V()l j SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1905 NO. <
JAPAN WANTS
TO BOSS KOREA
Demands Protectorate Over That
Kingdom and Russian Envoys
Object to it
Portsmouth, N\ H.,Aug. U The peace
plenipotenraries resumed their confer
enee this morning. In addition to pre
vious demands the Japanese envoys
now insist that Japan be given a pro
tectorate over Korea. To this the
Russians objected.
Kach Japanese demand will be taken
up in order and discussed. Optimistic
views prevail as to the probability that
the conference will result in peace.
Threaten Russian Possessions
Tokyo. Aug. 14 It is reported here
that Japanese warships will be sent to
seize the Russian seal rocks at Kom
andoraski in Rering sea.t opper island,
off Kamchatka, and Robin island in
the Ohkotsk sea, off Saghalien.
Linevitih Wants More Men
St. Petersburg, Aug. 14—General
Linevitch, commander-ln-cheif of the
Russian army in Manchuria, has re
quested more troops, saying that re-en
forcements are absolutely necessary to
protect Vladivostok.
Twelve Killed in Collision
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 14-Twelve
persons were killed and twenty-live in
jured in a collision between a passenger
train and a freight near Kishman last
night.
Mountain Slide Kills Twenty
Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Aug. 14
A mountain slide 100 miles north of
here yesterday wiped out an Indian
village, killing twenty Indians, and
seriously injuring twelve.
Claim Strike is Lnded
St. Paul, Aug. 14 -The railroad offi
cials claim that the telegraph opera
tors' strike is practically ended. They
say the strikers places are nearly all
filled and everything is running well.
Letter Causes Scare
New York, Aug. 14—The special
train carring President Roosevelt from
Chautauqua to this city last Saturday
was run over a branch line because of
a lettei* received by the railroad offici
als stating that an attempt would he
made to blow up the train. The Pres
ident is now at Oyster Bay.
Pipes For Water System
In the freight brought up by the
Edith was 3,000 feet of water main for
the town water system. On Fourth
avenue six-inch mains will be laid; on
the other streets four-inch mains will
be used. Another consignment will
come later and in a few months Seward
will have a complete water system ex
tending wherever houses are built.
FOR RENT—Business lot, best pro
position gets it. MRS. STULL, tf
NORWAY VOTES
I FOR SEPARATION
Great Popular Majority Cast for
Dissolution of Union with
Sweden.
Christiana,Norway, Aug. 14—Returns
of the popular vote in Norway \es
terdav on the question of dissolution
with Sweden show a total of .‘120,00'.) in
favor and 140,000 against the proposit
ion. The vote was very heavy.
The vote is considered to settle the
question of separation. The difficulty
in agreeing upon a king satisfactory to
all concerned is believed to render a
republic extreme probable as the final
outcome.
BRING CRUSHING PLANT
—
Outfit Comes for Handling Rock
on Falls Creek Strike
On the Santa Clara was an outfit tor
working the quartz property discovered
recently on Falls creek, a tributary of
Trail creek. It was brought up by W.
N. Armstrong, one of the partners in
the property. The discovery was made
by F. P. Skene and John Lechner, re
presenting several others besides them-1
selves. As soon as t hey made the si rike j
they wrote to Armstrong to come on
with machinery to work it.
The plant consists of a double tly
wheel complex crusher; a largest size
amalgamating mortar; fuse, powder,
caps, drills, quicksilver retort and acids
and everything necessary for making
complete ore tests on the ground. The j
owners will drive tunnels and sink
shafts until they test toe ground
throughly, and decide on the proper
kind of a permanent mill to pul on the
property.
The ledge is thirty teet wide and has
been traced and uncovered in places
for more than a mile. The pay streak
lias been traced the same distance
through the center of the ledge. It is j
from eighteen inches to tour feet wide
and carries free gold throughout its
length, in many places visible to the
naked eye. The remaining width of
the ledge carries value but so ‘at* no
assays have been made.
Messrs. Lechner and Skene Satur
dav brought down two small bottles of
free gold which they worked out by
simple crushing and panning. They
crushed twenty live pounds of rock and
must have lost much of the gold in the
process of punning, but what they saved
is variously estimated by those who
have seen it at from $10 to $25. Jt has
so much sand mixed with the gold that
only a guess can be made as to its value.
The Chamber of Commerce will hold
a general meeting this evening at 9
o'clock in Moore's hall. Several com
mitties are expected to report.
F. G. Hale, president of the Bank
of Seward, sailed on the Excelsior Sat
urday for Cook Inlet. He will be ab
sent about two weeks.
Temperature at 2 p. m. today—68.
ASK PARDON
I FOR HANSON
Petitions Sent to President from
Seattle in Behalf of Indian
Murderer.
Seattle. Aug. 14—A petition with
numerous signatures has been forward
ed from thiscitvto President (loose
veil asking a pardon for the Alaska
Indian murderer, Jim Hanson, or
Kebeth, who is serving a life sentence :
at McNeil’s island for the murder of
j Bert Horton and Mrs. Horton near
Skagway in 18!)!).
Another petition to the President:
asks for the construction of a federal
prison in Alaska. Attention is called
'to the inadequacy of the McNeils
island penitentiary and the frequent
j escapes from it. It is also urged that
the increased population ot Alaska
makes a prison there a necessity.
Booker T. Washington Again
Saratoga. N. Y. Aug. 14 Hooker 1.
Washington, the noted colored educa
tor, escorted .John Wanamakei s
daughter, Mrs. Barclay War burton, to
dinner in the Fnited States hotel yes
terday. The event caused a great sen
sation and seems likely to occasion as
much gossip as Washington s dinner at
the White House with President
Roosevelt several years ago.
lever Continues Deadly Work
New Orleans, Aug. 14—Forty new
cases of yellow fever were reported
vesterdav, and twelves deaths. Total
• •
cases to date DC>4. Deaths 154.
Secretary Taylor Likes Alaska
Washington, D. C., Aug. 14 Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury H. A.
Taylor has returned from an exten
sive tour of Alaska and speaks in en
thusiastic terms of what he saw there.
He says Alaska is a wonderful country
and that no one can appreciate its re
sources and attractions until he has
seen it.
Sunday Baseball Scores
Seattle. Aug. 14—Sunday base ball
games in the Pacific Coast league* re
sulted as follows: Seattle 4, San Fran
cisco 5; Oakland 2-2, Tacoma 5-1; Port
land 1. Los Angeles 0.
May not Call Extra Session
Oyster Bay, Aug. 14—President
Roosevelt says he may not call an extra '
session of Congress to convene in Nov
ember. He has about decided to wait ^
for the regular session in December to
take up proposed reform legislation.
Steamer Excelsior came in this after
noon from Seldovia. After a short j
stay she will proceed to Seattle by the
inside passage.
J. M. Warriner, until recently en
gaged with the surveying corps on the
Alaska Central, will leave on the Ex
celsior for his home in Bellingham,
Wash.
EDITH BRINGS
LARGE CARGO
Big Steamer Arrives with Engine,
Cars and 2300 Tons of
ttaiiroad Steel
Bringing 2.500 tons of steel, a no-ton
engine, six Hat ears and other supplies
for the Alaska Central, the big steam
ship Kdith. ( apt. John (),I»rien, tied
up to the dock yesterday afternoon tit
4 o'clock. She left Seattle August 4
and came by the outside passage, stop
ping at Valdez to unload some piles for
a dock at the new townsite.
The tirst heavy freight unloaded wa>
the tender of the engine, which was
swung off with the derrick and after a
lot of tugging was planted on its trucks
which stood upon the railroad track.
Before this was accomplished the en
gine was run off on an improvised
track a little before 10 o'clock, when
the approach of high tide brought the
ship's deak up to a level with the
witarf. It was pulled off by a donkex
engine. The unloading of the steel
rails will probably require a week.
MeporD big Sal/non Pack
Nashagak river canneries will have
an immense salmon pack tliis year,
while other Bristol Bay canneries will
have about the same output as last
year. This report was brought in by
Assistant U. S. Attorney Cecil 11.
Clegg, who returned to Seward Satur
day night on the Dora. Mr. Clegg i>
also license collector for this district
and lias just made a tour of the can
neries west of here, going as far as Un
alaska. He states that aside from
Nashagak the pack will he about the
same as that of Iasi year, which was
rather light. The big increase at
Nashagak will materially raise the to
tal output tor this part of Alaska above
the pack of last season.
Partial Eclipse of Moon
There will be a partial eciipseo! the
moon this evening, hut in this latitude
only a small segment of the disk will
be eclipsed and that will probably be
past before t he moon rises above the
mountains.
Mac Arthur Leaves Seward
The coast survey steamer Mac Ar
thur, which lias been lying at thedoak
for several days, sailed this afternoon
at 5 o’clock for Cross Sound, whero her
corps have some work to do. She will
probably not return here this season.
Capt. Denson, Executive Officer Atkin
son and the entire corps have made
numerous friends In Seward and their
departure will be regretted.
Steamer Dora Goes Through
Steamer Dora arrived in port from
Unalaska late Saturday evening, and
sailed at 2 Sunday morning for Valdez.
The Taku, belongihg to the coast
survey fleet, arrived in port Saturday.
She went out with the Patterson this
morning on survey work.