VOL. 1 SEWABD, ALASKA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1905_*<>• 22
RUSSIA OWES A
LITTLE TO CHINA
Must Pay $7,500,000 for flowery
Kingdom’s Interest in Railroad
Ceded to Japan.
Portsmouth. N. H., Aug. 31—By the
terms of the peace treaty Russia ceded
to Japan the Chinese Eastern Railroad
below < -uencheng-Tsu. China owns
$7,500,000 in the road, and this amount
Russia must pay to China. It is agreed
that Japan may turn back the road to
China on payment of $73,000,000.
The final draft of the treaty of peace
will not be complete for several days.
It will then have to he translated into
the Russian and Japanese languages
and occurate examinations of the trans
lations made before it is ready for the
official signatures.
To Court Martial Officers
Washington. D. C., Aug. 31—Sec
retary Bonaparte of the navy depart
ment has ordered a court martial to
try Commander Lucien Young and En
sign Wade upon the charge of neglect
of duty causing the explosion on board
the gunboat Bennington in San Diego
harbor last month, by which nearly 100
men were killed or injured.
Peace Prize for Roosevelt
Christiana, Sweden, Aug. 31 -it has
been proposed here to present a mag
nificent peace prize to President Roose
velt fn recognition of his service in ac
complishing a cessation of the war be
tween Japan and Russia.
Fire Loss Of $275,000
Priest River. Idaho, Aug. 31—Fire
destroyed a mill and a large quantity
of lumber and logs belonging to the
White Pine Lumber Company here
yesterday. The loss was $275,0<H>.
Another Lawyer For SewarJ
Among the arrivals on the Santa
Ana was J. L. Reed, a Seattle lawyer
who has decided to locate in Seward.
Mr. Reed is a native of Louisville,
Kentucky; a graduate of the law school
of the university of Michigan in the
class of 1800, and has practiced law
four years in Louisville and two years
in Seattle. His office for the present
is in the Coleman house.
Portland Due Next Monday
Steamer Portland is coming by the
inside passage, instead of the outside,
as was first announced. She left Ju
neau yesterday in the forenoon ac
cording to a private cable message re
ceived here last night by Frank L.
Ballaine from Maj. Ballaine, who is on
the steamer. This should bring her
into Seward about Monday.
The Nome Gold Digger is now a daily
paper. It is the first daily to be pub
lished at the Bering sea camp.
Until the close of the Portland ex
position, October 15, the Alaska Com
’"tercinl Company will sell round trip
tickets to Seattle for 8*0.
TANANA OUTPUT
1$ $6,000,000
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Gold Yield of big Northern Camp
Equals Predictions Made
Months ago.
Fairbanks, Alaska, Aujr. .'11—The
earlier estimates of the season's trold
output in the Tahunu district which
placed the total at $0,000,000, seem
likelv to receive confirmation from the
actual receipts. The total is now not
far from that figure.
The population of the Tanana dis
trict is now estimated at 12,(KM). Al-1
though a large number of men have
joined in the rush to the Kureka dis
trict and some will go out for the win
ter it is not thought that the number!
in here during the winter will In* any j
less than at present, as new men are
constantly coming in.
Seattle Pioneer Dead
Seattle, Aug. IM Alexander Mart
land, a Seattle pioneer, died yesterday
at the age of t>7 years.
I
BUMPED FROM HANDCAR
SingleTrack Race Results Serious
ly to George Marshall
As the most important result of a
race between two handcars loaded with
railroad laborers on mile lb of the
Alaska Central yesterday afternoon
George Marshall is in the hospi
tal with a dislocated left knee, a sprained
back, a cut scalp and other injuries.
The rear car bumped hard against tlie
one in front, on which Marshall was
riding, and he was thrown violently
upon the ground beside the track.
Both cars were going at a lively rate.
The accident occurred about b o’clock
as the men were going home after the
day’s work.
Races of this kind are said bv the
railroad officials to have been frequent,
and the men have been repeatedly
warned of the danger and forbidden to
incur it. Nevertheless they have con
tinued to take the chances involved,
hut vesterdav's accident was the first
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of the kind.
The particularlv dangerous feature
of these races had been that it has
been a humorous custom when a car
overtook one in front the men propell
ing the rear car would always give the
leading car a vigorous bump to remind
its motive power that it was not fast
enough. In the instance yesterday the
“hunch” was too strong and Marshall
lost his grip.
The injured man is about 50 years of
age. The dislocated knee was hurt
twenty years ago and the leg in heal
ing was shortened so that the man has
had a limp ever since. It is probably
that the knee was more susceptible to
injury because of the previous hurt.
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Some one has figured cut from the
customs report that enough whiskey
was drunk in Nome in 1904 to make
500 drinks for every man in the camp.
KILLS PARENT
BY MISTAKE
While Hunting Together boy Shoots
his father Supposing him to
be a Deer.
Bellingham, Wash., Aug. 31—Everett
Mclnnes accidentally shot and killed
his father, Emery Mclnnes, while the
two were out hunting in the woods
near Mount Baker last Monday. The
bov saw his father moving in the
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brush some distance away and mistook
him for a deer.
Mr. Mclnnes was an old resident and
one of the leading citizens of Belling
ham, engaged in the insurance busi
ness.
Elliott Stewart, foreman of the Gate
way composing room, was well ac
quainted with Mr. Mclnnes, both being
members of the same Knights of Pyth
ias lodge at Bellingham, lit* states
that since the lodge was instituted
April 2L18DO, Mr. Mclnnes is the sec
ond member lost by death, and the first
was killed in a railroad accident.
FOR MILITARY USES
War Department Establishes Re
servation Beside Seward
The war department has est< blished
a new military reservation nea.V Sew
ard. The land is reserved ‘‘forWli
tary purposes, subject to private rights,
for the use of the military telegraph
lines, and is thus decribed in an official
order:
‘•Commencing 100 feet east of stone
monument No. 2, south of Adam*
street, Seward, Alaska, and extending
north about 2700 feet to a point 100 feet
east of stone monument No. 1, of the
northeast corner of the Seward town
site; thence east to the water line:
thence southerly along tiie water line
to a point U rtectlv east of stone monu
ment No. 2; t hence to the point of com
mencement hereinbefore described.
Location Of Eureka Strike
Frequent inquires are nade as to the
location of the new F .reka creek
strike, which is the sennit ion ol the
hour in the north. No map in be ward
shows Eureka creek, but the Kantish
na river, of which it is a tributary, ap
pears from the government map of the
telegraph lines to flow into the Tanana
river about a degree and a half of lat
itude west of Fairbanks, and a little
less than that east of the confluence of
the latter with the Yukon. The Kan
tishna is shown by the same map to
have two main branches, one rising
almost directly north of Mt. McKinley,
and the other some distance northwest:
of it.
The common council of the* city of
Wrangell has discovered that to ex
tend the exterior boundaries of the
town it will be necessary to wait for
congress to take another crack at Alas
ka laws. _
Temperature at 2 p. m. today 5o.
CONTRACT TOR
SEWER IS ITT
George Salami Gets the Job and
Agrees to Have it Completed
by October 15.
The sower contract was let last night
to George Salami at $650, and the work
is to be completed by October 15. The
contract to furnish the lumber was
awarded to W. M. Sauers at $50 per
thousand feet. The total quantity re
quired will he* 15,000 feet costing $590.
The total cost of the sewer therefore,
will be $1040. This is more than $lon
less then the total assessment of $5u a
lot will amount to.
To lumber must be on the ground,
according to the terms of the contract
with Mr. Sauers, by September l*.
This will allow him to ship from Seat
tle either on the Bertha, which saiN
September 10, or on the Santa Ana
September 10.
It is promised that all the mone\
will be deposited today by the property
owners with the committee in charge,
in which case the work of digging the
trench for the main will begin this
week. The committee is composed of
J. B. Cameron, H. N. Coleman and Dr.
S lee m.
Bids for the work were submitted b\
James Bartlett and J. J. McManus, but
both were much higher than that of
Mr. Salami.
The Wrangell Chamber of Commerce
is seeking t<, unite the commercial bod
ies of Alaska in an effort to get a chan
nel for ocean ships through Dry strait,
near that place. The channel desired
would obviate tlie necessity of going
through Wrangell narrows and would
shorten the cou.-s • on the Southeastern
Alaskan route.
The new smelter at Copper mount i>
now running at full blast and is hand
ling over 250 tons of ore dailv. This
smelter has been constructed by the
Alaska Copper Company, which has
extremely rich copper mines at Cop
permount in the Ketchikan district.
Two hundred men have been dis
charged by the Klondike Mines rail
way pending settlement of injunction
troubles. Five injunctions have been
applied for to prevent the railroad from
crossing mining claims.
It is estimated that the license fees
which will he collected outside the in
corporated towns of Alaska this year
will amount to $120,000. Of this 70 per
cent..will be available for road pur
poses.
The Northern Commercial Company
has built and commissioned a steamer
for the upper Tanana river. It was
christened the Delta.
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