Seward Weekly Gateway
si:\V \UI). ALASKA. SATIMJDA V. DKCIOM I5KIJ I, I !►!>«.
VOL. III. NO. H> ______________—
CHARGES WITH
FOUR MURDERS
Captain Klinkenfrersf of v\ haler
01 if a Vcctised of killing
Men of Crew.
WVROOM.OSTIMARDINSIBIRIA
Shot Chiet Inginecr When \s!eep
and Made Way With Others Be
cause they Were Witnesses.
By Cable to Tbo Daily Gateway.
Seattle, \.». i. •» .l-ahiim»h.
ntrwatM t ! * m • in mMiihbut Ol-a.
mu { ;». ' > 1\ » ! \* S. 1 o ’ ru. * t V i it
t, vv.’t; ' if llli*"! -til!'! iU:„'
cluu'' 1 ’ mi*-I } ami orime ujiaiti't
KliiiKeul" Mi:.’ I».4V\ ever Ween
H j ;n|t * it U ■ l ■ N ■' ;} \
the A retie "
berir will,
men nn Ms - !
rtl In I
Si Ik* i in., iv
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cro" i ■ \ •
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rut M lti»u
Cam ’ll < i\> -
account. " >' "
Klink. id- ■ ■*! ihe <h- A- <■! *i o;i-i
ou-r. Paid .I t. n. " If,: • the latter
w.t- a- e ‘** « -h'hr.-ou there
were tune ."tom wen. s- s to t! *k
murder »•' -lack-on. I wo of the>>*.
Walters. is an •• nifin-or. and Her*
man. a foremast hand, were sent to a
watery if rave on a cake of ice. Later
Klinkenb. 1 _r poi-nned a third witness,
Mitchell, a foremast hand, ami tiua L
maroomd Johnson on tin* Siberian i
coast.
Johnson made an affidavit in the
Office of the V. S. district attorney
here, recitintr the forejfoinjr state
ments. District Attorney Hoyt of
Nome was present when the affidavit
was taken and " ill co-operate in the
prosecution. The Oltfa isttow at Point
Barrow ami steps " II be taken imme
diately to apprehend Kliokenberj;.
SEAnLE RUNS
SHORT ON COAL
Flood Curtailed Supply and One
fifth of People Unable to
Secure It.
By Cable to T’ae Daily Gateway.
Seattle. Nov. l >ne-tiflh .»l ' he
people of t*. it t It* a: ecu • coal am.
cannot obtain a supply !>‘cau» >toess
in the city were depleted durtn*; the
floods when railroad tratlic was sus
pended. I’ite usual qu tit - com
in,' now but dealer- nave nrd**rs hook
ad for tbirtv da., s ahead a -i parch: v-rs
have to wat ttii-ir turn.
file co.it shortaifo has cleat* I tin
extrtt demat.d for wood, w11tch cannot
h* delivered fist enouifh to keep U|>
with l» ‘-I’s art E*ri>: Win
in iron a I * meet ions.
PEOPLE BURN BACiSft TO
KEEP FROM FREEZING
sy C i !„• ‘ rae 3.1-y Gateway.
Orishun. N. M N<»-.. -•> Hi< >'tel
supply of this U>"U I' exhausted and
people are burning bae «n t«» keep frotn
freezing. Light inches o snow are on
the ground and the thermometer i
falling.
Angels Suffer from Cold
Lbs Angeles. Nov. 2* One-tenth of
the residents of Li's Angeles are suf
fering from cold, l'he low temperature
Clime s'.idde , uid the coal supply ran
out. l'he demand for gas exceeds the
product and many houses are unable to
obtain it
The t'handlar river excitement con
tinues in spite of the excessive chilli*
ness of the winter season north of the
Yukon.
The newspapers of Alaska are all
hammering in favor of a fourth judicial
district. __
The Alaska Monthly Magazine is the
onlv magazine printed and published in
Alaska.
NO JURISDICTION
OVER HIGH SEAS
Alaska Courts Cannot Take Cog
nizance of Crimes Commit
ted on Ocean.
JlilHH; HANFORD SO DI'.CIDIiS
Ne^tli and Bodfish, Accused tohal
ino Captains, Must Be Tried in
Federal Tribunal.
8y Cable to Tlie Daily Gateway.
Seattle. Nov. ’_'7 .iudjje Han hud de
ui. d in file I'nited Stains di>tuict
i etttirt -•.,«;%> that the Alaskan courts
have n<« uri-diet ion over a crime com
iiii’i' J on the itigrh seas. I he wlia inj"
in i- i" New th ami Itodtish. accused pi
f* i,mi. ^ on thn hit'll seas, will there
Tiu* of .ludov Hanford's decision
• is that the courts of Alaska ar«- of lim*
iiu-i m, ■ ol -ueti east"., civil : nd
Crowd of Mayors Followers
Greets Him at Oakland Mole
on His Return.
3y Cl lo to The Daily Gateway.
San Fruneiseo. Nov. Ito Thousands I
of cheering men met Mayor Schmitz at
Oakland Mole when he arrived yester
day. He made a short speech thank
ing his friends for the reception and
mi id lie would not attack hisenemies on
Thanksgiving Day but was prepared
to take care of himself later.
Schmitz and Ruef will be arrested
m vt Monday upon warrants issued
pursuant to the ten indictments found
by the grand jury. They " ill make a
desperate legal tight and their politi
cal following is inclined to stand by
them. _
Detectives Meet Schmitz
New York. Nov. -4 San Francisco
detective- met Mayor Schmitz when
he landed here late yesterday after-]
noon hut on receiving assurance- that
lie intended to proceed at once to Cali
fornia they did not arrest him.
Schmitz says that IIcurst is behind
the movement changing him with]
graft because he opposed L.ingdon for I
governor of California, lie -ays lii—
personal and official life have been
jdean and he challenges investigation.
He will retain ltucf as his personal coun
sel, a-serting that lie ha- entire faith
in Kuef's honesty.
Schmitz Ruef Cases Pile Up
San Francisco, Nov. 'JO Ten indict
ments have already been returned
again-: Mayor Scion:'/. and Abe ltucf
am! the beginning of the third week
i tin graft invest1 gat ion opens with
I't'ii. promt->■ of remarkable -en-ation-.
I> - a— rich that th •■'kleneosecured
n. Ih ective Barns show- that the
gra: of tin1 B ie: crowd in the city ad
m -it and rivncy wa- mud* out of every
In:.; “t cm tract alia blackmail extort
'd from i■ vein unlawful business that
w i-allowed u» operate.
LIEUT. PEARf REACHES
COAST OF NOVA SCOTIA
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
S\ in v, X. S.. Xov. 21 Lieut.
Peary's >teamer Roosevelt. with the
explorer ub.Kirti, arrived in Sydney
thl' morning. Peary immediately
came ashore to meet his wife. In iii>
late exploration trip he weut within
20" miles of tie- north pole. From
Tiersey sea all the way lie traveled
over Moating iee. an extremely dillieult
and dangerous task. He made a sur
vey and map of loo miles of the coast
of Greenland, hitherto unknown. The
steamer is nearly used up and will be
unavailable for another Arctic
voyage.
Copper developments on Prince of
\Vales isiand are growing and several
new strikes have been made this year.
The Fairbanks Times insists on call
ing him John Dough Rockefeller.
Fairbanks Millionaire Forced to
Admit on Stand that He
Served Time.
5111:1) ON CLAIM OF (i RUB START
Proved in Trial that Tanana Mining
Man Was Sentenced in 1886
for I nilie/;!emrnt.
-Ux'-.Iq to The Enily Gateway.
Seal lie Nov. 1M In the trial hem
l for a v»;i i' 11 - r~ 11 i i» account injr In *1. H. j
('a a sion a trains! K. 1. liarnetti . the
; millionaire minim* man and townsite
owner of Fair hank*.. I’a rind to ad
mitted on tic white" 'tatul that he
was one ■ a convict in the < trefoil state
i;it’V. t atlstetl. WHO Was to. 'll*
t i v a deputy »*olh ett :* of customs a
St. Michael, alh’tt*' lhat ho tfenli
Tanami district w in n tin- latter was
strat led w ith stoi k «*• v • ■ •>« ■
Win'n Barnette landed at Si. Mich
a*d no w:i- without money. < . i-tcn
ai nisi.i d 1 {•:ru1 11<‘ money,. t ht* whole
sum advanced an omit inti la* c am -, to
jiJOOO. ( a list en denies Ittmeile > claim .
that iio was to receive id*' money f*ack
with inter' st.
Says Cleary Stole It
Burnette lestitied in an effort to dis
• |him* of t he grubstake claim of t 'aitsten
that he left hi- brother-in-law. Frank
J. Cleary, in charge of i.i> store at
Fairbanks, which was the outgrowth
! of the stock first taken in. and that
' Cleary sold the stock in the store and i
embezzled the proceeds *14,000. It
I is admitted that no attempt was ever I
! made by anybody to recover anything ,
| f id in Cleary.
On cross-examination Barnette tirst
(denied that he had ever been in the,
state of Oregon. Finally when copies)
I of the records were produced he ad-1
mined that in ISSti he was convicted of!
| the crime of larceny by bailee, of
I ifc!000 from one George DeWolf. The ^
evidence in the ease showed that Bar
nette at tirst claimed that the money
had been stolen from him by an Indian.
Later DeWolf caught him with the
! money. Barnette was then arrested.)
I convicted of the charge and sentenced |
to serve foil” years in the < tregon peni- J
tentiarv at Salem. Barnette claims
'that he was pardoned after serving
eighteen months.
Asked Barnette’s Pardon
The plaintiff on rebuttal will under-1
take to show that the claims staked by
Barnette in the Tunana district under
I agencies for other men were till in the
names of men who hail signed his peti- ,
' turn for a pardon from the penitentiary. •
The plaint ill w ill also attack Barnette s ,
citizenship on the alleged ground that •
lie was never pardoned hut granted a
i commutation of sentence, to which was
attached the condition that he must
never enter the state of Oregon again.
Causten is now eollector of customs)
in Fort" Bieo. He was in tlie customs |
service in Alaska for several years. It
is not believed that he advanced as)
! large an amount to Barnette as he!
claims. Gut the latter admits Causten:
aided him.
MATE DENNISON 8 COAT
FLOATS TO SURFACE
Sunken Steamer l)i\ located by
(irapplinq Hooks and Salvage
Work Now in Progress.
By Cable* to Tbe Dally Gateway,
Seattle, Nov. 20- This morning the
coat of Mate Dennison of the steamer
|)ix floated to the surface near the
place where the vessel sank when she
collided with the Jeanie. Tin steam
er was located yesterday afternoon
with yrapplinif hooks hut little was,
done on account of the dense fo<'. ;
Grappling was resumed this morning, ';
I and as the fojr is disappearing success-!
ful work is expected.
Alaska cost the United States
$7,200,000. hi thirty-live years it
yielded $160,000,000.
There is no known mineral which
may not he found somewhere in
j Alaska. __1
Flint at*row heads are found in the
! Tanana district. •
II AN KS
QUESTION
South Carolina Senator Declares
in Chicago Lecture for Ne
jjto Subjection
“CAUCASIANS or BETTER CLAY ’
Says "To Hell With law” and that
Itis State Will He Red Rather
than Black.
My Cr.’iJc to TIie Daily Gateway
Chicago, Nov. L’S Not wit listamiiiu?
throats ayainst his life Sonator Till
man delivered his addrosson t h*• neyro
quc't ion in < irchest r.i hall las! i.iyht.
Ili' was surrounded by forty city de
tectives under tin command ol the
assistant chief of polici . in spite of his
protest. I’olico nilieors mingled with
th*‘ audience and wi* n the crowd oul
hie the hall. Many neyros wore
pi't -eni in the hail hut they made no
demon -t rat ion.
Speak ire.? of Mayor Dunne's r. l u-ai
to preside at the mootin'? Tillman saiii
he cared nothin}? lor Dunne s altitude
as the mayl»r was simply the creature
of i lie politioal houi'.
<’n the general nejrro <|Uestion i'i 11
man said that if the fifteenth amend
ment i’ ere enforced t wo soul hern states
wc.ild he dominated hy neyros, and he
a dm i . "We will make South < arolina
red il the attempt is made In la w to
make it black!" A voice cried. "Ilow
about the law?" Tillman replied:
"To hell with t lie law !"
Discusses Chicago Flection
Deterring to the counting out of j
Ferdinand Garrett, the colored candi
date for judge of the municipal court
of Chicago, who was elected by a
margin of a few votes on the face of
the returns but was finally declared to
be’defeated by revision of alleged errors,
Tillman said that voters did not know
what they were voting for a great
deal of the time and when they did
know they were often cheated.
Tillman said God made the Caucasian
of better clay than the Mongolian and
African, and in his opinion the Al
mighty intended the colored races to
he carriers of burdens for the white
man. He asserted that the people of
the north by their attempts to place
the negro on an equality with the
white race were responsible for the
frequent assaults upon white women in
t he south by negros.
Detectives guarded Tillman to his
hotel and remained around him until he
departed for Fonddu Lac. Wisconsin,
today. _____
Dunne and Tillman disagree
Chicago. Nov. 2<> Mayor Dunne to-j
da\ resigned the chairmanship of the j
meeting which Senator Tillman is to {
address in this city tomorrow evening, j
because Tillman re fa uses to eliminate j
discussion of the negro question. Till- i
man says he can taki* care of the \
negro question without a body guard.
Try to Prevent Speech
Chicago, Nov. ‘27 Tin-colored popu
lation of Chicago raised a purse of
$.‘,000 and offered it to the promoters of
the Tillman lecture today it they
would cancel the engagement hut it
was refused. The lecture i> hooked
for tonight.
The negros now threaten to go into
court and ask for an injunction to pre
vent the lecture on the ground that it
will tend to create disorder and to iti
llatne the rabble element against the
colored population. They assert that
Tillman is responsible for more than
half the violent outbreaks against
negros in the Sout h.
FACTORY BLOWS UP
WHOLE GERMAN TOWN
Explosion Demolishes Every House
in Annen, Kills 300 Persons
and Injures 1000.
Oy Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Dortmund, Germany, Nov. 29 -Ilob
iut powder factory, near the town of
Annen, exploded this morning, com
pletely demolishing the town. Not a
house was left standing, and .'NX) per
sons were killed and 1000 injured.
Many of the dead are mutilated beyond
recognition, and some were blown to
fragments. Large timbers and other
building material were thrown long
distances hv the force of the explosion.
President Wants ilis Order to!
Vake Existing locations
Non-effective.
DEPARTMENT STUDYING LAW
It Possible Will Cut Out T very thing
Not Patented and Ask New
legislation.
i \ \n -o The T5aily Gateway.
Washington, l>. Nov. The in*
1 tcrior department is in\e>limat inu the,
law hoarintr on i he ease in order to de- j
cide whet her the president s order
withdrawing' all coal lands on the pub*
j lie domain from entry, including those
in Alaska, is retroactive, so as to nm-1
(let* non-etVecl ive the tilings i!r»-ad\
made.
The president is anxious to vacate
, I iie petidiiiu locations which h ;i v • * not,
hccit patented, with the,ohp.ct *• f fore
inm cootiT'ss to enact new legislation j
i rn'Verninu tlie disposal of eo.ii lands,
! w hich will he aimed to pi• • v«• 111
monopoly.
If it is decided by t h* dcparimcnl
that pending local ions arc vacated by
'the order of withdraw;,! humireiis ot
I claimants under such locations will
: take t lieir cases into t he federal courts
I to test, t la* validity of t be cancellation.
FAVORS HERDING
ALASKA INDIANS
Secretary of Interior W ill Proba
bly Organize Them Under
federal Agents.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway
Washington, D. C., Nov. 27 On the
recommendation of military ollicers
who are familiar with conditions the
secretary of the the interior depart
ment will probably withdraw all aid
from Alaska Indians as heretofore di>
pensed and organize them under
agencies, as is done in other states and
territories.
In the past destitute Indians have
been given assistance through otlieial
channels as occasion seemed to re-1
quire. It is considered t hat this is de-!
moralizing to tlu* Indians and that the
only way to manage them is on the 1
reservation plan.
HARD WORK NOW TO GET
NATURALIZATION PAPERS
The present congress enacted a new I
law governing tlu* naturalization of
| foreigners. No copy of tlu* law h:i->
! reached .Alaska, >o its details are un
■ known here hut it is understood that
j tin* new regulations are very stringent
laud require much more publicity than
the old law. S. A. Crandall, deputy
clerk ol tlu* I'nited States district
{court at Valdez, writes to Judge ilow
; lett a> follows on the subject:
•Tn answer to your inquiry. I have
j to say that there is no way by which
declarations of intention or linn I
: papers may be seeurd by proxy:
••At the present tinn* no papers of any
j kind can he secured anywhere: * hi
I the 27th of September the new nat
! uralization law went into effect and
| no plan has yet been furnished for
i operating under the new law.
I "A* I understand it now. one will
have to tilt* a regular petition in court
aud publish the same practically equal
to the commencement of a suit.
"The day for easy citizenship paper*
has passed: when a fellow gets them
now he will know hew he u'ot
them.**
It is stated that J. VVada. the Japan
ese who started tin* Tanana stampede
I and barely escaped being lynched for
| his pains, was one of the tirst locators
in the Chandlar. He failed to connect
1 with anything good in the Tanana.
-:—
During the season just closed 5>8,S.'W j
tons of freight were carried to Bering ,
sea ports and the last steamers left1
hundreds of tons on the Seattle docks.
The population of Cordova is said to
be about twenty-tive, with li.ve saloons
struggling to make an honest living
out of the bunch.
WHITEWASH
Inspector-General Chamber jin
look Little Evidence :u
Glass ford Case.
INVi STIGATION MLLO SI Ct LY
\laj. Ballaine Asserts Part oi i si
mony Was Perjured and Ap
peals to the President.
Scan I1. Nov. lo Slur, i • he
(i.at <■ a a\ I nsjH cim-t • al ( 1 tr r
lain’s vvivi invvdiirati1 m t ;»•'
i111 chari/es |i ■ So-,- •. n> I ’.
IJallaini* am-t (. • . < •> »
of I lie Signal < ’urp- n--nii.-tl ’• ! -
larv \v h:ii wi-li. ! Jut <', ■ ■ s
not end tin* iiivrsi i_'.it :on. i> i'
lain** i t- aom-a sin* n-i o
I 're- di nt Kuo- • . c.aitnh ''if)
I *-St": IlM’nt JM'OUtl'M 0 I»V i„. of.
til i-sio h and ids witn -- - \ ' ly
or ■ holly perjur . and eh
i,.■ ,r ,-i (>ia-sS rd t-i Inn. ioi*
I.
(il i — lonl in an mi ■ r. ew r -t
l i<• I’o-'-Intehmeni i r<Tl n el
-it,** for l In* cab • v it 'll a i,
tin* tUtnraiiCt* oi taimliootfe -o su
perior olliiTt* in dm.;, in;: that id
■.riven ttu* intervit-w. tie suppn - of
two cablviiTains !;lm by Nit. mo
Tor tin* Seward <iat»*-.\ a\. and l h* * r
atice of falsehoods to bis -a • or
otlieer in the excuse- hi* • tor
suppressing t hem.
(ila-slord avoided the eiia' .e - re
garding the l\>st-lntclligenci-r r
view by repudiating it as wholly
lictitions. C. II. I’.aily. the reporter
who wrote it. testified that be h;ul
faked the interview. .1. T. Flynn, who
has represented himself for two years
as general manager of the North
American and Asiatic Cable Company,
which has no existence in fact, t<-ti*
tied that he inspired the interview.
Percy Parkinson, former city editor of
the Post-Intelligencer, testified that h»
(Continued on page -)
CUT IN CABLE
AT FANSHAW
Burnside Begins Laying New Sub
marine Line to Ketckikan
and Wrangell.
The new inside passage eabh was
cut in this morning at Fanshaw h the
Burnside and notice s.-nt alone tho
w ire by a current of which ten volt^>
burned up the little wires of the re
ceiver in the Seward office. .In-' vhy
Sitka allowed this charge of , e* to
come all the way to the end of tie iuo
i> not explaindd but an op- n -w itch
passed the current along to \"aide- and
Valde/ shunted it over to Sewai I as
a good way to serve notice that some
thing was doing.
Operator McGuire spent an or
two inserting now hair wires. On ac
count of the cut-in at Fanshaw trans
mission was delayed this wa\ and no
message came up to 'J o’clock.
Fanshaw is the point on tin- Siika
Juneau line where the new cable is to
start for Wrangell and Ketchikan.
INSTALL WIRELESS FROM
SOUND TO MARE ISLAND
By Cabla to The Dally Gateway.
Bremerton. Wash.. Nov. ‘J'i \\ ire
less communication was established
last night between Puget Sound navy
yard and the Mare island yard near
San Francisco. It is regarded as in
valuable in giving greater security to
navigation along the Pacific coast.
The Boston Alaskan says "it is re
ported" that the Guggenheim* have
offered to,000,000 for Beatson's La
louche copper mine.
The Ketchikan Mining Journal will
start a daily edition as soon as the
j cable is hitched to the town.
The latest stampede in the Chandlftf
river district is to Bear creek, sixty
I five miles from Fort Yukon.
_, • *
! Kx-Gov, Swineford threatens to starl
a new paper at Ketchikan.