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EXCLUSION OF HINDUS
CAUSES EXCITING SCENES
Vancouver. B. C., July ‘2'2. The Hindu
trouble here continue* the one absorbing
theme. Excitement over the situation is
unparalleled in the history of the city. The
i I;mins were defiant and prepared to fight
to the end until brought to terms under the
gnus uf the l>omimon cruiser Rainbow.
Tim authorities required that the Koma
gatu Maru be permitted bv the Hindus
aboard, to sail from Vancouver harbor and
carry the men who are aboard back to
Japanese waters with as little delay as pos
sible. with the condition that the ship
would be fully provisioned and provided
v.ith medical supplies for the return journey.
The matter of 1 *.* of time to the own-ms
because of the delay of the ship pending
the settlement of the troubles also is to be
taken up officially.
The final acquiescence of the Hindus
proved a triumph of patience on behalf of
the authorities, but throughout the exciting
day many lost hope that the Hindus would
listen to reason. More thought they were
bent on prov< king bloodshed to create sym
pathy.
Immense crowds have lined the water
front, expecting to see a light occur between
men of the Rainbow and the Hindus on the
Komagata Maru. Every viewpoint of min
tage was occupied. Windows and tops of
buildings overlooking the bay were at a
premium.
Cause of the Trouble
About two months ago the Komagata
Maru, a Japanese vessel, arrived in Yan
< uiver harbor having on board 375 Hindus.
The authorities refused to allow them to
End. and after ninny skirmishes between
officers and the would be immigrants, the
case was taken into the courts. In the
meantime the Hindus were kept on board
ship and a ••lose watch \ laced on them to
prevent their landing.
On July f> the appellate court of British
Columbia handed down a decision ordering
the deportation of the Hindus, and in at
tempting to carry out the orders of the
court many exciting seems occurred. On
July 19 a pitched battle occurred aboard
I
the steamship Komagata Maru between the ■
Hindus anil the officers of the law, and be- {
fore the engagement was finished many men j
were knocked into insensibility, and the j
decks were strewn with prostrate forms.
Some of the combatants are in hospitals and
some may die. A joint force of police and ,
special immigration const aides descended at ;
night with the tug Sea Lion on the* Koma
gata Maru at the anchorage of the big ves- :
sel in Burrard inlet, woere the ship has 1
been lying with tin* Hindus the last two |
months. After grappling with the vessel. 1
the Sea Lion’s hose was gotten into action
and powerful streams of water were brought
into piav. The Hindus had been roused to
desperation and lined the rail and decks ,
with formidable front. The Hindus were j
armed with clubs, spikes and the like, and '
beat back the officers who attempted to !
>warm aboard behind the streams of water.
The oflicers were endeavoring to get pos
session of the steamship so that she might
he manned by whites and turned on the
back track to the Orient.
The government had decided, as an act j
• f mercy, at the cost of $8,000. to provi- j
r-ion the ship and start her on the back i
trai-k across the Pacitic. but the scheme ;
was not working out. A force of 50 spe
cial immigration officers and 125 police,
armed with Ross rilles. made up the hoard
ing party. The Hindus showed remarkable
pluck and fearlessness. When the attack
ing party brought the powerful streams into ;
play the Hindus at first recoiled, hut dog- !
godly came back in the face of the water,
climbing time and again to the rail and
clubbing every man attempting to board the
ship. Clubs were used on both sides, and
guns finally were brought into action, but
probably more for shooting high in order
to alarm the men. With the crack i f rilles
and the rattle of bludgeons and the scuffle
of feet, the cursing and yelling of the e mi
bat ants, the ship was the scene of all t he
stirring excitement of the ancient days when
naval forces foiieht hand to hand.
When the Hindus made a rush with all
sorts of missiles and some firearms and
offered their chief resistance, all men on
the tug rushed to the off side of the tug
to escape the fusillade, and the tug nearly
i capsized. The police were tempted to open
I fire on the Hindus, but the officers forbade
it. The tug finally drew off, leaving the
Asiatics in possession.
On July 21 the Canadian cruiser Rain
bow. flagship of tlie Pacific, fully provi
sioned and armed and equipped with plenty
of hose, : - well as the customary fighting
arms, sail- 1 from Ksquimalt shipyards un
der special orders for Vancouver, to deal
with the Hindu-'. Two officers and ten
bra : . : who arrived recently from the
Atlantic iiag.-hip Ninbe arrived and manned
the Rainbow under direction of the cap- !
tain. Tim vessel was placed at the disposal ;
of the immigration department should it
be necessary to arrest the ringleaders on
the Komugata Maru and to tow the ship
outside the three-mile limit.
The Rainbow arrived in Vancouver on
July 21. The officials met on board of her
and after a conference gave the Hindus
notice that they would be given until noon
to decide whether they would surrender or
fight. The Hindus barricaded the decks and
pded hirrh the bulwarks with looted dunnage
and built up a reinforcement with lumber.
Later the Hindus’ excitement was quelled
and the vessel put to sea. accompanied by
the Rainbow.
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ABOUT POLAR EXPEDITIONS
Dick Thorne, the Fairbanks picture show
man, recently returned from a visit to
Nome and the lower Yukon. lie told a
reporter that one day at St. Michael he sat
at the table with a man who had come
down from the polar regions. The talk
turned on polar expeditions, and everybody
expressed himself freely. The Fairbanks
man doesn’t believe they hav° been pro
ductive of much good, and so *ated.
“That hits me rather hard,” said the
mild looking man at his side. “I have just
returned from one. and left my boat, the
Karluk, up north on Wrangell island. My
name’s Bartlett.”
Dick says that he stood by his opinion
in spite of the sensation his discovery gave
him. and that he and Captain Bartlett had
many talks on the subject of polar expe
ditions before they parted. lie admires the
intrepid explorer greatly, but will never for
get his introduction to him as long as he
lives.
Marshall City is a dead one. according to
reports he heard, there being now only one
paying claim on the ground. Many were
coming down fr.au the Koyukuk, and all
seemed to be well fixed with dust. lie says
that without exception they spoke well of
the prospects in that district, and of the
good production this season.
1 itm St. Michael he came up on the tug
Klondike until they met the Louise, when
the passengers and barges were transferred
and brought up river ot Xanana by the
White Pass packet. St. Michael is very
quiet, he reports, with a fleet of laid-up
steamers that is an unpleasant reminder of
lively seasons on the lower river.
As soon as he can get his films developed
he will show the views he took this sum
mer on the long trip.
EUROPEAN TRIP POSTPONED
Frank Haslund. who recently resigned as
manager for the Northern Commercial Com
pany at the Takotna station, reached this
city from that place last Thursday.
When Mr. Haslund decided to give up
his position with the company it was his
intention to make a visit to his parents in
Furope, hut owing to the unsettled condi
tion of affairs all over that continent he
will wait until the war clouds roll by.
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IN THE WILDS OF ALASKA
(Skagway Alaskan)
On the train from Whitehorse last night
there was a woman with five small children
all girls—the eldest of whom is not ap
parently more than 12 years of age, and
the youngest probably 4, whose life for
the past fifteen years has been passed in
the wilds of Southern Yukon, where she
and her husband have had born to them
nine children -four boys and five girls—
seven of whom are still living.
In 1900 Mrs. E. C. Broaden, for that is
the name of this hardy Northland pioneer,
in company with her husband, who at vari
ous times has been Dominion telegraph op
erator, steamboat man and miner, passed
through Skagway en route to that terra in
cognito of solitude and silence and mag
nificent distances which stretches from the
southern end of Lake Bennett north to the
shores of the Arctic ocean.
They took up their abode on the Big
Salmon river, and in all the years that
have since passed Mrs/ Breaden has wan- 1
dered no farther from her home than to j
traverse the short distance between there '
and Fort Selkirk, on the Yukon river, down 1
sHssfcrsifc. a a
near the mouth of the Pelly. There all of
her children first saw the light of day and
there two of them
In graves that are necked with gold,
Where the mighty Yukon rolls,
Are sleeping in die Klondike vale tonight.
The arrival in Whitehorse the other day
was a revelation to these little girls, who
had never seen a railroad train and but
few of the modern appliances, and what we
consider the necessities of civilization. When
they get outside to the city of Vancouver.
B. C., where their mother is taking them
to place them in school, it is hard to pre
dict to what lengths their amazement will
reach at the many wonderful things they
will see.
Although, as was to be expected. Mrs.
Breaden has encountered many hardships
during her long and uninterrupted residence
in the North, she loves the land of her
adoption and is sorry to leave it to re-enter
a world to which she has become almost a
stranger. God willing, she expects, how
ever. to return some day and resume her
life where she is now leaving off.
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ALASKA PIONEER FINDS
ONLY SHELTER IN JAIL
In the federal jail at Fairbanks, where
he was sent on a fake charge of vagrancy
that he might not suffer for want of food
and proper medical care, is an Alaskan
pioneer who has exhibited more bravery and
undaunted courage than most of the cele
brated warriors one reads about. For the ,
last few years his life has been a series of 1
disappointments and misfortunes, and now
he is well along in years, almost sightless !
and minus both feet. This man is George
A. Terrill, commonly known as Monte Ter
rill.
Although he is in jail for no misdeed,
but only for his own welfare, this sturdy ,
pioneer wants to be released and have a
chance to make his own living, though just
how he can accomplish it in his present ,
condition is not quite clear t*< his friends.
He wants to go back to his cabin at Chena,
where lie asserts that he can provide for
himself, and he declares that he is far
from helpless.
Mr. Terrill is a native of Indiana. He
will not tell his age, but he says that in
1863 he tried to enlist in the Union army
but was not quite large enough. For many
years he lived in (.'olonido, and at one time
o\vn'*d several thousand dollars. He came
to Alaska in 1808 and prospected on the
Stickine river. He wandered about the
\ riMarnl until 1903, when he built the
first roadhouse in the Tanana valley, about
twelve miles above Tol vana. A little
later h»* built another roadhouse further up
the river.
During the winter of 1908 Mr. Terrill
was prospecting on Monte creek, which de
rived its name from him. The creek emp
ties into the Tolovana river. Mr. Terrill
attn. pied to go across Minto lake to his
cabin on the Tanana, pulling with him a
.-led 1 1 of supplies. It was a col 1 day,
the thermometer registering about 25 de
grees below zero, and when night came on
j he concluded to leave his load and seek
shelter until the next day in a roadhouse
I some distance ahead.
Ii was after leaving his sled that he came
to some thin ice in the lake, caused by a
hot spring beneath, and breaking through
it, he climbed out soaked to the skin. As
j he had plenty of dry clothing on his sled.
[ he determined to return to it. but he missed
j it in the dark. He wandered on through
| the cold night until he reached the pros
pector’s cabin he had left the day before.
He knew his feet were frozen, and his
j partner, who was at the cabin, hurried away
| for aid. To the military telegraph station
i word was brought concerning Mr, Terrill’s
condition, and the soldiers hurried to his as
I distance.
The feet, however, could not be saved,
i and Mr. Terrill went to Seattle, where one
foot was amputated between the ankle and
j the knee, and the other was cut off just in
front of the heel. He was provided with arti
ficial feet, and with these he started out to
face the world.
ror neanv two year- he wandered around
in British Columbia, and finally he returned
to Alaska, where he obtained a job on the
Copper River railroad. He had worked
there a week, when one inght the man in
the bunk beneath him saw a string haneing
from Terrill’s bed. The man below pulled
the string and an artificial leg came with
it and struck him in the face.
Until then nobody in the camp knew
that Mr. Terrill was crippled in any way,
but when the foreman was told he dis
charged the unfortunate man, who then
mushed his way to Fairbanks across the
trail.
Terrill has a little cabin at Chena, and
there he has lived most of his time since
returning here. He has earned his living by
cutting wood and by other honorable ways.
In May his sight began to fail him. but
it did not discourage him. In June he
started for a trip down the Tanana with
two other men in a small boat. The two
men deserted him when it seemed that Mr.
Terrill was going blind, but he found his
way to a wood camp on the banks of the»
river, and was there, practically sightless,
when the government steamer Jacobs was
on her way up from Fort Gibbon to this
city. The Jacobs put into the camp for
fuel, and Mr. Terrill was induced to come
here on her.
What could be done for the independent
pioneer prospector, who objected to being
an object of charity, was a problem that
bothered his most sincere sympathizers, and
at last, just when he was preparing to leave
for his Chena home with only SI.50 in his
pocket, it was determined to have him ar
rested on a charge of vagrancy.
He has been in the federal jail a month
now, and good care and good food are
showing their effects on him. His sight
is slowly returning, and he asserts that he
is able to see people quite distinctly across
the street.
“I'll soon soon be all right, and I’m
going to live to be a hundred years old,”
is the cheerful way the unfortunate man
talks. “But I want to get out of here and
to get back to my cabin. If they’ll let me
go I will be able to take care of myself,
for I have food and a home and I am not
helpless.” — Fairbanks Citizen.
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IDITARGD DISCOVERY, OTTER
j
Passenger traffic has been extremely light j
on both incoming and outgoing boats re- ,
cently. On Tuesday night the Prairie Bell
had but two passengers.
Frank and Harry Larson and Bert Thor
sen brought the Yentna from Kaltag Tues
day with a cargo of fish. They made re
markably fast time.
Tuesday, Aug. II. Alaska down Circle,
6:45. Casca at Dawson. Davis up Kotlik,
7th. Dawson up Carmacks, 6:30 p. m. 10th.
Julia B. down Chena, 8:55 p. m. 10th.
Kerr up Eagle. 2 a. m. Sarah up Kotlik,
6th. Sehwatka, Dawson for Tanana, 7
j). m. today. Selkirk up Stewart, 4 a. m.
White Seal, Fairbanks for Iditarod today.
Whitehorse down Whitehorse, 4 a. in. A u
kon down Minto, 7:30 a. m.
Thursday, Aug. 13.—Davis up Kaltag, 2
a. m. Dawson down LcBarge, 8 a. m.
Delta up Birches, 2:30 a. m. Julia B. up
Minto, 5 p. ni. 12th. Sarah up Mel .zi. 7:45
a. m. Sehwatka down Eagle, 4 :30 p. m.
12th. Selkirk up A’ukon Crossing, 1 .15
a. m. Whitehorse at Dawson. White Seal
down Hot Springs, 5 a. m. A'ukon up Ram
part, 3 p. m. 12th.
Friday, Aug. 14.—Davis down Koynkuk.
7:30 p. rn. 13th. Dawson down N ukon
Crossing, 4:30 a. m. Delta down Nulato.
12 noon. Julia B. at Fairbanks. Sarah up
Kokrines. 6 p. m. 13th. Selkirk up Big
Salmon, 2 a. m. White Seal down Ruby, 6
a. m. Yukon up Rampart. 13th.
The Prairie Bell will leave tomorrow fi r
Dikeman with passengers for Outside by
way of St. Michael.
Three river boats have arrived at Dike
man with good freight cargoes during the
past few days.
The Ruby Tamarack arrived this morn
ing with a cargo of fish for the N. C. Co.
THE MAIL
Frank Kern lef’ with the mail about
no ai Friday, and is expected with the in
tabling . msignment tomorrow or Monday.
CHAS. E. MILLER AND WIFE
LEAVE FOR THE OUTSIDE
Among those who will leave on tomor
rov’s boat for the Outside are Charles E.
Miller, the wellIfnown restaurant man. and
his wife. Mr. Miller has been in the res
taurant business in this camp since its in
ception, and has encountered the ups and
downs incident to Alaska mining camps.
It is his intention to go to San Francisco,
but he may return to Alaska later. The
many friends of Mr. Miller and “Maw” will
wish them success in their new surround
ings.
COUNSELLOR OF THE CZAR
!S SLAIN BY WOMAN
St. Petersburg, July 13. The mystic lay
monk, Gregory Rasputin, a notable figure
in the emperor's court, was stabbed re
cently by a woman named Guseva at his
native village, Pekrovsky, in the province
of Tobolsk, Siberia, it was learned here to
day. One report has it that he died; an
other that the wound was not mortal.
The attack upon Rasputin has excited
intense interest in court and official circles
here. He was recently recalled to the em
peror’s household, after an absence of sev
eral months, and was credited with exer
cising an influence over the emperor far
more potent than any of the ministers, lb*
was regarded in some quarters as the su
preme power behind the throne.
The woman Guseva had been tracking
him for a long time. She finally approached
him in the guise of a beggar and stabbed
him in the abdomen with a dirk. She was
prevented from stabbing the monk a sec
ond time as he lay on the ground by his
son, who seized her and held her until
the police arrived.
When arrested the woman declared she
wanted to avenge one of Rasputin’s ^irl
victims, who is now in a convent. After
being lodged in a cell the woman atten.; ted
to suicide by cutiing her wrist with a piece
of glass.
London Comment on Case
London. July 14. Coniru-nting on the
attack on Rasputin, the Daily Mail
“It will be a grim irony of fate if this
mysterious monk meets death at the hands
of a woman, for it was by his uncanny
ascendancy over women of every class,
from the highest to the lowest, that he
raised himself from obscurity to the posi
tion of implicitly trusted advisor of the
Russian emperor.
“The names of an almost endless series
of the best-known women in St. Peters
burg social circle- have been linked with
that of this mysterious : easant's son.”
The Daily Christie's ist Petersburg cor
respondent says it is believed the attack
on Rasputin was the outcome of a plot
by adherents of the monk Heliodorou>. who
was banished from St. Petersburg b* cause
he censured Rasputin’s mode of living.
LONDON TO PARIS RACE
WON BY AMERICAN
Lomk.ii. July 11. The great round trip
race from London to Paris and return was
won today by Aviator Brock, an Aivricsn.
in the time of three hours and a half. The
price was $50,000, and the contestants wi re
tome of the greatest fliers in ihe world. T!
time made is a record for the trip and is
regarded as marking a new er3 in the sci
ence of flying.
C. A. ("Dutch"! Kramer was .1 visitor
in the city the latter part of the week from
Otter creek.
In the last year one aviator was killed
for every 62.000 miles flown.
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