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Seward Daily ______ _—* ———— —-• VOL8. ~ SEWARD, ALASKA* THURSDAY EVOKING, MARCH 19, 1914 N<)- 1;*8 STREET PARADE TO BE FEATURE Seattle, March 19.—Arrangements ! are about perfected for the big cele bration Saturday night in honor of the passage of the Alaska railway bill. All the business portion of the city will be gaily decorated and iliumi- I nated. The feature of the celebration j will be the mammoth street, parade, * headed by an imitation locomotive on the street car tracks hauling two flat «ars loaded with Alaska products. Governor Lister will be the engineer, and J. E. Chilberg will act as tireman. Mayor Gill will be in charge of the train as conductor, while two repre sentative business men will represent President Wilson and Delegate W ick ersham riding on the rear. NEW COMPANY ENTERS ALASKA; S**:*t».le, March 19.—Tin* Pacific Sea j Products company, a new Minneapolis; concern in which John Lind is a heavy stock holder, has bought out the i Alaska Whaling company, the con j sideration being one million dollars. * __ .1 Mexico City. March 19.—On account j of the financial crisis in Mexico, Huerta has signified his willingness t«> resume negotiations with John Lind, Presi dent Wilson’s personal representative, j The hope is expressed here that ne gotiations may be resumed. Nome Will Celebrate. Nome, March 19.— Nome will cele-j brate the passage of the Alaska rail way bill in a fitting manner Saturday. Cabarets Toned Down. Seattle, March 19.—Mayor Gill inis issued an order which prohibits all ex cept plain music and solos in tlie cab arets. Ed Hahn, Geor ge Slayback and Torn j Presto, are going to install a plant on : Bear creeK, near its mouth. Mr Hahn | is on tire outside this winter getting the plaDt together and will bring it in on one of the first boats in tbe spring. • They have prospected the ground thoroughly and feel sure that they will be piping in good pay before the coining seasou closes. Father Shepard will arrive on the Northwestern. Services at the Cath olic church as usual. The steamer . Northwestern sailed from Valdez at 11:30 and will arrive in Seward sometime after midnight. Asbestos lined mattresses at J. L. Wraef’s. _ 2 Brass and iron bedsteads at J. L. j •raefs. ___^ Meet meat the Branch. Your eyes fitted with glasses by George the Jeweler. I Meet me at the Branch * MINING ACTIVITY IN THE HOPEJIISTRICT William Logman, the Hope mining man, arrived in Seward Sunday en route to the outside, where he goes to purchase a complete hydraulic plant to be installed on Resurrection creek, near Hope. Mr. Logman said regard ing the property. “I have sixteen twenty acre claims on Resurrection creek and have been prospecting them done since 1907.1 know there is good pay there and from the work that 1 have feel sure that the entire acreage will avarage fifty cents per cubic yard In the property with me are associated Gus Seifert and George McAdams, formerly of Nome, but now of Seattle. We are going to put a good size hy draulic plant on the ground this sum mer and will have the plant landed at Hope by the middle of May. Hoben & Davis of Seward have taken the con tract to deliver the outfit on the ground and we will be all set np and piping soon after the plant is delivered. There is an abundance of water, and while we will have to stack the tail ings with a giant, we will he able to handle from twelve to fifteen hundred K.USHERS ARRIVE FROM iDITAROO Mutchler, Peirae and Pender, three travelers from the interior, arrived last, night fiora lditarod after a quick trir. They report the trail in good coiulition. Dave Mutchler, who is a member of the Mutchler Bros. Trans fer company, was thirteen days from Flat Cit.), and came lo Reward to meet liis wife, who will arrive from Seattle on the Northwestern. Mr. Mutchler will spend a week or so in looking about Seward and resting his dog team before starting on his return journey. Mr. Pender has been in the lditarod and Innoko looking up some dredging propositions for an eastern concern, and will leave for the outside on the J Northwestern. Mr. Peime, who is in the transportation business on the lditarod river, will also leave on the Northwestern for Seattle, where he: goes to purchase supplies that will be I taken in over* the White Pass road via Dawson. They report that the Mata nuska coal is all landed at salt water and that the freighters are gating the balance of their horse feed and sup plies down to Knik and winding up the job. All of the men employed on the coal job will arrive in Seward within a week or ten days, except a few, who will spend the summer in Knik. Mrs. S. I. Silverman has been and is still very ill at her apartments in; the Richards block. Yesterday Mr. Silverman was communicated with by j cable, but up to the hour of going to press no answer had been received. Show tonight at the Seward. Snow glasses of all kinds for sale at J. L. Graef’s ' J Dog harness at J. L. Graef’s. For reliable information write Can non, Pioneer hotel, Knik, Alaska, f Meet me at the Branch. * «i * • | yards of gravel daily, and that ought to make us a good piece of money. We will have a thirty inch intake to our pipe and the pipe at the giants will be ten inches, ahd this will give us ample power. We have an abun dance of ground and with our present equipment could not work the ground out in twenty years, but it is well i within the range of possibilities that i the plant will be increased in the near future if the ground avarages as well as we feel sure that it will. We are located just above the Matthieson Min ing Company’s property, and they have worked to within a hundred feet of our lower line. As they go up the creek toward our ground they have been getting into better pay all the time and that looks good for us. 1 am leaving for the outside on the North western and will be back in Hope in side of six weeks reach for work. . Resurrection creek looks good to me, j and l look for a big boom in mining in ! the Turnagain arm section this year. (There will be a number of plants working t here. ’ MUSHER THOUGHT TO HAVE FROZEN _ Drive Mutchler brings the news to 1 Seward of a possible death on the Sew j ard-lditarod trail. During the later ! part of February, a party of eight or l nine men left Seward bound for the iditarod, to work for Riley «& Marston. I The party was walking in and making roadhouses each night. Between Hap py river and Anderson’s roadhouse, ! just this side ol Rainy Pass, one of the party, a cook named Jack Connolly, who was a slow walker, dropped be hind the remainder of the party and did not get into Anderson’s that night. In the morning Mutcheler and Peime started down the trail lookong for him, in fact Peime went out the night before, but could not tind the missing man. It was cold at the time and a bad storm was blowing, and it is thought that Connolly had wandered from the trail and got lost. Two days were spent in looking for the missing man and then the search was given up. ! It is possible that Connolly might have found a cabin in that neighborhood and came through all right, but the chan ces are very much against it. He was warmly clothed, but had no ax or gun with him when last seen. Last year a musher was lost near the same place and never found, and it is feared that another winter tragedy has been added to the trail record of Alaska. The last seen of Connolly was March 8. Billy Smith, the Sunrise-Hope U. S. mail carrier, arrived in Seward yes terday afternoon with mail from Turn again arm. , * ' * Two dogs for sale for $70. Inquire of Dr. Schaleben. 4 Don’t let yourself t>e forced to eat what you don’t like, when you can order what you like at the Commerce Cafe Budweiser beer at the Branch. TEN MILLIONS FOR DEFICIENCY Washington, March 11).- 'Hie senate has passed a ten million dollar emer gency deficiency bill. The appropria tion includes half a million dollars for Mexican refugees. MANY WERE IN CANAL GRAFTS New York, March 19.—A grand jury probe into tlie Panama canal grafts develops the fact that many were in volved besides Burke. The proceed ings of the jury has been in secret and when the indictments are returned it is thought that they will create a sen sation. SCHMIDT WILL LIVE YET AWHILE % New York, March 19. -Schmidt, con victed of the murder of Anna Mueller and sentenced to be electrocuted next week, has appealed liis ca>e and the appeal has been /ranted and a stay of I execution ordered. | Thomas Allison, William Collins and Al Farrand have landed their hydra u t lie plant on Resurrection creek and are now engaged in setting it up. They are planning on starting piping into the boxes by the first of June. They purchased the old Bazzard plant from Morrison at Hope and have taken it to their property about four miles above Logman’s. They have a good showing there according to the results obtain ed from last season’s prospecting and will doubtless take out some money this year. Elmer Smith of Tacotna Forks, ar aived in Seward from the interior day before yesterday. Mr. Smith reports a good trip out and trails in good aver age condition. He met Frank Joaquin a couple of days travel this side of Tacotna. Mr. Joaquin had mushed all the way, as the word he sent to the KusKokwim Commercial Company had evidently miscar ried and his dog team was not sent out to meet him as was expected. Smith also reported meet ing Riley and Colonel Revell near Rainy Pass. They were making good time and are doubtless at Iditarod City by this time. Mr. Smith brought out with him a shipment of high grade furs and some gold dust. He will leave for the outside on the steamer North western. , i H. V. Hoben, of the Alaska Transfer company, received a wire yesterday from Col. Revell, stating that he had just arrived in Iditarod. He will stop there for a week or ten days making arrangements for the mail service, and will leave for the coast in time to get out over tire trail this spring. Show tonight at the Seward. * Watch the window. Georg the Jeweler. _ if Pabsts blue ribbon beer at The Branch. *