Yukon Valiev News
VOL. II.
HA M PA KT, ALASKA, WKDNKSDAY, JI'I.Y 4. 1000.
No. 45
CONGRESS
ADJOURNED
Washington, July 2.—Con
gress adjourned Saturday.
Vue president worked until
midnight signing hills, and
dictated the following state
ment :
“The session closed with
more substantial legislation
f >r good than any congress 1
am familiar with. Along real
construction lines 1 point
with pride to the railroad
rate hill, the meat inspection,
tut' pure food, the joint state
hood. the naturalization and
the Panama bills.”
The total appropriations
were $80( ),<)C0,0O().
WASKEY-CALE
COALITION
Nome, June 28.—The miner* at a
meeting ami the democrats in conven
tion here have indorsed Thomas Cale,
of the Tuna mi, for long-term candidate,
and Frank H. Waskey, of Nome, an the
short-term candidate for delegate to
congress.
Fairbanks, June 28.—Southeast Alas
ka also desires to effect a trade with the
Tanana, giving ('ale the long term and
cx-< iovernor Swineford the short term.
Fairbanks, July :’>.—A meeting of re
publicans was called last evening rela
tive to the Juneau convention. It is too
late for delegates to attend, but the con
vention will In- inh rme l that all jier
sons in the Tanana, irrespective of
party, have indorsed Thom: s (’ale.
The Tanana Miners A-s« iatiou im t
last evening and indorsed Frank II.
Wa-key, "f Nome, as the short-term
candidate, and rep irted that interi< r
Alaska stands -olid for t ale for the !• i g
t rat. __________
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WICKERSHAM’8
REAPPOINTMENT
FAIRBANKS, June 28.—The president has made public a state
ment that he will give Judge Wickersham a recess appointment,
and that the latter will remain judge of the Third division as long
as he (the president) is in office.
Attorney General Moody says he considers Wickersham one of
the ablest judges on the bench.
Judge Wickersham has already left Washington to come direct
to Fairbanks, where he will convene court July 30. The Juneau
judge (Judge Gunnison) will clean up the docket at Valdez.
The above telegram "'as received 1 >y
the Yukon Valley News at a late hour
last Friday afternoon.
It was passed along the street and
publicly read, and its substance bulle
tined so that every one might know that
a date had at last been set for convening
court and granting to the people of this
division the justice of which they have
so long been deprived by the machina
tions of a few agitators at home and an
insignificant minority in the United
States senate.
For a moment the town seemed to.
hold its breath.
Then a tremendous whoop from some
llisty throat cleaved the atmosphere; a
lmneh of Fonrth-of-.Iuly cannon crack
ers was set off—and such another shake
up as the old camp had never known
rattled up and down the street and
shook the roots of the public houses and
made the glassware tinkle as if tum
bled about by an earthi|iiake.
All the horses in town were pressed
into sen ice and the streets paraded,
headed by two mounted men holding
aloft a streamer inscriU-d
A big I’nited states Mag and a drum
and a brass horn followed behind tin*
utieumer, and cheer* for Kooscvelt and
for Wicker-hom were started in the pm
eession and taken up and repeated along
the street, and again started on the
street and rv-ecle*ed by the IsM.pl*' in
line.
\It* r the parade was over the entlia*
siastn found utterance in impromptu
speeches.
Bitterness could not abide in such an
atmosphere, and but few of the hundred
or more who mounted the rostrum were
even serious for more than a moment
at a time.
However, some who are not pro
nounced admirers of the president took
occasion to commend his action in this
instance, and some who can by no man
ner of means be classed as Wickersham
partisans expressed abhorrence of the ,
tactics resorted to by his enemies.
Scarcely half a dozen men in town
were not rejoiced at the stand taken by
the president. The community’s feel
ing regarding the long-drawn-out and
bitter assaults on Judge Wickersham’s
character and the petty and dogged
spirit that prompted a few men to
thwart the wishes of nine tenths of the
baited States senators was spontaneous
in its manifestation. Nothing had been
planned ami no master of ceremonies
was needed. Events simply shaped
themselves.
From the moment the public gra-pcd
the meaning of the telegram printed
above to 5 or <i o'clock the next morning
Kampart was the scene of one of the
most remarkable demonstrations that
was probably ever witnessed in so small
a community.
West Virginia Labor Riots.
Wheeling, \\ Va . July J.—There is a
bbssly riot in which eight guards and
nine striking miners of the Bradley
mine are killed. Ibunkeri striker, at
tacked the guard. Women ami children
are tiering. Min. rs are arming and
trisi|as have been called for.
FATAL CAS
ACCIDENT
Fairbanks, .July 2.—('lias.
Swanson was killed and E.
Woodean rendered uncon
scious for nearly an hour by
gas in the muck in a 50-foot
hole on Cripple creek.
Swanson descended and
fell when part of the way
down. Woodean tied a rope
around himself and tried to
effect a rescue, but was over
come by the fumes. It re
quired an hour’s hard work
to revive him.
Swanson came here from
Dawson last fall. He was 25
years old and had relatives
in (,'hicago.
TRIAL WILL BE
SENSATIONAL
New York, July 2.—The killing of
Sanford White, of the Alaska Club, by
Harry Thaw has caused a great sensa
tion.
It is asserted that White was arrested
a short time ago for inducing a 12-vear
old girl to enter his apartments; that
he frequently committed such outrages,
and that not long ago he took a drunken
woman home and beat his wife when
she tried to stop them.
Mrs. Thaw will be a witness for the
defense, and will tell thrilling stories of
how girls enter the theatrical profession
through pernicious influence. Kichard
Mansfield will deny this and will help
prosecute Thaw.
RUSSIAN DEMOCRATS
GAINING IN STRENGTH
St. IVtcrsImrg, July 2— Soldiers have
mutinied in mull) place-. The tiorem
kyn ministry's downfall is assured.
Kikosvoff '.* will prolqihlv lie premier.
The exar officially announces that the
grand dukes will surrender to the con
stitutional denes rats, thus giving a
democratic |mrliameut. Tin* exar, how -
ever, is nnuhlv to find any one to serve,
a* all fear a renewal of trouble.