SEWARD
IS THE
GATEWAY
TO THE BEST PORTION OF
CENTRAL ALASKA
Through tlii" harbor passes nearly all tie* traffic
of the vast region lying north of Cook inlet and
oetween the two mountain ranges which bound
the Susitna valley, an area as large as one ot the
giv t st tes of the Middle West.
In the Near Future
Through the extension of the Alaska Central
railroad, now building northward from Seward,
the territory tributary to the town as the chief
seaport of th** southern coast will gradually ex
pand until it embraces the Tanana and upper
Kuskokwim. each a region of imperial extent and
resou rces.
Seward Already
controls the* trade of the Yentna gold mining dis
triet. which old Alaska miners pronounce one
of the coming bonanza camps of the territory.
It controls the trade of the numerous mining
ramps along Cook inlet and its arms. From it
start the prospectors who are constantly pent*
tinting and exploring the interior between Cook
ulet and the Tatiana in the search for rich depos
its of the metals which abound in all its hills and
streams
Seward Outfits Miners
For all this territory. From this town leads the
brst route to the new bonanza fields. They are
more accessible than any other great district ot
Alaska, an important factor in their development.
Limitless Coal Deposits
lie at Seward's back door They have been ex
amined and analyzed b\ the best experts and
rated by them with the best bituminous coal of
tie* Atlantic coast. In another year this coal will
be hauled to tide water over the Alaska Central
railroad and can be mined in quantity to furnish
steam to all the ships that sail the North l at i tic.
In a few years it will furnish coke to smelters
which will be ejected at Seward to reduce the
copper ores of that bonanza field. Prince W illiam
^ound. whose richest deposits are within a few
hours sailing.
The Longest Railroad
in operation in Alaska has Seward for its ocean
terminus and its track lengthens each month.
On the finest townsite in Alaska, at the head of
the best harbor on the Alaska coast, ice free every
day in every year. Seward is building. The town
has water works, electric lighting, sewerage: and
jts development is based upon exhaustless re
sources.
GETS TRACE OF
MISSING FATHER
Chance Remark of Alaska Miners
May Lead to Discovery of
Long Sought Parent.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Nov. lit ,\ elianee remark
made in a conversation between two
\laska miners and overheard by Mrs.
(S. Baxter may lead to her finding
|in the far north her long miss
jinir father whom slit* has sought
ever since s|u* was a little girl. Her
tat her’" name i>. Thomas t owden and
.'.hi1 has not heard Irom him directly
since >he was a child. I'ho miners
souke «>l **( thl Tom ('owden," w ho |
lives in tin1 Casadepega district ol
Seward peninsula, near Council.
The missing Thomas t 'owden has j
like a page of lictiou. lie was a poor j
J t he daughter of a wealthy family, i
j Her family objected to the marriage
and afterward tried in every way to
i accomplish a separation. Their ellorts
| made Cow den's life miserable, and he
finally told his w ife he would go away
and seek his fortune: that as soon as
he was well located he would write for
his wife and child. 11 is wife remained
! loyal to him hut she never received any
j letters from him, and she died broken
I hearted. It was afterward learned by
j the daughter that her mother’s family
j intercepted her father's letters to her
I mother.
A few years ago the daughter, now
| Mrs. Christina Sinclair Baxter, set out
for the west to find her father hut
never obtained a trace of him until
yesterday. She came to Seattle a few
months ago and opened a delicatessen
shop. Yesterday two miners from the
north were lunching in her place and
she heard one ask the other how “Old
j Tom Cowden was doing." In response
I to Mrs. Baxter’s questions the miners
j told her all they knew of the man of
; that name iu the Council district. She
■ will communicate with him at once.
YENTNA RIVER FROZEN
EARLY IN NOVEMBER
All Streams Solid on Tiail to Knik
but Traveling Very Bad This
Side of That Place.
Tlu* Yentna river was frozen over
: the first days of this month and all
streams and lakes between Susitna
station and Knik were solid before
' November 10. This side of Knik.
however, the traveling is very diffi
cult. a-> there is no snow except on the
hills, hewmd Placer valley.
Sam Cramer and D. H. Conklin came
to Seward this week from Lake creek.
I starting the first of the month. They
I came down the Yentna in pack ice.
reaching Susitna station November ii.
but tic- river froze solid next day.
Everything was frozen on the trail
from the station to Knik. From Knik
they followed the railroad survey along
Knik and Turnugain arms. Most of the
way they traveled on the beach but in
places where headlands project beyond
low tide they had to climb over, and
some of these rocky bights are tierce.
| They found no snow except on the
high hills until they reached Placer
valley, and there was not much there.
Cramer and Conklin brought eight
' cen ounces of gold, which was ex
tracted incidentally through develop
j meiit work on Cache and Thunder
! creeks of the Kahiltna and on Lake
creek. They and their associates have
; claims on all those creeks and did con
siderable work on all. Both are very
, sanguine of the future of the Yentna
; district.
Mr. Cramer is foreman of the hy
draulic mine of the Klondike & Boston
Mining Company on Willow creek, an
|east fork of the Susitna. O. G. Hern-1
ing of Knik is manager of this proper
ty hut Mr. Cramer has direct charge I
of the work. He had not been south of
tlie Inlet for two years until he came
down on this trip. He did not go into i
the Yentna district until the last of
September hut his partners were work
ing there all summer.
REAL ESTATE AND
MINING RECORDS
I*. \V. and Mary J. Snyder to M. O.
j Dickey, one-third of lot 18. block 10,
j Seward, $1.
Location for plant for salting fish,
| 1*. F. Vian, Kenai river.
Placer Locations
Frances A. Osborn, Emily T. Os
born, Lysson Gordon. Hunt lie Gordon,
Denman Blanchard. H. R. Thompson,
j A. Leonard Parker, John T. Towers;
on Resurrection river.
Charles Benby, Charles Cook, Elbe
M. Keene: on Quartz creek.
And now it is announced that a
fourth beach line has been discovered
as Nome.
MAUD CREFFIELD
DIES SUDDENLY
Widow of “ Holy Roller" Leader
expires of Heart Disease in
Seattle Jail.
By Cable to Tlio Dally Gateway
Seattle, Nov. 17 Maud Crellield,
widow of the "Holy Holler chief,
died suddenly of heart disease last
nit: lit in the county jail, where she was
confined awaiting trial as an accessory ;
to the murder of George Mitchell by j
his sister. Ksther Mitchell, in revenge!
for the slaying of Crellield. Mrs.
Crellield had not heen ill. She played j
cards with other women in the jail un
til Id o'clock, when she went to bed |
with Ksther Mitchell. Half an hour
later she screaimd with pain, then
swooned’and died in a few minutes.
Mrs. Crellield and Ksther Mitchell j
had been declared insane by a com-1
mission in the superior court, and j
Judge Frater had ordered their depot-j
tat ion to Oregon, whence they came to!
Seattle. An appeal from this decision
is pending in the supreme court and ii
the case is reversed Ksther Mitchell
will he tried for George* Mitchells,
murder, as Mrs. (’reflield would have I
been.
It was for the alleged seduction of
Ksther Mitchell that her brother
George Mitchell shot Crellield on
First avenue in this city last May in
the presence of his wife, lie was tried
for murder and acquitted on the
ground of insanity, but in reality lie
cause of popular sympathy with the
killing of ('reflield. who had demoral
ized several communities with his dis
gusting religion. A few days after
ward, in July, Ksther Mitchell shot
George in the union station in this city
as he was about to take a train for
Portland. Maud ('reflield at once
gave herself up, admitting that she
had planned the murder of George
Mitchell and incited Ksther to do it.
ALASKA-YUKON EXPOSITION
WILL EXPLOIT NORTHWEST
Senator Plies Tells Southern Haga
z.lne What to Expect of the
Pacific Fair in 1909.
In “Advance,” a magazine published
at Birmingham, Alabama, Senator
Piles of Washington writes of the
“Exposition Idea,” recounting the big
fairs which have been held, and then
proceeds to dilate as follows upon those
which are coming:
“In like manner, Jamestown will
commemorate the earliest English set
tlement in America, and Seattle will
mark the era ushered in by the fabu
lous placers of the nort bland in a
single word. gold. Jamestown, histor
ic with memories clinging to Powhatan
oak and Pocahontas spring, with its
Hampton Hoads where fought the
Monitor and the Merrimac, with its
long lines o* half-obliterated trenches
across which more than once the fate
of the nation was in balance—James
t'jwn begins with the oldest American
struggle and traces it along three hun
dred years. And on the opposite rim
of the continent, Seattle, bustling,
active, energetic in the highest de
gree: where the Indian canoe of yes
terday has been displaced today by the
battleship built right in her own har
bor: whore the pioneer's cabin has
given way to the skyscraper: where
the trade of half a dozen empires is
loaded on the largest cargo carriers in
the world for distribution to all parts
of the globe: where Alaska and the
Canadian Yukon have poured out
more than $112,000,000 of precious
metal -Seattle the golden, most ro
mantic in all our western life, is daz
zlingly new: only yesterday it was
snatched from the ever-receding bor
ders of the front ier.”
Norman E. Smith, a bad man of
Tenakee who kept a hotel and booze
joint, was killed with his boots on by
Robert Reid, a storekeeper. Smith
had threatened Reid and the latter
wsnt after him with a shotgun and
blew off a quarter section of his head.
WEEKLY WEATHER RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
November 23:
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Saturday 38 34 Cloudy
Sunday 38 34 Rain
Monday 38 34 Snow
Tuesday 29 25 Clear
Wednesday 37 30 Rain
Thursday 44 38 Rain: high
wind
Friday . 37 32 Clear
SEWARD STEAMERS
Portland; sailed from Seattle 11th.
Northwestern: sailed from Seattle
21st.
Dora: sailed from Seattle 21st.
Jeanie: sails from Seattle 24th.
Pennsylvania;sails from Seattle 24th.
Bertha; sails from Seattie 25th.
Saratoga; sailed for Seattle 20th.
Shelikof: sailed for Unalaska 16th.;
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