Sole Leather EVERYTHING
Harness Leather FOR
Dog Harness
Dog Collars WINTER
Dog Sleds AT
BROWNELL'S
ICSES EIEE IN
SWGEEEN CREEK
t h;ir «>" Bennett jumped from a
rah on which he. with several oih» t
men. w;i> cM-s-inir a swollen stream
which f!o'\> to Turnajrain Arm on
m;’h. Majika Central. It was
;:t •» ,. tii.m h of the -cream and the
ar carried the UUtn out
into the wa’. " where In dt-appeared
iwtere an.' t 'Tor! could he made hx the
l,*i- j ;.],•!< to r. -cue him.a- it required
ail their-tretejih and skill to man a pro
; .• raft. This xv. - !a-t Saturday
Whether Bennett jumped from the
raft in -heer | nic a- it "as to—ed
ah, to* in the ■ njrmjr water or deliher*
hu: the torm- " i- a —umed to he tin
r- >r. It i- !*> ■ ret ort, d that he had
exhibited ai > m r.t il sy mptonis tend
r . to -)itcl • at a', it -c i - prohahle
i . at tin j>r. c ; >>u- . n.ey of t lie raft
tuninei ta" > 't'\ d him of judgment
Ut.uth. e. u av that the raft "ould
r;c-"'.-e r :. an-d into ’he water with
lh .aid s" itmi i ■ " to the -hore.
. [s r wa- ■:c which tio sxvitn
, , :. . st ;■.’•••! B»e net» wa - -Wept
;iX\ iV -oas and disappeared
itii. -t :» i. !. i'e never came
t., c< in -h/ht of hi- eom*
, j.-,, ; water the Unix* tnu-t
I ,.. }, it'tly away by the
CAM DOUGHERTY INSANE
Must go to Asylum •Because He
Hus a Mile of Gold Ore
\\ ; ,t. |v ytv \v;i> comm tteti
•o i: a-\l n tor the insane In Com
ms_.- . • lli.iieoth la-t Sat-utility night
|„v:t ' I • Hi ' ^ he ha- a jrold mine
* ha* O - ! ti ' he*- tea* ! n>k like
Wtilian i- a very In -y man
aiaiitioi I> - i O'i.
a, ... •
• e : w o •••:,. \ :
which he i rO] o- - to make the I 11 - ol
K< t.ai jnnhti-ula drip with honey.
\\ U!t'- e! to create wealth
Ivzi . {, < u’uii \ 'j * * Jiiui riulUMWl,
Whe he s' t* ' I S gold strike
h»> was tur. *d »■' wn wit it scorn. 1 i*
c;UTi «; gravel info a
|,H-a; ,;i! . :11i i- turned the harkeep
that it car. bu.“>•* .'-«» in gold. He :
, lid i.e leu. ;• -• < f »l •' ore staked
itown on '.he ' T and i e want-d to
leave til** tri. mg i xhihii lie i.ad
brought wi'li hi >t the bar for dis
play pur|M"es.
The bartend* r . e’ d Dough* riv
and Ids mining . xbii.ii with slighting
remark s h n Im.* *.*.i .t **n into the
prospect-i - s.>ui,and be ret urinal latet
with an armtnl « i cot ntry rock which
|, . vvas going to heave through the |
mirror l» hind the bar, but hr was.
sto{<(>< o in ii'i e. lie also bail an ax.
I>o.;g11. rt\ a.'.s then taken to jail hut
1). made such a impt'e-sion on the
jailer that the functionary passed him
l our I fri'ked a man as prisoner who
had :i-s> . r Marshal W'\ brant to take
• Jr !• ! ' " ’t.'11 tile bastile ■
hr iiis vrt. ti that he bad j
srlected tlu* wrong man. A day or,
two aft* i ward D> gln rty was taken
out for exercise and w hen the jailer's
hack was turned hr started for hisj
mini- hut wa> captured a little later.
The rats in Dougherty's garret kept
hvtsy aid i»t:»* *»• -uch a lu-s that it was
deeitJeil to holt! an inquest of lunacy
upon him. Wh* n he v\i>> taken before j
the court l > thought lie was to be
tried lor soti.e In inuns crime, and pro
t« >:t d so warmly that Judge Hildreth
tried to comfort him by saying:
••This is only a tie unatico inquiren
do.
*•1 never done it." veiled Dougherty.
••Tho man that says sU is a durn liar.”
Dougherty*> testimony -bowed that
jt was dangerous for him to be at large
w ith as much money as he possessed.
It was feared that lie might join the
predatory rich and destroy popular
lilierty, so it was decided to send him
to the asylum at Salem, Oregon. The
commitment was not made out in time
to send him on the Kxcelsior and he
\viil go on the next boat.
wmm man
LOST ON TRAIL
—
Mil ward A. Spencer. timekeeper on
the Alaska Central, left the tunnel
camp last Thursday evening to jro t<»
t he nfadintr camp on mile ooaiul has
not since been seen, although larjre
part ies of men have b.cen seatvhinjj the
intervening region since l riday alter
noon. No doubt is entertained that
Spencer's body is lyip£ in some deep
crevasse of th«» jrlacief which the trail
crosses between the two camps.
When Spencer left the engineers'
camp iust this side of the Kieh A Har
ris camp on mile oil at •*» o'clock I'burs
i v evening Walter C. Jones, ehiel ot
the eturineeriny corps at the camp,
tried strcnuousli to dissuade him from
mm _r. tellinir him that it was extremely
mine, rolls to travel the trail in dark
ness. and especially for one man alone.
1; \\a- then almost dark and the hetivi
weather insured a nijr’ht of intense
hiackm Spencer disregarded Jones'
protects and started without a lantern,
i saying:
I'Jl nret throuirh all riirht. Hunt
worry about me.
The next afternoon :: man eaine
through from mile «’>.'> to the tunnel and
wa> askr i if Spencer hud reach-d there
tie- night before. His negative re*
spoils' - roused the camp at once and
men w ere summoned from id ' direct ions
to join n r he search h>r the mi-sing
man. The search was kept upst-a.lily
for - veral dais without u Iran.
Kv.-vy creva-st- within -0> feet on
eit'o r side of tlie winding irail which
leads between the tunnel eamp and
camp .’>■"» i.as been peered into carefully,
b u tio sign ot Spencer has 1«.- n found.
Not ev.-n a footprint leading away
from the trail has been observed.
fspencf came to Seward in \ngust
horn «'aklund. California, where his
:.tlu r is a well-known business t an.
H" was a graduate of the Oakland
high school and an rx-student of St;m
f.itdi university. Before coming to
Seward h- had held an important post
on an Oakland electric line.
.lot* Smith was killed instantly by «
ruck from a blast while standing with
three (tiro* m ■: 'i.Je fe> t from the blast,
wit mile b* of the railroad yesterday.
His bead w s crushed by the reck,
which dropped sijwurelvupon his head,
and brains oozed from the fractured
skull.
The unfortunate man saw the rock
an instant before it fell upon him and!
ducked in an ebort to evade it. Instead j
he thrust his head directly under it.
His companions think that it he had
stood still the missile would have ban.
lv grazed him. All four men bad run
to what they deemed a safe distance
after lijjhtinjf the fuse, but the frag
ment which ended Smith’s life seemed
to receive tin unusual impetus, and sail
ed far and hijfh, falling with deadly
precision upon its victim.
LEO CAMERON BUSY AGAIN
Notorious Youth Who Once Stirred
up Seward Heard From
Leo Cameron, who has been trying
for several years to break into some
body's penitentiary, and who helped
tor several months this year to keep
Seward busy, has stopped into the lime
light once more. Thi> time he helped
kick a hole in tin* side of the pig pen
which serves Seattle a> a city jail and
escaped with several other* gentlemen
who were guests of the Sound city un
der compulsion.
The young man is the son of a Seat tie
patrolman, who once arrested the boy
himself for stealing. In Seward last
| March he dropped a hog overboard
from the steamer Santa Ana, and then
j took a small boat and went out and
! picked up the animal. For this feat he
i was rewarded with ninety days in jail.
FORGER SKIPS j
OUT WITH $800
Wallace tiocdall Makes Maul by
Smooth Work and Gets Long
Start of Pursuit.
I .on vine **<H) forjfed paper behind him ]
to rotniiHl trustine acquaintances that !
ho had helped make local history.
Wallace (loodall. a clerk of the Alaska
'central, quietly slipped out on the I
Santa Ana in the early morninjr of
: October 2 without explaining the ne
cessity which impelled him to {five up
a nod job and depart in such a burry.
(loodall forced the name of I’ayimis
t,■ r F. K. Yount's to checks calling for
about sj'fitKK and cashed them at dilTer
ent .-aloons. About the same time lie
stole from a letter a draft for ^21 •
jdrawn by the railway treasurer's oilier
in favor et Booth A’ Watson, merchants
at Hope, forced an indorsement on the
back, and obtained the money from the
> Batik of Seward.
The youny former t lined Ins fine wot k
so as to get more than thirty day sstart
of pursuit. He cashed the checks
after the hank closed, Saturday even
ing. September JO. The cheeks were
not deposited in the hank until Monday
October-. Had the forgery heeil de
tected then it would have been easy to
cable to Valdez a warrant for his arrest.
Kven a few days later lie could have
been picked up at Juneau or Seattle, i
No mischance interfered wit h his plans. |
The forym-hs were so perfectly ex-1
eeuted that the false signatures passed j
muster at the hank and the checks lay
there harmlessly until they were re
turned to the railroad company at the
end, of October, aceordiny to i unking ,
custom.
When the treasurer’s ollice he van j
cheek in v up al‘t'*r t lie return ef the!
checks early in November the former-1
i» s were promptly discovered, but the
officials admit it was no marvel that
they went through. Me. X ounys said
said of the job:
••The forced signatures had me guess- <
iny for a minut -. They were what you
would call 'pretty work'.’’
fable requests for (totxia ''appr
hension have been sent to the states,
but lie had a long start. The story of
his crimes was kept secret until
the bank notified the men who do-'
p.i-ited the checks to make “food, and
in ifiat way the facts crept out.
('iuodall came up in August on the!
Valencia and :ji once obtained a cleri
cal job. At times he worked in the1
t'•••asurer’s office and in that way*
barned its business system and studied
Mr. Y ounys’ signature. In tin-re he
stole tiie letter containing tin check
for !Sooth ik Watson.
When (moduli went, away he told!
the vicls that he was going out to take ;
possession of a fortune of *20, (too. lie <
did not say exactly where it was I
located, and the prospect of wealth:
seerus not to have made him oblivious j
to the opportunity to acquire smaller j
sums. While here his banking busi
ness was chiefly confined to playiny
the hiyli card, which lie did with per-j
sis*nicy and regularity.
In Su:i Francisco (iuodall was last
employed by the telephone company,
lie stated here that he was a native of
Louisiana.
ORDERS DISCHARGE
OE MARTIN WELCH
Martin Welch, railroad contractor
on Turnagain Arm, was discharged by
('outmissioner (Joodell at the close of
the preliminary hearing to determine
the measure of his responsibility for
the death of August Xilson, a laborer
in his camp, in an altercation October
It). The commissioner found, as did
t he coroner’s jury which he impaneled
the da\ after the tragedy, that Xilson
I died of heart disease, caused by excite
ment. The hearing closed at Sunrise
Wednesday night.
All the doctors testified that Xilson's
heart was in such a state that lie was
liable to drop dead at any moment
through undue excitement or exertion.
At the inquest Commissioner Goodell
and the six jurors examined Xilson's
body and lound no marks of violence.
On this fact, the testimony of the doc
tors as to Xilson's condition, and the
testimony of the majority of the eye
witnesses that Welch merely slapped
Xilson. the commissioner based(nis de
cision that no probable cause existed
which would justify him in holding
Mr. Welch on the charge of homicide
! to answer in the district court.
STOVES AND RANGES
Wholesale and Retail
TIN, BRASS AND SHEET STEEL WORK
JOBBING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
JJO l(> Winehpstpi* Repeating Rifles. Axps, Saws
%2G<x>o<x>g<><>c<><>g<?<><>oc<>oc&c^~<>c<x>o<>c<x>c>o<>oc<>o
large Assortment of Tents, (iranitc and Tinware
s i r.p a. ff ™UR™ AV--^
4# • Is., Nsu# 8 F*l\ ilLca 0 SEWARD, ALASKA
,wr-i -r T3I :i*l I I ■ I IW |
j COLEMAN HOUSE";
H. N. COLEMAN, Proprietor
Electric Lights and Electric Bells in every room
Rates from 50c to $2.50 per day
Absolutely First-Class
EXCELLENT CAFE IN (ON N ECTION
Fourth A veil up - - - Howard, Alaska if
iMHiiia if TnrnT~nrr~rT-ini-inn' .irj?t-rr-rr;
r —. n—*■ ■him w< iwwwtm » *•» i»w»r, r i»m< UMsuMMuntii ■■■ n* »• * mm ••
BAY CITY MARKETi
WHOI.KSAI.K AND KKTAII. DKAI.KKS IN
fresh Beef, PorK, Veal and Mutton
Mams, Bacon and Lard Constantly on hand
Small & Glasbrenner
F. G. HALE. President 0. E. DICKERMAN, Vicc-Prcs. j
BANK OF SEWARD
Transacts a General Banking Business
We receUe deposit*. buy mill -oil exrliab :< . lor -'ll ■ :d • i■»rij• ■ ^t ix*: buy -old
dust and bullion: main’collectiotiv Ini.,mess eon; -nit t* . n> our eat*- wili
receive t<r*»mt»t utid careful attent ioti ■ ■■■•■ ..
Yojr Business is Solicited
I [NORTHERN .QALOOnI
E. L. WHITTEI7IOR5, PROPRIETOR |
! WjNES, JJQUQRS AND OiSARS I
j FOURTH AVE, SEWARD. ALASKA
;____ .
! ASHLAND HOUSE I
AND BANK SALOON
Wines, Liquors and Cigars First-class Furnished Rooms
Fourth A ve.,Opposite Alaska Central Commercial Co.
1 Restaurant in connec ion. WUI \Ct 4 TII0'*1PS0\. Proprietors
I ...._..„....
Fourth avenue, * - * Seward, Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
New, Neat and Comfortable. F. V. TH0\ft$. Prop, j
tOX ISLAND LOR SALt
Ten miles from Seward. The island
is two miles lonj? undone mile wide.
I will -.ell my squatter^ claim and 42.‘»
foxes, whose skins are worth an average
of *20 each, for *2o00, which is less than
one-third of the value of the skins.
Offer is made because I wish to jro up
the Susitna to prospect for a year.
Alfred Lowell,
Third avenue. Seward.
FOR SALE OR LEASE: lot 1',
block 10, between Brown A Hawkins
anil bakery: C. B. Cave, General
Deliver, Seattle.
Take a bath at Gould and Conners.
G. W. PALMER
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Prospector's Outfits High
est Prices Paid for Furs_
Knik P. O. Alaska
w. a. McPherson j
scenicphotogrape:er|
Views for sale at Seward News
Stand and Owl Drug Store.
Address, Seward P. <). Studio at
ranch, on railroad three miles north