HARRY A SMITH
KILLS HIMSELF
Former Alaska Commercial Agent
at Sunrise Commits Suicide
in Seattle.
By CabU to Tb« Daily Gateway.
Seattle. April 27 Harry A. Smith,
former sheriff at Astoria, Oregon, and
deputy I’- S. marshal there, committed
suicide in Madison park in this city
,ast night by shooting himself through
ihe head.
Mrs. Smith is in Seward and it was
understood that her husband was going
there on the next boat. He left a
sealed letter for his wife which he re
quested might be delivered to her un
opened. It was mailed this morning.
Harry Smith was for several years
agent of the Alaska Commercial Com
pany at Sunrise, and prior to that at
Xarluk. He was well known around j
Cook inlet and had many friends. He
left Sunrise three years ago. Several
intimate acquaintances are living in
Seward, including Judge Hildreth,
John Brownslow and Jack Smith. The
latter is not a relative but the two
families were intimate. Mr. Browns
low knew Harry Smith and his wife in
Astoria.
Judge Hildreth reluctantly carried
ikhe news of her husband’s tragic end
to Mrs. Smith after all other friends
refused to undertake the ordeal. Mrs.
Smith reached Seward only yesterday
on the Portland. She came here with
Mrs. McCourt of San Francisco to open
a millinery store.
Mrs. Smith says her husband re-j
mained behind her in Seattle because
he had several business projects in
view and had not determined which to
undertake. She can conceive of no
reason for his sudden resolution to
Take his own life.
PORTLAND BRINGS
PROMINENT MEN
Vessel Sails Westward Same Day
With Freight for Various
Inlet Ports.
Steamer Portland arrived in Seward
Thursday morning and sailed for
Seldovia in the afternoon. Her
westward freight cargo included goods
for the Alaska Commercial Company’s
Inlet stores, a stock forO. G. Herning
which will be taken to Knik, and sup
plies for James Girdwood and S. W.
Wible. prominent raining operators at
Turnagain Arm, who went through on
the steamer. Small stocks for Turn
again Arm merchants, amounting to
twenty tons, were taken on here.
Among the Portland’s passengers
was General Manager aud Chief Engi
neer W. B. Poland of the Alaska Cen
tral, who has been absent from Seward
tince earlv in February, spending con
siderable time in Washington, D. C.
James E. Pharo. general manager
of the Alaska Coast Company, which
has succeeded the Alaska Commercial
Company in the steamer traffic of
Southern Alaska, taking over the
Bertha and Portland from the latter
company, was also a Portland passen
ger. Mr. Pharo recently left the!
Pacific Coast Steamship Company to
become manager of the Alaska Coast
Company and is making a trip along
'he Southern Alaska coast to acquaint
himself with local conditions by per
sonal inspection. He went west on
the steamer.
Messrs. Girdwood and Wible have
neen operating on the Inlet for several
vears. Mr. Girdwood has hydraulic
property on upper Crow creek, juit
above the claims of the Crow Creek
Mining Company which were recently
transferred to a San Francisco syndi
cate. He has an expensive hydraulic j
equipment there and has already tak- j
en out a large amount of gold. Oper
ations will be conducted on a larger
scale than ever this year. He is a
New York man.
Mr. Wible is a Californian, living at
Bakersfield. He has been operating
hydraulic property on Canyon creek,
near Sunrise, on the south side of
Turnagain Arm, for several years with
good results.
Capt. H. N. Humphrey is now ruas
:er of the Portland. Tne old steamer
has been fixed up until she looks as !
though nothing had happened to her t
since her last visit to Seward.
Demands Opening of Mukden
London The Daily Telegraph’s cor
respondent ut Tokyo telegraphs that
Japan has formally demanded that
China open Mukden and Antung
province next month to foreign trade.
Seattle Headquarters
All Alaskans going to Seattle on
business or for other purposes are
cordially invited to have their mail
addressed to themselves in care of the
Industrial Bureau of the Alaska Cen
tral Railway Company. Lumber Kx
change Building, Seattle. Wash., and
to make the Bureau their headquarters
while in that city.
* Alaska Central Railway Co.
FATES AGAINST
VALDEZ ROAD
Seattle Opinion Says Line from
Orca Knocks Out Adja
cent Projects.
Seattle, April 14 -Correspondence of
the Gateway—The fates appear to l>e
against VaUle/. as a railway terminal.
Just as there appeared to Ik* a bright
prospect for the building of the Cop
per River & Northwestern from Val
dez by the Rosene interests, after
numerous disappointments with other
railroad projects, news comes of the
selection of Orca as the ocean terminal
of a brand new railroad enterprise
backed by the White Pass A Yukon
capitalists, to tap the Copper river dis
trict by ascending the Copper river
canyon from Orca instead of crossing
the range from the head of Valdez
! bay.
President Graves of the White Pass
A Yukon, and \1. J. Henev, the con
tractor who built that pioneer road,
are directly at the head of the Orca
Copper river venture, but their money
will come principally from the
Close Brothers of London. The Close
Brothers are commonly reputed to own I
a majority of the stock and bonds of
the White Pass A Yukon railroad.
Sets Valdez Back
The chief significance of this new
move is the difficulty, if not impossi
bility, it places in the way of finano
j ing any railroad project from Valdez.
Notwithstanding Mr. Rosene’s claims,
it is generally believed here, and posi
tively asserted by the Graves-Heney
crowd, that he has not financed the
Copper River A Northwestern. J. P.
Morgan A Co., whom Mr. Rosene
claims to have back of him, have ex
plicitly denied that they were in any
way interested in his railroad venture.
’ The coming of the Graves crowd into
the Copper river field, with all the re
i sources of the ('lose Brothers, inter
fered seriously with Rosene’s financial
negotiations. It is now thought in re
liable quarters that Rosene will be un
able to raise money sufficient to build
the Copper River A Northwestern.
The selection of Orca instead of Val
dez by the Graves interests was to
avoid the destructive floods that sweep
down from the Valdez glacier, and to
avoid the crossing of the high moun
tain range back of Valdez, where
building would be excessive and the
cost of operation in winter very heavy
I on account of the deep snowfall at
; Thompson Pass. Then, too, the termi
nal facilities at Orca are better adapt
ed to the needs of a railroad and the
growth of a town.
Says He Will Build
i John Rosene, however, asserts that
j the Orca project will not interfere
with his plans in the least. He claims
to have money guaranteed to build to
the copper properties in the Copper
river valley.
Both the Graves and the Rosene pro
] jects contemplate building only to the
copper deposits of the Mount Wrangel
district, 150 miles or so from the
; coast. Either would be purely an ore
hauling road. The success of the
Alaska Central and its certain con
struction to the head of navigation on
the Tanana river has at last put a stop
i to all talk of a railroad from Valdez to
Kagle City. That dream, which orig
I inated during the Klondike rush out of
s a desire to get an All-American route
i to the Klondike, has disappeared with
the gradual working out of the Klon
dike district and the shifting of de
1 velopments to Central Alaska, in the
country tapped by the Alaska Central, j
RAILROAD SELECTS
TANANA TERMINALS
Alaska Central Agent Locates
Grounds Near Mouth of
Nenana River
Terminal grounds on the Tanana
j river have been selected by the Alas
5 ka Central Railroad. The papers,
showing the intention of the road,
were tiled with the recorder yesterday.
The place comprises forty acres, six
miles south of the Nenana. where the
Nenana river empties into the Tanana
river. George E. Baldwin is named in
j the papers as the agent for the road.
Mr. Baldwin has also filed notice of
a homestead of .120 acres which em
braces the forty acres, thus making
, the railroad's title doubly secure. By
| an act of congress approved May 14,
ISPS, and amended later, a railroad is
allowed the right to file upon a certain
number of acres for terminal purposes.
Mr. Baldwin is the engineer in
t charge of the survey work on this side
of the range. His party is now at the
head of the Nenana river in Broad
j Pass, ready to join the party from the
I Susitna side soon. Fairbanks News.
The Sitka Cablegram reports that
; A. E. Dickerman. the Chignik coal
magnate, has gone to Seattle.
The Liberals carried nearly every
! thing in the Russian parliamentary
I elections.
TEREDOS BALK
AT COTTONWOOD
Insects Dislike Flavor of Fiber of
That Tree and Avoid Piles
Made of It.
The engineering department of the
Alaska Central has found a kind of
wood that teredos will not eat. This is
Alaska cottonwood. At least the salt
water pests whoso vocation is the de
struction of wharf piling will not eat
cottenwood when any other brand of
breakfast food is handy. Whether
they would eat cottonwood in a ground
hog case has not been determined.
Certain it is that several cottonwood
piles which were driven under one of
the local docks a year and a half ago
stand unmarred by the corrosive
energy of the industrious testacean.
Wherefore the engineers a re rust
ling all the cottonwood piles they can
find. Cottonwood trees are not very
numerous in this part of Alaska and
only a small proportion of those are
suitable for wharf piles. Not enough
have been secured to support both
docks, and enough of other kinds of
wood are going in to keep the teredos
from starving and to prevent an ex
periment with the problem whether or
not the ravenous mollusk will feed on
cottonwood in default of other timber. 1
Inasmuch as the teredo is not cred-1
ited with a mental capacity which
would enable it to make an epicurean
selection among different fibers of
wood, selecting that which appeals
most strongly to the fastidious taste of
the insect, the theory has been adopted
that the Havor of cottonwood is un
savory to the teredo palate and that
the critter will not eat cottonwood un
der any circumstances. This supposed
discovery that the teredo, which was
believed to have the voracity of a goat
and the digestion of an ostrich,
possesses a relish in gustation which
rejects the taste of cottonwood, is
most welcome to wharf builders.
Ultimately creosoted piles will be
driven under the entire wharf. A
consignment of these is expected soon
and they will be placed under the
docks from time to time until they
furnish the whole support of the
structures. The pile-driver is now
steadily engaged in replacing the
piles which have been cut off in the
bloom of a promising career of useful
ness by the terebration of the rapac
ious sub-marine borer.
The Wrangel Sentinel came out
very small after the fire but promises
to grow again with the rebuilding of
the town, which is going on rapidly.
Indians stole about *1000 worth of
goods in the Wrangell tire but most
of it was recovered and the thieves
given six months each.
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Addres: Seldovia. Cook Inlet, Alaska,
or care Mail Agent, Steamer Dora
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If precedents count for anything, it won’t be Jong until la grippe
will have many of us in its clutches. No need for alarm, however, if
you are provided with a supply of Qulkerettes drip Care. 25 cents the
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