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BRING OUT GOLD
FROM KAHILTNA
Wilson and Partners Have $1000
in Dust and Say Creeks
Will) ield $50,000.
MAM MEN WORKING CLAIMS
Nugget Makes Best Showing So I ar
but Several Other Streams
4re Producing Well.
Corroboration of the estimate that
the creeks of the upper Kahiltnu river
will produce &"»O..HK> ill gold dust this
season, published last week in the
Gateway on the authority of Paul
Buckley, is given by T. K. Wilson,
who with one of his partners. J. L.
Joins, came in la>t night with 91000 in
ilust which they amt P- J. ' ollins took
out on Cache creek. V\ ilson give*.
the following estimate by creeks.
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Man-' *7000: t ach*- rlooo; Dollar 9.I«h.)0:
Thunder 'lidoO; Fail* >1300: Peters
spHM: Gold sJO'Ht. Total S**,r>0O. These
WiUm separately without knowing
in answer to a qu* stion vv;e* that the
creek> wool jlrd 'hkono. and then
he gave th .-urate figure* which
•otal *.VJ.oOO. < niter, creeks will add
Nugget Leads in Output
The outp o' Nugget creek may ex
c,, This the creek on
which tii" rich e a Ws o* He: * ,!1
When \\ Uon Vit if* rmton ami daeob
son full d:> tKiuntU of gold ai d were
working four men. including them
m*1v aking -at about *.1># day pet
man. The i*ef* t-up ■•the s-ason
estimated by \\ ilson at not tev. iian
$20,000. and that of Billy Morris at
fully s'mop, Morris is now doing some
dead work to d* velop hi> property *o
better atlvanta re. which nitty curtail
on the creek, are turning out some
thing but WIJso.. puts down the cre* k
vhlch il« ex;
doth *'d -he grav - ■.
rich, h > rt ' c’Vm, which • ->
turned o * «-h*v* n < me •» in a d y -
work.
Run Out oi Supplies
\Y• \ an* hs par K • > wen- to h
di'tric* in March. "They <?-uue out U -
. ~ ; in-\ were m-ar.y o. oi
and 1 hey ton mi that u would he neces
sary tod** i !"* o- • *- u«t wk **-'
whom tin- C at*-way had t he s * or \ a n*x\
weeks ago hat hex were taxing OU
good pay with a hollow log fur a sluice
\YH->n vi\" they lot the line;
gold aud saved only the nuggets. They
will xvork tin property with l>etter
equipment next year, doing the pre- j
liminary work in the winter, und he
thinks they have very valuable claims. |
Wilson gives the following li>! of
men xvho have taken out good pay:—
Nu,rget creek Herndon and Jacobson,
William Morris: Poor Man's Chase
and Anderson, and others: Willow
Wiiliam Uisby and others; Thunder
Clvde Davenport. William Peterson,
Davis, Nelson and others: Cache Wil
son. .Tones and Collins. John McDonald
and party. Smith and '-the Big Four:”
Dollar Peters. Cass and Anderson:
Peters Elix, Jones and Anderson:
Gold McDonald party.
GOMPERS DECLARES WAR
ON CONGRESSMAN JONES
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Washington. D. C.. Aug. ->4 -Presi
dent Compel" of the American Federa
tion of Labor has declared "at* on
Congressman Jones of the state of
Washington because Jones voted to
remove the eight-hour restriction up
on work on the Panama canal and be
cause he voted against Gompers’ anti
injunction bill.
Jones replies that he favors the
eight hour day on all government
works but that the anti-injunction bill
did not appeal to him as possessing
any merit.
TO KUSKOKWIM
FROM SEWARD
This Town Nearest Supply Point
and Offers Shortest and
Best Route.
Prospecting in the upper Kusko
kwins region is attracting considerable
interest and should be a factor in the
business of Seward if sufficient publi
city is given to the fact that the easi
est way to reach the region is from
Seward in winter and from Cook inlet
in summer. The creeks of the upper
Kuskokwim are less than half as far
from Seward as from the mouth of the
river aud less than 2<K> miles from the
mouth of the Susitna river at tin* up*
per end of the inlet.
So far prospectors for the whole
Kuskokwim region have gone in by
way of tlie river from the coast. Sev
eral large parties have gone in that
w . this season, starting from Seattle,
all destined for the upper river, di
rectly west of the Yentna district.
ThU region is nearly 1ihk> miles from
the coast, and the mouth of the river
:> several hundred miles farther from
S*>a tl«- than Seward i> from the Sound
In summer prospectors can go by
boat nearly 100 miles up the Yentna
river from Susitna station at high
u er. and more than fifty miles at low
water. In winter they can go still
over the ice with dog sleds.
Prmu Susitna station to the summit of
the range between the Yentna and tin*
Kuskokwim the distance is variously
es. 'mate*, at 125 to 150 miles. Several
easy passes lead through the range.
: ie best-known of which is Ptarmigan
p ,s>. Indian trails already lead
through these passes and it is said by
men familiar with the region that
go* trails can be made through them
with little work. Seward i> about UK)
i- :<>m Susitna station, and from
S-ward to the nearest creeks of the
Kuskokwim is not more than 5«»0 miles
by way of tie winter trail around
K; ik arm to the Yentna district.
i: S the belief o' miners familiar
with the region that the upper Kusko
kwim will soon come to the front as a
: o; gold district. It is also known to
c main extensive copper deposits. It
is naturally tributary to Seward and
this town is the best supply point for
} r -uectofs going in.
ESCAPED WRECK
TO DIE IN CAVE
Skeletons of Fi^ht Victims of
Valencia Disaster Found
at Carmanah.
By Cable to Tac Daily Gateway.
VU B. < Aug. 215 Investiga
>■ iw■> that eight skeletons found
:; « .i-.-ui iiiah cave. Vancouver island,
were those of victims of the Valencia
wreck. They were identified by tic
ket*. found in the clothing.
] • seein> probable that the boat was
washed into the cave while the victims
were alive by huge waves which car
ried it over the high boulder which
stands at the entrance, and that when
the water receded they were too weak
to climb out. They undoubtedly
starved to death.
Start Development Work
The Knight Island Copper Mining
Company has let a contract to .T. Mc
Cullen for a 100-foot tunnel on its
property, which is expected to tap the
ore body at a depth which will fully
demonstrate the great value of the
property. All work done so far has
showed that the vein is well defined
and continuous, and us soon as this
tunnel is completed the company will
be in shape to start shipping ore.—
Valdez Prospector.
Rushing Work at LandLock
Blarney Stevens, of the Beynolds
Alaska Co., took a crew of men to
Landlock Sunday to start work im
mediately upon the property recently
purchased from Put/., Steinnietz and
Egan. He has had surveyors at work
laying out the line for the aeriat tram
way for several days. Work will be
rushed on this property as fast as
possible and the mine will soon be in
shape to ship ore.—Valdez Prospector.
The shingle weavers of Puget sound
lost their strike.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
WRECKS MANY CITIES
Valparaiso, Santiago and Whole Chilean Coast
Shaken by Seismic Disturbance Which
Equals San Erancisco Disaster.
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Thonsands of lives Lost and Hundreds of Millions in Property
Destroyed While Terror-stricken People Arc Driven front
Their Homes and Great Suffering from fire
and Hunger Ensues.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
New York, Aug. IS Two shocks of
earthquake completely destroyed the
business district of Valparaiso, < bile,
at s o'clock Wednesday evening.
Whole rows of buildings were thrown
into the street, killing, hundreds of
persons in the wreck. Many others
were hemmed in alive in the ruins and
burned to death in the tires which
followed.
Santiago, the capital city of Chile,
has not been hoard from since the
earthquake, telegraphic communica
tion having been cut off, and it is
bared that it met a worse fate than
Valparaiso. Other cities are known
to have suffered as badly as Valparaiso,
but as telegraph lines are broken in
every direction no details can be ol>
tained.
in Valparaiso tires are sweeping the
residence portions, which were also
badly damaged by the earthquake.and
people are panic-stricken and fleeing
for safety. It is San Francisco re
enacted. Many landslides occurred in
different parts of the city and numer
ous lives were lost in them. No trains
| have run out of or into the city since
I the earthquake because railroad tun
| ne!s are caved in and tracks twisted.
■ rendering operation of the lines im
possible.
Felt in Argentine
iUienos Ayres. Aug. Is Earthquake
! disturbances wen* general throughout
Chile and the tremor was felt as far as
adjacent portions of Argentine.
Shocks Still Continue
Lima. Peru. Aug. 1" It is reported
j here that mild shocks still continue
I intermit ten; !y at Valparaiso and that
people are Seeing from the city by any
means of convenanee or on foot. The
Peleclas district, the best residence
P >rtion of the city, suffered as much a>
the business district.
Worse Than San Francisco
Valparaiso, Aug. 2U -The destruc
tion resulting from the earthquake
here was proportionately worse than
in San Francisco. Sixty per cent of
tin* buildings in the city are destroyed
and the death roll runs up in the thou
sands. while nearly the whole surviv
ing population is destitute. The
property loss w ill reach $250,000,000. j
The waiter supply has nearly given out.
Pain following the earthquake
drenched the shelterless people and
added greatly to the suffering.
The city is practically deserted and
th»‘ same is true of the whole province
of Aconcagua. Provisions are ex
tremely scarce. There is no meat and
milk is selling for $2 a quart. The
devastation seems to have spread
throughout Chile. Conditions at San
tiago are said to be as bad as here,
peals for relief are coining from both
cities.
The whole Chilean coast suffered and
it is reported that every important
building in all the coast cities was
wrecked. The cities of Vina del Mar,
Quitorque, lllapel and Vallenar all
suffered great damage and many per
sons in them were killed or injured.
Troops Called Out
Lima, Peru, Aug. 20 — Dispatches
from Valparaiso say that immediately
following the earthquake troops were
called out to aid in keeping order and
they shot many looters. The inhabi
tants were so frightened that they
were difficult to control.
Latest overland advices say the fire
is spreading to all parts of the city and
! little resistance can be made to the
flames because the water mains are
bursted. The whole city is in a state
of desperate panic and all vessels in
the harbor are crowded with refugees.
Advices from the cities of Vina del
Mar,Petorba, Herroviejo, Illapel, San
tara. Carlos Andes, Nogales, Melan |
and Zoupallar, besides those hereto
fore reported, are wholly destroyed
and many persons were killed in each, j
Shocks Still Continue
Galveston. Tex., Aug. 20 Advices
from Valparaiso state that martial law
has been declared in the whole prov
ince. Karthquake shocks continue
from time to time and flames are lick
ing up the debris of wrecksand spread
ing to the standing portions of the
city. Fear of a tidal wave from
further shocks adds to tin? horror of J
the situation.
Argentine Also Suffers
La Pass. Bolivia. Aug. 20 Advices
show that the earthquake was severe
in Argentine. The entire region from
Valparaiso over the Cordilleras into
Argentine was badly shaken and
suffered great damage. The shock
seems to have been more violent and
widespread than that of San Francisco.
Few details have been received be
cause the wire has been working bad
ly since it was restored after being put
out by the earthquake, and on
ly the most general information
can be obtained. The loss of
property in Valparaiso, Santiago and
several other cities will mount far up
in the tens of millions.
Shock Was Persistent
Santiago. Chile. Aug. 20 The main
earthquake shock here lasted three
and one-half minutes and extended to
the cities of Limache and Quillota.
which were also much damaged, with
loss of life. The shock was violent,
wrecking many buildings and shaking
the earth with an undulating motion
like waves of the sea.
Whole Hill Collapsed
London. Aug. 20 South American
advices say that Santa Lugia hill in
the center of the city of Santiago col
lapsed and half of it fell inward, crush
ing all houses and burying many per
sons alive.
Another Shock at Santiago
Santiago. Aug. 21 Another severe
earthquake shock was felt here last
night but it inflicted little damage.
All cities of South America are
rushing relief in as fast as transporta
tion can bring it. This city and Val
paraiso are uninhabitable now except
in tents, but the people are returning
to remove the ruins and begin rebuild
ing. It is believed that all danger is
past.
False Report Starts Panic
Santiago. Aug. 22 — A panic was
started last night by a baseless report
that the observatory had predicted
another severe shock of earthquake,
and people began to flee in terror from
the city. The report was a fabrication
but the police lost their heads and
added to the general disorder instead
of pacifying it.
People are crying for food and many
of them are in desperate straits.
Train loads of supplies are on the way,
but cannot enter the city because the
tracks are blocked with debris for a
long distance and bringing food in by
wagons is slow work. The suffering
among children is especially severe.
Valparaiso Dead Number 1000
Valparaiso, Aug. 23--The death list
of this city in the recent earthquake
was more than 1000. The death list of
other cities was also large.
San Francisco Sends Help
San Francisco, Aug. 21—The local
relief committee organized to send aid
to Chili directed the Canadian Bank of
Commerce today to wire $10,000 im
mediately. The committee will raise
funds by subscription.
The Mikkelsen polar expedition
■Sailed from Port Clarence July 20.
HYDRAULIC WORK
ON COOK INLET
Profitable Gold Mining in Prog
ress in Many Places and
Field Expanding.
Unlimited possibilities in hydraulic
mining along the streams which (low
into Cook inlet and its arms are each
year made more apparent by hydraulic
operations in progress by companies
and individual miners. Kver since the
Cook inlet rush of 18M, which brought
into the region about MOO miners,
placer and hydraulic mining has been
conducted on nearly ever creek and
everywhere pay gold has been found
in the gravel.
“In L8!«i,” said Paul Buckley at Sun
rise a few days ago, “about 5000 men
made their headquarters here and
started this town. Most of them lived
in tents and the townsite looked like
an army encampment. Prospectors
explored every creek and a lot .of good
pay was taken out. It is likely that
extensive mining would have been
done around the Inlet ever since hut
the next year the Klondike excite
ment took most of the men away to the
scent? of richer deposits and the Inlet
was lost sight of."
Nevertheless during all these years
individual miners have been working
along Turnagain Ann. some systemat
ically, others merely “sniping," but
the aggregate yearly output has been
sufficient to keep up the two towns of
Sunrise and Hope and send some out
side.
The Crow Creek Mine
A few years ago the opportunity for
profitable hydraulic mining was ascer
tained by the Crow Creek Mining
Company on < 'row creek and for sever
al years the owners sluiced an increas
ing output. Last year they sold to
California mining capitalists and the
new company this spring put in exten
sive hydraulic apparatus, including
four ‘‘giants," and is now working
the property with forty men. Opera
tions are under the direction of An
drew Xisbet. superintendent, and W.
II. Radford, a noted California mining
engineer, who came to Cook inlet last
year t«> examine other property and
learning of the Crow creek mine in*
vestigated and made a report upon it
(Continued on page 2)
TURNS DOWN
BRYAN PROTEST
Illinois Indorses Nebraskan tor
President but Stands by
Roger Sullivan.
By Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
Peoria, 111., Aug. 22 The democrat
ic state convention today indorsed
Bryan for president in 1!H)H and also
refused l>v a vote of 10.'{$ to >’>70 to pass
a resolution asking Roger Sullivan to
resign as a member of the national
committee from Illinois.
The indorsement of Bryan was
adopted over the protest of ids per
sonal representatives in the conven
tion and their following, who stated on
tiie floor that Mr. Bryan did not wish
an indorsement from Illinois as long
as the state democracy allowed Sulli
van to remain on the national commit
tee. The Sullivan faction announced
that they did not propose to allow Mr.
Bryan to dictate to them in state af
fairs although they were willing to
support him for the presidency.
Ohio in Bryan Procession
Columbus, O., Aug. 23—The demo
cratic state convention today nomina
ted candidates for minor state otlices
and indorsed Bryan for the presiden
tial nomination in 1908.
Tennessee for Bryan
Nashville, Aug. 23—The democratic
state convention today passed a resolu
tion in favor of Bryan for the demo
cratic presidential nomination in 1908.
Strikes Copper Vein
It is reported from Latouche that
the vein has been struck in the Black
bird group, where the Girdwood Cop
per Company has run a tunnel 700 feet
long. The property adjoins the Beat
son mine and it is claimed that the
vein just struck has all the indications
of a bonanza.
FIND DEPOSIT
OF HARD COAL
Prospectors Brinjr Remarkable
Samples From Upper Chu
litna River.
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PRONOUNCED SEMI-ANTHRACITE
Discoverers Report Gold and Cop
per Ledges on Same Ridge
and Placers in Creek.
Specimens of hard coal of undoubt
edly high grade were brought down
from Colorado creek on the upper
Chulitna river by three prospectors
who arrived in Seward last night. Tin
coal is pronounced by good judges t<> •
semi-anthracite and the Under*, will
have its fuel quality analyzed.
The same men bring line specimens
of quartz, carrying free gold, and
some high grade copper ore. The gold
and copper are from contact veins, and
the discoverers say the ledges, with
iron cappings, are exposed on the - r
face for a long distance.
The astonishing state-men* i*. C >
| made by the finders that gold, eopp r
and coal can be found on a -.in. ■
claim. They are unable to say wle 'ti
er the hard coal d'-posit is exter-T ■
but a-sert that the whole region
abounds in lignite.
Has Placer Diggings
Colorado creek is a branch o the
ChuUtna river heading near Broad
pass and is reported by the prospecto:■*
who came in last night to have plum
diggings almost throughout its long’d .
j although nothing rich has been found
! so far. They state that a do. :, u :t
I have been exploring the regiui ' u ->
| season and have made numerous na
tions of property from which '7 to :10
a day in gold can he taken. Tie- is
not high enough grade to pay in»uch a
remote region, to which the transport
ation of supplies is very expon- >■.
hut the ground can be pr<>!i'a:> .
worked when the railroad g v •
through.
'J'lie men who came in are < >. Blank
enship. George Hickman and Kd H>
dee. They came down tlu* rivers on a
raft, shooting the rapids o! two Box
canyons. It i> a dangerous .iotinmy
and as they were short oi grub bun. - •
added to tie* interested tbe trip. Tlu y
went in last winter from Seward.
Verifies Other Accounts
Tbe report brought by these m< :
verifies similar accounts by otb rs
wbo lmve nrospeoted tbe same region.
Mr. Blankenship describes t ii<
ground as of glacial formation, appar
ently recent. Near the bead of t k>>
ado creek, which is a large -dream. -
a box canyon. The upper part of .hi-*
canyon appears to have been dunum J
up until within a few years and broken
suddenly by increasing weigh <>!
waters from glacial melting. In the
gravel below the canyon gold colors
can he found at random anil as much
is found near the surface as at bed
rock, which is not deep so far a^ pros
pected. Mr. Blankenship thinks it
probable that deeper bedrock may he
found farther down the creek, with
richer deposits. From the mouth of
the creek is a bar about sixteen miles
long, which carries gold everywhere
and might be worked by a dredge.
JEROME ATTACKS HEARST
IN NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW
By Cable to The Bally Gateway.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 24—District
Attorney Jerome in an interview to
day said that Congressman Hearst is a
man like Charles F. Murphy, the Tam
many chief. of no ability or import
ance in himself but surrounded by
shrewd and designing men who work
upon his vanity until his addled brain
is in a condition like that of Czolgosz,
the assassin of President McKinley,
whose mind was deranged by the utter
ance of stronger men.
Jerome further says that Hearst in
one respect resembles Moses, who
broke all the commandments at once.
He asserts that the only way to settle
the light which Hearst has started in
the Democratic party is to depose him
from all influence by killing his aspir
ations for public office.
A private corporation will install a
system of wireless telegraph between
Nome and Seattle.
The eastern and middle states had a
streak of fiercely hot weather early in
August.