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The Washington times., 1906-02-04

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 3,--Though IL
is a well-known fact that san Fran
cisco has been one OF the stations on
the underground railway by which
help has been given the Russian revolu-
tionists. there IS the hitherto unpub-
lished fact that a mutiny was planned
on board the Russian cruiser Lena while
in that port. and that it failed only be
cause of the news of the granting of
I he so-caIIed constitution. and that the
revolution was ended in Russia.
A Dastardly Plot,
The plan was TO seize the vessel iust
outside the three-mile limit. TO throw
the officers into chains in the hold or,
perhaps. into the sea. as some Of the
more daring urged. put in at a British
or Mexican port, where the members Of
the revolutionary party in San Fran
cisco. accompanied By. the deserters
from the Lena. would Join and hold The
cruiser for the provisional govern
ment" Of the reyOlutiOnists in Russia.
The foTty-twO men who deserted the
Lena when lying at Vallejo formed
themselves into a branch of the revolu-
Liouarv society in San T Francisco. which
is connected with the Reds of New
y ork. While the boat was there they
were compelled TO hold their meetings
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
CHARGES AGAINST RICHEY
HAD NO FOUNDATION

Charles V Richey. eolored, who was
arrested Tuesday. January % 1906. at
the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing.
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses. was arraigned before
Assistant District Attorney Givens on
Wednesday. January 81. who. after ex-
aiming several witnesses. ascertained
that the charges were false and with
out any foundation.
The evidence produced was INSULT
Client TO warrant the continuance of the
case. which vas accordingly mol
pressed RIchey kn.sw nothing OF the
character OF the charges until twelve
hours after his arrest. Upon learning of
the disposition of the charges Captain
BOardman Immediately destroyed all
evidences OF Identification. Statements
IN reference TO a subsequent arrest of
Charles V. Richey are unfounded
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
CAPT. JOHN WiLKlE COLLINS
PASSES AWAY IN NEW YORK

A telegram was received by the Treas
ury Department yesterday afternoon
from Amityville. y. y, announcing Ire
death Of John Wilkia Collins. captain of
engineers and formerly engineer-in-ci:ief
or the revenue cutter service
Captain Collins had been absent on
sick leave for more than q year he
was sixty-fiye years old last January
and was veteran Of the civil war, be-
ing attached 10 the frigate Wabash dur
ing the closing year of that struggle.
He entered the revenue cutter service
In April, 1866, and has a continuous rec
ord for forty years.
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WILL HELP PROBE VALENCIA

Upon Tho request of Secretary Met
calf Of the Department Of Commerce
and Labor, the Department OF Justic9
has ordered the United States district
attorney at Seattle, Washington. TO as
sist the United States steamboat in
sDectOrs in their investigation Of the
which the rights have been selling.
wreck OF the Valencia, and the alleged
failure Of TIE Tacoma and Queen TO 81
the rescue.
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
PRESIDENT SuSTAlNS
BUcHANAN'S DISMISSAL

The sentence Of dismissal from the
Iarmy OF First Lieut., Richard w. Buch-
anan, Of the TNventy-third Infontry. has
been confirmed by the President
Lieutenant Buchanan recently was
tried by court-martial IN New York and
found guilty OF charges or violating his
pledge 70 abstain from the use OF in
toxlcatins liquors and drunkenness on
duty, and a verdict OF dismissal fol-
lowed
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
QUAY'S MONUMENT
Is SIDETRACKED

HARRISBURG. Pa. Feb. at is
hardly probable that the $4,000 monu-
ment Of Senator Quay. authorized by
the last Legislature, VIII be erected.
The new senate has refused to confirm
the nomication Of the commission which
was TO erect the monument.
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
LENA GREW PLANNED
TO KILL OFFICERS
Russia Learns of Terrible Plot to Mutny While WarShip
Was in the San Francisco HaTbor
During Her War

underground In q cellar al q Howard
street. Fhe Russian spies were on the
lookout for them and Tor two days be-
fore Leaving the officers Of the Lena,
assisted by the police OF San Francisco,
the city. They were concealed in the
their friends
Cruel Treatment
The story of their cruel treatment on
board the cruiser is almost incredible.
They were beaten. deprived OF all priv
ileges. not allowed on shQfc their
money taken from them. and given rot
ten meat-to eat. from tie odoF OF which
the United States marines patrolling the
shore fed in disgust when it was thrown
overheard
The Russian society Volga now meets
in a hall, has been re-enforced b. the
Russian prisoners from Japan. who
have found their way TO this country
BY the assistance Of Or. NJ. Russell.
who was sent to Japan to distribute
revolutionary literature sent from Cen
eva. among the Russian prisoners of
war.
Their meeting place I'm Vallejo was at
a certain restaurant kept by Greek.
where the Russian revolutiOnists I'm San
Francisco had opportunities OF inform
ing them of the trend Of affairs When
the Lena left this port ti.ere were not
more than score Of sailo.'s loyal 10
the Car on board.
The Washington times., 1906-02-04

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The Washington times., 1906-02-04

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Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-09
MR. pAvls's ARTICLE.

The article by Leonard Nj. Davis, repro. duced in this paper last week from the Mining worh, will be of especial interest d outside reaaieru who - ish so gain an insishs into cs,odisions !existent in this part of the territory.
 To local readers certain inaccuracies in Mir. D~viss article wiii be apparent such, for instance, as tho omission of Julius Rahms- torf's and the Boston Store. t~o oki-essab- ii.hed houses. from the iiss of prominent business concerns. As . whole. however, the Rampant rsxtow [. portrayed with ao s.ps- siai isfA<astisy so tho truth. sssi undoubtedly sAs ~rissup ~iii he spps~csssed by skess ~ke s~s.s the Yahos Valley News out to friessas.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-09
"n" TO BE REopENEb.

Seventy;two Rosdhouse, which was given up last week by Mrs. Burns and Sweetie, win not remain closed long. It will be reopened about June by Mir. and Mrs. H. Chadwick, of Little Minook. creek.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-09
NEW RESTAURANT

Juss opened In the Mis-. Psrke Building.
 Front str~es. shoss Orders. Regular Meais. Home Cooking
 ssvviss st All Hoars. MRS. BURNS. swEErIE RECxwfTH
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-09

..f kottom, as it would be- acted upon by these solvents and combine with them, and. thus become constituent part Si tha sea water.
 Another fact that is generally .kpovn in regard. to. gold is that it is foupd in nearly if.net ail''kinds of sedimentary ,andsmetamorphic rocks, but not in, pay ing quantities. If gold has been coping down from. the skies ever si,fce the world was 2 world, ,and was coming down while these sedimentary- rocks were forming; as it had come down on .the glacier that l have described, then we Also have 8 satisfactory exPlanation of .why-all these kinds of rocks have at least trace of gold in them, ,.o.
 Again, if all the gold in the world came in this way, there would be no pay found anywhere in either rock or placer, unless some Kind of conf;ccentrating pro. cess had been at work, and if there is any e4ception to that rule I have never seen or known anything about it. In fact, feel quite sure that there is mo exception to it. ~~e>.
 1 have also found by actual. experi- ment that this fine gold, such as I washed up on the Mount Fairweather glacier, is much more evenly distributed oyer the State of Washington than it is in Alaska, as it is found in every place where there are large deposits of gravel and sand, unless there is the very same reason for it not being there as there was for the gold not being in the creeks back from the creeks where was working.
 Before came to. Alaska there was a controversy in the, courts in regard to- a school section in Tacoma that was lQ- cated and held for placer ground. did some banning there and found several .pannings exactly similar to those which afterwards found on the glacier, and said then that believed a siRilaF pros- peot. could be found in any school section in the state, if there was as much sand and gravel and as deep gulch as there was in the section in Tacoma. My ex- perience has taught me that the pres- ence of this ruby sand gold in every pan is excellent evidence that there is no pay to be found anywhere in the neigh borhood, and it's absence is also proof that some kind of concentrating process has been going on, and therefore there must be pay somewhere.
 Another fact that would seem to bear out this view of the case is that gold mines as rule do not extend to great depth below the surface, which is not true of mines of silver, lead, copper and other metals. If the theory that have outlined be correct, this is just what should be the situation. g.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-09

SsAS1 ysS..rA " ssAAy NCuOe OsAS SAAsS they are. substantially correct: Vow While this glacier lasted, or this inclined plane of ice, which extended. from near the summit of Mount Fairweather to the sea, "a distance of about forty miles, all the meteoric dust that felrstoShh it must Have fetiTd ssits Way to .ahe sea beach, where the glacier melted away, and the feothihss!tke eiHhselvses; furnished the .ex- pianation why the beach consisted al- most entirely td sand, as..the glacier, in oRder to cover the foothills, must have reached SO far up the sidssof the noun tain that but few fragnients of rocks coqld fall oft sof she sides.bf the moan tain on the ice. That the xhole country had. 4.been covered by ice in the -mafinefr indicated is made positively certain by the!rsmashss ot. the glacier being found ;sslowthe 2 bothills, and it is also certsin that hot more than fortYor fifty years hayshpassea sines theftlafer hear the beanh 'meltsa away, as hoae of the trees -Aear the beach are of greater age than that, and. the woods gre filled with de cayed, tfhAksa of trees; T several feet in in diameter dis meter that1nAaafa s naa eeen growing On the
 This also explained why could not find single color jim any of the" creeks between the sea and the foothills, as all the gold that came down from the skies with the meteoric dust fell on rthe ice which covered the country, and was all deposited on the beach where the glacier melted away.
 :. :. How long that glacier existed in the shape that-'1 have here outlined, of course no one can tell, but it seems to be extremely probable that it lasted during the whole of the glacial period, whiAfii is generally belieyed,, by rthose who are supposed tot competentsI tn' pass on such subject to be not less than 2OO,- 900, ,ysaFss ybNt VhsatiaE more or less, it ,seemslsefhsiR totifne that enough gold fell from the skies on an ice surface forty miles in length by several miles in width, te make paying diggings on an ocean beach. That is. the: conclusion that came to as a result of my own ob- servation. am well aware that it is said, meteors do not contain any gold. This would be to me convincing argu- ment if had not washed up gold on the Fairweather glacier out of meteoric dust, and I know very we'll that Johnsiy Dix did the same. ...... ...i
 Unfortunately, the wisest of ;ps know but htale about how gold came to be where it is usually found, but we will examine into it and see if what little we do know about gold will justify such a conclusion and make it impossible for gold to have come in the way indicated. One thing is certain, if the gold that We washed up on the beach came from the skies along with meteoric dnst,s it must, have fallen everywhere else in about the same proportion whether on sea or land.. Now, one of the few things that We know about gold is that sea water contains nearly grain to the. ton, or little more than half grain to the cubic ysEsl This would mean that every cubic mile of sea water contains over $lOO, ,000,000 worth of gold. The sea is about OO,0OO,OOO years old, and if this
Yukon Valley news., 1906-05-09
.Gu|lltltFaEliinl8.H From. .the:,Skiies' u! !''j!!
 S::= -. :- 1-..ss;,I
Strange theory advanced by Peter L. Trout in the last of''a series of articles in ths Nome Nugget, titled My First Experience in Alasha."

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 > We never mined on Sundays, Ssand these daysI usually spent in wandering over the Fairweather glacier or in pros pectihg thecreeks between the seA and the foothills, and on one occasion spent two or three days in su6cession i1 prospecting the creeks. This was while the others were employed in, clearing out the bed of the, creek from which we got our water supply. In these pros pecting trips never found even the smallest. kind Of color. In fact, never prospeeted in a country so utterly bsrren of placer gold as this seemed to be. Why the beach should be rich and no gold at all in the country behind it was prob lem that had not yet solved, but on one of my Sunday prospecting trips the mystery was all revealed to me in a mo- ment. This was when washed up some of the black dirt that Johnny Dix told me contained gold of which there was a plentiful supply on part of the glacier that had been cut of, from the rest of the ice mass by range of hills, and evi- dently had mot moved for: centuries. After considerable difficulty managed to gather up about a pint of it, which I washed up in pan, and found that it contained some ruby sand and some of the ordinary black sand, and some fif- teen or tweHty colors of gold exactly similar to what we were washing up on the beach. The true situation flashed on my mind in a moment. Three or four miles back from the sea was a range of foothills from l 800 to 1000 feet high. This range might be called bench or terrace, as there was no valley behind it, but a nearly level country for five or six miles, and along the foot of the main range, on the base of Mount Fairweather, was a glacier seven or eight miles in width. It was now certain that at one time this glacier extended over the foot hills and fronted on the sea, where it was melted away by the warm waters of the Japan current. There was, there. fore, notyery long ago, an unbroken in- clined plane of ice extending from the sea nearly to the top of Mount Fair weather, distance of about forty miles, and it was in remnant of this glacier that had washed up ruby and black sands and gold. This was in meteoric dust, as had long known that dead glaciers were liable to be covered with it, and had been reading Nordenks- jold's journal of his explorations in the interior of Greenland, in which he said that the ice which covers nearly the whole of the interior, is covered with several inches of meteoric dust. This dust is the result of meteors coming through the air with such frightful ve- locity that the friction of the air burns them up, and when they reach the earth there is nothing left of them but black dust, such as I washed up on the Fair weather glacier. These meteors, Prof. Proctor says, come from the sun, and of course can only fall in the daytime, and they are so numerous that human life would be in constant danger. during the daytime. only for the protection that the atmosphere affords. His views seem to
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-20
BIG CHANGE

Owing to the fact that the Red Men are to give mask ball on New Years Eve, will give sheet and pillow clip mask ball on Christmas Eve, SO as not to interfere with the Red Mems ball.
 Do not forget that every one that at tends the sheet and pillow slip ball will receive ticket entitling them to one chance for the gold watch which will be given away on Saturday night, Dec. 29.
 Any ticket bought during the entire week between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve entities the holder to ons chance to win beautiful ladies' gold watch valued at twenty-five dollars in New York. The management will try to have big attraction for every night during tee week JACK COLLINS.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-20

This portion of Alaska is herself once more, mercury lowering about the mark at forty above.
 P. Taught left Tuesday morning for his trapping grounds on the back chan nel below Mill creek.
 Deputy Marshal Grant returned from Portland on the Hum boldt, after taking an insane patient to the sanitarium.
 Don't forget the Grand Masquerade Ball to be given by the Red Men, New Years Eve, Dec. 31. See list of prizes in next issue.
 c. s. Hubbell came up from below last week, perfected some surveying that he began last swring, and left Monday on the Hum boldt.
 Fred Wigg is hobbling about, nursing his right foot, having stuck an axe into the top of that member. Not serious wound, however.
 Mir. \. Greene, the expert accountant, 0. Juneau, is ih town going over the mill accounta for the past year. It is said the mill will show good net earn. iags for the season just closed
 The Far Niente came in from Portage Mountain last Saturday with Charley Bielby, who has been out doing the ne- cessary development work for 1906 on the group of claims at that point.
 The Wrangell shingle mill people are making arrangements for removing the mill from Anita Bay to town, as they have concluded that it is cheaper to tow their logs than to handle their shingles by ecow.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-20
BURNSIDE
 ARRIVED

About ten o'clock Monday morning the welcome cry of Steamboat at tractdd the attention of our citizens, who could see a big white hull looming up before background formed by the islands west of town, which later proved to be the cableship Burnside. The big vessel moored at the wharf, and after discharging the equipment for the cable office, went to anchor off the town, from which position the end of the cable WAS landed Tuesday morning the steamer pulled over near High Island, and laid the big wire across the Dry Straits from the small boats of the ship.
 The office at V-rangell has been put in readiness for service, and within 6 day or two, messages can be sent north. After leaving this place the Burnside will go directly to Ketchikan; thence to Hadley, to complete this branch.
 The operators who are to remain to have charge of the Wrangell office are J. A. Perry. J. Il. Hoppel and James Ryan.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-20
Local and General
News Gathered With Pencil and Scissors, From Home and
 Neighboring Places
The WranRell Drug Go.

Sunday last wag the highest tide of the year
 George stork and Harvey Taylor are cut after skins-mink preferred.
 Frank White, the steam boater spent day or two in town this week.
 Captain Edwin Hofstad came in from the narrows on the Cottage City.
 The cases against o Gerle have been continued until the ketchikan term.
 Hon. Win. G. Thomas made flying trip to Ketchikan and return last week.
 Willie stedman, after being threat ened with pneumonia, is considerably improved.
 Tommy Cole came down from Juneau : on the Humboldt, to spend week in ! the old town.
 Dave Epsteyn of Juneau, and fami'. , ' were passengers for Seattle on the Hui ] ooldt, Monday.
 Travelling salesman Gilmore was here \ with a fine bunch of samples during a ] portion of the week.
 "Larry" McKechnie came up from Ketchikan on the Humboldt, having re- signed his place as fireman on the Al. askan.
 Mir. Pinneo, representing the Pacific . Coast Steamship Co.,, was in town DOT tion of the week, fixing up the fences' of ths company.
 Harry Malone and c. Nj. McGrath were in town during the week, looking after business and deciding the solo championship of southeastern Alaska.
 Every number of the Alaska Monthly Magazine is bigger and better than its predecessor The December number is out. and is "a thing of beauty" A sub scription as Christmas present to a friend "baek home" would be to them V'a joy forever" and boost for Alaska.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-20
XMAS AT ST. PHILLIPS CHURCH

Sunday evening, Dec. 23-Christmas choral service by the Sunday School Aderess by the rector; subject: "The Long Expected Day"
 Christmas morning, Dec. 25, 10 80 A M., musical service and address.
 Christmas evening-Bird's Christm al Carol will be rendered. The following is the cast of characters: Uncle Jack-Will Snyder.
 Carol Bird-G.acie Wigg.
 Mrs. Ruggles-Marie Thomasen.
 MT. Bird-Lawrence Horgheim.
 Mrs. Bird-Alice Kincaid. Doctor Templeton-Thor Hofstad. Donald-Carl Carlson.
 Hugh-ElleIy Carlson.
 Sarah Maud-Anna Lewis.
 Peter-Roy Churchill
 Susan-Mabel Wigg.
 Peoria-Hannah Choquette.
 Cornelius-Wallace Sinclair.
 Clement-Louis Wigg.
 Kitty-Talitha Ensley.
 Eily-Anands. Horgheim. - Larry-Herman Ensley.
 Choir boys-Freddie Choquette, Wm Lewis, Jr., David Churchill, George Sylvester.
 This will be followed by the annua, Christmas tree, in which the presents and prizes will be distributed. All art cordially invited to all these exercises.
Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-20
"E. H. Lyons of Wrangell, who is at-

"E. H. Lyons of Wrangell, who is at- tending court as trial juror, has been excused, as he served in the last term of court, and will return home on the Cot tage City. He recently sold out his electric light plant at Wrangell, and is considering putting Tn water system there. ''-Record-Mi
 . Al Osborne, Charley Olsen and Geo. Klaquitz came home Friday from the flats, where they had been after ducks. The boys had quite an experience, hay ing been compelled to cut about three miles of ice in order to get their boat afoat, and then encountered the heavi- est seas that, Al says, he ever saw in this part of the country. Peter Jensen vas also ice-bound, but succeeded in getting out Friday. They all killed duck, but ate them all up while waiting for the ice to thaw.
 A village of 1,200 inhabitants without a pauper, without an illiterate person, without prison, lawyer, policeman or a grog shop; with an excellent church and school, with many successful indus tries, including clamery and salmon cannery and high class municipal or .ganization. Query. Where is it? It exists in Alaska, it's name is Metlakah- tia, and it's happy villagers are Indians, who are presided over by kind, consid- crate and just Christian leader named William Duncan. who has just complet ed his 10th year as missionary among the Indians-Ex.
 What appears to be strange ethno- logical discovery was made by c. C. Matson, a miner, on Silver creek, tributary of Goldbottom, few days ago says the Nome Gold Digger. Mir Matson noticed in many places that there were small mounds made, of fiat rocks stand ing on end, and on removing them found below the skeletons and bones of Eski- mos. In addition to the human bones, he found some peculiar implen ents, no doubt used by the natives of this country many years. These consisted for the most part of picks and axes made of large pieces of bone The handles of implements being about two inches wide and about eighteen inches long. Bound to the handles were other pieces of bone which had been sharpened to a point like an ax or 2 pick. The bones were in advanced state of decomposition and crumbled to pieces when handled. MT. Watson says that the graves are located at point almost at the foot of the mountains, and that they were probably made many years ago. The presence of bone implements rather than those made of ivory would indicate that the natives who ueed these tools were a diff fsrent race from tboss yho nov inhabit the coast.