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APPOINTS MANAGER FOR THE ALASKA NORTHERN
SURVEYOR GENERAL TO TAKE SUBMARINE WARFARE ENDED
OVER THE ALASKA NORTHERN! BY INVENTION TO CATCH THEM
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SEATTLE, Oct. 1.—Secretary Lane of the Interior
department has instructed the surveyor general of Wash
ington to take over and handle the business of the Alaska
Northern railroad until the government winds up its busi
ness with the corporation and makes its final payment. It
is assumed that the road will be operated with a view to
securing all the revenue possible. There is no reason giv
en why the surveyor general has been appointed to this
task but it is supposed that the operation of any govern
ment road is outside the province of the Engineering
Commission.
NOME SEES GREAT
DAYS AHEAD AGAIN
NOME, Oct. 1.—Two of the most
remarkable strikes in the history of
Alaska have just been made in this
camp. One is a placer strike at
Solomon which means nothing less
tha t the picking up of a new Third
beach line and the other is a strike
of quartz on Boulder creek which has
resulted in the uncovering of ore that
has more gold than rock in places.
Halla and Harvey are the discoverers
of the Solmon property. One is Otto
Halla who has been in the district for
many years and has made important
locations. At the time of sending this
dispatch the exact details of the value
of the srike have not been learned and
all that can be told is that it is quite
a distance inland and is very rich. !
INJURED MAN
PASSES AWAY
ALSO FATHER-IN-LAW OF AUDI- j
TOR COPPER RIVER R. R.
DROPS DEAD.
CORDOVA, Oct. 2.—Andrew ;
Schneider, father-in-law of John
Lydick, auditor of the railroad died
suddenly last night of hemorrhage of
the lungs. He was sixty-six years of
age. He will be buried in Chicago.
Joseph Moses, the man injured by
the powder explosion at Port Wells,
died here in the hospital last night.
EXPELLED FROM ANNAPOLIS.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Secretary
of the navy, Daniels, has expelled six
Annapolis students for hazing and has
suspended six middies for a like
cause.
ALAMEDA PASSENGERS.
Among those who are passengers
from this place for Anchorage on the
Alameda are: Charles E. Brown, Mrs.
Brown, Miss Martha White, Miss
Grace Gaines, C. Fish, Roy Anderson,
M. Van Haltern Gaston Hardy, H. E
Revel, Harry Whittemore, C. E. Her
ron and three steerage.
TELEGRAPH SERVICE TO
ANCHORAGE DELAYED.
Part of the telegraph instruments
for the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion arrived on the Alameda this
morning, but some of the most im
portant parts of the system were not
included in the shipment and instead
of telegraph servic*. opening Monday
morning, it will not commence till the
middle of the month.
AMSTERDAM.—All German mili
tary commanders, with one exception
—General Falkenhayen—are between
sixty-five and seventy-two years old.
Falkenhayn is fifty-nine.
The belief now is that it will mean the
establishment of a new Nome in that
neighborhood. The strike of quartz
on Boulder creek was made by the
Boulder Creek Mining company which
has been operating placer ground on
the creek for some years. Boulder
I creek runs into Snake river on the
right limit a few miles above the
mouth of Glacier creek. The ore is
so rich that it would be almost im
possible to get anyone to believe the
story without seeing the rock itself.
The discoverers are now hard at work
pros] ccting to discover the extent of
the l«dge and from the last accounts
it is evident that it is no pocket but
a red mine. The whole district is ex
cited by the two strikes and boom
days promise to return.
IBACH FA MIL \ WELL
KNOWN AT CORDOVA.
People in Seward Knew the Ibachs
W ho Had a Fox Ranch at
Middleton Island.
Joseph Ibach and his family, who
were reported blown to sea, are well
known by people now residents in
Seward. Mr. Ibach had, or, let us
hope, has a fox ranch on Middleton
Island. Mr. and Mrs Ibach were
married six years ago so that the
members of the family accompanying
them on the boat must have been very
young. Leo Margules knew the peo
ple very well.
THE CHIGACH FOREST
HAS MANY CHANGES.
W. J. McDonald, of the forestry
service, came in on the car yester- i
day afternoon to meet his wife who
came on the Alameda from Cordova.
After finishing about ten days work
in the Kenai Lake vicinity they will
leave for Anchorage overland. Mr.
McDonald 6ays that with the aid of
T. M. Hunt, also of the service, they
will finish the survey work on the
Cook inlet in about a month and a
half. Mr. McDonald states that the
Chugach National Forest boundaries
have been changed very much during
the past season. In fact the territory
has been cut almost in half. The
Kenai Peninsula boundary was form
erly at Mile 12 but has now been mov
ed to Mile Six. A lot of the Copper
River territory has been removed
from the re.^rve. A new map, gotten
out by the Forestry Service, show
ing the new boundaries is now' on the
press and should reach here at any
time now.
CHISANA OUTPUT $165,000.
George H. Moshier, a Chisana Min
ing operator, was a passenger on the
Alameda today, on his way to An
chorage. He reports the total produc
tion for the Chisana for the past sea
son to be about $165,000. A great
lack of water for sluicing curtailed
the output.
NO NEWS FROM
MELVIN DEMPSEY.
Relieved that Ho Was Swept to His
Death While Trying to Ford
Some of the Streams.
VALDEZ, Sept. 30.—It is feared
; that the fate of Melvin Dempsey, who
disappeared while en route from Pax
ton’s roadhouse to Slate creek, several
f vecks ago, will never be known and
that his disappearance is another of
the tragedies which have ended the
life of so many of the venturesome
nen who are pioneering Alaska.
Arthur McNeer, the well known
oldtimer along the coast and in the
Interior, who spent several days in
company with a Signal Corps man
searching for trace of Dempsey, has
returned to Valdez and expresses the
belief that Dempsey was swept off his
feet and drowned while crossing some
stream. Just previous to Dempsey’s
leaving on the trip heavy rains had
fallen and the rivers were running
bank full and rendered fording ex
'remely difficult.
Melvin Dempsey was one of the
pioneers of Valdez and was the dis
coverer of Slate creek, which has
yielded a great store of the precious
yellow metal. He still owned valu
able property in the district and was
endeavoring to finance the installation
of a hydraulic plant on the ground
and the trip from which he has fail
ed to return was being made for the
purpose of securing additional data
concerning the ground and flow' of
water in the stream.—(Valdez Pros
pector. )
BIG STRIKE OF ANTIMONY
IN THE NIZINA DISTRICT.
M. F. Rowland the original discov
erer of the Nizina placer gold fields,
has just returned from that section
where he staked a large ledge of anti
mony. This metal was discovered fif
teen years ago, but its commercial
value was not know'n at that time,
but since a market has been establish
ed for antimony the uncovering of a
body of this ore is of considerable
importance.—(Times.)
GOV’T. HOMES READY.
The homes built by the Engineer
ing Commission are nearly finished
and one family will move in within
the next two or three days. The
Commission employees will not get
these homes free of rent as is suppos
ed by many. They will pay one per
cent of the cost of building as rent
each month. This makes a return of
12 per cent per year for the invest
ment the government makes.
TWO WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
MARRIED LAST NIGHT.
At the Methodist Parsonage, Rev.
C. T Cook yesterday evening, united
in marriage Charles Mathison, of
Hope, and Mrs. Maud Atkinson, also
of Hope. Both the bride and bride
groom are well known people in these
part.?, Mrs. Mathison being the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gil
patrick of Seward. Mr. Mathison is
one of the members of the Mathison
Mining company of Hope. They will
return to Hope next Monday morning
on the car to make that place their
future home. This is one of the w'ed
dings hinted at in yesterday’s Gate
way.
GENEVA.—The alarmed bleating
of a lamb—mascot of a regiment of
Italian Bersaglier—near Monte Nero
led to the discovery of an attempted
enemy surprise and caused the defeat
1 of the Austrians with heavy loss.
INVENTION TO
KILL STATIC
GREATEST FOE OF WIRELESS
WORK DOOMED BY COLUM
BIA PROFESSOR.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—A Columbia
processor has announced the invention
of a device which kills “static," the
greatest foe of wireless operation.
The invention has been tested by
other scientists and has been found to
possess all the qualities claimed for
it by the inventor. The same profes
sor has invented also an arrange
ment by which the human voice can
be transmitted in limited manner by
wireless.
SWANITZ COMING.
SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—Col. Swanitz,
the Alaskan railroad builder, and At
torney West, of San Francisco, are in
Seattle en route to Valdez to attend
the case of the Alaska Northern Rail
road vs. John E. Ballaine, set for trial
at Valdez early in October.
Condensed Cables
LONDON, Oct. 1-2.—Three hun
dred thousand men is total losses of
both sides in great west drive which
is now on its seventh day\ One hun
dred and twenty-five big guns captur
ed by French in Champagne alone.
PARIS, Oct. 1.—Seven mines each
containing a hundred pounds of powd
er were exploded with terrific roar as
soon as signal given to the French to
advance at Souchez, according to the
story of the official eye witness.
LONDON, Oct. 1-2.—The Allies
have now extended their front in
France by twenty miles. Britain now
has a million men in field in France
and will send another half million.
PARIS, Oct. 2.—The French have
made fair progress in the Artois dis
trict by attacking the trenches with
hand grenades. The Germans have
made counter attacks in the Cham
pagne. The Germans bombarded the
French positions north of the Aisne
but delivered no infantry attacks.
Neither side reports any important
advances.
ALAMEDA HAS MUCH
FREIGHT FOR HERE.
The Alameda brought over 250 tons
of freight for Seward this trip. The
shipment includes 90,000 feet of lum
ber for the Alaskan Engiueering
Commission and 7,000 shingles for the
same consignee. Outside of this ship
ment the balance was made up of
small shipments to the local mer
chants. Much fruit came in on the
Alameda. She had about 500 tons
aboard for Anchorage this trip.
ALAMEDA ARRIVES.
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The Alameda, Captain O’Brien, ar
rived this morning about 4:4.) from
the south bringing 28 passengers for
this place. Those arriving on her
were: Guy Job, R. Downey, T. Gil
liespie, H. W. Wilson, C. W. Spear,
A. Layman, C. C. Howard, Mrs. Whit
more, W. Gustan, A. W. Ellis, J.
Ronan and family, M. O. Cameron, H.
G. Hayes, J. B Oliver, F. Crawford, L.
Rosenthal, Mrs. T. Yowell, G. Bittner,
E. Bittner, Mrs. W. J. McDonald, J.
J. Finnegan and family, G. S.
Moshier, V. Comisky and wife.
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CLEARED OP CHARGE
OF EXPLOSION.
The jury in the case of Joe Domen
zet, indicted by the grand jury on
the charge of malicious destruction of
personal property, returned a ver
dict of not guilty at 9 o’clock last
night, after being out several hours
considering the evidence offered dur
ing the trial which occupied nearly
two days. Domenzet was discharged
by the court after the reading of the
jury’s finding in the case. — (Valdez
Minjr.)
SEWARD JURORS FOR
COURT TERM HERE, j
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The jurors summoned from this city
for the term of court to be held at
Seward November first are: Percy
Pullen, Alex Little, H. J. Haasch, H.
H. Hildreth, Otto H. Poehlman, Guy
B. Poindexter, J. J. McGrath and F.
A. Hancock.
FARRAGUT MONDAY.
The Admiral Farragut sailed from
Juneau at 9 o’clock yesterday morn
ing and should arrive here sometime
Monday.
(Via Egbert and Ashcroft)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The official reports from
London today state that submarine warfare has now
come to an end and its doom has been sealed by a wonder
' ful invention to locate and destroy them. Fifty-seven
German undersea essels, according to the official reports
today, have been destroyed or captured within the past
three weeks. The new method for fighting the submar
1 ines is for divers to locate them by a telephone apparatus.
This method is sure and fleets of swift motor vessels were
kept on hand near the place where the submarines are
i found so that when the submarines came up they were
easily destroyed. Some of the fifty-seven accounted for
j were caught in the net arrangements which the British
: admiralty had placed. When the submarines get caught
' in the nets they have to come to the surface to be disen
tangled and the new motor boats are on the watch in the
! regions where the nets are placed. Submarine warfare
is now past and dreadnaughts remain the mainstay.
ALLIES HAVE SOME SUCCESS
SEATTLE, Oct. 1.—News from European centers
today indicates that the allied drive has gained some suc
cesses. Berlin admits the loss of Mill 191 and some other
reverses but adheres to the statement that the main line
remains unbroken. A dispatch from Cologne says that
the Allies have lost nearly a quarter of a million men in
the drive. Paris claims large success of local importance
in various parts of the front and she believes that the Gci -
man front generally is giving signs of breaking. Nothing
decisive is reported from any quarter.
FIVE HUNDRED DEAD
IN GREAT HURRICANE
BIG CONFERENCE
TO START MONDAY.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 30.— j
Great preparations are being made
for the conference on National De
fense, which will be held in Washing
ton October 4-7, immediately follow- j
ing the Grand Army of the Republic
Encampment. The Conference on
National Defense, to be held under
auspices of the National Defense
League, and in which the Navy
League, National Rifle Association,
and affiliated defense organization
will participate, promises to be as
large a gathering as the G. A. R., en
campment. Thousands of the Grand
Army veterans have written to the
National Defense League that they
will remain in Washington after the
encampment to attend the Confer
ence on National Defense.
Announcement was made today of
the appointment by Representative
Julius Kahn, of California, chairman
of the National Defense, of a citizens
committee of prominent Washington
ians who will have charge of local ar
rangements for the conference. The
press committee of the conference
announced today by Chairman I* rank
B. Lord, president of the National
Press Club, includes practically the
whole membership of the Congres
sional Press Gallery and all of the
leading newspapermen of the Nation
al Capital.
The speakers’ program, now being
completed, will include the most
prominent men in the country, and
will be announced in a few days.
The Conference on National De
fense, which will be the first national
gathering ever held in the United
States to consider the problem of de
fenses for the nation, will, it is ex
pected, have an important bearing on
the action to be taken by Congress
at the next session regarding in
creases in the Navy, Army, coast de
fenses, and National Guard. Every
phase of the National defense is to be
considered at the conference.
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Largest and most complete line of
furniture in the city at
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First.”
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1—Five hundred and forty
five are dead or missing as a result of the great hurricane,
the story of which was cabled to the Gateway yesterday.
The deaths occurred at various places in the states ot
Louisiana and Mississippi which were swept by the most
frightful storm of the century and suffered damage to the
extent of twelve million dollars. The wind blew almost
all of Thursday night. Wires are down everywhere am.
railroad business has been demoralized but efforts are be
ing made to restore communications. Reports of a lu
kind are being awaited from the gulf coasts and the
interior._ ___
JURORS DRAWN FOR
THE SEWARD TERM.
Twenty-four Names Drawn from Box
for Service During Coming
Term of Court.
VALDEZ, Sept. 28.—The drawing
for petit jurors to serve at the term
of the district court to convene at
Seward on November 1, was made
this morning at the court house at 10
o’clock, when Clerk of the Court
Arthur Lang and Jury Commissioner
J. C. Martin drew the names of
twenty-four citizens from the box.
The name3 of several Valdez people
appears in the list. Following is the
list in the order in which the names
were drawn:
Dan Ross, Valdez; Charles Koppus,
Valdez; R. N. McFadden, Copper
creek; J. J. McGrath, Sefward; John
Ferguson, Cooper Creek; Allan A.
Johnson, Cordova; Geo. Merrifield,
Valdez; J. A. Johnson, Cooper Creek;
G. B. Poindexter, Seward; 0. H. Poehl
man, Seward; H. G. Ward, Latouche;
H .H. Hildreth, Seward; F. H. Shel
don, Cordova, H. J. Haasch, Seward;
Alex Littel, Seward; Marvin Burford,
Valdez; Geo. E. Scott, Cordova; Percy
Pullen, Seward; F. A. Hancock, Se
ward; Martin Ellingson, Valdez; Jos.
A. Olson, Valdez; C. E. Duffield, Val
dez; Robt. Atkinson, Ellamar; John
Erickson, Valdez.
MAN ARRESTED FOR
MURDER ACQUITTED.
The grand jury at Valdez found
not a true bill in the case of the man
who was under arrest for the murder
of Schonborn, the stor|keeper near
Ch»*sana.
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HOSPITAL FAIR
IN FORTNIGHT
BIG AFFAIR TO COME OFF IN A.
B. HALL TO AID A
CHARITY.
Two weeks from tonight a big Fair
will be given in the Arctic Brother
hood hall for the benefit of the hospi
tal which is to be built here. The
plans are not yet complete but that
it will be an occasion of very real
pleasure and importance is sure. 1 he
raffling off of several valuable prizes
will be part of the progiam and some
prizes have already been donated.
Mr. T. W. Hawkins has donated a
beautiful set of furs. Mrs. Sears has
also donated some beautiful articles.
The ladies are now busy preparing
for the event.
WELLS FARGO MAN HERE.
H. S. Wilson, route agent for the
Wells Fargo company, arrived on the
Alameda and went to the westward.
H. T. FOWLER COMES.
H. T. Fowler of the Pacific Grocery
company is a passenger for Anchor
age on the Alameda. He has been
mentioned as one of the men who are
about to establish a new bank at An
chorage but he says he has only a
•mall interest in the bank and is not
at all one of the prime movers. He
does not think the Pacific Grocery
company will establish a branch it
Seward.