Seward Daily Gatewa
VOL 8. SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1!MI NO. 125
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LEASING BILL
TO BE REPORTED
Washington, March 4.—The house
lands committee will favorably report
the Alaska coal leasing bill. The bill
as coining from the committee provides
for leasing mining rights only on sixty
acre tracts for a terra of twenty years.
The government reserves live thous
and, one hundred and twenty acres in
the Bering river fields and seven thous
and, six hundred and eighty acres in
the Matanuska for its own use.
WELCOME NEWS
OF EBBING WIFE
Chicago, March 4. — William Ellis,
on trial here for tin* murder of his
wife, and who is very wealthy, was
thrown into a state ot ecstacy when a
telegram was introduced in evidence
coming from the supposed murdered
woman to her affinity, agreeing to
meet him. The evidence was so sud
denly produced that it threw the de
fendant into a seemingly epileptic tit.
THIRTY YEARS
TO KISS A GIRL
Lo^Angeles, March 4 —CharlesGuy
ton, convicted of robbing a girl of a
dime, then kissing her, when he re
turned the dime, saying the kiss was
worth the price, has been sentenced to
serve thirty years in the state peniten
tiary. _
WOMEN POLICE
ARE A FAILURE
Chicago, March 4. —Police women
have proven a failure in this city and
the ladies have been removed and their
places tilled by men. The women were
too weak to handle crowds and they
also attracted too much attention.
Storm has Subsided.
New York, March 4.—The storm has
subsided and traffic has been resumed.
There is a foot of snow.
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Railroad Commission Is Discredited]
and Recommendations Rejected.
Conferees So Announce.
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Bill Forbids Connection with Copper
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River & Northwestern Railway.
Washington, March' Jj..—The Alaska, Railway
bill Was signed by the conferees and reported to both
houses of congress this morning.
The bill now compels the government to own the
| entire railway line. Thus eliminating all possibil
ity of it connecting with the Copper River g North
j western at Ch itina.
The conferees have publicly denounced the
railroadl commission and say that they purposely
inserted the above provision in the bill in order to
'show their disapproval of the railway commission’s
recommendations. They say this action was taken
on account of the testimony of John E. Bad lame
before both houses. All of Mr. Ballaine s recom
mendations have been incorporated> in the bill.
! Only one million dollars is immediately avail
able for the commencement of active construction,
but preparations are now being made by the com
mittees of both houses, which will assure ample
funds whenever needed.
] The railroad will not be under the control of the
Interstate Commerce commission unless leased to
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a private company. \
j No action will be taken by congress on the bill
until tomorrow.
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Hi GILL GOES IN
WITH LANDSLIDE
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Seattle, March 4.—The municipal
election here yesterday proved a veri
j table landslide for Gill. Although his
j election was generally conceded, it was
thought that the election would be
pretty close. Gill was elected mayor
of Seattle by fourteen thousand ma
jority. _
Cuts Out Her Daughter-in-Law.
Santa Barbara, March 4,—Mrs. Rob
ert Louis Stevenson leaves her hun
dred thousand dollar estate to her son
and daughter. She expressly cuts out
her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Osbourne,
on account of her incredible ferocity.
Postponed Again.
Seattle, March 4.—The celebration
of the passage of the Alaska railway
bill has been postponed for another
week.
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!actor falls in
FOR A LUMP SUM
New York, March 4.—Mrs. Minnie
Trowbridge died here last night. A
nephew, James K. Hfckett, an actor,
will fall heir to her two and a half
million dollar estate. Although Mrs.
Trowbridge hated him, she was under
a guardianship and unable to make a
will.
Venerable Prelate Dies.
Breslau, Germany, March 4. —Cardi
nal Kopp, seventy-seven years of age,
died here last night. He was the old
est Catholic prelate in Germany.
Big Drop in Customs Receipts.
Washington, March 4.—The customs
receipts for the month of February just
past is ten million dollars short of the
receipts for February one year ago.
Meet me at the Branch
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Washington, March 4.—Co-opera
tion of the large industrial concerns of
the country so as to eliminate slack
and rush seasons is the object sought
by the Fereral industrial relations com
mission in its efforts to relieve the un
employed. This is the latest phaseot
the investigations of the commission
into the labor situation, and is to he
undertaken at once, according to Mrs.
J. Borden Harriman, a member of the
commission.
Co-operation among state and private
employment agencies through a Na
tional clearing-house is another phase
of the problem of distribution to which
the commission will direct its attention.
Mrs. Harriman announces that offi
cials of the principal cities throughout
the country had asked to assist the
commission in gathering data on un
employment.
“A simple illustration of what we
mean to do is the step taken by many
large coal dealers in establishing an
ice business in the Summer, so that
their men are provided with employ
ment throughout the whole 12 months,’
said Mrs. Harriman. “Many practial
methods suggest themselves. In New
York some of the manufacturers al
ready have made progress toward con
tinous all-the-year-round operations
where their plants were idle during
certain months.”
SUFFRAGETTES
FIRE MAIL BOX
Vancouver, March 4.—A mysterious
woman poured acid in and started a
lire in a street mail box here today.
The postmaster had received many
threatening letters from suffragettes,
but regarded them as a joke.
For reliable information write Can
non, Pioneer hotel, Knik. Alaska, t
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