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LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION
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Vi)t N„ ~ SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1916._____Ten Cent, the Copy
MEARS ALREADY LETTING CONTRACTS TO BE
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MET BY THE TWO MILLION EMERGENCY FUND
CONTRACTS NOW BEING AWARDED
AND MEN CROWD TO GET THEM,
ANCHORAGE, Eeb. 5.—The rail
way offices are now lined with men
seeking contracts for work on the
construction of the road and the con
tracts are being awarded as fast as
possible for clearing and grading
work on the Matanuska branch. A
thousand men are expected soon to be
at work on the money coining from
the emergency fund. The construc
tion of the building for the commis
sary will begin immediately and the
contract has already been let to
Moleu ami Wicks.
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The above telegram is tantamount •
to an announcement that the emer- j
gency appropriation of two million:
dollars is practically in the hands of
the Engineering Commission. It is
even likely that Mears has already
been notified by the secretary of the
interior to go ahead. It is also more j
than likely that we shall soon hear
that Chairman Edes is on the way
back to Alaska to take up the work
in the Seward division. l)er Tag is
close at hand.
RUSH WORK FOR
NORTHWESTERN
CREW WILL LABOR TONIGHT TO
HAVE THE DOCK IN
READINESS.
A night crow will work tonight to
have the dock ready for the steam-'
ship Northwestern when she arrives
tomorrow afternoon. The work had
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reached a stage this morning, w'hen»
the probable time of the arrival of
the boat was announced, which made
it look as though the wharf would
not be ready. A race ha* now Dcen
started, however, to make the word
of the Commission good that the dock
would b%‘ ready for the next boat.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE
IN THE TEMPERATURE
In the weather report today it can
be seen that two below is registered
at Mile 52 and twenty-four below at
Mile 34. Yesterday the difference be
tween the two places was similar. At
all the other points mentioned the
weather is similar to that at Mile 52
so it can only be assumed that the
thermometer at Mile 34 must have a
jag on or never woke since the cold
spell. The report is taken by the
Commission.
WEATHER FROM OTHER PARTS
IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
JUNEAU, Jan. 21. — Throughout
southeastern Alaska other cities re
porting mild weather yesterday were
getting theirs today. At Sitka it is
six below, but no wind. It is twelve
below at Wrangell with a heavy wind.
Ketchikan took a sudden drop from
23 above to five above. It is five be
low at Petersburg, eight below at
Skagway but Haines is the coldest
place it being eighteen below there.—
Empire.
NORTHWESTERN DUE
AT NOON TOMORROW
The steamship Northwestern is due
at noon tomorrow*, Sunday, according
to w’ord received by Agent McDonald.
She will bring the members of the
Republican Territorial committ -e.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
DANCE THIS EVENING
The Arctic Brotherhood dance
which will take place this evening is
certain to be a most successful affair.
REVELL COMING
Colonel Revel 1 will arrive with the
mail on the train this evening.
ELKS MEET TOMORROW
A meeting of the Elks will take
place tomorrow' in A. B. hall at 3
p. m. By Order
SAM MCDONALD, Pres.
Pals Lit* Buried
In Gallipoli
By WILBUR S. FORREST
(United Press Staff Correspondent )
LONDON, Jan. 8.—(By Mail)—
Australians and New Zealanders are
drifting into London since the aban
donment of the British positions on
Gallipoli peninsula. In London tea
rooms, on srteet corners and else
where the tanned, burly Australians,
the dusky Maoris and lighter com
plexiotted New Zealanders meet.
They talk a great deal among them
selves about the abandoned dead. “It
wasn’t leaving the place that hurt;
it’s the thought of a fellow’s best j
friends buried in those gullies and
ravines,” said an Anzac fighter today.
He talked about the appalling number
of casualties suffered by the Anzaes;
of lonely cemeteries under the cliffs,
and in Shrapnel Gully; of burials
under cover of darkness to escape the
enemy’s fire and of midnight funeral
services where the officiating priest or
clergyman could be heard and not
seen. Almost everyone of the thou
sands of graves at Anzac is marked
with a cross—sometimes bearing a
name, but more often reading “To the
Memory of Fifty Australians,” or “To
the Memory of Fifty New Zealand
ers.’’ To the Moaris it was not so
hard to leave their dead. They be
lieve the place where a dead man lies
i3 sacred; wateched over by spirits
who would do evil to intruders.
Grotesque wooden idols with sea shell
eyes perch garishly on sticks above
the graves of the Haori warriors.
The true spirit of humanity which
animates the Turks in their fighting
is shown in the stories of the Anzaes.
An instance of this was shown in May
when both sides agreed to a burial
armistice. An imaginary line was
drawn throug No Man’s Land between
the trenches and pickets from both
sides patrolled it while searching
parties from both scoured the under
brush of the hills and hollows. The
Turks brought the Christian dead to
the line, the Anzaes doing likewise
with the slain Mohammedans. Re
ligious rites were hurriedly observed
on both sides as the bodies were plac
ed in hastily dug trenches. Crosses
were erected and the armistice came
to an end. It is this spirit on the part
of the Turk that makes the Anzaes
believe that the last resting places of
their dead, crosses, inscriptions and
all, will not be molested. Hundreds
of Anzaes will go back there after the
war to visit the silent graves. It is
declared not improbable that all the
crosses marking the thousands of
graves will be replaced by more Jur
i ble markings of stone to forever
commemorate the meroy of the dead
NOME REINDEER FOR
THE OUTSIDE MARKET
NOME, Feb. 4.—Hundreds of rein
deer from Kotzebue arc being killed
here for the outside market The
people interested look forward to the
establishment of a great industry in
this line.
Figures Given Of
R. R. Money Right
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Outside Paper Also Gives Figures!
Showing How Emergency
Fund Is Divided.
On January twentieth this paper
published a cable showing how the
emergency appropriation money
would be distributed for work on the
railroad. It was said by the Gate
way at that time that a mistake
might possibly have occurred in
transmitting the message from Seat
tle but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
of January twentieth which came on
the last boat carries a cable from
Washington giving the same figures
distributed in the same manner.
There has been an attempt made to
make people believe that the money
is not divided up for the various sec
tions but that attempt was due to the
disgusting habit which recently be
came evident to deceive the public
rather than to admit inefficiency in
> securing the facts. The following is
the extract from the Post-Intelli
gencer which shows how the money is
to be divided:
“Money provided in the present bill
is to start actual building of track
forty-five miles from the Matanuska
river to Chickaloon, the center of the
Matanuska coal fields, $718,500;
forty-five miles from Kern creek to
Ship Creek Junction, $94,000; from
Matanuska Junction northward to
ward Talkeetna, $187,500, and to pro
vide two gasoline electric motor cars
for passenger traffic on the Alaska
Northern, $40,000, and additional
marine equipment, $75,000; for Al
aska Northern railway, $180,000 (pur
chased by the commission for $1,150,
000, of which $500,000 already has
been paid on account.).”
“WOMAN CAN PROPOSE
SWEETLY AND CHEERFULLY” j
j CLEVELAND, Jan. 23.—A 10161
Leap Year Club has been formed by j
eight pretty girls here, headed by j
Miss Blanche Taylor of Lakewood a
fashionable suburb. The avowed pur
pose of the club is for each member
to propose to the man of her choice
during the year, and not to accept
any similar proposal when offered by
a suitor. “I do not see anything un
usual about a girl choosing her hus
band,” Miss Taylor said. Miss Helen
Maliy, another member, said: “A
woman could propose just as grace
| fully and sweetly as she could accent.
1 I think she ought to if she really
loves a man.”
TERRITORIAL CASE WILL
NOW GO TO SAN FRANCISCO
JUNEAU.— In all probability
Judge Jennings will sometime today
sign a bill of exceptions in the well
known case of Charles A. Sulzer, and
others, against Walstein G. Smith,
treasurer for the Territory of Alaska.
This means that the case will then go
to the court of appeals at San Fran
cisco. The case is of interest to every
one in the North. It evolves the
right of the First Division to spend
the profits of the timber sales of the
Tongass forest reserve. It will be re
membered that this question started
one of the hottest fights in the terri
torial legislature.—Empire.
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., Feb. 2.—
Because six policemen refused to
work any more for $52 a month, the
new' Borough Council fired them and
put six others to w'ork today at $60
a month.
NOME SUFFERED.
LIKE ALL OF US
HAD WORST STORM IN HISTORY
LAST WEEK AND EVERY
THING TIED UP.
NOME, Feb. 4.—-Nome had the
worst storm of its time last week and
got more than its share of the terri
ble weather which has visited all Al
aska. During the stonn travel was
suspended all over the section and not
a man or team ventured out.
The local chamber of commerce is
now deluging congressmen, commerc
ial bodies and outside newspapers
with appeals to aid this camp in se
curing five hundred pounds mail in
crease. Nome never suffered so
much from its mail sendee.
The Strand-Hed mine is preparing
for a big shipment of antimony to the
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outside this summer.
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The Railway and Marine News for
January contains an article which is
rather a knock to Seward and comes
from a very unexpected quarter. The
News rightly says that Seward should
not send fake stories to the outside
but it also warns people about buying
lots here before investigation of the
conditions and prospects. The fact is
mentioned here so that the attention
of the editor of the Railway and
Marine News may be drawn to the
fact that this country w ill not depend
on a railroad payroll after the
construction period* Outside papers
should not take it on themselves to
place a limit on the resources of Al
aska. Nature alone will do that.
Seward Shut
Off Entirely
Seward up to two o’clock this after-1
noon, anyhow, was shut off from
communication with the outside
world. In addition to the interruption
of the cable service the wireless also
got into some sort of trouble and no
message had been received up to the
hour mentioned and when this was
written there seemed to be not the
slightest chance for any. The mail
service of the United Press of which
the Gateway is a member is being
utilized today to make up the de
ficiency.
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ENGLISH PREPARE
LONDON, Feb. 2.—The Foreign
Office is accumulating complaints re
garding seizure of British property in
Mexico, it was learned today, for pre
sentation to the Carranza govern
ment. The Inter-Occanic railway of
Mexico, has asked the government to
! find out when it can have back its
lines. At the annual meeting of di
rectors, Chairman Arthur Hill re
ported that the road was com
mandeered by the “government of
Mexico” in 1914 and that he had no
knowledge of its condition. The
Guaycle Rubber company, whose
properties were also commandeered in
1914, has lodged a protest with the
Foreign Office.
No advertiser can afford to omit
the Seward Gateway.
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ANCHORAGE MEN WILL FIGHT
TO HOLD THEIR PROPERTIES
OUT AGAINST
WICK THEY SAY
SOME LOCAL REPUBLICANS
THINK HE CANNOT HOPE
FOR NOMINATION.
Some prominent local members of
the Republican party, after having
seen the suggestion in the Gateway
that an attempt may be made next
Monday to begin a campaign to bring
Wickersham back to the fold, have de
clared that in their opinion there is
no reason to believe that the regular
Republicans of the territory would
support Mr. Wickersham. Some of
them have even gone so far as to say
that the idea is absurd and they de
clare that they would support the
present Delegate under no conceivable
circumstances. The visiting members
of the territorial committee will ar
rive tomorrow so that the meeting
can be held on Monday without fail.
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A Seward attorney has received a
communication from one of the men
recently convicted of selling liquor in
1 Anchorage in which it is stated that
i the people convicted will fight to the
I end any effort of the government to
take the properties on which they
have paid some money. No one who
has been asked for information here
| as to the contracts made between the
' government and those people can tell
j anything about it but the opinion
seems to be divided as to the right of
the government to take the property
of the convicted men away from
! them. One local attorney declared
that “to take the properties of these
men because of the their offense
would be reverting to the methods of
the Fifteenth century when a man's
goods and chattels could be forfeited
j to the Crown if he committed a
i crime."
The communication from Anchor
age asks why it could be possible to
take away the property of a man in
j Anchorage who committed an offense
; against the law if it would not be
possible to take away the properties
i of the clubmen of Valdez if they are
■ found guiity on what is substantially
the same charge.
It is pointed out that ihe rules gov
erning the sale of lots at Anchorage
contained some clause which provided
lOiieiturc of lots if the pui
chasers sold intoxicating liquors but
some attorneys believe that this con
tract is not binding and that it could
not be binding. Others think it might
be made binding if carried through
the courts and they express the
opinion that each and every one of
those cases must go through the
courts before any government can
touch the lots occupied by the pre
sumed defendants.
If the government decided today t>
! order one of the convicted men from
his house and lot that man could cer
tainly refuse and the government has
no more power to take summary ae
| tion than any individual or private
party to a contract who might be pos
sessed of the physical ability to do so.
It was pointed out by one person that
recently a man who claimed a home*
I stead near Anchorage was ousted but
that the government had to take the
matter to the courts although he had
not secured a patent or anything else.
GOOD REPORTS FROM LEWIS
RIVER AND STAMPEDE STARTS
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The Nome Democrats have called |
their primaries and the Gateway re
ceived a message to that effect this
morning but a mistake has probably
been made in one word in the trans-1
mission of the message. It reads:
“Democrats called primaries tribu
tary eight." The word tributary may
mean February.
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PRETTY CALIFORNIA GIRL
INVENTING HIGH EXPLOSIVE!
BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 22.—
Though she abhors war, pretty
Beatrice Rudawsky, University of
California graduate who looks the
artist more than the scientist, is ex
perimenting with a deadly explosive
which she says will be more powerful
than the most effective explosive now
in existence.
“Explosives," she says, “are as
valuable to peaceful pursuits as to
war. If my experiments are success
ful, I should like to think of them as
a step in science, rather than as a
means of killing more men."
PLEASANT PARTY
Mrs. Mabel Lynn was the hostess
at a pleasant party last evening. A
nice lunch, cards and singing were
features. Those present were the
Misses Carlson, Miss Anna Nelson
and Messrs. Grant Carlson, Frank
Reed, Virgil Rich and Bryce Howard.
CACHE CREEK DREDGE
ON GROUND MARCH 1
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ANCHORAGE, Feb. 5.—The Cache
creek dredge will be on the ground by
March the first. The haul across
country during the winter has been
very successful.
NORTHWESTERN NOT
TILL THE EVENING
Alex McDonald has received later
intelligence from Cordova that the
Northwestern will not arrive here un
til tomorrow afternoon or.evening.
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ANCHORAGE, Feb. 5.—Susitna re
ports a stampede to Lewis river
where the new strike has been made.
Fifteen dog teams with outfits have
started out from Susitna station al
most in a bunch and still more are
getting ready. J. B. McAllister, a
well known miner of Nome, has ;ust
returned from Lewis river and *ays
he thinks it is a good country, it is
also expected that a bunch will leave
here soon.
BELIEVES KENAI IS
GREAT GOLD COUNTRY
Owing to some water running into
the shaft of the Primrose mine ami
its freezing, Charles Hubbard is wait
ing some new implements before
starting to work clearing it out. Ho
is now engaged developing a property
close at hand. The results obtained
from the ore which Mr. Hubbard
shipped outside for treatment have
absolutely proven the truth of his
conviction that the side of Kcnai lake
on which he is working is a magni
ficent mining field. He declares that
the day will come when the whole
section there will be worked on an
enormous scale.
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BIG IMPROVEMENTS ON
WILLOW CREEK MINES
Several Operators Will Add to Their
Capacity With New
Stamps, Etc.
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 5.—The Gold
Bullion Mining Company will increase
the capacity of their mill seventy per,
cent this season. The Mabel Company |
is installing a Chilean prospecting
mill also on Willow creek.
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QUITE A MOVEMENT
TO MATANUSKA POINTS
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 5.—Quite a
movement is now on to Matanuska
points and several local business men
plan the establishment of branches at
the mouth of Moose creek which will
be the main camp of the Matanuska
branch.
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Frank Cotter is now getting dogs
for the team he intends to race on the
March 17 contest from Anchorage to
Seward and return. There has been a
sort of a veiled threat made that if
Seward fails to come across with the
money the course may be changed.
Mrs. Blue entertained the Bridge
Club at her residence this afternoon.
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WICK CANNOT
SAVEPROPERTY
SAYS HE TRIED TO SAVE BOOT
LEGGERS BUT HAS
FAILED.
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 5.—In a letter
to a local attorney Delegate Wicker
sham states that he has made an ef
fort to save the property of the six
bootleggers who pleaded guilty but
that he has been unsuccessful. The
attorney and others are now wonder
ing what the next step of the govern
ment in the matter will be.
KIMBALLS OF NOME
MAY DREDGE YANKEE
The Flume Dredge Company of
Nome has taken options on a large
portion of Yankee creek, in the In
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noko district, and will probably place
a dredge to work on it. i'ho
Donahues, who have been mining on
tho creek for several years, are al
so going to take machinery in there.
This information has been b o ught
out by men who have just arrived in
Seward on the way outside.