Sewar i Weekly Gateway
BLOWN UP BY
DYNAMITE BOMB
Explore Attached to Gate of
Ex-Sheriff Harvey Brown
at Baker City.
WIFE CANNOT SURVIVE SHOCK
Murderers Were Disguised as Women
to Disarm Suspicion While
Engaged in Plot.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Baker City, Ore., Oct. I — Late last
night an attempt was made to assas
sinate Kx-SherifT Harvey Brown by
exploding a dynamite bomb attached
to his gate, in the same way Ex-Gov.
Steunenburg was killed by Orchard
One arm and one leg were blown off
but late this afternoon Brown regained
consciousness. He has a bare chance
to survive.
The crime is charged to the West
ern Federation of Miners. Brown was
formerly a Pinkerton detective ana
helped to capture Steve Adams.
Bloodhounds have been placed on the
trail of the perpetrators.
Brown Dies of Injuries
Baker City, Oct. 2 - Harvey Brown
Is dead from the effects of the injuries
inflicted by the explosion of a bomb
under hi* gate. His wife is prostrated
by the shock and it is believed that
she will die also.
The assassins who placed the bomb
under Brown’s gate were disguised a*
women when they made the connection
to touch it off. Tnev were seen there
a >hort time before the explosion but
no suspicion was aroused b\ theii
movement >.
SUDDEN BREAK
IN CABLE LINE
Rupture Came Wednesday Morn
ing at 9:05 and Nothing Do
ing Since That Time
The Alaska cable broke this sided
Sitka Wot rexiay morning at 9:05 ant
ha-, been out of commission ever since.
The eableship Burnside sailed front
Yn e/. Wednesday afternoon to pick
up ami repair the break, it was the
opinion of Dave Lynch, the cable ex
pert on tlm cable ship, that the break
was a ho it l*o» miles north of Sitka.
The Burnside arrived in ^ aide/.
Tuesday with Gov. lluggatt, whom
it brought from Juneau to take charge
of the railroad troubles there.
vVhile the cable is out of commission
messages can be sent to Seattle by way
of the Alaska land line from Valdez
and the Dominion line.
SAYS ALASKA IS
FOR HOME RULE
Gale Claims 90 Per Cent of Peo
ple Fa\or Territorial
Government.
By Cr.ble to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 30— Delegate Cale of
Alaska is here on his way to the nat
ional capital. He says 90 per cent of
the people of the territory art for
home rule. During the summer he
has visited all the larger towns and
mining camps.
Forty-five telegraph offices and ten
cable offices are maintained in Alaska
by the signal corps. The line receipts
for the year ended June 30 amounted
to nearly $250,000.
ISSUE PROCESS
FOR LYNCHERS
\\ arrants Out for Men VVho At
tempted to Hang J. L. Kenny
on Lake Creek.
Warrants are out for tho arrest of
the men who paticipated in tHe
attempted lynching of J. K. Kenny at
Lake creek, and Sam Wagner was ar
rested yesterday evening in Seward.
He is the only one of those charged
who is now in Seward. Nearly all the
others are still in the interior. Wag
ner gave a $.">00 bond for his appear
ance. A complaint was tiled before
U. S. Commissioner Goodell of Knik
charging the men with participating
in a riot.
Wagnes denies any active participa
tion in the Kenny affair. He says, as
others from the inside have already
told, that when the mob was organized
at Susitna station several men were
compelled to go along up to Lake creek
under the pretext that they were un
der suspicion and must clear them
selves. Wagner says he was one of
these. When the crowd arrived at
Lake creek the leaders held a short
interview with Kenny, and he denied
all knowledge of Cone’s gold dust,
which was claimed to have been left in
bis road house. He was told then that
he was to be hanged on the spot.
Kenny asked for a little time to
make a will and arrange his affairs
and was given half an hour. Later
accounts, if accurate, indicate that
| the mob really intended to hang the
man for keeps. He was placed on a
cracker box with a rope around his neck,
drawn tight over the limb of a
tree. The box was then kicked from
under him;
When Kenny had been hanging ten j
| minutes and was unconscious somebody
noticed that his toes were touching the
ground. He was cut down and some
of the crowd who happened to have a
j little sense insisted that the job had
I gone far enough. Under their per
suasions it was decided to drive Kenny
i out of the country. Accordingly hoi
was compelled to turn his roadhouse j
; and everythingho had over to George j
Lurches and was shipped out on a
FAIL TO SELL
BEATSON MINE
Deal for Transfer at $8,500,000
off on Account of Ti.ifht
Money .Market.
Special to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 11* The deal tor the
sale of the Beatson mine on Latouche !
I island is definitely otT. The prospect-!
! ive purchasers were the owners of the
Hadley smelter, in southeastern Alas
ka. which was built by Col. E. H. Mor
! rison of Spokane and eastern associates.
:The Cassatt Brothers of Philadelphia,
| sons of the late president of the Penn
’ sylvania railroad, were heading the
'syndicate to finance the purchase of
the Beatson mine. Neither the Gug
genheims nor the Rothschilds had any
I thing to do with it, contrary to the
! statements of Seattle papers.
The failure of the deal was due
! largely to the tightness of the money
! market in eastern cities, particularly
when involving such large amounts as
*8,500,000, the option price. Mr. Rob
inson of New York and Mr. Beatson
of Latouche, owners of the mine, an
nounce that they will continue work
ing the property themselves and that
it will not again be offered for sale.
The Hubbard-Elliott company fell
down in its negotiations to buy the
Ellamar mine. The Reynolds-Alaska
Development Company took an opton
on it two months ago and made the
first payment, but will not take control
of it until paymenti are completed.
Daniel Guggenheim says the climate
of Alaska confers the boon of perpet
ual youth upon miners.
TACOMA GETS
ALASKA COAST
Because Seattle Refuses Aid to
Valdez Railway Reynolds
Moves Offices.
TO SWITCH BAG AND BAGGAGE
Promoter Takes Prompt Action and
Steamers Will Soon Sail from
Commencement Bay.
By Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 30— Because of the in
ability of H. I). Reynolds to secure
financial assistance for the Alaska
Home Railway the Alaska Coast Com
pany will move its main ollice to
Tacoma and sail its steamers from that
port. The Reynolds-Alaska Develop
ment Company owns 93 per cent of the
stock of the Alaska Coast Company.
SAYS REYNOLDS
FOOLED TACOMA
Seattle Claims Promoter Has not
Taken up His Option on
Alaska Coast.
—
By Cnble to The Dally Oateway.
Seattle, Oct. 2— It is claimed that
H. D. Reynolds handed Tacoma a lem
on when he promised to move the main
office of the Alaska Coast Company to
that city. It is stated that he has not
yet taken up his option to purchase a
controlling interest in the company
and that Pharo and Amos still control
it. _____________
REYNOLDS GETS LICENSE
FOR KEYSTONE CANYON
Washington, D. C.. Sept. 30—License
to lay track through Keystone canyon
was granted today to the Alaska Home
Railway electric line, now building
from Valdez, Alaska, toward the in
terior.
PROSECUTION QUIBBLES IN
TRIAL OF SENATOR BORAH
Boise. Idaho, Oct. 1 — Attorneys for
the government in the trial of Senator
Borah for alleged land frauds seem to
be killing time. They were ordered
by Judge Whitson today to proceed
with the introduction of testimony. The
trial so far has been a farce with the
prosecution obtaining adjournments on
various pretexts.
This afternoon the grand jury in the
I'nited States district court formally
exonerated 1 . S. District Attorney
Ruick from the charge of misconduct.
Ruick is a personal enemy of Borah
and secured the indictment of the
senator.
EXPOSITION WILL NOT ASK
LOAN FROM GOVERNMENT
Seattle, Oct. 1 — The Alaska-Yukon
Pacific exposition management will not
ask for a government loan but only for
an appropriation for exhibits from
Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippines.
Delegate Cale promises active sup
port from Alaska.
TRAIL BRIDGE COMPLETED
OVER RESURRECTION RIVER
The bridge for the wagon trail
across Resurrection river is practically
completed. Some work remains un
finished but the bridge is passable now
to travelers. The trail was cut
through the woods long ago and the
homesteaders of Bear river valley
after this week can come to town over
the wagon road just like farmers in
any other country.
Alaska produces four-fifths of the
canned salmon of the world.
WORKING MANY
COPPER CLAIMS
Locators on Ledges East of Bay
Busy With Development
Operations.
_
Development work will soon be un
der way on several copper properties
in the long string from Cape Resur
rection to the discoveries fifteen miles
farther north. The first to begin
were the owners of the Fairview
irroup, on the mainland just east of
Fox island, who are pushing work
steadily and expect to continue all
winter. They are driving a tunnel.
The property can be reached easily at
any time of year.
North of the Fairview group Harry
Ellsworth and Barney Ilittel are
working.
Over in Day’s harbor Chris Hanson,
E. R. Campion and Fred Alexander
are engaged on the ledge which gave
them the remarkable assay of 15.7 per
cent copper on the surface at the dis
covery'point. Carl Carlson and Gus
Sikki are working near them for
themselves and Whittemore and
Thompson.
William Lietzke and Henry Oiseth
have taken supplies for three months
down to the Seal group, which begins
near Cape Resurrection, and will run
a tunnel, sink a shaft and drift.
Across the bay from Seward L. F.
Shaw, George Bouckaert and F. P.
Skeen and others associated with them
have arranged to start work within a
few days. A tunnel will be started on
the Mammoth claim and driven on the
ledge, with drifts whenever it may
seem advisable to experiment with
them. The group of which the Mam
moth is most easily reached seems to
olTer as much promise as anything in
the range. The ledge shows plainly
on or near the surface for a long dis
tance and the ore in it is the same as
the float lower down which first started
prospectors to looking for the rock in
place.
Several other claim owners promise
to do some development work this fall
and winter and several prospectors are
still in the field, although the snow is
creeping down from the summit and
will soon bar them out of high ground.
OPENS BIG BANK
OF GOLD GRAVEL
Elmore Mining* Company on Six
Mile Has Seventy Feet of
Hydraulic Ground.
The Elmore Mining Company, oper
ating on Six-Mile and Canyon creeks,
north of Sunrise, this summer opened
a gravel bank seventy feet wide and of
still greater depth which carries from
10 to 50 cents a yard in gold. A streak
in it. twelve or fifteen feet wide runs
from 25 to 50 cents. The remainder of
it runs lower but is good pay all the
way through. The bank was not open
ed until late in the season but 200
ounces in gold were taken out before
work was shut down.
M. H. Sullivan, manager of the com
pany, was in Seward this week on his
way outside. He said the company
had at last obtained what it had been
doing development work for during
two seasons. He expects to take out
big pay next year as everything is
ready to turn water on the gravel bank
as soon as the season opens next spring.
The property of the Elmore company
is just above the the forks, where Can
yon creek and East Fork unite to form
Six-Mile.
S. W. Wible, on Canyon creek, took
out about $5000 this year and then had
to shut down because the water supply
got out of order.
Within a month trains on the Tanana
Railroad will be running to Cleary.
Nome expects to ship $200,000 worth
of furs this year.
GET ASSAY OF
$216 IN GOLD
Ore From Tonsina Creek Quartz
Ledge Shows Remarkably
High Values.
RETURNS BRING GOOD OFFER
Proposition Made to Develop Mine
and Install Stamp Mill for
One-fourth Interest.
Ore taken from the ledge of the
Gateway group on Tonsina creek
assayed $21(i per ton. This is on the
discovery made in July by Frank
Skeen for himself, John Lechner and
L. F. Shaw. A half interest was sold
to J. W. Richards of Colorado a few
days after the location was made and
the $210 assay is from a sample of ore
taken outside by him.
After returning to Colorado, where
they know gold ore when they see it,
Mr. Richards received an offer to in
stall a stamp mill and bear all ex
penses of development for a one-fourth
interest. This offer was refused. Mr.
Richards is planning to install a mill
himself and does not care to give up
any of his interest.
While here Mr. Richards expressed
the belief that the surface indications
of gold quartz deposits at different
places on Xenai peninsula are better
than almost anywhere in Colorado or
Nevada. He has lived in Colorado
twenty-eight years and spent a great
deal of time in the gold camps of Ne
vada.
The Tonsina creek group comprises
six claims and lies less than two miles
from tide water. The creek will
furnish ample water supply for all
mining purposes.
MINE BONDED
FOR $100,000
Ole Olson Makes Deal With Gug
genheims on Quartz Gold on
Popoff Island.
Oscar Olson has given a bond on quartz
gold property on PopolT island to the
Guggenheims for $100,000. An expert
went out there recently to examine it
and the result of his favorable report
was the bond. Olson returned on the
Santa Clara from a trip to the outside
to make the deal and went west on
the Dora.
The Olson property is adjacent to
that of Louis Herman, which has been
described as a mountain of gold quartz,
ft is reported that Herman has also
bonded his property to the Guggen
heims. or that negotiations are pend
ing. __
FINDS NICKEL
NEAR OZINKY
Prospector Strikes Good Ledge
of Gray Metal While Look
ing for Copper.
A large deposit of nickel ore, carry
ing copper also, was found recently by
a man named Bailey near Ozinky, on
Kodiak island. The ledge is near the
copper deposit found by Cleghorn and
others, which wras sold to Mrs. Frank
Kimball of Seattle. Bailey was pros
pecting for copper when he found the
nickel ledge. He claims it is of good
width and well defined for a long dis
tance. He went through Seward on
the steamer Portland on his way out
side. __
Tungsten ore is found on Prince of
Wales island.