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The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
"SOUP" KILLS SAFE REPAIRER
Nitroglycerin Between the Plates in
 Door Expodes.

CHICAGO. Dec. 3l. - Nitrogly- cerin left between the plates of a heavy safe door by burglars three months ago caused the death of a safe repairer in the shop of the Trumbull Safe and Vault Company. at No. IT Lake street. The deadly explosive had WithsJCod the jars of railroad trip from Indiana and the shocks of riding over rough Chicago streets. The repairer died almost instantly afjer being struck by a hundred pcund steel plate which was hurled from the door by the force of the cCncussion.
 The safe weighed 7.5O0 pounds and was five fe t high. Recently it was accepted by the Trumbull company from the banking firm of Growcock & White, of Kim bell, Ind, in trade. It was ship ped from Kimbell to Chicago and repaiyers wsre put 10 work on the doors They had begun to remove bolts from the inner door to re- lease the heavy steel plate when there was a flash and q loud re port. The s.cel plate struck one
 them on the head, crushing his skull.
 No explanation other than that charge of nitroglycerin had been left in the doors by burglars could be obtained from those who wit messed the accident. An attempt had been made 10 rob the Indiana bank and the burglars were fright ed away before completing their igb
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
SEES THROUGH WEES EYES
Mrs. Whites Glasses Fit New Chief
 Justice of Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. - Chief Justice White. of the United States supreme court, who is one of the most constant concert Goers at the capital is noted for his gallantry and aptness Cf speech.
 Arriving late at a concert recent ly he joined Mrs. White and a friend, already seated. Feeling for his glasses the chief justice dis covered he had come without them whereupon Mrs. Whites companion protIered the use of hers These being useless to him. the chief jus tice turned to Mrs. White with May I try your glasses, please, my dear?"
 Settling the glasses at the prop CT angle, the chief justice studied the program with great satisfaction, remarking gallantly:
 'Fine, fine, my dear. l felt sure your glasses would suit-everybody knows l always see through your eyfS"
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
CALL OF THE HILLS
 LURES HIM ON
George C. Wilson, Old Sourdoush, Sewers ConnectiDn With News.

Unable longer to withstand the call of the hills which beckon him to seek their hidden treasures, Geo, c. Wilson, the old sourdough printer and prospector, has severed his con- nectiOn with the News.
 Relieved of the restraint which confinement in newspaper office meant to him, George after resting up bit will probably prospect in the Gold Mountain country.
 Wilson is man of unusual inde- pendence. He never yet has asked any one to grubstake him, preferring to return to his trade, at which he is very proficient, and earn sufficient to purchase another outfit.
 Since his arrival in Tanana he has made many friends, while his work as revealed in the mechanical de- partment of the News has provoked considerable favorable comment.
 Sam Callahan, proprietor of the old Panama Leader, will edit the News until spring.
 Mr. Callahan is we'll known in the interior and his literary ability is of high order.
 J. K. Willoughby, who is expected from Fairbanks this week on the Malamute cypress, will have charge of the busin ess and mechanical end
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
FORTUNE DUE TO HIS WIFE
Pttsburger Would Not Have Made
 Strike if She Had Weakened.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 31. - Joseph c. Trees, head of an oil company, which Las sold his Louisiana oil holdings for $9,000,00O, declared to- day all his success was due to his wife
 He then unfolded the story of the spirit and foresight of his wife when she, fourteen years ago in sisted he go cn groping for oil. assuring him that he was certain to make success.
 According to Trees own state ment, he had drilled eight wells, all of them dry, and had decided to work as a laborer for the rest of his life, as it would take him all that to pay the debts he had in cured in sinking the eight dry holes, but his wife would not let him give up. His next attempt re suited in a ''Strikp"
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
IS SHOWN MINE BY
 WILD MAN
MINER IS LED TO A RICH CLAIM BY A NAKED WILD MAN IN
 COLORADO.
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Dec. 26

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Dec 26 Glad only in a breech cloth and sandals, and armed with shot gun, wild man is rowing the Color ado desert, according to the state ment of Philip Hess, Calexico min CT.
 Hess says he has verified th;S statement by filing on a gold claim which he says is rich and which he declares was shown him by the wild man, who he met while prospecting.
 Tt was north of Coyote that ran across the civilized barbarian" said Hess. He was hidden behind a bunch of sagebrush and Lad me covered with his shotgun the in stant 1 yelled at him.
 Save for tattered breeCh-cloth and sandals of worn leather he was naked. His hair hung to his should CTS. I should judge he was more than six feet tall. Holding me cap tive, he guided me about half mile north, where he halted at a narrow gulch.
 "'There!' he exclaimed. Stake that out and go back and tell your friends that a man who once was a rich New Yorker and blew in fortune guided you to riches."
 Captain Bartlett of Otis, who be- lieves he knows the identity of the wild man, has left on a prospecting trip in the desert and to search for him. Captain Bartlett says the wild man is a former wealthy New York CT, who disappeared after financial reverses. He refused to divulee the mans name
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
GOLD BAR ID BE A
 R. R. CENTER
GREAT NORTHERN MAKES TOWN DIVISION POINT IN PLACE
 OF SkTKOHISH.

EVERETT. Dec. 31 - Skykomish, long the official s,art of the noun tain grade on the Cascade division of the Great Northern. has lost this distinction 10 Gold Bar. for the com pany announces today that it has chang it's divisional point from the King county to the Snohomish county town.
 Scytuty-thrcc acres have been pur- chased by thc Great Northern al Gold Bar. strip of land one mile in ugth paralleling the right Of way. level and considered ideal for the purpose.
 The change is made to simplify operations. for il is pointed out by company officials that Gold Bar is better suited as a storage point for heavy machinery than Skykomish. for Gold Bar is below the snow line. The improvements contemplated will require a large outlay, and this may be taken care of by the Great North ern's January budget. though there is a possibility that it cannot be financed before 1912.
 All the gigantic engine which are now brought to Everett will be stopped at Gold Bar. The electric motors. used through the Cascade tunnel. will also be stationed at the new point. the electric current being brought down from Skykomish. The statement is made that the new arrangement will conflict in no way with the big plans pending for the increased facililieS in the Everett yards.
 About 200 men will be stationed in Gold Bar. A new depot. coal bun kers and roundhCuses with tn stor- age tracks are to be constructed. Much of the mat, rial owned by the company and now al SkynOmis.. will be taken to Gold Bar. Shops for small repairs are also to be built.
 The purpose of the treat Northern, t is explained, is to double up light trains botWe. n Gold Bar and Ever cit instead of bringing the heavy locomotives to this city, as is neces- sary al present. One of the chief arguments made against the Skyko. mish location is that it is necessary there 10 keep large force of men sh9yeling snow all winter.
 Today deeds for the seventy-three acres were filed. The Gold Bar Lum Der company, W. II. Croft, George w. Schaetfer. John D. Bird and Henry Arp, are the sellers. A. T Armstrong. of the Gold Bar Lumber company. was instrumental in put. ting the deal through, as were other people of the town, who sold their holding below the market value
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
British Political Situation
As Viewed by the London Times Parliamen-
 tary Correspondent

egated to the Greek Kalends. owing to the sturdy opposition of the Rad ical group. But in his speech at DartfCrd Mir. Churchill said: 'I am confident that the veto of the house of lords is finished and done with once and for all" Four days after wards, MT. Asquith. at Glossop. said:
 There is one predominant and government issue at this election that is, the Curtailment of the veto
 f the house of lords Upon its settlement once and for all hang the fortunes of a dozen or score f great causes upon which the hearts and hopes. and intentions. and purposes of the Liberal party are set"
 Not only in the recurrence of this phrase "onCe and for all" in the speeches of three prominent mem bers of the cabinet. including the prime minister. an interesting coin cidence. but during the last few lays three other ministers, Mir. Lloyd George, Mir Runciman. and Mir. ]. A Pease. have implied in pHplIt SpCetneS that the ministry, so far from having abandoned their reform scheme, are now forming the resolve to proceed with it in the present parliament if they can carry he parliament bill. In such case. and assuming that the parliament bill could be passed, an elective second chamber with limited membership might be established as an integral part of the constitution before the next general election took place, and the whole framework of the pr sent house of lords would have disappeared. The Nationalist view, and doubtless that of other sup portors Cf the government. would be that between the two acts of this drama Irish home rule should be passed
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
PAPER CALLS K|NC
 B|CAM|ST
ARTICLE DECLARES GEORGE V. MARRIED ADMiRAL'S DAUGH-
 TER TEN YEARS AGO.

PARIS. Jan 1. - Devotees of the sensational are looking forward to revival of the scandal concerning the alleged marriage of King George of England to the daughter of Brit ish admiral about ten years ago.
 The latest story in this connec- ticn was published recently in the Paris Liberator, and accused King George of bigamy. The story was sou lched before it mad attained editor of the Liberator, arrived today from Lisbon, and intimated that he will continue the fight.
 The sale of the LiberatOr was suppressed in London because of the story about King George and Ed ward F. Mylius. an employe of the publication, was arrested and taken before a judge of the high court and remandCd. The proceedings were secret. The exact charges against Mylius were not diyulged, but it is said he was connected with the sale and distribution of the Liberator.
 James said today that he is going to England to take up the cause of Mylius, who, he says, was merely the distributor of the Liberator.
 A dispatch from London says the police for some time have been watching for an opportunity to lay those responsible for the issue of the Liberator by the heels on account of scandalous and seditiOus attacks upon the royal family.
 It was in the November issue that the article appeared declaring that King George was married at Malta in 1890 to the daughter of British admiral.
 I his was followed by a statement signed by Edward F. Mylius, indors- ing the attack upon the king and suggesting that the only way he can be dealt with in this country is by a revolution
 Edward H. James is a nephew of the late Prof. William James, the psychologist of Harvard university.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

C. Cameron and Mrs. Jennie Clcve- land: You and each of you are here Dy notified that the undo rsigEed has eXpeuded in laUor and improvements, sUur portion Of the assessment work for the year 1910 upon the following named placer mining claims, to wit: The Sourdough Association, Chat anika Flats, in the Fairbanks Re- Cording District.
 You are further notified that if, at the expiration of ninety (9O) days after the last publication of this notice, you fail or refuse to com tr bute your proportion of such eX- pendlture your interest in said claims will become the property of the undersigned, your Co-owner, un- der Section 2324 of the revised Statutos of the United States.
 MICHAEL DEMPSEY.
 Co-owner. Date of first publication, January 9, 1911.
 Date of last publication April IT,
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
J. 5. POSTAL BANK
 IN LEADV|LLE
LACK OF ENOUGH CERTIFICATES TURNED AWAY AT LEAST
 THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS

LEADV1LLE. Jan. 2. - The first postal savings bank in Colorado op- tned for business at lCadyille today. At s o'clock this morning the little window at the registry department in the pest office was raised by NJ. ]. Bennett. money order clerk. He faced a dozen CaGerfaCed men, wo- men and children. all of them anX- ious to place their dollars in the hands of the banking firm of Uncle Sam X Co. Kathleen Benn tt. H. year-old daughter of the money order clerk. was the first depositcr She proudly dumped the contents of a savings bank on the counter and a certificate for s1o was made out in her name The total deposits for
 he day were $1i9.So.
 T. is probable that at least S3.010 would have been deposited had the authorities at Washington pr. vided sufficient number of certificates. The largest denom nation received was S5. Others were B and some for sl each. The result was that up to h o'clock this morning tenders of money amounting to $l 900 were refused One man presented a sack containing 5000, stating that he had pt it in his house for two years, and had decided that. now that the government was going into the bank ing business, he would deposit it The postmaster had difficulty in convincing the man that il was i'm possible to receive such an amount. Major" said the old man to Post master BOhn I've knrw you for twenty-five years. and l want you to take this $500 and keep il for me until the government can issue such a certiticate.'
 Postmaster Bohn, however, was compelled to decline the money pressed upon him. Among the depos itors appeared many business men. who apparently desired a certificate as souvenir.
 "It is evident that the postofIice officials in Washington don't know Leadvlle." said Postmaster BOhn
 at the end of the days work "When Leadvlle goes in for tn SC kind of things she goes in strong. We have
 been waiting for this postal bank system for a good many years There are all kinds of money which tne pt tOple want iO utpoS4l. II lOSt- master General Hitchcock had got
 ten out sl00 certificates the people of | Leadville would have taken them
 up as fast as we could have passed them out. The resuu of our failure to receive a larger denomination has
 been a disappointing showing, as We
 probably turned down not less than | S3,00O during the day"
 1 Altogether fifty accounts were l started. Many school children made deposits from 50 cents to $25O. The postofIice at present holds 1 s65 900 in money orders which peo-
 pie have bought merely for the pur- | pose of having the government take
 care of it. This will all be deposited in the postal bank.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30

look at. and she is viyaci-us as she is comedy. She made the circuit of the earth alone.
 When papa died two years ago. she said. and came into my money l decided 10 put aside $20.- GOO for a trip around the world. was only 2D then and hated to leave Herhert-that's Mir. Crosby, whom am going to marry-he's an orange grower and a dear. but he doesn't care for traveling-but I went and I've had a great time"
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To Edward Chadwick and Patrick
 Brown, their heirs, personal rep
 resentatives and assigns; and all
 persons claiming by, through or
 under them.
 You, and each of you, are here by notified that during the years 1908, 1909 and 1910, we expended three hundred dollars in labor and improvements upon Placer Mining Claim known as Number nine below Discovery, Little Eldorado creek, in the Fairbanks recording precinct, Territory of Alaska; and the amount was so expended and such labor and Improvements made for the pur- pose of holding said claim under the provisions of section 2324, Re- vised Statutes of the United States, and constituted the annual assess ment work upon said claim for the years 1908, 1909 and 1910. And if within ninety days after the last publication of this notice, you or either of you fail or refuse to pay the undersigned, as co-owner, your proportion of the expenditures legal ly required to hold said premises as aforesaid, for the years 1908, 1909 and 1910, together with the costs of this advertisement, your interest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned un- der said section 2324, Revised Stat utes of the United States.
 EDGAR BROKER.
 Date of First Publication, Jan. 2, 1911.
 Date of last Publication, April 3, 1911,
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
|NVENTS A SAFETY
 AER0P[ANE
BELGIAN WAITER GETS FlNAN- GAL SUPPORT FROM sEN-
 ATOR SCOTT.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ?. - Through the interest he aroused in Nathan B. Scott, multmillionaire senator from West Virginia, a former wait CT in one of the Washington hotels is today the inventor of safety aeroplane which a S1O0,00O company has been organized to place on he market Senator Scott himself has become president of the corpora ti-n, known as the Bersaques Safety ACrOplane company, concern char tered under the laws of South Dako- "a and capitalized at S100,000 The first machine, biplane with carry ing capacity of nearly 5000 pounds. will be used at Fort Meyer in eXper- imental flights within a week.
 Behind the election of Senator Scott as president of the flying ma chine company lies an interesting story dating back to his kindness to a man who served him and Mrs. Scott at the New Willard hotel. The waiter was Romain De BersaqueS, 26 years old, a native of Belgium, who has be5n studying aviation for five years. He was too poor to put HIS lutdS iHlO tAeIuIiOH uLtil uiS faithfulness to Senator Scott secur- ed for him financial assistance.
 T believe the young man honest; his ambition is to build aircraft elicited my interest, and his kind ness to Mrs. Scott and myself led me to aid him." explained Senator Scott II did not make the invest ment expecting large profits, but merely 10 aid deserving young man with an original idea. I consented to my election as president of the company to further the project
 The young inventor claims that his ideas of aeroplane construction are original. About a year ago he be- gan actual work of building the pres ent machine in a yard back of the capitol. Later it was removed to Fort Meyer through the courtesy of the war department, and permission was given De B6rsaques to use the shed which was originally built for the use of the Wright brothers.
 The biplane now is practically complete. Seats have been arranged for three passengers and the opera tor. The total weight of the machine and engine is from 1000 to HOO pounds. The tubing is of seamless hollow steel, with aluminium compo- s'tion fittings. The cloth used on the construction is linen chemically tr5 ated. The inventor has patent rights pending.
 One feature of the biplane is the attachment automatically to maintain perfect equilibrium. Ball bearings are used in all working parts. Two tanks have a capacity of thirty-five gallons, sufficient for flights of five hours each. The total cost of the machine is said to aggregate $7,000. The inventor says other machines may be built for one-third this amount, or even less
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Annie Gibraltar, F. A. Henderson, Toni and LeOnt StnmitH and Fred HOerler.
 You are hereby notified that dur ing the years 1909 and 1910 l have ex pended four hundred dollars in la Dor and imprOvem ntS upon first tier bench placer claim No. below left limit Ester creek, and in the Pay streak Fraction placer mining claim between : below creek claim and : below first tier bench claim, left limit Ester creek, in the Fairbanks Recording Precinct, Alaska, in order to hold said rtmiseS under the pro- visions of section 232i Revised Stat utes of the United States, said labor and improvements constituting the annual assessment work for the years 1909 and 1910, and if within 90 days after the last publication of this notice you, Annie Gibraltar, E. A. Henderson, Toni and Leona Schmitz and Fred Hoeler fail or refuse to pay the undersigned as CO., owner your proportion of the ex- penditure legally required to hold said premises as aforesaid for the years 1909 and 1910, your proportion of the expenses for the years 1909 and 1910, together with the cost of this advertisement, your interest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned under said Sec ton 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States.
 ALOIS SAGAN.
 Date of first publication January 9, 1911.
 Date of last publication April IT,
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
PLAN ID SPANK"
 L0NCW0RTH
TANDPATTERS TO TRY TO KEEP HIM OFF WAYS AND
 MEANS COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON. Dec 31. A threefold plot to spank Representa- tive LongwCrth. snub his fatherin- law. Theodore Roosevelt, and com pliment John Dwight, Republican whip of the house. is being framed by the friends of Speaker Cannon on the Republican side of the house.
 IL will be an attempt to Oust LOngworth from the ways and means committee. with which he served during the passage of the Payne Aldrich tariff act, The Democratic minority has seven members of the committee now. and the Republicans will have seven in the next con gress.
 Longworth is entitled to re-elec- ten to the committee. But the pulan is to rebuke him signally for his eleventh hour desertion of Speak CT Cannon and for his belated pro gre ssiveness. which was evinced in the tail end of the 1910 campaign.
 The speaker is as hostile to the friends who deserted him to save their own political neCks as he is 10 the insurgents. His friends want to punish Longworth. and it is con Ccded that the speakers friends are in a majority on the Republican side of the next house. All told there are about fifty insurgents and proeressives elected out of a total of 163 Republicans.
 The Republican caucus will be called upon to select the ways and means committee members, and in the event of a vote on Longworth
 here would not be any spontaneous move by the insurgents to help Longworth save his seat on the committee. The insurgents will vote against the return of the old stand patters to the committee, but un- doub,edly will be voted down.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
PROSPECTOR MAY LOSE TOES

CORDOVA, Jan. 15. - MT. George T. Cappel and George Townsend, on their recent trip to the head of the Chitna, found a former Fairbanks miner, named McCrimmOn in bad shape and brought him to the Ka- talla company hospital at Mile 146.
 McCrimmon had been prospecting during the summer on the kuska- lima and had found some promising prospects on the Kiagna. He and his partner were sledoirg in sup plies when McCrimmon froze his feet. On the way up stream MT. Cappel talked with the man and was given to understand that the suf- ferer was not badly frozen.
 Returning from the head of the Chitina the party stopped at the prospector's camp and MT. Cappel examined the mans toes. He found the toes on the left foot decaying and in bad shape. Fearing that blood poison would set in if longer ne- glected he offered to bring MT. Me Crimmon to the hospital. Mir. Cap pei is of the impre ssion that the miner will lose the toes of his left foot as they were decaying back to the second joint.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-01-30
THREATS FOR \. '. POLICE
Flood of Letters Threatens the
 Vengeance of BIackhanders.

NEW YORK. Dec. 31 - A flood of blackhand letters has been the reward of the New York police off cials and prosecutors whose recent successes against Italian kidnapers resulted in several long terms of impris nment. The latest threat is one which came to Police Commis- sioner Cropscy a few days ago, de manding $5O.O00 and threatening, if the money was not paid, to bury him alive and kidnap his wife. The letter was turned over 10 postal in sneCtors for investigali.n.