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Patrick Welch, contractor on the
railroad work north of Turnagain Arm,
killed a man in a tight at mile 7b camp
last Thursday morning. The name of
the victim and the particulars have
not been learned, but the fact of the
fatality is unquestioned.
Mr. Welch crossed the Inlet to Sun
rise and gave himself up to the federal
< dicers there. It is expected that he
will come to Seward on the Bertha,
when his version of the story will be
learned.
The accounts of the trouble are
naturally contradictory but the fact
which is agreed upon by all is that
after most of the men had gone to work
Thursday morning Welch entered the
tent of the victim and an alterca
tion followed which resulted in a tight.
Welch is a powerful man and it is
thought probable that the victim was
affected with heart trouble and that a
blow in the cardiac region caused the
t ragic result.
Alfred Johnson, a subcontractor of
Welco & Company, arrived in Seward
last night from the Inlet. He came
past the Welch camp a few hours
after the trouble and crossed the Inlet
| with Mr. Welch on the Uncle Sam. j
| The latter was accompanied by Dr.
Grieve and two other men connected
with the Welch camp. Mr. Johnson
irives the same general account as the
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others, but states that the victim did i
not die at once but survived several j
hours. He did not learn the dead
man's name.
Mr. Johnson says he was told that
there were seven men present when the |
fight occurred, which practically shows
that the fracas could not have lasted
more than a moment, as the other men
would have interfered.
The most intelligible account comes
from 1'. E. Harris, of Rich & Harris
who talked to the railroad office and to
the Gateway todav over the telephone '
from his tunnel camp on mile 52 by
men who had come pasl there from ;
Turnagain Arm, giving what he had,
been told. Mr. Harris was iinformed j
that the dead man was one of a firm
of station men, and that his partner
was present at the light. This discred
its the stories going about the street
that the victim was badly used. It
seems more probable that one or two
powerful blows accomplished the
fatality.
According to the reports given to
Mr. Harris the dead man had been
with Welch Brothers several years.
This also would discredit the story
that the man was sick in his tent and
was ordered out by Welch.
PIPE FOR POWER PLANT
Tubing for Butler & Company’s
Line Arrives
On the Bertha came fi,000 feet of
pipe for the pipe line of Butler & Com
pany. which will carry water from a
point up Lowell creek to their elect
rical plant at the corner of Seventh
avenue and Jefferson street. This
will he laid as rapidly as possible, and
the firm expect to have water running
over the wheel in the power bouse by
November 15.
Above the pipe line a flume will be
built to the point where the water is
to be taken from the creek. This is
nearly two miles from the power house,
so that ahem half a mile of flume will
he required. The lumber was hauled
up to the place where it will he used
some time ago, but the pipe will be j
laid first and the flume will begin
where the pipe stops.
The power house is nearly finished
and the machinery will be installed
before the pipe is laid, if it arrives on
an earlv l>oat. Part of it is already
here. The big waterwheel was hauled
over to the power house site several
days ago and will be put in place as
soon as the building is ready.
As soon as the new plant is in work
order Butler & Company will consoli
date their interests with the Seward
Electric Company, and the latter will
move its plant to the building of the
former. The consolidated plant will
be able to furnish light to a much
larger town than Seward is now, and
supply electrical power to drive mach
inery.
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E. L. Whittemore failed to receive
his bo,vling alley equipment on the
Bertha but got a letter informing him
that the plant will be sent on the
Portland.
EDITH TO SAIL OCT. 26
Big Steamer Still in Seattle Ac
cording to Advertisement
The latest information regarding
steamers is that the Kdith will not
sail from Seattle until October 26. The
latest copy of the Post-Intelligencer
makes this announcement in the ad
vertisement of the Northwestern Steam
ship Company.
It is thought possible that the Santa
Clara may come by the inside passage,
as she did the last time, in which case
she would not reach Seward until
October 28. When she was here early
in the month Capt. Schage stated that
after November 1 she would come in
side, and intimated that she might not
make any more outside trips.
No report concerning the Corwin
will be received until she brings it
herself, as she will not touch at any
port having a cable or telegraph line I
between St. Michael and Seward. She j
is expected about the end of the week.
To Organize Literary Society
A literary and debating society will
be organized at the Methodist tent to
morrow night. Several citizens have
expressed a wish for such a society,
and every man and woman in Seward
is invited to meet at the tent at 8
o'clock.
Valdez elected Judge Wickersham,
James Lathrop, Sam Blum and Ed
mund Smith delegates to the Alaska
legislativ econvention, which will meet
in Seattle November 15.
C. G. Van Hook returned on the
Bertha from a trip around Prince
William Sound to examine copper
properties.
Valdez had six inches of snow last
week, but it melted quickly.
ODD FELLOWS ORGANIZE
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Will Have Social Club until Char
ter can be Obtained
Fourteen Seward Odd bellows met
yesterday afternoon in the store of the
Seward Commercial Company and ar
ranged to organize an Odd Fellows
social club. At the present time a
lodge cannot be organized here because
Alaska is not in the jurisdiction of any
grand lodge. Steps will be taken later
to obtain a lodge charter. It was
learned at the meeting yesterday that
about forty Odd Fellows are now living
in or near Seward.
j. s. Slater was |elected president
of the club, E. W. Young secretary,
and Dr. C. H. Gibbons was made the
third member of a committee with
them to draft by-laws, which will be
submitted at the next meeting, which
will be held in Dr. Gibbons’office in
the Carstens’ building next Sunday
afternoon at 1 o’clock.
The club will secure permanent
rooms and hold regular meetings, con
ducting the organization very much as
a lodge.
For the best and cheapest recreation
in Seward, subscribe to Richards’ up
to-date library. Only 50c per month
to read as many hooks as you wish.
New books arrive on every boat.
The Seward Fuel Company has a
full line of Franklin coal which arrived
Steamer Bertha. They will have 100
tons fine house coal on the Portland. *
Don’t overlook the Troy Laundry
for up-to-date and first class work,
ladies’ and gents’ work a specialty.
FOR RENT—Pleasant rooms in
plastered building; furnished or for
office use. Carstens block._
Full stock of A. A. Cutter shoes, just
arrived, at Clayson’s. *
STILL TINKERING
WITH THE CABEE
Burnside Experts at Work Below
Sitka and All Messages Taken
Subject to Delay.
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The experts of the cabloship Burn
side are still tinkering with the cable
below Sitka, and it is not known when
they will get through. Valdez informed
the Seward office today that nothing
could be taken for transmission below
until further notice. Kverything for
Seattle is taken here subject to delay.
No information has been received
here as to the precise work the Burn
side is doing. She was expected to
test the line all the way, and it may
be that she found (laws which require
repairs.
The Gateway is compelled therefore,
for the third time within a week to
issue without cable news from the out
side world.
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BRINGS IP LABORERS
Bertha Arrives with Thirty-four for
Railroad and Contractors.
Steamer Bertha, ( apt. Knudsen, ar
rived in port at 11 o'clock Saturday
night, after being awaited with more
or loss impatience for at least twelve
hours. She left Valdez Friday after-'
noon but had freight to discharge at
Fort Liscum, Kllarnar and Latouche,
which required a great deal of time.
I She brought twenty-four men to work
for the railroad, and took ten to Sel
dovia, who will work for P. Welch &
Company at Turnagain Arm.
The Bertha sailed at noon for Sel
dovia. She has only forty tons of
freight for that port, from which she
will sail to Kodiak, and return direct
to Seward, ('apt. Knudsen expects to
he able to get back by Wednesday
night.
Among the Bertha's first class pas
sengers for Seward were George WiIk
inson of New York, an expert account
ant who comes here ttv examine the
hooks of the railroad company in the
interest of the stockholders, Mrs.
Wilkinson, H. F. Thomas, Mrs. Coutts.
Randall H. Kemp returned from
Valdez.
Bishop Innocent of Sitka, head of the
Russian, or Greek Catholic church in
Alaska, wason the Bertha, a passenger
to Kodiak. He was accompanied by an
assistant of some rank. The bishop
attracted considerable attention when
he got off the boat and walked up the
street here, wearing his mitre, and
followed by his aid, who wore a head
piece which looked like the same genus
but not the same species as a plug hat.
Both men wear heavy beards and are
unmistakably Russian in appearance.
Temperature at!! p. m. today- 4(>.