Seward Weekly Gateway "
VOL. IV, SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY JUNE 27. 1908. XO. 40
NARROW ESCAPE
FOR TAFT PARTY
Piston on Engine Breaks and the
Passengers Are Tumbled
About in the Coaches.
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By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Dennison, Ohio, June 22. The Pa ft
party had a narrow escape late last
night from an accident that happened
to the train upon which the party was
traveling eastward. The train was
running at the rate of fifty miles an
hour when the piston rod of the en
gine hauling the train suddenly broke.
The block system brought the train to
stop. The passengers were badly
shaken up and thrown about in the
coaches.
Taft In New Haven
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
New Haven, Conn., June 23—Wil- j
liaiu II. Taft reached New Haven last
night, loan interview with the re
publican nominee for president the j
statement was given out that Taft
would continue the policies of Presi
dent Roosevelt and administer the af
fairs of government along the same
lines that have been followed during
the present administration.
Roosevelt will join Taft at New j
Haven and be a witness of the \ ale
and Harvard boat races on Thursday.
Sees Ball Game
By Cable to Tee Dally Gateway.
New Haven, June 24—William
H. Taft is taking in the college sports
as well as the more serious parts of
the commencement exercises. Yes
terday he watched the match ball
game played by the Yale and Harvard
teams, and thoroughly enjoyed the
sport. The score stood three to noth
ing in favor of Yale.
Gets Ready for Campaign* Work
«|y Cable to The Dally Gateway.
New York. June 27—William H.
Taft arrived here last night from New
Haven, Conn. He expresses himself
as having thoroughly enjoyed the com
mencement exercises and the college
sports of his alma mater. He now
quits recreation and pleasures, puts on |
the political harness and enters into I
the plans for the political campaign.
Taft left this morning in company
with Write for Oyster Bay to confer
with President Roosevelt.
SAYS PLANKS
ARE APPROVED
Roosevelt and Taft Satisfied With
Republican Platform, Ac
cording to Ellis.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Columbus, Ohio, June 24—Both Pres
ident Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
evidently had a hand in shaping the
republican platform for the national
convention. Attorney General Ellis,
who drafted the platform for the party,
says that both Roosevelt and Taft ap
proved the planks.
Dawson’s Mild Winter
The Dominion meteorological ob
server at Dawson has prepared an in
teresting statement of the temperature
at Dawson during the coldest months
of the winter just passed.
It shows the average temperature
for the month of December was 5.20
below zero; the average for January
13.0 below; average for February 9.54
below; average for March .88 below.
The mercury did not go below the
20’s below until the last day of De
cember, when it touched 41 below.
The coldest day of the winter was
February 4, when it was 44 below.
The days in the 40’s and 30’s below
were very few. This was the mildest
winter ever recorded in Yukon.—Daw
son News.
SHERMAN ILL
IN HOSPITAL
Nominee for Vice-President in
Critical Condition and Fam
ily Is Summoned.
By Cubic to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Cleveland, Ohio, June 23—James S.
Sherman, republican nominee for vice
president, lies in a critical condition
in the hospital in this city. His ill
; ness began with a billious attack, and
was not considered serious, and Mr.
Sherman expected to take the train
this afternoon for Utica, N. V. The
attack took a serious turn, and a phy
sician was summoned from Baltimore.
The family was also notified and sura
1 moned, and according to a dispatch
| from Utica the members of the family
1 took an early train this morning and
are hastening to the bedside of the
i siek man.
Has Restlesee Night
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Cleveland, Ohio, June 24—The con
dition of James S. Sherman, republi
can nominee for vice-president, who
lies sick here in the hospital, has not
materially changed since yesterday.
The patient passed a restless night.
The doctors are discussing the advisi
bility of an operation, but are still in
hopes that it will not be necessary.
HARVARD WINS
IN BOATRACE
_
Course Pulled to a Finish Amid
Din of Morns and Whistles
With Yale in Rear.
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By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
New London, Conn., June 2G—The
boatrace between the Harvard and
Vale crews was finished last night.
Amid the din of whistles and horns the
Harvard ’Varsity eight shot their boat
over the finish of the course winning
| from Vale which was crippled and left
■ far behind with seven men at the oars,
! Griswold’s stroke being very weak
j from the efforts put forth in the first
, two miles.
To Get Gold From Glacier
Valdez is about to take unto itsel
the glories of a gold mining headquar
i ters. True, there i> not much excite
ment attached to the newly acquired
I honor and it will not be until along in
November that announcement will be 1
made of the result of operations, but
all that to the contrary gold mining is
to begin and a company for the pur
! pose has been organized.
The plan, which is a child of the
brains of President Brown and Sec
retary-treasurer Grigsdy, is to con
struct a tlume, three feet wide, three
feet deep and fifty feet long and to
build therein riflles in which will be
placed quicksilver, the whole to be
placed where the waters of the glacier
will llow through it and deposit their
golden burden, which will follow the
i dictates of affinity and amalgamate
j with.tee quicksilver. The rest will be
! easy.
It is known that the glacier waters
carry gold in small quantities and if
the scheme proves a success it will be
worked on a larger scale —Valdez
Prospector.
Cleans up $200,000
Fairbanks—The steamer White Seal
returned from Tenderfoot with $200,000.
as a result of the first cleanups of the
winter dumps on Banner and Tender
foot creeks. The laymen are well
pleased with the result of their win
ter’s work, for the dirt washed up bet
ter than it prospected.
Reports coming in from other distant
streams indicate that the cleanup will
be up to expectations.
CLEVELAND DEAD
AT PRINCETON
Fx-President Passes Away at His
Home Surrounded by Fam
ily and Friends.
ay Cable to The Dally Gateway.
New York, June 24—Ex-President
Grover Cleveland died at his home in
Princeton at 8:40 o’clock this morning.
The cause of his death was the illness
from which he had been suffering all
winter. The disease took a sudden
chango for the worse soon after mid
night. His family and friends were at
his bedside.
No Eulogies at Funeral
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Princeton, N. J., June 26—At 5
o’clock this afternoon thero will be
held simple funeral services over the re
mains of the late Grover Cleveland
which will be laid to rest without
pomp. United States troops will guard
the route to the tomb, and there will
be a military escort. All eulogies are
rejected by the widow.
FOUND GUILTY
BY THE JURY
I
Walter Barnett of California Safe
Deposit Company Adjudged
an Embezzler.
By Cable to Tbo
San Francisco, June 23—Walter Bar
nett, former vice-president of the
California Safe Deposit Company, who
has been on trial for embezzlement
in connection with the securities of the
Collen estate, has been found guilty by
the jury. The verdict was returned in
less than fifty minutes after the case
was given to the jury.
Bryan Is After Them
By Cable to Tbo Dally Gateway.
Lincoln, Neb. June 22—William J.
Bryan attacks the republican platform
and declares that the injunction plank
is bunko pure and simple, and he
warns the wage earners to be on their
guard against being taken in.
Railroad Work Resumed
The Copper River & Northwestern
railway, the Guggenheim Alaska road,
has resumed operations on the
Katalla branch, extending from tide
water at Katalla to the coal fields,
about twenty-live miles. Operations
on this section of the Guggenheim
road were suspended last fall pending
the settlement of the rights of coal
land locators in Alaska by congress.
The Guggenheim and Morgan inter
ests have taken about 2,800 acres of
coal lands near Katalla and the con
struction of the Katalla branch is in
tended to open these fields.
As soon as word was received that
the Alaska coal bill had been passed
by congress and signed by the presi
dent, M. J. Heney, who has the con
tract for the construction of the Cop
per River & Northwestern, was ad
vised to resume operations on the Ka
talla division and the camps that were
abandoned last fall are being reopend
as rapidly as possible. About ten
camps will be opened by July 1, ac
cording to the latest advices received
from the north. In the meantime the
construction is being rushed on the Cor
dova division which is being constrcted
to the Bonanza copper mine.
Duplex System
The Valdez-Sitka cable has just
been fitted up with the duplex system.
This system has been in operation be
tween Sitka and Seattle for the past
year. The Cordova line will soon be
cut in, and with the wireless stations
to de erected in the territory this sum
mer the telegraph service for Alaska
will be much improved.
CZAR ISSUES
PROCLAMATION
Autocrat of Russia Expels Wo
Men From Universities for
Inciting Revolution.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway
St. Petersburg, June 22—Tlio czar
of Russia lias issued a proclamation
that all women students be expelled
from the universities of his realm, lu
the universities have arisen many rev
olutionary movements, and it is claim
ed that the women students have been
the instigators and leaders in these
revolutionary plots. To break up
these schemes the czar has issued the
proclamation.
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TERRIFIC HEAT
IN CHICAGO
—
Wave of Hot Air Yesterday Caused
Dozens of Prostrations
and Two Deaths.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Chicago, Juno 22—The people of Chi
cago suffered intensel> from the terrific
heat that prevaled throughout the city
yesterday. The heat wave rolled over
the city at an early hour in the morn
ing and before noon the suffering was
wide spread. There were two deaths
reported and dozens of prostrations
from the heat.
New York is Hot
By Cable to T ie Dally Gateway.
New York, June, 22—The heat was
something intense in the city yester
day. Many were prostrated from the
effects of it, and not fewer than eight
deaths are reported from sunstroke.
Heat Continues
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Chicago, Juno 23—The excessive
heat continues. Eight are dead and
scores are prostrated with the heat.
Alaska Coal Deposit
Washington—That the deposits of
coal in the Bering river region of
Alaska is of the utmost importance to
the navy is the report of the govern
ment geological department. Accord
ing to the report the deposit consists
of the finest kind of fuel and is located
as to make transportation to naval sta
tions on the Pacific coast an easy mat
ter.
The report states that the deposit
shows forty-seven square miles so
located as to he easily workable.
Death May Result
From the last reports concerning
Mary Palmer of Cook inlet, who met
with an accident when alighting from
a street car in Seattle, it is probable
that she will die from the result of the
1 injury sustained by the fall. The Seat
tle Times under date of June 10 states
| that the girl went to the theatre, and
later called at the Palace Hotel to
visit her stepfather, G. W. Palmer,
who was staying there.
At the conclusion of the visit she
boarded a Queen Anne car and started
i home. When the car arrived at the
top of Queen Anno hill she alighted,
doing so while the car was still in
motion. She fell, striking the back of
her head on the pavement. She sus
tained a fractured skull and was
badly bruised._
Fire Does Damage
Tacoma—Fire at the Tacoma
smelter recently destroyed property
valued at $5,000. It broke out in the
copper plant. The smelter fire de
partment and Ruston united in fight
ing it and prompt work alone saved
hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth
of property. The roof of the copper
plant and much of the woodwork of
the building were burned.
NEW RECEIVER
INTERVIEWED
Rogers Questioned on Steamer
at Juneau Says He Believes
Road to Be Built.
Special from Juneau—The receiver
ship of the Alaska Central railroad has
been placed in the hands of J. H. Rog
ers by Judge Reid, thus relieving Com
missioner Goodwin of that arduous
task. When questioned concerning
the matter. Mr. Rogers stated that
from what he knew personally, and
also from the papers placed before him
that it would not be long before the
work of continuing the road to its
ultimate destination was accomplished.
Anent the Alaska Central
Snow & Watson, a Spokane railroad
contracting firm, are willing to pro
ceed with construction work on the
Alaska Central if they ate pledged the
support of the railroad. It is declared
if Judge Reid names two receivers and
certificates are issued to cover con
struction costs, the contractors will
immediately resume work.
Fifty-three miles of work have al
ready been constructed and the grade
is practically completed to Mile 09.
There are enough steel rails on the
ground to lay seventy-eight miles of
track and the railroad contractors be
lieve if they are authorized to begin
immediately seventy-five miles can be
completed by fall.
With the completion of seventy-five
miles of track the Alaska Central will
be within easy striking distance of the
big coal fields the road is anxious to
reach immediately. There is consid
erable heavy work between mile posts
75 and 105, but beyond the 105th mile
construction either to the coal fields
or into Fairbanks is simple. In the
thirty miles that the contractors ex
pect to have ahead of them this fall
before reaching level ground and easy
work there are but two big rock cuts.
In one of these 24,000 yards must be
removed and in the second a cut of 16,
000 yards is necessary. The rest of
the work is a side cut, comparatively
easy. Those interested in the Alaska
Central belie/e by the construction of
the road to mile 105 the Fairbanks,
Susitna and other traffic will be di
verted to their line.—Seattle Times.
GIVES SPECIAL
RATE TO VALDEZ
| Steamship Co. Puts Conditional
Fare $5 and Thinks Pennsyl
vania Can Make It.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Vaidez, June 27—Word has been re
ceived from the Alaska Steamship
Company relative to rates from Seward
for those wishing to attend the ball
game to be played here July 4. I he
company will grant a $5 rate from
Seward providing there are forty pas
sengers from that place. The Penn
sylvania goes to Seldovia from Seward,
but the agent thinks she will be able
to return to Valdez by noon on July 4.
An effort will be made to have the
captain push the boat through. Val
dez will keep Seward posted in re
gard to the arrival of the boat.
To Be Well Entertained
By Cable to Tho Dally Gateway.
Valdez, June 26-Valdez is making
big preparations for entertaining the
Seward baseball team July 4. Hotel
Valdez offers free rooms and bath.
The local team will give a big dinner
after the game. Steamer Elsie offers
a flat rate of $5 from Seward if forty
passengers are guaranteed. A cable
message was sent to the Alaska Steam
ship Company regarding rates on the
Pennsylvania, but no answer has yet
been received. The Valdez team says
it will play a return game.