VOL 9. N0• 74‘
HO OPEN SOON
SAYSAGENTTRAGY
Three Rotaries Working to Clear
Track--Ro Mail Has Left
Cordova Since the 24th.
F. B. Tracy, the general agent
of the Alaska Steamship com
pany and the Cordova railroad,
is a round trip passenger on the
Northwestern, and in speaking of
the blockade on the Cordova road
he says:
“We have been working to op
en the line from the coast since
the storm the day before Christ
mas, but to date have not suc
ceeded, but feel sure that anoth
er two days will see the line open
and the accumulated mail will be
rushed through The rotary was
1,o leave Cordova Ibis morning
with a batch of mail.
“The last mail from Chitiua
left there on I lie 23rd of Decem
ber and the last mail from Cor
dova left on the 2 till. Since that
time no mail has gone either way.
and no effort is being made to
pack the mail as we did last year.
“The cause of the delay was a
snow slide at mile 98. causing the
blockade on the line. The rotary
at mile 101 soon ran out of fuel
oil and we hauled oil on hand
sleds from 98 to 101. We now
have three rotaries working to
clear the line.
Supt. uciger is one oi me nesi
railroad men in America and if
he can’t clear the line no one
can. I feel sure that when the
Northwestern returns to Cordova
the line will he open.”
In answer to the question as
lo why the officials of the line
peddled to the passengers that
the line would be open in a few
hours, when they knew it would
require days at the best to open
the liine, he said:
“We have made no efforl to
hold passengers at Cordova. We
have told them the facts as we
knew them, and if they care to
wait they can, and if not we can
not help if. We know we are up
against a hard deal when buck
ing nature, but will do our best
to keep the line open and take the
mail and passengers through.
No more no man can do, and we
have not nor do we intend to mis
represent the condition on the
road.”
\V. I.. Fursman, of Cordova,
came over from the railroad town
lo do a lift le politics.
Mrs. O. F.. Lambert, of Cor
dova. is in town for a ssliort vis
it.
Don't miss the movies tonijihl
at I lie (irplietim.
FRANK WASKEY
AT GOOD NEWS
When Frank Waskey was leav
ing Bethel to come to Nome he
met men who were going up Eek
* river on a stampede, caused by
(he report of a gold find up there.
Among those met were Kroehle,
Dutch Smith, McDonald and oth
ers well known in the Iditarod
country. They believed that pret
ty fair pay had been found.
Mr. Waskey has some mining
ground in view himself down
around flood News hay at pres
ent, and seems to think that sev
eral little finds are sure all over
that country. He is also engag
ed in fishing and trading, and will
leave as soon as possible on his
return trip.—Nome Nugget.
Some people get religion every
time they get sick.
..entle norse ana comfortable
cutter for lent hy day or hour.
Rate reasonable. Apply Fred;
Fish, phone 47."
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FAIRBANKS WOMEN PROTEST AGAINST
THE ACQUITTAL OF CAPTAIN BARNETTE
Parade Through the Streets Carrying Banners Bearing Caustic
Allusions to Defense’s Witnesses and the Laws Gov
erning Alaska—Particular Animosity Shown
Barnette, McGinn and Clark.
Fairbanks, Jan. 6.--The town
was thrown in*“ considerable ex
citement night when about
tweniy-nve women paraded
through the streets bearing
torches and banners, the latter
bearing such inscriptions as:
“John Clark, the Honest Lawyer,
Violator of Oaths, Falsilier of
Records, Tool of Thieves, Hand
Man of Crooks,” “Justice and
Law is for Crooks,” “To Hell with
the Alaska Code. It Protects
Thieves,” "John McGinn, How
Much I>iil You Get to Forget?”
"Barnette, the Thief; Crooks and
Tools See Alike and Talk Alike.”
The parade started at 8 o'clock
Iasi evening, inarching from
l.acey street down Front to Cush
man, where they halted and made
speeches against all the witness
es for the defense in the hank
cases, they they erected a scaf
fold hearing the figures of John
j L. McGinn on one side and John
Clark on the other, with the Alas
ka code in the center, to which
-
they set the flames.
The entire population of the
community witnessed the dem
onstration. The women have the
sympathy of most of the com
munity. The meeting dispersed
with three rousing cheers for
those who remained steadfast for
the people.
The Commercial Club is in ses
sion tonight preparing a severe|
arraignment by wire to the De
partment of Justice.
The feeling here is fully as in
tense as it was when the women
of tile city started to tear the
clothing from the person of Mrs.
Barnette, and when the former
banker found it safer to leave
the community by private con
veyance than by the regular stage
for fear of being mobbed; he and
his wife having left town at night
guarded by a _ deputy United
States marshal, in a private
sleigh, overtaking the previous
mornings stage at B’yler’s as per
previous arrangement made with
tin1 Northern Commercial com
pany.
! MISGUIDED MEN
Gompers, Before Congressional
Committee, Says Empl6yers
as Much Blame as Men.
Washington, 1J. C., Jan. 7.
Samuel Gompers appeared before
the Judiciary Committee, favor
ing the Clayton anti-injunction
bill. In the course of his re
marks to the committee, he said
that employers were as much to
blame for the present condition
existing between labor and em
ployers as the men who partici
pated in the dynamite outrages
and "that, notwithstanding labor
feels the censure which natural
ly falls upon it by reason of the
dynamite outrages carried on by
the structural iron workers, we
must bear our burden and must
of necessity give a helping hand
to the convicted men and our or
ganization.”
HE SHOOTS TRUE
! AND STOPS MAN
Garage Proprietor Shoots Off
Tires of Fleeing Automobile
With Automatic Revolver.
Seal lie, Jan. 7.--A man nannd
firay, a ga%agc proprietor, while
pursuing a\man named Mueller,
a delinquent customer, who was
! escaping in another automobile,
[undertook to stop the runaway by
[puncturing his tires, so pulling
jail automatic pistol began shoot
ling while both were running at
(top speed. The shots went true,
puncturing the tires, causing the
fleeing automobile to skid, tear
ng off it's wheels and spilling
Mueller to the street.
Nome has a tiamewell tire
alarm system, which is an inval
uable asset to a municipal tire
system.
iYakutAt' - was --recently six
weeks without mail.
A V
HEAVY STORM
AT SAN DIEGO
Seven Lives and Many Small Craft
Go to the Bottom During Pre
valence of High Gales.
San Diego, Gal., (Jan. 7.—The
severest storm in years has pass
ed over this section, playing hav
oc* with the small craft, driving
many of the smaller boats ashore.
Seven lives are known to have
beetn lost, including that of Im
migration Inspector Ous T. Jones,
Daniel Kuykendal and Engineer
(iormelatti, of the inspector’s
launch, which foundered in the
storm. Life savers worked for
twelve hours in a fruitless en
deavor to rescue those on the
launch, but were repeatedly driv
en back by the gale. During the
progress of the storm the1 weath
ar was bitterly cold.
The damage wrought is esti
mated to be in the thousands of
dollars, as many expensive pleas
ure* craft went down in the storm.
The fishing tl**et is practically
wiped out.
The steamship Princess Soph- .
in. of the G. P. H., has been tak
en from the Southeastern Alaska
run and is now plying between [
Vancouver and Prince Rupert.
JAMES LAIDLAW j
PASSES AWAY
British Consul for North Pacific
Coast Dos in Portland After
Years of Service.
Port land, Ore., Jan. 7.—Janies
Laidlaw, for many years British
consul here, with jurisdiction
over the Pacific Northwest and
Alaska, is dead. He was one of
the best known men on the Paci
fic slope.
' The. Movies Tonight.
Complete change of pictures at
the Orpheuni tonight.
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Ddir’t miss the movies tonight i
at the Orpheum.
FOUR FAIRBANKERS
ON IRE SUMMIT
Forced to Take 8helter in Relief
CRfeln—McIntosh Drivers Tak
ing Food to Relief Station.
Word was received by Hubert
McIntosh, this morning that four
passengers were storm bound on
the summit, and that they had
r turned to the relief station
built by Lieut. Prosser and Col.
Richardson last fall, and that they
would need food supplies. Two
of the drivers had returned to
Ptarmigan Drop for food and had
left again for the relief cabin
with supplies.
The cabin is stocked with plen
ty of fuel and there is no dan
ger that the people will freeze.
It is not known in Valdez who
the persons are at the cabin, hut
it is presumed that they are the
four passengers coining out with
FJinghanv or else they 'are the
McIntosh passengers. In either
event Mr. McIntosh has ordered
that, every effort be made to re
lieve them.
Mr. McIntosh received a tele
gram from Wort mans late this
afternoon saying that the party
who took refuge in the relief cab
in on the summit, are safe at
the roadhouse and will reach
Valdez tomorrow.
HAS NOT NAMED
CABINET MEMBERS
Wilson Denies That He Has Of
fered Cabinet Positions—May
Not Until Inauguration.
Princeton, Jan. .7--President
elect Woodrow Wilson emphati
cally demote that he has offered
cabinet portfolios to any one, and
says he may wait until his in
luguration before he announces
iny of his appointees.
A pet bear belonging to Fred.
Daniel, of Nome, died from eat
ng glass.
The freighter Cordova is in
Cordova and is due here the af
er tomorrow.
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ORANGE CROP
IS TOTAL LOSS
Extreme Low Temperature Has
Caused a Total Loss of Cali
fornia’s Orange Crop.
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! Los Angeles, Jan. 7.--The or
jange and lemon crop of all South
ern California is a total loss ow
ing to a heavy frost which has
prevailed throughout this sec
tion The temperature went down
[to 22 above zero, the lowest n
the history of the country since
the advent of the white man.
Although due notice of the cold
wave was given by the weather
buroau, yet the use of smudge
pots through the orchards was
unavailing, as the cold was too
severe to be guarded against. The
loss will be very severe on the
growers, as there has not been a
normal crop in the orange belt
within the past four years.
Ice formed on the streets of
Santa Barbara, a situation never
before known.
PEACE CONFEREES
QUIT SESSIONS
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Turks Wont Surrender Adrian
ople, Conferences Cease—Be
lieved Powers Step. In.
liOiidon, Jan. 7.—The Turkish
delegates In the (peace confer
ence reiterate the*1' reply here
tofore made, that they will not
surrender Adrianople. Sittings of
the conference have been sus
pended, but leading delegates em
phasize the statement that all
negotiations have not been call
ed off, but rather are leaving the
next move to the Turks.
It is believed the Powers will
force the Sultan to cede the city
in pursuance to the demands of
the Allies.
The steamship Alameda will
sail from Seattle on the 19th, •
resuming her run in place of the
Northwestern.
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Subscribe for the Prospector.
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TRYING THE TRAIL
WITH AUTOMOBILE.
A Successful Start Made From
Dawson With a Loco
mobile.
The most successful start yet
made in the attempt to negotiate
the overland trail between Daw
son and Whitehorse was made
this morning by C. A. Thomas,
resident manager of the Yukon
Gold company, in the four-seat
Locomobile gasoline ear. Mr.
Thomas got away at 5 o'clock,
accompanied by Commissioner
George Black, as a specially in
vited guest. George Potter is
aboard as chauffeur, but Mr.
Thomas was at (he wheel at the
start, and planned to do inost of
I lie driving.
The stall was made i|uietly,
and with Hie hopes of making
the test wilhoul anyone getting
the news until Hie machine
reached Yukon Crossing, hut be
fore (he car was mil of town
many were discussing the scheme
in restaurants and resorts, and
on the streets today the venture
was the theme of I lie day.
Telephone messages from the
Forks slate that the car passed
tlKM-e at 4:05 o'clock this morn
ing, making the run of 14 miles
in little more than an hour. A
later message stated that arriv
als from Quartz creek met the
car at that point two hours af
ter it left the Forks. Quartz is
15 miles beyond the Forks, and
the run was made in two hours.
This made (he total run of 2t>
miles from Dawson in about
three hours.
me Heaviest ennui on me route
lias been passed, according to
common reports, but I lie rough
est part of the trail is lo be en
countered. The newest and nat
urally roughest part is along the
strutcb from Indian to a point,
beyond Srmggie. Kmil Forrest,
who started over the trail by
stage several days ago, to bring
back I be Moyle maebiue from
Whitehorse, was called back from
Polly when the Hoyle car broke
down. Emil arrived here last ev
ening. <He believes an auto can
gel over the trail, hut believes
it will find the rough spots on
Black Hills and at some points
south of Stewart river quite try
ing on the car, and that the car
will have to proceed there under
low gear and that carrying heavy
loads of passengers would not be
advisable as yet. He believes (hat
in another season, with improve
ments to (lie trail in way of re
moval of rough places here and
I lime and the culling down of
numerous little grades and a few
long ones, will alVord Dawson a
good overland trail, lie hopes to
see the practicability of autoingr
on the trail demonst rated Ibis
wild cl1, and regular Ira (Tic estab
lished al least by another winter.
--■Dawson News.
WILL ISSUE
TREASURY NUTES
Havana, Jan. 7.—President do
me/ has derided on I lie policy he
will outline in his message to
congress with regard to the ne
cessity of raising funds for con
linuing work on the Havana sew
ers. The government has prac
tically concluded, owing to the
belief that the United Slates
would not consent to a further
foreign loan to issue treasury
notes for the sewer indebtedness
ns it becomes due monthly, these
lo he taken up by the local banks.
The government -has received
various offers from financial cor
porations offering a loan of mil
lions of dollars, as they consider
that Cuba's credit is good.