VOL. II, NO. L’>.
FIERCEST MASSACRE
IN RUSSIAN HISTORY
Mob at Bialystok Kill Jews by Thousands Ac
companying Slaughter by the Most Barbaric
Tortures, and Burn Business District
of the Entire City.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Bialystok, June Is After the most
frightful dewish massacre in the his
tory of the empire, in which the vic
tims were numbered by the thousands
and the tortures exceeded in barbarity
the savagerv at KishinefT Gov. Grodno
and the fatholic clergy succeeded to
day in subduing the rioters and sent
assurances to the dews n other prov
inces that the massacre was ended
here.
The streets unlay are littered with
mutilated Innlies, many ot them head*
* ss and disemboweled. l'he business
district of the city wa> burned by the
rioters ami everything not consumed
bv the tiames is bespattered with
blood.
Blood Flows in Streets
St. 1 Vp: -bllfg. J U!-.« Is i'> !>•'<.
flowed everywhere in the streets ol
Bialystok liut ; nv bays of the fierc
est rutting ev*-'- known u a H i"
Ht.v, it:spired1 by the barbaric fury of
the ant i-sfinitic mol*. ' hihiren were
hurled from high windows to he
crushed into -hap* heaps ot t!> -n
anil bloodufton th pavements. A oiuen
were outraged openly, tiler: their
>kuil> wetv crushed.-, ami many ot tie :n
left to die In It It ering torture in t he
stre> s on t*> b« ! ratnpied ti> deati by
The tr »ops we* • unable or unwilling
to stop ti massacre and the mob ran
dot at i:> will. The atrocities p«*r
petrated upon living victims were tip
palling ant; mutilated Jews wandered
screaming through the streets With
eyes gouged out or limbs chopped ok.
while u’ 1-is by humlftsis were slowly
roasted t * * death mi the tires which
consumed their homes or in the flam
ing debris into which they were
thrown when deprived of the power of
locomotion. Many women were among
the rioters and their cruelties were a
barbarous a> those of the men. whom
they urged on with fanatical fury.
Burn Fart of City
A large part of the city was burned
and at one time th*- whole of it seemed
to be in flames. In barbarity and ex
tent of destruction of 1 if** and property
the record eclipses that made at Kishi
nefT three years ago. Peasants
smarmed into the city from the country
to join the rioters, inspired by long
standing hatred of tin- Jews.
As reports of the massacre reached
surrounding districts it inflamed the
lower classes and similar barbarous
rioting spread through ail tin* towns.
Outbreaks are reported at Wyelista
j»rad and Krementchug but no details
have been received. At KietT and
KharkotT the Jewish population
huddled together awaiting the fate
which seemed to impend. It is re
ported that hundreds were killed at
Bresolmtok and Yilna hut th** censor
is suppressing all details.
Fight in Streets
St. Petersburg. June 10 Desperate !
fighting continued at intervals all day
yesterday at Bialvstok. Peasants, sold
iers and Jew-, battled in the streets
with great loss of life. The Jews were
the worst victims of the struggle and
nearly all their stores were sacked.
The hospitals were crowded with
wounded before evening. Wires run
ning out of the city were cut at mid
night. so no further news has come
from the city since that hour.
The douma today sent a committee
to visit the city and investigate the
trouble regardless of any measures
that may be taken by the imperial
government.
Jews Slain at Syzran
Syzran. June IS—A mob attacked a
Jewish meeting last nig^it and killed
forty, besides wounding many others.
Troops are coming in to stop the riot
ing which is still in progress.
Expect Call to Arms
St. Petersburg. June IS—Russia is
hourly expecting a call to arras to
meet the most gigantic upheaval ever
known in Russian history. It is gen
erated by the radical group of revolu
tionists. The proletariat leaders have
been preparing for months to cast
aside Iwth the* czar and the douma and
to take control of the empire them-,
selves.
The douma is practically defying the
czar and the latter is expected to dis
solve parliament and appoint a dicta
tor. It is believed that this action
would precipitate a revolution within
twelve hours. The lower house has
voted unbending opposition to auto
cracy in all forms.
noscow in Ferment
Moscow. .June IS The city is bub
bling with po'itical excitement but
perfect order prevails as troops are
p trolling all’h. principal streets and
h utevards and machine guns are
planted to sweep the thorough hires it
occasion rei|uires. Impending revolu
tion is discussed freely in cafes and all
other public places.
Alexietf Stays Inside
Cnmstadt, dune Is Admiral Alex
i :'i, commanding tin* fortress here, re*
cel v< a wan ‘ng yesterday to keen
out Oi sight, tie accepted the warning
ami U remaining in his home.
Strike Is Spreading
St. Petersburg, dune 19 The strike
spi: ad;: g to the smaller towns and
i' !:.;'’rial operations of all kinds are
a n:.is* at a standstill, t here is much
Io*11 in spite of the presence of
troops and the disorderly elements are
praati-ally defying'he soldier' but no
sei i<> s outbreak has yet taken place.
Nevertheless it is believed that the
first ciash between tie* troops and the
noth.ate will he the signal for civil
war. The imperial government >us
pee;s all the troops of infidelity to the
throne.
Nobility Issue Address
Tie nobility today issued an address
of confidence in the throne. The doc
ument is pacific and conciliatory in its
terms and calls the peasantry brothers
hut suggests no redress for grievances
or proposals for reform. The doutna
is inactive and it is believed that it is
mere I \ waiting for the revolutionaries
to perfect their plans before it breaks
with the e/.ar officially.
Details of Massacre
The censorship of Hialystok was
raised today and details of the massa
cre are coming in, Correspondents
describe scenes of unparalleled bestial
ity and barbarism. Many bodies have
been found with the hands tied and
nails driven into the heads of the vic
tims. This was undoubtedly done
while they were alive. It is stated
that the soldiers acted with the mobs,
and that they broke into houses where
refugees were gathered, separated
Christians from Jews, and shot the lat
ter by wholesale, afterward bayonet
ting the wounded. The arrival of the
committee sent to the city by the
douma was the signal for quiet and
everything is orderly now.
Mutineers Kill Officers
St. Petersburg, June 22 A regiment
at Krehnnoyarsk mutinied and killed
the colonel for striking soldiers yester
day. ('apt. Kozelmin ordered his com
pany to tire at the mutineers and they
turned their guns upon the captain and
tired, killing him instantly. The
soldiers then slaughtered all the
officers of the regiment. The muti
neers now hold the city und the in
habitants are in a panic.
Mutiny at Sevastopol
Sevastopol, June 22—Mutineers are
again rising in the army and navy
here. One regiment has captured
several heavy guns, which they have
trained upon the city. The populace
is in a panic and officers are trying to
get the mutineers to return to their
commands, promising immunity from
punishment.
Uprising at Cronstadt
Cronstadt, June 22—The troops here
are again in mutiny. Minister of
Marine Birilew is here, urging the
men to return to duty but they refuse.
A Russian alienist reports that in
2,421 cases of solitary confinement he
found 186 insane persons.
PUTS IT UP TU
INSURANCE MEN
States May Suspend Licenses of
Companies Which Do Not
Pay San Francisco.
By Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
Now York, June l!» State Insurance
Commissioner Hendricks today ad
dressed a letter to similar otlicials'in
all the states advocating the revoca
tion of the licenses of ull fire insurance
companies which refuse to pay the ban
Francisco tire losses iu full. 1 he
movement seems likely to be popular
in nearly all the states its shown by
previous discussion.
Propose 25 Per Cent
San Francisco. June IS* More than
half of the lire insurance companies
which are liable for losses in the re
cent lire have offered to settle the
claims at per cent of the face of the
policies. The proposal will ho refused.
To l oan $10,000,000
Cy Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Washington. D. t .. June It* I he
house con ferret's with tile senate com
mittee on the same subject agreed to
day to support the president s phm to
place *10.000.000 of government money
with San Francisco bankers to loan for
rebuilding purposes. It U believed
that the senate will agree.
JAPANESE FISHERMEN
STILL AT ATTU 1SLAN3
Oriental Squad Driven Off by Cutter
Perry last Summer Returned
Immediately.
Work for the cutter Perry is already
cut out by the same troop of Japanese
fishermen she drove from Attu island
last summer. The Perry routed the
little brown men without tier- uiony,
burned their campon tin* island and
came away to report a good job speed
ily done. The cunning < >rientals sailed
a tew leagues to the westward and
calculating nicely that the cutter
would not return were back in a tew
days in their choser: resort. Since
then they have been pursuing their
vocation peacefully and industriously
without interference from any source.
This news came to Seward on the
Dora, the facts having been reported
lately at I'nalaska by American fisher
men arriving from the westward a
short time ago.
Attu island is at the extreme west
ern end of the Aleutian chain. it is
so far west that it lies in east longi
tude. about 172 from Greenwich. It is
nearer Ja^an than it is to Seattle and
is not far from the great circle path of
Seattle- Japan steamship liners.
Revenue cutters may come and go
but the destruction of a few Japanese
fishing outfits, more or less, seems un
likely to discourage < Jriental fatalists,
even of the humble coolie class, w ho
believe that whatever happens is sim
ply in the process of nature. They
will keep on coming even if a few of
them are killed.
BRING GOOD REPORTS
FROM YENTNA DISTRICT
Arrivals in Seward Tell of Rich Dig
gings Recently Found on Differ
ent Creeks
Favorable reports from the Yentna
district were brought down this week
by two arrivals. H. Anderson, who
went in with John McDonald last win
ter. returned from the upper Yentna
river, where he prospected extensively
this spring. On one creek he took out
$7 a day with a rocker. This was on a
creek near the head of navigation,
well up toward the mountain range.
William Jones carne^. down from
Peters creek, where th/tirst gold dis
covery on the Kahiltna or its branches
was made nearly two years ago. He
has been working a new claim there
and took out repeatedly from 7 to 10
cents a pan. He states that men were
beginning active work there before he
left and that several of them had al
ready secured good results.
Both men are going back in a few’
days. _______
Steamer Dora Returns
Steamer Dora returned from the
westward Monday morning at 6 o’clock
and sailed for Valdez at 10 o’clock a.
m. She brought six passengers from
different ports and reports a pleasant
voyage except some rough weather
the first day out from Unalaska.
BRIDGE WORK
TO BEGIN SOON
Erection of Trestles in Placer
Valley Will Keep Pace With
Tunnel Boring.
Boring of tunnel No. 1 on mile 40 of
the railroad is proceeding now at the
rate of 30 feet per week, which will
complete the work in about ten weeks, j
The total length is 710 feet. Last Sat- j
unlay night the heading was in 441
feet and the bench 403 feet.
The completion of this tunnel will
permit the laying of track to the
string of tunnels on miles .r»2-53 as soon
as the high trestles at tin* loop just
beyond tunnel 1 are finished. 'Phis
work can be done very rapidly and it
is believed by the construct ion officials
j that the trestles will be ready for the
j railroad as soon as the track is ex*
i tended through tunnel 1, which should
| be early in September.
A large part of the timber for the
j trestles is already on the ground just
beyond tunnel I and the work of erec
j tion should begin this week. A great
'deal of heavy round timber has been
I floated down the Placer river in the
last few days from the end of the
j track, on mile -P!. The water is not
' quite high enough and in order to
float tie* logs the stream i> dammed a
short distance al.»ov«* the |>oint where
the logs are dumped into it and when
the gate is opened the water carries
them down easily except where sharp
| bends make a little prodding necessary
j by the log drivers.
; Tunnels U. and •'> are completed,
tlm bench of No. •> is in L’P feet and the
j bracing .TI feet. The heading of the
north end of No. T. the last of the
! series, is in feet. No. I is not yet
begun.
Camp Pi was re-established this
week and a gang of men will soon i»c
at work on the grade from the end of
; the track. This is near the end of
mile P«. a little more than two miles
from the first tunnel. The line there
runs along a side hill and includes
some rock work hut the grade can be
finished in a few weeks and the rails
laid to the tunnel. Work was sus
pended there all w inter because of the
great depth of snow and the frequent
slides.
SUBMARINE ERUPTION
UPHEAVES NEW ISLAND
Several Acres of Rocky Surface
Raised Near Boroslov and
Water Still Boiling.
Amid waves which are still boiling
from the heat of a violent submarine
eruption a new island lifts its rocky
crest above the sea near Boroslov
island, which was thrown up by a sim
ilar eruption about 1>m» years ago.
The infant island presents a superficial
area of several acres and with Boros
lov, and another small island which
rose from submarine depths in 18*2,
j forms the points of a small triangle in
i longitude lti* west, latitude 54 north,
about seventy miles west of Unalaska.
The news was brought to Unalaska a
short time ago by fishermen from the
west and came to Seward on the Dora.
Mail Clerk John 10. Thwaites inter
viewed everybody who had seen it but
the most accurate information he
could obtain was simply that fishermen
coming by were unable to approach the
island because the water surrounding
it was still seething from the heat, in
dicating that its upheaval was of
recent occurrence. When the ob
servers attempted to approach closely
they found the water so hot they were
compelled to keep away.
The Alaska peninsula and its land
extension, the Aleutian chain of
islands, lie in a volcanic belt and oc
casional eruptions occur throughout
the length of peninsula and archipel
ago. Several live volcanoes exist in
this broken chain of land and the geo
logical formation is of later ages,
largely cretaceous and miocene. The
region contains numerous dykes of
Plutonic rock and many boiling
springs.
Dora to Change Sailing Date
Steamer Dora will change her sail
ing date July 1 and on her next trip
will sail westward from Valdez about
July 5. Agent Stiles of the North
western brought this information from
Valdez but he is unable to explain
why the boat will sail from Valdez the
5th when an outside passage boat is
due in that port from Seattle the 7th.
SUNRISE TRAIL
NOW ASSURED
Maj. Richardson Promises Survey
This Summer and To Be^in
Work Soon.
WILL BUILD ROADWAY LATER
Route Will Extend from Hope Along
South Side of Turnagain
Arm to Railway.
Turnagain Arm will get the govern
ment trail from Hope and Sunrise to a
point where the Alaska Centra! passes
the head of that estuary . 'This much
is promised by Maj. Richardson, chair
man of the Alaska road commission,
who arrived in Seward last night on
the steamer Portland. A survey will
he made within a short time and tie
work wilt he commenced as>oon there
after as arrangements can he made.
Maj. Richardson thinks it improbable
that the trail can he made this fall Imt
promises that construction will be put
through early next spring.
At lirst a pack trail will be cut
i through and this will b<* made over
into a lirstclass wagon road >oon after
ward. The trail will not 1 expensiw
hut a good wagon road will cost con
siderable money and the road fund i'
somewhat pinched thi> year because of
plans formed for its absorption before
the attention of the road commission
was directed to the need of a road on
the south side of the Arm to give the
towns there an outlet to the railroad.
Seward is a new town and only with
in the past y ear has attained sutlicient
I size to make its influence felt. Maj.
Ribhardson is one of the best informed
men in Alaska on the development of
tt»e territory hut the money at his dis
j posal is limited and he cannot accom
! plish all that lie sees ought to hi* done
I in the line of road making. Nevei
Itheless he promised officials of the
| Alaska Central hist winter in Wash
ington to do whatever he could toward
getting a trail ahead of the railroad
from lvriik to the Tanana.
In pursuance of this promise Capt.
Pillsbury. engineer of the commission,
came to Seward several months ago to
consult railroad surveys and study the
field. While here his attention was
directed by Frank Hallaine to the fact
that Seward and Kenai peninsula are
getting nothing from the license
money they contribute to the Alaska
road fund and the suggestion made
that a good way to spend that much
money would he to construct a trail
from Hope and Sunrise to the railroad.
Capt. Pillsbury promptly agreed that
the project was no more than fair and
recommended it to the commission.
Maj. Richardson went out to tin*
railroad tunnels with «). R. Cameron,
construction engireer, today to look at
the work there. He will return to
Valdez on the Portland and spend tin*
summer in the interior where road
work is in progress.
TO REACH COAL FIELO
IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS
Tanana Construction Company Makes
New Contract for Building
Alaska Central.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, June 16—The Tanana Con
struction Company, which is building
the Alaska Central railroad, today
agreed with the directors of the rail
road company u|xm an amended con
tract which gives the construction
company eighteen months to reach the
Matanuska coal fields.
Alaska Central officials say that very
soon arrangements will be complete to
place a much larger number of men at
work. Patrick Welch, of P. Welch &
Co., who have the 30-mile rock con
tract on Turnagain Arm, is here, and
it is stated that plans will be settled
within two weeks to place a sufficient
number of men at work on that part of
the line to finish it within a year.
No Bonanza on Peninsula
L. L. Bales says the story of recent
remarkable gold discoveries on the
Alaska peninsula are exaggerated. He
has just come from Sand Point and
states that the deposits found there
and at St. John are of the ordinary
kind that can be located anywhere on
the peninsula.
Russia has one village school for
each 12,000 persons.
JUDGESHIP TO
60 OVER ASAIN
Wickersham’s Supporters liiahfc
To f orce Vote on HU
Confirmation.
1
FAIL TO HOLD UP ALL OTHERS
President Will Probably Give Him
Recess Appointment Although
Inemies Protest.
By Cable to The Bally Gateway.
Washington, I). (.turn-22 Fornk
and Hailey forced a vote yesterd.i
; afternoon in executive session of th
j senate upon the question of passin
! Wickersiiam’s name on the list o; ai
' pointments or compelling a vote on li -
'confirmation before anythin" • * I "•
taken up and were defeated by l!‘.M *
' T. The vote does not by any mean' r
! dieate Wickersiiam’s strenyth a' man*
of his supporters declined to vote on
| the question or voted ayainst it be
! cause they did not think one non ra
tion should hold up aP other',
they believed it useless t< try to ' c u*
i Wickersiiam's confirmation at this
.
! session.
This action of the senate mean't’ ■,
' Wickersiiam’s continuation is
tracked for this session of conyr*"
is believed that the president wi:i ■_
him a reeess appointment althou.
ij enemies of the judye are ury
( Kooseveli not to make th* anno
ment inasmuch as they claim Whs
sham can never be confirmee.
Try to (ict Precedence
Washington. I>. ( .. Jun** J'* li
Wickersham case is at ill ;
list of nominations foe fed--r;:i »»*>- • -
i and nothing else will he ■ i c« n r
executive session until '<■ W ek<
! sham appointment is disposed of. I -
supporters expect to fore*' a vote- w
j in a day or two and claim 11 i:it a cm
vass of the senate shows iut the m.
hers stand for Wickersham •
i against, with three votes n doubt.
. Hailey of Texas in the debate ye*
i terday afternoon accused N* bon. Han*
brough and Mc< umber of lilihustertn -
J to defeat WickershauTs comirmation
- All three denied the charge, and liar *
| brough brought forward a new accusa
tion against Wickersham. He charge'
j that Wickersham aided in the circula*
I tion of a pamphlet in North Dakota
discussing1 the Nome controversy <»'
i l'too concerning Judge Noyes. The o!*
! ject was to show that Wickersham
j had made attacks on members of tie
senate as the article complained of
severely animadverted upon several
senators. Wickersham denies all
I connection with tbe circulation of tht
J offending statement.
PORTLAND ARRIVES
AND GOES WESTWARD
Brings 76 Passengers to Seward In
cluding Maj. Richardson, and
Several for Inside.
Steamer Portland arrived Thursday
evening at H o'clock and sailed shortly
after midnight for Seldovia. She will
go to Homer and Kodiak and return
about Monday morning. She brought
76 passengers to Seward, including
Maj. Richardson of the Alaska road
commission. The list numbered 24
cabin. 51 steerage and one stowaway.
The steerage passengers were laborer
for the Alaska Central. The Seward
cargo was 95 tons.
The Portland's delay was due to the
fact that she ran into Valdez first,
then came out by way of Orca, Kyak
and Cordova, and the other towns on
Cordova bay. She reached Seward
eleven days out of Seattle, with nine
days mail.
Reports Strike on Nushagak
Placer and quartz strikes on a creek
of the upper Nushagak river, west of
the Kuskokwim range, were reported in
Seward by John Durand, a well-known
miner from Iliamna, who went through
on the Dora this morning. He knew
nothing about it except that the man
who made the strikes came out on the
Dora and went to Knik to record .V»
location notices. Durand said the man
was reticent about his discovery but
intimated that it was very rich. It is
located just below the mouth of the
Malchatna river.
Quartzite, slate, mica schist and
marble are well known carriers of
gold.