yOI j SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY EVEN I!N<i, ~NOY E>1 HER 17, H>0»> NO. 8.1
IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL
Genera! Strike on \gain and no Trains are Running, While City is in
Total Darkness at Night— foreign Embassies Warn
Women Under fheir Protection to
Leave the Country.
By Cable to the Gateway
St. Petersburg, Nov. 1" Cossacks
are patrolling every street in the capi
tal anil heavy military reserves are
stationed throughout the industrial
districts. All the workmen in the
large mills have joined in the strike
and the situation i" very grave. The
criminal element is urging on the
strike and general disorder, and await
ing a favorable moment to start riots.
Not a railroad train is running today.
The city was in total darkness last
night In-cause tlu electric light and
gu*> work* h:u ceased operations. ( ount
Witte appealed in vain last night to
the strike leader* to call oT the strike,
promising to grant every reasonable
demand, including universal suffrage,
bat t u* jevolutionar'es refused to
yield.
The Jews are in a state of utter
terror and remain shut up in their
shops, scarcely daring to venture upon
the streets. It is known that the mob
leaders intend to cut all telegraph
whenever rioting begins and this fact
has placed the foreign population in
great fear.
The Ih itisli embassy yesterday ad- i
Juneau Man Missing In New \ork
By Cable to tha Gateway
New* N ork, Nov. 1« John X. I isdale*
a wealthy mining man hum Juneau,
Al; ska, has been missing in this city
for several days, 111* is known to have
carried a large stun of money and as he
disappeared suddenly it is believed
that he was mu rile red and rohned. Hie
polict are unable to obtain the slight
est clue to his movements since he left
his hotel several days ago.
Seattle Beats Indians at football
By Cabl* to the Gateway
Seattle. Nov. IT The Seattle Athle
tic Club football team yesterday de
feated tin* Sherman Indian institute
team yesterday b\ a score oi 12 to 0.
Oregon Stops at tllamar
The steamship Oregon 1 “ft Valdez
this morning and went to EUamar,
w 1 - re she has considerable freight to
discharge. She >ta\ed longer in
Valdez than was expected when >he
art ived there. The latest cable infor
mation received today by Sergeant
Faust of the Seward office scheduled her
to leave EUamar late this afternoon,
which would brirg her into Seward be
fore daylight tomorrow. It is more
probable that she will not try to enter
the hay before daylight unless she has
a pilot aboard who has been here be
fore. __
Barometer Keeps Het
The barometer has formed a strong
attachment for 29 and keeps just alcove
that rainy point. The temperature is
constantly near 40 and as the snow is
creeping down the hills which adjoin
the town white streets are an imminent
|K)ssibility.
Temperature at 2 p. m. today- 39.
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vised all women claiming its protection
to go out of the country at once, tell
! ling them that if they remained they
would do so at their own risk, as neither
the legation nor the Russian govern
ment can protect them against mob
violence. Other foreign embassies
today issued the same advice to the
women of their nationality, giving the
same reason for their fears.
Father Oopon, the clerical leader ot
the people, who was obliged to tlee
from the capital after the riots of last
January, has returned but is in hiding.
Odessa, Nov, IT An imperial ukase
from the czar was received at Kishi
nev today, which gives formal thanks
to the government of Bessarabia for
it> prompt action in putting down the
riots, and instructs the officials to
punish the men responsible for or
ganizing the massacre of the .lews in
that district.
In this city a detachment of police
entered the Jewish synagogue yester
day under pretense of searching tor
bombs. They opened the vault and ab
stracted jewels of great value and a
large sum of money placed there for
safe keeping and left without making a
further search of the building.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Oregon; due in Seward tomorrow.
Bertha; sailed from Seattle 10th; due
in Seward 20th.
Santa Ana: sailed from Seattle 10th:
due in Seward, 20th.
Santa Clara: arrived Seattle, 7th.
Portland, sailed from Seward, 9th.
Excelsior: sailed from Seward 12th.
free Booze for Nomeites
Several Nome steamers were com
pelled to jettison part of their cargoes
near the end of their last trip north
ward. The Valencia dumped a lot of
liquor near the Nome shore, some of
which tloated to land and after escap
ing immersion in the deep all but the
barrels was swallowed by the inhabi
tants. Free booze almost put the
saloons out of business for a few days.
Liked Hugo's English
A woman who was called upon to
write a paper at a suburban current
topic club on Victor Hugo went to the
Carnegie library erected there and col
lated her facts from several ency
clopedias. When she had finished,
having a quarter inch of space at the
end of her paper, she thought she would
add something original, and wrote,
••Whatever we and succeeding genera
tions may think of Victor Hugo, we
must agree on one thing—that he
wrote good English.”
Statisticians declare that twenty-two
acres of land are necessary to sustain
one man on fresh meat. The same
space of land, if devoted to wheat cul
ture wou[d feed forty-two persons; if
to oats, eighty-eight: potatoes, Indian
corn and rice, 176, and if to the plan
tain, or banana, over 6,000 persons.
SQUABBLE OVER
I OUTSIDE PROXIES
Exclusion From Convention Would
Shut Out Most of Nome j
. Crowd in Seattle.
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Nov. 17—The committee on
credentials of the Alaska convention is
still in session this morning hut will
make its report this afternoon, when
the real work of the convention will
begin. The permanent organization
will be completed this afternoon with
the temporary officers as permanent.
S. O. Morford of Seward is to be chair
man of the steering committee. Other
committees are not yet named but
Judge Du Hose of Nome will prohaWlx
be chairman of tjie committee on
resol ut ions.
A compromise resolution on the vot
ing of proxies will he introduced this
afternoon which will provide that men
actually engaged in mining or other
permanent operations in the north may
sit in tin* convention and also hold
proxies, A light was precipitated late
yesterday afternoon by a resolution In
troduced by Gov. Swineford providing
that none but residents of Alaska be
allowed to sit and vote in the convent
ion.
The Nome crowd set up a mighty
protest because nearly all the votes
from Seward peninsula are either dele
| t^tos or men holding proxies who come
outside for the winter every year. I his
would shut nearly the whole Nome
delegation out of the convention.
At noon today it appears that there
will be a lively light over the nomina
tion of a delegate to Congress. This
morning Hall of Fairbanks charged
Nye, Bleeker and Manlex of the Tan
ana delegation with intending to go
into the Ryan camp. He demanded
that the rest of the Tanana crowd pass
a resolution instructing them to de
liver ten proxies which they hold, to
Carl M. Johnson, the Tanana eandi
; date for Congress. This would practic
ally insure the nomination of Johnson.
On the tloor of the convention this
morning Col. Perkins of Nome de
clared that- the use of his name by
members of tin* Nome delegation as an
active candidate for governor to suc
ceed Gov. Brady was unauthorized.
Tie said such a statement oould only he
made for the purpose of misleading
belogates from other districts. Col,
Perkins said he was opposed to
t he criticism of any federal officeholder
bv the convention.
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The Elks met last night at the Owl
drug store to arrange for their Thanks
giving high jinks, but as several were
absent the matter was passed up until
Sunday morning when they will meet
again in the same place.
Kept Him Informed
The man of this story is a very light
sleeper, one who is easily wakened and
who is a longtime getting to sleep. In
a Vermont hotel he had last got sound
asleep when a loud rap, repeated,
awoke him.
“What’s wanted?”
“Package downstairs for you.”
“Well, it can wait till morning, I
suppose ?”
The boy departed, and after a long
time the man was sound asleep again,
when there came another resounding
knock at the door.
“Well, what is it now V” he inquired.
“ ’Tain’t for you, {hat package!”—
Boston Herald.
RAPID WORK ON
RAILROAD GRADE
Large Gang# Engaged This Side of
Tunnels and Tracklaying Will
be Renewed Soon,
Tracklaying will lx* renewed within
a week on the Alaska Central at the
point where it stopped two weeks ago
on mile 44. A stretch of heavy t*ock
work was incomplete there, but the
obstruction has been almost removed.
Five miles more will be laid before
Christmas and then no more rails will
go down until the tunnel on mile 4!) is
bored.
The construction officials expect to
have the lirst tunnel finished by the
end of March. Rich & Harris plan to
complete the live tunnels which they
have the contract to bore on mile 52 in
April or May. Tracklaying then will
go forward quickly to the headofTurn
again Arm, on mile 1)5.
The soft weather which has continued
past the middle of November has
facilitated grading, but it is delaying
work on the tunnels because the heavy
machinery necessary to rock drilling
cannot be taken up until the* snow lies
deep enough to permit the skidding of
heavy loads. Rich & Harris expected
to have their big steam compressor for
driving the drills taken up before the
end of last month, as the hills were
full of snow at the end of October last
vear. So far this season only enough
snow has fallen at the summit and be
yond to make slush, as it has melted in
a few hours each time it has fallen.
The tunnel camp of the railroad and
that of Rich & Harris are ready for
the winter's program and preliminary
work at the portals of the tunnels lias
been pushed forward. Although the
first tunnel and the la>t are three
miles apart as the road will run they
are very close together in an air line.
Between them the line will do some
artistic corkscrewing to obtain easy
grades and to avoid huge gulches, In
the twisting it makes one complete
loop.
The addition ox several hunureu men
to the working force in the past few
weeks has given an impetus to grading
operations. Men are engaged upon
every mile between the end of the
track and the tunnels, chiefly upon
rock work. Beyond the tunnels grad
ing camps are located all the way to
Turnagain Arm. The largest camp is
on mile 5(5, nine miles this side of the
Arm. Every steamer from Seattle now
is bringing more men, as the Sound
cities have a surplus of laborers.
The end of harvest and the closing
of part of the logging camps always
causes a drift of men to Sound cities
in the fall. This year their number is
augmented by the shutting down ol
the shingle mills. It seems to be as
sured that the railroad company and
contractors will soon have hundreds of
additional men at work.
The employment of large numbers
of men will soon finish the rock work
between the end of the track and
Placer river, sc that the men now em
ployed there and many others can he
sent on to the long stretch of rock
work beyond Turnagain Arm, The
railroad has ten miles there between
miles (55 and 75, and following lie the
thirty miles covered by the Welch con
tract. All along the north side of the
Arm men will be kept at work in large
numbers from this time forward.
The pianola which the Bogrd of
Trade saloon brought up from Seattle
on a late boat is proving a big attrac
tion for the house.
BUS) CHURCH IN
PLACE Of TENT
• t
Volunteers Give Services to Society
aid frame Structure is
fast Going Ip.
Before Sunday the Methodist tent
will be the Methodist church. All tin
men who can work upon it are engaged
in making a comfortable frame struc
ture over the flooring of the tent, and
they expect to linish the job by tomor
row evening.
Early in the week it was decided
! that the tent must be made warmer
j and given a roof which could bear :i
| heavy weight of snow. While plans
j for the improvements were being for
! mulcted 1)!-. Sleem suggested that the
society ought to have a complete frame
structure, and took upon himself tie
task of raising the funds. Several car
penters volunteered to do tlie work
without compensation and for two
days they have been busy.
The new structure is bqardcd on the
tides and has a layer of heavy paper to
jive it additional warmth. The roof is
Tingled and the building is to have a
•ustic front with a layer of shiplap.
Besides the pastor Kev. L. H. Peder
sen, the men who are contributing
heir services are John Ziegler, A. J.
Shelf, T. It. Wilson, I). (’. Brownell Jr..
Neil Brown and Fred Pedersen.
The big canvas tent will be sold to
help raise the money to pay for the
lumber which has gone into the build
ing. This is the only expense, as no
thing will be paid for labor.
Mrs. Emma Campbell opened her
restaurant at the corner of Fifth ave
nue and W ashington street yesterday
j afternoon.
Coles “Hot Blast’’ the best and most
economical heater on earth at Rich
ards’.
, .—
Ail Alaskans iroinir to Seattle on bus
iness or other purposes are cordially
invited to have their mail addressed to
themselves in care of th** Industrial
Bureau of the Alaska Central Railway
Company. Lumber Exchange Building.
Seattle, Wash., and to make their head
quarters at the Bureau while in that
city,
* ALASKA CENTRAL RAILWAY CO.
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