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SATI'liDAY. KKItlU'AUY i>. 1W»*
MORE AID TO NAVIGATION
The steamship companies of the
oast will [ rform a valuable service if
licy can ind “ Congress to appro
priate tnonev to erect additional light*
, >us»'s in the. 'i whs straits of the
acilie shore :n \ it stall adequate life
,*vh * serv • in s, e! channels as 'he
qraits of Juan IK• Kiiea, which targe
lii'iih1 vs of vasscls arc continually
,raversing. The t madian government
ought also to be induced to add addi
tional safegav * to life at the ent rance
* the starit'.
The Vah ucia wee: ashore on V m
■«»uver island. \ beacon outside that
vrf would have warned the vessel
tw »>. and a li‘ living service such as
m \tlan; c c ust has in many places
aiight have saved every person on
iv ard after t If v- reck. Two years ago
•be Clallam w, ;i down in the straits
* ilh seventy lives. The loss dttc
.a the blunders of the chief engineer
*-ud captain but a life saving service
might "have saved the people "hen
hv v»" I v is 1 s*.
Congress cat : t spend money tat any
■iteradv r.'.'r .ban in providing a i
- |aat» pro: e: i a • a i : * and pc •:>« rty
ijong ocean shores. la the Northern |
’acdic this is been;: e.g an imperative
quirement as ti e shipping is vastly
.creasing and wi t continue to incrcas.
u gvonictCea! ratio. A bill is nowbe
’ »re Congress providing for additional
trht houses and lb.- number could he
doubled or trebled without waste of
toney. Nur uvus channels ought a I-j
so KI he tvch.irt- . as the masters of
• earners plying along the southern
Coast from tint** to time lind uueharted
«.if* wrongly chart' al reefs. Coast sur
vey vessels ba\« been engaged in this
*r orl. d -ing t! i * * last two summers and
should not be : ik *u front it until the
•*ntire coast has been carefully sur
veyed
Meamvhih if tb-* s?«»amship company
i,!;cials will si ake up their life belts
wal lube all ll 1 :ut and scrap iron out
rf them and s destitute cork the devices
taav 'lout more buoyantly w hen worn,
by pets its s*: for their live- in
the water.
NO PLACE FOR TRAMPS
l Y. >p ‘Cto» * '-I ; the \ entna (list; u*t !
\ i insist 4rut: »v non the point that
i> no p: ic- f - it lean n wit ho * a '
1 *rge indlvM : c<■tnni; -sary depart*
itciil - J iiC* i • * o in w itn h .
.and wieh am; a toiogna sausage to
uuk.c his fort i ;.u*'e to get hun
gry h< fore t. v n convert gold nug
gets into provision*. And oven it he
should till u • sack with gold th.
lirst week, :.* many t n»ierf-*et ex* •
im-ci to do w 11 they hit the trYl for a
gold camp. h will tind very little grub
for - alt.
! Yoeceding* under tho-tm written law
>f a remote miring camp are summary. *
vVhen a eiti/en breaks into the fold
without grub and with the air of one
who intends to siionge off somebody else
he is handed a lunch big enough with
• ugality to la-t him until lie can reach
ite nearest way station, and told to
hurry in pursuit of hi> nose. At suc
ceeding' stations he receives similar
encouragement.
Miners wlm know their business and
who carry provisions sufficient to la*4
them for mouths in a distant camp,
carrying or drag.- ng it toilsomely over
.any league- of hilly and rocky trails,
or no trails at a!!, ac* in n » mood to
conduct a free lunch counter when they
reach the gold riggings. They will
not let even a Imho starve hut they will
hustle him out of camp w ith a iight
’inch.
The Yet : i < *.- ict .* repute to 1>
uncommonly rich. There is every in
dication the i' will he anotl r Klon
dike, Tanaua or Kant .him, hut in
every one of those bonanza camps men
nearly starved i- cause t• • v rushed in
without know,ug what, they wore go
ing up against. They l>ored in with
out provisions, money, or exp- ri< nee
n placer mining. Temlerfeet crowd
ed into the Klondike who might have
walked around the world on a great
curie belt of goId-l>earing gravel with-:
out knowing what was under their
shoes, and they thought they v ere go
ng ntoa harvest held, until they got
there.
Men who are already interested in
the Yentna camp hope that very little
of the customary folly will lie seen
there. The district lias more ground
than they know what to do with and i
they will cheerfully welcome other j
men in pursuit of wealth by the same !
method they are following, provided
the newcomers are able to take care of
themselves and will not lx* begging
for a handout the second week.
Senator Tillman keeps his pitchfork
u commission all the time.
THINKING PART FOR SEATTLE
Seattle has been assigned a thinking
: part by the determination of San
h'ranci*co to bid for Seward business
! by putting a big steamship on a regular
run to this port. The Sound city will
|not think long without acting. No
, UhIv ever accused Seattle of sleeping
overtime. She seized Alaska trade by
enterprise, and by fair dealing may ;tl
ways hold more than half of it against
■ all other coast cities.
Th. (inly port which can compete
with SeatlU' on even terms for Alaska
trade is the town which has lived
twenty years upon the payroll of the
Northern I’acitic and devoted its spare
time to scrapping with the rest of the
world because mankind at large re
>u*e* t.» call Mount liainier Mount
Tacema. Seat tie boats from Southern
Alaska must go to Tacoma to discharge
the ere w hich they carry down for bal
last and therefor* are compelled to
travel just as far a* a I'acoma steamer
wi,nki *>o this run. In any case Seattle
ha> only twenty-eight miles edge on
Tacoma, which is of no importance in
.. long ran.
No city can hold a monopoly of t he
: .iMim of a region >o vast its Central
Alaska when its ivsnurces begin to i>e
fa;r!y developed. It other cities than
Seat: • are at a disadvantage in reach
ing for that trad*’ they will work for it
nev* rt hele*s ;tr.*i take their share upon
;» narrow er margin.
In Alaska today are many men from
S lit; ' who are still loyal to that city
ata : pride in its marvelous growth,
but their financial interests are in
A i- a and in trade matter* they will
he governed accordingly. Many other
a;, n are here who scarcely ever saw
>*:\t! and who have formed their
opinion* of the town chiefly from some
of the inferior merchandise it has sent
! i;. : thw it'd and from the conduct of it*
f . -al assay otlicc. Seattle's friends in
Alaska would rejoice to see its reput
* t etts hunt down the black
sheep.
T.u-otna had a grand jury which was
in commission U minutes, Citizens
induced dudge Snell to call it over the
protest of I Vosecuting Attorney Gates
hut when the jury got together the re*
Ci" ers declined to present evidence1
of graft ami crime because t hey could ,
not h.iv- a special attorney and they
said they expected nothing from the
regular prosecutor. Gambling was
suspended for a few days w hile the j
sports wore wondering what the grand
jury would do, hut their nerves were
. promptly composed when th<* jury was |
discharged, and the gambling industry
was (,’nckly resumed. Tacoma is not
a very swift town but it is original.
Tie regular army will have half a
17. n lieutenant-generals in turn this,
year in order to let that number ot
oflleers retire with the rank and pay of
tiir ** -tar>. Less than forty years:
go the Congress of that day refused to ,
erea;e an extra lieutenant-generalship 1
• . {.i>nej- li.-orge H. Thomas because :
tin* s; Mesmeu loan d to imperil popular i
Tty h creating ”a large military
es:ab!:shn“*n.t. * When l*rof. darner,
:a t -t. - the monkey language he might |
:aid it an interesting study to investi-;
g t. the menial processes of Congress-1
Veda Allen, the actress, was sued by
a Seattle real estate broker for a com
mission which he claimed to have j
earned bv iinding a buyer for lots be-.
longing to her at a price which site had 1
:ixe i herself but which she repudiated 1
after he negotiated the sale. The I
court gave judgment for Viola and it is j
assumed that the decision was based j
ui»on tiie do rum that a woman has a
right to change iter mind whenever she
feels like it.
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A majority of the newspapers of the
country are inclined to jeer at Jacobi
ti. SchifTs prediction of a financial I
p n.icif banks are not permitted to
issu all the p;i[»‘r they feel like grind-!
ng out. t 'ynical writers suggest that
a-> Jacob is a hanker and loans to Wall
'tr< g gambler', on gilt-edged paper he
probably figured that his plan
wo.! b ■. g<mh! thing for hisownbusi
It - • i' r to criticise than to per-:
car a d tin- imn who wore sent to!
re c c the helple.-s victims of the'
Valencia wreck probably had an im- !
lMj"il>> task before them in the eon-i
• tionof the sea. Still some people;
r<a uibcr that from the beginning of,
time men have died while trying to j
save others, but the Valencia rescuers
seem not to have been in that class.
Th<’ Seattle Municipal Ownership!
party and the labor unions have gotten j
together and nominated Ex-Judge '
M'*>re for mayor. They expect the
Democrats to nominate Moore also and
if tin* attenuated remnant of that party j
in Seattle gets into line with the rest i
of the opposition the combine is liable
to make life a burden to the Republi
can organization.
The 4-year old boy whose feet were
frozen so that they had to be amputa
ted because bis religion-crazed mother j
led him around barefooted while she
was looking for the devil with a bayonet,
will probably be intensely religious
when he grows up.
Yesterday was groundhog day and
he failed to see his shadow in Seward,
but if he walked around much he must
have slipped and seen stars. Sour
doughs are uncertain whether or not
the weather follows the groundhog in
\laska hut if it does not the lirst terri
torial legislature can change the date.
A political dope story sent out. by the
Hearst news service and printed in the
Seattle Times begins “A whirl was
given the political faro wheel.” A
faro wheel is about as near fact as a
Hearst story ever gets.
John Rosone is opposed to federal
guaranty of interest, oil Alaska rail*
road I Kinds. In t it is understood that
he would like something else at least
as good for his < \>pper river line.
'Plu attendance at Harvard univer
sity shows a slight loss over last year.
! If President Kliot cuts out football
the attendance is liable to dwindle
nearly to nothing next year.
The report that H. 1>. Reynolds has
located a green cheese ledge on the
moon and has organized a corporation
to sell stock in it is denounced as a
libel.
According to the testimony of wit
nesses at the Valencia inquiry the men
on rescue boats seemed to think they
were simply sent out to see the show.
A man named VVustofT was run over
■and killed by a railroad train near
Seattle. It is too late now for him to
have that name changed.
John I). Rockefeller says tlie poorest
man is the one who lias nothing but
money. Thisclassilies John as a beggar.
•Hist as >oon as Seattle cuts down one '
hiii it finds another just beyond which
requires trimming.
WHAT MARS IS LIKE
Has Reached Stage of Develop
ment Undreamed ol Here
Paris, Camille Flamraurion, the
lamous author and astronomer, in an
interview in one of the Paris
papers, draws an extremely at
tractive picture ot life in Mars.
After pointing out that no one can pre
■ diet what weather Paris will have
i next week while it is known to an ut
most certainty what kind of weather
1 Mars will have a fortnight in advance,
Flannnarion goes on to say that there
j are many advantages in favor of the
Martians.
First of all. he says, it would be diffl- j
: cult for any human species to hi- less;
; intelligent than out's, seeing that we j
[ do not know how to control ourselves.
A second r» a ■ «n is that progress is an
absolute law which nothing can resist,
and u> the inhabitants of Mars are old
er than w< are they may represent
what we shall be in several million
years. A tbird circumstance in their
favor is that they are in better posi-j
tion than we are to free themselves j
from the heaviness of matter. Mar
tians weigh loss and their years are i
»wiee as long as those on earth. Final
ly. climatic conditions on Mars appear
to he much more agreeable.
Fuunmarion declares the hypothesis
that Mars is inhabited by an intellec
ual race, much superior to our own, is
growing stronger every year as astron
omical observations become more and
more precise.
Alaska Pays Its Way
Alaska's gold product for 1905 would <
pay twice over the $7,200,000 which we j
gave for that province to Russia. And
this is only one item in our annual in
come from that region. Its furs, fish
eries and minerals have yielded us
$250,000,000 since our Hag was raised
over it. Its resources in coal, iron,ore
and timber, none of which has been
really touched yet, are inexhaustible.
Its possibilities in agriculture and fruit
raising are larger than its mineral re
sources. All that Alaska needs to de
velop these vast riches arc railroad
and wagon roads, and these are begin
ning to appear. Congress has neg
lected this vast and opulent region too
long. This winter it should erect
\laska into a territory, provide for the |
creation of good roads and enact other!
needed legislation.- Leslie’s Weekly.
D. P. Lea in Seward
I). P. Lea, recently apjKiinted de-j
puty collector of customs at Dutch
Harbor, came to Seward on the Ex-j
culsior and will remain here until the j
first boat sails for the westward. Fie
is accompanied by Mrs. Lea. He has
been an inspector at Skatrwav.
Traveling Men In Town
Six Alaska traveling men from
Juneau arrived on the Excelsior and
are registered at the McNeiley. They
are F. M. Davis, J. F. Chamberlain, F.
L. Wallace, Oak Olson, C. E. Hooker
and Harry Malone.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Bertha; sailed from Seattle, 25th.
Santa Clara; sailed from Seattle, 1st.;
Santa Ana; sails from Seattle, tith.
Farallon: sailed from Seward, 28th.
Oregon; sailed from Seward, 1st.
Excelsior: sailed from Seward 2nd. j
FEDERAL BOARD
TO INVESTIGATE
Secretary Metcalf Appoints High
Officials to Inquire into
Valencia Wreck
By Cable to Tlio Dolly Gateway.
Washington, 1). Feh. 2 Secre
tary Metcalf, of the department of
commerce today appointed Assistant
Secretary Murray, Herbert Smith of
the law division of the department,
and George IThler, inspector-general
of steam vessels, to investigate the
causes of the Valencia wreck. This is
I he same hoard which investigated tin*
General Slocum disaster in 1!K>4 and
made the revelations regarding the
I negligent equipment of the ferry l*oat
: which took down hundreds of lives he
, tween New York and the .Jersey shore.
General wrath is displayed here as
well as in Seattle over the conduct of
the Valencia investigation there. It
is charged that it is managed with tin*
intention of whitewashing the Pacific
Coast Company.
Urge Inquiry into Wreck
Seattle, Feb. 1—The Seattle Com
mercial Club today joined the Chamber
of Commerce in a telegram to Presi
dent Roosevelt asking him to appoint
a government board of experts to in
vestigate the causes of the Valencia
wreck. The Chamber of Commerce I
passed a resolution yesterday afternoon
demanding such an investigation and
the Commercial Club followed this
morning.
Witnesses Charge Cowardice
Seattle, .lan. li'.t Charges of coward
j ice on the part of the men on everyone
of the vessels sent to rescue the people
onboard the Valencia are made by
j survivors of the wrecked steamship.
I It is also asserted that the men who
j reached shore in the tirst boat made no
j effort to give aid to those left on hoard
the ship. They sought shelter for
themselves instead of coming around
on the beach nearest to the vessel to
offer help if the opportunity presented.
Six lines were shot to the eliff from
the Valencia. If they had been caught
by men on shore nearly every one on
board would doubtless have been saved,
hut the men who had reached land
turned their backs upon those who
were still at the mercy of the waves.
It is asserted by ( apt. Cousins of the
Queen, which reached the scene after
the Valencia went down and picked up!
several bodies, that he is informed that
the tug Czar was the only boat which
was able to reach the Valencia but that
when the tug was near it ran to a place
of safety while women could be seen in
the rigging of the doomed vessel
•.creaming for help.
General Manager Pearce of the I
Pacific Coust Steamship Company
denies the current report that the life
preservers on the Valencia were not of
the regulation standard.
Nineteen bodies have been recovered,
several of them not yet identified, i
Roots are searching the shore of the j
island for corpses, in the hope also that!
survivors may >till be found on shore.
One boat is unaccounted for which may
possibly have reached land. All the
others have been found. Indians are
gathering in large numbers along the
coast and robbing bodies of valuables.
Boats from various ports along the
Sound are going to the scene to join in
the search for bodies.
Maj. Glassford chief of the signal
service at Seattle, has decided that
hereafter the eableship Burnside shall
be kept as a relief ship near the straits
when not otherwise engaged.
Lost in Shoal Water
Seattle, Jan. 30—In the official in
quiry into the Valencia wreck before
the marine inspectors at this port
Second Officer Peterson testified that
the vessel was kept in shoal water
along Vancouver island and that this
was responsible for her striking the
rock near shore. The fog was so dense
it was impossible to locate any object.
Peterson said it was a mistake on the
•*
part of (’apt. Johnson to bold the vessel
so close in shore.
An examination of the life belts
shows that they contained lead, forj
what purpose nobody seems able to ex
plain. They are condemned as worse
than useless.
Say Rescuers Avoided Wreck
Seattle, Jan. 31 At the official in
vestigation of the Valencia wreck la
fore the marine inspectors this morn
ing witnesses testified that the surviv
ors who reached shore before the
steamship went down and the rescue
boats appeared to shun approach to
the wrecked vessel.
It was also testified that the Valen
cia’s crew never bad a lire drill and
that many of them were not sailors at
all, but longshoremen.
Eleven more bodies were recovered
yesterday.
To Insure Safety in Straits
Seattle, Jan. 30 Representatives of
all steamship lines centering here met
this afternoon to consider a recommen
dation to Congress to legislate for
greater safeguards to vessels in the
straits of Juan De Fuca. More light
houses and rescue vessels will be
urged.
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