Seward Weekly Gateway
. . SKAVAKI). AKASKA. SATURDAY, ,11'NB 2, l»OG.
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BOMB MISSES
SPANISH KINO
Slays Sixteen Persons in W edding
Procession Returning from
the Church.
kILl.S ROYAL CARRIAGE HORSES
Explosive Thrown from Only
House in Madrid Owned by
Mother of Monarch.
By Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
Madrid, June 1 As King Alfonsos
wedding precession returning from the
oburch was turning in to the royal
palace a bomb was thrown at the
king’s carriage from the balcony of
the only house in Madrid owned by the
queen dowager, Alfonso’s mother. A
telegraph wire deflected the course of
the bomb and the explosive fell beside
the carriage of the Grand Duke \ ladi
■ir, who was uninjured, but sixteen
persons were killed, including Captain
Barrossa. commanding the king’s
eocort, the Marquis of Colusa and his
daughter, several officers, soldiers and
citizens.
Two horses attached to the carriage
in which the king and queen were rid
ing were killed. The royal couple
alighted and entered another carriage
and were driven safely to the palace,
where both wept although they dis
played great calmness during the ex
citement in the streets. The assassin
escaped
The marriage eeremony was per
formed by Cardinal Sanoho in the
•hurch of San Jeronimo in Del Rial
street. All the adjacent streets were
thronged with people, who cheered
wildly when the bridal procession en
tered the church and when it came
out, following all the way to the
palace. In the panic which succeeded
the bomb explosion many persons were
trampled and some were seriously
hurt.
The bridal gifts surpassed the dis
play at any royal wedding in many
tears and came from ail nations.
Crowds Fill Madrid
Madrid, May ill The Spanish capi
tal never presented a more brilliant
•ala day aspect than it does this morn
ing in honor of the nuptials of King
Alfonso with Princess Kna of Batten
berg. The city i> tilled with people
from outside and the entire population
seems to U' in the streets. All hotels
art* crowded and everything wears a
holiday appearance.
The officials have Keen not ified of the j
presence ot anarchists from otherj
countries and every precaution U
taken by the police to prevent acc*»
of strati. is to near proximity to t he '
royal couple.
Discover Plot to Kill
discover* t to a*sa>>’-nate King Ar m**>
of Spit.it wt -i’ th«
detain* >: the ta-k and !?•**•>• are now
here tht*»..gh leak*from sympathizers.
SANTA ANA ARRIVES
AND SAILS SOUTHWARD
Carries Cook Mountain Climbers and
Geological Survey Party With
Large Outfits.
Steam 0/ Santa Ann at riv* 1 in port
Sunday afternoon a’ o’clock and
vailed westwaril at midnight. She
went to Seldovia to take the i ook
party of mountain climbers who will
>eek to scale Mt. McKinley, and aj
geological survey par y wh • will work
during the summer on the Matanuska
ami Talke* tna rivers and the country,
between. The two exploring parties
have altogether thirty-six her- - and
the Cook party a large launch.
The Santa Ana brought fifteen cabin
and thirty-three steerage passengers
and sixty-five tons of freight to Seward.
She hail twenty-three passengers for
Seldovia and three tor Homer liesides
tho-o she took on here. Sue returned
Wednesday morning and sailed that
night for Seattle.
To Call Kyak Cordova
A petition has been sent to the post
al departmental Washington asking j
that a post office be established at
F.vak and called Cordova, the name Jof
the bay.
MAKE NEW RECORD
!N TUNNEL BORING
Crews on Three faces Draw Dig
t xtra Pay for exceeding Limit
Set by Lngineer.
A Lew Days More Will Let Air
Through No. 3 Which Is To Be
IOOO feet Long.
Record boring was accomplished in!
three tunnel faces last week. I lie j
vang on the south end of No. 1 drove
twenty-nine feet, which is the highest
mark they have ever made. in the!
south end or No. S the gang bored the j
remarkable distance of tifty feet, the
greatest progress over made on any
face in the series, and the men drew
$t* extra pay for each man. In the
north end of No. '.i the men bored
thirty-seven feet, which equals their
best previous record and they drew
$2.50 extra per man. In No. 1 they
drew $2.25 extra pay.
The extra pay allowed is ou cents
per foot per man for all distance be
yond 32 feet in a week in tunnel 3 and
beyond 24* feet in tunnel 1.
Tunnel 3, which is the longest of the
series, about 1000 feet, will be bored
on the heading early next week. The
total heading length on the two ends
was exactly 900 feet last Saturday
night. The heading is the upper half
of the tunnel. The headings now ex
ceed half the total length of the tun
nels and the bench totals nearly half.
Boring was resumed this week on No.
0, which caved in a short timo ago.
The outside work at the north end of
the last tunnel, No. 7, is about com
pleted and pipe is being laid to con
nect with one of the compressors so
that boring there can begin.
A large quantity of timber for the
trestles has been hauled out to mile 49,
w here the first are located and con
struction will be under way within a
few days. As soon as the snow- is gone
from the side hill beyond the end of
the track grading will be resumed
there and the rails carried to the first
tunnel as soon as possible. Enough
snow remains on the hill to interfere
with work and it is very slushy. The
warm weather of the last week has
ruined the snow road from the end of
track to Camp 49 and no more team
ing can be done until the ground is dry.
The status of tunnel work last Satur
day night was as follows;
Tunnel Bench Heading Total
length
1— South end 31i 354 710
2 Finished 300
3 South end 445 527 1000
3 North end 283 373
4 Boring not begun •>30
5 Finished . *^0
$ 29 53 300
7 Boring not begun •►0)
Total 1072 1907 3730
THINKS YENTNA DISTRICT
WILL PROVE VERY RICH
Paul Buckley Intends to Invest There
and Says It Cannot Pail to
Be a Winner
: *;> {:' Buckley, who knows as much
tii ■ tt/'-rior north of Cook inlet as
*v!,\ ni l in Alaska, is firm in the be*
ii« IS,at tlu Yentna district will
prow a rich camp. Whether it will
a bonanza camp, iie say>. only time
can oemonstraie. but bis faith in it has
induced him to invest there “sight
mise'-n" and he will sail west on the
Bora to see what else he can pick up.
In 1M>7 Mr. Buckley went up the
S Atna to the Tanana with W. G. Jack
and! wo other men. exploring creeks.
Cvery where they found gold in quan
tities which by simple processes paid
miner's wages and he believes that
the same must be true of the 'i entna,
which is of similar formation. This
opinion is upheld by all old Alaskans
who have been in the district.
Mr. Buckley also expects that this
simmer will bring some revelations
from the upper Susitna. When his
pact \ prospected there nine years ago
they worked on half a dozen creeks
ami everywhere obtained good results
but they were looking for bonanzas
ami kept going. When they started
fiom the Inlet there were seventeen
white men and nine natives in the
party but the total number was re
dueed to nine when they reached
the falls, and only four went beyond
that jK)int. The climb around the
box canyon looked to the others like
the jumping-off place and they turned
back. It was on the creeks above the
falls that Buckley and Jack found the
richest deposits.
Pans running from $25 to $35 are
numerous on No. 1 above on Wonder
creek, near Nome, according to the
Nome News.
TAKES UP CASE
OF WICKERSHAM
Senate Considers Question of
Confirmation hut Fails
To Reach Vote.
nelson and others opposed
foraker Says Four-fifths of Mem
bers Favor the Judoe and
Will Force the Issue.
«y Cable to Tlio Dally Gateway.
Washington, I). C’., June 1 Senator
Foraker, acting for the majority of
tite judiciary committee, forced the
senate to take up the question of Judge
Wickersham’s confirmation yesterday
afternoon. The subject was debated
for two hours but the executive session
adjourned at 5 o’clock without a vote.
Nelson, Hausbrough, McCumber and
Pettus furnished the opposition.
The issue will be brought up again
this afternoon by Foraker, who says
ho will keep the matter before the
senate until it is disposed of. He said
the case had been fully considered and
that four-fifths of the senate was in
favor of Wickersham’s confirmation.
He insisted that to bold up the nomin
ation any longer was an injustice to
the people of the district, which had
been without a judge for many mouths.
Asks for Vote on WIckersham
Washington, D. C., May 30—Attor
ney-General Moody sent a letter to
Senator Clark of Wyoming, chairman
of the senate judiciary committee
yesterday afternoon, asking that he
bring about a vote on the confirmation
of Judge Wickersham immediately.
SHOUP URGES
ALASKA CODE
Proposes Creation of Commission
To Put Territorial Laws
in Shape.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May 30 A proposition for a
codification of Alaska laws by a com
mission to be appointed for that pur
pose is made by C. S. Marshal Shoup
J of Juneau, who arrived from Washing
' ton last night. He advocated the pro
ject while in the capital and says it
i was received with favor.
Mr. Shoup proposes that two lawyers
be chosen from each district of the
territory and two at large by the pre
sident and delegate in congress. He
suggests that the commission meet in
Fairbanks in July 1!K)7, then proceed
to Nome. St. Michael. Seward. Valdez
and Juneau in order to study local con
ditions and make recommendations for
' new legislat ion.
The bill for the creation of a fourth
judicial district in Alaska is being
strongly urged in Washington and Mr.
Shoup is hopeful that it may pass.
CASWELL REACHES INLET
Little Steamer Makes LongtVoyage
From Seattle in Safety
The little steamer Caswell is no
: doubt safe in Seldovia by this time.
The Santa Ana met her Tuesday night
oil ( ape FJizabeth. This is the bout j
which ('apt. Swift bought for the!
Yentna river run. Site is a stern
wheeler.
Captain Ketler, who came up as
master of the little steamer on. the j
j ocean trip, left her in the hands of,
( apt. Swift when they met the Santa I
Ana, and boarded that vessel to re- j
turn to Seattle. He reports that the j
voyage was made without serious
trouble and the boat came through in j
! excellent order.
Takes Lease at Rainbow Creek
(’apt. W. N. Armstrong has taken a
lease of the dredging ground o' the j
Rainbow Creek Mining Company on
Rainbow creek, north of Turnagain j
Arm, and will work it this summer.
He went through on the Santa Ana to
make a trip to the Yentna district but
will be back soon. The Rainbow
Creek Mining Company, of which M.
K. Davis is manager, is preparing to
work the property at Hope on a large
scale with the big dredger installed
last fall.
DISAPPROVE OF
APPORTIONMENT
; Alaskans in Seattle Say Republi
can Call for Convention
!s Inequitable.
FAVOR NON PARTISAN MEETING j
Claim Big Delegations Are Given to
Small Towns While larger
Ones Get None at All.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle, May 20 Alaskans in Seattle
disapprove of the apportionment made
in the rail lor a Republican territorial
convention. They say that it is in
equitable and not based upon a fair
estimate of the population.
As an example objectors point to
Candle Creek, which is given five dele
gates. and say there are larger towns in
the territory that are given no separ
ate representative at all. Other in
equalities are pointed out which are
said to be sure to create dissatisfac
tion.
The belief is prevalent that the Re
publican call will result in a general
demand for a non-partisan convention.
ACTIVE WORK ON
TURNAGAIN ARM
Crow Creek Company and Others
Around New Town of Gird
wood Employ Many Men.
t row creek is busier than ever in
its history this summer and as a conse
quence the new town at mile 75
on the north side of Turnagain
Arm, which the inhabitants propose to
call Girdwood, is a lively little place
notwithstanding the removal of the
railroad graders to other portions of
the work, leaving only a small number
of loggers still there. More than 100
men arc employed by the big hydraul
ic mines in the vicinity and half as
many individual miners are doing devel
opment work on a small scale are on
adjacent creeks.
A petition has been sent to Wash
ington asking for the establishment of
a post office at the town on the Arm,
i which is to be called Girdwood in hon
| or of James Girdwood, who owns a
j group of hydraulic claims on upper
Grow creek, above the property of the
! Crow Greek Placer Mining Company,
which he has been working with am
| pie results for several years and on
j which he is prepared to carry on op
I orations ihi> season upon a larger
I scale than ever.
Mr. Girdwood owns the land where
! the new town stands at ihe mouth of
i he misnamed Glacier creek, of which
| Crow creek is a tributary. He is a
New York man and comes out every
summer to superintend operations on
his Crow creek property, which is
equally a> rich as the ground of the
famous Crow Creek Company.
The Crow Creek Mining Company's
property, which was sold last winter
to a California syndicate for $250,000,
is the scene of extraordinary activity
under the direction of Andrew Nisbet,
superintendent for the new owners.
Between sixty and seventy men are
now employed and are engaged in
building additional and larger flumes
for the transmission of water for hy
draulic purposes. It is the intention
of the new owners to work the prop
erty to the utmost limit of possibility
and us the group embraces fifteen
claims of which only a small area has
been washed out they are certain to
extract a fabulous sum before they ex
haust the gravel deposits.
The California Mining Company has
fifteen men at work and several do/.en
men are developing or prospecting on
their own account on different creeks.
On the other side of the Arm at Sun
rise and Hope the usual summer opera
tions are in progress. The big dredger
at Hope which the Rainbow Creek
Mining Company installed near Hope
last year will he kept busy all summer
under tho direction of M. K. Davis.
An Illinois paper says Gov. Hoggatt
looks like a good man, over six feet
tall. __
Whales avoid the gulf stream and
are never found there.
CHICKALOOH GOAL ONLY
WAITS FOR RAILROAD
All Preliminary Work Done and Min
ing Can Begin With Advent
of Transportation.
Veins Crop Out at Surface and There
Is Nothing To Do hut txca
vate the Carbon
The coal mines of the rhiekaloon
river are developed to tli<> shipping
point and only await the advent of the
railroad to carry the product to
market. It required comparatively
little work to develop the mines to
that point as tin* coal crops out at the
surface. There was really little to do
but begin digging to make shipping
mines of the coal measures.
Frank Watson came to Seward on j
the Santa Ana and reports that he lias
taken oft' all but a few of his men and
the remaining crew will cease work
next month. Until the railroad reaches
the mines nothing can l>e done with
the coal and as the road cannot be
built that far within less than a year
it would be useless to do any further
work on the property.
The work done during the past year
by Mr. Watson was merely to expose
the veins, it consisted of clearing the
surface to make the mines accessible
and of tunneling in different places to
test the quality of the coal. About
2000 feet of the vein has been blocked
out in different places and everywhere
an extraordinary quality of coal has
been exposed.
The coal by repeated tests has been
proven to be superior to any other soft
[ coal now mined in the United States
except the Pocahontas coal *f West
Virginia and it is of the same grade as
the Pocahontas, which is the steam
ing coal of the United States naval
vessels. The government buys the
best coal obtainable for its warships.
When the Chickaloon coal is placed on
the market naval vessels on the Pacific
will undoubtedly obtain their supply
from that field. Assurances to that
effect have already been received
from the navy department as reports
of experts have established the quality
of the coal beyond question and it will
effect a large saving to the govern
ment to buy its steaming coal for the
Pacific warships on that ocean.
.Mr. Watson brought down with him
a sample of Chickaloon coal which is
plainly of wonderful quality. It is ab
solutely free from slate and when it
burns it leaves nothing but ashes.
TO MAKE SURVEYS IN
MATANUSKA REGION
Party of Geologists and Topographi
cal Engineers Pass Through
on Santa Ana.
Four men attached to .the division ol
Alaska mineral resources in the U. S.
geological survey bureau of tin* inter
ior department, went to the Inlet
; bound for the Matanuska region,
where they will spend the summer in
researches concerning,the mint-ral de
; posits of that locality, extending their
i investigations to the Talkeetna and
the area between the two rivers.
They have four helpers to look after
(equipment, which includes Mxteen
horses.
The survey party i> headed by 'I'. G.
I Gordine. lie and K. H. Sargent are
• topographical engineers. The other
two members are Sidney Paige and
J Adolph Knopf, geologists. All are un
der the general direction of Alfred H.
Brooks, head of the division ol Alaska
mineral resources.
The party will divide at the head of
Knik Arm. two of them making a
short exploration’of that region, while
the| others will go directly up the
Matanuska, where they will soon he
rejoined by the Knik river party.
They will spend a great deal of time
on the Matanuska and the Chickaloon,
and after that will proceed slowly
across country to the Talkeetna, the
east fork of the Susitna. They will
remain injtlie Held until October.
Steamer Shelikoff Calls In
Steamer Shelikoff, the cannery ten
der of the Northwestern Fisheries
Company, came in from Uyak Tues
day afternoon to cable to Seattle. She
left before morning. Capt. Johnson
reports meeting the steamer Ecuador,
which was hound for the westward
with Capt. Jarvis, superintendent of
the Northwestern canneries, aboard.
Capt. Jarvis is on his annual tour of
inspection of the canneries.
In 1H00, it is said, 100,000 bales of
cotton would have lasted the Lanca
shire mills, England, for a year; now
the same amount only feeds their spin
dles for a day and a quarter
;STOP WORK IN
SAN FRANCISCO
Rebuilding Called off Because
Insurance Companies Fail
To Settle.
MANY MEN OUT OF JOBS
No Information Can Be Obtained
as to Probable Date of Pay
ment of Claims.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
San Francisco, May lil—All rebuild
ing stopped today because the lire in
surance companies have taken no steps
toward paying losses and without in
surance funds no means of paying
laborers can be obtained. Thousands
of workmen were discharged because
there was no money to pay them.
No information is obtainable fron»
tiie insurance companies concerning ;t
oontemplated date for the settlement
of claims. Great hardship will result
to the poorer classes unless they can
be given work very soon.
KNIK TO GET MAIL
TWICE EACH MONTH
Department Lets Contract Whkh
Will Give Regular Service Un
til October 31
Knik will have a regular mail ser
vice twice a month until October 31 by
way of the Inlet. The information
came on the Santa Ana in a note to
the Gateway from Alvah Karnes, chief
clerk of the railway mail service for
Southern Alaska.
The contract undoubtedly goes t<»
the Cook Inlet Transportation Com
pany. which operates the Toledo ant*
Tvonic from Seldovia and now carries
mail to Tyoonok. The letter from Mr.
Karnes does not state to whom the con
tract is awarded but Capt. Shaw of the
Toledo was in Seward Sunday when the
letter came and when informed of its
contents he said: "If the contract is
let it's ours."
Before the expiration of this contract
arrangements will no doubt be made
for a land service next winter. Tin
attempt to secure a monthly land
service failed last winter, in suite of
diligent effort by Mr. Karnes, beeauv
the department and the mail carriers
could not agree upon compensation. A
petitition has been sent in asking for
a post office at the head of naviga
tion on the Yentna. which is a short
distance above the mouth ot the
Skwentna, to be called Youngstown.
This will necessarily require a regular
mail route. In summer, ot course,
the mail will be carried i>> river
steamers from Tyoonok if the -out-* is
established but after November 1 ma t
will have to go by land traii.
At the present time hetwee:. b"0 and
400 men are in the Yentna district and
every week adds to the lutmoi I
the belief in the richness «,! ’ dis
trict entertained bv every i who
has been there is justitied by sum
mer developments its population by
fall will lie multiplied several time-.
Already a line of roadhous* - from tl.
end of the Alaska Central railromt
track, which next winter will be on
Turnagain Arm. is planned and travel
will be heavy by way of Knik. I*
should not be difficult to obtain a reg
ular mail service over t he same route.
Steamer Dora Sails Westward
Steamer Dora came into port Tuesday
night and sailed for the westward
after midnight. She spent considera
ble time at King bay unloading a min
ing out lit. To that fact her delay in
reaching Seward was chargeable.
Among her westward passengers was
Deputy Marshal Vawter of I'nga.
Thomas Hanrnore, a well known Cook
inlet mining operator, who goes to lli
amna to work copper property, * .
Warner, who goes to Chignik to devel
op a pumice stone mine. Mr. Warnei
was in Seward last year, and delivered
several lectures.
Find Boats Waiting
i The Cook party of mountain climbers
and explorers and the geological sur
vey party found the Toledo and Nep
tune waiting for them when they
reached Seldovia on the Santa Ana.
i By coming to Seward and meeting
them here Capt. Shaw captured the
Cook party, but the survey party
went up the Inlet on the Neptune.
Goldstream in the Tanana is one of
the most popular of recent discoveries.