[DAILY GATE WAY
VOX,. I SEW A RD, ALASKA, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1905 NO. 19
TO YIELD CLAIM
TOR INDEMNITY
Reported that Japan will Accept
Russia's Offer at Request
of Roosevelt.
Portsmouth, Aug. 28—It is now re
ported that Japan is willing to waive
its demand for indemnity and sell the
northern half of Saghalien island to
Russia. It is also believed that Japan
will consent to have the price fixed by
the Hague tribunal.
it is reported that President Roose
velt made a personal appeal to the
mikado to accept Russia’s oiler to sell
half of Saghalien and let the Hague
peace tribunal fix tlie price. The
peace conference adjourned yesterday
until Tuesday to await the mikado's
reply.
Bombard Siberian [owns
Tokyo, Aug. 26—News has been re
ceived that Japanese troops have l*om
barded Znaef and Kazara, towns in Si
beria near tiie mouth of the Amur
river.
Baldwin's Airship Neatly Flies
Portland, Ore., Aug. 26—Captain
Baldwin's airship made a successful
flight here Friday.
Charged With Land Frauds
Portland, Ore., Aug. 26— Claude E.
Thayer, son of Ex-Governor Thayer ot
Oregon, has been indicted by the fed
oral grand jury upon the charge ot
participation in land frauds in the Till
amook land district six years ago.
Ask Investigation Of Equitable
New York, Aug. 26—The officers of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
have made a formal request for an in
vestigation by state authorities of the
management of the corporation's
affairs by tne former officers.
finds Wreckage Of Pearl
San Francisco, Aug. 28—Schooner
John H. Miller, which has just arrived
here, reports finding wreckage of the
lost schooner Pearl on a reef off Caton
island, near Sanak. The Pearl sailed
north last March with thirty-five sail
o *s and fishermen and had not since
been heard lrom. It is supposed that
all on board were lost.
Rosene’s engineer Here
Henry Deyo, chief engineer of John
ttosene’s railroad project at Valdez,
came over on the Santa Ana and went
up- the line yesterday to study the
work of the Alaska Central.
Cable Office Hours
Through a typographical skip the
Gateway last Saturday gave only the
forenoon hour of the cable office dur
ing the breakdown at Valdez. The
office will open at 9 a. in. and 4 p. m.
and continue each time until all busi
ness is cleared.
Temperature at 2 p. m. today—82.
POLICE CHILL |
JUMPS TOWN
While Under Investigation Charged
with Grafting, Tom Parker
Leaves Lairbanks.
Fairbanks, Aug. -8—Tom Parker,
chief of police of this citv, has left the
city pending an investigation of his
official record. It ie not known where
he has gone.
Parker was accused of pocketing
large sums of money levied upon wo
men of the town, as well a> other
methods of grafting. Much damag
ing evidence had been worked up
against him.
SANTA ANA ARRIVES
Goes On To Seldovia and Is Ex
pected Back Tomorrow
The Northwestern Steamship Com
pany’s Santa Ana, Capt. Moore, arriv
ed in port from Seattle Saturday njght
at 10:30, bringing thirty-two passen
gers and 195 tons of freight. She dis
charged her Seward cargo and sailed
for Seldovia before noon yesterday.
She is expected hack tomorrow and
will probably sail southward in the
evening.
The steamer made a fast trip this
time, coming through in ten days,
making all the usual stops on phe in
side passage. Her Seward passenger
list was as follows:
R. White, J. L. Reed, J. R. Watson.
F. J. Ludlow, Mrs. Ludlow, Dr. Par
sons, J. S. Paasons, Mrs. A. Foster,
William Hamilton, Mrs. Hamilton,
Mrs T. D. Cor lew, F. Kelley, H. A.
Glover, H. H. Love, H. Deyo, G. G.
Frame, Miss M Stanley, J. Grimes, J.
McCabe, P. H, Rolfe, Mrs. West, I). S.
Curtiss, C. H. Curtiss, W. Astley,
P. H. Burbee, A. Fraser, J. A. Laeof
sen, S. J. Keppler, 1). 1). McMillan,
H. Workman, H. E. Wigscn. 11. Mooi\ . i
Steamer Dora Comes and Goes
Steamer Dora, Capt. Hanson, arrived
in port yesterday afternoon from Val
dez on her westward run, and .-topped
several hours, sailing again at 7 p. m.
She brought the following passengers
to Seward; Mrs. C. Hill, 10. C. Rich
ards, J. W. Sun wall, H. Anderson, R.
R. Avery, W. L. Peterson, T. Speisted.
Comes North for Vacation
Among the arrivals on the Santa
Ana were Dr. Parsons and his son, J.
S. Parsons, of Ashland, Oregon. Dr.
Parsons is surgeon for the Southern
Pacific Railway Company. Hecame to
Alaska to have a cool place to spend
his summer vacation.
Until the close of the Portland ex
position, October 15, the Alaska Com
mercial Company will sell round trip
tickets to Seattle for $70. *
Subscribers to the Daily Gateway
who fail to receive the paper will please
notify the office at once.
LENA WALTER
BOBS IIP AGAIN
Noted Female Mining Operator to
Fight Issuance of Patents to
Wild Goose.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 28- Lena
Walters, a noted woman operator at
Nome, has given notice of protest
against the issuance of patents to the
Wile Goose Mining Company for lands
which are estimated to be worth pos
sibly $1,000,000,000. She claims the
ground by prior right.
Miss. Walter is a well-known char
acter at Nome and in Seattle, as well
a* among mining brokers in the east
ern cities. Within the last year she
has floated mining stocks to large
amounts in New York. She was mixed
up in several lawsuits before she left
Nome.
To Consider Sewer Plans
The chamber of commerce will meet
to-night at 8 o’clock in Moore's hall to
consider the plans for the trunk sewer.
Railroad draughtsmen have drawn a
protile showing the levels and grades
involved so that the whole subject can
be considered intelligently. It is stated
that nearly all the property owners
along the line of the proposed sewer
have agreed to pay their allotted share
of the cost and the project will pro
bably be agreed upon. Proposals for
the contract will be received
Railroad Man Arrives
11. A. Glover, chief clerk of W. B.
Poland, general manager and chief en
gineer of the Alaska Central, came up
on the Santa Ana.
DAM BREAKS AT VALDEZ
Flood Caused by Collapse of Bar
rier Along Glacier Stream
From accounts of Saturday\s flood at
Valdez it appears that it was caused
by the breaking of the dam which was
thrown up last year above town to
avert water from the glacier stream in
case of a flood. The rush of water
proved too great for the dam to with
stand and it gave way, precipitating
the flood in great volume down through
the business part of the city. No
buildings of any size were carried away
but much damage was done to stocks
bv water that entered the stores.
The bowling alley and several
saloons were flooded. In the case of
the former it was temporarily impos
sible to set ’em up in any alley, and in
the saloons visited by the reckless wa
ters “chasers” of great volume were
about all the bar keeps could set up for
a little while and no glasses were re
quired. It lias not yet been loarned
whether any whiskey was injured by
mixing with the fluid abhor *ed by all
Kentuckians.
Tho flood came down the pike about
5 A. M., without much previous notice.
The only business houses in commis
sion at that hour were those which
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GREAT STORM
WRECKS CROPS
Immense Damage Done to Grain and
fruit in Eastern Washington
liy fierce Wind
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 28—A fierce
windstorm which swept over Kastern
Washington yesterday caused thous
ands cf dollars damage to grain and
fruit. It also wrecked numerous build
ings in cities and towns as well as in
the country.
The total loss cannot yet he computed
but many fruit trees were ruined and
thousands of acres of wheat laid flat.
E. C. Richards To Build
K. C. Richards returned from Val
| dez on the Dora yesterday and ordered
. work to begin at once on his new two
! story business block. The excavation
| was made before he went to Valdez on
business a few weeks ago. He will
move in with his hardware stock a*
soon as the building is completed.
Anniversary Celebration Tonight
This evening the celebration in honor
of the second anniversary of the found
ling of Seward will take place in tin*
rooms of the Kenai club. It will be in
the form of a smoker and every man
! who was in Seward August 28. 11)03 is
| invited to attend.
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Roosevelt Dives In Submarine
Oyster Bay, Aug. 28—President
Roosevelt dived in the submarine boat
Plunger in Long Island Sound near here
last Friday. A heavy gale was raging
at the time.
dispense wet goods, and the wild glac
ier wave made things too wet even for
the Santa Ana passengers who were
trying to forget that they were in
Valdez by absorbing liberal potations
j of the hootch dispensed in t hat burg.
“It made us hustle to get out of
: town/’ said one rad-eyed man as he
leaned over a Seward bar yesterday
| afternoon, trying to soothe his shatter
ed nerves with an alcoholic sedative.
It appears that nearly everybody who
I was awake made a run for the boat,
I whether he had a ticket or not. A
! popular impression seemed to prevail
that the entire glacier had softened
and was coming down like the Hood at
Johnstown.
Some heartless persons are telling
with glee that when the Hood last
month washed out the shantytown on
j the lower Hats the aristocratic iner
j chants on higher ground tilted their
' noses and made sneering comments
on the folly of men who would build
year after year in the lowlands only
he washed out annually. They refused
to throw the sufferers a line. During
the baptism of the upper business dis
tricts the merchants sent up the Mace
donian cry, “Come over aud help us.”
To this, it is said, the beach-combers
returned only ribald jests and scoffing
exhortations.