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MIGHT BE ACCOMMODATING
The Alaska Uoast Company seems to
have adopted the business motto of the
late unlamented William H. Vander
bilt, “The pub c >e damned. -VI*
;bouirh it lias a monopoly of the inside
passage business to Southern Alaska
i: carries paper mail only once a
month. It is true that the contract
calls for only one ma d a tnontl but as
t he company carries all of it theta* is
no reason w hy it should not allow it to
be carried on both steamers.
A re at many people living in the
westward towns are trout Southeastern
Alaska and subscribe for the papers
published there. Inasmuch as all this
paper mail is, or can be. placed in
closed pouches at Juneau no reason
exists why the steamer Bertha should
rot brine half of t. instead of leaving
it all to accumulate for a month to be.
brought by the Portland. The only
work involved ' in carry in.if a few
sacks oit board and throw ing them off.
There s no obligation on the com
pany to do this except to accommodate
the people who furnish its business.
: it it could show thereby that there is
:a Seattle como-at'.on which is not
holly inoculatee. w th flu* Seattle
- .rit of skinnir.- - - rythinif in si-ht.
MUST ANNEX CUBA
«>ut of one of tin's*1 chapters of Cuban
» stress will comi* annexation to the
Cniten Staff1'. Probably it will not
come through tie present fit" but
s' me time it must take place. The
Cnited States dts's not need Cuba but
t'uba is dependent upon the Cnited
"fates and the big republic ha> the
tile island nuisancp on its hands.
ie only way to regulate this back
y trd annoyance A to place it under,
American law
Cuban annexa,:.on bus been manifest
* stiny for decades and so recognized
by American statesmen. The oppor-.
■ tnity was almost ripe in the last
i than rebellion against Spain if an
awkward squad of frothy politicians
o id yullow journalists had not rushed
Cnited States nto premature in
tervention. Then to make a worse
nrvs^ of it congress perpetrated the
unshakable imbecility of pledging the
vumtry never to annex the island
Fortunately the American government
is not bound either by international
law or common sense to pay any atten
t on to this cheap grand stand play.
Then it gels ready to annex Cuba the
>i» will iff done for Cuba's own salvu
t ion. «
Many r.ewspap* : s and some promi
nent educators r gard Andy < amegie’s
spelling reform with disfavor. The
Chicago Chronicle prints a cartoon
showing that the new spelling origi
nated with .h sh Hillings and that Car
negie is only a plagiarist after all.
\n impression seen,' Tt» prevail that
he accumulation o; enormous wealth,
by illegal freight rebates doe* not
necessarily qualify a man to be an in
structor in philology.
The \ aklf /. Prospector is disposed lo
) >ok critically u|x>n the ambition of
: ward to bid for the trade of the
Ueynokls mines at Uoulder bay and
Hand]<>ck bay atm inquires how the
goods are to be taken to the mines.
Hat Prospector, they will In* taken to
the docks on steamers as they are
tom other places, until Valdez cuts
out competition with airships direct to
the mines.
_
Several Cuban congressmen are in
ail, which shows that the island re
public is more progressive than the
United States. This country has a lot
of congressmen who ought to be in
jail but they art* permitted to run at
large anil hustle for re-election.
The cable news brings the import
ant information that Seattle prohibi
tionists nominated a full legislative
ticket. The ••full" part of it is the
only thing that makes the story inter
esting to Alaska.
It is time to advertise for Leslie M.
Shaw. He hasn't been heard from
since the Iowa republican convention
sat down on the stand-patters.
It won’t worry Bryan to hear that
the Southern democra ts don’t like his
olatform. He knows he has their
votes corralled anyway.
The suicide of Mr. Hippie of Penn
sylvania seems to prove that it is
about as unlucky a name as Mitchell.
This General Guerrera of Cuba
didn’t start a revolution merely to get
to be a delegate to a peace convention.
JAPANESE TURNED LOOSE
The last butch of Japanese brought
in from the I’ribilof islands because
they had the hardihood to call in there
for water, were turned loose by the
r. S. district attorney when they
readied Valdez. There was no evi
dence that they were poachers when
they were arrested, but the agent in
charge at St. George island, overbur
dened with zeal and understocked
with (trains, gathered them in on sus
picion. It is now up to the I’nited
States government to apologize to the
Japanese government.
This agent at St. George islund is so
fresh that lie ought to In* pickled in
brine, as the salt sea breezes which
fan him from four quarters seem in
sufficient to prevent the contents of his
lira in-pan from fermenting with the
heat of official authority. He pulled
the captain, and four fishermen off a
little schooner .and sent them at con
siderable expense to \ aide/.. 1 lie
schooner disappeared and now the only
way to square the blunder is for the
federal government to send the men
home in a naval vessel at still more*
expense, apologize and perhaps pay
damages.
It may he highly important to pro
tect the seals in the interest of the
rich corporation which lias a monopoly
of their daughter but Tncle Sam
ought to have agents in charge with
too much sense to kill subjects of a
friendly power on suspicion ot simple
trespass. __
A Muall suction of revolution has
started in Russia again and once more
hot It parties sidestepped the main
is-.ue to engage in a massacre of the
JeWS. ^
This Hryan-Sullivan debate logins j
to lo<>k i ke perpetual motion a- Sulli
van appears to be a pretty good single
handed polemic himself.
The Cuban revolution is becoming!
hlomh. i >ne man was killed the other
day.
WRITING UP ALASKA
Outside Papers and Magazines Now
(living Notice to the Territory
Alaska is getting more space in out-j
side newspapers and magazines each
year and even the Atlantic coast publi-1
rations have discovered that it furn
:slit's an interesting theme. The staid
Springfield Republican in its Sunday
edition of August 12 devotes a full
pag. to tlie territory, with a map and
illustrations. The particular topic is
Alaska railroads, and the writer,
whose name is not given, shows Tamil- j
iarity with his subject. A great deal I
:>f space is given to the Alaska Central j
arid Seward. An excellent three
rolumn cut of the town is given.
The Washington Magazine, pub
:ished in Seattle, in the July number
has an article on "Alaska affairs’ by
losrph K. Smith, a clever newspaper j
writer who once lived in Southeastern 1
Al aska. He also devotes his article j
particularly to railroads in the terri
tory and gives extended notice to the
Alaska Central and to Seward.
NOME BEGINS TO NOTICE
Miners of Northern Camp Make In
quiries About the Y entna.
Nome miners have begun to sit up
and take notice of the Y entna district, j
Several inquiries have come to Seward
men lately from acquaintances in the 1
t-. •!. n camp, where opportunities
are steadily becoming more limited |
. xcept to men with big money. In
the last mail L. F. Shaw received a |
letter from a Nome friend stating that 1
miners there are becoming much in-,
terested in the reports from the Y'ent-j
na. He asked for all the information;
obtainable, saying* that a reasonable
assurance that the Yentna is a promts
ing Held will bring hundreds of miners
from Nome t* the new district.
Mr. Shaw i> correspondent for the j
Nome Nugget and in his last letter to I
that paper gave a long1 and detailed
account of the situation in the Yentna
region. The Nome papers have been
regularly printing a great deal about
the Y'ent na. copied from the Gateway,
so that a great deal is already known
there of the district.
TANANA MAN LIKES YENTNA
Says All New Gold District Needs Is
Miners to Sink Holes.
Kahiltna. Aug. 2S - Correspondence of
the Gateway- J. R. McGovern, a mining
man of Dawson and the Tanana. has
taken a trip through the upper tribu
taries of the Kahiltna. Lake creek and
Tokositna. He says the country looks
better to him than the Tanana country
did three years ago. All the country
needs, says Mr. McGovern, is some
good miners to sink holes, 't here are
very few holes sunk and hardly any to
bedrock. The little work being done
in that vast country is in the upper
end of the creeks and that is carried
on in a primitive way.
Mr. McGovern is coming back this
fall with a large outfit to cache at the
head of navigation, and will spend the
winter in the country.
Mr. McGovern says he saw W.
Wade and wife with three pack horses
camped on a little lake near the head
of the Tokositna. The lake they had
named Lady Wade lake. They were
traveling westward.
SULLIVAN HITS
BACK AT BRYAN
Illinois Politician Raises Issue of
Veracity With Democratic
Leader.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Now York, Sept. 8 Roger C. Sulli
van replied todav to Bryan’s speech in
Chicago, attacking him. Ho says the
speech means that Ihyan would rather
have his own way than to have a dem
ocrat. elected president.
Sullivan then takes up the specific
charges made against him by Bryan,
denying each separately. He denies
that Bryan ever wrote to him person
ally asking his resignation from the
national committee. He denies that
; Bryan has letters from 500 delegates
| to the St. Louis convention of 1!HH
I repudiating Sullivan. He denies that
Bryan has received statements repu
diating Sullivan from half the dele
gates in the recent state convention at |
Springfield, as claimed by Bryan.
The offer is made by Sullivan to sub
mit the charges and evidence to the
chief justice of the supreme court of
Illinois, J. H. Cartwright, a democrat,
as referee. He proposes if Judge
Cartwright finds after a full canvass of
the delegates of both conventions that
Bryan’s statements are true that he
will retire from the national commit
tee: but demands also that, if Judge
Cartwright finds that Bryan's state
ments are untrue then Bryan shall an
nounce his retirement as a candidate
for the democratic presidential nomi
nation.
Sullivan closes his letter with the
challenge, ‘‘Please call the roll."
Alaska Magazine in Boston
The Boston Alaskan issued its llrst
number in August of this year. It is
published monthly by the Bo$ton
Alaskan society at -7 State street in
that city. Kx-Gov. Brady is president
of the society. The first number of
the Alaskan carries on all of its sixteen
pages well written articles concerning
the territory. It is printed on heavy
paper, which permits excellent im
pressions of cuts.
Bee Man Lost but Bees Remain
Late arrivals from Tyoonok report
that the bee man, Morrell Warren,
left his bees iu Tyoonok late in the
spring and disappeared up the ‘Su^itnu
valley. Since then he has not been
heard of. The bees are fighting for
existence with the voracious ants
which infest the locality, and are get-j
ting the worst of it. The ants crawl I
into the hives, chew the honey and the |
bees also.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Oregon: sailed from Seattle Sth
Portland: sailed from Seattle 10th.
Santa Ana: sails from Seattle 10th.
Bertha: sailed for Seattle 0th.
Santa Clara: sailed for Seattle 10th.
Dora sailed westward loth.
WEEKLY WlATIUK RECORD
Wealliet record for the week ending
September 14:
TKMI’KKAITUK.
Max. Min.
Saturday 00 47 Clear
Sunday 70 44 Bain
Monday 70 17 Bain
Tuesday oil 4i Bain
Wednesday ;>s 4»> t lear
Thursday 7.7 44 Bain
Frida v .»s 4*» Pi cloudy
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than you make not until then, (let
something ahead. Uemember it’s the j
dollar you do not spend that does it.
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For making ice-cream, confections,
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It nerver curdles. Its use is economical
It is always pure. When you use St.
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BRYAN ROASTS
SULLIVAN AGAIN
9
Says “You Can Expect That Kind
of Attack From That
Kind of People.
By Cable to Tbe Dolly Gateway.
Lincoln, Nob., Sept. 10—“You can
expect that kind of an attack from
that kind of people,” is the wa.v Mr.
Bryan disposes of Roger C. Sullivan’s
statement regarding Bryan's criticisms
in his Chicago speech.
Mr. Bryan denies lie ever said that
he wrote to Sullivan asking the lat
ter’s resignation from the national
committee. He says what he did say
was that lie wrote to Judge Thompson
a demand that Sullivan resign, and
asked Thompson to show the letter to
Sullivan.
Notes Show He Said It
Chicago, Sept. 10 — The notes of
Bryan’s recent speech in this city show
lie said that he wrote to Sullivan ask
ing him to resign.
Bryan Issues Formal Reply
Lineoln, Neb., Sept. 14 Bryan’s
reply to Sullivan was given out for
publication today. He refuses Sulli
van’s offer to leave the dispute be
tween them to a referee. Mr. Bryan
says he cannot arrange for a with
drawal of his name as a presidential
candidate because he has not an
nounced himself as a candidate. Be
refuses to leave the question of Sulli
van's election as national committee
man from Illinois to the delegates in
the convention because the convention
has adjourned.
Bryan says he will leave Sullivan to
tight out the issue with the democratic
party of Illinois in the future.
Will N'ieltl on Railroad Plank
liOuisville, Sept. U—In his speech at
the armory last nj^fht Mr. Bryan said
that while he was in favor of govern
ment ownership of railroads he had
never yet sought to force anything on
the voters of the democratic party.
He said the question of the party’s
attitude on the subject is wholly in the
hands of the democratic voters and no
platform is yet made.
Mr. Bryan’s reception was a volcanic
eruption of enthusiasm. Henry Wat
terson introduced him. saying. “Here
he is. May God bless him and give
him wisdom
Oppose Government Ownership
Richmond, Ya., Sept. 10—Southern
democrats in congress cannot swallow
Bryan's proposition for government
ownership of railroads. John Sharpe
Williams, minority leader in the
house, says the south is unalterably
opposed to the project. Nevertheless
he asks that the democratic press j
make no parade of democratic ditTer
encos on party platform.
Opposes Bryan’s Railroad Plan
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 14 -Through
the editorial columns of the Courier
Journal Henry Watterson reiterates
opposition to Bryan’s demand for gov
ernment ownership of railroads. He
says the remedy is worse than the
disease and that the evils of railroad
management can be cured by legisla- ;
lion.
Bryan to Mump .Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 11 Mr. Bryan
announces that after bis return from
his southern tour he will stump
Nebraska and several other northern
states. He says the result of the
Nebraska election this year will have
an influence on the national campaign j
in 1908.
Bryan Speaks at St. Louis
St. Louis, Sept. 12—Twelve thousand
people greeted William «T* Bryan in
the Coliseum last night. In his speech
he said it would be better to trust
democratic principles to the demo
cratic party than to a man who is re
pudiated by his own party for indors
ing them. He declared that President
Roosevelt's tight on popular issues was
taken from demands made in the
democratic platform of 1904, ‘‘which
planks 1 wrote myself,” staid Bryan.
BOUND FOR THE YENTNA
Men Outfitting Every Day to Go to
the District Before Winter
Men are outfitting every day in
Seward to go to the Yentna district.
Several sailed on the steamer Bertha
for Seldovia, and a dozen will go on
the Dora. Brown & Hankins and T.
D. Corlew announce that the demand
for prospectors’ supplies has again be
come an important factor in their
business after a midsummer lapse.
Prospectors can go up the Yentna
river with their supplies until late in
October. The freeze-up is liable to
come any time after October 20. Water
travel will then cease .but' in a short
time the river will be frozen solid and
the easiest kind of winter traveling
will be available until the snow gets
deep, which will not be until Decem
ber. Sleds and footmen can go in all
winter but deep, fresh snow occasion
ally makes traveling difficult.
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Fresh home-made Bread. Pies
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Whole Wheat, Graham, Rye
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