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SATURDAY. JULY 27. lt*>7
THI FORCE OF HABIT
Why the revenue officers who cap
tured the Japanese poaching schooners
in Hering sea dispatched one cutter to
Sitka to rejKjrt U»e fact while the re
mainder of the revenue force held the
captive-at I'nalaska or took them to
I’nga, it seems uncertain which, can
Ih* explaiued on no basis except that
the average subordinate official knows
noting except what he acquires by
habit,
S< ward is at least a day - sail
ing nearer the scene of the capture
than Sitka. It i- in the judicial divis
ion ’ahere the prisoners must be tried.
Here are a representative of the
district attorney’s office and of the
United States marshal’s office for the
division, amt a cable office from which
the administration at Washington could
be n ' itied. Vet the lord high admiral
of 11 !. venue fleet seems never to have
thought of this or else he must have
though: it would not be legal to coin
mar, cate with Washington except from
a town where the American flag was
tir-t raised forty years ago.
'|*o make the ease worse a -mi oar
cap:-.Mr was effected last year and as
soon a- somebody with a thinker got
hold or tiie matter the prisoner- were
taken to VaKle/ to l»e tried. Hii
o"_ z *o have been sufficient pi-voder. *
even for a revenue officer but it could
not w!:h-tand the overpowering fore •
of aneient habit and tradition. When
the Japanese were arrested at the
Pribd ■: i-’ami- last year District Vttor
ney t u__ happened to run acro-s the
revenue fleet raid he ordered tlie pri
one: - to be taken to \ uute/. ba: the
revei tiepoo-bahknewnnreth n.awthe
at: nicy u.d he took the captiv - to
Kodiak, lu id a preliminary examinat ion
be for ct mini—toner ami then took
them to Valdez, where they were tried
in tin di-trict court.
In eons p.a of all this legal and
judicial wiseotu on the part of the rev
enue officers the attorney-genera; -
ctep 'tment is handicapped in handling
the ea-e. A- -oon as the news of the
capture was received the department
cabled to District Attorney Hay to pro
ceed to the westward and take charge
of the matter. He went on the tir-t
merchant steamer but lie can only
gue— whether he will find the -quad
at Kodiak, I’nga or Knalaska. He
may rind when he reaches l’nala-ka
that a revenue cutter turned up at
Valdez with the prisoners a few hours
after it was too late to reach him by •
cable. All this uncertainty and pos
sible complications yet to come would j
have been avoided if the captured Jap
ane-e had been brought directly to
Seward or Valdez.
WIRELESS ON PENINSULA
Wh e the government is indus
triously installing wireless stations to
supersede eable and land lines that are !
U;A' ng fairly some wise official might
with gooti vfleet study the importance
of locating wireless plants along the
Alaskr peninsula. Stations at Kodiak
and I'nalaska with one between, at
^’hignik or I’nga, could establish con
nection with a station at Seward, the i
cable terminus, and afford prompt
communication for all important points
on the peninsula with the outside
world.
A wireless system embracing the
tfcret stations suggested besides Se
ward. in times of international cum
plic:d «-ns. such a- the troubles with
Japanese poacher', might *ave the'
government a great deal of expense
and nutation. It would also be of
jvtva! value to the growing business
interests along the peninsula and
would pay its way.
It i> currently reported that the Rey
nold-Alaska Development Company
now controls the stock of the Alaska
Coa>t Company. The Gateway publish
ed a Seattle dispatch a few days ago
which stated that a majority of the
stock had passed to eastern hands.
The report that the Reynolds company
has bought control of the Alaska Coast ►
is given credence by the previous story ,
that it intended >oon to operate a line'
of steamers which would run direct to
Latouche and Seward from Seattle.
The sponsors for the story assert that
the entire facts will be public property
soon.
The Seattle papers are being' filled
up with tales of bloodshed and pitched
battles at Katalla between the war
ring railroad factions, emanating from
Valdez. According to the veracious
correspondents there is notjmuch doing
but fighting at Katalla these days.
Well, it makes good reading for the
outside, even though all the fighting
so far is regarded as a joke at Katalla.
VIRTUOUS SEATTLE SPIRIT
And so Seattle shopkeepers through
a chamber of commerce committee ap
pointed for the purpose have met and
whitewashed themselves, setting forth
their innocence of the charge made by
Congressman Humphrey that Seattle
holds up Alaska on every possible oc
casion in trade dealings. Neverthe
less every Alaska man knows the
charge is true, though it was not to he
expected that the Spirit would plead
guilty. If Seattle shopkeepers and
newspapers are disposed to invite pub
lic exposure the Gateway will cheer
fully supply a stock of information.
Alaska " ill never get a square deal
from Seattle until some rival city en
ters the field with constant competi
tion. or Seattle truly reforms.
Meanwhile if Seattle would like to
induce Alaska to warm up to the
Seattle exposition it might make a
conciliatory overture by dropping the
wharfage rate on Alaska shipments
•Yom 50 cents a ton to the 25cents
which Oriental cargoes pay.
The \Vrange 1 Sentinel bumps knock
ers with a knotty stick, not hesitating
to mention that Wrangel has a few.
The Sentinel ntlirms that these persons
will keep knocking until they reach the
gate of heaven and that all their
knocking will not secure them admis
sion there, nor at the other place. It
must he that Wrangel has some mem-j
l„ ps of the So ward society of knockers |
who mosey around and snarl every time
a live man trios '.o start something to
build up the town.
A man was heard last week to say
that ho would as soon think of a man
evolved from a camel as a monkey. W e
hadn't. \ny camel will work seven
days without drinking, while many's|
he man that will drink seven dayst
without working. If indicat ions count, i
man descended from a goat, for they
are the only animals who chew tobacco,;
oat anything, wear whiskers and butt:
in. Douglas Island News.
Alaska is expanding in physical
proportions as well as in various other
way>. t'onvulsionsof nature have add- j
ed a couple of islands to her domain
A the southwestern section, and now!
o.;:.es the report that a large-sized
traction i> added to her eastern ex-j
tremity as a result of the resurvey of
the boundary line.
It i> to be iioped that no internation
al complications will arise from the
•puney of a rector's wife and a Jap
anese tlunKv in Seattle.
Gov. Johnson will get himself dislik* j
ed if he insists that strikers shall not
enforce their demands by raising hell
with everybody.
James it. Duke, the cigarette mag
nate. has married a famous beauty.
Now just watch his fortune smoke.
COPPER FIND
ON KODIAK
Continued from page 1)
erty are L. L. Bowers, deputy U. S.
marshal at Kodiak: Charles Pajoman,
a merchant at Afognak, and Nick
LarionofT, a miner. A shaft is being
sank on the ore body and as depth is
obtained a decided increase in values
is noted.
Kodiak island has long been consid
ered a desirable field for prospectors.
The mining of gold from the beaches
is the yearly summer vocation of a
fi w hardy old miners, and the native
population also rock out a little dust
from the golden sands. There can be
m doubt but that these beach mineral j
ieposits have their source in free :
▼old quart/, ledges in close proximity, j
Look Closer Home
Tke Post-Intelligencer and the Times j;
H>th claim that immense frauds have i
;>een perpetrated in the acquisition of :
Alaska coal lands. They say that i
practically all the coal lands of the dis
trict known to be of value have been i
absorbed by one or two interests, and \
that gros- frauds and illegal methods
have been employed.
They urge the department of the in
terior to institute an investigation.
Any fool who runs can read the hand-1
writingonthe wall concerning Seattle’s :
interests in the ‘'frauds’’ in the Alaska I
coal lands. The development of the
Alaska coal lands will do more than j
any other thing to let Alaska out from
under the ban of tlie Seattle Spirit.
When the Seattle Times and l’ost-ln- j
telligencer both agree on a thing you
can wager your last penny that the
Seattle Spirit is working overtime.
-Juneau Transcript.
Nothing Bothered Him but Water
William Beerman protests against
the statement in the Gateway from its
Reynolds correspondent that he was
drunk when the small boat capsized
off Latouche island with himself and
others, resulting in the drowning of
Axel Sunburn. He affirms that he
was perfectly sober but admits that
another man in the boat carried an
excess load of alcohol. He says it was
the shifting of cargo by the intoxi
cated passenger that overturned the
boat.
LOSE TWO MEN
ON SWAN CREEK
Frank Stream and Alex Kirkwood
of Florence Exploring:
Party Drowned.
Frank Stream ami Alex Kirkwood of
the Florence party who went back of
Iliamna to investigate the mineral re
sources along the proposed r>ute of a
railroad to the interior through that
region, were drowned late in June in
Swan creek, a trihutary of the Mill*
chatna. Three horses were also
drowned and the los^ of men and horses
broke up the expedition. The sur
vivors are going out on the Portland.
Stream’s body was recovered and
buried but Kirkwood’s was not.
Stream was well known in this part of
Alaska, where he had lived for several
years. His home was in Valdez and
his mother lived in Seattle. Kirk
wood was from Seattle.
There were six men in the party
when they went inside two months
ago and they had six horses. The
country is very rough and after warm
weather set in the streams wore much
swollen. When the two men whoj
lost their lives failed to return a!
search of several days was made before
lhe dead horses were found on June lit),1
Bv continued search Stream’s body was
found but the hunt for Kirkwood’s
remains had to be abandoned.
The members of the party who are j
going out are J. E. Florence, mining
engineer, George Aggers of Seattle,
Gourtlandt Massieof New \ ork and'
Emil Tarr of Valdez. Another ex
ploring party will be organized to pur-'
sue the work.
PAY ON MANY
INNOKO CLAIMS
(Continued from page 1)_
I was witin titty-live miles of the mouth
of Gaines and met several men who
had been on the creek and had seen,
the prospects there.
Fifteen Fay Claims
"It was the only creek, they told
me. upon which pay had been located.
Summarizing data given me hy sever*
al. 1 was told that pay had been uncov
ered on the following claims on Gaines I
First tier, right limit benches olT 1.3,
10 and 3 above, discovery, 3 and 4 be
low; creek claims 12, 4 and 3 above, i,;
s and 10 below. Fay was also claimed
on a bench of Finn gulch, com-,
ing into Gaines at 14 below, and the
left limit benches of Gaines opposite
21 and 23 below.
"As can be seen from the extent of
this prospecting, considerable work was
done during the winter, and it follow
ed naturally that everything favorably
located was started.
“The whole valllev is staked for
thirty miles above the mouth.
“Prospecting Gaines was not a dif
ficult matter because of the shalow;
ground. Most of the holes were put
down from 12 to 20 feet to reach bed
rock, a few of the deeper ones having
been put down to the 30-foot level.
Geological Formation
“As for the geological formation of
the country through which the south j
fork flows, it is made up of slate with
considerable spar. Wash on the bars
appears to be mainly granite and por- i
phry with occasional phonolite. The
formation is considerably worn and j
weathered, oxide of irou appears in '
he gravel along the river bank in:
itreaks several inches in width.
“Thirty miles up Gaines creek the,
formation changes into granite, which |
•uns parallel, so for as prospecting has j
diown, with the mountain range that
livides the lvuskokwim from the In-1
ioko. Further prospecting on creeks j
crosscutting this slate and granite
nay possibly develop other placer
rearing ground.
“The men 1 met told me of three
ither creeks pretty generally staked.
Yankee, coming in three miles above
Gaines, had as yet shown no pay.
Folger is a long right limit tributary j
jf the fork, coming in 75 miles below ;
Gaines. Colors, but nothing like pay, j
had been found on it.”
About 500 miles up from the mouth j
of the Innoko, at the head of naviga-1
tion, a townsite has been located,1
named Simel, after the locator.
Dr. C. L. Hale sailed on the Dora |
for Seldovia, where he has several|
large dental contracts awaiting him.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
United States of America * gg
Territory of Alaska t
In the United States Commission-bits
Court for Kodiak Precinct. In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Feodor
GregorolT, deceased. , . ._ .
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
administrator of the estate of Feodor GregorofT,
deceased, to the creditors of. and all persons
having claims against the said deceased to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouchers within
six months after the first publication of this
notice, to to the said administrator at his office,
in the Alaska Commercial Company’s store at
Kodiak. Kodiak Island. Territory of Alaska,
the same being the place for the transaction of
the business of the said estate.
Dated this 31st day of May. 1907.
A. C. Goss.
Administrator of the estate of Feodor
GregorofT. deceased.
Date of first publication June 29, 1907.
Date of last publication July 27. 1607.
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