OUSTS LANGDON
PUTS RUEF IN
Acting Mayor Gallagher of San
Franciso Changes District
Attorney.
DETECTIVE FORCE DISCHARGED
Citizen's Committee Backino Move
ment to InvestiQdte Graft Ap
plies for Injunction.
By Cable to The D?\ly Gateway.
San Francisco. * Vt. Aetini: •l*ty
•i I'.allagher removed Hi-tt el Attor
ney Lanirdon from oO’etoday and ap
• . \,;■■(!(] |J.je In- 'uee< —
so.. Ho aUo . 'Chat -d Franci- J.
■ : o yatiier* evil, ne
in municipal od.o and ail ihe de
* tectives enira■_:<«. in tIn vii;;t "in k.
Lanjjduft »»■*!* pdnd-'nteansluUite
for governor aft* 10 is claimed that he
has In an an-fit from his office lor
■ . ■ - .m. on. a ' ' - ' " ■
Tie I'd; . us’ committee which i" pro
mot ini: Die movement to investigate
graft thary.sapplha G» Die superior
court today to prev< nt Lanirdon s is •
■ nival, tlreal excitement prevails all
over the city because of the boldness of!
the coup of (lullairlier and Luef. anti it j
s the sole topic of conversation.
SEEK GRAFT IN !
SAN FRANCISCOj
Grand Jury Called to Investigate
Mayor Schmitz and Abe
Ruef Crowd.
By Cable to The Bally Gateway.
San Francisco, Oct. 25—A grand jury j
has been impaneled to investigate the
charges of grafting made against Abe
Ruef. Mayor Schmitz and others. I'he
charges have l>een made freely by the
aewspapers.
Ruef retaliated today by swearing
•ut a warrant against Manager froth-j
•rs of the Bulletin charging him with
criminal lil>el in an article which ac
•used Ruef of grafting in connection!
with the purchase of the water plant.
Ruef promises to furnish a series of
sensations for the prominent citizens
who are availing him.
SAILS FOR KNiK IN
SMALL GASOLINE 30AT
Julian Mott, the well-known machin
ist and l><>at builder ot S :ward. >a ■ d
Thursday in a twenty-foot case
line motor boat for Knife, where he
will leave the boat and a- soon as the
snow is on proceed over the Alas ka
ranee to the upper Kuskokwitn. A
partner who h«> been there two year'
♦ wrote lutu t- c ntly that he had uiaue
The little boat in which. Mr. Mott
will ttiak h ' vioac w:r> const r\lct6d
by himself and w:i' \*\\ r a trial trip
vesteruav. ' ■' a d-horse
power enji tu but tin bni tor sa\' that
is sutticieiv are :h ' tl > l»>.at can make
ten mih' an hour, He believes he
will have no di:ticult> in making the
journey safely. a» he *s an exper
ienced Iroatman. In the present rainy
weather there is lilt 1* dancer <>f vio
ler\t storm* and as -eon a-* h> i- inside
• (H»k inlet all he ha- to do to to keep
close to shore, where lie can run into a
harbor if a sudden gale blows up. It
is not difficult most of the v».a\ to tind
landing ' » ces for small boats.
Snyder (iot Out Safe
Henry Anderson of laike creek came
in on the Portland with the news that
Edward Snyder, the prospector who
swam from the rock in the Kahiltna
river where he w;s stranded with four
companions, and started out through
the woods without food or clothing to
hunt aid for the others, turned up at
the mouth of 1-ake creek and came
down with Anderson in the latter's
launch to Tyonok*
A specimen of chalcopyrite ore.
40x28x24 inches and weighing half a
ton. from the Copper Bullion claim of
the Reynolds-Alaska Company at
Boulder bay is on exhibition in the
rooms of the Mining Exchange in Val
dez. It is said to be 11 per cent copper.
HEAVY LOSS IN
TROPIC STORMS
Tidal Wave Sweeps Cuban Coast
Killing Hundreds and De
stroying Property,
Bv Cn*)lo to The Dally Qatowajr.
Havana. Oct. 20 The property loss
here in Wednesday"-* hurricane was
'-J.tHH'jHM and i wentybodies have been
recovered. All native houses were
demolished. Schooners were hurled
■pm feel inland, warships dragged t heir
anchors and the cruiser Hrooklvn was
swept ashore, but was released slightly
damaged. The transport t’ubana had
just a rived with horses and UN) of the^
animals were swept overboard. Others
were injured and had to be killed.
Trees were uprooted, thousands of
live siuck were drowned and all the
ri\, • s of Havana province are swollen
a; >i ovendowing adjacent lands. The
Aim r:cau legalion was partly wrecked
ai |kiper> m it soaked with rain.
i ’ittar del Hto has tiot been heard
tf.in- ra• j( js reporti l that conditions
lhere are far worse than here.
,'\any Lives Lost
\i,; Fla.. Oct. 2*» Steamer St.
i.ueie arrived lie re today with survi
vors ot the hurricane at F.lliott Key.
The steamer put into tin* harbor there
vesterday and found that* the entire*
is ami had been swept by a tidal wave.
The whole population of 2o0 persons
had been washed into the sea but some
had been rescued. ihe St. Lucie
brought 100 passengers, of whom sixty
five wore injured. Many dead bodies
w-ili he brought on other steamers.
The St. Lucie reports that 1<K) tishing
craft were capsized by the hurricane
and their crews drowned.
Storm off Carolina
Washington. D. C., Oct. 20- The
weather bureau states that a terrific
hurricane is raging 200 miles off the
Carolina coast and that no vessel
caught in the gale can withstand its
force. The storm is now developing
over the Carolinas.
Tempest Lasts Ten Days
San Salvador, Oct. 20 A fierce tem
pest has continued here ten days. The
battleship Kisalco was sunk and all
valleys were flooded, with terrible loss
of human life and of live stock. All
wires are down. The rivers are carry
iug down to the coast hundreds of
dead bodies of persons and cattle.
Guatemala and Honduras also suffered
greatly.
Strikes Dinar Del Rio
Havana. Oct. 22 Ueports have been
received by Gov. M a goon from the in
terim* and part of the coast of Dinar
t i l Kin. The province was affected by
tin- hurricane as far as Hatanabo.
Nine dead inxlies leave been found and
many persons are still missing, i wo
American steamers there were driven
far inshore, many houses were de
molished and the streets were flooded.
The Ins-, is s's.HMHH). At Matanzas,
win-re the American troops were
■ hi a'.: ’in army lint'* wen*
swrp: away but none of the soldiers
were injured.
PICKS UP MEN
OFF HOUSEBOAT
Liner Colorado Reaches Mobile
With Five Rescued Ninety
Miles Out.
(
By Catle to The Daily Gateway.
Mobile, < >et. 23- The liner Colorado
arrived today bringing live tnen who
hiui been picked up from a houseboat
ninety miles off Key West. They were
the survivors of a large number of
persons who had been swept out to sea
on the boat in the hurricane and had
been afloat ever since. They state
that they saw seventy-nine swept from
a houseboat near theirs by the wave.
Vessels coming in report seeing a
vast quantity of wreckage of all sorts
drifting far out at sea. including dis
abled boats and fragments of houses.
The Valdez Prospector says very few
1 business men and tax payers joined in
the movement to taboo gambling and
that there is much dissatisfaction
among them because of the shutdown.
The News is non-committal.
FIERCE STORM
SWEEPS ROCKIES
Deep Snow Falls in Colorado and
Wyoming Accompanied by
High Wind.
BLIZZARD EXTENDS TO UTAH
Union Pacific Gets Out Snow Plows
and Thermometer Drops to
10 Below in Cheyenne.
By Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
Ilenver. < >et. 22 Snow i>* two feet
deep over the whole state of Colorado
ami much deeper many places in the
mountains. A hifh wind is blowing
and much damage has been done to
unfathered crops.
WORST STORM IN YEARS
PREVAILS IN WYOMING
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Cheyenne. Oct. 22 The worst storm
in many years is prevailing all over
Wumiinf. The l nion I’acilie is em*
plovinf snow plows, the wind is blow
inf forty miles an hour and the ther
mometer is 10 defrees below zero.
WIND STARTS BIG FIRE
THAT BURNS $1,000,000
By Cable to The Dailv Gateway.
Salt Lake City, Oct. 23—A storm oi
unparalleled severity is sweeping over
this region. Fire started last night in
the plant of the Utah Packing Com
pany and fanned by the high wind de
stroyed the entire plant and contents,
resulting in a loss of $1,000,000.
PLANK HURLED BY WIND
CUTS OFF MAN’S HEAD
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Ogden, Utah, Oct. 22—A furious
wind here today demolished the barn
of William Gibbons and a flying plank
from the wreck struck Gibbons in the
neck and cut his head otT.
CHANGES SLATED
IN THE CABINET
Secretary Shaw and Attorney
General Moody to Retire
In a Few Months.
By Cafclc to Tlie Daily Gateway.
Washington. I), t'.. Oct. 1*4 Several
coming changes in the Roosevelt cabi
net were announced today from the
White House, to he caused by the re
tirement of Attorney-General Moody
January I and Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw March 4. After the changes
new departments "ill have heads as
follows:
Treasury. George H. Cortelyou: post
master-general, George von L. Meyer:
attorney-general, (-harles J. Bonaparte:
secretary of the navy. Victor H. Met
calf: secretary of commerce and labor,
t )scar S. Strauss.
Strauss will be the first member of
the Hebrew race to bold a place in the
cabinet of an American president, lie
was formerly minister to Turkey.
Meyer i> now ambassador to Russia.
The other recipients of cabinet posi
tions now bold other places in the
cabinet a-* follows: Cortelyou, post
mast ei -general; Bonaparte, secretary
of the nevy: Metcalf, secretary of com
merce and labor.
STEAM PLANT ARRIVES
The second steam plant ordered for
the Hank of Seward in place of the one
which was ditched with the Oregon at
Ilinchinbrook island, arrived in Sew
ard on the steamer Portland. The
first plant should have arrived here
about September 15.
When the news of the Oregon wreck
came in an order for a duplicate plant
was immediately cabled out by J. W.
Spencer, who has the contract to in
stall it in the bank’s new building.
The eternal fates placed the second
order on the Santa Ana, which sprung
a leak and had to go back. Finally
the plant was placed on the Portland
and managed to get through safely.
It will require about a week to in
stall the heating equipment in the
new building, but the bank will be
able to move shortly after November 1.
SULPHUR WATER
INUNDATES CITY
Chule Volcano in San Salvador
Overwhelms Panchanaloo
and Kills 80(H).
PIMINENTO SWEPT BV FLOOD
Great Ocean Wave Swamps Coast
and Several Towns Have Not
Been Heard from.
By Cr.blo to The Dally Gateway.
San Salvador, <>ct. Sulphur
water from Chule volcano completely
inundated the cit\ of I ’anshanaloo.
drowniny soot> persons. The city of
1’iminento was swept away by an ocean
Hood at the same lime, with tfreat loss
t of life.
Other cities alon*' the coast have not
in i*n heard from since the tidal wave
and it is feared that they have been
dost roved with a lar<rc part of their
populat ion.
STEAMER STRIKES MINE
SINKING WITH 200 LIVES
By Cable to Tne Dally Gateway.
-Vladivostok, <>ct. 22 Tin.* Russian
steanur Wojegin struck a mine oil
thi> port and was totally wrecked, go
ing down with 200 passengers.
BANDITS HOLD UP MINE
FOR $50,000 GOLD ORE
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Goldfield, Nev.. Oct. 22 Two bandits
in u wagon drove to the ore house of
the Mohawk mine last night and at
the point of revolvers compelled two
engineers to load ore carrying $50 to
the |K)und into the wagon to the
amount of $">O,0tM>. The robbers drove
away safely and no trace of them has
been found although a posse was put
on the trail in a short time.
MOODY FOR THE
SUPREME BENCH
Roosevelt Announces Attorney
General Is Slated for Peck
ham’s Place.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. 1>. C., Oct. 2o- It is an
nounced today that I’resident Roose
velt will appoint Attorney-General
William If. Moody to the supreme
bench to succeed Justice Peckham of
New York, who will soon retire be
cause of the failure of his health.
Moody's name will he the first to go
to tiie senate wlujn it convenes in De
cember. He will assume his position
on the bench January 1.
The announcement of the choice of
Moody for the vacant place on the
j bench came as a surprise to public
| men as Massacnusetts already has one
member of the bench in the person of
Justice Holmes, who was also appoint
ed by President Roosevelt.
5TEAA1ER SARATOGA ARRIVES
The big Northwestern steamer Sara
togo. which will hereafter be on the
Seward run. arrived in port at noon
Thursday with forty passengers and 204
tons of freight. Of the cargo 100 tons
was for the Alaska Central and in
cludes 40,000 feet of bridge timber and
some structural iron for bridges.
The Saratoga sailed westward at
noon yesterday. She goes to Seldovia,
and from there to Cyak to take on a
cargo of canned salmon. Her officers
promise to lie back in Seward Monday.
The Saratoga is the largest and fin
est passenger boat that has ever been
on this run. She is one of those
brought around this summer from the
Atlantic coast and has been on the
Nome run since July. She was form
erly on the Cuban packet line from
New York to Havana. Her gross ton
nage is 2820, net 1973, length 283 feet,
indicated horsepower 1700. She was
built at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1878.
The Whitehorse Star says that near
ly half the men who travel on the
White Pass railroad do so on the hoof
to save the $20 fare.
it is the thing in Japan to present
the actor you admire with a drop
curtain.
HARD LINES TO
HOLD LABORERS
Cordova Keeps Boat Away From
Dock to Prevent Railroad
Men From Leaving.
Cordova, or Kyak, lias established a
quarantine against bouis ^coining to
Seward, under the pretense of small
pox. in order to prevent men front
leaving the railroad there to come to
the Alaska Central. Jim <t'ileilly had
nearly loo men ready to •onte over but
the surgeon of Honey's road, Or. Whit
ing, ordered the Portland to keep
away from the dock and iighter her
freight. She landed when she went in
hut was ordered away.
O'Keilly went to Cordova for Martin
Weleh on t lie last boat going that way
and had no difficulty in picking up
nearly loo men. They were to conn
on the Portland, hut she was ordered
away from the doek before some of them
went down to board her, as they ex
pected her to remain several horns.
When -die steamed away they were
| standing on the dock but the launch
which took several traveling men to
the Portland refused to carry the
laborers. Thirty-seven men came.
Paid $1 to Ciel Out
The traveling men had landed when
the Portland first tied up and they
were held up for $1 each to ride in the
launch back to the steamer. They say
they heard nothing of smallpox while
they were in town.
The Saratoga was kept away as
was the Portland. Men coming in on
the Saratoga say. as did travelers on
the Portland, that the small pox
scare is a fake.
W. N. Armstrong, a raining man
well-known in Seward, writes to the
Gateway from Cordova that the quar
antine is solely for the purpose of pre
venting boats from taking laborers
away. He affirms that there is no
small pox there that anybody knows
of, but the company refuses to let
O’Reilly and his men leave. Arm
strong had just arrived there to look
after mining work he is having done.
Stood Off the Saratoga
Passengers on the Saratoga say the
railroad managers got O’Reilly’s men
drunk at considerable expense while
the Saratoga was in the harbor, so
they would not get away in small
boats to the steamer.
The Juneau Record Miner says that
when M. J. Heney passed through
there on his way to Seattle a few
weeks ago he announced that he would
shut down work on the Cordova rail
road for the winter in a short time.
SOLDIERS DUMP
ARMS IN BAY
Throw Guns Taken From Cuban
Rebels Into Water From
JWoro Castle.
By Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
Havana. Oct. 25 -Cuban soldiers
spent all of yesterday in throwing rebel
arms into the bay from Moro castle.
Taft promised before he left tlie city
to put the guns taken from the insur
gents where they would never be used
again.
Bands of rebels are still causing
trouble in the provinces of Puerto
Principe and Santa Clara. Several
cities have called for troops and the
Eighth infantry was dispatched today
to Holguia.
Say Valdez Is Quiet
Arrivals from Valdez say that the
town is very, quiet since the gambling
houses and concert halls were closed.
The repression is being rigidly en
forced. No gambling is permitted and
the women art; compelled to behave
circumspectly. The free and easy
manners of t he disorderly women upon
the street were principally the cause
of the moral crusade. Business men
are restive under the shutdown but
the element opposed to an open town
announces that any change will be bit
terly opix>sed.
A. B. McEachern, manager of the
Whitehorse Star, died at Whitehorse
October 5, after an operation for ap
pendicitis. He was 30 years of age
and had been in the north since 1898.
ANOTHER WRECK
AT CAPE BEAL
Barkentine Skagit on Vancou\er
Island Rocks and Captain
and Cook Drowned.
REMAINDER Of CREW ESCAPE
All Swam for Sliore Through Ter
rific Breakers But Two Per
ished in Struggle for life.
3y Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Victoria, l». < )ctoi*,,r -• Tic
barkentine Skagit. liim'nT-l : . f; t
San Francisco, won: on t!. roc .s
la->t night unr (’up«- I»*ul. » -pt. i,
\V. ILoss and 11.• >hip'- c»>.< v
drowned while tr\in g to sa :m -h«>
The remainder of the er-\\ *-nt*t
sliore safely alter •: Pm g. f, n • !
terrific breakers.
The hark was stranded no! far !; <
| where the Valencia went U-. • n.
| fierce gale was blowing and dn* ■ - I
j upon t he rocks.
FLOODS ALONG
PUGET SOUND
Skagit River Overflows Its Banks
and Inundates Many Mills
and farms.
By Cable to The Doily Gateway.
Seattle, Oct. 26—The Skagit river is
out of its banks and farms and mills
are inundated near Sedro-Woolley.
Much damage has already resulted and
the stream is still rising and flooding
the bottom lands over a great area and
to a great depth. Adjacent rivers an
neal- the danger line. The high water
is caused by the heavy rains, which are
still falling, and a repetition of the
lioods of 1896 are expected.
Flood Washes Out Tracks
Everett, Wash., Oct. 26—The over
flow of rivers along the Sound has
washed out Great Northern tracks in
several places and traflic is suspended
on the coast division.
PORTLAND ARRIVES WITH
MAIL FOR TWO WEEKS
Steamer Portland arrived in Seward
Monday afternoon with the
mail accumulated in Seattle from th*•
sailing of the Bertha, September 2<i.
to the hour of the Portland’s depar
ture the evening of October I<*. She
1 had sixty-six passengers for Seward.
The Portland returned from the
I westward Thursday afternoon and
j sailed for Seattle three hours hit-i1.
| Among her passengers from the In!
were Paul Buckley. M. F. Davis and.
S. \V. Wible, well-known mining men
from the Sunrise district. They we:
on to Seattle.
Among the arrivals on the Portland!
were a few of the birds of passage
whose means of livelihood was some
what curtailed by the dropping of the
lid in Valdez.
Steamer Shelikof Arrives
Steamer Shelikof arrived in port
shortly after midnight Thursday
from Seattle to take the Dora s run to
the westward. She came by the in
side passage and brought a small
quantity of mail from Juneau. From
that port she came to Seward direct.
She sailed westward Friday morning.
Prof. Georgeson’s Report
The Gateway has received from
Prof. C. G.Georgeson. special agent in
charge of Alaska agricultural experi
ment stations, a copy of his rejiort for
190.'». It contains exhaustive descrip
tions ofj experimental work at the
Alaska stations, showing that much
progress has been made in tho acquisi
tion of knowledge concerning Alaska s
agricultural possibilities. It is band
: somely illustrated. Tables of temper
ature and precipitation are also given.
The Gateway will hereafter reproduce
some portions of the report.
The postmaster at Ketchikan. E. J.
Williams, was recently found to be
shy $3140. He was superseded and is
out on bail pending a hearing on the
charge of embezzlement.
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