yoI j ■ SKWAIID, ALASKA, MONDAY KVKNlMi, OCTOKKU :?(>, HM)5
Revolution Hourly Expected to Break Out in Every Part of the
. Empire Germany Scares Europe by Offer
of Troops to Czar.
By Cable *o the Gateway
St. lVtor>luii*£, <Vt. -O develop
ments this mornitur indicate that a
crisis is imminent and that the jrovern
tneiit will be powerless to suppress in
surrection when it begins. I lie direc
tion of the strike and of the revolution
is in hands invisible to the public or
the government. Workingmen and
students are united.
The capital city has an atmosphere
like that of a city besieged by a foreign
ai my and in hourly expectation of sur
render. An immense searchlight at
the top of the Admiralty building
sweeps the entire city in alteinutinj*
directions as it revolves. Otherwise
the streets have no liu'bt. The e/ar is
still in hiding in the imperial palace
at Peterhoff.
Country Drifting Toward Anarchy
The whole country is plainly drift
ing toward anatchy and the present
calm undoubtedly precedes a storm
Identifies Body By finger fling
By Gamble o the Gateway
Cambridge. Mass., <Vt. •>*> Mrs.
Catherine Geary today identified tin'
rin^s on the tinkers of the body ot a
i»iri found in a suit-ease floating in the I
river last month, as those of her |
daughter who was a chorus jrirl in the j
“Shepherd of the Kincompany, lhei
uirl has been mis>in«f since a tow days
before the Irhiy was found. So tar the
authorities have no clue to tin* circum
stances of the murder or the identity
of the perpetrators.
Port Clarence Recedes Notice
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Oct. 30 J. H. Wheeler,
quartermaster of the l nited States
army at St. Michael, says that 1 oit I
Clarence, lying about 100 miles north
of Nome, will be made a government
station, and that it will he made re
ceiving port for Nome. The place has
a tine harbor.
Cutter Grant Has Rotten Steel
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Oct. 30—Investigation shows
that the steel in the revenue cutter
Grant is rotten. The hull can easily
be punctured and the boilers will stand (
a pressure of only thirty pounds to the
square inch without danger. 1 he Grant
Jus been employed on Puget Sound for j
some time*
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Preparing for Run to the Pole
By Cable to the Cateway
Seattle. Oct. 30—Dr. Varicle arrived
today from Dawson to outfit his pro
posed North Pole expedition. He will
be accompanied by Jules Marion, now
mail carrier from Eagle to theTanamn
and by Eli Varrieau. a noted Alaska
mustier. They will go by ship to
Gram's Land next July, and from there
overland.
which may break at any hour over
every part of the empire.
Last night the czar summoned his
ministers to a secret meeting in the
palace at IVterhoiT. The session con
tinued throughout the whole night.
The cabinet is planning for organized
and stubborn military resistance to
the expected uprising. All news is
rigidly censored and revolution on a
gigantic scale is believed to he immi
nent in every part of the empire.
Germany Offers Aid to Czar
London, Oct AH) Germany has massed
IOOjnm) troops along tin* Russian
frontier, and it is reported on authority
that the kaiser has offered to inter
vene with military force to overthrow
the revolutionists and restore the
authority of the autocracy. It is be
lieved that the czar will accept the
offer in the last extremity.
All Kurope is alarmed by contempla
tion of the complications which would
almost certainly he entailed by such a
movement.
Philadelphia Gets Graft Report
By Cable to the Gatewey
Philadelpha, Oct. .50 - An expert en
gineer employed to investigate muni
cipal improvements has made a report
stating that the city has paid $18,000,
000 toi* work which should have been
done for $12,000,000. One of the graft
ing jobs is still in progress.
McClellan to Run for President
By Cable to the Gateway
New York. Oct. .‘50 It is announced
that if Mavor McClellan is re-elected
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the Democrats will put him forward
for the Presidential nomination of the
party in 1908.
Lane Boosts Alaska’s Gold Yield
By Cable to the Gateway
Seattle, Oct. 30 Charles 1), Lane ar
rived from Nome on the Oregon. He
states that the output of Nome and
other leading camps of Alaska is like-ly
tq increase largely, and predicts that
with tlie discovery of new fields the
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annual gold production of Alaska will
reach $50,000,000 within live years.
Wagner Finishes Second Floor
The second floor of Fred Wagner's
building has been finished up, and the
rooms will be rented for offices or liv
ing rooms. Thev have been very hand
somely papered by Elmer Cameron,
who finished the work todav.
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Cable Working Regularly Now
| Repairs on the Alaska cable were eon>
pleted Saturday and Operator Faust of
Seward was notified that evening that
regular service was resumed*
Charles W. Cook and Mrs* Anna C.
Wolfenden were married yesterday by
Judge Hildreth. #
Temperature at 3 m* today-40%
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Only $80,000 left of $10,000,000
Appropriation and Work
May Soon Stop.
By Cable to the Gateway
Washington. I>. C., Oct. .'IO—The
isthmian canal commission hits expend
ed to date $10,000,000. Less than
$1,000,000 of this has gone into tin* act
ual work of digging. All the remain
der has been paid out for preliminaries,
and very largely for expenses ol tin*
commission and estimating engineers.
Only $80,000 is left of the appropri
ation made by Congress, and tin* fund
will have to be replenished by the sale
of treasury bonds or work must be sus
pended at the end of two month.
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STEAMEK DOHA IN POKT
Capt. Zeb Moore now Master of
the Unalaska Hun Steamer
Steamer Dora came in Saturday
evening with Capt. Zeb. Moore in com
mand. Capt. Moore is one of the best
known mariners on the North Pacific
and until a few weeks ago had been
for some time pilot of the cableship
Burnside. This is the Dora's first
vovage this way since August. In
September she went to Seattle to be
drvdocked.
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The Dora took aboard at this poit
about sixty-five tons of merchandise,
mostly shipped by the Pacific Trading
Company to way ports on the route to
Dutch harbor. She also took on coal
here. She will sail when the gale sub
sides.
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William Smith sent in to Judge
Wickersham Saturday night a fine pair
of moose horns, one horn has thir een
prongs and the other twelve. Mr.
Smith shot the anifnal which formerly
owned the horns while with Judge
Wickersham on his recent hunting
trip up Kenai river.
Judge Hildreth received word in the
last mail that his mammoth pair of
moose horns* measuring 72 inches
across from extreme tips, received
first prize at the Portland exposition.
The long wet spell drove a lot of the
boys last night to taking remedies rec
oin mended as useful in warding off colds.
The result was a display of emotional
excitement which was interesting to
behold.
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A. B. Lewis, a well-known civil en
gineer, who located the White Lass & !
Yukon line, and who recently laid out
the new Valdez townsite, will go to the
Matanuska to direct minerel surveys
there. He saiis on the Dora.
1\ E. Harris came down from the
tunnel camp on 52 last night. He
wants somebody to tell him whether it
will snow enough this winter for him
ta skid the big compressor up from the
end of the line.
The steamer Corwin from Nome was
expected about this time, but she will
no doubt seek a landlocked harbor un
til the present storm blows over.
Frank Watson will go west on the
Dora, on his way to Sunrise*
COME 10 PLANT
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Advance Agents go to Aurora Where
They will Arrange to Locate
Immigrants.
To. establish a Finnish colony at
Aurora on the western side ot Kenai
peninsula, around the head of Kache
m ik bay, three men will go to Seldovia
on tlie Dora. They have just
come from the east and will remain at
Aurora all winter arranging for the
reception of the lirst immigrants.
Agents preceding these men have
located 15,00.) acres of coal land,
which is believed to contain coal of a
superior quality, and the veins are
known to be of a vast extent. Not coal
mining alone, however, but agricul
ture is to lie the employment of the
Finnish settlers whom the colonization
leaders expect to bring.
The three men who came into
Seward yesterday are Adam Widenius,
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Oscar U11 man and J. W. Friedman,
representing The Alaska Colonization
and Development Company, a corpora
tion organized by Finlanders in New
York. The president of the company
is Axel Hornborg, general agent of a
Finnish line of steamers plying between
the old country and America. Nearly j
all Finnish immigrants into the Tinted
States come to this country under his
direction. Many of them come here |
without definite purpose other than to
obtain employment as miners or to,
acquire land to farm.
Finnish emigration to America has
been very large for some years and it
is the intention of Mr. Hornborg and
his associates to try to settle as many
of them as possible in some new terri
tory similar in climate and resources
to their own. Southern Alaska is such
a region, although it has a milder
climate than Finland and excels it
greatly in possibilities of wealth. At j
least this is the opinion of Prof.!
Georgesen of the Alaska experimental
stations of the department of agricul
ture, who in Seward recently in an
interview published in the Gateway;
suggested the desirability of seeking
Finnish immigrants for Alaska.
Mr. Widenius stated yesterday that
it is the intention of his company to
bring a large company here next
spring.
Judge Wlckershatn waited for the
Santa Clara because tlie Santa Ana
was booked to go to Ellamar before
t/oing to Valdefc. He is wondering
n o
now which steamer will reach Valdez
first, hut takes comfort in the reflection
that the Santa Ana is probably tied up
somewhere.
The Seward Fuel Company has a
full line of Franklin coal which arrived
| Steamer Bertha* They will have 100
tons lino house coal on the Portland* *
Don’t overlook the Troy Laundry
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ladies’ and gents’ work a specialty.
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Full stock of A. A* Cutter shoes, just
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STEAMERS TORN
BACK INTO PORI
fierce Gale Blowing Outside and
Santa Clara and Dora will Wait
Intil it Subsides.
For the lirst time in the two years
Seward lias been an established port
an ocean carrier has turned back into
! Resurrection bay because of Morm
warnings outside. The Santa ( lara
sailed this morning at (i o’clock but
when she got a» far as the cape outside
! the prospects for an extraordinary gale
were so threatening that ('apt. Schag«*
came hack to port.
“The storm that was on this morn
ing was not so bad,” said ('apt. Schage.
‘•The Santa Clara has weathered many
a worseone, but the signs of as rough a
sea as ever blew up this coast were
plain toany seasfaring man. We could
have made no progress in it. so the only
thing to do was to come back and wait
for it to blow over.”
The Dora sailed an hour after the
Santa Clara, and when she saw the big
ship coming hack Capt. Moore anchored
in Sunny bay to await developments,
and later came back to port.
It was reported yesterday that
glaciers were breaking, as a result of
the continued rains and soft weather,
which will till the sea alongshore with
huge chunks of ice that would he awk
ward to encounter if a vessel wasbeing
tossed about bv tierce breakers.
The Santa Clara had a big crowd of
passengers from Seward, who are wait
ing disconsolately for her departure.
Among them are Judge Wickersham
who is going to Valdez, Phil Hickey,
who is hooked for Latouche. George
Dickinson and \V. E. McCarty, who
are going to Seattle. Purser Carver
says that many reservations have been
made ahead and he expects the steamer
to be loaded to the passenger limit
when she leaves Valdez.
The Santa Clara was slow in getting
hack from the westward because she
had trouble in discharging at Seldovia.
as all steamers have for some time at
that port. The lighters and barges
were all full and the Santa Clara had
some heavy machinery which could be
dischargsd only on the barges for im
mediate transportation up the inlet.
Extremely rough weather prevailed
on the way back from Seldovia and the
steamer was thirty-two hours on the
trip.
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