MINE EXPLOSION
KILLS 400 MEN
Entombed at Connellsville, Penn
sylvania, and 250 Bodies Al
ready Brought Out.
Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Pittsburg, Dec. lft—Pour hundred
miner* were entombed by an explosion
in the Darr coal mine near t'onnells
ville at noon today and it is believed
that all of them are dead. Relief
trains are rushing to the town from
this city.
Recover 250 Dead Bodies
Pittsburg. Pec. More than -«>0
l todies of miners have been brought
out of the coal mine at Ponnellsville
in which the explosion occurred yster
day noon. Many of the corpses were
headless and nearly all were mutilated.
TOWN WRECKED
BY EXPLOSION
Powder Factory at Palermo,
Spain, Blows Up and Twenty
five Are Killed.
a* O'*! ! to The Dally i»»tewaj.
Palermo, Spain. Pee. 2<> This town
was almost completely wrecked,
t went v-live person* were k bed, many
in lured and numerous houses set on
tire by an explosion in a powdei f.ii to
re iiiis. morning. A gen i a panic pre
vails.
Pinkerton Agency linns William
Walker to Earth i. Lower
California.
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de!* c; .Ig.-iicy an:, tr, ■ >i«* capture
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Committee i i. in Ses
Sidil lit jtii)uil -Mil*
mend Ke»V .
By C h 'n< * Dally l»<» - w u J
Albany. N. V., Dec. 1' A commit
tee of bankers i> ii; >< "-on here to
recommend legislation lor a reatijust
ment of banking laws. !'h«*y will re
port against the aetj is non of a chain
of banks and attack underwriting of
loans. They will also recommend the
passage of a law making tne actual
cash reserve of all banks S> p« r cent
of deposits, and also ooe making the
concealment of loans b\ ho s a mis
demeanor.
Adds to Assay Plant
Harry Kllsworth lias made recent
additions to his assa.v in: plant which
required more room and has moved
into the old water odice on Washing
ton street, west of K u it avenue.
He expects to build a .am non for a
furnace room. The mat - now well
equipped for all kinn^ » i i—ayinfc and
testing.
V alue of Ai veru-soig
.\ Kansas man adver* > for a lost
$"> bill and a strau 'er w ■ * teked up
one on tin* street, read i , advertise
ment restored the l*t <» the ad
vertiser. A few da>> a er, while
the advertiser was Iook over a vest
he had laid olT, the <>r i ■ *i bill was
found in a pocket. !i< - advertis
ing pays 100 per cent
MANY KILLED
BY EXPLOSION
Yolande, Alabama, Coal Mine
the Scene of Frightful
Disaster.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Yolande, Ala., Dec. 17 —Several
scores of miners perished in a coal
mine explosion here this morning.
Thirty-five bodies have been recov
ered and forty men are known to be
still in the mine dead or alive.
Fire Starts In Mine
Yolande, Ala., Dec. 18—Fire is
eating out the interior of the coal
mine in which the explosion occurred
yesterday and rescue work is greatly
jeopardized. Forty-five more bodies
were taken out last night and today,
making eighty in all.
INSANE DOCTOR
KILLS BROKER
James Oliphant, Wealthy New
Man, Fatally Shot by
Charles Geiger.
ay Cnbl<* to The Dally Gateway.
New York, Dec. 21—James Oliphant,
,i wealthy member of the New York
stock exchange, was shot in his oltiee
ami fatally wounbed hv Charles Geiger,
an insane man, yesterday afternoon,
dying this morning. After shooting
Oliphant the assassin immediately
>hot himself, dying instantly. Geiger
was formerly a physician to the sultan
of Turkey.
IDAHO TRIES
BLUE SUNDAY
Even Telegraph Offices Closed
Eor First Time in History
of State.
- i
. Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Uoi>e, Idaho. Dec. l<>— Blue laws J
weiv enforced strictly all over the
>tate of Idaho ye>terday. Only drug
■aores were open. Kven telegraph of
fices were closed for the first time in i
the historv of Idaho.
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JAPAN IS NOT
TALKING WAR
Taft Reports That Statesmen of
Empire Want no Fuss With
United States.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. D. C., Dec. 21—“Japan
has no war talk,“says Secretary Taft,
who arrived today from his trip around
the globe. The secretary affirms that
the statesmen of-Japan are anxious
to preserve amicable relations with
the United States and that all the ill
feeling was confined to the rabble.
The secretary refused to discuss the
movement of the Atlantic tleet and its
possible effect on Japanese opinion.
Seward People Wed
Miss Hulda Werner and Mr. Gunnar
Boe were married Sunday night at the
home of the bride’s brother, Mr. Carl
Werner. Rev. L. H. Pedersen per
formed the ceremony. Miss Werner
came here last year from San Fran
cisco and is well known in local so
ciety, Mr. Boe was formerly employ
ed by the Alaska Central and now has
charge of J. L. Graef’s store.
Discovery has been made in the
island of Elephantine of papyrus rolls
containing sworn statements concern
ing Jewish inhabitants with concordant
dates of the Aramaean and Egyptian
calendars for sixty years detween 470
and 410 B. C. The oaths were in the
name of Jehovah, God of Israel.
Candies
and
Perfumes
New and Up To Date
[astern Goods
Direct From the Manufacturer.
The Finest Shipment We Have
Ever Received. We Invite You
to Cal! and Get a Free Sample.
DRUG CO.
WES ALLEN.MGII.
I SEWARD. ALASKA.
SEWARD
Water and Power
COMPANY.
John A. Nelson, - Manager
office:
Bank of Seward Building.
If you desire, write or ship to
MCMILLAN fin & WOOL CO.
41 Langley St., Victoria, B. C.
The Man
I met a man the other day
He had a Roman nose,
He certainly was well dressed,
For the goods were in the clothes.
I asked him where he got That Suit:
He answered me right quick;
He said, ‘‘I got them over there,
’Tis Clay son does the trick.”
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ALL WELL DRESSED
MEN DEAL AT CLAYSONS’
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Coleman House
Absolutely First-class. (ieo. Sexton, Manager
Electric Lights aiid electric Bells in even) Room
Rates, per day, - - from 50 cents to $2.50
Fourth Avenue, Seward, Alaska
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The Palace =£g
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Cafe in Connection. Seward, Alaska
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Northern Saloon
E. L. WHITTEMORE. PROPRIETOR.
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WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
FOURTH AVENUE, SEWARD, ALASKA.
BOOTH &. CO.
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HOPE AND GIRDWOOD
g$”Call on the old reliable firm of Booth & Co. for anything in the
Liquor and Cigar line. Mi Eleccion Cigars, Old Line and Hunter Rye,
Nelson Co. Bourbon, Olympia Beer. Everything first-class. Best
of attention, run on the live and let live plan.
Girdwood, Alaska. C. R. BOOTH, Manager.
THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
(Incorporated November, 1905, under the laws of Alaska)
Office—on Fourth avenue, near Adams, Seward, Alaska