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\(»1 1 MF \IU MMlil I ~ _SEWARD. ALASKA. FRIDA Y "FEBRUARY 6, 1920. _Ti:\ ( I ATS PER COPY
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WASHINGTON, Feb.. 6— The e<«
vutive council, comprising heads of all
departments of the American beder*
j*ion of Labor, has formulates! pUns
toi the mast aggressive political cam
oaign ever waged.
Unofficially it is said the campaign
is to be conducted in connection with
the general elections next November
and will be aimed at all candidate*
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tor president, members of conjjr
v>\ *rnors and others.
Those candidates unfriendly will lx*
noted and the American Federation
will ask every trade craft affiliated
with the Federation to carry the fi^ht
into every section of the nation and
to elect only men who are friendly to
labor. A vast number of organized
workers will be put out in the cam
paign.
MONTES VXO, Feb., 6— Twelve
permanent jurors have at last been
selected for the trial of the Wobblics
accussed of the armistice day massa
cre. The defense did not use the last
challenge.
Two alternate jurors will be sole t
ed by tonight. The alternates will list
en to the evidence but uot partcipaU
in the verdict ualcs* regular jux-or-*
are incapacitated
The opening statemenv* will begin
tomorrow. Today the jurymen were al
lowed to attend to their personal busi
ness before being locked up.
J. F. Emigh, attorney of Butte, sat
with George Vanderveer, as a visit'*’*.
He is an attorney for the wobblies o*'
Montana.
The jury is composed of five fann
ers, a carpenter, teamster, real estate
agent, logging engineer, paver and a
fisherman. The youngest juror is 32
years of age and the oldest 66 years.
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XLW YORK. Feb., 6— A severe
gale ami unusual high tides along the
north Atlantic coast for the past two
days and a blizzard which brougrT
snow and ice. is estimated to have
caused losses of over two million do'*
lars.
Several vessels are reported in d's- i
tress
The storm has hit Atlantic City,
Sea Bright and other coast points in
a hard manner. Houses have bee t
washed into the sea.
This city is blocked by snow, street
cars not being operated.
NEW YORK, Feb., ft— The storm
has sent the steamej Princess Anne,
of the Old Dominion line, aground at
Rockway Point, Long Island. Army
tugs have answered the distress call*.
Waves battered the coast guard’s boat
to pieces when an attempt was mad.'
to launch it tt go to the .distressed
vessel.
The Princess Anne has 32 passeng
ers aboard and the Captain has re
quested that they be taken off before
night. The steamer was inbound from
Norfolk . The Crew numbers 70 men.
WASHINGTON, Feb., f>— The
weather bureau forecasts for the next
24 hours more snow and high wind*
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JUNEAU, Feb., 6— Telegraphic
advices from Washington says George
Grigsby has mailed his declaration cf
candidacy for the Democratic nomina
tion for Delegate to Congress from
Alaska. It is understood that Grigsby j
was urged to file by Democrats and
others, in all parts of the territory.
Jeremiah Murphy, present attor
ney general of Alaska, is being urged
to file, in letters and telegrams, and
will probably do <o in a short time.
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EGGS DROP
SEATTLE, Feb., 6— Increasing
production is causing eggs to drop in
price. Today eggs were quoted at 45
cents a dozen.
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WOLF DOG HERE
“Dennis”, a three quarter wolf dog,
well known by sourdoughs who have
hit trails in Alaska, is down in the
basement at the Overland hotel, on
his way from Anchorage to Cordova.
“Dennis” is the property of Herman
Gentsch, who has had the canine for
many years. The dog is 14 years old
and if he could talk would be able to
tell of some most interesting exper
iences during his life in Alaska.
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Edward Frederick, in from Mile IS.
is registered at the Hotel Seward.
Judge George T. Harrow, f’*om
Trail Lake, came in last night on tV
train and is registered at the Hole I
Seward.
The train from Anchorage arrived
at 0 o’clock last night, thirteen hour'
making the trip. The train goes out
tomorrow morning leaving at 8 c’*
clock.
W. W. Flynn, who came in last
night on the train from Mile 20, is re
gistered at the Hotel Seward.
H. G. Kaiser, official photographer
of the A. E. C., is registered at the
Hotel Seward on his way to the stale
on a three month’s leave of absence.
Theodore Chanin and wife are re
gistered at the Hotel Seward. Mr
Chanin is the geologist of the A. E. C.,
from Anchorage and is going to the
states on a visit of several months.
Mrs. Mitchell, fortune teller, who
has been at Anchorage for several
months, is registered at the Hotel Ov
erland. Mrs. Mitchell leaves for the
states on the Alaska.
George Chantes, one of the best
known tie contractors in Alaska, is re
gistered at the Hotel Overland. Mr.
Chantes came over from Anchorage
on the train last night to meet his
wife who will arrive on the steamer
Alaska.
alon* the Atlantic coast. Twenty in
ches or snow has fallen in the New
England states. Passenger trains are
far behind their schedules.
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BERLIN, Feb., 6— Former Field
Marshal von Buelow says the extradi
tion demanded by the Allies is an ig*
kommy to which no German will vol
untarily submit. He says the Germans
on the list of the Allies to be extradi
ted did their duty to the Fatherland.
THE HAGUE, Feb., 6— Newspap
ers of Holland say the extradition of
the Germans is impossible.
BERLIN, Feb., 6— The Zeitung
says Germany will probably be willing
to surrender the men for trial by a
neutral tribunal, if the Allies ag.-no.
Switzerland is understood to be ready
to arrange for a neutial tribunal.
PARIS, Feb., f>— The Allies may
exercise the treaty privilege of ocm
pying the left bank of the Rhine in
definitely if the Germans break the
treaty clauses by refusing to surrend
er the men asked for by the Allies.
Mrs. T. M. Sheehan came over front
Anchorage last night and is registered
at the Hotel Overland. Mrs. Sheehan
:s here to meet her daughter, Alic'
Temple who will arrive on the Alaska.
John F. Coffey and wife are regis
tered at the Hotel Overland. Mr. C >f
fe.y has been editor of the Alaska
Railroad Record also land and indus
trial agent of the Alaskan Engined -
ing Commission with his headquarters
at Anchorage. Mr. Coffey resigned
several weeks ago and is now enroute
to H.vder, to give that camp the once
over, and will then probablygo to
Juneau where he will be connected
with the District attorney’s office as
first assistant.
J. Hanahan, road master of the
commission, from Anchorage, is regis
tered at the Hotel Overland.
Herman Gentsch, who has been
chief pharmacist at Loussac’s at An
chorage, is registered at the Hotel
Overland. Mr. Gentsch is on his way
to Cordova where he will be associat
ed with the Cordova Drug Co. Mr.
Gentsch is one of the oldest Elks in
Alaska, having joined the Spokane
lodge in 1906 and latter demitting to
the Anchorage lodge.
The American Legion will meet to
night at 8 o’clock for the purpose of
electing officers of Post Isaac Evans.
Steamer Alaska left Valdez at 7
o’clock th?8 morning and is due in
Seward this evening. The steamer has
210 tons of freight, 37 passengers
from Seattle and nine days mail and
express.
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A second Klondike, with both plac
er and quartz, the latter containing
both gold and silver ore, seems to be
the future of the Kantishna distiir.
Already scores of old sourdoughs a;e
hitting the trail by dog teams, with
outfits, going from Nenana, Fairbanks
and coming up from the states and go
ing in over the government railroad
then across Broad Pass and across the
low flat country into the pronvse land
of gold. The present rush is not a wild
goose chase, the dirt and the rock is
there and the district will easily ac
commodate 50,000 men. The Kantish
na has hardly been scratched by pick
and shovel, but wherever work has
been done coarse gold in large quant
itics has been found and the on* is
rich with gold and silver. When one
man, a sourdough at that, who is 1*
miliar with all kinds of stampede taler
and reports of rich finds, planks doy n
$23,000 in bond for 22 quartz ciahr<.
and at that miles and miles from
transportation, hauling the ore m
sacks over a long distance to a
navigable river, there must be some
thing to the quartz indications. When
nearly 100 men since 1905, have be< n
yearly taking out in a few weeks *ut
ficient coarse gold from the crcess
and under the grass roots, in areas not
averaging more than 35 feet squa'-*,
to purchase grub to last them through
the year, there must be something to
the placer ground. And this is all true,
the reason the Kantishna district not
having forged sooner and quicker to
the front has been the lack of trans
portation. But the government rail
road is within seventy miles of the
richest section and a feeder can be
easily built to the heart of the district
over a level tract of ground, and the
richest ore possible in Alaska, can
then be shipped.
The present stampede is not one
started by rumors. Col. Arthur H.
Brooks, made a brief report on
Kantishna district in the report and
progress of investigations, on miners*
resources in Alaska, in the bulletin for
1916. Col. Brooks, in his report, says
that the Kantishna district will be
come valuable, when the costly tran
portation will be solved, and that solu
tion is now tb e government railroad.
For several months past, repoi ts of
the Kantishna district have been
reaching the Alaska towns and the
outside. Few of those interested in the
district have come out, but the reports
were so authentic, that many have and
are going in. W. R. Taylor, for year.;
United States Commissioner in the
Kantishna, arrived in Sward several
rrghts ago on his way to the states t -
interest a few persons in the property
held by the Mt McKinley Gold Placmr
Mining Company. Mr. Taylor wd
Wit for Seattle on the steamer Alas
ka and expects to interest friends ir.
the district and return with capital to
extensively mine both the placer ami
quartz propei ties oi the company.
Mr. l’ayior, v\no is a guest ut the
Hotel Seward, *s known by Hugh
Dougherty and other old timers u>w
in ScwaM. Mr. Dougherty is sponso**
for Mr. Taylor, who knows the Kan
tislma district well and who like the
hardy sourdough he is never places
a bet, expecting to loose.
“The Kantishna district is there, it
is going to he the, big camp for the
small man as well as the company.
The district has not been scratched
and there is plenty of 100m for all
who will go there this year. 1 am nc
boomer, 1 only speak the facts," sa 1
Mr. Taylor today. “There is both pine
er and qua.tz ready to be located. It
,s ail rich on both sides of the divide
which seems itself to be a regular
fountain head of gold and silver, * con
i.nued Mr. Taylor.
The KanUsnnu district is about 100
miles square. The trail is hit from
1 .ignite, on the constructed part of the
N’enana division of the government
railroad. Across forty miles of coun
try where the only railroad construc
tion would be the placing of ties, the
laying of the rails and a little ballast
ing, you strike the beginning of
district. From then to the Alaska
range, the rich country abounds.
Would you believe it, that three men,
since FJ05 have been taking their
grubstakes out from a patch of placer
giound hardly 200 feet square? Well,
they have and they are hanging ont >
their claims on Glacier creek uni l
they can get hydraulic machinery.
Others having just been picking and
shoveling dirt into sluice boxes since
1005 from even a smaller area o:
ground and getting their grubstake.
Men in that district have been living
on the game for years and taking out
sufficient gold dust to take to the
nearest trading post and get tlu*ir
supply of other grub. They have been
waiting for the government to do
something, ar.d now this dream seems
soon to be realized.
‘The Mt McKinley Gold Placer
Mining company has staked many
quartz claims, as well as having platcv
property. We have quartz property on
Crevace creek to the headwater s and
on Slate creek to Eldorado. We have
130 claims under option on Caribou
creek. AH of the quartz property has
boon worked sufficiently to determine
ivS value. The ledges run from 3 feet
to 1? feet to 14 feet, high grade, prin
cipally galena ore, containing loth
and silver. The further one tun
nels the better defined the ledge de
velopes. I have one tunnel 300 feet
long and 150 feet under the surface
that the ore runs from $10 to $2;> and
the ledge is extending as I go in. We
have s’X cla:ms on Eureka Cicek and
one tunnel, 150 feet with cross cuts
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