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Starting to l\line
Bering River Coal
Surveying Route ot Railroad l rom
Controller Bay to Coal
Fields.
KATARI.A. May A—lSpecial Cor
respondence)—M. H. Dttgdell has ob
tained a permit from the Controller
Bay Coal Company, known locally as
the McDonald Company, to mine coal \
in their patented claim on Bering
lake. He now has a crew of men at
the mine getting the same into shape
for actual work, after which he hopes!
to supply Kataila and vicinity with
Bering River coal.
In UH>7 T. P, McDonald expended
$175,000 developing a mine on this
claim. Final proof was made on thU
claim, together with the two adjoin
ing ones, the purchase price paid to
the government, and the final receipt
for same received. A ter selling
about 1,500 tons of coal from the de
velopment, Mr. McDonald made a
contract with the Kataila Company.
then building a railroad at this place, j
to supply them with coal. In l'.H)8, at
the request of the Navy department.
Mr. McDonald furnished the battle
ship Nebraska with thirty tons of coal
to make a test. The report dated May
3, 1008 shows that the test was made
in competition with Pochahontas coal,
the McDonald coal being used under
one set of boilers and the Pocahontas
under another ^et. Within the elaps
ed time only 15.2 ton.- of McDonald
coal was used as against l*.7 tons ot
Pocahontas coal. This resulted in the
Navy sending Mr, McDonald a con
tract to sign for a supply of 1.000
tons of his coal along ,-ide the navy
collier in Controller Bay at $0 per
ton. Before McDonald received the
blank contract. Louis B. Glavis got
busy and served orders on McDonald
to mine no more coal at his peril.
Since that time the mine ha.- been
lying idle, the machinery and equip
ment rusting away, and the buildings
falling into ruin while the government
has been investigating. Last year ai
patent was granted for the claim on
which the money had been expended.
When Mr. DugdeH gets the mine in
working order again Kataila people
are hoping to get their coal for a lit
tle less than the $21 per ton they have
had to pay for the last nine years, for
British Columbia coal. This with the
McDonald mine just thirteen miles up
the valley, too.
Mr. A. M. Keating, chief engineer
of field work for Alaska Petroleum
& Coal Company, is at present in tin
field surveying a preliminary lin * for
the railroad from the Company’ term
inal on Controller Bay direct to the
coal mines. Tv o timber cruisers are
looking over the supply of timber,
etc., in view of using same for the
construction work which will begin in
June.
Chas. Auer, acting for the under
writers, has been refused possession
of the lumber barge Washington,
which went ashore on Big Kayak
Island last fall. The boys who took
the wreck in charge at that time are
still aboard.
SALOME JANE AT
EMPRESS TOMORROW
The famous production of “Salome
Jane” will be shown tomorrow even
ing at the Empress theatre. Last
evening the picture of Maxim’s, New
York, was exhibited and the one to
morrow will even be more interesting.
Ail feature stuff will be the rule at
the bouse from now on, only a few of
the old pictures being left. Also all
the pictures will be right up to date.
Salome Jane is in seven reels.
* VALDEZ AND CORDOVA *
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Stella M. Geisser of Cordova has
filed suit for divorce from Gus
Geisser.
In a letter to Vaides Robert Mc
Chesney says H. D. Reynolds, of the
Reynolds-Alaska Development com
pany, is making lots of money manu
facturing munitions and will return to
Alaska miring af\'r the war.
CANADIANS IN FRANCE
WEAR STEEL HELMETS
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I’hoto by American Press Association
l Canadian soldiers In the trenches !•
France are -teen herewith using the per
Iscope and wearing the new steel hei
mets which have been found to he »
gotnl protection against some varieties
of shell ft re. The Canadian regiment'
have recently taken part In some ver> j
heavy fighting 1
KAMOIS DAWSON HOSTELRY
IS DESTROYED BY FLAMES J
DAWSON, April 2i>. — The Preidosj
roadhouse, located on the Klondike
river, and one of the famous road
houses of this district, was completely
destroyed by flumes today. A gaso
line lamp exploded, causing the flames j
to shoot all over the room, and there
never was a chance to save the build
ing. So rapidly did the flames spread
that much of the contents of the road
house was lost to the owner. There
were no lives lost, although there \va»j
one man who narrowly escaped be
ing seriously burned when the lamp j
exploded.—Ex.
ODDFELLOWS IM ITATE
MEMBERS THIS EVENING
The ceremony at the Oddfellows to
night will be the initiation of the
Third and Fourth degrees. The cere
monies connected with the institution
of the lodge will be concluded today.
AT LI N POLICE MAKE
SENSATION VL ARREST
The Northwest Mounted Police, in
co-operation with the loea! officers,
have been working on a noted case
for the last few weeks. As the result
of their inquiries and diligent detec
tive work they have arrested a man
supposed to be Raphael I.O|>ez, who
is wanted in the State of Utah for the
murder of six men.
The prisoner answers the descrip
tion of the Utah outlaw but claims
that he came to this province in 1911
and that since his arrival has been
working in various places in the in
terior. He will be held by the
authorities of this city until the ar
rival of men who can make the ident
■ ity and root out the veracity of his
: alibi.
The authorities in Utah have been
| looking for Lopez since November
1913. They have notified every town
on the continent of his escape and
"crime and have furnished officers with
a full description of his height,
weight, complexion and character
istics. The prisoner answers to the
letter the description held by the
! local police officers.
Newspapers all over the United
t States and Canada were full of the
news of the murder for which the
suspect is being held.—Ex.
PROTESTS DEATH
OF THE IRISH
LONDON, May 11. — George Ber
nard Shaw discussing the executions
of the Sinn Feiners in an open letter
today says: “My view is that the
| men who were shot, were executed in
cold blood. They were captured or
they surrendered to the military au
thorities. They were prisoners of
war and therefore it was entirely in
correct to slaughter them. I protest
and the whole world, except the exe
cutioners, protest such murder.”
•> PRIVATE SOLDIER *
❖ WAS WITH C ASEMENT •>
♦ - $
LONDON, May 16.—.(Delayed)—|
Daniel Julian Bailey, formerly an
Irish private soldier in the British
army, is the companion of Sir Roger
Casement in the trial for high treason
! which is now proceeding at Bow
Street courthouse. The proceedings at
Bow Street are only preliminary ones.
Bailey was with the British army in
the war but was taken prisoner by the
Germans and volunteered to accomp
any the knight in the desperate effort
to land in Ireland on a German sub
marine. The soldier’s fate is believ
ed to be sealed.
C A PL AX JURY AGAIN
IN DELIBERATION
LOS ANGELES, May HI.—(Delay
ed)—The jury in the case of David
Caplan, who is charged with aiding in
the dynamiting of the Times building,
reported today for the second time in
three days that they are unable to
reach a verdict. Judge Willis again
ordered the jury to resume its deli
berations which begun last Sunday
forenoon. The forman reported that
the jury stood 7 to 5 after the first
ballot and were unable to agree.
AUSTRIAN PRISONERS
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
COCHRANE, Canada, May 16.—
(Delayed)—An outbreak of Austrian
prisoners of war interned at Kap
suskasing was quelled by the military
authorities yesterday after one pris
oner bad been killed and nine severe
ly wounded. Some of the wounded
will die.
TEN WERE KILLED
AKRON, Ohio, May 16.—(Delayed)
—Ten are dead as the result of the
collapse of the Crystal Restaurant
yesterday.
WILLIAM GUGGENHEIM
PROMISES AN EXPOSE
BOSTON, May 11.—A Globe special
from New York says that William
Guggenheim expects to show that
the promoters of the Chili Copper
Company made a book profit of $7;>,
000,000 in the organization of the
company. A prospectus issued last
May gives it assets at $114,1506,711.
;t4. No financial report has been is
sued since.—Ex.
SHOOTING AFFRAY
LATOICHE MINE
Fortunato Medaini employed by the
Beatson mine at Latouche, was
brought up on the Northwestern by
Harry Moore, charged with shooting
one Charles Northland, another em
ployee of the company.
The shooting took place on May Sth
in the bunkhouse of the company.
Medaini ami Northland quarreled
violently over the ownership of a
skiff, and in his anger Medaini drew
a -evolver and shot at his opponent
three times, two of the shots taking
effect in Northland’s left side, miss
ing the heart, and going completely
through the body.
Medaini was seized by the other
men in the bunkhouse and disarmed,
while Northland was removed to the
company hospital and his wounds
dressed. An examination revealed
that the bullets had not struck any
vital organ, and unless complications
.set in he is expected to recover rap
idly.
A meeting of the miners was call
ed, and as there is no federal or town
officer at Latouche, Harry Moore was
appointed custodian of the prisoner,
ami took him in charge, arriving here
on the Northwestern with the man.
The prisoner will be given a pre
liminary hearing here before United
States Commissioner Ix>ve as soon as
witnesses can be brought up from La
touche.
Medaini is an Italian and Northland
is a Scandinavian.JValdez Prospector.
M. A. Ellis, of Cache creek, arrived
last evening enroute to the district
where he holds valuable mining prop
i erty.
APPROACH TO DOCK
THROUGH GALL PARK
❖ HI GILL’S ACTIONS *
❖ ARK ENDORSED •>
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SEATTLE, May 16.—(Delayed)—
The city council, after inspecting the
legal department of the city govern
ment yesterday, has endorsed Mayor
Gill and Chief of Police Beckingham
in all the actions arising from the en
forcement of the prohibition law and
the city “dry” ordinance. The de
partment will handle the cases in |
which the mayor and chief have been
sued as individuals as well as those in
which the city has been made defend
ant.
CHRISTIE CLAIMS THAT
FOX FARMING FAILURE
That fox farming in interior Alaska
as a commercial proposition is a fail
ure, is the opinion of Har»*y Christie
who for the past three years has
owned a fox farm at Alganik.
Christie says that while others may
not agree with him, he is firmly con
vinced that foxes never can be suc
cessfully raised in captivity. He
claims that he has studied the prob
lem carefully and given it a fair,
practical test in the past three years,
and his conclusions are not the result
of hasty judgment.
The one great obstacle to the pro
fitable fox farm, says Christie, is that
after the first year, the captive fox
will invariably kill its young. This,
he declares, he has found to be the
truth, by his own experience. For the
past two years the females which he
owned killed their entire litters.
Christie had seven pairs of foxes
when he decided to abandon his farm.
Those he sold to Jackson & Everson,
who intend to raise foxes on an ad
jacent island, where the foxes will be
allowed to run free.
Christie yesterday sailed for An
chorage on the steamship Mariposa.—
Cordova Times.
RESERVE CITY BANKERS
HOLD A CONVENTION
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
DETROIT, Mich., May 10. — The
Association of Reserve City Hankers,
membership in which is limited to
bankers in 51 of the country’s larger
cities in which federal reserve banks
are located, will open its fourth an
nual convention at the Hotel Startler
here tomorrow.
Consideration of problems confront
ing the federal reserve banks will
feature the meeting.
Convention speakers include some of
the biggest bankers of the country,
among them: W. S. Kies, vice-presi
dent of the National City Bank, New
York; Richard S. Hawes, vice-presi
dent of the Third National bank, St.
Louis; Robert F. Maddox, president of
the American National bank, Atlanta;
C. R. McKay, vice-governor of the
Federal Reserve bank, Chicago; J.
Howard Ardrey, vice-president of the
National Bank of Commerce, New
. York.
!♦ COMMITTEE FOR <•
PIONEER PICNIC •>
_
At the meeting the Pioneer Igloo
last evening a committee was ap
pointed to make arrangements for the
picnic which will be held some day in
the middle of next month. This com
mittee is composed of A1 Chamber
! lain, chairman, Matt Button, Rudolph
Peterson, Reginald Kerr and Frank
| Nickerson, Sr.
I WEALTHY CALIFORNIAN
; IS BRIDE OF NOME MAN
LOS ANGELES, April 27.—Arthur
I Cole, well-known in Nome, where he
! mined for a number of years and
where he was also engaged in busi
ness, was today married to the beauti
ful Birdie Altman, daughter of the
wealthy Californian whose extensive
real estate holdings in this city have
1 caused his fortune to be rated well
i over the tens of millions.—Ex.
The surveys have been made and
the stakes have been placed right
across the baseball ground for the
new railroad approach to the govern
ment’s new wharf. It has been de
cided to run the railroad straight out
from a point north of the present
depot so that no curve, as that which
the approach to the dock now has, will
be necessary. This will also make the
dock itself and the trestle work be in
a straight line, instead of the curving
trestle which now exists. The En
gineering officials have not yet re
ceived positive information as to
when the piles for the new dock will,
arrive.
NEWS NOTES
Mrs. William Ellis has gone to pay
a visit of a few days with Mrs. Moyer
at Mile 36.
J. H. Stevens, an oldtimer who
spent the winter in Oregon, passed by
on the Farragut to Lake creek where
he is engaged in mining.
E. G. Mellen and Oliver Larson
have gone to the Lake creek district
prospecting. They came from Marsh
field, Oregon.
E. L. van Gilder, vvho is erecting a
building next to the Bank of Seward,
will leave Seattle for Seward on the
21st inst.
H. Reed, uncle of Frank Reed of the
Seward Commercial Company, passed
by on the Farragut last evening to
Anchorage. The brother of Mr. Reed,
father of the young Seward man, was
the builder of the dock at Wrangell in
the early days.
John Ronan and Bennett James
came in from their mine in the Broad
Pass district last evening. Mr.
Ronan will leave on the next boat for
Juneau to attend the Democratic Con
vention. He will carry the proxies of
the other delegates from this district.
In the issue of the New York Times
which came yesterday appears a fine
photograph of the curve on the Alaska
Northern at Mile 50. The photograph
was taken by Professor Herschell
Parker.
E. R. Stivers, formerly of the
Customs office at Nome, passed by on
the Farragut on business connected
with the service.
M. Jaffe, a business man of the in
terior, who has opened a store at An
chorage in partnership with Ike Bay
less, who was also a business man of
the interior, passed on the Farragut
with Mrs. Jaffe.
J. Allison Bruner will leave for
California on one of the next boats
and will be absent about sixty days.
The Juneau Empire has a dispatch
from Valdez saying that Valdez
Democrats desire Thomas J. Donahue
as National Committeeman, Charles
Sulzer as delegate to congress and
George Grigsby as attorney general.
Daniel Vucetich left last evening on
the Farragut for a business trip to
Anchorage.
•E. F. Cassel, who has been on the
Gateway staff for quite a while, has;
gone to take a position w'ith the Cook
Inlet Pioneer.
W. G. Whorf, the coal man, went to
Seldovia on the Farragut.
Uncle Joe Irvine, the hale and
hearty oldtimer, went on the Farra
gut last evening and will be engaged
on the Seiffert mine during the
season.
A crowd of boys indulged in a,
charavari last evening in the belief
that a marriage had been celebrated
between Mr. Jay Spencer and Mrs.
Cottle of New York. Some practical
joker had been at work but the sup
posed principals rather enjoyed the
false alarm.
C. A. Nettleton of the Forestry ser
vice Is in the town on a visit.
GERMAN FOREIGN
AFFAIRS IN VON
JAGOW’S HANDS
FOREIGN MINISTER
VON JAGOW \
[Gottlieb von Jagow, In whose hands rests
the conduct of the German Hide of the
dealings with the United States, has
been minister of foreign affairs since
1913 Before then he made a reputation
for himself In the German diplomatic
service. He studied at the University
of Bonn and Is fifty-three years old ]
NEXT WAR WILL BE IN CHINA
(American Review.)
British diplomacy has been charged
with two great blunders in the present
war, the failure to handle the Balkan
crisis and pacify Bulgaria, and the
failure to prevent the alliance of
Turkey with the Central Powers. It
is responsible for a third equally
great, but hidden for the moment in
the greater urgency of war. r It has
failed to prevent the entrance of
Japan into China.
Through this error England has
opened the way for her own ally to
become her greatest commercial and
political rival in the Orient.
The next war—difficult as it now is
to conceive of further bloodshed—is
likely to have its root at Kiauchau, so
easily taken from the Germans by
Japan. For on the cornerstone of
this ancient province, the cradle of
the Chinese race and the home of
Confucius, a new empire is scheduled
to rise—the greater Nippon that is
the dream of every Japanese.
Wtih the elimination of Germany,
the problem of the Far East has been
profoundly altered. England, France
and Russia, who* had once been eager
for the partition of China, a division
prevented largely by their own mutual
jealousies, are today conscious of a
new menace and a new “problem”
after the war. A youthful power de- j
termined at any cost to dominate the
East commercially confronts them,
eager for the day when they can be
ousted politically from the East as
well.
JANE ADDAMS SUFFERS
FROM SERIOUS ILLNESS
|~3wVE F)DDRM5
Photo by American Press Association.
[Miss Jane Addams, the famous sociolo
gist of Chicago and prominent member
of the Ford peace party. Is seriously 111.
She sufTers from tuberculosis of the kld
' neys, with diabetic complications. Pro
fessor Emily G. Balch of Wellesley col
lege, who was Miss Addams’ alternate
as a member of Ilenry Ford s perma
nent neutral peace conference, said:
**M1rs Addams* health Is in n precarious
condition, but It is much better than It
has been. It Is hoped that a few more
months of rest and treatment will en
able her to make the Journey to Stock
holm for the coming conference on In
ternational peace.’*]
Jack Cummings has returned from
Glacier creek.
Double Killing in
Southeast Alaska
Man Shot Dead and Brother Kills ilia*
Murderer.
DOUGLAS, May 10.—Peter Loren
zen was shot and killed by a man
whose name is believed to have been
A! Luff man at the former’s cabin on
Gold creek, near William Henry bay,
Sunday morning and within three
minutes the murderer had himseif
been killed by Harry Ivorenzen, u
brother to the first victim.
The following account of the ter
rible affair appeared in the Juneau
Dispatch of this morning:
According to the story told at the
inquest, and from the facts picked up
by the officers who visited the scene,
the man who caused the tragedy
was undoubtedly insane. Ixmis Magg
told the officers about the same man
who killed Peter Lorenzen coming to
his place before he visited the Loren
zen Bros, cabin on Gold creek, near
Jualin, and acting queerly. The
stranger stated that some one was
trying to kill him; that some person
had cut a hole in his tent and later
had tried to poison his food. Magg
believed him to be harmless and hum
ored him in his different moods.
The shooting in which the man kill
ed Peter Lorenzen occurred Sunday
morning. The stranger had appeared
the Friday before armed with a rifle,
and was apparently hungry and out of
provisions. He said that he had left
his boat at Endicott river, about three
miles from the cabin.
As already told in the Dispatch, he
shot and killed Peter Lorenzen while
the latter was shaving. Harry Loren
zen, in the rear of the cabin, hearing
the shot, entered and saw his brother
on the floor. The stranger had left
for the creek to get a pail of water.
He still carried his rifle. On his re
turning Harry fired once and then
shut the door, as the rifle he used was
not reliable. He threw another shell
into the gun and on opening the door,
the man was standing there with the
rifle pointed at him, and he fired.
When found by the officers the body
of the man was lying just without the
door. He still grasped the rifle, with
his finger on the trigger and the gun
cocked. There was a loaded shell in
the barrel and three other loaded
shells in the magazine. Another
empty shell on the floor of the catnn
showed where the fatal shot had been
fired which killed Peter I/orenzen, and
the barrel of the gun plainly showed
that it had been fired.
In fact, the officers thoroughly in
vestigated and their observations, to
gether with the testimony given by
Harry Lorenzen and other witnesses
at the inquest, exonerated the surviv
ing brother in every particular.
CIGARETTE HIS COMFORT
AFTER 160 FOOT FALL
Frank Barrington, working for
Henry Cook in Vault creek, lost his
balance and fell 160 feet, to the bot
tom of the shaft. Up to the time of
the writing of this article, he had not
reached the hospital, but when he
passed through Fox last evening, he
was feeling quite well, sat up and
smoked a cigarette, and laughingly
stated that, aside from a sprained or
dislocated shoulder, he felt no ill ef
fects from his fall.
The exact cause of the accident
could not be ascertained last evening.
It was said, according to the story
told at Fox, that the shaft was 160
feet deep. It was being timbered as
it was sunk, but there were several
feet at the top of the shaft that had
not been timbered. Here it was that
Barrington was working, and he was
finishing the timbering when, in try
ing to avoid the bucket which was
coming up, he slipped, lost his foot
ing and fell 160 feet to the bottom.
He was picked up dazed, carried to
tb** surface and started for town.—
Fairbanks Times.
engineering party
OUT AT MILE TWELVE
George Colwell and his party start
work today between Mile 12 and Mile
18 to ascertain what changes are
necessary, with a view to improving
present alignment and grade in that
vicinity.