VOI III NO 19 SEWARD. ALASKA. SATURDAY, JULY 20. 1907.
JAP POACHERS
UNDER ARREST
Three Schooners and Sixty-five
Men Taken by Revenue Cut
ters in Bering Sea.
OFFICERS RELEASE ONE BOAT
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District Attorney Ray Instructed to
Go Westward and Take Charge
of Prosecutions.
Three Japanese schooners with sixty
five men aboard were captured near
the l’ribilof islands by the America
patrol Inxits recently. The news came
Tuesday in a message from Attorney
General Bonaparte to Assistant District
Attorney Bay directing him to proceed
westward to take charge of the prose
cution. The attorney-general's mes
sage stated that the Japanese had been
taken to I’nalaska and were to be ar
raigned there. A message from Dej>
uty l’. S. Marshal Lathrop at Valdez
later stated that the Japanese were
taken to Cnga. The Japs were captured
as >eal poachers.
One Japanese schooner captured
near the Pribllof islauds as a poacher
and taken to I’nalaska by the revenue
cutters was released because the evi
dence against it was not strong.
This fact is learned from John E.
Thwaites, mail clerk of the Dora, who
states that the McCulloch and Manning
were at Cnalaska when the Dora was
there. The general story of the cap
ture and detention cf the three schoon
ers was not learned by the Dora and
evidently was being kept secret by the
revenue officers.
JOINS DEMAND
FOR LOCAL RULE
Judge Wickersham Argues For It
In Talk to W ashington Bar
Association.
By Cabl* to Tbo Dally Oataway.
Seattle. July 15—Judge Wickersham
of Alaska made a speech before the
state bar association last Saturday,
night m which he presented an impas
sioned plea for self-government in the
territorv. He asked for the assistance
of lawyers in the task of securing in
fluence to induce congress to grant
territorial government to Alaska.
The judiciary of Alaska is the real
government of the territory under the
present system, Judge Wickersham a->
serted. the governor being a mere
figurehead, having no real authority.
Judge Wickersham struck back at
his opponent-, in the t nited State;,
senate, who have by filibustering pre
vented confirmation of his re-appoint
ment as judge of the Ihird judicial
division of Alaska, although a very
large majority of the senate favors
him. The speech is regarded a- a de
fiant challenge to professional poli
ticians.
ALASKA COAST STOCK
LARGELY HELD IN EAST
Seattle, July l.S—A large proportion
of the stock of the Alaska Coast Com
pany is now held in the east and it is
claimed that recent sales of stock have
placed a majority in eastern hands.
No change will be made in the officials
and active management.
Changes Name of Portage Bay
The Northwestern Steamship Com
pany sends out the following circular:
“The name of the landing hereto
fore known as Portage Bay, situated on
the Alaska peninsula just north of
Unga island, Alaska, has been changed
and the same will hereafter be known
as Balboa, under authority of the sec
retary of the U. S. geographic board.
“This landing is on the south, or
Pacific ocean side of the Alaska penin
sula, and is the transfer point for por
tage across the peninsula to Herendeen
bay on the Bering sea, or northern
side of the Alaska peninsula”.
Former Judge Henderson of the
county court of f ancouver, B. C., has
been appointed governor of ^ ukon
territory.
EMPEROR QUITS
KOREAN THRONE
Hereditary Ruler Abdicates Place
At Demand of Japanese
Government.
HEIR APPARENT MAY SUCCEED
Deposed Monarch in Great Rage at
His Ministers Who Refused to
Back Him in Resistance.
By Cable to Th« Dally Gateway.
Seoul, Korea, July 19—Amid suj>
pressed silence the emperor this morn
ing signed the decree of abdication
forced upon him by the Japanese gov
ernment. He is in a great rage be
cause his ministers refused to stand by
him and resist. The heir apparent
may take the throne but Japan’s in
tentions are still secret.
Japan Makes Demand
Tokio. July 18 -The emperor of Korea
was asked today to abdicate, plainly
another step by Japan to wipe out the
Korean government and annex the
kingdom.
Korean Wrath Aroused
Seoul, July 1< Placards were posted
today throughout Korea calling for the
death of all Japanese officials in the
country on account of the abdication
of the Korean emperor.
Wild Scenes in Seoul
By Cab It to Tba Dally Gateway.
Seoul, July 20--Wild scenes followed
the announcement of the aldication of
the emperor, Vi Hiung. The Korean
troops ro>e in mutiny and the city
population organized into mobs andbe
^an shootidg all the Japanese who
could be found on the streets.
Emperor’s Suicide Reported
Tokio. July 20 — It is reported here
that the deposed emperor of Korea
committed suicide this morning.
JAP CAPTIVATES
RECTOR'S WIFE
Mrs. Harry Robinson of West
Seattle Found In Lodging
house With Oriental.
By Catola to Tha Daily Oataway.
Seattle. July 20 — High society was
rocked with a sensation this morning
when the news spread that the young
and handsome wife of Ilev. Harry
Robinson, rector of St. John s Episco
pal church of West Seattle, was arrest
t*d in a down-town lodginghouse in a
room with a former Japanese servant
of the family who had been discharged
because the husband was suspicious
that he was guilty of misconduct with
Mrs. Robinson.
Since the Japanese was discharged
Mrs. Robinson had spent much time
away from home and her husband ask
ed the police to investigate her actions
in the city. Accordingly detectives
-hadowed the woman and followed her
to the lodginghouse.
Mrs. Robinson comes of an excellent
family in Chicago.
BOMB EXPLODED IN HOME
OF AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
Constantinople, July 15— By a bomb
explosion in the summer home of
A m e rican* A mbassador Leish m an on the
Bosporus this morning four native ser
vants were injured. All members of
the family escaped injury. The matter
will be investigated.
STEAMER DORA BRIN6S
FIFTY-NINE PASSENGERS
Steamer Dora arrived port in Tuesday
morning at 9 o’clock from the west
ward with tifty-nine passengers from
various ports all the the way from
Nushagak. She brought a small cargo
of coal from Wharf’s mine at Seldovia
1 for the railroad.
The Chichagof island gold mines are
turning out high grade ore
steadily.
NEW ISLAND IN
BOGOSLOV GROUP
! Fourth Member of Recent Vol
canic Collection Rises from
Submarine Depths.
THIRD CAME UP LAST YEAR
Late Eruption Accompanied by Isual
Heating of W^ter and Vast Dis
persion of Steam.
The Dora brings the news that a
' new volcanic island recently rose out
of submarine depths in the Bogoslov
! group in the Aleutian chain and the
water is sizzling around it according
j to custom when an incubation of this
i kind occurs. In the spring of lOOfi a
similar island was uplifted in that
vicinity and a previous one in 1883.
The original and largest island,
! Bogoslov, rose out of the sea May 1,
171*6, with muah noise and fuss and
with a vast dispersion of steam and
smoke, */0 je great trepidation of
sailors witfun the range of vision.
This first island was named Johanna
Bogoslova, in honor of St. John the
Theologian, though just why that
worthy ecclesiastic should be so
recognized is no clearer than the
naming of the highest of Alaska
mountains for an Ohio politician.
Anyway this island building in the
Bogoslov group seems likely to be
come an annual festival and some
enterprisiug man might make big
money by running excursions to the
scene.
The birth of the new island was re
ported at Unalaska by Mr. Dirks, a
trader along the Aleutian chain, who
was the discoverer of the peak erupted i
last year in the same group.
EIGHT DEAD AND
THIRTEEN HURT
Explosion In Turret of Battle
ship Georgia Worse Than
First Reported.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Boston, July 16—Eight men are dead
and thirteen badly injured as a result
of the explosion of the aft turret of
the battleship Georgia while at target
practice yesterday. A charge was
prematurely ignited. Lieut. Caspar is
among the dead. Twenty-three men
were in the turret and every one was
injured, two only slightly. The whole
turret was filled with ilames by the
explosion. _
Explosion in Aft Turret
Washington, D. C., July 15 — Seven
teen men including Lieut. Goodrich,
son of Hear Admiral Goodrich, were
injured by an explosion in the upper
aft turret of the battleship Georgia,
lying in the harbor at Provinceton,
Massachusetts, this morning. The
cause of the explosion is unknown.
The Georgia has been in commission
only one year. She proceeded to Bos
ton. _
Live Soot Caused Explosion
Washington, I). C., July 17—It has
been determined that the explosion on
the battleship Georgia was not due to
carelessness but was probably caused
by a piece of live soot, which lodged in
the gun and ignited the next charge
prematurely.
Flare Back Caused Explosion
Washington, D. O., July 19 — It was
determined today that a Hare back
caused the explosion on the battleship
Georgia.
Another Victim of Explosion
Boston, July 19—Midshipman Cruse
died today, the tenth victim of the ex
plosion on the battleship Georgia.
First Tram On Sound
The first aerial tram to be completed
in the Prince William sound country
is now in operation at Landlock bay,
on the property of the Standard Cop
per Company.T his tram, which is half
a mile long, with one span 2200 feet,
has a capacity of ten tons per hour. It
has been working for several days
bringing down ore.-Valdez Prospector.
CANNERY WORK
AT BRISTOL BAY
From 7000 to 10,000 Men Em
ployed Each Summer In Bi#
Salmon District.
ALL NATIONS AND RACES THERE
Annual Pack Exceeds 1,000,000 Cas
es and When Season Ends Camps
Are Almost Deserted.
Between "(XX) and 10,000 men are en
gaged in the canneries and fisheries of
Bristol bay. These embrace repre
sentatives of all nations, Orientals be
ing most numerous. At much of the
work inside the canneries Japanese
and Chinese are especially skilful and
few white men can work in some de
partments without clothespinson their
noses.
The largest canneries are at Nusha
gak and up the Nushagak river. These
number eleven. Next to the Nusha
gak the Koggiung river has the most
important canneries. Operations are
scattered along Bristol bay for sixty
or [seventy [miles. Bristol bay is
the greatest salmon packing district in
the world. Its annual pack exceeds
1,000,000 cases and usually is much
larger than that.
During the summer this seething
population of Asiatics, Europeans,
Africans and some Americans, includ
ing in the hive men of every color and
race, are busily engaged in working,
fighting and drinking. As soon as the
summer season ends they are carried
away southward, a large majority to
San Francisco, whence they mostly
come, and only about 100 men remain
behind, employed as watchmen or in
other perfunctory employment.
GET $107,000
FROM ADAMS
Victims of Assay Office Thief
Conceded That Much by
Special Master.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, July 18— Claims amounting
altogether to $107,000 against George
E, Adams, the embezzling cashier of
the Seattle assay office, are allowed
and their payment recommended by
the report of Will IT. Thompson, spec
ial master in chancery appointed in the
United States district court to receive
and pass upon the demands of persons
who claim to have lost gold by the
peculations of Adams in the assay office.
The report was filed in court today.
The largest claim allowed is that of
the Pioneer Mining Company of Nome
for $2(3,000. Other claims range in
amount from $8,000 down to $(3. The
property of Adams which has been lo
cated is sufficient to pay these claims
in full.
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Loop Trestles Nearly Finished
The railroad track will be finished
around the loop on mile 51 within
three weeks. The first of the two
trestles which are to carry the track
across the river and back again will
be the last completed. The second,
which is on the southerly, backward
bend of the loop, is already finished.
The rails are now laid to the first
trestle. When it is completed the
track will be laid nearly to the end of
mile 52, where two truss bridges are
to be built, one at each end of tunnel 2.
Mile 52 ends in that tunnel. When
these bridges are built the track will
be laid quickly through all the tun
nels into Placer valley. The present
calculation is that this will be accom
plished by the middle of September.
Rich Quartz Strike Reported
A quartz strike of remarkable rich
ness is reported to have been made in
the railroad line a few miles out. Much
secrecy is maintained by the discover
ers but the ore specimens brought in
exceed in value almost anything yet
found on Kenai peninsula, being
speckled with free gold.
Ketchikan has just produced a stalk
of rhubarb four feet long and four in
ches thick.
LOCAL MINES
OBTAIN FAVOR
Experienced Colorado Operators
Will Carry Out Flattering
Report of Peninsula.
WILL ADVISE INVESTMENTS
Survey Of General Situation and
Study of falls and Cooper
Creeks Induce Decision.
That the indications of vast gold de
posits adjacent to the Alaska Central
railroad are superior to the surface
showings in the bonanza district of
Nevada and to most of the rich camps
erf Colorado is the assertion of J. W.
Richards, a Colorado mining man of
twenty-eight years residence in that
state, who has spent a good deal of
time in Nevada since the discoveries
of the present decade have fixed ex
traordinary interest upon that region.
Mr. Richards and R. II. Waring
came to Seward about two weeks ago
to investigate mining prospects in
this vicinity. They have made a
thorough examination of Falls creek
properties and of the Cooper creek
hydraulic ground of the Kenai Mining
& Milling Company. They regard
l)Oth as probable bonanzas. The
Cooper creek property, they agree
with local mining men who have
studied it, is past the experimental
stage. Of it Mr. Richards said:
Find Rich Gravel
“We went over the ground and
tested it in many places. Every place
we put in a shovel we found gold
colors. I should say the gravel every
where will carry 20 or 25 cents a yard
and much of it will run higher. The
bench looks particularly to me.
The gravel there is contracted into a
narrower space and ought to be richer.
In the flat at the lower end of the
creek it is richer than many of the
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QUARTZ GOLD ON
LITTLE SUSITNA
William Bartholf Finds Ledge of
Free Milling Ore Carrying
Over $100.
—
William Bartholf recently made a
discovery of free milling quartz gold
running $100 to the ton in the hills at
the head of Little Susitna river, north
of Cook inlet. The discovery lies in
the direction of the head of Willow
creek. Ed O’Brien brought in the
news today, coming from Knik. He
says ore specimens taken to Knik from
the claims show free gold easily visible
to the naked eye.
The new find lies in a region sur
rounded by placer streams and indica
sions of quartz gold abound there.
REPORT ON HARRIMAN
MAKES MANY CHARGES
Oyster Bay, L. I., July 15—The re
port of the interstate commerce com
mission on the investigation of the
Harriman railroads was made public
today. It shows that Harriman grossly
inflated the stocks and purported valua
tions of his lines, stifled competition
everywhere possible, and by his meth
ods retarded the development and
growth of the state of Oregon.
The commission makes no recommen
dation as to proceedings for the punish
ment of the offenses alleged.
SMALL POX EPIDEMIC
REPORTED FROM ALASKA
San Francisco, July 20—Notice was
received here today from Alaska that
an epidemic of small pox prevails in
several places in the cannery districts.
The local quarantine officers imme
diately arranged to place all vessels
arriving from the far north in quaran
tine. The salmon fleet from the
Alaska canneries will soon be due and
it is expected that much hardship will
result from enforcing the quarantine.
Bar silver was quoted at 67? and lake
copper at .23 to 24 J uly 3.
DISCOVER BIG
COPPER LEDGES
Shaw and Bourkaert Trace Two
In Locality Where Recent
finds Were Made.
ONE EXTENSION OF REDMAN’S
Both Show Good Grade of Sulphide
Ore And Are Apparently Enor
mous Deposits.
Another big copper strike, or two of
them, was made across the bay yester
day by L. F. Shaw and George Bour
kaert. The discoveries lie in the same
canyon as those previously made, and
one is undoubtedly a continuation of
the ledge found last week by William
Redman.
This lies well up the slone on the o|>
posite side of the glacier which tills
the bottom of the canyon and the strike
of the two produced across the glacier
would bring the ends together, show
ing that the glacier in the grinding of
ages lias cut through the ledge in
forcing its own way to the sea. The
strike of the vein is northwest and
southeast. The Redman discovery is
on the southerly side of the canyon
and the Shaw-Bourkaert find on the
northerly side. The ore found in both
is very similar—a green stained carbon
ate and sulphide of good grade.
The other discovery made by Shaw
and Bourkaert lies farther up the can
yon but on lower ground and the ore is
slightly different It is a pyrrhotite
sulphide with less carbonate, of ser
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QUARTZ GOLD
WEST OF BAY
Hedges of Free Milling Deposits
Found on Tonsina and
Spruce Creeks.
Two promising quartz gold discov
eries were made this week close to
Seward, one by FranK F. Skeen at the
headwaters of Tonsina creek, the
other by William Redman on Spruce
creek. These creeks flow into the bay
from the west side—Spruce creek a
mile from the Seward dock, the dis
covery being a mile up the creek.
Tonsina creek is four miles down the
bay and Skeen's location is three
miles up the creek.
Skeen's discovery is white quartz,
carrying mispickel in large quantities.
Mispickel is arsenical iron pyrites -
iron combined with sulphur and
arsenic. Free gold is visible in the
ore picked up. The ledge is from
two to six feet wide and the outcrop
was traced 150 feet. On the lower end
of this creek Alfred Lowell has a
placer claim from which he took good
pay last year.
The Redman discovery on Spruce
creek is white quartz carrying free
gold, apparently of high grade. A
two foot ledge was located.
REYNOLDS CONTINUES
TO BUILD ITSELF UP
Special to The Daily Gateway.
Reynolds, Latouche Island, July 12
Work is under way upon the towers for
the 4000-foot tram which will carry ore
from the mine of the Reynolds company
to its dock on Horseshoe bay. trod
Gannett is superintending the con
struction of the tower foundations.
The Trenton Iron Works has the con
tract to install the tram, and its engin
eer, Mr. Schultz, is here to direct the
work. The tram will have a fall of
375 feet and one of its spans will be be
tween 1500 and 2,000 feet long.
The town is building up rapidly.
The Reynolds company has just let a
contract to Thoday and Daykin to erect
six five-room cottages. Other build
ings are under construction.
Prospectors Stampede for Innoko
The Nome Nugget says a lot of min
ers from that region are preparing to
break into the Innoko district and sev
eral small steamers will go from Nome
to the Kuskokwim. The Fairbanks
papers tell of yearning there to get
into the new district.