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S \TUIU>A V. JULY 14. 1 " _
SOME YELLOW KID NEWS
- noted t • d «. .lift n e' i rv tiling.
,f. fo' .wir.g “news'* ;> jv. ' tiled in
Sat. t ' ‘ -X:*.' • '.r-'r:
.lit I**• * a .... .-m-rat n>: and
v a!»!e.;land and > iter o«a^v»i«liN‘
in >■ ' lorriv:
n ui *. -ate' s ; lie jKissage of
|»UN. The even:;- tin*
„ nt t "• : til a* ion
\ s , init; f.. to !< :t years. A' for
i „„i >ati|.g r. at *na wealth the nation
- invn leechi: - w alth trout Alaska
'ti wr.tory was ptir
, , >ed. Tin- A disk t « V ': a bd ,s do
affect a-penny’s worth of property
side of Alaska.
is this khai i ’• •• men-1
« city which exempts Hears! “news
? :n the possibility of belief except
w «ien corroborated by other testimony,
it- “Hears: Special Service is large
a compilation of rot made up in the;
.' w York Journal office with date
es to otab r. Haring the Uus-o-Jup
.. se war this special service was so
s arated w ith hop that thd managing
<• ior of the Seattle Times, a paper
t - y allied t » Hearst. was obliged in
s :-defense to wire one day to the
.. .rnal: “Send no more war news
v uer. in New York."
.'he financial success of the Hearst
r v>pupets offers overwhelming evi
t. tee of the axioms that the Ameri-I
* »u people like t * * l»e humbugged. that
.t - acker is Iworn every minute, and
tli u a lie will flit round the world
w hile the truth i> getting on its feet.
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INEXCUSABLE NEGLECT
Something U wr-ng. At least three
ti: * have slipp' d t>\ *> nee Col. Swanitz
h - issued a proclamation te .ir.g of
It - > miles of ra; . he ■» to have
completed from Valdez befote fall,
a: ' renewing his assurance that John
K ** ne and Ur. Brawr are wavelets
of Topical air. ft has been almost a
ti i and a half s ao-John llosene last
a: nmeeb that the Morgans, the Gug
genheim* am the lluvemeyers are
*h us ting their precious millions, upon
h i * u to rush work on a railroad from
W >t Valdez at .the rate of l'-’o miles
a \ear. with the usual guaranty on his
word of honor that Col. Swanitz and
it . Bruner are both dead heats. And
* -e yesterday afternoon not a line
h .s issued from I>r. Bruner's promul
g ttion factory, offering to wager his
la- dollar that Uosene and Swanitz
are expert manipulators of the type
writer but withering bunches of false
alarm as railroad builders.
Come to think about it. too, Kx-Gov.
McGrow and Andrew Burleigh have
allowed a full day to pass without
hurling a rock from their catapult
v uh a tag on it saying that Rosene,
Swanitz and Bruner together couldn’t
raise money enough to build a horse
tramway from the Valdez wharf to the
Valdez glacier.
A committee of investigation from
the Valdez chamber of commerce is
clearly in order. If anybody has been
guilty of negligence in the free ex
pression of his intentions and opinions,
the suffering public are entitled to
know why._
The story cabled to the Gateway a
short time ago that the Oregon legis
larure was Democratic but that Sena
tor Gearin. Democrat, had urged the
members to support Jonathan Bourne,
the Republican nominee for l\ S. sen
ator because Bourne had received a
majority of the popular vote, is shown
by late Seattle papers to have been
another sample of Hearst special ser
vice “news.” The fact is that not a
Democrat was elected to the lower
house and only one to the state senate.
Besides this one there are two Demo
cratic holdover senators. On these
facts some of the yellow kid’s hop
fiends concocted the wonderful story of
Senator Gearin's s> lf-denial.
The Portland Journal, which is a
yellow* one, drove the guicowar of
Baroda out of town before he spent
any money by getting gay in its de
scription of his retinue. Some day the
Ahkoond of Swat will come through
and make trouble for flippant critics.
OF INTEREST TO SEATTLE
One • >: Sewaro's leading business
men i-. terms t^, Gateway that since
the North* rn 1‘acilic established the
" r. ' rate from i’* ‘tland to Seattle
)\is re. has iii:r-i e extensive purchases
• l•("• and ami that almost, without
exv« ption tin p sis have been of bet
• : \ than similar articles bought
in Seattle. Furthermore the test he
ini' made s*> far iudicaUs that a Sew
ard rm reliant can buy in I’ortiand at
guivs sufficiently lower than those of
Sc.iitle 'a ;>a\ the freight rate now
nun • i . the Northern Pacific and
| stir. .Ke the cost in this jMirt less
| than "• Seattle purehases.
This no-reliant states that ii|Kin a boat
which came in recently lie received
|t . tp i.si • uiet ’> bolti from Seattle
! • i *im t"i am the latter were
i sher. The < ggs tr n Portland ap
■ to have tset t the most re
m ; ■ 'it w in they left that
, • Tii.w, tr<>,: Seattle undoubtedly
di rt: missed uv* bj fastidious
:vrs tin? to.wtr b. -tore they wore
, tK i a pot: tie Alaska market. In
iv s non-per:shai»!e goods
■ were ot better grade
• n.i: I !:> ■ -e !fi Sea'. ’.e at tile same
dr,:' ' the t**'tifuony, almost uni
.O' Ahi'ka business men since
Si i * *! e through the inertia of rival
v -' mtained a practical monopoly
i'; ’ iska trade. \ very young per
' ca: mderstand therefore, without
. why Seattle jobbers and
th.- newspapers which derive a large
share 1 their income from the jobbers
sh . d set up a discordant yawp when
Srattli ' monopoly ot Alaska trade is
t hreatened.
Seatt.e newspapers have nervously
;be,i "Wlm's afraid?*' while plain*
y showing that they were worried,
i » ' > reason why Seattle should
be afraid. \ii the town needs to do
- to i*e 'good. Let its jobbers abandon
on*'tu nable practices and their nat
ural position g ves them an advantage
over al competitors. At present the
term Seattle "jobljer** is understood in
Alaska in the slung sense.
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The miners and Democrats of Nome
have united upon Frank H. Waskey.
for the short term delegateship and |
Thomas Gale, the nominee of the 'Tan-1
ana miners* association, for the long
term. This leaves out W. H. Hard,
owner of the Nugget, and W. T. Per
kins. and the next hatch of news is
awaited with interest.
A young lady who taught school in
Valdez run away to Portland to escape
the editor ot the Prospector hut he
followed and brought her back. \ou
can't heat an Alaska sourdough by
running. _
A noted alienist finds that Harry
Thaw i- insane, which is quite a com
pliment to the young man. Most peo
p.f had supposed that he was merely a
damphool.
Kx-Senator Wilson telis Washington 1
Republicans that he will not run for
office any more. lie might have;
added. ••What’s the use?"
The earth will now stand -till for a
h w days until the territorial conven
tion-at-Juneau are numbered among
the things that were.
Tom Taggart i- too modest to tell
how much he is making out of hi
'gambling casino at French Lick.
The men who gobbled up Godfrey
Chealander's exjiosition have given
him a job at carrying parcels.
Great Britain has a chance to get
the horrors over her own canned meat
business.
Judge Parker rises a moment to say
that he is not as dead as he looks.
Cleary More Than a Wonder
The old stereotyped expression that
Cleary creek is a wonder does not be
gin to do justice to the real merit of
Cleary as a gold producer. It has no
equal in the history of mining. After
visiting a good part of the creek, one
is convinced that it is still good for
from three to five years, and in order
to appreciate the full force of this fact,
one must consider the great amount of
dirt taken out each year by the large
and improved plants, and the amount
that the creek has already yielded.
From No. 10 above to No. IT below the
creek is one great beehive of industry.
The laymen are so thick on some of the
claims that their dumps almost touch.
From the Cleary road summit, looking
down Cleary creek, one is reminded of
a hay field, so thickly are the rounded
mounds of dirt presented to the view,
Fairbanks News.
Valdez Elects Delegates
Valdez, elected the following dele
gates to the Republican convention at
Juneau: H. W. Miller, John Lyons,
William Finical, L. B. Wheat, S.
Blum and Al Grigsby. The only in
structions given the delegates were to
work for the division of the district.
Central California had a bad flood
last month from Stockton southward.
Covent Garden (London) dealers
think the demand for holly and mistle
toe is on the decline.
ADD TO FORCE I
ON RAILROAD
(Continued from paffe 1)
duccd on a 14-dc^rcc curve w hich con
tinues beyond tlie hijfh trestle. This
enirineerimr device was necessary to
obtain a 2.2 per cent yrade. 'Che
curve continues until the line on a
lower level is within 75 feet, horizont
ally. of it> course preceding the tun
nel entrance. Then it reverses and
swings away over other trestles,
through a deep roek cut, across a glac
ial moraine and alon^r a foothill * until
it curve*, out in the valley ajfuin to
make the loop, partly on trestles, and
then, having attained the required
descent, proceeiis down to the canyon
when >i\ tunnels lie in close series.
After passitey tunnel 7 the line cir
cles around t lie foothills a short dis
tance and then descends to the Hat on
a lonjr trestle. From there the road
way is nearly level and requires only
t he const ruction of atraekbed and an
occasional bridge for a dozen miles un
*il the rock work i*> reached aiyain :it
mile <>7. (<i mile <it> i*> a lony trestle,
for which the piles were driven sever
al months ai.ro. Much of the yratlinjf
through the Hat was done last fall and
men are working now on mile ol, he*
yond tunnel 7.
Near Pnd of'Tunnel Work
Kverv thing point' now to an earlier
eompletion of tunnel work than was
hoped for a few month' ago. Boring
in the series of >i.\ has been in ehurge ]
tor >t vi tal months, of M. A. Moran,
who brought to the work years of ex
perience in the mountain states. I mi-j
neis l\ ;i and 5 are linished, and \\ alter ]
S. .lorn '. resident engineer at -»2. who!
has charge of engineering work from
that point to •">•>. including the tunnel
series, says nothing but an accident
can postpone completion of till the tun
nels later than < )ctober.
'funnel 1 i> under the superintend
ence of H. A. McClure and only lot)
feet more of its length remains to he
bored, which will be done by Septem
ber 1. in his opinion and that of Fred
ti. L. Hunt, resident engineer. Delay
of tracklaying, if any occurs, will he
due to the rock work on a part of the
loop and possibly on the moraine just
above it. Mr. Hunt is confident, how
ever. that the rails can he laid over
the loop by the end of October.
A new camp at 51 was established
this week under the direction of Phil
Williams, camp supervisor, which will
soon he the most jiopulous of all the
railroad settlements. Here the men
will live who will do the work around
the loop, and several hundred will
soon he employed there.
.1. B. Cameron, engineer of construc
tion. now lives at .>2, and spends all
his time in the field of active opera
tions. _ _
Lumber Rates Cio Up
Lumber rates from Puget Sound to
coast wise ports are on the increase.
Lumber for Nome is also high. The
figure now quoted is $10. The North
west Commercial Company has char
tered the ship Great Admiral for the
Nome run. carrying lumber. The de
mand for lumber in Nome and other
Bering sea ports is great, and the ves
sels running there can scarcely take
care of the trade.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Kxcelsior: sailed from Seattle Nth.
Portland: sailed from Seattle 12th.
Santa Clara: in Seattle: sails for
Seward outside passage 10th.
Santa Ana: in Seattle: sails for Sew
ard inside passage 10th.
Bertha: sailed for Seattle Nth.
Oregon: sailed for Seattle 10th.
Dora: sailed westward Nth.
WEEKLY WEATHER RECORD
Weathet record for the week ending
July 13.
Tkmi‘i:i5atu::;:.
Max. Min.
Saturday 56 50 Rain
Sunday 66 49 Clear
Monday 68 49 Clear
Tuesday 59 51 Pt. cloudy
Wednesday 54 50 Rain
Thursday 53 53 Rain
Friday 57 52 Rain
f ST CHARLES |
EVAPORATED CREAM
In making St. Charles Cream we do not
use sugar. We take the best of milk and
reduce it to the consistency of a very rich
cream by’ evaporation. We do not use
acids or other antiseptics, but by the
scientific application of heat we destroy
all disease germs and all possibility of
fermentation. This is the reason why
St. Charles Cream keeps indefinitely and
will not curdle either in digestion or in
cooking. St. Charles Cream, when diluted
with pure water, is humanized milk.
It is the best food known to
science for infants and inva
lids. It is better than the best
kb ordiuary milk or cream for all
Z\ purposes—and just as cheap.
^ * Sold by “Best Grocers
E-Oerytohere.
ST. CHARLES CONDENSING CO..
FRANCE CLEARS
CAPT. DREYFUS
Judgment of Court Martial An
nulled and Officer Restored
to Army Rank.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Paris, July 1J The judgment of the
court martial at Rennes in IN'.K) in tin;
Dreyfus ease, against the defendant
ollicer, has been annulled. Dreyfus i»
restored to It is rank as captain and he
will he advanced.
Colonel Pici|iiart, who was degraded
for championing t lie cause of Dreyfus
throughout the controversy, will he
rest on d to his former position in'tin*
army._
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was charged
in ls'.M with celling mililan secrets to
(iermany and Italy. lie was con
victed !»y a court-martial, which was
undoubtedly packed against him, upon
testimony which has since been proven
to he perjury, and wa> degraded from
his rank on January 1S'.C>, and sen
tenced to prison on the Isle du Diahle,
off the coast of French Guiana, where
lie was rigidly confined until the
French senate in 1S!(!) voted for a re
vision of his cast*.
The second Dreyfus trial was bitter
ly contested. The ruling influences of
the war department were determined
to convict Dreyfus at any cost. When
the evidence wholly failed to make out
a ease. Cavaignoc, minister of war,
asserted that he had three documents
which absolutely proved the guilt of
Dreyfus, lie was linallv compelled to
produce the documents, and one was
claimed to he in the handwriting of
Dreyfus. A little later Col. Henry
confessed that he forged this writing
at the command of superior officers, j
Henry then committed suicide.
Nevertheless Dreyfus was convicted
and sentenced to ten years imprison
ment. I'icquurt was discharged from
the army for defending Dreyfus, and
Zola, the novelist, was sentenced to a
year's imprisonment for the same
cause and went into exile to avoid it.
The chief evidence against Dreyfus
was a document called a “bordereau.’'
This was not in Dreyfus’ handwriting,
although an attempt was made to
prove that it was. The chief stool
pigeon of the war department was
Major Rtterhary, who was afterward
dismissed from the array, went into
foreign lands, and finally confessed
that he wrote the bordereau himself,
in the meantime Dreyfus had been I
pardoned because of popular clamor.
He has been seeking to clear his name
ever since.
Breaks Smelter Records
Tacoma, All previous records of
ore afkl concentrates by water for
twenty-four hours were broken at the
Tacoma smelter recently when three
large cargoes arrived. These vessels
brought 5,<>05 tons valued at approxi
mately, $250,000. The British bark
Chiltenford brought from Antofagesta,
Chile, nearly 2,000 tons of copper py
rites. From the Treadwell mines,
Douglas Island, the American steamer
Leelanaw brought 2,015 tons. The
Leelanaw towed from the Niblack
mines the barge John C. Potter with
1,000 tons of copper ore, and <100 tons of
copper sulphide ore.
Make Remarkable Hush
Thirty-five days from Seattle to
Nome is the record-breaking trip made
by B. T. Dyer and Crosby Keen, both
well-known old-timers of the penin
sula, who reached Nome yesterday
afternoon. Messrs. Dyer and Keen
left Seattle on the night of March 5,
and reached Valdez March 11, immed
iately starting for Fairbanks. Mr.
Dyer says that had they not encount
ered very heavy trails and a severe
storm on the Yukon they could have
lopped off four or five days from their
rip.—Nome Nugget.
flanufacturlng in Alaska
According to figures given out by the
director of the census the number of
manufacturing establishments in Alas
ka in 1905 was 82 as against 48 in 1900.
The capital invested increased in the
same period from $3,568,704 to $10,
684,799. The cost of materials used
advanced from $1,762,583 to $3,741,946,
and the value of products increased
from $4,194,421 to $8,244,524, or 96 per
cent.__
Tacoma Ships Copper to Europe
Tacoma,—The Liverpool-Tacoma lin
er Teucer, of the Blue Funnel fleet,
recently took on 560 tons of copper
bars for Livorpool, Hamburg and Rot
terdam. This is the first shipment of
copper ever sent from here to Europe
direct, and is the largest cargo of cop
per ever sent from the smelter by
water, with one exception. Last year
a slightly larger order was sent to
China on the steamer Shawmut.
A new hotel has been opened by the
Tacoma Eastern Railroad at Long
mire Springs, near Mt. Tacoma. Dr.
J. S. Kloeber, of Green River Hot
Springs, has taken a long term lease
on the hotel, which has accommoda
for 100 guests. It opened July 1.
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Pacific
Coast
trading
Company
WHOLESALE JOBBERS and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
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Parties desiring large out
fits should call and get job
bing prices from T. D. Cor
lew, the manager
H. S. WATERMAN
SKW’Alib. ALASKA.
MINING ENGINEER
ASSAY OFFICE
Reports on mines. Ore Analysis
Gold. *1-80
Gold and Silver. 2.00
Copix*r. J-80 i
Lead. ^80
Gold. Silver and Lead.
Gold. Silver and Copper. 3.50
Gold. Silver. Copi*er and Lend. T.80
Gold and Silver Umpire. 8,(W
Iron. l-°0
Sulphur. Aluminum. Tin. Platinum.
Quicksilver. Zinc. Nickel. Cobalt.
Chromium, etc. 0.00
Mill tests.. *15 to $30
Ore analysis.*10 and up
Ten i»er cent discount on $10 or more.
TP. HAINES
Do all kinds of Tin, Galvan
ized and Copper work. Man
ufacture Stoves. General
job work of all descriptions.
Fourth Avenue, Next to Postoffice
I
Alaska Restaurant
Newly Fitted up—Prompt Service
Best and Freshest Fruit and
Vegetables the rtarket Affords
Open 6 a. m. to 8 p. m. Fourth Avonnue
SEWARD PLUMBING &
HEATING COMPANY
J. W. SPENCER, Proprietor
Basement of New Hale Bldg
Seward Water & Power
Company
JOHN. A. NELSON. Manager
Office—Third and Washington streets
DR. C. T. DAGGETT
DENTIST
S. !•:. Cor. Fourth Ave. and Washington St.
SEWARD - - ALASKA
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Over Brown & Hawkins’ store
SEWARD - - - ALASKA
C. H. GIBBONS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office and residence: Carsten's buildinz
Office hours:2to 4 p. m. and when not other
wise enframed.
CECIL H. CLEGG
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Fourth Avenue, - Seward, Aka.
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Sha whan Bid, Washington St.
SAMUEL M. GRAFF
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Next to Bank of Seward
SEWARD. - - ALASKA
E. R. GRAY
NOTARY PUBLIC
SEWARD - - ALASKA
W. J. STONE
Architect
SEWARD - - - ALASKA
H. H. HILDRETH
NOTARY PUBLIC
and CONVEYANCER
Abstracts of Title to mining and town
property furnished—Examination and
reports made on any property.
SEWARD - ALASKA
O. LASCY
U. S. DCP. MINERAL and LAND
SURVEYOR FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA
Civil Engineer, and Land and Min
ing Attorney. Address Seldovia,
Alaska, or in care of Mail Agent,
Steamer Dora.
FRANK H.LASCY
U. S. MINERAL and LAND
Surveyor for the District of Alaska.
AND NOTARY PUBLIC
Addres' SeJdovia, Cook Inlet, Alaska,
or care Mail Aaront, Steamer Dora
C. S. HUBBELL
Civil Engineer
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Coleman House Seward
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
SEWARD CAMP NO. 21
Meets every Saturday evening at 8:30
in Kenai club rooms over Commerce
restaurant.
C. H. Gibbons,
Arctic Chief.
G. Nordyke
Arctic Recorder.