V,M j. Nt> ;s. SEWARD. ALASKA. SATl'ltDAY, WAVS, H>0(>.
LIGHT THROUGH
TWO TUNNELS
Headings Finished in Second and
Fourth and Benches Are
Close Behind.
IORING GOES ON STEADILY
At Present Rate of Progress Track
laying May Be Resumed Soon
er than T\pected.
Daylight shows from end to end of
tunnels 2 and 5 on mile ->2 of the rail
road. The headings oroke through
Yesterday and the Iwmches will soon l>e
finished. Kaeh o} these tunnels is
about :>oo feet long. The heading, or
upper half of the bore* is kept ^ lew
yards in advance of the bench, or
lower half. Tunnel No. 2 was Uned
entirely from the north end. No. 5
was tton'd from lioth ends.
During proceeds briskly on ah ho t
other tunnels whioh have been com-,
tnenced. No important ilelays have j
Inen encounter'd for several weeks
and all through April the work went j
forw ard at a rate which exceeded the
hopes of the construction department. ‘
ft now seems probable that all the J
tunnels will be bored sooner than was ,
expected :t shor’ time ago.
TO TRY BEE CULTURE
IN >USITNA V ALLEY
Morrell VNarren Arrives With Eight
Stands and Will homestead
Near Cook Inlet.
Morrell Warren arrived in Seward j
on the Excelsior with eight stands of
bees which In' intends to take int > the I
Susitna vail**' as s.mui a> a steamer c in j
transport him up the river with his
'lock. He * \}*ect> to take up a home
stead then* and «iev*»te his energies tv)
bee culture. H« is an « xperienced ** *••
man ami cone - from near l*ot land.
Oregon, where he lias be*n a :!•>
business.
v\’ ‘ :
account »: .Mr. Warren > intent.<•
taken from a Portland paper* several
w.
sto!*\ was received with some incr* *du
litv an-', inor** or less merriment local*
lv. Nevertheless Mr. Warren is here
and so an* h«* !»■ s. He affirms that
be knows what ■ s doing in bringing
these ;no is*:*ious insects to Alaska.
He has been in the eg ion around
Took inlet in The summer time and >
we!i- 1 -li - six a*a
fCSOUIVs. tie -a;, s that nmm-ro :>
lowers '•< \ ih-'t
honey-mn ;;t g pole t
limit a-, to demand.
do mark* gardening and or tha* run
pose w .1 local- U a.r a |>t>*':1 * - •
town on the route u> * ne A< --ska '■
trai. He will n S "an '
two weeks, or utr . th* ice breaks »
in the Su>*na river - that boats can
wo op. The bees at present are undei*
roof in the warehouse on 'he "hart
but if the sun comes out they will l*e
set outdoors to flourish under a .wire
netting. While in Seward their owner
will have to buy sugar for them.
GOMEZ INSULTS
RIVAL REPUBLIC
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. I). CM May 4 Advices
to the state department from the
American mission at Caracas announce
that President Gomez of Venezuela
has refused te receive Dr. Herrera of
Colombia as the new minister from the
latter republic to Venezuela. It is re
ported also that Gomez personally in
sulted Herrera. The action of Gomez
has roused much popular talk of
war in both countries.
Gomez recently succeeded ('astro as
president of Venezuela and has begun
to carry on affairs in a high-handed
manner which indicates an ambition to
outdo his predecessor in defiance of
foreign sentiment.
Dr. Herrera is well-known in Wash
ington, where he was minister at the
time of the negotiations for the Pana
ma canal concessions from Colombia
and the subsequent secession of
Panama.
Calcium occurs principally as car
bonate or sulphate. It is never known
to occur in nature uncombined.
MEN ARE BUSY
ON THE YENTNA
Staking Goes Ahead With Great
Industry on Numerous
Promising Creeks.
AT LEAST 250 WINERS THERE
Prospectors Claim that tvery Test
of Gravel in txplored Re
oions Shows Colors.
e’ivsh rej>orts from the Yentna tell
of as much activity there as the winter
season will permit. Between ‘AH) anil
;>iM) men are in the district who have
1 ik* a ted claims and are engaged now
in preparing Tor the summers work
by getting out timber and performing
other preliminarily, t ’onsiderahle pros
pecting has l>een clone in spite of the
vnow. which does uot accumulate to
great depth.
lu cent arrivals from the district are
Mat Yuth and Sam Bloweis. Mr.
Yuth was the latest to come out. Me
left Kahiltna creek April 1 and re
ports that a few days before he
started tin heaviest snowfall of the
winter fell. Me does not think it
was de>tined to last long. The Yentna
river was ^till frozen solid when he
came out but it is about due now to
begin breaking up. Old timers say
that the rivers above the Inlet always
break up in the first half of May.
Both Yuth and Blowers confirm the
reports previously received that men
an* staking on top of prior locations
on many of the creeks hut that no J
trouble has resulted so far. as none of
them had begun work. They state
that the greatest activity in prospect
ing has been on the upper branches
of Kahiltna creek and on Lake creek
and certain of its branches.
Wbmw.r rests of the ground nave
been made good results have been j
obtained although the work has nec
e--ai i ly been **xt reitiely limited.
Some \ vv rich pans have been taken
oat am i v- ry cubic foot of gravel;
Mi'itn • contain colors. Every foot
of ground on ; he upper Kahiltna has
be. n staked, some of it two or
lie. i ■ m*'s. i'eters creek, where the
or: : !n:. discovery was made in Novem
ber ’no;. Gold. Nugget. Dollar. Falls,
Windy and Thunder creeks are all
favorites.
Dak-* creek has also been thoroughly
explored and completely located even
above the lake. Yenlo creek, one of
i*-, branches, is fully staked and is
r g, v, d as a coming bonanza. Some
pros;-viing has i> a done farther up
t!,.. Yt itna but little is known of that
OPPORTU NITIES FOR DAIRYING
Government Agrostolojjist Sets Forth
\d\antages of Alaska.
is. IP4 th>' hulaau of plant industry
... *;„* ..;ter'e*r department sent t'. V.
i »'p.- -. i agr.jstoiogist of tie* bureau,
to inve~; igute tli" opportunities ottered
j, tie coast of Alaska and the near
interi'>r for dairying. The report
made by Prof. Piper was highly favor
aid*' and in part follows:
"Milch cows of various breeds have
long been kept tit most ol the coast
settlements, and the common testi
mony is that they do excellently well
while feeding on the green grasses.
Professor Georgeson's tests have dem
onstrated that they keep up an excel
lent milk flow on beach-grass silage,
and doubtless the other grasses are
quite as nutritious.
"For two reasons I am impelled to
believe that tie- utilization of the
Alaska grass lands will yield most
profit through dairying, (1) because of
| the necessarily long feeding period—
| five to six months -during which only
dairy cows yield a compensating re
turn. and (2) the freight to distant
markets on concentrated products like
butter and cheese is not a serious
factor.
“There are many admirable sites for
dairy eolonies or settlements, not only
on Kodiak island, but also on other
islands and on the mainland. Dairying
is to be one of the chief industries in
the proposed Finnish colony on the
Kenai peninsula. With such an enor
mous wealth of grass as southwestern
Alaska possesses it is difficult to doubt
that it will become a great dairy
country. It is doubtful if equally good
opportunities for colonies of dairy
husbandmen can be found in the United
States today. Certainly there is no
place left w'here 320-acre homesteads
of magnificent grass lands can be had
for the taking.”
SEEKS MEN FOR
! RAILROAD WORK
Alaska Central Places Requests
for Laborers as far
Last as Chicago.
WILL SHIP ON EVERY BOAT
Company Scours Western States in
Search of Recruits for
Construction
By Cable to TUo Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May 2 The Alaska Central
Railway Company has placed orders
for lalHirers as far east as Chicago and
will ship large numbers on every boat
leaving Seattle for Seward during the
summer. It is advertising for men all
through the western states.
Maj. John K. Rallaine of the Alaska
Central returned from the east this
morning and announced that Pittsburg
and New Vork capitalists are anxious
to acquire interests in the coal fields
along the line of the railroad. They
are willing to advance large sums of
money for- development in the belief
that an immense market exists for the!
product on the i'aeilic coast and that1
it will expand rapidly.
Maj. Rallaine states that the officials ;
of tl»* railroad expect to push work as ;
rapidly a* possible this summer with .
the especial purpose of reaching the I
coal fields.
Steamer Oregon Sails
Hy Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle. May 4 Steamer Oregon
will sail this, afternoon for Seward by
the outside passage. She will carry a
large passenger list, including about
seventy-live laborers for the Alaska j
t entral.
SENATE VOTING !
ON RATE BILL
3} CnVIe to The Daily Gateway.
: gton. !>. May ! Debate!
on tin railroad rate bill closed in the
senate yesterday afternoon with a sen-1
sational speeeii by Tillman in which he
made a bitter attack upon the federal *
judiciary. The vote will be taken late j
this afternoon. Several amendments!
will have to he disposed of before the \
final vote is taken.
T’llman’s ..eh created consider.!-j
ble excitement and some feeling, lie
iopoosed the amendment granting
jh)Wei’s of review to the federal courts!
over the interstate commerce com mis-1
sion. saying that such a law would
, permit the courts to reverse the action
of the commission in every case when
the ru ii _ of the commission might be
unsatisfactory to the railroads.
Tillman criticised the federal judges
severely. He said the country never
could tcli what the laws of the I’nited
States • ally mean because the judges
themselves cannot agree. lie atlirined
that there i> nothing holy about a
! judge merely because be bolds a judi
cial position and said that a sleepless
night <a* an attack of stomach trouble
1 might make a good many of them
change their minds over night. He
asserted that not only are judges not
infallible but that many of them are
not incorruptible.
had Long Wait for Steamer
On the* Portland, bound for Seattle
from Seldovia. was.). A. Matthews, a
mining expert who went to Iliamna
last fall on the Dora on her luckless
trip which terminated in Puget Sound.
Mr. Matthews went up the Inlet in
December to examine some copper
property and intended to come out on
the Dora's return trip. The Dora
never came back, floating ice barred
entrance to the Inlet and Mr. Mat
thews waited three months before he
was able to get away from Iliamna in a
small sailboat with two other men.
They were obliged to put into several
ports on account of rough weather and
were thirty-five days on the journey to
Seldovia. _
Nome papers report a continuance
of the big strikes on the paystreak
extending westward from Little creek
to Dry creek. The Nugget attirms that
some of them are phenomenal.
The supreme court of California
has decided that where an error in
the date of location has been made the
facts in the case control.
LAY PLANS FOR
DELEGATE EIGHT
--
“Alaskans in Seattle” Figure on
Calling Convention to
Suit Themselves.
i
WANT MEETING - IN JUNEAl
Outside Patriots Announee That
Will be on Hand To Run
Things Properly.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle. May 3 Alaska politics are
boiling among tint Alaska men now in
Seattle. All of them expect to leave
tor the north on early boats. The
politicians are urging an early conven
tion and Juneau is generally favored
a> the place ot meeting. The latter
part of June is suggested as the proper
time for the convention.
It is proposed to issue a call imme
diately in order to give tin* Nome men
ample notice. By holding1 the conven
tion late in June the Nome delegation
will have time to come out on the lirst
boats returning from that port.
The circular issued by the Tanana
Miners' Association several weeks ago
advocating the selection of a miner for
the delegate-ship has been received
here hut is not regarded favorably.
Marshal Shoup will sail for Juneau
tomorrow and will push bis candidacy
actively. Other candidates are ex
pected to make an industrious cam-1
paign.
Take Notice of Delegate Fight
Seattle, May 2 Alaskans in Seattle
are taking great interest in the choice
of a delegate to congress from Alaska
and many candidates are being dis
cussed.
I', s. Marshal James M. Shoup of
Juneau i* here and says that he will
be a candidat for delegate if a plat
form shall be adopted broad enough to
cover the interests of the entire terri
tory. ife believe* that the same man
■mould Ik* nominated for the short
term a> for the long term. He will
r sign the marshalsliip at once if
nominated for delegate.
Friends of Judge Mellon of Juneau
and Seattle are trying to induce him
to In come a candidate for delegate.
It is known that Diehard S. Dyan of
Nome will be a candidate, and al
though Kx-Gov. Swi noford has said
that he would not run it is believed
that lu* would accept the nomination
if tendered.
TERMS OF BILL
FOR DELEGATE
Oy CaWr to The Daily Gateway.
Washington. 1). April 4<I Hvthe
terms of the Alaska delegate bill a*
finally amended and passed by con
gress the qualifications of the delegate
are that he must be at least 25 years of
age. a citizen of the United States and
an inhabitant and qualified voter of
| the territory.
Delegate elections are to he held bi
ennially the second Tuesday of August
of even numbered years. At the elec
tion the coming summer one delegate
will be chosen for the fractional term
ending March 4, 1907, and one for the
full term of two years beginning on
that day.
Voters at the delegate election will
be all male citizens 21 years old and
over, who may have been residents of
Alaska for at least one year and thirty
days in the election precinct.
Each incorporated town is to be an
election precinct if it has less than
1000 people; if it has a population of 1000
or more the city council shall divide it
into two precincts. The city council
of incorporated towns shall appoint
three judges and two clerks of election
in each precinct; not more than two of
the judges shall be members of the
same political party. The election
officers must be named at least thirty
days before the election.
All territory in each recording dis
trict outside of incorporated towns
shall constitute one election district.
Notices of election shall be issued
thirty days before the first election
and sixty days before each succeeding
one. Each candidate for delegate is
entitled to have one watcher at each
polling-place who shall be given a posi
tion where he can command a full
view of all that is done in receiving
and counting votes.
FOOD LEFT FOR
ELEVEN DAYS
Free Supplies Running Short and
Only $900,000 on Hand
to Buy More.
REBUILDING PLANS DRAGGING
t. II. Ilarriman now Chairman of
Construction Committee and
Calls for Work.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
San Francisco, May 4 San Francis
co's present free food supply is suffici
ent for only eleven days longer. The
relief committee has only $000,000 cash
in its hand-, and the food problem will
become serious unless it is soon re
plenished. •
it is announced that no definite plans
have been settled yet for the rebuild
ing of the city. Property owners can
only raise funds slowly for the work of
reconstruction, a> building proceeds.
K. H. Ilarriman was appointed today
as chairman of the finance committee
which has charge of the task of re- j
building. He accepted and said that
there must he less talk and more work.
Tremor Wrecks Another Town
lx)s Angeles, April 2* Another
earthquake shock early this morning
practically destroyed the town of
Salinas, about 100 miles south of San
Francisco. No details have been re
ceived. The town was badly wrecked
in the big tremor of April is and 200
houses were shaken down Apt il 20.
Wants Federal Guaranty of llonds
San Francisco, April 20 At a meet
ing of the finance committee of citi
zens today the treasurer. Hx-Mayor
Phelan. said that San Francisco has
not enough money to reconstruct the
efty. tie proposed that tin- city a-k
the government to guaranty building
bonds, tin* same as it S doing for the,
promotion of Philippine railroads, in;
order to enable citizens to borrow!
sufficient money to creel buildings on
their land in place of those destroyed.!
Mr. l'belan said it would require at :
least $200,000,000 of borrowed money
to rebuild the city without delay. He j
asserted that most of tin* city's former
millionaires are now poor and many of j
them bankrupt.
Guards Shot Insane Patients
Oakland. April 30- It has just come
io light that when the earthquake of
April l* released the patients at
Agnews asylum for the insane from
their wards many of them made
an attack on the guards in an
! effort to get outside, and the latter
were forced to shoot down more than
fifty before tin* riot was quelled. One
! dospt rate maniac seized a guard at the
outer door and battered his brains out
against a post. Before a majority of
the patients could get outside eleven
other guards drove them hack and
fifty perished in the fiames and some
were killed while fighting for liberty.
Accepts Funds From Japanese
San Francisco, May 2—At a meeting
of the municipal relief committee this
morning it was decided to accept the
$100,000 offered by Japanese cities for
the relief fund. This was refused by
President Roosevelt on the ground
that the United States could furnish all
the relief required. The committee
will accept other contributions from
foreign countries.
Senator Newlands of Nevada wired
today that a New York syndicate is
willing to lend $100,000,000 for rebuild
ing purposes if the borrowers will
form a corporation and become obli
gated jointly for the whole sum. The
proposition is that an equal amount in
real estate value shall be subscribed
and that the loan shall be secured by a
blanket mortgage on all the structures
erected, together with the land on
which they stand.
Lepers Add $30 to Relief Fund
Honolulu, May 3—The leper colony
at Moloki held a meeting yesterday
and passed resolutions of sympathy for
the sufferers inthe San Francisco dis
aster and then took up a collection for
the relief fund. Contributions ranged
from 5 cents upward and a total of $30
was raised. This is a large sum con
sidering the poverty of these unfortu
nates. The money was forwarded to
Mayor Schmitz.
Bar silver has dropped a little to
644 cents an ounce.
POPULAR PARTY
CARRIES RUSSIA
I Constitutional Democrats Elect
Candidates for Parliament
Everywhere.
| VOTING NEARLY ALL ONE WAV
Members Recently Chosen in St.
Petersburg Pass Resolutions
Against Witte and Czar.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
St. I *et**rsburg. April 2V Klect ■<>■
I in many places in the empire wer
’ licit! yesterday and everywhere r
| tmai** show overwhelming victories fo
| the constitutional democrats. Th
has been the uniform result sine* th
elections began, the large ritics pa
ticulaily giving tremendous major it <
for the democratic eanditlates.
The delegation elect* d several week
ago in this city drew up a seri«‘s «
resolutions today expressing a lack <
confidence in the czar and in 1'remn
W itte. All of them signed the -fa!*
merit.
Censor Suppresses News
St. Petersburg, Mu\ l! The pr< -
censors have notified the newspap'i
of the empire not to print any news <
the mobilization of troops in Mar
churia or of the movements of tin
army there. They are also forbidder
to publish anything regarding th<
reorganization of the military arm <>
the government. It i> believed thu
the government has a card uj> it
sleeve and is planning a new move
tli*' far east.
Popular anxiety is now centered <>•
the assembling of parliament, whirl
will be May 10. A majority <>l tie
members elected are constitution:,
democrats but the reservation of |> <
ers by the czar practically null ' t
their opjKjrtunities to accomplish ;>:r
thine for the popular cause.
It is practically admitted that
czar has discarded Witte. The thror*
needed him to tioat the foreign e .
and to bridge the poli: icul chasm u
the assembling of parliament. i
understood that Witte will ret i v. t.<
parliament meets.
Makes Durnovo Resign
By Cable to Tbc Daily Gateway.
St. Petersburg. May 1 The c/.ar ■ -
manded and received today the resi*.>
nation of M. Durnovo a* minister ■*
the interior. Durnovo is Witt- *
enemy and there was constant frictim
between the two. The remova
Durnovo does not lit well w:th the i
peated rumors that the czar will soon
dispense with tin services <•: \\"r
although it is positively kno w •
Witte is anxious lo retire.
The government organ pi dir'* i
the present cabinet will not ■ ~
another month and affirms that
extremely inharmonious.
Try to Steal Ammunition
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
iiaku. May 4 Revolutionists
nelcd 700 feet to reach the floor of t
magazine here in which the govei j
ment keeps vast stores of arms a: <
ammunition. Tho tunnel was discov
ered accidentally just as the revob
tionaries had removed a portion of th
floor of the magazine and were alu
to begin carrying away the stores.
CONVICTS BURN
SAGHALIEN TOWN
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
St. Petersburg, May 4—Advices from
the island of Saghalien state that a
band of escaped convicts are ravaging
the surrounding country. They totally
destroyed one village by lire and mur
dered more than fifty of the inhabi
tants. They have started flames in
many districts and have created a stale
of terror. Russian troops are now
pursuing them.
Temperature in April
The mean temperature of April in
Seward was 38.85 degrees. The maxi
mum was 56 on the 18th; the minimum
was 24 on the 8th and 9th. The mean
temperature of March was 34.89
degrees.
The Rampart Forum reports a large
increase in the gold output of that dis
trict for the present season.