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VOl. | SEWARD, ALASIv \, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 0, 1908 NO. 79
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TAFT HAS 316, j
POSSIBLY 334;
Only Official Count Can Deter
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mine Result in Missouri. Next
Congress Republican by 30
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By Cable to Tbo Daily Gateway.
Chicago, Nov. 0—Practically com
plete returns from all the states give
Taft 319 sure electorial votes, Bryan j
149. The 18 electorial votes of Mis-!
souri are tlie only ones at all doubtful.
Taft is ahead in the state by a few
hundred, with seventy precincts to
hear from. The democrats still claim
the state, but returns are adding to the •
Taft plurality. The missing precincts,
however, can easily change the Mis-,
souri vote either way. With the 18,
from Missouri, Waft's total electoral
vote would be 334, Only the ollicial
count can determine Missouri's vote, s
Colorado is for Bryan by about 3000 \
plurality, with fifty precincts from re
mote counties yet to report.
Nebraska and t 'olorado are the only
northern states carried by Bryan. Ot
the southern states, Taft carried
Maryland, Deleware, West Virginia j
and Oklahoma.
The republicans will have at least 30 j
majority in the house of representa
tives of the next congress.
Meet me at the Branch *
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SOLDIER'S ADDITIONAL *H. A. ENTRY :
NO. 1490
In the United States Land office. Juneau,
Alaska, Feb. 28, ivkX>. !
NOT IDE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Northwestern Fisheries Company, assignee of
Mary .Rollins, being entitled to the benefi s1
of See. 23K> of the Revised Statutes of he I
United States granting additional lards to j
soldiers and sailors who served in the War of i
the Rebellion, has made application to tb:s
office to make proof and entry under an Act j
of congress approved May 14. 189s. for the lands ;
embraced in U. S. Survey No. 390. in the Dis- ,
trict of Alaska, described as follows:
Beginning at eor. No. 1 a point at ordinary j
high water mai k on toe left bank of Kvichak;
river at the junction of said Kvichak river and |
Graveyard Slough, from whence cor. No. i 1
Sur, MO bears N. 28 Degrees t* minutes E. M
chs.; Peak of Sugar Loaf mountain bears >7.
84 degrees 14 minutes E.: thence meandering
high water mark on left bank of Kvichak river
up stream. 1st course N. 58 degrees 20 minutes I
W. 1.80 chs.; thence 2nd course. N. 76 degrees i
39 minutes W. 9.20 chs.: thence 3rd course N. |
41 degrees 30 minutes W. 6 50 ehs.: thence 4tU j
course. N. s degrees 15 minutes \Vt 2.5J chs. to
cor. No. 2; thence N. 47 degrees 5 minutes E. |
4.< o ehs. to cor. No. 3. from whence Cor. No. 3
Sur. 72 bears N. 2 degrees 56 minutes W. 20.84
chs.: thence S. 42 degrees 45 minutes E. 17.T9
ehs. to eor. No. 1. the place of beginning Va- !
riation at all corners 2J degrees 10 minutes >
East. Area 6.94 acres. j
As additional to Mary Rollins' original home
stead enfv No. 1785. at Bonneville. Mo., made
May 30.1865.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said lands are required to tile an ad
verse claim in this office during the period o’
publication of this notice, or within thirty
days thereafter, otherwise proof and entry of;
said lands will be made by said Northwestern .
Fisheries Company, applicant.
JOHN W. DUDLEY. Register.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the forego
ing Notice be published for the full period of
60 days in the Daily Gateway, a daily newspa
per published at the town of Seward and DIs- I
trict of Alaska, which is hereby designated as j
the newspaper pubMshed nearest the .land j
described.
John W. Dudley, Register.
Date of first publication. October 3. 1908.
Date of last publication. December 14. 1908,
From Seward to Interior Access Is Mow Easy
Every Day of the Year to Gold, Copper and
Coal Districts, and to Timber and
Agricultural Areas Embracing
15,000.000 Acres.
With the Girdwood-Indian creek
trail completed, Seward for the first
time has an open route all the year
round to every part of interior Alaska,
including the Yentna district, \ aldez
creek, and the Tanana country from
Fairbanks to Gibbon.
The trail by way of the Alaska Cen
tral raiload to the end of the track at
mile 52, thence by the roadbed to
mile 75 at Girdwoood, has practical
ly a level grade, and is so easy that it
has been covered repeatedly in a single
day. From Gird wood to Indian creek,
12 miles, is the waterlevel trail along
the north shore of Turnagain Arm
which the government has just com
pleted. It follows the Alaska Central
survey. Fp Indian creek over a divide
of onlv 700 or 800 feet altitude, with an
ascent of about 5 per cent, on the In
dian creek side and a decent of less !
than l per cent, on the Eagle river:
side, the route is so favorable that all
who have traveled it say that one horse
can haul two tons on a sled the
entire distance. The 50 miles from
Indian creek to Knik can be made in
a day, as it has been many times by
Alfred Lowell.
From lvnik to Fairbanks up the
Susitna valley through the Broad pass
of the Alaskan range at an altitude of
2500 feet and down the Cantwell, the j
distance is about 250 miles. It is only
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150 miles from Knik to Valdez creek,
100 miles to the Yentna diggings, 30
miles to the new quartz mines where |
stamp mills are being installed on
Willow creek, 25 miles to the Mata
nuska coal tields, 15 miles to the Knik
copper properties, and 200 miles by
either the Kwim or the Simpson pass
to the headwaters of the Kuskokwim
vallev.
The opening of the new route gives
Central Alaska unobstructed access to
the coast at Seward eve y day in the
year for the first time.
In the country tributary to this route
are the extensive coal tields of the
Matanuska, the Talkeetnn, the Chulit
na, the Yentna and the Cantwell val
leys, embracing a known area, accord
ing to the reports of the United States
Geological survey, of 45,000 square
miles, and a probable area of 100,000
square miles: many ledges of copper
and quartz gold, the richest placer dig
gings yet discovered in Alaska, a tim
ber belt embracing 15,000,000 acres of
the best qualities of spruce, hemlock
and birch, and agricultural and stock
grazing lands in the Susitna and tribu
tary valleys covering a region 125
miles east and west by 200 miles north
and south
The surveyed route of the Alaska
Central passes midway through this
great district.
Thomas Estrada Palma Dead
Ov Cable to Tbe Dally Qateway,
Santiago. Cuba, Nov. 0—Thomas Es
trada Palma, lirst president of Cuba,
died Wednesday night, aged 72. He
had been failing slowly for some
months. He was one of the leaders
that won Cuban independence, and
was residing in New York state when
elected president of Cuba.
Try the Palace Grill—We guarantee a
first class service, excellent meals
and courteous treatment. *
Good things to eat at Brown &
Hawkins— Swift’s “Premium” bacon
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Battling Nelson Siiut Out
By Cable to T'le Dally Gateway.
New York, Nov. G—Battling Nelson,
the pugelist, was turned down at the
Waldorf-Astoria last night, when he
presented himself at the desk and
wanted to engage a room. The mana
ger refused his request
Frank Dunn was a passenger on the
Bertha, returning from Valdez to his
home at Susitna Station.
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The Hotel McNeiley has every mod
ern improvement, warm and well light
ed rooms, comfortable writing tables,
and every other convenience of a first
class hotel.
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Meet me at the Branch. *
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Geological Report for 1908, just
Issued, Says Alaska Has
Supply for Centuries.
By Cable to The Daily tr«teway.
Washington, I). C., Nov. (j—Alfred
Brooks, in his report of the geological
survey of Alaska for 1903, issued today,
says coal areas exist in the explored
parts of Alaska covering an
area of not less than 200,000 square
miles. Much of the coal, he says, is oi
so high a grade as to make Alaska the
certain storehouse of fuel for the com
merce of the Pacific ocean for centu
ries to come.
The report says that the great de
posits of bituminous and anthracite
coals of the Matanuska valley are
equal to the best grades of Welsh and
Pennsylvania coals, and are invaluable
to the government for* consumption by
! the navy.
Government survey parties working
on the Alaska peninsula this summer,
the report says, found good placer
! ground on Unga and neighboring is
• lands, which promise important de
velopments.
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j SUMMONS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
United States District Court. District of
Alaska—Th i rd Division.
• Julia Hrosnan, Plaintiff. i
vs. -NO. 260.
| Michael Hrosnan, Defendant. \
The President of the United States of Ameri
j ca, greeting; To the above named defendant'
You ave hereby required to appear in the
United States District Court, in and for the
District of Alaska. Third Division, within
i thirty days after the day of service of this
summons upon you, and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, a copy of which
complaint is herewith delivered to you; and
unless you so appear and answer, the plaintiff
will apply for the relief prayed for.
Witness tin* Hon. Silas H. Reid Judge ot
said Court, this 12th day of May. in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight
and of our independence tne one hundred and
thirtv second. _ ,
I / O. A. WELLS, Clerk.
I SEATj f Hy W.T. BEEKS. Deputy Clerk.
Edmund Smith, attorney for plaintiff.
Date of first publication October 0, 1PD8.
Date of last publication November 17. 100w.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Seward, Alaska, September 10, 19C1
TO J. BROWN:
You are hereby notified that there has been
expended in the years 1C*»5, 19CJ. and 1907, the
sum of one hundred dollrrs each year in labor
and improvements upon the J. R. Number 2
Placer Claim commonly known as the Morgan
Claim situate on Lynx creek in Keoui Record
ingPreeinct. Territory of Ah ska. The same
being the a mount required by the laws of the
United States governing the location and hold
ing of mining claims necessary to hold said
claims for the calendar ye*. »s l£95, 1900 and
ICC;, the said work having been done by your
Co-owner Nathan P. While.
And unless with'a ninety days after the com
pletion of the publication of this notice, to-wit;
witldn 90days ai’ter the 12th day of December.
1908 you contribute your proportion of such
annual assessment os Co-owner to w<t: $75.00
for the said J. R. No. 2 Mining Claim, your in
terest in said claim will be forfeited to and
become the property of your present Co-own
er aforesaid.
NATHAN P. WHITE.
First publication September 11, 1908.
date of last publication December 13, 1908.