DAILY GATEWAY
VOL. I SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY EN EYING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1005_N<)‘
ENVOYS AGREE
TO ARMISTICE
Mikado Approves Treaty and Peace
Representatives Allow end of
Hostilities.
Portsmouth, N.FL, Sept. 1 —'The
mikado agreed to the peace treaty to
day and the Japanese peace plenipoten
tiaries this afternoon promised to sign
an agreement for an immediate armis
tice, after holding out against it for
several days.
The Russian envoys have been in
sisting ever since the terms of the
peace treaty were agreed upon that an
armistice should go into effect at once,
and that was the outside understand
ing the day the treaty was settled.
The Japanese envoys then insisted
that there should he no armistice un
til the governments of both nations
should formally approve the treaty.
This gave rise to a fear that a battle
might be fought before an armistice
could he signed. The Japanese envoys
gave in today when the news was re
eeived that the mikado had approved
the treaty.
Printers Strike for Eight Hours
Chicago. Sept. 1—The printers of
this city have ordered a strike for an
eight hour day. Many of them have
already gone out and the rest are ex
pected to follow within a few days. The
employers positively refused to accede
to the demand and the strike was or
dered after a long period of negotiat
ions.
Indian Boy Murders Girl
Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 1—An Indian
boy 16 years old murdered an Indian
girl of 14 on a ranch 160 miles north of
here last Saturday. The boy has been
arrested.
Ten Killed In Explosion
McKeesport, Pa., Sept. 1—Ten men
were killed and many others seriously
injured in an explosion in the plant of i
the National Tube Work this morning.
The property damage was $100,000.
Tommy Ryan To fight Burns
Sun Francisco, Sept. 1—Tommy Ryan
has agreed to fight Tommy Burns in
San Francisco at middle weight limit.
The date and terms are not yet fixed.
Earthquake Shakes The Town
One of Seward's intermittent but
harmless earthquakes shook up the
town for a few seconds about 11 o'clock
this morning, it was an unusually
heavy jar but nothing broke loose and
everybody went right along working.
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Until the close of the Portland ex
position, October 15, the Alaska Com
mercial Ci rnpany will sell round trip
tickets to Seattle for $70. *
Subscribers to the Daily Gateway
who fail ti receive the paper will please
notify the office at once.
CHOLERA BREAKS
Oil IN PRUSSIA
Several Localities Affected and Au
thorities Establish Rigid
Quarantine.
Berlin, Sept. 1—Cholera in a viru
lent form has broken out in several lo
calities in Prussia. Several deaths
have already occurred and new cases
are constantly reported.
Vigorous repressive measures have
been ordered and a rigid quarantine
established against the infected dis
tricts.
Depew Makes Explanations
New York, Sept. 1—Paul Morton,
the president of the Equitable Lite
Assurance Company, says that Senator
Depew has made satisfactory explana
tions acquitting himself of connection
with the questionable deals with the j
company's money with which his name j
has been associated.
ALL OFF WITH BIG GAME
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Platoons of Hunters Start Out
Bent on slaughter
It is all off with the big game unless
the animals have kept tab on the open
season law and taken to the remote
hills before September 1. Several part
ies of hunters started out this morning
for the stamping grounds of the moose,
caribou, deer, sheep and mountain goat.
Some of them had previously sent
scouts ahead to stalk the intended vic
tims in their pastures.
The tine weather which usually pre
vails in this region throughout Sep
tember makes it a paradise for hunters
during the* first few weeks of the open
season, which continues until liic end
of the vear. The big game as well as j
wild fowl are in the best condition at
this time and if any of the hunters can
shoot straight Seward will soon be liv
ing on duck and venison.
Track Laid To Miie 30
Track is laid on the Alaska Central
to mile 30. This report was received
last night. Within live or six days it
will be laid to the end of mile 33. There
it will stop for a few weeks until a
trestle on mile 34 can be finished,when
the work of laying rails will commence j
again and continue steadily until the
track is complete to the first tunnel,on
mile 49.
Sawmill Nearly Equipped
The machinery is nearly installed in
the Alaska Central’s new saw mill at
the head of the bay, and it will be ready
for operation before the end of next
week.
Postoffice Inspector Chun reports
that the Fairbanks postoffice will be
entitled to be placed in the president
ial class in October.
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single copies 5 cents.
Temperature at 2 p. to. today—-55.
BISHOP POTTER
CLOSES SALOON
Eminent Episcopal Divine Admits
That Temperance Bar was not
a Success.
New York, Sept. 1—Bishop Henry
Codman Potter’s so-called temperance
saloon closed last night, partly from
want of patronage and partly because
it failed to meet the expectations of its
founder.
Bishop Potter is one of the most
noted Episcopal divines in the world.
When he opened his temperance saloon
nearly a year ago he was assailed with
much violent criticism from temper
ance people, and much ridicule from
all others. His avowed object was to
furnish a place where workingmen
could drink small beer free from the
associations of low dives. It had a read
ing room at tached and made a specialty
of soft drinks.
DOG MAKES LONG TRIP
Mushes by Himself from Fair
banks to His Whitehorse Home
The Whitehorse Star relates the fol
lowing clog story, without un affidavit!
Last winter W. i\ Grainger disposed
of a team of six dogs to a musher who
drove them to Fairbanks. Yesterday
on visiting the Copper King mine, at
which place three of the dogs were
raised, the former owner was surprised
to find one of the young dogs, the ani
mal having found its way back over an
untrodden country of 400 miles in ex
tent with no compass or guide save
that of instinct.
The dog would not, in his present
condition, appeal to a sausage maker,
as he is thin almost to cadaverousness,
having had to live by hunting on the
long journey.
Grainger brought the dog to town
n r
yesterday evening and will put him in
condition to tempt some other Tanana
musher the coming winter.
Thomas Mahoney Very III
Thomas Mahoney, one of the oldest
employes of the Alaska Central, is very
ill of fever in the hospital. He has
been there a weeK and his condition
has not improved.
John Cavana, conductor of train No.
2 on the Alaska Central, while helping
to load wood out on the line yesterday
stopped a stick with the side of his face.
A bad gash was the result, but he was
fixed up by Dr. Burns and went out on
the run as usual today.
It is claimed that there are now
about 12,000 reindeer on Seward pen
insula and that they are rapidly in
creasing in number. It is also assert
ed that the Eskimo, for whose benefit
the reindeer were introduced, are also
multiplying.___
The first snow of the season showed
upon the tops of the high peaks ad
joining Seward yesterday morning.
FEVER SPREADS
ON PLANTATIONS
Sixty new Cases of Yellow Jack Re
ported in Country Districts
Near New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 1—Sixty new
cases of yellow fever are reported from
plantations near this city. New ones
are found every day and there seems
to he a disposition to try to conceal
their existence.
In this city the status of the plague
remains about the same. The number
of deaths and new cases varies little
from week to week.
Portland Loses $100,000 By Lire
Portland, Sept. 1—-A fire in the man
ufacturing district of this city this
morning destroyed property worth
$100,000.
It is reported that Colonel Russell,
superintendent of the Alaska Chief
mining company at Nome, has uncov
ered a ledge of rich galena ore twelve
feet wide on one of the properties of
the Alaska Chief mining company.
This claim is on Lost river and was
worked all last winter. The ore is 72
per cent lead and carried M ounces ol
silver to the ton.
The Dominion government has made
arrangements to have Hellgate, on the
Yukon, deepened and improved for the
purpose of navigation. Ten thousand
dollars will he spent on the place un
der the direction of Gov. Mclnnes. The
work will be begun at once.
A new placer gold strike has been
made in th^ Atlin district. it is on
Lincoln creek, in the Teslin division
of the district, and forty-live miles
north-easterly from Atlin.
Capt. Newth of the whaler Jeanette,
is accused by the papers of Nome of
attempting to abduct two Indian girls,
aged !) and 13 years respectively, from
that place.
A ledge of gold-bearing ore was dis
covered recently in the Sawtooth range
near t he headwaters of Feather rivet
15 miles from the coast.
The agricultural department will
send a corps of experts to Alaska this
year and next to test tlie soil of the
country.
Douglas has a population of 1542; Ju
neau, 1338: Skagway, 1101; Treadwell.
646, Ketchikan 1260.
Ike Thompson, who lias been pros
pecting in the Portland canal district
reports a rich strike. He found a lead
two feet wide which runs 500 ounces in
silver, on Glacier creek, six miles up
, Bear river.
Of the twelve Alaska Indians who are
in the United States penitentiary at
McNeil’s island, ten are dying* of con
; sumption and two have other diseases.
They cannot become acclimated.