BLACKMAILER
PLAYS NEW ROLE
Man of Many Aliases Gets Twen
ty Years for Trying to Do
Solly Joel Out of $80,000.
By Cable, to Tin? Dally Gateway.
London, Fob. 13 Carl Von Velthenn, I
a man who has masqueraded under
various aliases, has been convicted
and sentenced to twenty years of penal
servitude for attempting to blackmail I
Solly Joel, a wealthy South African j
mine owner, out of ^so.tMM. 1 he case !
has lor if been in the courts and has
become celebrated ow in>f to the promi* j
oence of the parties anil the interests
involved.
BOY FORGETS MESSAGE AND
SCHOOL WAITS LECTURER
There is a boy in Seward who bids
fair to rival the notu. Dinkeispiel for
absent inimiodness. Dinkeispiel lmd to
make a note of everythin*? that be j
uiiifhr not i'orifet what to do. When
he went to hed he maile the following j
memorandum: t’oat on ehair. Irons-1
ers on floor, Dinkeispiel in lied. In j
the morning wiien he ifot up he looked j
at h s n. • - s. on ehair. trousers
on floor all r. : »\ hut when he look dj
in bed no D ukelspiel was there.
Scared .stilt'h»* raised the cry to tiiul
the lost I)ink« lspiel.
This box \vn > is fast followinif in the
footsteps ot the famous Dinkeispiel
was £i\vn a note in the morning to;
ifive to tii 1, i ifh school teacher stat- ,
in*f that it would be impossible for him ,
to deliver the lecture to the pupils in
the anern* on as had been planned.
The note remained hid away in the
pocket, and in the meantime the hour
for the lecture arrived and the younif
hopefuls \\a'.?•■•. half or three quarters
of an hour for the lecturer to arrive.
The boy with the note in his pocket
became un* isy to think that his father
should he >o o netful as not to keep
his appointment, and so dispatched his
younifer brotiier to jo.if the ifovenor s
memory. Soon the messenger came
fly in if back with a jolt for the memory
of the older brother who be if an forth
with to die down into his jeans for his
father's note, and the school had the
ha ha on him. but it is not stated what
his father had on him when he ifot the
boy in the wooesh'd.
PROMINENT SEWARD
MAN DIES IN TACOMA
Fred Wagner who went out to the
states with ids family in November to
spend the winter and pi are his boys in
school, was stricken with typhoid
fever and d ed in Tacoma Jan. 22.
The boy> iiave ai>o be<*»j sick with the
same disease, bat a now reported
out of danger.
Saratoga Arrives in Seattle ,
ay Ca ne vo The Dniiy Gateway.
Seattle. Feb. 11 So amer Saratoga
which left Sev. ard F< -ntam 1 reached
here today .n... c.ng tin rip in seven
days.
Steamer Bertha sailed last night by
inside passage for Seward and way
ports.
Farallon Comes and (iocs
Steam":’ Kara!Ion which left Seattle
Feb. I came on the inside passage and
made very good time. She arrived at
Valdez about 10 o’clock.Saturday even
ing and sailed from there at noon Sun
day. She arrived at Seward about 10:30
Monday morning. She left for Seat
tle at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning going
down on the inside passage.
Dora Arrives
Steamer Dora arrived from the west
ward about 1 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing Several passengers were trans
ferred to the Farallon which sailed
for Seattle about four o'clock this
morning.
StWARD STEAMERS
Dora; in port.
Edith; in port.
Northwestern; sailed from Seattle 8.
Bertha; sailed from Seattle 10th.
Saratoga; in Seattle.
Jeanie; sailed for Seattle 4th.
Farallon: sailed for Seattle 11th.
Brass runner sleds at Pacific Coast
Trading Company. *
Meet me at the Branch. *
! INDICTS MORSE |
ON FIVE COUNTS
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Grand Jury Holds Accused Guilty
of Grand Larceny and Will
Be Placed Under Bond.
By OCe to The Dally Gateway.
Now York, Fob. 11 Charles Morse, l
whoso case has l»ecn in the hands of
the jjraiul jury, is indicted by that
body on tivo counts, two of which are
for jrranil larceny. Morse will soon I
i arrive from London, and upon his ar
rival heavy bail will be required of
him.
Variety in Alaska (iold
One of the most interesting exhibits 1
j at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposi
lion to he held at Seattle in will
! he the gold exhibit from the North, j
' To those who know nothing of a min !
: ing country, the information that gold J
runs in value all the way from $14 to
j$li» an ounce may come as a surprise.
(Sold varying in color from the yellow
! of butter to the cream of cheese, gold j
; in dust as fine as flour and gold in ;
j lumps as large as the rocks that are
: thrown on the road to make its foun-1
'dation, gold of all different colors, val-]
i ues and kinds from various parts of the j
Northland will be exhibited.
The finest and most valuable of Alas-j
j knn gold is said to come from Anvil j
creek in the Nome district. It is said
' to be as powdery as line Hour, and toj
run -$l!>.25to the ounce. On the other
‘hand, tin* gold of Kldorado creek, I
Klondike, often was found in five and j
ten ounce nuggets, whose value, owing]
to impurities in the nuggets, ran only ]
$14. *>o to the ounce. At one point on]
the Kldorado, opposite Nugget gulch, |
all the gold taken out was in the form ,
1 of nuggets that ran from the size of,
a walnut to the size of a dinner plate. !
The larger nuggets were all water
ground and flattened by thousands of i
vear- of grinding.
The management of the Alaska
Yukon-l’acilic exposition is arranging ;
to have a large display of Kldorado j
gold in the form of nuggets, nugget j
jewelry and articles of value, Hie j
gold, although not as valuable as the!
metal from other vicinities, is the!
prettiest found in the North, being of
a deep rich red color. Itoston Alas-:
' kan.
Clayson (iets Rich Claims
Will Ckiyson. the Skagway clothier, '
i> well known in Juneau, where lie lias
many friends who will he glad to hear
that, according to the Skagway Alas
kan. he has ‘struck it rich.” ( layson,
as is generally Known, has a branch j
store at Seward, and while on a visit
to that place last summer, with several '
others he went out on a prospecting '
trip, staking several claims on the,
shores of Resurrection I Jay, some
twelve miles from Seward. The prop
erty i> copper-carrying, and assays ol
‘ several samples of the ore which have;
been taken show all the way from 15
to 22.7 per cent copper.—Juneau Rec
' ord.
Cost oi Navy Recruits
With tvarly 15,000 American seamen
going around the Horn in Uncle Sam’s
j
battleships it will be interesting to
know how much it. costs the govern
ment to get recruits in Buffalo. Last j
year there were 415 men enlisted in the |
Buffalo office. The operating expenses j
of the office, including salaries of otti-1
cers and men stationed here, subsist
ence, transportation and incidentals,
amount to $1,340 a month or a total of
$10,080 for the year 1007.
This means that it cost Uncle Sara
$38.75 each to enlist the 415 recruits
taken at the Buffalo office, if one can
assume that the cost of enlisting men
in the local recruiting office is about j
the average cost for all stations in the
United States, it cost the United States
i nearly $000,000 initial expense for the
mere enlistment of the jackies who are
i taking the tour of the world in Uncle
Sam’s warships.—Buffalo Express.
Picture Sermon
Preaching at the M. E. Church at
11 o’clock a. m. on text Mark 10:21.
Sunday school 12:15 o’clock. In the
evening there will be an illustrated
I service. The stereoptican clear
1 pictures will be used. An illustrated
hymn will also be used. Everybody is
invited.
L. H. Pedersen, pastor.
1 To Clayson’s for Blankets. *
STEIN -BLOCH 1
^ SMART CLOTHES ]
OUR GREAT AIM
I Quality rather than Quantity.
1 TO CLAYSON’S FOR QUALITY.
IS TO satisfy our custo.i eis, and to do this we carry all
FIRST CLASS LINES. - The words “Stein Bloch,”
“Kirschbaum,” etc., etc., is evidence that our aim is I
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Over Bank of Seward
E. E. RITCHIE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Rank of Seward Building
C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD. - - ALASKA.
J. A. BAUGHMAN
PHYSICIAN
AMD SURGEON
City office: Owl Drugstore
Homo office: Up stair'; in Richard building '
Blind Girl Leads Her Class
The latest achievement of the “on- 1
lightened blind” is the graduation, at
the head of her class at the McKinley j
High School. Chicago, of Miss Ivlith
M. Griffen, who lias not seen since she
was 20 months old. There were 70 in
her class, and she led them all in
scholarship says the Delineator.
Miss Griffen can memorize the sub
stance of seven or eight pages of his
tory and science after they have been
read to her once. She uses a Grade
typewriter at times, but she is at home |
with the ordinary machine as well.
She speaks French and German, has
studied Lat in and Greek, has written
: essays on Herbert Spencer’s works,
and is an accomplished musician.
I Moreover, she sews well and prides
herself on aiding her mother in all
housekeeping cares.
Miss Griffen is as cheerful as the day
; is long. She finds her life full of in
terests and possibilities of helpfulness.
”1 haven’t any vain regrets,” she says
j —a philosophy of life to which more
i fortunate mortals can seldom arrive.
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Will Compete for Alaska Trade
The California and Oregon Steam
ship Company has announced that it
will establish a steamship line be
tween Portland and Alaska, with a
Seattle connection. The object of the
Portland company is to secure a share
of the Alaska trade.
Dog salmon for sale at Brown &
Hawkins.
HIO COMPANY I
ERCHANDISE |
or evaporated spuds but can
camp outfits, rubber goods,
getables and meats; pit aws,
I RAW FURS |
NINO.
Northern Saloon
E. L. WHITTEMORE. PROPRIETOR.
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WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
SEWARD AND OORDOVA, ALASKA.
■ -...
BOOTH & CO.
-7IGK
HOPE AND GIRDWOOD
tv Call on the old reliable firm of Booth & Co. for anything in the
Liquor and Cigar line. Mi Eleccion Cigars, Old Line and Hunter Rye,
Nelson Co. Bourbon, Olympia Beer. Everything tirst-elass. Best
of attention, run on the live and let live plan.
Girdwood, Alaska. C. R. BOOTH, Manager.
The Palace ^
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Cafe in Connection. Seward, Alaska
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Latouche! Latouche! Latouche!
Reynolds - Alaska Development Company
General Outfitters For
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND
Bottom Prices; Honest Goods
Headquarters for REYNOLDS,
Launches to Knight’s Island LATOUCHE ISL.
and Sound Points. _AL^ASICA^