DAILY GATEWAY
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KEEP UP RUSH
TO KANTISHNA
Now Claimed that Diggings in new
Eureka District are Richest
Ever Eound.
Fairbanks, Aug. 30— It is now claim
ed here that Kureka creek, the new
discovery in the Kuntishna river dis
tK%icty is the richest gold area ever
known. Jack Dalton on Discovery
claim is said to be taking out thousands
dailv bv the ordinary process of rocking.
It is claimed that the discoveries al
ready made exceed the richest ever
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made in the Klondike. Remarkable
strikes have been made on Kureka,
Glacier and Moore creeks.
The stampede from the Tanana and
all other camps of the north continues
steadily. Men are rushing in from all !
directions. Several townsites have al
ready laid out.
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Find Body of Murdered Man
C'hehalis, Wash., Aug. 30—The body
of Henry Wolf, an old man who lived
alone near this place and who disa{>-i
pea red last month, was found last Sun
day in a creek not far from his house,
with a bullet through the head. |
Young Couple Murdered
Seattle, Aug. 30—Philip Ross, a
young saloonkee|>er at Kerrystown in
t lis county, and his wife were niurdoi
ed in the rear of the saloon, where
they lived, Sunday night. The place
was robbed and then burned over their
iKxlies. The murderers are unknown.
Hendricks Breaks Out of Jail
Fairbanks, Aug. 30—Hendricks, the
man accused of many holdups in this
vicinity, has escaped from jail.
Tom Lawson's Daughter To Marry
Boston, Aug. 30 -Miss Gladys Law
son, daughter of Thomas \\ . L<awson,
is engaged to Kben Blaine St an wood,
nephew of the late James G. Blaine.
Twenty Go Down With Ship
San Fernandino, Fla., Aug. itt)—The j
coast steamship Peconic sank yester
day off the coast near here. Twenty
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persons were drowned.
fire In Wj$lu.ijtOft Town
Bridgeport, Wash., Aug. .M—Fire
destroyed the business portion of this
town yesterday. The loss was $(>0,000.
f. V. Taylor Goes To Seattle
F. V. Taylor, who lias been manager
of the Gateway for several months, was
a passenger on the Santa Ana for Seat
tle. He will enter the Portland dental
college. Mr. Taylor has made many
friends in Seward during his stay here
and he was made the recipient of a con
tinuous ovation among the business
men the last few hours he was in town.
Until the close of the Portland ex
position, October 15, the Alaska Com
mercial Company will .sell round trip
t ickets to Seattle for $70. *
CHINA SCARES
Oil CAPITAL
Picrpont Morgan and Associates
Sell Hankow Railroad to the
Government.
New York, Aug. 30 -The Chinese
Development Company, whose chiel
stockholders and managers are J. C.
Morgan and other leading American
capitalists, has sold the Hankow rail
road to the Chinese government for
$683,000. China has threatened to can
cel tin' franchise of the road and oil the
advice of President Roosevelt t lie sale
was made on China’s terms. The prop
erty is worth much more then the price
paid.
The trouble over the Hankow road
is tbought to be partly the outgrowth
of the present anti-American feeling,
but is believed to be more largely
due to a fear of giving American capi
tal too strong a hold in the country.
Hill Visit Chinese Court
Washington, 1). C Aug. 30 Lt has
been officially reported he tv that Miss
Alice Roosevelt and several others ot
the Taft party will visit the Chinese
imperial court at Pekin. American
Minister Rock hill cables that the boy
cott of American goods is subsiding,
and he believes the visit of Miss Roose
velt will have a good effect in restor
ing friendly feeling.
GiVs Roosevelt the Credit
London. Aug. 30-European states
men wn generally give President
Roosevelt credit for bringing about
peace between Japan and Russia. It
is believed that without his personal
appeals to tiieezar and mikado tin* con
ference would have failed of its object
Eclipse Partial at Washington
Washington. 1), C., Aug. 30-—The
eclipse of the >un this morning was
only partial in this latitude and noth ing
ot'importance was learned from the
observations here. No detailed reports
have been received from points farther
north, where the eclipse was total.
O’Brien Wins From Bates
Fairbanks, Aug. JO—Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien was given the decision
over Billy Bates at the end of a ten
round contest here last night, by ref
eree Tozier.
Steamers Due Next Week
J. J. McManus, local agent of the
Alaska Commercial Company, has re
ceived a cable message from the main
office at Seattle announcing that the
Portland is due at Seldovia September
(). This would bring her into Seward
a day or two earlier. She has 500 tons
of freight for Seward and 200 for Sel
dovia. The message stated also that
the Melville Dollar should be here
September 7. She will bring 700 tons
of freight for Seward.
Temperature at 2 p. m. today—50.
ALASKA DAY AT
PORTLAND LAIR
Great Crowd Shows Interest in the
Territory by Attending Special
Program
Portland, Aug. 30—Alaska Day at
the Lewis and Clark exposition was
celebrated yesterday with a special
program. There was a large attend
ance. William A. Kelly represented
Gov. Brady.
A large number of Alaskans came
down from Sound cities to help cel
ebrate t lie day. The program was in
charge of well-known present or form
er residents of the territory.
More Cholera at Manila
Manila, P. L., Aug! 30 Eleven new
cases of cholera were reported yester
day. Up to date there have been
twenty-five deaths.
LOCATE PLACER CLAIMS
Three Men File on Twenty-nine
on Kenai Peninsula
Location notices for twenty-nine
placer claims on the east side of Kenai
peninsula not far from Latouche were
tiled this morning with IT. S. Com
ioner Hildreth by H. Anderson, K L
Abney and J: W. Sumrall. They aiso
tiled notice of intention to appropriate
2,(XX) inches of water on a stream which
they have named Money creek.
This property was discovered som •
time ago by Mr. Anderson, who is an
old Alaska rausher. He first came to
Valdez in February in the c ipper
river rush and since then has been over
a large part of the territory. When
he found the property just located he
was not in a position to develop it, so
kept his secret to himself. Recent I\ he
formed a partnership with Messrs.
Sumrall and Abney and the three .came
up together on the Bertha on her last
trip to locate on the discovery. I he\
brought a small boat with the.u and
put off in it August 3. Having to.mi
ally located the claims they came to
Seward on the Santa Ana to lile then*
notices. They will go south on the
Portland and will come back in Feb
ruary with supplies for a summer s
work.
Messrs. Sumrall Abney are from
Mississippi. They came northwest to
see the Portland fair and anything else
of interest on the coast. In Seattle
they met Mr. Anderson, who was a
Californian before he became an Alas
kan. ____
To Purchase Stamp Mill
\Y. N. Armstrong of the Falls creek
quartz mining property sailed for Seat
tle on the Santa Ana to purchase a
stamp mill for the property. The de
velopment work and assays made so far
have convinced the owners that they
certainly have a mine and they will
work it for all its worth. An assay
made of rock sent to the assayer of the
Treadwell mine at Douglas showed$195
in gold per ton, and an assay made by
a Juneau assayer revealed $402 per ton.
TO LOBBY FOR
NTW DISTRICT
Captain Barnette of Fairbanks on
way to Washington in Interest
of Wickersham.
J Seattle, Aug. 30—Capt.* K. T. Bar
' nette, founder of Fairbanks, Alaska,
banker, mine owner and business man.
has arrived here on his way to Wash
; ington, 1). (’., to lobby for the division
i of the third judicial district of Alaska.
The plan is to leave Judge Wicker
sham at Fairbanks, and to create a
fourth district for the coast reigon ot
the present one, with a new judge.
in addition to working for the judi
cial division (apt. Barnette will work
* for legislation in the interest ot the
Tanana in particular and Alaska in
general.
Rainbow Chasers Depart
About a dozen gentlemen who had
been working on the Alaska Central
took steerage passange on the Santa
Ana this afternoon for Valdez
where they expect to work on one ot
the new railroads for $3 a day and
hoard. Their information was not pos
itive as to whether it was Cot. Swan it/
or John ltosene who is pay ing that
stipend, but they took a chance anyway
under the inspiration received from
some p pe dreamer.
Santa Ana Sails Tor Seattle
Steamer Santa Ana returned from
Seldovia and tied up at the dock at <:3o
this morning, sailing again at 1 o ciock
this afternoon lor Seattle. She took
about a dozen lirst class and tjuiic a
large number of steerage passengers.
At tillamar, as usual, she will load
with ore for the l,a*>oma smelter.
Lewis Johnson Dies
Lewis Johnson died this morning at
i in the hospital, of milliary tuber
! culosis and general adnitis. He had
’been in the hospital since August 4.
He was a native of Sweden and leaves
a sister in San Francisco. The dead
man was an employe of the Alaska
Central until he became ill.
To Let Sewer Contract
The directors of the chamber of
commerce will meet tonight in Moore s
hall to receive the report ol the com
mittee on specifications lor the trunk
sewer, and to award a contract if a sat
isfactory bid is received.
F. G. Hale, president of the Bank of
Seward, returned on the Santa Ana
I from a trip to Cook inlet.
Among the arrivals on the Santa
Ana from t he west were C. G. Van
Hook and F. M. Watson of Seattle,
who have been in the interior since
June, hunting and prospecting.
They will remain here a few days be
fore going south, and are staying at
j the Coleman.
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