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DIPLOMATS AT
MEXICO CITY
ARE ALARMED
Mexico Ctv, Oct, 17-A conference
of all the foreign diplomats was held
here yesterday and it whs the concen
sus of opinion that they would request
their respective home governments to
forthwith send warships to Mexican
waters. This action indicates that a
crisis has been reached in the Mexi
can situation.
Four judges of the Mexican supreme
court yesterday tendered their resig
nations.
El Paso, Oct. IT—General Maas, of
the Mexican army, was arrested here
today, charged with a violation of the
neutrality laws. With a company of
soldiers, in a special train, he crossed
from Mexico into American territory.
ALDRICH OPPOSES
CURRENCY RILL
New York, Oct. 17—Former United
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich makes an
attack, through the press, on the
Glass-Owen currency hill. He says
it is a species of Bryan ism-Populism
legislation.
Hamburg, Oct. 17—The monster
boiiers installed on the new steamship
Imperator, of the Hamburg-American
line, have proved to be unsatisfactory.
New ones are to be built.
AVIATOR PEGOUB
TO TOOR AMERICA
London, Oct. IT—Pegoud, the French
aviator who aerial feats are the sensa
tion of the old world, has been em
ployed to tour America and give dem
onstration. He will come in Decem
ber. _
Rev. L. H. Pedersen has received
notice that be has been assigned to
the charge at Skagwav and will depart
ou the next steamer.
Former Chief Game Warden Tolman
has been appointed a licensed guide.
Finch’s Golden Wedding rye at the
Branch.
Budweiser beer at the Branch.
1 buy Gold Nuffets and pay
full value and a premium if extra
food speciman.
Georf e, the Jeweler
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DR. MARTIN IS CONSERVATIVE, BUT
ADMITS THAT NEW CAMP SHOULD
BE THOROUOHLY EXPLOITED, i
Upon learning that Dr.G. C. Martin,
; of the U. S. geological survey, was in
! the Nelchina goldfields, the Gateway
wired Director Smith, of the U. S.
! geoltgioal survey, Washington, D. C.,
i asking permission to interview Dr.
| Martin, with his consent, upon his re
turn from there, with regard to the
new diggings. The Director very
! courteously authorized Dr. Martin to
! irive The Gateway a preliminary re
| port, which is herewith produced:
October 12, 1913.
To the Editor of The Gateway,
Seward, Alaska:
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I have been authorized by the Di
i rector of the Geological Survey to
I make a statement regarding placer
gold in the Nelchina district. The fol
lowing statements accordingly offered
you for publication.
I wish to state that I shall give no
verbal interviews in this town or else
where, but shall be glad to clear up
any points which may not he under
stood by further correspondence.
A very brief examination of part of
the Nelchina placer district was made
during t.he latter part of August,
j This work was not detailed or complete,
| it being accomplished as opportunity
. offered in the course of geologic in
vestigations previously planned for
the upper Matanuska valley region.
| The results of this examination, with
accompanying maps, will be included
| in the next annual ptogress report on
; the work of the Geological Survey in
j Alaska, which will probably be pub
lished early next summer. In the
I meantime, the latest geological report
on the region af which this district is
part is Bulletin No. •>-<, of the U. y.
Geological Survey. This report does
not describe what is now Known as the
Nelchina placer district specifically,
but discribes the whole region in gen
jeral terms, atd is accompanied by top
ographic and geologic maps which
will be of great value to anyone going
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i into tiiis district. Tins report, may be ,
obtained free upon application to the
Director, U. S. Geological Survey,
Washington, D. C
It is impossible to present now, any
; more than such a brief general des
! cription of the geographic aud geolo
| gic features of the district as may, it.
: is hoped, be of value to those who con
template going in there, f wish to
state at the outset that, in my opinion,
it is not possible now to forecast the
1 future of the district. It is believed
that at least some of the claims which
have been developed during the past
! summer are worthy of further devel
opment on a larger scale, but the (for
the most part) poorly equipped and, in
some cases apparently aimless little
stampede which is now in progres is not
jutitied. The latter statement should
! not be interpreted as condemnation of
■ the district any more than the former
is an unqualified endorsement of it.
| The facts are that the extent of the
productive territory is highly proble
metical and cannot be determined at
this season with the outfits which are
now being taken in. The work for
this winter is freighting supplies and
■ whipsawing lumber, rather than stale
| ing snow banks. The former activites
J will be better for the district, not only
i because tltev constitute a more sub
-
jstantial form of development, but be
cause they are less conducive to meia
i phorical cold feet and will afford less
opportunity for dissemination of hard j
luck tales.
The strike which has aroused the
present interest is on Albert creek, a j
small tributary of Crooked creek, j
which Hows into Nelchina river. Al
bert creek rises near the headwaters
Alfred creek which is tributary to
the Matanuska river through Caribou
creek. It is situated about 110 miles by
trail from Knik and aoout 05 ndles
west of Tazlina roadhouse. The route
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Albany, N. Y., Oct. 17 —By a vote of two to one the New York state senate
declared Governor Sulzer guilty Of the first, second and fourth articles of the
impeachment proceedings. His removal will follow. An appeal will be taken.
Ohief Justice Cullan, of the state supreme court, who presided at the trial,
favored the defendant, explaining that the offenses charged are not crimes.
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Seattle, Oct. 17—Lawrence Duke is held at the local jail, without bail,
pending a coroner’s inquest over the remains of the victims of tho auto acci
dent. One of the two seriously injured in the smashup died this morning,
making two fatalities.
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Twenty gauge, 1913 model shot guns
at J. L. Graef’s. I
Meet me at the Branch ' *
For reliable information write Can
non, Pioneer hotel, Knik, Alaska, t
Pabsts blue ribbon beer at The
Branch. *
Sun burst pocket Hash lamps at J. L.
Graef’s. __ *
Meet me at the Bruncn.
FUNDS RAISED
TO COMPLETE
LOCAL HOAD
“The Alaska Northern Railway
Company has the funds at its command
to complete the local system not only
to the Matanuska coal fields, but on to
the Tanana country,” said Col. A. W.
Swanitz, chief engineer, to The Gate
way last night. “If the government
will give private enterprise a show to
development Alaska, before it attempts
any government ownership scheme,
—and I think it will—we will begin
preparations for active construction
work on the extension of our road in
January,,’ lie continued.
Col. Swanitz arrived and departed
again on the steamer Alameda.
WIDELY KNOWN
OPERATOR HERE
J. H. Hutchinson, of San Francisco,
arrived last evening on the steamer
Alameda. Mr. Hutchinson isa former
governor of Idaho, having succeeded
to the office through the dastardly as
sassination, at the hands of the fiend
Orchard, of Governor Stuenenburg.
He grew up amid the mines of
the west and has long been identified
with the mining industry, his interests
reaching fMum Neveda and Idaho to
Alaska. He is- a successful operator
and one who adds strength to any
community.
Mr. Hutchinson is associated with
Samuel 1. Silverman in the Turnagain
Arm Mines Company, which owns the
Barnes property on Crow creek.
UN|H i -
ION MEN FIGHT
Indianapolis, Oct. 17—Union and
non-union carmen engaged in a pitch
ed battle here last night. One parti
cipant was fatally shot and several
were injured.
S. EATON ION
TRIAL FOR MURDER
Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 17—Mrs. Ea
ton, charged with 'poisoning her hus
band, Admiral Eaton, retired, is on
trial here.
Meet me at the Branch. *
Long distance telephone booth at the
Branch. _ *
RAZORS! RAZORS! RAZORS!
The Finest in the Land! Where?
AT GEORGE, THE JEWELER'S