
bott in an address before a conven
tion of the Young Women’s Chris
tian Association, declared that immi
grant girls were the prey of white
slaves.
. San Francisco wholesale merch
ants want a line of steamers from
that port to southeast and western
Alaska before the Panama exposi
tion opens.
I. J. ST. CLAIR T. W. CLONINGER,
Proprietors
THE WORKINGMAN’S RESORT
LOG CABIN BAR
WINES, LIQUORS,
AND CIGARS
SoIo,'Pool and Billiard Tables. Comfortable Chairs
and Reading Room up stairs.
Restaurant and Assay Office*in Connection
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The Fort Seward military band is
touring southeast Alaska, giving con
certs.
The Indian police service in south
east Alaska is to be resumed on July
1st.
Two theatrical companies will tour
Alaska this summer.
Pete’s Lodging
House
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SECOXD HAXD STORRE
CHITiNA HEIGHTS
Hunks 25c; Beds SOc.
PETER CORDES. Prop.
Chitina
Pharmacy
Drugs Toilet Articles
and magazines our
Specialties
Parisian Chocolates
The Best of the B»st
Mi Eleccion Cigars
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A. G. MOREY, Proprietor
Chitina, Alaska.
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