EN ROUTE TO
GOLD FIELDS
Henry Anderson and Party on
Bertha Bound for Yentna
Region to Work Claims.
TAKES PIPE AND MACHINERY
Morrnce Christirnsfu looking Over
Mining Properties With View
to Making Investments.
Uenn Anderson was a passenjrei
on the Bertha en route to the head
waters of ttie Yentna. He has with
him six men, and expects twelve more
to come later on the Portland. An
derson i-> takinjr in some machinery,
a steam pump. Ruble elevator and
1000 feet of fourteen and sixteen inch
pipe.
Mrs. Florence Phristiensen, who U
said to have formerly cleaned up
at Dawson, is iroinjT in with Mr. Ander
son to look over some minin'? claims
with a view to investing in them.
There was also quite a company of
men on the Bertha bound for the Su
sitna river rejrion. It appears that
the talk on the outside this winter has
been chiefly concernin'? the prospects
on the Susitna. and more men are
plant!injr to jro into that country tiii -
sprinjr.
GOVERNMENT
AID IS SOUGHT
Alaska Railroad Building Aban
doned Inless Bonds Guaran
teed by United States.
By Cable to The D«nly Gateway.
Washington, D. C. April 6—Repre
sentatives of the Alaska Central anil
the Valdez Marshal Pass railroads are
now presenting their claims before the
congressional committee on railways,
and are asking for a government
guarantee. They declare before the
committee that unless the United
States government guarantees four
per cent bonds the project of building
these railroads must be abandoned.
TACOMA ELECTS LINCK
ON REPUBLICAN TICKET
By Cable to The Dally Gateway
Tacoma, April 1U—When the votes
cast at the city election were counted
up it was found that Linck, who ran
on the republican ticket, was elected
mayor.
To Develop Rioux (iroup
Capt. Win. X. Armstrong will arrive
here ..bout April lo to begin active
development work on the Rioux group
of copper claims on the sound, on
which he has secured an option.
This property was located last season
Leon Rioux, prospecting in the inter
ests of Charles Tecklenburg.a business |
man of Latouche island.—Valdez Pros
pector.
Will Make New Secret Cipher Code
The state department at Washing
ton has been obliged to get up a new
secret cipher code. The work will be
done under the supervision of the chief
clerk of the department.
The cables recently told of the theft
of the present code by a cook in the
employ of the American consulate at
Bucharest. Recently another Ameri
can consular office missed its cipher
code for sometime and eventually it
turned up in the waste basket where
it probably was returned after being
copied.
DISTRICT ATT’Y
HARLAN OUT
\laskan Official Resigns but the
President Is in no Haste
to Fill Place.
By Cable to Tbe Dully (gateway.
Washington, I>. F., April P District
Attorney Harlan has sent in his resig
nation. President Roosevelt has de
cided to wait a little time before nam
ing his successor.
Judge Harlan Reaches Valdez
Valdez, April 11 District Attorney
Harlan has arrived here from Fair
banks. Ilis resignation will take
effect soon. Judge Harlan’s health
is failing, and he expects to take
passage for the states either on
the Santa Clara, or on the steamer
Yucatan when she makes her next
return trip.
JUDGE REID
IN FAIRBANKS
The Judicial Party Have Enjoyed
Trip and the Court is Ready
for Business.
jy Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Fairbanks, April •> Judge Silas H.
Reid and party enjoyed the stage trip
from Valdez, and arrived here in good
condition at - p. m. la>t Saturday.
Judge Reid will be ready to open
court at the appointed titue.
HURON, S. D., LINES UP
FOR TAFT IN PRIMARIES
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Huron, S. 1)., April lit—The dele
gates elected at the primaries were all
instructed for Taft, for the nomination
for president at the Chicago republi
can convention next June.
Valdez Election Fight
Sy Cable to TUe Dally Gateway.
Valdez, April 8 The Valdez elec
tion tight on the Electric Company
beats Mayor Quinn and Councilman
Lang by a clo*e vote. There wore
four tickets in the tield and were much
»plit. All the saloons except the Sen
ate were with the electric company.
Strike on Valdez Creek
Twenty ■dollar pans at bedrock on
Claim No. 2 adjoining Tammany bench
on Valdez creek was the discovery by
the men who have been running a
tunnel through rim rock during the
winter. A letter to William Grogg at
Gulkana reached there about the time
Pete Monahan and others arrived on
their way to Valdez, creek telling of
this strike and Monahan wired it to
the Prospector.
Doc Blalock and Mark Medaris ar
rived in Valdez yesterday and gave
further details of the strike as told by
the letter. The substance of it was
contained in the message. The
miners who made it consider it one
of the most remarkable ever made in
a placer country. The claim belongs
to the original discovery crowd,—Pete
Monahan, William Grogg, John Clark
son, John Johnson, Jim Smith and
Dan Kain.—Valdez Prospector.
$25,000,000, Honey Output
Washington—To the time-worn que
ry. ‘“How doth the busy bee improve
each shining hour?” a practical scient
ist in the apiary bureau of the depart
ment of agriculture answered: “By
making enough honey in a year to
load a train of freight cars which
would extend in a straight line from
New York to Detroit, and which
would have a cash value of $25,000,000,
that value being based on wholesale
and not retail prices, too.”
iprvuns 5j
Will Pay Debts and Take Back
Steamships but Do no Mining
or Railroading Now.
WILL TAKE BACK STEAMSHIPS
Promoter Gets Pinched for Sup
posed Praudulest Use of
United States Mails
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Seattle, April 7—Vice-President
Teter of the Keynolds-AlasKa Develop
ment Company has arrived. Ho says
the company will pay off labor claims
as fast as*thov are presented, and will
take hack tin* steamships. Other
claims will be paid as fast as they are
audited.
The mines will not be operated nor
the railroad built at present
Reynolds Under Arrest
Hoston, April 8 H. D. Reynolds,
former president, of the Reynolds
Alaska Development Company, and
promoter of various enterprises in
Valdez, has been arrested on federal
indictment for fraudulent use of the
United States mails.
OPPOSE COAL
LAND. LAWS
Garfield Tells Advocates of the
Measure That the Laws
Should Be Uniform.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. C., April !)—Secre
tary of the Interior, James R. Gartiel<l>
, tells Gale, Ryan and McKenzie that he
| is opposed to special coal land laws for
i the territory of Alaska. ITe main
; tains that the laws should be uniform,
i the same in Alaska as elsewhere.
ADMIRAL EVANS
CONFINED TO BED
Commander of Pacific Fleet Will
Probably Resign Upon Reach
ing San Francisco.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Paso Robles, Cal., April 11—Rear
I Admiral Robley D. Evans in command
of the Pacific fleet, who sometime ago
was suffering from a severe attack of
rheumatism, is now confined to his bed.
Tn all probability Evans will resign his
position as commander of the squadron
when the fleet reaches San Francisco.
Passes Liability Act.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. C., April 8—The
House yesterday passed the bill known
as the Employers’ Liability Act.
A Growing Town
A mining camp in Nevada, called
Rawhide, is said to have put up over a
mile of closely joined houses in the
past three weeks. Miners are re
ceiving about an average of $5 a day,
but in many instances are paid in
stock in the mines where they are em
ployed. Water hauled to the town
from the springs and lakes, six miles
away, is sold for five cents a gallon,
and wood for fuel is brought twenty
five miles and sells for $25 a cord.
TROOPS FIRE
UPON RIOTERS
Portugal Elections Followed by
Disorders That Lead to
Mobs and Bloodshed.
8v Cable to Tne Dally Gateway.
Lisbon, April 7 The elections here
have been followed by violent out
breaks on the part of the populace,
and much rioting. The troops were
attacked by the mob, and in turn tired
upon the rioters killing twenty people
and wounding many more.
Under flartial Law
Lisbon, April 8—Popular indignation
runs high over the killing of citizens
by the soldiers in yesterday’s riots.
Troops line all the main streets to pre
vent an uprising on the part of the
people who seek to avenge the loss o?
life occasioned by the attack of the
soldiers on the mob.
BRIDGE BILL
BEFORE HOUSE
Cale Submits Measure to Permit
Railway Company to Span
Canyon, Lake and Glacier.
Oy Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, I). C., April s Dele
j gate Thomas Cale has introduced a
bill in ihe house of representatives to
permit the Copper River and North
western Railway Company to build
bridges across Abercrombie canyon,
Bering lake and Childs glacier.
MILWAUKEE INSTRUCTS
DELEGATES FOR LA FOLLETTE
By Cncle to The Dally Gateway.
i Milwaukee, April 10—The primaries
! held here resulted in a clean sweep
for La Follette. Delegates for him
were everywhere elected. Rose, a
democrat was elected city mayor.
Campaign Headquarters
Bv Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, I). C., April 7—Gray
of Delaware has opened up democratic
headquarters in the city for the cam
j paign for the purpose of nominating
| presidential candidate.
Brings Suit For nine Stock
Boston—An unusual mining case
came up for hearing in the superior
civil court when Martha Smith, of
Seattle, presented a claim against Otis
Sleeper, of Boston, and the Ready Bul
lion Copper Company.
In the bill tiled Miss Smith stated
that in 1903, together with Sleeper
and a man named White, she located
several mining claims in Alaska. It
was agreed that each would have an
equal interest.
Later the Bullion company was or
ganized for $3,000,000. The mining
claims were delivered for $2,000,000
shares of stock. Instead of the third
agreed upon, Miss Smith claims that
only 100,000 shares were given her.
She says that Sleeper promised the re
mainder, but never delivered them.
She believes Sleeper is about to trans
fer the stock to some other name and
seeks to enjoin Sleeper from doing so
and to compel him to surrender what
stock is due her.
Standard of Pure Gold
A carat weighs three and one-sixth
troy grains; 24 carats is the standard
of pure gold, or gold absolutely free
from any other metal. When gold has
a fineness lower than 24 carats it
means that an alloy of some other
metal is contained, or, for instance, if
the alloy amounts to a fourth of the
whole, the gold is 18 carats fine and
six alloy.—Ex.
Route Through Territory Aban
doned and Car Resliipped to
States on Bertha.
ARI: TENDERED BIG RECEPTION
Impossible to Run Big Cars Over
Trails on Account of Break
ing Through the Snow.
3y Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Valdez, April 9—The American car in
the automobile race around the world
reached this port on the steamer
Santa (Mara.
A big reception was tendered the
automohilists last night. This morn
ing they made a trip of a few miles out
over the trail in sleds. Returning
they gave up the idea of running the
car through Alaska, and abandoned
this part of the route. MMiey said it
would be impossible to go over the
trail with the machine, as the heavy
car would break through the snow.
The car will be loaded onto the steam
er Bertha and shipped hack to the
i states.
DESERTS HIS
OWN FUNERAL
Man Supposed to Be Dead Ob
jects to Burial and Gets Up
and Walks Home.
—
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Nogales, Arizona, April 9—Charles
Davis engaged in a light in which
knives were freely used. In the fray
Davis was stabbed and supposed to be
dead. Arrangements were made for
the funeral, but while the proces
sion was on the way to the place of
burial the supposed corpse gave evi
dence of dissatisfaction with the pro
ceedings. The collin was broken
open. Davis crawled out and indig
nantly refusing a carriage walked to
; liis home.
RESCINDS MAIL CONTRACTS.
ADVERTISES FOR NEW BIDS
Orders have been issued by the post
oftice department abrogating the mail
messenger contract in Alaska and the
department has advertised for new
bids. It is stated that the messengers
refused to take mail into the interior
in amounts in excess of the contract
weight on any one trip and that dur
ing this winter there has been a large
accumulation of mail at Valdez aggre
gating 13,000 pounds.
Department otTcials believe that un
der new contracts they can get more
mail into the interior as the minimum
of weight will be eliminated and car
riers will be required to take as much
as possible when road conditions are
good. — W. W. Jermane. — Seattle
Times.
Copper in Sight
“There are $22,000,000 worth of cop
per ore in sight at the Bonanza copper
mines, in the Copper river country,”
said A. J. Woodlock recently at the
Katalla Club, Katalla, “and how mayy
more there are which are not in sight
would be hard to determine. It prom
ises to be the greatest copper mine
ever discovered.” About twenty men
are now employed in developing the
property and making surveys, the
work being in charge of Mr. Baldwin,
—Mining News.