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CUBANSWANT
TO BE ANNEXED
Citizens Call Meeting to Discuss
Submitting Question to
Plebiscite.
TAM IN CHARGE OF ISLAND
Sfcretan Root Publishes Corres
pondence Shovvinq that Palma
Asked for Intervention.
By Cable to Tbc Daily Gateway.
Havana. Sept. -0 Secretary
Taft assuinetl the government of
C'uba at noon. Subordinate of
ficers of the i’alma administra
tion and army officers agree to
remain .d tiieir posts and assist
in the work of restoring order
ho long as the Cuban flag is
allowed to float above the
palace.
Citizens tor Independence
Havana. (Vt. •*i A meeting of citi
zens was called today to discuss tiie
question of holding a plebiscite to de
termine by popular vote whether the
United States shall be asked to annex
tuba or turn the island over to a new !
local government. All foreigners and
maiiv citiz.cn> advocate annexation to
the United States, affirming that the
island will never have permanent
peace until that is done. Disarma
ment is progressing rapidly.
Palma Asked Intervention
Washington. D.C.,Oct. o Secretary
Root today made public official cor
respondence showing that President
Palma of Cuba asked the United States
for intervention September8. fearing!
anarchy in the island and expressing j
the belief that in the event of an out
break he would not be able to protect
property. September 14 Paluia and
his entire cabinet resolved to resign.
Taft Asks for Troops
Washington, I). C., Sept. 29 Secre
tary Taft cabled to the war depart
loent today to rush troops to Cuba as
rapidly as possible. Acting Secretary
Oliver is trying to reach President
Roosevelt by wireless telegraph. The
president is at sea with the North
Atlantic squadron, which is engaged
at target practice.
Allow Government to Die
Havana. Sept. 29 Member- of all
parties in congress, government,
moderate and liberal, refused last
night to attend the adjourned session,
•hereby allowing the Cuban govern
ment to die, as Palma declined to re
fill his resignation. Taft will declare
an American protectorate with himself
a.- governor today.
Hy order of Taft thirty marines were
landed from the battleship Louisiana
ia-t night to guard the island treasury.
All the marines on board American
naval vessels will be brought on shore
today. The rural guards pledged
their support to Taft and the insur
gent leaders -ay they will co-operate.
The rebels in the field will be inter
viewed in the hope of preventing ho>
tilities.
Palma will sail for the United States
within two day-, refusing to have any
thing further to do w ith Cuban affairs.
Troops for Cuba
Washington, Lb C., Sept. I he
war department ha> made all arrange
ment to transport ooOO soldiers of the
regular army to Cuba from Newport
News and the same number from New
Orleans. No emergency is expected
before Monday and the troops will be
in Cuba by that time. The cruiser
Des Moines has been ordered to C 'ien
fuegos. where it will land marines to
reinforce tho>e of the cruiser Cleve
land.
Rebels Will Quit
Havana. Oct. 1 1 he rebel com
manders around Havana informed Taft
todav that they will lay down their
arms peacefully. The insurgent lead
ers say they are satisfied with the situ
ation, claiming the retirement of the
Palma administration as a victory.
They say that was all they wanted.
The volunteers mustered in Havana
b* the government were disbanded to
day. Everything is peaceful here and
Taft will name a new ministry soon.
The only trouble reported is at Cien
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SANTA ANA ON
CLALLAM BEACH
Crew and Passengers Stood in
l ive Feet of Water to
Work Pumps.
BEGIN TO LIGHTER FREIGHT
Report Circulated That Steamer;
Was Leaking at Seattle Dock
Before She Sailed.
3y Cul.'le to Tlie Dally Gatoway.
S» a!t!o. Oct. '•'> Steamer Santa Ana
put in at Clallam bay this morning
with > ven feet of water in her hold
and was beached to prevent her from
sinking. The twenty passengers were
taken off safe. The vessel opened off
Cape Flattery in a storm last night
ami it s believed that her eargo of
i-a » shifted, widening the erack in her
bottom.
Worked Hard at Pumps
Seattle. Oct. 1 The steamer Santa
Ana > rung a leak fifty miles oil * ape
Fla te y Tuesday afternoon and turned
hack once for the straits. She vas
;.;;}•!l\ Kept alloat until she could he
be tciii iieil near < ‘ape Heat. The crew
1 ;ind male passengers worked ;it the
puii!;*> for *»* \era! hours in water
which rose to five feet around them
before he steamer was safely grounded.
'I'lie women and children were
! taken ashore as soon as the vessel was
| beached ari l the ten male passengers
1 afterward. The steamer Alice (Jer
| trade has gone to bring them hack to
Seattle. The task of lightering the
freight to the beach began this morn
1 ing.
It is reported that the Santa Ana
was leaking while she was at the Seat
tle doek before she started Monday
afternoon.
flay Be Breaking Up
Seattle. Oct. o—The steamer Santa
Ana is going to pieces on the beach at
■ Cape Beal.
COPPER STRIKE
ON KNIK RIVER
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Report of Good Find Confirmed
by Detailed Statement of
$
Values.
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Knik. Sept. 15* Correspondence of
; the Gateway -Assays of ore from the
reeept copper discovery on Knik river
show results as high as IT per cent
i copper and about $5 in gold and silver.
1 The vein is in place with a pay streak
j about two feet wide. It is a well de
fined fissure vein. The discovery is
j al>out four miles from the head of
| Knik arm.
No great body of ore has been ex
posed and the season is too far ad
vanced to permit extensive prospect
ing iD the vicinity this fall. Indica
tions so far found, however, encourage
miners here to believe that good cop
i per deposits exist in the hills east of
| Knik. where this location was made.
The discovery mentioned in the fore
going letter is that reported in Seward
recently. It was made by Paddy Mar
ion. Uhe government geologists now
in town. Messrs. Paige and Knopf, say j
that the ore in the vein looks very
! good but nothing has been done to
; show its extent.
Temperature in September
The mean temperature of September
in Seward was 50.21 degrees. The
1 maximum was 67 on the 6th: the mini
mum was 54 on the 27th. The tirst
white frost was on the morning of the
17th. There were twelve clear days.
The mean temperature of August was
i 54.89 degrees.
The, gold production of the Rand in
■ each of the months June, July and
August exceeded $10,000,000. The out
put has been increasing steadily since
the close of the Boer war.
The last vessel to leave Seattle for
Nome this year will be the Victoria,
which will sail October 7.
The world’s production of gold in
1906 is estimated at $400,000,000.
Fairbanks now has a brewery in
steady operation.
RAILROAD WILL
CONTINUE WORK
President Frost Wires Treasurer1
Stewart to Push Construc
tion to Wile 55.
OUTLINES WINTER OPERATIONS
Expects to Employ Enough Men
Early in Spring to Build Track
to Coal Fields in!907.
3y Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Chicago, Oct. 4- President Frost of
the Alaska Central tqday gave this
statement to the Gateway:
“l cabled instructions to Treasurer
Stewart yesterday to have all bridges. ^
trestles, rock cuts and tunnels com
pleted and track laid as far as mile 55
tliis tall by ail means. Also to keep
a> many men at work all winter as can
be employed economically in the log
ging camps and sawmills.
“In the spring we will put all the!
men at work we can get and have the |
rail.-' laid to the coal lields on the.
Matanuska river by the end of l'K)7."
The cable received by Mr. Stewart i
from President Ffost is to the same j
effect a> the foregoing. It directs that!
work In* pushed as fast as |>ossible ou j
tlie line to mile 55 in order to place!
the track terminus in Placer valley
before heavy snow comes to stay.
From that point a level sled road can
be operated to mile 07, where the hill
work begins, and a very good, though
somewhat hilly road is already cut to
mile 75. where a railroad logging
camp and mill are located. Another
mill is on mile 73.
With the present force of men track
can he laid to mile 55 by December 1,
if timber for decking the bridges can
be obtained. The grade is practically
complete except a little more tunnel
work and the rock cut on mile 50.
These can be tinished before the end
of October. The trestles and bridges
can also be finished this month, except
the decking, up to the truss bridge
across Placer river at the south portal
of the second tunnel. This bridge and
the decking of the 1000-foot tunnel on
mile 54, leading down to Placer val
ley. constitute the only bridge work
beyond the loop on mile 51 up to mile
j 55. _
HYDRAULIC FOR
CANYON CREEK
Joseph Wilson Has Plant Ready
to Ship on Steamer for
Seward.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Oct. 4 -On the next steamer
sailing for Seward a hydraulic plant of
of forty tons will be shipped by Joseph
Wilson to be taken to Canyon creek,
on the south side of Turnagain arm.
The plant includes a drill, electric
motor. Pelton water wheel and a large
quantity of hose. From Seward it will
be taken by rail to mile 29 of the
Alaska Central and sledded over
Moose pass as soon as the snow is on.
Mr. Wilson has succeeded in raising
a large amount of money to develop
his Canyon creek property and says he
expects to have two or three giants at
work next spring.
The property referred to in the fore
going dispatch is on Canyon creek,
seven miles above the Forks and fif
teen miles from Sunrise. Develop
ment work has shown that the gravel
is rich in gold. Last spring Mr. Wil
son incorporated the Canyon Creek
Mining Company, taking in with him
Cecil 11. Clegg and H. .T. Marx, form
erly Seward manager for the Carstens
Packing Company, now in Seattle.
Mr. Clegg said this morning that he
had not heard from Mr. Wilson re
cently but the latter wrote to him in
the summer that he would have the
hydraulic plant ready to ship in the
fall. "_
Diamond Drill for Latouche
The Santa Clara brought an expen
sive diamond drill to Latouche for the
Singer company. Four members of
the company, including Julius Singer,
also came to Latouche on the steam
er. The drill will bo used on copper
property near the Bealson mine.
STOOD SIX DAYS
IN ICY WATER
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Men Stranded on Submerged
Rock in Kahiltna River Un
able to Sit Down.
FLESH ROTS AFTER RESCUE
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One Man Swims Ashore Without j
Clothes and Starts for Aid but
Is Still Missing.
Five men in a l»oat were stranded on
an almost wholly submerged rock of
the Kahiltna river by the wrecking of
their boat against the rock and stood
in the ice cold water for six days, una
ble to sit down, before four of them
were rescued. On the third day the
youngest of the party, a man named
Snyder, became desperate and ex
claiming to his companions, “If we’ve
got to die we might as well do it try
in to save ourselves." lie took oil
his clothing and swam safely to shore.
He has not since been seen by anyone
who ha> come out. He wore only his
shoes and a pair of overalls cut oil
, above t he knees.
Three days later Tom.leter.il. C.
land 15. C. Richardson came along
land rescued the survivors, who
had reached the extremity of endur
ance and were suffering horrible tor
ture. At Susitna Statio'n the men
were taken in charge by Dr. Cook,
who found that the llesh of their legs
was putrefying. Strips of it peeled off
like bandages but surgical skill
stopped the progress of putrefaction
and three of the four men were on the
way to recovery when Dr. Cook started
down the river. The fourth man was
so near gone that Dr. Cook was keep
ing him under his personal charge and
will bring him around to Seward on
^ ite*u«-.M> steamer. *
Thinks Snyder Got Out Safe
It is the belief of Dick Richardson,
who is now in Seward, that Snyder
was able to reach assistance. It was
Snyder's intention when he left the
other men to walk up stream about
seven miles and get a boat which they
knew was tied there, and cross over to
the other side, where he had a good
trail to Conklin’s camp. When the
Richardson brothers and Tom Jeter
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MANY MEN TO
STAY INSIDE
Large Number of Yentna Miners
Outfitting to Spend Winter
In District.
Many of the miners who have been
operating in the Yentna district will
remain there during the coming win
ter. A large number of them are at
the Station or Tyoonok for their out
fits now. When the last installment
of men for the outside left Susitna
Station September 22 Churchill’s stock
had been sold out. It is believed that
Finch will sell everything at Tyoonok
and a heavy draft will be made long
before winter is over on the stores of
l’almer and Horning at Knik. Galla
gher is probably sold out now at the
Xahiitna roadhouse.
This is the news brought to Seward
last week by R. C. Richardson, who
with his brother, B. C. Richardson,
came in on last night’s train. They
came down from Susitna Station with
the Cook party and the miners who
were going to Seldovia iu Cook’s
launch.
R. C. Richardson is the man who
brought the first authentic story of the
diggings on Peters creek last year.
He was in Seward in the latter part of
August, 1905, and returned to the dis
trict shortly afterward, remaining
until last month. He left Peters creek
September 10. He confirms previous
estimates which put this season’s pro
duction of the Kahiltna creeks at
$50,000. More than half of this is now
at Seldovia or on the steamer coming
to Seward.
While in Dawson recently Daniel
Guggenheim predicted that the gold
output of the Klondike will steadily in
crease by the wholesale use of dred
gers until it may exceed the best years
of the early placer ex^a.
MINERS COMING
WITH $30,000
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Crowd of Men Who Have Been
Operating on Kahiltna Creeks
on Way to Seward.
HAVE ONLY PART OF OUTPUT j
Arrivals From Producing District
Confirm Earlier Estimates of
at Eeast $50,000. j
The next steamer from the westward
will bring to Seward a majority of th<
miners who have been operating on
the producing creeks of t.he upper Ka
hili na. They will have with ilium
probably $110,000 in dust. Besides this
a great deal has already been left at
Susitna Station or taken outside.
A small number of miners remained
on the creeks when the crowd came
out. expecting to stay and work just as
long as possible. They will also have
some gold when they come.
This report was brought by (leorg -
Bouckaert, who came in lust night
I from (’ache creek. His estimate of,
| the output of the upper Kahilrna is
that the total this year exceeds $.*>0,-j
; 000. Much of this is the small produc- j
I tion of individual miners and the total I
can be llgured only in a general way. j
but Houckhaert makes an estimate j
very similar to that given by men who
have come out before.
Herndon and Jacobson are believed
to have $14,000, Bouckaert says, and
William Morris at least half as much.
He thinks it probable that the amount
is larger, though nobody but the men
themselves knows just what they took
out. Other miners will bring a few
hundred each, sufficient in the crowd
that is coming to make nearly $10,000
more.
TRAIL TO KENAI
NOT EXPENSIVE
Surveyors Report That Road Can i
Be Made to Railway for
About $13,000.
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From Kenai, on Cook inlet, to the
Alaska Central at mile 29 an easy
trail eighty miles long can be made at
an expenditure of about $13,000.
This is the report of W. H. Reel, the !
Alaska Central engineer who was sent
over the route by the railroad com- j
pany at the request of the Alaska road |
commission to examine road possibili-1
ties. Mr. Reel returned to Seward J
Saturday night with Jerome Hatchey, j
who aided him in the preliminary sur
vey. They started from Kenai and
came eastward to the railroad.
The proposed trail route follows
closely the Kenai river from its mouth
almost to its source in Kenai lake.
The lake is walled in by steep moun
tains, over which a road could be cut
only at great expense. Therefore at
Quartz creek the surveyors turned off
northward and chose a route up that
stream to the divide at Moose pass,
which is only 000 feet above sea level.
From there the route follows Moose
creek to Trail lake and reaches the
railroad at mile 29.
The entire route is an easy one for
road construction, Mr. Reel says.
Kenai river runs through an open val
ley to Skilak lake and a level route
was found around the lake close to the
water’s edge. Beyond the lake the
valley narrows almost to a canyon but
the bottom of this is level or nearly so.
No heavy rock work was encountered
at any place on the route.
The construction of the trail, as the
territorial road commission contem
plates, will make a fertile agricultural
region directly tributary to Seward,
the year around. A large area of
fertile land lies back of Kenai and
some of it is already cultivated. Min
ing is now in operation along the
Kenai river and its tributaries and it
is believed that the region contains
a great deal of good hydraulic ground
which can be worked with profit when
made more accessible.
Harriman’s chief engineer can’t get
enough men to huild railroads through
Oregon at the rate he would like to
exhibit.
Capt. Roald Amundsen insists that
he has found the north magnetic pole.
COOK CLIMBS
MT. M'KINLEY
Daring Scientist and Part'
Reached Topmost Pinnacle
September 15.
MERCURY 16 DEGREES BELOV*
Enable to Measure Exact iteiqii
Because Aneuroids Failed Them
bat Estimate 22.800.
Sunrise. Sept. 2* ' »n* q ■ nr*
tin* Gateway Steam* .* T>**: e ri\
this morning with tin* n**W' that I): .
Cook a nit party reach* -d tin* • »p *
Mt. McKinley Sept*mb* -v ! . Ko
days were required lor tin *!• i?- > t
top and return from th<' I'ooi > *•
main slope they ascenilro. ■ t
peruture at ih** top was Pi de..,*•<*'
low zero.
The day was cloudy and :i" ’
ancuroid barometer.* th** m*-: l;a w
them failed to work pr>*•>
was impossible to make an ;tivu:
computatton of tie* mountain1' l '_
They estimate it at 22.sou feet, i'h
are two pinnacles to tin* extre a. situ
mil and tie- party climbed one.
Chris Hanson, a Lake cn *k niie
came to Seward Tuesday by way
the trail from Sunrise with cube m -
sages from Ur. Cook lo in* '**n?
friends outside announcing that ie
bad climbed the big mountain. Tie -
messages of course are private b”
Mr. Hanson states that the ascent v
made from the east side and that onl
one man besides I)r. Cook, a pack*
reached the top. Hanson 'tut**> a!.v
that when he left the Cook party a
Tyoonok they were expecting to cline
Mt. Redoubt, just above the Inlet.
Geo. Bouckaert als*$carae m Monda.
! night. Hip left Ur* v,’ook«a/liMm pa
at the mouth of the Susitna river,
awaiting favorable weather to come P»
Seldovia. He says Cook's launch wa-,
loaded with miners and others. Tie
whoie crowd will be in Seward on th
next steamer from the west.
Bouckaert states that Dr. Cook w**i
up the Tokositna as far as he could by
boat and then mushed to the foothills.
There he found the slope which h *
ascended. Both Bouckaert and Hat -
son confirm the accuracy of the fir*t
account taken to Sunrise by the steam
er Tyonie and sent to the Gateway by
its Sunrise correspondent, John J.
Kashevnikov.
Got $1.85 from Three Bans
Chris Hanson, who came down frot
1 Lake creek this week, brought wit *
I him a small bott le containing $1.8o <
clean, bright, yellow gold which 1
took from three pans on Discovei
claim, about eleven miles up Lak*
creek. High water prevented hit t
from working the claim this year n*
his sluice box and ditcii washed m
three times just as he was ready to< *
something. His claim is believed ; >
be very rich.
Juneau Has Curfew Law
Juneau lias enacted a curfew la a
which forbids infants under 18 to be
the streets after 1<> p. id. in tl
months April to September inclush
or after 9 p. m. “on the balance of th •
year,” as the ordinance sets forth i
original grammatical construction
The saving clause is added that kit *
may go abroad accompanied by a
grown person having them in chart
or upon an errand by parent, guardh
or employer, but “he or she shall n '
then loiter on the way nor make ai
undue noise by shouting or yelling, t
otherwise annoying the peace a 1
quiet of the town.”
Mrs. Kelsey Made Commissioner
Mrs. F. D. Kelsey has been appoint d
U. S. commissioner ut Kodiak temi »
rarily, in place of her late busbar, i,
Frederick I). Kelsey, who died Septem
ber 4. The news came in a message
today to Cecil H. Clegg, assistant
S. attorney, from Judge Harlan, U.
attorney. The temporary appointme i
was made by Judge Wickersham >
hold until a competent man can
found. There is little for the comm •
sioner to do just now except act as
recorder. _
A secret junta is said to be working
up a general revolution in all Central
American republics.
The Canadian province of Saskatche
wan is rapidly filling up with farmers.
No attempt will be made to save the
steamer Oregon.