Ail work ou the Alaska Home Rail
wav came to a stop yesterday when
orders were issued to cease operations
entirely and discharge the employees.
For several davs there have been pre
monitions of ffuaneial trouble for the
road, although advices from Seattle
came daily to the effect that there was
plenty of money available
Yesterday word was received that ull
hopes of raising the amount necessary
to continue operations was gone and
consequently all work has been
stopped, and the men will be in town
today.
Tbs Reynolds bank, which was
forced to suspeud payment a few days
ago, has assets sufficient to meet all
obligations, and tbsre is little doubt
bat wbat all the depositors will re
csive dollar for dollar, as soon as the
assets can be negotiate i
As soon as details of the existing
conditions can tie receive 1 from S ti
tle t hey will he puolisliej, bill at
present there seems to tie i o on** in
town who kmrva *ho real facts of the
matter.
All of the property of tin* company
is tied up this morning, the creditnis
having attached everything in sight
yesterday. l’he locomotive, tails, and
railroad supplies of all loud.- are cov
ered tiy attachments, and if .'.ill ; ml.a
tily be some time befoie the citizens <>
\ aldez will have an oppoi tun.fy to
ride on a 11aiu again
The city council has mule arrange
ments to handle the three or four
hundred employees who will he in to
day. They will In* f** i for a few days
until they have a chance to leave town
by steamer A large mini Iter of special
police have been hired and no disorder
or di.*' m laroe of hity kind w ill be
tll|r*ml(*(l,
Negotiations nro now underway
which may tC'tllf i;i the affairs of the
cunpanv t»**liiif elciied up whiiiii s
i iv or - , hut until these neip>f:ati< lie
it e c »;np|.*t I nothin_r (Mil be done to
r»■ 1 eve t he -1' uat i.ui
Pledges Not to Botrow
I'he nianaceiueiif .»t tie* Alaska*
^ ii > i -I’m i Ik* i l\. > , 11 •»11 w • 11 not ask
o > ;n I i a Pm* , ton- Will it i*<piest
my aid fuitle i than an ample aj pro
p‘ i it ion *>ii I ’ id • Sam’s p n tin pal mu
A e* e t mu pleiiwun,' thi' policy las
been in**'i fed in tfn: hill that will t*e
ti»ti• dufcl it tin; forthcoming session
of i* <tigt ess.
.Mrs I' l> Kelsey is expected in
Valdez on the next trip of the
Port land
Of Local Interest
From Fridays Bulletin
Alaska produces foor-flttb of tb«
canned salmon of tbe woild
Nome hauks refuse to cash tiie war
rants of that c ty.
Tungsten ore is found on Prince of
Wales island.
Forty five telegroph offices and ten
cable offices are maintained in Alaska
by tbe signal corps. The line receipt?
fur tbe year ended June 30 amounted
to nearly $250,000.
A Seattle report credits Judge Gun
nisou with saying that the only way -o
stop Japanese poaching is to kill oil
the seal, discharge the expensive keep
ers, and and let the industry, which is
of no value, die out.
Katalla republicans elected A. C.
Will.ams delegate to tbe Juneau con
feutiou and instructed him to boost
fur territorial government. Another
faction claims snap judgment was
takeu and called a caucus to elect J ,L
Mon ison
W. P. Henry came in Saturday
night from a mush to Caribou creek,
tweuty-tive miles beyond the Cb'ck. -
loon coal Helds, with a little bunch of
whiskers on his chin and a favorable
raport of the placer strike which was
made there last summer. He says
ounce diggings and better have been
found —Gateway.
Arrivals from Seward on the steam
er V neat an are authority for the state
ment that construction work on the
Alaska Central railroad will close
down for the winter on November 1
F fty special policemeu have been
appointed to serve during the time
that the unemployed Alaska Home
Railway men are in town Any dis
turbances will ho promptly quelled oy
the municipal officers.
The Sara»oga is expected in from ti e
westward to leave for Seattle Monday.
The Santa Clara will probably leave
Seattle for the north on the 15th
Arrangements hare now been made
to have the men formerly in the etn
ploy of the Alaska Home Hailw«y
taken to Katalla. where they will tie
given employment by the Katalla Co
The Saratoga will leave for the S. ut1
tomorrow or next day an i will eury
all the working men fiee of charge
Telegraphic news arriving here cays
that John W. Tioj of Port Angeles.
Washington, but later editor ot the
Skagway Alaskan, has been elected
superintendent ti the Alaska Club at
Seattle. For five long yeais Jobuny
labored liaid and wrote yards of long*
winded editorials on self government,
but at last he was 'oieeil to lay down
the peu and yield to the Seat tie spirit.
— Cordova A it.-kali.
Jos. A. liourke, of the Land Kirk
Bay Mining Co., is in town for a lew
days’ vis11.
From Monday’s Bulletin
J (J Stephens ret in m d on the lllsie
from |)rier hay, where he has lien r
several weeks. It was imported tha'
Mr. Stephens was lost some time ago,
but it developed that the wrecked boat
which was supposed to have been hi-,
b Jointed to ?tie two men recently
drowned while crossing from Latoucbe
to Ku>ghts island
The latest advic. s from Seattle indi
cate tha the affairs of tlie A a-ka
Home Railway *re not in as ban shape
i as was at 11 .st supp d The Seattle
! creditors have agreed not to force
j their claims and Ml! assist in the
[effort to put the road attain on it - l-et
In ad l'tion to this some Spok u e caj-t
j *al has been partially iuteres ed in the
work, and it is possible that they will
come to the aid of the company with
stock subscriptions. 1> i- hop.-J Uiat
! by spline the affairs of the ml any
will be in such shape that work can
continue.
Many of the employees have Sigml.ed
I their willingness to accept stock in
the company tor the amount due them
and they are being given orders tor
stock certiliAles in place of their pay
I checks. __
I»> you want a i* >.v’- -hoe ihnt
! will wt u ? (Jet a Lilly liustei at
i Levy’s
l /r. ( '•n'k»-i llle killed a |><• <it)< 1
t lack hear at the t*»<»t of the ylaci* I
\ *• >t t*i lay
Married
.} 1>. .MacMoi nii;h and Miss Emma
J 1!■ ; ce were married Saturday even
ing t )«•!. 12, at the rooms of the hride
i the Swan block. The ceremony was
I ei t>»i in d by JudtfP Lyons. and only a
f a «.{ the intimute friends of tha eou
ti ‘‘in.: parties were present. 'lhe
f. iipie will make Valdez their home
Wrecked at Katalla
The Santa Ana brought news from
Katalla of the uieckirg of the schonn
er M *rtha V. Toft, which was unload
mg lumbet hi that port The schooner
ha* heeu trying to unload at the tail
road town for over two weeks, and has
bad several narrow escape* front
wrecking.
Last Friday the swell* were so
severe that the boat was carried
Mnhor* on the sand spit near tl.e mouth
of Katalla nver, and wracked, the crew
being obliged to take to tbe tigging,
from w Men * iac** they were rescued by
lau ci.es from Ktiallt. All of tbe
j cr»*w were saved but tli*j ve*. el and it*
contents will probably U> a total lose.
As near a* o«n be tear od the Alaska
Coast Co tins been taken over by tbe
Northwestern Co., and the two lutes
will hereafter be upended as one It
aipetis that the Tacoma purchasers
of the sltoui ship line were representa
lives of the <ioggei.houu tiansporta
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