The Alaska prospector. [volume], November 27, 1902, Image 1

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VOLUME 1, NO. 42. VALDEZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 27, 1902. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER,
JAMES FISH £. Co.
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dozens of other neat and appropriate articles for
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THE VALDEZ PHARMACY J
City Market
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
Beef, Mutton,Pork andPoultry
Our Prices are BIGHT. Give us a call.
ST. ELIAS RESTAURANT,
ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT
IN VALDEZ.
Merchant’s Lunch, 12 to 1, 35 c Sunday Dinner 75c.
Dinnners 5:30 to 8 p.m., 50c.
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Pardon the suggestion
But it's going to be a great
Christmas. We have the goods
and make prices to fit all desires
and fancies. Don’t cry “can’t af
ford it,” hut come to our store and
see how economically you can get
nice presents for your friends and
relatives.
We have a full stock of things
everybody wants, perfectly adapted
to the wants of warm hearted gift
makers.
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry
and Up-To-Date Novelties. Ap
propriate gifts for young and old,
costing from a mere trifle to the
most Princely Prescuts.
Our selection will please you,
Oqr prices will delight you.
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
•; Governor Brady’s proclamation,
setting aside Thursday, Nov. 547 th,
as a day of public thanksgiving, is
at hand. After mentioning the
prosperous condition of the United
States in general, he speaks as fol
lows of Alaska.
“We, here in Alaska, can be
grateful. Two steamships, the
Portland and Jeanie, were in great
peril in the ice drift, but they es
caped and their passengers were
landed in safety; and altho many*
thousands of |<ople have been
coming and going from our shores
during the season, there has been
little injury or loss of life. The
prospector and miner have strong
er hopes than ever. The fisher
man sees the results of his labors
in great stores of food in cases and
barrels ready lor the worlds mar
kets.
“Though we have not many hus
bandmen, those who have had
faith to sow have had the pleasure
of reaping. We know that in the
| mar future many will be added
lo> the number 01 these. We shall
rejoice w hen many thousands come
here to make their homes and share
these blessings with us.”
Weather Record.
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Nov.
11 It 37
12 16 3a
13 16 33
14 37 33 6nn
la 33 2l 3W
16 | 31 *37 •
17 j 3a 30_
1 Wiudy. f Light Wind. * Cloudy.
Above « n» except where otherwise stated.
$ Kaiu. Figure* show precipitation in inches.
Observed and reported bv l>r. L. K. Cainicia.
Diaaolution of Partner*hip.
Notice U hereby given that the partnership
heretofore existing between ('has. Hand and
Chas. R.aa. under the Brut name ol Hand A
Reas. U this day diswtlved by mutual consent,
t he. Hlud succeed, to the busines., and mill
receive and pay all debts oi the late co-partner,
ship.
Dated Valdes. Alaska, Nov. 10. IIU
fuss. Rose
Cam Hard.
Kendrick has the tine*t lot of
wall |>a|>rr wt* have yet tmi in
Alaska, and b« itt rapidly dispos
ing of it. .
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OUT MORRISON KILLED LAST
MONDAT.
\m ffantd is Accused
of the Shooting. Coroner’s Inquest.
First Event of the Kind
Since ’9S.
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Monday afternoon between two
and three o’clock, a cry for help is
sued from the door of the house
occupied by Isaac Banta and Guy
Morrison, on the corner of Third
street and Glacier avenue.
The first to respond was Mrs.
Alvah Eumes, who lives in the
house opposite. On reaching the
cabin, she was told by Mr. Banta,
who was quietly leaning ugainst
the door, that Guy Morrison had
committed suicide. This news
somewhat unnerved the lady, but
she retained presence of mind
sufficient to call to some men who
were aliout a block away. They
hurried to the cabin, while she
went to her home for some hot wat
er.
The men who rescinded to the
call of Mrs. Eames were Cajit. Jo
hunsoii, Oscar Fish and Ernie
Wheat. Mr. Fish went for a doc
tor while the captain and Mr.
Wheat, with Walter White, who
just then appeared on the scene,
entered the cabin and found the
su pposed suicide lying on the
floor, buck of the door.,
They picked him up and placed
him on the bed and then awaited a
physician. Dr. Boyle soon arrived
and did everything in his |>ower
to restore the man to consciousness
but without avail, and within an
hour after the arrival of help
Morrison died.
Shortly liefore the death. Com
missioner Lyons was called to the
scene and placed the deputy mar
shal in charge. The latter picked
up a large 32-caliber frontier revol
ver from the tioor, almost directly
under the stove. The revolver was
recognized as one that Mr. Bantu
had been trying to sell sometime
ago. When picked up it was
found to l>e cocked.
The doctor in examining the
wound found that the ball entered
the back of the head, directly lie
hind the right ear and passed
through the head, coming out to
the right of the right eye. having
passed through the skull and the
right side of the brain.
A coroner’s jury was impaneled
immediately after the death of Mr.
Morrison, una mexuay morning
the inquest was held in Commis
xioner Lyon’s office. The jury vis
ited the scene of the shooting,
examined the body and surround
ings and made a search for the bul
let, but no trace of it could be
found. They then returned to the
commissioner’s office and proceeded
with the exuminatiun of witnesses.
Commissioner Lyons was in the
chair, Judge Harlan conducted the
examination for the government,
and Judge Uoodell was present to
look after the interests of Mr.
Banta. who had been arrested and
placed in jail pending the exami
nation.
On Tuesday a number of wit
nesses were examined, but gave no
testimony that would throw any
light on the affair, with the excep
tion probably of Or. Boyle, who
arrived after the laxly had been
taken from the floor and placed
upon the bed. He thoroughly ex
amined the wound both before ahd
after death, aud gave it as bis prq«
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fessional lielicf that th<* man died
from the effects of a bullet wound,
and ujK»n the pistol being exhibit
ed to the doctor, he expressed the
belief that it was highly improb
able that the wound could have
been self inflicted with such a
weapon.
All the testimony on Tuesday
went to show that the only occu
pants of the cabin at the time of
the shooting were Mr. Banta and
the deceased. At tJ p.m. a recess
was taken until 10 a.m. on Wed
nesday morning.
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock
the jury again t>>ok their places
and the case went on. A number
of witnesses were examined, but
nothing new developed lievoitd the
testimony of Tuesday, except that
one witness claimed to have heard
a shot which seemed to come from
the direction of Morrison’s cabin.
He turned and looked back, but
seeing no commotion, went al>out
his business, and heard nothing of
the event till at least three quar
ters of an hour later.
At 12 o’clock the ease was given
to the jury, who, after fifteen min
utes deliberation, returned a ver
dict as follows:
‘‘That the deceased, one Guy
Morrison, age about 20 years, a
native of the state of Oregon, came
to his death on the afternoon of
the 24th day of November, 1902, in
a cabin situated at the corner of
Broadway and Third street, Val
dez, Alaska, from the effect* of a
bullet fired from a 82 calibre
Colts revolver in the bands of one
Isaac Banta.
The jury was composed of W. E.
Bouscher, C. D. 5? haw, A. L. Bar
ret. F. E. Bond, K. R. Robinson
and H. J. Raymond.
Mr. Banta will have a prelimi
nary hearing in a few davs, l>efore
Judge Lyons, and will probably be
bound over to the grand jury.
Guy Morrison, the deceased, was
born in Josephine Co., Oregon,
about twenty-five years ago. It is
a rich placer mining district and
there he learned considerable of
the business of hydraulic min
ing. He was a sober, steady fel
low, and doing fairly well at home,
but was taken with the Alaska fe
ver and left home last spring, ar
riving here in August. He took a
temporary position at the sawmill,
where he remained for a short time.
When the news of the Yaktag strike
reached town, he, with a number
of others, went there to prospect
and locate. As the season ad
vanced he returned to town, where
he has been living ever since, in
company with Mr. Banta, in the
cabin where he died.
Morrison was a member of the
Odd Fellows lodge at Kirbyvillc,
Ore., and the Odd Fellows of Val
dez have taken charge of the re
mains, and will communicate with
his parents and also with his lodge
to determine whether the body will
be interred here or sent home.
Isaac Banta is a slight built
wiry looking man of over 50. He
has been known here only a short
time, having reached here on the
Chico in May. He formerly resi
ded in Fresno, California, where
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! P. P. Be B. Co. Starts Weekly Ser
vice Between Here ati4
Seattle.
ValJex is now to ha%-e fire steam
ers a month. One of these. the
i commodious ami fast steamer Nome
j City, will come direct from (Seattle
: to Valdes by the outside route
without any stop. Four others, tho
; Excelsior, Santa Ana and Bertha
will come via Juneau and Sitka,
and the Selikof from Valdes to Ut»
alaska, stopping at all way points,
The Nome City and Santa Ana
In-long to the Clipjn-r Line, but are
now operated by the Pacific Pack
ing A Navigation Co., and this
company owns the Excelsior and
Shelikof.
The Nome City has been run
ning to Nome during the past sum
j luer, and arrived at Seattle on her
j last trip from the north on the 13th
■ in.-tt., and as soon as her cargo was
discharged she was put on the Mo
ran’s drydock and completely
cleaned, overhauled and refur
'niched throughout for the Valdes
run. She will page out Neah hay
and make no stop until she reach
e» this city. She is scheduled to
leave Seattle Nov. 23th and Pec.
8th, and will carry the U. S. mail,
connecting at this point with the
Shelikof, which will take the west
ward mail and passengers.
The Santa Ana is advertioed to
leave Pec. 1st, hut will not he able
now to leave on that date, hut will
sail from Seattle as soon thereafter
as possible. The Excelsior will
leave Seattle on Dec. 9th, and the
Bertha on the 15th. The Shelikof
is advertised to leave Juneau on
the first of each month, but in all
probabilities will make thi» her
home port, and connect here with
the Seattle steamers.
With these steamers Valdez will
have a good mail service, and it al*
so assures a good service to the in*
terior country, as the Yukon-Val*
dez mail, with its weekly service,
will make close connection with all
steamers.
Gone to Chicago.
Word was received from Mayor
Steele, who went to Seattle to so*
cure the electric light plant, that
it was ira|ioss>ble to get the me*
chinery on the Pacific coa6t in less
than ninety days, and he started
for Chicago on Nov. 3rd to get tho
materials for the plant. He ex*
pects to be back on the Excelsior.
Baron Buttinsky.
Baron von Plessen, better known
here as Butt insky. who had the
honor of stopping in Valdes for a
few days, is in trouble at Juneau.
His permit allowed him to take
out one moose head as a trophy,
and ho is trying to clear two.
Watch Mot