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TO BE ANNOUNCED
IN THREE WEEKS
Washington, April 15.—Secretary of
the Interior Lane today gave out the
statement that, the names of the sur
veyors for the Alaska government rail
way would he announced by the presi
dent in about three weeks.
The secretary is hurrying his prepa
rations and will probably be ready to
sail for Alaskaon the Maryland, sched
uled to sail from Bremerton for Alaska
May 15. The Maryland goes to make i
a practical naval test of Matanuska
coal, which has been mined and
brought out to tidewater by the gov
ernment during the past year.
THAW GRANTED
HABEAS CORPUS
Concord, N. H., April 15.—The fed
eral judge here upholds Harry Thaw
in his habeas corpus proceedings, the
judge holding that extradition is not
applicable to insanity. He also scored
the methods used by the New York
officials. Thaw will be held here
awaiting a decision by the supreme
court.
StocktOD, April 15.—Evelyn Thaw, j
playing an engagement at a local
theater, is besieged by reporters and
keeps herself heavily guarded.
A DEVELOPMENT i
BOARD WANTED
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Washington, April 15— Delegate!
Wiekersham has introduced a bill in
the house which embodies Secretary j
Lane’s ideas regarding Alaska develop- i
meat. The bill provides fora deve(op
ment board consisringof live Alaskans,
including the governor and surveyor
general, who shall administer the land
laws and have jurisdiction over all in
terior affairs, and fixing their salaries
at $7,500 a year. The bill also pro
vides for the appointment of an attor
ney general for Alaska at a salary of
*6000 a year. .
BANDIT DIES OF
HIS INJURIES
Seattle, April 15.—Charles Tary,
aged twenty-eight, one of the bandits
who attempted to bold up the Tacoma
interurban, died this morning from
the effects of the beating administered
by the passengers.
Charles Schwartz, the passenger shot
bv one of the bandits, also died this
morning from the effects of his wound.
The following are registered at the
Hotel Seward: W./F. Devine, H. C.
Cole, R. F. McCumber and wife, H.
Holderson, C. T. Anderson, C. Lang,
O. Julick, L. A. Birkeiand, B. Birke
land, A. Garven, D. Holland, C. J.
Syllioosen, F. R. Brown and A. L. Rob
erts. _
Dog harness at J. L. Graef’s.
ENTIRE FLEET IS
SENT TO MEXICO
Washington, April 15. — The entire i
Atlantic fleet is being rushed to Tam- j
pico. The government is making prep-'
arm ions for war with Mexico, and the i
Atlantic fleet has been ordered to bom
bard tiie city of Tampico unless an
apology salute is given within twenty
four hours after their arrival.
RECOMMENDS A
SUIT RE STARTED
Washington, April 15.—The house
seal probe committee has recommended
that a civil suit be brought against
the North American Commercial com
pany for a violation of contract and
also for the forfeiture of half a million
dollars bonds. The committee accuses
Dr. Jordan with using false Russian
translations to prove that the Russians
killed female seals.
TELEGRAPH TICKS
New York, April 14.—Progressives
here have started a boom for Roose
velt for governor of New York in the
coming state election. Roosevelt will
return from his hunting trip in the
middle of May.
Philadelphia, April 15.—A shrapnel
♦shell exploded in the federal arsenal
in this city today. A nurabor were
burned and a thousand women em
ployes were thrown into a panic.
Seattle. April 14.-Bill McCormick,
vice chairman of the progressive na
tional committee, says that a consoli
dation ol the progressives with the re
publican party is impossible.
Washington, April 14.—John Lind,
the president’s personal representa
tive, has returned to Washington from
Mexico City. Mr. Lind is non com
municative.
Christiana, April 15.—Amundsen has
postponed his Arctic trip for another
year. He was unable to raise the
$200,000 necessary for the expedition.
Havana, April 14.—The bubonic
plague here has got the upper hand
and is rapidly spreading. Many are
fleeing the city.
Seattle, April 15.—The steamer Ad
miral Evans arrived this morning.
She is scheduled to sail on her return
voyage Friday.
Washington, April 14.—President
Wilson is opposed to the curtailment
of the trust program as laid out by
congress. _
Denver, April 14.—Troops have
been ordered to withdraw from the
strike zone.
Montreal, April 14.—A severe bliz
zard is raging throughout this section
of country.
Brass and iron bedsteads at J. L.
Graefs. i
For reliable information write Can
non, Pioneer hotel Knik. Alaska, t
Pabsts blue ribbon beer at The
Branch. *
ROUTE OF THE
INTERIOR MAIL
—
After making the trip from Seward •
to the Id ii a rod and back again and
making a careful study of conditions,
Col. lie veil has decided that in carry
ing the mail from here to the interior
he will use horses where ever practi
cal, and that will he at both ends of the
trail. Mr. Re veil stated yesterday
that he would put on horses leaving j
Seward and take the mail as far as j
Mile 63 on the Alaska Northern rail- j
way. At Mile 63 the mail will be I
turned over to Joe Richards and Julius
Schalk, who have agreed to land it at
Old Knik on schedule time, at which
point it will be placed in the hands of
Oscar Gill, the well known Seward
Susitna mail carrier, who with three
assistants and adequate dog teams will
handle the mail as far as Mountain
Climbers’Cabin, 110 miles from Old
Knik. At this point the mail will be
turned over to John Richart, who has
the run to Anderson’s road house, a
distance of 50 miles. Vogle and French
Joe have the next relay, that lands the
mail at French Joe’s road house, a dis
tance of 47 miles and from there on to
Iditarod City the mail will be in
charge of T. W. Boyd, who will op
erate a stage line from Iditarod City to
French Joe’s road house, a distance of
200 miles. Mis, Boyd is an old time
Dawson and Fairbanks freighter and
has a first class outfit of stock and a
valuable fund of experience in freight
ing and handling stage lines in Alaska
to draw upon. With the above named
corps of assistants, Mr. Re veil does not
anticipate any trouble in fulfilling his
contract and in landing the mail on
schedule time. He is going about the
matter in a thorough business-like
manner and by the time the contract
goes into effect will have everything
in shape to rush the mail through ac
cording to the schedule. The spring
trip over the route was one of the best
things that Mr. Revell could do as he
now knows just what he wili have to
do to carry out the contract and he is
in a position to guard against any pos
sible trouble.
CORDOVA TERM
HAS ADJOURNED
Cordova, April 15.—The Cordova
terra of the district court adjourned
today. The plaintiffs lost in all the
mining cases. In live of the cases ap
pealed defendants have been ordered
to pay over to the court twenty-live per
cent of the gold taken out this sum
mer, pending the appeals.
Judge Brown has issued calls for
special grand and petit jury terms of
court to be held at Dillingham August
10, Unalaska August 22, Unga August
26 and Kodiak August 29. The court
will be transported by the revenue
cutter Thetis.
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Fred Tracey, general agent of the
Alaska Steamship company, is stopping
over in Seward for a few days in the
interests of his company.
W. H. Brooks arrived from the
Iditarod yesterday over the trail and
is registered at the Coleman.
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Leave your orders at the Seward
Cafe for ice cream. Free delivery. *
A NEW STEAMER
FOR WESTWARD
Mr. Fred Tracey, the general agent
of the Alaska Steamship company, is
authority for the statement that the
present trip of the Dora is probably
the last that the popular old timer will
make to the westward, as on the first
of May the steamer Derigo will leave
Seattle to take the Dora’s run and, in
addition to making all of the ports now
being made by the Dora, will call at
all points on Cook inlet, both going
and coming. The Derigo will, as the
Dora has in the past, make Seward her
home port and will make monthly trips
to the westward, calling at all Cook
inlet points from now on.
The placing of the Derigo on the
westward run will mean a great deal
to the traveling public and will be a
great help to Seward merchants as it
will give them an opportunity to
reach out after business that hereto
fore has been beyond their reach on
account of a lack of transportation fa
ci 1 ities. The Derigo has a carrying
capacity of live hundred tons and a
speed of ten and a half or eleven knots*
but even with this equipment, she will
be pushed to handle the growing trade
to the westward if it continues to in
crease in the next year as it has in the
past. The accommodations of the Dora
being wholly inadequate to handle the
business.
The Alaska Steamship company's
steamer, Latouche, will leave Seattle
on Saturday next with fifty passengers
and a cargo of mining and canning ma«
chinery for Cook inlet and her regular
ports of call. Mr. Tracey says that
transportation men on the outside are
looking forward to a busy season in
the Alaska trade and that the Alaska
Steamship company is getting tilings
in shape to handle their share of the
boom.
The steamer Bertha, Captain Bruce
McKay, arrived in Seward this morn
ing loaded with explosives for Seward
and the Knik district. As soon as the
Bertha discharges her cargo at this
point she will proceed to Ship creek,
where she will be anchored and re
main during the coming summer to be
used as a floating dock and warehouse
by the company. Brown A Han
kins of this city will conduct a whole
sale store from the ship. George Ban
! bury, formerly freight agent on the
J steamer Yukon, will be in charge of
! the supplies on hoard this summer.
The Sampson reported passing a full
rigged ship about thirty miles east of
Barren islands. This is probably the
Abner Coburn, bound for Cook’s inlet
with cannery supplies.
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Joseph Hebb is stopping at the Cole
man until the arrival of the Admiral
Evans, when he will leave for Knik.
Meet me at the Branch
For fine pastry nhone the Seward
Cafe. _ _ *
First-class job printing at the Gate
way. We do it right.
Long distance telephone booth at the
Branch. ___
Field glasses at J. L. Graef ’s.
Meet me at the Branch. *
Finch’s Golden Wedding rye at the
Branch. *
Budweiser beer at the Branch.