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Cushman Road
Bill Wi,l Pass
Washington, Jan. 10.—Aid for
! the const ruction of the Valdez
j Eagle wagon road is practically as
sured. There arc many here inter
ested and working for the road and
they sav the Cushman hill will
' pass.
The senate has l*een polled by :
I the friends of the measure and they
: find that a majority is favorable to
i
tlie measure.
Smelter At Seattle
Seattle. Jan. 10.—A four hun
dred ton smelter is lieing planned
for this city to handle the coppei
ores mined in Alaska. Samuel O.
Silverman is the man who is plan
ning the smelter and it is staled
that he has the capital ready for
the ileal.
McNeer at Fairbanks.
Arthur .Mi Neer. who left Itere
l>ocfinlier 17. with freight for Fair*
hanks reached here last Saturday,
niakinu the trip in 21 days. As he
had a heavy load of freight this is
remarkably y »>d time. He will
start on the teturn trip in a few
days.
I Wil Be Heavy Travel
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Over This Trail To Fairbanks.
Jas. Fisb, Sr. Says 1500
—
Word Hus received yesterday by
wire from Jus. Kish Sr., the repre
sentative of the Chamber of Com
merce, who is at Seattle, stating
that there will be about 15(H) peo
ple take this route for Fairbanks
this spring. He says the majority
i of the people will make the trip in
! February and March and that they
| will take considerable freight.
According to Mr. Fish, the rep
resentatives of the Yukon truns
I pollution routes are beginning to
j realize the advantages ol the route
I by Valdez and are working desper
ately to knock it. but without avail.
i Will Charge Tuition
I'he Council, Monday, decided to
| charge tuition lor seholor* trom
out of town after the coming term.
As a large number of the scholars
now attending arc from the reser
vation which contributes nothing
1 toward the support of the school, it
is thought best 10 collect it tuition
fee. The amount has not lieen de
cided upon hut will probably lie
settled next week.
The residents of the reservation
are entitled to money for the sup
port 01 schools from tiie government
and hv with holding I lie charging
of a tuition until next term, it was
thought that they would ha e time
to make arrangements for ait up- !
propriution from the government ;
sufficient to enable them to defrav
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their proportion of the ex(H-nse of i
the Valdez school.
Bills of the hospital for care of
indigent sick were presented and
caused considerable debate, as the
bills covered a period of a year,
while according to the resolution '
adopted last spring, all such cases
had to tie reported to the Health
Icommittee for investigation. Al
though these cases had not lieen re
|lotted, the lulls were finally or- .
dered paid, with the exception of
one. for a man who was not u resi
dent of tin* town.
The law committee reported that j
the suits against delinquent tax .
payers were nearly ready and that i
the eases would Is* filed some time
this week.
The newly appointed council
1 man ('has. Kraemer was not pres
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City Market
NEXT TO THE MXINA.
PRICES ARE
RIGHT
Wholesale and
Retail Dealers
GIVE US A
CALL
Beef, Mutton, Pork
Poultry and Game.
flit. Iii-i ohtli of otliff not being
drawn up yet.
Court Proceedings
Doing's of The Week In The
District Court.
The case of Guvigan vs. Crarv
has taken up most of tfie time of
the court for the past week. This
is a suit brought by the squatters
on Crarv’s script land, and halt
the population of town lias been on
llie stand during ttie trial. The
land was taken up with soldier’s
additional script in liH)l,hy Crarv,
and in the fall of l’.Hi'J. when Cap
tain \\ ilsou defined the Uiundanes
of the land he intended to reserve
for the military, it was jumped by
u manlier m people, who hnves nei
built shacks upon the ground ;.i:d
claim it hy right of possession.
The land office sent a man here to
investigate tiie surveys, and alter
he mads his report, lie application
was allowed and ordered published,
which was done. The present ease
is brought on the ground that the
land was embraced in a military
reservation at the time script was
applied and was therefore not open
for script entry. The records of the
land otiicc and of the war depart
ment prove it was not a reserva
tion, but the plaintiffs are trying to
prove by the citizens of the town
tiiat it was. The evidence was all
in last night, but it will he about
two weeks before any decision can
be rendered.
A motion was made for a new
irial in the case of the A. C. Co., vs.
C. G. Debney. but it was denied.
The same motion was made in the
case of the First National Hank vs.
Fish, hut was denied.
Takouchi and Sergiu were sen
tenced, getting years each.
Motion fur a new trial in case of
Jennie Haymoud vs. S. A. fletnple
was denied.
!9. kagawa. K Uveno, S. komai,
S. karazawa and k. Yoshida wen
arraigned for tiie murder of a Japi
and plead not guilty. Attorney
Kdwards was appointed to defend
them and on ids motion a separate
trial will lie granted to Yoshida.
These eases will lie la-fore the court
to-day.
Recent arrivals report that there
are BOO men now prospecting in the
Bonn'tield placer country.
Fairbanks Telegrams
Camp Looks Good. Sentiment
Growing Favor Valdez
Route.
I*nirl.aiiks, Jan. 10.—There are
at present about S,IX)0 men at
Fairbanks anil in the vu-inity.
I tvelve hundred ot these are taking
"Ut pay on Cleary, Fairbanks
creeks and adjacent gulches. Peo
ple who are fully capable of jiclg
ing sav that Cleary rivals Eidoiai
do, of Dawson.
Money is naturally short in town
now, bui everyone lias high ex|>cc
tations and this will certainly lie a
| very live place after the cleanup.
Ai present there are many out
prospecting and working and the
I town is sort ot slow.
Everyone thinks the Valdez
route the only one to the outside,
although the Dawson people are
pulling hard for freight and pas
sengers to go out that way. There
i is some freight coming that way,
but it is unsatisfactory. There are
.1 any inquiries about the possibili
ty of installing a stage line ironi
here to Valdez ami some of the
companies may take up the pro
ject.
Fairbanks, Jan. 11.—There are
many freight teams idle here now
as the freight has about all been
taken out to the creeks. Two hun
dred and fifty horses were freight
ing to the creeks from the time the
snow ti il until now. They have
taken sixty Imilers, ranging from
,’itl to (HI iuirse power, to I lie creeks
this winter for tiiawers.
C. W . Miller leaves for Valdez
with eight horses. He has con
tracted to bring fifty tons of freight
to Fairbanks for fifty cents a
pound. Several other horse teams
will leave here this week going to
Valdez for freight.
Some of the Dawson men now
acknowledge the feasibility of the
Valdez route. The recent arrivals
of freight front there has done
much to convince Fairbanks peo
ple that it is the best route. Jack
and lied Mcliee leave for Valdez
to-uiorrow,
Aimed at the Paper Trust.
A plan to break the power of the
print paper trust lias been promised
by Representative Tawnev. of Min
nesota. Mr. Tawney says that
Alaska can furnish wood pulp
enough to supply almost the entire
demand for paper in the United
States for many years. According
ly he introduced a bill in the house
permitting the exportation of wood
pulp from Alaska.
Distill Confirmed.
The appointment of Win. Distin
as surveyor general of Alaska, was
confirmed by the senate Dec. 14.
: Mr. Distin has given universal sat
isfaction in his office, he being
about tl e only official ot Alaska
who has not been opposed for rt^
apjiointmeut.