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LAWS
arewAnted
ants Power to Change
Laws and Asks for
Legislature
A GREAT COUNTRY
Judge Wickersham, Delegate to Con
gress From Alaska, is Preparing to
Introduce Kill in Congress at the
Next Session Asking for Legisla
ture for the Territory Wants a
Legislature of Twenty-four Mem
bers to Look After Local Laws
Present Method of Having to go to
Washington for Everything Not
Satisfactory Country Has Never
Cost the United States One Cent
But Has Sent Millions "Into the
Country.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, Sept. 8 Judge James
Wickersham, delegate to congress
from Alaska, is preparing to re-introduce
a bjfri the next congress which
will give Ylfe territory a legislature.
When, in Washington recently Judge
Wickersham sa'.d:
"All Alaska needs to make her the
most wonderful and resourceful coun
try on the western hemisphere is the
moral support of the people of the
United States, and local gO"ernment."
In the last congress Judge Wicker
sham introduced a bill providing for
a territorial legislature for Alaska to
be composed of twenty- four members.
At present Alaska is divided into
four judicial districts. This and the
-executive department are the only
government thnt it possesses. Judge
Wickersr.am's bill provided thp.t in
each of the ..Indicia! districts there
should be elected four representa
tives and two senators, making a leg
islature of twenty-four members. The
bill provides that the first election for
the proposed territorial legislature
be held the first Monday in January,
1910, and that the first meeting of
the legislature be in Juneau, the sec
ond Monday in January, 1911. The
bill was never reached on the calen
dar, but Judge Wickersham, assist
ed hy, wealthy and prominent men of
tjhft territory, will make an earnest
ejtpj&jftijthe next congress to have it
considered,
LWIter. J3. Clark, the new gover
JJOf Alaska, and for some years a
resident of Washington,, D. C, who
will, arrive i&t Sitka ,the end of the
month to be inaugurated, is under
stood, to favor, the Wickersham bill.
' Alaska has never cost the United
States a fcen't beyond the original
purchase price paid to Eussia for the
jterritorsr, but untold millions have
been taJten, but pf Us soil, The res
idents f.tpe territory are , going to
use Ihis fact as one of their main
arguments when the bill comes up in
the next congress, hey say that
Alaska does not ask the federal gov
ernment for money. It has been a
paying proposition from the start
and all it asks is a form of self-gov
ernment.
Alaska, its residents assert, has
he proper executive and judicial
system and all that is desired now Is
a legislative system that can be con
trolled at home. Congress has legis
lated, for the territory since it receiv
ed a form of government. The laws
are good, , according to Alaskans,
though amendments are .constantly
needed as the country grows and lo
cal conditions change. In order to
fpake these amendments It is neces
sary for them to be proposed by the
congressional delegate. If Alaska has
-territorial legislature she could
make her own laws, and when amend-:
talents were needed, it would not be
necessary to come to Washington fpr
them. Therefore the Alaskans need
legislature to frame their local,
laws. Congress is usually so busy
with other matters and Alaska is so
far away from the seat of the federal
government that difficulty has always
been experienced in obtaining na
tional legislation for the country.
Judge Wickersham says:
,; "Alaska. Is pne of the richest coun
tries on the globe. We have more
coil than Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia and Ohio; more gold than Cal
ifornia and Colorado put together;
more copper than the combined min
eral wealth of Montana and Michigan.
We Tiave. discovered the quarts from
wnlcn the placer gold originally
ctme. . This .means. that the gold in
dustry will be worked indefinitely. A
railroad la being built up Copper
River ,: TMa,. .will, enable us to get
our gold, copper, coal, and other pro
ducts to the Pacific ocean.
"Nine years ago , Fairbanks was
FOR ALASKA
not on the map. Today it is a Yeal
city, with all1 modern conveniences,
and many things that civilization has
produced. Other cities and towns in
Alaska have grown at the same rate.
The total population at present is
more than 100, OQi). Alaska now vir
tually feeds yCH- When we get
more people there, and more capital,
and the immense territory which cov
ers an area of approximately 600,000
square miles Is opened up, Alaska
will not only feed itself but millions
of other persons in adidtion. We
need the legislation asked for."
A VISTOR MAKES
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
(By Cable to The Times)
London, Sept. 8 At Aldershot today
Captain Samuel F. Cody, the Ameri
can aviator, made a new English cross
country record, flying for more than
an hour in his aeroplane, and at times
attaining altitude of 500 feet.
Mrs. Cody, an enthusiast in aero
nautics witnessed the flight. Cody was
the first entry for the $50,000 prize
offered for a flight in a heavier-than-
air machine from London to Man
Chester.
The aviator is one of the oldest
living experimenters in aeronautics
and for several years was at the head
of the department of aeronautics in
the British army. Mrs. Cody was the
first woman to take a ride in an air
ship in England.
Although a daring air driver Cody
is a practical aviator. His venture
some spirit is shown in the fact that he
was the first to enter In the London'
Manchester contest.
Cody has led a varied life and at
one time was a cowboy upon the west
ern plains of the United States. He
bears a strong resemblance of "Bunalo
Bill."
SECRETARY REYNOLDS
BACK FROM BEVERLY
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington,'- -Sept,;," 8, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Reynolds,
who 1b back from a visit to the pres
ident at Beverly, and also Collector
of the Port Leob, at New York, this
morning refused to discuss in any
way the question of alleged abuses
on the part of the "Marine Police"
and the port of New York, who it is
said have subjected returning first
class and other passengers from Eu
rope to unnecessary harshness in the
examination of their baggage and
other effects. It is said that no com
plaints of such ill treatments have
been received at the treasury depart
ment here.
In his next report to congress the
secretary of the treasury may have
something to say about the workings
of the new tariff bill insofar as it
applies to the treasury department.
Assistant Secretary Norton is to
leave here tonight for Chicago, where
he will remain until the arrival of
President Taft. He will accompany
the president on his trip for a few
days.
.GILL'S
NUPTIAL PARTY
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, Sept. 8 Cupid's
wiles, always subtle and elusive,
sometimes need practical re-enforcement
in order to , bring atout the
happy consummation contemplated.
Mrs. M. E. Gill, of Richmond, Va.,
long known as Cupid's first lieuten
ant, has added stimulus to the local
matrimonial market through one of
her far-famed nuptial excursions.
About a dozen couples made up the
party this time.
The brides and bridegrooms were
gathered from all parts of Virginia,
and under Mrs. Gill's chaperonage
came to , the capital on Labor Day.
Licenses were procured . yesterday,
and while Mrs. GUI, as usual, attend
ee to all of the honeymoon formali
ties the "newly weds" proceeded to
enjoy the town.
STREET CAR MEH VOTE
nGfllNST WAGE SCALE
(By Leased Wire to The Times),
. Chicago, Sept. 8 Eighteen hundred
men,, employes i of the , Chicago City
Railway Companies jn the. referendum
vote taken on. the proposition o,f ac
cepting the tentative wa'jf ; ,scale are
declared to have , vited against and
300 for it, thus placing an immediate
settlement of the long drawn trouble
In the background and forcing more
conferences between the - unions und
the officials of the Crautlon company.
MRS
RUBBERS TRY
TO LOOT MAIL
FOURKILLED
Band of Desperadoes Made At
tack on Post Office and
Battle Ensues
A DESPERATE ATTEMP
ISombs and P'stols Used in the Fight
and Four Men, Two of Them Po.
liceiiien, Were Killed and Ten In
jured Desperadoes Attacked the
Postoffice and the Watchman of
the Building Opened Fire on Them
to Scare Them Away But They Re
turned the Fire, Killing the Watch-
man Police and Armed Citizens
Make Attack on the Robbers and
Desperate Battle nsues Robbers
Attack Building With Bombs.
(By Cable to The Times)
St. Petersburg, Sept. 8 A battle
in which four men were killed and
ten injured and bombs and revolvers
were used as weapons was fought in
the streets of the city of MTass in the
Orenburg district early today, when a
band of desperadoes attacked the
postoffice in an effort to loot the
mails and carry away the government
monies stored within.
The watchman of the building fir
ed his revolver to scare the robbers
away. The desperadoes then opened
fire, killing him. The shots alarmed
the police and officers ran to the
scene, emptying their revolvers on
the way.
' CtJzens armed themselves and as
sisted the authorities.
Barricading themselves in the
building, the officers and armed citi
zens kept up a steady fire upon the
robbers. The latter threw bombs
through the windows, killing three
policemen and injuring ten other per
sons and nearly demolishing the
building.
Fhially, when the robbers were
driven off they seized a locomotive,
and, after cutting all the telegraph
wires, rode away upon the engine.
Later the locomotive was reversed
and sent back towards the city with
no one aboard.
Senator Heyburn In London.
. (By Cable to The Times.)
London, Sept. 8 United States
Senator W. B. Heyburn, of Idaho,
arrived here from the United States
today on his vacation and announced
that he will attend several debates in
parliament to compare the English
with the American methods of law
making. Afterwards he will go to
Paris.
HOW TO CATCH THE MAN OF
MYSTERY AND WIN $25 CASH
Full Particulars Given as to How to Get the Reward Sherlock Holmes, Jr., Will
foot Acknowledge His Identity Unless Properly Approached Read In
structions Carefully Everybody Has An Equal Chance.
"You are the mysterious Mr. Sher
lock Holmes, Jr., of the Evening
Times."
Those are the magic words!
Those are the words with which to
capture Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Jr., the
Man of Mystery, and win $25 cash for
your trouble.
But remember you must hold the
latest edition of The Evening Times In
your hand at the same time, otherwise,
Sherlock Holmes Jr., will not acknowl
edge his Identity.
Walk up to the person you think is
Sherlock Holmes, Jr., and holding the
latest edition of The Evening Times
in your hand, say to him, "You are
the mysterious Mr. Sherlock Holmes,
Jr., of The Evening Times," and if the
party addressed is the correct person,
this paper vouches that he will Imme
diately acknowledge his identity and
the $25 will be promptly paid. No
words must be. added, taken from, or
their arrangement changed, in using
that sentence, but to win the money
you must be absolutely exact and
carry out , the instructions as here
given.-:
,..6herlock Holmes, Jr, Is . a living,
breathing man, who simply offers you
$25 cash If you make known his identi
ty In the proper manner, and this pa
per vouches that someone will positive,
ly be given the $25
Sherlock Holme Jr., will be caught.
He comes to Raleigh : to be caught.
GREATCROWD
SEES AUTOS
START RACE
Desperate Battle for Speed
Supremacy In Great Nation
nal Automobile Race
DRIVERS FEARLESS
Ten Thosnnd People in Grandstand
and 150,000 Along Course Watch
Beginning of 'Battle for Speed Su
premacy in Great National Stock
Car Automobile Race at Lowell
Truck Course in Excellent Shape
and Some New Records Are Ex
pected Distance 318 Miles or 30
; Times Around the Track Every
Precaution Taken to Avert Casual
ties But Drivers and Mechanicians
Take Their Lives in Their Own
Hands in Their Flying Dash Over
the Truck.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Lowell, Mass, Sept. S Watched
by 10.0JO people packed in the
grandstand and by 150,000 ringing
the track, the desperate battle for
speed began today at 10 o'clock.
Just before the race started Presi
dent Speare and Arthur" Hinchcliffe
made a fast trip around the 106 mile
course. They found it in excellent
shape and entirely free from ruts.
The guards, patrols and umpires were
placed in position and the gigantic
crowd was forced back to the wire
fence to minimize danger.
. While every precaution has been
taken to avert casualties, it was rea
lised that the drivers and mechani
cians took their lives in their hands
in their flying dash over the track.
It was expected that an average
speed approximating sixty miles an
hour wMl be made over the 318 miles
or thirty times over the track. In ad
dition to the Lowell trophy cash
awards are as follows:
First place, $1,000; second place,
$500; third place, $300; fourth place,
$200.
The first driver off was Drach in
the American Then in order came
Hugh Hughes, Robert Burman, Har
ry Grant, A. J. Poole, E. H. Parker,
Fred Belcher, Fred Shaw, Ralph De
Palma, Gorge Robertson, Joe Dow
ney, B. W. Shaw, Herbert Lyttle,
Louis Chevrolet, Harry Cobe and
Charles Basyle.
On the way to the track Louis
Strang ran into a telegraph pole and
so badly bent his front axle that he
did not start.
Drach in an American led in the
first lap with Robert Burman in a
Buick second.
Basyle finished the second lap in
the fastest time ever recorded on this
but it will not be without an effort, for
he is past master in the art of decep
tion and he expects to have a jolly big
time before the finish.
Mr. Holmes will mingle freely among
the people. He will ride upon the cars,
get money changed at the banks, call
for his mail at the postoffice, stop at
one of the lending hotels, patronize the
parks play houses, make purchases at
some of the leading stores, laugh at
the police and city detectives, and have
a good time generally. In other words,
wherever people go there also will go
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Jr., for he Is a
sociable fellow and is never so happy
as when mingling with people.
Sherlock Holmes, Jr., may arrive up
on any train now. He has always been
a little bashful as to the exact time of
arrival, but keep a sharp lookout, or he
may be circulating among you almost
before you know it. His dally doings
will be given in fujl through the col
umns of this paper.
In speaking of the interest created
by . Mr. ' Holmes . in various cities, a
gentleman now in the city arranging
for hi, appearance at the request of
air Evening Times man, said: .
"I always enjoy the fun as much as
anybody. ,- It never grows old to me. If
I could tell of the excitement created
by Mr. Holmes in some cities It would
savor a good deal of exaggeration. Not
in none but In many other cities, It has
been necessary for the police to ln-terfe-e
in the crush of people when Mr,
course, nine minutes, fiftyfour sec
onds Hughes in the Allen-Kingston,
made the third lap in 9:28.
Chevrolet retired with a broken
car frame.
Strang started when the others
had finished three laps, having made
quick repairs.
Lyttle continued his daring driv
ing on the eighth lap and at 84.8
miles took the leadership from Rob
ertson, who had wrested it from
Grant, Willi nine seconds to spare.
Grant in the Alco showed wonderful
generalship and ability in holding
third place. The first, half dozen men
were so close that it was yet anyone's
race.
On the seventh lap Belcher, in the
Knox, went through a fence on the
"S" turn at the country club, break
ing his frame. He escaped, continued
along and then had a tire torn off by
hitting a protruding fence board.
The damages were repaired and the
car continued. Cobe. in the Lozier,
was as good as out of the contest.
He broke a fastening to the cylinder,
permitting water to leak into the
cylinders.
While rounding Hair Pin Turn on
his eleventh lap Shaw, in the Stod
dard, took a wide turn, struck the
banking and turned over. He broke
h'.s rear axle and was out of the race.
No one was injured.
After having tire trouble on the
eleventh lap Lyttle made one more
round and then suffered a broken
cam shaft whih placed the apparent
winner out of the contest.
Al Poole came to the pit for oil,
water and gas just as Grant was fin
ishing his fifteenth lap. His car was
hot and steaming. Burman stopped
also, as did Shaw.
Robertson finished the first 139
miles seven minutes ahead of Grant,
having averaged 57 7-10 miles per
hour.
Parker came to the p'.t with his car
on fire and calling for an inlet valve.
A liberal dose of sand extinguished
the blaze and he was off again. Rob
ertson and Grant were both well
ahead of the field and looked like
possible winners.
It was reported that after passing
the grandstand Poole ran into and in
jured a man. At this time Burman
had covered 14 laps; Downey,
Drach and Basyle 11 laps; Parker,
Hughes, and Shaw 13 laps; Belcher,
8 laps; Strang, 7 laps; Lozier, 10
laps. Chevrolet, Lyttle, and Shaw
were out of the contest.
Strang came around on his
eleventh lap With a new radiator, dis
playing the number 31. Later at
Hair Pin curve he landed in a hole,
tearing off a tire. Downey, in the
Knox, was in trouble with his bear
ings, n the seventeenth lap Robert
son led rant seven minutes and the
latter was a lap ahead of DePalma.
Belcher was reported to have struck
a telephone pole and be out of the
race.
DePalma clipped off two laps in
lo:r" .gaining rapidly on the leaders.
At the Hair Pine turn Grant stopp
ed to change spark plugs.
Time at end of 20 rounds, two
thirds of the race: Robertson,
2:23:09; Grant, 2:31:01; DePalma,
2:31:11.
Holmes was advertised to appear at a
certain place at a given time, and on
many occasions I have seen thousands
of people congregate at a given point
and it seems almost impossible to be
lieve that he could go for days with
out detection. The Sherlock Holmes,
Jr., fever is certainly Infectious. It
takes hold of all classes in all walks
of life and none are proof against it.
I do not believe that Raleigh is too
small for a successful contest, but on
the contrary I anticipate a very stir
ring time.
Who generally catches him, you ask?
"Well there is no certainty what
ever about that. Once he was captured
by a twelve-year-old school girl; an
other time a prominent minister, and
several times by young ladies. Police?
Sometimes, but seldom. As a rule po
lice theories don't work well in the case
of SherlocWHolmes, Jr., as I think he
will demonstrate conclusively in Ra
leigh. No, it 1b just as liable to be one
as another, and there is no certainty
about tt."
Sherlock Holmes, Jr., will place his
photograph - under seal, . in the
vaults of, a banking house here name
to be announced , later where it will
be oh deposit until after his identifi
cation. '. . i ' '
Remember, now, holding the latest
edition f The Evening Times lo your
hand, you must say, "You are the mys
terious Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Jr., of
The Evening Times. :
BITTER WAR
ONBETWEEN
POLAR RIVALS
Champions of Cook and Peary
Each Claim the Honor
for Favorate
PEARYATTACKSCOOK
l'eary Charges That Cook Took Ad
vantage of His Pi-cpni-atioiis and
Appropriated His Dogs and Eski
mos These ('hnrjt's Would Indi
cate That Peary lielievcs That Dr.
t'ook Was Successful I5tit He Also
Makes Hie Hired Charge That
Cook 1 (I Xot Keacli the Pole
Hitter War lletween the Partizans
of Each Secretary of the Arctic
Club Says Peary Has No Patent
Vpon the Kskinios and Did Xot In
vent the Arctic Ocean.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, Sept. 8 The tollowing
dispatch was received in New York
today from Commander Robert E.
Peary:
"I have nailed the Stars and Stripes
to t lie North Pole. This is authorita
tive and correct.
"Cook's story should not be taken
too seriously. The Esquimaux who
accompanied him say he went no dis
tance north and not out of sight of
land. Other members of the tribe
corroborate this story.
(Signed)
"ROBERT E. PEARY."
The message came from Indian
Harbor, Labrador. It was sent by
wireless by the way of Cape Ray, N.
F., and created a sensation upon its
arrival.
"The world should reserve its judg
ment until all the facts are known.
Esquimaux had been trained by
Peary, land explored and only an un
lucky delay of contractors for which
he was in no way responsible kept
him at home in the summer of 1907.
"Everybody knew the facts; that
h.B work was unfinished, postponed
and the fitting out of the Bradley
(Cook's ship) by stealth, equipped
for inland and sea ice marches, while
of course, within the prescriptive
rights of her owners, invites remark
among men who respect honor and
fair play.
"Peary's plans were as open as the
day, and all his country men knew
that fifteen years of dauntless and
undaunted work, in which he had ac
complished many times more than all
who had preceded him. were to be
crowned by one final attempt.
"That h:s men, methods and rea
soning should all be appropriated
and the long struggle finished be
fore he had had his fair and final op
portunity is a transaction upon which
the American people will render their
.judgment when they know all the
lads. And in the meantime the past
is already secure. Patience and more
light."
Mr. Biidgnian is today enroute for
Sydney to meet Peary and it was dur
;ng his hasty preparation for the
journey that he fired his parting shot
in the form of a stinging interview.
Mr. Bridgman, before leaving, re
signed from the dinner committee
of the explorers club because Dr.
Cook had been invited to the func
tion. He explained that he had no
personal objection to Dr. Cook, but
his presence might lead to embar
hassment because of the close rela
tions between himself (Bridgman)
and the commander.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, Sept. 8 Rivalling in
its bitterness the controversy which
was waged between the friends of
Admiral Sampson and Admiral Schley
over the battle of Santiago in the
Spanish-American war, the dispute
between the supporters of Command
er Robert E. Peary and Dr. Frederick
A. Cook was in full swing today.
New allies were aligned on both sides
and the dispute grew in its volume as
well as in its international import
ance. With Dr. Cook in Copenhagen, pro
claimed by the Danish people as the
discoverer of the North Pole, feted by
royalty, decorated with medals and
acclaimed as the first to reach the
coveted goal of the north", Command-1
er Peary is enroute back to New York
with reports of his supremacy. t
In America and throughout, Eu
rope scientists have taken sides aid
In this city the controversy fcaB pass
ed the stage of the retort courteous.
Commander Peary is said to make ,
a savage attack on tDrvCqok, In potters
which are in the posseBsion of nlfe .
friends here. He charges that Cook
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