KINO LEOPOLD
WEDS SECRETLY
By Cable to Tbe Pally (Lateway.
1‘iuis. i be. Tin- morganatic
marriage of King L*‘*'l*old of Itelgium
a year ago to Mine. Vaughan, a woman
of low birth. ha> just Income known.
The king recently made the woman a
baroness and a few days ay-' a son was
Ixmn. All the facts have just crept
out.
The king and Mine. Vau ban wen*
married in a private chapel in the
Chateau Slenkcn by the chaplain of
the royal court. The aids on his mili
tary stall wore the only witnesses.
TO Bl 111) ON TOliRTH AVtNIIl
Eidson & Dobson Will Open An
other Resort in Short Time
Eidson ami IXibson. of the Louvre
saloon, will open a new re»ort on Fourth
avenue a» soon as they can put up the
building. W. M. Sauers has cabled for
the lumlH'r, which i> expected on one
of the first boats to leave Seattle, pro
bably the Oregon. It will go up on
the lot occupied by the room which
was formerly the orticc of District
Attorney Clegg. The present small
building will be moved back, a larger
one built in front of it ami the two
joinod together into one i*ooni*
The Louvre1 at the corner of fifth ami
Washington, will continue to be run by
Eidson & Dobson. In opening anew
place on Fourth avenue they an {simply
preparing to do more businov*. It is
an outburst of confidence in the growth
of the town the coming year.
DROPS 01 ID ON OR IOt
James Lynch Passes Away with—
out Warning on Mile 49
James Lynch, a laborer on the rail
road at mile 49. dropped dead last
Monday morning as In* was going out
to work. The valise of hi' death was
diagnosed as cerebral hemorrhage.
He had apparently L en in g*»d health
and had K en working steadily. W ,i»'u
the end came he sank suddenly to the
ground without a word and died in a
few moments without recovering con
sciousness.
The dead man had hern here only
a short time ;l.; • it is not Known in !■ <■
city where he came from or whether
he lias any relatives in the western
states. He was buried near the track.
make big bowling scores
Four Runs Over 200 and Others
Close to That Number
Four runs above the *200 mark were
made yesterday on the Northern Lull
ing alleys. She Id n and Liisworth run
ning a dead heat for the first place
with 2Is each. Other high runs we.
Pitman, 212. Jackson. 20*k K. Hale. 194,
Daggett, 174. Hawkins. lt>7.
The spectators were tickled a lot for
a while w hen duck pins were introduced
and the tailenders at the regular game
played horse with the experts. Sheldon.
Pitman and Kllsworth went to the
woods to practice the new game before
playing a public engagement. Jim
Bartlett is the champion with the baby
pins.
Hill Baild four Cottages
Harry Frazier has bought two lots
from Nil's. Lowed on lhird avenue
south of the Alaska Transfer barn and
will proceed at once to erect four
cottages on the ground. They will be
completed and ready for tenants next
month. _ __
Icwnsite Patent Filed
The government patent to half the
Seward town site, in favor of Frank L.
Ballaine. was tiled f r r cord Friday
with l\ S. Commissioner Hildreth.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Bertha: sailed westward, 29th; due
returning. 1st.
Oregon: sailed from Seattle for
Seward. 29th.
Harold Dollar; sailed from Seattle
for Seward 29th.
Santa Clara: arrived in Seattle, 21th
anils for Seward. 1st.
Dora: overdue two weeks from west
ward.
Santa Ana: sailed from Seward for
Seattle, 2**th.
WEEKLY WLATNER RECORD
Weather record for the week ending
December 29.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Saturday 3$ 34 Cloudy
Sunday 31 M Cloudy
Monday 31 32 Cloudy
Tuesday 32 25 Snow
Wednesday 30 19 Cloudy
Thursday 24 14 Clear
Friday IS 10 Cloudy
Cheap Oranges and Oear Apples
Low prices for oranges on account
of a bumper crop, and high prices for
apples because of a big eastern de
mand are predicted in a letter to the
trade by the H. S. Emerson Co. of
Seattle. An advance in the tax on po
mioes and onions i* a!*o prophesied.
EVERY MAN OF
CREW DROWNS
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Victoria, Ik < .. Dec. Kvery man
was lost of the crew of tin- Hritish
hark Pass oi Me I fort which ran on tin*
rocks and sunk at the southern end of
Vancouver island in a temtio gale this
week. Many bodies have been washed
Hshore.
The total numher lest is unknown :>.s
| no delinite infra mation concerning the
vessel is attainable here. She was i n
route to Puget Sound from Ancon
which port she left October J*. She
was of L'lOf* tons register. The storm
in which she went down was one of
the worst ever known olY the North
Pacitic coast.
CHILD (iSVtS LITE
TO SAVE ANOTHER
Girl of 7 Burned Fatally in Trying1
to Smother Flames W hich
Envelop Baby
Ay Cable to The Dally Oatowny.
Bridgeport, Conn., Do**. Mary
Manion. aged 7 years, was fatally
burned yesterday at her birthday
|. arty given at her home, while trying
to extinguish lire which enveloped
Charles Winola. aged who had u]>
>et a bin ning candle against his cloth
ing. The girl’s clothing became a
mass of tlames in a moment and she
| was horribly burned, dying in a short
j time in great agony.
The baby was als » badly burned and
will probably die.
N>or$ Respite on lootb.il!
Ey Cabla to TUa Dally Gateway.
New York, Pee. President
KHot of Harvard today announced here
that he favors a suspension of college
football for one year in order to per
mit the working out of reforms which
will eliminate the brutal features that
characterize the present game.
Quiikdlu'r Vliacs tlo.-c
By Cable to Cbo Dally Gateway.
San .).. t Vu, Hoc. ft is re
ported that the New Almaden Quiek
■ >:t%-er mines are to bo closed soon.
Kor a year past men have beeu laid oil
at the mines, until at present there are
les* than seventy-five men employed
about the property.
Next to the Almaden mines in
Spain, these mines were at one time
the largest quicksilver properties in
tin* world.
JURY USI foil l. s. com
Complete Panel of Names Drawn
for Coming Term at Valdez
The complete li>t of jurors drawn
for the special term of court to he held
in Vattlv. b* ginning January 22, is as
| follows:
1. Charles Rosenburir. Catalla.
2. Otto Glaw, Seward.
J. C. 11. Golden. Valdez.
4. Charles Crawford. Valdez.
5. Kdward Beckwith. Seward.
8. Charles Schlosser. Valdez,
j 7. William Arnold. Valdez.
x. Joe Putzo. Landlock.
9. Frank L. Ballainc, Seward.
10. Andrew Anderson, Seward.
11. W. F. Swift. Catalla.
12. Georirc Dooley, Valdez.
13. Chari s Koppus. Valdez.
14. Frederick Butterworth, Valdez.
15. Frank Millard, Valdez.
IK. A. C. Gould, Seward.
17. Jack Tansev. Valdez.
lx. Andrew Grierson, Seward.
19. A. K. Hoyt, Copper Center,
i 20. Michael Connelly, Sunrise.
24. John Van Iderstinc, Valdez.
! 22. James Fielder. Landlock.
23. J. W. Robbins, Valdez.
1. George Cushinp, Fnjja.
2. P. J. McDermott, Seward.
3. Frank Watson, Seward.
4. Charles Adler, Valdez.
5. J. Fit/.simon, Seward.
8. Fred Glussbrenner, Seward.
7. Thoma> Irvine. Seward.
x. Charles M. Shelley, Valdez.
9. C. Larson, Valdez.
10. John Meenueh. F.llamar.
11. Charles N. Crary, Valdez.
12. H. II. Brown. Seward.
13. Roily Condon, Valdez.
14. T. f! Wikldel, Valdez.
15. Fd. Cashel. Fn^u.
IK John Brownslow. Seward.
17. K. B. Vaughan. Seward.
18. J. G. McCracken, Valdez.
19. W. B. Poland, Seward.
20. Dr. Stone, Kodiak.
21. Omar Patten, Seward.
22. J. S. Camp, Valdez,
23. J. J. Yakshaw. Valdez.
24. D. B. Skinner, Catalla.
Come To Visit Seward
. Capt. Depew and James North way of
Fairbanks came to Seward on the
; Santa Ana to see the town and numer
ous friends here. They came over the
; trail to Valdez and went outside on
the Santa Ana.
S. M. Graff has opened a law office in
t he front rooms of the second floor of
! the Oarstens building.
FORBIDS PUBLIC
GIFT FOR AFICE
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
linker t‘ity. Ore.. Dee. 27. A move
ment has been set oil foot here to bu\ i
a w willing present for Miss Alice
Roosevelt, who is to Im* married in J
Kchrnarv to Congressman Nicholas
Long worth of Cineinnat i. It isplanned
to rais. vsod.nilO by Ht-cent subscrip
tions ami have a formal presentation
February s.
Washiivjlon. IK Hic. 2S. lYesi-1
dent Roosevelt today Inrbade the
movement originating in Raker City,
Oregon, to raise JSOi 1,000 by 10-cent j
subscriptions fora wedding present for
Alice Roosevelt, who is to be married j
in February.
The I’resident stated that he would
not permit his daughter to aecept such
a gift and requested that nothing more
be said about it.
SUNRISE CARRIERS
HAVE HARD TRIP
Haefs and Wagner i:inal!y Get
Back After Nearly Two
Weeks Absence
Mail from Sunrise arrived last night
jin Seward after one of the hardest;
trips ever made by carriers between
i this town anil the Inlet, it may do
superstition* person* some good loj
j know that the mail caravan left:
Si ward on the lllth day of the month, i
It was in charge of Carrier Fred Haefs j
and Sam Wagner.
Stormy weather, alternating with J
snow , rain and high winds, made pro
gress extremely dilhoult and slow.
T: <• trip was also somewhat danger
ous in places a* snowslides are frc
Mjuent the sleep hillsides along the j
i route in suit weather. I lie carriers.
report unusually deep snow on Krushi
| creek summit.
i 'Phe trip hack to Seward was easier
i thun the voyage going, as tin* snow j
had settled ami hardened somewhat.
Still I lie boys were so long coming
that Anton Fide, who has the mail
contract for tin route, was about to j
arrange tor a searching party to go]
out for tie* carriers on the train today,
but their arrival la*t night avoided,
that task.
Stow Men lost In Ire
A Dawson dispatch to the White
horse Star, says: All doubt of the fate
1 of the Siuclair-Sullivan scow party
which left here for Circle on October
jj,*> wa* removed yesterday when Andy
Merserean, Henry Isaacs andS. Adams
arrived from Fairbanks. Captain Wil
liam Moore of the steamer Lightning, j
Who is wintering in a cabin on the
hunk of the Yukon near the mouth of
| Coal creek, told the men from Fair
banks who called at hi* cabin on the
way up tue river that he saw the scow
run into an ice jam a short distance
i below Coal creek on October 20h and
I ;md that one man got off the scow and 1
! attempted > crawl over the jam. Moore
says he ran to his cabin fora pair of j
fie d glasses and that w hen tie returned !
the scow and all hands had disappeared i
under the ice.
Klondike Confessions Canceled
The Stewart river concession and the
Indian river concession, both of which
were granted to the N. A. T. & T. ( o.,
have been declared by the department
of the interior of Canada to be can
celed.
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Kills Monster Hat
In a tight that lasted twenty minutes
K. Holmes, a warehouseman at Taro* I
ma, killed a huge South American rat.
that measured two feet from the tip of
its nose to the tip of its tail, and which
weighed seven pounds. The rat
fought when cornered, and once made
a vicious leap for the man's head, its
teeth just grazing Holmes’ face. Fi
nally a blow from a broomstick killed
the rodent.
Does Not Think Mach of White Folks
Ranavalo, former queen of Mada
gascar. is studying the negro question.
“It is only lately that I have under
stood why black people are stared at."
said Ranavalo. “At home we always
regarded the whites as inferior: they
are smaller, slower, uglier and more
willing to do work than even the
negroes;”
A unique postage stamp has, it is
stated, been discovered in Roumania.
It is dated June 1. 1813, and is Wal
lachiau, for Roumania had then no ex
istence. The stamp, which is blue, is
round, like a sealing wafer, with in
dented edges. It bears the arms of
Wullachia, an eagle, resting on a
sphere with outstretched wings and a
cross in its beak. No value is marked
on the stamp.
The Illinois state board of railroad
and warehouse commissioners has
made a horizontal cut of 3b per cent,
in all freight rates previously in effect
in ti>at st-at*.
LOSES JOB FOR
By Cr.ble to TVia Bni!y Oatoway.
Montreal. I>e<* L’T. 1 lfie Lafon
taine. extradition eominissinner of the
Canadian government in this eity, Ins
been removed. It is said that his ^
ollieial head was taken at the demand i
of a prominent politician, who is i
friendly to the attorneys for Green and j
Caynoi. the Aim■riean fugitives in-,
\ Ived iii tile eruii '/.lenient s of Capt•
(> he rim M. Cartel of the t . S. army. !|
Green and (iaynor successfully !
too;.:lit extradition for several 'cats,
until a short time a;p> when 1 don
taint* ordered them to he delivered to,
the I’.S. authorities and they were i
taken across the line to he tried.
REAL ESTATE, iViiNING
AND COURT RECORDS
PATKNT
Dec. 2!) 1’nited States to Frank L. '
Ball nine, patent to north half of1
Seward townsite.
DKKIJ
Dee. 29 Mrs. F.llu Kopp to Georgia
Peterson, lot 5, block 4, Sunrise.
$240.
HOMKSTKAU LOCATiON
Doc. 29 llihirin Aramburun, 920 acres
lour miles north of Seward on line
Alaska Central Railway.
PROOF OF LAHOR
Dec. 2!) Big Horn Mining Company.
Sunrise, allidavit of assessment i
work on company's live claims at i
Sunrise. Alfred Lowell, allidavit
or labor on Ground flog placer
claim on Tonsina creek.
LKASK
Dec. 29 |). ('. Brownell to Butler &
Company, lease for strip of land
across homestead for pipe line.
SEWARD CHURCHES
Mktiumust I’.Pist’OPAf. Rev. L. II.
Pedersen, pastor. Prearhing until fur
ther notice every Sunday evening at j
do o'clock, preceded by 20 minute song
serv ice.
The Gospel Mission reading room is.
open at all hours. Mission services i
every Sunday evening at * o’otock'. ;
L. I>. Sly. Missionary |j
Montana I irst in Copper Production
Montana has left till eompetitors far I
behind in the race of eop|»er produc-1
tion. says Stat u Mine Inspector Walsh 1
in his annual report, just submitted to :
Gov. Toole. “During 1902 the United;
States furnished 54.5 per cent, of the!
world's supply of copper, and during |
IPO.'i Montana produced 270.497,77.)
pounds, or more than 40 per cent, of
the total for the United States.”
Seattle Headquarters
All Alaskans going to Seattle on
I business or for other purposes are cor
dially invited to have their mail ad
dressed to themselves in care of the
Industrial Bureau of the Alaska Cen
tral Railway Company, Lumber Ex
change Building. Seattle, Wash., and
make the Bureau their headquarters
while in that city.
* Alaska Central Railway Co.
IYsMnastei’-Cioneial Cortelyou, in his
annual report for the past fiscal year
says mat while a self-sustaining cornii
I lion of the postoflice department would j
! he gratifying, he is less concerned!
! about the deficit than the efficiency of
administration. For the fiscal year
1905, ttie total receipts from all sources
were $152.s20,5s5 and the total expend
itures $107.1599,169, leaving a deficit of
$24,572.5*4.
An English writer relates that In*
was once present in the cottage at Ec
clefcchan, where Carlyle first saw the ,
light, when an enthusiastic pilgrim
asked in awe-stricken tones: “And is
this really the room in which Carlyle
| was horn?” and received from the gude
wife the answer: “Aye, an’ oor Mag
gie was born here, too.
Baby camels are great pots in South
Africa and are nursed and tended and
even carried about by their attendants.
The very young camel is an awkward
creature, with a long neck and uncer
tain legs. During the first few months
they weigh no more than an ordinary
dog.
An English druggist gives the fol
lowing list of blunders made by his
poorer customers: “Catch an cel” for
cochineal; “prosperous paste” for
| phosphorus paste; “grease it ” for
creosote; “fishy water” for vichy
water; “guitar” for catarrh: “ever
lasting” for effervescing.
After recounting the manner in
which Thanksgiving was established
by the New England forefathers, the
president, right in the same para
graph, speaks of the custom as having
been hallowed by “immemorial usage.”
—Chicago News.
The Juneau land office has decided
that the city of Jur.eau is entitled to
the ground used as a cemetery, and
I refused the mineral location of one
j Seat ter on the land. _
S. M. Graff is fitting up three front
I rooms on ‘he second floor of the
J Carstens building, which he has;
J leased, to bt rented for office*.
prpi w —nrir;'M m mi—ftiwwmww. murngWi
Pr The long-looked-for
I Guaranteed Pocket Knives |
have ar ivorl. Pome and the best knii'efor too
least money.
Plenty of
Rubberoid Pooling j
also came on tin* last boat.
BROWNELL’S HARDWARE STORE }
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" HOTEL McNEILEY j
EUROPEAN PLAN
2
Rates 50c to $2.00 per day
Accommodations Strictly First-class
H A W K I N S <& \Y 111 T T I i M <) 11 f\. P it o l» R i rc r ok s U
■ _ - - -. jj
L Fourth Avenue. .... Seward, Alaska kJ
Sib* ■■■ i«r- i»- rimfitre
I BAY CITY MARKET
WHOLESALE and retail dealers in
j fresh Beef, PorK, Veal m Molten
Hams, Bacon and Lard Constantly cn hand
| Small & Glasbrenner
p f FI
r * w ;
FOURTH AVENUE
A Gentlmimn’s llosort and Hub Rooms. |
FURNISHED ROOMS j
We Purchase Gold Dust at Regular Rates
PETERSON & BROWN, Pro pr i e torsj
NORTHERN .QALOON I
E. L. WHITTEMORE. Proprietor
WINES. LIQUORS AMD CIGARS
FOURTH AVE. SEWARD. ALASKA
_ i - --
F C. HALE. President <3. E. DICKEKMAN. Vicc-Prcs «
BANK OF SEWARD ;
Transact, a General Banking Business
YW receive dopotdts. buv and soli exchange, foreign and dotn Hie: bur sold
dust and bullion: make collections. All buslne** committed to ur care will
receive prompt and careful attention...
Your Business is Solicited I
! THE ALASKA TR ANSFER
CHniSTIENSEN &. LAU3NER. Proprietors
I Pianos and Safes Moved Spcdal■,t",KMya'lJait
Give us your orde-s for Coal & Wood
i Genera! Forwarder 3 PHONE MAIN Seward. Alaska J
©ard ©f Trad©
Fourth avenue, * * *_Seward, Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
New, Neat and Comfortable. F. V. THOMAS, Prop.
WAGNER’S PLACE
FRED WAGNER. Proprietor
! WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS
A good time and right treatment for everyone
_ASHLAND HOUSE
AND BANK SALOON
Wines, Liquors and Cigars First-class Furnished Rooms
Fourth Ave.,Opposite Alaska Central Commercial Co.
VVALUCE & THOMPSON, Proprietors
j CHAS. A. TECKLENBURG J- M- CUMMINGS
THE SEATTLE BAR
-ONLY THE BEST
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Bohemian and Olympia Beer
FURNISHED ROOMS WITH STEAM HEAT
| Fourth Avo. and Washington St. Seward. Alaska.