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The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

Mote: A. " Buel. the author OF
the following article. which appeared
in a recent issue of the Sacramento
Bee, Is an Alaska sourdough. and
was cartoonist on the Dawson News
in the early days. He Is now car
toonist on the Sacramento Bee.)
Alaska, vast territory Of noun
tains and valleys, richly endowed
by Nature with forests of spruce,
m,nes Of coal and precic' .tals
her waters teeming wi her
lands waiting for the ia aska
invites youth, courage ar pltal,
So the young man just starting
out in life. fresh from college. find
ing no sinecure awaiting him, de-
cides on Alaska. He kisses the old
mother goodbye. kisses the one
girl goodbye. and starts for the
North.
TIE old folks may have slapped
a mortgage on the farm. the college
faculty may have backed their faith
in him with cold cash; at any rate
he lands in Seattle ready to purchase
most anything forced on him by en-
terprising tradesmen who have wax
ed fat and prosperous off the Alask
an fortune-seeker
First OF all. he must purchase a
high-power rifle, a revolver. hunt
ing knife. ammunition and com
pass.
He must buy mackinaw clothes
louder in color schemes and design
than Coast League ball clubs
mackinaws; heavy underclothes. Ger
man socks, blue flannel skirts.
sombrero. a fur cap. sleeping-bag
mittens, snow-glasses. etc.
Also a tent. Yukon stove. gruf
outfit, and last. but not least.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06
THE TENDERFOOT IN ALASKA
By A, V. BUEL.

medicine chest-long on quinine and
citric acid.
One important matter before sail
ing-he must dress up in his alaska
costume" hitch on his artillery open
up his shirtfront, and with his high
power in one hand, the other resting
on the knife in his belt, have his
picture snapped.
He goes aboard the steamer all
"dolled up" in his Alaska costume. u
The weather is warm, and as the
ship plows her way through the
inland waters he feels the weight
of the mackinaws, but he is expect
ing to see icebergs ahead any hour
and he will be prepared.
His face begins to bother him
for he has been growing a beard
since leaving home. On board there
are many cheechakos, some tour
lists and the usual number of old
sourdoughs going back for the sum
mer.
To the uninitiated, it may be well
to explain that sourdough Is a
person who has wintered in Alaska
while a chechako Is a tenderfoot.
The steamer passes close by In
dian missions, salmon canneries and
the big mines of Douglas Island
into Juneau and up Lynn canal to
Skagway.
Our boy has kept an eye out foI
the mining-camp rough, the gentle
man gambler, and Rex Beach's Cherry
Malotte, but he is doomed to disap
pointment for gambling has beer
dead in Alaska for some years.
And Soapy Smith. the sure-thine
gambler, who, with his organized
band of cappers. boosters and thugs
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06
nninted nudge of walking.

pointed judge of walking.
Particular significance was lent TO
these proposals by the fact that they
had the support of the German dele
gates
The president of the International
Amateur Athletic federation. J. 5.
Edstrom of Sweden. who arrived to
preside over the congress, was oh
liged to return Immediately to Swe-
den on receipt of a telegram saying
his mother was i'll. Spilard Stanko-
WITT of Hunsary will therefore act
as president.
The congress declined the offer
of entertainments from the Lyons
municipality on the ground that the
delegates had scarcely sufficient time
to accomplish their work.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06
Location Riohts Tangled.


Ruby Record Citizen John Me
Neil came in from Birch creek We'd
nesday night and returned the next
day He was In to look up the rec
ords and try and straighten out
some of the old location tangles of
that section. Considerable ground
in that section reverted to the gov
eminent at the first of the year,
and this is being quietly picked up
by many who have faith in that
locality.
Mr. Mcneil states that Birch
creek continues to look good, and
there are two outfits now working
on Crooked creek, which heads near
~ opposite Bear pup and runs into
Birch creek near where the pay has
been found. At the time Mr.. Nc
Neil left they had not reached bed
rock.
1t is tie opinion Of several min
ing men of that section that the pay
goes down Crooked and Straight
creeks as they head in the same
divide as Bear pup and flow in the
opposite direction.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06
| Latest Outside Sporting Dope

walk of fifty miles over the desert.
Whittemore had used the repair
materials he had taken with him
on the trip week before, and was
too distant from any garage to re-
plenish his supply before starting on
the return trip. The beer never
leak" held up all the way after the
tire was pumped up.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

Today there is little doing in
Skagway Once the headquarters Of
the packing outfits. packing over
the White Pass into Lake Bennett
now it is merely q transfer station
from ship to rail
Climbing up the Skagway river
seated in narrow gauge coach, our
boy sees traces of the old Skagway
rail, where between 5000 and ,0O0
2orses died in the Fall of 81 and
the spring of '9S.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

terrorized Skagway during the rush
/ Of '97-9S, is but memory.
/ Soapy lies in the little cemetery
about a mile up the track, place
+ of pilgrimage for the moral per
verts on their way to the interior.
/ Skagway stood for the Smith gang
4 of outlaws, the authorities stood in.
and the travelling public ran the
gauntlet and paid the price.
One spring day Skagway rose up
| and decided to rebel against the
| Smith regime. Her good citizens as
sembled in the warehouse on the mid
/ He wharf
Frank Reed, a civil engineer who
had openly defied Soapy, volunteered
to guard the entrance to the wharf
against Smith or his men.
Smith, with a few shots of hootch
which is Alaskan for whiskey-un-
der his belt and Winchester in his
hands went cursing down Broadway
TO the water front. determined to
break up the meeting. Reed got
Soapy. but not until he himself had
been MORALLY wounded.
The gang, leaderless. broke for the
hills. Finally, starved out, they came
in, were tried, and many OF them
were sent to the penitentiary at
Walla Walla.
That ended sure-thing gambling
in Alaska.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06
Beer Mends Tire.

Taft, Calif--Lacking material with
which to fix a puncture, Richard
Whittemore, an Overland automobile
driver of Taft, mixed ten pounds
of flour, the remains of rations
from a camping trip, with several
bottles of beer and pumped the fluid
into the tire of his automobile, which
had gone flat. Revolving the wheel
until the liquid was directly over
the puncture. he pumped up the
tire The beer paste acted as "A
"neverleak," commonly used In tires.
and Whittemore saved himself a
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06
General Mining News


shaft $50 to geo feet deep to test
If they strike it in this shaft it
should indicate a large ore body,
The proposition is promising. The
visible has well defined hanging
wall and foot wall The country is
covered with heavy growth, but quite
a number have staked on the extern
sion and have every reason for be-
ing hopeful on good lead being
opened.
Frank Cascallen, Grant Hoffman,
Mark Evans. Aversion and others
are busy in the vicinity"
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

The diggings are reached, but
everything has been located for the
past six or eight months. So strikes
on new creeks, sixty or eighty miles
away, are in order.
Sixty miles In Gods country at
home would necessitate an auto or
a train, in Alaska 1t is an ordinary
"mush"
Our "center-piece" and his partner
stake claim. move in the outfit,
sell the remaining horse, and pre-
pare for the winter.
The cabin is built, chinked with
moss.
A hole is then started to bedrock,
TIE ground under the moss is frOz-
en-, but by means of wood fires the
earth is thawed
Bedrock finally is reached. and a
blank is drawn
Maybe the pay streak is on the
other side of the creekbed, and
another hole is sunk.
This brings our story up to the
present.
| am not a clairvoyant, SO have
no moral right to go on with the
boy But, having had a few years
experience in Alaska, l can predict
few things that will happen to
our hero.
He will spend the coming winter
on the creek. He may strike pay
dirt, and sluice out stake in the
spring,
One thing he Will do is quarrel
with his partner over the dishes,
and break with him for good.
He will be almost sure to write
some verse during the winter
months.
When his grub supply gives out
he probably can touch friend, and
leeping eating till work begins or
tie government railroad that is to
be built.
The future lies before him.
Who can say what may be in
store for him?
Alaska is full Of great possibili-
ties,
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

A couple of sore-back cayuses.
survivors OF a hard winter; couple
Of Mcclellan pack-saddles; and they
hit the trail.
Grass grows fast in the White
horse country. The trail is com
aaratiyely easy, the country rolling,
with birch and spruce growing in
abundance, and wild berries on the
sunny hillsides Grouse are easily
shot, and life is not so hard
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

A days run, and he is piled out
t the Wife Horse depot 112 miles
n from Skagway, and in Rritish
territory.
He may start from White Horse
in flat-bottomed boat and drift to
St. Michael, or he may buckle on a
pack strap and start for the White
river diggings, little over 100
niles away.
If he has ordinary horsesense, he
has shed his mackinaws for some
ordinary overalls. He has found
his siX-shooter is a lightweight and
entirely out OF style He has prob
ably acquired a partner-some sour
dough shy on capital but long on
experience. who is willing to trade
even.
White river is the scene of the
last rush SO White river il IS.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

Next fall the Princeton football
team will play In a new stadium TO
cost In the neighborhood OF $780,
The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-06

That there is merit in the Ameri-
can cars has at last come to be
recognized by the English. The
London Times recently published
an article commencing the modern
construction of motor cars mailing
from the United States" and naming
what it considered the most repre-
sentative machines.
Rube Marquard is considered to
be far from his winning form this
season, but he has been working
hard filling theatrical engagements,
and will soon get into the swing
of things.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
NICARAGUA TREATY
AROUSES SUSPICION
Bankers Must Explain Bond
Deal Before Senate Commit
tee Will flavor II.

Washington. June 22.-The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee to-day
made il clear that careful inves-
tigation of Nicaraglsn affairs would
be made before it ordered favor
able report on any treaty with tnat
country involving the payment Of
100000 for canal route rights and
other concessions. A favorable re-
port was ordered on the rrsolu-
ton of Senator Smith, o. Michigan,
providing for an investigation by the
committee into the activities Of the
United States State Department IN
Nicaragua and into the transactions
of American bankers in Nicaraguan
bonds.
The committee, however, amended
the resolution By striking out the pre-
amble. in which were made direc.
charges against the banking houses Of
Brown Brothers & Co, Seligman &
Co. and SDeyer & Co. 1t is expected
that the resolution will be adopted
and that Representatives Of the bank
ing houses mentioned in the original
resolution will be summoned before
inc committee and Intercepted.
Secretary Of State Bryan and Charles
A. Douglas. representing the Nlcar"-
guam government, were before the com-
mittee for two hours. explaining the
draft of the proposed Nicaraguan
treaty. In answer TO questions as %
whether he was 20 receive large zee
for representing Nicaragua. Mr.. Doug
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
TO HEAR 7. D. JONES'S SIDE
Committee Invites Reserve
Board Nominee to Appear.


Washington, June % The Senate
Ranking and Currency Committee met
for an hour to-day TO discuss the nom
nations to the Federal Reserve Board,
but without taking action. 1t was de-
cided. however. TO invite Thomas d..
Jones. OF Chicago, one Of the APP
pointees, to appear before the COM
mittee.
Mr. Jones has been under discussion
because he was member Of the board
Of directors of the International Har-
vestcr Company. President Wilson
sent letter last week TO Senator
Owen, chairman Of the committee, urg-
ing the confirmation Of Mr.. Jones and
asserting that his connection with the
Harvester company had been under
taken 10 redeem that corporation from
its evil ways.
The committee adjourned to meet at
the call Of the chairman, while the
subcommittee. to which have been re
ferred the nominations for investlga-
ton and report. continued their work.
Paul VI. Warburg, Of New York, also
vas discussed at to-day's meeting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
BRYAN DEFENDS TREATY
Taft's Colombian Memoran-
dunn Cited as Implying hegret.


Washington. June -. To meet thu
opposition that has arisen in the SEN
ate over the expression Of regret con-
tanned in the Colombian treaty, which
provides for thc payment 70 Colon
bia Of S25,G00,00O as compensation t)r
the loss Of Panama i'm 1903, the Secrr-
tary of State TO-DAY issued a statement
to show that the clause in the present
treaty Is practically identical with a
memorandum submitted 20 the Colon
bian government by Minister Du BOi5
in 1912. which was TO have formed tha
basis for treaty settling the Colon
bian dispute.
Mr.. Bryan explained that the project
outlined in the Du Bots memorandum
was rejected By Colombia. and that,
therefore. the Taft administrator 3
expression Of regret never reached tie
treaty stage. IL has been said here
that while the Du Bots memorandum
does suggest an expression Of regret,
il was not the intention Of the 1afS
administration to admit that the gov
eminent Of the United States commit
ted wrong in the Part Il played when
Panama was severed from Colombia.
sir. Bryan does no: take this view.
he thinks that the Taft administra-
ton was as ready and willing to e>-
press regret as does the present All
ministration in the pending agree
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
PHYSICIANS GIVE
MEDAL TO G0RGAS
American Medical Association
to Open 65th Convention
with 5000 Delegates.

Atlantic City, June 22.-Ihe house or
DELEGATES. the legislative body OF he
American Medical Association, TO-DAY
presented medal 20 Surgeon General
VI lillian {. Gorg1s. L. 5. A, IN recoE,
milton Of his achievements in the Cahai
Zone. A committee recOmmended th"J
t.c association erect in the Canal zone
81 . point to be selected by tire Secre-
tary Of War. monument commend ra-
tive Of the contribution OF the associ"-
ton to preventive medicine.
The siytv-ffth annual convention OF
tie ASSOCIATION will be formally opened
tomorrow with more than SIX thousand
delegates in attendance. The sessions
to-day we're those Of subordinate
branches Of he organization.
One committee reported that IasI
ynar the association spent Sle,oOC lot
Inc education Of the public on health
and more than Slo,OOO Tor
I1onayanda against frauds and fakes:
Tho council on health and pubic
instruction reported in favor OF a
Cnmnlete investigation Of national, for
eirn and state health board methods
ne education Of the public "by ever
,.ossiblc means" and "thc cryStallizing
II ublic sentiment in securing neceS-
sary public health laws
The san Francisco delegation Wan'7
tho convention held IN San flanc!sCo
,nvt year. The New York society
urged amendment of the pure food la"
and .he more rigid exclusion of men
tally deficient aliens.
Among the topics 20 be discussed
when the general convention opens VIII
he the radium treatment and the serur,
treatment for cancer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
INDIAN FOUND DROWNED
Mystery in Death of Dolly
Clark at Coney Island.

The body Of Dolly Clark, twenty
seven. a full-blooded Indian from the
State Of Washington. was found clad
in bathing suit in Coney Island
Greek yesterday evening BY William
Gardner. a clam digger. The woman
is said 10 have husband and two
children in Paterson. y. J. She had
lived nj Coney Island for several years
and was a singer and dancer. She
was formerly a circus performer.
The woman appeared at Hoch's bath
ing pavilion, in Oceanic Walk, about 9
o'clock in the morning and donned
bathing clothes. She was seen TO
stroll along the beach with rubber
coat over her suit, and was accosted
by several Of her friends among the
residents at the resort.
From that hour she was not noticed
until her body was found. She vas
known as q skilful swimmer. and the
police are curious as to the exact
cause Of her death, although no marks
Of violence were discovered on her
BODY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
MORGAN HEIRS AID
FAILED BROKERS
w. X. Vanderbilt Joins
Plan to Relieve HOllins
in Large Claim.

A plan. whereby the creditors OF -
b. Hollins & Co.. the Wall street
brokers. who failed about year ago
are 10 recover their claims by taxing
notes Of n liquidation company formed
for that purpose. was approved yester-
day by Judge Hand in the Fedora!
District Court The first payment OF
10 per cent in notes will be made
within four days.
An interesting feature Of the at
tempt to settle the tangled affairs OF
the bankrupt brokers is the action OF
William X. Vanderbilt and the estate
Of late J. Pierpont Morgan in request
ing that their claims, aggregating al
most S1.O0OO00, be stricken from the
list Of creditors. Their request means
that Mr. Vanderbilt and the trustees
Of the Morgan estate, on account OF
the friendship that existed between
them and Harry B. Hollins, head OF
the house. would regard their claims
for large loans as purely personal
transactions.
This composition plan Of settlement
was so acceptable 20 the creditors that
they turned over to Mr.. Vanderbilt
and the Morgan estate collateral with
a nominal value Of S97S,000. which Mr..
Hollins had given to them as security
when he got the loans. The cause Of
the failure was attributed in Wall
Street 10 dry rot" 50 the actual value
Of the collateral security is, Of course,
problemGtical. The two biggest credi-
tors agreed to take over these slow
assets and abide by the results. Van
derbilts claim was $jl6,596 and the
Morgan estate claimed S309,S5O.
Mr.. iolins announced that he had
raised $4,000 among his friends TO aid
in the work Of settlement. The second
liquidation of 80 per cent notes will
be made by the Equities Realization
Corporation, which is the name of the
concern formed to accomplish the set
Element. as soon as possible. The
amount which the creditors will re-
ceive. however, depends on the market
value Of the assets of the failed con-
Germ. II is confidently believed that
the creditors will realize as much as
90 per cent. at least.
Mr.. Hollins filed yesterday his per-
sonal schedules in bankruptcy. show
ing liabilities Of ,053 and assets
OF S980.025, consisting mainly OF stock
tnat mas DeeH ny pOlHeCdleu a. 9eCuI -
ity for loans. These securities are
said to be worth approximately 1910
500. Another heavy creditor of Mr..
Hollins is Consuelo. Duchess Of Man
chester. He owes her S253.ji1.
The bankrupts suffered a loss Of
$4,000 by a recent decision Of the
United States Circuit Court Of Appeals
which sustained the District Court in
granting lien on collateral deposited
by them against foreign drafts. The
firm sold the drafts to the lnterna-
tional Banking Corporation Of Con-
necticut. which assigned their claims
TO John /. TIogboom. The latter
brought suit in the federal court TO
establish the lien on the collateral.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
new HAVEN AGAIN
FACES SUIT BY U. S.
Dissolution To Be En-
forced Unless Bay State
Legislature Acts Now.

Washington. June %. President
Wilson and Attorney General Nc
REYNOLDS are agreed that the dissolu-
ton suit against the New Haven Rail
road must 60 forward unless the Mas
sachusetts Legislature empowers the
holding company TO sell its Boston q
Maine stock.
The President told inqUirers to-day
flat unless the Legislature acted m
line with the suggestions Of the Attor-
nov General ard Governor Walsh the
only course left open to the Depart
ment Of Justice would be to go ahead
with the Sherman law suit which has
been held up. according to the agree
ment between Howard Elliott, chairman
of the New Haven, and Mr.. Nc
Reynolds. e..
Officials here expect to see the suit
filed before the expiration Of the time
limit set by Mr.. McReynOlds, unless the
legislature takes the action recon-
n,ended by the Governor and tire gov
errment.
Boston. June %. Governor Wash
said to-day that he expected the Rail
road Committee would report bill
permitting the state to retain control
of the Boston G. Maine stock, now heId
for the New Haven by the Boston
Railroad Holding Company. and that
before the week was ended Legislation
would be enacted resulting in the I'M
mediate separation of the two systems
The Governors statement was made at
a conference with Senator Fisher and
Representative Ellis, OF the Railroad
Committee; Moor-ield Storey, counsel
Tor the New Haven, and Henry L. Hlg-
ginson, a banker.
The probability that enabling legisla-
ton for the separation of the Boston
& Maine and the New Haven would be
enacted at this session was indicated
at the State House to-day when me
Committee on Rules, at the end of e
brief hearing, recommitted the ques-
ton to the Committee on Railroads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
PROVES HE'S NOT DEAD
Husban Finds Wife Awaiting
"Corps" She Identified.

After his wife and daughter ana a
sis.er-in-law had gone TO the Madison
ST. station yesterday and positiFely
identified a body there as his, Mende'
Velinsky. Of 2tl Monroe ST.. calmly
walked into his home with the COM
monplace query. What's the matter
with supper:
Velinsky couldn't at all understand
the frenzied rush the two women maze
Tor him and the more frenzied en-
braces they showered upon him. lhen
he noticed the preparations for mourn
ing that were being made ana de-
manded an explanation. lie dian .
even stop to say. Can you beat II.
but made d rush for the station to stop
an undertaken from Bringing MS
corpse" to his home.
A report that a man who str'Slngiy
resembled her husband had dropped
dead in Seward PARK had reached Ms
Vclinsky. and this caused her to hurry
10 the station. In her excitement she
said the body was her husbands.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
"GHOST," MAN IN NlGHTlE
Escaped Inmate Stalls Two
Trains-Stops When Shot At.

A ghost" which stood on the
tracks of the New Jersey e. New York
Railroad in Spring Valley, Rockland
County. early yesterday morning,
stalled two trains and was afterward
shot at by patrolman. proved to be
an escaped inmate from sanatorium.
Wearing a white nightgown, he had
run aine miles.
Crews brought the TWO freight trains
to "A stop when he stood rigid between
the tracks. As the brakeman APP
preached he whitc-shrouded ghost
with lanterns he fled along the tracks.
When the patrolman ordered him TO
stop he ran all the faster until two
shots brought him TO standstiIl' lie
proved TO be Michael Corder, and was
returned 10 the attendants Of Letch-
worth Village sanatorlum IN fnicIls.