Seward Weekly Gateway
- SEWAUD. ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15. 1!M>7.
VOL. Ill, NO. I l ___ __ ■ ... . : = =
WILL COMPLETE
SUNRISE TRAIL
Waj. Richardson Says Whatever
Is Necessary to Finish It
W ill Be Expended.
SIM FIXED ONLY ESTIMATE
Road Will Be Made Passable at All
Times With Bridges and Cor
duroy in Wet Places.
The Sunrise trail "ill be completed
this summer whether the cost he s
or more. Maj. Richardson states. I he j
allowance of *5000 for the road was,
made by the Alaska road commission
in apportioning the congressional
appropriation because the estimate in
possession of the commission "as
slightly under that sum.
It is apparent that two estimates for
the rend were made one for a trail
in the narrower sense of the word, and
•ne for a wagon road. The estimate
for the former must have been the one
transmitted by somebody to the com
mission. The estimate for a wagon
road was $13,000, made b> W. H. Reel,
the Alaska Central engineer who with
Jerry (Alale made the survey and
estimate.
Two Cost Estimates
The first notice the commission had
of a larger probable cost than $5000
was when the resolution of the cham
ber of commerce asking for a larger
appropriation than $5000 was received
by the commission at Seattle. Maj.
Richardson promptly wired in reply
that the estimate given them "as
$5000 but that they would finish the
trail this year. What he meant by
that statement he explained last
night as follows:
“We never had any intention of con
structimg the Sunrise trail by easy
stages. The intention always was to j
finish this year and when we made the
appropriation of $5,000 it was because
the estimate furnished us was within
that amount. Any sum in excess of
that which tnvybe required will be ex
pended. Seward is entitled to the ex
penditure of a larger sum than seems
to be necessary in any case to make
this road and we certainly [will allow
all that is needed.
Will Be First Class Trail
“Of course the word trail is one of
elastic definition. There are several
kinds of trails in Alaska, from the pack
trail to the wagon road, but the Sun
rise trail will be as good as most of the
government yoads in Alaska. It "'ill
be wide enough to allow teams to pass.
It will have good grades, wet places
will be corduroyed and streams will be
bridged. Of course we will not blow
out big stumps or other obstructions
that require expensive work but it will
be a good winter trial for sleds and a
passable wagon trail in dry weathei.
Capt. G. K. Armstrong will direct
the work on the trail. At first he "ill
employ about twenty-five men,
including the camp outfit. Later this
number may be slightly increased, if it
is found neccessary in order to finish
the wot k before wet weather sets in as j
a regular urogram in the fall. 1 he
plan is to complete the trail by the,
middle of September. About a dozen
men were emploved in Seattleanti "ill
arrive on the Portland. The remain-j
dec will be picked up here. None
would have been brougnt from Seattle
had not 'the commission ascertained
that men were scarce here.
LIGHTHOUSE TENDER
ARMERIA CALLS IN
The lighthouse tender Armeria.
Capt. Gregory, reached port this morn
ing at 8 o'clock freiu Astoria he.i home
port, by way Puget sound and the in. |
side passage and sailed again at noon.
She came from Juneau and Sitka direct
to Seward. Her business on the trip
is carrying supplies to lighthouses.
From here she will go *to St. Michael.
Between Seward and ttat port the
onlv lighthouse is at Scotch Gap,
Unmak pass.
The Armeria is a new boat and a
verv handsome craft. She can make
fourteen knots.
Capt. Werlich, chief of the Thirteenth
lighthouse district, is on the Armeria.
King Edward is now wearing a walk
ing stick about as tall as himself and
a derby hat that looks like a half
section of a gourd.
ELSIE TO RUN
FROM SEWARD
Capt. Murray’s Boat Will Make
Circuit Between This Port
and Valdez.
PLANS TO CALL ONCE A WEEK
Steamer Has fine Passenger Accom
modations and Can Carry 200
Tons of freight.
Steamer Elsie, the new boat lately
brought up from Juneau by her owner,
Capt. Harry Murray, reached port at
noon today from Valdez. Capt. Mur
ray came over with her to confer with
local business men about placing her
on a regular weekly run from \ aide/
to Seward, calling at all ports around
the sound, both on the mainland and
the islands.
The Elsie was recently built at
Juneau. She is of 250 tons gross and
has a cargo capacity of 200 tons. She
has six staterooms and can carry a
large number of passengers without
berths. She is a handsome little craft
and can run in the open sea as well as
any boat.
Sam Christian, formerly purser of
the Bertha and prior to that for a long
time in the Seattle office of the Alaska
Commercial Company, is purser of the
Elsie and will have charge of her busi
ness, as Capt. Murray will not run on
her himself.
Seward business men are able to
give Capt. Murray assurauces that this
port will furnish a steady traffic of
considerable volume if the boat comes
here weekly, having the promise of
much of the island trade.
The Elsie will take part of the lum
ber purchased here by the Reynolds
company for its buildings at Latouehe,
arid some merchandise already booked
for Latouehe and Knight island. She
j will sail this evening.
REFUSES CARGO
UF INLET COAL
Big1 Steamers Will not Carry
Shipments from Port
Graham to Seward.
William G. Wharf of Seldovia, who
owns and operates the coal mine at
Port Graham, went through Seward
on the Bertha, on his way to Seattle,
to try to induce the steamship com
panies to haul coal to Seward. He
has orders for coal from the railroad
company and others but none of the
steamers will carry it for some reason,
although they come back this way
empty.
The mine is turning out thirty tons
a day and Mr. Wharf says he can
| treble that output at any time if he
j can get the product hauled away. He
has a large quantity sold to the Pa
cific Cold Storage Company to go to
Nome but the l»oats will not come for
that until late in the summer.
RISE IN MEAT
STARTS RIOT
Goes Up 4 Cents at Cleveland
and Crowds Try to Boycott
Butcher Shops.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
| Cleveland, June 13— Meat prices
went up today 4 cents a pound and
mobs surround many of the retail
butcher shops to prevent people from
purchasing meat. Upon the announce
ment of the advance a boycott was or
ganized and crowds of men are trying
to dissuade people from buying. In
some places riots have resulted and
the police have been obliged to drive
back the crowds.
Bar silver is slowly coming up again
and was quoted at 67 cents an ounce
I on May 25.
DENIES REQUEST
FOR INJUNCTION
Judge Wickersham Refuses Re
lief Asked by Morrison
Party at Katalla.
MATTER ARGUED THREE DAYS
4
Application Arose Over Claim of
Plaintiff That Rival Was Tres
passing on Right of Way.
By Catla to The Dally Gateway.
Juneau, June 12 Judge Wicker
shair. in the U. S. district court denied
the application of the Alaska Pacific
Terminal & Railroad Company for an
injunction against the Copper River «fc
Northwestern at Katalla. The case
occupied three days.
Both companies purport to be build
ing from Katalla to the interior and
the Bruner-Morrison company claimed
that the Rogers company was tres
passing upon the right of way of the
former.
TRACKLAYING TO
BE RESUMED
Bridge on 50 Nearly Finished and
Another Mile of Rails
Will Follow.
Tracklaying on the railroad will be
resumed next week and the rails will
then be extended about a mile further
from the present terminus on mile 50.
The noxt stop will be at the first tres
tle and bridge on the loop on mile 51.
The Howe truss on mile 50 will be
completed within a few days and the
grade through the hill cut just this
side of it will be leveled almost as
soon. Work is already in progress at
taking out the few feet of gravel
which remains above grade in the cut.
The track end now is just this side of
the cut. Between the truss bridge
which is about finished and the first
one on mile 51 the only bridge work is
a short trestle near the end of mile 50
which will not delay tracklaying more
than a day or two after the rails
reach it.
Construction of the trusses on the
loop and the trestles which lead to
them is making good progress. The
track there will cross Placer river
twice. The first bridge will be much
higher and longer than the second.
The timber for both of them is all saw
ed and can be put in place quickly
when carried there on cars. Enough
to keep a small gang at work has al
ready been hauled there by team from
the end of the track. When the track
reaches the loop the entire bridge
force will work there.
SENDS TROOPS
INTO SALVADOR
President Zelaya of Nicaragua:
May Have Started Central
American War.
By Cable to The Dolly Gateway.
Washington, D. C., June 15—The
action of President Zelaya of Nicara
gua in sending troops into Salvador
seems likely to result in a general
Central American war. The United
States government is trying to prevent
it.
—
NICARAGUA AND SALVADOR
GO TO SCRAPPING AGAIN
City of Mexico, June 12—Nicaragua
and Salvador are at war again not
withstanding their recent peace set
tlement. Rebels captured Acajutla
today.
The cleanup on No. 16 below on
Tenderfoot creek in the Tanana this
spring started out at the rate of $400
an hour. The company had 10,000
four wheelbarrow bucketfuls on the
dump when sluicing began.
SAIL TO DEATH
IN MARCH GALE
—
C. A. Lambert and F. Peterson
Not Seen Since they Left
Lagle Harbor.
STARTED EOR KODIAK IN SLOOP
Tremendous Nor’wester Blew up
Which Undoubtedly Carried their
Frail Craft Out to Sea.
—
Charles A.Lambert and Fred 1 ’eterson
have not been heard of since March
14 when they left Eagle Harbor, on
Kodiak island, in a small sloop, to go to
Kodiak. That night a terrific storm
blew up,the worst of the winter, and the
temperature dropped below zero. The
wind was a nor'wester and it seems
certain that it carried the bout far out
to sea. In that case tho little craft was
undoubtedly lost.
The night ufter the men left Eagle
Harbor the sloop was seen anchored
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RUNS ON ROCKS”
IN DENSE FOG
Gasoline Schooner Rita Newman
Total W reck on Simon
offsky Island.
The gasoline schooner Rita Newman,
belonging to the Northern Alaska
Company of San Francisco, struck a
reef on SimonofTsky island, one of the
Shumagin group, in a dense fog the
morning of May 2,5 and is supposed to
be a total wreck. Her crew of twelve
landed safely and all except the cook
came to Seward on the Dora.
The crew think there is no hope of
saving the schooner as she had two big
holes in her starboard keel and filled
so rapidly after she struck that the
men had barely time to get into a
small boat and put off. She is not
submerged as she struck in shallow
water but will undoubtedly break to
pieces rapidly.
The Rita Newman is a vessel of 180
tons. She sailed from San Francisco
May 1 for the cannery at Koggiung,
Bristol bay, with gasoline and machine
oil. She had no other cargo. Her
master was Capt. Martinsen. She
struck the rocks at 12:07 in the morn
ing as she was groping in the fog try
ing to locate the shore.
ASSASSINS KILL
COL. KOTLAROFF
\ Port Commissioner of St. Peters
burg Victim of Revolution
ary Slayers.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
St. Petersburg, June 14—Early this
morning Col. KotlarofT, commissioner
of the port, was assassinated, and a
plot was revealed to overthrow the
government and kill the czar.
Premier Stolypin appeared in the
lower house at noon and demanded the
immediate arrest of sixteen members
on the ground that they were hatch
ing a plot aguinst the other house.
He said if action to deliver up the
accused members were not taken im
mediately he would dissolve the
douma.
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EIGHT HOURS IN ALASKA
ON GOVERNMENT WORKS
Washington, D. C., June 10—The
eight-hour law on government work
applies to all government work in
Alaska. Secretary Taft so decided
before leaving Washington.
The Tasmania mine in New South
Wales is so wet that 3,000,000 gallons
of water are pumped out of it daily.
The Nome fleet from Seattle this
year includes eighteen steamers and
several barges and sailing ships.
OHIO STRIKES
SUBMERGED ICE
Passengers Lower Lifeboats and
Two Whites and Two China
men Are Drowned.
VESSEL RETURNS TO NOME
Leaks Badly but Reports to White
Star Company at Seattle Say
She Is Not Seriously Injured.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Nome, June 13—Steamer Ohio, en
route to Seattle with passengers,
struck submerged ice near Port Safety
yesterday morniner and started to leak
ing. The passengers became alarmed
and began to lower the life boats and
crowded into them. One boat was cut
loose and fell, throwing the occupants
into the water. Two white men and
two Chinamen were drowned. The
steamer put about and returned to
Nome, reaching here last night. She
was still leaking and the pumps had
hard work keoping the water down.
Ohio May Be Lost
Seattle, June 14 — Advices from
Nome state that the crew of the Ohio
are trying to patch up the steamer to
stop her leaking. The passengers
were taken to St. Michael by the
Umatilla. It is reported that if a
storm should arise before the Ohio can
be made seaworthy she is doomed as
the pumps can scarcely keep down the
water in her holds.
Big Hole In Hull
Seattle, June 15—A hole six feet long
and a foot wide was found in the bot
tom of the steamer Ohio when she
was beached at Nome. It will require
two weeks to repair the vessel so that
she can sail south and it will be two
months from now before she will be in
| commission again.
ELEVEN MEN GO
DOWN IN LAUNCH
i
Members of Battleship Minne
sota’s Crew Lost by Col
lision of Boat.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Norfolk. Va., June 12—A launch
containing eleven members of the
crew of the battleship Minnesota is
supposed to have run into an unknown
steamer in the roadstead at midnight
and to have sunk, losing every life on
board. No trace of the launch has
been found since she was seen to run
close to the steamer.
Raise Launch With Eleven Bodies
Norfolk, Va., June 15—The sunken
launch containing the eleven bodies of
men of the crew of the battleship Min
nesota was raised this morning. It is
a complete wreck and shows that the
men were caught like rats in a trap
when the launch was smashed into by
a tow. __
LINDBLOM PAYS
$37 TO MARRY
Nome Millionaire has Simple and
Inexpensive Wedding at
Bellingham.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Bellingham, Wash., June 10—Eric
O. Lindblom, founder of Nome and a
mining millionaire of Seward penin
sula, was married here last Friday
afternoon to Mrs. Hannah Sparraan of
Oakland, California. His wedding
cost $37. He gave $20 to the minister
who performed the ceremony, $10 to a
friend who introduced him to the min
ister, $5 for the marriage license and
$2 to a boy who held his hat during
the ceremony.
The Chichagof mine will install a
five-stamp mill.
GREAT ACTIVITY
IN SOUND COPPER
Prospectors Overrun All Islands
and Development W ork
Is Growing.
SMALL BOATS DOT WATERS
Remarkable Showing at Mummy Bay
Where Numerous Seward Men
Have Property.
Increasing mining activity marks all
the islands of 1 Vince William sound,
with the southern end of Knight isl
and and Latouche island as the center.
Development work is in progress
wherever property was located prior
to this year and all other parts of
the sound islands are overrun with
prospectors.
Scarcity of men impedes mining and
development work. On Latouche isl
and all the mines are crying for moro
men and find it difficult to pick up even
a few stragglers. Nearly all of tho
newcomers to the sound are prospect
ors who are looking for something on
their own account.
Mummy bay is regarded as the most
promising field now by all who have
been around the islands recently.
Development work on all sides is con
stantly making a better showing.
Julius Singer, H. W. Ross, working
property owned by himself, Thompson
and Peterson and Brown: the Iverson
Brothers, O’Reilly, representing other
Seward men besides himself, and the
Prince William Sound Development
Company are all working steadily,
Have Remarkable Ledge
Of all these the favorite now is the
ledge which the Prince Willliam
Sound Development Company is open
ing up. As reported two weeks ago a
remarkable deposit was discovered
practically at the surface on this ledge
and every day’s work shows it up to
better advantage. Eri Thompson says:
“They’ve got a mine now.”
A face twenty-five feet wide and
twenty feet high has been stripped and
seems to be nearly all ore. According
! to the rule that quality increases with
depth into a hill this ledge should
prove a bonanza. Sauers and Hale of
the company brought over 1000 pounds
of ore to ship to the Tacoma smelter
to be tested. A local assay of the first
ore found sho wed nearly $60 per ton in
copper and an ounce of silver.
All the other Mummy bay claims
on which work has been done have
good surface showings, and some of
them may prove better with depth
than that of the Development company.
Mummy bay is an almost circular
basin and every side of it seems
to be highly mineralized. Steep hills
rise on all sides, either from tho
water’s edge or beginning at a short
distance away,so that wherever mineral
ledges are found great depth can bo
quickly attained by tunneling. It is
confidently expected that this summer’s
work will place the Mummy bay field
in the front rank of l’rince William
sound copper areas.
Men on All Islands
On the last trip of the Bina Capt.
Scheffler went around Knight island
and skirted the shores of the other is
lands on the west side of the sound.
He spent some time at Bainbridg and
Hoodoo islands and saw numerous pros
pectors on both.
Every part of tho sound seems likely
to be subjected to some exploration by
prospectors this year. Eri Thompsom
says that from the hills of Mummy
bay small boats can be seen scudding
in all directions among the islands.
These include launches, sailing sleeps
and rowboats and they dot the waters
everywhere.
The working population of Latouche
island is steadily growing, although
not nearly enough men can be obtain
ed. Beatson is working twenty-eight
men in two shifts. The Reynolds com
pany has nearly 100 men employed in
the mine and on building operations.
Barrack, Buzard, Orton and others
are also working large shifts.
TO FIX NORTHWESTERN
IN FORTY-FIVE DAYS
By Cable to The Sally Gateway.
Seattle, June 12—Bullen Brothers
secured the contract today to repair
the steamer Northwestern. They
agree to put her in commission in
forty-five days.