SEWARD GATEWAY
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GATEWAY PUBLISHING CO.
KiUoml a> S.voml I’lavs muttor AuifU't 21th.
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SI BSCRIPTION RATES
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S.\ iTKMAY. J ANT A in 27. UW
REYNOLDS WORKS HIS AIR CUN
H. D. Reynolds. of the K- vnolds
Ahtsku Development Company. which
s engaged in building up Alaska by
selling handsomely engraved stock
,. ;• os in various incorporations
•>i MW.,at gir's .;mi other trustful per
sons. (ms pointed his air-gun at the
Alaska Centra's railroad. I It* assured
■ iion-*' commiuoe on territories
. |t;i t h>-company is utterly unahle to
oarrv ; la |n >*p-et i hrough. and in or
-1,,.> .!v bo permitted to lo
e an ihe .inane:;:! savior of the district
ot Alaska he would like to have the
fiHiet til governuiepf put tip a large
..pntoiM ter sotm iailtoad scheme
A hick he e..n „et in on.
’’ite Alaska Central Railway Com
, oiy on. its tributary territory are to
i, .. ... i. *• !• e. upon achieving the
■ , the fluent Reynolds. I’p
to date he Inis aceetmdislted no success
of in *nt i k s Vlaska schemes, tie
, n, st I;. > a> the person who
m s s| .nts,.i‘i(i: the Reynolds Devel
opmeni * oinpany., Gov. I ‘•ratty was
. . - n'b he
i, v.. '. i;. -. Thereupon man*
oas e.i: v, I * Had thought well
;urtiee i ; nil i lO ! he wall. JUUl
murmuren - u-towiully. "Another good
unin goto* vv i, . ,g. ' It is regarded as
another ca- oi on dog Tray. No evil
has ever b.*en charged against Gov.
I trad v e.vcep' his connection v* it 1»
Reynolds.
\ short ! tt* ago the Gateway re*
ceived a -Mali folder announcing that
the Reynolos company hail planted it
>.•;? in a s e of offices in New York or
Roston or some other Atlantic seaport,
and accompanying the document was a
letter requesting the paper to give the
company a boost. This request was
gnored without regret, express or im
plied. and th* booklet fell into the
waste basket. Pile Gateway charges
legitimate home business houses for
advertising space and it had none to
donate to organ ml purveyors of iu
! augihle proper! y.
The Alaska entral Railway Com
■ .an v has Gin .01 ' . e miles of nt st
■'Uss rad •’ ruck and i* grading
JPd , - more. It ha« a pay-i‘‘ U
of more ihr . • > > men and pays is
back'd by ( Idcage andTorontobna.kei -
v ho are ■ !!• •'*• gnu dimn-htp.
w hat t ae' ..i et: . making. _ 1 ’ -•’boy
. ■ ■ e v ■. ■ • ■ . n
-how tin*
possibib; t n b.> th .• th Roy? dd
voraeity Jr a :c u- hi- gad i- P\
unsi ve.
In eider to tdv weight to his dictum
Alaska and print it in a deadly parallel
column he- ■ I til's acco nl:> ie.
bv the Alaska r m •• it Rt.ilway Cota
COAST CITIES IAKE NOTICE
i'll*- big of the I ’aci :o c..a>t are
all lx ginning sit up ami take notice
of ’he expanding |KK'i!»HitH*>of Alaska
the fact that Seward, the tide water
terminus ihe only railroad building
o the interim of the territory, offers
more opportunity than any other port.
The press i,-patch. ' of this week
tell of M i,. !>nilaine*s meeting with
the wholes ii merchants of Portland
and the m i g which he will hold
with the whole Je men o# San Fran
cisco when 1 e reaches that city. l»oth
cities ate alive to the fact that the
trade of which Seattle has so long held
a monopoly i-offered to the highest
bidder. Seward is an open door.
Phis means more rapid development
for all Alaska and fairer treatment for
A taska merchants Seattle has mou
u oli/.ed Alaska trade for eight years
liecau.se she has worked while her
neighbors slept, but she has skinned
ihe territory at every turn of the road
and she will now have to fight for all
-Pc gets. Seattle is able to make the
tight but she will have to mend her
business morals to do it successfully.
TRYING TO STAKE BISHOP
'’resident Koosevelt is havin#a hard
time in his zealous effort to #et a $10,
000 government job for his friend
Joseph I* Bishop bn tho isthmian
canal. First Bishop was appointed
press a#ent at $10,000 a year and drew
the mazutua for many months before
anybody much knew anythin# about it.
When the faet was discovered a lot of
ill.mannered persons said they could
not see what a #ovemment needed of a
press a iron t, as it wa> work and no^
advertising the country expected of
tin* isthmian commission.
To quiet the clamor the pressagency
was wiped out and Mr. Bishop was put
on the commission at $7,500 a year,
with $-.500 additional as secretary, but
the Senate has not decided yet that it
will confirm him and there is a possi
bility that he may have to go to work
for a living.
OBJECT TO FIRETRAPS
Cent ral protest is made by citizens
against the construction of buildings
which arc practically liretraps. It is
: claimed that buildings are now going
•ip with such material in them and put
to : el her in such a way that if a blaze
should start in them they would iro up
i like paper, with.great danger to ml-1
joining houses.
In the absence of municipal govern
tiieut to deal with such problems the
only safeguard is public opinion. It is
not fair to the public for a builder to
erev; a bouse which is a menace to bis,
. , ibors as well as to himself, ami aj
; vigorous protest from citizens might j
. vi nt that kind of building.
Amord ag to figures recent y pub
l ; co.-ts several million dollars to;
: elect o President and the most expen
sive ore of all was drover Cleveland |
in IS:>2. He was certainly the most |
expensive to the American people but
the Morgan crowd who put up •"
i-i.-ge -.hare of the $4.100,000 it cost to1
elect him soott got theirs back with!
big interest through the $i*.000,<M)0!
bond steal.
. .
Pita-pant Morgan took au option on j
he t iiuichiati. Hamilton A Dayton j
railroad and held it for eighteen months i
while he skinned, hamstrung and i
gutted the property of everything
- parable and then dropped his option.
N »w the stoekholdei > are unreasonable ,
er<>ugh to want to sue him.
Tin* press dispatch today statiugihat
Frank Rockefeller maybe indicted in j
comp any with John D. niu»t be an
error. Frank Rockefeller is the brotlu-iv
who accuses t h<* godly John of skinning j
him oat of hi> Standard Oil stock.
William <1. Rockefeller must be the
one involved.
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So it seems that it has been colder in
nil tli*' northern states and in South
eastern Alaska than in Seward, even
thouyh the mercury did wobble to the
wrony side of zero a few times here.
Everybody iseordially invited to attend ,
tb«‘ winter exercises in Seward.
The attnrney-yvneral of Missouri
threatens to put II. II. Royers, the
nain squeeze of the Standard Oil i
►race pame. in jail. If he does the
American people will with practical
a iiuiuitv hope that the term may be i
»r !.■ ist ninety-nine years.
i'warti isn’t knocking anybody whoj
wants to build a railroad in Alaska,
with or wit unit government aid. but |
t jM»ints with prid* to the fact that it
ha-a line v. hieh is yrowiuir fast without I
••v. !- a dollar or an acre of government j
* ,m._. !V"iuan s.ii/.t t* -a ys Croesus had
■nly fh'.o *0.0 "* and eotikt not have -at
n a p.>k* ■ yame with John D. Rocke- >
h ilt-r. There are un it who could do it
vviti* I* ss than < .Yo-•>■.>> had.
lYesdent Room * veil has yiven -ov-1
, ra! ed.tors a job a| pruniny down vol- j
a:: nous yovernmvr.t reports, but he
may thetvbv irt't iiiiuself disliked by
1>«- print* rs.
:i remain-. to l*o seen whether it is
.uatge W ickcrsliatn-« friend* or his
enemies who are urging him to reach
cat for something else just as good.
Anybody else who feels that way may |
d! enter the rare for the governor*
ot Alaska. There are a few places
or the candidate bench.
Si-eretary Hitchcock doesn't like
Brady and he is fornln>t Perkins, so he
may be compelled to select a governor
for Alaska himself.
Something ought to be done about
this Brady business -.o that the Alaska
dailies can stop paying tolls on the dope
from Washington.
These gold strikes in Centra! Alaska
are coming so fast they will soon tnake
folks dizzy, but they are accompanied
by the dust.
As the tires all start at 7 o'clock in
the morning it might be a good idea to
have a watchman wake everybody up
at 6:30.
A Dawson paper lias a sporting
writer who trims up ringside accounts
of tigtits with sophomoric rhetoric.
A jjreat many Americans would like
to see France do things to Castro,
within Monroe Doctrine rules.
Men who kt^ow how to milk reindeer
may be expected now to make a bid for
Rev. Sheldon Jackson's job.
This Franco-Venezuelan embrojjlio
is rather slow. It is too much like the
preliminary of a prize titfht.
It appears now that San Francisco
wants to be annexed to Seward.
T0 STOP HAZING
Of NAVV CADETS
By Cabltt to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 2(5—Secre
tary Bonaparte of the navy department
today submit ted to the committees on
naval affairs of both houses of Con
gress a bill absolutely prohibiting haz
ing in all forms at the Annapolis acad
emy. The bill fixes punishments of
several grades for infractions.
Stephen Decatur, a naval cadet,
grandson of the famous Commodore
Stephen Decatur, was dismissed from
the naval academy today for hazing.
Other trials for the same offense are
scheduled. It is probable that the
officers of the naval academy will be
investigated also, as they are charged
with sanctioning, or at least conniving
at lighting.
MARTS IT HARD TO HTTP
AWAY TROM ALASKA
Description Seat tle Times Gives
of Alaska Central Booklet
After reading the latest production
of the Industrial department of the
Alaska Central Railway, the first im
pulse a tnan lias is to take the tirst boat
lot* Seward, and either take up a home
stead where s xty bushels of wheat to
the acre can he raised, or stake out. a
mining claim and come hack to the
states pretty soon with gold dripping
out of every pocket. The resources of
Alaska ami especially the Tanana vui
ley, which tin* new road traverses, are
set forth in very attractive form, and
every statement is backed up by gov
ernment reports, otherwise those who
are unfamiliar with that great empire
to the north, would think the boomer
had given free vent to his imagination.
The hook is beautifully illustrated,
showing titie strings of lislt caught be
fore breakfast in the stream that flows
before the door of the fortunate Alas
kan: fruits and vegetables that would
do credit to a county fair in the Middle
West; pictures of men sluicing down
great banks of dirt and picking out the
gold nuggets; steamers landing at Sew
ard in midwinter, while the popular
conception of that country is an ice
hound coast with the inhabitants liv
ing on snowballs.
A man at Sunrise, seventy miles
north of Seward, raises line cabbages
on one side of his house and whenever
he needs money he digs nuggets in the
other side of his garden. That is hat
to heat in any country and it is >
wonder that the man does not car* .<»
move. One homesteader at Resu c
tion bay' cleared $1.5(30 last year .-<*1
ing vegetables to the men who o* .
on the railroad. He raised till toe
stuff in his garden.
The hook is gotten up in attractive
form and is a credit to the department.
Seattle Times.
TO All) IN THING NOTICtS
Mailing at Shushetna Station Will
Be Accepted as Date
To make the tiling of notices of min
ing location more convenient for pros
pectors in the Yontna district Com.
missioner Council ot Sunrise Inis
agreed to accept them 'when mailed to
him at Shushetna Nation and tile them
when received as,»i the dale of mailing.
This will enable locators to send their
no .< > down to Shushetna station,
which is only three days travel from
the diggings, instead of coming down
to Sunrise, which requires an added
ten days.
The new arrangement was made by
George Gibson, who went to Sunrise to
tile his Lake Greek notices and to try
and have a deputy appointed at Shu
shetna station in the person of Frank
Churchill, storekeeper at that place,
lie was unsuccessful in the latter plan
but Judge Goodell agreed to make the
mailing date at Shushetna station the
tiling date in his office. This will ac
complish the object desired if the pro
cedure is legal.
Local attorneys are of the opinion
that the only advantage that can re
sult from the arrangement made by
Commissioner Goodell will be to facili
tate the transmission of location notic
e> to Sunrise for record. There is no
provision in the law for a deputy re
corder and the mere mailing of a legal
document to the recorder is not a tiling.
It might never reach the recorder and
can have no legal effect until it is in
the hands of that official.
The only way out of the difficulty is
for the commissioner to move his office
to Shushetna station, or some other
accessible point in his district. At the
present time Mr. Goodell has his office
outside his district by permission of
Judge Wickersham because there was
no suituble place for him to live in the
district when it was created last year,
ft is understood that Judge Goodell
will move to Shushetna station as early
in the spring as he can move his
effects. __ _
Another Doctor tor Seward
Dr. .1. A. Baughman, for several
years a leading physician of Skagway,
came to Seward on the Farallon and
will locate here to engage in the prac
tice of his profession. He is accom
panied by Mrs. Baughman.
JOE WHEELER
PASSES AWAY
By Cable to Tlia Dally Gateway.
New York, Jan. 20—General Joseph
Wheoler died here last night of pneu
monia. The end was peaceful and all
his children were around his bedside.
He was conscious almost to the last
and able to recognize everyone.
Joseph Wheeler was born in Augus
ta, Georgia, September 10, 1830. lie
graduated at the West Point military
academy in 1859. Ho went with the
Confederacy in 1801 and rose in rank
until he became a lieutenant-general
in the Confederate; army. He was one
of the most brilliant cavalry command
ers of the war.
After the war Gen. Wheeler studied
and practiced law. In 1880 be was
elected to Congress. He was unseated,
but elected again on the death of his
competitor, and was continuously re
elected until ht> resigned in 1898 to ac
cept a commission as major-general in
the volunteer II. S. army in tilt; Span
ish-American war. He was afterward
given a commission in the regular
army and placed on the retired list.
FIRST (iOLD LIND IN ALASKA
Discovery By Lukeen, a Russian
Trader in 1832
Gold was first discovered in Alaska
on the Anauk river, a tributary of the
Kuskokwim river, which joins the
latter stream about twenty-five miles
below the trading post of Kalamuko
lisky. The Anauk river was discovered
In Ivan Simonson Lukeen in 1832, at
which time he built a fort, called
Lukeen’s fort, on the Kuskowitn river,
twenty-Iive miles above the mouth ol
the Anauk. It was partially destroyed
| by natives in 1^41. and rebuilt by
KalmakolT,a Russiantrader,afterward,
and called Knlmukofl' redoubt.
In 1832 the headquarters of the
Russian-American Trading Company
were at Sit ka. and supplies were trans
ported from thence to Lukeen's fort by
way of Nushagak river, Tic-chic river
and lake, and down the Anauk river to
the Kuskowitn river and thence up
stream twenty-five miles to the fort.
In 1X57 the yearly supplies were sent
in by way of the mouth of the Kusko
wim river, and the old way abandoned
as a summer route and used only for
the purpose of sending out the mail
during the winter by dog teams. It
v s the only winter route the Russians
er used from any point on the Yukon
i the outside (Sitka), and was only
abandoned for the purpose after they
left the country.
It was while on one of these trips in
; hs32 that the Russians discovered gold
| on the Anauk, and it is known today as
the Yellow river of the Russians. It
• is not known whether they ever at
i tempted mining on any large settle, or
whether they found gold in paying
quant itics. hut it is thought to he the
lirsi t inu* on record ot goldjieing found
i in this country.
Lukeen was horn of Russian and
Spanish-Anoerican Creole parents in
the Ross colony in California. He was
well educated at the Sitka school, and
proved to he an active, energetic and
; intelligent officer. In ls,'3 Ldkeen as
! vended the Yukon river from St.
1 Michael to Fort Gihhon> then at Flud
| son's I5ay company trading post, which
1 was built In McMurry, who descended
the Porcupine river in ls47. Lukeen
was the first man who connected tin*
| Polly river of Campbell and the sea.
j lie returned to St. Michael that fall.
| In 1 st>t> the Russian garrison at Kla
I tnakofT redoubt, in charge of Dcmentoff,
was withdrawn, the Fnited States hav
! ing purchased Alaska froth the Rus
sians. Ketchikan Mining Journal.
AllOWS TICKET TRANSMR
New York Court Decides One Man
May Sign Another's Name
New York -The right to sign an
other man’s name to a railroad ticket |
which has been sold by one passenger |
to another, has just been affirmed by
the supreme court of this state. This
decision establishes a procedent in the
exchange of railroad tickets.
The decision was given by .Justice j
Lebentritt in the case of Archibald C.
Newburn, accused of having forged the
name of George E. Whitcome to a rail
road ticket. Whitcome was the origi
nal purchaser of the ticket and sold it
to Newburn.
The ticket was for a round trip be
tween New York and Indianapolis, over
the New York Central, Big Four and
Lake Shore Railroads.
Newburn was arrested here when he
signed Whitcome’s name to the ticket.
Justice Leventritt held that the
mere sale of the ticket carried with it
the purchaser’s right to sign to it the
name of the man from whom it was
bought.
Hereafter the boats of the Alaska
Commercial Company, will touch at
Ketchikan both north and south bound.
Winter mining on the Big Salmon is
producing dirt Quoted at $2 a wheel
barrow load.
Training dogs to mush with a sled
is a daily sight on the streets.
THE COMMERCE
FOURTH AVENUE
A Gentleman’s Resort and Hub Rooms
FURNISHED ROOMS
We Purchase Gold Dust at Regular Rates
PETERSON & BROWN, Proprietors
NORTHERN SALOON
E. L. WHITTEMORE, Proprietor
WINES. LIQUORS AND CIGARS
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FOURTH AVE. SEWARD. ALASKA
Fourth avenue, - - Seward. Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
New, Neat and Comfortable. F. V. THOMAS, Prop.
F. O. HALE. President C. E. DICKERMAN. Vic«-Prea
BANK OF SEWARD
Transact! a General Banking Business
We receive deposits, buy und sell exchan re. forelrn und dom~Uic: bur rold
dust and bullion: make collection*. All business committed to .ur care will
receive prompt and careful attention .. . —
Your Business is Solicited
CHAS. A. TECKLENBURG J. M. CUMMINGS
THE SEATTLE BAR
-ONLY THE BEST
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Bohemian and Olympia Beer
FURNISHED ROOMS WITH STEAM HEAT
Fourth Ave. and Washington St. Saward. Alaska.
Commerce Cafe elev,n“
Open day and night. Private Rooms for Ladies
Banquets and Dinners on short notice a specialty.
~ WAGNER’S PLACE II
FRED WAGNER. Proprietor
WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS
I A good time and right treatment for everyone
Fourth avenue Seward, ,iska
The Seward News Co.
Type Writer Supplies Magazines Books Papers
Cigars Tobaccos Pipes Candy Fruits
Fourth Avenue Seward, Aiaska
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I THE BANK THEATRE
Smith Sc Clark, Proprietors
Formorlr Wallace A Thompson)
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Entertainments [very [veiling
Best of Wines Liquors and Cigars at the Bar
Much interest has been awakened
among naturalists by the discovery of
a new species of white, or polar, bear
living inland in the northwestern part ,
of British Columbia.
O. LASCY
II. S. DEP. MINERAL and LAND
SURVEYOR FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA
Civil Engineer, and Land and Min
ing Attorney. Address Seldovia,
Alaska, or in care of Mail Agent,
Steamer Dora.
FRANK H. LASCY
U. S. MINERAL and LAND
Surveyor for the District of Alaska,
and notary public
Addres: Seldovia, Cook Inlet, Alaska,
or care Mail Agent, Steamer Dora
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Seward Assay
Office
Chemical Analyses and Assays Mad*
Price List for Assaying
Gold or Silver. $1.50
Gold and Silver. $2.00
Silver and Lead. $2.00
Gold, Silver and Lead $3.00
Copper. $1.50
Gold and Copper.... $2.50
Gold, Silver and Cop
per . $3.50
Gold, Silver, Copper
and Lead. $4.00
Prices for other metals and min
eral od application.
P
Gold and silver bullion rafinac.
melted and » May ad or pur
chased.
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H. E. ELLSWORTH, C. K.
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