LOOKS DARK
FOR NORTHLAND
Friends of Vlaska Feel That There
Is Little Hope for Favor
able Legislation.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. I>. I'.. April IT The;
Alaskans in the city who have all the
winter been hoping that congress
would pas> some measures favorable ;
to Alaska are now much discouraged
and disheartened. The outlook now j
is that not a single measure looking to |
the benefit of the Northland will be
passed by congress this session. I he .
bills relating to the building of rail- J
roads, to the opening up the coal lands,
and for the fourth judicial district, it
is stated w ill not brought up.
L'nge Opening of Coal Lands
A resolution adopted by the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce declaring that
an emergency exists for the immedi
ate opening of the coal fields of Alaska
was telegraphed to Washington’s con
gressional delegation. It was pointed
out that financial interests are ready
to develop these mines, providing pa
tents can be obtained from the govern
ment under reasonable conditions.
The coal fields which the chamber had
in mind are the Catalla and the Muta
nuska deposits. Former t ieneral Lane
Commissioner It. A. Ballinger, spe ,
ing for the resolution said two >'tlis
were now before congress w hich had
for their purpose the modification of
the present laws. One is the Mondell
bill which applies to states and terri
tories outside of Alaska, and the other
the Cale bill, drafted by Mr. Ballin
ger, which provides for patenting coal
lands in t he Nort h.
“The Cale bill was drafted with the
idea of giving Alaska entry men oppor
tunity to acquire and develop Alaska
coal lands,’' said Mr. Ballinger. “Ihe
present law limits entry men to 1H0
acres. You cannot finance coal prop
erty on an entry of 1**0acres. It is im
possible to interest capital.’’ l’-I.
OPERATORS
CALL STRIKE
Telegraphers Demand Higher
Wages and Set June I as the
Date to Quit Work.
By Caele to Tbe Dally Oateway.
New York, April lt>- Telegraph
operators in all the large cities have!
held meetings anti voted a strike for
higher wages against the Western
Union Telegraph Company. .June l is ;
the date for which the strike is called.
W ill not Build to Coal Fields
M. J. Henev, contractor for the Cop
per River & Northwestern Railroad,
arrived here from New York and will
proceed as soon as his business ar
rangements permit to take charge of
construction on the new Alaska road
up the Copper river.
At the Rainier Club Mr. Heney
made the important announcement
that the projected road to the Bering
lake coal fields, which six months
ago was scheduled to be a factor in
the coast coal situation, would not be
built until Congress had passed legis
lation which the coal owners of Alaska
are asking and which is required be
fore they can develop their holdings.
‘•Because of the difficulty in getting
Congress to act the Copper River &
Northwestern line will be built this
summer up the valley of the Copper
river having for its objective point the
Bonanza copper mining country. No
effort will be made to build the pro
jected line to the Bering lake coal
fields, until congress acts. The matter
is one of most vital importance to Seat
tle.’*—Seattle Times.
liRtAT FLOOD
IN MONTANA
Dam (lives Way at Hauser Lake
and the Waters Bring* Death
and Destruction.
Oy Cable to Tbo Dally Gateway.
Helena, Mont., April 13 The great
dam at Hauser lake gave way yester-1
day without a moments warning and
the roaring waters swept everything
before them flooding the entire coun
try and destroying property and
drowning people. The amount of
damage done and the number of lives j
lost cannot yet he estimated.
Flood Receding
ay Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Helena. Mont., April Id—The Hood
caused by the broken d un at Hauser
lake lias spent its force and was re
ceding last night. The damage to
property caused I the How of waters
spreading all over the surrounding
country has been immense and is now
estimated at not less than $l,n00,000.
AFTER HARLAN’S
FORMER JOR
tale Trots Out Three Candidates
and Gov. Hoggatt Said to
Favor One of Them.
By Cable t<> The Dally Gateway.
Washington, T). C\, April 14. Dele-1
gate Thomas Cale is urging the ap-J
pointment of either Charles Chnpool
or .lay Lattimer, both of Fairbanks, or
Cecil Clegg to succeed District At tor-1
ney Harlan who has recently resigned
on account of ill health. Gov. Hog- •
gatt will also present a candidate. He i
i> said to favor Clay pool.
Alaska (iame Laws
Representative Humphrey of Wash-1
ington has a bill before Congress for j
the protection of game in Alaska,
which he hopes to see passed yet this
reason. Section 2 of this bill provides
••that it shall be unlawful for any per
son in Alaska to kill any wild game ani-;
maK or birds.except during the season
hereinafter provided: North of lati
tude sixty-two degiees, brown bear j
may be killed at any time: moose, car
ibou, sheep, walrus and sea lions from j
August first to December tenth, both
inclusive; south of latitude sixty-two
degrees, moose, caribou and sheep
from August twentieth to December
thirty-first. l>oth inclusive: brown bear
from October first to July first, both
inclusive: deer and mountain goats
from April first to February first, both
inclusive; caribou on Ken.Ti peninsula
before August 1912; grouse, ptarmigan,
shore birds and water fowl from Sep
tember first to March first, both inclu
sive.”
Section two of the present game law
provides, “that it shall be unlawful for
any person in Alaska to kill any wild
game animals or wild birds except
during the seasons hereinafter pro
vided: Large brown bears, from April
fifteenth to June thirtieth, both in
clusive; moose, caribou, walrous and
sea lions, from September first to Oc
tober thirty-first, both inclusive; deer,
sheep and mountain goats from Sep
tember’ first to December fifteenth,
both inclusive: grouse, ptarmigan,
shore birds, and water fowl, from Sep
tember first to December fifteenth,
both inclusive.”
Coming on the Portland
Captain Franz Moore, who has for a
long time been with the Northwestern
Steamship Company and then later
with the Alaska Steamship Company
has gone over to the Alaska Coast
Company and is making the run on the
steamship Portland.
ROUTE
FI
; \\ ay in Summer Through Cook
Inlet, and in Winter via Sew
ard and 4. C. Railway.
It is rumored that the Alaska Com
mercial Company will establish a
store at the head of navigation on the
Susitna river, in order to he able to
supply the miners of the new strike in
ih»* Valdez creek district.
They have already, as has been an
nounced in this paper, purchased the
store of Litchfield & Nagley Co., at
j Susitna Station. Mr. C. I\ Morgan
■ formerly manager of their store at
; Sunrise will be their agent there.
The head of navigation on tin* Su
! sitna river is sixty miles north of Su
|sitna Station. From there to the
Valdez creek district is about one
! hundred and twenty miles. The trail
follows up the Susitna river to the
mouth of Watana creek, a tributary of
the Susitna from tin* north, up that
I stream to its head and from there
north east over a low divide to a point
on the Susitna river near the mouth of
Valdez creek. Valdez is a tributary to
the Susitna from tin* north east.
This makes the new diggings tribu
tary to Seward. The route during
the summer season will he via Cook
Inlet to Susitna Station and from there
up the Susitna river to the head of
navigation all by water, leaving hut
one hundred twenty miles hv land.
During the winter season the route
will he over the Alaska Central Ky.,
to mile t>9 and from there over Crow
Creek pass to Knik, Knik
Susitna station and from there the
summer route can be followed on the
ice.
The total distance from Seward to
the new strike by this route will be
less than 350 miles, making the
distance at least a hundred miles
shorter than by any other route.
All the miners that have come out
to Seward from that section claim it
to he the only practical route, and
with the establishment of the new
store at the Forks it will be the only
route used.
All reports from the outside indicate
that a big rush will be made for the
scene of the new strike as soon as
navigation opens.
ATTORNEY SCOTT
DIES IN JUNEAU
Well Known Government Official
Succumbs to Accute Attack
of Pneumonia.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Juneau, April 1"—Assistant United
States District Attorney W. i. Scott,
died at noon yesterday in the Sisters
Hospital. Death resulted from an
acute attack of pneumonia. Mr. Scott
was attending the Hasey trial, having
charge of the prosecution. Out of re
spect the court adjourned for the day.
The body will be shipped to Seattle,
the former home of the deceased, for
burial.
Overrule Appeals
St. Petersburg—The Russiarsenate,
the highest tribunal in the empire,
today overruled the appeal made by
167 members of the first Douma, who,
on December 31, were convicted by the
Court of Appeals and sentenced to
three months’ imprisonment. The
charges against these deputies were
treasonable practices, the specifica
tions being based on the issuing of
the famous Viborg manifesto urging
the people to stand up for the rights
of popular representation and advising
them to give neither money nor sol
diers to the government.
,TS IN
£0
Fight to Semi New York Dele-!
gates Instructed V\ ill Proba
bly Result in Defeat.
av Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
New York, April 14—The demo*
cratic state convention for selecting
delegates to the national democratic
convention for nominating a presiden
tial candidate is held here today. J
There will be a determined light to
have the delegates instructed, hut it
will probably fail and tin; delegates
will go uninstructed.
Delegates Unfnstructed
New York, April 15—In the state
democratic convention held here yes
terday a hard tight was made to have
the delegates to the national conven
tion instructed, hut those favoring it
were defeated. The delegates will go
to Denver uninstructed. This is re
garded as a direct blow against Bryan.
CITY OF CHELSEA
IS BURNING
Suburb of Boston Swept by Fire
With Heavy Loss of Proper
ty and Seven Lives.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Boston, April 13—The city of Chel
i sea, a suburb of Boston with 30,000
inhabitants, is about one-third destroy
ed by lire. The lire caught in a dump
of rags. Five hundred houses and
public buildings are now destroyed,
and the lire is still burning. The loss
of property is estimated at $20,000,000
together with the loss of seven lives.
New Government Building
Delegate (’ale of Alaska was evi
dently looking into the future when j
he opposed the proposed appropriation
for the erection of a government build
ing at Juneau, on the ground that Ju
neau was not centrally located and
could not, with the development of
Alaska, long remain the capital of that
territory. Mr. Gale’s argument is
sound. While Juneau is at present
the logical capital, by reason of #its
being in direct line of communication
with Skagway, the gateway to the in
terior, yet it will be the question of
only a few years when the vast extent
of that territory, say between Skag
way and Nome, will make proper gov
ernment control from a point so re
mote as Juneau practically impossible,
and compel a division of that territory,
making two territories out of the pres
ent one of Alaska. In that event, the
logical point for the capital of the
southeastern half of Alaska would, be
not Juneau, but White Horse or there
abouts, while the mouth of the Tanana
river, or some point on the Yukon, or
even Fairbanks, might be a suitable
point for the capital of the northwest
ern half of Alaska.—Trade Register.
To Fight Prohibition
Mr. W. E. Hull, working under the
auspices of the Manufactures & Deal
ers Association of Illinois has opened
up headquarters in Chicago for the
purpose of fighting prohibition. He
says: “We are not fighting temper
ance but prohibition. We now have
forty lecturers in the field, both men
and women, most of them preachers.
They will make 300 speeches in all the
principal towns of the state. We think
that if the people get a fair idea of
what prohibition fanaticism is doing
to us they will give tne liquor dealer a
square deal.”
Mr. Hull proposes to keep his anti
prohibition headquarters open till
after election.
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COAL THE BEST
Experts Pronounce Knik Arm Pro
duct Hie Most Valuable of
Any in Northland.
By Cable to TUe Dally Gateway.
Washington, I). April 15—In
their report tin* experts in the geolog
ical survey have pronounced the Knik
Arm coal in the Mntanuska Basin to
be the most valuable coal found any
where in the north.
To Look Over Coal Fields
Chicago, April 17—l'rofessor Atwood
will leave here next Sunday on his
trip to Alaska to survey the coal
tields.
Can Coal Navy Cheaper
Frank Watson, who will join with
Mr. Heney in the attempt to secure
favorable action by congress on the
Alaska coal land bills, says he would
he willing to take a contract to provide
the vessels of the United States navy
now on the Pacific with coal for $4.35
per ton less than is now paid.
“When I was in Washington,’’ said
Mr. Watson, “1 visited the navy de
partment and secured some figures
that show the importance of opening
the Alaska coal fields. At present the
United States navy is using a total oi
40,000 tons of coal a month to coal the
fleet in Pacific waters. For this the
government is paying $0.35 a ton, and
I would be willing, if l were allowed
to operate in the Matanuska, to supply
this fuel at $5 a ton at the very high
tot pvosiblc co.-’t* Tho is tldly
equal to the Virginia fuel.
“The government geological survey
shows that there is 300 square miles of
this coal in the Matanuska district,
and less than 10,000 acres of this has
been located.”
Frank Watson, who i> heavily
interested in the Matanuska coal fields,
states that the construction of the
Alaska Central railway depends on the
opening of the Matanuska coal dis
trict.—P. I.
AUTOMOBILES
BEING SHIPPED
Italian and French Cars Leave
Today and the German Will
Follow to the Orient.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway
Seattle, April 14. The Italian and
French cars in the automobile race
around the world are here and will
leave this afternoon on the steamer
for Japan. The German car will ar
rive in a few days arid will go by first
boat to the orient.
Whaling Station
Captain Hoffmann and W. Gaunl
lett are spending a few days in Sew
ard waiting for the steamer Yucatan
upon which they will take passage.
Captain Hoffmann goes to San Fran
cisco on account of poor health. Mr.
Gauntlett will make a trip to Valdez.
Mr. Gauntlett has been selecting a
site for a whaling station for the Ber
ing Sea Commercial Company on Aku
tan island. The machinery for such a
station has to be obtained from Nor
way. Whales in these northern
waters are sought for oil, food and
fertilizer. Some parts of the whale
are prepared and sold to the Japanese
for army rations. The oil is expressed
for commercial purposes and the refuse
dried and shipped largely to South
America to be used as fertilizer. The
whaling business is very profitable,
each good sized whale being worth
about $1200.