WARD GATEWAY
NJBLISHEB WEEKLY BY
EWAY PUBLISHING CO.
KWAHD, . . ALASKA,
Entered ns Second Clnss matter Aui-ust 21th,
1901. at the Vostolllee at Scwnrd, Alaska, un
der tho Act of Congress of Kittrch 8, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year (In Advance) ... $3.00
Six Months " - $1.50
Three Months “ ... $1.00
Eastern office 212 Alworth lluildimr. Duluth.
Minnesota. Chas. B. Aske. authorized asrent.
SATURDAY, AUGUST l!i. 1!K)5
SO ML MLN WAN! II AIL
Few persons who understand the sit
uation will slied any tears over the
wail of the Eastern Washington wheat
raisers that harvest hands arc trying,
to hold them up for higher wages.
Nobody over heard of a Paloiise or Big
i Send farmer, who did not grab for all
lie could get‘for liis wheat.
Why the man who sweats in the har
vest field sixteen or eighteen hours a
day with the temperature at 125 de
grees in the sun should not have all he
can get nobody can explain except the
worthy citizens who have been made
rich in tlie past decade by a succession
of good crops and high prices without
tlie exercise of any more brains than is
necessary to sow grain and harvest it.
A laborer on tlie Alaska Central
works several hours less a day, is not
rushed so hard, lives in a decent sum
mer climate,gets as much net above
bis board and can have employment in
definitely. Yet the wheat raiser wants
a man to strain his back and sweat
under a boiling sun seventeen hours a
day for $2 and .board.
Tlie letting of two big contracts to
"ell known 'and successful railroad
contractors for tunnel and rock work
on tlie most difficult portions of the
Alaska Central means that the execut
ion of that work is to be pushed as rap
idly as men and machinery can do it.
It means also that the employment of
at least as many men all winter as are
now engaged on tlie line and tlie dis
bursement of largo amounts of money
lor wages in this town.
\\ atcli Seward grow!
•Tim Hanson, the Indian muiderer,
whom some busy persons were seek
ing to have pardoned out of prison, lias
become a good Indian by a dispensation
of Providence to which the public will
bow with composure.
It is now announced that President
ttoosovelt will not call an cxtrascssion
of Congress. Most people would per
ler that Congress should never meet at
all.
If Russia loses some lanrl us a result
of the war she can take comfort in the
reflection that she still has left more
than she can govern well.
Norwegians unanimously discard tiie
l ull- of a .Swedish king. It, remains to
lie seen whether they hanker after
any other kind.
The way it looks now there will soon
In1 no place left for Rockefeller and t ho
Kipiit able ollieials except a home for the
friendless.
Japanese fishermen will please take
notice that, when Uncle Sam wants
them to fish in his preserves lie will
send for them.
BRING CRUSHING PLANT
Outfit Comes for Handling Rock
on Falls Creek Strike
On the Sahta Clara was an outfit for
working tint quartz property discovered
recently on Falls creek, a tributary of
Trail creek. It was brought up by W.
N. Armstrong, one of the partners in
for more than u mile. The pay streak
I lie property. The dlscpvory wits made
by F. Hi Skene and John Lechner, re
presenting several others besides them
selves, As soon as they made the strike
they wrote to Armstrong to Como on
with machinery to work it .. ■ <
The plant consists of a double fly
wheel complex crusher: a largest size
amalgamating mortar; fuse, powder,
Allen Cafe
COLEMAN HOUSE ANNEX
All the delicacies of the
season properly prepar
ed and served.
MRS. L. H. ALLEN, Prop.
:rr» -
caps, drills, quicksilver retort and acids
and everything necessary'for making
complete ore tests on the ground. The
owner? will drive tunnels and sink
shafts until they test the ground
throughly, and decide on the proper
kind of a permanent mill to put on the
property.
The ledge is thirty feet wide and has
been traced and uncovered in places
has beon traced the same distance
through the center of the ledge. It is
from eighteen inches to four feet wide
and carries free gold throughout its
length, in many places visible to the
naked eye. The remaining width of
the ledgo carries value blVt so far no
assays have been made.
Messrs. iJcctiher and Skene Satur
day brought down two small boUles of
free gold which they worked out by
simple crushing and panning. They
crushed twenty live pounds of rock and
must have lost much of the gold in the
process of panning, but what they saved
is variously estimated by those who
have seen ft at from $10 to $25. It has;
so much sand mixed with the gold that
oul.v a guess can be made as to its value.
Messrs. Skene, Lechner and Arm
strong are old prospectors. In the sea
sons of 1905 and 1901 they wore in Si
beria with the North-eastern Siberia
Company. Before that they were in
Nome and Dawson. Altogether they
have been in the north eight years.
This is the original Falls creek strike.
The location made by William Graham’
for himself and Mr. Babbage is neat- it.
MINING At ILIAMNA
Active Work Going on and Sev
eral Promising Prospects in Sight i
Mining work at Iliarana is very active,
this summer. A resident writes to;
the Gateway that several mines are;
undergoing rapid .development and that;
the showing steadily improves. Sortie,
very high grade ore has been taken out.'
The correspondent says:
“The copper ledge known as the
Knudsen property has been found by'
two prospectors. Knudsen was inhere
five years ago and after finding and lo
ceting the ledge was supposed to have
been murdered by tlie natives, as all
trace of him was lost and many of his
belongings were found among the na
tives but nothing has yet been proven.
Tlie ore is very rich and may develop
into a very valuable mine- Mr. Holf
stad, one of the present locators, was a
former partner of Knudsen and w&s in
here with him live years ago.
“George Dutton is progressing with
the development work on his iedge
and is showing prospects of a very line
mine. Most of tlie wagon road is com
pleted from Cottonwood bay to the
ledge.
“Cast winter liodrayer left the Yu
kon for Copper Centre with a band of
reindeer,but owing to tlie soft winter
did not get, un.v further than Iliumnu
lake and was obliged to remain there
with the deer. He is very much im
pressed with tlie reindeer moss found
in this region and is in favor of keep
ing the band here as they are doing so
well. When he arrived with Hie deer
the band numbered 317, but tlie in
crease this spring now makes the total
457. At this time of yesr they are in
the velvet and look very handsome.
“But one cannot help hut think if less
money was spent in raising reindeer
for the support of the natives and more
spent, in protecting their rights to their
natural food the (salmon) the natives
would lie bettor off. The river which
is the outlet of Iliarana lake to Bristol
bay is filled with traps by tlie cannery
men at Bristol bay. This has been re
peated year after year, although the
bay is supposed to be examined by offi
cers, and in a few years the natives at
the head of the lake must go without fish.
“A deadly duel took place a few days
ago between a large brown hear and a
Alent native. The man had shot the
bear with a rifle bora.his bidarka at
Inersk,in bay, but did not kill it. Tfe
followed the wounded animal into the
brush and thorp the duel took place.
Ho shot the boar again and at the same
time the bear modo a lunge at him,
striking him on the head and tearing
away a strip of his scalp about two in
ches wide and four inches long,
“That was the last the nntiVeknew
until he recovered his senses some time
afterward and found the hear dead bo
sidc him and his own body covered
blood from two?Hv M,ovnd"
ed by bear’s teeth. His wdunds were,
dressed by Dr. O. M. Dutton and under
Ids care he is doing well.”
A small house has been built around
the tide register beside the wharf, to
protcctit from the weather.
I he railroad steel which came In on
tho Edith Is being sent to the front ns
rapidly as it can be unloaded from the
ship upon flat cars,
As Soon as tho regulator, arrives
which will be soon, everyone can secure
tfye correct standard time from Bab
bage tho Jeweler,
DR. C. T. DAGGHtt
DENTIST
S. E. Cor. Fourth Ave. and Washington SU
SEWARD - - ALASKA
! DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST <
Over Brown A Hawkins’ store
SEWARD - - '- ALASKA
H. H. HILDRETH
NOTARY PUBLIC k
and CONVEYANCER
Abstracts of Title to minini?and town
l«ro|)prtj furnished 'Examination and
roports made on any property.
SEWARD - - ALASKA
CECIL H. CLEGG
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Fourth Avenue, - Seward, Aka.
E. R. GRAY
NOTARY PUBLIC
sfavArd - Alaska
O. LASCY
U. S. DEP. MINERAL and LAND
S8RVEV0R FOR THE DISTRICT 0F ALASKA
Civil Engineer, and Land and Min-'
ing Attorney. Address Scldovia,
Alaska, or in care of Mail Agent,I
Steamer Dora.
FRANK H. LASCY
U. S. MINERAL and LAND
! Surveyor for the District of Alaska,
and NOTARY PUBLIC
Addres: Seldovia, Cook Inlet, Alaska,
or care Mail Agent, Steamer Dora
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT
COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALAS
KA, THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION.
W. U. Cook. R. L. Rogers A. G.
Pickle, Mrs. M. L Gleason,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
TheTurnagnin Ann Gold Min
ing Company, Defendants
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to «
judgment duly made and entered on the 2nd day
of January 190ft. in the above entitled court, in
the foregoing cause, wherein W. H Cook. R.
L. Rogers, A. G. Pickle. Mrs. M. L. Gleason are
plaintiffs and the Tumnguin Arm Gold Mining
Company is defendant I will sell at public auc
tion all the right, title and interest that the
said defendant held and owned at the date of
said Judgment in and to the hereinafter de
scribed personal and roul property.
Said sale will take place on the 28th dnv of
August 1905, at. the property of the defendant
situated on Gulch Greek, Sunrise Mining Dis
trict. Goolc Inlet. Alaska.
The property to be sold at said sale is describ
ed ns follows, to-wlt: The "Emma**, a mining
claim; the "Gilderoy”, a mining claim; the
Confidence” a mining claim: the “Charity'',
a mining claim: "Little Maggie", u mining
claim: "Numberft", a mining claim: “Valen
tine". a raining claim; “Valentine Bench", a
mining claim: “Montana Mining Company's
Claim ’: block. 1. 2. 8: "The Treasure", a min
ing claim: "Lucky Strike”, a mining claim: an
undivided half interest in the “Dig For It" a !
mining claim: "National Hank", a mining i
claim: Telephone", a mining claim; full claim
of the ' Brooklyn”, a mining claim: “Hear'*, a
rniningclaini:uml “Discovery ".a mining claim
together with the pipes, flumes boxes, black
smith outfit, tools, pelton wheel, cable, cabin
and every thing connected with the mining op
erations and business of the Turnagain Arm
Gold Mining Comfxiny. situated on Gulrh
Greek and tributaries and adiacent benches,
and all contiguous, within the Sunrise Mining
Districts Cook Inlet. Aluska.
The terras and conditions of said sale are
that, all of said property, or so much thereof as
may be required to satisfy the foregoing judg- |
inent. court costs, attorney's fees, ohd costs of I
vale, shall l>e sold to the highest bidder for
cash.
Dated Valdez, Alaska. July 28th. 1»0fi.
GEO. G. PERKY
U. S. Marshal.
By II P. WY BRANT. Deputy.
By consent of \V if. Cook, one of the plain
tiffs above named thesajeof the above property
is posponed until Sept. 5, 1905 ut 12 M.
GKO. G. PERRY
U. S. Marshal. .
By H. P. WY BRANT. Deputy
First publication Aug. \ ftl-r,t
Going to Knik?
The shortest route to the placer $(hd
Quartz fields on the Matanusku, Kn-k
and Sushetna rivers is via Knik. You
can outfit at Knik (two stores) Provis
ions, Hardware, Camp outfits etc. Call
.on the Knik Cash Store. Quality of
poods the best. Prices right, you save
more than the froight. We sell at coast,
prices.
Sends Cable Acknowledgment
President ftooseyelt, through Acting
Attorney-General Hunt, has sent, the
following acknowledgment of the cable
message sent to him by U. H. Com
missioner Hildreth the day the cable
was Completed into Howard:
“The president has read with great
pleasure your cablegram, t he first com
ing over the HontMe-Seward entile; and
desires me .to..express to you, nnd
through you to the citizens of Howard
his cordial thanks, for grcetfhg* and
good wishes and hearty congratulat ions
on completion of the cable.”
Corono Java, the only cofloo In town.
Howard Commercial Co.'
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SEWARD EDEE COMPANY
COAL SHEDS AT FOOT OF SECOND AVE., SEWARD
Coal! Gasolene! Wood
Coal at shed $10.00 per ton bulk, or $11.00 sacked
Gasolene by the case $6.00; a gallon can $3.a0..
PROMPT DELIVERY. Offices at Pier 1 or Yakirtat Lmbr Co.
—- “T
HOTEL McNEILEY
- EUROPEAN PLAN =====
ACCOMMODATIONS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS W
Rates 50c to $2.00 per day
Will A. McNEILEY, Proprietor
FOURTH AVENUE - - SEWARD, ALASKA
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STOVES AND RANGES
--— Wholesale and Reatil -—
TIN, COPPER AND SHEET STEEL WORK
JOBBING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
oO-'IO Winchester Repeating Rifles.-Axes, Saws
Large Assortment of Tents. Granite and Tinware
J. L. GRAFF
W 'Qsw' 3 'll. iiHtt B E SEWARD, ALASKA
NORTHERN SALOON
WHITTEMORE, & SMITH Proprietor
wines, liquors and cigars
FOURTH AVE. SEWARD, ALASKA
THE COMMERCE"
FOURTH AVENUE
A Gentleman’s Resort anti Club 'Rooms.
FURNIS H ED ROOM S
We Purchase Gold Dust at Regular Rates
PETERSON 8c BROWN, Proprietors
Board of Trade
Fourth avenue, _Seward, Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
____Furnished Apartments up stairs
New, Neat and Comfortable. f. v. THOMAS, Prop.
the prohibitive price on town lots has been overcome.
We offer the fllst installment consisting of.
20 Cheap Lots 20
-My'. ;V.v - . y ' h ^
in {rood location for business or residence.—Block op
posite cable office.
At Living Prices.
H. H. HILDRETH, Agent.
_■; ,v-„:• _
CHURCHES
Tho Gospel Mission reading room is
open at all hours. Mission services
every Sunday evening at 8 o’ctock
fron building on Fifth javenue.
It, B. HGY, Missionary.
" Ht'i brother** Keeper’’ is the
theme for the sermon,at the Methodist
tent on Fourth nvenucUihtorrow night
The sorvice will be brief:good singing
tfhd comfortable seats. F.verybedy fs
inxited. Service begins promptly at
8 o’clock.
L- H. PEDERSEN,* partor