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HUNT SUCCESSOR
TO WICKERSHAM
President and Attorney-General
Unable so l ar to Pick
Suitable Man.
REED 01 OKLAHOMA IN RACE
Roosevelt Anxious That New Judge
Shall Be as Strong a figure
as Present One.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. D. C'.. Oct, 31 Presi
dent Roosevelt has reached no conclu
sion concerning a successor to Judjje
Wickershatn of Alaska. He is anxious
to ^et a man as >troujr as \\ ickersham
for the place. S. FT. Reed of Oklaho
ma is strongly uro-eil. The president
and Attorney-General Bonaparte "ill
try to a*ftve on a man within a few
days.
VALDEZ CREEK
A BONANZA
Pete Monahan of Valdez Discov
ers Rich Pay Streak at
Head of Susltna.
By Cable t The Dally Gateway.
Y’alde*/, Nov. 1 -Thomas Meridith
arrived from \ aide/, creek yesterday
and reported that IVte Monohan has
recently discovered tin* richest placet
diggings iti Alaska. 1 he fy streak
is forty fret wide and extends for
several claim lengths, and pans from
one to three dollars to the pan.
Mr. Mmidith will return in a short
time with a large outfit and several
men. There will he a stampede then
this winter from all directions.
Monohan has hern working on Val
dez creek for the past four years, and
although it has been very expensive to
get provisions to his property, yet he
has each year brought out a large
amount of gold above expenses, and
has always predicted that some day
the Valdez creek district would prove
one of the richest in Alaska.
TO INVESTIGATE
REYNOLDS CASE
State of Massachusetts Will Con- j
duct Legal Inquiry
Into Failure.
Special to The Daily Gateway.
Boston, Oct. -The state of Mass-[
achusetts will investigate the Reynolds
failure, as required by law. It, is tie- !
nied here that Kx-Gov. Brady is bank-j
rupt and the charge is made that both
he and Reynolds are holding out cor-;
porate funds, belonging to the Rev- j
nolds-Alaska Development Company. |
ALASKA TRADE i
STILL GROWING
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, l>. C., Oct. 30- Not
withstanding the falling off in the gold
output of Alaska because of labor
troubles, the calendar year will show
an increase of 5 per cent in the busi
ness of the territory, according to
present figures of imports and exports.
The last steamer sailed up the river
from Fairbanks September 21.
MONEY MARKET
STEADIES DOWN
New York and Other Cities Issue
Clearinghouse Certificates
to Tide Over.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
New York. Oct. -s -The financial
condition is cleared up considerably
here today by the issuance of clearing
house certificates. There were only
two small failures of financial houses
today.
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St. l.ouis Issues Certificates
st. Louis. Oct. 28- The city clear
inghouse banks adopted the system of
clearinghouse certificates during the
financial st r i n ge ncy.
Nevada Banks Reoqen
Reno, Nev., Oct. 28—The suspended
Nevada banks all reopened today.
Chicago Banks Solid
Chicago, Oct. 29 No damage was
done by the runs on several Chicago
banks yesterday afternoon. The Hi
U-rnia bank is solid in spite of a heavy
withdrawal of deposits.
Says Trouble Is Over
Washington, l>. C., out. 29 Secre
aty Cortelyou returned from New
York today and states that the money
panic is ended.
(iold Coming Across Sea
New York. Oct. itO—Gold is arriving
here from London. Shipments were
ordered when the money panic started.
WOULD CURTAIL
STOCK DEALS
Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
New York. Oct. -’!* One result of
tie- rt cent panic is the revival of de
mand for the enactment of a law I
making deals in futures on the stork
exchange illegal. It is claimed that
nearh all money panics originate from
squeeze* resulting from dealings in
futures and selling short.
BIG JUDGMENT
AGAINST CLARK
Son of United States Senator
Looses Millions to Mex
ican Company.
By Cable to Tbe Daiiv Gateway.
Helena, Mont. Nov. 1 Judgment
was yesterday given in the United
States Court in favor of the Mexican
Mining Company against Charles
ClarK, son of Senator Clark, for three
million dollars for selling them fraudu
lent transfer of mining stock.
RAISE CATTLE
ON PENINSULA
Cattle are raised in considerable
numbers on the Shumigin island far
ther to the westward. On her east
bound trips the steamer Dora gets a
regularsupplv of tine beef at Coal Har
bor, where Mr. Tibbey has a small
herd of cattle.
On Unga and adjoining islands peo
ple feed native hay or silage for from
three to five months of the year, but
on islands farther from the mainland
cattle are doing well without being
fed or sheltered from one year’s end
to another.
Good placer strikes were made on
the Koggiung river, in the Bristol bay
country, last summer.
PLANNING WOKK
OF CONVENTION
Seattle Alaskans Begin Usual
Stunt of Framing up Ter
ritorial Affairs.
NOME AND FAIRBANKS BUSY
Delegates From Those Districts
Think They Will Be Able to
Control Juneau Meeting.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Oct. 30 —All indications
point to control of the Alaska republi
can convention at Juneau by the dele
gations from Nome and Fairbanks. It
is understood that Delegate ( ale will
be indorsed. The Nome delegates will
hold a caucus here as soon as the
Victoria and I'matilla arrive. Most
of the Nome delegates will be on those
two steamers.
PERKINS-RYAN
BOOM LAUNCHED
By Cable to Tbe Dmly Gateway.
Seattle, Nov. 1 The Nome delegates
to the republican convention at Juneau
now in this city are unanimous for
home rule for Alaska. They have de
signed a button to ho worn hv all those
favoring home rule and these buttons
can he seen on the lapel of many a
coat.
i ul. \V. T, I 'v . Kini v»f -In*, v,ilK.l
caucus which met last night and t!u*
I’erkins and Kyan delegates fell in
line and launched a boom for the na
tional convention. Only real bonitide
Alu>kans will he allowed to be dele
gates to the national convention if the
Nome delegates have their way in the
Juneau convention.
The delegates now in this city will
leave for Juneau on the 8th.
ENDORSE CALE’S
RE-NOMINATION
,jy c*t i)l<* to TUe Daily Gateway.
Seattle. Nov. 2 -The Nome dele
gates to the Alaska republican con
vention to be held Jit Juneau, and
other Alaskans in Seattle are holding
numerous caucuses. I’racticjilly all the
Alaskans here are unanimously in
favor of the renominution of Thomas
(’ale for reelection as delegate to
Congress. Cale is popular with all
classes in Alaska, and especially with
the miners and prospectors, and is a
general favorite in Seattle.
VALDEZ ROASTS
GOV. HOGGATT
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Valdez. Oct. 28—The republican
caucus Saturday night to elect dele
gatestothe territorial convention at
Juneau resolutions were adopted
strongly criticising the course of Gov.
Hoggatt in his attempted management
of the railroad troubles here. Violent
speeches were made denouncing the
governor and insisting upon a demand
for his removal.
The grievance against Gov. Hog
gatt is that he is charged with acting
here simply as a Guggenheim agent.
He is accused of attempting interfer
ence with the preliminary hearing of
Hasey, Hazelet and Dickson for the
shooting in Keystone canyon which re
sulted fatally to one man. It is claimed
that the governor tried to secure wit
nesses to prove that the Reynolds men
in reality started a riot and that the
Guggenheim men acted in self-de
fense.
SLIDE
BURIES CITY
Rarthquake Causes Mountain to
Rail and Buries Entire
Population of 15,000.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Tashkent!, Russian Turkestan, Oct.
30—Fifteen thousand people, the en
tire population of the city of Karatagh,
were buried alive this morning under
a mountain slide which followed an
earthquake. Only meager informa
tion has been received but it is stated
that only two persons escaped alive.
Confirms Report
Washington, I). C., Oct. 30—Infor
mation received by the state depart
ment this afternoon contirms the re
port of the destruction of the city of
Karatagh in Turkestan and the death
of 15,000 people.
CLOUDBURST
WIPES OUT CITY
Heavy Rains Cause Mountain to
Slide on Mexican Town and
Many Lives Lost.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
San Francisco. Nov. 2—Steamers ar- !
riving here this morning from Mexico ;
bring tlie news that the city of San |
Jose Del Cabo was almost entirely de
ilnninif a po*ont <,loUdl»U‘,>-* •
Tl»e city is situated near a mountain
and the cloudburst caused a thrrilic
land slide which covered most jf the
city killing scores of people and de
stroying many buildings.
FLAMES DESTROY
CHICAGO HOTEL
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Pla/a Burns and five Hundred
Guests Driven Out With
Only Night Clothes.
3y Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Chicago, Nov. 2—At 4 o'clock this;
morning lire was discovered in tlie j
l’la/a Hotel by one of the night watch-;
men but had gained such headway that
the building was soon enveloped in
flames. There were five hundred
guests in the hotel at the time and
they were compelled to flee in
their night clothes, not having time to
dress. Valuables and everything were
left behind. There were many nar
row escapes from death, and several
were injured, but by the heroic work
of the firemen, there was no fatalities.
The origin of the fire is not known.
AWFUL FAMINE
STALKS IN INDIA
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Simla, India, Nov. 2-A greater
famine than that of 1899 is threatened
throughout India this year. The crops
in a greater part of the country are a
failure, and this means that thousands
will die of starvation. The famine of
1899 was one of the most severe and
cruel ever known.
Calls at Prospect Bay
The Dora makes almost regular
trips to Prospect bay near Chignik,
the location of Warner’s new copper
tind. Numerous parties have been in
vestigating the field and some fine
samples of ore are shown by those re
turning from there.
Dt
OF NAVAL SITE
Capt. Pond of Cruiser Buffalo
Marks out 3350 Acres for
Coaling- Station.
BEGINS ABOVE LOWELL POINT
Report on Harbor facilities favora
ble and Location Depends
Only on Coal Supply.
The Gateway prints today a formal
notice designating the boundaries of
the proposed government coaling sta
tion on Resurrection bay. The tract
embraces 3350 acres and beginning
just north of Lowell Point on the west
shore of the bay, a little more than a
mile below Seward, lies in nearly rect
angular form along the water line.
The north and south extension is
about two miles and a half: the width
to the landward about two miles.
The report of Capt. Pond of the
cruiser Buffalo, who was charged with
the task of locating the coaling station,
though confidential until received by
the navy department, is undoubtedly
highly favorable to the site selected.
Whenever the Alaska Central rcacb.es
the coal fields the government coaling
station will Ik* a fixed fact. The Chic-rf
aloon coal has been shown by repeated
tests to be of as good grade as that
now used by the navy and the special
test to be made by the navy depart
ment next year cannot fail to confirm
previous reports. Fifty tons will he
delivered next Jnjv at Seldovia to a
govo» nrtiont vessel to m ..... r >»
examination. The arrangement has
already been made between the navy
department and the coal company.
The Buffalo sailed this morning at
5) o’clock for the south. She will go
first to l’uget Sound navy yard at
Bremerton, and will get orders inhere.
The Buffalo stayed at Seward just
forty days. She arrived in the bay
September JO. He rlong >ta.\ was due to
the incessantcloudv and rainy weather,
which interfered with the surveys for
the coaling station.
The Buffalo and her crew of l”o of
ficers and men furnished Seward with
the most strenuous round of social
pleasure since the first shipload of im
migrants landed on the beach. So
ciety has been nearly the whole thing
during the cruiser's stay and her offi
cer’s and men go away carrying tire
good will of everybody in town and
many warm personal friendships.
END OF TRACK
ON MILE 53
Alaska Central Rails Now Reach
to Bridge Between
Tunnels 2 and 3.
Track is laid on the Alaska Central
to the begining of mile 53, ending
at the truss bridge between tunnels
2 and 3. Mile 53 begins in tunnel 2.
This is all the track that will be laid
this fall as bridge work will be en
tirely suspended with the completion
of the truss aforesaid, which will be
Tvithi/i two or three days.
The work done last summer carried
the track over the long,' high trestle
and nearly to Placer valley. Across
the Hat tracklaying will be easy, and
as the grade is nearly finished the
rails can be laid very quickly in the
spring to mile 67 on Turnagain arm.
Steamer Jeanie Sails South
Steamer Jeanie returned from Sel
dovia and Kodiak Wednesday after
noon at 5 o’clock and sailed southward
Friday morning at 10. She was com
peted to lay here forty-one hours to
have some repairing done to her ma
chinery.