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SECRETARY TAFT
SAILS FOR HOME
Discusses Chinese Boycott and Says
it has Already Cost Merchants |
$15,000,000
By Cable to the Gateway
Yokohama. Sept. 18-Secretary (f
War Taft and party sailed today fr
San Francisco. He was given :i cordi-i
al farewell by all officials in theJapai
ese service at this port, and many
prominent officials of the imperial Jaj
anese government at Tokyo came to |
Yokohama to bid him farewell. The]
populace were lined up on the bund in ,
thousands as he departed in a tug lor*
the Pacific Mail liner in waiting out in
the harbor. They gave him round af
ter round of benzais.
In an interview jusf before leaving |
Secretary Taft said be had carefully ;
investigated the Chinese boycott of
American goods and had learned that (
it had so far resulted ir a loss of *b>.- j
000,000 to Chinese merchants who had !
ordered goods from American mer-.
chants and manufacturers before the
beginning of the boycott and were now .
unable to dispose ot the goods at any
price. The Secretary regards the boy- :
oott as a serious matter to American |
trade, but expressed the belief that it
is being overcome by the united action
of the Chinese government and the '
mercantile classes. He found, howev
er, that the boycott has much sym
pathy among some influential officials,
and that a large part of the merchants '
lent it their active aid.
Secretary Taft is due in San Fran
cisco Sept. :>0.
CONFIRM YENTN A STRI KE j
Recent Arrivals from Camp Bring
Down Gold Dust
The reports of the big placer strike
on the Yentna river brought in last
month by men who worked there during
the summer and came down to Cook
inlet recently to outfit for the winter,
have been confirmed by later arrivals.
Accounts have come to Seward from
Cook inlet points of other men who
have arrived there with dust from the
camp.
On the Excelsior, bound for Seattle
was one of the earliest miners in the
camp. Tnis was John Anderson, who
carried with him $3,000 in dust which
he and his partner had taken out since
last spring. They had made about $20
a day. They will take back with them
when Anderson returns from Seattle,
a complete outfit to last them a year.
The camp is about 120 miles from
Knik Arm. Boats can go up the
Susitna and Yentna to within about !
thirteen miles of the strike. From
there the trail must be taken.
Skagway,s municipal debt has been
reduced to $405 >, and the town owns
its water works.
BIG COPPER STRIKE i
NORTH Of _ j_ ]
News of a rich copper strike fifty miles north ol Knik reached Seward to
day in a letter from Phil Hickey, who has several parties out prospecting in
the Knik and Talkeetna mountains. Mr. Hickey is associated with J. D. bar
pel I of Seattle and other capitalists. One of their parties has been prospecting
all summer in the country north of Knik Arm, trying to locate the origin of
very high grade copper float found in several of the streams thereabout.
The letter from Mr. Hickey announcing the strike is to a business associate
in Seward. The details of the strike and the exact location of the vein are not
given. The letter simply states that it is fifty miles north of Knik.
The chief importance of the strike is its confirmation of tne theory held by
many prospectors that a copper belt extends northward from La louche and
Seward through the Kenai peninsula, the Knik mountains, the iulkeetn.i
mountains and the Alaskan range, for a distance of several hundred miles.
Popper lloat of a high grade has for several years been found in many of
the streams of that territory. When the float has been traced to its source,
the ore bodies have in every case developed into rich mines, the La louche
mine, forty miles east of Seward, is said to have I0,00.t,().)0 tons of ore in sight,
some of it running as hign as 28 per cent copper. The average of us ore ship
ped to the Tacoma smelter, including much of the country, rock runs !».<> per
cent, yielding a net profit of 820 per ton.
This summer two copper ledges have been discovered on the eastern side
of Resurrection hay. one near tne entrance and the other directly opposite
Seward. Tests have proven them to he essentially the same grade or copper as
the La Touche.
Tne striking of the ore body at the Ready Bullion mine, fifty miles noiih
of Seward, six weeks ago, was an important step in further establishing the ex
tent and direction of tlie ore belt. The Ready Bullion ore assays as high as
28 per cent and the average of tlie four foot vein seems to bold up to about 17
per cent.
The Ready Bullion ore, the ore from the two veins discovered on Resur
rection bay and the La Touche ore are so much alike in all essentials that only
an expert could detect the difference, if any exists.
The lloat found for tire last three %\eats in tlie streams north ot Knik Arm
is identically ihe same as the lloat which led to the discoveries of the,La
Touche, the Resurrection properties and ihe Ready Bullion. It is theivfoie
accepted bv copper prospectors now in Reward that ihe new strike north of
Knik is of the same quality as the others. It is the highest grade of siliceous
ore known.
Only last week copper float was found in a creek near mile 41 bv giadeis
on tlie Alaska Central. A score or more of prospectors aie now searching fot
tiie outcropping from which tlie tloat came. Copper lloat has also been lound
during the summer in several streams flowing into the north side of 1 urnagain
Arm.
Experienced copper prospectors familiar with the whole field express the be
lief that within a lew years he ward will be the center ol the richest arid most
extensive copper mining and smelting industry in either hemisphere. Ihe
abundance of siliceous ores in close proximity to the high grade coking coal
of the Maianuska valley, with the Alaska Central Railway traversing the coal
and copper belts and connecting them with tide water, produces a combination
of favorable circumstances unknown to any other copper district.
Find Body of Slain Ho.nais
By Cable to Ihe Gateway
New York, Sept. 18—The body of a
young woman found Saturday night
under a tree known as ihe "Haunted .
oak,” on Pelham road, has been identi
fied as that of Augusta P. Pleiffer. A
haekdriver named Joseph Girard has
been arrested charged with complicity
n the murder. He was* known to have
driven in that directfon Saturday
night, and blood stains were found on
the cushions of his hack. The woman
was killed with a knife and her cloth-1
•ing was saturated with blocd.
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Household goods of all kinds for sale
at a great sacrifice above Dr. Sleem’s
office. *
fast Work on Sidewalk
Fast work has been done on t he plank
sidewalk on Fifth avenue. Work start
ed Saturday at the corrugated iron
building near Washington street and
this evening it was laid to Adams
street. It is six feet wide and of heavy
planking.
For the best and cheapest recreation
in Seward, subscribe to Richards1 up
to-date library. Only 50c per month
to read as many books as you wish.
New books arrive on every boat.
W. M. Sauers and E. P. Whipple re
turned from their moose hunt Saturday
night. __
Temperature at 2 p. m. today—58
REVENUE CUEEER
SKEEES POACHER
Canadian Boat Riddles American
Vuj oa Lake Erie and Escapes
Across Boundary.
By Cable to the Gateway
Erie, lJa., Sept. 18.—In the middle
of Lake Erie today the Canadian
revenue cutter Vigilant riddled the
American tug Harry C. Barnhurst with
small shells, then turned and ran at
full speed until she safely crossed the
boundary. The tug had been poaching
in Canadian waters, and when over
taken by the Canadian cutter was doing
her best to get hack to the American
.>ide. The tug was badly crippled.
What the iuiernatioa.il oo npacauoas
will be is only surmise. If tne cutter
mid caugnt tne tug in Canadian waters
in tiie act of poaching she would have
had the right to siim or capture tne
intruder, but as the snots were lired
near the line, there may be resulting
complications of a serious nature.
RUN SHORT ON RATIONS
American Soldiers Get Hungry
In Canadian Territory
By Cable to the Gitewey
Dawson, Y. T., Sept., 18.—Twenty
one American soldiers en route Iron
Fort William ll. Se ward 10 Fort Gio > m
are caught in Canadian territory s 1 >ri
of provisions. Toe n>its at Wane
Horse did not mike ciose connexions
with the train, and ot oer delays u n ore
seen held up the boat on us wnj d o
the river with the soldiers on hoard
until their rations issued before the
start were entirely consumed.
Lieutenant Sclnnidt in charge of the
detachment is feeding tnem here at a
restaurant and has wired Washington
forauthority to continue boarding them
at special rates until Fort Gibbon is
! reached.
RUN EXCURSION TRAIN
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Sight Seers Taken out to View
Progress of Track Laying
A special train was run out over the
railroad track to Johnson creek yester
day afternoon, taking an excursion
j party under escort of Engineer Camer
on and Maj. Ballaine to see the road.
The run was made in less than live
hours, with a stop for lunch and sever
al other stops at various points.
Track-laying was resumed yesterday
and the rails were laid across the
bridge at the upper end of Second
Trail iake and some distance beyond.
Tne track will be pushed several miles
this week until it reaches a point
1 where the grade is not complete. Be
fore the end of October steel will be
laid to mile 45.
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