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HAS ALASKA BEEN THE SCENE
OE BRUTAL SERIES OE CRIME
JUNEAU, Nov. 17.—Edward j
Krause, who has been arrested in j
Seattle on the charge of kidnaping
William Christie, of Treadwell, is now
also accused of committing two other
murders. He is charged w ith the
murder of the Moe, ot Seattle, whom
he impersonated in Alaska. When
Krause went south on the steamer
Jefferson on which he was arrested he
traveled under the name of Moe which
is the name he was known by in dif- j
ferent places in Alaska. That he
killed Moe is now a belief which is
gaining strength. He is also accused
of the murder of Captain James,
SUICIDE ON
CORDOVA R. R.
JOHN MOHAN. WIDELY KNOWN
UOADHOrSE MAN. MEETS
AN VWFl'L END.
CORDOVA, Xov. 17.—John R. Mo
gnn, Sr., owner of the roadhouse at
Salcha. on the trail between Fair
banks and Chitina, has committed
suicide by throwing himself in front
of a switch engine near the Copper
River Railroad station here. When
the engine struck him it fractured h»> i
skull and cut otT both legs so that
death was instantaneous. He was j
fifty years of age and had left his
roadhouse to take a trip to the states.
The cause of the act has not yet been
clearly learned but it is supposed that
he was mentally deranged. He was
one of the best known roadhouse
keepers.
LAND OFFICE RECEIVES
MONEY FROM ANCHOR VOF.
Receiver Frank Boyle, of the local
land office received the sum ot $-'86
yesterday from the lessees of title
lands at Anchorage. The land has
been temporarily leased to persons in
the town for the purpose of conduct
ing various businesses. Those rent
ing the property have erected ware
houses and other buildings thereon.
The rentals are for one year. The oc
cupancy thereof is subject to the call
of the government. The land will
probably be needed next season when
the railroad commission begins con
struction of terminals there.—Juneau
Dispatch.
INDEPENDENT SHOWING
I P BETTER TH VN EVER
L. S. Robe, manager of the Inde
pendent Gold Quartz Mining Com
pany of Willow creek, passed through
Seward yesterday on the Admiral
Evans and stated that the Independ
ent mines are showing up better this
year than they have ever before. He
is on his way out to Denver to buy a
mill, which he will install on the prop
erty at the earliest time, possibly
early next spring.
LADIES AID MEET
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist church will meet tomorrow
afternoon at the Parsonage to make
final arrangements for the tenth an
nual bazaar and ice cream social to
be given at the church next I* riday
evening.
KANSAS CITY WILL BE
RENAMED ALASKA
The steamship Kansas City* which
was here this morning is to be re
named Alaska as soon as she has been
fully fixed up and placed on the regu
lar passenger run.
No advertiser can afford to omit
tho Seward Gateway.
Plunkett of Juneau. The murder of
Moo is believed to have been com
mitted in Seattle and was a mystery
until the arrest of Krause for the kid
naping of Christie when the fact came
out that Krause had impersonated
Moe in Alaska after the latter’s dis
appearance. The kidnaping of
Christie took place two weeks ago and
has created the greatest sensation of
the kind in the history of this part
of the territory. It is generally un
derstood that Krause was in love with
Mrs. Christie no matter what is said
♦o the contrary. He will be brought
here for trial.
CORDOVA WANTS
SPENCE FIRED
DEMOCRATIC CUB PASSED
RKSOLl’TION LAST NIGHT
ASKING HIS RECALL.
CORDOVA. Nov. IT.—The Demo
cratic club of Cordova last night
passed resolutions asking for the re
moval of District Attorney Spence
from office. In addition to the usual
charges brought against the district
attorney the Cordova club charged
him with incompetency. The resolu
tions also declared that he has
brought ridicule on the office by the
appointment of relatives to jobs that
; could have been easily tilled with Al
i askans.
PIONEERS TO DANCE
WKDNESI)AY EVENING
(ireat Dance to In* Given Thanksgiv
ing Eve and All Orders
Will Join.
At the meeting of the Pioneers of
Alaska, held last night, it was decid
ed to give a dance Thanksgiving eve.
Wednesday, November 24th, at the
Arctic Brotherhood Hall
The dance will be given under
the auspices of the Pioneers and a
committee of three was appointed by
Pres. J. L. Green to take charge of
the dance and make it a howling suc
cess. The committee men are: H. E.
Ellsworth, Chuirman; J. M. Sloan and
E. E. Chamberlin. It is understood
the A. B.s’ will donate the hall for
the evening for this dance. One
plan of the committee is to have a
large number of tickets for the dance
printed, and every one wishing to help
out \\ ill bu\ as many of them as they
feel they are able, whether they in
tend to come or not.
A committee of the Elks waited on
the Pioneers last night to offer every'
aid in the matter.
BUYS LOT
Herbert Tozier has bought lot 2 in
block 9 from Jack Cummings.
SCRAFFORD CHARTERS BOAT
E. L. Scrafford has chartered D. D.
Stewart’s boat for a journey of a
hundred miles. Scrafford is the Fair
banks antimony man.
WICKERSHAM NOT TO
PUBLISH HIS ANSWER
Delegate Wickersham has decided
not to publish further correspondence
between him and Colonel Richardson,
regarding road appropriation matters.
He had a copy of a long letter which
he had sent in reply to Colonel Rich
ardson but he came to the conclusion
that the publication of it would have
.served no purpose, he said. The two
men will probably have the whole
thing out when they get to Washing
ton.
Over 500 Miles of
Copper Wire Here
Takes That Much to Supply Phone
Service for City ol
Seward.
The amount of copper wire strung
in Seward to supply the city with a
telephone service would stretch a
distance of more than five hundred
miles if placed in one continuous
string. The cable crossing Fourtn
avenue is composed of three hundred
and four wires, and not everyone
knows that each of these wires is a
separate and distinct telephone wire
carrying its own separate messages.
For the past three months the calls
each day averaged more than five
hundred, which means more than six
teen thousand calls a month. The
revenue of the company for telephone
service is ten dollars a day so that it
receives two cents for each call. It
is estimated that each call saves the
person calling a walk of about seven
hundred and fifty feet. If we say it
means a saving of a walk of five hun
dred feet or only one block it means
that a total saving of a fifty mile
walk a day is saved to the people for
that ten dollars.
ADMIRAL FARRAGl’T
ON THE WAY HERE
JUNEAU, Nov. 17.—'The Admiral
Farragut left here at one o’clock this
morning and is the last boat for An
chorage this year. She has fourteen
hundred tons of freight. Amongst
her passengers for Seward are Ed.
Hough, Mrs. G. E. Harnett, Miss M.
lx>ng, C. D. Colman, and F. E.
Whelpley.
TO ASSIST MEARS
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JUNEAU, Nov. 17.—Among the
passengers on the Farragut which
passed through here this morning is
H. P. Warren who will be assistant
to Commissioner Mears of the En
gineering commission.
NO FURTHER NEWS ON
ANCHORAGE LABOR MATTER
The Gateway wired to Anchorage
today for confirmation of the story
that all foreigners had been laid off
on the railroad work but no answer
was received. The Anchorage peo
ple, possibly, think it is a matter that
should not receive too much publicity,
and, maybe, they are right.
SISTER MONALDI BURIED
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17.—The fun
eral of Sister Monaldi, late superior
ess of the hospital, was held yester
day. The burial took place here.
FIRST TOLOVANA WEDDING
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17.—The first
Tolovana wedding will soon take
place when Vera Kelley and Marcus
Tyler will be made man and wife.
The bridegroom is coming from the
outside.
gone to sell more
LOTS AT ANCHORAGE
When Agent A. Christensen of the
land office left for Anchorage the
other day he went for the purpose of
disposing of more lots there. When
asked if the government had put a
new addition to the town he said no
but that several lots still remained
to be sold and several people were
clamoring for them.
Fred Martin walked in this morning
from Mile 26, where he was occupied
with the K. A. G. mine.
DELAYED CABLES!
THIRTY-ONE KILLED
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Thirty-one
men were killed yesterday by an ex
plosion in the fifteen hundred foot
level of the Northwestern Improve
ment Company’s mine at Ravensdale
thirty miles from Seattle. Only three
were saved. The explosion is believ
ed to have been caused by dust. Work
ers with oxygen helmets are working
in relays against gas, smoke and de
oris. Six bodies and the three in
jured survivors have been taken out
and now it is feared the work can-(
not continue. Many of the dead are
Americans.
INVESTIGATING KRAUSE
SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—The police
are now investigating the charges
that have been made at Juneau that
tvrause, who is held lor the kidnap
ing of Christie, also probably kidnap
ed Captain Plunkett, a pioneer, at
Juneau on October 2D. The jwlice have
just got possession of a letter signed
with the name of Plunkett saying
that his launch had been burned and
that he was going to Seattle and the
police have found that this letter was
written on the same typewriter, on
che same paper, and the signature is
in tne same handwriting as the let
ter which was received by Mrs.
Christie after the disappearance* of
her husband.
BRITISH GOVT. IN PARIS
PARIS, Nov. 17.—Asquith, Grey,
Balfour and Lloyd George, the four
British cabinet ministers who have
taken over the conduct of the whole
war for Great Britain, arrived here
last night but the object of their visit
has not been announced. The fact
that the whole war cabinet of the
British empire thought it necessary
to come has given rise again to the
rumors of peace.
HILLSTROM’S DEATH DECAYED
SALT LAKE, Nov. 17.—The presi
dent has requested the governor to
delay the execution of Hillstrom, next
Friday until there is a closer investi
gation. Hillstrom is a member of the
I. W. W. to delay whose execution
several threatening letters have been
sent to the governor.
HINDENBURG FOR WEST
LONDON, Nov. 17.—Marshal von
Hindenburg is now hastening from
Russia to take charge of the German
armies in the west and the assump
tion is that Germany intends to
launch a great offensive against the
French and British.
ACCUSE BRITISH OFFICERS
LONDON, Nov. 17.—In the house
of lords today Baron St. Davids
levelled the charge that British army
officers at the front play bridge every
night and sleep late every day while
the men are perishing in the trenches.!
St. Davids declared that the stair of
ficers should be carrying rifles and
fighting instead of entertaining wo
men at headquarters as they are now
doing. The speech has caused a sen
sation.
BRIAND, SOCIALIST, IS
! NEW PRIME MINISTER
OF FRENCH REPUBLIC.
(Rene Vivlanl, premier of France, having
resigned, President Poincare put into the
hands of Aristide Briand, heretofore
vice premier and minister of Justice, the
task of forming a oabinet for France.
M. Briand Is a Socialist and was prime
minister In 1909-11 and again In January
and February, 1913. He has held various
offices in former cabinets. J
CAPTAIN CANN LEARNS
SAD NEWS IN JUNEAU
JUNEAU—Captain Harry Cann, of
the City of Puebla, which sailed south
early Wednesday morning, had not
heard the news of the death of his
father until the sad intelligence was
made known to him by Dr. L. 0.
; Sloane, when the vessel was in port.
Dr. Sloane had been summoned to
the ship to treat a through passen
ger, who was quite ill, and upon
learning that the popular master of
the vessel had not been told of his
father’s demise, volunteered to in
form him.—Dispatch.
W. II. PETERSON KILLED
BY BROWN BEAR Al DOPE
ANCHORAGE, Nov. 17.—The animal when the bear driven mad
launch Cassic E has just arrived here turned on his pursuer and killed him.
bringing the body of W. H. Peterson The body was frightfully mangled,
who was killed by a brown bear in the So far as can be learned Peterson
vicinity of Hope on the second of this had continued to follow the bear after
month. It has been learned that wounding it and the bear did not turn
Peterson had been hunting the bear immediately on being shot but when
and had succeeded in wounding the he found Peterson still following.
Anchorage Opens
Her New Schools
Seventy-one Pupils Attend and Num
ber Will be Double in a
Few Days.
ANCHORAGE, Nov. 15.—The pub
lic schools here opened today with
seventy-one pupils enrolled. Double
this number is expected in a few
days. Miss Orah D. Clark is the prin
cipal and also a teacher. Mrs. N. D.
McCullough is the teacher of the pri
mary grades. Miss Murphy and Miss
Bennett are in charge of the inter
mediate grade*.
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❖ OUR GREAT CABLE *
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The cable has gone out of business
again, this time somewhere between
Sitka and Seattle, and at 2 p. m. to
day the Gateway had not received any
outside messages. Some of the spec
ial dispatches contained in the paper
today are special United Press mail
messages which arrived on the Kan
sas City this morning. An effort was
made to secure outside news over
the Canadian route but this brought
forth nothing up to the time stated.
However, cables may yet arrive in
time.
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FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17.—'The Com-1
mercial Club will hold a big booster
meeting here on the thirtieth ol
November and start a campaign ol
publicity for the Tanana valley.
NOTHING IS HEARD OF
MISSING KETCHIKAN MEN
Irwin, DeCosta and Clark, the trio
of Ketchikan men, over whose safety
the entire Wrangell Narrows section
is greatly alarmed, since they failed
to return from a short trip, have
left no traces of their whereabouts,
excepting a wrecked launch. A
search is being conducted by several
parties.
K. A. G. CLOSES
The Kenai Alaska Gold co. has
ctosod down its mine near Mile 26 for
the winter. It is reported that the ore
is plentiful and of much better grade
than heretofore produced, when the
mine shut down.
TOLOVANA TOWN HAS
ORGANIZED FOR FIRE
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17.—Brooks,
the new Tolovana city has organized
for protection against fire and is now
ready to meet any such emergency as
that which usually comes to new Al
aska cities.
GOVERNMENT BUILT
TRAIL IS NO GOOD
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17.—The trail
which has recently been built from
this city to Tolovana has been found
to be no good and the citizens are now
working to secure a better one.
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FAIRBANKS, Nov. 17.—Judge
Bunnell will leave for Valdez and the
outside next Saturday. lhe court
session will come to an end tomorrow
at noon.
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❖ NOVEMBER NUMBER *
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In connection with the November
edition of the All-Alaska Review
which is now on sale attention should
be drawn to the article by Mr. C. B.
Walker, register of the land office.
Mr. Walker wrote this article special
ly for the Review and apparently
studied the subject deeply so that Al
askans might understand fully the
history of the development of the
present conditions in taking up lands.
It is something which all Alaskans
should know. As can be seen by the
November issue the outside advertis
ers are now beginning to use the Re
view largely and its success is doubly
assured.
POSTPONE SOCIAL
The Loyal Order of Moose has post
poned its social next Friday evening
to avoid interference with the Bazaar
of the Methodist church.
Ben Sweasy says there’s a man
over,, at Cooper creek who recently
discovered a quartz ledge that was
so rich that he got frightened and
ran away from it.
The jury in the case of Harry
Bentley vs. J. P. Rose, of Fairbanks,
awarded the plaintiff the sum of $3,
000 for being crippled for life through
the accidental discharge of a gunrin
the hands of the defendant. The
jury also recommended that the sum
of $1,200 be set aside by the court
for the education of young Bentley,
who is only 17 years of age. Judge
Bunnell told the jury that the. guard
ian of the boy, who was his father,
would not be bound to abide by the
recommonedation of the court.
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IN HUNDREDS
DR. BAl’GHMAN RKC'O.M.M KN DS
SAFKGl ARDS AROF.ND
K ASl'LLO R1VKR.
Seventy to a hundred moo.-*e are
drowned every year in Kasullo river
and Dr. Baughman has recommended
that safeguards in the shape of fence
be placed to prevent the animals from
crossing at certain points. The moose
try to cross on the ice sometimes
when it is too thin to bear them and
the result is often disastrous. The
dangerous zone is about three miles
long and the work of guarding it
would be very little and of small ex
pense considering the advantage.-* to
be gained. It is estimated that the
number of moose on Kenai peninsula
is about four thousand. The difiicutly
of estimating the number may be
judged by the fact that estimates
range all the way from fifteen hun
dred to fifteen thousand. Dr.
Baughman thinks four thousand
to be a fair estimate. lie also be
lieves the moose are holding their
own. During the winter before last
many of them were lost because of
the deep snow but they got on w.-l
last winter.
The Indians relate the interesting
fact that no moose existed on Kenai
peninsula eighty years ago. At that
time caribou were plentiful but they
disappeared and the moose came in.
I)r. Baughman believes the moose are
neither decreasing nor increasing
and that they are just about holding
their own.
PLANS FOR CHANGING
STEAMER KANSAS CITY
Plans for extensive alterations to
the steamer Kansas City, recently
purchased at San Francisco from the
Union Iron Works by the Alaska
Steamship company have been com
pleted by her new ow ners, says a
Seattle paper.
The alterations include the build
ing of a new bridge, the raising of
the pilot house, the construction ot
officers’ quarters on the bridge deck,
the converting of the rooms of the
vessel from three to two-berth rooms,
and the building of an observation
room aft similar to those on the
steamers Alameda and Mariposa.
The vessel will also be refurnished
and recarpeted throughout. It is
estimated that approximately $40,000
will be spent on the liner.
PRESIDENT’S WIFE
SUING COMPANY
Newsboy Mining Company of Fair
banks Being Sued for Services
of Its President.
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 13.—Mrs. A.
E. Golden, wife of President Louis
Golden of the Newsboy Mining com
pany, has started suit against the
company to foreclose on a mortgage
for $20,000, alleged to be due for the
services of her husband in promoting
the company.
The Newsboy mine is located on
Fairbanks creek and was one of the
first quartz propositions to attract at
tention in this camp. The mine is
equipped with a mill and other ma
chinery but has never been operated
at a profit with the exception of the
first few months while the rich sur
face ore was being milled.
The values of the ore failed to carry
downward with the lead and every
one who has attempted to operate it
has lost money. The stock is owned
by Fairbanks people but it is believed
the suit will be allowed to go by de
fault..
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Fred Laubner says Knik is one of
the liveliest places imaginable just
now. Everyone there ha/ money.
Don’t forget the Gateway is estab
I lished at Seward, Alaska,