NEWS or THE WORLD FOR PAST WEEK
By Oftbl« to Tba Dally Gateway.
thino-Japanese Treaty Signed
Pekin, China, Pec. 2d. the treaty
between Japan and t hina was tina-.y
signed today after a great deal of nego
tiation. It arranges all disputed
points between the two nations.
Japan gets the lease of Liao-Tung
peninsula, including Port Arthur, up
on practically the same terms as etu*;
braced in the lease to Russia, which
wa, surrendered to Japan by the Russo
Japanese treaty at Portsmouth. It al
so inclu les l'alnv and several railroad
grants.
Chinese offici als say that the treaty
doe-. not include an i ffenaive and de
fensive all ance, as has been reported.
Choate to Mead Peace relegation
Washington, P C., Pee. 2.1.• -Joseph
IT. Choate, the noted New York law-j
yer, uutil a few months ago American
ambassador to Great Hr-tain, will be
named by the President its chairman
of the American delegation to the
second international pvace conference,
which will be held soon at The Hague.
Christmas Presents Barn
Now York, Dec. 25. The delivery
department of the Adams Express
Company in this city was burned last
night with $100,000 worth of Christmas
presents.
Arrested on Murder Charge
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 25.-A former
Klondiker named Finsted wa- arrested
yesterday in Santa Rosalia. Mexico,
upon the charge of participation in the
murder of two Americans named Ruth*
erford aud McMurray at the lbuche
ranch. Finsted. who is a wealthy
mining man. says the charge is al>
surd. He says tin* victims were killed i
by Mexican bandit**. He was uu the
ranch at the time.
Belmont Controls New York Traction
Now York. Dec. 25 August Belmont
has bought out all of Thomas F. Ryan's j
traction stock> and now controls ab
solutely all the traction lines in the j
city of New York.
James J. Mill Mas Bii Plans
New York, Dec. 25 James J. Hill
is planning great extensions of his rail
road syetems next year. He will do a
great deal of building in the west, and ,
it is understood that he has obtained
control of the M. K. «v 1\ and will
build a connection bet ween it and the
Burlington. This will give him a line
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific 1
coast.
hizsimmnns’ Wife Deserts
San Francisco, Dec. 25. Bob Fitz
•imoons was notified today from New
York that his wife has deserted him.
An old lover app ared recently in New
York and Mrs. Fitzsimmons has left j
with him. It i> supposed they have j
gone across the Atlantic. All this has
happened since Eitz. came here to fight
Jack O'Brien.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons was a vaudeville'
actress when the noted pugilist mar
ried her a year aftor the death of his
first wife. She i- a very pretty woman
and Fitz was infatuated with her. Tie
showered costly jewelry upon her and
sent her to Paris to get a musical edu
cation. *For a time she appeared with
him on the stage and lie was planning
another tour with her when he w-i>
notified that she had abandoned him. I
To HI! off Odell
Washington. D. C., Dec. 25 Presi
dent Roosevelt is determined to crush
Odell in New York, and to that end is
giving all passible aid to the fight to
make Wadsworth speaker of the as
sembly in the next legislature Mer
ritt is the Odell candidate. Gov. Hig
gins and both U. S. Senators are lined
up with the President against Odell.
The Presiden* is anxious o neme
the successors to boib Platt and De
pew. Both have several years to
serve, but Platt's health is very poor
and there is some talk that lie may re
sign if he can name his successor.
Platt and the President will cct to
gether on the senatorial question.
Three Street Co1** Collide
Lot* Angeles, Dec. 26.—Three street
cars collided here last night and every
one of the fourteen passengers end
crew men was injured, some danger
ously.
The accident occurred on a stoop
grade. The mot orman of a car lost
control of it and the car ran into
another just ahead at tremendous
speed. The impetus of the rear car
shoved the other rapidly dowu the
grade and at a street crossing it ran
into a third car. All the cars were
badly shattered and every person
aboard was badly shaken up and
several severely cut by flying glass
and other debris.
Big I os \ngelcs Hotel Boras
Los Angeles, Dec. 26. Vannity’s
Broadway hotel burned last night, en
tailing a loss of $250,000. Ten guests
were asleep when the fire started but
all wore saved, though a majority
were brought out in their night
closhes. All the other guests had am
ple time t<o get out with most ol their
property.
Tries to Stab a Cardinal
Barcelona, Spain, Dec. 26 An anar
chist made an attack with a knife up
on Cardinal Cassunosy as he came out |
of the cathedral after Christmas ser
vices yesterday accompanied by two
pages and the bishop of l rgul, l'he
assailant was promptly seized and tak
en to prison.
Chinese Ron dies Take a Rest
Shanghai, Dec. 36 The rioting of
Chinese rowdies here has ceased and
the consular courts reopened this i
morning. Marines of several foreign
nations are still on guard.
Gen. Miles Resigns State Job
Boston. Mass.. Dee. 26 C.eu. Nelson
A. Miles resigned his position as in
spector-general of the governor s mil
itary stall this morning. Be was ap
pointed by Cov. Douglas a year ago,
and the resignation is supposed to be
ir view of the change of administration.
Governor-Elect Guild will bo inaugur
ated January 1.
Miners Demand Tight tlours
Philadelphia. Dec. 26. The anthra
cite coal miners today decided to de
mand an eight-hour day after April,
the date of the expiration of the agree
ment made in pursuance of the arbi
tration in the fall of 1902. It is
thought that this may lead to another
big strike.
Bourne District Attorney
Washington, D C., Dec. 26—The
President today removed District At-1
tornev Irvhig E. Baxter of the district
of Nebraska because he consented to j
too lenient punishment for cattlemen
who had pleaded guilty to illegally j
fencing government land for grazing
purposes. Baxter was asked to resign
hut refused.
Tipton Wiped Oft by fire
Sumpter. Ore., Dec. 26 The town of
Tipton was wiped out by lireCh; istmas
night. A blizzard was raging and
great suiTering resulted, as nearly all
the people are without adequate shel
ter.
5 ata Clara Overdue
Seattle. Dec. 56 The steamer Santa
Clara is five days overdue here but no
alarm is felt on account of her delay, j
Si e wa, las: heard from at Juneau.
Canadian Minister Dir !n Paris
Paris, D c. 26.—Raymond Prefon-j
taine, Canadian minister of marine and
fisheries, died here today. He was in j
France on a business trip.
Want Zinc Tariff Palscd
New Westminster. B. C., Dec. 27.— l
A movement is on fout here to secure
an increase of 'be duty on zinc im
ported into Canada to benefit the
manufacture of the home product i
which is being developed in the Koote
nay district of British Columbia.
At present the duty on zinc ini-;
ported into the United States from:
Can? ia is practi mil} prohi! itive. thus
excluding 'anadian zinc from the
market, while the Caradian duty on,
zinc coming from the United States t" 1
comparatively only about 8 per cent. |
ad valorem.
Railroad Must Up* Water
Medicine Hat. Dec. 27—In order to
solve the grave difficulty of a water
supply for tin- locomotives west of
here, the Canadian Pacific Railway
company i» now engaged in piping
water to SuJield, from *he Saskatche
wan, a distance of fifteen miles, and to
Irvine from the Kik water, twenty-two
miles away.
Story Goes fr H Wa? It h Worth
Albany. N. V.. Dec. 27. M»-s. Alfred
Wiltsie, a reputable married woman
of this city, claims to hare given birth
to a daughter 110 days after the birth
of a son The statement is vouched
for by a well-known physician, Dr.
George T. Mosler, who claims to have
officiated rt both births.
F,fz Siys Millc' Get Ills Wife
San Francisco, Dec. '.’7.—Bob Fitz
ritomons denies the rumor current here
that his wife really ran away with
Jimmy Drift. who is in the east. Fitz
says the man in the case is Major
Miller, a former lover of his wife. A
..reception w°s given *o Fitz last
ni; ht at the opening of his play, “A
Fight for Love.”
Planting Oysters In fanariljn Bays
New Westminster, B C., Dec. 27.—
The third shipment this season of
Eastern ‘ransplanted oysters has ar
rived here for seeding purposes on
Blunden and Boundary bay, where
uU at 600 acres are seeded, mostly with
Eastern and Japanese oysters.
To Practice cn Teeth of Convicts
Idaho, Dec. 27 The prisoners
in the Idaho penitentiary are to have
their teeth tilled or pulled, as neces
sary. The state board of dental exam
iners met in Boise today to examine
applicants for licenses to practice
dentistry. Two days will be devoted
to the written examination and on the
third day a trip will be made to the
penitentiary, and the class of ten or a
dozen vouns? dentists will he put to
work on the teeth of those prisoners
who have diseased incisors or Lollow
ruolars.
Breaks Typewriting tterord
Pueblo, Colo.. Dee. 27 Ray T. \ an
nettisch, state service editor of the
Pueblo Chieftain, last night broke the
world’s typewriting record for both
the 30 minute and one hour tests, tak
ing 2,600 words during the first 30 min
utes, and finishing tin* hour with 1,017
words. The dictation was received
over the long distance telephone from
Denver, a distance of 120 miles. The
previous hour record, 3.KJU words,
direct dictation, was made by Paul
Munter at Madison Square Garden,
New York, November 4, 1005.
To Change Assessment Law
Washington, D. C., Dec. 27 Con
gressman Lacey of Iowa has prepared
a bill to change the mining law so as
to require an annual tax of $25 on each
claim in Alaska, instead of the $100
worth of assessment work, and to up-;
plv the proceeds to the construction of
Alaska roads. Tim hill applies only
to Alaska. This measure was recom
mended by the recent Alaska conven
tion in Seatt le.
Tanana Expects Big Output
Fairbanks, Dec. 27 Reports from all
part> of the Tanana indicate that the
gold output of the district the coming
season will beat all records of all
Northern camps, the Klondike not ex
ecuted. An output of $ l >,t 00,000 for
Cleary creek alone from the beginning
of t tie present fail until the end of next
summer's opert lions is predicted. The
total output of the Tanana camp by the
end of next fall is even put. by some at
*25,000,000, which is $5,000,000 better
than the best year the Klondike ever
knew. This time last year everyone
though* Tanana would do well if a
vjeld of *3.0011,000 was had by the close
of the season of 1005, and the output
actually was $7,00o,000.
farriqn linlnn Cards Are Good
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 27- The Ameri
can Federation of Labor has decided to
accept union cards of workmen coming
to the Fnited States from foreign
countries.
Chicago Cats Oat Boxing
Chicago, Dee. 2'. All boxing eon
trsts will be forbidden In ibis city
heteufter. The interdict applies to
amateur contests and "ill prevent the
annual tourney of the Chicago at biot ic
clubs.
Centenarian Commits SakMe
Herliu. Dee. 28. A Hamburg paper
announces that an inhabitant of a vil
lage near Lubeck has committed sui
cide hv hanging himself on the evo of
celebrating the centenary of his birth.
The old man had, it seems, looked for
ward to the day with an anxious heart.
He knew that great preparations were
being made to celebrate bis birthdav.
As the anniversary approached lie
grew despondent and finally was
driven to take bis life.
frozen to Death in Wagon
Reno, Nev., Dec. 28. Covered with
snow and sitting bolt upright in his
spring wagon, G. C. Spears was dis
covered frozen to death thirty-five
miles from Humboldt House on the
road to the Mill City copper mines, in
Humboldt county. Though the man
had been dead tierhaps twenty-four
hours, the horses, mindful of the
hands on the reins, had been standing
knee deep in snow, waiting for the
word to fro.
Run’' Amuck In Steerage
Naples, Dec. 28—On the Austrian
steamship Francesca, when in mid
ocean a m:.r. named Nicolo Forgione
went suddenly mad and ran amuck,
tiring evo’.vev shots at random among
his fellows in the steerage. He killed
Domenico Va’.lina, a young miner,
who, having saved a goodly hoard in
seven year's hard toil in America, was
returning to his Neapolitan home.
Want Duty Off Art Work
Haris, Dec. 28—American artists here
are taking the imitative in a monster
petition to Congress appealing for the
suppression of the duty on imported
works of art. The petitior rill be
drafted by the Paris Society of Ameri
can Painters, of which Danna* is presi
dent, and will be exhibited in all
American consulates in Europe for
artists' signatures.
LlghtnSnr Wrecks Weather Station
Astoria. O-e., Dee. 28-- Lightning
totally destroyed the weather station
at North Head last night. The elec
tricity melted the instruments.
To Hang for trivial Offenses
Paris, Dec. 28 Two privates of the
Fourth battalion of the Chasseurs
d’Afrique were sentenced to death by
a court-martial sitting at Tunis, the
first for throwing a broom at a ser
geant and the second for throwing a
loaf and basin of soup at a corporal.
Organize Strike Breakers
The Chicago Employers’ Association
formulated plans for the establishment
of a standing army of laborers, skilled
and unskilled, representing every
branch of trade, to be prepared to go
to an\ city in the United Mu es and
fill the places of btrikvrs when
necessary.
EXPECTS ALASKA
BILES TO PASS
Cant, Humphrey Predicts Success
for Delegate and Railroad
Measures
By Cablo to Tlio Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Dec. 27 (’apt. Omar J.
Humphrey, one of the delegates from
Alaska chosen by the recent conven
tion in Seattle, has returned to this
city from Washington. Ho says that
tht* bills granting subsidies to Alaska
railroads and for a territorial delegate
from Alaska will surely pass. He
states that the President favors both
bills.
The bill for the division of the Third
judicial district is also expected to
pass, but it will not be crowded
through so rapidly. It will not be
taken up before February.
RAISE RATES TO LYNN CANAL
Freight Charges Go Up and Mer
chants Are Grumbling
The steamship companies operating
boats tu Southeastern Alaska have
I tilted rates. The Skagway Alaskan
j says:
“The Pacific Coast and Alaska Steam
ship Companies have agreed upon a
j new schedule of rebates for regular
shippers which i» equivalent to a raise
j in tin' freight rates of from 11 to 20 per
' cent, the loser percentage applying to
ibe big shippers and tin* larger per
eontage to the smaller shippers. The j
1 business men of Skagway and otherl
southeastern Alaskan points are com-!
plaining not a little because of the
action.
“The freight rates on the southeast
i ern Alaskan route to Skagway are class
ified and run from about $10 to a sum
j considerably larger than that. Uere
I tonne it has been the custom of each
j of the companies to allow any person
1 a reduction fr> in these rules of 20 per
cent, upon their signing a contract to
ship all their freight with the one
company, irrespective of the amount of
freight shipped. Further rebates were
allowed, depending upon the amount of
freight shipped. These were graduated
from 7 to 20 per cent. This made the
highest rebate allowed .'50 per cent of
the fare oi the freight bills; that is, 20
per cent olY for the contract and 20 per
cent of the remaining SO per cent, on
account of the quantity of goods shipp
! ed. The lowest rebate allowed was the
, 20 per cent for the signature to the
| contract.
“In the readjustment the 20 per cent
rebate for the signature to the contract
i is eliminated ent trely. The rebates on
account of the quantity of goods ship
i ped have been rearranged. A person
! whose freight bills do not amount to
$f)00 or more gets no rebate at all, and
1 is thus 20 per cent worse oil than be
fore. The lowest rebate allowed is 21
per cent, and the highest 2.» per cent.
MAID Of OnitANS IltS IP
Little Schooner Gives Her Sup
plies to Seattle Salvation Army
The little schooner Maid of Orleans,
which was chartered by l’. Welch iV
Company at San Francisco last Sept
ember to bring several hundred tons of
explosives to Cook Inlet for the rock
work on the Alaska Central route along
Turnagain Arm, has tied up in the
Duwamish river near Seattle, after
two unsuccessful attempts to come
i northward. She was disabled both
times.
The schooner will remain in winter
quarters until spring. Flo master,
(apt. Taylor, gave all her provisions to
the Salvation Army of Seattle to he
distributed among the poor for Christ
mas.
The Maid of Orleans is a well-known
boat and has been sailing on the Coast
since she was built in IS^t. Several
years ago she capsized in San Francisco
bay and her captain was drowned.
Three years ago she went out of com
mission and only went into business
; again last spring.
Boy Discovers New Law In Physics
A new law in physics is tho outcome
of an original observation by a bright
boy named Von Krspecurn, in the high
school at Eatavia, Java. He noticed
that when a glass is tilled to the brim
with water and floating ice, there is no
overflow on the melting of the ice, and
two years ago he called the attention
of his principal, Dr. C. M. Van De
venter, to the fact. Other physicists
were notified, who brought the matter
before the Royal Academy of Amster
dam. It has now been shown that the
water neither rises or sinks, and the
proposed law of the “permanent level”
teaches that “when a vessel contains a
solid floating in its own liquid, the
level of the latter does not change by
the melting of the solid.”
Chief of Police Roy Burnett of
Juneau committed suicide a few days
ago by shooting himself through the
; head.
If you wish to be popular don’t try
to tell your troubles when the other
! fellow wants to tell las.
Northwestern Steamship Company
CARRYING U. S. MAIL AND EXPRESS
STEAMSHIPS OPERATED:-Victoria, Tacoma, Santa Clara, Santa Ana,
Excelsior, Dora, Oregon, Edith, Pennsylvania,
STEAMERS FOR—Seattle, Kayak, Valdez, Seward, Cook Tnlet, Unalaska,
Nome—intermediate points—and San Francisco. Exclusive line to N. E.
Siberian ports.
Express Steamer “OREGON” Sails from Seward for and Seattle Valdez,
outside route, January 5th and every 20 days thereafter.
Str. SANTA CLARA Leaves Seattle 1st of each month. Same trip as Santa
Arm, connecting at Seldovia with S. S. Neptune, etc.—returning leaven
Seward 12th of each month.
Steamship “SANTA ANA” Leaves Seattle 16th of each month for Juneau,
Kayak, Yakutat, Ellemar, Valdez, Seward, Seldovia- connecting at Sel
dovia with S. S. Neptune for all L'ook Inlet points—returning, leaves
Seward 20th of each month.
S.tr “DORA” 1 .eaves Seward 27th of each month for Unalaska. Dutch
Harbor, and all way points, returning, leaves Seward about 14th, of
each month.
For transport rt ion, berth reservations, freight rates etc.
call on S. P. BROWN. Agt., Coleman House, Seward, Alaska.
J. F. TROWBRIDGE, Gen-l M««. E. G. WIoVSICKGN, Gbh-i. Pa?*, and Tickbt Act.
SEATTLE. WASH.
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Sails from Seward via. Juneau, 8tb and 22nd of each month.
Connecting with Strainers at Seld?vi3 for all points on Cook Inlet
Passenger Service unexcelled
For Rapid Delivery of Freight and for Passenger Rates aud Berths
Apply to
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At Brown and Hawkin’s Store.
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I PAID CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $525,000
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KEEPS GET GE
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*/ Cable to Too Baity Gatowujr.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 27—The l>.
S. government has decided not to in
terfere for the present in the San
Domingan political troubles. Pres
ident Carlos Morales fled from the cap
ital yesterday after a quarrel witK
members of his cabinet. Insurrection
ary troops are in pursuit of the fleeing
executive. It i» believed t.hat he will
try to set up k new government in some
other city.
The American receiverships have
not yet been effected by the disorders,
, and the American state department
has decided that it will not bs advis
able to act until lawlosso-. arises
, which threatens American interests.
ALASKA SLALS DiSAPPEAMNO
Rookeries Crowing Smaller and
Action Needed to Save Them
Secretary Hitchcock in his annual re
Dort says of the destruction of Alaska
seals:
“The seal rookeries are becoming
year k*y year smaller, and the killing
by the North American Commercial
Company’s agent during the »mst year
has been about 12,000 on St. Paul and
1,300 on St. George Island. The gov
ernor states that it would be good
policy for the government to come to r.
friendly understanding for the remain
der of the lease with that company,
based upon the number taken the last
live years, stop the Killing for eight or
ten years, deport the natives of both
islands, and keep there only the nec
essary ngents to look after the rooker
ies. To prevent the entire extermi
nation of these animals some such im
mediate action is necessary.”
A report just issued by the United
States geological survey shows that
last year the United States produced
08 per cent, of the world’s known out
put of natural gas, the value of the
production being $38,496,160. The
four principal producing states were
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana
t ami Ohio. . i
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By 0*bl« *• Tb* Pally Cato-ray.
Ran Truncirco, Dec. 27. — Jack
O'Brien is hurling challenges to Jim
Jeffries to come out of his retirement
and fight for the heavy weight cham
pionship. fle compares himself to
Corbett at th* time the latter met
Sullivan and says he can beat Jeffries
by his superior agility.
Jeffrbs has made no answer to
O’Br'cn’s proclamation. His friends
say he do**s not take O’Brien seriously
and that he has finally retired from the
ring and will no' tight anybody.
From Alaska to Cape Hors
Tho gray plover nests in the sedges
of Masks; and when the short summer
wan^S; it leads its young in perilous
flight southward across plains and
mountain ranges, and then, guided by
the coast-line, wings its way steadily
onward until it reaches its winter
home in Patagonia. For more than
one-half of the immense distance of its
migration, the flight course of the
gray plover ie almost comcident with
tho sorvoyed line for the projected
Pan-American Railway.
The Pop:’* fncitre
Jt is impossible to fr the exact in
come of the pope, because the sources
b? which his sett'ed income is largely
augmented are subject to great fluctua
tion. Such is the annual subsidy call
ed “Peter’s Pence,” and the innumer
able thaak offerings which he re
ceives every year from all parts of the
world. It is thought probable by
authorities who have the best means
of judging that, taking one year with
another, the average annual income of
the pope cannot fall short of $3,000,000.
John M. Gearin of Portland has
been appointed U. S. senator by Gov.
Chamberlain to succeed the late
Senator Mitchell. He is a prominent
lawyer and a Democrat.
Esther creek, in the Tanana, has
several big plants working winter
dumps and the miners promise to send
a treasure train into Fairbanks in the
spring.