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MILLION LELT LUMBER FOR
CORDOVA LOSE WIEH BARGE
MILLION FEET LUMBER LOST
CORDOVA, Oct. 12.—One million feet of lumber for
the Copper River & Northwestern Railroad has been lost
with the barge Washington out to sea near Cape St. Elias
and the damage in money is one hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars. The barge was on the way from Port
Blakely to this city with the lumber in tow of the tug!
Pioneer. Thirteen miles off Cape St. Elias the tug ran
into a terrific gale which threatened the lives of all aboard
the tug and the barge was cut loose to save the crew. All i
aboard reached shore safely but all hope for the barge and j
its cargo have been abandoned.
ENGINEERS FOR SEWARD
CORDOVA, Oct. 12.—Engineer Bailey and a party
of seven men who have just finished the survey of the rail
road line from Fairbanks to Broad Pass left here on the
steamer Northwestern for Seward where they will do
office work at the railroad headquarters. Commissioner
Riggs, Surveyor Thorn, Engineer Ryan and Sterling, and
R. C. Wood, president of the First National Bank of Fair
banks, left Fairbanks today on an auto for Chitina.
Riggs will go to Seward.
FAIRBANKS OUTPUT BIG
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 11—It lias been learned positive
ly that the output of the Tanana valley will be half a mil
lion dollars greater this year than last.
BOSTON WINS
SEATTLE. Oct. 11.—Boston won Monday’s game by
a score of two to one. Leonard and Carrigan pitched for
the winners, and Alexander and Burns for Philadelphia.
NORWAY WOMEN VOTE .
CHRISTIANA, Norway, Oct. 11.—The women voted
in the general election yesterday for the first time in Nor
way’s history. The election resulted in large socialist
gains in parliament. The new socialist party is opposed
to militarism and favors prohibition.
CHICAGO SALOONS CLOSE
CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—All the saloons closed yesterday,
Sunday, for the first time in the history of Chicago. The
first result noted is that crimes yesterday were fewer
than ever before.
BIG VANCOUVER FIRE
VANCOUVER, Oct. 11.—A great fire took place on
the water front today here and fifteen hundred tons of
valuable cargo on the way from Montreal to Yokohama
was damaged severly by the fire and the water poured on
the blaze. The loss is immense.
U. S. AVIATOR KILLED
SAX DIEGO, Oct. 11.—Lieutenant Walter Taliafer
ro, the famous American aviator attached to the United
States aviation school here, fell from a height of a thou
sand feet into the bay here today and was killed.
FINE WEATHER .
BOSTON, Oct. 11.—The weather is ideal for the big
game today and an attendance of forty-five thousand is
expected.
BATTLE ON S. S. MINNESOTA
SEATTLE, Oct. 11.—Two hundred Chinese and Jap
anese members of the crew of the liner Minnesota entered
into a battle here today on the dock and many were seri
ously injured. The police and the immigration officers
finally succeeded in quelling the riot.
CANAL IN BAD WAY
PANAMA, Oct. 11.—It is believed that the Panama
canal will be blocked for at least ten months owing to the
great slides which have recently occurred. Ten million
yards of earth must be removed, In one place both
banks have slid into the canal for a distance of two thous
sand six hundred feet and the worst of it is that the
dredges have not been kept in condition.
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Formal information has been given
j to the attorney general of the United
States, Hon. Thomas Watt Gregory,
and to the District Attorney of this
I division of Alaska, Hon. W. N.
Spence, about the action of the city
council of Seward with respect to
! the granting without bids of a con
! tract to a concern in which the men,
or some of them, who voted for the
grant arc, or were then, financially in
terested. Delay was made in sending
the complaint to the attorney gener
al ami the district attorney until some
I of the work given without calling for
bids had been done.
PORTLAND AGAIN IS TO TRY
STEAMSHIP LINE TO ALASKA
Portland again is seeking to inau
gurate a steamship line to Alaska.
Twice the venture has failed but this
time, it is reported. Rose City busi
nessmen will make a concerted effort
to perpetuate the service.
The Portland Telegram of Septem
ber 17 has this to say of the proposal:
“Backed by shippers and other lead
ing business interests of the city, a*
new steamer line, it is rumored, is
about to be established between Port
land and points in Southeastern Al
aska. It is stated the plans of the
new company are for the inauguration
of the service the latter part of the
fall or early winter. Later the steam
ers may be sent as far north as Cor
>va. Because of railroad building
the business men in that section of
Alaska are looking for an unusually
brisk season next year.”
MANTELL W \RNS CITY
TO HOLD BADE MONEY
Attorney L. V. Ray, for P. J. Man
tell, notified the city council last night
not to pay over the money remaining
as part of .the price fro the fixing of
Fourth avenue to C. E. Bade. The
communication stated that Mr. Man-«
tell has brought suit against Mr.
Bade. Attorney L. L. James later
addressed the council in behalf of
Mr. Bade in relation to the contract.
GOT LIMIT IN GAME
The J. J. Sullivan hunting party
returned from Kenai Lake on the car
yesterday afternoon with the limit in
game. Both Mr. Sullivan and Miss
Sullivan shot the limit in moose and
sheep, each bagging two moose and
three sheep. Besides this they shot
two brown bear and three black bear.
They are much pleased with results
of the hunt. The party was made up
of J. J. Sullivan and Miss Sullivan,
of Philadelphia, Andy Simon and
John Lean, guides; Charles Lean,
Alex Bolam, Arthur Spekker ana
Walter Lodge. The party was out
about 40 days in the Kelly river coun
try, near Skilak lake. Mr. and Miss
Sullivan will leave for the states on
the first boat out.
COLUMBUS DAY TODAY
Today, October 12, is Columbus
Day and a legal holiday in many
States, including the states of Wash
ington and Oregon.
NORTHWESTERN TOMORROW
The Northwestern will arrive from
the south tomorrow evening with 150
tons of freight for this place.
MERRY THIMBLE MEET
The Merry Thimble club will meet
tomorrow afternoon at the home of
Mrs. John Noon.
FRANCHISE IS
GIVEN BY CITY
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ACCEPTANCE BY THE COMPANY
ALONE REQUIRED TO
SETTLE IT.
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The electric light franchise was
passed by the city council last night.
It is the old franchise with some
amendments and was voted for by all
the councilmen with the exception of
one who declared that he knows noth
ing about electricity, and if the
majority of the council and the major
ity of all the rest of us were honest
we should say the same thing. The
company’s acceptance of the franchise
only remains now to delay the sign
ing of the contract but at the time
this was written nothing was known
of the company’s intentions in the
matter.
The term of the franchise was re
duced from fifty to tweny-five years.
The term of purchase was made
twenty years. The chief fact noted
was that the installation of meters
was not insisted upon until a consum.
or is consuming a peak load (the*
spelling is doubtful, by Cleorge) of
a hundred kilowats. The proposal
was made to compel the company to
install meters on the First of January
but this was first accepted and then
rejected. All membres of the council,
with one exception or so stated the
extraordinary fact that the amend
men made by the council actually
raises the price of the small consum
er, the man or the family without
means. The mayor said positively
that the council proposals actually
raised the price for small consumers
and Councilman Chovin expressed the
opinion that the substitute franchise
proposed by the council had actually
higher rates than the one accepted
by the electric company. Council
man Youngs declared that the council
franchise hurt the poor man. “The
poor man is the one to protect” said
Mr. Youngs.
At last it was decided to cut the
rate for lights from one up to five to
$1.32 and this means a difference of
three cents from the rates asked by
Mr. Graff of the electric company.
When the council passed the amend
ment compelling the company to in
stall meters on the first of January
Mr. S. 0. Morford, attorney for the
company, gave formal notice that the
amendment ended the whole matter
so far as the company is concerned
as meters could not be installed in
all cases and give the company a
chance to benefit by the franchise.
Then the council reconsidered the
matter and knocked out the amend
ment altogether. The later agree
ment that a meter must only be in
stalled when the consumption amounts
to a peak load of a hundred kilowate
means that this consumption must be
the average daily for a period of
thirty days. After a long discussion
Councilman Chovin moved and Coun
cilman Youngs seconded that the
franchise as amended pass and it did.
It is probably all over. T. G.
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everyone a chance to send it
around.
A A A A A
BRITISH LOSS IS 20,000
SINCE EIRST OT OCTOBER
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❖ ALASKA DAY MAY *
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Next Monday, the 18th, will be Al
aska Day and a legal holiday in the
territory of Alaska. It was made a
legal holiday by the action of the first
legislature, and L. V. Ray, president
of the senate in that legislature, sug
gests that Seward ought to observe
the occasion in some fitting manner.
The act making the day a legal holi
day was the second passed by the
legislature. Fairbanks, Juneau and
other cities hold special services of
some kind on the day.
FORESTRY SERVICE PARTY
COMES IN FROM KEN AI
The Forestry Service party, com
posed of T. M. Hunt, W. J. McDonald,
Chas NT. O'Neil and G. C. Haneman,
who have been doing survey work on
the Konai lake, returned on the car
yesterday afternoon. The survey
work out there is mainly mapping out
sites along the lakeside for home
steads applied for. Work there has
not been entirely completed but will
be finished in the spring. From here
the party will leave for the Inlet
where some work is awaiting them.
W. J. McDonald, accompanied by his
wife, will go direct to Anchorage,
while the remainder of the party will
go to Katchemak Bay. at which place
they have abtfut ten days or two
weeks work ahead of them. They wiTT
be working on the Inlet and around
Anchorake until about the middle of
November.
Will Graff Accept
the New Franchise?
President Sam Graft, of the Seward
Electric company, was unable to say
whether he will accept the franchise
as it passed the city council last night
or not. He had not had time to read
over the document carefully section
by section. It was intended to print
the terms in full today but for two
reasons such a task is useless. In the
first place the franchise has not been
accepted yet and in the second place
the printing of the terms in full would
probably only be confusing. Even
some of the councilmen who voted for
the franchise are unable to tell today
exactly how the new electric light
charges compare with the ones now
prevailing or with the ones origin
ally proposed when the franchise was
first introduced.
ALL ALASKA COAL
CASES END FRIDAY
Andrew Christensen Goes to San
Francisco to Wind Fp the
Last One of All.
JUNEAU — Andrew Christensen,
chief of the field service, general
office, who left Juneau last week for
Prince Rupert, has gone on to San
Francisco, where he will close up the
Lisbume-Cornell coal case,^which has
been pending ever since the govern
ment investigation of the coal situa
tion several years ago. Under the
Act of Congress passed on October
20, 1913, all cases relative to coal
lands in Alaska must be closed before
October 20, 1915. This is the last
case to come up under that regula
tion.
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Brosius and Noon were busy today
boxing up the the moose and sheep
horns and bear skins, and moose and
sheep capes for J. J. Sullivan, who
will take them along with him to
Philadelphia.
FRIGHTFUL BRITISH LOSS
! LONDON, Oct. 11.—The British losses since October
the First have been nearly a thousand officers and twenty
thousand men.
BERLIN, Oct. 11.—It is officially announced that the
Teutonic forces are crossing the Danube into Serbia and
are attacking south of Belgrade.
SERBIANS FIGHT HARD
LONDON, Oct. 11.—The Teutonic armies are meet
ing with a stubborn resistance from the Serbians but have
not yet encountered the main body of the Serbian armies.
The Serbians will probably not make a decided stand until
the invaders reach a mountain range near Kragushevatz
which ofTers superb defensive positions. Besides three
hundred thousand soldiers a million Serbians of all ages
and sexes are prepared to resist the Teutons.
SANK GREEK STEAMER
PARIS, Oct. 11.—An Austrian submarine torpedoed
a Greek steamer yesterday southeast of Sicily. The
steamer was a large one called the Dimitrous.
MANY GERMANS KILLED
PARIS, Oct. 11.—A German counter attack on the
British before Loos resulted in a serious and costly check
for the attackers. The Germans left seven thousand five
hundred dead before the allied lines.
GREAT GERMAN AIRSHIP
LONDON, Oct. 11.—The greatest airship the world
has ever seen has now been built and perfected by the
Germans. It is an aeroplane of one hundred and fifty
horsepower, has a speed capacity of over a hundred miles
and hour and carries several Armour machine guns. It
is known as “Fritz.’’
GREAT RANCH 10 BE
STARTED AT SELDOVIA
First Really Big Farm For Alaska Soon
to Be Accomplished Fact.
JUNEAU, Oct. 11.—That the first
great ranch in Alaska will soon be in
full swing ami that it will be situated
at Seldovia is now a fact made cer
tain. W. R. Bell, of Montana, is the
man to have the honor of opening
up to ranching on a large scale t*ie
country in the neighborhood of the
government railroad right of way.
He is about to leave for Seldovia with
fifty cows, several mares ami stallions
and farming implements for farming
work on a large scale. As may be
judged by the bringing in of the
mares and stallions horse breeding
will be conducted very largely, a»
well as the milk and butter industry.
Amongst the implements will be
mowers and all the rest to place the
farm on the same level as big farms
outside.
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Another change is said to have
taken place in the “journalistic”
world of Seward. This is just men
tioned to cover an item of news.
There is nothing sensational or un
expected about it, so there is no ust
in going into details although, on the
other hand, the readers of the Gate
way are owed at least a suggestion of
all legitimate news items. If an>
reader wishes to go to the bother to
refer back to the editorial page of the
Gateway of June 17 last he will see
something that covers the whole thing
by prediction.
MARIPOSA PASSENGERS
ON ADMIRAL EVANS
The Mariposa passengers left
Ketchikan Sunday evening on the
Admiral Evans, according to a cable
received by Agent McDonald.
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•> LOST BARGE WAS HERE *
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The Barge Washington which has
been lost off Mount St. Elias with a
million feet of lumber was here a
couple of months ago.
NORTHWESTERN NOT DUE
UNTIL FRIDAY MORNING
Alex McDonald received word just
before 11 o’clock this morning that
the steamship Northwestern is due
here on Friday morning. Word was
received that she had reached Valdez
but she is probably going to stop in at
some other points. She will not go to
Anchorage this trip, Mr. McDonald
says.
MAY ACCEPT FRANCHISE
It is announced that the Seward
Light & Power company has with
drawn from the council its several ap
plications for permits to extend its
pole lines. This may mean that the
franchise ordinance passed last night
will be accepted by the company.