Seward Daily
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VOL8. ~ SEWARD, ALASKA* THURSDAY EVOKING, MARCH 19, 1914 N<)- 1;*8
STREET PARADE
TO BE FEATURE
Seattle, March 19.—Arrangements !
are about perfected for the big cele
bration Saturday night in honor of the
passage of the Alaska railway bill.
All the business portion of the city
will be gaily decorated and iliumi- I
nated. The feature of the celebration j
will be the mammoth street, parade, *
headed by an imitation locomotive on
the street car tracks hauling two flat
«ars loaded with Alaska products.
Governor Lister will be the engineer,
and J. E. Chilberg will act as tireman.
Mayor Gill will be in charge of the
train as conductor, while two repre
sentative business men will represent
President Wilson and Delegate W ick
ersham riding on the rear.
NEW COMPANY
ENTERS ALASKA;
S**:*t».le, March 19.—Tin* Pacific Sea j
Products company, a new Minneapolis;
concern in which John Lind is a heavy
stock holder, has bought out the i
Alaska Whaling company, the con j
sideration being one million dollars.
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Mexico City. March 19.—On account j
of the financial crisis in Mexico, Huerta
has signified his willingness t«> resume
negotiations with John Lind, Presi
dent Wilson’s personal representative, j
The hope is expressed here that ne
gotiations may be resumed.
Nome Will Celebrate.
Nome, March 19.— Nome will cele-j
brate the passage of the Alaska rail
way bill in a fitting manner Saturday.
Cabarets Toned Down.
Seattle, March 19.—Mayor Gill inis
issued an order which prohibits all ex
cept plain music and solos in tlie cab
arets.
Ed Hahn, Geor ge Slayback and Torn j
Presto, are going to install a plant on :
Bear creeK, near its mouth. Mr Hahn |
is on tire outside this winter getting
the plaDt together and will bring it in
on one of the first boats in tbe spring. •
They have prospected the ground
thoroughly and feel sure that they
will be piping in good pay before the
coining seasou closes.
Father Shepard will arrive on the
Northwestern. Services at the Cath
olic church as usual.
The steamer . Northwestern sailed
from Valdez at 11:30 and will arrive in
Seward sometime after midnight.
Asbestos lined mattresses at J. L.
Wraef’s. _ 2
Brass and iron bedsteads at J. L. j
•raefs. ___^
Meet meat the Branch.
Your eyes fitted with glasses by
George the Jeweler. I
Meet me at the Branch *
MINING ACTIVITY IN
THE HOPEJIISTRICT
William Logman, the Hope mining
man, arrived in Seward Sunday en
route to the outside, where he goes to
purchase a complete hydraulic plant
to be installed on Resurrection creek,
near Hope. Mr. Logman said regard
ing the property. “I have sixteen
twenty acre claims on Resurrection
creek and have been prospecting them
done since 1907.1 know there is good pay
there and from the work that 1 have
feel sure that the entire acreage will
avarage fifty cents per cubic yard In
the property with me are associated
Gus Seifert and George McAdams,
formerly of Nome, but now of Seattle.
We are going to put a good size hy
draulic plant on the ground this sum
mer and will have the plant landed at
Hope by the middle of May. Hoben
& Davis of Seward have taken the con
tract to deliver the outfit on the ground
and we will be all set np and piping
soon after the plant is delivered.
There is an abundance of water, and
while we will have to stack the tail
ings with a giant, we will he able to
handle from twelve to fifteen hundred
K.USHERS ARRIVE
FROM iDITAROO
Mutchler, Peirae and Pender, three
travelers from the interior, arrived
last, night fiora lditarod after a quick
trir. They report the trail in good
coiulition. Dave Mutchler, who is a
member of the Mutchler Bros. Trans
fer company, was thirteen days from
Flat Cit.), and came lo Reward to meet
liis wife, who will arrive from Seattle
on the Northwestern. Mr. Mutchler
will spend a week or so in looking
about Seward and resting his dog team
before starting on his return journey.
Mr. Pender has been in the lditarod
and Innoko looking up some dredging
propositions for an eastern concern,
and will leave for the outside on the J
Northwestern. Mr. Peime, who is in
the transportation business on the
lditarod river, will also leave on the
Northwestern for Seattle, where he:
goes to purchase supplies that will be I
taken in over* the White Pass road via
Dawson. They report that the Mata
nuska coal is all landed at salt water
and that the freighters are gating the
balance of their horse feed and sup
plies down to Knik and winding up the
job. All of the men employed on the
coal job will arrive in Seward within
a week or ten days, except a few, who
will spend the summer in Knik.
Mrs. S. I. Silverman has been and
is still very ill at her apartments in;
the Richards block. Yesterday Mr.
Silverman was communicated with by j
cable, but up to the hour of going to
press no answer had been received.
Show tonight at the Seward.
Snow glasses of all kinds for sale at
J. L. Graef’s ' J
Dog harness at J. L. Graef’s.
For reliable information write Can
non, Pioneer hotel, Knik, Alaska, f
Meet me at the Branch. *
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| yards of gravel daily, and that ought
to make us a good piece of money.
We will have a thirty inch intake to
our pipe and the pipe at the giants
will be ten inches, ahd this will give
us ample power. We have an abun
dance of ground and with our present
equipment could not work the ground
out in twenty years, but it is well
i within the range of possibilities that
i the plant will be increased in the near
future if the ground avarages as well
as we feel sure that it will. We are
located just above the Matthieson Min
ing Company’s property, and they have
worked to within a hundred feet of
our lower line. As they go up the
creek toward our ground they have
been getting into better pay all the
time and that looks good for us. 1 am
leaving for the outside on the North
western and will be back in Hope in
side of six weeks reach for work.
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Resurrection creek looks good to me, j
and l look for a big boom in mining in !
the Turnagain arm section this year.
(There will be a number of plants
working t here. ’
MUSHER THOUGHT
TO HAVE FROZEN
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Drive Mutchler brings the news to
1 Seward of a possible death on the Sew
j ard-lditarod trail. During the later
! part of February, a party of eight or
l nine men left Seward bound for the
iditarod, to work for Riley «& Marston.
I The party was walking in and making
roadhouses each night. Between Hap
py river and Anderson’s roadhouse,
! just this side ol Rainy Pass, one of the
party, a cook named Jack Connolly,
who was a slow walker, dropped be
hind the remainder of the party and
did not get into Anderson’s that night.
In the morning Mutcheler and Peime
started down the trail lookong for him,
in fact Peime went out the night before,
but could not tind the missing man.
It was cold at the time and a bad storm
was blowing, and it is thought that
Connolly had wandered from the trail
and got lost. Two days were
spent in looking for the missing
man and then the search was given up. !
It is possible that Connolly might have
found a cabin in that neighborhood and
came through all right, but the chan
ces are very much against it. He was
warmly clothed, but had no ax or gun
with him when last seen. Last year a
musher was lost near the same place
and never found, and it is feared that
another winter tragedy has been added
to the trail record of Alaska. The
last seen of Connolly was March 8.
Billy Smith, the Sunrise-Hope U. S.
mail carrier, arrived in Seward yes
terday afternoon with mail from Turn
again arm. , * '
* Two dogs for sale for $70. Inquire
of Dr. Schaleben. 4
Don’t let yourself t>e forced to eat
what you don’t like, when you can
order what you like at the
Commerce Cafe
Budweiser beer at the Branch.
TEN MILLIONS
FOR DEFICIENCY
Washington, March 11).- 'Hie senate
has passed a ten million dollar emer
gency deficiency bill. The appropria
tion includes half a million dollars for
Mexican refugees.
MANY WERE IN
CANAL GRAFTS
New York, March 19.—A grand jury
probe into tlie Panama canal grafts
develops the fact that many were in
volved besides Burke. The proceed
ings of the jury has been in secret and
when the indictments are returned it
is thought that they will create a sen
sation.
SCHMIDT WILL
LIVE YET AWHILE
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New York, March 19. -Schmidt, con
victed of the murder of Anna Mueller
and sentenced to be electrocuted next
week, has appealed liis ca>e and the
appeal has been /ranted and a stay of
I execution ordered.
| Thomas Allison, William Collins and
Al Farrand have landed their hydra u
t
lie plant on Resurrection creek and are
now engaged in setting it up. They
are planning on starting piping into
the boxes by the first of June. They
purchased the old Bazzard plant from
Morrison at Hope and have taken it to
their property about four miles above
Logman’s. They have a good showing
there according to the results obtain
ed from last season’s prospecting and
will doubtless take out some money
this year.
Elmer Smith of Tacotna Forks, ar
aived in Seward from the interior day
before yesterday. Mr. Smith reports
a good trip out and trails in good aver
age condition. He met Frank Joaquin
a couple of days travel this side of
Tacotna. Mr. Joaquin had mushed all
the way, as the word he sent to the
KusKokwim Commercial Company had
evidently miscar ried and his dog team
was not sent out to meet him as was
expected. Smith also reported meet
ing Riley and Colonel Revell near
Rainy Pass. They were making good
time and are doubtless at Iditarod City
by this time. Mr. Smith brought out
with him a shipment of high grade
furs and some gold dust. He will leave
for the outside on the steamer North
western.
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H. V. Hoben, of the Alaska Transfer
company, received a wire yesterday
from Col. Revell, stating that he had
just arrived in Iditarod. He will stop
there for a week or ten days making
arrangements for the mail service, and
will leave for the coast in time to get
out over tire trail this spring.
Show tonight at the Seward. *
Watch the window. Georg the
Jeweler. _ if
Pabsts blue ribbon beer at The
Branch. *