NEWS OE THE WORLD EOR PAST WEEK
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Bank Official Suicides
< hicago. 111.. Aug 11 Frank Kowal
ski. teller of the Milwaukee Avenue
bark which failed several days ago,
committed suicide last night by shoot
ing himself in the head. His friends
intimated that he was implicated in
the bank's failure and this is given as
U,< cause of Hu* rash act. Kowalski s
relatives had ffftv thousand dollars
invested in the institution. Forged
not.■* o; President St» island to the
amount'of s-VlM*** have been found.
Square Heal Assured
Chicago. 11!.. Aug- 11 Secretary
*\ Ison of the department of agricul
ture is in Chicago holding a con
ference with representatives of wes
tern cattle raisers and the packers.
He has explained the new law passed
bv congress at the usi session, and as
sures all interests a square deal.
Will Organize Revolution
New York. Aug. 11 General Par
ade, military leader of the Venezuelan
revolutionists, has arrived in New
York for the purpose of organizing a
revolution against President Castro of
his country. He says he will not leave
the country until lu* has accomplished
♦he object of bis mission.
St amer Portland Coming
Seattle. Aug. 11 The steamer I’ort
lanu sailed for Seward ami Valdez, last
night. Among prominent north-bound
pa-srugers r- Bormui K. Kamsey.
president ■ ' 'a- Tatiana Kailway Bon*
struct ton Bo. or S. ward, and H. K.
Harriman am Dies llyau tor Katana.
.nob l eader sentenced
Sa, slu.ty. N. B„ Aug. 11 Beorge
Hal!, leader ot :in* mob which lynched
three n« gi ■ s a W'vk ago n this town
has beet. "• o. convicted ami sen
tenced to fifteen years in the penton
riarv. This is noteworthy a- being the
tii'st sentence o* its kind in North
Carolina.
Bonaparte Attacks Anarchism
Butnberland. Aid.. Aug. l*» In a lec
ture before the Mary .am t Imutauipia
society Secretary Bonaparte of tiie
navy department advocated the death
penalty for murderous assault. He
also score* the socialists, and said
anarchism and socialism could be'
traced to the same root. He said he |
believed in flogging as a penalty for
public advocacy of anarchy. Hel
charged the growth of hot it anarchy
and socialism to the decay of religion
and superficial education in the public
school-.
Esther Mitchell Very III
Seattle. Aug. h> -K.-ther Mitchell,
the girl who killed her brother George ;
becau-e he killed i retheld, the "Holy
Roller” prophet, is very ill of typhoid j
fever in the county jail. She i> deliri
ous and rave- continually but -ays not
a word about the murder of herj
brother. The superior court will 1*?
a-ked for a permit for her removal to
a hospital.
HettieGreen Tells What
Bellow- Fall-. N. V.. Aug. !•“» Het
tie Given, in discussing the frequent
instance- o* n -conduct of tho -on- of
wealthy parents, -aid: "If my -on
Ned were to live a life of crime 1
would give him a hypodermic injec
tion which would put him away where
he would not hav* a chance to disgrace
me.”
.Miner Killed in Gun Eight
Chewelah. Wash.. Aug. U Mike
McKale and William Douglas, pioneer
miners in this region, quarreled yes
terday over a party of visitors who
were fishing in the lake. Both ran to
their cabin- and secured guns and then
returned and began -hooting. Twelve
shots were exchanged and Douglas was
fatally wounded. He tired six shots
after he received a mortal wound. The
fishermen who were witnesses to the
quarrel say that Douglas was the ag
gre—or. McKale was arrested.
Never Spoke as He Passed By
Oyster Bay. Aug. 13—Miss Esac, a
young woman who has been turned
away from Sagamore Hill several
times when she attempted to see the
president, yesterday visited the church
he attends and entered the pew be
hind the president's pew. She was
ejected from the church but remained
outside. Secret service men guarded
her closely as the president was leav
ing the church and the woman cried,
“Mr. President, won't you speak to
me?” The president walked on with
out noticing her.
Big Fire in Seattle
Seattle. Aug. U—The Washington
building, seven stories high, on First
avenue, near Cherry street, was half
destroyed by tire yesterday afternoon.
No one was injured but fifty persons had
to be rescued by firemen by means of
ladders as the flames rushed up the
elevator shaft and stairways cutting off
retreat. Several women fainted as
they vcere carried out by the firemen.
The fire started in Treen's shoe store
on the ground floor. The loss is $100, -
000.
1
Says Fort Casey Is No Good
Seattle, Aug. 14 Senator Scott of
West Virginia, a member of the sen
ate committee on military affairs, was
a spectator yesterday of the military
maneuvers at Fort Casey. At the
close he said tho fort had been wrong
ly constructed and that hostile vessels
could pass safely under its guns. He
expressed the opinion that the fort
should be abandoned and rebuilt else
where.
To Review Atlantic Fleet
Washington, D. C.. Aug. II The
entire Atlantic fleet will pass in re
view before President Roosevelt on
Labor Day, September 5. The ships
will carry 12**n guns and 1*1,000 men.
Mrs. Craigie Dies
London. Aug. 14 Mrs. Pearl Mary
Teresa Craigie, better known by her
non* de plume, John Oliver Hobbes,
died last night in her sleep, of heart
disease. She was found dead in bed
this morning. She was the author of
several popular novels and other
writings.
Says West Demands Roosevelt
Washington, D. C., Aug. 15- Con
gressman P. P. Campbell of Kansas
arrived in the capital today from a
stumping tour through Iowa, Illinois.
Minnesota. Wisconsin and Nebraska
| and affirms that the west will de
; mand the renomination of Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1!HK He says
the president i> no doubt sincere
in bis declination but will be com
pelled to accept.
Nominate Green for Governor
Houston, Tex.. Aug. 15 The reor
ganized Republicans of Texas in state
convention today nominated K. H. R.
Green, president of the Texas Midland
Railroad Company, for governor. He
;> a >• ns of Hetty Green, the famous |
woman millionaire of New York.
Regulars Also Meet
!•: Paso, Tex., Aug. 15 The Repub
lican state convention effected a tem
porary organization this morning. It
is expected that W. C. Averill of
Beaumont will be nominated for gov
ernor. The tight with the Green fac
tion of the party will be carried to the
{H>lls.
Democrats Will Name Campbell
Dallas. Tex.. Aug. 15—The Demo
cratic state convention is in session j
here today. It will no doubt nominate '
Thomas Campbell for governor, as he j
received a plurality of votes at the j
primaries.
Coney Island Cars Stop
New York, Aug. 15 All Coney '
Island cars were stopped today because j
of a court decision which prevents the |
company from collecting fares. Pas-!
sengers refused to pay voluntarily and J
operation was stopped promptly.
Persians Want Reform
Teheran. Persia, Aug. 15 Persians;
demand more extensive reforms than
are promised by the government. !
They insist that the claim of dixinej
right by the shah shall be abandoned
and that parliament be given unlimit
ed :>ower to rule. This xvould shear
the shah of all power and reduce him j
to a figurehead.
(irand Army Veterans Collapse
Minneopolis. Aug. Iff — After the i
Grand Army parade five veterans col-1
lapsed from the exertion and died. ,
They were Col. Charles Keating ofj
New Orleans, commander of the de-1
partment of Louisiana: Thomas Mar
tin. vice commander of the depart
ment of the Potomac: George Penny of
Logan. Iowa: and two others. The
day was hot and many of the marchers
were overcome by heat and fatigue.
Bryan Now In Spain
Madrid, Aug. 1*»— William J. Bryan
reached Madrid this morning.
Northwestern to Build West
New York, Aug. 17 Stockholders
| of the Chicago Northwestern Rail
way ' ’ompany will be asked at the
annual meeting in Chicago October
18 to vote an increase of the capital
stock from $100,000,000 to $•-’00,000,000.
Wall street says the purpose is to ex
tend the line to the Pacific coast with
in the next two years.
R. B. Brown Heads Grand Army
Minneapolis, Aug. 17—R. Bg Brown
of Zanesville, Ohio, was chosen com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic today, for the ensuing
year. William H. Armstrong of In
dianapolis was elected senior vice com
mander and E. B. Kenton of Detroit
junior vice commander.
Governor Falls to Stop Lynching
Greenwood, S. C., Aug. 17—Bob
Davis, a negro who assaulted Jennie
Brooks, a white girl, last Monday, was
taken from jail last night and lynched.
As the mob was taking the man from
jail Gov. Heyward arrived and ad
dressed the crowd imploring the
lynchers to let the law take its course.
The crowd cheered the governor and
then rushed the negro away to the
edge of town where he was hanged
and his body riddled with bullets.
Cannon Will Not Talk of 1908
Danville, 111., Aug. 17—Speaker
Cannon in an address today replying
to the formal notification of his nomi
nation as the Republican candidate
for congress in the Eighteenth Illinois
| district, said of the boom started in
the convention to secure his nomina
nation for the presidency in lfiOH; “It
1 is too early yet to advocate my nomi
nation for the presidency. Let us as
sure ourselves of success in the No
vember- election this year before dis
| cussing lints.'’
Oregon Sails from Seattle
! Seattle, Aug. 17 Steamer Oregon
sailed from Seattle this morning for
Seward and Valdez.
IMPROVING YUKON RIVER
Canada Doing Great Work, United
States Nothing at All
From being a “graveyard of navi
gator” the Upper Yukon river lias be
come practically as safe as a canal,
says The Engineering and Mining
Journal of New York. It continues:
“During the open season steamers,
; barges, scows, canoes in great number
, ply its waters, and accidents of any
; description are extremely rare. The
Yukon forms a convenient highway
| through the central portions of this
great Northwest. Its traffic is divided
between the White Pass and \ ukon
route (railroad and steamers) from
Skagwav to Dawson and the American
route via St. Michael. Generally
speaking. Yukon territory and the
Forty-Mile district in Alaska are
served by the Canadian route, while
the American route supplies the wants
of tie* lower river points, including the
Tatiana, Koyukuk, and Rampart min
ing district. Fairbanks alone, during;
the present winter, required as large j
stores of provisions as Dawson.
“In its solicitude for the welfare of!
Yukon Territory the Canadian govern- j
ment has annually voted grants, not j
only for the construction and main
tainence of roads and trails—about
*200,000 for the fiscal year ending June |
30, 1005. or *1,386,400 altogether from j
1*90 to January 31. loot; but also for
the improvement of the Yukon river
and its tributaries. The program for
the current year provides for an ex
penditure of *15’000, to be distributed
as follows: *s,000 for rock blasting at
Hell Gate, $1.5000 for the Forty-Mile
river. $3,000 for the upper Yukon
reaches, including Thirty-Mile river,
river, and *2,500 not yet placed. Since
the opening up of this country a few
years ago Canada has appropriated
about $172,000 for Yukon River im
provements.
“On the American side of the line,
in Alaska, improvements have not
even been started. The Yukon Hats
are >till there to endanger and retard
American shipping, and so are the ol>
structions at the mouth of the river’[
which were fully described and ex-1
plained to the senatorial sub-commit
tee who personally, in 1903, inve>ti
gated conditions in Alaska. It should
be thoroughly understood, in this re
lation. that transportation is the chief
problem in ibis wonderful northlund.
It i> the paramount question in the
development of Alaska."
No Antarctic Animals
••There are no land Mammals prop
erly so called, within the Antarctic
circle. There are no south polar bears:
there are no Antarctic foxes: there are j
no large mammals of any sort or kind j
save whales, which live entirely in the
water, and seals which spend more
than half their time there.
“The Antarctic continent now boasts
of a vegetation which includes a few
low forms of moss and lichen, and a j
terrestrial fauna which consists of one
minute and primitive form of wingless
insect. Of the whales and seals and
birds, the last named alone have any
pretensions at all to a terrestrial habit
of life, in that they use the moraines
and rocky clitTs of the continental
shores as nesting places. But they are
all pelagic sea birds.
“Yet in this extremely unpromising
land of ^barren rock and ice there are
forms of life which are to be met no
where else, and in this very fact lies
the interest that attaches to a study of
the Antarctic fauna. — “From “The
Voyage of the Discovery” by Captain
Robert F. Scott.
Immigration Shows Increase
Washington—Revised figures indi
cate that the immigration to this coun
try during the tiscai year ending June
last was 73,574 greater than it was
during the tiscai year 1004. The im
migration during the past year aggre
gated 1,100,073, against 1,020,400 for
the previous year.
Bride cake is a relic of the Roman
confarreates, a mode of marriage prac
ticed by the highest class in Rome. In
confarreation the bride was led to the
altar by bachelors, but conducted
home by married men, and the cere
mony took place in the presence of ten
witnesses by the pontifex maximus,
whereupon the contracting parties
mutually partook of a cake made of
salt, water and Hour.
CHINESE WILL
BE EMPLOYED
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Government Will Put Coolies to
Work on the Canal in Place
of the Jaimacans.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. ( Aug. 11- The
Isthmian commission in charge of the
construction of the Panama canal has
decided to employ Chinese laborers
upon the work and has advertised for
2.500 of the coolies. The Jamaicans
who are now employed are proving
failures. They can’t stand the labor.
The labor unions of the country are
making a vigorous protest against the
action of the commission in employing
i Chinese in perference to white labor*
but the government holds that the lat
ter is not only too expensive, but hard
to secure and retain, and says that the
canal work must be pushed to com
pletion as speedily as possible.
Clompers Replies to Shonts
Washington. I). Aug. 14 Samuel
Gompel’s, president of the American
Federation of Labor, today issued a
reply to the statement of President
Shonts of the Panama isthmian canal
that the anti-Chinese law of the Uni
ted States does not apply to territory
acquired after the passage of the law.
Gompers affirms that the law is in
force in all territory under the juris
diction of the U. S. government.
It is becoming apparent that the
labor unions will make a political
issue of the movement to construct the
canal by Chinese labor.
INDIANS JOIN IN BOYCOTT
Douglas Natives Dear of rieat Scan
dal and Cut Out Canned Goods
The Douglas Indians have taken
alarm at the disclosures made by the
investigation of the meat trusts and
the packing houses and will eat no
more canned beef.
Some wag lias pumped the natives
full of up-to-date wisdom and has
added a spice of prejudice and super
stition.
The Indians now believe that Ar
mour’s canned beef is composed of a
mixture of dead dogs and cats. All
the sicwness. deaths,.accidents and bad
luck have their source and are caused
by the eating of this terrible stuff j
sold by the Armours. Therefore the
Indian will have no more of it.
Ordinarily the Alaska Indian will
eat almost anything, and dirt is no
drawback. Fish that has hung ex-)
posed to the attack of millions of Mies. |
until it is dried, or dug from some pit
in a half rotted condition goes without
question. An Indian woman will work |
industriously on a basket or moccasin ;
for hours, but cooking and scrubbing j
is too much like making brick without!
straw. So it is that whenever the ]
Indian has money he has canned beef.
Hut from now on Mr. Armour can
keep his canned dog and cat.—Douglas
Island News.
Big Ditch in Council District
The water from the I’argan proper!
will be in the big ditch within a few j
days. The ditch is now carrying the
water from the tributaries as far as.
and including McKelvie creek, about :
jive miles above Helen. The lift and j
deri'ick are working on lid and Dis-.
covery is also working. Several other 1
claims will be in full blast as soon as
the ditch is carrying its full comple
ment of water. Council News.
During the reign of Edward the
Confessor of England the practice of
employing surnames began.
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Are Your Eyes Eailing or Defective in Any Way?
II so I can supply the proper remedy in spectacles or eye
glasses—gold, nickel or steel frames, or frameless.
1 keep in stock ladie’s line Elgin and Waltham watches in
beautifully engraved solid gold cases; and gentlemen’s sizes
in 25-year gold filled cases—prices same as in New York, and
25 per cent lower than you have been paving.
Repair Work
I repair watches, etc., and learned to do it in a New York
house—charges reasonable.
ARTHUR R. BOYLE
Seward. Alaska.
D. C. BROWNELL
THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE
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Completely Renovated. New Management. Hot
and Cold Water. Modern, Plastered Rooms.
Electric Lighted. Baths. Reasonable Rates.
HAWKINS & WHITTEMORE, Proprietors
Fourth Avenue, .... Seward, Alaska
GREAT REDUCTION
Hardware, Paper, Locks, Nails,
Screen Doors and Windows
FOR CASH
Fine Stock of Clear Cedar and Sugar Pine
KENAI LUMBER & FUEL CO.
THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
(Incorporated November, 1!<05, under the laws ot Alaska)
Office—Next to Bank of Seward. Seward, Alaska
SEWARD CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT CO,
Manfacturers of Concrete Building Blocks, Belts. Cornices
Caps, Cement, Chimneys, etc. General Contractors in all
Branches of Construction
Offices: Fifth Avenue, near Adams Street - * * Seward. Alaska
The Washington Trust Co,
Corner First Avenue and Madison street, Seattle, Wash.
Invites Business by Mail or Express.
Pays Interest on all Accounts
PAID CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $525,000
Northwestern Steamship Company
CARRYING l. S. MAIL AND EXPRESS
Seattle - Seward Route - Outside Passage
Ct-nrtniA,, A RrC A XI Sails from Seattle July returning sail* from
^ ILaniCI VnLVjV/1 > Seldovia Auk. l: from Seward Auk.
QtDMnior FYCFI CTTYR Sails from Seattle Auk. 1: returnitiK sails
veil from Seldovia Auk. **: from Seward Auk. 9.
Cf r **nOD A” Sails from Seward sth if each month for Unalaska. Dutch Harbor,
oil. ""“rt and way ports. KeturninK leaves Seward about 26th of each month
Str. SANTA CLARA %,'rk.W A“ ccluc“ln“ s“Us
For transportation, berth reservations. freiKht rates etc. 17 T CrT',T|'T7C
call on Akent. Seward. Alaska. *-’• A* cfaiu-L-u
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SEATTLE. WASH.
GENERAL OFFICES] 608 FIRST AVE.. SEATTLE,
ALASKA COAST COMPANY
Steamers:—Portland and Bertha
Portland sails from Seattle via. Juneau, 10th of each month
Portland Sails from Seward via. Juneau, 23rd of each month.
Bertha sails from Seattle via. Juneau, 25th of each month.
Bertha sails from Seward via. Juneau 8th of each month.
Connecting with Steamers at Seldovla for all points on Cook Inlet
Passenger Service Unexcelled
For Rapid Delivery of Freight and Passenger Rates and Berths apply to
BROWN & HAWKINS, Agents.
Seattle Office, 101 First Ave. S.
“OLYMPIA”
The beer of beers
“It’s The Water.”
OLYMPIA BREWING CO.,
0. S. ROBISON. Minafcr
Seattle Office 106 Jackson St.