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A dispatch to the Marshal’s office
from Deputy Marshal Staser, at An
c no rage, states that las*. Sunday one
I* ul Fronting sho* an«i *;i ed Jeuj
?i-d Paul *,'%nija. brot .err .mont
f-'ies from -.nchoran . A* a '*r.r»
r.K: s Hiquvs the jur/ return vl a
remiet that death was *• ustM &•* a
tr y t l.ot flr»*4 by Paul From »*_•.
Op Tuesday Fronting vva- «*'veu a
•preliminary hearing before U. S.
Commissioner Rager, at Anchorage,
and was bound over to the District
Court on two counts of first degree
It is stated that Fronting had a
: mall ranch several miles out of An
chorage, and it is presumed that the
shooting occurred at that place. He
is said to have served time in the An
chorage jail for violation of the
liquor law.
An epidemic of whooping cough
struck the town of Cordova recently.
A total of $836.85 was subscribed
tr the seventh annua! roll call of the
American Red Cross by the residents
of Kodiak and Kanatuk.
A. C. Erskine. connected with the
W. J. Erskine Company at Kodiak
for the past twelve years, plans to
leave next month to make his home
it. the States.
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Luther C. Hess is drilling on Olivo
Creek, in the Fairbanks district, with
a view to installing a dredge later if
the ground average:; up sufficiently
J. C. Lenott has found encourag
ing prospects at the bottom of a 45
foot shaft on the Tolovana Bench,
above the mouth of Dominion, and
will continue to prospect in that lo
cality this winter.
A total of $815 w'as subscribed to
I the Anchorage Chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross iu the seventh annua!
drive. Of this amount $715 wa
subscribed from tne town and $tno
from nearby plants.
The Fairbanks Dredge and Gold
Mind-ng Company, operating on Fair
banks creek, closed down recently
after a very successful season, the
dredge having been operated this
season about two weeks longer than
William Lott, the negro barber
who shot and killed William Pren
tice at Juneau on the night of July
4th., last, was recently indicted by
the Grand Jury at Juneau on the
charge of first degree murder. Wi r,
arraigned. Loft entered a plea of tint
The Mealy River Coal Company is
new producing from 225 to 250 tons
of coal per day. 4b men being em
ployed at the property. The main
tunnel which runs into the mine
1.053 feet, will be completed within
a week or two. and will be used as
the main haulage from the mine.
W. K. Phin. a well known oldtimer.
who has been running the Model
Cafe in Cordova, has purchased the
Arcade Restaurant in Ketchikan
from Chris Bailey and is making a 1
number of improvements in that i
well known rating house before:
opening it to the public.
A Denver type mill of capacity to
handle the low grade ore. will be
erected next Spring on the Fern Gold
Mining property in the Willow Creek
district, according to T. 8. McDoug
all, manager of the mine. He r.lso
reports that *he ore is snowing good
is both the No. 1 and No. 2 levels.
Th<> installation of a hydraulic
plant on the Belmont, placer min
ing: property, on Bear creek, near
Hope, was completed this summer,
FUR REGULATION'S FOR THIRD
DISTRICT OF ALASKA FOR
1028-1924.
Marten. Land Otter. Mink, and
Weasel. Nov. 16th to March Hist.
Muskrat. May 1st to Jane lUth.
Lynx. Fox, Dec. 1st to March .list
Reaver, Sea Otter. Closed Season.
Bear (black, glacier, cinnamon),
wolf, wolverine, squirrel, marmot,
(whistler) Snowsboe and Arctic
Hhre. are un protected
Three changes are noteworthy in
FIRST—The fox season has been
advanced to December 1st and ex
tended to March 31st. This Is to
prevent the great influx of unprime
skins into the hands of the traders
during the early days of the open
season. We estimate that the mon
ey value of the fox catch can be
increased more than 10<£ by giv
ing the animals 15 day* more to
mature before trapping.
The advisability of prescribing
different open seasons for white fox
and red fox was discussed, but the
habits and ranges of the two species
are too closely associated to allow
SECOND—The change in the
muskrat season is radical and. we
believe, efficacious.
The long midwinter season is no!
wanted either by trappers or trad
ers. It leads to a destruction ol
houses and runaways that would
■ certainly exterminate the rat If long
continued. The forty days open
season at the breakup gives the
hunteT a chance to select and shool
the finest rats at a time when then
pelage has reached its highesi
po nt of excellence.
THIRD—The season is closed on
Beaver. The trapper forced thli
■ issue upon himself by a wholesal*
destruction of beaver houses during
the two years open season granted
FRANK DUFTIESNE,
i U.S. Fur Warden. Biological Survej
Department of Agriculture..
i according to Ed. Belmont. th<- op
erator. Little was done during the
J past summer except development
I work, but extensive mining will bo
carried on next summer.
! There was » small stampede from
| Livingood recently to Bearer river,
j to a point below the Bend. Good
| prospects are reported to have been
! found on the bars of two creeks
j known as Montana and Colorado,
j Both creek* are staked from end to
end. The discovery prospectors
[ were Bill Gates jtnrt Adolph Sober
Cook and Murphy are reported to
have bonded their quartz holdings
o»i Eva creek. in the Totatlinka dis
triet. to Butte, Montana, interests,
fcr the sum of $90,000. of which am
ount $20,000 is said to have been
turned over to the owners at the in
itial payment. The sale also pro
vides for 15 per cent royalties. S. K.
Moore, representing the purcha:u*rs.
is on the ground.
The Standard Oi! Company, now at
work in the Cold Bay field, is down
approximately 700 feet after mor
than seven months of drilling, drill
ing is going well at the present time,
after having lxen retarded to some
extent on account of striking sand
stone and boulder beds. Work has
not yet started with the second tig,
which was placed on the ground sev
Harry. Taggart, who was recently
found unconscious in a car near Ju
neau. with bullet holes through his
head and breast .and who said he had
been shot by a man whom he knew
as Pete Nelson, has confessed that
he had done the shooting himself. !
He has passed several worthless
checks a»nd attempted suicide to es
cape punishment. He will recover j
but will be totally blind. The Grand ,
Jury at Juneau returned an .ndict-j
ine.ut a few days ago against Taggart ;
for issuing the worthless cheeks.
A well defined dyke of tungsten j
ore. worth $2,000 ,i ton was recently
discovered Ln the El Nido claim of
the Lisianski mining properties. of
which J. TT. Cann Is president. The
presence of the dyke has been
known for some time, but its value i
was not discovered until recently j
when samples were sent to the Ala. - j
ks* Agricultural College; and School j
of Mines at Fairbanks for analysis. j
Th.- Fairbanks institution said that I
the samples were calcium tungstate.,
or seheelite. practically pun- rung-!
sten. ready for shipment without ]
treatment and worth a dollar a
pound.
SCBSCKIHE FOIS THE NUGGET
KO.VfK VSTKRKOTMG DICTAKLS OX LEASING TEA1W9T UONK
(Continued from Page Four)
? Interests. Today flv«*-sixths of the reserve i* being exploited by r
| inercial oil companies, and. for the purposes of the navy, has virtu;
I ceased to exist.
There remained Teapot Dome, fn April, 1922. Senator Kendrick
Wyoming received information that Teapot Dome had been secretly lea
by Secretary Fall to a new corporation organized by Harry F. Sincl
known as the Mammoth Oil Co. Demands for details resulted in
, disclosure that not only had the deal been made, but that it had b
j made upon terms which constituted a brazen robbery of the people.
■ incredible were the terms which the oil monopoly succeeded in gelt
• from Secretary Fall, that Senator Walsh of Montana, who has been m
ini? the people’s fight in the present investigation, ha-s calculated that
navy doe* not stand to receive in royalties m<»re than 1.666.€66 hart
i ->f the 20.000.000 barrels of oil estimated' to be in the reserve.
On April 23, 1922. I introduced in the Senate a resolution calling
a committee Investigation of the lease of the Teapot Dome reserve, w
j the assistance of Senator Kendrick 1 presented facts to show that
fear of drainage of the reserve by neighboring wells, given by Secret.'
Fill as his excuse for leasing it, was cot supported by competent exp
authority, and was. in fact, based up..n the opinion of an anonynw
"expert in the department." No other reason for making the lease v
seriously advanced.
Senator Smoot, as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands,
which the inquiry was delegated, did not commence 'h ■ hearings ur
October 22. 1923. eighteen months after the investigation had been ord
ed by the Senate. Meantime the committee had employed two geologic
Messrs. Lewis and Clapp, to make a survey and report < n conditions
Teapot Dome.
The day before the investigation began, the press associations a
correspondents in Washington were handed what purported to be a dig
of the geologists" report, in which it was suggested that Secretary Fa
action had been fully vindicated, and the Associated Press and hundr*
of great newspapers predicted that the investigation would accordim
collapse. Put the investigation proceeded, and through the vigorc
action of Senator Walsh in unearthing the real facts an entirely diffei
situation has b*H*n revealed. The facts are that the geologists did t
"whitewash” Secretary Fall. One of them, instead, reported that oi
a comparatively email area of the reserve was threatened hv any seric
damn ge.
It was developed, furthermore, that the only drainage that cot
occur was through wells operating under leases granted by Fall hi me*
In other words. Secretary Fall had leased Teapot Dome to save it frorr
danger created by hi« own action!
A flood of expert testimony, som • of it coming from the Governraon
own geological experts, has swept this specious plea our of serious cr
sideration. One after another these distinguished’ scientists have tes
tied that m. serious danger of drainage existed, and that, in the langna
of one of them, the only possibly motive for making the lease "was'
turn the navy's reserve nil supply over to private exploitation."
What we have witnessed, therefore, is a vast conspiracy be two
public officials, oil magnates and the press to roh the Government of t
thing which may one day be necessary to its very existence. This, inde#
is the natural course of monopoly, itself illegal, which stops at noth!
and employs any and all means that are essential in the attainment of
ends; exploitation, and through exploitation, profits and power.
It is strange that those who plunder the people can not be put
jail. There are plenty of men in the penitentiary in this country f
voicing their opinions. There are scores of American hoys who. in t
heat of war. broke military regulations, and are now wasting away behi
prison bars'. !Jut those, men who pilage the nation’s wealth, who cc
nipt its sworn trustees and protectors, and who. in their lust for power ai
gold, undermine the. very props of its safety, ran pursue, unmolested, t
course which makes .t mockery of representative government!
Ir is not credible, nor in reason, that ttie people will permit the pi
potrators of this great wrong to go unpunished, once the facts are know
The people have the remedy. Every public man whose garment be a
the odor of this scandal should be driven from public life. Any par
that supports or condones it should tie divested of power. Congress h
the power, by resolution, to condemn this shameful deal. More, the E
part men t of Justice has sufficient grounds upon which to ask for t.
annulment of this contract. Let rhe people demand these things, a:
they will lie done.
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