VOL 8. SEWABD, ALASKA. MONDAY EVENING, MABCH 9. 1914_N<>- la!>
SENATE TO ACT
ON BILL TODAY
Washington, March 9.—The sentate
was not in session Saturday, therefore
the Alaska Railway bill, as reported
by the conference committee and en
dorsed by the house, was not acted
upon. The bill is expected to come
up early today for final action, when
it will be ready for the president's sig
nature.
SEA CAPTAIN
MOST ANSWER
Seattle, March 9.—The federal grand
jury in session here has indicted Hen
ry Rune, Captain of a Nonhwestern
Fisherit s vessel, Guy Goss and Kiku
tuke, a Jap contractor, and one other,
who ar e charged with shanghuing four
men last soring.. It is claimed that
the men had to sleep with Chinese and
hogs, and that the filth was indescrib
able. The men were compelled to pay
four bits a can for tomatoes and ten
cents a pint for water and were al
lowed but one pint of water per day.
One man was put in chains and horri
bly beaten, his teeiti being Knocked
out. -
CLERKS ACCliS 0
OF MANY THEFTS
Portland, March 9.—Albert Howard,
head salesman for thirty years, and
Harry Estes, receiving clerK for ten
years, in the Fleisher-Mayer company
•tore, have been arrested. It is charged
that they have stolen fifty thousand
dollars worth of goods from the com
pany in the past axq years. Five sec
ond hand dealers have been arrested
for complicity in the theft of the goods.
Several of them have confes>ed.
ho ward Suicides. «
Portland, March 9.—Albert Howard,
who was implicated by Harry Estes,
but who did hot profit by theft of
goods from the Fleishner-Mayer store,
©ommitted suicide in jail this morning
by cutting his throat with a pen knife.
Spirits Body Over the Line.
Laredo, March 9.—A mysterious
party has exhumed the mutilated
body of Varagres and spirited it ac
tross the border into the United States
in order to prove that he was executed.
Steamer Sinks in Atlantic.
New York, March 9.—The steamer
Tower sank yesterday off Barngate.
The crew of eighteen, after terrible
•uffering, succeeded in reaching shore
in a life boat.
Opposed to Prohibition.
New” Orleans, March 9.—Cardinal
Gibbon says that he is opposed to pro
hibition because it is not effective.
To Abolish Purity Squad.
Seattle, March 9.—Chief of Police
Rannick has tendered his resignation.
Mayor Gill has announced that be will
abolish the purity squad.
OUR DELEGATE
IS A DEMOCRAT
Fairbanks, March9.-Delagate Wick
ershara has written friends here that
he has turned Democrat. That he
finds himself in harmony with the par- j
ty.
The women of this city will place a '
ticket in the field at the coming city i
election in April. j
SEVEN KILLED
IN HOLOCAUST
St. Louis, March 9.—A seven story
building occupied by the Missouri j
Atheletie Club burned last night.
; Seven people jumped from the upper
story windows and were killed instant
ly. Fifty were injured in making
i their escape from the lower floors.
The flames started on the second floor ;
and soon after being discoverd the
! flames shut off the avenues of escape.
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Gunman Must Die.
New York, March 7. — Shiilitoni, a
! gunman, lias been sentenced to death
for the murder of two policemen.
A. 11. Bryant, formerly of the Kenai
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: Mining and Milling Company at
Cooper creek arrived in Seward Sun
day morning for a short visit before
leaving for Valdez creek, where he
will have charge of the big hydraulic
! plant installed there last season. Mr.
! Bryant expects a very good season
I this year, as the ground has been
thoroughly tested, showing uniform
high values and the installation of the
plant and dead work incidental to
opening up the property are now
completed. Mr. Bryant will remain
in Seward until the arrival of the
Mariposa, when he will leave for Cor
dova and go in via Chiuna.
Mrs. E. E. Ayres, wife of E. E.
I Ayres of the Skeen-Leokner property
on Falls creek, returned from an ex
tended visit to the outside on the Ala
meda Sunday. Mrs. Ayres reports a
very pleasant trip, but asserts that she
is glad to be back in Seward again and
predicts that there will be an unprece
dented rush to Alaska and to Seward
in particular in the immediate future.
She says that there is more talk of
Alaska on the outside at this time than
at any time in the history of the terri
tory.
E. L. Whittemore arrived in Seward
on the Alameda from Cordova, where
he has been in attendance at the court
convened at that place. In the case of
the United States vs. Diggs, Whitte
more and Little the court instructed
the jury and a verdict was found
against the defendants for $4,483.00.
An appeal will be taken and the mat
ter tried in the higher court in the
near future.
William Snook and son, of Hope,
who have been in Seward for the past
week or ten days, returned to the
Turnagain Arm camp on Saturday.
Field glasses at J. L. Graef ’s. *
The Alaska House is on the market.
See George the Jeweler. i
Snow’ shoes and snow shoe filling at
J. L. Graef’s. t
Pabsts blue ribbon beer at The
Branch.
FOUND SHORT IN
HIS ACCOUNTS
—
Chas. Eby, clerk of S. Blum & Co.
at Cordova, has been found to be $7,
500 short in his cash account with the
firm. He has confessed to the taking
of the money and plead guilty to the
charge against him.
Eby has been entertaining and living
like a prince for the last several
months, and there was much surmising
as to where he was getting the money.
This finally led to an investigation of
the books and the shortage was soon
figured out.—The Commoner.
N. E. Bolshanin. of Unalaska who
has been at Juneau in the Customs
Otlice for the past three months ar
rived in Seward on the Alameda ami
will await the arrival of the Dora, be
fore leaving for bis home to the west
ward. Mr. Bolshanin, says that Ju
neau is a lively camp at this time and
that there is considerable building
going on there despite the early J
season.
John Michaelson and Gus Smeazer
have started the season's work on Mills
creek and are getting in shape to take
advantage of the first water of the
season. Last week they were engaged
in getting out their sluce boxes, over
hauling and getting them set up in
position to be able to h.-rgin ppiug,. as
soon as the frost leaves the ground.
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N. O. Anderson is sinking a shaft on
the Duncan Stewart ground on the Six
Mile. The shaft is being sunk on
what is known as the old dry channel
of Canyon creek, and is now down to a
depth of 8(5 feet and no bed rock in
sight yet. Anderson says that lie will
keep on till he sees bedrock if he has
to sink till the heat drives him out.
—
J. J. Finnegan, former commissioner
and recorder at Seward, is at present
in Cordova on legal matters connected
with some mining litigation in the new
camp on the Chisana. SincG leaving
Seward Mr. Finnegan has made the
round trip to the Chisana and back.
Mrs. Finnegan left on the Alameda to
join here husband in Cordova.
James R. Hayden expects to leave
for the Kenai river country in a few ■
days to have a look at some of the;
dredging property in that section be- j
fore leaving for the outside. Mr. Hay-1
den will leave for Seattle on the Ad
miral Evans, expecting to be absent
from Seward about six weeks.
James Denny called at Kern creek
on the lirst of March with his launch
and picked up three prospectors bound
for the Iditarod and landed them in
Knik and sent them on their way re
joicing at having missed the long
mush around the head of Turnagain
arm.
James R. Hayden and Frank Cotter
returned Saturday night from a trip to
Sunrise and the Turnagain arm coun
try. While in Sunrise the Sewardites
were very pleasantly entertained, in
formally. by Mr. R. E. Oldham.
Meet me at the Branch
Finch’s Golden Wedding rye at the
Branch. *
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Bring your job printing to the Gate
way. We can do it right.
For reliable information write Can
non, Pioneer hotel, Knik, Alaska, t
MINERS' MEETING
SETTLES DISPUTE
The following communication was re
ceived from a correspondent in Sun
rise concerning the miners’ meeting
recently held there to settle a dispute
between two prospectors:
The first miners’ meeting for a
dozen years was held in Sunrise March
2. The occasion was a disagreement
between two prospectors enroute for
the Iditarod. A satisfactory disolution
of partnership and an equitable div
ision of the outfit was effected in less
than an hour.
In the early days of the Six Mile
district, when the nearest court was
in Sitka, all disputes and differences
of a serious character were settled in
the miners’ meeting. About 15 years
ago a commissioner was stationed at
Sunrise. That arrangement marked
the end of the miners’ meetings
Here are some points of distinction
between the processes of Justice in a
miners’ meeting and those that uu«u.u
in the courts:
1. The business of a miners’ meeting
is conducted in the English language.
Until Judge J. L. Gallaher of Kodiak
convened court in Sunrise, to try a
lady for selling whisky to an Indian,
such expressions as Capias, Certiorari,
Alias writ, Co-respondent, plaintiff-in
error, Caveat Ivr.ptor, de bonis non
were tabooed in the camp. Commission
ers Brooks, Brown low, Hildreth and
Goodell did what faithful officers could
to popularize these and kindred legal
terms, but men engaged in placer min
ing don’t take kindly to such talk.
2. There is a time limit on all the
proceedings of a miners’ meeting,
most controversies are settled in so
many minutes and it is an unusual
difficulty that can’t be straightened
out in two hours. This arrangement
seems to suit the contestants and the
miners; but in the courts learnod coun
sel often seemed hurried if expected
to finish a case in three years.
3. There is not a cent of expense at
taching to a trial before a miners’
meeting. Though the matter may en
volve thousands of dollars, it is tried
and settled without money and with
out price. This defect is most ap
parent to lawyers but it is extremely
popular with the contestants.
4. There is not one appeal from the
decision of a miners’ meeting to ten
from the decisions of a court.
.T. D. Johnston, and family returned
from Latoucbe where they have been
spending the winter and will take up
their residence at the Johnston ranch
at Mile 6.
WANTED—Work by the hour or day.
General housework or washing.
Leave word with Mrs. Brown, at the
Alaska Laundry. *
Wanted—Bids for whipsawing 4000
feet of lumber for the Skeen-Lechner
mine. For particulars inquire at office
of S. O. Morford. $
Long distance telephone booth at the
Branch. *
Meet meat the Branch.
Snow glasses of all kinds for sale at
J. L. Graef’s X
Don’t let yourself be forced to eat
what you don’t like, when you can
order what you like at the
Commerce Cafe