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~vo, , v ■ SEWARD. ALASKA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1!>»7. NO. lT"
SEEK DECISION
ON ALASKA CASE
Territorial Politicians Ask Final
Ruling From National
Commmittee.
ADDRESS LETTER TO CHAIRMAN
If Determination Is adverse on Elec
tion of Delegates Another
Will Be Held.
By Cable to Tbe TJally Gateway.
Seattle. Dec. 12—Alaska politicians
here decided today to address a letter
to Chairman New of the republican
national committee asking him to ob
tain a final decision from the national
committee governing the status of
Alaska’s representation in the national
convention of 1908. If the committee
should decide that the action of the
recent territorial convention was pre
mature and the election of delegates
illegal the call for the spring conven
tion at Ketchikan to nominate a candi
date for delegate to congress will also
include a provision for the election of
a new delegation to the national con
vention.
Cut Delegation to Two
Washington, D. C.. Dec. 9—Alaska s
representatives to the national repub
lican convention was reduced from six
to two delegates, the same as Porto
Rico, by the national committee in
session in this city.
Call Fixes Time
Seattle, Dec. 11-The call issued by
Harry New, chairman of the national
republican convention, for delegates
to the national convention at Chicago,
states that election of delegates shall
not take place earlier than thirty days
after issuance of jcall. It is believed
here that the contest of the right of
the delegates to seats in the conven
tion will he left to the committee of
the whole, at Chicago.
DEMOCRATS TO
GO TO DENVER
National Committee Orders 1908
Convention to Meet There
July 7.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway
Washington. D. C\. Dee. 13 Denver
was elected as the location of the
democratic rational convention of 190S
by the national committee today.
July 7 will he the date of meeting.
BLIZZARD OVER
MIDDLE STATES
Terrific Storm Grips Illinois, Iowa
and Indiana and Par
alyzes Traffic.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Chicago. Dec. 11 -Indiana, Illinois
uud Iowa are in the grip of a blizzard
which lias absolutely paralyzed
railroad traffic in those states today.
Cleary City Burned
Cleary City, the largest creek town
in the Tanana country excepting Fair
banks, was almost wiped out of exist
ance by tire on the night of November
16th. All of the business portion of
the town was destroyed, and many
private dwellings. The loss will be
very heavy. The tire started in the
Totem saloon.
Copper was rising a little and trying
to tag 14 cents early in the month.
WILL REVISE
WAGE SCALE
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Gold fie Id Employers Must Make
Concessions to Avoid
General Strike.
3y Cable to Tbe Dally Oateway.
Goldfield, Nev.. Dec. 14— To pro
vent a general walk-out by union men
j in other employments than mining on
a sympathetic strike it was announced
| today that a general revision of the
wage scale will be made within the
next ten days.
No additional mines resumed work
today and the miners’ strike is in statu
quo. Gen. Funston notified the miners
l that he will not interfere in any way
with the strike and will be satisfied so
: long as the strikers engage in no dis
order. The federation is maintaining
a complete line of pickets throughout
the camp.
May Start Bull Pen
Goldfield, Nev., Dec. 10— Fears are
entertained that a ‘‘bull pen” will
have to be inaugurated here. Mine
] owners have issued a statement that
i there will have to be a reduction of
| twenty per cent in wages*
Gen. Funston Goes to Goldfield
San Francisco, Dec. 11 — General
1 Frederick Funston of the United States
! army leaves here today for Goldfield,
Nevada, to get in touch with the situa
1 tion there.
Expect Martial Law
Goldfield, Nev., Dec. 11—Governor
1 Sparks of this state believes that raar
i tial law will be declared on the arrival
' of General Fredrick Funston from San
| Francisco. The mine owners say they
will open their mines tomorrow. Both
| sides held meetings last night.
BURCHEY GOES TO
! WATERY GRAVE
—
On Way Out on Santa Clara In
sane Man tludes the Marshal
and Leaps Into the Sea.
By Cable to The Dsnly Gateway.
Valdez, Dec. 7 George Burehev,;
the well known miner and prospector
| of Seward, who was adjudged insane
i there a few days ago, and who was be
ing brought to Valdez on the steamer
Santa Clara, jumped overboard when
j tlie steamer was opposite Gape Bestir- j
i rection, and although a rope was im- j
mediately thrown to him he would j
i make no effort to save himself, and!
was drowned. Marshal Wybrant had
left the insane man in a upper deck
! stateroom and locked the door, and as
soon us lie was gone Burehev opened j
the window and climbed out and jumped j
overboard before anyone could prevent ■
him from so doing.
MINERS ARE FED
THROUGH PIPE
Three Entombed Nevada Miners
Must Thus Subsist for
Many Weeks.
—
By Cable to The Dally (lateway.
Fly, New, Dee. 10—Three entombed
miners were caught in a cavein near
here on December 4, and will have to
remain there three weeks longer, as
! the large amount of debris prevents1
their rescue. Food is being sent to j
them through the overflow pipe.
—
Steamer Dora Arrives in Seattle
Seattle, Dec. 9—The steamer Dora j
arrived here from Seward this morn-1
ing after a very rough and stormy
trip. j
PANIC ENDS IN
COAST STATES
Money Still Tiffht in Northwest
ern Cities But Confidence
Renewed.
RETRENCHMENT ORDER OF DAY
All Business Houses Reducing List
of Employes and Curtail
ing Expenses.
Money is still very tight in Seattle
and all coast cities but the panicky
feeling has subsided, say recent arri
vals from the states. For one while it
looked like a repetition of ’93 but the
action of the banks in standing togeth
er and issuing clearinghouse certifi
cates in large cities, coupled with the
somewhat drastic measure of refusing
to pay out more than a few dollars at
a time to depositors, checked the stam
pede and confidence is fairly restored.
Nevertheless retrenchment is the
rule and thousands of men have been
discharged by large establishments of
all kinds to curtail expenses. The
coast cities will be full of unemployed
this winter, who will have to get back
to the land, or move on somewhere.
At the present time some of them
are not eating regularly. Nobody has
any fear, however, of desperate hard
times. The recent financial flurry
merely checked wildcat booming and
speculation, necessarily with some
Uui'.luHip an.1 individual
Didn’t Publish This
A feature of the money pinch in
Seattle, and doubtless in other cities,
which the newspapers forgot to print,
was the chief cause of the panic. A
few months ago when Wall street be
gan to feel the squeeze of short money
an offer was sent out to banks all over
the country to pay 2 per cent on depos
its. Under the national banking law
all of a national bank’s reserves ex
cept 5 per cent can be placed in an
approved reserve bank and counted as
part of the depositing bank’s cash re
serve. The Seattle banks saw some
easy money and sent several millions
to New York to draw interest. When
the panic came the New York sack
was empty, or at least the New York
banks wouldn’t or couldn’t give up the
money. This left some of the Seattle
banks with very little cash and if they
had paid out in full to stampeding de
positors they would soon have had as
much cash left as a rabbit carries.
The same was true of otherconst cities.
The business men of Seattle accept
ed the situation and all take clearing
house certificates as cash, but a cer
tain class of depositors went more or
less to the willies. A disgusted Seattle
merchant said to a Seward man:
* Start a Stampede
“I never was so disappointed in men
in my life as l was in a lot of square
heads that started a run on the Sean
dinavian-American bank. I had all
my cash there and it is all there yet.
1 didn't worry, for the bank is solid
and everybody with any sense knows
it, but a mob of Swedes filled up the
bank room until they had to be driven
out by the police. They blocked busi
ness around the Alaska building for
three days.”
It is admitted that if money loosens
up a little the situation will stimulate
development in Alaska. For several
years the boom in the northwestern
states has held attention and retarded
the movement of emigration to Alaska.
Wages have been so high in the states
that it has been difficult to secure even
laborers^or Alaska work. Next year
there will be more men than work in
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana. and if Alaska enterprises can get
money they can secure labor at lower
wages than it has received in the
northwestern states the past year^or
two.
Queen of Saxony Dying
Dresden, Dec. U—Queen Carola is
on her death-bed.
BANK MANAGER
KILLS HIMSELF
Official of Defunct Trust Com
pany Hard Pressed Pursues
Usual Course.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
San Francisco, Dec. 11—T. O. Sadler
the manager western branch of the
California Safe Deposit Company com
mitted suiside early this morning.
Worry over the wrecking of the bank
is supposed to have been the cause of
his act.
Banker Held for Embezzlement
San Francisco, 9—Dalzell Brown, a
prominent citizen, and general mana
ger of the California Safe Deposit
Trust Company, which institution
closed its doors during the first days
of the present panic, was arrested to
day charged with embezzling $250,000
worth of securities belonging to an es
tate of which he was administrator.
He is held to the grand jury on a hun
dred thousand dollar cash bail.
Inquiry Shows Crooked Work
San Francisco, Dec. 11—In the ex
amination of the affairs of the defunct
California Safe Deposit Company of
this city, it is shown by the bank
transcript that the officials lent heavily
to themselves on unsecured notes.
The Treadwells who are heavy stock
holders and directors got nearly a
million dollars. Fry, another director
took nearly a hundred thousand dol
lars on unsecured notes.
SARATOGA DUE
THIS EVENING
Makes fast Trip From Seattle
and Now on Way Direct
From Valdez.
Steamer Saratoga sailed from Valdez
for Seward at 7 o’clock this morning
by way of Latouche and is scheduled
to arrive here by 10 o’clock tonight.
She called at Cordova on the way to
Valdez, leaving there yesterday morn
ing and reaching Valdez at 4 yesterday
afternoon. She is making a very fast
trip, having sailed from Seattle the
morning of Decembor H.
If the present snow storm continues
the steamer’s arrival is likely to be
delayed as navigators do not like sail
ing through straits with snow flying.
1 Vince of Wales passage, out of La
touche, is a ticklish place in bad
weather, aed even the entrance to
Resurrection bay, one of the easiest on
the coast, is avoided by navigators in
snow storms or thicjc fog.
BIG FLOODS IN
PENNSYLVANIA
Keystone State Suffers Much Loss
in Life and Property by Rea
son of High Waters.
By Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
Philadelphie, Pa., Dec. 11-Reports
from all parts of the state say that
heavy property damage has resulted
from the overflow of all rivers.
Storms have been raging throughout
the entire state for several days and
has caused all rivers to overflow their
banks.
Seven Drowned
Bloomsbury. Pa., Dec. 11 —The
bridge across the Susquehana river at
this place was swept away last night
by the high water. Seven men were
drowned and scores of others were
fatally injured in the raging waters.
ROOSEVELT SAYS
HE IS OUT OF IT
President Issues Another State
ment Absolutely Declining
Third Term.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, T). C., Dec. 12—Presi
dent Roosevelt issued a statement this
morning declaring that he will not be
a candidate for a third term under any
circumstances. He says hs has not
changed an iota from the position he
announced the night of his election
three years ago.
Senators and representatives gen
erally are satisfied that the president’s
latest statement concerning the effort
to make him a candidate next year
takes him out of the field. Other
candidates and their boomers are cor
respondingly happy.
NURTHWESTERN
ON COAST RUN
Big Steamer Comes to Seward
Again After Absence of
Many Months.
Steamer Northwestern reached port
from Seattle last Wednesday night.
She was on the way from Valdez near
ly three days on account of repeated
snow S(}U!lllS Wiu.ih maJo
impossible. She stopped at Fort Lis
cum. Cordova and La touche to dis
charge cargo She sailed again for
Seattle at 4 a. m. Friday.
This was the Northwestern’s first visit
to Seward since she ran on the reef
near Beats on’s dock, Latouche island,
last March. She was on the Nome
run during the summer season. She
was substituted for the Yucatan on
this trip because the latter had to be
inspected and it was decided that a
journey to the dry dock would be a
good thing for her. The Northwest
ern was drydocked after her last trip
to Nome.
Purser E. I. Stiles, First Officer Ken
ny und one or two subordinate officers
were transferred from the Yucatan to
the Northwestern. Otherwise she has
her own crew. Capt. Truebridge is
still her master and William Young is
her steward. She will probably con
tinue on this run until the Saratoga
and Santa Clara have an overhauling
on the dry dock.
STORM SWEEPS
SOUND DISTRICT
Causes (ireat Damage in Cities
Destroying Numerous
Buildings.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Dec. 13—The worst storm of
nine years swept over the Sound dis
trict last midnight, following a week
of heavy and almost constant rains.
Great damage was done in all the cit
ies by the storm, many buildings being
wrecked. All streams are swollen and
some are out of their banks. General
floods are expected in the White, River
valley. The railroads report numer
ous landslides in the mountains and
tracks are temporarily blockaded in
several places.
Mining on Latouche Island
About 130 men are on Latouche
island now in various places. Work
has been suspended on the Girdwood
and Barrack mine and on Buzard's
property. About thirty men are work
ing at Beatson’s. At Murphy’s camp
on the east side and in other places
development work is in progress.