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SATURDAY. JULY L’o. 1»W
MELODRAMA AT KATALLA
Kail road building at Katalla has
reached the melodramatic stage and is
working out like one of those wonder
ful productions by Lincoln J. Carter
or Charles A. Taylor in which dyna
mite. firearms, wanghees and brickbats
darken the sun to a rasping accom
paniment of defiant roars and the hiss
and g r r r r of villains. If one of
these p!a\ weights who chop out
30 cent drama with a dull ax doesn t
tear T a play from the present situation
a* Katalla it will evince a total iuabili
ty to grasp an opportunity.
The realism at Katalla is quite a>
damaging as a stage tight. F.arly thi
month a terrified correspondent of the
Kost-lntC.llgeneer cabled from Valdez
a report that a small section of the earth
constituting disputed right of way in
the two-headed railroad camp was
pla ‘-' i with mines and it' surface
cluttered :p with blockhouses, all in
terlaced with electric wires to touch
oil torpedoes whenever opposing forces
might 'tempt to trek across the dead
• ine. The correspondent alleges:
‘•C-tgg. nheim has camps of armed
met: « r. a sides, paying sg an hour for
tight dig men. He offers to the
tit-.' t: ir. who crosses the Bruner right
of way."
The evenir.g before thi' prophecy of
wholesale slaughter appeared in print
•he battle was pulled off with a shock
ii\. of the Bums-Squires scrap.
Sullivan Mike, heading the Guggen
h- -a _ in men. fell upon Sullivan
Bln k. h auerof the opposing cohorts,
and walloped him a few with a pick
handle. The Kroner warriors retired
and tlu trouble was over as quickly
and P’- dh ssly as a Central American
revolution.
Credible accounts from the seat of
war at .rm that more heads at e broken
and more blood spilled daily in the
booze joints of Katalla than on the
railroad right of way. The moral is
clear. If the railroad promoters
i-u.>- « - -a- «w*
they should arm their myrmidons with
canteens of Katalla whisky.
The new United Press, \\ho"C com*
ponent parts are the Publishers
Pre*" and the Scripps New> As>ocia
tion, take-* the name o.' a previous for
midable rival of the Associated Press.
The earlier United Press wa- organiz
ed under the load of the New \ork
Sun twenty years ago when that great
paper had a failing out with the As
sociated Press. Several other big
newspapers were in the opposition
combine but after a few years it gave
■way and the Sun ceased to tight the
Associated Press, although it never
resumed its franchise in that organiza
tion unless it has done "O recently.
All the great daily newspapers of New
York and Chicago have each a special
telegraph service so complete that the
Associated Tress is merely a supple
ment to any <
A man closely connected with im
portant financial interests id Seattle,
recently stated in Seward that the
Bruner company at Katalla is in good
faith trying to build a railroad and'
will build one. having strong financial
backing: that the Guggenheim party
is sitnplv trying to bluff everybody
els.* out.' As a matter of course the
Guggenheims can build a railroad if
tliev’want to do it a.> fast money can
pUt* it together, but thi> authority
affirms :v> true the charge previously
made that the Guggenheims do not
want Alaska copper on the market
and are willing to spend large >um> to
keep it in the ground for several years
at least. _______
Seattle’s school census shows a^ few
less than 35.000 children between 5 and
21 years of age. Her voting population
L about 25,ooo. Her estimate of !>opu
lation based on city directory figures i>
241,ihk\ This makes l*1.0t*\ or three
fourths of the population, to account
for as infants under 5 years, women
and tloaters. The day is near at hand
when the Seattle newspapers and real
estate agents should begin to hedge
on population figures le>t they drop
from too dizzy a bight when the ruth
less epidemic known as the fedetal
census comes through in 1910.
This dope about a swarm of .Japanese
buzzing on the Mexican border to over
run the United States in case of war is
a little tlm worst the pipe hitters have
handed out yet to make news in ‘he
Japanese ruction.
The Flearst recount bill still has a
chance in the New York court of ap
peals.
A NEIGHBORLY KNOCK
President Graves of the White Pass
\ Yukon railroad would not own to
the charge of being a knocker, per
haps. But he drops a word on occa
sions that has the ring of the knocker.
At the Rainier club in Seattlo not
I long ago he freely told a group of
I business men h's estimate of 1 resi
I dent Frost and Vice President Os
borne of the Alaska Central. Ihe}
were “small fry” when it came to
j railroad building, were “babes in the
woods,” he said, in framing a policy.
Frost had “gone broke as an agricul
| tural implement dealer in Michigan”
j once upon a time. W hat could he
' hope to do as a railroad president?
i queried Graves. The results so far
were “ludicrous and pathetic.” Frost
and Osborne could and should have
i thousands of miners and settlers in the
Susitnu valley by this time. Instead,
he averred, fewer people were there
than when they took charge of the
Alaska Central.
A> for < Jsborne, be was a 1 apa s
boy,” “a small pea in big pod.”
These statements were made hy Mr.
Graves in the presence of business
men of high standing in Seattle.
They were intended to he damaging.
Similar statements are probably made
b\ him at every suitable opportunity.
Frost and Osborne have made mis
takes in their management of the Alaska
Genital const ruction serious mistakes.
They will make more. Only jellyfish
and dead people make no mistakes.
But they have gon? steadily forward
with the building of the Alaska Gen
tea 1 railroad, not so fast as wo all
should like by any means, nor as fa.st
a*they intend to go a little later, but
ate gradually pushing the end of the
road nearer to the rich interior which
ha> been pouring fat dividends into the
coders of the White I\iss*V \ukon
these many years.
Therein lies the grievance of Presi
dent Graves.
Russia spent *20.000,000 last year
for new prisons and *12,000,000 for
public schools, and yet some people
wonder why the empire is overrun
with bomb throwing anarchists.
Maybe the Japs have started some-:
tiling in Korea that will hold them
for a while, thus postponing the
' elimination of the United States from
i the map of the world
These daily arrests of Japanese spies
show how thehusy police and yellow
newspaper reporters improve each
shining hour. Hut lias anybody else
se< r. the spies?
PvtUtliia Vivv 1'ioriiUmt I'nii
banks a chilly reception but the In
| diamt gentleman who is known as the
human icicle probably made it a stand
^ °'V- _______
Mr-. Helen Green lias promised [to
marry Wilson Mizner. which shows
that her present surname tits well.
Since the lid is on Seattle the town
is able to entertain a convention of the
Cowl Templars.
Take notice that it isn’t Hetty Green
who is goinjf to marry Wilson Mizner.
HARD TO GET MAIL
ON TANANA CREEKS
The Fairbanks Times roars as fol
low > at the Tanana mail service:
“Meanwhile the second class matter
is accumulating in ton lots in the
postotllce. The iirst - class mail is
being handled by volunteer carriers,
but these refuse to touch the second
class matter.
“The other day a party walked into
the post office and asked for the mail
for his creek. He was sworn in and
given the letter mail. He was shown
a dozen or more largo pouches and
told to help himself. He declined with
thanks, as has every volunteer carrier
after glancing at the pile.
“At the creek postotfices, also, are
stacked up considerable second cla>s
matter, awaiting the decision of the
department. At Cleary city is a big
bunch of it.
“These scenes have been reenacted
ev. rv spring. Each year patrons
thought that that would be the last
year: that the department, having
been educated up to the needs of the
camp would provide the necessary ser
vice. Hut each year the same oid
trouble bobs up in some new from."
Bring Bearskins and Bear Cubs
L. L. Bales. J. H. Shirk and G. F.
Iienne berry arrived on the Dora with
twelve fine bearskins. Bales also
brought three grizzly cubs. One of
these came from Sand l’oint. The
other two Capt. Moore picked up from
omebody at Cold Bay and Bales traded
him a pair of caribou horns for them.
They will be taken to Seattle and kept
in the parks there for exhibition at the
exposition of 190U. They are husky
young brutes and when they bawl in
chorus they could drown out a brass
band.
Officers of the Dora report that five
volcanos of the peninsula are work
ing. Shishaldin and Akutan are giving
i a first class continuous performance.
COMBINE INTO
UNITED PRESS
Publishers’ and Scripps News
Gel Together to Furnish
One Service.
By Cable to The Bally Gateway.
New York, July 15—The announce
ment is made this afternoon that the
Publishers’ Press, the Scripps News
Association and t lie Seri pps-McRae as
sociation have become one organiza
tion under the name of the United
Press. The new association has a
larger number of newspapers allied
with it than the Associated Press.
DISCOVERS BIG
COPPER LEDGES
(Continued from page 1)
pentinc formation, probably containing
gold.
Both ledges are apparently of con
siderable width as the ore can be pick
ed up on the surface for many feet
laterally and the side boundaries can
not be determined until the veins are
stripped.
In the lower part of the canyon num
erous ore boulders are found, some of
them weighing .‘>00 pounds or more, |
from which copper ore can be chipped j
on all sides.
LOCAL MINES
OBTAIN FAVOR
(Continued from page 1.) J
California hydraulic properties which
pay enormously. There they work
profitably ground which carries only 2
or 3 cents a yard.”
Likes Falls Creek
The quartz veins found on Falls
creek and vicinity impressed Mr.
Richards strongly with their probable
value. While he conservatively
affirms that they are all mere pros
pects so far and may prove disappoint
ing after extensive development be!
says that the wide dispersion of quartz .
indications and the frequent occur-1
rence of rich float justify the utmost
confidence in the district and large
expenditures for development. The
fact that gold is found in all creeks of
Kenai peninsula and often in quanti-.
ties which pay wages to individual
miners is taken by him, as by all min
ing men of experience who have
studied the field, as substantial basis
for the theory that remarkable quartz
deposits will ultimately be found in
the hills of the peninsula.
Mr. Richards expects to interest
wealthy Colorado mining men in the!
acquisition of mining claims here with
the purpose of expending large sums
of money in development, believing
that no field in all the mining states
and territories offers better promise of (
great results.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Portland: sailed from Valdez for
Seward at 3 p. in. yesterday.
Dora: in port; sails westward about
July 23.
Santa Clara; sailed from Seattle
13th.
Saratoga: sailed from Seattle 18th.
Yucatan; sails from Seattle 24th.
Bertha: sails from Seattle 25th.~ntiW
Jeanie; sailed for Seattle 10th.
Elsie; sailed for sound ports 14th.
WEEKLY WEATHER RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
July 13:
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Sunday 69 50 Clear
Monday 53 50 Rain
Tuesday 60 50 Part Cloudy
Wednesday 55 4S Rain
Thursday 55 4S Rain
Friday 57 ;>2 Cloudy
t Saturday 57 54 Rain
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motives may be somewhat tinctured
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BANK OF SEWARD.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
United States of America », §S
Territory of Alaska I
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for Kodiak Precinct. In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Feodor
Gregoroff, deceased. .
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
administrator of the estate of Feodor Gregoroff,
deceased, to the creditors of. and all persons
having claims against the said deceased to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouchers within
six months after the first publication of this
notice, to to the said administrator at his office,
in the Alaska Commercial Company’s store at
Kodiak. Kodiak Island. Territory of .Alaska,
the same being the place for the transaction of
the business of the said estate.
Dated this 31st day of May. 1907.
A. C. Goss.
Administrator of the estate of Feodor
Gregoroff, deceased.
Date of first publication June 29, 1907.
Date of last publication July 27, 1607.
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