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VOL. 4 SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 3. 1908 MO. 24
REPORT OF SALE
IS CONFIRMED
Hubbard-Clliott Property Will Be
Taken Over bv New Own
w
ers and Developed.
*iy Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Valdez, Sept. 3—Charles Hubbard
was a passenger on the steamer Bertha
which arrived here yesterday. He
states that the reported sale of the
Hubbard-EUiott copper property to L.
Hirsch >.v Company of London is au
thentic. and that the new owners will
at once begin measures for the devel
opment of their new property.
No Further Word
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Valdez, Sept. 3— No further word
has been received here concerning the
removal fom olllce of United States
Marshal Ferry.
The Reynolds matter remains in
statu quo.
Treadwell Not Guilty
py Cable to The Dally Gateway.
San Francisco, Sept. 3—'Treadwell
has been acquitted. He was one of
the men connected with the California
Safe Deposit Bank which became de
funct through the dishonesty of its of
ficials. Treadwell had been held for
perjury in connection with the trial of
those who were responsible for the
bank's failure.
To Aleet Frost Party
A. H. Wheatley, George Winter and
George Wing started on a car this
morning to go out along the Alaska
Central with the expectation of meet
ing some of the Frost party on their
return from the Matanuska coal fields.
Off for the Susitna
A. C. Huelidonk and J. L. Hosfeld
started over the trail this morning
from Seward to go into the Susitna
country. Mr. Hosfeld is interested in
the property held by the Barthoif
brothers.
DAILY WEATHEK UEPORT
Temperature at 2pm. 60
Maximum since midnight. 60
Minimum since midnight.48
Barometer at 2 p. m.20,86
Part cloudy.
, Notice
Coal in ton lots $15.
J. A. Laubner, Agent.
The McKinley House, Fifth avenue,
board and lodging $1.00 per day. *
The best of everything to eat or
drink at The Palace. *
Cigars and tobaccoes at the Seward
Drug Co. *
Meet me at the Branch *
RUNS AMUCK
UN EXCHANGE
Crank fires Three Shots Reck
lessly and Members Duck
for Cover-No One Hit.
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By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
London, Sept. 3 -Great excitement
and confusion reigned in the stock ex
change for a* short time this forenoon,
when an unknown man, evidently a
crank, tired three shots in succession
among the members of the exchange.
There was a general scurrying* for
cover before the police succeeded in
seizing and disarming the crank. The
| shots went wild and no one was
j hit.
Burns Knocks out Lang
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Melbourne, Sept. 3—A prize fight
was pulled oil’ here last night between
Tommy Burns and Billy Lang. It was
a close contest at first, and Burns was j
knocked down in the second round.
But in the sixth round Burns knocked
Lang out.
Arrives Safely
"'iv Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Honolulu, Sept. 3—The Pacific fleet
arrived here yesterday in good condi
tion towing the torpedo boats.
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Danger From Above
Every new invention appears to car
ry with it some new danger. Scarce
has the ordinary pedestrian accustom
| ed himself to dodging street cars and
automobiles than he is warned to be
on the lookout for a rain of missels
from airships racing above the clouds.
Legislators who have not yet recover
| ed from the task of perfecting meas
ures for protection against surface dan
gers, are now called upon to look up
j wards and devise measures for protec
! tion from above.—Toronto Star.
| SEWARD STEAMERS
Bertha; sailed from Valdez at 10
I o’clock last night.
Pennsylvania; sailed from Seattle 31.
Dora; sailed for Unalaska 18th.
Portland; sailed for Seattle 24th.
Santa Clara; sailed for Seattle 27th.
Yucatan; sailed.for Seattle 2nd.
Meet me at the Branch. *
SALESMEN & AGENTS—$$$50.00
per week and over can be made selling
New Campaign Novelties from now
until election. Sells to Stores, County
Fairs, Picnics and Private Families.
Comolete line of samples, charges
prepaid for 50 c. Order today.
CHICAGO NOVELTY CO.,
60 Wabash Ave., Chicago.
You can get anything in the drug
line at the Seward Drug Co. *
Window Shades at Hofman’s. *
ALASKA MAKES GOOD SHOWING
Government Reports on Stock
Raising and Agricultural
Products in the North.
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Cattle raising, and farming are be
yond the experimental stage in Alaska,
according to C. C. Georgenson, special
agent of the agricultural department
at Washington, who has for several
years been in charge of the depart
ment’s work in Alaska, and whose an
nual rej>ort has just been issued.
It deals with the experiment of rais
ing cattle in Alaska. The work was
started in 190b at Kenai, by the pur
chase of two bulls and nine cows, all
selected Galloways. This herd has
grown to three bulls twenty-seven
cows and twenty calves, and the ani
mals are in the best of health. While
considered a beef animal, the Gallo
ways are being bred with a view to
producing good milkers, and the suc
cess in selecting good milkers to in
crease the dairy value ot the herd has
been marked.
Progress at the C. H. Frye ranch,
Kodiak, has been the most successful
this year of any year since the work
began. There are about fifty acres of
land now in tame grass, most of which
is sown to timothy. Five hundred tons
of silage and eighty tons of hay were
put up this season for the winter feed,
the silage at a cost of about $1 a ton,
while the hay was more expensive.
There are now 178 head of cattle on
the ranch. The cattle fattened by
midsummer and held their flesh well.
The range consists of low-lying hills
and beach land, which affords splendid
pasture of native grasses.
The sheep, of which there are 124
head, are perhaps the best paying in
vestment on the ranch. They require
little attention and but little feed the
year round. The breeding flock in
creased over 100 per cent, the past
season.
Copper River Section
Extensive experiments have been
carried on for five years at Copper
Center in the Copper river valley with
cereals and the station reports that
Early Riga and Velvet Chaff wheat
all matured last year. All the barleys
matured, but the most promising va
riety is Pamir, a seed which came from
high up on the Himilaya mountains
and which was secured by the govern
ment. Finnish Black oats proved the
most desirable oats and, although oth
er varieties matured, this especial oat
is beyond all question, Mr. Georgenson
savs, the best for Alaska. Of the
winter grain Amber winter rye ma
tured, but Kharkov, a Russian winter
wheat was winter-killed owing to an
insufficient snow-fall. Oats sown for
hay matured August 18. It made a
heavy, excellent feed. On account of
forty varieties of grasses being experi
mented with, nothing has been deter
mined as to which is the best, a num
ber of well known varieties being win
ter-killed on account of the thin
blanket of snow. The temperature
drops to 50 below in the valley.
Farming Above the Arctic Circle
One of the most interesting features
of Mr Georgenson’sreport is the letters
sent by men who had received govern
ment seeds and who had been garden
ing with the seeds. The most interest
ing of all comes from Frank Howard,
commissioner at Coldfoot, on the Koy
ukuk, in latitude 07:15, far above the
Arctic circle. Mr. Howard says:
“My whole garden was unusually
successful during the season of 1907.
The reason for such was a prolonged
period of clear warm days and nights,
I could say a period of continuous day
with almost continuous sunshine dur
ing June and July, with no cloudy
weather and frosty nights. I trans
planted cucumbers to open garden the
first week in June. The result was
much better than I expected, with
cucumbers six and seven inches in
length.
“We had a line bed of rhubarb in a
board inclosure. The turnips grown
are Orange Jelly or Robertson Golden
Ball, Yellow Aberdeen and Yellow or
Amber Globe, one specimen weighing
nine pounds eleven ounces. Early
summer cabbage and Early Jersey
Wakefield were grown. The best
Early Summer weighed nearly eight
pounds. Cauliflower and broccoli also
(Continued on page 2)
I Notice of Application for U. S. Patent.
No. 07.
U. S. Land Office. Juueau, Alaska, July 8,1908.
Notice is hereby given that Louis Green
bauir, whose post office address is San Francis
co, California, by C. a. Fletcher, his attorney in
fact, has made application for a United States
Patent for the Empire Lode, being Mineral Sur
vey No. 29!. and situated in the Unga Mining
District, Alaska, aud more particularly des
cribed as follows:
Beginning at coiner No. 1, at intersecticn of
N. E. end line and lode line identical with cor
ner No. 5 of survey No. 290. mouth of tunnel
No. 1 bears south 74 deg. 45 min. west 555
feet, mouth of tunnel No. 2 bears south 67 deg.
30 min. west 850 feet, mouth of tunnel No. 3
bears south 66 deg. 15 min. west 890 feet,
whence U. S. Mineral Monument No. 2 bears
south II deg. 50 min, west 241 feet distant;
thence south 47 deg. 30 min. east 300 feet to
corner No. 2. identical with corner No. 2 ot
survey No. 290; thence south 56 deg, 30 min.
west 1500 feet to corner No. 3; thence north
47 deg. 30 min. west 115 feet cross creek 300
feet to corner no. 4 at intersection of lode line
500 feet cross small creek 600 feet to corner
no, 5; thence north 56 deg. 30 min. cast 1500
feet to corner no. 6 identical with corner no. 6
of survey no. 290; thence south 47 deg. 30 min.
east 300 feet to corner no, 1, the place of begin
ning.
Area, 20.04 acres.
Magnetic variation, 20 deg. 30 min, east,
The notice of location of said Empire Lode is
of record in the office of the Recorder of the
Unga Mining district at Unga Island. Alaska,
in Mining Record A, at page 29.
The adjoining claims are as follows; On the
northeast, the Little Joker claim, Louis Green
baum claimant, survey No. 290; on the south
west the Alaska Mine, Louis Greenbaum. claim
ant, and on all other sides there is vacant
ground. . . , ,
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
mining ground, vein, lode or premises, or any
portion thereof so described, surveyed, platted
and applied for. are hereby notitied that unless
their adverse claims are duly filed according to
law and the regulations thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law, with the Register and
Receiver of the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, they will be barred by virtue
of the provisions of the statute.
JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
It is hereby ordered that the forego
ing notice be published for the statutory
period in the Seward Gateway, a dally
newspaper printed at Seward, Alaska.
JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
Date of first publication, July 29,1908.
Date of last publication, Oct. 7,1908.