The Alaska prospector. [volume], October 17, 1907, Image 1

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vol 6 ALASKA PROSPECTOR Valdez Alaska, October 17, 1907. VALDEZ NEWS No 35
Katalla Short of Food ^
Sea i t !t\ ()<t. 17 — i'lir failure of
lhe ilea an to discharge Height at
Katalla tun kes t he ua t ion there
very so nous, as the food stij>pl\ is
short owing to no steamer being
able to unload for the oast mouth.
Paris, Oct. 1/ — l he Sultan has
applied to France to install a pro
tectorate in Morocco.
Lowell, Mass., Oct. 1^ — then ,
was a severe earthquake shock felt
intv* last night, which damaged
many buildings. l he shako was
felt in New Hampshire.
New York, Oct. 17—The tele
graphers have asked tin* unionists
of the f i ited States to subscribe
ten cents per day per man to aid
in eon; inning t he st rike.
San Francisco, Ort. 17—-lack
Johnson and Jim Flynn have
signed to tight do rounds at Co! in a
on Novembei 2d.
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Seattle Woman Suicides1
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Sratth, Oct. 17—Last night
when Charles W eeks, a musician,
returned home he found his wife
hanging in a closet dead. She
railed him up by phonf a short
time before saying to hurry home,
and when he reached the house he
found that she had committed sui
cide l>y hanging Jealously is be
lieved to have been t he cause of the
suicide.
San Francisco, Oct. 17—Two
Mission street cars collided this
morning, seriously injuring four
passengers. The police had great
difficulty in preventing the mob
from lynching the raotormen of the
ears.
San Francisco, Oct. 17—It is
positively announced that Heney
intends to make a strong fight to
succeed Senator Perkins in the
Senate in 1909.
Many Lives Lost
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Fontanel, Oct. 17—Seven large
mills were destroyed I»v the ex*
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plosion yesterday, and sixty peo
pie were killed. Forty thousand
kegs of powder and 50 tons of dy
namite were stored in the maga
zine which exploded, and the
shock practically wrecked the
town. The 1200 inhabitants are
now living in tents. When tne
shock occurred the s hool build
ing collapsed entirely, seriously
injuring forty of the scholars. All
towns within a radius of 200 uiihs
felt the shock.
Washington. Oct. IT—Ins! ru
m cuts in the observatory here
recorded an earthquake this morn
ing, hut the location of the shock
is unknown.
Decatur. Oct. 17—The court has
refused the motion of the defense
tn the Magill trial that the jurv he
instructed to acquit Magill,
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Gold Thief Suicides
Dawson, Oct. 17—George Kin
kaid, head earpenter on the
steamer \ ukon, has hern arrested
f«»r the theft of $40,000 of gold
contained in a registered mail
saek which was being shipped out
from Fairbanks but Julv. He
committed suicide bv taking
poison in his hunk while being
brought here by the officials.
Richard Hall, a well known saloon
man, has been arrested for coni
piiehy in the stealing, and it. is
reported that he has confessed.
Several sensational arrests are
predicted. 1 he stolen gold was
melted up and sold in bars to
Seat t ie ha nks.
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\\ ashington. Oct. 17—(ieneral
(1 toe i e \' a n nounces through the
]ues> that unless it »s delinitelv
settled that Kaialla is to he the
t«*: ninus of the proposed railroad
to the interior of Alaska instead of
^aldez, there will he no <*abie ex
tension to that port l»v the govern*
an* lit
(diieago, Oct. I 4 — The court per
j niits the meeting of the Illinois
Central directors today, hut has
eojoii ed Harriman from voting
the 21)0,01)0 shares as requested in
the injunction proceedings of Fish.
Manila, Oct. 17—Secretary Taft
arrived here this morning and was
given a great ovation. Practically
all the inhabitants of the town
were parading the streets in his
honor.
beat tit*. Oct. 1<—Advices from
Kutalia, via Valdez report that
there is ha rely ten days provisions
in the new railroad camp, and that
serious trouble is anticipated if
supplies cannot hi* landed immedi
ately. Steamship owners of this
citv speak of the Katalla harbor as
a huge marine joke, and say that
there is no possibility of ever put
ting in an artificial harbor which
will enable vessels to land during
the winter. I hr Northwestern
Railroad Co has lost thousands of
dollars already this season on
their charters, owing to the ina
bility of the vessels to land freight.
The ISerfha left for the South at
midnight, She hud a full load of
passenger*, including many of the
laboring men of the Alaska Home
Railway crew.