DEATH CLAIMS
CAPT. HOFFMAN
Master of W haler Jeanette Suc
cumbs to Dread Destroyer
While in Seattle.
By Oble to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Seattle. May 1 Capt. Henry Huff
man ot' the whaler .)< anette, who was
being rushed through from Alaska to
California in the hopes of arresting
the ravages of consumption, died here
yesterday.
Ili«.\vife had been sent for from Kan
sas ami \\as at tin* captain’s bedside
when lie died. l\.xpo>ure in the ex
treme north for many years had so
weakened the captain s lungs that he
became an easy prey to the germ of
consumption.
To Salt age the Saratoga
Bv Carle to Th*. Dally Gateway
Seattle. May 1 The contract for
salvaging the steamer Saratoga which
was wrecked March the
rocks off Busby island has been let to
a Canadian company.
Steamer Santa Clara Arrives
The Steamer Santa Clara arrived in
{K>rt Sunday afternoon about j
o'clock. She brought tlie following
passenger li>: for Seward:
The Santa » Mura >ailed on her return ;
trip for Seattle at noon today.
Bertha Arrives
Steamer Bertha arrived in i>ort at 11
o'clock Wednesday morning. Site
brought the following passenger list for,
Si* ward: Hrote-si>r \\ a lace \\ . Atwood,
Mr-. W. \V. At wood and two children.
(I. Lawrer.ee, .f. K. Beiley, .1.
Cavanaugh, I’.. B. Cray, l*\ Korlh,
Airs. Korth and eight children. Dr. |
David. Mis. K. Thoilay. and three
steerage pas-inger>.
Mr. Wyble i> a passenger on the
Bertha on ki> way to Sunri>e. The
Bertha gOe-to SCduvia and will not'
touch at Si ward "ti her return.
Wired communicat on "as kept up
for a time between tin* Cortland and j
the Bertha w het: the; w ••••»* l*>o miles
apart. Communication wa> ul>o had
with the coa-t towns after leaving
Seattle. Tiie wire e>- system i> a
great >ucces*».
Yucatan Arrives
Steamer Yucatan arrived in port at
uYIocn l-'r dav morning. She
brought a heavy mail and the follow-1
ing passenger ii-t for Seward.
K. K. Bond. i*. A. Hendricks. A.
Ro—. Mrs. F. Wat-on. F. Krar./auer,
Heo. Bette-. Mr-. L<
It is > e! -rtoil t hat the Y neat an will
>,ot ’j)) we>tward hut will remain here
forty hour-.
SfiUlii) su OltRS
Yucatan; in port.
U"i*a: sailed for Fimla-ka lMh.
N\>rtbwest**rn: sailed for Seattle 2">.
Port lain;: -ailed for S -attle 1st.
Santa t ‘lari: -ailed tor Seattle It 1».
Bertha; -ailed for Seattle <*th.
In From Falls Creek
F. r. Boggs and \Y. L. Redman re- j
• .rued ye.-tenlay from their Falls
creek placer claims. They came in to
make further preparations for working
their claims during the season. Snow j
lies along the creek to a depth of from
six to eight feet. They shoveled out
the snow in one or two places, sluiced !
a little dirt and took out four ounces
of gold dust and some nuggets, making i
about $12 a day each while they were
at work. The men expect to have
some high water to contend with when
the snow melts away, but they think
they can work the ground in places
during the entire season. From the
gold produced and reports made it is
evident that Boggs and Redman have
struck a good thing for the summer.
Off to Their Claims
C. F. Boggs and \V. L. Redman j
packed their sled yesterday afternoon!
and when the cool of the evening came |
they had sled and load transported on
a wagon out to the edge of the snow
line, where their dogs hitched to the i
sled took them merrily along over the 1
frosty snow trail to their diggings on j
Falls Creek. Here the men expect to
work their placer claims and gather in
the yellow metal for about a month be
fore coming into town again for new ^
supplies.
DIVORCE GIVEN
TO MRS. ADAMS
\\ ifc of Embezzler Wins and Is
Granted Separation and Cus
tody of the Child.
By Cai l« to The DAtly Gateway.
Seattle, Mayo Mrs. Adams, wife of
tleorge Kdward Adams has been grant
ed a divorce in her suit against her
husband, and also awarded the custody
: of i heir son.
Adams was at one time the cashier
of the local government assay office,
and for a period of years systematically
stole gold dust from the “pokes”
intrusted to his care by Alaska miners,
lie is supposed to have taken in that
way dust to the amount of about •'KU'J,
I 000.
Promises Brighter
Washington The prospect of a good
year in the Alaska trade has been
! brightened by the presence of better
I labor conditions in the Tatiana dis
trict. t'ommerce between the states
! and Alaska in the last calendar year
1 was somewhat smaller than in the
vrar I’HMi, this being the first year in
the last decade that there has been a
decrease as compared with any prior]
’year.
The month of February witnessed an
improvement in commerce with Alas
ka, both in north-bound and south
bound commerce.
The February shipments from Alas
ka to the states, not including gold
and silver, amounted to $1SS.1.'><», as
; compared with in the corres- j
ponding month of last year. 1 be j
north-bound shipments from Puget j
sound in February were valued at j
-Walter H. (’lark in P.-I.
Adjudged Insane
.hunt - McClellan was yesterday
brought hr fore Judge Heed on the!
(charge of insanity. McClellan came
' here trom Latouche on one of the re
cently arriving boats, and apparently
started over the trail to Sunrise. But
1 lie did not go very far before breaking
into an unoccupied cabin, and from
then* making excursion-, to the neigh
boring eabin> Of Ole Martin and Otto
Bergstrom where In peered into the
windows, as they thought, after the
manner of a man who is out of him
M*lf. Complaint was lodged and Mc
Clellan was gathered in by Deputy
Marshal Wybrant and Kevitt.
Tin- accused is a young man of not
more than thirty-live years of age.
He say> he lifty-nine. and that he
was taken when a child of nine years
I rum Bellingham. Washington, to
Canada to he a sort of guardian angel
fora weak ami In ioless people. He
served in this capacity for twenty
eight years, and is to he rewarded
with a crown from heaven in the
sweet by and by.
MeClellan says he discovered a dia
mond mine in Canada, lb* broke open
quart/, rock and took out diamonds
about an eighth of an inch in diame
ter. 1 le had tlie rock as- ived but some
I one jumped his claim and lie has never
realized anything from it. lie saw
i his father, a man about ninety years
' old, in Daw son, and worked for his
mother in Cleary last, winter. He!
knew them both, but they did not j
know him and he did not make him-1
self known.
The jury brought in a verdict of in
i sanitv as charged, and recommended
i *
that McClellan be taken to the asylum
at Mt. Tabor. Oregon.
Oil and Coal Lands Sold
A deal in Catalla oil and coal lands ;
has been made by which the North
west Security Company obtained a quit
claim deed to acres of valuable i
j land lying northeast of Catalla and |
north of Bering lake. According to j
i Tom C. Magrath, president of the;
Northwest Security Company, the pur
| chase price was $250,000.
The new owner of the land has al
ready made plans to sink a 3,000-foot
well. Material and machinery will be J
sent North within a short time.
The coal and oil land originally con-!
sisted of twentv-tive claims, each con
taining 100 acres. The original own
! ers were Torger Asbjornson, Fred
Lind, Ole Brown, P. L. Peterson,
Swan Swanson, Marshall Lee and Tom
j C. Magrath.—P. I.
You can get anything in the drug
line at the Owl Drug Co. *
[the correct
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1207 lanqtey St.. Victoria. 0. C.
/’
Arctic Brotherhood
CAMP SEWARD NO. 21.
Meets every Saturday evening in
A. U. Hall, Cor. 5th and Wash. jj
ANTON El DE S. L. COLWELL j
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
J. A. BAUGHMAN
PHYSICIAN
and SURGEON
City ofttce: Owl Driur Store
Home otilec: Uj> stairs in Richard building
E. E. RITCHIE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
VALDEZ - - ALASKA
Outlook for Knik
Special to The Daily Gateway.
Inquiries are frequently made by
i those desiring to reach the interior
: and that section of the territory lying
| to the northwest of the Yukon for the
j most feasible route. That route which
! in the future will be the most followed
I is the one marked out this winter by
! the small force of men in the employ
of the United States government.
These men constitute what is called
the Road and Trail Commission for
Alaska. The route begins at Seward
on Resurrection bay and ends at
Nome. Knik Arm of Cook’s Inlet is
on the route and one of the objective
points. Thus the town of Knik is
destined to become one of the impor
tant money making towns in the in
terior of Alaska. The town has been
quiet during the past winter. A few
social gatherings have broken the
monotony, but with the coming of
spring those pastimes have ceased, and
we are looking forward to more
active times.
T. Langtree.
Good things to eat at Brown tr
Hawkins—Swift’s “Premium” bacon
and hams and strictly fresh ranch
eggs.
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
CHRISTIENSEN & LAUBNER. Proprietors
Pianos and Safes Moved sp.ci,l,.,cn.i.n..Gi.,7_r^
Give us your orders for Coal & Wood
General Forwarders PHONE MAIN Seward. Alaska I
[Alaska Commercial Cm
Have Established a Station at Susitna, at the
forks of the Susitna and Yentna rivers, and
will carry a full line of miners’ supplies
| OTHER STATIONS AT
UNALASKA, KODIAK, KARLUK, KAOUYAK,
AfOONAK, TYONICK AND SUNRISL
At Jitl« Hill HIMIIHII I1' MM
r Latouche! Latouche! Latouche! j
1 Reynolds - Alaska Development Company I
General Outfitters For
I PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND j
Bottom Prices; Honest (ioods
| Headquarters for REYNOLDS. I
Launches to Knight’s Island LATOUCHE ISL,
and Sound Points. ALASK^^J
BOOTH &. CO.
CWl
HOPE AND GIRDWOOD
t&TCall on the old reliable firm of Booth & Co. for anythin# 'in the
Liquor and Cigar line. Mi Kleccion Cigars, Old Line and Hunter Rye,
Nelson Co. Bourbon. Olympia Beer. Everything first-class. Best
of attention, run on the live and let live plan.
Girdwood, Alaska. C. R. BOOTH, Manager.
^MUSHERS
Attention!
Mrs. Watson, formerly of Hope,
will be pleased to see all of her
old friends at her Restaurant in
Gird wood, where they will re
ceive the best the market affords.
Sleeping accommodations for
guests and place for sleds and
dogs.
V « J
Seattle’s
Commercial
Hotel
THE
Rainier-Grand
EUROPEAN PLAN $1 UP
CHAS. PERRY, Manager