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BUGGIES Will
BUILD SMELTER
Seattle, Feb. 16.—President Baxter
of the Alaska Steamship company says
that the Alaska syndicate will spend
a million dollars in developing low
grade copper properties as soon as the
government railroad is built in Alas
ka. They will also build a smelter in
Alaska.
A Long, Rapid Fly
San Diego, Feb. 16.—Lieut. Dodd
carrying Lieutenant Marcus as a pas
senger, flew a distance of two hundred
and eighty-six miles in two hours and
seven minutes, here yesterday.
Balkan Veterans Looked for.
New York, Feb. 16.—The announce
ment has been made that sixty thou
sand veterans of the Balkan war will
land in this country within the next ;
four months, seeking homes. j
American Manages English Railroad
London, Feb. 16.—Henry Thornton,
an American, has been appointed gen
eral manager of the great Great Last
ern railroad. British newspapers are
indignant.
Population of the World.
Antwerp, Feb. 16.—The bureau of
universal statistics announces that the
population of the world in 1913 was
1,900,000,(XX), ai increase of HO,000,000 j
in four years.
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Herman Smeazer, one of the old ,
timers in Mills creek in the Moose
Pass pountry, is busily engaged in
hauling hydraulic pipe to his property
and will be piping in the pay as soon
as the water begins to flow in the
spring. _
Col. Revell, who is making his last
trip this year with the Hope-Sunrise
mail, is due to arrive iri Seward Tues
day night. Nate White and Billy
Smith, who will take the next mail for
this section over the Pass, will leave
Sunrise for Seward on Washington’s
birthday.
Zimmerman, of the mining firm of
Zimmerman & Meyers, who have been
operating an hydraulic plant on Alfred
creek, above Chickaloon, Itft last week
for Albert creek in the Nelchina,
where he will join his partner Meyers
and carry on the prospecting that
Meyers has had under way during the
past winter.
For reliable informal on write Can
non, Pioneer hotel, Knik, Alaska, t
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SENATOR BACON
OF GEORGIA DEAD
Washington, Feb 16.—Senator Bacon
died here yesterday as a result of a
; blood clot.
[Augustus Octavius Bacon, demo
crat of Macon, was born in Bryan
County, Ga., October 20, 1839, the post
humous son of the Rev. Augustus O.
Bacon and Mary Louisa Bacon, only
daughter of Samuel Jones, all of Lib
erty County, Ga.: received a high
school education in Liberty and Troup
Counties; graduated at the University
of Georgia in the literary and classical
department in 1859 and in the law de
partment in 1860, receiving from uni
versity successively the several de
grees of A. B., B. L., A. M.« and LL.
D.: entered the Confederate Array at
the beginning of the war and served
during the campaigns of 1861 and 1862
as adjutant of the Ninth Georgia Regi
ment in the Army of Northern Virgin
ia; subsequently thereto was commis
sioned as captain in the provisional
army of the Confederate States and
assigned to general stalT duty; at the
close of the war resumed the study of
law, and began practice in 1866 at Ma
con, from which date until his election
to the Senate he actively continued
the same, both in the State and Feder
al courts; was frequently a member of
State Democratic conventions; was
president of the State Democratic con
vention in 1880, and was delegate from
the State at large to the Democratic
national convention in Chicago in 1864;
in 1868 he was elected presidential
elector (Seymour and Blair) on the
Democratic ticket; in 1871 w as elected
to the Georgia House of Representa
tives, of which body he served as a
! member for 14 years; in this time, dur
ing two years he was speaker pro tem
poret and during eight years, with an
; nual sessions, he wras the speaker of
the Georgia House of Representatives1,
was several times a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor of
Georgia, and in the Democratic State
convention of 1863 he came within one
vote of a nomination for governor,
when the nomination was equivalent
to an election. He was and has been
for many years a trustee of the Univer
sity of Georgia; was also one of the
Regents of the Smithsonian Institu
tion, was appointed from the Senate.
He was elected to the United States
Senate in November, 1&94; re-elected
in 1900, and again in 1907, having been,
by a general state primary, unanimous
ly renominated. His present term did
not expire until 1919.]
—
Bacon Funeral Tomorrow.
[ . Washington, Feb. 16.—The funeral
of Senator Bacon will take place to
morrow afternoon from the senate
Chamber.
The W. C. T. U. will give a social
tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist
parsonage, to commemorate the birth
of Frances E. Willard, the great tem
perance worker. All ladies are invited
to attend.
For Sale—Land scrip which can be
used for locating government land in
Alaska. Fully guaranteed. For price
and particulars address L. W. Hubbell
& Son, Springfield, Missouri. J
Bring your job printing to the Gate
way. We can do it right.
Meet me at the Branch.
FATHER DUNCAN
REFUSES WATER
MetlaKahtla, Feb. 16.- Ignoring the
request of Governor Strong, Father
Duncan has refused to furnish water
to the village through a pipe line
which is under his control.
Robert Michelsen, one of the best
known sourdoughs in this section of
Alaska, is running a road house at
Mills creek in the Moose Pass section
this winter and it is one of the best
places to stop that was ever located on
a mail trail in Alaska. As soon as the
j water runs in the spring the road house
will be abandoned and Bob will be tak
ing out the big money. La9t fall just
betore the freeze up, Michaelsen tap
ped the old channel of Mills creek and
run into pay that will go from live to
fifty cents to the pan. Before he could
get his boxes in position the water
froze up and he was forced to lay off
for the year but has spent the winter
in getting ready for next season
and feels confident that he will begin
to pipe money in the boxes as soon
as the water runs.
Oscar Christiansen and Wra. Fair*
man, wTho have been apendingthe win
ter at Hoonah Hot Springs, have left
that place and are now in Seattle hav
ing “one over at the Cluster lights”
John Duholm of Moose Pass came in j
for a few days to get supplies and ex-1
pects to return shortly. Mr. Duholm
| is planning on doing some work on his
! placer ground this summer and will
have his sluice boxes all set up and
ready to shovel in by the time that the j
water begins to run.
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Frank J. Cotter, who made a flying
trip to Sunrise last week, returned to
Seward Saturday and reports trail con
ditions good through Moose Pass. Mr.
Cotter says that both Hope and Sunrise
are going to be good little camps this
year and that there is considerable
work being laid out on the various
properties in those sections.
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The high cost of living does not
bother the residents of Sunrise and
Hope. Moose are plentiful and pota
toes and carrots and turnips and all of
the vegetable, can be had at Larsen’s
ranch at two and one cents per pound, |
The Larsen ranch raises more vegeta
bles yearly than can be consumed in j
that section and lots of the products of
this farm are annually shipped toKnik
and other points along Turnagain Arm.
Jack Johnson, who has been spend- i
ing the winter on Kenai river, came
to Seward last week and left this
morning to go to work on the Skeena
Lechner property on Falls creek.
There will be a meeting of the city
council tonight to dispose of all pend
ing business.
Fountain Pens—$1.50 to $7.00. Self
fillers $2.50. All makes of Fountain
Pens repaired. George, the Jeweler.
Finch’s Golden Wedding rye at the
Branch.
Don’t let yourself be forced to eat
what you don’t like, when you can
order what you like at the
Commerce Cafe.
Budweiser beer at the Branch.
PIONEERS' DANCE
A HUGE SUCCESS
It was with great success that Igloo
No. 9, Pioneers of Alaska, pulled oil
their first big dance Saturday evening
at Brown & Hawkins’ hall and it was
some dance, to dr op into the vernacular.
One of the largest crowns in the his
tory of the haU was present and enjoy
ed all of the old fasboned square dances
and reels of a few decades ago. A
regular sourdough supper was served
during the evening at which the little
brown bean and the juicy “porkey”
divided honors. The music for the
occasion was furnished by Miss White
of Hope, and Mr. Man they of Seward,
and it was fitting that the dreamy
strains to which the old timers cavort
ed to, should be rendered by the first
white child born on Cook inlet, which
honor MissWhite is entitled to,and there
were among the Pioneers Saturday
nightsome who in the early days dur
ing the mining excitement on the in
let had toted little MalainkaChewitna,
as she was known at the time, around
in their arms and openly boasted of
the feat to the younger members of
the order, who were bemoaning the
fact that they were not in Alaska at
that time, or hoped that history would
repeat itself. Judging from the suc
cess of the first dancing party of the
Pioneers, it is to be hoped that they
will not be content to rest on the lau
rels already won, but will iu the near
future again treat their friends to.
another pleasant evening.
Joe Wilson, Jr., has Been hauling
freight to Moose Pass for the past two
weeks in preparation oi a busy season
on his Canyon creek property. Mr.
Wilson intends putting on a crew of
miners and will hydraulic Canyon
creek this summer. From the line of
pay that was tapped the latter part of
last season, he should take out a good
ly bunch of dust during the coming
year.
The steamer Northwestern, enroute
to Seward, left Skagway yesterday
morning at 11:15
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Lon^r distance telephone booth at the
Branch. _ *
Pabsts blue ribbon beer at The
Branch. *
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