Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1907 — RAILROAD WAR UP IN ALASKA [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD WAR UP IN ALASKA

Workers for the Home Company Are Surprised by an Ambush. I Valdez. Alaska, Sept. 26.—Forces of the Guggenheim railroad, the Copper River and Northwestern, shot and wounded six surveyors and workmen employed by the Alaska Home railway in Keystone canyoh, fifteen miles from Valdez. The party was making a preliminary survey for the Home railroad, which Is planned from Valdez to the summit. They had advanced about 100 yards up the canyon when I they were surprised by an ambush of the Guggenheim headed by Edward I Hassey, an ex-United States marshal. Hassey halted the surveyors and ordered them to stop, saying bla men would shoot If any further advance was The surveyors believed Hassey was bluffing and continued working. They were then met by a fusilade of bullets. Ordered to Charge Higher Kates. LaCrosse, iVls., Sept 23.—8 y a decision announced by the state railway commission, the electric fighting rates charged by the LaCrosse Gas and ' Electric company are declared to be ; so low as to be unremunerativdj and ; the company is ordered to put a highier scale of rates Into effect The company appealed to the com mission ■under the. new state law for relief. Anybody Sympathize with Loop? Marion. Ind., Sept. 25. —James Loop, o( this city, it is alleged, gave a clairvoyant S6OO. hoping, it is said, the act would cause his wife to become in-' wine. Tlie clairvoyant skipped out rapposedly to,Chicago.