ATTACKS RATES
FIXED BY EAW
By Cable to the Daily Gate***
Seattle. Sept. dO Jame* .I. Hill arid
t. ;rt \ arrived in Seattle last night.
S\r. Hill was banqueted at the Ramie*
clnh ami in a speech attacked the pro-j
P< s.d of President Itdosevell and others
have a law enfteted by Congress
giving the interstate commerce com-!
• s>ion power to tix railroad freight
Vit I «•>.
Mr. Hill said that if a mean distance
i.iie should 1h* established it would
drive the commerce of the Pacific
coa-t off the face of *he earth. I'mier
„uch a law. he said, the government
would he obliged to make a rate to
Ohio, for instance; then another from
there o Illinois; ar*»ther from Illinois
to Montana, ami -till another from
Montana to the Pacitie coast. Then it
would he necessary ’»> combine ah ^
tie-s. rates to tix the rate to the coast
from New York.
Tin- result of this method of fixing
r.te Mr. Hill said, wotdd be to make
freight ehargt s frcin ocean to ocean
which the Pacific stales could not pos
sible pav and do business with the east.
At the present time, he explained.
Height charges are llxed with a view
• > tie- amount that shippers can afford
while an arbitrary mileage
otu would anr.il i an lunv distance
s! .ppit.
WILL CONSTRUCT ADDITION
L\ L. Whittemocw to Extend His
Building to Alley
K. I* Whittent ore will begin within
a few day* to add :l two-*b»ry addition
i.) hi* builddij: at tie* cornel »>t Koitrlh
a \ eiiue a: u Wa-dutnrton suvt. which
contain th- Northern "n ai d re*t
; Yin addition will extend to
.’■ .. alley ami "ill he lilted tip on the
- c mi lloor for furnished room*.
•■•op., ;.o\v occupied by the North*
t ■ j * i irunt and . K Babbage, ' he
• Wider, "ill be tilted up a* a bowling
j it y. The equiptren’ for the alley
will eotue upon the Left ha a boitt i>et
oIkt 20. Until tie n the »* *? aura tit
wilt remain i: b .
Ill dde*. the :. datttfrit and Mr. Bale
bag- another • • reliant will be tli-p.>*.
*. **ed. Thi* i* K. vogel, wi mt eertly
epei,. d a not i ii **nr«- n aotv->tor\
building Which he erected lot the pur
pose back of the Northern *aloon. Mr.
Vogel will U- old god to move h *
building' to another lot.
\v. A. McNeiley Id * the on'ract for
t he new -truciure.
t. R. Ojy's Successor Named
K. H. Gray will l>e sucec'-deu as
s.ward agent for the Northwestern
stea ship ('ompany by S. 1*. Brown of
Seattle, who will arrive on the Kxcel
sior about October 11. Mr. Gray re
ceived a letter on the Santa Clara from
General Manage r Trowbridge, accept
ing his resignation which In sent in a
month ago. Mr. Cray s time .s fully
occupied bv Itis position as wharf agent
for the railroad editpanv and his pri
vate business.
Take a hath at Gould and Conner ;.
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f|\ Periodicals
f* Stationery
«\ Td^acco f)y
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!P Candv W
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$C U R i os!
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an assortment of
n\ stable patent medicines \f.
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# SEWA#D NEWS COMPANY
SEWARD ORDERS |
CHEMICAL ENGINE
Seward will have a chemical fit o on- j
gine in less than two weeks, as the
first move toward giving the town pro
tection from tire. The cost of the on*,
gine’ $‘J40 was subscribed by local bus
iness men, practically every one eon-,
tributing.
The order was stmt out by cable last
night and the engine will he shipped
on the Excelsior tomorrow This was
promised by H. \V. Ogilvie, agent for
the Washington llubber Company of
Seattle, who is in the city and took
the order last night from \V. A. Me
Neiley. tiiV marshal, who made the se
lection after consultation with the
other contributors.
The tire fighter is a Mix chemical
fire engine. No. 4. with a steel cylind
er which has a test of .!•><• pounds. 1 he
frame is entirely of iron, tlie tires are
rubber, and the engine carries fifty
feet of rubber hose, with a nickle-plat
ed nozzle. It is so light that one man
can run with if.
The engine is in every way modern.
It has a safety valve, shut-off valve and
pressure gauge. It>. weight is .'490
pounds. A pressure of 160 pounds can
he created in six seconds and it can
throw a stream sixty feet. Its capac
ity Is forty gallons.
The purchase of the tire engine is
part of the work which citizens and
• he chamber of commerce have taken
up in earnest to lessen the danger
from tire, which is admitted to he seri
ous in a town built almost wholly ot
wood, as all frontier towns are. The
recent dire i xperienee of Nome has
snurred on efforts which were already
in progress to reduce the lire risk of
the town to the minimum.
Some time ago the chamber of com
merce took up the question of cleanng
alleys and vacant lots of combustible
trash, of which there is a dangerous
accumulation in many places. At tin*
: regular meeting of the chamber next
Monday night the subject will be tak
en up again and a systematic move
ment inaugurated for the disposition
• if loose combust titles.
CHARGED WITH STEALING
Men who Took Articles from
Wharf Acquitted of Larceny
tiem-ge stuiw and John Hngwall >'
some vegetables on the wharf early
yesterday morning which nolnnly else
was trying to eat, and they decided to
ii. ip tle iuselves. especially ns then
seemed to he enough to spare. Store
keeper Holland saw the men each
i carrying a sack.
t umtnissiom-r Hildreth was waked
ip and a search warrant issued. Mar
ihal Wybrartt entered tie- cahin of
tin* two mer and found one of them
there with the sacks of vegetables.
W hile the officer and Mr Holland were
in the cabin the other suspect arrived
with two cans of cream lrn his pocket.
Two cans were later found to 1m* mis
sing from a east* on the dock.
Hoth men had been working for
Atherton Shaw, who had it station
contract on mile HO. Contractor Shaw
! is a brother of the man who was ftr
j rested.
The accused men gave bonds of SL’flC*
•each and were tried yesterday b< fo**e
a jury on the charge of'potty larceny.
The tVial occupied all afternoon and
evening until 11 o'clock. At .*» in the
i morning the jury brought in a verdict
of not guilty. One of the men did not
deny taking the goods hut said that
the Articles were lying loose on the
wharf and b**ing run over by longshore
men and he thought the stuff was go
ing to waste anyway.
The United States survey steamer
Patterson. Capt. Hodgkins, came in
la>t Mondav morning at for her last
call this year. She is taking on thit
remainder of the coal which has l>een
lying on tfie railroad wharf for her
use. Executive Otllcer Rhodes stated
that when We Patterson leaves she
Will go to (Controller bay for two or
three wee1'> and will probably spend
the winter V* We Puget Sound navy
j’yaVcT
FIND MISSING STEERS
_
One Living and Other Dead After
Months of Starvation
Two steers which escaped last June
from Small A Olasbrenner were found
yesterday, a living skeleton and a dead
one, near McPherson's ranch, about
three miles and a half from townr. A
few rods from the barren sand ridge
where the arriraWls had spent months
of starvation lay a stretch of line grass
itfpon which they could have fattened
indefinitely.
The dead steer had been defunct at
least two months, hut his appearance
testified that starvation had played a
large share in his taking-ofl, if it was
not wholly responsible. Apparently
both animals had subsisted tor a long
time on the bark of fvillows, as the
trees plainly indicated. No grass is in
the immediate vicinity, although plen
tiful a quarter of a mile away.
Ii is supposed that the live steer re
mained near his defunct companion
through unreakoning sympathy. This
easilv account* foV hi* staying after
the other’s death but it cannot he ex
plained why both remained on a barren
sand dune after traveling several
miles, instead of continuing on in
search of choir natural food. Uoth
steers were fat when turned out the
last of May.
LEADS STRENUOUS LIFE
Stapleton starts to Clean out the
Town und runs AmOck
Under Alcoholic inspiration James
Stapleton started Tuesday night to lead
the strenuous life. He first wanted to
clean out the Coleman house office hut
was ejected before any damage was
done, lie then went down to the Nor
thern saloon corner and ‘informed the
public that he was a had man. lie
said in substance:
■ I'm a woolly boss! I'm a tarantula
from Hitter creek pretty high up! I'm
a \ard wide and all wool! I'm a wolf
and this is my night to howl!"
Judge Hildreth noticed Mr. Staple
ton and not ilied Marshal W\ brant.
The marshal looked the disturber over
and called on Charles Crawford, the
muscular blacksmith, to help put Jim
in cold storage. They were able to
hold their quarry hut they couldn't
propel him. as he wanted to-tay where
he was. Then J. J. McManus and Kx
I>. 1 Ktt x Marshal l.ec of Nome, each
about the >i/c .,| Jeffries, were drafted
into the pos ■ and the big lour. W v*
brant f rav ford. McManus and Lee.
dragged Stapleton to jail, that gentle
man nieanwbile addressing injurious
epithets to them.
Calls for New Tyoonok hills
.Now bids for the star route contract
jrotu Seward to Tyoonok by wav of
Knik durii! ; the winter months have
been call* d lor in Chief Clerk Karnes
:i> all of tii bids put in at the fir>t call
are too hii'h. Mr. Karnes soys he i>
certain the government will not ac
cept any of them. The new call is for
a limited -ervice of I’>• • pounds, to he
earri* d once a mont 1» from November
1 to March III.
Story Of \ Wise Male.
Fin-] magazine tells that in a certain
mine in Schuylkill county, Pennsylva
nia. i- a mule drawing loaded cars on a
circular track OiH) feet below the sur
face of the ground. No one has for a
long period either driven him or said
a word to him in connection with his
work, which he has been carrying on
for many years. When he hears tin*
elick made by attaching the second car
to his chain, In* moves off with his
load. It three cars are attached he
will not budge. Neither will he move
if one is attached. No amount of beat
ing changes this resolution. When
the whistle biotas at F2 o’clock he Im
mediately goes to the place where his
feed is left, outsit with gusto, then lies
down to rest until the 1 o’clock
whistle bhrws. He then gets up anti
places himself in a position to draw
cars again. When the <> o’clock
whistle blow% no matter where he is,
fie stops work and no amount of coax
ing or beating makes the slightest im
pression or alteration on his mind.
To Rustle Men for Railroad
Frank Kelly went to Seattle on tire
Santa < lara to rustle men for the rail
j road. Not only the railroad company
'but the biy: contractors. Rich »v
Harris iinA 1* Welch Co.', want a
jlarffC number of mvn and will jrive
steady employment til*1 winter to hun
dreds more than they have now.
To Be Railroad Surgeon At Inlet
Dr. Robert Grieve came to Seward
on the Santa Clara to become a surtreon
for the Alaska Central. He will have
j\jhar&e of the tt&nrps fit TurnAgaln Anu.
STOVES AND RANGES
-—-Wholesale and Retail
TIN, BRASS ANO SHEET STEEL WORK
JOBBING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
80-40 Winchester Repeating Rifles.-Axes, Saws
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iarg<e Assortment of Tents; Granite and Tinware
FOURTH AVENUE
SEWARD. ALASKA
I HOTEL McNEILEY
EUROPEAN PLAN
ACCOMMODATIONS STRICTLY ClRST CLASS
Rates 50c to $2.00 per day
WILL A. McNEILEY Proprietor
FOURTH AVENUE SEWARD. ALASKA
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BAY CITY MARKET
U’WoLKkALK AN1) k'eTAIL DKADKKS IN
fresh Beef, Pork, Veal and Mutton
Hams, Bacon and Lard Constantly on hand
Small & Glasbrenner
THE LOUVRE
EIDSON 8L DOBSON Proprietors
A Gentleman's Resort. Gold Dust Bought
Cor. iMftli and Washington st roots Howard. Alaska
ASHLAND HOUSE
AND BANK SALOON
Wines. Liquors and Cigars First-class Furnished Kooms
Finirtli A ve..Opposite Alaska Central Commercial Co.
Restaurant in connection. WALLACE 4 THOMPSON. Proprietors
Board of Trade
I Fourth avenue, * - *_Seward, Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
New, Neat and Comfortable. F. V. THOMAS, Prop.
THE COMMERCE
FOURTH AVENUE
A dentleinan's Resort and Club Rooms,
FURNISHED ROOMS
Wc Purchase Gold Dust at Regular Rates
PETERSON &. BROWN, Proprietors
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; F G. HALE President C. E. DICKERMAN. Vlce-Pre.
BANK OF SEWARD
Transacts a General Banking Business
We reecho deposits, buy amt soil exchange, foreign and domestic: buy gold
dust and bullion:!hake collections. All business committed to our curt; win
j| receive prompt and careful attention. .
Your Business is Solicited . .
rOX ISLAND TOR SALE
Ten miles from Seward. The island
is two miles long ami one mile wide.,
1 will sell my squatter’s claim and
foxes, whose skins are worth an average
of $20 each’, for $2o00. which is lesKtlmn !
one-third of the 'value of the skins, i
Otfer fs made because l wish to go wp |
the Susitna to prospect for a year.
Alfred Lowells
Third avenue, Seward.
Work begun yesterday upon th&
Episcopal chureb at the corner of
Second avenue and Ada As staeet1.
RIDLEY’S BEST
MAPLE SYRUP
ThisSvtup i> wurtunteil not to sutflir
or sour in any ollnmte. For sale at
SQUARE DEAL RESTAURANT
GEORGE RIDLEY. Proprietor
FOR SALE
SAWMILL -5,000 to 10,000 loot
capacity per day. Used six
Months. Located on line of
Alaska Central Rail w a y.
Turnagaiti Arm. Price low
for cash'. Apply Immediate*
ty to M. E. DAVIS,
51 ope Alaska., _
A discovery of exceedingly rich goM
Quartz near Cape Fid wards on Chicka
VotT island, about eighty miles from
Sitka is reported by the Sitka paper*