VOL. 1 SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1008 SO. 86
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SECRETARY OF
NAVY RESIGNS
Metcalf Leaves Cabinet Decem
ber I—W ill Be Succeeded by
Truman H. Newberry.
By Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 14—Victor
H. Metcalf this morning handed his
resignation as secretary of the navy
to President Roosevelt..
The resignation is to take elTect
December 1. Mr. Metcalf has for
sometime been in failing health, and
contemplated resigning his position
in the cabinet, but had waited till the
close of the presidential campaign for
a suitable occasion. He will go to
some health resort where he can have
complete rest as soon as he can lay
down the duties of his office.
Truman H. Newberry, assistant sec
retary of the navy, will he appointed
by President Roosevelt to fill the posi
tion made vacant by the resignation of
Secretary Metcalf,
Alaska has not yet produced much
silver. In 1900 the product was
valued at $120,000, but silver mines
are in prospect of development that
bid fair to yield splendid returns.
Ovster cocktails and clam bullion at
the Branch. *
SOLDIERS ADDITIONAL [E. A. ENTRY
NO. 390
In the United State* Laud office. Juneau.
Alaska. Feb. 28, UKVS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Northwestern Fisheries Company, assignee of
Mary Rollins, being entitled to the beneti* *
of Sec. 2806 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States granting additional lands to
soldiers and sailors who served in the War of
the Rebellion, has made application to this
office to make proof and entry under an Act
of congress approved May 1 4, 1898, for the lands
embraced in U. S. Survey No. 39i>, in the Dis
trict of Alaska, described as follows:
Beginning at cor. No. 1 a point at ordinary
high water mark on the left bank of Kvichak
river at the junction of said Kvichak river and
Graveyard Slough, from whence cor. No. 4
Sur. 540bears N. 28 Degrees 05 minutes E. 20
eh*.: Peak of Sugar Loaf mountain bears N.
84 degrees 14 minutes E.; thence meander ng
high water mark on left bank of Kvichak rver
up stream. 1st course N. 58 degrees 20 mmutes
W. 1.80 chs.; thence 2nd course, N. 76 degrees
39 minutes W. 9.20 chs.; thence 3rd course. N.
41 degrees30minutes W. 6.50 chs.; thence 4th
course. N. 8 degrees 15 minutes W, 2J) chs. to
cor. No. 2; thence N. 47 degrees 5 mirutes E.
4.06 chs. to cor. No. 3, from whence Cor. No. 3
Sur. 72 bears X. 2 degrees 56 minutes W. 20.84
chs.; thence S. 42 degrees 45 minutes E. 17.VJ
chs. to cor. No. 1. the place of beginning Va
riation at ail corners 23 degrees 10 minutes
East. Area 6.9i acres.
As additional to Mary Rollins* original home
stead entry No. 1785, at Bonneville, Mo., made
May 30,1865.
Any and all i>ersons claiming adversely any
portion of said lands are required to tile an ad
verse claim in this office during the period of
publication of this notice, or within thirty
days thereafter, otherwise proof and entry of
said lands will be made by said Northwestern
Fisheries Company, applicant.
JOHN W. DUDLEY. Register.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the forego
ing Notice be published for the full period of
60 days in the Daily Gateway, a daily newspa
per published at the town of Seward and Dis
trict of Alaska, which is hereby designated as
the newspaper pubHshed nearest the .land
(described.
John W. Dudley, Register.
Date of first publication, October 3. 1908.
Date of last publication. December 14 190$#
Ex-Convict Eires Bullet Into Victim’s Head Dur
ing Recess in Ruef Trial-Doctors
Hope for Recovery.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
San Francisco, Nov. 14—Prose- •
cuting Attorney Francis J Heney was
shot late yesterday afternoon by Mor
ris Hass, an ex-convict venireman in
the former trial. Hass accuses Heney
of ruining him by exposing his char
acter. The shooting occurred during
the recess of the Ruef trial. The shot
was fired when Heney’s back was turn
ed. The bullet entered behind the
j right ear, and passing downward
lodged under the right jaw. Heney
was taken at once to Lane’s hospital
A GREAT COPPER COUNTRY
Alaska Said to Contain the Red Metal
Wherever Quartz
Exists.
Alaska is a great copper country,
says E. S. Harrison, just how great
nobody knows. Copper prospects have
been found in nearly every part of
Alaska where quartz exists. But
most of the development work on cop
per properties has been confined to the
region of Alaska extending eastward
from Prince William sound to the
Canadian line There are a number of
islands in Prince William sound where
copper mines have been located and
are now in process of development
with splendid indications. Discoveries
of copper ore have been made on the
Arctic slope of Alaska, and others are
reported from the region of Lake
Iliamna and Chignik bay. There are
possibilities of copper in the Alaskan
range of mountains.
Matanuska Coal Deposits
The known area in which the Mata
nuska coal deposits are found comprises
about 300 square miles. The anthra
cite deposits are found in a compara
tively small area, but some of the
veins are remarkably large, one
measuring thirty-eight feet clean,
solid coal.
The average analysis of several sam
ples from three different localities in
the Matanuska region shows 66.08,
65.26 and 66.40 per cent, fixed carbon.
We sell our Eastman Kodak goods
at list prices. Seward Drug Co. *
Window Shades at Hofman’s. *
where he was attended by the most
skilful surgeons in the city. He passed
a quiet night and is resting quietly
this morning. The surgeons are hope
ful of his recovery. The wounded man
is in full possession of his faculties.
The physicians will undoubtedly probe
for the bullet today.
Abe lluef was last night taken into
custody by the sheriff, because it was
feared that the intense feeling aroused
by the shooting of Ileney might re
sult in an attack being made on him.
PRODUCTS Of ALASKA
Alfred H. Brooks Enumerates Miner
als of Commercial Value in the
Territory.
Alfred H. Brooks of the United
States geological survey in enumerat
ing the important products of Alaska
says that the output of Alaska includes
the metals, gold, silver, copper, lead,
and the non metalic minerals, coal,
tungsten, antimony, quicksilver and
graphite.
Gold, he says, is the most widely dis
tributed and by far the most important,
of the minerals yet developed.
Copper deposits, so far as developed,
are for the most part sulphides and are
chiefly chalcopyrites and bornite. Tin
is foud chiefly in the western part of
Sewaid peninsula. Asbestos, he says,
may prove of considerable commercial
importance. This mineral has been
found in considerable quantities in the
Yukon—Tanana region.
The petroleum-bearing area so far
as known are at Controller bay and
along the margin of the Alaska penin
sula.
Antimony is said to have been dis
covered on the Seward peninsula and
in the Tanana valley. It is also re
ported from the Kuskokwim and other
parts of Alaska.
The Hotel McNeiley has every mod
ern improvement, warm and well light
ed rooms, comfortable writing tables,
and every other convenience of a first
class hotel.
* Hawkins & Whittemore, Prop.
Confectionery. We have the best.
Seward Drug Co. *
LABOR LEADER
OPPOSES BILL
Gompers Will Carry Fight to
Washington Against Amend
ing Anti-Trust Law.
Ey Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Denver, Nov. 14— Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor is bringing all his influence
to bear to prevent congress at its next
session from passing an amendment to
the Sherman anti-trust law. A bill is
already pending for an amendment to
that law. This bill contains provisions
which Gompers thinks would prove
detrimental to the labor interests
he represents, he therefore prepares
to carry the fight to Washington to
prevent this proposed legislation.
Jimmie Robinson returned last
evening from a hunting trip on Resur
rection river. He killed two fine
specimens of bull moose. He did not
bring them in on his shoulder, but
cached them in a safe place.
At Dutch Harbor and Unalaska cat
tie do well, and cows are a valuable
adju-'f; of the local industries of these
places.
SUMMONS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
United States District Court. District of
Alaska—Third Division.
Julia Brosnan, Plaintiff, )
vs. - NO. 260.
Michael Brosnan. Defendant. \
The President of the United States of Ameri
ca. greeting: To the above named defendant
You are hereby required to appear in the
United States District Court, in and for the
District of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the day of sendee of this
summons upon you, and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, a copy of which
complaint is herewith delivered to you; and
unless vou so appear and answer, the plaintiff
will apply for the relief prayed for.
Witness the Hon. Silas H. Reid, Judge ot
said Court, this 12th day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight
and of our independence the one hundred and
thirty second. ^ ,
i I O. A. WELLS, Clerk.
I SEAL ( By W.T. BECKS, Deputy Clerk.
Edmund Smith, attorney for plaintiff.
Date of lirst publico lion October 6. 1908.
Date of last publication November 17, 1908.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Seward, Alaska, September 10, 1908,
TO J. BROWN:
You are hereby notified that there has been
expended in the years 1905, 1906. and 1907, the
sum of one hundred dollars each year in labor
and improvements upon the J. R. Number 2
Placer Claim commonly known as the Morgan
Cla;m situate on Lynx creek in Kenai Record
ing Piecinct. Territory of Alaska. The same
bemg the amount required by the laws of the
United States governing the location and hold
ing of mining claims necessary to hold said
claims for the calendar years 1905. 1906 and
1C97. the said wTork having been done by your
Co-owner Nathan P. White.
And unless within ninety days after the com
pletion of the publication of this notice, to-wit;
witbin CO days a-ter the 12th day of December.
1903 you contribute your proportion of such
annual assessment as Co-owner to wit: $75.00
for the said J. R. No. 2 Mining Claim, your in
terest in said claim will be forfeited to and
become tbe property of your present Co-own
er afoiesnid. NATHAN P. WHITE.
First publication September 11, 1908.
date of last publication December 12.1908.