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FOUR FUNERALS
AT WHITEHORSE
WHOLE CITY TURNS OUT TO
BURY FOUR MURDER
ED MEN.
JUNEAU. Oct. 7.—The funerals !
of Pat. Kinslow, Geo. Lane, Tom
Boconich and Henry Uook, members
of the White Pass wk Yukon Railroad
section force, were held in White
horse Sunday. The men were mu**- j
dered last Thursday, three milt's fr>m
Whitehorse, by Alex GagofT, a Rus
sian. believed to have been mentally
deranged. The slayer is now in the j
Royal Northwest Mounted Police bar
racks at Whitehorse, awaiting a hear- I
ing.
As all of the victims were well
known, the entire city of V hite
horse attended the funeral. Among
those who made the trip from Sk:tg
way, for the services, were Superin
tendent V. I. Hahn, of the rvlroad
company, and John Grashel, empby
M by the railroad in an o'^cial
rapacity.
RELIEVED LOST IN
BO VT NEAR ( HISANA
Woman Doctor Comes Direct to Fair
hanks From War Zone to
Find Missing People.
FAIRBANKS, Oct. IS.—Dr. Lillian
Stevenson ha." arrived here direct
from a hospital in the war zone in
France to locate William Zachariah
ind his wife who are believed to have
>een lobt on the Upper Tanana river
chile they were returning from the
l hisana in a boat.
IMPROVING ROAD FROM
BEAR CREEK TO SEWARD
Contractor Quinlevan is now work
ing near Resurrection River and will
continue the road out as far as Mile
Six, probably. The worst piece of the
road is near Mile Five, over the
Smalley homstead, which will be im
proved before moving any further
jut. Anton Eidc, of the Road Com
mission, who went out to inspect the
tvork this morning, said that there
had been a slight change made in the
plans of the Road Commission and
that the road work would not likely
pet as far as Kenai Lake this fall but
that the many bad stretches in the
road near here would be fixed up.
rhis work will continue until after
die first of November.
W ATER COMPANY PUTTING
IN MANY NEW HYDRANTS
The Seward Water & Power Com
pany received a shipment of ten hyd
rants on the Northwestern ar.d are
procedi ng to set them ift place. Y es
terday the hydrants at the intersec
tion of Sixth Avenue and Railroad
was set up. Today they are at work
putting in two, one at the corner of
Adams and Second, the other at
Adams and Sixth Avenue. The other
seven hydrants will be placed wher
ever the council sees fit to put them.
ADMIRAL EVANS ARRIVES
The Admiral Evans arrived this
afternoon about 1:30 from the south
with the passengers of the Mariposa,
rhe trip up from Seatle was tairly
jmooth until after reaching Latouehe,
and then the worst part of the voy- j
age was just before hitting Kesur- ,
rcction Bay, where the wind was
blowing so hard that the ship had to
“stand to” for nearly an hour before
getting in the bay. From Alaska
ports she brought to Seward: D. 0.
Nelson, Mrs. Sidney Jacobs, Robert .
Scott, Rev. Father van der Pol, Rev.
Edw. H. Maloney and wife. The
Mariposa passengers brought here on
the Evans are: Jos. Giddis, James
Oliver, Mrs. D. A. Holovitsky, Rev.
D. A. Holovitzky, Miss Lubora Lipts
off and three steerage.
All Frozen Up In
the Nome Country
Candle Left Without Supplies Owing
to Ice. Hard Winter
Sure.
NOME, Oct. 15.—Everything on
Seward Peninsula is frozen and a
very cold winter seems to be sure.
All mining at Candle and Keewalik
has been stopped and hard frost also
prevails in the Kougarok. The Silver
Wave made two trips to Cape Prince
of Wales in the endeavor to get sup
plies to Candle but was unable to
make it, and that district will prob
ably run very short of much needed
supplies. The silver Wave had a
capacity cargo which was regarded
.vs very necessary. The Arctic arriv
ed from the north a day or two ago
and is the last vessel out this year.
MRS. VAN CA.MPEN HAS
SOME THRILLING HUNTS
Party Ragged Big Game and One
Moose Came Within; Three
Paces of Their Tent.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank van Campon,
the latter of whom is best known as
Mrs. Helen van Campon, and Ben
Sweasy arrived yesterday after a
most interesting hunt in the bear
and moose fields. For a time they
were accompanied by Colonel Revell
and George Cotter but the colonel
had to return to prepare for the
winter mail service. The patty bag
ire*l some fine specimens and Mrs.
van Campon is taking home on the
Evans a fine head to be mounted. At
one time during the hunt the lady
saw twelve moose in one day and
once, with a fine display of what
was either sang froid. confidence,
courage, carlessness, contempt for
shooting ability, or the attraction of
the literary temperament a "ier.t
moose approached within a few paces
of her tent and lives to tell or writ*
his experience. The van Campens
will go back to Latouche on the
Evans.
❖ BABY BOY BORN TO *
❖ MRS. FRANK SKEEN ❖
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A fine baby bon was born to Mrs
Frank Skeen, the wife of the promin
ent local mining man. Mrs. Skeen
and the baby are very well, the at*
tending doctor says.
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SUGGESTS THAT ALL
SHOULD OBSERVE DAY
Monday Will be the Anniversary of
the Day When the U. S. Flag
Was Raised Over Alaska.
L. V. Ray, president of the first
Alaska senate, has suggested again
that Alaska Day, Monday the 18th,
should be specially observed by th*
people here. It is the anniversary
of the day when the Stars and
Stripes were hoisted at Sitka in 1867 j
and took the place of the Russian flag
that was hauled down on the same
day. It had been suggested for sev
eral years that Alaska should observe
the day and it is specially observed
in most of the towns of the territory.
The bill making it a legal holiday
was the second passed by the terri
torial legislature, the first having
been the bill granting the franchise,
to Alaska women. Mr. Ray thinks
that the ocean terminal of the gov
ernment railroad should particularly
recognize the day. The Gateway
agrees with him and will not issue
on Monday but all important dis
patches will be bulletined for the
benefit of the public. The banks, as
stated elsewhere, will be closed.
EARTHQUAKE LAST NIGHT
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There visited Seward last night
about 7:10 a short but quite severe
earthquake, preceeded by a rumble
that sounded like a report of distant
cannon.
GILBERT AND STEIN
FREED OFCHARGE
NOT GUILTY OF ANCHORAGE
ROBBERY BUT GILBERT FIN
ED FOR ASSAULT.
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ANCHORAGE, Oct. lG.—In the
I trial for robbery in the commission
er’s court Gilbert ami Stein were ac
!
quitted. They were charged with en
tering the cabin of John Teresin,
j beating him and taking his money
and valuables. Although acquitted of
the chargo of robbery Gilbert was
found guilty of the assault and was
lined $100 and costs.
ANCHORAGE EXPECTS A
TWO THOUSAND POPULATION
Four Teachers For Schools and Many
Buildings are Fast Nearing
Completion.
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 16.—The new
public schools will start work here in
November and four teachers will be
employed to look after about one
hundred and fifty pupils. The wreck
of the Mariposa, which had water
pipe aboard, has delayed the construc
tion of a permanent water system.
The townsite manager has ordered
the shutting off of the water at nights
to avoid freezing. It is snowing here
today and the thermometer register
ed 25 above last night. The big store
of Brown & Hawkins is nearing com
pletion. H. T. Fowler and his as
sociates arc erecting two buildings,
one of which is concrete. Larry
Byrne and Jack Roberts are also
erect*ng two big business structures.
The indications point to a poulation
of two thousand this winter.
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THERE WAS NO PANIC
ABOARD THE MARIPOSA
She Hit at Early Morning off Pointer
Island and Listed to the
Starboard.
There was no panic aboard the
Mariposa when she struck on her
voyage up here. She hit a rock about
100 yards off Pointer Island, at 4:30
of the morning of the tenth, near
Queen Charlotte Sound, which tore
a hole near her bow, on her starboard
or right side. Having a big deck load
she immediately listed over to the
starboard. The passengers rushed
out on deck to see what had happend
but were not at all panic stricken
when they saw they were so close to
shore. A wireless message was sent
to the Despatch to come and help the
passengers off the Mariposa, immedi
ately after strking, and she arrived
on the scene of the wreck about 10:30
that morning, taking all the passeng
ers to Ketchikan, where they were
to be taken aboard of the Admiral
Evans for the rest of their voyage.
George E. Chamberlain, Jr., who gave
out the information was returning
from a trip to Oregon to his winter
home at Anchorage, where he is a
physician in the Alaskan Engineering
Corps. He states that a short time
after leaving his state room, which
was on starboard side, and returning
for his grips and baggage he found
the ship had listed so far over that
his room was completely submerged.
The general belief in Southeastern
Alaska is that the Mariposa is a total
lose.
LIQUOR LAW HITS CLUBS
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 14.-—Evasion of
the Evans Package liquor law, which
has nipped the locker system, is puz
zling social club members. Recently
they held an “evasion” meeting for
a joint conference and invited the
sheriff. The sheriff attended and as
sured the Elks’ Yacht Country and
foreign clubs’ members that he would
promptly arrest them if they violated
the law. They are still trying to
figure out how tq do it without be
ing arrested.
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•> ALASKA DAY NEXT <*
❖ MONDAY; NO GATEWAY ❖
❖ - $
❖ As Monday will be Alaska's *>
❖ great day and a legal holiday in •>
❖ the territory there will be no is- *•*
•> suo of the Gateway. The banks, *
❖ etc., will also be closed. The day *
❖ was made a legal holiday by the •>
first session of the territorial
❖ legislature. It will be observed •>
•> this year with particular cere- •>
❖ monies at San Francisco where <•
❖ Governor Strong will be present *>
❖ to represent the Northland. v
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BULLETINS
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No cables arrived in time for press
this afternoon and as there was no
sign of any coming it was thought
advisable not to hold the paper too
late. The cable is working but the
amount of commercial business is
probably too great to let press mes
sages thorough.
All cables arriving this evening, to
morrow and Monday will be posted
up in the Gateway window and else
where. Watch the window.
FAIRBANKS BUSINESS IS
TWENTY PER CENT BETTER
Tolovana and Railroad Activities and
Increased Output Are the
Causes.
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 16.—Business
in Fairbanks this year is twenty per
cent better than it was in 1914. This
is due to the activities arising from
the increased gold output which is
half a million dollars greater this
year than last.
MEN IN THE ANCHORAGE
MIX UP WELL KNOWN HERE
John Teresin, the Man Said to Have
Been Beaten, and One Alleged
Assailant Seward Men.
John Teresin, the man who is said
to have been beaten and robbed in his
cabin at Anchorage, formerly lived
in Seward. He was also a cook on
the Dora for a time. Jack Stein, one
of the men who were arrested for the j
alleged assault and robbery, is also j
well known as a forme* '•osident of •
Seward and this district. His name j
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was once mentioned in connection
with a shooting scrape at Kenai.
They are both young men.
SEWARD BABY BORN UNDER
TWILIGHT SLEEP TREATMENT
Mrs. Fred Miller is First in Alaska to
Give Birth to Child in
New Condition.
A baby girl, eleven pounds in
weight, was born yesterday afternoon
to Mr3. Fred Miller of Seward,
and the mother and child are doing
well. This interesting event is made
doubly worthy of the adjective be
cause the baby is the first to be born
in Alaska under the “Twilight Sleep”
treatment. Dr. J. G. Anderson, the
attending physician, explains this
treatment easily but for the layman it
may be best described an an injection
which relieves all pain without in the
test interfering with the process of
birth. Old treatments with a similar
object in view had to be abandoned
because they interfered with birtus
Under the new treatment childb'rth
proceds uninterruptedly. The “Twi
light Sleep” treatment has the effect
of preventing the pain from reaching
the brain. This is explained by say
ing that if a man under treatment put
his finger on a hot stove and burned
his finger the pain would be inter
cepted before reaching the brain and,
therefore, no pain would exist. The
woman in labor under the treatment
knows that the child is being born
and can answer questions but for
gets everything immediately. Mrs. |
Miller can remember nothing from
the time Dr. Anderson treated her
until this morning when she discover*
ed that she was a mother.
BALLAINE CASE TO
BE TRIED HERE
MOTION TO BE MADE WILL BE
GRANTED IT IS UNDER
STOOD.
VALDEZ, Oct. 16.—It is under
stood that a motion to have the Bal
laine case transferred to Seward will
be granted by Judge Brown. The
motion may be made this afternoon
but court will not convene until 1
o’clock. It may, however, be said
almost as a certainty that the a=ie
will be tried at the Seward term. Un
usual mining activity is evident
around this city at present and a good
and prosperous winter is looked for.
(Later) L. V. Ray received word
this afternoon that the Ballaine case
has been transferred to Seward and
will be treid here after the arrival of
the Puebla. This probably means
that court will come here earlier than
expected.
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❖ ZERO WEATHER IN *
❖ TANANA VALLEY ❖
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FAIRBANKS, Oct. 16.—Zero
weather now prevails in this valley
and slush ice is running in the river
which will soon close. The Tolovana
mines are already making prepara
tions for the winter. The new com
missioner for that camp, Atwell, will
leave on Monday for the scene of
his labors. Several criminal cases
i
are awaiting his arrival and many |
claims are yet to be recorded. The
new district came into being yester
day morning. !
W hat Manager of
Railroad Will Do
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Throws
More Light on Appoint
ment.
E. A. Fitz-Henry, surveyor general
of the state of Washington acting u»
der instructions from Secretary of
the Interior Lane yesterday officially
took over the affairs of the Alaska
Northern railroad which was recently
purchased by the government.
James A. Haight, of Seattle, who
has been secretary custodian of the
books, documents and seal of the rail
road turned everything relating to
the railroad over and from now on
whatever affairs the corporation has
will be handled through the Olympia
office of the solicitor general. Ac
1 ording to Mr. Fitz-Henry the work on
the government railroad in Alaska is
still being done nominally under the
name of the Alaska Northern and is
legally a continuation of that line.
Under the instructions from the de
partment of the interior Mr. Fitz
Henry will be resident agent for the
road in Washington state and will
serve as such until the government
officially checks up on the old corpor
ation and closes its affairs.—P.-I.
SKAGWAY MAN DIES
AT WHITEHORSE
SKAGWAY, Oct. 7.—R. W. Brown,
35 years old, who left Skagway yes
terday morning for Whitehorse, to
work on the White Pass railroad sec- ;
tion gang, was found dead in his
bunk at Whitehorse this morning.
Heart failure was the cause of
death. Brown was well known here.
MURDERED MAN
WELL KNOWN
HENRY COOK KILLED ON WHITE
PASS R. R. WAS OLD
TIMER.
Henry Cook, one of the victims of
the recent tragedy at Whii -nor o,
was well known in Southeastern Al
aska, and especially by people win.
lived any length of time it Snag', a.
He was one of the oldest section men
on the White Pass, in point o: ser
vice and for a number o: y»ui. w.
foreman of a section on Lake Ben
| nett. Mr. Cook was a married man
and belonged to a number .1 fiat in
al organizations in Skagway, pi »min
1 ent among which were the E igb
A. B.s and Elks.
COURT HAS ENGAGED THREE
ROOMS FOR SEWARD TERM
U. S. Marshall Brennemann
Acting Deputy Marshall, William
Weaver, on the Northwestern to en
gage rooms for the Seward term of
court. Three rooms on the ground
floor of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission building have lx *n pro
cured. The large room, formerly tir
ed for dance hall, will be used u* the
court room.
NEW PILOT ON MARIPOSA
When the Mariposa struck the t o* k
she had a new pilot aboard who v*a *
making his first trip hero. Th
weather was calm and cU ;.r, not fog
gy as had been believed.
The latest Cut of Seward. From All-Alaska Review.
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❖ WICKERSHAM LEAVES ❖
❖ FAIRBANKS NEXT WEEK ❖
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FAIRBANKS, Oct. 16.—Delegate
Wickersham will leave Fairbanks
next week for Washington. It is h»s
intention to pay a short visit to Val
dez and Seward but this will depend
on steamship connections.
E. J Warner, the Anchorage real
estate man, is returning to the Cook
Inlet city on the Admiral Evans this
afternoon.
SEWARD ^MERCHANT DOING
WELL AT ANCHORAGE
Frank J. Cotter, who recently es
tablished a branch of the Miner’s
Store, at Anchorage, writes from
there to Manager Brice Howard of
that store in Seward, that he is do
ing a whaling big business and in the
same letter requests a lot of dry
goods ant^ mens’ furnishings, especi
ally pacs to be sent over on the first
boat. It is stated that the fall of
snow in Anchorage the last few' days
has found that city very much short
- of pacs and other winter apparrew
and consequently there is a great de
mand for those articles.
BIG MOTOR CAR JUMPS
TRACK NEAR MILE 27
The large motor car jumped the
rails on the track near Mile 27 yes
terday afternoon about 3 o'clock a6
she was on her way to this city. The
accident was due to spreading of the
rails on defective ties at that place.
Motorman Percy Pullen immediately
called up the Commission offices ask
ing for “hydraulic jacks” to be sent
out on the small motor immediately,
that the car might be put back on
the tracks. However, the men aboard
of the car, some 15 in number, used
timbers and logs and pryed the car,
weighing some 15 to 18 tons, on the
track before the small car could get
out there with the necessary lifting
apparatus. The car then “put up" on
the Mile 26 siding and awaited the
passing of tha small car before pro
ceding homew’ard, arriving here
about seven o'clock last night. The
section crew’ taken out on the small
car stayed right there and repaired
the track, finishing the work about
10 o'clock last night.
Mike Connolly is a returning pas
senger on the Evans for his home in
Hope after spending a few days at
Valdez attending court.
COURT COMING
ON THE_PUEBLA
It was made certain at 3:20 this
afternoon that the court will come
on the steamer Puebla to start the
trial of the Ballaine case here. A
cable to that effect was received by
the Gateway direct at the time stated.
The coming of the court to hear the
case before the time for the regular
session is due, no doubt, to the objec
tions of the railroad attorney to wait
until the regular Seward session.
MARIPOSA MAIL ON EVANS
The Mariposa mail arrived on the
Evans today.
PUEBLA AT CORDOVA
The Puebla arrived at Cordova at
noon today and will not, therefore, be
here before tomorrow.
EVANlT SAILS ATFIVE
The Admiral Evans is scheduled to
sail for the west at 5 o'clock this
afternoon. Aomng those who will
leave on her will be R. H. Koch, Miss
Gladys Murphy and E. J. Warner.