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URGE OPENING
THE COAL LANDS
Committee Calls on President and
Gi\es Reasons for Access to
Alaska’s Fuel Beds.
By Cable 10 Tbe Dally Gateway.
Washington, IX t\, Fob. 13—Sena
tor Samuel H. Piles, Delegate Ihom
as Pale anti S. A. McKenzie called
upon the president yesterday ami
held a consultation concerning Alaska
interests. During the interview they
laid stress upon the valuable coal de
posits of Alaska and the advantages to
be derived from immediate access to
these beds, and urged upon the presi
dent the necessity of opening up the
coal lands of the territory, lhe mat
ter was finally referred to commis
sioner Ballinger.
MAKES FINAL
PLEA FOR A-Y-P
\
Representative Jones Puts in His
Best Licks to Secure In
creased Appropriation.
By Cable to The Datly Gateway.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 11- Repre
sentative Wesley L. .Jones of Washing
ton, who is taking a deep interest in
the scheme of the Alaska-\ ukon-l’aci
tic exposition, and using all his influ
ence to further its success, today
makes the final plea in behalf of a
1 a rge a p propri at ion.
APPROPRIATION
SIDETRACKED
A-y-P Bill Sent to Wrong Com
mittee With Apparent Intent
to Bury the Measure.
By Caine to The Daily Gateway
Washington, l>. C.. Feb. 12—It now
develops that the bill for an appro
priation for the Alaska-Yukon-1 'acitic
exposition a as sent to the ways and
means instead of the industrial arts
committee, and it is believed there i>
an attempt being made to bury it.
KING OF BELGIUM NAMED AS
NEXT VICTIM OF ASSASSINS
By Cable to The Dallv Gateway.
London, Feb. 1»> The report is cir
culated here that among the next vic
tims to be reached by the hand of the
assassin will be the king of Belgium.
Investigate Coal Deposits
The house deficiency appropriation
bill includes an item of >■'0,000,
recommended by the interior de
partment, for the purpose of con
tinuing the work of the geological
survey and mineral research in Alas*
. ka. The expenditure of this money
will be under the general super
vision of Charles D. Walcott, director
of the office of the geological sur
vey. and the actual field work will
be under the direction of Alfred H.
Brooks, in charge of the division
of Alaskan mineral resources.. The
investigation will be along the lines
heretofore pursued, but special at
tention will be directed towards a
through investigation of the coal de
posits in the southwestern part of the
district.
EAK IK CABLE CUTS SEWARD OFF
FROM ALL OUTSIDE COMMUNICATI
lietween tho hour of closing business last Thursday evening and the time lor opening again
Friday morning the government cable between this place and Valdez went out of commission and
consequently no communication can be had with the outside and Seward is without any world
newsservice. The cable was in good working order Thursday evening and what happened to it
remains a mystery at this time. Repeated tests made by Operator Faust from the Seward end of
the cable apparently shows it to be intact as far as Valdez, but no connection could be made with j
that otice. A slight earthquake tremor was felt about two o’clock Friday morning and it is possi
bio seismic disturbance may have caused the trouble.
PRIMARIES WILL
! SEND TAFT MEN
Cincinnati Delegation to State
Convention Will Be Unani
mous for War Secretary.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Cincinnati, Feb. 10—The republican
primaries will be held in this city to
morrow to elect delegates to the re
publican state convention. They ex
pect to elect a delegation which will
vote unanimously for William IT. Taft
as the next republican candidate for
the United States presidency.
Columbus' Elects Taft Delegates
Columbus. Feb. 12—The republican
primaries held here yesterday to elect
delegates to the state republican con
vention resulted in the election of four
delegates at large and delegates from
twenty-two districts who are unani
mously in favor of William II. Taft for
the next presidential candidate. Ap
parently Foraker has subsided, and no
opposition was developed.
AMERICAN FORESTS SOON
TO BE A THING OF THE PAST
In a recent paper Gifford Finchot,
chief of the Fnited States Government
bureau of forestry, says that ‘’applying
the present rate of consumption, the
result show* that the probable dura
tion of the timber supply in the Fnited
State* will not exceed thirty-three
years.” lie adds to the seriousness of
the outlook by saying:
•‘Estimates of this kind are almost
inevitably misleading. For example,
it is almost certain that the rate of
consumption of timber will increase
enormously in the future, as it has in
the past, so long as supplies remain to
draw upon. Exact knowledge of many
other facts i* needed before closely ac
curate results can be obtained. The
figures cited are. however, sufficiently
reliable to make it certain that the
Fnited States has already crossed the
verge of a timber famine so severe
that its blighting effects will be felt in
every household in the land. The rise
in the price of lumber which marks
the opening of the present century is
the beginning of a vastly greater and
more rapid rise which is to come. We
must necessarily begin to suffer from
the scarcity of timber long before our
supplies are completely exhausted.
The suffering which will result from
the progressive failure was but faintly
foreshadowed by the recent tempo
rary scarcity of coal.
Sued For Slander
Mrs. Crawford, formerly Rachel
Walton, of Sunrise, who was a witness
in the assault case brought by Mrs.
Kopp against Harry Hoben, all of
Sunrise, last October, went to Valdez
on the Farallon on a bench warrant
sworn out by Hoben charging slander
and asking for damages in the sum of
: $3,000.
SEWARD GETS
THE SMELTER
_■—
John E. Ballaine Perfects Plans for
$J50,000 Plant to Be Ready
for Business Next Year.
_
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Feb. 13—Arrangements have
l>een completed by John K. Ballaine
i whereby a smelter is to be built at i
Seward tit a cost of about $350,000. :
This plan has been in processs of ma- j
turing for some months, The, work
will be begun on the new plant as soon :
as practicable and the plant installed
ready for operation in tin late summer j
or fall of next year. 0
Mr. Ballaine has not yet disclosed 1
j the identity of the parties who are fi
| naneing the project.
THE FEARLESS j
SINKS AT DOCK
Steamer at Unalaska Owned in |
San Francisco Goes Down Un
der Weight of Snow.
(apt. Z. Moore of the Dora reports!
ihat the steamer Fearless at Unalaska,
owned by the Alaska Commercial Com-!
pany of Sati Francisco, sank at her j
moorings January lit). The boat was |
, not carefully looked after, and the I
; heavy fall of snow kept accumulating j
: upon her till she listed over and went;
I down.
SCHOONER GEM IS TOTAL
WRECK AT IKATAK
Word is brought from the west that
the schooner Gem went ashore at Ika
' tik late last fall. A wrecking outfit
was started out from San Francisco,
but the schooner is a total wreck, be
ing completely droken up.
Yukon Oats Sent East
McClusky brothers, of Dawson sent
east some of the fine Yukon grown
oats from their farm on the head of
Clear creek, a few miles below Daw
son. The oats have been grown there
two seasons in succession, the grain
from the first year's crop being used as
seed for the next. Those harvested
there last year are larger in the kernel
than those originally planted in the
ground and are firm. The oats were
planted last year on the 7th of May,
and were ripe by the middle of August.
It is the belief of Mr. McClusky that
by careful tilling of the uplands, and
the renewal of the crops from year to
year, a hardy variety of oats should be
grown in many, if not most, parts of
the country along the Yukon, and that
in time the Yukon valley will produce
a great share if not all the oats needed
in the country. Hay already has been
raised with eonsidei’able success.-Daw
son News.
TAFT GIVEN
BIG OVATION
Speakers at Banquet Praise Ad
ministration and Pxonerate
It Prom Blame for Panic.
—
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Kansas City. Feb. 11—Secretary of
j War William II. Taft, was given an
I ovation in this city last night. lo.OOO
• people were assembled to greet the
, popular member of the president's
cabinet. At the elaborate banquet
! given in honor of the distinguished
guest the speakers all reiterated that
j the administration is not responsible
for the recent panic, and insisted that
i the vigorous measures inaugurated by
the administration to stop existing
abuses should be continued with una
bated energy until their purpose is
accomplished.
Making Big Preparations
Kansas City, Feb. 10—The republi
can leaders in the city have completed
| their arrangements for the reception
, of Secretary of War William II. Taft
' who has arrived here and was given
ja rousing welcome. A banquet will
j be given tonight in hbnor of the
! distinguished guest and it will be an
| elaborate alTair.
HAS A MOUNTAIN OF RICH
JADE ORE ON BLACK RIVER
Nome A whole mountain of jade,
J or as Walter Keon, the discoverer of
this wonderful liml. puts it, “five
| mountains of jade, saussurite and other
| similar stones, enough to make John
| 1). Rockerfeller’s bank roll look like
! the proverbial thirty cents."
According to Koen, who returned
to Nome from his Monte Cristo, which
is located on the Black river, a tribu
tary of the Kobuk, he has discovered
a ledge of pure jade over six foot wide.
In fact he traced the vein over five
mountains and in order not to overlook
anything the discoverer staked every
thing in sight with thirty-six 160-acres
locations. Koen brought down 500
pounds of stone which will be shipped
to Tifliney the New York jeweler.
Specimens of the jade and saussurite
have been examined by Dahl, the
jeweler, and pronounced unusually
line.
The best grade of jade is mined in
Kara-Kash valley, Eastern Turkestan,
and an expert who examined samples
of the Kobuk jade last summer states
that they were of a superior quality.
What Alaska Needs Now
Alaska is becoming more and more
a place for corporations. The polar
star territory needs railways—trunk
lines that will open many districts
and connect them with ports and
smelters. It needs raining enter
prises on a large scale, and not es
sentially confined to gold mining. It
needs more attention on the part of
the investing public. Alaska may
never be so great again in its placer
wealth, but it has a broad prospect
ahead of it in quartz production—Den
ver Mining Record.
TAFT ADVOCATES
LARGER NAVY
War Secretary Waxes Eloquent
and Urges increase of
Marine Forces.
By Cnble to The Dally Gateway.
Grand Rapids, Feb. 13— A banquet
was given here last night in honor of
Secretary of War, William II. Taft.
A large number of prominent people
! were in attendance, and the republican
candidate for presidential nomination
was greeted with enthusiastic demon
strations.
After the banquet Secretary Taft
delivered an eloquent speech and put
himself on record as an advocate of a
larger navy. He says that the United
i States of America is taking the first
place among the Rowers of the earth.
EVANS’ FLEET
SEEKS THE OPEN
Battle Ships Sailed from Pnnta
Arenas and Will not Touch
Land Before Friday.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, I). C., Feb. 10—The
American battle fleet under the com
mand of Admiral Evans lias left Punta
Arenas on the straits of Magellan
where it has been lying at anchor for
some days past, and Iris put out to sea
and will not be in touch with land
again befiw next Friday.
MANY KILLED
| IN EXPLOSION
Pittsburg Steel Furnace Blows Ip
Bringing Death and Injury
to Scores of Workmen.
By Cable to Tin? Dally Gateway.
Pittsburg, Feb. 12 Early this morn
ing in one of the steel furnaces sit nut -
| ed within the city there was a terrific
[explosion which caused the instant
| death of many, and the serious injury
[ of scores of others.
CZAREVITCN GETS A SCARE
IN SLEEPING APARTMENTS
By Caolo t>> Tho Daily Gateway.
St. Petersbvrg, Feb. 10—The czar's
household was thrown into consterna
tion this morning by the discovery of
a note of warning from the terrorists
found in the czarevitch’s sleeping
apartments stating that she and the
czar were marked by the assassins to
be the next rulers to meet death.
Tatiana May Have Another Strike
Fairbanks—Unless mine owners
agree to pay $o for eight hours’ work
with board and lodging, another strike
in the Tanana district will be called.
The Western Federation of Miners is
back of the demands which were made
at a big mass meeting here the 31st of
January. Many of the operators will
accede at once, it is believed. This
scale is paid to many of the men at
work noiv. The business men of the
district will attempt to arbitrate the
matter, if a strike is called.
The department of Commerce and
Labor has filed a report in which it is
stated that the output of copper from
Alaska for the past year was P,000,000
pounds.