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DORA BRINGS IN
SIXTY PERSONS
Little Steamer Crowded With Pas
sengers. of W hom Forty-two
Were for Seward.
Steamer Dora, (’apt. Zel> Moore,
arrived in port from the westward
about midnight last night and left for
Valdez at d o'clock. She brought
forty-two pas>engers to Seward, and j
carried about twenty more to Valdez, j
The little steamer was loaded to the
guards with human freight, and while
nobody investigateiI the impression J
was created when the passengers
walked down the gangplank, that part j
of them must have come out of the hold, j
The Dora was absent on her west
ward trip tweutv-two days, lacking a
few hours. She sailed the morning of
LK tober dl, after being held here a day j
h\ the storm which prevailed along:
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the coast at that time. She had bad
weather nearly all the way on the en
tire trip. Coming back she was almost j
continually against head winds and
tossed by rough water. She is a j
staunch little vessel and can ride out
any kind of a storm, but it was impos-,
>ible to make speed.
About thirty passengers had been
waiting for the Dora at Seldovia, some
of them for three weeks, and the re
mainder nearly as long. 1 key had
enough to eat, and although the hotel
was shy on beds the floor space was
ample for the spreading of blankets.
Still the men on the waiting list
were as impatient as parties who have
passed a civil service examination and
are expecting a job. It is conceded by
some of the candid ones that by con
stant exercise of the talent the majority
developed a gift of profanity which
would have qualified them to serve as
mates on a Mississippi steamboat or to
drive army males.
W hen the Dora put in at lliamna to
leave mail seventeen of Dutton's men
were tovnd to be destitute of provisions,
and the boat left them a small cargo of
potatoes to perpetuate their existence
until their employer arrives from the
Sound with a general stock. He had
been expected for some time.
The passengers who arrived ou the
Dora were as follows: first class:
,!oe LeClaire, Oscar Gray. A. L. Went
worth, F. R. Felton, C. H. Sickles, N.
F. Taylor, W. L>. Anthony, August
Wilen, ( has. Wilen, A. L. Knovvlton,
p. Paden. J. Harden, W. S. Harris, J.
Hansen. Capt. T. Meyers, Geo. Shat
tuck, F. W\ Huntsman, M. E. Davis,
P>. W. Hof man. J. W\ Agnew, W. W\
1'hulk, A. Hutcheson. N. ('onway, A.
1.. McHugh, M. C. Knudsen. Mr. and
Mrs. S. B. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. M.
Welch, W\ Davis, WT. VanBuskirk,
Thos. Frieze, N. W\ Nagiev, W\ S.
Raid well. The steerage passengers
were: M. Kippale, L. A. Kephart, F.
K. Fricke, Wm. R. Fierce, M. Sing,
Wm. Moore, ,1. Frustad, F. Olsen, J.
Hummuller. C. W’right.
Sleep on Hotel floor
The hotels were swamped last night
bv the influx of travelers on the
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steamer Dora, and several men slept in
their blankets on the floor in the Cole
man house office. They had become
used to that at Seldovia.
Nome Prospectors Arrive
Among the Dora's passengers were
seven prospectors recently from the
Nome district, among them being Joe
Le Clair, one of the best known men in
that section: A. D. Wentworth, 4*Doc"
Anthony, Free Felton, L. S. Me Len
nan and Messrs. Frick and Speer. They
all intend to prospect in this vicinity.
DAILY WEATHER REPORT
Temperature at 7 a. m.
Temperature at 2 p. m.
| Barometer at 2 p. m._
1 Day cloudy with rain.
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By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Nov. 22—For delegates to
Congress the Alaska convention last
night nominated A. 1*. Swineford of
Ketchikan, Richard S. Ryan of Nome
and Omar J. Humphrey of Tanana,
representing the First, Second and
Third judicial districts respectively.
The Tanana delegation was unable
to agree upon a candidate, and the
choice of a man was left to the conven
tion. The caucus divided, one faction
presenting the name of Johansen and
the other that of Humphrey. By the
narrow margin of 42 to 41 Humphrey
was selected.
Johansen was beaten because J. M.
Lathropof Valdez, holding the proxies
of the entire Valdez delegation of four,
including Judge Wickersham, re
mained away from the convention for
some unknown reason Theretofore he
had been active in the light for Johan
sen, who was recognized as the Wick
orsham candidate.
Gives Banquet to Delegates
Johansen personally could have re
ceived the unanimous vote of the con
vention had lie not been known to ho a
supporter of Judge Wickersham for
re-appointment to the bench of the
Third Judicial district. For that
reason alone the anti-Wickershara men
refused to support him, On this issue
the whole tight was made. The chair
ruled repeatedly that any reference
to the judicial issue was out of order,
hut was unable to control the dele
gates.
Hughes of Fairbanks, leades of the
Johansen forces, went down lighting,
lie refused all overtures from Nye of j
Fairbanks, leader of the opposition,
that he withdrew Johansen and allow
the delegation to agree upon some one
else.
This morning the platform was i
amended to include a demand that cable j
and telegraph earnings of the govern
ment lines in Alaska be devoted to the
extension and improvement of lines in j
the Territory, as recommended by Maj.
Glassford, Gen. Greely, Gen. Williams
and Maj. Richardson.
The following committee was ap
pointed to determine the question of j
the place of holding future conventions:
First district. »T. W. Troy, C. E. David
son, J. E. Lathrop; Second, A. Z. Wat
son, M. S. Castle, C. E. Herron; Third. J
,T. M. Lathrop, S. O. Morford. J. H.
Hughes.
Judgeship fight the Issue
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A brilliant banquet was given to the j
Alaska delegates last night by the I
Chamber of Commerce in the Butler,
hotel. It was the largest gathering of
the kind ever held in Seattle. Mayor
Ballinger presided and delivered the
address of welcome. Richard S. Ryan |
of Nome responded. Maj. Glassford
spoke, attesting his loyalty to all the
interests of Alaska. Mrs. Fima Mc
Naught of Nome gave personal experi
ences as a miner in Alaska since she
went there in 1897. Col. Perkins of
Nome spoke on the relations of Alaska j
and Seattle. Maj. Richardson, chair
man of the government road commis
sion for the district, spoke on Alaska
road builditg. Others made short
speeches.
had a Lovely Row
The decision to name three dele
gates was arrived at in the convention
after one of tin* stormiest sessions ever
seen in a public assembly in Seattle.
The wrangle was persistent from 2
o’clock until o, when adjournment was
taken to enable the districts to select
their candidates.
It had been practically agreed the
ni«*ht before that three men should he
chosen in the interest of harmony.
Some delegates were not satisfied with
this settlement and prepared to com
bat it upon the lloor. It became plain
immediately after opening the fore
noon session that it would be impossi
ble to agree upon one man. Price of
Skagway offered a resolution providing
for the nomination of three, explaining
that it had become certain that the
nomination of one could not he made
without leaving bitterness behind.
Immediately half a dozen delegates
were on the floor. Nye of Fairbanks
was recognized and started tin* trouble
by saying that a deputy United States
marshal, meaning Lathrop, had no
business coming into the convention
with five proxies to cast in the interest
of perpetuating the hold of a candidate
for the judiciary. Hughes and Lath
rop denied the charge that they were
making a tight for Wickersham on the
judgeship in the convention. Nye de
clared that Lathrop had Wickersham’s
proxy in the convention.
Tanana Holds Caucus
A caucus of the Tanana delegation
was then held in an effort to settle
upon a candidate. The members were
unable to settle upon Johnson, as thir
teen votes were cast persistently for
Jndge Hutchinson, and it was seen that
the division in the delegation was al
most irreconcilable, as the caucus was
far from harmonious. \\ hen the dele
gation reported to the convention an
adjournment was taken until afternoon
in the hope of preventing further
trouble. From 1 to 2 the delegates
tried to get together.
When the convention met in the
afternoon Shepherd of Nome offered
an amendment to the Price resolution,
declaring that the convention should
nominate hut one delegate, stating
that one might ho seated by the
National House of Representatives hut
three would be regarded as a hoard,
as the election of more than one dele
gate from a territory was unprece
dented. Further, he thought it im
probable that they could agree upon
measures to he presented to Congress.
Springs Judgeship Racket
Shepherd of Nome declared that the
Third district had come into the con
vention politically divided over a can
didate for the judiciary. At this
statement Hughes of Fairbanks jumped
to his feet and protested, and the chair
called Shepherd down. Shepherd con
tinued, saying that the attitude of the
Third district delegates tended to
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drag down and debase the judiciary of
A1 as k a.
When Baliaine of Seward suggested
that in the interest of harmony one
delegate be chosen from Southeastern
Alaska, Price of Skagway refused, say
ing that Southeastern Alaska was
harmonious and did not wish to be
made lighting ground by being drawn
into a struggle. He insisted that il
the Third district could not settle its
light it was not the business of other
parts of the territory to interfere. He
thought the proper solution was to
elect three to avoid a conilict of sec*
t ions.
Talks About Gaj Law
Judge Hutchinson of Fairbanks stated
that in the Tanana caucus he had not
altogether voted his own way, and
charged that gag law had been prac
ticed. He demanded that the chair
rule that holders of proxies had a
right to vote them as they siw tit. The
proxy question was ruled out of order.
The convention could see no chance
of settlement and a general demand
was made for an amendment declaring
for the nomination of one delegate.
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Such an amendment was made but was
killed on the vote. The Price motion
for three was then passed.
First and Second district delegates
charge that all the trouble arises from
the Tanana light over the re-appoint
ment of Judge Wickersham. Some
Nome followers of Ryan declare they
would have been perfectly willing to
support Johnson had they not believed
that he was pledged to the support of
Judge Wickersham, to whom many
Nome men are opposed. No news of a
resolution recently passed in Fairbanks
condemning Judge Wickersham was
allowed to reach the floor of the con
vention,
Ryan, the Nome candidate, said it
was entirely satisfactory to him to have
the convention name three delegates,
Pass More Resolutions
AUUit ional ivsolut ions adopted yester
day afternoon were the following:
favoring the establishment of a marine
hospital at Nome; creation of a board
of medical examiners to regulate the
practice medicine in Alaska the same
as elsewhere; indorsing the Alaska
Yukon exposition project; calling the
attention of Congress to the fact that
Alaska has vast coal deposits, with
coal of a quality superior to the foreign
coal now used by the United States
navy, and urging the establishment of
a naval base on some strategic harbor
in Southeastern Alaska; the creation of
a department of mines and metallurgy
in the federal government, whose head
shall be a member of the cabinet.
Senator Piles of Washington ad
dressed the convention yesterday after
noon. He promised that in the Senate
he would support every demand which
the convention had made, and every
other proposition in the interest of the
territory which might come up in the
future. He said he considered himself
a representative of the territory in the
Senate, and that Senator Ankeny, his
colleague, had made a similar state
ment to him.
Paul Buckley, W. G. Jack and G. W.
Davies of the Crow Creek Mining Com
pany, came in last ni^ht over the trail
and the railroad.
O. H. Sleeper of the Ready Bullion
mine was an arrival on last night's
train. He is on his way home to
Boston for the winter.
J. L. Reed returned last night on the
train from the Inlet, where he went on
leyal business. He also made a visit
to the Ready Bullion mine.
Capt. Myers of the Inlet steamer
Neptune came to Seward on the Dora.
M. E. Davis of the Rainbow Mining
Company at Hope, was one of the im
migrants from Seldovia brought in by
the Dora. He is on his way to his
home in Worcester, Massachusetts, but
will soon return.
Among the arrivals on the Dora
were W. S. Harris and R. Paden, who
have been working on coal development
on the Chickaloon since last March.
Both are from Spokane, but may re
main in Seward instead of going home
for the winter, as they will go back to
the coal fields in the spring.
Captain Shaw of the Inlet steamer
Tyonic came to Seward on the Dora.
Martin Welch and Mrs. Welch ar
rived on the Dora.
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The Nome News recently issued a
big' mining edition which tooted the
horn of that'great district to the limit.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Bertha; sailed from Seattle 13th; due
in Seward 23rd.
Santa Ana: sailed from Seattle 16th:
due in Seward, 26th.
Santa Clara in drydock; sails from
Seattle, December 1st.
Portland, sailed from Seward, 9th.
Excelsior; sailed from Seward 12th.
Oregon; sailed from Seward
MENACES RUSSIA
Twenty-four Provinces, Having
52,000,000 People, in State
of Insurrection,
By CaMe to The Daily Gateway.
I Moscow, Nov. 22 Twenty-four prov
I inces of Russia, containing a popula
tion of 52,000,000, are now in a state of
revolution. The authorities are pow-*
erless and the peasants everywhere are
taking violent )>ossession of the prop
erty of large landholders. The priests
are in sympathy with them and have
issued warnings to the people not to
believe the lying promises of the czar.
St Petersburg, Nov. 22—Revolution
ists here proclaim that civil war will
begin January 22, the anniversary of
•‘Bloody Sunday,“ when large nnmbers
of people were shot down jn the streets
of St Petersburg by troops last whiter.
They have distributed 250,000 pamph
lets among the troops urging them to
join the people.
Despite promises made to the work
ingmen they are generally refusing
employment and demanding an eight
hour day. The Admiralty closed its
yards today. The cabinet is drafting a
law intended to protect individuals
who wish to work against the tyranny
i of striking workmen.
Newspapers will appear this week
for the tirst time since the czar’s abdi
cation.
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Appointed to Oregon Judgeship
3y Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Washington, I). (J., Nov. 22—Charles
E. Wolverton of Portland, Oregon, was
appointed today by President Roose
velt to be judge of the U. S. district
court for the district of Oregon, to sue-,*
ceed the late Judge Bellinger.
Seattle Headquarters
All Alaskans goingto Seattle on bus
iness or other purposes are cordially
invited to have their mail addressed to
themselves in care of the Industrial
Bureau of the Alaska Central Railway
Company, Lumber Exchange Building,
Seattle, Wash., and make the Bureau
their headuarters while in that city.
Alaska Central Railway Co.
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