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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
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Sails Seattle Arrives Anchorage
APRIL 22 ALASKA APRIL 29
APRIL 28 .MARIPOSA MAY 5
MAY 4 NORTHWESTERN MAY 11
MAY 10.ALAMEDA MAY 17
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out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Building.
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Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Apr. 17 ...EVANS... Apr. 25
Apr. 25. .FARRAGUT.. May 3
May 3 ...WATSON ..May 11
May 11 ...EVANS... May 19
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Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
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San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
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ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars. T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
Launch Wilhemina
JOHNSON AND THOMPSON
Twice a week trips to all points on Tunmgain Arm.
See bulletin boards for schedule.
Fo* information call City Auto Service. PHONE 89R.
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Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern
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PARKER & EATON
(Iditarod Pioneer)
Readers of the Pioneer will recall
that several months ago there was
published a letter from Joseph Camp
bell, who is serving a life sentence in
Leavenworth prison for the murder of
the Nelson brothers in the Kusko
kwim, in 1911, in which he maintained
his innocence and asked for an inves
tigation of his case with the object
of securing a pardon. A statement of
Henry Roden upon the subject of
Campbell’s conviction also was pub
lished. It was understood that Dis
trict Attorney Roth had the case un
der investigation but nothing has
been made public here as to what
conclusion he arrived at, or whether
he recommended a pardon for the
convicted man. The Pioneer has re
ceived another communication from
Campbell, dated October 12, 1916,
with the request that it be published,
but owing to the fact that it is of
voluminous proportions, it is impos
sible to do so.
In another letter Campbell states
that he has received a letter from Mr.
Roth in which that official states that
he has submitted a full report on
Campbell’s case, arid that he has
strongly urged the granting of his
petition for pardon .
Campbell was convicted on circum
stantial evidence, and while each link
in the chain seemed to have been
forged perfectly, there is, of course,
room for doubt in all such cases. The
Pioneer has devoted a great deal of
space to this case, not because of a
belief in the innocence of Campbell,
but because it was desired that he be
given a chance to prove his innocence.
He was convicted almost entirely up
on the evidence of natives, the theory
of the prosecution being that the
Nelsons were murdered for the pur
poses of robbery. This theory was
borne out to some extent by the fact
that Campbell disposed of furs and a
watch, among other things, which had
been the property of the Nelsons.
In his letter Campbell details his
movements from the spring of 1911,
when he met the Nelson on the Kus
kokwim, until the day of his arrest
TIDE TABLE FOR ANCHORAGE.
Wednesday. April 25.
Low Writer . 2:3a a. m. 2.a feet
High Water . 8:32 a. m. 30.9 feet
Low Water . :;:0t> p. nt. -3.2 feet
High Water . 9:25 p. m. 28.9 feet
Thursday, April 26.
Low Water . 3:19 a. nt. t.i feet
High Water . 9:11 a. m. 29.1 feet
Low Water . 3:50 p. ill. -0.3 feet
High Water .10:13 p. m. 27.1 feet
TRAIN SCHEDULE.
Effective 12:01 a. m., Monday, April
23, 1917, a mixed passenger and freight
train will be run between Vnchoi ige
and Matanuska, Matanuska and King,
and between Anchorage and Rabbit on
the following schedule;
Main Line.
Northbound Southbound
Daily ex. Daily ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
7:30a. m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 9:15 p.m
7:55 a. in.. . 4.8 Whitney .... 8:50 p. m.
8:25 a. in..t 12.3 Kuney . 8:30 p.m.
9:10 a. m... 21.8 Kirch wood ... 7:50 p.m.
9:40 a. ni.. .27.6 Eklutna . 7:20 p.m.
Arrive Leave
10:10 a. m..36.4 Matanuska . . 6:45 p. m.
Matanuska Branch
Northbound Southbound
Daily ex. Daily Ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
11:00 a. in..36.4 Matanuska .. 6:20 p.m.
11:30 a. m.. 42.9 Palmer . 5:55 p.m.
12:20 p. in.. 49.5 Moose Creek. 5:25 p.m.
Arrive Leave
12:40 p. m.. 55.0 Eska . 4:50 p.m.
Leave Arrive
12:50 p. m.. 55.0 Eska . 3:08 p. m.
1:10 p. m..58.7 Granite . 2:53 p.m.
Arrive Leave
1:25 p. m.. 60.6 King . 2:45 p.m.
Main TAnm
Southbound Northbound
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only.
Leave Arrive
9:00 a. m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 10:45 a.m.
9:20a.m... 5.0 Campbell ... 10:25a.m.
Arrive Leave
9:45 a. m... 10.4 Rabbit . 10:00 a.m.
Mixed train leaving Anchorage north
bound will stop Just north of road cross
ing, Terminal Yard, Anchorage.
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at Ruby in the summer of 1912. To
bear out his statements he submits af
fidavits of various persons with whom
he traveled anil for whom he worked
with the idea of disproving the claims
of the prosecution that he went out
side after the alleged murder for the
purpose of enjoying his ill-gotten
gains. These affidavits include one
from John A. Dull, who tells of hav
ing traveled from Russian Mission, on
the Yukon, with Campbell and Billy
I.'arnhart, leaving the former place on
or about July 10, 1911, and giving
positive testimony as to the amount
possessed by Campbell at that time.
There also is an affidavit from one
“Foose” O’Neil, an employe of the i
steamship Victoria in that year, who
swears to Campbell’s traveling to Se
attle and later to southeastern Alaska
and of his destitute condition. Sam
Campbell, another employe of the Vic- '
toria, gives similar testimony. Ida A.
Campbell, of Sumas, Wash., makes af-;
fidavit that Campbell boarded at her
house from the fall of 1911 to the
spring of 1912, and that he was em
ployed cutting ties by a man named
Koyle. KeMy and Curtin, convicts at
McNeill island, make affidavit to the
effect that some rather irregular pro- i
eeedings were taken by Marshal Kel- 1
day in procuring the identification of'
Campbell by the native witnesses who 1
testified at the trial. Kelly and Cur
tin were in the Iditarod jail at the
t*me Campbell was being held here
awaiting trial.
The indictment under which Camp
bell was convicted charged that the
Nelsons were killed by him on June
20, 1911. Campbell lays great stress
oi. this fact, and deplores his inability
to locate Billy Barnhart, who he
says, would have been a material wit
ness for him on this point.
!t would seem after a careful read
nip of Campbell’s letter and the doc
| umerits submitted with it that if this
man Barnhart could be discovered he
‘ would be able to throw considerable
j light on the guilt or innocence of
Campbell. If some of the statements
| of the convicted man can be verified
j he should have little trouble in prov
! mg his innocence. Hut it must be ad
mitted that there is a suggestion of
I an elfort to prove merely that the
crime was not committed upon the
: date that was charged.
Speaking of the jury which convict
! ed him, Campbell says:
“There is one thing 1 would like to
say though, in connection with this,
1 subject. That is that my trial was
I held late in the fall between the 20th
and 30th of September, and the last1
boat was lying down the river waiting
to pull out, and that some of the jury
men, the court party and a good many ,
others connected with the case were ,
anxious to get away on that boat for
Ruby and Fairbanks and other places,
and that we did freeze in before we
got to Fairbanks. Taking that into
consideration, and the fact that the
jury did stay out 47 hours, and that
they did CQme in three times during
that time and told the judge that
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they were hopelessly tied up, there
being no chance for an agreement, I
think, knowing the ways of the coun
try as 1 do, and that if these people
haa not gotten away at the time they
did, they would have had to tit out
with dog team and go over the winter
trail, with considerable delay and
hardship and at additional expense,
that these things ought all to be tak
en into consideration, and that it was,
to a certain extent, forcing a verdict.”
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