Telegraphic News I
Of The Week
Seattle, Aug o—Two men deeply '
interested in Copper river railroad
enterpris< hf; lust night on the
Santa Cm .< a- pa-M-ngers for Val
dez. It i- a race he'we« n John
Rosene and Col. A. W. Swamu,
the former harked by New York
and Euroiwan capitalists, whose
purpose is to build a railroad from
Vali z to some point on the Cop
per river and to tap l»oth the coal
fields of the Kayak district and the
copper belt of tiie Chittyna coun
try. Swanitz, who was formerly:
chief engineer of the Alaska Central,
has with him twenty men and a
large amount of supplies, and says
■he will l»egin work at once on the
Valdez, Copper River <V Yukon
railroad. Swanitz is supposed to
have hack of him the association
formerly represented by Helm.
Seattle, Aug. 3—Jack Chester
field, who has three times been
-foiled in an attempts to break jail
made another desperate uttcmpt
today by exploding six sticks of
dynamite in his cell in the county
.prison, blowing out a section of the
cell, but wa - unable to escape.
Failing to secure his 1 il*ertv he
took a revolver and sent a bullet
into his bead, but is still alive witli1
the bullet in his ' rain. Chesterfield |
believed he would be able to blow j
up ttie trial judge and sheriff,'
whose offices were directly over bis
cell. His wife has been arrested j
for smuggling the dynamite and -
-revolver into his cell.
Tacoma, Aug. 3—A moral wave
has swept over this city, which for
fifteen years lias been uu open
town,and everything is being closed
Up tight. The sht-rift declares there
will be no more gambling while he
remains in office.
Nome, Aug. 3—The Nome Nug
get savs that eight federal officers
in that city bold, us locators by
agents, four hundred and iourtecn
mining locations.
Seattle, Aug. 3—The steamer'
Edith left veMerpav ior the north i
with a full cargo of railroad and i
wharf materials, explosives and
gasoline for Valdez and Seward. j
New Orleans, Aug. •'!—Although!
there were five dcaiiis today from *
yellow fever, the outlook for the'
checking of the epidemic is more
hopeiul than at any time since the
outbreak oi the iever.
Washington, Aug. 4 — Judge
Wickersham has requested Secre
tary Hitchcock to demand that
<jovernor,Brady he called to account
for making charges which the judge
characterizes as misleading and
faulty and recklessly made for
partisan purposes. The statements
which have aroused the ire of Judge.
Wickersham appear in the report
of Governor Brady to the Secretary
of the Interior for 1904, in which,
referring to the Tnird Judicial Div
ision, he says: ‘‘People in division
•No. 3 complain that their court
facilities are altogether inadequate.1
■* * The delays are'so vexatious
and expensive that many criminals
go unpunished and many innocent
men conclude that it is not worth
•while to attempt to have their
wrongs righted. * * Important
■witnesses do not care to lie held in
custody for a year before they can
testiiy. Since early spring Judge
Wickersham’s time has been taken,
tip along the Yukon river and at
Fairbanks.
“On the shores of Bristol bay
•there were collected this summer
'between 7,000 and *,0U0 person.^
connected with the various can
‘neries. The whole rim of the Pa
cific seems to have been represented.
* There is a United States
’Commrs-tonerand a deputy United
states marshal there, but they arc!
perfectly helpless, for they have no'
strong arm back of them to com- j
nnnd the respect of such a motley
• rray of Hien, many of whom are
■ esperate viliaiits. Bnperintendenls
re liable to condone prime, ff«»r
t ley do not pro|>ose to have them- j
- Ives or their crews taken hun
■ reus ot iiiues to await liic action .
o some future term of court. Their j
bisiness is to put up the season’s ;
pick of fish. These men. of course.'
ib not want crime and will do nii|
it their power to prevent it, but
wien it occurs it is their core to
kep away from the courts. Two
J.ps murdered one of their fellows
a'Xushagak. * * Another mur
■hr was committed at Karluk, and
a nost hellions case of ra|>e Upon a
bight and intelligent girl of lt>,
li ing near one of the canneries on
Bistol hay. This is a horrible j
st te of affairs. • * The remedy ■
is to create a fourth judicial divi-.
sin and furnish it with a proper
*•-going steamer, to be under the
otitodv of the marshal and at the
cc inland of the court. It should;
lx quipped with the best of small
ans and a Gatling gun and am
innition. • * and as a conse
qunce there will be a wholesome
re-ect for law and order.” Rcier
rii: to commissioners he says fur
th': “These officers in Alaska
hae the same name as other court
coimissioners, but their jurisdic
tio is far greater. * * There is
re;!v no appeal from a commis
sioer’s court to the district court,
' for he judge usually ap|xiints some
Ipaicular protege and he feels
bond to sustain his man. It is
nored that the apjiointments to
ne lv all the places which pay
I he?are filled by persons who are
jpediarlv related, socially or polit
! icav to the judge. The attorneys
amtheir clients understand this
jam-ay, ‘What is the use of ap
|HUt” ” Wickersliain pro|«ounds
i se»ity-twoquestions which lie de
nials that the governor answer
! umr oath to the president and
Sectary Hitchcock.
, . >w Orleans, Aug. 4—The qur.r
ante against the yellow fever
1 thrtens t<> .-top traffic throughout
! tlie ate. The state has called for
fej«d aid. and President Rooee-j
.velthas taken action, ordering
: Stir on-G -ie rul Wyman to take
j conol of sanitary measures in New
j OrWns.
F rbaaks, Aug. 4—Gen. Greelv
has rrunted to build a telegraph
lino Ion the mail route to Fair
haul ir< u Valdez, cutting out the
Gout .a? r line, and running it
via (tk< a and Big Delta.
Boat* Aug. 6—John Anderson,
‘ of Wt-tlfcattie, declaring that lie
was gi'il to iiave one good time
before rdied, purchased a phono
1 graph al ten gallons of whiskey.
' For tw days he listened to the
music <the machine and drank
heavily! the whiskey. The third
> day heointedout to his friends the
' sj»ot w-re he wanted to be buried
1 and th ended his life with a rifle.
Keel’irk. Aug. 6—One case of
vellotitekr developed here in a
.the'name of Coleman,
fsterday.
lay, -Ang. t>—President
; formally received the
ltd Japanese peace en
rrd the Mayflower yes
hehalf of the United
!! The ceremonies were very
g
e, Aug. (V^-A committee of
t R. ha.- protested against
of .Douh’s history of the
States as a text hook for
in ’Washington and Alaska.
e. Aug. n—'Fhe Edith took
»rd, one ioconiotive, twenty
i and two thousand tons of
the Ala.-ka Central rail
Wikidefi -
- "Reac.aurant!
(Old Po'stoffii Building.)
“Regular “Dpner 35c.
'Private Apartments Open Day and Might
Oyster Bay. Aug. ft—In ton-ling
the i-cnce envoy-. President Roos*
vell said: “(ientlemen. I propose
n toast to which ilicie wid l>c no j
answer, r.nd to which I n-k you to
drink in silt-nee. I <!rink to I he
welfare anti prosperity ot tire sov
ereigns and pe*>p;e of tire two coni
nations i., . .. .u< ' e : . •
on the Mayflower. It is my earnest
nope anil prayer, ill lite ill! ere.-,
not only of two great power hut
all mankind, that n fast and lasting
peaee may la- speedily concluded
between them.”
Portland, Ore.. Aug. G—The jury
in the ease of Congressman J. N.
Williamson, in the matter of gov- \
ernment land frauds, has disagreed
a second time.
I
New Orleans, Aug. 6—The situ
ation here remains practically un
changed. There were eight deaths I
todav from tlit* fever, and twenty-!
eight new eases were reported.
Olympia, Aug. 6—Governor Mead j
has ordered the dismissal oi half a
score of the officials of the state)
penitentiary for fraudulently de
claring their voting residence to be
Walla Walla.
.
Seattle, Aug. t;—Harriman, the
railroad magnate, states that his
road will expend ten millions a
year tor improvements in Washing
ton, Oiegon and Idaho.
Seattle. Aug. 7—Louis W. Hill,
son of Jim Hill, has been appointed
president of the Great Northern
Steamship Co., to succeed Farrell,
resigned. Howard James, of St.
Paul, has been appointed vice
president and general manager.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 7—The presi
dent yesterday delivered a sermon
in which htem phasized the neces
sity of sound character huilding.and
said that a high moral character
was the real essence oi Christian
life.
New Orleans, Aug 7—Everv phy
siciun in the city is enrolled in the
battle against the yellow lever. The
Marine hospital service, by order
of the president, has as-mned eon I
trol. The fever has broken out
with increased violence and is;
spreading rapidly. The death rate!
is also increasing. Quarantine!
measures adopted by surrounding
country has brought business to
almost a standstill.
Cleveland, Aug. 7—A general
strike has Wen ordered by the exi- .
cutive Ward of Bridge and Struc
tural iron workers against the \
American Bridge Co., a trust con
cern, whose operations extend
throughout the country.
Seattle, Aug. 7—The American
gasoline schooner Barbara Hernster
was totally wrecked on July 2Slh.
at the entrance to Plover hav, >»:
beria. The passengers and crew1
were landed in safety The vessel
struck au uncharted rock.
A RADIOGRAPHIC SURPRISE.
TTnsuspscUd Tumors B«tmM In
Woman's Foot While Search
inK for a Needla
Fliotograpbs are often taken
with an X-ray tube in order to ns
< ertain the exact position of a bul
let. r e<]>■ or some similar object
\v..: have found its vr.:y iuto
the tissues. Metal easts as dense
a shnd -w as bone, while the ob
si-iirn!i*-n due to tlesh and skin is
compare lively slight.
,\ »' e.iiaiid expert in that class
of work was visited by the patient
of another physician recently tnjr ■
on the latter’s recommendation' .
with a request that he make a
••radiograph" of her foot. She la*- I
lieve-1 that a needle had worked its i
way into that memlier. At any
rate, something had caused more
or less pain for years, although
there was no outward sign of an
injury on the sole. The pirtnre
was taken and. sure enough, there
was a narrow, black line visible in
it. which was not due to hone. It
lay right between two hones. The
needle was subsequently removed
by a surgeon. However, the radio
graph also revealed two other
things which nobody had suspect- |
ed. They were small, hard tumors
adhering to the bones, and proba
bly eause<l by the needle. They
were taken out also. The young
woman can now walk with more
comfort than for several years
past. •
Largest Stone Arch Bridge.
In spite of mammoth steel arch,
girder and cantilever bridges, the
Stone arch bridge is still employed
tinder certain conditions, and the
largest structure of this kind in
the world is now in course of erec
tion at I'lauen, Saxony. This
bridge will have a span of 295 feet,
exceeding by 20 feet the famous
Luxembourg bridge opened last
venr, and by still more the Mor
begno bridge in Lombardy and the
Cabin John bridge, near Washing
ton, It. C„ which have held in turn
the record as the longest stone
trch bridges. The I’lauen bridge
di era from the Luxembourg
nidge in being of masonry
throughout. instead of consisting
of two parallel arches connected
by iron and concrete. Its cost is
e#t minted at about $120,000.—Chi
cago Chronicle. •
Cliff of Natural Olaaa.
A cliff of natural glass can be
seen in Yellowstone Park. Wyom
ng. It is half a mile long and
from 150 feet to 290 feet high, the
material of which it consists being
as good glass as that artificially
manufactured. The dense glass
which forms the base is from 75
feet to loo feet thick, while the
upi**r portion, having suffered and
survived many ages of wind and
rain. has naturally worn much
thinner. Of course, the color of
the cliff is not that of natural
glass—transparent and white—
hut it is mostly black, and some
places mottled and streaked with
brownish red and shades of olive
green and brown.
. Must Have Them.
Xewrich—A man can get along
without ancestors. •
Mack—True, but his children
can’t.—Town Topics.
Wine%, Liquors and Cigars.
The Senate.
T. A. COBB & CO., Props.
I _9_
Copper River
Braying Co.
Freight and Passengers to
all parts of the interior
General Trucking.
W. S. AMY. ED. WOOD
McKinley t»t: Between Broadway and Keystone Ave.
PIONEER LAUNDRY
Hobart St. on Reservation.
Poes the very finest of Hand Work. Hpecial attention
given to family washing. Clothes Cleaned, Fussed and
Repaired.
Phone 68 Mrs. W. M. Kirk
C. C. B0QARDU5
Assayer and Chemist
Gold and Silver $1.00 Gold Silver and Copper $2.50
40 Coi.lmria Sr..8i?jrm*.
IklWtni Steamship Company. Lid.
Carrying U. S. Mail and Express.
0 \ Five Day Kxpjrsit Srrvi<-«-*HrN't U'twccn
Sir. Santa C ara i v*id« m»i s-nui**. ^attie
r Miy 23. Jtrtir 12.'July l
ff'aiip imm Peattie ‘1st 'orp\AS ‘*Mnth for
Juneau, 'Pitta, hCaf.tlt, VJllufat, Valriet,
Peward, C<x»k Inlet tind way ftdrte. Pails
I from Valde* Hr ‘Matth :itnd "wav (torts,
^ lftth of onrh’iridnth.
Seil* from Seattle on lHth of each month
for Jtineav, Sitkii;'Ka*:tk/Yakutat Valdez,
Seward. Cbok Inlet lind ’wav porta. Con*
Str Santn Ana at Valdez with'Str. Dorn for all iiorts
ail. OOlItd A114 between Valdez artd'Unalaaka. Sail* from
Valdez for Seattle and wav porta, 1st Af
each month.
From Valdez to Unalriska rind way portB
Cfr hnn 2tith of each month, cdrirteetlng at Valdriz
Jll. UOld 1 with 8. 8. Santa Ana
Right to change steamers 'dr date of'sailing is'freS^rt-ed.
Agents for all kinds of Steam or House fro^l
J. F. tROWRRIDUE, Gen. Mfc
618 First Ave., Seattle, Wash.
C. W. MILLKR, Ass’t M*r.
Phone 16 Valdez, Alaska.
flmsKa ConnERcmL Qo.
Carrying U. S. Mail and Alaska Pacific Express.
Steamships
* Portland and ftertlidk
Railing from Seattle on the lb:h and 2'>th of each month,
calling at Juneau, Sitka, Yakutat, Kayak. EllaVnAr, Valdfe*,
Latouche, Seward, Seldovia, Homer and Kodiad.
Connecting with FAIRBANKS TRAIL at Valdes, and with
sreamer at Seldovia for Kenai, Tvoonok, Hope and Sunrike
during season of navigation on Cook Inlet.
Right is reserved to change steamer of sailing'without notice.
Home Ollice, O. J. Humphrey. Gen’l Agent,
310 Sansome St. 34 Yesler Way.
San Francisco Seattlo
J. C MARTIN, Agent,
Valdez
COAL COAL
For Sale at Low Prices in Sacks Or BuTk
Steam and Domestic Coal
Lighter ami tug service on hand to insure speedy delivery. Fre^h
water without charge. Orders received and filled at Coal Harbor, by
TIDE WATER [] CONSOLIDATED COAL CO.,
Coal Harbor, Unga Island, Alaska
• , ' ' __! •
VALDEZ LIGHT & TELEPHONE CO.
Incorporated.
We have on hand a large assortment of Electric Fixtures,
Plain and Fancy Shades, Call Bells and Annunciators.
Estimates given on all kinds of electrical work. Phone 39.
Gold Dust Exchange.
Family Liquor Store.
BottledGoods Best Brands Whiskey Port Wine
Sherry Riesling Angelica Sautettie
Blackberry'Brandy Claret by the Bottle or (jfellon
Rainier'BottledlBeer
Order By Phone Delivery Free Phone*6
HYDRAULIC
IGiants Water Lifters,
Elevators Pipes
Derricks, Gates
Questions in regard to HYDRAULIC ElfGlNEErtfflG PROB
LEMS freely answered.
THE BOUSE 00. S&a.
Cable Address “Bonseco.” Bedford McNeill Code.
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Job Printing at the Prospector Shot*