Sewar i Weekly Gateway
“ 1U NO SEWARD, AIjASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 11. 1907.
NEW YORK TO I
FAVOR HUGHES
Boom for Governor s Nomination
in 1908 Started in Republi
can Committee.
POPULAR SENTIMENT fOR HIM
State Mill Surely Send Delegation
to National Convention Pledged
to His Support.
By Cable to The Dxlly Gateway.
N\-w York. May 11 The president ial |
boom of Got. Hughes was launched .
today in the republican state commit
tee. An active movement will be set
on foot to promote the govenor s candi
' dacv for the republican nomination in
190$.
Although many of the machine poli
ticians are opposed to Hughes the pop
ular sentiment is strongly in his favor!
and he is backed almost unitedly by
the press of the Mate. The New \ork j
delegation will undoubtedly be for
hitn. __
INDICT POLICE
FOR CORRUPTION
Former Chief Collins and Six
Officers Inder Arrest
in Chicago.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Chicago, May 6 -John II. t ollins,!
chief of police until the accession of
Mayor Basse, and six officers of the
police department were indicted today (
upon charges of jrraftinjf and election ;
frauds during the recent city election,
campaign.
It is specifically charged that funds1
were raised in the department for
Mayor Dunne s campaign and that
election frauds were perpetrated. It*
is admitted that these practices have
been the rule for many years by the
partv in power, but tlie statute of
limitations has run in favor of all
otTenso except those in the Dunne J i
administration.
BOY BORN TO
SPANISH QUEEN
Madrid Populace Goes Wild Over
Arrival of Prince as
Heir to Throne.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Madrid, May 10—Queen Victoria |
jfave birth to a boy this morning. The
populace is wild with enthusiasm and
excitement.
The official time of the prince’s j
birth is jfiven as 12:-h*» a. m. Both
queen and child are doiny well this
afternoon.
Queen Nurses Her Own Babe
Madrid, May 11-Queen Victoria
nursed her babe today herself, upset
ting all Spanish precedent and disre
garding the protest of the court. The
royal nurse was discharged,
STEAMER PORTLAND
WILL SAIL TONIGHT
Seattle. May 11 Steamer Portland
will sail for Alaska this evening.
Bishop Rowe of Alaska will be a
passenger, going to Juneau and from
ther« to the Tanana, Nome and Point
Barrow.
Steamer Dora Returns
Steamer Dora returned from the west
ward Wednesday morning and
went on to the sound. She was
absent twenty-five days, having made
several special calls to leave hunters
and miners, and she lost a good deal of
time by tving up on account of bad
weather. Sho brought back a large
number of passengers, about a dozen
for Seward. On her next trip west
ward she will follow the Saratoga from
Valdez about May lb.
INSURANCE MEN
CONFESS FRAUD
Policy Holders’ Committee Ad
mits Ballot Fixing in Elec
tion of Officers.
FACTS WILL BE INVESTIGATED
New Scandal Stirred Ip in Manage
ment of New York and Mutual
Life Companies.
By Cabl« to The Dally Gateway.
New York, May It) Members of the
international policy holders committee
today confessed the perpetration of
great frauds fixing ballots in the re
cent election of officers of the Mutual
Life and New York Life insurance
companies.
A general investigation of the elee
tion> as well as of the affairs of the
companies will l»e instituted. (Jov.
Hughes publicly averted a few days
igo that the management of the big
life companies is as rotten as before
the insurance investigation.
CYCLONE RAZES
TEXAS TOWNS
forthright and Ridgeway Wiped
Out and Scores Left
Dead or Dying'.
Bv Cable to Tba Dally Gateway.
Mount Pleasant, Texas, May 1 The
owns of Birthright anti Ridgeway
were wiped out of existence by a cy- j
done < arly this morning. Scores of I
>eop!e were left dead or dying and!
many houses were leveled to the
j round. The growing crops over :t
wide area of adjacent farming country j
were devastated and it is estimated :
hat the property lo^s will run up into!
he millions. The sweep of the storm
was very wide and it was one of the
nost destructive the state has suffered j
n many years.
TO SAIL NORTH
IN TINY LAUNCH
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May 11—L. L. Masson and
Dscar Weber will sail from Seattle
within a day or two in a small gasoline
launch called the Meteor, t>ound for
Knight island. Alaska. The Meteor is
•i smaller craft than ever before
attempted to sail to Alaska. The trip
will be made by the inside passage.
STEAMER NORTHWESTERN
TO START SOUTH TODAY
The Santa Clara brought a small
stock of coal for the Northwestern,
and the big vessel is scheduled to sail
for Seattle today. She will sail on the
inside passage for safety although she
has temporary repairs which will
probably enable her to go through
without trouble. Besides Capt.
Truebridge she has Capt. Knudsen and
Capt. Daniels as pilots. They came up
on the Santa Clara.
FUR BUYERS PICK UP
BIG STOCKS IN ALASKA
Furs valued far up in the thousands
were purchased at Cook inlet and Al
aska peninsula stations this winter.
The more valuable furs came from the
regions back of the inlet. These in
clude black and silver gray foxes.
Large numbers of blue, red and cross
fox, bear, marten, lynx, otter and
other furs of varying quality were
picked up.
Good Showing on Hidalgo Bay
On Fidalgo bay, below Ellaraar, T.
\V. Blakney is developing copper
property from which he expects to be
gin shipping in a short time. The ore
is above the average in grade, running
from 8 to 17 per cent, and he has three
large ore bodies in sight.
Alaska and Yukon territory have
2000 varieties of plants.
TO MINE COAL
AT KACHEMAK
Michigan Syndicate Sends Party
to Develop Extensive
Property.
The Michigan coal men who will
open up coal property on Kachemak
bay, near Homer, went through on the
steamer Heat 1m. The party numbers
twenty-two men and several of them
are accompanied by their wives. 1 he
directors of the expedition are Messrs.
Boss, Me Alpine and Brownell and in
the party are several engineers and
several experienced coal miners. It
is the intention to employ additional
labor in the vicinity.
Sufficient examination of the proper- j
ty has been made to demonstrate the
existence of coal beds of considerable
extent. While the coal is not high
jrrade it is a good quality of fuel coal,
similar toother Cook inlet coal. As it
outcrops over a large area the held
will be a very extensive one if the
coal measures prove valuable through
out. About 200 claims have been lo
cated. _
PICKS UP JAPS
FROM WRECKAGE
—
Steamer Portland Finds Five Sur
viving Sailors From Lost
Whaling Ship.
—
By Cable to The Daily Qatoway.
Seattle, May 9—Steamer Portland
arrived from Seward and way ports!
lusi nisrht bringing five Japanese sail-1
ors whom she picked up from wreck-,
ajre of a whaler which had been lost
not far from Kodiak. These men are
believed to be the only survivors of
the crew and were rescued a lonjr dis
tance from where the vessel was
wrecked.
MEN IN SMALL SOAT
HAD NARROW ESCAPE
Several men from ihe Dora had a <
narrow escape from drowning in Cold ,
Bay harbor on the present trip while
trving to land with the mail and pas-1
sen gees. Mail t lerk lh waites went
overboard and was barely saved by 1
purser W. K. Springston. Besides j
these two the first officer of the Dora
and several passengers, one of whom
was II. C. Hibbard jr., the fur buyer,
were in the boat.
A strong breeze was blowing and the
surf was high. The boat was nearly
swamped by a breaker and I hwaites
jumped out and went under the boat.
Springston jumped after him and both
managed to get back.
The boat managed to reach shore
but the sea continued so rough that it
was fifteen hours before it could ven
ture back to the Dora. It was on the
evening of May 4 that the boat put
ashore. _
COME TO START WORK
IN SUNRISE DISTRICT
S. W. Wible and M. H. Sullivan,
well-known mining men of the Sunrise
district, went west on the Bertha to
direct operations on their hydraulic
properties there. Mr. Sullivan was
accompanied by Mrs. Sullivan. He is
manager of the Blmore Mining Com
pany, on Six-Mile. Mr. \Vible owns
property on Canyon creek which
yielded nearly $20,000 last year.
Alaska’s Best harbors
In a monograph on “Railway Routes
in Alaska” by Alfred H. Brooks,
chief of the Alaskan division
of the United States geological sur
vey, the following summing up of
harbors is given:
“Lynn canal is a superb deep water
way, but its funnel shape causes it to
be subject to severe wind-storms, and
it is therefore not favorable for sail
ing vessels. The same holds true, in a
loss degree, of the upper part of
Prince William sound. Resurrection
bay, which penetrates the mainland to
a much shorter distance, affords an
almost ideal harbor. Though the
shore - line between Southeastern
Alaska and Prince William sound is
not favorable for harbors, yet two in
dentations, Yakutat hay and Controller
bay, furnish some protection for
vessels.”
ACTIVE MINING
AT LATOUCHE
Reynolds Company Will Soon
Work 200 Men and Other
Interests Busy.
La touche island will be a hive of
mining industry the coming summer
according to the forecast of Guy R.
[Junta, superintendent of the Latouche
T'on Mountain mine, the Reynolds
copper property. This mine now em
ploys sixty-seven men, and the num
ber will be increased to 200 by the
middle of the summer.
The Reynolds company will install a
tram for transporting the ore from
the mine to the dock as soon as the
material is brought up from Seattle.
The promise has been given that the
material will be shipped on the Port
land and Jeanie this month. The
Bertha brought a large quantity of
lumber for the ore bunkers at the dock
and the present calculation of Mr.
Banta is that the tram can be put in
operation by August 1.
A large ore body is blocked out and
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INNOKO STRIKE
STIRS MINERS
Arrival of Detailed News in Seat- j
tie Gets Prospecting Par
ties to Going.
By Cablo to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May 9—The reported news
of a big placer strike on the Innoko
"iver in the Kuskokwin district creat
ed great interest among mining men
here and the arrival of the steamer
Portland from Seward today with de
tails of the discovery added to the ex
citement. Several parties are already
outfitting to go to the district when
navigation opens.
BEGIN DEVELOPMENT ON
MUMMY BAY COPPER
Work is already in progress on
several copper properties around
Mummy bay, Knight island, in spite ol
the deep snow, which will not disap
pear from the higher ground before
June 1. Discoveries were made all
around the bay last year and the own
ers will pursue development actively
this summer to see how much they
have got.
K. R. Gray has been working on
claims owned by himself, E. E. Hale
and W. M. Sauers. A wide lead
starts from the water’s edge, or under
it, and work so far has been confined
to stripping the vein. Mr. Gray
brought back some line specimens of
copper ore taken from this ledge near
the surface. He will return in a few
days to continue the work. Several
men are assisting him.
On the “Happy Jack” group Julius
Singer is working a dozen men. H.
W. Ross is working several men on
claims owned by himself, E. Thomp
son and other Seward people.
Capt. Scheffler came to Seward with
the Bina Thursday, bringing Gray,
Thompson and Jim O’Reilly, who has
been directing the energies of several
men on claims at Snug Harbor, on the
east side of the island. Less snow is
on the ground there than on other
parts of the island.
Development will start on various
Knight island properties next month
when the snow line moves up higher.
The owners of some of this property
are now working in the mines on La
touche island, as many prospectors are
doing who will soon go to Knight isl
and for the summer.
SANTA CLARA ARRIVES
AND SAILS WESTWARD
Steamer Santa Clara arrived in port
at midnight and sailed westward at
6:45 this morning. She brought
twenty-six passengers to Seward and
92 tons of freight, including 28,370 feet
of bridge timber for the railroad.
Several passengers for the inlet were
aboard and about a dozen went west
from Seward.
Alaska exported 30 tons of gold and
4 tons of coal in 1906.
Refined copper keeps close to 25
cents in the market.
KATALLA ROAD
ENJOINS RIVAL
_
Bruner Crowd Asks Temporary
Restraining Order Against
Rogers Company.
COMB BEFORE WICKERSHAM
—
Complainant Alleges Line of Latter
Conflicts With Its Own Per
manent Survey.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Juneau, May 10-The Alaska Pacific
Railway Terminal Company applied in
the United States district court hero
today for a temporary restraining order
against the Copper River & North
western Railway Company to prevent
the latter from continuing work on
certain ground at Katalla.
The complaining company alleges
that the rival corporation has made a
preliminary survey which conllicts
with the permanent survey of the for
mer which has been approved by the
secretary of the interior.
STEAM SHOVEL
NOT FANCY JOG
—
Secretary Taft Refuses Demand
I
of Operators on Canal
for Higher Pay.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. D.C., May 6—Secretary
Taft refuses to grant the demand of1
steam shovel men on the Panama j
canal for an advance in wages. He j
says tho figure they ask is higher than
is jiaid in the cities of Alaska, where
the cost of living is much higher than
in Panama and the men only work six
months in the year, while on the canal
they can work the year round.
The secretary says the steam shovel
men on the canal are getting nearly
as much now as is [laid in Alaska for
the same work.
NON-UNION MEN
LOAD STEAMERS
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May 11—Steamers are being
loaded today by non-union men. No
serious troulbe has occurred although
bad feeling exists on the part of the
part of the union longshoremen.
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
DECLARE FOR OPEN SHOP
Seattle, May 7—The steamship com
panies today declared for the “open
shop” system for longshoremen and
will employ any who offer regardless
of membership or non-membership in
the unions. Trouble is expected when
the demand for an increase in wages
goes into effect May 15.
Import Negro Longshoremen
Seattle, May 10—Negros were im
ported from Everett today to load
steamers here. It is feared that
trouble with the longshoremen may
follow. __
JEANIE AND SARATOGA
BOOKED FOR SATURDAY
Seattle, May 8—Steamer Jeanie
arrived from Seward and way ports
last night and is scheduled to sail
again Saturday evening. The Sara
toga is also booked to sail Saturday
instead of today.
To Start Work at Landlock
The Valdez Prospector states that
J. L. Steel has taken forty tons of sup
plies to Landlock bay for the Standard
Copper Company. The property is
well developed and will start shipping
soon. A tram was put in last fall but
was disabled and work hud to be sus
pended for the winter.
The steamer Olympia was at Uvak
with cannery supplies when the Dora
was there.
BULL DAY IN
CHICAGO PIT
Frost in Northwest Makes Price
Soar Skyward on Board
of Trade.
FLOUR GOES UP $1 A BARREL
Damage to Growing Crop Believed
Serious and $1.25 Predicted
As Quotation Soon.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Chicago, May li - Wheat price-*
showed a sky rocket tendency and the
market was mad today. Speculation
was as riotous as on the most exciting
days of the Leiter corner in 1*97-98.
Reports of frost in the Northwest were
responsible, and the bulls had their
own way.
The extent of the damage to the
growing crop is uncertain but the pre
diction is made today that wheat will
go to$1.25 in a short time.
Flour advanced $1 a barrel in syma
thy with the wheat jump.
MANIAC KILLS
SIX PERSONS
Shoots Three Men, Two Women
and One Child and Muti
lates Corpses.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
San Francisco. May 7—Walter Dav
is, a maniac, shot and killed two
women, three men and a child in a
Fierce street apartment house thi->
morning. He blew olT the heads of
the victims by placing the gun close to
them and afterward horribly muti
lated the corpses. This occurret
shortly before •> o'clock when the
street adjacent was crowded with
people.
When police officers attempted to
enter the house Davis opened tire up
on them, compelling them to retrea:.
Scores of police and citizens besiegen
the house for three hours, exchanging
shots frequently and after a despera'
light Davis was captured.
HOLD UP TRAIN
KILL ENGINEER
Two Bandits Attack Northern
Pacific but Are Beaten
Off Without Booty.
By Cable to Tli* Dally Gateway.
Butte, Mont., May 7—The Northern
Pacific east-bound North Coast Limit
ed, loaded heavily with passengers and
carrying $100,000 in a strong box, was
held up fifteen miles east of this city
this morning at 4 o’clock by two
masked robbers. Engineer Clow was
killed in a fight and his fireman was
badly injured but the robbers were
beaten off by the trainmen. They ob
tained no booty but escaped. Within
three hours afterward a posse with
bloodhounds were on the trail behind
them. _
Fail to Catch Train Robbers
Butte, May 8—The posse which went
on the trail of the bandits who held up
a northern Pacific train and murdered
Engineer Clow last Monday night re
turned today after an unsuccessful
search. They lost the trail and the
bloodhounds could not regain it. Two
suspects were arrested in Helena to
day and are being sweated. They
answer the description of the robbers.
COL. THOMPSON TAKES
SEATTLE CABLE OFFICE
Seattle, May 11—Col. Richard
Thompson succeeds Lieut-Col. Glass
ford as head of the Seattle cable office
today. The details of transfer are
easily completed and Col. Thompson
will be in charge Monday. He de
clines to suggest anything new in the
office at present.