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OLDCOMPANY
QUITS BUSINESS
Alaska Commercial Sells Trading
Stations in Territory to Hunt*
plirey Corporation.
STEAMERS PREVIOUSLY SOLI)
Old San francisco Organization
Once Meld Monopoly of fur
traffic of the North.
Dy Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle. Dee. 14 The Ylaska Coast
Commercial Company, headed by t apt.
Omar.l. Humphrey, president of the
Alaska Coast Company, has purchased
all trading stations >>i Alaska owned
by the old Alaska Commercial Com
pany. These stations are situated
around Cook Inlet, along the Alaska
peninsula, and at various accessible
places in the : lev >r. Kornet v the
company op- ' :i 1 ■ " tar as Nome but
has lit'i'ti gradna > withdrawing front
business.
Ttte Alaska Commercial Company is
a S;m Francisco corporation and the*
widest com pa > at ini; it Y‘ tska.
\t one t i;m had a monopr.l v ot tin
sealing industry and a practical mou- j
opoly of the • it e I nr t fade ot A iaska.
It has never Is u favorable to minim;
and with tb u. v e outnent ot mines u> ,
withdrawn it <tn t! >-e ocalities.
Last winter the Ylaska Commercial.
Company sold its two remaining Alas
ka steamers, the Portland and Lett ha.
to the newly organized Alaska Coast
Company, and it was semi-otlieiallv an
nounced then that it would soon retire
from business.
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ASK PROTECTION
FOR COAST LINE;
California Members Say Pacific
Ports Are Unprepared
for Attack.
Washington. I). C., Dec. lt> 1 he
united California delegation will make
% strong effort at the short session to
have congress allow large appropria
tions for the military protection of the
California coast. They expect the j
support of the Oregon and Washington
members as they say the whole coast
is practically defenseless against
modern war vessels.
The California men declare that
Japan is preparing for war against
the United States and will begin an
attack within five years with the ulti
mate purpose of seizing .ill the islauds
of the Pacific aud securing absolute
domination of that ocean.
The California members are prepar
ing a statement to be used in both
houses. In it they will >ay the weak
est part of tlie whole Pacific coast
line of the United States is Puget
•ound. Toei will urge that
iMH> should b expended at once on de
fenses fm* that part 4 the coast and
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CAPT. 6GDFISH ACQUITTED
IN MANSLAUGHTER CASE
jjy Ca-U to Tue Daily Gateway.
Seattle. I>v. i- t'aptaui liodtish of
the whating ship William lla>liss was
acquitted of manslaughter in the f. S.
district court today, freeing him from
the charge of causing the death of a
sailor named Leyere hv kicking him.
Tue jury was out two hours.
Electricity Grows Vegetables
With the aid of steam heat and
electric lights vegetables and (lowers
are being grown in Fairbanks. S. M.
Thompson i*. making the experiment.
He has fitted up a hot house on Second
avenue, to the rear of the Pioneer ho
tel, and installed steam heat and elec
tric lights. A furnace has also been
put in should anything go wrong with
the steam pipes. The glass roof is of
double thickness, At the present time
lettuce, sweet peas, parsley, tomatoes,
carnations and daisies are growing in
fine shape. The lettuce is in all stages
of growth, some of it ready for market
and some of it just sprouting.—North
ern Light.
The corn crop of the United States
this year is 1,100,000,000 bushels.
ROSENE SELLS
TO GUGGENHEIMS
Ml Northwestern Companies Pass
to Morgan Copper Crowd
January I.
J \PYIS TO BECOME MANAGER
Steamship and Railroad Interests
turned Over and Williams to
Succeed Trowbridqe.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Dec. 12 At the beginning
of I‘.M)7 all the Northwestern compa
nies headed by John Rosene will pass
to the Morgan-CJuggenheini combina-;
•inn. t'apt. I). 11. Jarvis will succeed
Rosene in the general management ■
and tieorge Williams of Nome will j
succeed J. K. Trowbridge as manager
of the steamship lines. Williams is
now manager of the North t oast
Light*-rage t'ompuny at Nome, an ad
junct e- the Northwestern Steamship j
t 'om puny.
The transfer to the Morgan-Cuggen
heitu combine embraces the North-!
wes1 * : u Steamship t'oru|»any ami the
V. i , .stern Fisheries, as well as all
subs. \ companies. The Rosene
rai ro. : pr art at Valdez is also trans
ferred and merged with the other in*
teresis taken over h\ the eastern!
capitalists. It is generally believed j
front information received here that!
the ra! I road will be built from Kaialla
and all other projects for reaching the 1
Copper river country abandoned.
Rosene Refuses to Talk Shop
Seattle. Dee. 14 John Rosene re
fuses to affirm or deny the published
story of his retirement from the North* i
western companies. From other
sources the report appears to he con
firmed. ____
SAY RAILROAD WILL BE
BUILT FROM KATALLA
By Cable lo The Dally Gateway.
New York, Dee. 12—It is said in
circles familiar with railroad and cop
per development in Alaska that the
total shutting down of work on the
Copper River railroad from Cordova
was due to an agreement betweeu
Close Brothers of London, who have
been financing the Copper River pro
ject, and the Guggenbeims and J. I'.
Morgan, who are back of the Copper
River & Northwestern.
Prolonged conferences of these two
interests began in New York in Octo
ber. The Close Brothers have tried
to persuade the Morgan and Guggen
heim people to consolidate with them,
but the offer was rejected, as terms for
freight rates could not ho agreed up
on. Anotbet proposition was made by
the Close Brothers to soil out to Mor
gan and the Guggenbeims. It was!
taken under advisement, and may be I
consummated. A definite decision is
not expected for sixty days or more. |
The Guggenbeims favor Katalla as j
tlu“ terminus of a railroad into the
Copper river region and it is believed !
that if they buy the Cordova lino they I
will abandon t hat route and move the !
rails and oilier property to Katalla.
VALDEZ-VUKON RAILROAD
SAID TO BE ABANDONED
; Ca lie to T!j« Daily Gateway.
New York. Dee. 11 Col. A. \V. Swan
! itz i> no longer connected with the
Valdez & Yukon railroad, his eonnec*,
lion having been severed recently J
when negotiations to raise money for
tin- enterprise failed. The Valdez & j
Yukon -pent about ^ib.000 last summer
on an expensive wharf, several miles
of uradinn, and feet of track. But
the certainty that the Gu£<fenheims
and J. 1*. Morgan & Co. will eventually
build from Katalla lias killed every
po-sibility of financing tbe Valdez *V
Yukon. 'I'he officers of the project are ,
now negotiating with both the Alaska
Central and the Copper Biver & North
western for tin* sale of their equipment
and rails on hand at Valdez.
Col. Swanitz has left for Seattle, ,
where lie intends to spend the winter, j
TAFT ASKS $250,000 FOR
ALASKA ROADS AN9 TRAILS
By Cablo to Tbo Dally Gatoway.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14—Secre
tary Taft of the war department re
commends an appropriation of $250,000
| for Alaska road and trail work next
I year.
CHAMBER LINES
UP FOR WASKEY;
Seward’s Commercial Organiza
tion Indorses Delegate and
Roasts Governor.
PASSES strong resolution
No Dissenting Voice Raised to Sup
port of fight for Independent
Territorial Rule.
Delegate Frank Waskey’s support ot ,
territorial government for Alaska ami;
Gov. Hoggatt’s opposition thereto J
were indorsed hy resolution at the j
chamber of commerce meeting in A.
15. ball last night. Not a saloon man
was present hut a majority of mer
chants and professional men attended
and others previously or since have,
expressed sympathy with the action of J
tin* chamber. The vote was unani
mous in favor of the resolution.
Considerable rancor against the gov
ernor was displayed in the speeches
and many uncomplimentary i filed ions J
w ere matte upon him in the room where
onlv iwo months before he was given!
a reception hy an enthusiastic crowd.
Several speakers wanted to insert in !
the resolution the statement that Gov.
lloggatt had insulted the intelligence ;
of the territory by his claim that only
saloon men and agitators are in favor
of territorial organization. A message j
was sent to Delegate \\ .askey today |
conveying to him the indorsement of
the chamber. The resolutions follow:!
Whereas, the president having re- j
quested letters front Delegate Waskey j
and Governor lloggatt of Alaska con
cerning their views of Alaska affairs
and in a letter to the president the
governor having stated "that territor
ial government has no support among
substantial citizens of the territory
aud such is advocated only by the
saloon element and demagogues who
live hy agitation" and on the other
hand our congressional delegate hav
ing stated in his communication to the
president "that of 40,000 white Ameri
cans in Alaska nearly the entire white
population demanded territorial gov
ernment."
Whereas, as citizens of Alaska, re
siding therein, we believe that Alaska
is fully able and capable of making her
own laws, we ask no more ol con
gress than to be allowed to attend to
our own business; that the same
right to independence of which self
government is a part, l>e accorded us,
as was demanded by our forefathers of
ol England to secure which they
pledged their lives, fortunes and
sacred honor.
Now therefore be it resolved, That
the chamber of commerce does hereby
approve and indorse the views ex
pressed hy Alaska’s delegate to con
gress relating to territorial govern
ment and disapprove, deny and contra
dict the statements expressed by its
governor: and it is ordered that the
following telegram be sent:
Frank H. Waskey. Alaska delegate.
Washington. We strongly in
dorse your views on self-government
for Alaska.
WORK FOR AID
TO LOCAL ROLE
Calc and M askey Moving Among
Members of Congress for
Territorial Bill.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Washington, D. C., Dec*. 14 Dele
gates Waskey unci Gale of Alaska are
working among members of the house
individually soliciting support for* ter
ritorial government in Alaska. Gov.
Hoggatt’s opposition, indorsed by Pres
ident Roosevelt, adds strenhgt to the
other side. A bill introduced by Con
gressman Jones of Washington at the
last session, proposing a system of ter
ritorial government for Alaska, is
before the committee on territories
and Jones is hopeful of obtaining re
cognition for it. Senator Piles and
Congressman Cushman of Washington
will oppose the bill on the ground that
Alaska cannot be expediently govern
ed under territorial law.
Chicago railroads run 1537 trains
into and out of the city each day
DISAGREE ON
ALASKA LAWS
I etters of Governor and Delegate
to President Wade Public
in the Senate.
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CLASH ON MINING CHANGES
ttoqqatt Says Only Saloon Dement
and Agitators favor Terri
torial Government.
ay C(i>;lo t.> The Dailr Gateway.
Washington. I >. Dee. 1- l'he
loiters from Delegate Waskey and Gov,
Hoggatt of Alaska to the president,
concerning Alaska atYairs, written at j
KoOseveil's request, were made public j
in the senate today and show a wide I
divergence of views. '1 he governor
asserts that present mining laws are
satisfactory and that territorial gov
ernment has no support atnony sul»
stantial citizens of the territory. He
says it is advocated only by the saloon (
•■lenient anil demagogues \i ho live by j
agitat ion.
Waskey >a\s that 4<U>00 white J
Americans in Alaska, nearly tie* cii-,
tire white population, demand terri-j
torial government.
\V askey reeoinmemts various chang*:
esinthe mining laws. He urges thej
requii emeu* of a bona tide discovery!
of gold in commercial quantities be-1
fore location of a claim: proof that the J
ground located is part of the unappro-:
priated public domain, to be made be
fore the district recorder: making coin-1
pulsory the recording of an affidavit of I
annual assessment work on claims, a
false affidavit to be perjury ; and the
alKililion of association claims.
Gov, Hoggatt says the supreme
court decision regarding the amount of
gold necessary to constitute a valid
discovery necessary to permit location
of a mining claim cannot be improved
Upon. He says that in many eases it
would be impossible to prove that the
land in question is part of the unap
propriated public domain; he thinks
Was key's plan to extend the power of
the recorders is unsafe: tlie proposi
tion for recording proof of annual labor
and the abolition of association claims
he approves.
In denying that a large element of
the territorial population favors ter
ritorial government the governor
cites the fact that Ex-Gov. Swineford,
acknowledged to be the foremost ad
vocate of that system, received the
smallest vote in the recent delegate
election, and says that the result
shows that the people do not want
territorial government. He says the
claim that Alaskans are deprived of
citizenship rights is untrue.
Waskey wrote to Secretary Hitch*
[cock today urging the immediate
creation of land offices at Nome and
Fairbanks, lie had previously pres
sed the matter upon the secretary's
attention in an interview
NO HELP FOR
ALASKA ROADS
President Thinks Railways Can
Be Constructed Without
Government Aid.
| By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Washington. D.C.,Pec. 1.5 President
i I loose velt informed Senator Penrose
today that lie will not favor goveer
! ment aid for any railroad in Alaska.
| He bases his conclusion upon the re
| port of Gov. Iloggatt, which says that
government aid is not needed for that
purpose as legitimate railroad enter
! prises will be promoted without it.
The president's statement was made
j in response to an application for aid
tor the Valdez-Yukon railroad. Strong
support for . government aid was de
veloped in congress at the last session
but the opposition of the president ef
fectually disposes of tin* question for
the present.
Receives Checks for Witnesses
Judge Howlett has received from
the government a small stock of checks
in payment of witness fees in cases two
years old. Anybody in town who
thinks his claim is old enough for the
government to pay it is invited to call
at the commissioner’s office and see if
he has a Christmas present from
Uncle Sam.
CALE DECLARES
Alaska Delegate Says People of
Territory Are in Eavor of
Self-government.
WANT TO MAKE LOCAL LAWS
Would Also Transfer Issuance of
I icenses from Judges of District
Court to Governor.
Uy Cable to Tub Dally Gateway.
Washington. I). ('.. Doc. II Thomas
(.’ale, delegate from Alaska in the next,
congress, arrived here today. He says
that throughout Alaska all genuine
Aaiericans believe in self-government
for the territory. lie says congress
does not know what legislation is re
quired for the development of the ter
ritory . and that many local laws and
regulations are badly needed. The
people of the territory alone. < ale says,
know how to legislate on local inter
est s.
(’ale also says that he would like to
see the authority for yrant iny licenses
transferred from the (listrict judye, to
the governor. He arye.es that the:
issuance of licenses is an administrat
ive. not a judicial function, and that it
is a handicap to the uselulness of the
courts to impose the hundliny of licens
es upon tin in.
ROOSEVELT WRITES ABOUT
AMBASSADOR STORER ROW
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, I). Dec. b* Presi
dent Roosevelt today wrote to Secre
tary Root a statement of his side of the j
trouble with Ambassador Bellamy
Storer, which led to the latter's per
emptory recall from Vienna last sum-;
mer. The president says he never
wrote to Mrs. Storer except when lie (
sent to her husband letters which had
been entrusted to him to convey to
her, in which case he sometimes sent j
a formal note. He denies that he ever j
asked either of the Storers to urge
through Catholic influences that Arch
bishop Ireland he made a cardinal, j
Lie says that at Storer’s solicitation he
once spoke to President McKinley
about the movement’ The President
says it is impossible that Mrs. Storer
should make public any correspondence
with him to impress the pope with
the belief that he is hack of the move
ment to make a cardinal of Ireland, be
cause there is no such correspondence.
Mrs. Storer is credited in the news
papers with having made such a claim.
Storer Replies to Roosevelt
Cincinnati, Dec. II— Bellamy Storer.
former ambassador to Austria, gave to
the press today a reply to President
Roosevelt's statement that the presi
dent never made any promise either to
him or to his wife to aid the movement
to induce the jxipe to make Archbishop
Ireland a cardinal. Storer asserts
i that Ireland told him personally that
i Roosevelt hail informed the archbishop
of Storer’s visit to the pope in Ire
land’s interest, showing that lie was
well-informed concerning the effort in
I reland's behalf.
Storer also produces a letter written
to Mrs. Storer in which the president
says he would he glad to grant any
favor she might ask if it lay in his
power. The president said in his
letter to Secretary Root that lie had
j never written Mrs. Storer anything
| more t ban a formal note.
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GETS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
USES IT FOR LABOR CAUSE
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Christiania, Dec. 11—The Norwegian
| storthing voted to confer the Nobel
peace prize for liH)."> upon President
Roosevelt for his services in promot
ing peace between Russia and Japan.
The amount is$J7, 127.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 11 Presi
dent Roosevelt decided today to use
the Noble peace prize fund to bring
representatives of labor and capital
together at a conference in Washing
ton to discuss industrial problems.
EMPEROR DISSOLVES
GERMAN PARLIAMENT
By Cable to The Dolly Gateway.
Berlin, Dec. 14— Emperor William
dissolved the German reichstag today
because it refused to pass a bill in
creasing the German army in South
west Africa sufficiently to crush the re
bellion of the native tribes.
TO FRAME LAW
BY COMMISSION
Gov. Iloggatt Persists i.i Urgi.ig
Special Agents to Prov so
Legislation.
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FOR MW JUDICIAL DiSTJLT
Recommends Changes in
Statutes Which Will Tend t*»
Prevent litigation.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway,
Washington, i>. t’.. Dir. i; <.<)/,
Hoyyatt's letters to I'residon- l{... ,,,5.
veil on Alaska a (Tails urye :>u; i
larly lie-appointment ol a - • ■ 1 u»:9
commission to \isit ali parts \ %
ami study local conditions for . »r
pose of recommending l> mule' is
lation. especially atncmimei.die
mininy laws, lie -,:\s those ,i ho
relormed so a> to prevent !i' ton,
much of which amounts e. to
hlackmai I.
The governor aNo asks tie lion
of a fourth judicial oistrie em
hrace the coast line west ot .mat
hay t<i and including tie isk v
peninsula and tie* Aleutian pel
aye, extendiiiy ahout LMOnie • md,
to relive tie* who lion o! . iurt
caltuidars in the Second ami '! . uis
tricts. lie ;tls » recommends ap
pointment of a lifth juUye who t ,ay he
assiyned to any district by ort’ei the
attorney-yeneral to a-si-t when 'he
docket is heavy or to sit in in
wliich the jndye of the district ' he
disqualified.
HAS MESSAGES
ON SIX TOPICS
President Frames Special Com
munications to Congress
for Next Week.
By Cable to Tbo Dally Ottawa?.
Washington, l). C., Dec. l'» Presi
dent Roosevelt will send si.v swcial
messages to congress next week. The
subjects follow:
Concerning the naval personal bill,
I providing for more rapid ivtirenent
and promotion of noval olficers: trans
I milting Secretary Metcalf's i • *«-t on
i the Japanese school question i San
Francisco: the Panama eu. i . the
i withdrawal of coal lands on the public
domain from entry under existing laws;
reply to the senate resolution calling
for information regarding t he divuissal
of three companies of colored troops
belonging to the Twenty-liftb infantry
1 for alleged participation in tin- riots at
I Brownsville, Texas: Secretary l'aft’3
report on < 'uba.
The house also expects a special
i message advocating the passage •• tlui
i ship subsidy bill.
PORTLAND TO PUT ON
FOUR BOATS TO ALASKA
| Portland-Positive announcement i**
now made that Portland will • uier
i into competition for the Alaska trade,
j and within a week a million dollar
I corporation, composed of pr.-minent
! Portland business men and linaiu-.-d by
Kastern capital, will be organiz'd for
the purpose.
Although incorporation lias nut yet.
taken place the commercial bodies of
this city wjuch are behind the move
ment have Iwnight four new L’.T'.O-ton
steamships in the Fast and these will
be brought around the Horn in t lie im
mediate future. They are said to be of
greater speed than any now in the
Alaska trade.
The first of the steamships to arrive
wili he put on the run between Port
land and Seward and way points. The
second will ply between Portland and
Lynn (’anal points, touching at Juneau,
Sitka and Skagway. The other two
vessels will be operated to Nome m
the summer and to Seward and South
eastern Alaska in the winter.
The Seattle Times charges that the
high coal prices are the result of a
combine and that the Pacific Coast
Company is holding out on the public.
The Fairbanks Times figures that
Chandlar will be shy on provision!
this winter and thinks Hour may cost
$40 a barrel in the new camp.
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