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CALENDAR
APRIL
S M T \V T K S
12 3 4 5 0 7
S 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 10 17 IS 10 20 21
22 23 24 25 20 27 28
20 30
Moon’s Phases.
First quarter.1st:
full moon. sth;
lust quarter. l?»th:
new moon, 2JW1.
M A V
S M T \V T F 8
l 2 3 4 5
0 7 8 0 10 11 12
15 14 15 10 17 IS 10
20 21 22 2:’» 24 25 20
27 28 20 50 51
Moon’s Phases.
First quarter, 1st;
full moon. Sth:
last quarter, 14th;
new moon, 22(1.
tirst quarter, :’»nth.
WkDNKSDAV. Al'KII. IS. 1HHi.
Correspondence in welcomed bv this
paper, lmt the author’s name should
always lie attached, not necessarily for
publication, but as an evidence that the
writer is not (lodging the marshal.
THE WICKERSHAM CASE.
On Monday, April Senator Nelson
presented the .adverse) report of the
sub-committee to the senate judiciary
committee in the Wickersham case.
The entire day was given to considera
tion of thi’ report, most of the time be
ing taken up by Senator Nelson himself
in arguments hostile to the judge. At
the conclusion of that day's argument
the hearing was adjourned for a week;
and so from week to week it was car
ried over to Monday, Aprli Hi. On that
day dispatches said the judiciary com
mittee would probably report "tomor
row,” April 1”. Nothing more has been
heard of the matter, and it is altogether
likely it was postponed for another
week.
The situation is plain. To prevent a
favorable reimrt by the judiciary com
mittee filibustering tactics are adopted
and the interests of Alaska are passed
up
The principle—or lark of it—that lu
ll lienee* Senator Nelson in the mu rue
lie is pursuing is illuminated hv his
recent advaeacy of Carl M. .Johanson
for governor of Alaska. .h»hanson knew
Wiekershum. was his friend, and wanted
him confirmed as judge. If \\ ieker
sham was had Johanson was vile—and
Nels* >n knew it. Vet Johanson was
Nelson’s ehoiee for p»v»*rnor of this
js'oph- fi.r whom Nelson i* so profuse in
hi-* professions of friendship.
|>istrnst of the motives *# Alaska's
rulers is a natural re nit of the taeties
adopt***! hv Senator N« lso«».
However the feeling may l*- regarding
Wit* her sham, \e|s»»n - fr»• nd-hip !• r
Alaska will henceforth go at its face
v a hit-- »e* more and ie* less.
%siiu r ♦h. ah*»\e was m tv|*«* it is re
ported that tlie matter has again U*vi»
l»*«t potted for ten da vs in order that
weimlMf N* ls*»n may hate an opportu
nity to get mw rviilHMV from her
Nufch*.
The Destruction
of San Francisco
Such meager accounts as have heen
received are sufficient to make it known
that the calamity at San Francisco is
awful beyond conception.
The first great shock at (i o'clock may
have caused the greatest loss of life,
taking, as it doubtless did, the people
unawares.
Hut at 10.MO came the stroke that
made the ruin complete and apparently
doomed the city, as such, to total ob
literation.
DETAILS.
Sun Francisco, April l*'. This city visited
by an earthquake. The shock came about
o’clock and the city has been cut off for
hours from all communication by wire.
Fairbanks, 3.48 p. rn. The following' has
just been received:
Hundreds of houses have been thrown
down and destroyed.
Water mains of lower part of the city are
Flumes broke out and the city is now in
IJGreat crevices opened in Market street and
a thousand deaths have resulted. All Mar
ket street is in flames.
Panic prevails ami details are impossible
to be secured.
Bodies are being piled in the streets.
Tenements all over the city are in collapse.
Several of the great department stores of
the city and far down Market street are
razed to the ground.
The new postoflice building is in ruins.
Market street is a muss of debris. A fissure
twenty feet wide has oi>cned in Market
street, and this renders the relief work and
that of the fire department almost wholly
ineffective. The fissure extends three
blocks.
Special trains from other cities are on the
if ay here in response to calls for help, bring
ing the fire departments.
A thousand men are employed in trying to
repair the breaks in the water mains.
Houses are ablaze in all parts of the city.
Twenty blocks south of Market street are
in flames.
Second Shock.
A second earthquake shock occurred at
10.'.’0o'clock this morning. The Call and the
Examiner buildings were totally wrecked
and are being consumt d by fire.
The Palace Hotel building was consumed
and over a hundred mangled bodies were
taken from the ruins of the edifice.
All that portion of the city south of Mar
ket street is ablaze and given over almost
entirely to the tire fiend.
No estimate of the dead can he made at
this time.
The yovernor has issued a call for the
militia. The last days of Pompeii are being
re-enacted in all their horrible detail*.
Many people have tieen driven insane.
Police are dynamiting buildings on every
Main hotels collapsed, but were deserted
before the w alls fell in.
The Pueiftr St itew Telephone building is
aflame. Big mills are burning.
Water is fteing pumped from the bay b> a
relay of engines.
The flames are roaring toward the resi
dent e part mid the w hole city is doomed.
NEW BUILDINC
FOR THE POSTOFFICE
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THE MINERS STORE
is now taking orders on commission from
the miners for supplies for next season.
Orders will he accepted until July 1st.
The terms are liberal and quality of goods guaranteed; can refer to all who
placed their orders with them last season.
For further information please commu
nicate direct with.
THE MINERS STORE
S Big Minook is now cutting the logs.
They will be delivered promptly and
the work will not he allowed to lag until
the building is finished. It will bean
ornament to the town.
The building at present occupied by
the store and postofficc has settled and
become so lopsided that something had
to be done. The change w ill undoubt
edly be welcomed bv the public.
TRAPPER ATE MARTEN
.1. II. Stroed is the latest arrival from
Novitno. He got in Monday from the
mouth of Lost creek.
Mr. Stroed was one of the number
who quit prospecting and devoted the
tail end of a hard winter to trapping.
He did not accumulate much fur.
Of all the Novitno trappers the one
making the best catch was a man named
Patrick, who took about ninety skins.
Patrick's grubstake was very scant, and
he added marten and an occasional
rabbit to the supply of flapjacks, and
Mr. Stroed heard that he finished up
the winter campaign with a case of the
scurvy.
Other trappers mixed marten with
their dog feed. The dogs thrived on it,
but the less marten it contained the
better they liked it.
The last heard of the Laboski boys
and Kinney McLeod they were bound up
Mud creek.
TO DREDGE FORTY-MILE
Forty-mile Cor. Daw son News.
W. Tuttle, manager for A. Bauer’s
property on Jack Wade, which consists
of several claims, is prospecting the
ground preparatory to putting on a large
dreilge, which will arrive here this sum
mer.
It is also reported that Mender, a
Itominion creek ojiemtor, contemplates
putting a drt-dge on Atwater har. located
five miles la-low the mouth of Lost
Chicken, on the Forty-mile river some
time this summer.
All the sui[-el's working on the F'orty
JULIUS RAHMSTORF,
General Merchandise
FULL LINE
TIN, GRANITE AND CROCKERYWARE
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner ami Recorder.
Rooms 1 and 2, Courthouse
THE MIRROR
CALIFORNIA KITCHEN BLD.
Notice to Creditors of the Estate
of John E. Huhn.
Notice is hereby given that the under*
signed. J. H. Hudgin, has been unpointed
Administrator of the estate of John E. H uhn,
and all creditors of said estate are hereby
notified to present their claims with the
proper vouchers attached to me within six
months from the date of this notice.
Said claims to be presented at my resi
dence. in Rampart, Rampart Precinct, Third
Division of the Territory of Alaska.
Dated this 11th flay of April. lVH'ti.
J. H. HUDGIN,
Administrator of the estate of John E. Huhn.
Change of Management.
Notice is hereby given that the Florence
Hotel and Rar will in future be under the
management of the undersigned, Tom Ma
honey have withdruwn from all connection
with the place. The style of the new firm
will be Radigan A Schaber. and they will pay
all accounts flue by the old firm.
JACK RADIGAN.
BOB SC HABER.
mile river bed, on the Canadian side,
have been notified by the owners of the
concession extending from the mouth to
the international boundary line that
they must stop work, so that all the
snipers from here to the boundary have
quit and are looking for new ground
higher up the river.
Weather Conditions.
April 11, highest
April 12.
April 13, “
April 14, “
April 15, “
April hi, “
April 17, “
Snowfall, trace.
VumlsT of days
cloudy 4, cloudy 1.
32; lowest — 2
42; “ —13
45; “ —14
2»; •* 10
;tS- “ —id
42; “ 1
Clear 5, partly
Kurd K. ICaokr.
’"hintary (tbserver.
.1W. YOUNG..
DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Located tn N. A. T. A T. Co.'s Building
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