Miscellaneous Items.
A severe slun k of earthquake was felt
along the California const Dee. 7.
The new courthouse at Fairbanks has
been finished and accepted hy the gov
ernment.
The house bulletin shows that there
will he --2 republican congressmen,
making a majority for that party of 58.
President Roosevelt has sent a special
message to congress asking that citizen
ship be conferred on the people of Porto
Rico.
Captain Bodlish of the whaler William
Dailies, who has been on Dial at Seattle
charged with kicking a sailor to death,
was acquitted.
The wife of Capt. K. T. Barnette, of
Fairbanks, who was so ill in Seattle that
her life was despaired of, had taken a
turn for the better Dec. 10.
II. ,1. Roden has resigned the secre
taryship of the Tanana Miners Associa
tion in order to devote his undivided
attention to the practice of law at Fair
banks.
The British government’s offer of
$100,000 is said to have been withdrawn
and Captain Amundsen w ill not profit
by it for sailing through the northwest
passage.
The machinery and practically every
thing of value except tlie hull of the
N. C. steamer Rock Island, wrecked by
the outgoing ice at Chena last spring, is
being salvaged.
John Rosene, who promoted the
Northwestern railroad properties in
Alaska which were to pass to the Gug
genheim and Morgan interests Jan. 1,
will lie succeeded by Capt. R. 11. Jarvis.
Congress will he asked to authorize
the United States signal corps to expend
upon a telegraph line from Fairbanks to
Circle a portion of the receipts of the
Valdez-Fairbanks government telegraph
line.
I'ji to Dee. 10 little progress had been
made In the selection of a jury to try
Chester Thompson for the mimler of
Judge Mead F.inory in Seattle. The
defense, it was thought, would lie in
sanity.
George Butler, an old-timer well
known in Juneau, Circle, Forty-mile,
Dawson and Fairbanks, at the latter
place being one of the proprietors of the
Tanaua saloon, has gone outside and
will open a similar resort in Seattle or
San Francisco.
The steamship companies having ves
sels in the Alaska trade have decided to
raise the rates to all northern |>orts
next year. They say this is prompted
by the extra expense of increased wages
to the sailors, and to other costs that
have become attached to the run up
north.
.1. B. l’Jick. the principal owner and
«ii|wriiitcndeiit of the Livingston Creek
Syndicate in the Itig Salmon district,
says the men who work for him next
vear will have to consent to Is* searched
when they leave his dump, lb* believes
that bis men have been stealing bis
nuggets.
Commander IVury of tie* js.hir ship
Uaneevelf delivered a lecture in New
York Ike. !*, in which lie adhered to his
former expression# of a belief that there
is land further north than any yet
known. Me said lie had discovered
■ Iriftw 's| lt»* miles north of Grant's
Land, the Mat northern land known.
It, announced also that Imp wdl make
one more voyage in search of the I'Wle.
Army officers in Alaska have submit
ted their reports upon the supplies best
adapted to the service in this territory.
They are unanimous in their declara
tion against canned vegetables, all of
them stating that they would rather
have the native Alaska products, which
can be had all the year round.
Ihrector-General I. A. Nadeau of the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacifie Exposition lias
requested Delegate Waskey of Alaska
and Senator Piles of Washington to in
troduee simultaneously in the house and
senate a bill appropriating the sum of
$t,OtX),000 for an Alaska building and
for the collection and maintenance of an
Alaska exhibit at the exposition. Im
mediate attention was promised to the j
matter hv the delegate and the senator.
California has sent to the administra
tion and to congress an appeal for pro
tection of its coast against foreign na
tions. The petition makes the flat
declaration that Japan will have forced
a war upon the United States within
five years. It is accompanied by affida
vits and other papers from prominent
men in support id" the declaration of
Japan’s warlike intentions. It declares
that Japan has had for more than a
year a corps of engineers and spies, dis
guised as laborers and servants, map
ping the California coast and securing
plans of the fortifications and other
measures for coast defense. It is also
accompanied by proof that other Japa
nese spies, disguised as fishermen, have
taken soundings of the waters within
heavy gun range of the city and have
also secured maps showing the subma
rine mine system with which the en
trance to the bay, through the Golden
Gate, is protected.. With the petition
was sent a general plan of the whole
I’aeilic coast, showing the weak spots
and the points most susceptible to inva
sion by a foe. Puget sound is declared
to he the weakest point on the coast and
the sum of $o,000,000 is asked to prop
erly protect it. Three million is asked
for the defense of the California coast.
canIdian
EXPANSION
Here is j>art of a press dispatch sent
out from Ottawa and printed in Cana
dian paj>ers in October. It may be
news to some that Canada is as land
hungry as the wording of the dispatch
indicates:
“l>r K. J. Wickstead, late of the law
department of the honse of commons, at
the last meeting of the St. tleorge’s So
ciety advocated friendly overtures to the
Washington authorities for the transfer
to Canada, with the full consent of the
legislature of the State of Maine, of all
territory at present within that state
lying north of parallel -to. His program
included negotiations with the Cnitcd
States and IVnmark for the cession to
Canada also of Alaska and tirrenlund
respectively.
“In connection with his Maine pro
l>o-al hi..plates the union of Nova
Scotia. New Itrnnswick, and Prince Hit
ward Island with Maine
“He suggests that negotiations Is
opened for the entrance of Newfound
land into the dominion, and with Rus
sia for the establishment of a ferry
aerials Hi ring straits or a tunnel under
the straits, or Istth, ami for a railroad
connecting the TrameSiheria railway
ami tirand Trunk Pacific with the terry
or tunnel."
S. E. HEETER,
Freighter and Packer
Good Equipments and
Service Unexcelled
N. A. T. & T. CO.
IN A BIC SUIT
The Tanana Trading Company Al
leges Conspiracy in Transfer
of River Craft.
The Tanana Trading Company, doing
business at Chi nn, began suit the first
of December against the X. A. T. & T.
Company and E. A. Bain aud J. Fred
Struthers, ttie two latter formerly the
president and vice president of the
plaintiff concern and at pr-sent mem
bers of its board of directors.
According to the Fairbanks Times the
complaint alleges that Will H. Isom,
vice president and general manager of
the X. A. T. <k T. Co., entered into a
conspiracy with A. E. Bain and J. Fred
Struthers, of the Tanana Trading Com
pany, whereby without paying a dollar
the X. A. T. A T. Co. secured possession
of the steamers Light and Ella and two
barges of the plaintiff corporation. It
alleges further that another considera
tion of the transfer of the property,
which was not fulfilled, was that the X.
A. T. ik T. Co. should land at Cbena
from the outside all freight of the
plaintiff at a flat rate of $30 per ton.
The price to have been paid for the
craft named was $60,000 and the com
plaint sots forth that Bain and Struth
ers with authorized to negotiate the
deal with Isom upon no other consider
ation, and that in doing so they exceed
ed the authority given them by the
board of directors of the plaintiff, and
that the transfer is therefore invalid.
Judgment is asked for in the sum of
$170,WO and an injunction restraining
the company from asserting title.
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