Seward Weekly Gateway
VOL. TV. ~ ~ SEWARI), ALASKA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 4. 1»()S. NO. 21
MANY MEN IN
INNOKO REGION
Betwee 200 and 300 Wintering
in New Gold District of
Western Alaska.
THREE MINERS REACH SEW ARD
Report fair Results Were Obtained
on Gaines Creek and Much
Prospecting Done.
At least 200 or 300 men are winter
ing in the Inooho region and a small
number along the upper Kuskokwim,
is the report brought by* H. J, Scott,
Charles Sanders and J. L. Newcom,
who came in over the trail last night. j
They report that fair returns were
obtained by a small number of men
working on Gaines creek, the tribu
tary of the Inr.oko river where the
original placer >trike was made last
year in that district.
A great deal of prospecting was done
on adjacent creeks, largely by meo
from the Tanana. and the indications
are considered good, but nothing fab
ulous was struck this year. Some:
prospecting was done in the upper
Ku>kokwim region but no startling
results were reported.
Scott represented the Kuskokwim
Trading & Transportation Company,
which has a station at Simpson's
slough and runs the steamer Hattie B.
on the river. The failure of an ocean
steamer to land a large cargo at the
mouth of the Kuskokwim intended for
the upper river traders, has left the
region nearly out of provisions. Mr.
Scott sold nearly everything he had
and came nut.
Newcom formerly lived in Seward
and is the man who was recently re
ported at Valdez to have taken out
§25,(XM) in the Kuskokwim district, j
He says this is a mistake and does not1
know how the report was started, j
Sanders was on Gaines creek and i
brought the report from that region.
The men who are in Seward were in j
a party of eight from the Kuskokwim. I
The others remained at Susitna Station
and Knik. The party left the Kusko
kwim in Noveml»er, came up Dalzell
creek to the pass at the head of Happy
river, do an that stream to the Skwent
na and Yentna. The snow was not
deep in many places but many of the j
streams were still running and the
men had hard work getting past some
of them. They had a particularly hard
time along Happy river.
THAW CASE SET
FOR JANUARY 6
Defendant’s Wife Will Go on
\\ itness Stand Again With
Same Story.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
New York. Dec. 30—The second
trial of Harry K. Thaw for the mur
der of Stanford White will begin
January 6. Mrs. Thaw will goon the
witness stand again in her husband’s
defense and tell a story agreed upon.
- Bertha Arrives From Seattle
Steamer Bertha arrived at 10:30
Friday morning with a small passen
ger list and:, light cargo for Seward.
She was sixr. en days out from Seattle,
and reports oi.e of the roughest trips
she ever made, having encountered
tierce storms all along the way. She
was compelled to lay to almost every
night.
The Bertha sailed for the westward
at 9:30 today.
The federal food and drug board has
rendered a decision that coffee may be
giazed, but must be so labeled. It also
decides that calarnels must also be
labeled truthfully.
TAFT DEFENDS
ADMINISTRATION
lii Boston Speech Denies That
Roosevelt Is Responsible for
Financial Flurry.
ay Cable to Tba Dally cutaway.
Boston, Dec. 31—Secretary Taft in
a speech here last night denied that
President Roosevelt is in any way re
sponsible for the late financial flurry.
He spoke in high terms of the fight
made against unlawful trusts by the
administration, saying that no harm
had come or could come to any legiti
mate interests from law enforcement.
SMITH ATTACKS
STANDARD OIL
Commissioner of Corporations
Says Rebating in Famous
Case Was Deliberate,
By Cable to The Dally Gateway
Washington, D. C., Dec. 30-Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of the bu
reau of corporations in the department
of commerce and labor, in his annual
report issued today discusses the fa
mous rebating case of the Standard Oil
Company in which the oil company
was fined $29,400,000 by Judge Landis
in the United States district court at
Chicago. He answers the defense
made by the company, saying that its
excuses for its action are flimsy and
affirms that the rebating was pre
meditated and deliberate and in ac
cordance with the company’s constant
policy.
JURY ACQUITS
G. A. PETTIBONE
Another Federation Leader Freed
From Steunenberg Mur
der Charge.
3*’ Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Boise, Idaho, Jan. 4 The jnry in the
assassiation case brought in a verdict of
not guilty in the Pettibone indictment.
This turns loose another of those in
dicted in the Governor Steunenberg
murder case. It was Petti bone's wife
who was first suspected of being impli
cated as an accessory by reason of be
ing cognizant of all the labor union
plots. The jury was out fourteen
hours.
Rich Paystreak
Frank E. Howard, commissioner,
writes in the Fairbanks News that the
most important strike ever made in
the history of the Kovukuk was un
covered recently on Nolan creek. The
strike was made by John Olsen, Louis
Olsen, and John Anderson. They
struck bedrock at a depth of 125 feet.
The first bucket from bedrock, holding
between 8 and 9 pans, yielding $229,
rated at $17 per ounce. The gold
is much finer than the general average
of Kovukuk gold found heretofore, al
though as high as $40 pieces have been
picked up.
This strike has added new life to the
camp, and the result is that a nurader
of holes are going down in the deep
ground farther down on Nolen and
still farther down on Wiseman creek.
Reserve for Birds
President Roosevelt has recently set
aside a fifty mile strip of coast on Wes
tern Washington as a reserve for sea
fowl. Indians have for centuries been
dieting on the young gulls. The fuzzy
innocents are now to come more di
rectly under the protection of the
government.
TO HELP RUN
ALASKA POLITICS
Territorial Democrats Now in
Seattle Complete Organi
zation of Club.
INDORSE SELF GOVERNMENT
Will Meet Twice a Month and Labor
for Party Interests in
Northern Affairs.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Dec. 30—The Alaska demo
cratic club completed organization
here Saturday night with Ex-Delegate
prank Waskey as president and John
W. Troy as secretary. Resolutions
were passed favoring territorial gov
ernment. The club will meet twice a
month and work to organize the party
in the territory.
FORTIFICATIONS
FOR ALASKA
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Representative Kahn of California
Expresses Himself Positively
and Gives Reasons.
8y Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. C. Jun. 3—Repre
sentative Julius Kahn of California is
working to have the ol Alaska
well fortified. The Pacific slope
strategic value is considered the great
est in this extensive Northland of the
United States. Kahn is a member of
the Committee on Coast Defenses.
GOV. HGGGATT
TO WED AGAIN
Announces Engagement to Miss
Clarissa Millard of Utica,
New York.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Utica, N. Y., Dec. 31—Announce
ment is made of the engagement of
Gov. Hoggatt of Alaska to Miss
Clarissa Millard of this city. They
will be married next spring. Gcv.
Hoggatt and Miss Millard met several j
years ago when she was touring' Alas
ka.
Dr. Parker Dies at Cordova
Dr. J. H. Parker, assistant to Dr.
Whiting, railroad physician at Cor
dova, died in that city Monday, and
the remains were brught to Valdez on
the steamer Elsie this morinng. The
deceased had only been in Cordova a
few days when he contracted a violent
attack of pneumonia, which resulted in
his death. Dr. Parker was well known
in most of the Southern Alaska towns.
He was assistant to Dr. Whiting on
the White Pass & Yukon railroad at
Skagway. Later he was in charge of
the hospital for the Alaska Central at
Seward, which position he resigned
to again join Dr. Whiting when worK
first began at Cordova. When work
ceased there he went to Katalla and
returned when operations resumed at
Cordova.
The funeral of Dr. Parker took
place this afternoon under the auspices
of the Arctic Brotherhood of which or
ganization the deceased was an enthu
siastic member—Valdez Prospector.
National Forests
The National Forests now include
more than 150,000,000 acres. Nurseries
have been established for the raising
of seedling trees. And there has been
broadcast sowing of tree seeds on
burnt-over lands.
CHARGED WITH
EMBEZZLEMENT^
Treadwell Officials Ihdicted on
Account of Wrecked Cali
fornia Bank.
By Cable to Tbe Dally gateway.
San Francisco, Dec. 31—Former
General Manager Brown of the Tread
well mine at Juneau, Alaska, and Di
rector Barnett of the same company
were indicted by the grand jury in the
superior court today for alleged embez
zlement from the defunct California
Safe Deposit & Trust Company. They
were placed under heavy bail.
OHIO TO CHOOSE
AT PRIMARIES
Republicans of Buckeye State
Will Follow on Heels
of Indiana.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 3—The repul>
licans of Ohio will hold their Prima
ries in February, and their convention
in March. They will at that time
express by direct vote their preference
for Presidential candidate.
Foraker Objects to Primaries
Cincinnati, Jan. 4—Senator Joseph
B. Foraker is up in arms against the re
publican primaries in February as the
republicans are at that time to express
their choice for Presidential candidate,
and Taft has the lead.
NORTHWESTERN
GIVES UP NAME
Merger Complete With Alaska
Steamship Company Under
Latter Title.
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ay Onble to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Jan. 2—Northwestern
Steamship Company is now out of ex
istance. Papers were signed yester
day merging it into the Alaska Steam
ship Company. Charles E. Peabody is
head of the Company with Cap. D. H.
Jarvis treasurer and Frank E. Burns
vice president and manager.
The Salmon Industry
In I860 the first salmon canneries
were established along the Columbia
river, near Astoria. Such records as
are in existence today show the pack
to have been for that year approxi
mately 4,000 cases. Today the canner
ies on the Pacific coast, located in the
waters of Puget sound and Alaska,
have a capacity of upwards of 5,000,
000, cases a year.
In Alaska alone 12000 men, 110
steamers, fifty-five sailing vessels, and
tugs without number, are constantly
engaged in the salmon business. Means
must bo taken to keep the waters
supplied or the fish will soon be ex
hausted.—Capt. J. J. Doyle.
Oil at Cordova
Pat Murphy, Billy Crum and Jack
Harris discovered oil near the mouth
of Eyak river and about seven miles
from this city a few days ago, while
prospecting in that vicinity. The men
say that they found crude petroleum
in large quantities bubbling up from
the surface of the ground.—Cordova
Alaskan.
A ledge of ore at one point 146 feet
wide, and assaying 6 per cent cop pe
is located fifty miles inland from II
iamna bay on Cook inlet.
MANY MINERS
GOING INSIDE
Outfits Started Up Creeks of
Yentna District as Soon
as Ice Formed.
OTHERS HEAD FOR KUSKOKWIM
Several Men Doing Work in Kahiltna
Region and Good Reports
Come Out.
Special to The Dally Gateway.'
Kahiltna, Dec. 7—The interval of
six weeks covering the time between
the closing of navigation and the form
ing of the ice on the river is past and
activity on the trail has begun.
Five outfits passed here this week
bound for the creeks and several
more came down from the creeks in
the last few days. Cromer . and
Heilman arrived December 6. They
say Dick Richardson and two other
men are doing some winter digging
on Cache and Nugget creeks. Before »
coming down Cromer ran some drifts
into the gravel banks near Cache
creek and the prospects he obtained
show shot gold. He intends to con
tinue work in that direction next
summer.
Several natives who had been huning
in the upper Yentna district came dow n
with sleds loaded with moose meat.
They say all the prospectors who were
camped at the mouth of the Skwentna
have passed on up that river. These
were eight or nine men in several par
ties who were landed at the mouth of
the Skwentna by the launches in Sep
tember, bound for the diggings on the
Kuskokwim.
The moose are running more plenti
ful this season than last, two being
chased by some native dogs were
drowned near the mouth of the Yent
na in attempting to cross the river on
the ice.
In From Kuskokwim
Myron Kirkpatric, T. M. Odale, .lack
Clausen and Way Bowker arrived in
Sew'ard last night from the Ku*ko
kwim and Gaines creek. They were
about forty days on the trail, and were
on rations of flour alone for a good
part of the time. They report things
looking well on Gaines creek, and that
the Kuskokwim region is a hard coun
try to get around in. The men go out
on the Northwestern to Valdez and the
states.
NO DECISION IN
POWERS' CASE
After Long Deliberations in Fam
ous Murder Trial Jury Disa
grees and Is Discharged.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Georgetown, Ivy. Jan. 4—The jury in
the Caleb Powers case for the murder
of Governor Goeble was discharged
this morning. The jury had been out
for many hours but were unable to
agree on a verdict.
Powers Jury Still Out
Georgetown, Ky.. Jan. 2—The jury
in the trial of Caleb Powers for the
murder of Governor Taylor are still
deliberating.
Northwestern Arrlvea
Steamer Northwestern landed at
5:30 p. m. yesterday. She reports a
good voyage, having had fine weather
for the entire trip. Among the pas
sengers coming back to Seward were
F. J. Conner, Henry Anderson and S.
O. Morford. The Northwestern is
scheduled to start on her return trip
to Seattle at 4 o’clock this afternoon.