V()I fi SEWAIil), ALASKA, TIMJKSDAY EYEMN(E NOV EM HER Hs 1W3 NO. h.s
ALASKANS BUSY
WITH SCHEMES!
Convention Will let Brady Alone
But Big light on Delegate
is Promised.
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Nov. IB The opening ses
sion of the Alaska convention yesterday j
afternoon was brief. Sam Archer oi
Nome was elected temporary chairman. j
Albeit Kitz of Council was elected!
temporary secretary*. The convention
then adjourned until foliay on account
of the non-arrival of the delegates
from Southeastern Alaska. They came
in early this morning on the Dolphin.
The convention will meet again this
afternoon at - o'clock and etlect a per
manent organization. There will be a
big tight over proxies. The wrangling j
began yesterday. A majority of the j
delegates are inclined to decide that
onlv delegates shall be allowed to vote. ;
They may permit delegates to hold i
proxies, if this rule is adopted proxies
may have to be wired down from the j
territory to delegates, in cases where
the proxies are now held by non-mem
bers. I,
Will Let Brady 4!onc j <
At a caucus last night attended by i
many delegates it was decided not to
touch the question of condemning the
administration of Cow Brady, in view
of the fact that the national adminis
tration is now investigating him. It
is feared that a resolution by the con
vention on the subject might be con
strued as an insult to the President,
and might offend some senators at the |
national capital who are friends ot
Brady, and cause antagonism to other!
measures which Alaska wishes to have
passed by Congress. ,
Fairbanks and the rest of the Tanana
are making a desperate effort to induce
Southeastern Alaska to support Carl j
M. Johnson for Congress. If they are j
successful it means the defeat of Bich
ard Bvanof Nome, as the Tanana and
Southeastern Alaska combined have a
majority oi the delegates in the con
vention. The Tanana men held a
caucus last night and decided to favor
the choice of one delegate to Congress
it Southeastern Alaska would agree to
.side with them. The indications this
morning are that the combination will
be effected.
Trying to Split Opposition
A conference of Nome men with
Southeastern Alaska delegates this
morning after the latter had caucused, !
reveals the fact that Nome hopes that;
Southeastern Alaska will present a,
candidate of its own for delegate to
Congress, and that the Northwest will
secure the nomination of IT van as a re
sult of the three-cornered tight* after
splitting the Southeast and the Tanana.
A memorial to Congress asking that
the territory be allowed representation
in the national House will he passed
unanimously this afternoon. It will
also favor tin* Nome proposal that
mining claims he taxed $-•> a year in
stead of being held for $100 assessment
work, and that the proceeds he used j
in road construction. Indications are
that the session will continue several
da vs.
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J. Kask, a railroad laborer, made a 1
disturbance at the train this morning
bv wanting to ride out with a heavy
load of booze, it was decided not to
tax the engine's tracton capacity, and
he was invited to stay at home. He
refused, and nourished a knife and gun,
which were taken away from him by
lieorge Sexton, who with some assist
ance dragged him to jail to cool oiT.
MASSACRE JEWS
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Russian Disorders Continue and
General Strike Again Declared
by Workingmen.
By Cable to the Gateway
Bucharest, Nov. Iti —A terrible
massacre of Jews took place yesterday
throughout Bessarabia, evidently by j
concerted action. Thousands were,
killed or wounded. Rabbis and other
leaders of the race were dragged into |
the streets, their clothing soaked with
petroleum and tin4 victims burned in
the presence of multitudes. It is feared
that every Jew in the district will be
slaughtered before the end ot the*
month unless protection is given them.
Titlis, Nov. 1(> A party of 100 Anne-;
nian ruffians yesterday attacked tin*
Tartar village of ( ors, killing 400 of
the inhabitants. The village was
burned and houses plundered. I lie
massacre was still in progress when (
the report came.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 10 The work
ingmen’s delegates decided this morn
ing to declare a general strike through-1
nit Russia because of the sentence of
ieath against the mutinous sailors of
Kronstadt and the declaration of mar
tial law in Poland.
Vladivostok, Siberia, Nov. 10 Nearly
ill the garrison of this city and the
sailors and marines of the warships in
the harbor are in an attitude of mutiny.
Mob violence broke out again today
tnd troops are being rushed to the
H*ene from the army in Manchuria.
The government, however, fears that
when thee reach Vladivostok they will
join the mutineers.
The St. Petersburg government has
ordered messages explaining that the
•iituation is worse here to be held up,
ind it is difficult to get anything past
the censor. News messages are now
sent from outside the city. A state oi
war lias been declared in \ ladivostok.
To Favor Alaska Deleqate
By Cable to tho Gateway
Kl Paso, Texas, Nov. 1« The Amer
ican mining congress will probably
pass a resolution today favoring a ter
ritorial delegate to C ongress from
Alaska. There is no apparent opposi
tion to the resolution.
$anta Ana Sailed at Noon
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Nov. lb Steamer Santa Ana
sailed at noon today for Seward. Her
cargo includes liTA tons of steel rails
for the Alaska Central. She carries a
small number of passengers.
Steamer Dora is still due from the
westward. The warm weather is be
lieved to be generated by the current
of hot air from the conversation of the
men who are waiting for her at Sel
dovia.
The regular fortnightly dance of the
Seward dancing club will take place
tomorrow evening in Moore’s ball.
The music will start at D o’clock pre
cisely.
The Seward Electric Company an
nounces that there will be no lights for
several days, pending repairs to
machinery at the plant.
Lowell creek was playing the high
card again yesterday evening, and took
out part of the bridge on Fourth ave
nue.
J. B. Cameron, engineer of construct
ion of the railroad, returned from the
front last ni<rht.
Wallace Goodall Makes Haul by
Smooth Work and Gets Long
Start of Pursuit.
Leaving $800 in forgeries behind him
to remind trusting acquaintances that
he had helped make local history,
Wallace Goodall. a clerk of the Alaska
C entral, quietly slipped out. on the
Santa Ana in the early morning of
October 2 without explaining the ne
cessity which impelled him to give up
a good job and depart in such a hurry.
Goodall forged the name of Paymas
ter F. K. Youngs to cheeks calling for
about $(>00, and cashed them at differ
ent saloons. About the same time he
stole from it letter a draft for $217
drawn by the* railway treasurer's office
in favor of Booths Watson, merchants
at Hope, forged an indorsement on the
hack, and obtained the money from tin*
Bank of Seward.
The young forger timed his fine woi k
so as to get more than thirty days start
of pursuit. He cashed tlie checks
after the hank closed, Saturday even
ing, September .10. The checks were
not deposited in tin* hank until Monday
October 2. Had the forgery been de
tected then it would have been easy to
cable to Valdez a warrant for bis arrest.
Kven a few days later he could have
been picked up at Juneau or Seattle.
No mischance interfered with his plans.
The forgeries were so perfectly ex
ecuted that the false signatures passed
muster at the bank and the checks lay
there harmlessly until they wore re
turned to the railroad company at the
end of October, according to banking
custom.
When the treasurer's office began
checking up after the return of the
checks early in November the forger
ies were promptly discovered, but the
officials admit it was no marvel that
they went through. Mr. Youngs said
this morning:
“The forged signatures hail me guess
ing for a minute. They were what you
c?>
would call ‘pretty work’/’
Goodall seems to have been a talented
“Jim, the Penman/’ He wrote an ex
cellent hand, and he had culivated his
skill with the pen until he could save
any other man the trouble of signing
his own name. He certainly made
these forged checks go through with
out difficulty.
Cable requests for GoodalTs appre
hension have been sent to the states,
but he had a long start. The story of
his crimes was kept secret until
the bank notified the men who de
posited the checks to make good, and
in that way the facts crept out.
Goodall came up in August on the
Valencia and at once obtained a cleri
cal job. At times he worked in the
treasurer's office and in that way
learned its business system and studied
Mr. Youngs’ signature. In there he
stole the letter containing the check
for Hooth & Watson.
When Gooilall went away he told
the girls that he was going out to take
possession of a fortune of $20,000. He
did not say exactly where it was
located, and the prospect of wealth
seems not to have made him oblivious
to the opportunity to acquire smaller
sums. While here his banking busi
ness was chiefly confined to playing
the high card, which he did with per
sistency and regularity.
In San Francisco Goodall was last
employed by the telephone company.
He stated here that lie was a native of
Louisiana*
WILL ADVERTISE
Alaska Central Industrial Bureau
Now Organized to Attract
Immigration.
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The industrial bureau oflhe Alaska
Central Railway Company is now ac
tively at work getting out descriptive
matter for general circulation in order
to attract immigration. A great deal
of press matter is also going into the*
big newspapers of the country and i>
attracting much attention. Sewarc
and the country to be traversed by the
Alaska Central railroad are constant!}
becoming better known. Among tin
points which the bureau is impressing
upon the public are the following:
Seward and Central Alaska oiler op
port unit ies equal to am which maybe
found in any part of North America.
The Alaska Central Radway is open
ing a virgin country as large as all ol
Now England, New York. Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Ken
tuck v and Tennessee combined.
This vast new territory carries de
posits of gold, copper, coal and othei
minerals on both sides of the Alaska
Central ronte, and in close proximit}
to it, which soon will he giving em
ployment to thousands of miners, and
make Seward one of the most active
centers of distribution *on the Pacilii
coast.
The climate is ju>t as favorable to
habitation, to vigorous, robust man
hood, as the climate of Southern Nor
way or of Scotland..
The soil produces nearly every kind
of hardy vegetation that can he grown
in Wisconsin or Minnesota, as experi
ment has shown.
Some of the specific opportunities
are:
Gardens and stock farms along the
line of the Alaska Central Railway to
supply the miners and railroad laborers
who are coming and will continue to
come in increasing numbers.
Prospectors and miners of every
kind in any number to work the vast
mineral deposits unclaimed, in the
area tributary to the railway.
Stockgrowers to make use of tlie
great stretches of blue stem and red
top grasses that yield in Central Alas
ka several tons per acre.
Sawmills will lind a rapidly increas
ing demand for native lumber. Ex
tensive forests of spruce and other
valuable woods lie along the railroad
route, and with the extension of the
line towns will spring up which will
require great quantities of lumber for
building, while the similar needs of
farmers and miners will constantly
expand.
Factories could he established in
Seward the coming spring and find a
rapidly widening market for their out
put. The product of a furniture manu
factory and an iron foundry would he in
steady demand. The latter especially,
would secure a growing market in sup
plying pipe and fixtures for the hydrau
lic mines, already numerous and in
creasing in numbers in the region
which the railroad will traverse, and
which now are compelled to send to
Puget Sound for all hut the most ordi
nary Repairs.
ELKS
It has been decided that there should
be something doing. All Elks are
therefore requested to join the Herd at
the Owl drug store at 8 o’clock this
evening. Every Elk in Seward should
be there.
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Temperature at 2 p. m. today— 39.
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2ig Steamship leaves Valile/ This
Afternoon and Should be in
Port in the Morning.
Steamship Oregon arrived in Vakb /
this morning and was scheduled to
sail for Seward some time this after
noon. This will bring her here earl v
tomorrow.
It is supposed that the Oregon ha »
met had weather as she is a fast boat
compared with the other steamers on
this run. she can make 14 knots in
smooth water, without high pressure.
That is about Iter natural gait, an 1
would have brought her into Valdez in
four days, or yesterday afternoon.
The Oregon brings 24*> tons of ste» 1
rails for the railroad company. A
more than 2000 were awaiting trans
portation when she sailed it is thought
strange that site brought no more, es
pecially as the steel was hooked for the
Edith several weeks earlier. What
constitutes the remainder of the ves
sel's cargo is not known except that
she has considerable merchandise for
local business houses.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Oregon; due in Seward tomorrow.
Bertha; sailed from Seattle loth; due
in Seward 20th.
Santa Ana: sailed from Seattle 10th;
due in Seward, 20.
Santa Clara: arrived Seattle, 7th.
Portland, sailed from Seward, 9th.
Excelsior; sailed from Seward 12th.
Water will he shut oil this evening
at 8 o’clock for about two hours to per
mit new connections.
All Alaskans iroimr to Seattle on bus
iness or other purposes are cordially
invited to have their mail addressed to
themselves in care of tilt* Industrial
Bureau of the Alaska central Railway
Company, Lumber Exchange Hi tiding,
Seattle. Wash., and to make their head
quarters at the Bureau while In that
city.
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Don’t overlook the Troy Laundry
for up*tOMlate and first class work,
ladies' and gents’ work a specialty.
Nanaimo Coal; $15 a ton. Delivered
to any part of the city. Seward Fuel
Company.
Will build house to order for anyone
advancing few months rent—or will
lease ground —corner lot—Adams street
—address M. H., Gateway ollice.
A new stock of Lowney’s candies
just arrived at Seward News Co.