Seward daily gateway. [volume], November 28, 1905, Image 1

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YOL. 1 SKWAKD, ALASKA, Tl i:sl>AY KV HIS INO, NOV KM ItKH 28, 1005 NO. !>s
DRUNK N TROOPS BURN
IGHTY MEN IN PRISON
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Sofdiers Revolt at Alexandervisk and Set fire to Barracks Containing
Inmates Awaiting Release Under Amnesty—Sebastopol
Mutineers Send Ultimatum to Czar’s Government While
Imperial Warships Train Guns Ipon Them.
By Cable to Tlie Dally Gateway.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 'd'<- hast .
night at Alexandervisk a large mob
of -.oldiei*s while drunk revolted and
set fire to barracks containing eighty
prisoners awaiting liberation under the
terms of the general amnesty, and j
ever* prisoner was burned to death. ,
Cossacks then surrounded the riotous;
w soldiers and killed fort s anil wound* it
thirty. The others surrendered.
r The czar’s government in this cityj
toclav received an ultimatum from the
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mutineers at Sebastopol, demanding
immunity from punishment, and release
from the authority o( tin* officers in
charge of the army corps here Sev
eral imperial battleships have their
guns trained upon the quarters occu
pied by the insurrectionists. The
latter have killed many of the officers
who refused to side v ith them but are
now quiet.
STEAMER PORTLAND SAILS
Oregon Reaches Seattle and Santa
Clara Will Start Friday
3y Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Nov. 28—Steamer Portland
mailed last night for Seward with a full j
cargo and a small number of passengers.
The Santa Clara will sail next Fri
day by the inside passage.
The Oregon arrived this morning,
having made a fast run on the outside
from Kllaraar. She has a cargo of ore
for the Tacoma smelter, and will re-i
quire several days to take on cargo
here, when she returns. It is expected j
that she will sail northward again
about Sunday.
Powers May Bombard Mitylene
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Constantinople, Nov. 28-The Euro
pean fleet is standing off Mitylene j
a waiting instructions from the united
powers of Russia, Germany and Aust-:
ria. Lt is expected that the ships will ;
l»r ordered to bombard the port unless
the sultan pays the claims of the na
tion> or surrenders the control of Mace
donian finances for the purpose ot pay
ing them.
Mutiny on Bark tladdon Hall
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Los Angeles, Nov. 28—The crew of
the bark Haddon Hall, in harbor near
here,mutinied yesterday. They armed
themselves and huddled together in
their quarters. The officer of the
guard called foi* assistance, and after
getting aid succeeded in quelling the
trouble. The bark was bound for Van
couver, B. G.. lumber-laden.
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New York Workmen Threaten Strike
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
g New York, Nov.28—'Thirty thousand !
.^.on anti housesniiths may g<> out on
C a strike tomorrow as a protest against
the open shop system. Kmployers are
gathering non-union workmen and say
thev will make no concessions.
f Steamer Santa Ana tied up at the
dock at 3:00. She was nearly thirty
six hours on the way from Valdez.
SNOW CONTINUES TO TALL
Everything Is White at Last and
the Hills Are Full of It
Snow continues to fall, not rapidly,
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but steadily enough to make it very
white Thanksgiving if it continues to
come this way. The mercury is still
above the freezing mark, but its ten
dency is downward and the barometer
points the same way. The mark this
afternoon is 29.9. The thermometer
at 2 p. in. is 32.
In the hills the snow is getting very
deep. All along the railroad it is slow
ly piling up. At the summit on mile
4.7 it is about four feet on the level,
while the the canyons are tilling up to
a tremendous depth. At the lirst sum
mit, twelve miles out, the snow is a
foot deep.
Found Out Who Was Boss
Once upon a time a youth, who had
commenced to navigate the sea ot mat
rimony. went to his father and said:
‘‘Father, who should be boss, I or my
wife?"
Then the old man smiled and said:
“Here are 100 chickens and a team of
horses. Hitch up the horses, load the
. chickens into the wagon, and wherever
you can find a man and his wife dwell
ing, stop and make inquiry as to who
is the boss. Wherever you find a wo
man running things leave a chicken.
If you come to a place where the man
is in control, give him a horse.”
After 79 chickens had been disposed
of the young man came to a house and
made the usual inquiry.
“['m the boss o' this ranch,'* said the
man.
uGot to show me."
So the wife was called, and she af
tirmed her husband’s assertion.
‘‘Take whichever horse you want,"
was the boy's reply.
So the husband said: "I'll take the
bav." But the wife didn't like the bay
horse and she called her husband aside
and talked to him. He returned and
said: “1 believe I'll take the “'ray
horse.'' A
‘‘Not much," said Missouri. “You’ll
take achieken.”—San Francisco l hron
icle.
MANY PLANS TO
GOVERN ALASKA
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Members of Congress at Wide
Variance but Commission Pro
ject is Most in Favor.
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By Cable to Tlie Daily Gateway.
Washington, D. C.. Nov. 2N Much
speculation is rife over the various
projects for radical or comprehensive
schemes oi Alaska legislation to be
proposed in Congress at the session
which will begin next Monday.
All members who made a trip to the
territory last summer agree that some
thing should be done for the* district,
but each individual member has a dif
ferent idea as to what is needed. Sev
eral believe that the district is too
| large for a territorial form ol govern
ment, because of the diversity of inter
ests and the difficulties of intercom
munication. For tlie same reason they
believe that one delegate cannot satis
factorily represent the whole territory
in Congress.
On the whole it is believed that both
the project for territorial government
and for territorial delegate have re
ceived a setback and that nothing will
be done in either direction at this ses
sion. It is pointed out that the Alaska
newspapers are not united upon the
subject of territorial government, and
that a deplorable lack of harmony
among the different sections was evi
dent at the recent convention.
Delegate representation is not con
sidered to be tlie most important thing
for Alaska, although it is conceded
that it would have the advantage of
dispensing largely with the sell-con
stituted spokesmen for the territory
who come hero with knives in their
Dockets for every office-holder in the
district.
Fora beginning! Congressman Tawney
has recommended a commission to
govern the territory, and a special
Alaska committee of three members of
each branch of Congress, which is the
present plan for the government of the
district of Columbia. The Alaska com
mission would he composed of three
members and would send in an annual
report recommending appropriations
and changes in legislation regarded as
likely to be beneficial. This report
would be referred to the Alaska com
mittees of Congress, which would hear
evidence upon the matters in question.
The commission idea is growing in
Congress and is likely to be strongly
supported.
Will Open Mil linery Store
Mrs. Harry Ellsworth will open a
millinery store In connection with the
drygoods store of. Mrs. T. D. Corlew,
when the latter i t moved into the new
Iiale block. Mrs. Ellsworth has had
fourteen years experience in the mil
lnerv business, including eigh^ years
in the big Crescent store at Spokane
. A scow attempting to make the haz
ardous trip on the ice from Dawson to
Eagle was crushed and five tons of
goods lost. Five men were aboard, but
‘all escaped j
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GRACE POLLAR
TO COME HERE
Steamer Chartered by Kenai
Lumber Company to Bring
Large Cargo.
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Steamer Grace Dollar will sail from
Seattle for Seward about December 10,
with a large cargo, chiefly lumber and
coal for the Kenai Lumber & Fuel
Company, by which she lias been char
tered. The charter was signed yester
day in San Francisco by the owners
and by A. J. McManus, representing
the Seward company. He thereupon
wired the fact to K. R. Gray also ol
the local company.
The Dollar will bring .T>(),()00 feet of
lumber and t>()0 tons of Roslyn coal for
the Kenai Lumber & Fuel Company,
She will also bring 120 tons of explo
sives for the railroad company and for
Rich & Harris, the tunnel contractors.
Besides this she will bring all the gen
eral merchandise she can pick up
without delaying her departure. Her
exact tonage is not known here but she
is understood to have a carrying captiv
ity of about 2000 tons.
The chartering of the Grace Dollar
was the result of considerable hard
work by J. J. McManus, who went to
! San Francisco nearly a month ago to
get a big boat to bring up a lumber
and coal cargo. He found it easy to
pick up all kinds of small craft, but
none large enough to bring the cargo
desired by his company. finally he
secured the Grace Dollar and she would
have been on the way before now had
she not been slightly disabled. She is
still in the dry dock, hut will >ail from
San Francisco about December 5. She
should reach Seattle about December 8
and sail from that port two or three
days later.
The Kenai Lumber & Fuel Company
was incorporated in October by L. R
Gray, L J. McManus, A. G. Baker and
other local men to engage in the lum
ber and fuel trade on a large scale, ft
will take over the business of the Yak
utat Lumber Comjguiy and the Seward
Fuel Company, and proposes to keep a
stock adequate to meet the growing
demands of the sea terminus of the
Alaska Central railroad.
Treasurer’s Office to Move.
The treasurer’s office of the Alaska
Central will move to the new building
tomorrow if the Santa Ana aiiivts
with some fixtures whose absence ^has
delayed t he game for some t ime. Lhe
railing to keep the public awa^ irom
the money was completed several davs
ago. All other departments of the
railroad company are in tlioii nt w
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quarters. •_
The dynamo of the Seward Electric
Company was moved to the new power
house of Butler & Company at tlu
corner of Jefferson street and Seventh
avepue this morning*, and put in place.
It is expected that lights will be turned
on again December 1. from electricity
generated hv the pipe line from Eow
ell creek. __
Express Clerk Cunlille, who stole
$101,000, got six years in prison.