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WAR IN POLAND
DAILY EXPECTED
Martial law Declared There and in
Russian Cities and Insur
rection feared.
By Cable to the Gateway
St. Petersburg* Nov. II — Martial law
was declared in Poland this morning
and a declaration of a state of war
there i* expected at any minute. The
tension is strong and an insurrection is
a constant possibility. Mai tin 1 Ium
was also declared in this cit\. in Mos
cow and in Kronstadt. In all three cities
the insurrectionary live is fell to he
only smouldering.
Groat apprehension is felt on account
of tlic report that the revolutionary
committee known as the “l lack Hund
m;“ is planning another massacre of
.'ew>, attacks to made simultaneously
in many parts of tin* empire. 1 he
police have been ordered to crush
every sunptom of disorder by any
m :m> which may In* found ctlective.
Odessa, Nov. 11 Almost the entire
for.-ign population here has taken re
fuge on hoard ships in the harbor.
Disorders ;iir constant and massacres
ai e h ared. Tin* government claims to
l,«. alve to suppress lawlessness ol a
serioi > nature.
Secretaries Must Talk lingo
By Cabin to the Gateway
Washington, I>. G., Nov. 11 Presi
dent i loo-eve! t announced today that
he had decided herealler to appoint as
>«v riarh s of American embassies only
men who can speak one or more foreign
languages.
Want Con\icts to Work Roads
By Cable to the Gateway
Walla Walla. Nov. 11 The Good
lloads convention in session here adopt
ed a resolution today in favor of the
employment of convicts in the state
penitentiary to work public highway.
A committee will urge the passage of
such a law l>\ the next legislature,
Oakland Racing Meet Begins
By Cable to the Gateway
San Francisco, Nov. 11— l he Oakland
racing meet opened here this afternoon.
1 ’rosper was picked to win the handicap.
Shot through Toot by Accident
Charles Iren, a laborer in Gilson's
tie camp, accidentally shot himself
through one foot yesterday while hand
ling a rifle. The muzzle was pointing
downward when another man jostled
Iren, whose hand touched the trigger
and the gun was discharged. Ho was
taken to the hospital at mile 41,
No Lights After Midnight
For several nights the electric cur
rent will be shut off at 12 o'clock by the
Seward Electric Company. This is to
permit repairs to the plant.
Water to Be Shut Off
Water will he shut otY tonight at 12
o'clock to p erinit connection with an
other hydrant. The shut-off will last
two or three hours.
Excelsior Due Tonight
Steamer Excelsior sailed from Val
dez for Seward at ft o'clock this morn
ing. She reached Valdez late yester
day afternoon.
The Alaska Packers Association has
paid 141 consecutive dividends, aggre
gating $5,409,381.75, since its organiza
tion in 1893.
fIND LIVE MORE
BALLOT BOXES
Gigantic Election Frauds Charged
Against Tammanyites and
Recoant Probable.
By Cable to the Gateway
New York, Nov. 11 -Five more of
the stolen ballot boxes were found this
morning in a barber shop in a district
under the absolute control ot l amman\
leaders. The expressman who left the
boxes there notified Hearst by postal
card last nijrht. The ballots were torn
and on many of them names had been
obliterated. Wholesale alterations
had been made. Two boxes are still
missing.
Attorney-General Mayer of the state*
of New York says that enough evi
dence of fraud has already been ob
tained to secure a recount. It i>
I generally believed that Hearst was
elected h\ 20.0(H) majority. It is known
that largfe numbers of repeaters were
brought from C onnecticut. New Jersey
I and Massachusetts, who voted as often
a> ten and fifteen t hues each.
LOCAL EIGURES
Of TEMPERATURE
Railroad Has Record For Past Year
Which Shows Minimum of II
and Maximum of 88.
A record of daily temperature has
been kept in Seward at the Alaska
Central Hailway office for more than a
vear past, This record shows the ex
treme range of temperature for the
year to have been 77 degrees. The
highest was 88 degrees and the lowest
11 degrees above zero, The following
table has been prepared for the Gate
way by H. A. Glover, secretary to
General Manager Poland, for the year
ending October XI, 1905.
Monthly Average Temperature.
1901 November. 29.1
December.27.9
1905 January. X0
February.X9.6
March.IX. 1
Arril.50. X
May. .54.6
June.64.X
July.66.4
August.64.X
September.54.2
October. 47.2
Average for the year ending
October XI, 1905.47.6
Minimum month, December 1904...27.9
Minimum day, December 2X, 1904.. 11.0
Maximum month, July 1905.66.4
Maximum day. .lune 2X, 1905.88.0
The recent overflow of Lowell creek
ran into Butler & Company’s new
power building on the banks of the
creek near the railaoad creek. The
flood failed to carry away the huge iron
•water wheel.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer gives
a front page head to the story that
Charles D. Lane is interested in the
bond on Falls creek mines. The Times
also gives it considerable space.
P. E. Harris is down from the tunnel
camp for a day or two.
Temperature at 3 p. m. today- 42.
CHANGE FEANS
EOR EXPOSITION
Directors of Alaska-Yukon fair De
cide to Make it General North
western Exhibition.
By Cable to tha Getaway
Seattle Nov. 11 The directors of
tin' Alaska-Yukon exposition decided
vesterdav to make the fair a general
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northwestern event, to include not only
Alaska and British' Yukon, but the
Pacitic states, all the Northwest terri
tory and British Columbia, and that
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part of Asia adjacent to Alaska. The
original purely Alaska idea was drop
ped.
This change of program was adopted
in order to enlarge the scope of the ex
position and to avoid jealousies which
might arise from holding the fair in
Seattle, and the inclusion of only the
Klondike out of the whole British
Northwest.
A telegram was received from the
American consular agent at Dawson,
convey ing greet ings from tie* ukon
commissioners and expressing regret
at their inability to arrive in time to
participate in the organization.
Godfrey Chealander stated that all
tIk* regions of Alaska which he visited
in the interest of the exposition in his
recent trip to the territory were en
thusiastic over the project. John H.
Hughes of Fairbanks assured t lie direc
tors that the Tanana would give active
support to the exposition. Col. \\ . P.
Perkins vouched for the backing of
Nome and Seward peninsula.
J. K. Chilberg is being considered
for president of the exposition.
Nothing New in Welch Case
s
Latest reports from the Welch hear
ing at Sunrise state that the conclusion
\v;is not in sight Wednesday noon. Dr,
Gibbons left Sunrise at that hour and
came to Seward last night over the
railroad. He said he had not listened
to much of the testimony, but so far as
lie heard it there was no evidence that
Welch made an attack upon Nilson
which would have caused the death ot
a sound man physically. Dr. Gibbons
says the autopsy showed that the man’s
heart was honeycombed almost to the
point of collapse.
No News of the Oregon
No news of the sailing* of the Oregon
from Seattle has been received in Sew*
ard todav bv the Gateway, the railroad
company or Agent Brown of the North
western Steamship Company. From
this it is inferred that she did not sail
this morning but is hourly expected to
depart. The same surmise applies to
the Bertha.
Explorers. Meet Great Hardships
A United States geological survey
party in charge of D. C. Witherspoon
with Ralph K. Stone as geologist, ex
perienced severe hardships in Septem
ber last in the country between Fort
Hamlin and Circle. Out of a band of
thirteen horses they were compelled
to kill all but one, and this they fed on
IIlour. Snow began falling Serteraber
2 and continued until September 10,
and the party made their way over the
divide to Fort Hamlin through snow
knee deep. They were forced to cache
their instruments, clothing, and every
thing cxoept their field notes and hed
dinsr. They finally succeeded in reach
ing Fort Hamlin, where they caught
,a steamer for St. Michael.
W. A. Bell was on the streets today
after several days in bed. Mrs. Bell
has also recovered from her recent
dangerous illness.
mm oeeicers
OE BROTHERHOOD
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CunventiuH of Arctic Order Adopts
Constitutional Amendments
and Adjourns.
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Nov. 11 The Arctic Brother*
hood late yesterday elected thy follow
ing officers of the order for the ensuing
year:
(J. B. Phillips of Council City, chief:
F. S. Brackem of Discovery, vice chief:
W. K. Kverett of Dawson, chaplain:
Godfrey Chealander, recorder; J. C.
Price of Skagway, keeper of nuggets:
George K. Dooley of Valdez, trail
guide: trustees, P. H. Watt of Nome,
F. II. Chisel of Haines, (B. McCon
nell of Nome. K. K. Fleming of Nomel
L. L. James of Chena: cook, F. M.
Woodruff of Kagle City: blazer, II. C. ^
Burkhart of Ketchikan: intergate, J. |
Simmons of Sitka.
Several constitutional amendments
were adopted yesterday. After the
election of officers tin* convention ad
journed sine die.
L. F. Shaw Says Drawbacks Exist
in That Rich Camp Which
Make Many Dissatisfied. j
“Qqite a number of Nome prospect*
ors will come to Soward this winter to j
exploit the mineral resources contigu
ous to this town. ' said L. 1*. Shaw, a
recent Nome arrival, soon after he
came.
“The Nome country," continued Mr.
Shaw, “is undoubtedly a wonderful
placer field, but the individual miner
is fast giving way to the large corpor
ate operators, and the rocker and hand
sluicing method is yielding* to the hy
draulic mode of mining,
“The hardy prospector, with no re
source other than a brave, determined
spirit, must seek pastures new. and his
attention is naturally drawn to this
section by reason of the Alaska Central
railroad, which will open up to him an
inviting field, known to contain valu
able mineral deposits, which have
hitherto lain dormant for lack of trans
portation facilities.
“ Another thing that has a tendency
to disgust the legitimate miner with
the Nome district, is the uncertainty
oF titles to the claims, due primarily to
our absurd mining laws. No sooner
does a miner make a rich strike than
his troubles begin. He meets almost
endless expensive litigation, which re
sults in leavieg him broke, both in
money and spirit.
“The natural resources of this
country,—timber and game,—are such
as to greatly assist the prospector. It
requires very little money for a 4 grub
stake’ here. Nature has been bounte
ous in this regard. Another advanta
geous thing is all winter communica
tion with the outside and better mail
facilities.
“ From the knowledge that I have
gained from many inquiries regarding
southwestern Alaska, I am frank to
say that I believe the prospector will
make no mistake in casting his fortunes
in this section of Alaska.”
WICKERSHAM
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HOLD HIS Pi
President Will Send in H
and Majority of Judiciary
mittee Favor Him.
By Gable to the Gateway
Wi^shinjrton, Nov. 1
Wickersham will he reappoii
his name will he sent to th
a^ain by President Uoosevrl
as Congress meets in
President is reported to he <i»
to stand by the judge. and hi
ation is expected. A majori
judiciary committee of these
him.
Judge Wickersham may b
go to Washington to answer
to be propounded by Senator
Minnesota, who is his chief
Senator Nelson claims that
senatorial party was in Ala-’
Judge Wickersham induce
frame a hill and introduce
Senate providing for divis
Third judicial district, ane
ward went before the llou
committee and told the mei
division was unnecessary.
"Phis isdenied by .1 udge \\
who sa\ s t hat what le* told
committee was that he* couh
all the cases in tin* distric
he went on and rxplaineo 11
of the unwieldy size of the <
the difficulty of intercom
between its portions it was
port ant that another judg*
af)pointed and the district i
SEWARD STEAI
Excelsior: due in Seward:
Oregon: sails from Seatti
Bertha; sails from Seatth
Santa Clara; arrived Seal
Santa Ana: arrived S
sails 16th.
Portland, sailed from Se1
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A new stock of Lou
just arrived at Seward >
Placer miners wante
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