Yukon Valley News
(Successor to Tanana Leader)
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Entered as second-class mail matter at
the postoffice at Tanana, Alaska.
Satursday, Out. 28, 1911.
The editorials will this week be found
on the fifth page.
George Vautier returned from (iold
Mountain last Monday, bringing good
reports from that section.
Frank Smith was on Thursday even
ing serenaded by Yachon’s Peerles
Band of 20 all star musicians.
The ladies, the officers and tne en
listed men of the Post are gathering up
their skates and getting ready for a sea
son of fine skating.
Dr. Harris returned from Ruby this
week. He announces that James Gal
laher is getting along nicely. An
operation was found unnecessary.
Joe Anicich has just finished covering
the sides of the Tower house with a fin
ishing layer of thin beaten metal which
gives the building a very finished and
substantial appearance.
Mr. Andrew Vachon received a tele
gram today from Captain A. T. Clifton,
in charge of the signal corps at Fort
Mason, Cab, stating that wife and fam
ily left, bound east today; all well. Mrs.
Peter Yaclion goes to Los Angeles with
her mother.
In a fight between town dogs and
some of Jules Marions pigs on Thurs
day, Mr. Eduard Pieper is said to have
played a prominent part. Mr. Pieper
is said to have jumped right into the pen
and scattered the dogs with well directed
kicks; killing one large hog by a
misdirected blow.
Murder In Skagway
Clyde tiuptil, the agent of the Alaska
steamship company at Skagway, was
found dead in his office last week. There
is no doulit but that he was murdered,
but the crime remains shrouded in mys
tery, the police having no clue to the
murderer or his motive.
The towns of San Bias and Sihuaste
nejo have been completely destroyed by
a tidal wave that swept part of the
Mexican coast. Many lives were lost,
but sufficient details have not yet been
received to estimate the extent of the
calamity.
Fort Levenworth, Oct. 20.—Captain
Carr killed himself in his quarters here
this morning, shooting himself through
the head with a revolver. A broken
marriage engagement is supposed to
have been the cause.
The steamer Victoria arrived at Se
attle from Nome last week with a large
number of passengers. She had on
board one million dollars in gold dust.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 18. — Prince
Troubetzkov, the husband of Amelie
Rives, the American novelist, was mur
dered on the street here last evening as
he was returning from the theatre.
Notorious Bandit Escapes
Bill Miner, the notorious robber and
bandit, serving a life sentence at Van
couver, 15. C., escaped from the peni
tentiary last week. Posses have been
sent after him in all directions, but so
far no trace of him has been found.
Big Carl Morris sustained serious in
juries in his 10-round tight with Jim
Flynn last month. Refree Charley
White will probably lose his license for
failing to stop the unequal contest.
Calls LaFollette An Ingrate
At the session of the Progressive Re
publican league today, Senator Moses
K. Clapp of Minnesota made a bitter
attack upon President Taft. Some con
siderable excitement was occasioned
when a delegate charged Senator La
Follette, the nominee of the league,
w ith being an ingrate, asserting that La
Follette had received pecuniary assis
tance from Senator Stephenson, and had
then turned him down.
Fate Of Two Former Champions
Two worn out boxers, Martin Cos
tello and Albert Griffo, who less than
20 years ago, were classed as stars of
the tistic arena, were a few days ago
sent to the workhouse on charges of
vagrancy. Costello is 45 and Griffo 44,
botli were gray haired, ragged and des
titute. Th‘*y asked the magistrate to
send them where they could be cared
for during the winter.
Boston, (Jet. 20.—Pal Moore easily de
feated Battling Nelson in a twelve-round
contest here last night. Moore had the
best of the encounter all the way
through, and left no doubt of.his super
iority.
On next Tuesday the greatest con
course of American warships that ever
assembled will be mobolized in New
York harbor. There will be sixty-nine
war vessels in the fleet.
The Hawaiian Steamship company
has ordered from Maryland four big
steamers to ply on the run between
Seattle and New York. The cost of the
vessels will be three million dollars.
McCoys’ Eight Wives
Kid McCoy, the famous prizefighter is
soon to marry his eighth wife.. The
divorce court has brought relief to seven
other victims.
Aviator l'owler with a new biplane,
started from Los Angeles last week on
his second attempt to cross the conti
nent, confident in the belief that lie will
be successful. Fowler made an attempt
a month ago to win the $50,000 prize
offered to the man who would fly across
the continent inside of thirty days from
the starting time, but had bad luck in
trying to cross the Sierras and aban
doned the contest for the time being.
Well Received In the North
ocuwc, v;i i, —ai a uinner at me
Commercial club yesterday, Gifford Pin
eltot, who had just returned with Sena
tor Poindexter from a trip to Alaska,
stated thut he was warmly received by
the people up North. lie insisted that
in spite of the belief to the contrary,
conservation has not retarded the de
velopment of the country. lie sug
gested no remedy to better conditions.
Senator Poindexter launched into a ti
rade against the Guggenheiins. He in
sisted that Controller bay is a good har
bor and he advocated government opera
tion of the coal mines.
There is no reason on earth why the
i mail should not be carried from Seattle
to Fairbanks in eight days time,” says
Falcon Joslvn the well known Alaskan,
who is now in Seattle, after spending
the summer in Alaska. The route to
Fairbanks bv way of Cordova and Chi
tina is practicable at the present time,
! and it is ridiculous to keep sending the
mail to the Tanana by way of the cir
cuitous routes as is done at present in
the summertime, making from twenty
to thirty days one way. The change
ought to be made next summer.
SAM 60NNIFIELD
AGAIN IN CUSTODY
Sam Bonnifield of Fairbanks was this
week taken into custody by the mar
shal’s office on an insanity charge and
now is in the federal jail, lie has been
unbalanced for some time, says the
i News-Miner, hut it was only Monday
and Tuesday that his condition became
i very noticeable.
When the banks went on the script
basis, in 1907-08, Bonnifield was Presi
dent of the First National bank, and the
worries incident to that strain caused a
mental breakdown. lie was taken out
| side and cared for in a private sanita
rium until a year ago, when he walked
back over tiie trail.
Since his return he has never been
light, although his insanity has been of
a harmless nature. This summer he
walked to Richardson and spent the
j summer hunting for a letter that con
tained only a few cents.
A day or two ago he drew two or
three thousand dollars, part of which
he scattered around promiscuously
l among some laborers, while the re
mainder he took across the river and
played with in the sand,
i This morning when picked up he was
rather violent, declaiming against Presi
dent Taft, Cardinal (iibbon and others
i (f prominence, declaring that monev is
their god.
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