DA LY GATEWAY
VOL. 1 SEWARD, ALASKA, WKDXKSDAY EVEX1XO, AUGUST 9, 1905_N(K :>>
CZAR TO CALL
AN ASSEMBLY
Formal Decree will be Issued Satur
day Providing for Representa
tive Body.
St. Petersburg, Au*j. !>—The czar
will issue a formal decree next Satur
day calling a national assembly to
meet. The exact date has not yet
been fixed but it will probably be in
October.
Little information has been gi\en
out concerning the terms of the call
and it cannot be learned what the com
position of the assembly will be.
Fever Situation Unchanged
New Orleans, Aug., 9- The yellow
fever situation in this city presents no
change today. Three deaths and 37
new cases was the record since yester
day's report. Total to date cases
and 118 deaths. ArchbishopChapelle's
condition is about the same.
PEACE ENVOYS MEET
Expected First to Take up Ques
tion of Armistice
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 9—The Jap
anese and Russian peace envoys met
this morning and began formal negatia
tions. Their credentials and the peace
commission was formally organized.
The first subject for discussion will l>e
the armistice. This matter will be
taken up probably tomorrow and if
terms can be agreed upon a cessation
of hostilities will soon follow.
Miners Busy at Sunrise
Frank Watson, who came in yester.
dav from the Matanuska valley, reports
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that mining operations at Sunrise and
other camps along Turnagain Arm are
very active and that several valuable
strikes have been made lately. Pros
pecting is going on all through that
* region.
Santa Clara Due Tonight
Steamer Santa Clara is expected to
night by 12 o'clock. A cable message
from Valdez to J. B. Cameron today
announced that she left that port at
nine this morning. She will bring 100
tons of coal from Valdez to supply fuel
for the coast survey steamer Patterson.
Mr. Rhodes of the snrvey corps receiv
ed a cable from Valdez last night an
nouncing the fact.
JACK JEFFRIES
WANTS TO EIGHT
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Proposes to go After Heavy Weight
Championship Given up by
Brother Jim
Los Angeles, Aug. 9-Jack Jeffries,
brother of the retired heavy-weight
champion, Jim Jeffries, lias announced
his intention of going after the world’s
championship. Jim says Jack can win
it. Jack proposes first to tight Marvin
Hast,-who recently beat Jack Hoot, and
a short time previously won a decision
over Jack Johnson the colored heavy
weight.
Jack Jeffries was for a long time
sparring portner and trainer for dim.
He is a clever boxer but made rather
a jioor showing in one or two attempts
in the ring several years ago. It is
claimed that he has greatly improved.
FITTING UP CABLE OFFICE
Employes to Have More Room to
Work Than at present
The cable office will soon be finished
inside and equipped with handsome
furniture. At present operator Faust
and his assistants are cooped up in the
room which contains the instruments,
while the carpenters have been busy in
the remainder of the building. When
the building is complete the operator s
room will be closed entirely to the
public and messages will be received
in the room into which the main en
trance lead. A railing will separate
the public from the receiving clerk.
Back of the operator’s room in a smaller
room will be instruments for testing
batteries. Upstairs will be sleeping
rooms for the employes.
Steamer Edith Overdue
Steamer Edith has been hourly ex
pected all this week. She brings a
large cargo of railroad steel and other
supplies, including explosives. As she
comes on the outside passage no report
of her is likely to be received before
her arrival.
Col. Swanitz in Valdez
Col. Swanitz, formerly chief engineer
of the Alaska Central Railroad, cabled
to J. B. Cameron today from Valdez,
announcing his arrival in that town.
His business there is not known to the
railroad men here.
BOMBARDS AN
INSURGENT CITY
Russian Gunboat Destroys Town
of Castelli on Coast
of Crete
Canea, Crete, Aug. 9—The Russian
gunboat Kharabry lias bombarded and
destroyed the town of Castelli, on the
northern coast of this island, with
some loss of life.
Castelli has been a hot bed of the
Cretan insurgents, who have been de
manding independence and attempting
to organize an insurrection.
Send Cable Compliments
Messages of congratulation have been
received by the Seward Chamber of
Commerce in answer to messages sent,
from t he Seattle and 1 V>rt land Chambers
and tne Montreal board of trade. Presi
dent Hale of the Bank of Seward also
has a message from the Washington
Trust Company, the bank's correspond
ent in Seattle.
Begin to Roof Railroad Building
The workmen have begun to roof the
railroad building. The brick work on
the middle section is nearly finished
and a few days will see the structure
i entirely enclosed.
Patterson Comes and Goes
The coast survey steamer Patterson
| made a short call at the dock this mor
ning but immediately sailed away
again in pursuance of the work of the
corps.
Building Work is Active
Building operations have assumed
additional activity since the arrival of
a large stock of lumber on the Port
land and Bertha. Work which has
been suspended because of lack of ina
i terial has been renewed, and a start
I has been made on several new buildings.
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Sexton Takes Railroad Job
George Sexton, former deputy 1\ S.
| marshal, has been given charge of the
transportation of railroad material
i along Trail lakes to camps beyond.
William L. Fagan Here
William L. Fagan, a well known
Pacific Coast newspaper man, formerly
of the San Francisco Examiner, who
has also worked in Manila and China,
is in Seward, and may remain here.
WILL INSTALL
TIDE REGISTER
Piles Being Driven at Wharf to Sus
tain Weight of Compli
cated Device
Work will begin today upon the in
stallation of an automatic tide register
by the federal government at the
Fourth avenue wharf. The device con
sists chiefly of heavy piping and in or
der to sustain it safely additional piles
are being driven at the outer side of
the wharf. The work began yesterday
evening under the direction of Mr.
Rhodes, hvdrographer of the coast sur
vey fleet.
The mechanism of the register is
placed inside the big hollow pipe, and
consists chiefly of a copper float of ex
tremely complicated construction. By
the rise and fall of the tide, water be
ing admitted into one end of a large
floating pipe, the register marks a line
on a sheet of foil wrapped around a cyl
inder. This register shows the ex
tremes of high and low tide each day
Attached to it is a clock-like device
which once an hour makes a cross mark
on the curved line of the rising or fall
ing register and shows the exact height
of the tide at that hour.
The registering mechanism is simi
lar to the devices used in weather ob
servatories for registering temperat ure,
barometric pressure and velocity of
wind.
The new register is a much more
j complete device than the small one
j heretofore in use here and is of the
description employed in all important
ports.
Grading Proceeds Steadily
Grading work on the Alaska Central
is proceeding rapidly between the ter
minus of the track tpenty-six and one
j half miles from Seward, and mile 45,
where the first tunnel begins. Except
a few short sections of rock work the
grade will be completed and ready for
surfacing and track-laying next month.
The steel which the Edith will bring
will be sufficient to keep the tracklay
ers busy until the tunnel is reached,
when, their part of the work will be
suspeuded until the completion of the
bore. In the meantime grading will
proceed steadily beyond the tunnel. A
large number of men are now working
around Turnagain Arm.