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~~ ~ _ _ SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASK A. I RIDAV. SEPTEMBER 24, 1915. __ __Tf" (''ent* th< C—T
GREAT MIAMI CORPORATION
ENTERS THE LOCAL EIELD
The Miami Copper Company, the greatest mining in
terests in the United States next to the Guggenheims, and
the strongest rivals of the great smelting company is the'
corporation which has now entered the Seward field and
whose representative, Mr. A. H. Case, went out this morn
ing on the car to begin work that may mean more for this
city than the great government railroad itself. The news
was published in the Gateway yesterday that Mr. C ase
had arrived with a drill to prospect the Parker-Herschei!
properties on Quartz creek but Mr. C ase did not then feel
like giving out all the facts until he had thought over the
matter more carefully. This morning before leaving on
the car for the scene of acti\ ity he admitted when pressed
that lie does actually represent the great Miami Com
pany’s interests and from his conversation one might
safely conclude, without any positive statement to that
effect on the part of Mr. Case, that the Miami people have
decidel to enter the Alaska held determinedly. J. H. Suss
man of the Miami company was the man directly concern
ed with the sending of Mr. Case who is one of the most
prominent mining engineers in the west if some local,
mining people are sure of their facts in the matter.
The Parker-Herschell ground is five hundred aces in
extent and will be thoroughly prospected with the inten-;
tion of putting on a dredge should the values be anything j
like what they have been represented to be. As the!
dredges to be placed on the ground will be immense and
powerful ones the ground need not be at all rich to pay
well and the opinion of those who know the property is
that the drilling will prove conclusively and to the satis
faction of the great corporation that they can enter the
field for great operations.
The Miami company is the biggest of all the com
panies that have headquarters in ^ew York. The only ex-1
ception is the Guggenheim corporation which has been j
bucking the Miami people for the control of some of the ■
world famous copper and other properties. Ibis opposi
tion in itself promises to give an extraordinary activity
to Alaska mining now that the Miami people have decided
to make Alaska a field for their operations, and that
Seward and its district has been chosen as the place for
the beginning of the great work is something oi tremend
ous significance to all of us. Ihe Miamia coppei mines
of Colorado are amongst the most famous in the world.
Mr. Case cannot indicate how long he will take to
pit ' :o ground._ ___
SEWARD R. R. WORK
BEGINS ON MONDAY
First Real Start To Be Made By
Increasing the Force To
Seventy Men.
That on next Monday or Tuesday
there will be at least 70 men doing
repair to the tracks and the trestles,
as well as the telephone line, on the
Alaska Northern railroad is the in
formation given out this morning b\
Superintendent Tozier. The pile driv
er vrew, of ten men. under the man
agement of foreman Thomas Mc
Connaty, which has been working in
the neighborhood of Mile 34 has been
taken out to Mile 37 where a consul- j
erable stretch of trestling work ha>
to be done, owing to recent washouts, j
Messrs. Tozier and Ward were out
lookit g at the washout situation at
Mile 37 yesterday and they think it
will be a matter of a week or two to
do the necessary repair work on that
stretch of track.
Mr. Morris, foreman of the section
ere v which has been grading the
track to the approach of the dock,
will leave Monday morning with his
present crew ami enough more men
to make 30 for Mile 54. There he will
* have to lay rails for the distance of
two miles where the high water in
the creek flowing past Spencer glacier
has washed out a considerable
stretch of track. This particular
piev of track has always been a
source of trouble and it is the inten
tion of the Commission to so repair it
at this time that it will not be bother
some in the future. The crew under
Mr. Morris will have to do consider
able tilling in of the low glacier
country and will in consequence re
quire a few weeks to accomplish the
work. Eventually the track will have
to be trestled all along the glacier
front and in its stream bed.
Dayton 0. Carter, an experienced
bridge man will start out Monday
morning with a bridge crew of eight
or ten men to repair all the bridges
and trestles of the railway system.
Timbers and lumber for the repair of
the trestles were received by the
commission at Seward on the last
trip of the freighter Seward.
The telephone repair crews are
making rapid progress in the replac
ing of the galvanized iron wire by
the better and more efficient cop
per. One crew of about a dozen men
is working from Mile 34 towards the
city and the other of about ten men
is working out toward Mile 34 from
Sno.v river. When this stretch of
copper wire is put the telephone line
from Anchorage and Seward will be
completely of copper wire.
Besides the crews and the work
done by them as mentioned above
there is the section crew of ten men
in charge of James McConnell, with
headquarters at Mile Six, grading
and levelling the track from Resur
rection river out to Mile 12 summit.
From this time forward the force
will probably be increased constantly,
as Mr. Edes suggested some time ago.
MARSHALL OUT
FOR NO SESSION
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VICE - PRESIDENT BELIEVES
COl'NTRY HAS NO TIME
FOR POLITICS NOW.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Vice
President Marshall declared this
morring that he is entirely opposed
to the idea of holding a special ses
sion of the senate just at present.
“The country has no time for polities
just now,” he said, “and it should de
vote all its energies to supporting the
president in clearing away the clouds
that hover over the international
situation.” The president yesterday
had about decided to call the extra
session but the opposition of Marshall
may have the effect of causing Mr.
Wilson to change his mind.. The
president had made no official state
ment on the matter up to noon today.
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❖ COBB MAKES BASE *
❖ STEALING RECORD. *
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CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—1Tyrus Cobb
made a base stealing record yester
day. It was eighty-nine and the pre
vious record was eighty-eight.
Civil War Pensions
at Last Decreasing
ONE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND PENSIONERS HAVE
DIED SINCE GREAT CONFLICT
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—The
Civil war pension roll for the fiscal
year has decreased ten per cent ac
cording to the official figures given
>ut here this morning. For this
year the number of men receiving
pensions was three hundred and nine
ty-seven thousand and they received
one hundred and fifty million dollars.
The number of deaths that have taken
place amongst the veterans of the
great struggle since the close of the
war is one million eight hundred thou
sand. The total paid in pensions :n
that time is four billion six hundred
and fourteen million.
Carranza Goes to
Mexico City Again
UNITED STATES TROOPS KILL
MANY MEXICAN BANDITS
Rear the border.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Car
ranza has moved the affairs of the
government from Vera Cruz and will
soon go there himself and establish
the complete government in the
country’s capital. His victory at
Chihuahua is hailed by him and his
followers as the decisive battle of the
war and the end of serious resistance
on the part of Villa and his allies.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 24.—A
small detachment of American sold
iers surrounded a band of Mexican
raiders near Progresso yesterday but
the Mexicans got away with the loss
of one man killed and one wounded.
Another body of United States troops
from Mercedes, which has been pur
suing other raiders, has succeeded in
killing ten of the Mexicans and
wounding five near Hidalgo at the
Starr county line.
George W. Brown, the government
representative who came to inspect
prospective naval coaling sites, will
leave for Cordova on the Mariposa.
TEUTONS MASS TO CRUSH SERBIA
AND GREECE CALLS OUT ARMY
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❖ NOTED MEN WRITE *
❖ FOR ALL-ALASKA REVIEW. ❖
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Governor Strong, Scott Hone, editor
-in-chief of the Seattle Post Intelli
gencer, and Commissioner Walker of
the Land Department are amongst
those who are now engaged preparing
articles for the All-Alaska Review.
The Review is catching on amazingly
with the leading people interested in
Alaska. Mr. Bone was once chairman
of the world-famous Gridiron club ' f j
Washington, D. C., and President of
the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce. Another in
teresting article for Seward people
will be the story of this city by a welj
known trained local writer whose
name is withheld until the article is
made sure.
DELHI IS GOOD ONLY
FOR THE JUNK PILE.
SEATTLE, Sept. 24.—The freight
steamer Delhi has been inspected at
the dock at Prince Rupert and thi^n
spectors have declared that she is
practically a total wreck and is good
only for the junk pile.
HALL IS BEAUTIFULLY
DECORATED FOR BIG DANCE.
The decorations of the Arctic
Brotherhood hall for the grand open
ing dance tonight are most tasteful
and attractive. Indeed, a glance at
the ball rather suggests some unusual
fete than a mere dance room and
when the dancers appear this evening
one of the prettiest sights ever wit
nessed in Alaska will be seen. The
hall is so spacious that every person
who wishes to dance will be accom
modated. The pillars which impeded
dancing in the railroad building are
conspicuous by absence in the new
hall and there is nothing to keep the
dance from being the greatest on
record.
Condensed Cables
LONDON, Sept. 24.—The Balkans
are on the verge of war. Greece has
decided to stand by Serbia and
Roumania is expected to follow ex
ample.
BERLIN, Sept. 24.—It is officially
admitted that Maclcensen has re
treated behind Oginski abandoning
the attempt to reach the Vilna Kovno
railroad and the Russians have turned
the tables and are now trying to en
velope his flanks.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—The U.
S. Consul has cabled from Queens
town that the British horse trans
port Anglo-Columbian has been tor
pedoed by a submarine and sunk.
She was sunk this morning while on
the vay from Montreal to England.
PORTLAND, Sept. 24.—Miss Edna
Turner jumped from a fourth story
window today and was fatally injured.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24.—The
Marconi wireless operators struck to
day for more pay.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 24.—Seven
ty-five Mexicans are surrounded in the
brush by American troops near this
place and it is believed they cannot
escape. The band is a raiding one.
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❖ SWIFTWATER BILL ♦
❖ GIVES A BOND. ❖
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SEATTLE, Sept. 24.—Swiftwater
Bill has give a bond of five hundred
dollars to pay for the support of his
son for twenty months. The hoy is
sixteen years of age. Bill says he
owns a million acres of mining land
in Peru but that his cash income is
limited at the present.
ROCKEFELLER
HASJIG TIME
DANCES WITH WORKERS’ WIVES
AND MINERS LIONIZE
H I M.
WALSENBURG, Colo., Sept. 24.—
By just jumping in and making a
good fellow of himself John I). Rock
efeller is now hero of the Colorado
miners instead of being as he was a
few weeks ago the man whose sudden
death they most ardently desired. He
is continuing his investigations of the
conditions in the coal mines and at
tending the dances and parties of the
workers just as though he was one
of them. At a miners’ dance last
night he hopped about with wives of
the miners as partners and declared
he never had such a bully time in all
his life. He is being cordially receiv
ed and entertained by the workers
and never seems to be tired of taking
part in all their fun. He has com
pletely conquered Colorado.
ALLIANCE MIDNIGHT.
The Alliance was reported out of
Valdez this morning at 8 o’clock and
is expected to arrive here about mid
night.
Collecting lor New
Seward Hospital
SITE HAS BEEN APPROVED BY
CHAIRMAN EDES SUBJECT TO
APPROVAL OF LAND OFFICE.
The work of collecting subscrip
tions for the new hospital in Seward
was inaugurated today. The site,
whvh is on the first two lots on Fifth
avenue of the government subdivision,
has been approved by Mr. Edes, chair
man of the Engineering Commission,
but the approval of the Land depart
ment is being awaited. The hospital
will be open to all patients and doct
ors without discrimination and will be
in charge of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
All monies will be desposited in the
Bank of Seward and will be refunded
if the hospital is not erected.
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Local Coal Coming
for Sale on Evans
ONE HUNDRED TON CARGO TO
BEGIN HISTORY OF HOME
CONSUMPTIO N.
On the arrival of the Evans from
the westward she will have aboard a
cargo of one hundred tons of coal
from the Herbert mines at Seldovia
for A. G. de Sherbinin, who will have
the hon>r of being the first man to
place Alaska coal on the local market.
The price of the coal here will be
eleven dollars a ton. Coal from the
same mine has been on sale for some
time in Anchorage and the Engineer
ing commission has used it in prefer
ence to outside coal. The coal coming
on the Evans is taken from a depth
of three hundred feet and is free
from all the drawbacks of the coal
nearer the surface. The coming
cargo marks a new era in Alaska
conditions.
MARIPOSA AT FOUR THIRTY.
The Mariposa is due to arrive here
from Anchorage at between 4 and
4:30 this afternoon. She had about
275 tons of freight to unload at An
chorage this trip.
READY TO RUSH SERBIA
NISH, Serbia, Sept. 24.—From the best information
available it is now made certain that a tremendous army
of Teutons is massing near the Serbian border to launch
a mighty effort to crush our country and to force a way
to Turkey as the Germans crushed Belgium to force a
way to France. Eight hundred thousand Germans and
Austrians, according to the information received here,
I are now concentrating for the great offensive to force a
passage through our country and, it must be admitted,
; that Serbians, worn and exhausted by their former strug
; gles, can hardly hope to stem the tide unless the allied
! powers lind some way of coming to our aid. All Serbia
today unites in calling on the world for aid. The news
papers and the king anu cabinet are now preparing a
great appeal.
TURK CAPITAL IN TROUBLE
' GENEVA ,Sept. 24.—A Swiss merchant who has just
returned from Constantinople describes the conditions
1 there as intolerable for foreigners. The Turks have evi
dently come to the conclusion that a new era is opening
for them and their sudden realization of the possibility
that they will soon be again a powerful nation has render
ed them haughty and overbearing. Two thousand em
ployees of the newly established Krupp factory are out of
employment because of the failure to secure raw mater
ials for the manufacture of munitions of war. The city
is without gas, electricity or a lull supply ol candles and
I is almost in total darkness at nights.
TAX ON BRITISH LIQUOR
LONDON, Sept. 24.—In answer to inquiries as to
why Chancellor McKenna omitted beer and liquors from
the list of articles on which the tax will be raised .Mc
Kenna has stated that he intends to deal comprehensively
with the liquor question. This is taken to mean that the
new prohibition craze will have the effect of making the
liquor interests pay the lion’s share of the war expenses or
get out of business altogether.
BATTLE IN DARDANELLES
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ATHENS, Sept. 24.—The Turks started an offensive
movement aginst the British troops near Suvla bav yes
terday, according to information via Sofia, but failed in
their object. Other dispatches from Bulgaria indicate
that while the Bulgarian army is kept fully mobilized
there has been no definite step taken towards entering the
war. It is generally believed throughout the Ba lkans that
the price of Bulgaria’s neutrality is the granting of Mace
donia when Serbian resistance has been overcome by the
Teutons, if it ever is overcome. Greece is now waiting
anxiously the outcome of the peace pact made between the
Bulgars and the Turks. If it is more than a declaration
of neutrality and if Bulgaria has really decided on an of
fensive alliance with the Sublime Porte nothing on eai th
can keep Greece and Roumania from flying to arms to
save themselves.
SINK THREE TURK TRANSPORTS
PARIS 46ept. 24.—An allied aviator has sunk a Turk
ish transport in Megara bay and British submarines have
sunk two other Turkish transports in the bay of Akbaclu.
In all three cases the loss of life was great as the trans
ports had large forces of troops aboard w lien desti uction
came.
FIERCE BATTLE IN WEST
PARIS, Sept. 24.—A fierce battle is now raging be
tween the French and Germans around Royes and the
outcome is being awaited with anxiety. Hie Get mail'
opened the struggle by the hurling of asphyxiating gas
bombs but the French had been so well prepared w it i
respirators that the effect was nullified. The r rM.ch
shells are now smashing the German fortifications into
debris at several parts of the western fi out. I he die.
works around Arras have been badly damaged and the
trenches, block houses and entrenchments m the ( ham
pagne region have been completely wrecked within the
last tweny-four hours, according to the communique pub
lished this morning.
HILL SHIP BECOMES TRANSPORT
SEATTLE, Sept. 24.—The Minnesota is about to sail
from this port’for England and will be sold there as a
transport ship to the British goemment. On her voyage
she will take the largest cargo ever taken from a Pac-fic
nort It will consist of seventeen thousand tons of g. - n,
lumber and salmon and will be the largest also that ev. i
arrived in England. She will sail October 15.