Seward Weekly Gateway
VOl II NO US. ' SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY. JUNE 30, 1906.
CZAMGIMENT
RISES IN MUTINY
Many Men Killed on Both Sides
Before the Outbreak Is
Finally Quelled.
CHANGE OF CABINET PROBABLE
Nicholas Convinced that Revolution
Is Near and Is Ready to
Make Concession.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
St. Petersburg. June 29—The tiring
at the fortress here a week ago was
caused by mutiny of the czar’s own
regiment. Many men were killed in
the tight on both side' before the
mutiny was suppressed.
The czar realizes that the revolution
i> spreading anti that an open outbreak
is imminent. He is willing to create a
new cabinet and propo>es to parlia
ment a distribution of private lands
among the peasantry. 1 he offer comes
too late to pacify the revolutionary
sentiment and the douma refuse' to
t.;i" any law until the Goremykin min
istry is dvjHt'ed.
Peasants are leaving their homes
an»i joining the revolutionists by
thousands. !t is evident that a cr ' '
' near. The czar hurriedly granted a
new trial to 'even revolutionists who
had been condemned to be shot at ;
Kiga today.
All the troops in Manchuria have'
U-en ordered home and w ill be brought
back as fast as transportation can be
provided but the belief here i> that
•he 'oldiei' from the east are more
likely to >in the revolutionists than toi
aid in putting down insurrection. •
Blames Police tor Massacre
St. Petersburg. June 2T The com
mittee of the douma which investiga
ted the massacre of Jews at Ivialystok
reports that the police and subordinate
officer* of the military garrison were
responsible for the outrages. It is
stated that they aroused the populace
by circulating false reports concern
ing the Jews in order to distract at
tention from revolutionary plans and
that they encouraged and aided the
rioters.
Cabinet May Retire
It is asserted that the retirement of
the Goremykin cabinet will be de
manded by parliament and its replace
ment by a ministry chosen from the
social democrats in the douma, insisted
upon.
It is reported that a large quantity
of l>ombs have been found stored in
the tow n of Gomel and it is believed
that the revolutionists there are pre
paring to strike.
Conservatives Join Democrats
St. Petersburg, June 2’> The Con
servative Centrist party in the council
(C ontinued on page 4)
FIREMAN FALLS FROM
CASWELL AND DROWNS
R. E. Blaikie Drops From Steamer
and Sinks Before Small Boat
Can Reach Him.
K. K. Blaikie, fireman of the Yentna
river steamer Caswell, fell from the
fan tail of the lx>at near the mouth of
creek and was drowned on the
steamer's first trip up tin* river. He
was apparently stunned by striking
something in falling or as he reached
the water, for he soon sank. A boat
was lowered and was at the spot where
the man fell in less than five minutes
but could find no trace of him.
The news comes in a lettet to the
Gateway from Captain Swift, owner
and master of the Caswell. He writes
that the steamer made her first trip
without mishap other than the tragic
loss of the fireman, and that she will
continue to run regularly throughout
the season. Apparently the river
boats are doing a good business. Of
mining prospects Capt. Swift writes:
“The center of attraction seems to
be on Yentna river about Lake creek
and Youngstown. A few good finds
have been made. Chris Hansen re
cently took out*$200 in dust with a
rockerjfon Discovery claim on Lake
creek. He traded this for supplies at
Susitna station and has gone back to
work his "claims for the summer.
There arelmany good paying proposi
tions for hydraulic or machinery plants
here on these rivers. We are moving
two hydraulic {outfits in now for Ka
hiltna river and up the Yentna.
HOUSES AGREE
ON RATE OILL
Conferrees Decide To Incorporate
Amendments Demanded
by Senate.
By OabU to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. C., June 29—The
! house conferrees today agreed to ae
j cept the amendments to the rate bill
which are insisted upon by the senate,
| and house leaders have agreed to pass
I the bill.
No agreement has been reached yet
on meat inspection legislation. The
house refuses to pass the agricultural
bill unless the amendment to the meat
inspection sections providing that the
cost of government inspection be borne
by the packers is accepted.
The house agreed to accept the con
ferrees- report in favor of the passage
of the bill creating a United States
district court in China to hear causes
there in which Americans are in
terested.
Cannot Agree on Meat Bill
Washington, l). C.. June -7 Hu*
conference committee of the two
houses reports that the members are
unable to agree upon a moat inspection
bill. The principal wrangle is over
the question of placing the cost of in
spection anti the requirement that the
date of sealing bo placet! upon all cans.
The difference appears to be irrecon
cilabio ns neither side will recede.
Speaker Cannon says the house will
not consent to adjournment until all
business is finished, and it now seems
improbable that congress will adjo irn
this week.
The house passed the deficiency ap
propriation bill yesterday afternoon,
the last measure carrying money to be
taken up at this session. It will go
through the senate this week. The
bill ratifies the collections made upon
impor ts from the Philippines.
PAY FINES FOR
REBATE STEALS
Chicago Packers and Burlington
Road Taxed for Violations
of Statute.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway
Kansas City, Mo., June 23—Judge
McPherson in the U. S. district court
today sentenced officials of the Swift,
Cudahy, Armour and Nelson Morris
packing companies $15,000 each for
accepting railroad rebates on freight.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad Company was fined the same
amount for giving rebates.
George Thomas, a broker, was lin**d
>*',oon, and his clerk, Taggart, was
fined >4000 and given a jail sentence of
three months for assisting in arranging
rebates._
TO BEGIN SURVEY ON
TURNAGAIN ARM TRAIL
W. H. Reel and Jerry Odale Will
Mark Out Government Road
From Hope.
W. II. Reel, an Alaska Central engi
nerr, and Jerry Odale started Thurs*
day morning for Turnagain Arm
to begin work on the survey of the
trail on the south side of the Arm
from Hope and Sunrise to the Alaska
Central line. The trail will start front
a point on mile 63.
Arrangements were made with Gen
eral Manager Poland by Maj. Richard
son while the latter was here to have
the survey made. The survey can be
made in a short time hut it is doubt
ful whether any work will be done
upon it this year. Maj. Richardson
would not commit himself upon that
point. As he promised to have the
trail cut as soon as possible the infer
ence was left that this year’s appro
priation was all disposed of before the
Turnagain Arm trail was thought of.
Bank Building Is Growing
Construction of the new Bank of
Seward building is proceeding rapidly.
The walls are now above the windows
and will be finished in a few days.
The cement blocks are trimmed to re
semble cut limestone and make as fine
appearance as limestone.
Rampart has discovered that it can
obtain an excellent cold storage plant
by digging a cellar in frozen soil.
WICKERSHAM WILL
HOLD HIS PLACE
President Roosevelt to Give Him Another Vaca
cation Appointment and Announces that
Alaska Judge Can Stick So Long as
the Strenuous Executive Is in
the White House.
By Cabl« to Tba Dally Gateway.
Washington, l). C., .Tune “Judge
Wickersham will remain on the bench
as long as I am president, and I expect
to continue in office two years and
eight months longer.”
This announcement of his position on
the Alaska judgeship light was made
by President Roosevelt yesterday
evening, lie will give Judge \\ ieker
sham a vacation appointment as soon
as congress adjourns.
Judge Wickersham left Washington
la^i night under instructions from the
attorney-gene mil. Me will proceed
direct to Fairbanks and open court
MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
LOSE NINE HORSES
Cook Party Have Hard Luck With
Stock But Successfully Cross
Kuskokwim Range
Nine horses were lost by the Cook
party of mountain climbers before
reaching the Kuskokwim range, leav
ing them only eleven, but that num
ber is likely to be all they will require,
as they reached the pass at the head
of the Yentna without other mishap
and before this are doubtless ready to
begin the ascent of Mt. McKinley . Dr.
Cook was not certain just where he
would start to climb but it will be
somewhere along the* northwestern
slope. w*
The entire Cook party went up from
Tyoonok in the fast launch which they
brought with them, except three pack
ers, who took the horses overland
from Tyoonok. Three horses fell into
the smoldering coals of an abandoned
coal mine near the Buluga river and
were so badly burned as to be ruined.
Six other horses ran away when cross
ing rivers and disappeared.
The main party of eight men
went up the Yentna in the
launch. Capt. W. N. Armstrong, the
well-known mining man, accompanied
them and brings the report of their
experiences, lie returned to Seward
last night. He left the party at a new
pass of the Kuskokwim range, ready
to proceed to the northward along the
foothills.
The launch went eight miles above
what has been regarded as t he head of
navigation, at old Youngstown, seven
miles above new Youngstown, to
which point the embryo town has been
transferred because the river is not
always navigable up to the first loca
tion. Away beyond the point where
the river has been regarded as im
passable for anything but an Indian
canoe went the powerful launch of the
Cook party with its do-horse power
engine. Capt. Armstrong says it
wriggled amazingly up rapids which
foamed and dashed almost over it,
through plunging torrents which
would seem difficult for a trout to
breast.
“Several times when we approached
fierce rapids,” says Armstrong, “I
said to Dr. Cook. ‘You'll never go up
there.* “We’ll try it anyway,’ he
would say, and up we went.”
At the head of the left fork of the
Yentna Dr. Cook, Porter and Brown
went ahead to explore for a pass which
Dr. Cook believed to exist there,
judging from observations of the con
tour of the range he made two years
ago. The pass was found and Arm
strong, who prospected behind the
three, went back with a guide to get
the remainder of the party. He left
the whole party at the pass, which
leads from the Yentna to the Tonzona
river on the other side._
Locked Horns on Exhibition
The pair of interlocked moose horns
which R. J. Horton found on Juneau
creek near Lake Kenai last November
are now on exhibition in Richards’
store. Members of the camera club
have made numerous photographs of
the horns, which are as remarkable a
pair of locked antlers as were ever
found, because of the exact position in
which they are dove-tailed together.
Mr. Horton intends to place them on
exhibition at the Alaska-Yukon
Paciflc exposition. The horns are of
average size, about 58 inches.
there on his arrival. Judge Gunnison
will be asked to proceed at his earliest
convenience to Valdez to clean up the
docket there.
Attorney-General Moody addressed a
letter to the president yesterday stat- j
ing that he considers Judge Wicker-j
sham one of the ablest judges in all
the territories. The course adopted
by Nelson and McCuinber to defeat
Wickershani in the fact of an over
whelming majority of both parties in
the senate in favor of his continuation
has aroused much feeling adverse to
them among the senators and in the
department of the attorney-general.
TO STUDY RESOURCES
OF CENTRAL ALASKA
R. B. Markle and Party Go Through
to Inlet to Investigate for
Californians
On the steamer Portland bound for
Cook inlet came a party of eight Cali
fornia men headed by It. I». Markle.
who are going inside to investigate the
1 resources of the country around the
Inlet. If their report is favorable at
least 200 men, most of them with fam
ilies. will come north from the Golden
state this summer to settle and engage
in a variety of employments. The
I contemplated immigrants include me-i
jehanies o' all trades, business men,
farmers and miners.
Mr. Markle is the man whose depar
ture from Seattle was chronicled when
the Portland sailed as a representative
of San Francisco refugees who were
seeking a new country in which to
j recuperate their shattered fortunes.
The information is inaccurate. While
part of t hem are San Francisco men
who met some losses in the earthquake
and tire all those of the advance party
j and nearly all who will follow have
more or less money. They are simply
i seeking a better field for investment
and industrial effort than California
offers. Mr. Markle said:
“The earthquake and fire in San
Francisco were worse in their effect
upon the business and industry of the
city than anyone outside can imagine,
and it has had a paralyzing effect upon
the whole state. It bankrupted great
numbers of men and threw thousands
out of employment. It will ho a long
time before the same number of work
! ingmen will be employed in California
as before the disaster. For that rea
son many men with a little money and
many mechanics are seeking locations
elsewhere.
“Another thing adds to the desire to
emigrate. California has been for
i many years a notoriously corporation
ridden state. The opportunity for
individual and independent effort be
comes narrower each year in Cali
fornia. There is no chance there for
the man of small means except to
work for a corporation and for that
reason the temptation to emigrate is
growing.”
Comes from Chulitna River
Richard Kirk came in Thursday
from the Chulitna river with several
good copper specimens. Mr. Kirk
went up the Susitna river in February
and has been prospecting there all
spring, principally on branches of the
Chulitna lying north of Mt. McKinley.
He was not successful in prospecting
for gold placers and transferred his in
terest to quartz. The placer gold he
found was flaky and did not pan out
well. He reports that prospectors are
exploring various creeks south of
Broad pass. The Susitna is very high
now but when it goes down Mr. Kirk
expects to return to the Chulitna.
Boat Sailings Next Month
The advertisement of the Northwes
tern Steamship Company in the latest
Seattle papers received on the Santa
Ana, schedules the Oregon to sail July
1, the Excelsior the 8th and the Santa
Clara the 16th, all on the outside.
The first life insurance society was
started in London in 1698, and another
in 1700. Neither was successful.
CITY OF TOPEKA
COMING IN JOLY
Cable Says Pacific Coast Steamer
Is Scheduled To Make
Run to Seward.
The steamer City of Topeka, be
longing to the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company, is apparently scheduled to
sail for Seward from Seattle July 5.
The Kenai Lumber & Fuel Company
-received a message Tuesday evening
stating that a shipment would be made
“on the City of Topeka sailing July
5th.”
No previous information of the pros
pective sailing of the City of Topeka on
this run had been offered from any
source. It- is probable that the decis
ion to send her was made suddenly be
cause of the tie-up of Pacific Coast
Company boats by the sailors' strike
and that she has been chartered by the
Alaska Coast Company to carry sur
plus freight while the strike is on.
The City of Topeka sailed for Skag
way June lb with a non-union crew
but it may be that the Pacific Coast
Company does not care to keep her go
ing under the circumstances.
It is stated that there is more
freight on the Seattle dock-, for
Southern Alaska than the regular
steamer-, can carry. Two steamers
have left 100,000 feet of lumber and
150 tons of coal for the Kenai company
and a query regarding the cargo
brought the answer that the Bertha
would bring ">o tons of coal and the
remainder would come on the City of
Topeka and tin* Portland.
FIRE SWEEPS
SUNRISE TRAIL
Flames Wiping out Timber Along
Johnson Creek and Ad
joining Hills.
Fire Thursday was sweeping a large
area of timber adjacent to Johnson
creek along the trail to Sunrise and
was still burning yesterday although no
definite information could be obtained
over the telephone. The heavy smoke
visible to the northward from Seward
indicates that there has been no cessa
tion of the flames. The men who
came in on the train Thursday evening
say that the fire seemed likely to wipe
out all the timber on the slope west of
the railroad unless a heavy rain should
stop it.
Several men came over the Sunrise
trail yesterday afternoon to catch the
train and they barely reached the rail
road track before the fire crossed the
trail they had just traversed. They
estimate that much more than a square
mile had been burned over and at the
rate the fire was running the devas
tated area must be doubled by this
time. _____
GEORGE A. KYLE RESIGNS
FROM ALASKA CENTRAL
Engineer of Surveys Gives Up Posi
tion Here to Go to Milwaukee
& St. Paul.
George A. Kyle, engineer of surveys
of the Alaska Central Railway,
has resigned to accept a position with
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad Company, with headquarters
at Seattle. Mr. Kyle handled the
difficult and important work entrusted
to him with marked ability. Under
his direction many intricate problems
in location have been worked out and
the line has been staked out ready for
work as far as the Chigjt&loon coal
fields. Definite preliminary location
has also been made all the way to
Fairbanks on the Tanana river.
As the survey work is now several
years in advance of any possible con
struction, the position of engineer of
surveys of the Alaska Central will be
abolished.
George W. Palmer Returns
George W. Palmer of Knik returned
from Seattle on the Santa Ana and
went through to the Inlet. In Seattle
he bought a large stock of goods for
his store at Knik and the new one
which he and James Bartlett will open
up the Yentna river. ^
Natives took 500 sealskins into Sitka
early this month and sold them for $21
apiece.
WILL RESUME
TRACK LAYING
Alaska Central Places Men at
Work Again on Pail
Extension.
TWO MILES TO FIRST TUNNEL
Grading Beyond Transfer Station
Proceeds Steadily and Will
Soon Reach Trestles.
Tracklaying was resumed this
week from the present terminus near
the end of mile 40 on the Alaska Cen
tral, where it has stood for five months
localise snow slide's interfered with
grading on the side hill which inter
venes between the end of the track
and the south portal of the first tun
nel. When track-laying stopped i
the winter rails had been laid a short
distance beyond the transfer station
and the grade was finished s'ill fat
ther. 'I’ll'- transfer station was locate-'
at tin* best place for the divergence of
the winter snow road.
Graders have been at work for ;<
week beyond the end of the rack and
the rails will he laid slowly behinc
them until they are dose to the ap
proach to the first tunnel. There tin
track will end until the tunnel is fin
ished, which will he early in Septem
her at the present rate of progress.
Within a few weeks 4* miles of track
will be in operation.
Foundations for the big trestles b<
yond the first tunnel, winch will furn
ish the support for a large extent ot
track on miles 49-50-51, are already go
ing in and the work of putting up tin
heavy timbers will soon be in progress.
Watson & Snow, the bridge contract
ors, have about 50 men employed and
will increase the number constantly.
On these long, high trestles tin- rail
road will cross and recross the Place
river valley to make the descent on a 2
per cent grade. Several million fe<
of heavy timbers will be required but
the work of putting them up can 1*»
done rapidly as a large number of men
can be employed at once. It is very
different from the task of tunnel bor
ing and construction officials are confi
dent that the trestles will bo com
pleted by the time the first tunnel is
bored, so that there will be no delay of
track laying on that account.
Boring of the tunnels is proceeding
at a satisfactory rate. Last Saturday
night the weekly report to General
Manager Poland showed that the
north end of the first tunnel, on mile
49, was in 404 feet on the heading and
419 feet on the bench. No work is in
progress on the south end. This tun
nel will be about 750 feet long,
i Tunnels 2, 3 and 5 are finished, 4 and
»J are only started but neither is long.
On No. 7 the heading is in 99 feet and
the bench 24 feet. The total length of
tunnels will be about 35*5 feet. By
the weekly report the total length of
headings was 2H55 feet and of benches
was 2009 feet.
SARATOGA LARGEST
OF SEWARD FLEET
Big Steamer Now on Way Around
the horn Outclasses All Others
Running to this Fort.
The steamer Saratoga, one of th*
three recently purchased by the North
western Steamship Company on the
Atlantic coast for the Alaska trade,
and booked for the Seward run from
Seattle, is larger than any now on the
same run. Her gross tonnage is 2820
and net tonnage 1973, several sizes
larger than the Oregon. She is also
the oldest of the list on the Seward
run, having been built in 1878 at.
Chester, Pa. For a long time she has
been running from New York to
Havana.
Following is the tonnage, length and
indicated *'orse power of the steamers
running to Seward and on Cook inlet
as shown by the register of the depart
ment of commerce:
Vessel Gross Net Length H. P.
Saratoga 2820 1973 298 2000
Oregon 2:535 1642 283 1700
Santa Clara 1588 1208 223 5*00
Portland 1420 966 191.5 650
Santa Ana 1250 814 182 t>50
Bertha 926 752 185.5 *»00
Excelsior 830 565 175.5 366
Dora 320 217 112 80
Toledo 119 72 97 24o
Neptune 160 94 84
Caswell 99 62 70.6
The miners’ protective association of
Rampart has 200 members.