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MEETS OVATION
IN THE SOUTH
President Roosevelt Greeted Fnthu
siastically in Virginia on Way
to New Orleans.
By Cable to the Gateway
Richmond, Va. Got. 20—President
Roosevelt's tour through Virginia has
been a continuous ovation. At every
station great crowds gathered to see
him and the enthusiasm was unbounded.
The President’s program may be
changed to enable him to attend the
reunion of Confederate veterans.
In the President ’s speech here he re
ferred to t lie change in sentiment be
tween the sections since the civil war.
Washington, Oct. 20—In reply to
criticism of the President for going to
a region which has so recently been
suffering from yellow fever infection,
the official statement was given out to
dav that the visit to New Orleans and
the South was promised a year a^o.
Says New Road Is Independent
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Oct. 20—W. R. Williams,
president of the company incorporated
to build a new line to the Pacific Coast
is now in Seattle. He denies that the
Milwaukee road has anything to do
with the new line, which he claims is
entirely independent. Mr. Williams
was formerly general manager of the
Milwaukee.
Lawyer Charged With Perjury
By Cable to the Gateway
New York, Oct. 20—The committee
which is investigating insurance com
panies today called Attorney if and,
who has been charged with perjury by
one of the other witnesses. The com
mittee is now investigating the charge.
Farmer Burns Wins From Dwyer
By Cable to the Gateway
Des Moines, Oct. 20—Farmer Burns
defeated M. J. Dwyer in a mixed style
wrestling contest last night. Dwyer
won the first fall, Cornish style, but
Burns took the last two, catch-as
catch-can.
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Tommy Ryan to Train Hart
By Cable to the Gateway
San Francisco, Oct. 20—Marvin Hart
announced today that he has engaged
Tommy Ryan to train him for his future
contests, He has dismissed Jack Mc
Cormick, who has been his trainer.
Rvan is admitted to be one of the
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cleverest boxers and trainers in the
country. He trained Jeffries for his
fights with Fitzsimmons and Corbett.
The addition to F. V. Thomas’ saloon
building will be finished and furnished
tomorrow, and he will have a grand
opening in the evening.
TOACKTOUCHES
NO OF MILE 42
Rails Will Reach 43rd Milepost
Early Next Week and Tunnel
on 49 in a Month. i
Track is now laid and in operation
almost to the end of mile 42
and early next week the rails will
reach to the 43rd milepost from Sew
ard. A few weeks more will be re
quired on hard spots of the grade be
tween that point and the tunnel on
mile 49, but the end of the track is ex
pected to touch the entrance of the
first big bore within thirty or forty
davs.
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The railroad company is preparing
to bore the 500-foot tunnel on mile 40,
which will require several months.
A camp and store house have been
established and steam rock drills will
be at work in a short time. This is the
heaviest work which the railroad has
still to perform this side of Turnagain
Arm and it is the intention to complete
it as soon as possible, so as to carry the
track up to the first tunnel which Rich
& Harris are boring on mile 52.
Beyond the five tunnels which the
contractors will construct on mile 52
little heavy work intervenes this side
of Turnagain Arm. The grade will be
mostly thrown up along stretches of
srravel. A few patches of rock work
are on the line but they are short, and
the grade between the tunnels and
Turnagain Arm will be finished before
the tunnels are ready for the track.
From the tunnels to the head of Turn
again Arm, which is on mile 65, the
rails will be laid without a stop about
next May.
ONE DEPARTMENT MOVES
Construction Officials of Railroad
now in New Building
The construction department of the
Alaska Central is moving today into
the rooms allotted to it in the new of
fice building, and will be prepared to
do business there tomorrow. The de
partment will occupy four rooms, three
extending* across the north end of the
building and the fourth adjoining the
northeast corner room. This will be
the private office of J. B. Cameron, en
gineer of construction, and his assist
ant, W. G. Atwood.
The northeast corner room will be
the public entrance to the suite. Mr.
Jackson will preside over this, and he
and his assistants will commune with
callers who may or may not know what
they want. Other employes will occupy
the middle and the northwest corner
room.
The new school house is almost ready
for occupancy.
MILD WEATHER
CONTINUES EATE
Frost Has Scarcely Touched Seward
and Thermometer Ranges High
for Time of Year.
Residents of bleak New England
shores and along the Great Rakes, who
wake up every morning in October to
see everything white with frost, would
doubtless refuse to believe that in Sew
ard, above the sixtieth parallel of lati
tude, little frost has been seen up to
October 20. Day after day this month
the thermometer has risen above 4o
and several times above ->0, with almost
constant sunshine excepting three or
four rainy days.
In the eastern states fifteen degrees
farther south the approach of winter
is nearly always felt in the latter part
of October. Ice forms every morning:
the trees are leafless, and shudder be
fore chilling winds which forecast the
blizzards the later months will bring.
On tins far northern coast, although
the nights are cool people have scarcely
begun to think of winter. Overcoats
are rarely seen except at night.
The thermometer has not yet been
below 40 except at night and in the
early morning. The entire month has
been very similar to a San Francisco
December, with less wind. It has
scarcely been cooler than the average
October on Puget Sound.
Kenai peninsula, on whose southern
coast Seward stands, has a peculiarly
equable climate. The warm waters of
the Japan current flow only a few
leagues away, tempering the climate of
adjacent shores to a remarkable de
gree. At the head of Prince William
sound, east of Kenai peninsula and ex
tending a degree farther north, the
mercury in winter drops 10 degrees
lower in the coldest weather.
Some day the people of the states
will learn that the winter of the South
ern Alaska coast is milder than that
along the Ohio river, while the sum
mers are warm but never hot. At the
present time they would not accept the
judicial finding of a court of record
that the mercury did not fall to zero
in Seward last winter.
Steamer Bertha 2n Valdez
Steamer Bertha reached Valdez this
morning and was expected to sail for
Seward this afternoon. She should ar
rive here tomorrow morning. The
Bertha sailed from Seattle the evening
of October 11, and came by way of
Sitka, to carry mail to that village.
The Seward Electric Company ex
pects new transformers on the Santa
Clara, which will enable it to meet the
increasing demand for lights.
Temperature at 3 p. m. today—48.
PLAN TO BUILD
LOCAL BREWERY
M. S. Moorehouse and Seward Men
Project Plant Whieh Will
Cost $40,000.
Seward’s first manufacturing plant
will be a brewery if present plans
mature. A project is on foot to con
struct a $40,000 plant and the local
saloon men have agreed to take stock
in it. A meeting was held last night
to discuss preliminaries.
The promoter of 11 le brewery project
is M. S. Moorehouse of Seattle, who
was here in September. He has agreed
to put up $20,000 for the plant if local
men will raise an equal amount, ff
this is done Mr. Moorehouse will come
to Seward at once to reside and will
have the plant installed and in operation
as soon as materials can be brought
here and buildings constructed.
At the present time several hundred
dollars a month are expended outside
for beer and the amount is constantly
increasing with the growth of the town.
The freight on beer from Seattle is $1»>
a ton. As beer is mostly water the
men who deal in malt are figuring that
they and their customers pay a pretty
bigh price for tlie fluid, and as Seward
has as good water as any place on earth
it is argued that the town does not need
to import it at fancy prices.
The operation of a brewery with a
capacity sufficient to supply the beer
demand of Seward would create quite
a large payroll in the town from the
start, and this would grow steadily with
the extension of the railroad and the
building of new towns along the route.
Mr. Moorehouse is represented in
Seward by W. P. Henry, who says the
brewery is a sure tiling as the money
needed can be obtained from an outside
brewer if local men do not feel justified
in risking the investment.
CORWIN SAILS FROM NOME
It is Assumed from Message that
She Left Yesterday
E. L. Whittemore received a cable
message last night from a Nome friend
announcing that he was about to sail
from that port for Seward on the
steamer Corwin, and would arrive
here October 26. While the message
did not so state it is assumed that the
vessel was just about to embark when
it was filed.
According to the reckoning of the
sender the steamer is now scheduled
to come through to Seward in a week.
The printed announcement sent out in
advance slated her to sail October 15
and to arrive here October 28, the
original plan evidently being for her
to stop at every landing-place on the
way. This schedule may have been
changed.