1DSTAROD, ALASKA
Capital, 850,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Geld Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
* OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES. Vice President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
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HERBERT E. RELEY, PROP.
On Monday morning la-: three • Feds j
h ‘.led with express matter let* this City lor j
Fort Gibbon, where it will b; turned over
t • the express officials for transportation j
In the shipment was nearly a.
<-uart« r i f a million dollars in bullion, con- j
stituting the last clean-ups of the HU4 r-e.i- ;
.-on of the two dredges operated in tins
district by the Yukon Gold Company anu j
K i y & Marstcn. The shipment was m |
r! .rye of Bob Griffis, the veteran mail car- |
and hi> partner, Jim Haley, and they
will be accompanied as far as Kaltag by
Siegfried Wick.
The course taken by the shipment on its
w;; Outside B via the Yuk< n to Fort Gib- '
bon. thence, t > Fairbanks, and thence to j
Chitina and Cordova. The object in send '
ing it by this r; undsl< ut r ut ns tea 1 of j
by the shorter one over the Seward trail,
and thence by steamship lo Seattle, is that
the party may keep in touch along the
route with the officials by means of the tele
graph and wireless systems alone the trail,
which convenience is not available along the
shorter route to Seward. This not only af
ford- protection from the remote possibility
of hold-ups, but also makes assistance pos
sible in case of accident.
Mr. Griffis and Mr. Haley will continue
their journey to the Outside, and both will
visit their old homes. Mr. Haley will go
to New York city, anu after visiting there
will return in the spring by way of the
Panama canal and San Francisco, taking
advantage of the opportunity to visit the
exposition, which will then be in full swing.
He will come back by way of th ■ Seward
tra.i! to Iditarod.
Mr. Griffis will visit his old home at
Gloversville, N. Y.. which he has not seen
for many years. He will also return in the
, spring. “Bob” Griffs, as he is widely known
in Alaska, is one of the real old-timers of
the Northland, having come to Alaska in
i the spring of 1889.
MONSTROUS ARTILLERY
PLANNED BY GERMANY
NEW YORK. Oct. 27. Adolph E. Gall,
an engineer in the Edi.-on laboratory, has
arrived from Stockholm. He states that
he received much information concerning
the new siege guns that Germany is build
ing. hi- information coming from friends in
the Krupp works. The new guns, he says,
will make the 16-inch siege guns that were
used against Liege, Namur and Antwerp
“look like bean blowers.” The gun.-, ac
cording to Mr. Gall, will have a caliber
of 50.02 and 55 centimeters (19.50 and
21.45 inches'. They are being rushed to
completion at the Krupp plant in Essen,
he said. “The new guns will shoot from
twenty-niie to twenty five miles,” Mr. Gall
continued. “The Germans plan to sup
plant the present batteries of 16-inch guns
with these and then mount the old guns
on the battleships. Then if the German
army captures points along the channel,
the new big guns will be ranged there to
hold off the British navy and troop ships.
In this way the Germans feel they can
control a considerable portion of the Eng
l:-h channel off Calais and Ostend. One
shot from either of these guns would de
molish a dreadnought.”
SURPRISE PREPARED
BY THE GERMAN NAVY
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 26. What is the
great surprise the Germans have for Great
Britain which they repeatedly talk and
write about ?
Copenhagen is full of such rumors, pur
porting to come from German officers in
private letters and dispatches. The Keil
canal is again closed to neutral ships and
the rumors of this “big surprise” are re
ceived by influential and reliable sources in
private dispatches from Kiel, and it is diffi
cult to understand how these plans pass the
censor.
Some reports state that the Germans are
experimenting with a new heavy gun fixed
on a dreadnought, and that the Keil canal is
closed for the purpose of conducting secret
firing practice with this extraordinary piece
of ordnance.
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Northern Character Meets Death
Seattle newspapers tel! of the killing by
a street car of Samuel Boardman, a blind
man who has been selling newspapers at
the Arctic Club corner in Seattle for sev
eral years, Boardman was a former Daw
! Semite. His blindness was caused by an
attempt at suicide in the Fifth Avenue
hotel at Skagway several years ago. He
had followed his wife, whom he suspected
’ of eloping from Dawson with another man,
and overtook them at Skagway. He shot
, the other man and then himself. The bul
; let he tired into his own temple did not ;
penetrate the brain, but shot out both eyes. 1
He recovered and prospered selling papers
| at Jefferson street and Third avenue, Se
j attic. The victim of his attempt at murder
. has been a paralytic since the tragedy.
Supposed Body of Dutch Marie Lost
; Owing to the negligence of the people
; who found the body supposed to be that of
' Marie Schmidt, the government has lost a (
valuable link in the chain of evidence
against “'Blueberry Tommy” Johnson, who
is supposed lo have killed Frank Adams,
j “Fiddler John” Holmberg and “Dutch
! Marie” Schmidt,” says the Fairbanks Times.
| The body was found early in the summer
j buried near the bank of the Yukon river.
and during the midsummer Hood was
| washed away. Assistant District Attorney
I Bion A. Dodge was sent to the lower Yu
kon river, together with a government phy
Mcian, to hold an inquest and gather such
evidence as might be material for the case
against Johnson. They were led to believe
that the body was buried in a place where
it could be exhumed, but upon arriving at
the place of interment they found that the
whole bank had been washed away. As the
description of the body answered to that
of “Dutch Marie” Schmdit in every way.
the officials thought they had found the
binding link in the chain of evidence against
Johnson, and expected to have no difficulty
in convicting him in case h.° should be ap
prehended. At the present time there are
| two deputy marshals on the lower riser,
j .-ei.rchii'g for the missing bodies of the
! supposed victims of Johnson.
|
Brutal Murder at Cordova
Angelo YilValis was shot and fatally
wounded by Tony Papas, alias I.ithie Akjs,
on the outskirts of the city of Cordova on
September 26. Papas escaped, taking with
him >600 in cash which he is supposed to
have stolen from his victim. Subsequently
the murderer was captured an i is now in
jail at Cordova. According to the story told
by the wounded man. after he was discov
ered in the bushes near the city, it er;m
! that the crime was premeditated. Both
! men were Greeks. They arrived from Ken
| necott Friday. On Saturday each bought a
! Cob's automatic revolver and started out
I along the railroad track with the intention
I of trying the guns on targets. After they
had each tried a few shots, Papas reached
for Vilisalis’ gun. explaining as lie did so
that he. Papas, would clean it. As soon as
lie received the other man’s gun. leaving
the latter unarmed. Papas struck his com
panion over the head with the latter’s
weapon, knocking him down. Then he shot
him twice, one bullet going through the
kidneys and the other through the spinal
column. On Sunday afternoon a man go
ing through the bushes was frightened when
a voice called to him, offering him $5 if he
would take him to the hospital. The fright
ened man did not stop to investigate, but
hurried to the ball grounds, where a crowd
was watching a game, and gave the alarm.
A doctor was summoned and the injured
man was taken to the hospital for treat
ment. After an examination was made the
doctor announced that he did not think
that. Vilisalis’ life could be saved. As soon
as the crime was discovered officers started
to hunt for the criminal, and he was cap
tured twenty-eight miles from Cordova, on
the Copper River & Northwestern railroad,
and after being taken into custody he ad
mitted that he had shot Vilisalis. He is
being held to await the action of the grand
jury. Papas explained that it was in .-eif
defense that he shot Vilisalis. He said that
the latter had shot at him twice, and that
he. Papas, had returned the shots. As soon
as he had shot Vilisalis, Papas said, he left
the scene of the shooting, but later returned
and took the money from the clothing of
the wounded man. Then, he said, he lay I
down on the ground within thirty feet of !
his victim and slept until the next morning.
A Rich Seward Mine
One hundred and iifty ounces from three
tons of rock is the result of the work of the
Ellsworth mill in this city this week, says
the Seward Gateway of October 15. The
rock was brought from the Grant lake
property by James R. Hayden, and Mr.
Hayden carried around four fine bricks of
gold, which are now on display in the win
dow of George, the jeweler. During the
j week of crushing, Mr. Ellsworth said, the
resuit was showing up far better than had
been expected, but he would not go into
I details. Today, however, Mr. Hayden
was able to show the gold, and the aston
ishing richness of the ore was evident. The
ore crushed was picked, but there is said
to be a large quantity of it.
Frontier Days Are Past
A dispatch to the Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer from Juneau says that those sour
doughs who are prone to mourn the passing
of the old free days received another jolt
this morning in a dispatch that told of
“Bob” Warren having been fined SI0 for
carrying concealed weapons in the Koyu
kuk, in the heart of Northern Alaska, the
placer remotest from civiliation. “It all
goes to show that Alaska is no longer the
borderland,” said one. “The days of the
frontier are past. It seems difficult to
imagine Bob without a gun. He has car
ried one all his life. He belongs to the old
order along the American frontier who do
not feel that they are dressed unless they
have a gun handy. Guess things got too
; civilized in Fairbanks for Bob and he hiked
to a lonely creek in the Circle diggings.
“The law must have reached him there,
and he probably thought he could go to
the Koyukuk and carry his beloved weapon.
Guess he will now have to emigrate to tin*
Arctic ocean."
Gold Seekers Have a Reunion
l ive members of the party of ten who
went on a search for geld on Kotzebue
sound in the spring of 1893, on hoard the
schooner Moonlight, met yesterday noon at
the 1 rye hotel for a little luncheon and
reminiscences, says the Seattle Post intelli
gencer of October 23. The five were \\ C.
Morse, vice president of Lewis. Wiley
Morse, now of Portland; Brackett Case of
the Harper-Hall Brick Company; A. Y.
Shepard, who is in charge of the Wenatchee
Commercial Club apple exhibit; Maurice
Hartnett, a representative of J. Folger
Co. of San Francisco, and P TI. Watt,
one of the managers of the Frye. The
party spent all of the winter of 1898-90 on
the Kobuk river, inside the Arctic circle,
and came out to Nome in rhr sprmg of
1899, their search for gold unsuccessful. All
the members of the party are still alive
Of the other five, one is in Nome, one in
St. Louis, one in North Carolina, »>ne in
Puyallup and one in London, England.. The
five who lunched together yesterday will
try to get together again some time next
year, and will endeavor to have some of
the others present.
Placers in Yerttna District
George Dumas and E. A. Norman, miners
from the Yentna district of Alaska, owners
of twenty gold claims on the Nakochna
creek, arrived in Seattle recently, at the
conclusion of a season’s work in prospecting
their holdings and preparing them for active
mining operations next summer. Mr. Du
mas has been in the North for four or five
years, while his partner has been there
most of the time since the Klondike rum,
in which he joined. Mr. Norman said to
a newspaper man: “We have there an idea’
hydraulic proposition. The ground is just
right for it and v.e can get all the water we
want under a pressure of 150 feet. The
ground which we have had all been pros
pected in a rather haphazard way before
vve went there, but without results of any
consequence. When we prospected it, how
ever, we did a thorough job of it. and the
finds we made more than justified the
trouble. There are deposits of coarse gold i
not only in the present creek bed, but on ;
ledges where the creek formerly ran, and
they yielded a more than paying quantity
of coarse gold,’’ “We took out about
twenty four ounces just while prospecting.'’
said Mr. Dumas, who is a rather younger
man than Mr. Norman, and full of the
enthusiasm which the North begets in so
many men. He took from his pocket a
small bottle containing bits of gold of all
shapes and sizes from 3 or 4 cents in value
to nearly half a dollar. “There is enough
pay oirt to occupy us for twenty years,
taking it out at a rate of from 600 to 1,000
yards a day,” he stated. "Next year we’ll
take out more than we have ever spent in
getting ready to work it."
DIAZ’ DEATH REPORTED
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 23. An uncon
firmed report received here tonight stated
that former President Diaz of Mexico died
today in Madrid.
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HOW GERMAN SUBMARINE
SANK BRITISH WARSHIPS
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A story is printed in a New York news- j
paper which purports to be an account of ,
the sinking of the three British cruisers,
Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy, in September
last, by the German submarine U-9. The ;
account is by Captain-Lieutenant Otto Wed- j
digen, commander of the submarine, who, |
after giving some intimate personal de- j
tails, continues:
"I set out from a North sea port on one
of the arms of the Kiel canal and set my :
course in a southwesterly direction. Not j
many days elapsed before, on the morning |
of September 22, I fell in with my quarry.
“When I started from home the fact was ,
kept quiet, and a heavy haze helped to 1
keep the secret, but when the action began
flu* son was hrivht ami the water smooth ;
not the no t favorable conditions for sub
marine work. I had sighted :everal ships {
during my passage, but they were not what i
I was seeking. English torpedo boats came j
within my reach, but I felt there was bigger
game further on, so on I went. I traveled
on the surface except when I sighted vessels, j
and then I submerged, not even showing ;
my periscope, except when it was necessary j
to take bearings. It was ten minutes of'er
0 when I cau ht sight of one of the big i
cruisers of the enemy.. 1 was then eighteen
sea miles northwesterly of the Hook of Hoi- \
land. I had then traveled considerably j
more than 200 miles from my base. My j
boat was one of an cld type, but she had '
been built on honor and she was behaving j
beautifully. I had been going ahead par- i
tially submerged with about five feet of my ;
periscope showing. Almost immediately I )
caught sight of the first cruiser and two j
others. I submerged completely and laid |
my course so as to bring up in the center |
of the trio, which held a sort of triangular !
formation. 1 could see their grav-black
sides riding high over the water. When I
first sighted them they were near enough
for torpedo work, but I wanted to make
sure, so I went down and in on them, I 1
had taken the position of the three ships i
before submerging, and I succeeded in get- I
ting another flash through my periscope
before I began action. I soon reached what
1 regarded as a good shooting point.
“Then I loosed one of my torpedoes at
the middle of the ship. I was then about
twelve feet under water, and got the shot
off in good shape, my men handling the
boat as if she had been a skiff. I climbed
to the surface to get a sight through my
tube of the effect, and discovered that the
shot had gone straight and true, striking
the ship, which I learned later was the
Aboukir, under one of her magazines,
which in exploding helped the torpedo's
work of destruction.
“There was a fountain of water, a burst
of smoke, a flash of fire, and part of the
cruiser rose in the air. Then I heard a
roar and felt reverberations se.'T through
the water by the detonator. She had been
broken apart and sank in a few minutes
The Aboukir had been stricken in a vital
spot and by an unseen force that marie
the blow all the greater.
“Her crew were brave, and even with
death staring them in the face kept to
their posts, ready to handle their useless
guns, for I submerged at once. But I
stayed on top long enough to see the other
cruisers, which I learned were the Cressy
and the Hogue, turn and steam full speed
to their dying sister, whose plight they
could not understand, unless it had been
due to an accident. The ships came on a
mission of inquiry and rescue, for many of
the Aboukir’s crew were now in the water,
the order having been given, “Each man
for himself.”
“But soon the other two English cruisers
learned what had brought about the de
struction so suddenly. As I reached my
torpedo depth I sent a second charge at
the nearest of the oncoming vessels, which
was the Hogue. The English were playing
my game, for I had scarcely to move
out of my position, which was a great aid,
since it helped to keep me from detection.
“The attack on the Hogue went true.
But this time I did not have the advan
tageous aid of having the torpedo detonate
under the magazine, so for twenty minutes
the Hogue lay wounded and helpless on
the surface before she heaved, half turned
over and sank. By this time the third
cruiser knew, of course, that the enemy
was upon her, and she sought as best she
could to defend herself. She loosed her
torpedo defense batteries on boats, star
board and port, and stood her ground as
if more anxious to help the many sailors
who were in the water than to save her
self. In common with the method of de
fending herself against a submarine attack,
she steamed in a circular course, anti this
made it necessary for me to hold my tor
pedoes until I could lay a true course for
them, which also made it necessary for me
I to get nearer to the Cressy. I had come
| to the surface for a view and saw how
! wildly the fire was being sent from the
•hip. Small wonder that was when they
| did not know where to shoot, although one
shot went unpleasantly near us.
“When 1 got within suitable range I
j sent away my third attack. This time I
sent a second torpedo after the first, to
j make the strike doubly certain. My crew
1 were aiming like sharpshooters, and both
i torpedoes went to their bull’s-eye. My
luck was with me again, for the enemy was
made useless and at once began sinking by
her head. Then she careened far over,
but all the while her men stayed at the
guns looking for their invisible foe. They
were brave and true to their countrv’s ?>ea
t radii ions. Then she eventually suffered a
boiler explosion and completely turned tur
•le. With her keel uppermost she floated
until the air got out from under her and
then sank with a loud sound, as if from
a creature in pain.
“The whole affair had taken less than
one hour from the time of shooting off
the fir.-r torpedo until the Cressy went to
the bottom. Net one of the three had
been able to use any of its big guns. I
knew the wireless of the three cruieers had
been calling for aid. I was still quite able,
to defend myself, but I knew that news of
the disaster would call many English sub
marines and torpedo boat destroyers, so,
having done my appointed wrork, I set
my course for home.”
IDITAROD PATIENT IS
DISCHARGED FROM ASYLUM
Deputy United States Marshal Percy G.
Charles has received notification from the
| superintendent of the Morningside sani
j tarium, near Portland. Ore., that I)r. S. B.
! Zuckerman had been released from that In
! stitution as cured.
“Dr.” Suckerman was a woman of eccen
' trie tendencies who was in Iditarod in 1910
| and 1911. She seemed to have no means
j f support, but promulgated many schemes
fer making money, none of which was ap
parently successful. She was finally de
clared insane and committed to the sani -
tarium.
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Notice of Forfeiture
To John Pedersen and J. Y. Carsow, them
heirs and assigns;
Notice i- hereby given that tin- under
signed lias done ' the annual assessment
work on No. 1 a below discovery, first tier.
: right limit bench, and also on No. -i ted v,
discovery. left limit, first tier bench, on
Yankee creek. Ininko recording proem-t.
Territory of Alaska, as provided by Section
>>324 of the Revised Statutes or the Iftilted
States and tile laws of Alaska, for the years
Hiln i9ii, 19I-J and lain. That John
Pedersen and J. A. Carsow are co-owners in
No. 13 below, right limit, and J. A. Carsow
is eo-owner in .No. i below, left limit, and
each has failed to pay Ins proportion. That
ir at the expiration of ninety m days
■ from the Mist publication or tins notice
each of von should fail or refuse to con
tribute his proportion or said expense, your
interests will become the property of the
undersigned. . , ,
Hated at Tukotna. Alaska, this (Uh day of
j 0i;,0',cr> 191<- S!I1 ,.\, lS.in
First publication. Met. 31, 1914.
I Last publication. Jan. m, 1 9 I r..
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