Borin.?-Complete on Second, and
w \(ii > oi v.tCKiiRS k \isrn
About 40<> Men no* tmptovcd and
Work Mill In Rushed I ntil
last Rock Wall is out.
■ i . >*» M>vu a cu a
«
•fill.
FINIS?; PRELIMINARY
RAiLRiiAD LOCATItiN
Baldwin Shirty m Uaska Central en
gineers Return and Blakely*
W iil Soon Come.
iu> i . ii.t iw iu ant! party.
A.a>k.( » ' nine • who ii ve
in-en ntimdig the preliminary liue of
in.- Se-’.’ iui va v. ..*iieu* to S-watd or
n
the O. o- nv-r • oat f. •
There tl y m* T
who ran ll 0 line - dj't.lo:*
wU» n tl.- ifcdd' • party ear.■* out.
me;;.
.1. Kr.-n\ Wilier an M. v. Bennett,
wile • ' • - t
in the wind-r from Seward. Hr* re
niaind i' Of The pan;, went over the
Valdez, trail.
To Ship Copper irom Landlock Bay
Jo>. Bourke and .1. Ii*. Steele, ot ;h<
of the Standard Copper Company, ar
rived on the Santa Clara, unit immedi
ately began operations on the property
of the company at Lund lock bay.
where a huge shipment of lumber and
general supplies was landed from the j
Santa Clan A force of men are now
engaged putting up buildings and a
wharf. When these are completed all j
the necessary machinery will be in- j
stalled and the actual mining opera
tions, preparatory to shipping ore will
bo started. Valdez. Prospector.
Building Boats at Tyoonok
Arrivals from the Inlet on the Dora
state that at least 150 men are whip
sawing lumber at Tyoonok to build
boats to go up the river to the Ventna
district, or to the upper Susitna. where
» great deal of prospecting will be
done this year.
ED
FOR V
Rc mi'licans Will Meet in .!aua»i
Juh i in Nominate Candi
date f or Congress.
JIM: 25 DMT. 0! PRIMARIES!
; at ft ‘.um-al District fo Have 5 ifty
Delegates and Seward is
Allotted four.
T . - hie to The Dailv Gateway.
.! n :,u. M:t; -t Tl • ll.uublic
Cfum in Alaska Delegate Race
. . . -a art* 1 for home last i.iifht.
I V an.- vatteed his active candidacy for
;,'•!! -_»a e from the territory at tin*
A nfn>: election, before leaving.
SUSITWA RIVER
WAS OPEN MAY 15
Passengers on the Dora Received
That Information on the Inlet
From *‘Red Jack.”
S ;sitna r!': r was op**n as high
-.tatlot lay !•’>. This m*ws
,■, < ; • Dora hy passenc r>
. u ”, who rn > a launch from > ,>
i , ' ii< station, and beyond when
e*» tv*. Jack had »>t come
day* aft i‘ :
•* 1 ■ .: *:a district sho Id
years. -curacy to anticipation. The
that th • oid ttmris expected a late
o r • _ (. the river. Mr. 1 Ivan says
h e the record ed opening for many
\tar-. ineluuing old records kept hy
’he itussians. shows that tin* average
t-a; roc th*1 iee to go out is May
’I’h ■ r. (H i t that the Susitna was
open the middle of the mouth is con
!irmt (l hy the lialdwin party of Alaska
t’entral engineers, who came down the
river behind the ice jam. They star
ted below t he Forks May 11. and fol
lowed the ice closely all the way,
rt aching Tynonok four days ago.
To Rush New Bank Building
The basement of the new Bank of
Seward building at the corner of
Fourth avenue and Adams street is
going in and the Seward Construction
^ Development Company, which has
the contract, expects to finish it by
August 1. The contract to install the
steam heating plant and the plumbing
has been let to J. W. Spencer at
*1400. It will be a strictly first-class
equipment. The total cost of the build
ing will be about $8000.
The Yukon river broke loose at Daw
son May 10.
Refuse Offers of Outside Aid, Saying that City Is Able to Repair
Her Own Disaster and Banks Offer Unlimited Credit to
Owners of (iround-Blaze Started from Gasoline
in Dental Office and Dynamite Had to
Be Employed to Stop It.
to to Tiio .o ily i .•«”
is. .May Zl Knit-banks is in
- .i,‘ii a • .*• c»n ’ •
stro ke \x t h the built nys.
i ire 3s Kxtinguisked
L-airbauks. May kk Noon The life
is out except sinaii bla/.e* in smolder
ing debris. 1; is dink-ult at this hour
;•* estimate the loss but it is likely to
exceed die earlier statements rather
than fail below tlu'ni. (Ireal stores of
im rehaiuiise were consumed, creating
a situation which is apt to prove tin
barrassing to the district as ii will run
out of n any supplies before the stocks
van he replenished. I’nsim sn will lie
conducted for n considerable time un
iter a great handicap because of the
lack of buildings.
Cable Works All Night
Seattle. May -The whole cable j
office force here work' <1 all right tak-]
th6 Tvoort 1 t lhe. lire :tt 1-airbahks. j
I’le' rhumb* • ol commerce will hold I
a meet in?? this afternoon to consider
the raisin;'of a final for the relief of
i'-ti-i .,!;*-. 'I’he tdvv;i sent diio.uou to
Sa ; Kt.tuei'CO.
L;e;;in Rebuilding; at Once
' ,■ are . i\ i r. nidi i. ;“•! et di!
. O, V 1 . I 'll. -
, . ■ :. l e oT.m of Or.
nr e ;>!! tit area between cany.
C :shman,. Firs*. and Tin.*d avenue: aijid
Oat. .a time i doe Its toe court house,
federal jail. First National bank
bio k. Apple huddlin'. iFv.ms de
hot,*!. < )lyuipic building, t 'arrull*
Parker mill.
City Wants no Aid
Seattle. May 2d The chamber of
commerce is advised from I*airbanks
that the city needs no outside aid.
Ample stocks of provisions were saved
to supply the entire Tanana district
until more can he received from the
outside. Lar*re cargoes were ordered
from this city within a few hours after
the fire and will be sent north on the
; lirs! steamers. Citizens of Fairbanks
wish it understood that the city i> able
to rebuild on its own account.
I'nited States Marshal I Very of
Fair!tanks wired yesterday to the de
partment of the altorney-jeueral at
Washington asking an immediate ap
propriation of siin.Utin for the con
struction of a new federal jail. Tin*
old one was burned to tin* j*round.
ALASKA COMPANY TO
FIGHT CGrPER TRUST
By Cable to T'x<i Daily Gateway,
.’st ar May 2:5 Manager Hubbard
iii the IlubbardtS Elliott copper mines
in if) Tanana, arrived here this morn*
: n and slates that his company lias
reitiM d to sell its holdings either to
i the Amalgamated or to the Cuggen
■ is* ; 111s. I le says the company will op
erate its mines independently of the
trusts and will light them when occa
sion requires.
Copper River Natives Dying Off
According to a letter to the Valdez
News from ('upper Center, the natives
of the Copper River valley are dying
off in great numbers. Out of twenty
live natives camped near Copper Cen
ter seven died within a few days and
many more are sick. It is reported
that at other camps the mortality is
equally as great. It is now difficult to
reach their camps as the (,’opper river
is breaking up and the trails are im
passable in many places on account of
water. It is said there are not enough
well ones among the natives to take
care of the sick. Among the promi
nent Indians who have died near Cop
per Center was Chief Stickwun. Lack
of sufficient food and clothing is said to
be ttie primary cause of the great
mortality among the Indians.
The Hollow group of copper claims
on Knight island will be developed
this summer by a company which has
just been incorporated by S. A. Hera
ple, Joseph Dieringer and George
Wollentine.
STANDS PAT ON LOW
RATE FROM FORTLAND
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
St. i May L'.'J Northern I ’acilic
traffic officials refuse to withdraw the
low freight rates which they recently
.announced on Alaska consignments
through Puget sound ports, which
aroused a tremendous protest front Se
attle. The t raffic managers say t he rate
was made to secure more freight busi
ness for the road anil that it Portland
jobbers ship to Alaska by rail to
Seattle the desired result will be at
tained.
Steamer Dora (iocs Through
Steamer Dora came into port Satur
; unlay evening wit h a string of passen
i gers picked up at various ports all the
way from Dutch Harbor. Most of
I these stopped here but a few went on
to Valdez. The steamer was gone
twenty days to the westward and met a
good deal of rough weather along the
Alaska peninsula. She sailed for Val
dez shortly after midnight Sunday
morning.
A small gasoline launch called the
Agnes recently made the run from
Seattle to Valdez under her own
power. She is commanded by ('apt.
Carl ('. Gunter and is plying around
the Sound.
The Tazlina river bridge on the
Valdez-Fairbanks trail is nearly com
J plated. The main span is 120 foot long
and it is believed that the bridge can
withstand any possible Hood. It cost
about $20,000.
House Refuses to Recede I’am
Disputed Points Eliminated
by Senate.
TOWNf: ATTACKS ROOSEVELT
Says the President ffas Been Shorn
of ffis Power and now Trails
Behind Aldrich.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Washington, f >. M i; '1 > i
(louse \ esteiila v afternoon voI'm! »<(
i send t lie rate hill to it con Vi iijee i m
j mitteo with (lie si nale. V onion' -
> will probably be named lie,, • rm*.. It
is claimed by some of tie !,U :v :o o
: cates of the Hepburn hie that the
and they are im will in o : • cede
s. w al points.
I’owtl’ • inf he 1 nr s’
: \ e't. ,'si ■
'
Senate Pas. : Bid
< mite, passed I- r.-;:n. rate h
»cs! • i,;ii a: on uoti by a Ve e - 71
.5 after > venty day - ■ ah ' t •
tinuous debate, i i ■ w s the long'
■ debh'•• in the history of th ■ senate \
c< p’ th.*i: t ;K>n iii© re1 *al o the > n*r
nian -ilvi.r ae! at tit soectal session :n
the fall of I >U'l. The u:!! .e vo -
wore cast by Koraker. Morgan and
i Vttlls.
The hill as passed by tin* is
claimed !>y its advocates to he >uh
Miantially as it came from the house,
where it was known as the Hepburn
bill. The amendments principally af
fect matters of detail in the execution
of tln» law. The strongest tight in tin*
i senate was over the extent of the
1 powers of review to be given the feder
i a I courts over the acts of the interstate
i commerce commission. The railroad
| senators made a determined stand on
this point to have an appeal to tin*
| courts on a ruling of the commission
fixing a specific rate operate as a sus
pension of the rate until the court
i could pit's upon its reasonableness.
GOLD STRIKE MADE
ON ALASKA PENINSULA
Placer Discovery at St. John Starts
Stampede »md Rich Quart/ Ledge
Located Near Lnga.
Two gold strikes on tin* Alaska p'*n
! Insula, one placer and one quartz, are
reported in a letter which came on the
Dora to D. ('. Matthewson of Seward
from \V\ W. Hawthorne, former fore
man of the Apollo mine a' t’nga. The
, placer strike is at St. John, about sev
enty miles northeast oi I nga, and the
! letter states that it lias so excited the
miners in that region that they are
all rushing in. The men who stall re
mained around the Apollo mine, whieii
was closed down recently, all joined in
the stampede. The quartz strike is on
1’opotT island, close to Lnga.
No details of either strike are given
in Hawthorne's letter but Matthewson |
thinks that the placer discovery was
probably made by L. L. Bales, the fa
mous Alaska mustier and mail carrier,
who with a man named Jim Howell
was left there by the Dora hist month.
Bales is exploring the peninsula in
search of natural history specimens
and fossils for a museum, but as he is
a sourdough and knows all about mine
he could pick up placer indications
while looking for something else.
The quartz strike on PopofT island j
was made by a former miner at Bnga j
named Gus Johansen. He reports to
his friends at Unga that it is apparent
ly very rich.
The Nome Nugget reports a strike
‘•on the ancient beach line'* on No. 1
above discovery on Wonder ereek
where the dirt is so rich that the gold
can be seen sticking out of it. S. G.
Gale claims to have taken $72 out of
three-quartei,s of a water bucketful
of dirt.
GRANT AMNESTY
Proclamation To ;e Issued 71
27. Anniversary of l.mpe
ror's Coronation.
VMM. l:\CiXDl; TERRORISTS
(ioremykin to Prc .ent Stateme •
f rom Throne to Parliament
and Male Speech.
By Ca’.Oe to Tin. n-uly Gateway.
Si. I Yl• ■!■«*(>I:1 - • *1 *
i «•*«-.• ill * *» I toilii.. I«» ;• |.i-« »•):>
Of ‘JctT l*a!
!' • ■
(s' as tj’
..Ml . .
Says iioi!nui '*» d t
St. 1M. fshu ;• • > HI
kolT. leader o tin -iitui. .a « • nr •
crats in parliament »ubli»h« ■■ a st it<>
ment of tin |*(‘ • itn.it • *■ . th *
1 i tech this mo mi i 11 1.. ' • a
>erts that tlie c/ar in ■>; y. . ’ tl
demands of the noum i r d h
throne, t he statement i» i> • i>«>lcli •
i and unequivocally that th ■ tun:, v. i
■not recede and \vi i carrv •tejuam "
’ at any cost.
WILL SAIL STEAMERS
DIRECT TO SEWARD
All Northwestern Steamship Con
patty Boats After \cvt .Month
\\ ill Come Here Fir t
By Cablr* to Tuo I5aily Gateway.
Seattle, May -1 1 »< Min i _ •• ily
j the Nort h - s; e rn St * *a • i • *,ii • | * < • om
| will run its Southern A*:<>•;:: - '*•. net
j direct to S* ward rcitirnim !>y v v ><
Valdez. This rale rap1 • •
’ side and outside pits^a • II
change h.'t" been coni* tin- m’ -
| months but could not ■ • ■ dec*
until the expiration of th* oxisiin
mail contract. Thu new iour-ye ;
t mail conii act permits -he company *
steamers iO sail either to S< ward *
Valdez fii -t.
The object of tin* new an ii.goutem
is to save both time and • - am.
the southeastern entrance ’■> Heine
William sound, where steam* i s tur
in to Valdez they are no nearer to th:
port than to Seward. At pr* ' it th- >
sail in to Valdez, out again to Sewur*
then back over the same rout* to las
mail from Valdez and ore at Kllatnur.
The new schetlnie after next month
will postpone their arrival into Va -
dez but save the time of th*’ lir.*u tri,
into that port and out again. Tie lac
that both the passenger and freight
business of Seward are much larger
than the Valdez traffic was a factor in
the change.
The Santa Clara will sail on th«• Kir
side hereafter. Her next mailing frot
Seattle will be May 30. The Kxcelsior
will sail June l on the inside run take i
by the Santa Clara during the w inter
and spring.
The Sitka Cablegram lias discovered
that in seven towns to the westward
the only school for the children of
American citizens is maintained at the
expense of the Russian government,
and the children are taught by Rus
sian priests.
Alaska red salmon advanced in prico
because of the San Francisco earth
quake.