FAIRBANKS GRAND JURY
INDICTS ILLEGAL VOTERS
A. P. A. Service.
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 28.--Carl Selberg
and Hal Bailey, resident* of this city
were Indicted by the grand Jury today
on a charge of Illegal voting. Accord
ing to statements made by Selberg,!
he Is more the victim of a misunder
standing than guilty of a wilful offense
against the election laws. He has
taken out his first papers and claims
that he was under the Impression that
he had a right to vote.
He insists that others also told him
that he could vote and he, therefore,
proceeded to cast his ballot thinking
that It was all right. Bailey also sets
up the defense that he wa» under the
belief that he had a right to vote, al
though he admits that he was prev
iously Informed that he was not an
American citizen. Halley was born In
Vancouver, B. C., of American parents
and lived there twenty three years
before coming to reside In the United
States. He admits that he voted In
Canada once, before leaving there. He
claims that since taking up his real- j
dence In this country he has always
voted and no question has been mado
of his statement that he was an Am-'
erlcan, and he always believed that
he was a citizen until two years ago
when he was thrown oil a Jury on
the ground that he was not a citizen.
He admits that he was advised by the
court at that time tliat he was a
Canadian by blrtb. Yet, despite this
knowledge, he registered and voted at
the last election. He was called on a
Jury panel this year and on examina
tion declared that he was not a citizen,
evidently with a view to escaping ser
vice. When questioned by the court
as to whether or not he had voted at
the last election, Bailey admitted that
he did but said that he had been advis
ed by Delegate Wlckersham that he
was a citizen and had a right to vote.
LANE SAYS STORY OF
STEFANSSON RESCUE A JOKE
Capt. Louis L. Lane, of the power
schooner Polar Bear, regards his res
cue last summer of Vilhjalmur Stef
ansson the leader of the Canadian
exploring expedition, as a Joke.
“The newspapers got that thing all
wrong,” he said "speaking of his trip
to the eastward of the Mackenzie,
where the lost explorer and his com
panlons were found. “I didn’t save
Sefansson nor rescue him either. 1
was looking for him and found him
But he didn't need any rescuing. He Is
well qualified to rescue himself. For
the class of work In which he Is en
gaged there Is no other man In the
world like him. He can live where a
malamute dog would starve to death.
He Is ft wonderful shot an intrepid
hunter, a remarkable musher and
thinks no more of starting on a trip
of six months on the Arctic Ice with
out food than most people think of
taking a walk through the city parks.
Credit in Wrong Place.
“I got a lot of newspaper credit foi
saving Stefansson that I wasn’t en
titled to. He had been without white
man's food for six months or so when
I found him, and he could have lived
another year or two, barring accidents
without apparent discomfiture. He
could go to the North Pole as easily
as most people could go to the equator.
Ole Anderson, who was with him on
his last trip, quit after Stefansson got
back. The diet was too much for him."
Captain Lane says that both Stef
ansson parties were out of supplies
this summer. They had nothing but
tea and flour and five slabs of bacon
left. Stefansson bought the Polar
Bear and Its outfit as well as a lot of
supplies from traders and whalers.
While Lane disclaims any credit for
rescuing Stefansson he thlr.ks he is
entitled to some credit for saving hose
who were left alive of the crew of the
Dafka Maru, a Japaneso schooner that
was wrecked on Nunlvak island last
winter. Captain Lane found six of the
survivors starving and frozen last
May, the news of which was published
exclusively In The Times.
Lane was making Nunlvak Island
.to get water aond to bury his first
mate. Harry Slade who had died of
paralysis. He was overtaken by fog
and burled Slade at sea. Later the fog
cleared and he was driven to the north
end of the Island, by a storm. Here he
made a landing, and on walking up
from the beach he met a Japanese
whom he at first mistook for an Eski
mo. The man grabbed him by the
knees and wouldn’t let go. Lane at j
first thought the man crasy. He kept
saying, "Captain please rne aohooner."
Lane noticed that the man's hands and
feet were bandaged with rags and
i bleeding.
Res°ue Costs Him $11000.
By making signs In the sand, he
learned from the marooned sailor that
eight of them had reached shore from
ihe wrecked schooner; that the captain
and on# other man had died and that
of the seven survivors three had
, itarted each way to walk around the
island.
Lne took his crew ashore and soon
| found two other survivors. They were
about dead from starvation. He then
tailed around the south end of the
; land about 1&0 mi. A where he round
(three of the others the seventh man
I .laving died. One of them was so ema
ciated that Lane carried him on hlsj
hack a distance of two miles to the
beach. He amputated the man's toes
after he took him aboard.
“I lost $11,000 by that stop," said
Lane “and nobody seemd to give me
any credit for it. 1 was delayed a
week getting the men off the Island'
and several days more In taking them
to Dutch Harbor.
"As a result I missed, the whole
, whaling season. I was just three or
four days behind the whales right
along and the walrus had gone north
before I could get to them. Every ves
sel but mine that went into the Arcic
last summer got a full catch. I didn't
get anything either in whale or trade.
Usually I am first at the native vil
lages along the coast. This year I was
last, and everything was gone before
I got there.
Stefasson Qets Provision*.
"My ship was full of provisions which
I had Intended trading to the natives
v hen I met Stefansson. r sold the out
fit to Stefansson.
i
"Its funny the way tilings go, Isn’t
it? Everybody thought I had done
something wonderful when I found
Stefansson wild would have gotten
out anyway. But when I went to a lot
of trouble, tqok chances on wrecking
my ship, endured considerable hard
ship and tramping on the beaches and
. tundras and lost a lot of money In
saving those Japs, nobody paid the
slightest attention to It."
That It may be feasible to mine th
A NEW DEVELOPMENT
IN SCRAPERS
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Alex. Hanot a placer operator of
Fairbanks, Alaska, has been grantod
a patent on an Improved scraper for
open cut mining or excavating. The
Hanot brothers own the lower half of
the original discovery claim on Ped' i
creek, the first one staked In the Fair
banks district. It is all open cut
ground being about 12 foot to bedroot
und has remained practically virgin
since 1912 through litigation. They
were working the ground this season
and It was to lessen the cost of oper
ating that Mr Hanot designed the
scraper.
Tha equipment used in operating
with the Hanot scraper Is the same
as Is used with the Bagley or ordinary
allp scraper with the exception that
cable or tram is run from
the gin pole to a dead man on the
opposite side of the cut. After digging
its load, instead of being dragged over
the ground to the dump box like the
slip scraper, the aerial cable Is tight
ened and the scraper raised from tne
ground and carried to the sluice b >xes
over the aerial cable where It is dump
ed by the ordinary block method,
after which It la released and travels
down the cable to the spot desired
by the operator where It Is lowered
and filled again. An automatic slid
ing bale tilts the scraper for digging
and the same bale acts aa a balance
to keep the scraper upright while
traveling over the aerial cable to the
dump box. It la this bale upon which
j the patent is granted. The scraper 1s
| three quarters yard capacity and
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native copper and copper oroa that are
found In the extreme polar regions. Is
the opinion of Captain Lane. Anyway
Lane Is going to find out about It and
this winter will either build or buy a
ship suitable for the purpose Intended 1
and next spring will sail to the north I
with a number of Alaskan prospectors 1
and a mining engineer aa part of the i
crew. Incidentally he will establish
whaling and trading stations along the
Siberian coast and northern Alaska
and Canada.
Rich in Copper.
The natives of northwestern Alaska
and the north coast of Canada for ages
past have been making knives and
other Implements from the native cop
pers found in that country. Lane flg
urea that this copper now has a value
of *360 a ton In Seattle and If it can be
mined with any degree of enconomy,
he can get the whalers to bring It out
as ballast
"I don't know whether tho proposi
tion will pay," said Lane "but I'm
going to And out. It looks cn the face'
of It as though it would be a good
prosposltion, and I'm going to put some
money Into It. I have seen lots of
ri.tive copper there. It is difficult t>
mine this mineral but there may be!
high grade ores there, also.
"Both the northern and the southern
parties of the Stefansson expedition
last summer discovered lots of coal,
oil, Iron and copper. I don’t know
whether these minerals are In commer
cial quantities but I will take In a
mining engineer who does know"
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ALASKA NOTES
A butch of five prisoners were re
cently taken south from Juneau to the j
outside The prisoners and their sen
tences are; Dave Collins, sentenced to*
three years for larceny; Henry Han- j
son, one year for selling liquor to
Indians; Julius Thomas, fifteen month -
for larceny; George Kushlin four
years for shooting with Intent to kill
and David Lott, an Indian, who had
been adjudged Insane. The latter was
taken to Mornlngside
John Lakso, a well known interior
Alaskan miner, says that that Innoka
will he a busy little camp next sum .
rner and WJll substantially gild in j
bringing up the placer gold yield of;
Alaska for the year Two large sera
pers wll be operated next year, on-.- |
by the Kuskokwlm Commercial Com
pany and the other by A1 Poormelster
Their ground has been thoroughly
prospected and there is but little
doubt but that they will make a good
showing with the outfits,
Thomas Higgs, Jr, one of the mem
bers of the Alaska railway commission!
has come forward with a very practical
suggestion—one that would mean but
a very slight expense, but would re- j
suit In opening up possibly of more
mines than ten times the amount In
vested In any other way, namely, the
appointment by the secretary of the
Interior of a competent mining en
gineer to make the preliminary exam
ination of likely properties. He sag
gests that the territory pay the salon
of the engineer ami that the owners :
pay his actual expenses while engaged
In the examination. A great man>
owners of claims are not In a posit! *n
to pay a competent engineer to make
a superficial examination, and It Is
hard to Induce capital to expend pos
slbly thousands of dollars to invest:
gate apiece of property on the word
of the prospector alone. This could
well be done with propriety, consider
lng Alaska's remoteness.—Ex
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