Seward Weekly Gateway
,,, ... .... SEWARD. ALASKA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 29. 190«•
VOL. ill* __________
SOLDIER KILLS
RENO CHINESE
Negro in Uniform at Oklahoma
Town Adds Another Crime
to Carnival There.
TRIED TO HOLD UP LAUNDRY
Citizens Organizing to Rid City of
Discharged Colored Troopers
and Stop Disorder.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
K1 Keno. Okla.. Pei*. 2b A negro in
the uniform of a soldier "hot andkub’d
» t *1,11. *n in .1: t’ • nipt to hold no
the lattef " lam bry la*! night. lb
escaped in the excitement "hieh the
dist urbane* erc i * *;
CilUeti" arc organizing to rid the
town t»l o 1 -ehared colored >olutei*.
who ar<* acciiM u many crime-.. A
carnival of di" >rd*r has prevailed here
siticc ti**’ advent of the Christina" holi
days.
it I* rej»orted that Majot Penrose
ha> learned the tra t ** of the man who
shot Capt. Mack!in several days ago.
The latter i* now out of danger.
James MelJutire, local cable operator,
inform" tin* tiateway that part of the
Twenty-fifth infantry i* "tatiotied at
Fort Keno, which is near the town of
F,1 Keno. The remainder of t he regi
ment comprises tin* battalions which
created the Krowiisville trouble.
Soldiers Assault Woman
HI Keno. Okla.. Ike. 28 -Colored
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth regiment
grabbed Mrs. Clifford, a white woman,
ou the street last night, threw her
upon tlie sidewalk and attempted to
assault her hut were frigiitenedj
sway. News of the assault wa* quick
ly sent to Fort Keno and absentees
were noted. 1 hey will l>e taken be
fore the woman this afternoon to allow
her to identify her assailant* if possi
ble. The town is greatly aroused and
lynching i* threatened.
Kills Army Officer
Washington, B. < Bee. 'Jl * A man
named Calvert shot t apt. Macklin of
the T«enty-tiff h infantry in a dispute
yesterday over tin* Brownsville riot.
When Pre sident Roosevelt wa> inform
ed of the circumstances he said tic Ih>
lieved the shooting was the direct result
of Senator Foraker's speech in the sen
ate attacking the president for the per
emptory dismissal of the colored
troops of the Twenty-fifth infantry.
The president added: "If gentlemen
on Capitol Hill want an investigation I
of the Brownsville affair I will give
them all they want."
SOLDIERS RUN
AWAY WITH CAR
Seven Drunken Troopers in Leav
enworth Put Out Conductor
and Wotorman.
By Cabin to Tan Dally Gateway.
Leavenworth, Kun., Dec. 2o De
layed in transmission- Seven members
of the Ninth cavalry while grossly in
toxicated last night kicked the win
dows out of a streetcar in which they
were riding and heat the motorraan
and conductor for trying to interfere,
then raced with the car to the fort.
Several women passengers were on
the car when the trouble started but
jumped off while the car was running
and all were slightly injured.
All the soldiers eugaged in the dis
order are in the guard-house.
SOLBIER KILLS ANOTHER
AT CHRISTMAS DINNER
By Cabin to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Chicago. Dec. 26 At a Christmas
dinner at the regular army jh)s! Ser
geant (Iriffin shot Corporal Taylor
dead in a quarrel over a woman.
It would be the best thing that ever
happened to this country if the officials
of the postoffice department, commit
tees on territories and appropriations
could be given a ride over any of the
mail trails which originate from this
point.—Fairbanks Times.
JARVIS SAYS
ROSENE STAYS
Present Head of Northwestern to
Continue in General
Management)
CONFIRMS $TOR\ Of S\U:
Guggenheims Get Stock and Will
Rush Construction of Their
Railroad in Alaska.
By Ca le to The Daily Gateway.
Seattl.*. Dee. 1*4 (’apt. Jarvis it
turned to tin* city today and stated that
' John 1 vOsene will not he deposed trom
tin* ma nagement of the Northwestern
1 coin pan it - under the new (iiiligenheiin
, ownership, lie confirmed the story
that S.-attle stockholders in tin* com*
ponies have sold their holdings t< tin*
(Jugge iheims and says the sy mi‘fate
will n sh eonstruction of its (’epper
river i lilroad in Alaska next summer.
He dev.tie d to say whether tin* ter
minus l::.s heell selected.
("apt Jarvis refused to make any
comment on the controversy between
(i.>v. 1 fggutt ami Delegate \\ askey
over tae issue of territorial go. ■ a li
ment in Alaska.
OLD ii/IARTIN HOUSE
AT SUNRISE BURNS
Landmark of Early Days (ioes l p in
Sm >kc but no Further Damage
Done by Flames.
Sum se, Dei*. lh 'I'In* old Martin
house burned to the ground the morn
ing of December 5. The cause is sup
posed to have been soot burning in the
chimnt > which was communicated to
the ceiling of the house. The tire
broke mt about l<* o’clock, twenty
ininutt s after the occupants, P. M.
Og e uni C. D. Hunter, had left.
When he blaze was discovered it had
unde too much progress tobechecked.
The wind was blowing from the,
south* ist, and carried the sparks away j
from all other buildings. Had it been
in the opposite direction two stores j
and other buildings might have ... j
coi >umed.
The old hotel was built in the fall of
p'*7 l>> F. Martin, who conducted it for
several years. It was headquarters
tor a flourishing literary society when
Sunrise was a thriving mining camp.
It belonged to A. Ulensworth, now in
Foster. Washington.
It has been raining here for four
days and if the wind continues to blow
down the arm boating will be a possi
bility.
W illiam Weaver, the mail carrier,
arrived here yesterday evening and
reports a very rough trip. The trail
was iu bad condition and the weather
stormy with alternate rain and snow.
R. H. Oldham, of the Crow creek
mine, and Joe Beaddy arrived today
from Gird wood overland. Mr. Old
ham is on his way to Seward and Mr. j
Beaddy came for the Girdwood mail:
here.
PORTLAND ARRIVES AND
SAILS TO THE WESTWARD
Steamer Portland arrived in Seward 1
Friday morning with thirty
one passengers from Seattle and way
ports ami twelve days mail from the
Sound city, besides nearly a month’s
accumulation along the inside passage,
an i sixty-live tons of freight for Sew
ard. She sailed at 1 p. m. for Seldovia
a id Kodiak.
The Portland sailed from Seattle !
Sunday morning. December 1ft at 5
o’clock, the tir>t boat to leave on this
run after the Saratoga sailed Decem
ber 4. She had fifty tons of mail.
Among the Portland’s Seward pas
sengers are numerous Seward resi
dents who looked for the vessel ex
pecting to reach here before Christ
mas. a> they would have done had she
sailed on schedule time, the 10,h. She
did not reach Seattle until the 13th
and had to hustle to get away when
she did. _
Valdez an Open Tow n Again
Del Clark, who returned to Seward
on the Portland, brings word that
Valdez allowed gambling to reopen
again about a week ago. The concert
halls are still under the ban. It is re
ported that Kid Brown made the gam
blers pay him $7000 to drop the fight
and leave town. The closing of his
con ert hall precipitated the clasing of
the town.
ALASKA SKIP
TRUST BROKEN
Pacific Coast Company With
draws From Agreement for
Control of Business.
RATE WAR LIKELY TO FOLLOW
Individual freight and Passenger
Tariffs Will Probably Be
Issued January I.
3y Cubic to The Dully Gateway.
Vancouver, 15. t'.. I b e. 27 Hie j
Alaska steamship association is broken
up In the withdrawal ol the I'acilicl
Coast Steamship t’ompnny. It is o.v-,
peeled that individual freight and
passenger tariff schedules will be j
issued .laniiui \ 1 by each oumpunx |
separated!. and a rate war to all ;
Maska ports i» predicted.
Internal strife anions? tin- members
of tin association is .riven as the cause I
of its dissolution. For several years it j
has controlled the steamship business)
of Alaska and maintained rates by |
agreement, also apportioning territory
amomr the different companies. The j
division of business is understood to tk*
the chief source of disagreement
DEATH SENTENCE
FOR NE80GAT0FF
Court Martial Then Asks C/ar to
to Commute Penalty to Ten
Vears in Prison.
Cy Cable to The Dmly Gateway.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 25 Delayed in
transmission The court martial which !
tried the officers of the Russian Heet
destroyed in tin* battle of the Sea of1
.Japon sentenced Admiral Nehogatoff!
and eighty-six officer* of hi> squadron
to death because of their surrender to
the Japanese. At the same time the j
court martial recommended to the czar
that he commute the sentence* to ten
year* imprisonment.
The prosecutor *aid tie commander,
of the squadron could have transferred 1
all Id* men to one battleship and sunk j
the remainder to prevent the vessels!
from falling into the hands of the
Japanese. Admiral Nehogatoff made I
an emotional reply in which he de
fended his actions, saying that the
prosecutor was not a seaman and knew
nothing of the situation in which the
squadron was placed.
TREMOR WRECKS
CHILEAN TOWN
Half of Arica Is Destroyed and
Neighboring Places Suffer
Great Damage.
By Cable to The Bally Gateway.
Santiago de Chili, Dec. 27 -Half the
town of Arica in the province of Tacna
was destroyed by earthquake Monday
and other towns in the vicinity suf
fered severely. The loss of life is said
to have been heavy and the destruc
tion of property enormous.
GEN. ALLEN RECOMMENDS
ANOTHER ALASKA CABLE
By Cable to The Bally Gateway.
Washington, I). C., Dec 2(i—Gen. Al
len, chief of the signal service bureau,
urges the laying of another Alaska
cable, in a report to the house com-1
mittee on military affairs. He says
the present cable is burdened with j
messages and the business is growing
rapidly.
The sailors and waiters of the Alaska
boats are now asking for a rise in
salary to take effect April 1, 1907. The i
rise wanted is $5 per month and an in
crease of 10 cents per hour for over-!
time._
It is estimated that the United
States annually uses &f5,000,000 in gold
! in the arts.
START FIGHT
ON EXPOSITION
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
Trying’ to Stop Opposition
to Appropriation.
MOVEMENT ORGANIZED AGAINST
Some Men of t ast Side City Want to
Compel Seattle to Aid Contest
on freight Rates.
•Jy Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Spokum*. Dec. The ehatnber of
commerce passed a resolution today
asking the legislature to make an ap
propriation for i lie Alaska-Yokon-l’aei
lie exposition. This was done to offset
a movement which is on foot, here to
block an appropriation for the fair on
the “round that Seattle refuses to as
sist Spokane in jfott ingr mileage freight
rates.
Spokane has always been at a dis
advantage in freigh shipments, the
railroads generally currying freight
through to tin* coast at lower rales.
than to Spokane. Freight rates to j
points in the inter-mountain region al-j
so discriminate against Spokane and
arc a handicap to its jobbing interests. :
In this matter the interests of Spokane :
and Seatt le often conflict and some bus-1
ness men of this city want to use Seat-1
tie’s need of influence in promoting the I
fair to compel that city to aid Spok
ane’s railroad tight.
CHILD ESCAPES
FROM BIG BEAR
Animal Carried 8-year Old Girl
Half Mile and Then Dropped
Her Unhurt.
Uy Ca*:lc to The Daily Gateway.
Olympia. Wash.. Pec. 2U A large I
hear carried the s-year old daughter |
of Thomas Kgan into the woods from the
yard around his house where she was;
playing. A posse was quickly formed J
t.) M arch the woods for the child hut
when she had been gone an hour she
returned unhurt, saying the hear
dropped her after carrying her half a
mile. The girl’s brother witnessed
her disappearance.
NINE DEAD IN
S00 COLLISION
Switch Engine Crashes Into Pas
senger Train of Christ
mas Celebrants.
—
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
St. Paul, Dec. 24 A Soo Line switch
engine crashed into a passenger train at
Marling, South Dakota yesterday and
nine passengers were killed and thirty
injured. They were on their way to
Minneapolis to spend the Christmas
holidays.
WILL TRY TO DISPOSE
OF WICKERSHAM CASE
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Washington, I>. C., Dec. 26-The
matter of Judge Wickersham’s reap
pointment to the bench in Alaska is
expected to be taken up by the presi
dent tomorrow. Senator Penrose has
promised to call at the White House
and ask the president to dispose of the
trouble forever either by using his in
fluence to secure continuation if possi
ble, or if he is unable to do this to
nominate another man for the place.
Bertha to Sail January 10
From the purser of the Portland it
was learned that the Bertha is
scheduled to sail for Seward as the
mail steamer of the Alaska Coast
Company January 10, The Jeanie was
supposed to have sailed already but
Brown & Hawkins received a cable
message from Seattle yesterday in
quiring whether certain goods should
tie shipped on the Jeanie, which shows
that she had not then cleared.
MAKE ATTACK
ON ROOSEVELT
—
I
San Francisco Mass Meeting
Criticises President’s Atti
tude on Japanese.
ARRAIGN SECRETARY METCALF
Mayor Schmitz Tells Crowd He Will
lay Down His life fighting
Oriental Hordes.
? Cnile to The Daily Gateway.
San Krancisea. I tec. 21 At a mass
meetiiij'’ of MH) in Walton's pa\ilion
last nijflit resolutions were adopted ee
nouncm" I’res'ulent Kooseveit for I is
messajfe concerning i he Japanese issue
in the city schools of San l Yaneises and
resenting the president's interfere a e
in state atTairs.
Tiie resolutions declaie a want of
confidence in Secretary Metcalf, who
is a resilient of Oakland, and -le lare
that his report to Itousevelt on the
Japanese quest ion is utterly unworthy
of credence in any particular. It is
charged that the report contained
numerous misstatements and misrep
resentations and eross exaggerations.
Mayor Schmitz made a speech in
which he said he would lay down his
life with his fellow men in li _fl»t in_f the
Japanese hordes.
NARROWLY ESCAPES
DEATH BY FREEZING
Mrs. Martha Smith (iives Out on
Trail but Is Brought in by Duke
Harris with Dog Team
Mrs Martha Smith, a well-known
mining woman of Sunrise, started to
mush to Seward to spend Christmas
but gave out on mile 29 arci\v mild have
frozen to death if Duke Harris had not
met her and brought her in on a dog
sled. He found her in a stupor and
took her to mile 24. where he made ,
her comfortable in a cabin, while lie
went on to 49 on business for the rail-1
road and returned the m xt day.
Mrs. Smith was accompanied over
the Sunrise trail by Chris Anderson.
On mile 28 she became exhausted and
hysterical, so Anderson built a tire for
her and went on ahead to tiud a cabin.
Duke Harris passed him soon after lie
left Mrs. Smith and when Duke reach-!
ed her she was falling asleep. He j
brought her on the sled to 24. where J
she and Anderson remained until Duke
returned from 49. They started from 24
Christmas morning and reached Sc-:
ward at 11. The sled was drawn by
live dogs but the track was covered
with snow and the trail was not well
broken.
Harris reports that t He snow is four
and tive feet deep on the second sum
mit and beyond. Much of it was a j
fresh full and he had a tierce job
breaking trail from 44 to 49.
CABLE INTO KETCHIKAN
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
The cable extension into Ketchikan
opened for business Wednesday. Notice j
came over the wire to Operator Mc
Guire that day. This puts every
important town in Alaska on the tele
graphic wire.
Operator McGuire has received no
tice of the following cable rates from
Seward to the towns on the new ex
tension: Wrangel, lh cents per word;
Hadley, 24 cents; Ketchikan, 2.'> cents.
Move Compressor to Mine
The 40-horse power air compressor ;
for the Ready Bullion copper mine on |
Lynx creek is being moved up to the
mine over the snow. It was brought
in last fall by O. H. Sleeper, president
of the company, and landed at Sunrise.
The task of moving it up to the mine
is a heavy one. When the compressor
is installed work will be pushed rapid
ly on the tunnel which is being run to
oross-cxt the ledge. This tunnel is j
now in 800 feet and several hundred |
feet more are required to reach the ]
ledge. Nate White, superintendent of
the mine, is now in Seward.
The attorney-general’s department
has secured indictments against a
large number of railroads and shippers
for rebating, besides those already j
convicted.
Poultry raisers in the suburbs of
Portland complain that rock blasting
in the vicinity blasts the reproductive
qualities of eggs.
C. T. BROOKS
PASSES AWAY
System Unable to Survive Pro
gress Made by Disease
Before Operation.
LUVfcS FAMILY AT IMAM\A
formerly Commissioner at Sunrise
and Mas Lawyer in Memphis Be
fore He Came to Alaska.
< narles T. Brooks iii<-d in if. < .
in in house a! plop. ni. \esteni y frott.
oi allVet ion of lie hlaii'ier ,v ?. h h n
in t !,• serious progress In-foe, • w a
!••• • Ighl to Seware three Wee! . fo»
all M'emtion. This was pu-fo: . •! .o
lor a i -w <1 ivs it w is t> li<-v ' i h>
Would recover hr the disease ,;ni s- a
weakened his vitality an I |* >i •; h>
s\ -I e.ui t h it lie w.t s uu ih • to ; • i t -r
a:• • and he was given up by ' • e■ •
ki's several day s ago.
Mr. Brooks was well known if eu_:l.
oil! t be < ook inlet region, whin, hr en
tered in the rush of I *'!•(». lie was
from Memphis, Tennessee, wieu’e h*
was a lawyer in good standing until h<
was seized with the gold fever Fot
several years he was United Siute
commissioner at Sunrise. This po>
he resigned in l'JOl und went to liiar
na to pursue copper discoveries. He
act|uired property there which is s.iiu
to he extre'iily valuable. At 11 ia.ru
na lie married a native woman, who
survives him with a little girl
Men who knew him well say that Mr
Brooks was possessed of more than
ordinary ability. He was well-educat
ed and popular at Sunrise while he
lived there. Among the personal ef
fects which he brought vith him to
Seward were a handful of newspaper
dippings, mostly written by nimselt
on various topics, wnich show educa
tion and superior intelligence.
The funeral of the dead man will be
held from the Methodist church to
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock I lev
I||. Pedersen will conduct the ser
vices and interment w ill he made here
News of her husband's death cannot
he sent to Mrs. Brooks until the next
sailing of the steamer Dora o tin
westward, about the middle of January
TRAINS TIED UP
ON TEXAS LINES
Engineers’ and Firemen’s Strike
Spreading on Southern Pa
cific Railway.
U;/ Cable to Tbe Dolly QoUwoy.
San Antonio, Deo. 2fi All southern
lines of the Southern Pacific railroad
are tied up completely by the strike of
the engineers and firemen.
No Freight /loving
Houston, Tex., Dec. 25 Delayed in
transmission No freight is moving
westward on the Southern Pacific in
Texas or Louisiana, it is believed
that the strike of the engineers and
firemen will extend over all the Harri
man lines. Passenger trains are mov
ing irregularly and many an
abandoned.
ENGINE MEN STRIKE
ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC
By Coble to The Dally Gateway,
Houston, Texas, Dec. 24-- All firemen
and engineers on the Southern Pacific
lines in Texas and Louisiana struck
today because the company broke it*
contract with the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers and Firemen and
one with the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen for the employment of
firemen. The strike is expected to
spread over the whole system.
About Northwestern Steamers
The latest Seattle papers carry ad
vertisements of the Northwestern
Steamship Company in which the
Santa Clara is scheduled to sail for
Seward January 8. E. I. Stiles, the
local agent of the company, states
however that he has information that
the Santa Clara will not sail earlier
than the latter part of January. She
is still in the shipyard and is being
made over into almost a new boat.