ARCHDEACON STUCK
AND E. J. KNAPP
NARROWLY ESCAPED
(From the Fairbanks Sunday Times, Dee. 17.)
l)r. W. F. Green, of Eagle, who ar
rived in the city yesterday at noon,
reports that Archdeacon Stuck, who on
Nov. 25, in company with Rev. Knapp,
left for a tour of interior Alaska to visit
the different missions, had a ver.v nar
row escape from death in the early part
of this month. They were a few miles
below Circle City, where they attempted
to cross the Yukon river. A heavy crust
of snow had formed, and believing that
they had solid footing carelessly started
across without examining to set* whether
it would hold them or not. As is often
the case on this river, there was no ice
under the snow, and both men and dogs
broke through into the icy waters. An
Indian boy who was accompanying them
worked heroically and succeeded in get
ting tiie unfortunate men out of the
water and onto the shore. He hastily
built a fire and did all in his power for
their comfort. Finding that they were
fast succumbing to the cold, he got them
on their feet and kept them on the run,
lashing them constantly with switches
to keep them going. At last he suc
ceeded in getting the men back to Circle,
where they received the l»est of care.
Their exjierience was a dire one, and
only for the efforts of the faithful Indian
guide the result would have been more
serious.
The dogs were turned loose and were
all brought safely into Circle.
The accident occurred on the flats, and
tiie men were compelled to travel about
fourteen miles before they reached the
village.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AT
AT NOVIKAKIT.
Attention of the Judge of Second
District to be Sought.
Brown, Now Dead, Had Taken In
400 Gallons, and a Successor is
Carrying Out the Work
Begun by Him.
(From the Yukon Press. Tuiinna.)
Again has the commissioner at this
jHiint receivesl a telegram of complaint ^
as to the liquor traffic with natives at
the mouth of the Novitno. It appears j
that there is no attempt at concealment
in the nefarious business.
Officially the commissioner here can
do nothing in the matter, as the offense
is being committed in the precinct of
which Mr. Busch of Nulato is commis
sioner.
A wrong impression obtains as to a .
commissioner's jsivvers and duties.
Whenever such offense becomes know n
to a citizen, it is his bounden duty to
make sworn information liefore the
proper commissioner, and only then ran
a commissioner move.
The matter is lieing brought to the
attention of the honorable judge of the
Second district, and it is possible that
something, sometime, may lie done.
A letter received puts a graver and
more serious as|iect on the ease, and it
would appear that the circumstances
call for rigid investigation.
We understand that the man Brown
who met his death by freezing at The
Birches hail a consignment of alsmt M*>
gallons of whisky which was lieing dia
ls ,*ed of in this way, and from tla* tele
gram received l*slay we learn that a
successor has taken bold of the business
and as a cotiseiptence the natives in the
vicinity have la-come totally demoral
txed.
MAIL CABIN BURNED AT
MOUSE POINT.
One Man Fatally and Another Seri
ously Burned.
Mail From St. Michael and Lower
River Points Destroyed—A Dis
tressing Christmastime
Occuirence.
The Yukon Press (Tnnana) of Dec. 110
rejiorts the burning of the mail cabin at
Mouse Point, and the fatal burning of
George Savage and the serious burning
of Arthur Campbell.
Savage formerly worked for the X. A.
T. it T. Co., and Campbell was the car
rier up bound with the lower river mail.
K.arh is well known and has many
friends. The mail was destroyed.
The tire probably occurred the night
of Dei’. 27 or the early morning of the
28th. C. K. Corbusier got notification
of the affair the evening of the 2Nth, and
lie and Dr. Atkinson, rnm Fort Gibbon,
started out next morning to render as
sistance.
Father Ragnru's services had already
l>een called on from Kokrine's, and it
was he that reported the affair to Mr.
Corbusier
“Down in Dixie.”
Tli*'Yukon I’m* of I He. itO o inUlUx
tlx- annoiiiirfuwnt that tlii* |il.iv will
U- |>ri«lui'<Hl l»v tin- Fort < iililxin C'oiihwIv
t'om|>atiy Jan. it. It wa* |>roviou»ly
ailvrrtiwil for Jan. 1*1, Imt wa* i>rol**bly
|Mnit|ittnr«l.
Gus Christianson Inquired For.
Tim |»*tnu»»trr lia» nTrivnl a Irttrr
from l> I UTrivn, formerly of Kam*
|Mrt, "late.! Tona|«h, N*v , Nov. IS,
a«kiii|| tlw elilrne of tin* l'lirt»tianaon.
tl'Hiirn t atilrrM i» Imi 1171, Tono|<al>.
FREIGHTING 1
AND PACKING!
TroTmrsTrrrrrroimn
rorinrinnnrinr
HEETER’S PACK TRAIN5
Leaves for Glen Every 5 Days.
Freighting and packing to and from all the
creeks. Good teams. Good service.
WOODGHOPPERS PAY
15 CENTS PER CORD
Temporary Settlement With Agent
of Interior Department.
(Skagway Alaskan, Nov. 14.)
The Skagway woodchoppera paid 15
cents a cord this morning to the federal
government for all the wood they have
on hand, in their yards and in the
woods. This was in accordance with an
agreement they artived at with 11. K.
Love, special agent of the interior de
partment, last night.
Yesterday Mr. Love went up into the
woods and placed notices on all the
Wood Mr. Nve and others have cut and
ready for delivery to customers, claim
ing it to he United States proj>erty and
warning people not to remove it or to
buy it.
Ia»st night the woodchoppers and Mr.
Love, with 1'. M. Mullen, receiver of
public moneys at the Juneau land office,
met at the Fifth avenue hotel and at the
suggestion of Mr. Love the woodchop
[K'l's agreed to pay 15 cents a cord for
the wood.
Mr. Love has fixed 15cents jier 1,000
feet us the price of stumpage to lumber
men, and he decided thut it would be a
fair price per cord for wood.
This settlement will not lie final until
ratified by the department.
and Party Possibilities
The following is from the Skagway
Alaskan. It is copied itecause it is the
briefest and truest summing up <>f an
interesting (toliticul situation we have
yet aeen:
In the movement of the people to
take charge of govarnment in the I'nited
States, national, state nml municipal,
and to whip the Isisses and machines
into their kennels, the republican and
the democratic parties each have one
great, national leader. The republican
party has Theodore Roosevelt, and the
democratic William Jennings Bryan.
Each of the parties have many leaders
who, by reason of their local battles,
have become national characters and
who are amply eapulde of becoming
leaders of nation-wide movements, but
as yet the great tribunes of the people
w ho hold the strategic positions in the
national |s>litica! situation are these two
men.
The i|iiestion as to how the |«>litical
upheaval, which is yet in its incipient
stages, will afhs t the fwo great |s>litieal
parlies ilc|*'iids very largely ti|si|i w hom
the |«irtv organisations may clns.se in
the fortlM'oining contests to comtnaiai
the liwttlf If the republicans shall M
low Senators Aldrich, Sjss.ncr and lia
aker, S|*-ukcr Cannon, the New York
nun hint , etc , rather Ilian tin- prvsalenl.
RECEPTION
...SALOON...
S. E. HKKTER, BOB SCHABER,
Proprietor Manager
Wines, Liquors and
GOOD Cigars....
....Billiard and Pool Rooms
< Barber Chair in the House. $
St. Louis
KBG
and Seattle
Ranier Beers
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arc-tie Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at
H o'clock p. m.
WM. SIPARY. G. A. KETTERER.
Arctic Recorder. Arc-tic Chief
U
RICHT”
written
margin
of the Yukon Valley
News and mailed home would
gratify relatives and friends
Postage, sealed, only 2 cents.
or if they should make a palpable com
promise; and the democrats should ac
cept as their leaders Bryan, Folk, Jerome,
Tom Johnson, Gov. Montague and others
of their kind, the republican party may
Ik* overwhelmed in the elections next
year and iti 11*08. If, on the other hand,
the republicans accept the untrammeled
leadership of President Roosevelt they
will, in all probability, win national
elections for some years to come.
This, of course, is Imsed u|mui the as
sumption that the democratic und re
publican parties will remain intact,
which is by no means assured. It is not
at all unlikely that there will la*a prac
tical reorganization of political parties
before nnothc-r presidential election shall
take- place, ami that the reform leaders
of U»th <d the great part it * will la* work
ing side* by side Itefore that time.
Novltno and Kanilshna.
Report* from the Novitno camp are
cotiHtcting and there seem* to In- noth
ing authentic upon which to form an
estimate of I lie pro»|ievt».
I\*> »* r* pirtol to have U*en struck on
two new creek* in the k*nt>»hiia dis
trict.—Tatiana Yukon Press