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iSTARTS BOOM
FOR ROOSEVELT
Washington Republican Conven
tion Picks Him for Can
didate in 1(H)8.
By Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Sept. 20 The republican
I state convention yesterday passed a
resolution calling upon President
| Koosevelt to accept the nomination in
190S as a reward for faithful public
! service. The resolution declares that
the present should be continued in of
fice until the reforms be has set on
1 foot are accomplished. It was intro
duced and passed just before adjourn
ment, after the regular platform had
been adopted and nominations made.
Congressmen t ushtnan. .Jones and
Humphrey were renominated, as were
the justices of the supreme court
whose terms are about to expire.
Delegates on Ground
Seattle. Sept. Is Delegates to the
republican state convention, which
meets in this city tomorrow, are nearly
all on tiie ground. The work of tin*
| convention is closely outlined, lhe
present congressmen will be renomi
I nated: the platform will contain a
\ plank favoring the enactment of a di
1 reel primary law. will indorse the
present national and >tnte administra
tions. the work of the Washington
; delegation in congress, and will reconi- >
mend that the next legislature make a
liberal appropriation for the Alaska
Yukon-l’acitic exposition, to beheld
in Seattle in l5H)b.
W ill Renominate Officials
Seattle. Sept, lb The republican
>tate convention will renominate the
present congressmen and the judges of
the supreme court whose terms expire
with tlie year. I’. S. Senator l'iles is
: temporary chairman of the convention
and S. G. Cosgrove of Pomeroy will be
permanent chairman. Nominations
may not he reached before evening.
ROOSEVELT AND
HIGGINS WIN
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
New York, Sept. l!» At the republi
can primaries in this city yesterday
j the organization headed by Congress
man Herbert Parsons, chairman of the
New York county republican commit
tee. and backed by President Koose
velt and Gov. Higgins, was successful
j in a majority of the districts anti will
■ continue to control the county organi- j
j/.ation. This was a defeat for Kx
j Gov. Odell, who " ill be ousted from
the chairmanship of the republican
state committee unless he can carry
I most of the up-state districts.
Indications now point to the renoiui
nation of Gov. Higgins, although
I Odell and Platt are both fighting him
and trying to secure the nomination of
' Charle> K. Hughes, chief counsel of
| the Armstrong legislative committee
I in the life insurance investigation.
PORTLAND SAILS WESTWARD
Brings Mail Rescued from Oregon and
Says Freight Will Be Saved
Steamer Portland reached Seward
■ last night at 8:30, having called at five
small way ports on her way from Val
dez. the trip consuming fifty-six hours.
She brought fifteen passengers and
about thirty tons of local merchandise.
She sailed for Seldovia and Kodiak
shortly after midnight.
Passengers on the Portland say that
when the steamer left Valdez no re
port had been received from the Ore
gon since the cutter Hush brought the
news that she was out of the water at
low tide. The impression seemed to
be that nhe case of the steamer was
hopeless hut that most of her cargo
could be saved, though nothing was
being done about it. The Oregon has
an enormous hole in her bottom and is
tilled with water at high tide.
Ends Life in Pawnshop
Kansas City, Mo.—An unknow n man
about Jo years old and poorly dressed
entered a pawnshop in Grand avenue,
between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets, in the business district here
i today and after asking to be shown a
revolver, tilled the weapon with car
'1 tridges taken from his pocket, leveled
it at the two employes in the place and
after forcing them into the street shot
himself in the head. He died within a
few minutes.
Gambler Kills Man Who Beat Him
Bluetield, W. Va. — When John
Smith, a white trackwalker, “broke”
Oley Fulton, a negro laborer, in a
■ game of craps at Antler and declined
to resume play after Fulton had ob
tained more money, the negro shot the
white man, killing him instantly.
Fulton was arrested by Foreman John
son of an extra force gang and was
hurried to Welch on a hand car to pre
vent a lynching. Johnson’s gang was
enraged by the murder.
MURPHY STILL
HOLDS TAMMANY
--
Present Leader of. Organization
Retains Control by Narrow
Margin.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
New York, Sept. IP —Charles P.
| Murphy retains control of the Tam
| many organization as the result of the
| democratic primaries in Manhattan
borough yesterday. His margin was
narrow and the contest bitter in many
districts. Murphy leaders were beat
en in several districts.
The success of Murphy is taken to
mean additional strength to the move
ment to secure for William R. Hearst
the indorsement of the democratic
state convention for governor.
Murphy is understood to be favorable
to Hearst’s nomination. Hearst has
already been nominated by the Inde
pendence League.
Tammany May Favor Hearst
New York, Sept. 20 Murphy says
he cannot yet state whether or not.
Tammany will nominate llearst for
governor. The general sentiment of
Tammany is in favor of Hearst but
there is strong opposition in other fac-;
tions of the party.
District Attorney Jerome came out
today with the announcement that he
favors home rule in all large cities and
believes that cities should own all
public utilities. Referring to Hearst’s
candidacy he says that Iloarst’s ap
parent strength is due to the cowardice
of men who should be democratic
leaders.
Democrats Oppose Hearst
Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 18—Leading
democrats of this city issued an address
today protesting against state fusion
with the Independence League, which
has nominated William It. Hearst for
governor, and objecting to the attempt
to exploit Hearst as the probable dem
ocratic nominee to the exclusion of all
other candidates.
DREDGING FOR GOLD IN
LOW GRADE GRAVELS
Success of That riethod of Alining in
California Proves Great Possi
bilities for Alaska.
Gold mining bv the dredger method
in the bars to which the system is
adapted is an important factor in the
gold production of the world today,
j and it is a method by which gravels of
very low grade can be worked. The
! machine dredgers now employed in
I California produce enormous profits in
‘ "-ravel where a miner working by hand
; could not make his board.
In all the gold districts of Alaska
exist bars which the placer miners
pass by after a brief test because they
j cannot “make wages." In many of
' these the pay is more than a cent to
! the pan. In California ground which
yields a cent to twelve pans is worked
with great profit by the dredgers.
The Guggenheims are buying whole
creeks in the Klondike region to be
worked by dredger. Of Alaska possi
: bilities a mining writer says:
i “In ININ! the first successful dredge
: was installed in California, atOroville,
and today there are thirty there. In
j New Zealand there are no less than
300 dredges in successful operation.
Africa, India and a variety of climates
and latitudes are witnessing their in
stallation. It is reported from Oroville
that the average yield does not exceed
17 cents, and that this makes fortunes,
showing that poorer ground could still
be worked. If a cubic yard contains
in round figures 200 pans, 17 cents to
the yard would be only 85-1000 of one
cent per pan, or 200 pans to 17 cents—
a color smaller than any usually found
in Alaska. Twelve pans to the cent
yields mammoth fortunes in California,
New Zealand and other countries. The
ground being worked in California is
ground worked out by the “Forty
niners," and afterwards worked by the
Chinese. A general impression has
been that when a Chinaman got
through mining a particular district,
the white man with all his ingenuity
and machinery had best keep out. But
Chinese methods are not much less
wasteful than those of first white
miners.
“Ground twelve pans to the cent
pays handsomely to work by dredges
in California. Doubtless it would have
to be better ground in Alaska, the
season being short and the gravel
harder to handle, though the record of
the Bear creek dredge in the Klondike
surpassed for twenty-four hours the
average California record. There is
little ground ip Alaska to be found of
so low a value. There are thousands
of acres of gold bearing gravel in all
parts of Alaska.”
“What did you get out of that will
case?” asked the first lawyer.
“Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars,” replied the second lawyer.
“Good round sum, eh?”
“Yes, but I thought the old man
left more than that.”
WANTS TO DROP
RAILROAD PLANK
Ox-Senator Jones Writes to Bryan
to Let Go Government
Ownership.
By Cable to Tbo Dally Gatoway.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 21—Former |
Senator Jones of Arkansas, who was ,
chairman of t lie democratic national
committee in the Bryan campaigns,
has written a letter to Bryan which
was given out today, advising him to
drop his project for government own
ership of railroads and take a stand for
rigid enforcement of the present laws
for regulation of railroad operation.
The ex-senator says government
ownership is undemocratic and un
popular in the south, and that what
the country really needs is honest en
forcement of existing laws concerning
the management of railroads.
Bryan in North Carolina
Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 18—William J.
Bryan began last night a series of
eleven speeches in this state. He at
tacked the trusts and said his conver
sion to the doctrine of government
ownership of railroads was due to his
decision that railroad corruption can
not he legislated out of politics under
private ownership of the roads.
Bryan Writes About Railroads
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 17—William J.
Bryan writes to Gov. Vardanian that
the corruption of politics by railroad
influences caused him to adopt his new
views in favor of government owner
ship. _
No rieddling With Jim Crow Cars
Richmond, Va., Sept. 17 In an ad
dress here Saturday night Bryan said
the democratic party would not favor
any railroad legislation which would
interfere with “Jim Crow” cars or
compel Southerners to ride in the
same cars with negroes.
Prosperity Not Republican Product
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 21—In his address
here last night Mr. Bryan said the
republican party had been for years
claiming credit for national prosperity
when the real fact is that whatever
prosperity now exists is due to the act
of God and to efforts to carry out the
democratic platform.
MAGAZINE AT
54 BLOWS UP
The powiler house at camp 54 blew
up Tuesday morning with twenty-four
cases of No. 2 giant powder but nobody
was hurt. The powder man had just
left tin* house a few minutes previous
; ly, after thawing some powder for
i use. It is supposed that fragments of
the glycerine paper which wraps the
! sticks were dropped near the stove and
! became heated to the explosive point.
The powder house is on a hillside
near the camp and the explosion jarred
everything but no damage was done
except to the magazine and powder.
TOLEDO TO GO OUTSIDE
Calls in at Seward on Her Way to La
touche With Lumber Cargo
Steamer Toledo arrived in Seward
yesterday morning on her way
to Seattle. She carried a cargo of
lumber from Aurora for the Reynolds
copper mine at Latouche. Capt. Shaw
of the Tyonic will take the steamer
out.\Capt. Blodgett was aboard but will
return to Seldovia. The Toledo
sailed this morning.
The Toledo brought thirty passen
gers to Seward and reports that sev
eral miners from the Yentna with con
siderable dust are waiting at Seldovia
to go outside on the Portland.
An effort is on foot among the local
business men to induce Capt. Blodgett
to place the Inlet steamer Tyonic on
the run from Seward to the nearer
ports of Prince William sound. Dr.
Daggett is working industriously on
the project and obtained from Capt.
Blodgett an agreement to try the ex
periment if he can be assured of a
reasonable prospect of making ex
penses. He says he will keep the boat
on the run all winter if he can break
even, as she would otherwise be tied
up at Seldovia. He says that Seward
sells merchandise at lower figures than
Valdez and ought to work up a good
trade in tho Sound ports. An agree
ment to work up trade and ship on the
Tyonic was signed by nearly every
merchant in town.
The minister was shocked when the
young lady declined an introduction to
some of his parishioners.
“Why, my dear young lady, did you
ever think that perhaps you will have
to mingle with those good people when
you get to heaven?’’
“Well,” she exclaimed, “that will
be soon enough.”
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Entertainments Every Evening
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Seward Bakery
Opposite Postoffice >
Fresh home-made, Bread. Pies
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Whole Wheat, Graham, Rye
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