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PRECINCT COURT
MOVES TO KNIK
Judge tioodell Writes That He
Will Ha e Office in New Place
in a Few Days
t s- ,>i • ‘ John t • ><> o: ( Ooiv
Stu< It'* Tic k T m k I** lb** *0!*' of 'His
moil!I;. T - v .ange i- made in order
tob nearert region whichIssettling
up ,.i}i Jlj .uni from which most of the
record mg come-, as well as to be in
his' own teiTt!'.«\v. W In n Kcnu; pt < *
cinct was , it o' trove took inlet pi e
cind Iasi year and Juoge tlooddl ap
pointed to the latter he was given per
mission by .fudge W ickcrsham to hold
hisottlce temporarily a: Sunrise, it:
Kenai precinct. because th<-re was no
suitahle place for an ofiice on h;- own
ground.
Fp to the H ginning of winter the
little bush; ss which ihe commissioner
had could ind - way to Sunrise as
easily as to any place in < ook Inlet pre
cinct. The Yen; na discoveries havi
change*i ait that. S'o ral hetulred
nu-n are prospecting along the gold
creeks of tie upper Yentna and t has
lieconte imperative that the recording
utile* should he toon-,accessible. Judge
l»oode!t arranged some time ago that
Frank t hntvhil a; Shush* ina -tat on
might receive ami uie iocation not;■
o !>, ;.i, xx an *1 to : re comtUts- * »n< r
for record;. Tilts -av-- the mine s the
long trip itarn Shush*-tua 'tat .on to
Sunrise, a distance ■ • nearly hid miles
by the shortest irads, ami by any re itc
t.he trails are to -om nearly all tin
wax.
ioner Feoc writes to the <mu-way
that he will h ave .or Knik in a fexv
days, which fltearts: f hat after about
March 1 the commissioner's ollici xvill
In-at 1‘ahuer station, e ghtcen miles
froiti the head of Knik Arm, where the
t* 1 t;p the Ma'.atilt-ka to the t ittx .a
hnm coal liehis turns otT. and where the
railroad branch to the ' luckaloon i>
planned to leave the main line. 1'aimer
station is only thirty-two miles from
from Si - • '» -tat on and tin trail is
good, so that the commissioner's office
hereafter will not be hard to reach
from the gold fields.
«'ook Inlet precinct is probably the
large-t precinct or township in the
Fnited States. It- exact area i- un
known hut it is larger than a majority
of the states. It includes the entire
watershed of the Shushetna river, ex
tending ftoiu the range of mountains
that dividt the Shushetna xvatershed
from that of the t kipper river to tin
range which cuts otT the Kuskokwim
watershed, running southwesterly from
Mount McKinley, and stretches axvay
northwardly, to the range which hems
in the Tanana valiey from the south.
The precinct undoubtedly contains
more than otMSHi square miles, and pos
sesses t-esourecs of a variety and mag
nitude xvldeh will some day sustain a
population exceeding that of many of
thestnallei states, l'ne influx **i people
which the building of the Alaska Fen
tral is just In-ginning to attract xx ili
compel its division into a dozen ptv
cinet - ueh , e the l a . road read - he
MAY YOHt’S ftAVit IN JAIL
Maj. Strong Arrested in Shanghai
for False Pretenses
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Shanghai, Fei>. 2i! Major I’m bum
I trad ley Strong, tin- American army
officer who eloneu in 1‘HiJ with Lady
Hope, formerly May Yohe. the Amer
ican actress, was arrested here today
upon the charge of obtaining money
under false prefers* - anti is held in
jail.
Maj. Strong is :i son of the late Will
iam 15. Strong of New \ork, who wa->
mayor of the city in lSt.Mi-7. Lady
Hope was quite a noted American act
ress until she married Sir Francis Hope,
a wealthy Englishman. Site had lived
with Sir Francis only a short time when
she ran away with Maj. Strong. The
pair went to South America and sep
arated a few months later. Lady Hope
contested her husband's divorce >uit,
making counter charges in an effort to
obtain alimony, but was unsuccessful.
School Principal trrices
I*. H. Buck came to Seward on the
Oregon to become principal of the
Seward Schools. He will teach the
higher grades and Miss Kilpatrick will
teach the* primary classes. It will bo
decided within a few days when the
schools will open. Prof. Buck has been
teaching in Skykomish, Washington,
and comes highly recommended.
A mining location made on Sunday
or a legal holiday is valid.
RELEGATE BITE
SURE TO PASS
House Committee Authorizes
Cushman to Draw favorable
Report on Measure
3y Cat*...' to Tie a^jly Gateway.
Washington, l>. ( .. Fi h. H <’on
vssjj i 'ashman "ill write a favor
.port tor the House committee
ot i’f: itori s on the Alaska delegate
hili. it will i». amended hy reductuyi
tip- hmjr.h <*t . residence required for
\ot, v. ... >i\ mouths in the tet ritory
,,n,i ,j\:y days in t lie voting precinct,
t >: herwise it will Ik* the same its tile
Nelson hill, w hicli has already passed
j the Senate.
No opposit ion to t he delegate meas
; ure p is tieveloped in the House and as
it passed tlie Senate unanimously it is
expected to carry in the House soon
after it' report from committee. It
; provides for the election of a delegate
in \:;j.ts! of the years ol t.\ui«rross
1 ion il elections, lie-jinnin^ this year.
At the first election a delegate in the
present t onjiress ;is welt as the next
will he chosen.
rfearing Granted Sul/cr
Washington, I). ' •• heb. -1 I he
House committee on territories will
cive a hearing to Comrre'stimn Writ.
Shi/er, Friday, with his hill allowing
s, !t-jovernment to Alaska.
MINERS GOING TO
YENTNA DISTRICT
Constant Movement of Prospec
tors for New Gold Fields
With l arjre Outfits
I *ro*»; .ectors are going into the
V* 'itn: district in a steady stream. so
quietly that not many people are aware
of tu* fact. About lot) have left Sew
ard within the hist ten days, all well
supplied with outfits for a summers
campaign. They usually go in small
squads and two or three days of each
week sees a party mount the train for
the end of the track, from which point
they trek over the trail to the land of
promise.
(>ne party of about thirty men started
for the interior a few days ago with
fourteen big sleds loaded with supplies.
Smaller parties have been going for a
month and no doubt is entertained that
next month will see a big rush :is it
will be necessary to reach tin* district
before the end of March because the
break-up is due by that time.
After the streams begin to run it
will probably he two months before
■ travel can Ik* resumed. In the sum*
1 titer the Shushettia anti the Ventna are
easily navigable but in April and May
they ar»* rushing torrents most of the
time and generally full of floating ice
dangerous to boat>. liesides that, the
treqm nt floods from the mountains
caused by unusual warm periods over
flow the banks of tin* Ventna making
travel perilous or impossible.
The sit . ,u ion is well understood by
item intending to go in and many are
preparing to start just in time to he
sur to beat the spring thaw. Tin*
Ventna ha> been well advertised on
the out si di and the usual stampede to
the m w. -i camp is expected from till
directions. Several men came in on
tie' Oregon to go to the district and to
other regions of the interior.
Steamship Makes Long Trip
The hig steamship Indianapolis ar
rived in Seattle a few days ago after
ending a voyage of 17.st>.") miles from
Chicago, by way of the Great Lakes,
the St. Lawrence river, the Atlantic
ocean around the Horn to the Pacific
and to Puget Sound and to Seattle.
She 'topped at New York for repairs
and from that city made the trip to
Seattle in lifty-one days and four hours,
a record trip. She burned fifteen tons
of coal a day on the voyage. The
Puget Sound Navigation Company will
put her on the Seat tie-Victoria run.
F. M. hale Comes to Seward.
F. M. Hale, a son of F. G. Hale of
the Hank of Seward, came to Seward
on the Santa Ana to look around and see
how he likes the country. He has re
cently been engaged in banking at
Quincy, Washington. He will take
Kugene Hale’s place in the Bank of
Seward while the latter makes a
trip to Minneapolis.
Gets Boat at Last
D. P. Lea. recently appointed depu
ty collector of customs at Dutch Har
bor, and Mrs. Lea sailed on the Santa
Ana for that port. They have been
waiting in Seward since the Fxcelsior
arrived for a chance to go to the west.
Tii • cross in the above <-yi show., tie* t. . ... > • "’alls
;civt h niia* .vliicli ill Lane interests -lope:? ’hoi. ; ties
' from Seward. An assay of I odd a lo: was obtained a2most at
'the surface of the l»c!ty. tit discovery claim, m wide;! a tunnel
is now beinw driven. 'Idle entire region has be-*n located.
NOME CM 18
RUN TO SEWARD
Announcement .Wade That the
Vessel lias Been Secured to
Sail for This Port
3y Cable ta The Daily Gateway.
Seattle. Feb. Z\ The steamer Nntm
t ‘itv will be placed on tie run from
Seatt le tu Seward ami \ aide/.
No details accompany tin foreyomy
messaye in today's news disprtclie- lutt
it is assum' d that the Nome i it\ i> to
be one "i the steamers wtiieh 'In
Northwest era Steamship t empale- will
run to Seward In the outside passaye
this summer. As ante imced early in
, the winter the Northwestern made a
j contract with the Alaska < entral to
run three steamers in the outside pass
‘ aye direct to Seward beyinnlny March
b>. it has alreiuh i»een announced
j that the Oreyon and tile Santa ('Iara
will be two of the outside boats, and it
I mow appears probable that tie Nome
II ity s to be tin third.
The Nome < it\ is between the Ore
yon and the Santa < iara in si/<>. She
has been runnit y to Nome for several
' seasons under charter to the I'acilic
Coast Steamship Company. She be
j lonys to the Nelson steamship inten sts
in San Francisco, or did until recently.
( apt. /.eh Moore, now of the Dora,
commanded her for a lony time on the
Nome run and Purser St•• veils, now of
the Santa Ana. was her purser.
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RICH YOUTH GETS C«ll» ft£I
| Son of James B. Duke Starts for
Tanana But Goes Back
A son of James l». Duke, the million
a ire manufacturer of Duke’s cigarettes
j ami other tohacco compositions, came
! up on the Oregon with an out lit in
tending to mush through to the
! Tanana hut when he reached Value/,
and was told that the first thing he
! would have to do after starting up the
, gulch from the town would be to skate
i across a glacier he stuck to the boat
j and came on to Seward, where he sold
la *U0 outfit oi blankets and cold
| weather clothes for half cost at the
| first store. Then lie went back on the
J same boat to get nearer to the old
i man’s cigarette plant.
Young Mr. Duke gave no account of
i himself further than to say that his
] imagination had evidently led him
astray when it incited him to plan an
| overland Dike* through Alaska while
j the snow was on He wanted no more
of it and he sold to-the Seward Com
mercial Company, the first store he
struck when he walked off the bridge
from the dock, a handsome black bear
robe composed of six skins and big
enough to cover a whole family, ex
pensive blankets, shoes and clothing
which he will not need when he gets
back to the effete east and devotes
himself to the destruction of his dad’s
cigarettes. He did not go farther up
the street to see if anybody else would
offer more.
The cautious youth is a young man
of ordinary appearance. He was well
dressed and probably looked more
natural in his civilized clothes than
he would in a mushing outfit. If he
is a remittance man he took away
enough coin to last him. with careful
economy after reaching Seattle, until
the next monthly installment is due.
Meanwhile Alaska will have to
struggle along the best it can without
assistance from the Duke family other
than the advantage it can derive from ;
the consumption of that particular j
brand of cigarettes.
Navigation on Entire Shore
of Vancouver
3 C- y'c to The Daily Gateway.
Victoria, i <•!». 23 Tin Canadian
go', eminent ha*, decided to light the
t-ii:;*t of Vancouver island. The first
ligli; hiaise will l*e placed at Cape
it, . !. . i; ar wtiici tie- Valencia was
wrecked. her site*, w,.! om selected
at location^ which will afford absolute
protection to navigation.
To Suspect \ll Vessels
Seattle. Keb. 22 The Valencia com
mission appointed to investigate the
great and needless loss of lite on the
. •neia when sin was wrecked is now
: a si ssion and has been ordered by the
Department to re-iiispect all vessels at
Seattle, rhe work will be in Friday
moniiug and all vessels will be given a
rigid inspect ion. The officials especial
ly of tin* Alaska lines are uneasy as it
is weli known fact that they luu • been
very cureless in affording the proper
life saving apparatus on their ships.
BIO CROW!! ON OPtGON
Steamship Brings 137 Passengers
and d75 Tons of Freight
Steamship Oregon. < apt. O’Brien
arrived in port yesterday afternoon at
4 o’clock with forty-one first class and
ninety-six steerage passengers, and 4e>
tons of freight. She sailed again for
Seattle this afternoon at 12:30 tak
ing a small number of passengers, and
a> usual will load ore at Kllamar. Her
local cargo was about 200 tons for
mercant ile houses and about 27-* tons of
commissary supplies for the railroad
company. She left Seattle at noon
February 13. and reached Seward in
six days and six hours, the best time
die has ever made to this port.
Purser Triggs s’ates that nearly 1<*0
passengers for the Tananu came to
Valdez on the Oregon, many of them
w ith large outfits. From other sources
it is learned that the rush to the I’ana
no i-. something tierce and exceeds that
of last year two or three times over.
Men wishing to go over the trail from
Valdez must start within the next
month and for that reason hookings of
Tananu passengers on ail steamers are
made so far ahead that it is difficult for
persons wishing to reach any other
port than Valdez to find a berth if they
wait until near the sailing date.
The passenger list of the Oregon
was as follows: Tama McDonald, Tom
Constance. Fred Pearson, T. C. Mc
Cartney, Mrs. M. J. Wilson, Daisy
Fdmoiul, E. Nordyke, Mrs. G. Jordan,
A. P. Jordan, D. Morris. W. Blue, E.
L. Plum, Lee Blakemore, N. P. Davis,
Chas Hokinson, R. F. Kelly, P. H.
Buck. J. H. Lawrence, W. Moran, J.
Williams, F. G. Nicholson, P. H. Olds,
Mrs. P. L. Olds, W. Brooks, Mrs. W.
Brooks, J J. Kelly, Geo. Hays, W. J.
Hays, Judson Godbold, H. Halstead, Z.
T. Martin, A. McGinnis, Geo. Baker,
W. Reynoldson, H. W. Coffin, Mrs. H.
Leach, F. M. Kelly, Geo. H. Abbott,
J. B. Barger, Mrs. W. O. Young, W.
FI. Bush: and ninety-six steerage.
Lighthouse for Resurrection Bay
Senator Piles has introduced a bill
authorizing the establishment of a light
house anil fog signal station at the en
trance to Resurrection Bay, Alaska, to
cost $25,000.
(’has. Tecklenburg has purchased
the interest of his pardner J. M. Cum
mings in the Seattle Bar and will here
after be sole owner of that resort.
TIGHT TO ADMIT
CHINESE COOLIES
Bill to Remove Restrictions Will
Come lip in National House
Next Thursday
By C.\v.le to Tuc Daily Gateway.
Washinyton. I>. < .. l’« i '• <• xt
I’iiurMlay tin1 House will tak<- un a biil
which proposes 10 let down ihe ! at *
j anti admit Chinese coolies into the
l'nited States. Commercial it rests
demand lliis action and tlm labor
1 unions are united uyainst it. The issue
' is expected to entail one of the yre.it
* e>t political struyyles in bistort.
The commercial forces arru; < d .n
| fa vor of the admission of Chine-• -a\
| t.'nat. unless the policy is adopte<i war
with China will result sooner or later
j and the destruction of the commerce of
! the Cnited States on the I’acilic will
be certain in any event. They affirm
' that no injury to white labor would I•
■ ntailed by the admission of coolies be
cause the latter perform only the
| coarsest kind of labor, and that the
loss of business certain to result from a
i continuance of the present poiicy will
do more to reduce wayes titan < hinost*
compet it ion.
SMALL BOATS CAN
CROSS COOK INLET
; Although the Stream Carries Ice
Skilful Navigators Are Goins'
Over Constantly
“Goats have been crossing Turn*
i again Arm. from Sunrise to Glacier
j for the past live day-. A little icc is
running, hut there »• no trouble or
danger for experienced boat men. It
i> baldly possible that the Arm will
close up again this season, and in all
probability Upper <’ook Inlet will be
open for navigation within a wet k.'
This Information in a letter from
•fudge Goodell of Sunrise confirms the
report received a few days ago that
>mall boats were already crossing
the Inlet. Paymaster Frank Youngs
of the Alaska Central returned from
a trip over the line to Glacier creek
| last night and brings the same report.
He made the trip easily from Seward
i in six days, the first time in three
I months he has made it in less than
I thirteen days. He started from Sew
j ard the morning of February 17 and
j was at the end of the track waiting
| for tin* train at noon yesterday.
Similar information is brought by
Fred Haefs, the Sunrise mail carrier.
: who started the morning of February
17 and returned last night. He re
ports the trail in excelent condition,
j Men going to the interior may now
! travel the Sunrise trail from Johnson
creek and cross the Inlet to the north
side of the Arm at Glacier creek,
taking the railroad trail from the lat
ter point. The distance is about the
same and both trails are good. The
rough work begins at Glacier creek.
It is thought that a continuance of
tlie mild weather which has prevail'd
since late in January may start the
break-up of the ice in the Shushetna
land Yentna sooner than those interes
ted wish. Usually the ie< remains
linn until late in March or early in
April and many prospectors are plan
ning to go through over the ice in
.March. In the past two weeks symp
toms of a thaw have been visible all
along the railroad line and the trail
to Turnagain Arm. On the north side
of the Arm, where little snow re
mained in low places, it has almost
disappeared. At the tunnel camps it
thawed steadily for a week until yes
terday when the temperature dropped
below the freezing mark. The snow
has settled very hard.
As usual in the spring the tides of
the inlet carry ice up and down, some
of the cakes being quite large, but
there is always plenty of space be
tween, and a skilful boatman can avoid
them without difficulty.
Edith to bo on Seward Run
Late Seattle papers state that it has
been settled that the Edith will be
placed on the Seward run, temporar
ily at least, as foreshadowed a short
time ago. The Times states that the
Edith will run here steadily while the
Post-Intelligeneer says it is probable
the big freighter will run to Nome as
soon as the northern season opens.
In any case the Edith will make two
or three trips to Seward to bring steel
and other heavy railroad material
here, of which great quantities are
awaiting transportation.
The Nome miners’ union has reduced
the wage scale from $3.50 to $3 per day.
WMite Residents of interior Flee
to Ssaooris for Protection
of Their Lives
’, CaUo to Tac Daily Gateway.
Iluiii' Kony, I*VI>. IT M <* -i■ »i« • cm
and < hri u aun in tin* int»• ri.>v <>: t.u
provhei Fukien are !!-••• to Am'.'
for safety. ,\u outbreak i e\p<>c'.ed
Southern • hina at am moun nt o. ac
count u! licit inh demand' .'nr compen
sat ion foj (i.c dist met icu ni ' it. - n ; >ni< •
at ' han.'-l o.
The >. in nt\ of < antnu y cO• .r,
seized a hwye dock of coal nelonyiny to
a I tank and delies the authoril ie* \vh*.
are demandiny il> ret urn. lesident
Americans there are beitiy misted from
positions because of their nationality.
A hiyli » hinese official wnose mini*
in kept secret advini-n hin F.nyli.-I.
friends that an outbreak may take,
place at am time in tin reymn of tin
lower Vany-tse-kiany river, not far
from llony Kony. This official tiryesa
tirm front on the part of the united
jiowers immediately to prevent a yei\
i. rai ma-nacre of foreiynei n throoyhout
('hina.
Hussia fears War in China
St. iVtersbury. Feb. IT Ibtsnian
officials fear war in ( liina and believe
there will he an open attack on all
fon iyuer- in the empire. Tin* council
in planniny for defense of it- interests
in Manchuria and alony tin* border. It
in officially (ic’ared tha? .laitan is aio
iny and instiyatiny < hi.ia in the pre
sent crisis.
Chinese Catholics Are Massacred
Pekin. Cl. dm, Feb. 21 New> ha
been received here ot an out-break at
Honan. ,\ number el Catholic con
vert > were massacred recently by a
band of C|iinc>e belonging to t h• Big
Kn:fe society. No details have bee),
received but the situation ir, -• -r-ion
and further troubh A “xpected.
Japan Takes a Hand
Tokio, Japan, Feb. 21 The Japanes*
government, while declaring that
there is no fear of an anti-foreign up
rising. has advised the Chinese gov
ern that Japan will take iminediat*
steps to prevent such a movement.
It has been ^erni-ollichslly reported
by Russia that Japan was upholding
the Chinese uprising and it i> thought
the Japanese government takes thi
step in order to show it- position in tin
matter.
Christians Arc fleeing
Pekin, China. Feb. 22 Meagte re
ports have been received of attacks on
several missions in the southeastern
provinces. Bishop Patchen at Cheng
Chow Fu wires that many Christians
are tleeing from outly ing missions t<>
that point.
Wiil Not Cede Manchuria
Pekin. China. Feb. 22 It is an
nounced that the Chinese government
will resist any and all overtures made
by Russia looking to the concession in
Manchuria.
Dangerous to foreigners
Victoria. B. Feb. 20 Shanghai
papers arriving on the latest steamers
, from the Orient state that foreigners
can travel in the interior of Chinaon y
, at the risk of their lives. The imperial
j government is trying to make prep
iarations to ward off the threatened up
' rising against all foreigners but it is
not believed that the government can
i repress the movement unless hacked b
1 foreign military power.
The situation is most menacing in
j the south, where most of the outbreaks
have occurred. In many provinces the
( viceroys are leading the movement.
Taft Fears Serious Outbreak
Chicago, 111., Feb.22—Secretary Tab
speaking at a banquet of the Yale club
here yesterday said that the govern
ment was very uneasy over the situation
in China. A serious outbreak, he
thought was liable to occur at any
moment. For that reason 15.000 troops
had been ordered to the Philippines
from which place they could quickly be
sent to the seat of trouble in Southern
China. China he said, *Ts in a state of
great unrest and conditions there are
very similar to those which led to the
Boxer rebellion.”
Methodist Missions Safe
New York, Feb. 19—The Methodist
mission board in this city is receiving
replies to the messages sent to all mis
sions of the church in China for reports
as to the probabilities of an outbreak,
and all answers say that the mission
are safe and apparently in little danger.
Reports say that there is no marked
anti-foreign feeling in Northern and
Central China. The disturbances * so
far have been confined wholly to the
southeastern provinces.