RAVAGE THE CAUCASUS
Tartars Burn Towns and Kill 5,000
in one Week.
By Cable to tt e Gateway
ItiAti. Sept. Is—Conditions in the,
Caucasus grow worse continually. The ;
Tartars nave been burning villages,!
using ail the oil and tar they could lindj
to promot • the ravages of the flames.
Numerous targe parties ol idem are j
pillaging me country districts, ues
troying IhHIi life and property.
i ue troops siauoueu in iue piovinte .
seem terrorized ny me guerrillas and
ret Use it) leave tueir quarters. l ne
peoi>*e are uiieriv ai uiv merc^ ol tue
Tanars. From reports received it is
estimated tdat ltie outlaw iu\ muttons
last week slaugmereu d.OOO persons.
USED TO CLOSE CALlS
Viet um oi Mdtuuusku Hi vet Ad
venture tias vgueer heeord
X. 1*. Murdock, who became so badly
frightened when h»s partner, iiieO;
Smith, fell from iheir raft and drowned
in the rapids ot the Mutaiuiska river
tnat ne look te» the woods anil tiiuiiiy
appeared at iviiik Arm hait-stai vial and
Inul-demented, seems to nave been ac
customed to narrow escapes, according
to the Valdez News. The News says
he gave the Tacoma chain gang me
slip in order to come north and acquire
wealth in mining.
Murdock seems to he a very conscient
ious individual, althrough the men to
whom tie told his stotg at Kink Arm
tnink he drew largely upon his imagin
ation m relating in>adventures. Never
. ih loss ne is so noiiest t ii.it nitei he
readied Vaiuez lie wrote a letter to
tlie caiet of poiue ot JLacotna from
\ aliiez, saymg that he was al>oul to de
pact for the interior of Alaska to make
h»s fortune and would be gone three or
l >ar vears, but on his return would
c til at the city hall in Tacoma and pay
h s line. He had been given fifteen
tu\s for earning concealed weapons.
Aiurd.>ck claimed lhat he was ciglu
da vs reach n g Knik Arm lrom Uie
p.aec where tne raft overturned. Tnis
m near tin* moutii of Hicks creek and
U rather less than seventy-live miles
lcom Knik. lie walked to the mouth
of the Chiekaloon, about eignieeii
miles, and then confiscated Frank
atson's tu at uni in it came to Kuik,
about lifty-tive miles. As the current
siNifi tie should have made it in a
tew hours. He claims however, to have
rowed against me current all the way
to keep the boat from going too fast.
EDWARD FIXES THINGS!
English King Patches up Swedish- j
Norwegian Muss.
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By Cable to the CatcM/ay
Karlst end, Norway,Sept. IS -Through
the intervention of King Kdward of
Kngiand, the commissioners now in
(sc>sion here to agree on a mutual com
pact, for the peaceable separation of
the two kingdoms are likely to ream
an adjustment satisfactory to both
sides. Norway will demolish all fort
resses recently erected along the fron
tier and witlulraw troops from them,
and Sweden will do nothing to threat
en Norwegian territory.
The session held last Saturday ap
peared to have deadlocked on the ques
tion of boundary fortifications. King
linward exerted his influence wiih the
Norwegians within the last forty-eight
hours, and tin* conipt o nise is the re
sult.
bertha a LLtie Late
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Steamer Kertha left Sitka Saturday
evening, according to a cable message
received in Seward yesterday, She is
now the regular mail steamer of the
Alaska Commercial Company and will
be a little longer making the trip than
heretofore. On her last trip she came
from Seattle to Seward in two hours
k\-*s than nine ua^s, although she slop
ped at ever\ oou \'s backyard. Sue;
oid not, however, go to Sitka. She
should reach Seward about \\ tain s
da\ evening if she sutlers no unusual
delay, ten days out oi .Seattle.
For rent Cabin. Central. Dr. Da/^ett
The Yak mat Lumber Company will
have a full stock ol lumber on or about
September go.
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Seward to Tyonek by way of Knik.
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