Seward weekly gateway., May 19, 1906, Image 1

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VOL. IL NO.
STIRS DP BIC ROW
OVER ALASKA TRADE
Northern Pacific Asks Steamship Companies to
Absorb Railroad Rates from Port
land to Seattle.
Bl Cable to The Bally Qotcway.
Seattle. May Hi Local steamship
•ompanies were asked yesterday by
il\e Northern Pacific Railway t 'one
Pkinv to absorb the freight tariff
from Portland to Seattle on goods des
tined (or shipment to \luska, so that
shipments from Portland to the north
«>uld be made at the same rate as from
Seattle. The comput'd* sail refused.
Local jobber* have called a meeting
w> protest against the action of the
railroad company in making a special
mte on Alaska goods shipped from
Portland, below the regular freight
tariff. They charge that this is an
■ujust discrimination in favor of Port
land wholesale houses.
■Mtogether it appears that the
North* Pacific has stirred up a por
tentous row by giving Portland job
ber* a special rate to help them break
into the Alaska field. The Seattle
dealers will undertake to have the
•*>inpanv r> verse its action. 1 ort .itul
ms very anxious to get after AhisKa
trade but it ha> been unable so far to
•btatn a regular steamer to put on the
run from that city. Steamers are in !
great demand on the whole coast just
■ow and Portland jobbers were unable
♦e give auv assurance that thoj could
furnish full cargoes for regular trips.
The deal with the Northern Pacific
will enable them to matte a start
for Alaska trade and learn whether or
not they can keep a regular steamer
itfoinjr.
Reduces Rates for Portland
Seattle. May \o The Northern Pa
cific railroad today made a general re
duction of freight tarlTs from Portland
to Seattle in order to aid the former
city to make shipments to Alaska
through Seattle. These rates apply
only to freight destined for Alaska and
billed through*
It is admitted in Portland that the
steamer lines planned several months
:ijro to run direct from that city to
Seward and other ports have not mate
rialized and will not thi> season. Still
Portland merchants are anxious to en
ter the Alaska field and the Northern
Pacific U doinsr what it can to open the
way.
To Run Steamer from Tacoma
Tacoma, May is The Alaska Steam
ship Pompany announces that if will
run a >'earner from this city to South
eastern Alaska ports. Bellingham is
trying to induce the company to have
the steamer call there.
SANTA GIARA AND
BERTHA SAIL WEST
Take Large Number of Passengers, j
Nearly all Bound for the
Yentna With Supplies.
Steamer* Bertha and Santa t lara
finally arrived in Seward after a see-;
mw, slow race in which the Bertha
wou by eleven hours although she
•ailed five hours later. The Bertha ar
rived at !> p. m. Saturday, but could not
•ie up for an hour because the Tampico
was alongside the railroad doek,
the only landing place not 4)rn up by
•he pile driver. The Santa Clara ar
rived at 8 o’clock Sunday morning.
Both steamers sailed for Seldovia, each
carrying a large number of passengers,
■early all bound for the Yentna. Nei
ther had a large freight cargo for
Seward.
The Santa Clara sailed from Seattle
Ae evening of May 1 at 8 o’clock.
The Bertha sailed at 1 o’clock the
morning of May 2. She kept a few
hours behind the Santa Clara all the j
way until they reached Eyak. Both
had large cargoes for that railroad
metropolis but she got away first.
The Bertha sailed from Seattle six
days late on this trip and nobody
knows why she loafed in Seattle nine
days unless it was because no other,
•teamer was sailing for Southern Alas-j
ka during those days and it would be
contrary to the policy of Seattle steam
ship companies to run their boats on
a system to accommodate the public.
The Bertha sailed at midnight Sat-!
urday and took the following list of1
twenty-three first-class passengers to
Seldovia, of whom thirteen were in
John A. McDonald’s party for Lake
creek and nearly all the others were i
bound for the Yentna district: !*• R.
Backus, J. E. Briggs. J. Sutton, A. O.;
Farnsworth, U. Halstead, Y\. H. ter
guson. Mrs. YV. H. Ferguson. YY'illiam
Jones, H. P. Gallagher, Dr. L. David,
E. Fitzsimmons, G. Burkhardt, YY.
Fergson, John Aran. Ralph McDon
ald, N. L. Tyler, D. H. Conklin, Jules
Blane, Magnus Martin. George Hus
sey. John A. McDonald, B. YY. Hoff
man. C. Schonacker.
O i the Santa Clara going west were
Frank YYatson, and T. J. Jeter, bound
for Chickaloon; Dr. Kyvig, returning
to Rainbow creek; H. H. Hicks, A. R.
Y’oung and Tom Cavanaugh, with
three horses bound for the interior to
locate a copper discovery which Mr.
Hicks made several years ago: Arthur
R. Rommaney. president and manager
of the Big Horn Gold Mining & Mill
ing Company on the Inlet. Mr. Rora
raaney came up on the Oregon and
transferred.
The Bertha returned from Seldovia
and sailed for Seattle Tuesday -even
ing. The Santa Clara returned early
Tuesday morning and sailed at 7:30.
Each took a fair passenger list.
Gets $075 Assay of Ore
A friend of Paul Buckley located a
claim for him on Chichagotl' island last
winter and when Mr. Buckley cume
through Sitka on the Santa Clara this
month he was given a chunk of rock
from the claim. When he reached
Seward he had an assay made of it by
H. S. Waterman, which panned out
*i»75 to the ton. The location of the
claim was the outcome of a grub*
stake aud Mr. Buckley will send down
au order to have two men set to work
at once to develop the property.
Steamer Casw ell Missing
Otlicers of the steamer Bertha
brought the news that the little
steamer Caswell, which sailed from
Seattle April 18 to come to the Inlet
and go on the Yentna river run, had
not reached Juneau when the Bertha
came through, May 8. Capt. Swift of
the Inlet steamer Neptune, who owns
the Caswell, was waiting at Juneau
for the little boat and was getting
anxious.
THREE VESSELS
ON OUTSIDE RUN
Northwestern Steamship Com
pany to Have New Schedule
After July I.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May 12—The Northwestern
Steamship Company will inaugurate a
new steamer schedule for Southern
Alaska July 1. At least three and
possibly four steamers will be placed
on the outside run to Seward. The
| Santa Clara, Oregon and Saratoga will
| run outside, and a fourth vessel will
! probably be put on later.
At least two steamers will be kept
on the inside passage, as at present.
No change in schedule can be made
until after June 30, when the present
mail contract expires. The new mail
contract of the company calls for at
least four mails a month to Valdez and
as many more as the company has
j steamers on the run.
Brings Piles for Dock
The big freight steamer Tampico ar
rived in port last Saturday morning
to discharge 149 creosoted piles for the
Alaska Central to be used in rebuild
ing the local docks. The remainder
of her cargo was cannery supplies for
canneries of the Northwestern Fish
eries Company to the westward. The
steamer sailed westward in the even
ing. _
The Associated Press has resurrec
ted David B. Hill.
TO LIKE TRAIL
WITH STATIONS
.
Stores and Roadhouses To (To in j
all Along Route to the
Yentna Diggings.
STOCKS NOW ON THE WAY
Rivers likely To Be Full ot Steam
ers and launches Within
a Short time.
Stores aiui roadhouses will soon line
the route from tin* Inlet to the N entna.
Several Seward men have already se
cured stocks of goods to open supply
stations at different places and some <>f
them went up on the Bertha. Among
these were Henry Halstead. \\. A.
Ferguson and A. S. Farnsworth who
will establish a hotel and restaurant at
the coulluenee of the Susitna and
the Ventna. A department of liquid
refreshment* will be attached.
It i* understood that Litchfield and
Churchill will move their store from
the present station on the Susitna two
miles below tlm mouth of the Ventna, :
to the mouth of the latter stream and|
seems likely that the nucleus of a!
town will soon bo visible at tiiat place, j
Another passenger on the Bertha
was II. f. Gallagher, who took
with him a mining outfit for two years
and will establish headquarters up the ;
Ventna river near the bonanza creeks, j
He will also establish a supply stationl
for the miner* for the fall and winter
travel.
It i* the intention of Messrs. Fergu-j
son. Farnsworth and Halstead to es
tablish next winter a line of road* |
houses along the trail from the end of I
the Alaska Central track, which will
then be on Turnaguin Arm. to the up
per Ventna. This will complete a
chain of stations for mushers on the
whiter trail.
George W. Palmer of Knik. who ha*
conducted a store and trading post
there for *o long that the memory of
man runneth not to the contrary, and
'James Bartlett of Seward, will soon
open a store on the Ventna. Mr.
Palmer went out on the Oregon to
purchase a large stock of goods for
this store and the one at Knik. Palm
er iV Bartlett have bought a launch to
run up the rivers this summer. It
will make the first trip from Knik
June 1.
From present indications there will
be no lack of water transportation on
the rivers, as half a dozen steamers
and launches are already hooked for
the run. Capt. Swift has the steamer
Caswell. Wallace & Thompson the
launch Jennie, and several boats are
building at Seldovia for the river
traffic.
DENVER VOTES AGAINST
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
By Cable to The Sally Gateway.
Denver, May 17—Returns of the mu
nicipal election are incomplete but in
dications point to the defeat of the
municipal ownership ticket except two
commissioners and three aldermen.
The Republicans elect one commis
j sioner and seven aldermen, and the
i Democrats elect six aldermen. The
i contest was over a proposition for the
city to take over the tramway fran
chise on the ground that it was car
ried by votes of many non-taxpayers.
M. E. Davis Returns
M. E. Davis, manager of the Rain*
I bow Mining Company at Hope, re
I turned on the Santa Clara and went on
i through. He spent the winter at his
old home in Massachusetts. He re
ports that the dredger which was in
stalled late last summer will be kept
busy all the coming summer. A little
experimental drilling will be done and
then the dredger will be started about
the middle of June.
Schooner Louise Reaches Valdez
Schooner Louise, ca Tying 200 cases
of gasoline for the Alaska Central,
has reached Valdez. She is slightly
disabled and will have to be lixed up
a little before coming on to Seward. A
message to the company toil tty brought
the news.
Paul Buckley in Town
Paul Buckley, one of the former
owners of the Crow creek mines which
were sold last winter to a San Francis
co syndicate, came to Seward on the
Santa Clara, accompanied by Mrs.
Buckley. He will spend the summer
in the interior.
TO ISSUE CALL
FOR CONVENTION j
Nome Republicans Plan To Make
Nomination in Juneau
Early in July.
GET PROXIES FROM NORTH
Charles Herron Prepares To Start
the Game for Seward Peninsula
Crowd in Seattle.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May IN Charles Herron of
Nome, with Nome anil Council ( ity
proxies, will leave on the steamer j
City of Topeka tonight for Juneau to
attend a meeting there to call an Alas-j
ka Republican convention. Col. Per
kins of Nome says lie expects that the
convention will be called to meet in
Juneau early in July.
Cussip of candidates is lively here
and it is the general belief that the con*
vention nominations will cut little
figure in tin* election. Sectional ri
valries are regarded by most Alaskans
;is likely to cut a bigger figure than
anything else.
Says United District Can Win
Seattle. May 11 John Ji. Hughes of;
Fairbanks is here and says that it one 1
of tin* three judicial districts of Alaska j
can unite upon a candidate for dele
gate it can elect its man. He antici
pates :i split at Nome on account of
the difficulties among the miners and
longshoremen.
Skagway Han to Run for Delegate
A. F. Wildt of Skagway sends the
(Jnteway an announcement of his can
didacy for delegate to congress. He
says that he is an Alaskan and expects
to remain one all the rest of his life.
He is in favor of territorial govern
ment. Mr. Wildt is a machinist in
the White Hass & Yukon shops and
the Skagway Alaskan certifies him up
as a good man. well qualified to repre
sent Alaska in congress.
TO APPROPRIATE $179,000
FOR ALASKA CABLE LINES
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington. D. May 14 The
conference committee of the two
houses of congress on the appropria
tion bill agreed today on the item
making an appropriation of $179,000,
the entire revenue for the past year of
the Alaska cable and telegraph lines,
to be expended for repairs and ex
tensions.
The agreement by the conference
committee of the two houses upon the
army appropriation bill to accept the
amendment of Senator Piles to set
aside $179,000, the receipts last year of
the Alaska cable and telegraph lines,
to be used for repairs and extensions,
practically insures extdnsions of the
cable this year. The use to which the
money shall be put is left to the discre
tion of the secretary of war.
Ketchikan and Wrangell are work
ing for an extension of the cable to
those towns and as the sura appro
priated is not sufficient to extend from
Seward to Dutch Haabor, a line which
is in contemplation, the inside passage
extension may hav e a chance. On the
other hand it is announced that Gen.
Allen, the new head of the signal
corps, intends to install the duplex
system on the cable and that will en
tail considerable expense. The amend
ment offered by Senator Piles which
has been accepted by the conference
committee, reads as follows:
“Provided, that of the receipts of
the Washington-Alaska military cable
and telegraph system that have cov
ered into the the treasury of the
United States, the sum of $179,000 be,
and the same is hereby made available
for defraying the cost of such exten
sions and betterment of the system as
may be approved by the secretary of
war: the extent of such extensions and
the cost thereof to be reported to con
gress by the secretary of war.“
Corwin Carries Nome Mail
The steamer which sailed from Seat
tle for Nome May 10 and is coming up
along the coast, carries mail for Nome
and Dutch Harbor from all ports of
call. Miss Gordon, postmistress of
Seward, has received notice of the or
der from Seattle.
Gov. Hoggatt was sworn in April 30
at Juneau by Judge Gunnison of the
Ffrst judicial district. He went im
mediately to Sitka.
I
Tire Chicago Tribune Correspondent Makes
Charge Against Senator Bailey and
Latter Boils Oyer With Wrath
By Cubic to The Daily Gateway.
Washington, May IT < >n the
Hour of the senate yesterday Senator'
Hailey of Texas rose to a question of
personal privilege to deny the state
ments contained in a dispatch to tie*
Chicago Tribune from its Washington
correspondent charging him with re
sponsibility for the disagreement be
tween the president and Senator Till
man over the amendments to the rail
road rate bill. Bailey denounced the
dispatch as a deliberate, malicious lie
which was sent by a correspondent
who is very close to the White House,
Bailey's language was heated. Be
declared the correspondent to he an
unqualified liar and said the same term
described the man who gave the cor
respondent the information, no mat
ter how high the ollice lie might hold.
Bailea’s statement created a sensation
and for a short time there was almost1
an uproar in the senate.
Says Chandler (iave it
Washington, I). C. May 1” Ray*,
mond Patterson, the correspondent;
who sent the story to the Chicago |
Tribune concerning Hailey which led
to the senator's denunciation of him
self and the president as liars, last ;
night wired to his paper that he ;
obtained the data upon which he based
the dispatch from a signed statement
by Ex-Senator Chandler, who informed
the administration that Tillman sus
pected the loyalty of Hailey to the rate
bill and that he feared Bailey was
playing with Aldrich, the leader of
the railroad senators, while pretend
ing to support the president.
Chandler Stands Pat
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. O. May 17—Sena
tor Tillman received a letter to
day from William E. Chandler in
which the ex-senator reaffirms the
charge he made that the president in
conversation with him had accused
Knox, Spooner and Foraker of being
attorneys for the railroads in the sen
ate. Chandler writes that he cannot
call the president a liar but that the
facts are as stated and as the state
ment stands in the debates reported
by the Congressional Record.
Did Not Touch Bailey
Washington, D. C., May 18—Senator
Bailey was allowed to read the note
left at the WThite House by William
E. Chandler. It does not implicate
him but refers to other senators who
are charged with trying to stir up a
row with the president in order to
divide the forces supporting railroad
legislation.
Bailey demands that the president
discharge the White House employes
who gave the Chicago Tribune corre
spondent the story that the note made
charges against the Texas senator. He
says if the president does not do this
it will show that Koosoveu had |>;
vious knowledge of the fact that tl
information was j>ivon out. Bail*
also assorts that the president had n
ritrht to assail him on tiie evident* *
(.'handler, whom the president himst
denounces as a false witness.
The pi’esident refuses to lak* :n
further cognizance of ttio incident.
Tillman Roars at Roosevelt
Washington. I). May 14 Sern
tor Tillman went on a rampage aga
on the lloor of the senate Saturday
afternoon in a speech on the rail rout,
rale hill. He made another violet,
attack upon the president, charging
him with Irad faith in handling ra'
legislation. Tillman -.aid he had l»*•* •
informed by Ex-Senator Chandlei
Now Hainj»hire that the pre-idem
had characterized Senators Spooner
Foraker and Knox as Senatorial iaw
vers representing the railroad con
panics and said that tie had lost eon
iidcncc in them.
Tillman asserted that the preside! ■
had acted treacherously with tun
Senator Hailey. Attorney-! Jenera
Moody anil Ex-Senator Chandler.
Senator Lodge replied lor the prc>
dent, and said that the alleged state
ment of Chandler, quoted by Tillman,
was a deliberate and unqualified false
hood: that the president had never
mentioned the names referred to in
any conversation with Chandler.
After the session Chandler said it
was late in life for him to be charged
with wilful falsehood by a president of
the United States; that no president
had ever done so before. Tillman
made no answer to Lodge except to
say that he would have something fur- i
ther on the subject within a few daj
President Makes Answer
Washington, I). C., May 15 Preii
dent Roosevelt issued a personal state
ment yesterday evening in answer to
Senator Tillman’s attack upon him in
the senate. He denies the statement*
accredited to him as made to Kx-Sen»
tor Chandler. The president says:
“In my conversation with Mr. Chan
dler there was nothing said which left
an opportunity for honest rnisconcep
| tion concerning my attitude on rail
| road rate legislation.”
The president says he is convinced
j that it is impossible that members of
the senate should consent to the em
ployment of Chandler as Tillman’s in
termediary between himself and the
South Carolina senator, who has charge
of the rate bill in the senate. The
president has referred all senator*
who have come to him to confer on the
subjet, to Senator Allison.
The president says he was satisfied
with the Hepburn bill as it passed th*^
house and is also satisfied with th*:
Long and Spooner amendments in the
senate, as he believed they do not im
pair the efficiency of the law.
SAILS WITH BIG
PASSENGER LIST
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Santa Ana Starts Northward Car
rying 150 persons for
Southern Alaska.
By Cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
Seattle, May 17—Steamer Santa Ana
sailed for Seward by way of the inside
passage last night with 150 passengers,
of whom seventy are laborers for the
Alaska Central. The party of scien
tists under the direction of F. A. Cook
is on board. Also Capt. William
Armstrong, a prominent mining oper
ator of Kenai peninsula, formerly of
Nome.
The Cook party are going north
principally to attempt to climb to the
top of Mt. McKinley. They will make
the journey to the interior from Sew
ard by easy stages, incidentally mak
ing scientific investigations, and will
probably not begin the ascent of the
mountain until July.
GEORGE ADAMS FIGHTS
GOVERNMENT ON $150,000
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle, May 17—George E. Adams,
the embezzling cashier of the Seattle
assay office, tiled an answer today in
the suit brought by the government to
recover property of Adams valued at
$150,000 to apply on his embezzlement.
He denies embezzlement and any and
all loss to the government by reason
of any act of his. He also pleads the
statute of limitations.
Oxerrules Adams’ Demurrer
Seattle, May 14—In the U. S. dis
trict court today Judge Hanford over
ruled the demurrer of George K.
Adams to the indictment charging him
with embezzlement of gold dust entrus
ted to him in the Seattle assay office.
The demurrer was based upon the
point that the gold taken was not des
cribed with sufficient particularity.
Adams Pleads Not Guilty
Seattle, May 16—George E. Adams,
the embezzling cashier of the Seattle
assay office, was arraigned today aDd
pleaded not guilty to the indictment,
against him.
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