VOL. 10. N0- M
MURDER TRIAL
IT FAIRBANKS
Italian Who Stabbed Countryman
With Dagger Last Summer on Trial
for Life Before judge duller.
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 5.—The trial of
Frank Albani for the murder of Steve
Borrosco began before Judge Fuller
here this morning. The murder took
place at a claim where the men were
working on Chatanika creek on Aug
ust 29th last.
The men were both Italians and had
some words in a roadhouse near the |
claim. They came to blows and Al- !
bani received the worst of the en- j
counter. They were separated by j
bystanders and Albani went to the j
bunkhouse to pack up his belongings, ,
as he was to take the next boat for |
the states. He had intended visiting j
the old country before returning to ;
Alaska.
While packing his war bag he sec- j
reted a dagger in the folds of his j
shirt and was evidently prepared for 1
his antagonist should they again
come to blows. When leaving the
house he met Borrosco and attacked
him without a moment’s warning.
Borrosco was accompanied by sever
al countrymen whom he had request
ed to go with him, as he feared that
Albani would kill him if the oppor
tunity presented itself. The dagger
penetrated his heart and he died in
stantly.
The men who had accompanied the
dead man to the bunkhouse were
afraid to attempt his capture and
he tried to make his escape. The
news of the murder was telephoned
to all sections of the district by the
marshal’s office, which offered a re
ward for his capture dead or alive.
The murderer v.as apprehended fou>
miles from the scene < f the crime
by Thos. Rockwell iho proprietor of
a roadhouse.
The crime created intense feeling
among the miners on the creeks and
it was feared that he might be lynch
ed and whs hurried to town. The
coroner, after investigation, reported
that the deceased had come to his
death by being stabbed with a dag
ger which had reached the heart,
causing instant death. The district
attorney’s office caused the body to
be exhumed and an examination made
to place the evidence before the
grand jury. It is believed that diffi
culty will be experienced in securing
a jury as feeling against the murder
er is intense.
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BURNSIDE IS
NOT REPORTED
May be on Drydock—She Generally is
Or Possibly the Cable Repair
Ship is Coming fHortii.
Lieut. Dougherty, of the local ca
ble office, hast not received any word
from the cable repair ship Burnside,
and it is not known yet if the boat j
has started for Sitka to repair the j
break in the Valdez-Sitka line. Never
in the history of the government ca
ble has the Burnside been ready to
start north to make repairs at the
immediate time a break occurred.
The boat is generally herself un
dergoing repairs at Bremerton, and
for the most part is in drydock. The
cable repair machinery, op several oc
casions, has'been loaded onto a treow i
and taken north; at? other times the
ship is taken off drydock and sent j
north after a few Weeks’ lost time.
God, only, knows how long it will ;
take the former Spanish merchant
vessel to make the repair of the pres
ent break..
Lot us pray.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
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MANY PTARMIGAN
ABOUT VALDEZ
Hunters Have to Go But Sbort Dis
tance From City LiEnits to Bag
All They Desire.
Hundreds of ptarmigan have been
killed the past week by the Nimrods
of Valdez, who have had only to leave
the city limits to find flocks of hun
dreds of the snow white birds driven
to the flats because of the heavy fall
of lig't snow on the mountains.
Ptarmigan are more numerous this
year than at any time since '98, say
the glacier builders, and they should
know because they were here the past
fifteen years, and in the early days
when the Excelsior and Dora were
the only steamers on the Valdez run
and they forgot to make trips from
November until about February or
March, forcing many of the boys to
depend upon ptarmigan to keep them
alive; and, therefore, as stated above,
they know.
The reason given by tlie ers tor
the large number of ptarmigan this
season is the past dry and long sum
mer, which enabled the birds to hatch
their young unmolested by heavy falls
of snow in the spring, and later, when
the small chicks were hatched, the
lack of rain saved many from con
tracting colds as they wallowed
through the wet grass in the hunt for
bugs and seed upon which to live*
A long rainy season is always said
to kill off the young ptarmigan chicks.
Many of the hunters are forced to
quit shooting as they succeed in bag
ging all the law allows, which s 25
ptarmigan in the possession of any
one person on any day.
ARE SUIMgToR
MINE MACHINERY
Mineral Creek and Rutherford In
District Court Regarding Mine Ma
chinery On Glacier Claims.
The district court has been busy
all day hearing the evidence in the
suit of the Mineral Creek Mining
company against Ramsay-Rutherford
to recover damages for the machin
ery installed upon the claims of the
two miners by the Mineral Creek
company but retained by the owners
of the claim when the option to buy
the property was surrendered.
The machinery is valued at $3,
300.00 and supplies said to be worth
32.400.00 were also lef' on the ground
by the company and later when they
wished to remove it they were warn
ed not to trespass upon the claims
and consequently the machinery and
supplies were never taken off the
ground.
Ramsay and Rutherford do not
claim the supplies but contend that
the machinery Installed on the claims
became the property of the locators
of the claims end could not be taken
off the ground. i
The suit is being heard by Judge
Brown without a. jury.
CARRIES 1,900 BOXES
OF YAKIMA APPLES\
Recently the Japanese steamer Sd>
attle Maru of the Osaka Shosen Kai
sha line sailed for the Orient w-*h a‘
cargo valued at $510,000. She took
50 steerage passengers from Seattle'
nnd, plckqd up 130 ‘ yi^ofia. Her;
cotton shipment consisted of 2,400,
hales valued at $155,000.' She loaded
pipe and electrical machinery -valued
at $100,000. A shipment of 1,900 bo**
es of Yakima apples valued at $2$20io
w s ? feature of the cargo. ___.;!
Nothing more appropriate than- a
box of Lowncy’s dainty candies as a !
Christmas gift. Valdez Drug Store.
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TERRITORIAL LAWS PASSED
TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE
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BE YOUR OWN LAWYER AND INCORPORATE YOUR OWN MINING
COMPANIES—IF YOU CiAN’T UNDERSTAND IT CONSULT AN
ATTORNEY AND HE WILL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU.
AN ACT to make uniform the law of
business corporations in the Terri
tory of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the Territory of Alaska:
Section 1. That three or more nat
ural persons of full age, two-thirds of
whom are bona fide residents of the
Territory of Alaska, may unate to
form a stock corporation for any law
ful business purpose or purposes,
whose chief business shall be in the
Territory of Alask", except for the
purpose of banking, insurance, brok
erage, or loan, trust and guaranty as
sociations.
Sec. 2. That the articles of in
corporal ion shall be made in {tripli
cate, signed by each of the incorpor
ators, acknowledged by at least? t! ree
of them before any officer authorized
lo take the acknowledgment of deeds,
and shall file one of such articles in
the office of the Secretary of the
Territory of Alaska, and another in
the office of the clerk of the district
court of the judicial division in which
the principal place of business of the
company is intended to be located,
and retain the third in the posses
sion of the corporation, and each copy
so tiled shall be recorded by the offi
cer with whom fded in a book to be
kept by hint for that purpose.
Said articles shall contain and state:
1. The name of the corporation,
which shall not be the same as, nor
so siflillar as to cause confusion With,
the name of any other domestic" cor
poration or foreign corporation admit
ted to do business in this territory,
and shall be such as to indicate that
it is :> corporation as distinguished
from a natural person or partnership.
2. The purpose or purposes for
which it is formed.
2. The amount of capital stock,
how the same shall be paid in, and
what proportion, if any, is preferred
stock and its preferences, in con
fc niity with section 5, of this act.
I. The number of shares of which
the capital stock shall consist, each
of which shall not be less than one
dollar nor more than one hundred
dollars.
5. The location of its principal
place of transacting business, which
shall be within this territory.
6. The period of duration, if limit
ed,
7. The highest amount of indebt
edness or liability to which said cor
poration shall at any time be sub
ject.
8. Tlte number of its directors,
which shall not be less than three,
with the names and postoffice ad
dresses of those selected to serve for
the first year, or until their success
ors are elected.
9. The time and place of holding
its annual meeting of stockholders,
in conformity with section 9 of this
act.
1". The names and places of resi
cenee of th > perso. s forming the cor
l oration.
11 The articles of incorporation
may contain any other prevision, not
inconsistent with this act,, regulating
the business and conduct of the af
fairs of the corporation, and limit
ing i‘s powers, and .the-power of its
directors- and stockholders not • ex
empting them,-however, from any ob
ligation. nor from the performance of
any dijty. imposed by law.
12. The articles cif incorporation
may- he amended when authorized by
the vote of » majority of the stock
given at a tegular , meeting of the
stockholders. Such amended art'cles
may be executed tatad acknowledged
by the board ?f dirqat^U'S, or a major
ity *bf them, and ity&l be filed and
recorded in the same place and man
ner as »he original articles.
Sec. 3.. That when .the articles of
incorporation have ’been filed and re-1
corded,-the persons who have duly1
executed the same, and their success
ors, shall he ' a ■ bpdy cprpbrate and
politic in f'-'c' nnd in law in ttfe flame
stated in the articles of Incorpora
tion, and by such corporate name
shall have succession for the time
stated in such articles of incorpora
tion, and shall have power:
1. To make and use a common
seal, and alter the same at pleas
ure.
2. To sue and be sued by its cor
porate name in any court having jur
isdiction.
2. To purchase, hold, mortgage,
«ell and convey real and personal
property subject to such limitafons as
shall be prescribed by law.
1. To appoint such officers, agents
and servants as the business of the
corporation shall require, to define
tlieir powers, prescribe their duties,
and lix their compensation.
r>. To make by-laws, not inconsist
ent with any existing law, fixing or al
tering the management of its prop
erty, the regulation and government
of its affairs, and the manner of the
certification and transfer of its stock.
6. To wind up and dissolve itself,
or to be wound up and dissolved in
the manner hereinafter prescribed.
7. To carry on all kinds of busi
ness within -he scope and power of
its articles of incorporation.
Sec. 4. The stock of every corpor
; ation organized under the provisions
I of *b's »ct shall be represented by
j certificates, the form of which shall
be determined by the directors, and
t signed by the president or vice-pres
ident, and sealed with .the seal of the
corporation, and shall be transferable
as provided in the I'niform Stock
Transfer Act as passed by the Leg
islature of the Territory of Alaska,
and approved by the Governor of the
Territory of Alaska, April 28, 1913.
Sec. 5. Every corporation organiz
ed under this act shall have power to
I create two or mo.e kinds of stock.'
of such classes, with such designa-!
(ions, preferences, and voting pow
ers or restrictions or qualifications
thereof as shall t.e stated and ex
pressed in the articles of incorpora
tion or in any amendment thereof; j
and the power to increase or decrease
stocks as in this act elsewhere provid
ed shall apply to all or any of the
classes of stock; but at no time shall
the- total amount of the preferred
stocks issued and outstanding exceed
two-thirds of the capital stock paid
lor in cash, moor, or property es
timated at its true money value, and
such preferred stocks may if desired
be made subject 10 redemption at any
time after three years from the issue
thereof, at a price not less than par,
and the holders thereof shall be en
titled to receive, and the corporation
shall be bound to pay thereon, divi
dends at such rates and on such con
ditions as shall be stated in the orig- j
inal or amended articles of incor- •
porafion, not exceeding eight percen-j
turn per annum, payable quarterly,
half yearly, or yearly; and such divi
dends may be made payable before
any dividends shall be set apart or
paid on the common stock, and such
dividends ntay .be made cumulative;
provided,. the corporation shall set
apart or pay the said dividends to
the holders of non-cumulative pre
ferred stock before any ■ dividend
shall be paid on the common stock; |
hut in case of insolvency the debts
nr other liabilities, of the corporation
shall be paid in preference to the
preferred stock.
Sec. 6. That no corporation shall
issue any of its stock except, in con
sideration, of money, lhbpr, or prop
erty., estimated at its true money yal- i
ue.
Sec. 7. Subscriptions to the capl-j
? al stot;k • of r. corporation shall be j
paid at .such dimes and in such .in- j
stallmenis as the by-laws may pro-j
.vide, unless otherwisje provided by”
this ret. If default! shall be made in j
tho payment of any; installment as
thereby required, theboaid 'of direct
ors may • declare the; stock and all
previous . payment's t&ereon forfeited
fOr'-th^-use- of the. jeorppnttiop,* after*;
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Messages Can be Sent Via the Whits
hed Navy 8tatfon at Thirty
Cents a Word.
The government wireless station at
Whitshed. operated by the Navy de
partment, is now in working condi
tion and messages are taken at the
local cable office for points in the
states to be sent via the wireless at
Whitshed then to Sitka, then to the
North Cape station via the Ketchi
kan station. The charges are not as
heavy as ov r the Canadian line, and
the service is much better, as the
Dotninion line is down for more than
half the time during winter.
The cost of messages to the states j
can be had upon application at the
local cable office, where Cashier Roy
will willingly give any aid and in
formation desired by the public.
Prom Seattle to Valdez the cost is
thirty cents a word, cable count—
which means you pay for ail the
words in the address and besides the
body of the message and for the sig
nature, which is not the case with
messages over the military cable line, j
the address not being counted at all,
nor the signature.
No press rate is allowed via the
wireless, so the Prospector cannot
avail ilself of that means of securing
information. At thirty cents a word
this paper would pay $150.00 a day
for the ordinary amount of press and
when big news events are happening
in the states or any place in the
world, two and three limes as many
'words are received Even to cut the
amount of press news to 100 words
is prohibitive to a paper in any of
'lif small A!"ska towns.
JUROR’S ILLNESS
DELAYS IRE CASE
Juryman Was Suffering- From Lung
Trouble and Required the Ser
vices of a Physician.
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 5.—Progress in
t le trial of John VVigger was inter
rupted yesterday forenoon through
the illness of William Julian, a juror
In the case. Julian is suffering from
lung trouble and required the ser
vices of a physician.
The trial was resumed this morn
ing with only the court officials, the
witnesses and several attorneys in at
tendance, the public having been ex
cluded from the court room by the
judge during the tatting of testimony.
It is believed the case will occupy
the attention of tile court for sev
eral days as the attorney for the de
fense is making a hard tight for his
client.
District Attorney Crossley, who
wired the attorney general’s depart
ment tor permission to carry the case
to t' e higher courts, has not heard
from the department owing to the
cable service being interrupted. Judge
Fuller sustained d murrers by the
defendant’s attorney to three of the
four counts upon which he was indict
ed and-it is upon these grounds that
the c>se may be carried to the high
er court for a ruling as to the val
idity of local legislative laws which
conflict with the- statutes.
' Brighton Leave* Next Sunday.
The launch Brighton, in command
of Captain Stamey, will leave Valdez
next Sunday for Port Wells. and way
ports, v'A large number of passengers
are expected to go to Port Wells on
tbls._t.rip.. of,Jbe staunch little eraft.
L. C- Byers, the'Golden merchant,
is In town for a short visit and‘will
return to Port Wetyt.on the Brighton,
which leaves on Sunday.
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■ ■ The. Valflez. PPCs1® Co. soils Mazda
lifihps. r Telephonw 57.
WOULD MINE GOAL
ON ROYALTY BASIS
Senator Chamberlain Believes He Can
Secure Passage of Measure to
Provide Temporary Belief.
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 5— Senator Geo.
E. Chamberlain, of Oregon, has writ
ten Leroy Tozier, the local attorney,
to prepare a bill to provide temporary
relief in the coal bituation. The sen
ator has asked that the bill be draft
ed so as to put the coal on the same
royalty basis as timber in the forest
reserves. Fnder the bill the coal
mined will be for home consumption
only.
| Senator Chamberlain has promised
I to father the measure and to use his
I utmost endeavor to secure its pass
| age at an early date after the open
j ing of the regular session of congress,
i He states that all the western mem
j bers of the Senate and congress will
undoubtedly favor the measure, lit
j believes that further delay may occur
jin the administration’s reaching a so
| lotion of the coal situation but that
! no objection will be interposed to the
I b'll to provide temporary relief for
j Alaskans in order that they may
mine the coal required for their own
j use.
i Falcon Joslyn, who is now on the
! outside, urged the adoption of such
la measure and it is believed that he
ihas induced Senator Chamberlain to
father the bill. Should the measure
pass, providing for a definite term un
der which coai lands could be secur
ed, it is understood that capitalists
! are ready to open the coal mines near
j N'enana and arrange for its transpor
j tation to supply the market here.
GRANDFATHER OF ALL
LOBSTERS IS CAUGHT
1 “Grandfather of all living lobsters’’
! w s the title accorded a giant crus
tacean brought to Boston recently.
| Tile following figures indicate its size:
i Weight. 27 pounds: age, about 5u
! years: spread from da wto claw, 27
: inches: length of claw, 24 inches:
j feelers. 20 inches: width of back, 10
! inches.
OPERATION SUCCESSFUL
BUT PATIENT IS DEAD
I FAIRBANKS, Dec. !>.—Thomas Car
i rol, an old-timer in the interior of
Alaska, and a. resident of this sec
tion for several years, died yesterday
following an operation for intestinal
trouble. The deceased had been a
sufferer for a long time.
NEWSBOY STOCK
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Shares Which Were Considered of
Little Value Some Months Ago
Are Finding Ready Buyers.
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: FAIRBANKS, Dec. 5.—The result
, of the cleanup at the Newsboy mine
I has caused a brisk demand for the
i stock of that company. Thirty-five
! thousand shares changed hands today
j at price which indicates that it will
I soon go to par. Reports have come
! from the property which also indi
i cate that it will soon be among the
good dividend payers,
j puring the past three months the
; profits from the mine have been in
I, excess, of ?10;'000 and development
| work has been carried on extensive
,ly. A lurge^hpdy. of. ooptmertjial ore
J has been blocked out and It is be
. lieved that next month will witness
: o substantial dividend being declared.
1 The mine is now under new manage
ment.
Elliot Stewart has improved front
ills relapse of a few days ago, when
he was forced to agaip .fake to his
bed for . two days.
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