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The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10
DELruA1E MlChEKShAM
 uEoCkIBES ALAShA AUAlN
O-O

"When Alaska IS mentioned the ay- craze cltlzen begins to conJure up pie urss ol glaciers and snowDanKs and other arctic scenes" sad Delegate James WIckersnam recently DeIore the senate committee on territories, and it Is safe to say the description of Alaska's wonderful agricultural pos sibinues as pictured by its representa- tive m Congress astonished the ma jorlty of hls hearers. illustrating thls feature of the North country, Wicker sham described to the committee the Panama Valley, 50 miles wide, hun dreds ot miles long and as fertile as the Mississippi Valley.
 Describes Panama.
 He said: There are no glaciers north of the Panama Valley; the gla- clers of Alaska are in the southern part, along the seacoast. The Tanana Valley has no greater precipitation than Arizona, and would be an arid desert if it were not for the iact that every drop of water and every snow flake that falls in that country is con served. It is maintained there in cold storage, and when the warm spring sun strikes the ground it thaws the surface. When it thaws deep enough we put in our gardens, and then as the moisture is needed it comes from below.
 We have 22 hours of sunshine ali, ter We put our seeds in the ground, 22 hours of sunshine for the crops to grow by, and they grow by leaps and bounds. With this ever rising mois, ture just below the roots and this in- cessant sunshine we raise as fine crops in the Panama Valley as can be raised anywhere-potatoes, cabbages, carrots, beets, turnips and everything of that kind, caulhower, barley and wheat
 John E. Ballaine, of Seattle, corrob- orated the statements of Wickersham and in addition said: "I grew up on farm in Eastern Washington, one of the best agricultural districts in the United States. lived on farm un- til was 19 years old, and l know what agriculture is and what it re- quires. l have spent about 12 years in development work in Alaska, and from what have seen every summer in the Susitna Valley, it is as good farming district for grasses, hay and all kinds of vegetables and berries as Eastern Washington from Spokane to Walla Walla. They are growing apple trees successfully at Knik, in the Su- sitna Valley, and you will know from that that the winter climate there can not be very severe"
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10
FOX.CATCHING BECOMES
 PROFITABLE BUSINESS

DAWSON, May 30.-Dawson is rich CT today by six live young foxes than she was yesterday, and it To calcu- lated by some that the little fellows are worth several thousand dollars. The animals were captured in their dens, where they had hidden in the ground near Five Fingers.
 Five of the little foxes belong to John McEachern and partner, and are temporarily at Dan Cronin's,. where they are kept in a wire cage, and locked in a room. They are about the size of cat, and as pretty as can be. Three are evidently silver grays, and the others cross foxes. All were captured by McEachern and partner in one den. It is said local fur deal CTS who are acquainted with the value of live foxes have offered three to four thousand dollars for the five ami mals. One story is to the effect the owners refused to sell for the reason they think of starting fur farm near Dawson, believing :he animals reared here will bring them fortune and that furs of foxes reared in a cold country will be much better and com mand a far better figure than those
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 The sixth fox just brought to the city was captured by Albert Jones, Henry Rader. Charles Mcdowell, ST" and Charles McDowell, Jr. The party is headed for Ruby. Mir. Jones says:
 Our fox is probably black or a silver gray. We cannot tell at this age. We caught him close to where the McEachern party got the five others. I knew of the foxes living in that locality. Fifteen years ago l came into this country, and herded cattle ten miles this side of Five Fling CTS. In a dry creek bottom a mile back from the Yukon I then saw a black fox and several coal black kit tens. thought nothing of them then, but now that live foxes are money, l looked for them on this trip down. We found hundreds of holes where the foxes and other animals had hidden. In a place 40 by 100 feet we dug into numerous holes. In one such place where we found our little fox were probably 100 such creatures as go' phers, owls, rabbits and the like. We chased our fox to a small hole at the rear, and dug down, kept the entrance covered, pinched him down with a shovel. and then grabbed him bare handed. He fought like a demon, but is now tame and happy and eats regu, larly."
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10
Personal Mention

w. E. Dettering, known all over the North as Caribou Bill, and one of the prominent mining men of the Idita' rod is passenger on the Mariposa enroute to the interior via Skagway and the Yukon. Mrs. Dettering is ac' companying him on the trip.
 Charles Ross, president of the Min CTS and Merchants bank of Idiarod, is a passenger on the Mariposa enroute to the great mining camp. Mrs. Ross is travelling with him.
 Louis P. Shackleford and family are aboard the Princess Sophia enroute to Juneau,
 Dave Dunbar is aboard the Mariposa making a regular spring trip to the great interior of Alaska.
 Miss Laura Lewis, of Fairbanks, is a passenger on the Mariposa enroute to her home after several months in school at Seattle. While in Juneau Miss Lewis called on friends living in the Capital City.
 w H. Gorham, the well-known proc tor in admiralty of Seattle, arrived on the Mariposa last night.
 J. H. Groves, a prominent business man of Fairbanks, accompanied by Mrs. Groves, is a passenger on the Mariposa, enroute to the Tanana me tropolis.
 Lewis Pelter, of Cordova, is travel ing Westward on the Mariposa, after an extended visit in the States.
 Marshal Harvey Sullivan, of Valdez, is returning to his home from an of ficial visit to the States. Mrs. Sulli- van accompanys him.
 Mrs. Mary Anderson and daughter are aboard the Mariposa enroute to their home in Fairbanks. Mrs Ander- son conducts one of the largest estab- lishments in the Panama metropolis and she is now returning from a trip to Paris.
 Isa Goldstein left Sunday evening on the launch Grace E. for an extend ed fur-buying trip. His itinerary takes him from the vicinity of sitka down the archipelago as far as Prince of Wales island.
 Speaker Earnest B. Collins left for Skagway on the Mariposa enroute to his home in Fairbanks.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10
YUKON DEATH LOOKS
 LIKE A BAD INDIAN

FAIRBANKS, May 19.-That Victor Ekengren, the woodchopper at Beaver, on the Yukon, who died in January, un- der circumstances that have aroused the Yukon settlements, came to his death directly because of an attack made by Beaver Creek William, an Indian crazed with drink, is the opn- ion of Frank Rinosky, of Beaver, says the Fairbanks Times. Captain T. $. Haynes, while on his way from the Chandlar to Fairbanks, took the state ment of William Billings in the mat ter at the Blanchard woodcamp on the Yukon. The district attorney is to be presented with the statement in order to help in presenting the case to the next grand jury.
 The statement was taken April 26 last, and Billings said that Rinosky told his story week before at the woodcamp. Rinosky's story was as follows:
 Beaver Creek William wanted to buy quantity of whisky from Ekengren, and came to his cabin for that Dur- pose one day The woodchopper told the native that he had none. Eken- gren owed the native half of quar- ter of moose meat, and went to the cache for the meat and gave Will fam his half. This done, Ekengren was going up the ladder into his cache to put back his own half of the meat, when the native jumped upon nim, pulled him to the ground, jumped oI him and started to pound him with his fists. Adam, another Indian, who was present and witnessed the assault, held his hands over Victor's face, face, while William continued to beat the prostrate woodchopper,
 Adam then helped Victor into his cabin. When Victor was sitting on the edge of the bed, the native came in and repeated his request for whisky. When refused it, he pulled the wood chopper from the edge of the bed to the floor, hitting Victor's head and back on the solid floor, and then he started to beat him again. Adam sep arated them, but Beaver Creek Will fam persisted in making demands for the liquor. Victor got a bottle from under the bed and offered it to Will iam The native refused it, and de- manded full bottle. He again pro- ceeded to beat up the woodchopper Then Adam and William left the cab in and went to their tent below. Ad- am stated that Beaver Creek William went to the woddchopper's cabin alone afterward.
 From that day on, Ekengren was sick, coughing blood and being con fined to his cabin continuously. He died nine days later
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10
TO JUNEAU PATRONS:

wish to announce that am pre- pared to give prompt and efficient service in delivering coal, hauling freight, baggage, etc.
 HILARY McKANNA TRANSFER Phone Order 5-7 or 5.5 t.f
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10
YUKON GIRL KILLS
 BEAR WITH RIFLE
-O-O-

THISTLE CREEK, May 1S.-Miss Anna Soehlmann killed fine, black bear at a distance of 200 yards. Miss Soehlmann is an excellent shot. At a Fourth of July celebration held on Thistle she won first prize in a con test against a large number of men. Our only girls is a heroine now.
 Ducks are plentiful in the small ponds and sloughs, and the guests at the Thistle roadhouse are having a feast.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10

Andrew Young, carpenter and joiner .Iobbing work a speciality. Phone S71, Central House. 6'6'6t'
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10

Try a Lovera. Sure to Please" If
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-06-10
JOHN MITCHELL'S
 PAY IS HELD UP

ALBANY, N. Y, June 1O.-Acting on a recent opinion received from the State Attorney General, the State Comptroller has refused to recog- nize as legal Gov. Sulzer's recent ap. pointment of John Mitchell as State labor commissioner The Comptrol- Ter will not pay the salary of MT. Nit chell or accept the payroll of the la Dor department if certified by him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
DOLAN NOT TO GO
TO DEATH HOUSE
viii Await Result of AppIica-
ton for New
Trial.

Application for a new trial for
John Dolan, convicted of the murder
of his wife, Mary Dolan. on March
%, last. has been made to the Court
of Errors and Appeals by Jerome T..
Congleton and John A. Bernhard, his
counsel.
The papers were returned today
to the trial court, presided over by
Judge William p. Martin, and as a
result Dolan will not, as yet, visit
the death-house of the Trenton
States prison, although had the
ordinary course of events happened
in his case he would have been in
that place not later than November
20 last, and would have remained
there all the time the motion for
new trial was pending.
After Judge Martin had signed the
death warrant on November 10 last,
which orders the removal of Dolan
to the death chamber within ten
days after his sentence, Messrs.
Congleton and Bernhard gave notice
they would apply for q new trial.
On this information, Judge Martin
ordered Dolan held in the county jail
to await the action of the Court of
Dolan will spend the next few months
in the county jail instead of in the
death-house
On November 10, Dolan was SEN
fenced by Judge Martin to be put to
death sometime during the week be-
ginning Sunday, December %.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
u. s. SATISFIES
SAN DOM|NGANS
No Election Supervisors" Only
Friendly Spectators" to Be
Sent by Wilson.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 8.-The United
States does not intend to supervise
or interfere with the approaching
elections in the Dominican republic. A
special commission from Washington
will merely observe the election as
friendly and impartial spectators
That was the way President Wilson
outlined today informally the mission
OF state department officials now on
their way to San Domingo.
President Wilson made 1t clear that
the United States had used its COOL
offices in persuading the revolution
sists to lay down their arms on the
promise that everything possible
within international right would be
done by the United States to insure
fair elections The Washington gov
eminent decided to send some OBJ
servers speaking the language of
Santo Domingo to act as impartial
witnesses. but not as referees or Of
ficials, so that in case of dispute 1t
would have persons to turn to for i'm
partial testimony.
1t was pointed out that the COM
mission was unofficial even to the ex-
tent of not desiring recognition from
the government authorities of the
island. The protest from San Do
mingo, 1t was explained at the White
House today, was founded on the be-
lief that the United States intended
a supervision of the elections, and
now that the notion has been dispelled
by the state department the admins
tration here is confident there will be
no objection to the presence of the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
CIRCUIT COURT
UPHOLDS JUDGE
Hands Down Decision That Re-
verses Ruling of
Referee.

In an opinion handed down today
the United States Circuit Court up
holds a decision made by Federal
Judge John Rellstab, Of the United
States District Court reversing the
ruling made by Bankruptcy Referee
Edwin G. Adams on the validity of
the assignment of $4,000 worth of
book accounts of the bankrupt Stiger
Manufacturing Company to D. C..
Andrews & Co., of New York city.
The Andrews company claimed the
book accounts as security for goods
purchased on time by the Stiger COM
pany. which concern formerly manu-
featured ivory buttons at 81 Nassau
street. this city.
During the administration of the
company's affairs in the local bank
ruptcy court, Nathan Bilder. repre-
senting Judge Harry V. Osborne,
trustee for the bankrupt manufactur-
ers, attacked the validity of the New
York company's title to the accounts
on the grounds that the agreement
was made within four months prior
to the local firms adjudication in
bankruptcy. The New York concern
appeared In defense of its claim, and
Referee Adams, following the return
of a rule to show cause why the &C
counts should not be turned over to
the Andrews company, returned a de-
cision in favor of the New York COM
pany.
Attorney Bilder carried the matter
up to the United States District Court
and Judge Rellstab reversed the ref
ere's ruling. Counsl for the Andrews
company then carried the matter to
the Circuit Court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
BAYONNE BANK IN
EXAMINERS HANDS
Depletion Of Cash Reserve the
cause-President Says De-,
positors Are Safe.
Especial to the Newark stsr.I

BAYONNE, Dec. S.-The First Ma
tional Bank of Bayonne has been
placed in the hands of Federal exam
liners and did not open its doors to-
day.
George H. Carragan, the president.
says that there was depletion OF
the cash reserve which left the bank
with insufficient funds to meet re-
quirements, and the bank has had
difficulty in Immediately realizing
ready cash on the securities. In view
of this, said Mr.. 5arragan, ''it has
been decided to place the bank, tenn
porarily, in the custody of the ma
tional bank examiners in order that
our depositors may be fully pro-
tected."
Reports had been current that the
bank had met with difficulty in get
ting cash. The directors held recent
meetings lasting far into the night.
Knowledge of these reached the de-
positors. The bank has among It's
officers, however, several leading citi-
zens of Bayonne engaged in business
in New York city, and the support
given the institution by them and by
local business interests made the de-
positors loath, 1t is declared, to with
draw their money. 1t was not until
Saturday that they appeared in num-
bers to demand their deposits. All day
Saturday a crowd of depositors crowd
ed at the bank to learn whether they
could get their money.
The directors held meeting at the
bank yesterday. A fear of a more
serious run today Is said to have
prompted them to decide to call in the
Federal examiners. They proposed to
the government officials. 1t was de-
clared, that they would get together
and put up 100000 and volunteer It
as a cash reserve to tide over the
stringency If the examiners would
allow the bank to remain open. The
examiners would not agree to this, 1t
was said.
The institution was opened in April,
1903, as the Bayonne Bank. In Decen1-
Der, 1906, 1t became the First National
of Bayonne. It has a capital of $780,
900 and surplus OF 100000.
Three hundred persons gathered In
curious group about the doors of
the bank today to gaze at the little
slip of paper posted upon the door
announcing that for the best inter
ests of the bank its board of direct
ors had decided to turn its affairs
over to the national examiners.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Deputy Says Crown Prince
Sided With. SOldiery in
Recent Alsace Trouble

BERLIN, Dec. 8-The hand of the
German Crown Prince was at work
in the recent crisis in Zabern, Alsace,
according to DR.. Georges WE'LL, a
Socialist deputy in the Imperial Par
lament. Speaking in his constituency
OF Metz today, Or. WE'LL said:
THE crown prince sided strongly
with the soldiery and visited the i'm
periaI chancellor. DR.. Won Bethmann
Hollweg. on December 3, the day on
which the chancellor made the unsat-
isfactory speech in parliament. which
resulted in the passage of a vote of
non confidence in the government.
The chancellor's hazy reference on
that occasion to the emperor's anti
military orders were undoubtedly due
to his desire to reconcile the wishes of
the German ruler and his eldest son."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Property of Smiths Ice
Enterprise Is Appraised at
$4,000, Mortgages, $4,000

The appraisers of the bankrupt Home
Ice and Products Company today filed
their appraisal Of the company's as
sets in townsville and Little Gap, both
In Pennsylvania.
The louisville plant. consisting of
the ice-houses and real estate, was
valued at So, 600. There are mortgages
on this property, it is declared.
amounting to upwards of -$12,0 900. The
Little Gap property was valued at
$4,000. This land is not encountered
and represents practically all Of the
bankrupt company's assets.
The appraisers were Oliver La Bar
and Robert p. Jones, jr., of Bangor,
Pa, and Philip ID. Elliot, an attorney
of this city.
Raymond e. Smith, former secre-
tary-treasurer of the looted Roseville
Trust Company. was president and
treasurer of the ice company. and its
affairs are entangled with the bank
business
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Prosecution to Rest Case
Against DR.. Craig Today

SHELBYvILLE. Ind, Dec. s.
When the trial of DR.. William B.
Craig, charged with the murder of DR..
Helene Knabe, was resumed here to-
day the State expected to complete its
case before nightfall. Attorney
Ephraim Inman said it would take
about two hours to complete the
direct testimony of Miss Augusta
Knabe, cousin of the dead physician.
who was on the stand when court
adjourned Saturday, and that two or
three other witnesses would be called
The defense planned to ask Judge
Alonzo Blair to dismiss the case as
soon as the State rested on the con-
tention that no case had been made
against DIR. Craig. The defense has
about fifty witnesses ready to testify
In case the Judge orders the trial to
proceed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
KUEHNLE QUITS
FIGHT AND WILL
SERVE SENTENCE
Former Atlantic City Dictator
Finally Yields-Will Go. to
Jail Wednesday.
Especial to the Newark start

ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. S.--Louis
Kuehnle, political boss of Atlantic
City, will probably begin his term of
year in the State prison at Trenton
Wednesday. Although he welded
more power to make or unmake judges
and prosecutors within his domain
than any other party leader in the
country, this power failed to help him
in his fight to escape the crushing
humiliation of Imprisonment. Beaten
in the courts and convinced that an
appeal to the United States Supreme
Court will be futile, he has decided
to present himself at the prison and
take his medicine"
His decision was a stunning sur
prise to his followers, who for thirteen
years had thought him invincible.
Robert H. McCarter has given up
the battle to keep Kuehnle out of Jail.
The Errors Court granted Mr.. Nc
Carter until today to investigate
whether the sentence imposed upon
Kuehnle complied with the provisions
of the indeteriminate sentence law.
Mr.. McCarter takes the position that
should Kuehnle succeed in securing a
resentence the provisions of the fnde-
terminate law would be invoked and
Kuehnle would get a minimum term
OF one year with a maximum term
also. This, however, would prevent
kuehnle from securing time off" for
good behavior, which he will receive
here under his present sentence.
The record in the case will be
transmitted to the Supreme Court,
and next to the trial court. After
this has been accomplished Mr..
Kuehnle will be apprehended and
commence serving his prison term.
Kuehnle is going to prison because
the highest courts In the State have
sustained his conviction on a charge
of having, as a member of the Board
of Water Commissioners of Atlantic
City, awarded O. contract to a COM
pany in which he was a stockholder.
He was convicted in his own county
by jury of his own fellow citizens,
sentenced in his own courts and lost
every appeal before courts with the
composition OF which he had some
thing to do.
The amazement is due to all these
facts, that any court or courts, any
1Hdge or judges, prosecutor or prose-
tutors would have the audacity to do
such thing to him.
To appreciate the power exercised
by Kuehnle for thirteen years In
Atlantic City, according to some, one
would have to take all the power ever
exercised by Boss Tweed, the Phila-
delphia gang, the Pittsburg ring. Abe
Ruef in San Francisco and Tammany
Hall at present and concentrate 1t
in one man and then it would fall
a little short.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Three Vessels of Atlantic
Fleet on Way to Vera Cruz

e ON BOARD UNITED STATES
BATTLESHIP WYOMING AT SEA,
by Wireless Telegraphy to San
Miguel, Azores, Dec. S.-The vessels
of the Atlantic fleet which have been
visiting European ports separated at
sea at noon today in latitude 55.45
north, longitude 1876 west. The Kan
sas, Ohio and Connecticut proceed to
Vera Cruz, Mexico, by way of Guam
tanamo, while the remainder Of the
vessels continue their voyage to Uni
ted States waters.
The warships were today 5000 miles
from Guantanamo bay and 1900 miles
from New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Under Plane in
Water, Quick Wit Saves Him

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. Dec. s.
silar Christofferson, the aviator. mar
rowly escaped death by drowning late
yesterday when his hydro-aeroplane
plunged almost straight downward
from a height of 1000 feet into San
Francisco bay. Christofferson was
strapped in the seat of the machine,
and as the plane struck the water 1t
overturned, leaving the aviator head
downward beneath the surface. He
unbuckled the four straps that held
him, and after being submerged for
more than minute came to the sur
face again. He was taken out of the
water by lifesavers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-08
Lauter Co., 59l-593 Broad St.
ESSEX WINS MANY AWARDS

Essex bird fanciers won the bulk
of awards at the second annual ex-
hibit of the Essex County Poultry
Association, which was brought to
close on Saturday night In Associa-
ton Hall, Caldwell. There were 104
exhibitors, and S1s single birds were
shown. Caldwell exhibitors won more
awards than fanciers from any
other municipality.