DAILY GATEWAY
T()l j SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1905 NO. 17
RAILROAD SENDS
FOR MORE MEN
Alaska Central will Work as Many
as wish Employment all
Through the Winter.
The Alaska Central Railway Com
pany cabled the Seattle office today to
continue sending laborers on every boat
all winter. J. B. Cameron, engineer
of construction, says work will be given
every dav this winter to all the men
that can he procured. It is the intent
ion of the company to finish all bridges
and trestles for thirty miles ahead of
the rails, if possible, and to push rock
work with all speed.
In addition. Rich and Harris are
putting workmen on the tunnels every
day. and intend to keep adding nhem
until their force reaches 300.
1\ Welch and company contractors
for thirty miles of construction along
the north shore of Turnagain Arm,
are gathering in men from every avail
able source. They want 700 men
altogether.
By the opening of spring the total ;
force working on the railway will num
ber 3,000 if that number of men can be
obtained. Many of the 1,500 now work
ing are expected to leave as soon as
spring opens, to go prospecting and
mining, for the rich discoveries oi the
past summer in the Susitna, Knik and
Matanuska valleys have whetted the j
mining appetites of everybody in Cen
tral Alaska to a keen edge. These
losses will be made up as far as can he
bv drawing men from every part of
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the United States.
Work on the railroad grade during :
the week has kept up without the j
slightest interuption. The ideal weather
of the summer i* holding out, with a
clear, cloudless sky, and warm days.
Every crew is working seven days in
the week by choice of the men.
The till across the edge of Shallow j
lake, on mile 35, was all in but eighty j
six feet at the close of the work last!
evening. That gap should be closed
by Saturday night. The trestle beyond
is all decked, and tracklaying will be
resumed, Mr. Cameron announces, Sun
day morning. The grade will then be
all ready for the rails to mile 42, with
the exception of the decking of a few
small trestles.
Between miles 42 and 4o there is a
good deal of rock work at points, but
it is more than two-thirds complete.
Rich and Harris have their winter
camp up, with several warm houses
provided for the workmen. They;
started work on the first tunnel
Wednesday morning.
The surfacing crew has its work well
to the front. All the surfacing is
finished to mile 28. Between mile 28
and 31 is a gap that should be closed
next week. From mile 31 to 34 the
surfacing is all finished
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MANILA STORM
STILL RAGING
Two American Steamships Driven
Ashore and Many Smaller
Craft Wrecked.
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By Cable to the Gateway
Manila, Sept. 29 The American
steamships Krskine M. Phelps and
Heda were driven ashore here this
morning hv the storm, which has been
raging* steadily since the typho n that
swamped the lower pari ef th:> city
two da vs ago. Several small *.* vessels
have been wrecked along the coast.
The storm is general throughout the
archipelago, and it is expected that
when full reports are received it will
be found that the loss of life and prop
erty was enormous. The work of res
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cuing bodies from the debris left in
the track of the typhoon in this city is
still in progress.
James J. Mill in Seattle
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Sept. 29 James J. Hill is
expected in Seattle tonight. 1\ l\
Shelby, of Boise, Idaho, formerly
general manager of the Great Northern
Railroad Company, is already in the
city to meet Mr. Hill and if possible
enlist his support for Mr. Shelby's
aspiration to obtain a place on the
inter-state commerce commission.
Johnson Denies that he is Dead
By Cable to the Gateway
Dawson, Sept. 29 Chris Johnson,
who was reported to have been mur
dered in the upper Tanana region, near
the mouth of the White river, returned
here today. He has been prospecting
in the interior. He does not know
whose corpse it was that the tinders
said was his but denies that the re
mains were his own.
female Murderer gets Ten Years
By Cable to the Gateway
Magnolia, Mo., Sept. 29 Bessie Per
kins, white, was this morning sentenced
to serve ten years in the penitentiary
for killing a negro. The presiding
judge said he wished he had power to
make the sentence heavier, as the
crime was wholly wanton.
Yellow fever increasing Again
By Cable to the Gateway
New Otleans, Sept. 29 -Twenty-three
new cases and four deaths were re
ported yesterday from yellow fever.
The epidemic is again on the increase,
due to hotter weather.
Refuses to run for President
By Cable to the Gateway
Havana, Cuba, Sept. 29— Jose Miguel
Gomez of Santa Clara district who was
recently nominated for president, has
resigned his candidacy.
FLAMES NEARLY
DESTROY COLON
Fire in Panama City Wipes out Many
Buildings but Stops Short of
American Quarters.
By Cable to the Cateway
Colon, Panama, Sept. 29 -Luck saved
this city from total destruction by fire
last night. The post office, offices of
city officials, governor’s house and many
hotels and tenements were consumed.
The tire simply died away when the
wind subsided after blowing strongly
for hours. The flame stopped in time
to save the American quarter, which
was untouched. The city has few facili
ties for lighting lire and the efforts to
check it were nearly abortive until it
practically ceased of itself.
Tents were rapidly erected in the
burned district in which the people
are sheltered who lost their homes.
Plenty of Gold in Manchuria
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Sept. 29— Louis Jermane
reached this city today after an absence
of nineteen years in Manchuria. He
says the country is destined to become
a great gold producer. Ths metal is
found in all streams but no attempt
has been made by the natives to de
= velope the placers.
Dirigo To Sail Tonight
Tne steamer Dirigo, now discharg
ing at the wharf, will probably he
ready to sail early this evening for the
westward. She has freight for Seldovia
and Cnga.
R. H. Kemp going to Nelson
Randall 11. Kemp, formerly editor of
the Gateway, is preparing to go to
Seattle, and from that place to Nelson,
British Columbia. He has mining in
terests near Nelson, and if he can dis
pose of them on terms to suit, lie says
he intends to spend the rest of his
years in the Susitna valley. Mr. Kemp
has covered every part of the west in
1 frontier days, but he regards central
Alaska, he avers, as the greatest
mineral countrv he has known, and
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beyond question the one country in
; North America for young men.
Mr. Kemp has no further connection
of any kind with the Gateway.
C. S. Carter in Seward
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C. S. Carter came in from Hope last
night. He reports that the big hy
draulic dredger produced good results
as far as it went, the gravel handled
running 75 cents to the yard. A streak
of rim rock was encountered which
had to he disposed of, and operations
have ceased until spring. Next year
the dredger will be run for all it is
worth.
BIG MERCANTILE
CARGOES ARRIVE
Seward Business Houses Receive
Heavy Consignments on Late
Steamers.
The steamers Bertha and Dirigo
within a week brought to Seward
, about 700 tons of freight for local busi
ness houses. The Bertha a week ago
discharged here about 250 tons. The
Dirigo is now discharging 515 tons.
! Scarcely any of this was for the rail
road, which has been receiving enor
I mous cargoes by other steamers all
summer.
Nearlv every business house in Sew
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ard received consignments on one or
; the other of the two vessels named.
! Brown & Hawkins received more than
i forty tons: the Seward Commercial
I Company twenty-live, besides lumber.
| Other merchants received consign
ments of several tons each. The lum
ber cargoes of the Yakutat Lumber
Company and W, R. Jamieson consti
! tute more than half of the freight re
ceived on t lie two steamers, but tlie
merchandise runs into the hundreds
! of tons.
Seven steamers have landed in
Seward so far this month, and the
Santa Clara is expected tomorrow.
| Each of the five regular steamers has
| made a call, and the Melville Dollar
and the Dirigo have been chaptered
| for special trips by the Alaska Oom
i mercial Company. The bulk of the
; cargoes for the month have been for
the Alaska Central, and tlie total
amounts to several thousand tons. Be
sides this hundreds of tons have been
taken to Turnagain Arm for railroad
uses there.
Nevertheless whenever a steamer
I sails from Seattle for Seward the
marine reporters of the Times and
Post-Intelligencer announce that the
vessel is taking a huge cargo to Val
dez. If it is railroad cargo they say it
is for the Valdez railroad. The boys
seem to know the line of least resis
tance along the Seattle beer i‘oute
better than they do water routes in
Alaska.
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Will give Dance tonight
The young men of Seward have ar
ranged to give a dance this evening in
Moore’s hall, in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Anton Eide, who have just returned
from their wedding trip. The grand
march will start at 9 o’clock. Good
music has been provided.
The U. S. department of agriculture
reports very satisfactory results from
its experiments of the past three years
in growing Cuban seed leaf tobacco in
the Miami valley.
Temperature at 2 p. m. today—515.