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SATUKIYAV. JUNK 30, 1900.
DELEGATE FIGHT MIXED
From ail accounts the effort to make
a political tight of the tirst election of
*n Alaska territorial delegate is run
ning against snags, Roth parties have
•ailed conventions and the promise to
,vll a non-partisan convention has
ailed to materialize.
Nevertheless the political issue is
v ;dely antagonized. The Fairbanks
N. ws announced promptly that the
Tatiana would ignore the party calls
,d immediately afterward the minors’
Association nominated Thomas t'ale as
: miners' candidate and has since re
ceived a Republican indorsement in
he Tatiana. Mr. t’luin is still a can
late hut it is not clear whether he
.11 try fm tin Republican nomination
The Skagwav Alaskan is whooping it
•strong Kx-llov. Swim ford of
Ketchikan as a non-partisan advocate
< territorial government, and A. F.
v.'ih.lt of Skagwa.x has withdrawn in
. vor o' Swim* ford. < hi the Other
le nd the Ketchikan Journal and Ju-j
• au Transcript are bitterly opposing I
•ex-governor. The Juneau Record-j
l: ner is for Marshal Slump and a|
>? aight party tight.
Seward has elected a delegation to1
e Republican convention and in
ti "sed tin local candidate. Frank K. |
Youngs, for the nomination, hut Mr.
Votings will not be a candidate before
: he convent ion unless it becomes clear (
that the great mass of tlie people of1
he territory favor a party tight. If
oablic opinior. shows the opposite j
\i end he will run as an independent t
* udidate. devoted to all the interests!
* ' the* territory ami particularly the!
i ining indust n because* it is the* most ;
important and m.e in which he is heav
ily interested.
WHAT ALASKA REQUIRES
Tho net'll of Alaska as delegate to!
< ogress is a man who can go to j
Washington without antagonisms ere- J
a ad by liK election or his previous
career. Such a man U Frank F. j
Youngs. fie has a clean business;
cord from the state of New Y ork to1
‘he territory of Alaska. He has been!
i Alaska several years ami expects to
;o stay here and spend his life in min*
irg and the upbuilding of Alaska.
Mr. Youngs has large investments
i: mines of'his part of the territory.
M> is vice president of the Kenai Min- ;
ir_ and Milling Company and of the;
1* oascus Mining a Milling Company
ni hats larger holdings n the new
Y entna district than any other man.
While Mr. Youngs has been a Ke
r ilican alt his life and active in the
rty he does not believe that party
s should he cl isely drawn in this
• ipaign. He believes that the dele
• chosen should not represent any j
i tieular party or section but Alaska
whole and all its interests.
i lot of papers of the “unco gudt " :
va ,i tv are sudering moral pa 'oxystns
in account of Senator Burton of Kan
s..s, who had the misfortune to get
caught in a lesser offense than many;
other scna’oi s have doubtless perpe
trated. ft is a noticeable fact that the!
papers which most persistently keep
op a santimouious snarl are of the type
which hare never a criticism to utter
uf such senators as Aldrich, who rep-1
resents the criminal classes of Wall
.-street in the senate.
Judge McPherson fined the manda
mus of finance who had been convicted
of violations of the anti-rebate law and
then stuck a clerk for ninety days in
jiiiil besides a tine for the same busi
ness. This was doubtless intended as an
awful example to the packers and rail
road magnates and it may fie imagined
that the judge with proper severity
warned those gentlemen that upon a
rejietition of their offense he will send
several more of their clerks to jail.
The news correspondents who can’t
remember anything announce that
when President Roosevelt goes to
Panama he will be the first president
te leave American soil, forgetting that
last fall he sailed from the mouth of
the Mississippi over the high seas to
Chesapeake bay, and was more than
three miles from American soil nearly
all the time. Of course it would not
be legitimate to count the presidents
who went up in the air, like G. Cleve
land.
The Southeastern Alaska papers are
warming up to the delegate tight just
like real politics and have already
reached the mutual denunciation
standpoint. The affidavit stage of the
campaign will come just before
election.
IMPORTANT IF TRUE
For several month* an item has been
floating around among the Alaska pa
pers assorting that the wharfage rate
in Seattle on freight consigned to
| for eign ports is i‘> cents per ton but
on Alaska shipments is 50 cents per
ton. and that tin* Seattle dock owners
contemplate raising the tax on Alaska
j goods to "5 cents per ton.
The Gateway did not publish the
| statement at first because it did not
look good. It was passed up to the
local agent of the Northwestern
Steamship Company and he said he
was not informed U|H>n the matter but
did not believe it to be true. The
i Gateway has been waiting for tho
Seattle pap •i s to make a denial but so
| far none of them has condescended to
l take any notice o'" the charge. This
may be a fine example of dignity but
it look* more like *i le-stepping. It is
not supposed that the editors of the big
[Seattle paper* sit up nights to read
the little Alaska papers hut enough i*
j clipped from them to show that the
exchange editors run through them
exhaustively and thi* item so often
printed could not have been over
looked.
Seattie on the defensive in the
matter of it* dealings with Alaska and
I it ought to be worth while for the
newspapers of the city to make ex
plicit denial of any false accusations.
MORE RAILROAD NEWS
The Douglas Island News has dis
coyored that “The builders of the
Alaska Central Railroad have met a
> t-back iu the miles of tunnel that i>
before them that it will take from
three to five years to complete.” The j
editor's name is Ifopp hut this is the <
first evidence the Cateway has seen.
that he hits the pipe, as his paper is1
usually careful about facts.
it is plain that the dear brother does
not read the Cateway with am more
care than he does the Hible or he
could have learned that the Alaska J
Central tunnels atrtfrevrate foet in;
length, of which more than half is
liomi. and that unless work is stopped!
by an earthquake or some equally1
disastrous act of Cod or a public j
enemy rails will be laid through them j
by October.
The Gateway has just caught up
with the delegate tight in Southeastern
Alaska through the arrival of a bela
ted sack or two of papers from that
region which should have been here
two weeks ago. The papers of the
panhandle are taking the light very
seriously and getting lots of fun out
of it.
The Sitka Cablegram has yielded up
the ghost because of want of patronage.
The marvel is that a man capable of
making as good a paper as the Cable
gram was should ever conceive the
hallucination that Sitka stood in need
it two papers when it is not big
enough for one.
Th San Francisco relief flour dicker !
b. — insto look iike the most brazen
>t• al of trust property the country has
known since Cleveland sold $62,000,
non of government bonds to the Morgan
skindicate bv secret contract at 1041
when they were worth 11s in the open
market.
Ail the nabobs mixed up in the;
packers' rebate deal were fined and a
clerk was given a jail sentence in ad
dition. Serves him right for being a
clerk.
l.nglish capitalists and newspapers
are very indignant over the Russian
massacres, which they figure lessen the
value of Knglish loans.
REAE ESTATE AND
MINING RECORDS
June l Anderson brothers, quart/. lo
cation claims at Port Dick.
June H W. G. Jack et al.. 160 acres
placer ground Crow creek bench.
June 22- W. II. Hammer, placer claim
Gulch creek.
June 22—J. H. Brown, placer claim
Gulch creek.
June 22 M. A. Sullivan, placer claim
Gulch creek.
June 4 F. L. Ballaine to Carl Wer
ner, south half lot 14, block 10,
Seward: $350.
June 4—F. L. Ballaine to C. F. Hewitt,
north half lot 14, block 10. Seward;
$350.
June 13- Seward Klectric Company to
Geo. Dickinson, building known as
Seward steam laundry: $1.
June 2—John Rick to J. A. Herbert,
quarter interest in eight copper
claims on Port Chatham; $60.
WEEKLY WEATHER RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
June 29.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Saturday 62 51 Pt cloudy
Sunday 64 49 Clear
Monday 63 50 Clear
Tuesday 62 48 Clear
Wednesday 72 48 Clear
Thursday 64 50 Clear
Friday 72 50 Clear
The schoolteachers of Pittston, Pa.,
recently dismissed their pupils and
told them not to return until the
school board should pay back salaries
due the teachers.
BAILEY ATTACKS
W. R. HEARST
Texas Senator Delivers Bitter
Criticism of New York
Congressman.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. D. (’.. Juno 28 Senator
i Bailey attacked William K. Hearst in
i the senate yesterday afternoon be
cause* of the "Treason in the Senate”
I articles by David Graham Phillips
| published in llearst’s Cosmopolitan
magazine. Hailey said that Congress
man Hearst allows deliberate misstate
ments in all his publications and that
1 they are unworthy of belief for that
reason. He asserted also that it is
generally known that Hearst delights
to print slander and does it wilfully.
One of the articles attacked Hailey.
Bailey’s attack upon Hearst is re
garded as significant, coming at the
time when the whole Democratic party
seems to he lining up for Bryan. If is
regarded as evidence of a determina
tion to dost ro\ Hearst as a factor in
the Democratic organization. 1t is
claimed here now that Hears! will not
he allowed to capture the Democratic
nomination for governor of New York, j
which he seemed a short time ago to
have within his grasp by a reported
deai with Murphy, the Tammany
leader.
GOES BACK TO LAKE CREEK
H. Anderson Believes Ventna District
Is Coming Bonanza.
H. Anderson started back to Lake
creek this morning to begin work on
property he acquired in a hasty trip
to the region early this month. He
took several miners with him. Mr.
Anderson has his own launch and trav
els as he pleases. He left the launch
at Sunrise while he came over to
Seward.
Mr. Anderson i> an old Alaskan
and an experienced placer miner. He
has charge of the hydraulic plant
which was installed at Portage hay
on Prince William sound, this spring.
Owing to a washout his company will
not be able to work the property to
advantage this year and he transferred
his attention to the Ventna, going up
a month ago. He bought several
claims and located some ground
himself. A little experimental rock
ing convinced him that Lake creek
is a bonanza and he expresses the
opinion that many claims will pan out
$4i> to S")0 per dn\ to the man by ordi
nary sluicing processes this summer.
The opinion of Mr. Anderson is up
hold by S. A. Holcomb, who went to
Lake creek early last fall and re
mained there all winter, lie came
out with Mr. Anderson and will re
turn next month, sailing westward on
the Bertha. While he is cautious in
expressing views a> to the general
character of the district he is confid
ent that it will he a good one.
A small settlement is now planted at
the mouth of Lake creek on the Vent
na. Men are living there in tents and
prospecting up and down the creeks,
leaving most of their supplies at the
settlement. Two two-story buildings
for road-houses and saloons were go
ing up when Anderson and Holcomb
came out .
PORTLAND SAILS SOUTHWARD
Steamer Portland returned from the
westward Sunday evening at t>:JO
and sailed for Seattle at 9 o’clock. She
takes a numerous list of Seward resi
dents who are going outside on busi
ness or to visit, and in the hope of
reaching Seattle before July 4 will
cut out all stops not absolutely imper
ative. She made a quick trip to the
westward, going to Seldovia, Homer
and Kodiak and returning in less than
three days although she lost several
hours at the latter port by grounding
on a bar at low tide.
In Battle Array
A pack train consisting of several
patient and drearay-looking mules
laden with gold dust started from
Cleary yesterday morning for Fair
banks. The outfit was convoyed by
Ned Wickersbain, the ‘“blue breeches
bov,” and others. After having their
“pictur* tuk” in front of a banking
house— possibly for the future identifi
cation of the mules, or merely for
illustrating purposes in a “hotstufT”
writeup for outside “yaller” news
papers, the little Winchester-em
bellished procession moved slowly up
the strasse.—Tanana Teller (Cleary
City). __
Radiant is the invention of two en
gineers and serves the same purpose
fer gas tires as incandescent mantles
do for gas lighting. It is made from
the refuse of chemical works and re
places the asbestus ball. It trebles the
heat and costs no more than fireclay.
Bones of an extinct species of ele
phant which must have stood sixteen
feet high at the shoulder have been
found in the bed of the Godavari river
and are now placed in the Indian mu
seum there.
CLAIM BRYAN
WILL ACCEPT
Democratic Leaders Assert He
Is Willing To Run On Anti
Trust Platform.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, I). June 25 -Demo
cratic leaders at the capital are ad
\ised that William J. Bryan will
accept the Democratic presidential
nomination if tendered in 1908 on a
platform declaring war upon the
trusts.
Senator Bailey of Texas issued a
statement today announcing that ho is
not a candidate for president on the
Democratic ticket and that he is in
full sympathy with Bryan’s platform
and will gladly support the Nebraska
man if the latter is nominated.
Wisconsin Indorses Bryan
Milwaukee, June 28 The Wisconsin
Democratic state convention cheered
Bryan vociferously today and the plat
form indorses him for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1908.
Cheers Bryan Twenty Minutes
Milwaukee. June 29 When the
plank of the Democratic state platform
indorsing Bryan lor the next presiden
tial nomination was read in conven
tion the delegates rose to their feet
and cheered for twenty minutes. The
plank was adopted.
SURVEY BOAT CALLS IN
The survey steamer MacArthur ar
rived in port Saturday evening and
sailed Thursday morning to the
westward to engage in coast survey
work around Seldovia. Kodiak and the
mainland east of Cook inlet. She is
now commanded by (’apt. If. W.
Rhodes, who was executive officer of
tlu* survey steamer Patterson last
year. She will make two or three
visits to Seward during the summer
to coal.
From ('apt. Rhodes it is learned that
the Patterson is working west of
Kadiak island: the Taku is now at La
touche surveying around the islands at
the entrance to Prince William sound.
While the MacArthur is in Seward
the tide register, which was necessari
ly taken up in the winter when the
dock gave way, will be located inside
the dock, near the dock office. It was
installed las^all by (’apt. Rhodes as
executive ofraer of the Patterson.
Frank E. Youngs (iocs to Seattle
Frank F. Youngs sailed on the Port
land for Seattle to study tin* Alaska
delegate light from that end for a few
days. He will then come* up to Juneau
and remain there until the territorial
conventions are held, the Republican
July 14. the Democratic July Hi. Mr.
Youngs has not fully determined
whether he will be a candidate before
the Republican convention. He is
personally opposed to a partisan light
in this election and will not go into it
unless a lack of popular support of the
non-partisan movement makes it neces
sary to go into a party convention to
be a candidate at all.
The Northwestern Steamship Com
pany carried four tons of mail to
Nome for nothing on the Oregon be
cause the postal department was hold
ing up all Nome mail while it unwound
some red tape which had become
twisted around the contracts.
Three river steamers, the Reck Isl
and. t he Wilbur Crimmin and t he Lot
tie Talbot, in winter quarters at Fair
banks, were sunk by the ice in the
spring break-up. The Rock Island
has been raised.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s Court
for the Territory of Alaska, Kenai Precinct,
Third judicial division.
IN PROBATE
In the matter of the estate of Mary Lowell,
deceased.
Notice is here by piven by the undersipned
administrator of the estate of Mary Lowell,
deceased, to the creditors of. and all persons
havinp claims apainst the said deceased to ex
hibit them, with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the first publication
of this notice, to the said administrator at the
office of S. O. Morford. the attorney for said
administrator, on Washinpton street, between
Third and Fourth avenues, in the town of
Seward. Kenai precinct, Territory of Alaska.
H. E. REVELL.
Administrator of the estate
of Mary Lowell, deceased.
Date of lirst publication June 30. 1906
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Commissioner’s court for the Terri
tory of Alaska. Division Three. Kenai precinct
In the matter of the estate of Robert E.
Stover, deceased.
Notice is hereby piven that the undersipned
has been duly appointed administrator with
the will annexed of the estate of Robert E.
Stover, deceased, and that all persons havinp
claims apainst the said deceased are hereby
required to exhibit said claims, with the neces
sary vouchers, within six months from the
date of this notice, to the said administrator
at his office on Fourth avenue, of Seward,
Alaska, that beinp the place for the transaction
of the business of the said estate in the said
precinct and district. _ ,
Dated at Seward, Alaska, this 28th day of
J“ne' J. J. MCMANUS.
Administrator with the will annexed,
of the estate of Robert E. Stover,
deceased.
First publication June 30. 1906.
Last publication July 28, 1906.
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C. S. HUBBELL
Civil Engineer
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Coleman House Seward
FRANK H. LASCY
U. S. MINERAL and LAND
Surveyor for the District of Alaska.
and notary public
Addres Seldovia, Cook Inlet, Alaska,
or care Mail Aerent, Steamer Dora
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Office and residence; Carsten's building
Office hours:•* to < i>. m and when not other
wise ensured.
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