TRACES OF A TRAGEDY
ARE FOUND
A lock of human hair, a ring anil
many legal papers and other docu- 1
nients were found not long ago in
Scolai basin, on the west side of Scolai ;
pass, and are supposed to have be
longed to Mr. and Mrs. James Schmid!
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formerly of Dawson. The old couph
left here several years ago in tin
month of March for the Alaskan coast
by way of White river. They journey
ed to the head of the river with an old i
horse drawing a double ender sleigh
and conveying all their earthly pos- !
sessions. For years the couple had
made their home in Dawson, and Mrs.
Schmidt, better known here as Mrs.
Elizabeth Schmidt, was known as u
' oman nr.'nlng enthusiast and stum
peder. She held quartz hums In the j
Mils above Dawson, nn 1 tad a big I
legal light respecting them tn ti. .
mints: against tlie Yulon Gold Cm-!
pany. j
Mrs. Schmidt opened tin' Aeklen j
ditch, owned by the Company, and j
turned the water down tlie hill >
above St. Mary's hospital, alleging}
that she could not work her quartz j
claims because the ditch interfered ;
with her plans. The case attracted
much attention In the court. Mrs
Schmidt was her own lawyer.
Hilly Williams, the old time musher ,
and Chisana miner, brings tlie* word|
of the finding of the articles mentioned
in Scolal basin. He states that tho>
were found near McLeod’s roadhouse
by Mr. McLeod, in September, and !
wore held by him.
Scolal basin, where the hair and
other articles were found, is at the
western entrance to Scolai pass, and
beyond Scolai glacier. A year or two
ago Boh Wiley found a roll of blankets
on the glacier which is believed to
have been lost there by the Schmidts
The old folks were at Canyon City late
in the spring, and wi re seen by many
of the miners there, who advised them
not to undertake the dangerous trip
across the pass, hut the advice was
not accepted. They never have been
seen since. It is believed they per
ished on the glacier. The yleft two
daughters who are nuns in the Catho
lic hospital in Seattle.—Dawson News
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HOW TRENCHES ARE BLOWN UP
IS STRIKINGLY ILLUSTRATED
U if ft DIN.—The peculiai character
of the lighting now going on in the
Forest ot Argonne is illustrated by the
following letter front a soldier:
"The two companies forming our
right wing laid been ly ing for live
days only 30 to oU yards from the
enemy along a distance of nearly 3uu
yards. in front of out company to
the left was a little valley, on Hie op
posite slope of which the French had
intrenched themselves in three lines of
pits, one lying above the other, and
this front was generally regarded as
impregnable. We therefore had a de
tachment of Prussian sappers and
miners, which was assigned to out
lines, to tunnel under the three French
trenches in order to blow them up.
The explosion was really intended to
go off on the anniversary of the buttle
of Champigny (Nov. 30.) but the sup
pers said that they had not yet enough
•snUr into the holes. There was
danger that the French would under
mine us and blow us into the air
first. Finally on December 1 every
thing was ready. At lu:3u all our
front trenches wire evacuated, but we
masked this movement lu deceive the
French. At 11:21 a lieutenant of
pioneers pressed his thumb on a but
ton. and there was terrific crash. One
might have thought that the whole
earth was tailing lo pieces. From my
position 1 saw a cloud of earth prob
ably over bull feet high. After a min
ute something like a mighty tempest
broke loose in the woods. I did not
know what it was till something struck
! my skull, then 1 knew it was a hull of
dirt and stones which had been thrown
up by the explosion. 1 darted into our
bombproof, where 1 stayed for two'
minutes. Meanwhile our two com
panies pressed forward and occupied 1
l lie gap that bad been broken in the
French lines. The lirst trench was full
of dead and buried Frenchmen. In the
next two they were so dazed that they
surrendered without resistance.
“Within a half-hour we had taken
prisoners the dwellers in all these
trenches, so far as they were still |
alive. Among iheiii there were ' it;lit
ouiccrs and privates who liau not
been wounded. Hie rest, including
two oinccis, were dead uiiu buried
under me debris. We captured three
mine-throwers. Uur total losses were
• •my tlueo killed and seven wounded.
A soldier must have luck! The
< apt iired 1 t ench prisoners tuhi us
alleiwards that, lhe> had mined our
Liciuht-s at eight points, aiul were g“
11 >g lo blow us up at 0 p. in., ii“l > et
hav ing Ihuslied pulling in tile chaiges.
When we examined oui trendies we
i“uud these mines. So we had a lucky
escape tliia time. The higher author
ities are giving unstinted praise to
oui achievement. Even the Crown
iTinee sent automobiles with _’00
woolen blankets and a bottle ui vvino
lor each of ns. What more could a
soldier’s heart want. Such are the
tricks Unit we are playing her*-!
Strictly fresh eggs $1.25 per do^ren
at Prosser’s Harness Shop. Prone
Black 5.
SLAYER PRAYS AS WITNESS
FOR DEAD WIFE’S AID
NEW YORK—William Perry, at
Ills trial for murder In the first degree
in solemn religious ceremony and
prayer summoned his wife from the
grave to attest his innocence.
When called as a witness in his own
helm If, Perry testified he had no rec
ollection of cutting his wife’s throat
in their home last September.
"Do you know your wife is dead?"
asked Frederick Ware, his lawyer.
“Well, I attended her funeral,” re
plied Perry, “but I know slie is alive,
because I have seen her in my cell in
the Tombs.”
"Did she speak to you?”
"Yes, she told me that if 1 would
'repeat the Twenty-third X’ealm at my
trial and pray she would appear and
show that I am innocent.”
Judge Mott consented to allow the
defendant to make the test. Perry
stood up, assumed ;t ministerial atti
tude and in a loud voice began.
“The I.ot'd is mv shepherd, I shall
not want.”
As he finished, he looked expect- j
nntly around the rooni and said:
“Nora is not here. I will have to j
pray.”
“Go on with your prayer," said
•Tudgo Xott.
For twenty minutes Perry. on his
knees, pleaded to God to permit “Xora, j
■J ILU'JI! ■ . ■' 11 - 'L-. 1
my beloved wife," to come from Hea
ven to show lie did not kill her. Ho
wound up the exhortation crying aloud
"Come, Nora! Come to earth and show
I am innocent!"
Ho reached out his hand and his
fingers closed tightly in the movement
of a handshake, and in a whisper ho
said:
"She is here, Nora is hero. 1 ant
saved.”
He resumed his seat, seemingly sat
isfied that the woman ho had murdered
had returned to save him.
Pom's defense is insanity.
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BURS KILLED
KING THURMAN
That bears killed King Thurman,
ifho was found dead in a cabin in
Chickaloon Flats some time ago, is
a fact made certain by an examina
tion of the body by two men who were
sent out a few days ago to bury the
remains. These two men whose names
are not known sent word to Commis
sioner Conroy and Deputy Marshal
Evans that when they examined
the body they found it to have been
horribly torn. The limbs and body
were in so frightful a state that bur
ial was out of the question so the cab
in was fired and the remains cremated.
Poor Thurman had been missing since
last July or August and several at
tempts were made to find 1dm with
out success until hunters happened on
the cabin a few weeks ago. It is evi
dent that he had been attacked by
bears and rent almost limb from limb,
before he managed to get away and
crawl to tho cabin to die. The mes
sage. to the local Authorities came
from I^red Dunce.—Seward (lateway.
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NOTES
In papers recently published for ilia,
government geological department by
TV L. Johnson he says the total an
nual snow full is 5 to S feet at Seward,
6 feet on Trail crock, on tho Alaska
Northern railroad, and 12 feet at Val
dez. The precipitation, according to
this authority, is about 132 inches at
Cordova, 74 inches rt Valdez -and 54
inches at Seward.
The presidency of the Senate waSj
contested by Senators Sutherland and1
Sulzer. At midnight Senator Aldrich,
Independent, held the balance of pow
er, the line-up being:
For Sutherland—Oaustad. Hubbard
and Sutherland.
For Sulzer—Tanner. Millard and
Sulzer.
Non-committal—Aldrich.
JUNEAU.—Niemala Herman, for
merly a native of Finland, admitted t«* '
citizenship in the district mirt 1 - 1
ccntly, in answer to the questions !
I from Judge Folsom, declared thut h«-:
had ties er heard of such a person as
1 Iieotlui'u Koosevolt, Vet lit- had lived
in the United States and Alaska long j
I enough to take out ins page rs and to1
jupplj lor Ilia second.
I
, William A. Aiunley, recently ap
pointed assistant United Slates at
loniey for tin- Third Alaska district,
wiili headquarters at Valdez, is a well
' known attorney of Portland, having;
practiced law there for tile past twcn
! t> years. During the administration
| id lien. Sylvester I’ennoyer, 1SS7 to
j lSSo, he served as the Dovernor’s see
! retary.
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Thai the labor market m Juneau j
and surrounding camps is overcrowded
Is the stutement of men who me doing,
the employment for the big mining |
companies. .V conservative estimate
places the number of idle men in Ju
neau and vicinity at about iiuu.
It has just been learned that d- i ‘
jiewul'd for his support in caucus, :
| which swung the victory in the m
l ganlzatiun of the Senate in the Wick- i
! vrsham faction's favor, Senator Ald
i ich, toiler and law-maker, has become '
jibe chairman of the Ways and Aleajis
| committee, perhaps the most impur
lanl chairman in the Assembly, und of
i i he labor committee.
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DAWSON. -Advices just received
lri*m liie Mackenzie river valle> cause:
! serious ahum here aiming friends fur
|iliu welfare uf Key. Father Jean Bap
tiste lfoqvieie and Key. l ather Uil
iamue Lriuux, Kuman Catholic mis
. siomu'ies. It is feared that they lut\
lieen murdered by Eskimos in the vi
cinity uf Bear Fake, loO miles east of
Fort Norman, a post on the Mackenzie
river. 31 o miles above Fort McPherson.
WEATHER REPORT
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Nome, \iasha, April 2»». 1^1 d
Temperature Wax J8, Mm. I*.
Barometer JiMV* in« lie*
Weal her t’b»udv
\\ uni North -1 miles pel iimir, ,t\er
age i miles per hour.
Pi’,M Ipitat ion i inch snow, .••♦j inch i
^ water.
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