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Tha Only Daily N?w?papar Published in Alaska. Hm a Larger Circulation than any other Publication. fOL. I. NO. 135. THE DAILY 8KAGUAY, ALASKA, MONDAY. JULY 11. 1898 The Largest and Finest Hotel in Alaska. THE M'?TEL0 KuroiNHtii . VII Modern Improvements. Sample Rooms for Commercial Men. BONO ST. SET. BROADWAY AND RUNNALLS * 1 mmi'm mi iiiL.?l'j?lwhuu1UB(JI May 1st.] L18S The DEWEY. Choice Wines, Liquors, Cigars. Comer Shoup and State Sts. Skaguav. Alaska. Burton W. Johnson. Packing and Freighting. Skaguay to Lake Bennett. Operattng one of the Best Pack Trains on the route. Handle contracts of any size and guarantee to deliver goods in first-class condition. I Bar Cor. Hoore and Ivey Sts. For further address inquire at this office. GerMim The Oldest and Best Established Restaurant and Ilakery in the city. Ice Cream: Wholesale or Retail. OrEN b/lT AHb NIQHT. Cor. Holly Avenue and State. Skaguay, Alaska Employment Office Reliable Help Furnished Employers on ihort Notice. I keep a classified list of all those wanting work and can fill orders with the least possible delay. Leave orders at the Little Star Candy and Tobacco Stone. Broadway between Bond and McKinney Streets. Skaguay. T J Watsom, Waltkk Church. Notary Public, Attorney-at-Law. I $100.00 $150.00 $200.00. We have several customers for fV Residence property nortb of -fflt Ninth Avenue. Watson & Church, eal Estate And nines a Office? Cor. 5th Ave. and State St. R W. L. GREEN. HARDWARE. "WbolMtU oni Holly St See 1 i i \(l(-I Tltoe Leadliiimgj Pto?(t<Q><g!irsiip>Ifo?r For Views and Photos. Skaguay and Dawson City. Baoadway, South of Bond. GO TO THE FOR LADIES AND GENTS' ? 9 Ld FURNISHING GOODS K >, SHOfcS AND SLIPPER > OTTO SCHLESSINGER, t Broadway, pear Holly Avenue E. J. LEDDICOAT. Architect and Builder | Plans Drawn and Contracts Taken. Kmldcnce. corner KhInit and Ivy st FIRST BAHK OF SKflGUflY. Incorporated 1H?7 ? Transacts a Regular Banking Business. p.. i r. n ii i unwrnr.""!*' posits Received. Officer* j C. S. MOODY - - Pre*, and M*r. Fred G. F. LAPenotibrb. ? cashier. FRESH QOW'5 flILK ? nd CREAM4 Ninth and Kunnalls Streets. Delivered twice each day to any part of of the city. The only first-class Cow's milk in Skaguay. Henry Schaffer. pKICK .* KUL1.KH. ATTORNEYS- AT- LAW. MoRlnnoy Otrocl. Hkaguuy, Alaska. ! STENOGRAPHER IN OFFICE. WALTER CHURCH Attorney at Law unit Notary Public, Moore's Bnlldlng, iouth-eiwt corner of F.uu nalls and McKlnney Ave. O'DONNELL & WELDON. Attys-at-'Ldw. ~v Occidental Hotel Building. Dr e. l. niskern. Physiciuu aud Surgeon. Dr. J. Richter, ? Office : Cor. Broadway and Bond. Profoiutiona! calls attended to day or night. Pacific Hotel. Near McKinney and Main Streets. Everything First-Class. Terms Reasonable. LADIES i^ZT^R. Dressmaking, Furnishings, 10 per cent reduction In calicos, shirt waists, corset covers and ladies' vests for this week only. Ladles' Ml 1 children'* Hosiery, choice por tuuieN and toilet ?oaps. Broadway, Near Bond. John Stanley and Co. First Class Horse 8hoeing and Wagon Work. BLACKSMITH I NG. 4th Avenue or Bond Street, between Proadway and State. Are Yoa Going To Dawson City? The Ben nett Lake and Klondike Transportation Company are now operating the three large and commodious steamers NOKrt' and" rLOR/l From Bennett to Dawson. For Rates apply at Bennett office. F. M. RATTENBURY, Managing Director. Gua. Schadk. Hilly Rose. The Louvre CAFE' Sixth Avenue, between Broadway and Htalc. FINE WINES & LIQUORS. Steam and Lager Beer on Draught to CENTS, STRAIGHT. All kinds of Cold Lunches and Sand wiches. Hot Lnnch from 11 a, m. to 3 p. ra. Pm tsches Hous. HUNTED LIKE WILD BEASTS Bowers and his Pals ? Captured. THROW UP THEIR HANDS Slim Jim Jumps From a Second Story Win dow but is Soon Recaptured. Since our last issue on Saturday after noon there was no lull In the excitement, no diminution of the crowds in the streets night or day, or in the number of citizens arg^d with Winchesters patrolling or scurrying hither and thither on the hunt for the rest of Soapy's gang. At 6 o'clock on Saturday evening fourteen of the sus* per'ed men had been captured and were under a strict guard in the City Hall. About midnight another and very import ant capture was made of the man who was with Soapy on the dock, armed with a gun against the people. As he came up some one crM, "They have killed Soapy; and If you don't dear out quick they will kill you too.' He returned to town on the double quick and nothing more was seen of him until he was dragged from his bed on Saturday night and brought up to the C'tvHall. Later two or three other men were captured in the same house, and the arr.sts continued up to midnight last nij.ii;, before which ime the City Hall >?? mm?mm 1?^- ? ?! ailj SL nu'lSer were imprisoned In tfrr tipper rooms of the Burkhard hotel. In all about thirty were taken in, but the exact number and their names was as far as possible kept a secret. All this time the efforts of the citizens were particularly directed to the capture of Bowers, Tripp, Wilder and Slim Jim, the men who actually stole the sack of gold dust. All the trails and the wharves were guarded, with the exception of that to the waterworks. As tills did not lead to any where it was not thought of, but subse quent developments show that this was the route taken Jby the four des peradoes immediately after Soapy was shot. Shortly before 5 o'clock Sunday morning a citizen who had been on guard duty and had returned to his cabin near Herman and Shoup streets for a much-needed nap, saw from his window a man passing whom he believed to be Tripp. He rushed out, and finding it to he the bunco man, immedi ately arrested him. "Well," said Tripp, with an air of cool resignation, "I suppose I've only about a quarter of an hour to live." "Is that about all you think a man such as you deserves ?" he was asked. "Guess it Is," was the quiet rejoinder. Tripp afterwards told a straightforward story of his actions from the time of the shooting up to that of his arrest. He was "laying low" In the hotel where other ar rests were made Sundav evening, when word was brought him that Soapy had been shot. He and the three others at once slunk by way of Morris' lot to the slaughterhouse and up the waterworks trail. Thev had revolvers with them but had not time to think of getting food or blankets. The first night they slept nejr the lake and remained in hiding all the next day. Saturday night almost famished with hunger they hit the trail again and came down to the slaughter house with the hope of escaping by boat or of getting back to friendly cabins. It seemed too risky to attempt to pass the lines of armed patrolmen, however, and shortly after 2 o'clock they started back up the trail. Tripp, who is an old man, was tired out and refused to go back. His companions expostulated with him for an hour, but he stuck to his declaration that he "would rather be hung on a full stomach than die of starvation in the moun tains." So he was at length permitted to return. As to the actual robbery he also gave an apparently fair account, freely acknowl edging that he himself snatched the sack of gold and took it into Soapy's parlors. He handed it to the barkeeper (who is also under arrest), another man whom he named being present. A few minutes af- j terwards Soapy himself came in and told Tripp that he had got the dust all right. What became of the sack afterward : Tripp declared that he Ji J not know and that if he did he would say so. He had himself gone to Soapy and advised him that "the people were making such a stink about the job it would be wise to give the stuff up." Smith made no reply. He could not say, either, who would be likely to know where the dust was. He felt certain that only one, or pos sibly two men, would have Smith's confidenct in such a case, and he could give no hint as to who was likely to pos sess the secret. After Tripp's statement that he had lelt Bowers and the other two men on the waterworks trail that morning, there were plenty of armed volunteers to scale the mountain and beat Its face foot by foo' and also to go to the falls and the lake, but the careful search made proved unsuc cessful. At nine o'clock a report [came In that the men had been seen near the cemetery, and a strong posse Immediately started for that point, some on horses, others on foot. Part of these were and the wagon road and the remainder formed a cordon to beat the woods. As this cordon moved slowly forward the bushes back of the cemetery were seen to move. The command was immediately given to the men supposed to be in hiding to throw up their hands or be tired upon. One of them, after a brief pause, shouted, ! "All right," and Bowers stepped from cover with his hands above his head. The oth er two followed him. They were forced ' to walk ahead still holding up their hands I until the larger body of armed citizens in | the road below was reached, when they i were searched and their weapons taken from them. When the prisoners were brought into town about eleven o'clock there was the greatest excitement seen since the shoot j ing. The neighborhood of the city hall was black, with people and ringing cheers broke outagain and again. Some of the more excited were for lynching the prisoners but at half past eleven Commissioner Sehlbrede hurried to the scene, and begged the people to main tain Jthe good order up to that time well observed. His words had an undoubted influence. He then ordered the prisoners to be removed to the second floor of the Burkhard Hotel, tor better pro tection and the better facilities offered for the examination of the prisoners. For an hour the crowd remained eagerly discussing the situation and many demanding that the three men be summar ily dealt with unless they would disclose where the stolen gold dust was secreted. Then a shot was fired. ? Everyone seemed to know In the same moment that Bowers had escaped. There was a rush for the rear of the hotel premises. A r?:ore more shots were rapidly fired. The prisoner recaptured and proved to be Slim Jim. Then the demand to lynch him was renewed with some force, and Slim pitifully pleaded for mercy or at least a little time. Leading citizens surrounded him, however, and coolly held back the more excited of the crowd. Just in the nick of time upcameCapt. ! Yeatman with seventeen or eighteen of the regulars from Dyea. Slim was taken back to the Burkhard anJ very soon com plete order was restored, the citizens who had for so many long hours been doing patrol duty returning to their homes for much-needed sleep. The threats of the crowd reaching the ears of Slim he had maJe a dash through the second story back window. The rifles were fired tog ve the alarm and to inform him that he was so well surrounded that escape was impossible. He had barely reached Broadway before he was again in custody and pleading for his life. The woman who lived with Soapy en deavored to leave town on the City of Seattle. She was brought back and ex amined and her trunks searched. ! 7* A Resolute Committee Pledg ed to Unearth Him. THE SOLIUERS AKE GONE. Clllz?ni Promlae to Protect (be PrlMncra MHt to Rata. tain order. The plan of the citizens last night was to bring the prisoners before Commissioner Sehlbrede, have those committed to Sitka against whom there was direct evidence and to order the remainder of Jiose known I to be disorderly characters to leave the | town. The hearing was to begin at ten o clock, but meanwhile a committee was at work with the prisoners, endeavoringto discover the hiding place of the stolen gold, and this had not completed its labors, but continued them throughout the day. As there was a crowd Impatiently wait ing for the trial to begin, and as It Was Im possible for the committee to make a full and complete report without further In vestigation of the dufs already obtained, It was deemed advisable to inform the citi zens of what was being done and also to ask their further pleasure. Also it was thought well to give a warning that al though Capt. Yeatman ;md his men ha J returned to Dyea, the first act of violence would bring the soldiers I-ack and result In the town being placed uinier martial law. At three o'clock Acting-Deputy Marshal J. M. Tanner mounted a dray in front of the city hall, and said he desired to make a statement to the citizens. He desired to ask tiiem if they would support him and his deputies, or if they desired to have the military quartered on the fown? not for a day or a week, but for a long season. It fi*Uflfii?hau1&flrifeifr>drttf ?>?Hi ufevttfc tion and returned with hi? men to Dyea. He had only done so upon the solemn as surance of the acting marshal and the leading business men that order would be maintained, and that the men arrested would be protected and have a fair trial. Captain Yeatman had said, continued the acting marshal, that he had specirl orders from the president and could take charge here at any time and declare mar tial law. If the men now imprisoned were not protected and given fair trial he would be bound in honor to do this. Mr. Tanner assured the citizens that those found guilty would be punished, from the highest to the lowest, and asked if they would leave the matter In the hands of the investigating committee and pledge themselves to protect the prisoners until they had been fairly tried and Skaj,. uay cleared of this disorderly element. If people wanted violence they would have first to overcome him and his deputi- s. (Cheers.) H. E. Battln next addressed the gath ering. He said: "You all know that Soapy Smith has silent partners. (Cries of "Yes, Yes.") The committee Is trying to get at these partners. They are the men to hang if you must take the law in jour own hands-whlch I don't think you will? men who have elevated themselves on a pedestal of seeming morality and robbed the public. Those are the men your committee is trying to locate (Cheere.) "You must not expect to cure in a day, a disease the growth of months. You cannot cure the present state of things by a hanging. There are punishments much better in every sense to fit the crime; and you do not desire It to go out to the world that the people of Skaguay could not control themselves. "You mav rely upon it that no guilty man will escape the committee, whoever he may be. A few of these prisoners we nave evidence enough against to convict; there are perhaps twenty others that we cannot convict although we may feel that they deserve it. What thecommittee does it will do quietly, and the moral atmos phere of Skaguay will be cleaned. But It there is any act of violence then we shall have martial law and your property and homes will not be worth a nickel. Busi ness will come to a standstill. I have been requested to ask if you are satisfied with the committee as it stands or would like to nominate others." Some one asked who were the com! mittee and Mr. Battin gave the names as follows: Tanner, Sylvester, Battin, Bums, C. E. Hawkins (engineer of ohe railroad) President Graves, of the railroad, Free man, Whitten, and Humbert. As they were read the crowd cried "good" or "he's all right,". and someone suggested that Mr. Rcnnick's name be added, which was done. Someone asked if Mr. Stewart could not be paid the amount of the gold stolen from him, to which Mr. Battin !iut [Continued on Fcurl i P: