SAYS ROOSEVELT
POLICY IS ISSUE
Secretary Taft Speaks in Maine
and Urges Republicans To
Stand b\ Part).
ATTACKS ACTION OF GOMPFRS
Claims federation Leader Is fiqht
inq Littlefield Because Latter
Refused Dictation.
By Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
Bath. Me.. Sept. 0- Secretary Taft
spoke last night in Alameda hall to a
packed house. He said that the ad
ministration of President 1 loose\ elf A
the issue in the present congressional
campaign and that if the Ameriean
people elec a democratic house they
will throttle the power of the president
to continue the reform policy which lie
has begun so successfully.
Referring to the tight of 1 resident
Compels of tin American hedetation
of Labor on Congressman Littlefield
Taft s;i id tom pels was opposing Ltt
tletieid solely because the latter had
refused to follow the dictation of ?he
labor eatier.
Cannon Attacks (iompers
Lewiston. Mr.. Sept. »*• Speaker
■ , . - • ■ i i' tin
O .posit ' i of Gi.i;.per*. -‘Cot.m ->m;tn
lift W* held. him self and other member*
of cor-r re—-urn - : * hat Lumper* w.i*
of Labor in trying t *et him** ’a up u*
a po.itica b **. * annon saitt hi* *>% tti
pat hie* were will! labor but not with
bos*e*s ot any kind.
TO TAKE HAND
iN NEW YORK
President Roose'elt Proposes To
Interfere in the Party
Management.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
ov>ter Hay. Sept. *> 1’resident
Roo*evelt will take a hand in New
York politic* ai d try to straighten out
the republican 'uncle there a* iu> be
lieve* the *ituatiur. deman* * In* inter
ference. He will itrnove bos*ism and
try to unite the party.
Thi* announcement wa* made today
by Loner* **rnan Littauer of New
York, who called on the president
yesterday with Secretary (ortelyou
and held a lone- conference. The pur
ulent expressed c-re;.* interest in he
congressional eampaijm.
Says Roosevelt Only Is Eligible
Detroit. Sept. I William J. Bryan j
made the Labor Day address at the
fair grounds here yesterday. Discus
sing political topics he said that 1 ’resi
dent Roosevelt was the only Republi-,
can who was considered eligible for
the republican nomination in 1908 be
c&usr he was the omy man who had ,
ever dared to break the republican ^
platform.
Mr. Bryan said that he was in favor
of the eight hour labor day every
where and predicted its early adoption
throughout the Doited States.
OPENS LODGER S TRUNK AND
KILLED BY GUN DISCHARGE
By Oabla to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Seattle. Sept. 5—Mrs. Emma Early,
proprietress of the Louvre hotel,
opened the trunk of an Italian lodger,
presumably out of curiosity. lo pit*
vent looting the owner had fixed a
revolver inside so that the lifting of
the lid would pull the trigger and
when the woman raised the lid the
jjun was discharged and -he was -hot
through the heart.
Incorporation Matter Dropped
The matter of incorporation for
Seward was dismissed in the t • S.
district court at Valdez after the order
had been made for the election, be
cause it was discovered by L. V. Kay.
attorney for the petitioners, that a
late statute requires thirty days
notice, whereas he had been proceed
ing under a former statute which re
quired only ten days notice. He called
the attention of Judjre Gunnison to the
latter statute and on his motion the
petition was dismissed by the court.
BRYAN DEFENDS
| HIS PLATFORM
I f avors Government Ownership
of Railroads Because of
Corrupt Management
By Cnbla to The Dally Gateway.
< hirugo. Sept. '» Speaking at a ban
quet given in his honor last night by
the Iroquois club Bryan said the rea
" »n he favors government ownership
of railroads is that they are now the
most corrupt institution in American
life, lie asserted that passes influence
i legislation and elect governors. ,
Brvan made a vehement attack upon
Roger C Sullivan, saying that Sulli
van i" connected with corporations
which are seeking special favors and
corrupting politicians. Bryan said
that since Sullivan had controlled the
recent democratic state convention he
spurned its indorsement of himself.
1 Ht> assorted that the democratic party
I did not deserve victory so long as it
| permitted such men as Sullivan to die
i tato it- policies. He said Sullivan had
asphyxiated the voters of Illinois and
j that no man running on a ticket in
| dorsed by Sullivan had any right to
I expect popular support.
15r \an said that his plan for curbing
} tii. trusts is that when a state permits
; *h.'in to organize under its laws other
states should refuse to allow such cor
| |H)i*at lor.s to Jo business within theit
!i'u;;s. thus allowing the trust state to
|>,> on tun up l*v the trust.
Bryan Met by <>0 000 People
L:::c • ; . Neb. Sept. <> Mr. Bryan
at'fi' ei! here today and was m»-t by an
< nut in as crowd. On.tKX) people parad
inu Bi. >t reels. headed by six bands.
Brvan delivered an address in the
Mate capital grounds.
C,ov. Mickey introduced Mr. Bryan
and in his speech made a reference
*o bouas reformers. The crowd mis
interpreted the governor's meaning
and ias-ed. supposin'? that he was re
ferring to Bryan. The governor pro
ceeded to say that Mr. Bryan was a
I genuine reformer.
! n ]u> address Bryan said tliat his
j foreign trip had made him appreciate
! American citizenship more highly
! than ever, and that he had never ap
‘ j . eiat'-d the greatness of t he Ameri
can pe-i'le and American institutions
! m til he had seen other countries.
WALSH ATTACKS
PARTY LEADERS
Iowa Member of Democratic Na
tional Committee Resigns
His Place.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Ottumwa, la.. Sept. .5—t. A. Walsh.
Iowa member of the democratic na
: it al committee, today sent his resig
nation from the committee to Chair
man Taggart in a long letter in which
he declares that the executive commit
tee of the national committee is made
up of seekers for special privileges.
W alsh names William F. Sheehan of
New York, formerly a discredited
Buffalo politician, who was arrested in
that city for violation of the civil ser
vice law and driven out of Buffalo,
now associated with Judge Parker, a
prominent corporation lawyer, acting
for Belmont and Rothschild, main
taining a legislative and press bureau
to further the ends of the corporation
1 he represents.
Also James Smith of New Jersey,
boss of Essex county, who sold out the
state to William C. Whitney, betrayed
Leon Abbett as a presidential and sen
atorial candidate, and took the sena
torship himself while pretending to
support Abbett. Walsh says that the
worst election frauds ever known in
! this country were perpetrated in New
Jersey while Smith was boss. These
frauds have since been exposed.
Walsh affirms that Smith wps always a
worker in politics with Gorman and
Brice and other corporation agents in
the democratic party.
Senator Thomas S. Martin of Virgin
ia is also mentioned by Walsh, whosays
that Martin was formerly, and proba
bly is now. allied with Standard Oil.
These men, Walsh says, are the
controlling members of the executive
committee. He tells Taggart that the
latter is a weakling to allow such men
to be forced upon him. Walsh says he
is still a democrat but wants to be a
clean one.
OFFERS PEACE
TO INSURGENTS
Cuban Administration Sends Com
mittee With Olive Branch
to All Provinces.
PALMA WILLING TO ARBITRATE
Hostilities Will Cease Until Revolu
tionists Are Interviewed on
Settlement.
By Cable to Tbo Doily Gateway.
Havana, Sept. »> A peace committee
representing the Cuban government
will go to provinces to confer with the
insurgents and try to arrange a basis
of peace. II is believed that Presi
dent Palma will accept arbitration of
the grievances alleged by the revolu
tionists.
Hostilities will cease until the rebel
leaders have been interviewed and an
effort made to effect a composition
with them, as the administration is
extremely anxious to avoid civil war.
Hostilities in Cuba Cease
Havana. Sept. 7 —The insurgents
have ceased hostilities pending peace
negotiations although they promptly
rejected the terms offered by Presi
dent Palma and have made no counter
advances. The liberal party is urging
peace on the basis of compromise but
the insurgents will make no proposal.
Rebels Publish Plans
Havana, Sept. *> -The insurgents
today made public their program, an
nouncing that tbo senators elected in
1902 and UK)4, at free elections, pro
pose. to form a congress and elect A.
I). Antrin president, then call a new
election fora president and congress.
The country is quiet but the revolu
tionary armed forces are bolding their
strength and practically control sev
eral provinces. The government is
mobilizing troops and importing arms
and ammunition a> rapidly as possible
in anticipation of open war.
Civil War Spreading
Havana. Sept. 1 Insurrection is
rapidly spreading and lighting is re
ported from every province except
Puerto Principe. Around Cienfuegos,
the rebels are said to number 3000. j
Hundreds are joining the revolutionary
ranks daily.
Intervention by the United States
government under the Platt amend
ment seems probable and i-> expected.
The newspapers are imploring the
rebels to lay down their arms in or
der to prevent intervention, which is
alleged to be worse than to have the
island swept into the sea, because of
the hatred of negroes which prevails
in the United States.
Americans Join Cubans
Havana. Sept. 3—Many Americans
j are enlisting in the ranks of govern
! raent troops to put down the insurrec*
j tion. The men are mostly soldiers of
1 fortune who are living in the country.
! The Cuban people generally are ob
I jecting to the acceptance of these men
by the government, believing that it
is the plan of President Palma to
establish an American army in Cuba.
The revolutionary movement seems
to be gaining ground constantly, and
disorder and desultory lighting con
tinue to be reported in many provinces.
Cuba Buys Ammunition
Philadelphia, Sept. 3—A rush order
for 3,000.000 Krag-Jorgensen cart
ridges was received today at Frankfort
arsenal, understood to be for the
Cuban government.
LOCATES MOUNTAIN OF
BLACK HEMATITE ORE
Capt. Blodgett of the steamer Toledo
reports that he has located a mountain
of black hematite iron ore a few miles
from Seldovia. An assay showed $40 a
ton in iron. At present thare is no
! available market for iron ore, although
! a small steel plant is now in operation
| near Seattle. If the big plant is estab
I lished about which the Seattle papers
■ have been publishing columns of glori
I lication for a year or two a good mark
et will be opened for iron ore and the
Seattle steamers would undoubtedly
carry it at a low rate, as they now
carry copper, because they need it for
ballast.
The advance guard of a small army
of men to install and operate Guggen
heim dredges is arriving in the Klon
dike.
ARRESTS FIVE
MORE JAPANESE
; Agent at St. George Island Takes
Prisoners Into Custody
on Suspicion.
OTHERS ESCAPE WITH BOAT
Orientals Said They Called in at
Sealing Group Merely To
Get fresh Water.
Five more Japanese, accused of seal
poaching in the Pribilof islands, were
brought in from the west by Deputy
Marshal L. L. Bowers on the steamer
Dora and taken to Valdez for trial.
According to the account the men were
guilty of nothing worse than suspicious
conduct. When captured, their boat,
a sailing schooner of fifteen tons, had
merely called in at St. George island,
one of the Pribilof group.
The schooner came in close to St.
George island and shortly afterward a
Japanese was fqund ashore. \\ hen in
terrogated he said the boat had called
in for water, lb* was requested by the
federal agent in charge to bring the
captain of the schooner, and he got into
hi-> rowboat and proceeded to the ship.
Soon afterward the captain, whose
name is Murao, and four men came
ashore in a small boat. They were at
once put under arrest as poachers.
The remainder of the crew, which the
prisoners say numbered fifteen men.
including t hemselves. sailed away when
the captain failed to return promptly.
The cutter Perry called shortly
afterward and brought the prisoners to
Pnalaska, where they wore taken in
charge by Deputy Marshal Bowers,
who had gone west to get witnesses in
the St. Paul island ease. The Perry
brought two witnesses in the St. Paul
ease to Pnalaska who came through
on the Dora.
To Investigate Japanese Case
Seattle. Sept. 7 Masanao Hanihara.
second secretary of the Japanese lega
tion at Washington, arrived here to
day on his way to Alaska to investi
gate the charges of seal poaching at
St. Paul island against his countrymen
who are to he tried soon at Valdez.
He will sail on the Oregon tomorrow
for Valdez to attend the trial and will
then be taken in a l\ S. revenue cut
ter to the Pribilof islands to conduct
an investigation there.
The Japanese diplomat expresses the
opinion that the raid of the Japanese
fishermen was not piratical but merely
a case of trespass on private preserves
and that no offense more serious than
that can he charged.
Pile Driver Hoves to Mile 55
The pile driver which has been put
ting down piles on Turnagain arm and
through Placer valley for a year, is
moving to mile 55, where it will be
kept several months to drive piles for
cribbing to control the vagrant glacier
streams which during Hoods would
otherwise wash out the grade on the
low gravel over which the line will
run on 54 and 55. This grade was
made a year ago but all washed out in
the spring.
CREEKS NEAR SUNRISE
WILL PRODUCE $30,000
Hydraulic mines near Sunrise, on
the south side of Turnagain Arm, will
produce a total of about $.10,000 in gold
this season. This estimate is made by
M. H. Sullivan, superintendent of the
Elmore mine at “The Forks," where
Canyon creek and East Fork unite to
form Six Mile. The heaviest output
of the region will be on S. W. Wible's
property on Canyon creek, Mr.
Sullivan puts this mine down at be
tween $17,000 and $20,000. Two giants
are steadily at work and nine men are
employed.
Several smaller operators on differ
ent creeks near Sunrise are taking out
gold steadily and Mr. Sullivan esti
mates their aggregate production at
upward of $10,000. Some men are
working singly and others have one or
two miners each assisting them.
Work on the Elmore property this
summer under Mr. Sullivan s direction
was confined to digging a ditch for a
new water supply. The intake is
three and ono-half miles from the
mine. Four men are still working.
The steamer Bertha is expected to
bring lumber for a flume, which will
be constructed this fall. Next year
hydraulic work will be conducted on a
large scale. The property is now
owned by Youngstown, Ohio, men.
EASY TRAIL TO
YENTNA REGION
Only One Steep Climb in 150 Miles
of Winter Road to Mouths
of Gold Creeks.
No placer district of Alaska is so ac
cessible as the Yentna. None except
Nome is so near to the seacoast and
Nome is open to entrance from the
sea only live months in the year.
When the Yentna district is exten
sively explored and developed and per
manent trails are established through
it all parts of the region can be
reached by a few days ordinary travel
at any time of year.
When the Alaska Central reaches
Knik Arm, as it is expected to do be
fore the end of l'.K)7, the remotest
creeks of the Yentna district will be
little more than 100 miles from rail
road connection with tide water at
Seward, open to navigation every day
in every year. From the railroad
overland travel can go over nearly
level ground to the mouths of the gold
creeks. In summer the district can be
entered by way of Cook inlet
From the end of the railroad, which
by early winter will be in Placer val
ley at least lifty-livo miles from Seward,
a good sled road while the snow is on
runs to Turnagain Arm. and along j
that estuary to mile 7.7. From there
it runs up Glacier creek, and its tribu
tary. Grow creek, to a low summit, j
On this slope is the only difficult pass 1
of the whole route. Near the fop is a j
climb of 1700 feet in half a mile.
Freight has to be carried up this as-j
cent to the top in small loads.
As soon as the summit is gained the
road proceeds down a long slope until
it reaches Knik arm. Knik station, at
the head of the Arm. is about 1 77
miles from Seward by the Grow creek
trail. By the railroad route, which
keeps close to the arms of Gook inlet,
the distance to Knik is 14!' miles.
From Knik to Susitna Station is forty
miles, or 177 miles from Seward: and
to the mouth of the Kuhiltna is twenty
five miles farther or -<H> miles from
Seward.
This is si sled journey 01 less man
150 miles from the end of the railroad,
with only one difficult pass and that
only half a mile in length. The mouth
of Lake creek is eight miles from the
Kahiltna, and the mouth of the
Skxventna about twenty more. A little
farther up is Youngstown, the head
of summer navigation of the Yentna
river, from which a passable trail is
already made across the hills to the
upper Lake creek and Kahiltna
region.
PLATS TOWN
OF GIRDWOOD
Crow Creek Mining* Man Employs
J. C. Baxter To Survey and
Sell Lots.
James Girdwood has platted his
homestead at the mouth of Glacier
creek on mile 75 of the railroad, into
the town of Girdwood and the lots are,
or soon will be, on the market. J. C.
Baxter, resident Alaska Central engi
neer on Turnagain arm during the
last year, made the survey and will
have charge of the townsite, taking an
interest in the property for his ser
vices.
Girdwood has been a town for sev
eral months. It has several stores,
three saloons, two restaurants, lodg
inghouses and other business enter
prises. A railroad sawmill is located
a mile from the village in the midst of
a large body of line timber and enor
mous quantities of railroad timber
have been taken out in the past year.
The saw mill will undoubtedly be in
operation for several years to come.
J. M. Moore is erecting a large build
ing in the town simply to rent, having
firm confidence in the growth of the
place.
The town has a tine situation in a
wide valley, on ground just above ex
treme high tide, and small boats run
into the creek to tie up. Within a few
miles of it are great hydraulic proper
ties of Mr. Girdwood and the Crow
Creek company, on Crow creek, be
sides smaller mining enterprises,
which altogether employed more than
100 men this year.
GOOD REPORTS
FROM YENTNA
Miners Arrive From Different
Localities and Tell of In
creasing Output.
MANY CROCKS NOW PRODUCING
Legitimate Prospectors in All Paris
of the District Said To Be
Confident of Results.
The miners who come out of th •
Ventna district now are united in tin
belief that the region will soon rank
among the greatest gold producers in
Alaska. Men who have worked in th*
Klondike, the Tanana and Nome say
that in none of those districts was *o
much gold produced by mere surf:u •*■
scratching as will come out of th*
Ventna this year.
A notable fact is that every one ■>'
tiie real miners makes a eonservath •
estimate as to the probable yield >
the district this year but when induce
to make an estimate by crook* in
dividuals always figures up a to
that surprises himself. In every cu
the total estimate obtained 1». tie
method exceeds *.j0.immi.
Among the arrivals on the steam*
Toledo yesterday was John A. .V.
Donald, who ha-* been on Lake* a
Kahiltnu river* and their trih at -
nearly all the time sine* last fail am
has been engaged in active mini;
with several men associated with h
since the season opened. He ha> hi**
working ground on Cache and (Jo
creeks principally, and sav* simp
that his parties are taking out goo*
wages.
Mr. MacDonald was reluctant to go*
an opinion as to tin* yield of the upp*
Kahiltnu creeks, saying, "So matt*
what l would say there would be a !<
of people to claim that 1 was trying
boom the country, or just talking t
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MUST DEFEND
MURDER CHARGE
Robert Rowan and M. H. Lee
Accused of Burning Cannery
With Seven Men in It.
Charged with setting tiro to the Co
fee creek cannery on Nu*hugak bay.
which was burned with seven inmate
early in the morning of June 1. Robei
Rowan and M. II. Lee were brought
from the westward on the steam*
Dora in custody of Deputy Marsha*
Bowers to be tried at Valdez. They
were bound over by the C. S. commis
sioner at Dillingham on charges *»t
murder and arson. Rowan is said to
be an ex-convict from a California
penitentiary.
Both the accused men bad arrived at
Coffee creek a lew days before the
cannery was burned. They came up
on a steamer which brought men and
supplies from San Francisco for the
Alaska Packers’ Association, which
owned the cannery. The men were
agitators and as soon as they arrived
began stirring up trouble among the
employes, inciting them to strike.
They refused to go to work titem
selves. Employes, both white and
Chinese, paid no attention to the dis
turbers, and it is supposed that Rowan
and Lee set fire to the cannery be
cause of their inability to make
trouble any other way.
The evidence against the accused
men is mostly circumstantial. The
fire started at midnight and burned
ropidly that it is supposed the men
who were sleeping inside were stifled
with smoke before they could fully
waken. The victims were all white
men.
Seven witnesses were also brought
along in custody. Six are white men
and one a negro.
COMPETITION PUTS DOWN
COST OF PAUPER BURIALS
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Spokane, Sept. 3— As the result of a
tight among the city undertakers for
the contract to bury paupers a mini
mum bid of one-tenth of a cent for
each was made and has been accepted
i by the county commissioners.