V(), I SKWAB1), ALASKA. FlilDAV F.T IWING. SEl’TEM BEK 4. 1908 SO. 25
ACTOR DOES
BRUTAL DEED
Jordon Confesses Dismembering
Wife’s Body and Packing
Pieces in a Trunk.
By Cable to Tlie Daily Gateway.
Boston, Sept. 4—Chester Jordon,
an actor in one of the stock companies,
committed tlie inhuman act of literally
butchering his wife. After the woman
was dead he proceeded to dismember
the body and pack the pieces away
carefully in a trunk. The woman was
missed, and an investigation revealed
the crime. Jordon confessed the deed,
but gave no explanation for his inhu
man conduct.
Receives Notification
By Cable to Tlie Dnily Gateway
Ada. Ohio, Sept. 4—Aaron S. Wat
kins. the nominee for vice-president
on the prohibition ticket, received to
day official notification of his nomina
tion.
Return Empty handed
Nome—Having endured endiess pri
vations and spent the whole winter
and spring in a fruitless search for
gold in Siberia, thirteen hardy, well
known miners returned to Nome from
Anadir recently. Attracted to that
country by the supposed strike on Na
deau creek la>t summer they spent a
considerable amount of money and are
now poorer but wiser on the subject of
Siberia.
For a radius of forty-five miles
around Nadeau creek they prospected,
but failed even to raise a color, and
as the country consists of a granite
formation they believe a pay streak
will never be uncovered there.
The men recounted harrowing tales
of the severity of the winter, bliz
zard after blizzard, making their lives
miserable for nearly two months. De
spite the severity of the weather and
other unfavorable conditions there was
no sickness among the party.
Steamer Bertha
The steamer Bertha arrived last
evening at H o’clock and departed
in about an hour for Seldovia. Among
the passengers making the round trip
was A. S. Dautrick, agent of the Alas
ka Coast Steamship Company. The
passengers for Seward were E. E.
Ritchie, R. Francis, Geo. Kostrome
tinoff, and two second-class passen
gers.
Mr. Kostrometinoff is the special
agent for the Alaska Yukon-Pacific
exposition and is {join" westward later
in the interests of the management of
the exposition to be heid in Seattle in
1909.
The best of everythin" to eat or
drink at The Palace. *
RAINS CEASE
FOR RECEPTION
Melbourne Able to Carry Out
Her Plans for Entertainment
of American Meet.
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Bv Cable to The Dcnly Gateway.
Melbourne, Sept. 4—The rains that
have been continuous for the past few
| days have ceased, and the plans for
• the bin* demonstration in honor of the
American fleet will be carried out.
The city is now newly decorated and
everything is in gala attire. Every
possible effort is bein^ made on the
part of the city oflicials to make the
, entertainment of the fleet as complete
! as possible.
Optimist at 50
A professor has just gone deeply in
I to the records of achievements of the
I world's chief workers and thinkers,
and finds that the average age for the
| preformance of the master work is 50.
I tor the workers the average is 47, and
for the thinker 52. Chemists and ^phy
sicists average the youngest, at 41:
poets and inventers at 44: novelists at
46: explorers and warriors, 47; com
i posers and actors, 48; artists and cler
gymen, 50: essayists and reformers, 51:
physicians and'statesmen, 52: philoso
phers, 54: mathematicians and humor
i his, 56: historians, 57: naturalists and
jurists, 58. The professor concludes
that if health and optimism remain,
“the man of 50 can command success
as readily as the man of 30.Tit-Bits.
Fire Drill
There will be a lire drill at 7:30 this
evening. The drill will be on the
buildings of the Carstens Packing
Company and the Coleman House.
These are considered among the most
! difficult buildings to work upon in case
of a lire. An attendance of all the
citizens is requested.—By order of
J. S. Hofraan, Chief.
! _
SEWARD SltAMERS
Bertha; sailed for Seldovia 3rd.
Pennsylvania: sailed from Seattle 31.
Dora; sailed for Unalaska 18th.
Portland; sailed for Seattle 24th.
Santa Clara; sailed for Seattle 27th.
Yucatan; sailed for Seattle 2nd.
. Meet me at the Branch. *
SALESMEN & A<iENTS—$$$50.00
per week and over can be made selling
New Campaign Novelties from now
until election. Sells to Stores, County
Fairs, Picnics and Private Families.
Comulete line of samples, charges
prepaid for 50 c. Order today.
CHICAGO NOVELTY CO.,
60 Wabash Ave., Chicago.
You can get anything in the drug
line at the Seward Drug Co. *
Window Shades at Hofm'an’s. *
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TH IR LIVES1
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Three Men From Fleet Fall in
Front of Moving Train and
Are Crushed to Death.
By Cable to The Dailv Gateway.
Melbourne, Sept. 4—Three marines
| from the fleet of the American battle
ships while going about the city be
I came unsteady of step and while cross
| ing a railaoad track they fell in front
j of a moving train. The train was too
close upon the men to be stopped be
fore striking them and all three were
I killed.
Exchanging Bank Notes
The Bank of France is obliged by
French law to replace a damaged bank
note by a new note so long-as the num
ber on the old note is legible. The
Matin vouches for the truth of the fol
lowing story:
Some years ago a clerk inherited
£800, which he changed into bank
notes of £40 each. Next day he went
back to the bank and handed in these
notes, dirty and damaged and, ob
I tained new notes. This he did every
day except Sunday for three weeks.
The matter was then reported to the
j governor, who sent for the clerk and
! inquired as to the reason for his extra
; ordinary procedure.
“This is my business,” was the re
ply. “The law gives me a perfect
right to exchange dirty bank notes for
clean notes half a dozen times a day if
II choose.”
“But,” said the governor, “every
new bank note we give you costs us
! eightpence. You are costing us 13s.
4d. a day.”
“Exactly,” replied the clerk. “I
have a proposition to make to you. I
will promise to cease dirtying bank
notes if you will agree to pay me 12s.
(id. a day.”
The bank agreed to do so, and the
I man has been living on the proceeds
ever since.—The Sun.
New Patent Law Hits Americans
London—It is estimated in a semi
official statement made public here
that there has already been paid more
than $150,000,000 into the treasury of
Great Britain by American and Ger
man manufacturers because of the op
eration of the new. patent laws.
DAILY WEATHER REPORT
Temperature at 2 pm. 60
Maximum since midnight. 57
Minimum since midnight. 47
Barometer at 2 p. m. 29.99
Part cloudy.
Confectionery. We have the best.
Seward Drug Co. *
Cigars and tobaccoes at the Seward
Drug Co. , *
Vote at Primaries So Close In
Michigan That Official Can
vass Must Be Made.
By Cable to Tfco Dally Gateway.
Detroit, Sept. 4—The vote at the
primary election on the choice of a
candidate for governor has been so
close in the state of Michigan between
the two republican candidates, present
Governor Fred M. Warner and Mr.
Bradley, that an official canvass will
have to be made to determine the re
sult.
Elect Commander in Chief
By Cable to Tne Dally Gateway.
Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 4—At the annual
meeting of the members of the Grand
Army Colonel Henry Nevius of Red
Bank, New Jersey, was elected Com
mander in Chief.
Sitka Hot Springs—First class ac
commodations, American and European
plan. For reservation and rates apply
to Doctors Goddard and Brooks, Sani
tarium, Alaska.
The McKinley House, Fifth avenue,
board and lodging $1.00 per day.
Meet me at the Branch *
Notice of Application for U. S. Patent.
No. 07.
U. S. Land Ofllee. Juneau. Alaska, July 8. 1908.
Notice is hereby given that Louis Green
baum, whose post ottlee address is San Francis*
co, California, by C. a. Fletcher, his attorney in
fact, has made application for a United States
Patent for the Empire Lode, being Mineral Sur
vey No. 291. and situated in the Unga Mining
District, Alaska, aud more particularly des
cribed as follows:
Beginning at corner No. 1, at intersection of
N. E. end line and lode line identical with cor
ner No. 5 of survey No. 290. mouth of tunnel
No. 1 bears south 74 deg. 43 min. west 555
feet, mouth of tunnel No. 2 bears south 67 deg.
30 min. west 850 feet, mouth of tunnel No. 3
bears south 66 deg. 15 min. west 890 feet,
whence U. S. Mineral Monument No. 2 bears
south II deg. 50 min, west 241 feet distant;
thence south 47 deg. 30 min. east 300 feet to
corner No. 2. identical with corner No. 2 of
survey No. 290; thence south 56 deg. 30 min.
west 1500 feet to corner No. 3; thence north
47 deg, 30 min. west 113 feet cross creek 300
feet to corner no. 4 at intersection of lode line
500 feet cross small creek 600 feet to corner
no, 5; thence north 56 deg. 30 min. east 1300
feet to corner no. 6 identical with corner no. 6
of survey no. 290; thence south 47 deg. 30 min.
east 300 feet to corner no, I. the place of begin
ning.
Area, 20.04 acres.
Magnetic variation, 20 deg. 30 min. east,
The notice of location of said Empire Lode is
of record in the ottlee of the Recorder of the
Unga Mining district at Unga Island, Alaska,
in Mining Record A, at page 29.
The adjoining claims are as follows; On the
northeast, the Little Joker claim, Louis Green
baum claimant, survey No. 290; on the south
west the Alaska Mine, Louis Greenbaum. claim
ant, and on all other sides there is vacant
ground. , , , .
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
mining ground, vein, lode or premises, or any
portion thereof so described, surveyed, platted
and applied for, are hereby notified that unless,
their adverse claims are duly filed according to
law and the regulations thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law, with the Register and
Receiver of the United States Land Ottlee at
Juneau, Alaska, they will be barred by virtue
of the provisions of the statute.
JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
It is hereby ordered that the forego
ing notice be published for the statutory
period in the Seward Gateway, a dally
newspaper printed at Seward, Alaska.
JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
Date of first publication, July 29,1908.
Date of last publication, Oct. 7.1908.