WORK SUSPENDED ON
REYNOLDS RAILROAD
No Money to Cash Pay Checks, Promoter’s Bank
Closes Doors and 500 Laborers, Mostly
Broke, on Way to Valdez to Start
Trouble-City Appoints fifty
Special Police and Will
feed Destitute.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Valdez, Oct. U— Work on the Alas
ka Home Railway stopped this morn
ing for lack of funds. Yesterday
payday but no pay was forthcoming.
Five hundred men who have been
working on the grade are coming in
this afternoon and in anticipation of
trouble fifty special policemen were
appointed today by the city council.
The city government will arrange
to feed the destitute, who are apt to
be numerous. Many of the laboieis
were penniless when they went to
work and as there is no money in sight
to cash pay checks they will be abso
lutely broke.
The property of the railroad com
pany was attached this morning and
the Reynolds bank wa> closed. It i
thought that the assets of the bank
will cover the liabilities.
No Trouble W ith Men
Valdez, Oct. 12— F.vhT' »Win.r
here. The marshal has closed al.
saloons until atYa.irs have settled down.
There will be a general exodus of lab
orer. to K at alia. The Katalla Com
pany posted notices today otYering free
transportation and work to all who
wish to go. The Saratoga will take
most of the unemployed to that place.
Many Ministers Victims
Boston, Oct. 12—Many ministers
who had invested their savings in H.
1). Reynolds’enterprises are hard hit
by the failure of the Reynolds bank at
Valdez, Alaska.
Private messages from Valdez to
Seward men state that the Reynolds
bank will probably be able to pay out
in time and that the mining interests
are >till solvent. The railroad, of
course, is a dead one. It was never
anything but a bubble and Valdez
business men never regarded it
seriously.
This news has been foreshadowed for
several days and was discounted by the
arrival in SewardWednesdav of protest
ed checks calling for given to
Seward business houses by different
Reynolds companies on various ac
counts, payment of which was refused
through lack of funds when nresented
at the Reynolds bank in Valdez. Sew
ard men coming from Valdez for the
past two weeks have predicted that
the Reynolds railroad would not sur
vive the October payday nor be able
to meet its demands.
RECEIVER FOR
SOLOMON ROAD
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
.\'<?wark, X. J.. Oct. 1- — Jerome
Godlev wa-appointed receiver of tie*
Council < ity and Solomon llailroat .
on St»wan; peninsula. Alaska, today.
Tin- oh • is to prevent an execution
vih* of h< road to satisfy a jutbfiuen’
uf '• -ni' d by N'lineites. Th
reeu ivt r .- ill a-.k authority to issue
c*er»itiv*ates of indebtedness to mee'
eun « >:i demands.
SEATTLE-ALASKA COMPANY
BUSY ON LATGUCHE ISLAND
< >n the •o.nh'\v>terly edge of l-a*
touche i-at d -iteouhtn t he called iu
corner because nature made no Coi
ner there The Seat tie-Alaska Topper
Corn pa n\ A developing property which
contains higher grade ore at the sm
face than anything yet found on that
copper-drugged island. Kepeated a>
says of 15 to 20 per cent have been
obtained from a ledge forty to titty
feet wide with a pay streak of four
feet.
The ledge is exposed at the water’s
edge and development work is in pro
gress just above high tide. Alter
drifting on the vein to select a promis
ing spot the company began sinking a
shaft, which is now down twenty-five
feet. The drills are driven by com
pressed air power and eight or ten
men are employed in two shifts. About
$10,000 has been spent by tbe company
so far and work will be continued all
winter at the present rate.
SUGAR GOES UP 20 CENTS
A BARREL ON ENTIRE COAST
Los Angeles, Oct. 11—Sugar goes up
today 20 cents a barrel on the entire
Pacific coast.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Lewis L. Bow
ers of Kodiak was married to Mrs. M.
S. Clark September 25.
HARRIMAN CUTS
DOWN EXPENSES
iv Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
New York. <Vt. 1- K. H- Uarritnan
; issued orders today for the managers
i>i all ld> lines to reduce operating
ntrees and cut down expense* in every
wav. All new work will be stopped
■ ; many thousand men will be di*
ehaiired.
CHARLES HARPER ARRESTED
FOR LAKE CREEK AFFAIR
ChaHe-' Harper was arrested upon ]
hi' arrival in Seward Saturday night
l,\ virtue of a warrant charging him ]
! with participating in the alleged at-1
tempt to lynch J. K. Kenn\ at Lake j
creek. He gave cash bail of $200 he- j
i fore Commissioner Heed until Tuesday ]
when he will give a bond.
Harper claims that he had nothing]
to do with the tea party. Karlier in
the season he left some money with
Kenny to keep for him while he went
up the river with his brother, Al Har
per. on a prospecting expedition. He
came down the river just as the trouble
was starting and got his own money
from Kenny, but denies any connection
with the lynching. His brother came
with him to Seward and they brought
considerable gold dust.
Saratoga Sails Westward
Steamer Saratoga reached port from
Seattle at Wednesday night and sailed
for Seldovia at 4 next morning. She
: brought ten passengers and a small
| freight cargo.
It is reported that members of the
Buffalo crew fired on a band of horses
at mile 35 of the railroad, in the be
lief that the animals were moose. It
is also affirmed that they failed to hit
any of the stock. But then the whole
story may be a dream.
Dance halls in the Yukon are again
doomed.
TACOMA TAKES
ALASKA COAST
Business Men of City Buy Steam
ship Company and Will
Move Main Office
- i
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Oct, 11 — The Alaska Coast
Company becomes the property of
Tacoma business men and the com
pany's headquarters will be moved to
that city immediately. Reynolds is
out of it.
Reynolds failed to secure any sub
stantial financial aid for his Alaska
Home Railway.
Concerning tin* closing of the Rey
nolds bank at Valdez Mr. Reynolds
issues a statement saying that all de
positors will be protected and that the
suspension is only temporary.
Reynolds Loses Option
Seattle, Oct. !) — H. D. Reynolds
loses the Alaska Coast Company by
reason of his failure to take up his
option to purchase it. The control goes
to the capitalists who recently bought
the Alaska Pacific Steamship Company.
H. F. Alexander is vice president and
general manager and a Tacoma man
will be appointed president in a few
weeks.
YUCATAN HAS
HOODOO TRIP
After making the record r in of three
; days anu eighteen hours from Seattle
to Katalla, loaded with ft eight, the
steamer Yucatan bumped into so many
obstacles that she was live days com
ing the remainder of the way to Sew
ard.
The steamer lay at Katalla forty
eight hours vainly awaiting the sub
sidence of wind and wave so that she
could discharge 900 tons of freight.
Then ( apt- Moore move along to Yal
I dez and ran into a longshoremen's
strike and the Valdez cargo had to be
' sot ashore by the steamer crew. That
| would not have been difficult if the
| Katalla cargo had not been in the way.
It required thirty-six hours to shove
| that aside and get the Valdez cargo
j out past it.
The Yucatan arrived in Seward at
i 4:.;o |>. m. Monday and sailed at
|p. in. Tuesday. She brought
I twenty-three first-class passengers to
I Seward but as she did not make up the
number until she reached Latouchc
' none of the hoodoo can he charged up
! to that. She brought for this port
seventy-five tons of freight, including
nearly 40,000 feet of bridge timber for
the Alaska Central.
RECORD BROKEN
BY LUSITANIA
3y Cable to The Daily Gateway.
New York, Oct. U—The biff Cunard
liner Lusitania today broke the At
lantic record from Queenstown to
New York, arriving- in four days and
twenty hours. On her previous trip
she failed by only thirty-five minutes
to take the record from the Deutsch
land.
WELLMAN BOAT
LOST WITH MEN
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Copenhagen, Oct. 11— Walter Well
man’s exploration boat, the Fridjof,
was wrecked yesterday on an island
in Seyisjord, and all the crew were
lost. _
Robert Michaelsen came in Saturday
night from Mills creek, where he has
been working his hydraulic property
during the summer.
TO TEST COAL
OF MATANUSKA
Navy Department Makes Requi
sition for Fifty Tons
for Experiment.
CHICK ALOON WILL BE TRIED
Sample Will Be Taken out This Win
ter and Sledded to Knik to Be
Shipped Next Summer.
A cable message came yesterday di
recting the cruiser Buffalo to arrange
for securing fifty tons of Matanuska
coal to be sent to the Atlantic coast
for test by the navy department as to
its quality. This will be taken out
from the Chickaloon river bed this
this winter, sledded to Knik and car
ried out by way of the inlet as early as
navigation opens next spring.
The Buffalo came here with instruc
tions to take out with her fifty tons of
Matanuska coal for testing, the navy
department having obtained the erron
eous idea that the coal was already ac
cessible. This was no doubt due to the
somewhat extensive notice the Mata
nuska coal has received through the
reports of Mr. Griffith and Prof. Mar
tin, the former a noted Pennsylvania
expert, and the latter a member of the
government geological survey.
The hydrographic work of the sur
vey for the coaling station is practical
ly o/impl“r'vl Wnmo um»l/ nn lonrl nn
mains and Capt Pond says it is abso
lutely necessary to have one or two
sunny days to take certain observa
tions. At the rate sunny days have
been coming in October this will make
the Buffalo a fixture in Resurrection
bay.
ARTILLERY ON
SEAL ISLANDS
8y Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Victoria: l>. C. Oct. i) — Sealers re
turning from Berinir sea report that
the Pnitcd States government is plac
inuf rapid tire yftins on St. Paul and St.
(Joorjje islands to protect the seal
rookeries from Japanese poacht rs.
Officers of the cruiser Buffalo say
this is true and that there is apparent
ly no secret about it. A steamer of the
North American company landed the
jruns on the islands last summer but
were not mounted when the cruiser
left. The artillery included mountain
1 howitzers and machine tfuns.
CASSIE CHADWICK DIES
NO RELATIVES PRESENT
Columbus, O., Oct. 11 Cassie Chad
wick died last night at 10 o'clock. No
relatives or friends were present at
her bedside. She made no confession.
She was serving a ten year term in
the state prison where she died.
Cassie Chadwick has Relapse
Columbus, O., Oct 10—Cassie Chad
wick is in a serious condition. She
suffered a relapse last night.
Finds 60 School Children
Rev. L. H. Pedersen reports that
the school census shows 60 children of
school age in Seward. The years are
between 6 and 20.
The Kodiak Orphanage News-Letter
brings the news that Marcia Ezewau
wuk is dead. She was the native girl
who lived in Dr. Daggett’s family as
nurse girl for a year. She went bacK
to Kodiak last spring.
Three men were sent down today to
work on the Fairview group of copper
claims below Sunny bay.
SUNRISE TRAIL
NOW COMPLETED
Gives Wide Road From Railroad
to Turnagaiii Arm Thirty
one Miles Long*.
WORK RFCFIVFS MUCH PRAISE
Distance Reduced Considerably,
Streams Bridged and Swamps
Covered With Corduroy.
Thirty-one miles of government trail,
twelve feet wide, with substantial
bridges across streams and corduroy
through swamps now connect mile 34
of the Alaska Central with the town
of Sunrise on Turnagain arm. Twenty
three miles of this new road. From
the forks of Six-Mile to Sunrise, eight
miles, a good trail already existed and
the only work necessary was to widen
it and make a few repairs. The trail
shortens the distance to Sunrise at
least four miles.
A trail six miles long was cut from
Sunrise to Hope, shortening the dis
tance between the two towns three
miles. This is not as good a road as
the trail to the railroad but will make
a good sled road in the winter and
pack trail at other seasons.
A roadway was made from Seward to
Bear river, six miles, which will give
the homesteaders a good road to town.
It includes a long bridge across Res
urrection river which cost $1500, as
weff as smaller bridges. The work of
cutting the trail through the timber
was done bv the farmers :ir their own
expense. The road is level and with
a little clearing of stumps and ironing
out of rough spots will be a first class
highway.
This is the extent of the work by the
Alaska road commission in the vicinity
(Continued on page 2)
ALASKA CABLE
WORKING AGAIN
The Alaska cable was connected again
Monday morning at 2:40. The break
was a short distance this side of Sitka.
The cable was not severed hut had
rested upon a sharp reef until the
pressure wore it oil' and broke the n
sulation.
Urges Another Alaska Cable
Seattle, Oct. 10 Gen. Jame* A >*n.
chief of the signal bureau of the war
department, advocates laying another
cable to Alaska. He says that if the
present one should break in deep water
between October and June it would be
impossible to pick it up and repair
it during that time.
Gen. Allen will officially recommend
the second cable and will also urge var
ious other additions to the telegraph
and cable service.
SAN FRANCISCO DEMOCRATS
NOMINATE MAYOR TAYLOR
San Francisco. Oct. 3 — Delayed in
transmission — The democrats today
nominated Acting Mayor Edward R.
Taylor to run in the November elec
tion. The platform calls for vigorous
prosecution of grafters.
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED
IN GERMAN TORNADO
Leeds, Germany, Oct. 9—Fifteen per
sons were killed this morning in a tor
nado by falling trees.
Alfred Lowell mushed in Saturday
night from the Kahiltna country. He
denies bringing any money with him
but says Herndon, Jacobs and others
from Nugget, Falls and Cache creek
are coming by way of Seldovia with a
lot of dust. He came to the inlet with
them.
Eva Emery Dye will color up some
Alaska yarns for publication.