SHIP WRECKED
IN BERING SEA
John Currier. Laden With Salmon,
Goes Ashore in Heau Fojf
at Nelson’s Lagoon.
VESSEL AND CARGO TOTAL LOSS
Two Hundred and tight) Passengers
Now Camped on Beach Near
Wreck Awaiting Aid.
Ship John Currier, enroute from
Nushagak to Astoria, Oregon, went
ashore :U Nelson's lagoon, Bering sea.
at 1:30 o’clock in the morning of
August *J. A dense fog and heavy
head winds prevailed at the time and
were responsible for the wreck.
The ship was loaded with thirty
thousand cases of salmon and hail one
hundred and thirty whites and one
hundred and fifty Japanese and Chi
nese aboard. Outside of the ere"
those al»oard were cannery employes.
All succeeded in reaching shore and
are no" camped on the beach await
ing succor. The vessel and cargo are
a total loss.
The John Currier was a large vessel,
being lv>7 tons register. She "as
owned by the California Shipping
Company of San Francisco am: her
loss i> not covered by insurance. The
cargo wa> from the Alaska Fisher
men's Ducking Company s cannery at
Nushagak and is fully insured. Xel- j
son's cove, the scene of the wreck, '
wyl! known as the graveyard of many
a noble 'hip.
H. W. Uinn, bookkeeper, and D. A.
Young, another employe of the pack
ing company arrived in Seward on the
Dora and are enroute to Astoria, the
home port of the concern.
TEDDY ROASTS
CORPORATIONS
Sa> s Capitalists Are Pests and
Wants National Government
to Control Trusts.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Provineetown. Mass.. Aug. IM Presi
dent Roost-veIt is here attending the
celebration of the anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrim fathers. In a
speech this afternoon he declared
that in spite of Wall street tips to the
contrary, he would continue the tight
entrusts. He regards capitalists as
pests and says the national govern
ment should absolutely control the
great corporations. He recommends
a national incorporation law for corpo
rations engaged in interstate com
merce. He thinks the Sherman anti
trust law is a good beginning along
the line of controling the trusts and
should be preserved and strengthened.
TEDDY CAUSES
STOCK TUMBLE
By Cabl* to The Dally Q*t«w*y.
New York, Aug. 21 — Following the
speech of President Roosevelt at i’rov
incetown yesterday, in which he stated
he would continue to pursue the trusts,
stocks have gone tumbling down. At
the opening of the stock exchange to
day the market is still shaky.
Prominent Visitors In Seward
David T. Ham and S. G. Philbrick of
Spokane and F. R. Brown of Seattle
arrived on the Saratoga and will await
the arrival of the steamer Dora to sail
on a trip to the west. Mr. Ham is a
prominent politician of the state of
Washington and has several times re
fused the gubernatorial nomination on
the republican ticket. He is a roan of
large wealth and goes westward to in
vestigate mining propositions.
Building School at Seldovia
A government school for native chil
dren is being constructed at Seldovia
and is nearing completion.
CONVENTION ON
NOVEMBER 14
Called by Republicans to fleet
Delegates to the National
Republican Convention.
John T. Spickett. chairman of the
republican territorial committee, lias
issued a call requesting that primary j
elections be held in the various pre- j
ci'ncts. as soon a> expedient, for the j
purpose of electing delegates to the j
republican territorial convention to
be held at Juneau November 14. 15H)7.
This convention will elect six delegates
and six alternates to represent the
territory at the national republican
convention to nominate a presidential
ticket, which will he held early in the
summer of
The third division has been accorded
delegates to the territorial convention I
a> follows: Catella 1, Chena 2. Circle |
City and Birch Creek 2, Cold Foot and j
vicinity 1. Dome Creek 1. Ellamar 1, |
Kagle 1. Faster Creek 1, Forty Mile j
district 2. Fairbanks 14. Gold Stream 2, j
Hot Springs I, Kantishna 1, Kodiak 1. j
Latouehe 1. Little Eldorado I. 1 leary j
Creek and tributaries Orca l. Koose-'
velt 1. Rampart 2, Seward 2. Sunrise j
l. Seldovia l, Tanana 1. Valdez 3.
SECRETARY TAFT ]
OUTLINES POLICY
Presidential Candidate in Speech
at Columbus Tells of Plat
form Which He Favors.
Dy Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Co.nmbus. (>.. Any. -Secretary
Ta'‘ in i sneech here last niyht. makes
his presidential platform plain. He i>
in tav.u* uf revising the tariff, advo
i*ate> an inheritance tax. opposes yov
ernmeiit ownership of public utilities,
and would continue the liyht now L>e
iny wayed by the administration on
the triMs. He accepts in toto Koose
velt's radical policies.
THREE DIE FROM j
BUBONIC PLAGUE
--
Dread Disease Breaks Out in
Chinese District of San
Francisco.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Sun Francisco, Aug. IS — Bubonic
plague has broken out in this city.
Three deaths have already occurred.,
The desease originated in Chinatown.
The authorities are taking vigorous
measures to prevent the spread of the
deadly plague.
To Kill Off the Rats
San Francisco, Aug. 22—A warfare
1 is to be made on rats on board all
crafts coming here, to prevent the
spread of bubonic plague. It isclaimed
that the rodents carry the disease from
port to port, and an endeavor will be
made to exterminate them. The local
authorities have the bubonic cases
well in hand and no alarm is felt that
the plague will increase to any extent.
SCIENTISTS WORKING
ON ACTIVE VOLCANOES
The Jaeger party, scientists engaged
in the study of volcanoes.are working
to the westward. They have ascended
Mt. Makushin, an active volcano on
the Alaska peninsula, and it is report
ed that one member of the party has
been lost.
Prospectors are investigating the
sulphur deposits which lie around
these active volcanoes. The great dif- j
Acuity will be in mining the mineral.
It is Li id that when a drill is sunk to
a given depth the intense heat con
tained in the molten mass of sulphur
melts the bit and renders it useless.
The sulphur is of good quality and
occurs in large deposits, and the prob
lem which now confronts the prospec
tive operators is how best to mine it.
CAPTAIN AND SIX SAILORS OF
SCHOONER NITO FOUND GUILTY
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Valdez, Aug. 21—The jury convicted
the captain and six sailors of the Jap
anese schooner Nito, charged with
poaching. The jury was out all night
and this morning reported that they
could not agree. The court sent them
hack, insisting that a concession he
made on both sides so that a verdict
could be secured, if possible. The
jury returned in an hour with the ver
dict as above mentioned.
The sailors were crews of two small
boats found within the three mile
limit, one with a freshly killed seal.
Three of Kiowo’s Crew (luilty
Valdez, Aug, 20 - The trial of the
crew of the Japanese schooner Kiowo,
charged with poaching in the Ameri
can preserves, occupied the attention
of the district court yesterday and
went to the jury last evening. After
being out thirteen hours the jury re
turned a verdict of guilty against
three Japs who were captured in a
small boat with three freshly killed
seals. Thirty-one were acquitted.
This releases the schooner.
SALMON PACK
FOR YEAR 1007
While Heavy, Shows Slight De
crease As Compared to
Season of 1900.
--
The Alaska salmon pack will fall
short of last season’s catch, according
to the figures now available. At Bris
tol bay the season has practically
closed, and the catch is estimated at J
715.5DO as against 5**7,735 cases in 15*00.
The almost incessant heavy weather!
this season is largely responsible for
the reduction in the pack at Bristol
bay.
In what is known as the central
Alaska district, that is, from the Orea
cannery westward to Chignik. on the.
Alaska peninsula, the pack will prole 1
ably be about the same as last year--!
473.054 cases. Cp to the present time |
the catch i> estimated at 3*0,0*K* cases,
but the season in this district is not;
yet Closed.
Alaska is an important factor in the
production of canned salmon, supply
ing a 1 Hint four-fifth of the world's pro
duction.
CATCH LEADERS
OF REVOLUTION
After Chase of Six Months’
Duration Four Ringleaders
Finally Gathered In.
ay Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Los Angeles, Aug. * 24 — Four ring- j
leaders of the revolutionary movement ]
to overthrow the Mexican government j
and to plunge that country in an inter- [
neeine war have been captured. The j
chase lasted for six months. Arras of J
the revolutionists stored at St. Louis'
have been confiscated.
HEAVY RAINS IN
YENTNA DISTRICT
Special to The Daily Gateway.
Kahiltna, Aug 7,’07—An almost con
tinuous rain during the latter half of
July retarded work on the larger
streams in the Yentna valley. On the
twenty-third of July the Yentna and
Kahiltna at this point rose to a foot
above the high water mark of last
year. On July 30 there were twelve
men camped on the Kichatna river
waiting for the water to lower so they
could get their outfits further up the
river.
Murphy’s launch brought a party
ten miles up the Kichatna river about
July 20th.
TJiere are quite a number of men at
work on the gravel banks on the Ka
hiltna below I’eters creek. The re
sults are proving very satisfactory.
They use the water that has accumu
lated in the reservoirs back from the
river for sluicing. The gold found is
coarser than the bar gold. In one in
stance a nugget to the amount of $1.50
was found.
The reports brought down from the
creeks say everyone is doing better
than last year. The boys on Wagner
gulch and creeks in that vicinity are
sluicing. No estimate is made, only
that it is paying considerably better
than wages.
nil > •
L. L. Bales, the well known Alaska
Efuide, and Miss Minnie Halverson
were married in Seattle recently.
RICH LEDGE ON
CROW CREEK
John Sheridan Traces Float
Quartz to Parent Body After
Patient Searching.
Persistent prospecting has rewarded
the efforts of a hardy old miner named
John Sheridan, well known to the old
timers of the Cook inlet region. He
has traced Moat to its sauree, reveal
ing a ledge four feet in width and
visible for some distance. Two feet of
the ledge contains white quartz carry
ing free gold and galena, the remain
ing two feet being composed of iron
sulphides. The character ot the ore
suggests high values.
The ledge is located on Crow creek,
a tributary of Glacier creek, the latter
emptying into Turnagain arm. Crow
creek has long been noted as a placer
gold producer, and it is possible that
this is the ledge from whence much of
the gold in the gravels had its origin.
Sheridan searched long and patiently
for the vein, the existence of which
was apparent from the flout thrown
from it.
WILL TELL OF
HUGE GRAFTING
Lips Long Sealed to Reveal State
of Corruption in Building of
State Capital.
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By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Philadelphia, Aug. 114—James Shu
maker, superintendent of construction
of the capitol building, says he will tell
all he knows about the huge graft in
connection wtth the construction and
furnishing of the structure. He states
that funds have been manipulated by
high state oflicials for the purpose of
covering an immense shortage in the
treasury and to save the name of a
former United States senator, now de
ceased. The promised expose has
caused a great sensation.
COAL FIELD FOUND ON
ALASKA PENINSULA
On Hook bay, on the east shore of
the Alaska peninsula, semi-anthracite
coal has been found by W. I. Warner.
The vein is ten feet in width and is lo
cated about live miles from tide water.
Mr. Warner has been working inter
mittently on this property for the past
four years, and it was while thus en
gaged that he obtained information
which lead him to investigate the big
copper deposit, mention of which was
made in yesterday’s Gateway.
(lold Dust Stolen
Seventeen thousand dollars in gold
was stolen recently from the steamer
Seattle No. 3, while going down the
Yukon river. The dust was being sent
out by registered mail. While the
purser slept the register sack was rip
ped open and the packages, which were
put up four pounds each in tin cans,
were stolen. So far there is no clue to
the thief.
The council of Nome has at last
passed an ordinance requiring all dogs
in the city to be either muzzled or
chained. The hot weather is bringing
out all the bad in these animals and it
has been found necessary to take this
step in order to insure the safety to
human life.
COAL MINE AT
PORT GRAHAM
Steam Hoist and Pump Being:
Installed to Facilitate Work
ing- of Property.
At a point eight miles below Seldo
via, known as Port Graham, W. G.
Whorf is opening up coal claims. To
expedite the mining of the property
a steam hoist to raise the product from
the shaft and a pump to free the work
ings from water will be installed, the
machinery now being on the ground.
As depth is attained the grade of coal
is much better, and the present mine
run is of excellent quality.
The Port Graham coal mine is not a
recent discovery. During the Russian
occupation a penal colony existed at
this point, the convicts being engaged
in the mining of coal. Fvidence of
this is indicated by an old shaft sunk
to a depth of ISO feet on a coal vein
near the present workings. Founda
tions of old buildings, and old tools
scattered by are mute witnesses that
in the bygone years, before the advent
of the American in Alaska, the Rus
sians had a frontier settlement planted
there, which has now passed into his
tory.
BIG STRIKE ON
KNIGHT ISLAND
Over Eight-foot Vein Encountered
on Julius Singer Property
at Hogan’s Bay.
A rich vein or copper was encoun
tered last week on the property of Jul
ius Singer on Hogan's bay, Knight
island. At last reports the miners
were cross-cutting a ledge and were in
eight feet and still in solid ore. The
ore is a high grade sulphide.
Singer has expended a considerable
sum of money in the development of
this property. In order to strike the
ore body at depth a tunnel 2»K) feet in
length has been driven.
COMMISSIONER
FOR LATOUCHE
District to Be Composed of
Islands of Prince Wil
liams Sound.
Special to The Dally Gateway.
Valdez, Aug. 16—Latouche and ad
jacent islands will be made a precinct
with S. A. Crandall as commissioner.
The order will be made by Judge
Wickersham before the adjournment
of the present term of court. Mr.
Crandall is now deputy clerk of the
district court at Valdez. The creation
of the new precinct was made at the
request of the mining men on Latouche
and Knight islands.
SAND POINT GOLD
PROPERTY BONDED
Oscar Olsen and D. F. Cook, owners
of gold quartz claims at Sand Point,
have bonded the property to parties
represented by J. L. McPherson of
Seattle. The ledge is thought to be an
extension of the famous mine at Lnga,
owned by the Alaska Commercial Com
pany, and from which over $3,000,000
in gold was taken. It was one of the
Grst mines to be operated in Alaska.
McPherson and Olsen came from the
west on the Dora.
Louis Herman has also bonded his
Sand Point claims.
Surveyed Coal Lands
Udo Hesse and party of eight ar
rives from Herendeen bay on the Dora.
Hesse has been engaged in surveying
coal claims at that point during the
past summer.
A very large and rich ledge of cinna
bar has been uncovered on the Kusko
kwim river, about thirty miles below
Seckmut. The property is owned by a
man named Parks, who now has three
tons of the ore ready for shipment to
the outside to assay.
EXTRAORDINARY
DEPOSIT OE ORE
Unusual Occurrence in Nature
Revealed at Prospect Bay,
Alaska Peninsula.
LOCATED BY W. I. WARNER
Copper in Various forms Occurs in
the Rock and Gold and Silver
Also Associated.
One of the largest mineral outcrops
yet found in Alaska is reported from
Prospect bay, a small indenture in the
Alaska peninsula, which is about ten
miles south, as the crow dies, of the
fishing village of < hignik. This ex
traordinary occurrence in nature is a
deposit of what is primarily a copper
ore, but also carries values in gold and
silver. Various forms of copper are
noted in the mineral mass — chalcopy
rite, bornite, chalcocite, carbonate
and a/urite. The deposit is plainly vi
sible for 5000 feet along the shore line
of the bay, is known to extend inland
4500 feet and varies from thirty to 200
feet in hight. The elements have
mined thousands upon thousandsof tons
of the ore. Assays of picked samples
give from ten to sixteen per cent in
copperand $23 in gold and silver.
This remarkable mine is owned by
\V. I. Warner, who first went to the
Alaska peninusula four years ago on a
coal proposition. lie located the cop
per claims early last spring. Warner
arrived on the Dora and is on his way
outside to place the property or make
arrangements to work it himself.
STOCK RAISING
ON ISLANDS
Government I:\pert Says Condi
tions Are lavorable for
Sheep and Cattle.
Kodiak arid tlu* djacent islands will
develop into a gr* t country for rais
ing cattle and -beep. Such is the
opinion of A. L. >aodgrass in charge
of the governor i • experimental sta
tion at Kodiak. So convinced is Mr.
Snodgrass that ’ hat section is well
adapted for rai>. ig stock that he has
advised friends t<> engage in that in
dustry there, and will himself import
sheep to start a sheep ranch.
Snodgrass say^ there is no difficulty
in curing hay in that country and dur
ing the past summer he has raised and
cured a sufficient crop to meet the
wants of the stock now on hand at the
station.
OFFICER JOINS
QUIETS PANIC
When the cutter Manning struck the
rock off Knight island the Japanese
prisoners nearly stampeded. Only tho
coolness and decisive orders of Execu
tive Officer W. W. Joins kept them
from tumbling the life boats over the
side and running away. Joins went
among them and by his positive ac
tions and commands quickly brought
the Orientals into quiet submission.
In three minutes he had five boats over
the side in charge of the crew and
filled with Japanese. They were sent
ashore until the vessel floated and
were then brought back and the cut
ter came to Valdez without mishap.
District Attorney Ray, who was on
board, says the prompt command of
the situation shown by Lieut. Joins was
admirable and cannot be eulogized too
highly. He is a graduate of Annapo
lis naval academy and has been in the
revenue service several years.
Peter Iverson Finds Copper
Peter Iverson, well known in Seward,
arrived from the westward on the
Dora. He has located copper claims
on the Alaska peninsula which show
good surface indications. Iverson has
been extremely ill, but is now fast re
covering.