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SATURDAY. MAY 1*. 1907
IDEAL RULE IN ALASKA
U.nska’s idea! government. of which
tiov. lloggatt is so proud, does not ap
peal to tlen. (.Ireely, who lias traveled
over the territory a great deal more
than the governor, lien. (lively
stigmatize^ the present system ot fed
eral rule, in Alaska Us ‘‘had. which is
a term so simple that even children
nd congressmen can umlerstaml it.
lJen. (lively further proclai r.s that
he federal government has never
given \lasku a square deal and treats
•„ e” '.etis as if they were -iborigim s.
• 'his -(!»••»• statement is gress :!atter\
o i to* ‘'eiieral system in Alaska.
lie vafiou Indians everywhere holtl
distinct advantages over Alaska citi*
• •as. For instance:
Kc.Tral aw makes no provision for
c n e of indigent sicK (tersons. or
l he n »o'r and helples- of any desczip
ou. It a miner, or even a e i.. car
h. comes crippl'd *! l»e i>
iuown upon the charity of the citi
enry. unless he happens to have
sufficient savings to pay his ow n ex
In any case when h s own
i-sources are exhausted he is depen
dent upon others. The government
which has squandered hundreds of
.nilli'Mts u|K»n cotTee-colored barbarians
tiul which pays large annuities to
squalid Indians ujvn reservations,
gives never a penny to aid unfortunate
white citizens in Alaska. It has no
provision even for tin* relief of one of
ps own mail carriers who may happen
to free/e h s feet on the trail.
Fader ‘his ideal government of
Alaska Fnited States marshals and
their deputies are obligetl to pay all
heir own expenses incurred in the
capture aim legal disposition of crimi
nals and insane persons and t lien wait a
year or two for the government to re
imburse them. Naturally officers are
not feverishly eager to bunt either for
criminals or insane when the task
means the loan of considerable money
ro tlie government without interest for
an indefinite period.
A description of all the scratches on
file government slate in Alaska would
l»e too long for anything but a serial
story tn a magazine but as samples
please note that federal law prescribes
no regulations for the conduct of min
ing'which offer any safeguard to life
or buib: that the license laws are
fratn d to impose little burden upon
iarg. mines, fish canneries and other
big corporate interests: that the coast
of Alaska has no lighthouses or life
saving service worth mentioning and
its cons; survey is antiquated: that its
t imh<*r is being sequestered for forest
frsi'i ves as rapidly as a young man just
out ot college who never saw Alaska*
can < • aw plats for the purpose; that
a considerable part of the population
of otm judicial district is hundreds of
miles from the nearest office ot a
clerk ot the Fnited States court and
4oo miles further from the judge of the
dist rict.
Finally Alaska lias a governor who
received his training in civil govern
ment us a lieutenant in the navy and
thep-hy became impressed with the
belief that the best government is
that which leaks downward from the
\V - at has reached *1 in eight years
sine, iIn 1**1 the high mark was
und< 'I foe the first tine* since ly02.
Sinc>‘ihen the dollar mark has l*cen
niched in lsss . jssn. isim. is|»i.|sy7
Is in September 1S*N the
losers in Hutchinson's successful
corner settled at $2. In May l*1*8 the
Loiter corner broke at $l>5. 'Piie
next rise was when the price reached
■*!.22 in October 1904 and *1.24 in Feb
ruary 1905.
Dennis Kearney, the noted sandlot
orator of San Francisco, is dead.
Thirty years ago he was king for a day
in San Francisco hoodlum politics.
Then the grafters bought him up and
he dropped out of sight and influence
but lived comfortably the rest of his
life on the money he received for sell
ing out the labor party.
The Skagway Alaskan says that
Harlan Updegraff, who has been ap
pointed chief of the Alaska reindeer
settlement, received his technical
training for the place as a tutor of
Latin in a female seminary at
Baltimore.
The Spanish people can get as
enthusiastic over a baby prince as
American partisans over their candi
date for president.
King Alfonso promises reform in
Spain, which shows that new l>oy has
rattled him.
Seattle unblushingly claims a popu
lation of 241,000 although the city has
never polled 20,000 votes. 1 ho Spirit
should he careful not to Omaha its popu
lation figures. Once when Uncle Sam
was looking the other way the Ne
braska metropolis added abo t 40,000
to her real population in a federal cen
sus and when an honest count was
made ten years later the town was
compelled to submit to the mortifica
tion of an otticiat loss of 38,000.
While taking note of the fact that W.
K. Corey deserted a wife who was too
; good for him to chase after a second
rate actress it is well for the public to
remember also that the American
j people furnished the money through
| its contributions to the steal trust
! technically known a> the steel trust.
! High finance has made nabobs of a lot
of cheapskates besides Corey.
How here comes a Ift-ycar ohl <'hi
e;igo girl anil claims to be the daughter
Malwlle iiilman, now Mrs. \\. h.
Corey J . who was supposed to he
i rather young. It would he a joke on
Core* if he should diseo\er that the
■ lie Mabelle was one of the chorus
g iris he Used to see on the stage hack
in the seventies when he lirst went to
tin tln ater as a small boy
Tin Sears-lbu'huek depart ment store
are mail order house of Chicago has
discontinued its grocery department
lieciuse the pure food law has made it
impossible to sell adulterated goods at
i j»rotit. Now win* says the world is
not growing better?
Homy 1 .is promised immunity to
ii , , --ht**en curl Mom* politicians who
constituted the San Francisco board of
mi:>ervisOi’s to get ther to squeal and
i; looks now :i' if a sop has been thrown
: to \bc Iluef. which rouses curiosity to
ki ow who is to be made the fall guy •
At the Hague conference the only
nations willing to discuss the question
; of a limitation of further naval arma
ment were (ireat Hritain. which now
inis the biggest navy in the world, and
Spain, which has none at all.
Ilev. Hro. t'h.rk must have sighed
when he jettisoned that tainted t.’orev
fee to miv>• his regular job. His
church certainly made him dance like
a coryphee. An apology goes with
this.
i’erhaps some of those fellows who
have been buying and selling dream
1 wheat iv: the I tout'd of IVade may be
turned out by the panic to some useful
i job like harvesting real wheat in the
fields.
\ man named Pinkey is >aid to be
slated as Corey ’s successor at the head
• »f the steel trust. Probably the
directors think that after Corey most
anything will do.
Isaac Stephenson, the new senator
from Wisconsin, is 7* years old and a
millionaire. 11*• gets the job for his
services to LaFolletto. The old man
has been a candidate for senator since
the year 1.
When Canadian Pacific steamers are
• quipped with wireless apparatus they
ought to he able to establtsh regular
communication with a lot of liars in
.-'•■ > ard.
When some of those fellows on the
Board of Trade get through with this
wheat muss it may prove to be the
b;l dream that made Bill a better
A strike on Our creek is reported by
11:• * Fairbanks News. All of its are
glad it is on out* ground.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Yucatan: sailed from Valdez for Se
ward today at a. m.
I >ora: sails for Seward and Palaska
ISth.
< brwin: sailed from Seattle 10th.
Portland: sailed from Seattle 12th.
.Jeanie: >aibd from Seattle 10th.
Saratoga: sailed from Seattle 17th.
Bertha: sailed for Seattle 9th.
Santa Clara: sailed for Seattle 12th.
WEEKLY WEATHtJt RECORD
Weathet record for the week ending
May 18:
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Sunday 40 38 Cloudy
Monday 49 39 Part cloudy
Tuesday 50 40 Part cloudy
Wednesday 47 38 Clear
Thursday 55 32 Clear
Friday 02 30 Clear
Saturday 03 37 Clear
The Bank of Seward
We receive deposits subject to check.
We pay interest on time deposits.
We issue money orders good any
place in the world.
We buy gold dust or bullion.
We make collections.
We guarantee a service that is
prompt, accurate and safe.
We grant to our customers every
favor consistent with conservative
banking.
We invite your business.
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FIGHTING GREAT j
GRUBSTAKE CASE
Mrs. Catherine Llliott Contesting
for Share in Vast Copper
Properties.
One of the most remarkable “grub
stake” lawsuits ever recorded in t^r
courts is that of Catherine May Kl
liott. divorced wife of Harry Curtis
Klliott. against him and the Hubbard
Klliott Company, which was tried be
fore Judge Wickersham in the district
court at Valdez in March and taken by
the judge under advisement. It is rx
pceted that he will render judgment
In the time lie winds up the present
| term at Juneau. The property is
worth several millions at a low
estimate.
Mrs. Klliott Mies for an interest in
I all the Hubbard-Klliott mining pro
perties in Alaska upon the claim that
she furnished Harry Curtis Klliott,
then her husband, with tin* original
outfit with which In- came to Alaska
in IStis and that sin* also sent him
money afterward, ' his claim is speci
fically denied by Klliott and his father.
Vast Interests Involved
The interesting features of the liti
j gat ion are the smallness of the pur
I ported grubstake compared to the ex
traordinary value of the property in
volved. the apparent support of the
i woman's claim by documentary evi
dence, and the bitterness with which
the Klliotts. particularly Henry I’.
Klliott. pater, and their attorneys
'.denounce Mrs. Klliott as a clever ad
■ venturess who has skilfully woven into
a plausible array of evidence casual
' and disconnected memoranda referring
1 to totally different matters of busi
ness. The story of Mrs. Klliott, made
plausible by letters, notes and other
I instruments of writing, is as follows.
In the fall of lKff” Harry Klliott. a
resident of Chicago, conceived the de
sire to join in the Alaska-Yukon rush
but ho had no money. Mrs. Klliott
went with him to the house of Mont
gomery Ward, helped him to select,
and paid for with her own money an
'outfit which was said to be the best
! individual out tit evei taken into the
i Copper river country . The value of
i the outfit was conceded in the testi
i mony of both sides.
Wants riore Money
Harry Klliott went to Seattle and
there ran short of money. He wired
! to his father for a remittance and
; Klliott senior refused, although he was
! drawing a good salary as an official of j
j the Milwaukee railroad, because he,
had no confidence in his son's project
j to get rich out of Alaska mines and !
because he believed his son would!
i dissipate any money sent to him. The {
i senior Klliott had refused previously;
to advance money to his son for the!
Alaska venture.
When Henry I’. Klliott refused to
i send money to Harry Klliott in Seat-i
tie, his daughter-in-law offered to sign !
| a note for $150 if H. 1’. Klliott would
i advance the money, which was appar- j
i ently done. The note signed by Cath
j erine M. Klliott. marked paid in full
; across its face, was introduced in evi- j
ilence. H. P. Elliott denied any:
recollection of thrtransaction although
he could not account for the note.
Document Refers to Grubstake
further evidence of her grub
"tiiko interest Mrs. Klliott produced in
evidence a document she calls a will,
which Harry Klliott executed the
night before he left Chicago to come j
to Alaska the first time. It recites
merely that Catherine Maj Klliott is,
to have a one-half interest in all prop-|
erty he might acquire in Alaska and.
mentions that she had furnished funds
for the venture. The paper is not!
drawn in the form of a will, hut is a
mere memorandum written by Klliott,
hut she testified that he told her it
was a will, executed according to
promise.
Harry Klliott denied that Mrs.
Klliott ever gave him any money to
outfit him for the Alaska trip. He
admitted that she gave him money but
claimed it was to pay premiums on
life insurance in her favor. He also
claims that he never discovered any
thing while prospecting on his tirst
grubstake hut made all his discover
ies on money supplied him later from
other sources.
Goes to Copper River
On the $150 sent to him at Seattle
Harry Elliott went into the Copper
river country in the spring of 1#98.
The first season’s prospecting was un
successful and the next year he secured
money from an uncle fora new outfit
and on this he made the copper dis
coveries which constitute the basis of
the vast Huhbard-Elliott properties in
the Alaska interior today. About that
time he united his interests with those
of Charles G. Hubbard.
Harry Elliott and Catherine May
Elliott were married in Chicago in
1894. He was then a traveling sales
man. Prior to her marriage his wife
had maintained herself by painting
china, at which she possesses great
skill. The couple kept house a short
time and then lived with his father’s
family until he came west. His wife
remained in the family a year or two
and then left the paternal mansion and
resumed her previous occupation.
Begins Suit for Divorce
In 15*00 Harry Elliott, having laid
the foundations of a fortune in Alaska
copper, returned to Chicago and in
stituted a suit for divorce on the ground
of adultery. There had been no com
munication between him and his wife
for a long time and each claims the
other first failed to write. Elliott ob
tained an order for service by publica
tion in the ease, claiming that he did
not know where his wife was. She
claims she had never left Chicago.
Her attention was directed to the pub
lication of the summons and she filed a
cross bill, asking for a divorce on the
grourd of desertion. On the hearing
the decree was granted to the wife.!
At that time she did not know of
Harry Elliott’s acquisition of valuable
mines in Alaska, having had no in
formation from or concerning him for |
sovoral years. When she learned of
his property accumulations she insti-;
tuted the grubstake action against
him. joining as defendants his father
and mother, Charles (J. Hubbard and
the Hubbard-Elliott company, charg
ing them with knowledge of her
interest.
Decree for Half Interest
When the divorce was granted to
Mi's. Klliott it was agreed by counsel
that no alimony should be allowed but
the decree expressly reserved to Mrs.
Klliott her one-half interest in Harry
j Klliott s Alaska mining properties,
; pursuant to previous agreement.
It was admitted by Henry P. Klliott
on the witness stand in the action at
Valdez that he instigated the divorce
suit of his son against Catherine M.
: Klliott and that the charge of adultery
I was based upon rumor. The court
found that no evidence to support the
| charge was adduced.
Of Interest to Alaskans
Seward has two dental parlors that
are equipped with the best and most
modern appliances that can be found
anywhere. The t wo operators are grad
uates in the east, of years experience,
and established reputation, guarantee
| ing the very finest in workmanship
! and materials. Prices are the same as
| for same grade of work by reputable
men anywhere._ *
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