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AND COOK INLET PIONEER
VOL. 2. NO. 61.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1917.
PRICE TEN CENTS
JAM CROWD MAY
OUY AIL MORGAN AND
GUGGENHEIM INTERESTS
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Negotiations are in progress in this
city looking to the purchase, by the Utah Copper company, of
which D. C. Jaeklin is the general manager, of the Kennecott
Copper corporation, which includes all the copper, quartz and
placer mines owned by the Morgan-Guggenheim interests in
Alaska, as well as the Copper River & Northwestern railway
system and the Alaska Steamship company. Included in the
prospective deal is the great Braden copper property in South
America, controlled by the Morgan-Guggenheim people. The
deal involves hundreds of millions of dollars. The Morgan
Guggenheim people are heavy stockholders in the Utah Copper
company, the prospective purchaser, but do not control the
stock, a majority of which is in the hands of Jaeklin and his
associates. ^ j
ADMITS DEAL FENDING.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11.—Col. D. C. Jaeklin, the min
ing magnate, concerned in the Utah Copper company and the
Alaska-Gastineau company at Juneau, admitted to reporters
that the big mining deal “had been talked of, but has not been
consummated. ” He said it was §>till in the air.
OVER $450,000,000 INVOLVED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11.—The prospective mining deal,;
which Col. Jaeklin admits is “being talked about,” which com- j
prehends the purchase bv the Utah Copper company from the1
Kennecott coipoftitibii oi' all the Holdings of this concern m.
Alaska, involves properties valued at $450,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—A drastic prohibition bill for
Alaska lias been introduced in the congress and hearings on
the measure were held by the committee on territories yester
day afternoon. At these hearings it developed that there are
125 retail liquor dealers and six breweries in Alaska. Chair
man Houston, of the committee, indicated that the bill would be
favorably reported and that its effect, if passed by the congress,
would be to make the northern territory as “dry as a bone.”
SEATTLE, Jan. 11.—Logan Billingsby is demanding that
his brothers be freed or be granted immunity from punishment
as the price of his pleading guilty. He contends that his broth
ers are as much entitled to immunity as are E. T. Margett, the
former policeman and self-confessed bootlegger, and S. F. Hunt,
president of the Jesse Moore-Hunt company, wholesale liquor
dealers of San Francisco, both of whom have been promised
freedom in return for confessions. Pending a definite an
nouncement from the Billingsby brothers as to pleas they will
enter on the indictments returned against them by the grand
jury, further proceedings against the alleged “higher-ups” has
been halted. The district attorney is not disposed to yield to
Logan Billingsby’s demands.
Mayor Hi Gill admitted today that he expected that the
federal grand jury would return an indictment against him, as
w'dl as his chief of police. He remains defiant and says he is
ready to face tlie court on any charge the federal authorities
may trump up against him.
SUFFRAGETTES PLACE
'SIENT SENTINELS' AT
WHITE HOUSE GATES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Tlie suffragettes, after a futile
appeal to President Wilson to gain his support for what is
termed the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the fe’deral con
stitution, today began retaliatory', measures against the chief
executive, by picketing the white house with “silent sentinels.”
The purpose is to make it impossible for the president to leave
the white house without encountering a sentinel bearing a de
vice i (leading for woman suffrage. The picketing program be
gan this forenoon. Twelve women from the congressional union
appeared at the two main gates leading to the white house,
each carrying banners on which were inscribed the words, “Mr.
President, what will you do for Woman’s Suffrage?”
Officials of the white house said nothing would be done in
reference to the matter, so long as the pickets created no dis
turbance or attempted to enter the white house.
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JUDGE ROOT
CALLED TO REST
SEATTLE, Jan. 10.—Judge Milo
Root, a pioneer attorney of Seattle,
and for a number of years a judge of
the superior court and later of the
state supreme court, died here last
night, after a lingering illness. He
had reached an advanced age.
OLYMPIA, Jan. 11.—The passage
of a preferential primary law, of a
non-partisan election law and a bill
that would bring about absolute pro
hibition in the state of Washington
were among the recommendations con
tained in Govertiuf- ifrsicr’a message
to the state legislature.
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 11.—A trans
portation concern, called the Fair
banks Transportation company, capi
talized at $50,000, has been organized
here, and is building a boat in Seattle
to ply between Fairbanks and the
mouth of the Tanana river. The
I stockholders in the concern are 24
merchants and mining men of the
Fairbanks district. It is said to be
a co-operative company for the pur
pose of carrying freight for local bus
iness concerns. The White Pass &
Yukon Railway company, which oper
ates a fleet of boats on the Yukon riv
er, will be unable this season, to
handle freight for local merchants, as
it will be employed in bring equip
ment and material for the government
railway project.
ENDS IT ALL
SEATTLE, Jan. 11.—Edward Tib
bett, aged 21 years, recently married,
and who has been sick abed for the
past week, committed suicide while
his wife was eating breakfast this
morning.
AEENTARRESTED
SEATTLE, Jan. 11.—John Radley,
agent of the Standard Oil company
at Juneau, was arrested here today,
charged with embezzling funds of the
giant corporation.
PITIFUL HISTORY OF WOMAN VICTIM.
FORMERLY OF ANCHORAGE, 10 MET
BRUTAL DEATH RECENTLY AT DOUGLAS
The recent brutal murder of“Babe”
Brown in Douglas by her paramour
has caused a great deal of excitement
in the coast cities and was the direct
cause of the restricted district of
Douglas being removed.
Anchorage comes in for its snare
of notoriety, and several telegrams
have been exchanged between the offi
cials of Juneau and Douglas and this
city. The arrest, in Juneau, of Harry
Againsky will undoubtedly lead to
other arrests that may result in in
ternational complications and may be
the means of running to earth one of
the most notorious white slave gangs
now operating on the Pacific coast.
Babe Brown was a habitue of the
underworld in Anchorage for several
months and left this city in Novem
ber. She -was known here as Jennie
Kline among her associates, who are
loath to give out any information re
garding her past history 01 her con
nections with the gang who is sup
posed to have their headquarters in
San Francisco.
In fact, it is reliably understood
that there are at least two more girls
living beyond the pale in Anchorage
who are also in the clutches of this in
famous gang, but who are afraid to
peach. Every effort and influence has
been brought to bear, with the excep
tion of the third degree, to get a con
fession, but so far without avail.
However, it was learned from abso
lutely reliable authority, that Babe
Brown was a native of Poland of Jew
ish descent. Old letters addressed to
Aaron Poplosky to some unspeakable
town in Poland would signify that
Poplosky waa her real name. Other
information goes to prove that she
[was .stolen from home at the ago of
13 years and taken to South America,
where she was “put to work” with the
fear of man in her heart and led to
believe that it was her duty.
Her ancestors originally sprung
from the royal strain of rulers who
wore the purple but had deteriorated
under the heavy yoke of the czar that
they had labored under and carried for
generations. Driven and scourged
from palace to hovel and condemned
to penury and poverty, they at last
found refuge in a small border town,
where she was bom. Without any ad
vantages or especially attractive home
environment, she was raised in ignor
ance and took her place in the field
with her now plebian parents and rel
atives. Being of unusually attractive
face and figure she was the natural
prey, for the gang’s despicable vul
ture was ever on the lookout for ma
terial.
By the wiles and blandishments of
his kind he lured the young and un
sophisticated girl to the border, where
she was immediately whisked away
and hurried to a seaport for transpor
tation to a foreign country. Nor was
she alone in her misery, for the agent
had done his work well and there were
other beautiful peasant girls stolen
from this same part of the country at
the time. The parents used every ef
fort to bring the matter before the
authorities, but neither prayers nor
supplications could move them to ac
tion. Being without money or in
fluence their efforts were vain and the
matter was dropped except in the for
lorn home of the pitiful parents, who
could never forget nor forgive.
In Buenos Ayers she was known as
“Portuguese Jennie,” and became a
mother before the age of 14 years.
The methods of the gang became so
flagrant that they were forced to flee
from city to city and in each instance
the girl went with some one of them.
Many of the larger South American
cities were visited and their length of
residence depended solely on the of
ficials. San Francisco, the harbor of
sin and iniquity at this time, was the
natural refuge. But the moral wave
hail also reached San Francisco and it
was only a short time until the leader
of the gang was arrested and the drag
net set for the accomplices.
In one of the raids “Babe” Brown
was taken and placed in jail, where
she served a sentence of ten months
rather than divulge any of the secrets
of the well organized gang. The mat
ter at the time aroused a country-wide
feeling of indignation and an official
was even sent to Poland and Russia
for information that might lead to
further arrests and convictions. The
official’s trip proved unavailing but
his report describing the pitiful condi
tion of affairs was an added impetus
for the authorities to bring the gang
to justice and in a measure make
arqends for a. grievous wrong.
Perhaps there has never been a
white slave gang better organized
than the one in question and while
several of the leaders are at the pres
ent time serving time, the gang was
not effectively broken up and in the
course of time again commenced their
nefarious methods of luring girls to
the pitfall of hell.
Nor did they let the former girls get
out of their clutches and upon expira
tion of her sentence “Babe” Brown
was again forced to take up her life of
sin and shame and sell her body to
satisfy man’s passion that the gang
might live in opulence and luxury.
It is understood that she was law
fully married to one of the gang and
sent to Alaska but with the under
standing that she should remit once a
week. This 6he did for some time but
with experience came wisdom and she
came to Anchorage to escape her ty
rant master. She confided to some of
her Anchorage associates that she had
been beaten and whipped and that
they had worked on her cruedulous re
ligious views and superstitions until
she believed that it was a sin not to:
obey. She believed that she would be ;
forever damned on account of failure
and was faithful up to the time she!
came here.
Her associates say that she could
speak several different languages but
could neither read nor write. Her ig
norance compelled her to call upon her
friends for assistance in the matter of
correspondence and in this manner a
good deal of her history was ascer
tained. It was learned that she had a
brother fighting for Russia in the Eu
ropean war; that she was learning to
read and write English and was an
adept in fancy needle work. She was
perfectly moulded and a communica
tion dated several years ago from one
of America’s most prominent artists
told that she too had previously “sat
in the model’s seat, shameless but oh,
so fair.” Being especially good natur
ed and free hearted, she made many
friends among the girls, to whom she
confided that she had thrown away her
wedding ring and would never go back
to the gang nor send them any more
money.
For some time she lived such a life
of freedom as one of her kind is able
to and was apparently contented with
her -lot.
But it was not to be, for her hus
band, using the methods known only
to the gang, found her hiding place
and wrote for money, always money.In
the presence of one of her friends she
tore the letter up and said “she was
not married any more.” Ignorance is
sublime; she really thought by throw
ing away her wedding ring she had
severed the bond. The second and even
the third letter came and she com
menced to get frightened and told her
companions that her husband had
written that he would come to Anch
orage and kill her if she didn't send
the money. Upon the advice of her
friends she sold her house and left An
chorage on the last sailing of the S. S.
Northwestern, intending to go to Cor
dova and on into the interior; always
farther and farther away from the
THAW IN HOLE
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Harry K.
Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, was
arrested today on the charge of kid
naping Fred Gump, a 19-year-old
youth, from Kansas City. Thaw con
fined the youth in a New York hotel.
The fact became known when Thaw
was administering a severe thrashing,
employing a whip, to the young man.
The hotel employes rushed to the
room, whereupon the identity of
Gump became known.
LONDON, Jan. 11.—The Russian
premier, Alexander Trepoff, has ten
dered his resignation to Czar Nicho
las. Prince Golitzine Asar, a member
of the council of the empire, was im
mediately named to succeed Trepoff.
cause of her shame and downfall.
The irony of fate surely is applic
able to “Babe” Brown, for her Ne
mesis arrived in Anchorage on the
Northwestern and the two met face to
face on the gang plank, and they sail
ed away together. She to a horrible
death, and, if reports are true, he to
a criminal’s ignominious end. A ter
rible but inexorable climax to a life of
sin and shame that was no fault of
hers but hatched in the hellish brains
of master criminals; the bitter culmi
nation of a pitiful story whose first
scene arises in downtrodden Poland;
the scenes shifted and the sad and al
most unbelievable story staged in
many cities of the world with the final
curtain in Alaska.