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VO I,, i SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OC 1 OBER 1 K 1905_^
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TAKES BOND ON
SEWARD MINES
Charles D. Lane to Operate Tails
Creek Quartz Property
Lately Discovered.
Charles D. Lane, the noted mining
millionaire, has taken a bond and lease
on the Falls creek quartz gold mining
property which was located last July
bv F. l\ Skene. John Leehner and
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\Y. N. Armstrong. Negotiations were
conducted here by H. A. Ingalls, a
mining expert associated with Mr.
Lane at Nome and elsewhere, and Mr.
Lane's assent was given by cable.
The attention of Mr. Lane was called
to the property by Mr. Armstrong,
one of the owners, who recently went
to Seattle to obtain capital for its de
velopment. As a result Mr. Ingalls
came to Seward on the Santa Ana la>t
month to look at the claims, and after
studying the uncovered ledge he de
cided that it looked like a good thing.
Work on the property will he pushed
steadilv until results indicate to Mr.
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Ingalls the be>t method of pursuing
development, when machinery w ill be
installed.
MCNEILEY HOTEL SOLD
T. W. Hawkins and E. L. Whitte
more become Owners
The Hotel McNeiley was sold yester
day to T. \Y. Hawkins and E. L. Whit
temore and the new owners took
possession last night. A. B. Hart will
continue as manager. The sale in
cluded ground, building and furniture,
but Mr. McNeiley will finish the addi
tion in the rear which he is now
building.
The McNeiley i> tin* oldest hotel in
Seward. It was one of the first build
ings to be erected when tin* town was
started two years ago. It has been a
very popular house and its business
has grown with the town until an ex
tension became necessary . This was
begun two weeks ago and will be
finished and ready for occupancy by the
end of the present month.
Ne* Steamer Agent Arrives
S. P. Brown, the new Seward agent
of tin* Northwestern Steamship Com
pany, came in from Seattle this morn
ing on the Excelsior. Mr. Brown is
well-known to transportation men of
the coast, having been connected for a
long time with the Seattle office of the
White Pass *S: Yukon Railway Com
pany. __
tlearst Accepts Nomination
By Cable to the Cateway
New York, Oct. 11 William Ran
dolph Hearst has accepted the nomina
tion for mayor tendered him by the
Municipal League on a platform call
ing for government ownership of public
utilities. His object in running is be
lieved to be to defeat Mayor McClellan.
! CLERK RUNS OFF
WITH $101,000
Trusted Employe of Adams Express
Company Disappears with
j Roll of Bills.
By Cable to the Gateway
Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 11 Edward
! George, bill receiving clerk of the
1 Adams Express Company in this city,
yesterday walked out with a package
containing $100,000 in hi 1 Is, and a not her
containing $1,000. All trace ot him
has been los\ The money was nearly
jail in $100 hills. It was intended for
shipment to a hank in Cincinnati.
George had been in tin* employ of
the company for years and was
thoroughly trusted. His friends main
tain that he met foul play.
STEAMER EXCELSIOR IN
Has Large Cargo for Seldovia and
Will Sail this Evening
Steamer Kxeelsior, ( apt. Jordan,
reached port this morning at bo’clock,
nine and one-half days out ot Seattle.
She left that port the evening of
October 1 at 11:;V>. Some rough weather
was encountered, but in spite of it the
vessel made good time. She brought
127 tons of freight for Seward and 270
for Seldovia.
The Kxeelsior will sail for Seldovia
| this evening. Her cargo for the inlet
! is chiefly supplies for tin* Alaska Cen
jtral and 1\ Welch & Company. She
has a large quantity of bay and grain
I aboard.
Among the Kxeelsior*s passengers
were several prominent men, including
Judge James A. \\ ickersbam, who
came over from Valdez: C. H. Miller,
agent of the Northwestern Steamship
j Company at Valdez: S. I*. Brown ot
Seattle, the new agent of the compans,
who will succeed K. It. Gray. The
j passenger list was as follows:
G. Wilkinson. S. P. Brown. H. V.
Campbell. Oak. Olsen, Harry Brown.
C. H. Gibbons. Alex. Scott, Mrs. K.
► Campbell, Miss Grace Harned, Miss
Peterson, Horace Leach and wife. T.
Crawford, James Wickerham, \\ . H.
Foster, C. K. Hooker, Herman Meyer:
and fifteen second class.
Court Clerk In Seward
S. A. Crandall, clerk of the C. S.
district court at Valdez, came to Sew
ard on the Kxeelsior to allow foreign
born residents not yet naturalized, an
I opportunity to make declaration of
their intention to become citizens. He
j will be here until the Kxeelsior goes
southward again, and may be found in
Judge Hildreth’s office by men wishing
to take out first papers.
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A Nome bath house advertises a
“clean ” bath.
PASS BIG WADS
Of COUNTERFEIT;
Sailors on Transport Sherman Shove
the Queer in Nagasaki and
on Vessel.
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By Cable to the Gateway
Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 11—The
Pnited States army transport Sherman
1 was held here while a search was made
by treasury officials for counterfeit
money, and a large quantity was found.
Xhie sailors were arrested, who con
; fessed and said they had passed $<>,000
at Nagasaki.
One of tin* men had established a
| full-fledged gambling establishment on
| board tit * vessel and bad been steadily
(paying out counterfeit money in the
course of bis operations, while taking
in good money.
Czar Publishes more Thanks
By Cable to the Gateway
St. Petersburg. Oct. 11 The czar
issued further official thanks to t omit
Witte in a reserint published today,
extolling his diplomatic triumph at the
| peace confer* nee.
Board Condemns City Streams
By Cable to the Gateway
New York. Oct. 11 The city hoard
of health today formally condemned
all streams flowing' through the east
ern side of Manhattan island, alle^in^
that they are contaminated by city
sewerage and that their waters have
|,een responsible for many epidemics.
LEASES BUSINESS LOTS
H. A. Ingalls gets E. C. Richards’
and Dr. Daggett’s
H. A. Ingalls, the mining expert who
represents C. D. Dane in Seward, this
week leased E. <’. Richards’present
„tore for an unknown principal who
will come here and install a stock of
general merchandise as soon as Mr.
Richards vacates to go into his new
building.
Mr. Ingalls also made a lease for
several years of Dr. Daggett's lot on
the west side of Fourth avenue, north
of Brownell's store, and twelve feet of
Mr. Brownell’s lot adjoining. It is
not known for whom or for w hat pur
pose Mr. Ingalls made these leases..
Comes to Seward to Locate
Dr. (’. H. Gibbons, recently of Ram
part, came in on the Excelsior to lo
cate in Seward for the practice of his
pforession. Dr. Gibbons has been in
Rampart two years. Prior to that lie
was in Skagway and Juneau three
years, and was fora time surgeon at
the Treadwell mine. He is a native
of Massachusetts but lived more than
twenty years in California before coin
in'1' to Alaska in lhOO.
CROOK PASSES
FOR NOBLEMAN
Professional Forger Buys Interest in
Big Business and is Feted
hy Nabobs.
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Oct. 11 A man calling him
self Baron Von Schlosserene. for the
last live years a partner in tlie Hoels
chen Wine Company of San Francisco,
who has frequently passed through
Seattle and been feted here and in
San Francisco by the best German
society in both cities, was identified
here today by Detroit officers a> a
professional former from that city and
one of the cleverest all-around crooks
in t he country.
The man has mam aliases and is re
puted to be rich as the result of his
criminal operations. Some years ayfo
lie went to San Francisco with forced
letters purporting to be signed by h
tnous German noblemen and with them
as an introduction succeeded in buying
a partnersliip in the hi^ wine house
named. He has since made frequent
trips to t he coast.
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TRAIN COLLIDES WITH COW
Car Bumped off Track with a
Dozen Men but Nobody Hurt
A collision yesterday evening on the
Alaska Central between the Johnson
creek limited train and a careless cow
turned a car which was ahead of the
engine upside down beside the track
and spilled the dozen men who were
riding in it loosely about, without ser
iously injuring any of them. The fate
of the cow was not investigated but
the participants in tin* disaster >:i\
they hope she is dead.
The accident happened about HrJo
just this side of Resurrection river,
about two and one-hall miles from
town. Kngine No. J was pulling the
caboose and pushing ahead a Hat car
with a railing around it. built to carry
horses up the line. In it George A.
Kvle chief of survey engineers and
about a dozen other men were riding/
Suddenly several cows began to march
across the track a few rods ahead. The
engineer put down brakes but the dis
tance was too short for him to stop.
When the car struck the cow the front
trucks were thrown from the rails and
the car was pushed along for 100 feet
before the rear trucks went off. 1 he
car was then turned into the ditch and
the engine went by safely with the
caboose. The car turned completely
over, cutting loose from the trucks,
and was left upside down in the ditch.
The men in it were unable to jump be
cause they; were fenced in by the rail
ing vet when the tumble came all
were thrown clear of the car.
Temperature at 4 p. m. today—49.