VOL. I SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY EVENING. OCTORER 31. 1908 NO- 74
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Report of Expert Accountants Who Examined
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric file Sensa
tional Report With Judge Grosscup.
By Cabl6 to Tiie Daily Gateway.
Chicago, Oct. 31—The expert ac-;
countants employed by tbe receivers of
A. C. Frost’s Chicago & Milwaukee
Electric railroad, in a report tiled
yesterday with United States Circuit j
Judge Grosscup, make the statement j
that of the $10,000,000 issued in bonds
on the property, only $(5,000,000 was
actually spent in building the Chicago
& Milwaukee Electric, while $10,000,- j
(•00 was diverted by Frost to other i
properties and other uses. The ac
countants say that $2,000,000 of the,
amount was put into the Alaska Cen
tral railroad.
The examination by the expert ac
countants has been in progress for live
months. They uncovered the fact
soon after they began that the Chicago
& Milwaukee had never earned more
than $550,000 gross in any one year, to
Meet meat the Branch. *
SOLDIER S ADDITIONAL H. A. ENTRY
NO. 390
In the United States Land office, Juneau,
Alaska, Feb. 28 1908.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the i
Northwestern Fisheries Company, assignee of I
Mary Hollins, being entitled to the benefi.J
of Sec. 2306 of the Revised Statutes of the
United Stales granting additional lands to
soldiers and sailors who served in the War of
the Rebellion, has made application to this
office to make proof and entry under an Act
of congress approved May 14. 1898, for the lands
embraced in U. S. Survey No. 390, in the L -
triet of Alaska, described as follows:
Beginning at cor. No. 1 a point at ordinary
high water mark on the left bank of Kv’ch^k
river at the junction of said Kvichak river and
Graveyard Slough, from whence cor. No. 4
Sur. 540 bears N. 28 Degrees 06 minutes E. 20
chs.; Peak of Sugar Loaf mountain bears N.
84 degrees 14 minutes E.; thence meandering
high water mark on left bank of Kvichak river
up stream. 1st course N. 58 degrees 20 minutes
W. 1.80 chs.; thence 2nd course, N. 76 degrees
39 minutes W. 9.20 chs.; thence 3rd course, N.
41 degrees 30 minutes W. 6.50 chs.: thence 4th
course. N. 8 degrees 15 minutes W, 2.50 chs. to
cor. No. 2; thence N. 47 degrees 5 minutes E.
4.06 chs. to cor. No. 3, from whence Cor. No. 3
Sur. 72 bears N. 2 degrees 56 minutes W. 20.84
chs.; thence S. 42 degrees 45 minutes E. 17.90
chs. to cor. No. 1. the place of beginning Va
riation at all corners 23 degrees 10 minutes
East. Area 6.94 acres.
As additional to Mary Rollins' original home
stead entrv No. 1785, at Bonneville. Mo., made
May 30, 1865.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said lands are reouired to tile an ad
verse claim in this office during the period of
publication of this notice, or within thirty
days thereafter* otherwise p* oof and entry of
said lands will be made by said Northwestern
Fisheries Company, applicant.
JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the forego
ing Notice be published for * e full period of
60 days in the Daily Gateway, a daily newspa
per published at the town of Seward and Dis
trict of Alaska, which is hereby designated as
the newspaper pubHshed nearest the Iland
described. _ .
John W. Dudley, Register.
Date of first publication, October 3. 1908,
Date of last publication. December 14. 1908.
meet fixed charges ranging between
$!HX),(XM) and $1,500,000 a year, al
though Frost uniformity in his annual
reports and in his sales of bonds had
claimed that the road was earning
$240,000 a year net over all fixed
charges. The examination disclosed
that he had paid interest on bonds out
of bond sales.
By the report of the accountants Mr.
Frost is shown to have kept many sets
of books to which he alone had access,
and to have made important entries
arbitrarily to bear out his statements
of earnings.
Some of the principal holders of Chi
cago & Milwaukee bonds and gold j
notes began foreclosure proceedings]
several weeks ago.
Further developments of a sensation-!
al nature are expected to follow the
filing of the report.
ROCKEFELLER AN ISSUE
His Support of Candidate William H.
Taft Furnishes Ammunition
for the Democrats.
By Cable to T'le Daily Gateway.
New York, Oct. 31—John D. Rocke
feller's announcement yesterday that
he will vote for Taft for president has
brought out the charge by democratic
leaders that his stand shows the
friendship of the Standard Oil influ
ences for the republican ticket. The
republicans are busy refuting the
charge, and have issued denials that
Standard Oil interests have contribu
ted to the republican campaign fund.
They point out that Rockefeller's sup
port of Taft is merely from personal
preference, and means no more than
the support given to Bryan by W. A.
Clark, the copper millionaire.
Head of A-Y-P Guards
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Oct. 31—Chief of Police
Wappenstein was today appointed chief
of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
guards.
A. F. Gibson, Herman Greenwood
and Tom Sears arrived in town about
10:30 o’clock this morning. They have
been working on the government trail
between Girdwood and Indian creek,
for the past three months.
Wall paper at Hofman’s
CANNON DEFIN 3
HIS ATTITUDE
Issues Statement Saying He Was
Misunderstood on Interstate
Liquor Traffic Bill.
Bv Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Danville, 111., Oct. 31—Speaker Can
non this morning issued a long state
ment to the voters of his district, and
incidentally to the people of the 1 nit
ed Slates, in which he claims that the
churches and the temperance people
misunderstand his attitude on the bill
introduced last session to prohibit
interstate traffic in liquor in prohibi
tion states and counties. He denies
that he was instrumental in preventing
a report on the bill by. the judiciary
committee, or that he referred it to
that committee purposely to have it
pigeonholed. He claims that the mem
bers of the judiciary committee honest
Iv held the bill as drawn to be uncon
ft/
stitutional.
Mr. Cannon denies the statement of
temperance and church speakers who
have been canvassing his district that
he insulted a committee sent from the
Methodist general conference to plead
with him in favor of permitting the
judiciary committee to report the bill
to the house, so the house might act
on it. He denies that he invited
the opposition of the churches. On
the contrary, he insists that he treated
the committee from the Methodist con
ference with respect and courtesy.
Two of the members of the committee
were Governor Hanley of Indiana and
Governor Hoch of Kansas.
In closing his letter, Speaker Cannon
says he favors temperance legislation
that will be effectual and stand the
test of the interstate clause of the
federal constitution.
MINIMIS DEFEATED
Former Yukon Governor Will Stand
for a Ministry In the British
Columbia Cabinet.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway,
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 31—Complete
returns from Monday’s parliamentary
election show that former Governor
Mclnnis of Yukon Territory was de
feated in his candidacy to represent
British Columbia in the Dominion
parliament. He announces that he
will stand for a ministry in the British
Columbia cabinet.
George Williams arrived from Bird
creek at 9 o’clock this morning. He
was suffering from snowblindness and
so took advantage of the night to make
the trip.
Special Chicken Dinner at the Pal
ace Grill tomorrow. *
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Jury in District Court Accauit
Men Accused of Lynch
ing J. L. Kenny.
I
By Cable to The Detiy Gateway.
Valdez, Oct. 30—Charles Harper and
Al. Young were acquitted by a jury
in the district court today on a charge
technically described as participating’
in riot, but in common English defined
as an attempt by them to hang .1. E.
Kenny a year ago at his roadhouse on
Lake creek, in the Yentna district.
The case grew out of a charge in
volving the loss of a $3000 poke of gold
dust by John Cohen, a prospector.
Cohen had stopped at the roadhouse
kept by J. E. Kenny on Lake creek,
and claimed that he had left there by
oversight a $3000 poke of gold dust.,
the result of bis summers work. WheD
be returned four days later t lie dust had
disappeared, be alleged. He accused
Kenny of secreting it.
A party of prospectors was made up
at Susitna Station, according to the
testimony in court, to go back to the
Kenny roadhouse and recover the gold
or punish Kenny. The party consisted
of Cohen, Al. Young, Charles Harper,
Frank Churchill, Frank Dunn, Sam
Wagner and a few others.
Kenny alleges that the party strung
him up twice in an attempt to force a
confession from him and compel him
to reveal the hiding place of the poke.
Kenny insisted on his innocence and
denied all knowledge of the mis
sing gold dust. The party finally left
without recovering the poke.
In filing charges against the party
with the United States attorney,
Kenny names Harper and Young as
the leaders.
All of the men involved are well
known prospectors of the Yentna and
Susitna districts, and have made their
headquarters at Seward and Susitna
Station.
Kenny’s friends stoutly uphold him
in maintaining that he was innocent
of secreting the poke.
The aurora borealis made an unusu
ally fine display last night, character
ized by ribbon-like streams of light ra
diating from the region of the north
magnetic pole, casually shifting their
positions and assuming a variety of
colors._•
Skating parties on the lake are now
common. The ladies to be accommo
dating accept one escort in going to
the lake, and exchange him for anoth
er on the return to town.
Cigars and tobaccoes at the Seward
Drug Co. __ *
Window Shades at Hofraan’s. *