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VOLUME Xlii, !NUMBER^29
BOMB PLOT
IS GROWING
CHARUSTON, W. Ya.- June 10
Governor Cromwell announced today
that he ha^ positive* evtd »nce* found on
Kdwia McGuerty. alleged I. W. W.*
that over 130 West Virginia towns
have been marked for bomb explos
ions.
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The coal mines at Tantalus on tlu*
Yukon have been leaded and the coal
will be mined there on quite a larjjrv
scale this season.
Bt A—cHltd Kw*
“Two stcumshovels and some thirty
five cars of equipment and fifty men
moved from Anchorage to south ot
Kern Creek this morning to work on
the rvhabitution of the Seward Line.
(Signed) Gerig."
Shortly after the Gateway went t>
press yesterday afternoon the above
telegram was received by the Editor
from Engineer-in- charge Gerig- at
.Anchorage.
The telegram explains itself and is
proof that the Anchorage Division is
also to help now in placing the Sew
ard division in condition for traffic.
The Anchorage Division has equip
ment and men for construction work
and both will be used towards the re
building of certain portions of the
Seward Division.
CANNERY IS
DESTROYED
RY FIRE
By Associated Press
SEATTLE. June 10— It is report
ed here that fire has destroyed th**
main buildings of the Alaska*Pacific
Cannery at Chilkoot* Alaska* on Lynn
Canal. The loss is said to be $350*000.
WILLARD IS HOGISH
TOLEDO. June 10— Jess Willard
is increasing his boxing until he tan
reach the twelve round limit of th**
July Fourth fight Willard has been
severely criticised because he raised
the price of admission to his camp
to fifty cents. He took in over $2000
laat Sunday almost double his week's
expenses.
Dempi*ey w charging only 25 cents
admission to his training camp.
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SVRVKYOR REACHES SEATTLE
SEATTI.E* June 10— With a gold
*tar and gold chevron on her smoke
stack* signifying war zone service* the
Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer
Surveyor arrived here today to begin
work in Alaska waters. The Surveyor
will go to Kj&diak very shortly to start
wort frw» that point*
By Associated fteas
SEATTLE- June 10— A Seattle
Times special dispatch from Washing
ton this afternoon says that the Sig
nal Corps plans to abandon the Alaska
Military cable after erecting a huge
wireless station here to work with »
big station to be built at Fairbanks.
The dispatch says that the cable
has outlived its usefulness.
The Signal Corps expects to build
a wireless system within two years n>
the military appropriation bill carries
a $250-000 item for the erection of six
additional wireless stations in Alaska.
Col R. B. Paddock- Chief Signal
Officer, of the Research Engineering
division says that the Seattle site has
not yet been selected but that he
station will probably be placed at the
top of some big hill. The Seattle sta
tion will be the largest wireless sta
tion in the world, according to the
Times Dispatch.
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• DIRIGIBLE TO FLY *
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• NEW YORK- June 10— The •
* mammoth British dirigible R 54 *
* begins a flight from England to *
• the United States via Newfound- •
* land on June 50th. The dirigible u;
• will possible fly back again If the •
j • westward flight is successful. *
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j ALIEN FISHERMEN ARE
ARRESTED AT WRANGELL
WRANGELL, June 10-Three al
iens were arrested here for illegal
fishing . They were found guilty and
' Just Joki fined $150 and coatB and Jal
cob Hollingstad and John Sarrikoski
each fjnsd $100 and cost*.
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60LD SEEKERS
LEAVE FRISCO
FOR THE ARCTIC
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16— There
sailed out of San Francisco hay a few
days ago a little company of thirty
men whose ship oow Ls pointing to
ward the Arctic seas. Gold is the age
old lure which inspired this advanture
which means cold and loneliness and
discomfort. Possibly hunger and death.
The schooner Casco is the vessel
which is bearing the treasurer seekers
northward gad in her cabin Robert
Louis Stevenson once wrote many a
romance which these modem argo
naut^ are likely to parallel. The ehipV
company include** men who have
delved in the earth in nil parts of the
world. On them will devolve the op
erations required in mining. Men wh>
have sailed the seven aeaa are on
board, and.they will see to the naviga
tion. Then- there are-men who have
been successful bankers and .business
men. To several Of >th« latter, reted
well fixed.-in the matter of worldly
good, the adventure impelled rather
than any prospedte <nf*financial.re
turn. But all thirty are shareholders
in the Northern Mining and Trading
Company.
It is another story of a search for
a rich mining area where gold nug
gets may be picked off the surface of
the earth and where the ledges arc
me rusted with the precious ore. The
location is a secret.
L. 3. McGirk, a mining engineer,
who has worked in thf earth from
Panama to Nome, is at the head of
the party. His office is me musiy
Mttle cabin in which Stevenson work
er. The battered old desk on which
Stevenson wrote still is in the cabin,
splotched by ink stains from his pen.
It is reported the adventure that led
*0 the new voyajre of the Casco was
thrust on the man that found untold
wealth in the Arctic, when he and
">ther members of the crew on a poach,
inif sealer were chased by a Japanese
cutter, and their small boat was
wrecked.
He was starving wnen nuu^»
found him. But he forgot his hunger
as his eyes rested en gold that fairly
seeped through the earth. Without
equipment , he says , he returned to
civilisation with gold worth thousand*
>f dollar*. *
McGirk and others heard the atory.
Adventurers banded together, each
providing his share of the estimated
expense*. Some of the thirty sold all
they had to get money for the ven
ture. Others- tike Albin Johnson- sec
retary of the corporation, and Eman
uel Johnson, the vice- president, had
found much gold in Alaska and are
| rich enough to hoy a dotea mine*.
More than 500. McGirk says, had
i the money and the desire to go. But
! no man was chosen unless ha knew
something of mining. Captain C. L.
Oliver , the navigator, is not so much
a miner ao a seaihaa. Lieutenant Cor
bett Bland, who ha* bdttt stationed at
the Presidio for t|iM ***** to on# of
the thirty. .
Then there is "Pat**. Pat is a dog
of the North, possibly * Russian wolf
hound. He was picked up nt the city
pound. HU great-grandparents truck
ed through the fh*w of the
By Associated Prow
WASHINGTON. June 10— The De
partment of Agriculture predicts that
one billion, two hundred and thirty six
million bushels of wheat will bo grown
this year. This includes winter wheat
and spring crops. The Department
predicts eight hundred and ninety
three million bushels of winter wheat*
the largest crop ever grown in the
United States.
UJKENSTOMAKE
PLANS FOR A
CITY JOCK
Walter W. Lukens was last nig) t
| engaged by the Seward City Counei1
[to design a municipal or floating
i dock .for the city and submit plans at
the reguler meeting of the counril nor*
| Monday rnght. Mr. Lukens* if the
plans are approved and the dock au
, thorized wiU hUo have charge of th*
work, superintending u in all detail.
It was brought out at the special
1 meeting of the dty council last night
that the Alaska Engineering Comm is
3lon now has much creosoted piling
and other wharf material on hand
which can he purchased by the city,
also a pile driver crew and cat pent
for the work.
The municipal wharf question was
one of the two things discussed last
night at the special meeting, at which
Mayor Chamberlin and Councilmcn
Lucas* Homer Craef and McNeer
; were present. It was the opinion of the
members of the council present that
now was the time for the city to act
upon the question of having a suit
able landing place for the mosquito
fleet and large fishing boats which
will come to Seward.
While the plans for the floating
dock were only discussed informally
it was brought out that a dock HO by
150 feet* running in an east and west
direction, could be built at the end of
the extension of the commission’s
dock now on the waterfront at the
foot of Broadway. Mayor Chamberlin
proposed that a small warehouse he
erected on the floating dock. The
special committee having the dock
. . . . . _i ^ e
proposition in cnarge is compum-u
Councilmen Homer and Lucas.
Bids for piling and lumber wer
opened at the special meeting and a
contract let. Hugo Johnson submitted
a bid on piling at 20 cents a foot and
braces at 15 cents per foot.
The Seward Saw Mill Co., submit
ted a bid for piling 15 to 16 feet in
length. 8 to 10 inches in diameter at
16 cents per foot and braces 4 to 18
feet long* 6 to 7 inches in diameter at
12 cents a foot.
The lumber bid was $30 per thous
and.
TheTouncil unanimously accepted
the Seward Saw Mill's bid and will let
the contract accordingly.
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The contract for carrying the sum
mer mails from Chitna to Fairbanks
has been awarded by the post office
department to Tom Gibson, of Pair- ,
■'banks. The contract starts June 24
and an effort is being made to have
the postmaster general authorize
• three special trips 'made during the
month of June in order to provide an
uninterrupted service from the coast,
as the winter schedule expired on
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON. June 10 Pre i
dent Wilson has cabled Senator Hitch
cock* Democrat* author of the Senate
resolution for a i investigation ot how
the peace treaty reached private in
terest:; in New York City. President
Wilson said that h<
vestipation had been started 11'ii1
had been uudosbab'c to conurunicat
the tr< ai y to th<
document was fill boinp nepotiat*!
subject to chnnpe.
President Wilson said that nnvom
nossessifi**' an official text ol th**
treaty has what he is not entitled to
have and still more so if h was tom*
municat'al to New York (My.
Frazier Hunt* con- >pondont of th**
Chicapo Tribune has arr ived here v/i'b
‘ho full text of the treaty and -av
hat his copy is one of tire onpimd .
drafts.
Senate- llorah ha - in*collect'd Hum s
•opv anti stages that th- adminCI-i*
tion is puttinp it in the * jnnpre-sion '•
Record as the Senate was unable ’• I
pet .1 copy from the povernrnent.
R KIM A TO GERMANY
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PARIS* .Juno 10 - The A aieiatml j
Press this morning, in a ummarj
says the Peace Confenmeo *'x eon ider
rng admitting Germany to ‘he l/’ar”'
of Nations if Germany shows -h* !><•
sesses a stab!#* governm* nt and if s'1
signs the peace treaty and loya ! / » x
ecutes it.
It is expected that the reply t<> Gar
many’s counter proposals will go t*
the German delegation on Friday. Th •
Germans will then be given five days
‘o sign or reject the treaty.
It is expected that th** 1 urkCh
oeaee delegates will arrive a' Marsml
’os sometime tomorrow..
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MAKES PREDICTION
PARIS* June 10— The Echo .’<?
Paris predicts that the peace treao
vill be signed before July 1st. The
ante newspaper says that it is ex
acted that the various payments
yil! ratify the treaty before Angus;
1st.
“We believe that the German wi'l
•eplacr the present government i» it
leclines to sign the treaty* concludes
the Echo do Paris.
SENATE’S EESOLI TION
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WASHINGTON- Juno 10-- Senator
Cnox today introduced a resolution *n
the Senate declaring that the Senate
•annot concur in the League of Nu
.ion’s provisions of the treaty. The re* i
solution is supported by a majority of
;he league’s opponents and the reso
lution is understood to be an official
notice to the Paris peace conference
that the American senate opposes th*
ratification of the League.
The resolution asks that the League
of Nations be separated from the trea
ty before it is presented io the Senate
for final approval.
ESTABLISHES A RECORD
WASHINGTON. June 10— The
government’s printing office- the larg
est in the world* established a record
today by setting up in two hours the
100000 word treaty introduced in the
Senate and brought here by the Chica
go Tribune’s correspondent. Forty
.sight linotypes were used and 85 proof
readers worked on the treaty. The
: roaly covers s xty lo.’.r pag^s o» the
'■on jf r^ssional rocosd. t opics v.ere lat*
ihi; afternoon sTnt to all editors of
newspapers taking the Associated
Press news.
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CHICAGO- June 10— President
Konenkansp. National President *
of the Telegraphers s.ic! that Sin
ai >teps were Ivins taken for the
luiti-Mi wide sti*''.e of 71M/00 ti*!e
j» aphojs. i !*.e strike- according to *
* Konenkainp i> on tomorrow.
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I;> \ssunat<d Press
PAIMS- J11*10 JO— Ameumn-Irish
dele?-it- ; conferred v ilh Presid nt
Wile* 'ti today and stated that guerilla
wa fare, of a character which usually
precedes a major conflict, was now
progressing in Ir**’and.
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|{y Associated Press
SPKIXC.ITKLD- III. June 10— Th;s
state is the first to ratify the womans
suffrage amendment. The Senate to
day ratified it unanimously. In the
lower House- three members only op
posed the amendment..
MADISON* June 10— The Wiscon
in legislature today ratified the sut
fiage amendment.
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* STRIKE BROKEN
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WINNIPEG, June 10— The *
strike here is broken as far as
* concerns the public safety and
* welfare. It is estimated that one
* third of the strikers have return- 11
* ed to work.
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SIR EDWARD CARSON IS
DEFEATED FOR PARLIAMENT
LONDON, June 10— Sir Edward
Carson. Unionist leader, has been de
feated for a Parliament seat.
A sensational report was recently
spread in Juneau that the Kcnnecott
mine had been gutted of copper and
abandoned by the company. The re
port was spread by a number of dis
charged miners from Kcnnecott who
alleged that the company had been
shipping over two million dollars in
ore a month, without keeping up the
development work. There is no truth
to the rumor, however, as the company
simply curtailed its output on account
of low prices in the metal.
A fifth teacher is to he added *o
the teaching staff of the Wrangetl
public school this year.
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