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■- THE ALASKA EVENING POST
,. , v, v . SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. Ten Cents the Copy
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BIGGEST HYDRAULIC
PUNT EVER INSTALLED
ON K NAI PENINSULA
From time to time mention has been made in these
columns of the operation being carried on by the Kenai
Peninsula Placer Mines ( ompany, incorporated, but oui j
citizens have little conception ot the realh big ludiauiit
plant that this company has just completed on ( anyon
Creek. |
Some two years ago Mr. J. IF McDonald, a \\ell-,
known mining man, made a deal with old man Joe Wilson
by which he acquired the well known property on ( an\on
Creek, and subsequently this property was transteiied to
the Kenai Peninsula Placer Mines, incorporated, and M.
- W. Howard, of Alabama, was elected president.
Mr. Howard, who formerly represented this district in
Congress, interested a number of Southern capitalists in
the enterprise and the result is the best, by tar, equipped j
hydraulic plant on the Kenai Peninsula, and one of thei
best in Alaska.
The plant was just completed, and ready to run, wnen
the recent Hood, one of the worst known in the histoij ot j
Alaska, caused considerable damage to the plant, thus de
ferring active operation until next spring.
So quietly has the work been carried on that the citi-;
zens of Seward are not aware ot the tremendous import
ance of this enterprise. Fhe initial investment is quite
iarge, and the successful operation of the plant will mean
the installation of large hydraulic plants all the way from
the head of Canyon Creek to Sunrise.
Early in the spring the company will begin piping,
and will move not less than four thousand yards of gravel
per day, anti the well known richness oi the Joe \\ ilson
property insures the great success ot the company.
They will move more gravel in a month than has ever
been moved in all these years on Canyon Creek, Mills
Creek and all the tributaries of Canyon Creek, and yet
millions have already been taken from the channels of
these streams by the primitive methods heretofore in
vogue.
‘ The installation of this great plant marks a new era
on the Kenai Peninsula and we congratulate the gentle
men employed in the enterprise, as well as the city of Sew
ard, as this is the natural gateway and outlet of the rich
but undeveloped country between here and Sunrise. There
are untold millions of dollars in gold lying hidden in this
territory, awaiting the enterprise of such corporations as
the Kenai Peninsula Placer Mines—and we predict for the
men who have made possible this splendid enterprise, un
bounded success.
FIVE ARRESTED FOR
FAILUREJ R BISTER
Five Russians arrested for failure to register under
the Act of May 18, 1917, and proclamation of the Presi
dent, June 30, 1917, two of these, Temirbolat Karaonaff
and David Karaonoff, were found on the hearing to be
over the age limit and were discharged.
Kasim Warkwasoff was found to be 29 years of age
and was held to the United States Grand Jury at Valdez
in October. Two others, Nick Zogoff and Tembolat Ha
daiiff, are held for further examination.
The Admiral Farragut is due to arrive from Seattle
Sunday night.
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ii WEATHER REPORT
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The weather report at time of observation, 7:00 a. m.,
this morning, by the Alaska Enginering Commission,
gives the set maximum at Seward 32 degrees; rain for
the day, with direction of the wind, calm.
CABLE WILL BE DOWN TWO
OR THREE WEEKS LONGER
Strenuous efforts made by the A. E. C. boat to pick up
the end of the cable which is broken near the Seward dock
are to no avail and as the repairs must be made to the
underwater line before it is again ready for use, the Burn
side, United States cable ship, will have to do the work.
The Burnside is now in drydock at Seattle and will
leave that city for Seward September 25th and communi
cation by cable will not be restored short of two weeks.
News received by The Gateway during this period will
be by radio from Anchorage or Associated Press mail cor
respondence. Thus far we have been well supplied with
up-to-the-minute service, but in a very condensed form.
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HONORED BY FRANCE
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The French government has decorated Mrs. Henry |
Morgenthau, wife of the famous American ambassador
at Constantinople, with the ribbon of the Legion of Hon
or in recognition of her work in the French hospital
there. Mrs. Morgenthau was thanked in the name of the
French government for the splendid work done by her
among the French wounded and ill at the hospital in Con
stantinople.
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HINDENBURG ILL; LUDENDORFF HURT j
(Uy A«#ocUt«d Pre*« Dispatch)
ROME, Sept. 21. — Reports received here declare
Field Marshal von Hindenburg is very ill and that the in
juries recently sustained by Quartermaster-General
von Ludendorff in a railway accident in Belgium were
graver than at first supposed.
Hindenburg and Ludendorff are the two master minds
of the German military machine. Many reports have
credited Ludendorff, the silent one, with being the real
brains o fthe combination. Hindenburg has never moved
without his quartermaster-general. He had him in his
successful campaigns on the Russian front and Luden
dorff has been constantly Hindenburg’s alter ego on the
eastern battle line.
BIG COPPER SHIPMENTS FROM ALASKA
The report of the collector of customs shows that cop
per valued at slightly more than four million dollars was
shipped from Alaska last month. The other exports
amounted to considerably more than $800,000. The fish
exports for the month were better than $410,000.
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FIFTY THOUSAND TO BE DISENFRANCHISED
OTTAWA, Sept. 21.—Fifty thousand or more for
eigners will be disenfranchised by the War Time Election
measure now before the House of Commons. The aliens
in Canada number 752,732. In Saskatchewan, one fourth
of the residents are aliens. In British Columbia, the pro
portion is 6.62 per cent.
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ADDRESS AT METHODIST CHURCH TONIGHT
Frank B. Benson, traveling business man, and super
intendent of the “Gideons,” of the State of Washington,
will give a special address in the Methodist Church this
evening. None can afford to miss hearing Mr. Benson.
The address will begin promptly at eight o’clock tonight.
REV. PATTON TO HIKE WITH BOYS
Should the weather be suitable, Rev. Patton will ac
company all boys who wish to take the hike, to Mile 6
tomorrow, to fish for small brook trout,.which are now
very plentiful. The crowd will leave from the parson
age promptly at eight o’clock. Each boy should take a
| small basket or vessel to carry fish in.
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G MANS DEFEATED
DY RUSSIAN WOMEN
IN VICINITY OF RIGA
(Ity Associated Press Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 21. — Russia’s Battalion of
Death, composed exclusively of women, engaged and de
feated the Germans today near Zegevold, northeast of Ri
ga. The Teutons constituted the advance force of the
army that has been pursueing the Russian contingent,
which recntly evacuated Riga. The defeated Germans re
treated in a southerly direction.
NEITHER CAN WIN NEAR GORIZIA
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
ROME, Sept. 21. — Despite stormy weather today,
lighting between Italian and Teutonic troops continued on
the heights northeast of Gorizia. As gaps were made in
the ranks of both contending forces, they were immedi
ately filled. The rival troops are so evenly balanced in
numbers in this circumscribed area that a decisive victory
is apparently impossible for either side.
FRENCH REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK AT NIGHT
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PARIS, Sept. 21.—The official statement this fore
noon says that the German attack against the French
positions on the Caseinate’s Plateau was repulsed with
heavy losses last night. Shell fire was used in the repulse.
GERMANY PLOTS TO CRIPPLE U. S.
WITH CARBORUNDUM “BOMBS"
(tty Associated Press Diipitch',
LONDON, Sept. 20.—Carborundum “bombs” are the
latest development of German plotters’ ingenuity for crip
huttons, braids, hat cords, and other devices which these
pling the war effort of America. They were discovered in
a recent German bomb haul in Christiana, Norway.
Carborundum is a manufactured composition re
sembling a shapening stone, but is harder than almost any
steel made today.
American army officers believe it was the German
plan to have these carborundum “bombs,” disguised in
chewing tobacco and cigars, slipped into the axle cups of
troop and supply trains and into oil cups and other vital
parts of transatlantic steamship engines.
Half an hour of this composition grinding against car
and engine bearings and in steam cylinders, would cripple
railway cars and steamships for weeks, requiring entirely
new axles and engine parts, engineers say.
fend it with our blood and treasure.
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NELSON & CO. ARRIVE
WITH FIRST COAL
Nelson & Co. came into Seward yesterday from the
westward with a few tons of Bluff Point coal of a very
high grade. Mr. Nelson says if a market can be found
here and satisfactory arrangemnts can be made with lo
cal parties to handle the coal this winter, he will make
regular trips to the Inlet and supply any quantity desired.
Nelson will return at once to the coal fields and start bring
ing in the coal by barges as soon as necessary arrange
ments can be made. It is safe to say that he will have no
trouble in securing the orders, as well as a representative
agent here.
The coal is of extra high grade and test and we un
derstand can be sold in Seward at a big saving over pres
ent prices. This coal comes from the mine of Mrs. Whorf,
located near Seldovia, and the supply is unlimited. It is
easily accessible and a coal route from Seldovia to Seward
can be easily established that can be operated by boats or
barges through the entire winter months. __