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TRACE FLOAT
UP TO LEDGE
Shaw and Brown Establish Af
finity Between fragments and
Rock in Place.
CARRY SIMILAR COPPER ORE
Lode Above fourth of July Creek
Shows Pyrrhotite Like that
found Loose Below.
L. F. Shaw is willing to bet a copper
claim, or something of the sort, that
he has found the ledge straight across
the bay from which came the copper
float that has been aggravating pros
pectors ever since Seward was a town.
This float is found in fragments vary
ing from small pieces to huge boul
ders. one of which weighs several tons,
all the way from the beach to the
ledge near the summit.
This week by close examination of
the ledge north of Fourth of July
creek on which Shaw, George Bourk
aert. Dick Brown and others are lo
cated, Shaw and Brown found ore iden
tical with the float. It is pyrrhotite,
containing good value in copper and
gold, with probably silver and nickel.
Pyrrhotite is one of the chief sources
of nickel.
This particular ore has been said
by Frank Watson and other British
Columbia men to resemble the ore of
the famous Leroi mine so closely that
it might be mistaken for it.
The connection between the copper
float and the ledge va:> established by [
finding chunks of float containing
quartz gangue similar to ore speci
mens found on the surface of the claims
located near the summit of the ridge.
It has been the general belief of pros
pectors that the float came from under
the glacier, having been carried down
by the ice, but the discovery of affinity
between the float and the ledge ore
amounts almost to a demonstration
that the float came from the ledge.
Shaw and Brown made careful com
parisons on the ground of the float and
the ore in place, finding no difference
between them. Both have the same
bronze color on fresh fracture.
The value of the apparent discovery
lies in the fact that much of the float has
been shown by assays to be remarka
bly rich, indicating that the lode when
uncovered will prove a bonanza.
OFFER ROAST
TO KNOCKERS
By Cable to Tba Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 9—Alaska knockers
were roundly scored by Major John E.
Ballaine, original promoter and a
heavy stockholder of the Alaska Cen
tral railroad, and Henry D. Reynolds,
president of the Reynolds-Alaska De
velopment Company and promoter of
the electric railroad now building
from Valdez, at a public meeting and
smoker held here Saturday evening, J
of men interested in Alaska.
Both men affirmed that every enter
prise set on foot in Alaska had been
compelled to fight for existence
against opposition from people who
were benefitted by the success of the
projects.
FRENCH DEFEAT MOORS
AND DESTROY THEIR CAMP
Tangier, Sept. 13 — French troops
routed the Moors in a battle yesterday
and destroyed the Moorish camp at
Tandart.
To Occupy Seaport Towns
Tangier, Sept. 9—France and Spain
will occupy the seaport towns of Mor
occo with troops until order is restor
ed. It is believed that this announce
ment will provoke further massacres.
The Atlin Claim reports a stampede
to Wilson creek.
ROCK CARRIES
$67.80 GOLD
Formation of Disputed Texture
Appears to Be Rich Ledge
Of Mineral.
Rock that assays$67.80 gold and cat
ries visible specks of free gold, but
which local prospectors, assayers and
metallurgists cannot agree in classify
ing, is the latest mineral tind by those
industrious discoverers, with whom
discovery has become a habit—Will
Cl ay son, E. F. Pitman and George
Bourkaert.
The rock came from Day’s harbor
and was taken from the vertical wall
of a gorge cut by glacial action in past
ages. It is of dark gray color and
quartz or serpentine texture. Some
experts put it in one class and some in
another, while still others say it is nei
ther. Only one t hing seems certain—
it carries the gold, though it is viewed
with suspicion by the professionals
who say it has no license to carry
gold, because they never saw gold rock
like it before.
The ledge is from six to fourteen
feet wide and was traced for a mile,
and this peculiar rock constitutes the
' entire ledge composition. Outside of
I it is rock of totally different kind.
A large sample of the rock will be
sent outside for analysis.
RAID ORIENTALS
IN VANCOUVER
Wob of 1000 W hite Laborers At
tack Chinese and Japanese
Quarters.
Cy Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 9—White
men numbering at least ltXK) raided
Chinatown and the adjacent Japanese
quarter Saturday afternoon and the
rioting was barely quelled by the
police after forty-eight hours. The
city police force seems unable to afford
protection to the Orientals.
Notice was received today from the
Japanese government that it will de
mand $25,(XX) indemnity for every Jap
anese who was assaulted.
Mutterings in Vancouver
Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 11-—Local
Japanese demand protection on ac
count of the feeling and previous
demonstrations against them. A crisis
is feared tonight. The city authori
ties are assured that the past riots are
not to be made international affairs and
they are exerting every effort to pre
vent a repetition of the troubles.
Want Orientals Discharged
Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 13 — White
union men employed in this city will
go out on a strike if all Orientals are
not discharged and Japanese refused
admission to the public schools.
Okuma Criticises Qreat Britain
Toklo, Sept. 14 — Count Okuma is
sued a statement today concerning the
anti-Japanese and anti-Chinese riots in
Vancouver, British Columbia, express
ing the opinion that the attacks on
Orientals are countenanced by Great
Britain.
Laurier Orders Inquiry
Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 14 — Premier
Laurier today ordered an investigation
of the riots in Vancouver directed
against Japanese and Chinese.
TO UNLOAD ORIENTALS ON
CANADIAN COVERNMENT
Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 12—Steamer
Monteagle arrived today with 1200
Orientals aboard, and the citizens im
mediately began raising a purse to
charter a train to send the immigrants
to Ottawa.
Fairbanks reports that it is raising
watermelons.
FORCE BOAT TO
REFUSE HINDUS
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White Laborers on Portland Throw
Orientals off Steamer
At Dock.
DUSKY WORKERS LEFT BEHIND
Twenty Employed for Valdez But
Capt. Humphrey Compelled to
Choose Between Races.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Oateway.
Seattle, Sept. 13—When the steamer
Portland sailed yesterday for Southern
Alaska twenty Hindus went aboard
and a race riot was precipitated at the
dock. The Hindus were booked for
Valdez to work there. The white
laborers aboard threw the Orientals
off the steamer and told Capt. Hum
phrey that if he carried them not a
white laborer would go on the steamer.
After consultation with the officials
of the steamship company Capt. Hum
phrey sailed without the Hindus.
TAKE STEPS TO
PROTECT JAPS
—
Threats of fresh Riots Cause
Apprehension at Bellingham
And Vancouver.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Oateway.
Bellingham, Wash., Sept. 11—Two
hundred and fifty extra police officers
were sworn it today to protect the
Japanese, as threats are rampant of
further rioting against them.
Warn Orientals to Leave
Bellingham, Wash., Sept. 12 — All
Orientals have been warned to leaVe
the city and many are going.
Seattle Japs Quit W'ork
Seattle Sept. 11—Local Japanese
are quitting their jobs and gathering
mysteriously in the lower part of the
city.
Planning; New Treaty
Washington, D. C., Sept. 11—The
United States and Japan are planning
a new treaty which will provide for
measurable exclusion of Japanese
from America with stringent enforce
ment of the rules.
To Dismiss Japanese
San Francisco, Sept, 12—The Japan
ese employed on American cruisers
will be dismissed to avoid the possibil
ity of embarrassment later.
May Hurry Warships to Coast
Washington, D. C., Sept. 13—Efforts
are in progress to induce the adminis
tration to send warships to the Pacific
a month earlier than was intended, on
account of the riots on the western
coast.
CHINESE FIGHT
ON BOARD SHIP
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
San Francisco, Sept. 14—Bark Elect
ra arrived today from Nushagak, Alas
ka, carrying a large number of Chinese
cannerymen. On the trip down a
fierce fight occurred among the Orien
tals in which many were w’ounded.
The captain placed several scores of
the men in irons and kept them there
until the bark arrived in port.
BUTTE MINES TO CLOSE
FOR NEW WAGE SCALE
Butte, Sept. 13 — All mines will be
shut down within the next three
weeks and will not reopen until a new
wage scale is arranged.
LOSES $3000 IN
FORGOTTEN POKE
Winer Named Cone Leaves Dust
Behind and it Disappears
Before He Returns.
A man named Cone lost his poke
containing $3000 in gold dust by leav
ing it in Kinney’s roadhouse at the
mouth of Lake creek, where any one of
a dozen men might have carried it
away. He came on down to Susitna
station after he remembered that he
had left his fortune behind and when
he got back to Lake creek he learned
that someone more thoughtful about
the treasure than himself had taken it
where it would do the finder more good
than the owner. Cone was going to
Texas to be married.
Cone was the discoverer of Poor
Man’s creek, the best bonanza yet dis
covered in the Yentna district. He
took some money out of his claim last
year; went back and worked it a while
and then sold it. He was on his way
out with the proceeds, when he
strangely forgot and lost the poke.
Cone noticed his loss when near
Kahiltna and Capt. Bartell, on whose
launch he was traveling, wanted to go
back for it, but Cone said it was as
safe at Kinney’s roadhouse as if he had
it with him, and came on.
HARDY GARDEN
PLANTS THRIVE
Vegetables and Flowers of
Northern States Flourish on
Kenai Peninsula.
Three miles north of Seward lie two
market gardens in which grow all the
ordinary vegetables that thrive in the
northern states—potatoes, turnips, car
rots, rutabagas, peas, beans, cauli
llower, cabbage, lettuce—nearly all of
unusual size. This in spite of the fact
that the present summer has been cool
and rainy throughout, with infrequent
and short lapses of sunshine. In sum
mers when the sun shines most of the
time vegetation grows at a rate which
is incredible to anyone who has not
seen the results.
In Seward also small gardens thrive
and many families raise their own
vegetables, or part of them. All the
flowers indigenous to the northern
states are cultivated here and attain
great size and unsurpassed luster in
coloring.
The soil in which these vegetables
and flowers flourish is gravel wash
from the mountains, with a thin coat
of vegetable mold. It staggers the
unbelief of a denizen of the Mississippi
valley to see such rank growth in
ground where scarcely any soil is
visible, as he understands the term, yet
Illinois and Iowa do not produce better
vegetables in their black loam than
Kenai peninsula does in wash gravel.
The market gardens north of town
have been under cultivation several
years by W. A. McPherson and Ole
Martin. They largely supply theSew
ard market with fresh vegetables. The
gardens are hewred out of timber land
and are surrounded by stumps and logs,
forming an oasis in the desert of gray
woods with its rank growth of under
brush. Mr. McPherson was a profes
sional photographer before he carved
a homestead in the Alaska wilderness
and he spends part of his time now in
making photographic views.
FIERCE FIGHT WITH FIRE
ON BATTLESHIP INDIANA
Washington, D. C., Sept. 12—Fire
started in the bunkers of the battle
ship Indiana today and only heroic
work'by the jackies saved the vessel
from destruction. The men carried
hot shells from the hold, which became
so heated that an explosion was an im
minent probability until the fire was
subdued.
BRINGS REPORT
FROM INNOKO
Fairbanks Wan Writes to Times
Of Situation in New' Gold
District.
MANY PEOPLE RUSHING IN
Beautiful Country and Great Hunting
Region and Prospectors
Hopeful of Results.
A correspondent of the Fairbanks
Times writes the following from In
noko:
Nulato, July 23—We have just ar
rived down from the Innoko country.
All is well. The Innoko is a beautiful
but very crooked river: the water is
clear, but of an iron color, and is good
drinking water. It is the verdict of
the boys on board that the scenery
surpasses the Tanana. The water is
smooth, with no rapids, until you go
seventy-five miles farther than we
did. There is plenty of good standing
timber along its banks and miles of
good grazing country, the grass being
as high as two feet and plenty of it.
The Innoko river Indians are tall
and able-bodied. The women are tall
and clean looking. They wear dresses
that come half way below the knee and
carry their babies in their arms, like a
white woman, and not on their backs.
We went up the Innoko 250 miles to a
place called Diskaket, where we landed
Max Simel and eighty tons of freight,
consisting of groceries, stoves, etc.
He is starting a store at this piace.
There were several white men and
one white woman waiting for an outfit
for the diggings. We met several
outfits turning back, having got cold
feet, and some going in. They will
no doubt give the country a black
eye. We got some very encouraging
reports from the creeks, and several of
the boys left the steamer at this place.
We had several passengers on board
going in, who have been in the country
before. They are men with money
and know what they are going up
against. We have two of the boys
who have just come down. They are
going down to North Point for a boat
and outfit they had cached and then
back to the diggings again. They re
port that you can get surface colors on
any of the creeks, and which have
never had a hole punched to bedrock
on them. It is all shallow diggings.
A report was received at Diskaket
that the creeks near Simel City are
turning out well. Two Japs are kept
busy baking bread for the men on the
creeks. Simel City is 500 miles from
the Yukon, with good water. There
are about 1000 men in the country.
We are now bound up the Yukon for
Nulato, and then up the Koyukuk for
Betties.
ALEUTIANPEAKS
AGAIN ERUPTING
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 11—Steamer Victoria,
arriving today from Nome, reports
that several peaks of the Aleutian
islands are in eruption, throwing out
volumes of smoke and ashes.
BOTH CAPTAINS BLAMED
FOR COLUMBIA WRECK
San Francisco, Sept. 9—Capt. Doran,
master of the Columbia, who went
down with the steamer, is censured by
the findings of the marine board upon
the investigation of the wreck, for run
ning too fast in the fog, and the license
of Capt. Hansen, master of the San
Pedro, is suspended for a year.
. U. S. Commissioner Slaneof Wrangel
has decided that the town must have
dry Sundays hereafter.
William Bell of Dawson bit a car
tridge and is dead.