Yukon Valiev News
VOL. II.
RAM PART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, liHXi.
No. 28
PREPARING
FOR WAR
Washington, March 5.—
Every army post in the union
is receiving orders to hurry i
troops to the Pacific coast for'
transfer to Manila. The ar
senals at Portsmouth and j
other places have received \
hurrv orders for ammuni
tion. The largest shipment j
of ammunition on record left
Portsmouth last Wednesday.
It included six carloads of
cartridges.
The foreign legations at
Pekin have asked for an
army for protection. The
German embassy has mount
ed heavy guns. A cry has<
been raised against foreign
ers and a general outbreak
is expected any moment.
Kid White Hanged.
Walla Walla, March 5.—
Kid White was hanged Fri
day for th** murder of Mat
thew Murphy in a saloon
holdup at Seattle. Hilde
bradt, his companion in the
holdup, is now serving a life
sentence in th** penitentiary.
The Rainmaker.
Mawson, March -r».—The
Yukon Council has agreed
to pay $10.1*10 to Hatfield,
tin* famous rainmaker, if he
sueceeks lier«* next summer;
otherwise h** is t«> have trav
eling «*X|>enses.
Rates Advanced.
I hiwson, Mareli Rates
were advanced March 1 to
$t'»» from $T*» f*»r travel to
W hiteh*»r»e.
JARVIS DECLINES--NELSON DELAYS
Washington, March 5.—1
Jarvis has refused to accept,
the governorship of Alaska,
for business reasons. He fa
vors Hoggatt, and his influ- i
enee may be final with the
president.
Washington, March 5.—
Senator Nelson is delaying
the report on Judge Wicker
sham. It is believed that
not more than two senators
will be against his confirma
tion.
PAT CROWE ACQUITTED
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 1”.—The trial of
Pat Crowe for kidnaping young Ctidahy
resulted in an acquittal this afternoon.
The trial was attended by many sen
sational features. Denial on the part
of the aroused was made as te the truth
if several alleged interviews which have
been published as doming from Crowe,
in which was given a circumstantial
recount, not only of the kidnaping, hut
of his travels and of several other at
tempts at kidnaping. One of these was
to the effect that he found the kidnap
ing game so easy in the case of Cudahy
that he and his partner in that crime
planned the kidnaping of John D. Rock
efeller, and that plans were actually
made to carry this out, and that it would
have been successful hut that Crowe lie
L'ame suspicious that his partner was
not playing fair and he quit.
The verdict today was rendered lie
cause of inability to secure direct evi
dence. Young Cudahy, on the stand,
was asked to identify Crowe, hut was
unable to do so positively. It is said
Crowe has greatly changed in the five
years since the crime was committed.
The youth’s inability to identify the
man was the thing that broke down the
case-.
Crowe was immediately rearrested,
charged with robbery of a street car in
Council Bluffs.
A Lively Time
Anticipated
Waahingtnn, Krl>. 17.—.1 iiil^t- Wicker*
“liaiii is* rvporteil, in an interview pub
li«* 11• I in tlie I'ohI t>»lny, hj* raying that
he ha* “never been a camlnhitc |.>r the
gnvrraurahip <•( Alaaka; i* not n»»w, ami
never will lie.’’
Jinlge ^ lelterxliam ye*l»-r»iay a»ke*l
the email- ju«li» lary t-nitiiilillee to tie
to appear l« lore it ami make an
• ■rat alnlrtneiit touching ttie charge*
that liave Imen no peramtently pile*I
again»t him I'ono-nt a a* given ami he
will appear la-lore the committee at a
tune not yet •talc*! krmiata <•! tin
pt-lge »a i t lie re will no ihaihl la- an in
tvn aliiij *« **ion o| il,, p|.||,:.|t« .. i,,
nutter on the m-i a»toii reler mi to.
VISIT OF MR. TRAEGER
Charles A. Traeger, the Rampart and
St. Michael merchant, arrived from the
latter place last Friday, making a re
markably quick run behind his own
crack dog team, lie started from St.
Michael with one mail team and before
reaching Tanana he had overtaken the
one which had set out a week in ad
vance.
Mr. Traeger reports that this has been
a very lively winter at St. Michael. The
N. C. Co. has had a gang of men over
hauling and putting some of its boats in
shipshape for next summer’s campaign,
and business in all lines has been good.
After spending two or three weeks in
renewing his Kamprrtacquaintance Mr.
Traeger will return to St. Michael.
Meantime he will take a look around
the various creeks, where he will doubt
less find agreeable surprise in the
amount and character of work that l>e
speaks a good cleanup in the spring
—
Tidal Wave
San Francisco, March 5.—
News from Society Islands
states that (‘>,000 people were
drowned hv a great tidal
wave due to recent terrific
storms.
Back from Outside.
Walter SitnillxitY arriwil in i-anip la-t
night, fr*-«li (ruin San 1 ram i-a-ii >>wr the
YaWha trail. Henry l‘u)>tn, al«> jiwt
(nnn tin- <>u table, win* a MUmr t raw Ur
nith Mr Snn<ll««rif from YaUU-i !■> |*i.
Mtr.
lin t left VaUU'X (Vli, I'» atnl ha-1 a
wry it'oiil trip. Tin' met J-»hn iHinean,
nutlmuml, at NaUWn, ami n-»<l Urn •!.•«
t* am •>•■ tin trail.
Mr. Snmll»>rtf U*.fc* wry •’tit " lie
la frwtin| lii» mam lri« ml* I.-la*
Mr Puptn nlw> to •an! to tw in Him
trim alter a tmlrr *1*111 aumiHi >atl*alr
Imrtri
SUSPECTS.
NOT TO TALK
Boise, Idaho, March 5.—
Prosecutor Hewley is adher
ing strictly to the statement
that newspaper interviewers
and others will hq allowed to
gain no information from
any of the men arrested for
the murder of ex-Governor
Steunenberg. Any one try
ing to gain an interview will
be prosecuted, Harry Or
chard is before the grand
jury, hut no word of his evi
dence has been allowed to
leak out. It is stated that a
plot has been formed to
murder him before the date
of the trial of the miners.
Fairbanks, March 5,-Wm.
M. Lucas (formerly of Ham
part ), James Smith and Jaes
tel have been arrested for
aiding Thornton to escape.
Lucas made a full statement
to the officers and was held
as a witness under $2,000
bond, while Smith was held
under $.">,000 and Jaestel was
released to appear as a wit
ness at the trial.
Swineford Wept.
Washington, March .*>.—
K\-< inventor Swineford wept
when the house committee
announced that the Alaskan
territorial government bill
would be laid on the table.
Taft Will Come.
Washington. March •*>.—
Secretary I’aft will visit
Alaska next summer.