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BRYAN SPEAKS-”
IN NEW YORK
Democratic Leader Defines His
Position on Various Politi
cal Questions.
GREETED B\ IMMENSE CROWD
favors Government Ownership of
Railroads. Tariff Reform and
War on Trusts.
By Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
N, w York. Aug. >1 Twenty thou- j
SiUJd people crowded Maui-on Square;
Garden last night to hear Mr. Bryan j
speak. When the orator appeared the
crowd cheered for eight minutes while
Bn an paced the platform nervously, j
William R. Hearst occupied a box and j
Roger C. Sullivan of Chicago, whom
Bryan has been trying to de|>ose as the ;
Illinois member of the democratic j
rational committee, was present.
Mr. Bryan talked for an hour and a
half and cheering was frequent. W hen
lie announced his conversion to ttn
doctrine of government ownership of j
railway- a large part of the audience ,
broke out with cheers for Hearst. I he j
only discord occurred when Bryan said
the man who argues that trusts are j
the result of economic growth and
have come to stay is helping socialism.
One voice cried loudly, *' Three cheer -
for socialism:** He was hissed down.
Bryan -aid he had returned from
other lands thankful for the provi
dence which had cast his lot in the
Tnited States and that his love for our
form of government had been quick
ened: that he was impressed with our
national responsibility and that while
Americans must be students, willing to
learn good things from others, the\
must also teach those who are learners.
Brings Message of Peace
Mr. Bryan said he had brought home
a message of peace; that the sentiment
of all nation* i* growing in flfcror of
the Hague tribunal to settle inter
national controversies by arbitration,
and against the use of naval power for
the collection of debts. This habit,
he said, retards the progress of Ameri
can trade in the smaller nations, which
fear to encourage the investment of
American capital in their territory
becau*e such investments might lead
to international trouble.
Mr. Bryan asserted that the United
State* had lost prestige by it* attempt J
at colonialism. His tour through the
Philippine* had convinced him that |
the nation should lose no time in an
nouncing its purpose to deal with the
Philippines a> it hud done wit it the*
Cuban*.
Turning to adminstrative topics Mr. j
Bryan *aid that the European system (
of legislative government i* more j
quickly rc*nonsive to public sentiment
than the American congress, which
does not meet for thirteen months
after its election. He expressed the
belief that a constitutional amendment
should be adopted which would com
pel congress to meet within a few
months after its election. 1 his would
avoid the long period of uncertainty as
to the effect upon business of its legis
lative policy.
People Should Govern
All countries visited, said Mr.
Bryan, are demanding that govern
ment be brought closer to the people.
One step in this country, he affirmed,
would be the election of senators In
direct popular vote.
Mr. Bryan avowed his adherence to
the belief that the income tax is just.
He said it was a disgrace that in time
of war we use the army and navy to
protect wealth, yet cannot compel
wealth in any emergency to bear its
just share of supporting the govern
ment. He favored arbitration of all
labor troubles. Society everywhere
demands protection from aggressions
(Continued on page 3)
RAILROAD RATE LAW
NOW IN OPERATION
By Cable to Tbt Dally Gateway.
Washington. D. C., Aug. 28—The
new railroad rate law passed at the
recent session of congress, went into
effect at midnight and now governs all
interstate commerce.
The Canadian government has
placed two big pumps on Duncan creek.
Stewart river, to assist the miners in
working the ground, which is rich, but
deep and “wet.
CUBAN REBELS
SUFFER DEFEAT
----
Insurgent Army Loses Battle
With Government Troops
Near Cienfuegos.
PUMA CEASES RECRUITING
Amnesty Will Be Accepted by All
Revolutionary Leaders Except
Gen. Guerrera.
By Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
Havana, Aug. 28- A battle between
government troops anti the insurgent
arm v of Gen. Guerrero, near ( ien-j
fuogos yesterday resulted in defeat of |
the reliels. Thi* is the first serious j
disaster to the revolutionary forces but
the backbone of insurrection seems to
lie broken and many of the insurgents
have dispersed.
Senator Dolz, after a conference with
the cabinet last night, announced
this morning that all the revolutionary
leaders would accept amnesty with the
exception of Guerrera. who demands
annulltnent of the last presidential
election, which the liberals have al
wa\> claimed was carried by fraud and
intimidation.
President Palma today ordered the
enlistment of recruits for the army to
cease, believing that the necessity is
past.
Rebels Threaten Pinar
Havana. Aug. 25—The revolutionary
general Guerrera is marching with an
array of 2«K.H> insurgents to capture the
province of Pinar. The insurrection
is more formidable than was at first
supposed and a force of 500 artillery
men has been sent to Pinar to rein
force the rural guards.
The secretary to Gen. Gome/, has
been arrested on the charge of treas
onable conspiracy. Leaders of the
liberal party announce that they will
take no sides in the struggle unless
the independence of Cuba becomes
threatened. _
Rebel Forces Grow Stronger
Havana. Aug. 27 The insurgent
army i> rapidly growing. Vice Presi
dent Capote is suspected of intriguing
with the revolutionists and the govern
ment has discovered that the junta
has the liberal party as its basis.
The government is concentrating
forces in Pinar and is expecting a de
cisive battle there in a few days.
United States Watching
Washington, l>. C\. Aug. 27—The
state department is investigating to
discover the forces behind the Cuban
revolution and is satisfied that it is in
>mred either by men who desire an
nexation to tiie United States or by
agents of foreign governments who
wi>h to destroy the understood pro
tectorate of the United States. This
government is prepared to act at any
moment when intervention seems to
be required either to restore order in
the islatfU or to prevent foreign ag
gression.
BRINGS BIG COMPRESSOR
FOR READY BULLION MINE
0. H. Sleeper Arrives and Work on
Copper Property Will Be Pushed
by Hachinery
O. FI. Sleeper of the Ready Bullion
copper property on Lynx creek came
to Seward on the steamer Oregon
bringing a forty horse power air com
pressor to drive the drills in the tun
nel which the company is running to
cross-cut the ledge. The compressor
and other equipment were transferred
to the Toledo to be taken to Sunrise.
The compressor will be driven by
water power. A pipe line 4000 feet
long was Dut in two years ago and
carries a stream sufficient to drive
heavy machinery. The pipe is eigh
teen inches in diameter at the intake,
graduated to eight inches at the mine.
Hand work has been proceeding
steadily in the tunnel all winter,
spring and summer, under the direc
tion of Superintendent Nate White.
When the compressor is installed, Mr.
Sleeper says, ten feet per day can be
driven. _
Alaska Codfish to Go Hast
Tacoma—The fishingschooner Fortu
na arrived with 170 tons of codfish
from the banks off the Shumagin isl
ands, Alaska. She discharged at
! Quartermaster harbor, where the fish
I will be prepared fo«’ shipment to the
j east.
ASSASSINS SLAY
CZAR'S MINISTER
Flying Revolutionists Strike Down
Premier Stolypin in His
Own Home.
SLAUGHTER ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD
Other Officials Killed at Different
Places in the Empire and Czar
Is Terror-Stricken.
By Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 25—Premier
Stolypin was killed in his own house
by a troop of assassins who made a sud
den onslaught. Others in the house
were killed.
Whole household Slain
St. Petersburg, Aug. 27 While a
reception was in progress in the home
of Premier Stolypin Saturday evening
a force of armed men belonging to the
society known as the flying group of
social revolutionists attacked the house
and slaughtered everyone in it. All
the secret police in the house, includ
ing four women detectives, were killed.
Several persons had been warned not
to attend the reception.
Thousands of people gathered yes
terday around St. Peter’s hospital
grounds, where the bodies of the vic
tims lay all day on the grass.
Woman Kills Gen. Min
St. Petersburg, Aug. 27—Gen. Min,
personal adjutant of the czar, was shot
and killed this morning by a woman
on the railroad station platform at
Peterhof. Min’s widow stood beside
her husband when ho was killed and
promptly seized the assassin, who sub
mitted without resistance to arrest.
Following the revolt at Moscow Min
was condemned to death by the terror
ists for his share in its suppression.
Kill Warsaw Governor
Warsaw, Aug. 28—An assassin shot
Governor-General Liarliarski to death
in his own carriage last night and
escaped.
Czar in Dread of Violent End
St. Petersburg, Aug. 28—On account
of the prevailing reign of assassina
tion the czar is panic-stricken, and
believes that his own death is near.
He refuses to see anyone outside of his
immediate family. Half the servants
employed in the imperial palace have
been discharged because they were
not above suspicion. Some of them
had been in the household service for
many years. More than a dozer*
secret arrests have been made in the
palace of persons suspected to have de
signs upon the life of the c/.ar.
It is believed that a military dicta
torship will soon l»e established as the
ministry and police seem powerless to
cope with the present crisis.
To Continue Repression Policy
St. Petersburg, Aug. 25—At a con
ference of the cabinet last night it was
decided to pursue the policy of repres
sion against revolution with the ut
most rigor. No truce will be offered
under any circumstances and the most
effective measures will be adopted in
dealing with every uprising.
It was decided also to order all elec
tions for members of the new parlia
ment to be held on the same day
throughout the empire in order to
prevent the opponents of the govern
ment from concentrating forces in any
particular district, by which means
they might start a dangerous insurrec
tion. _
SAY LAKE IS ALL RIGHT
Creek More Difficult to Work Than
Others but Has the Colors.
J. E. O’Reilly and G. G. Percival,
who have just come down from Lake
creek, express the belief that it will
be all right in time although only the
bars can be worked by hand. On most
claims hydraulic machinery will be
necessary to move the gravel profita
bly. Nevertheless O’Reilly estimates
that pick and shovel men will get
$5000 from the bars this summer.
O'Reilly spent some time on the up
per Kahiltna and figures the creeks he
visited at a yield of $.'10,000 to $40,OoO.
He did not go to several producing
creeks and does not include them in
his estimate.
The United States is advertising for
2500 Chinese to dig the Panama canal
White and black men don’t seem to
care for the job.
WILL LAY RAILS
THROUGH TUNNEL
Track Terminus of Railroad To
Be Extended /^ain Within
Fifteen DaVs.
BORE ON 19 NEARLY FINISHED
Expected That Long Trestle and
Heavy Rock Cut Wili Be Com
pleted by November I.
—
Tunnel one, on mile 40 of the rail
road, will be bored within ten days, i
The heading, or upper half of the bore.;
showed daylight last Sunday after
noon. The bench, or lower half, is not
far behind and the long bore of nearly i
TOO feet will soon be finished. Tim-j
boring follows closely and with the
completion of the outside cut at the
south portal the tunnel will be ready
for the rails.
Track can be laid through the tunnel!
by September 15. The present term-;
inns, to which the transfer station was
moved two weeks ago, is 47.0 miles
from Seward. The north end of tun
nel I is a mile and a half from the
present rail terminus. At the end of
the dump made with rock from the
tunnel the track must stop for a
month and a half until the long, high
trestle is built just beyond. This
trestle will have sixty-seven bents of
twenty feet each, or a total length of
1340 feet, and its extreme hight will
be 100 feet. Tunnel and trestle are on
a 14-degree curve throughout their
length, except that the former begins
and the latter ends on a spiral which
graduates the approach to the maxi
mum curve.
This long trestle and the deep rock
cut a mile beyond it, which A. I). Mc
Innis is making under a sub-contract,
will require the months of September
and October. The trenches for the
mudsills of the trestle are all dug and
the foundation timbers are going in.
Good progress ha* been made on the
rock cut also and November F is fixed
as the probable date when rails can be
laid past both around to the loop on
mile 51. Two long trestles are to be
decked there, but the delay to track
laying in each case will be only a few
days.
A bridge is to be constructed across
the Placer river at the approach tothe
second tunnel, near the end of mile
52, and that will be the last check to
tracklaying until the rails extend
through all the seven tunnels down to
the Placer valley on mile 54. This
should be reached before the end of
November. Grading is completed on
much of the line between tunnel 1 and
tunnel 2, which are three and one-half
miles apart, and is being pushed
steadily on the unfinished portions, so
that no delay will be experienced on
that account.
BUILDING NOME RAILROAD
Seward Peninsula Line Will Soon
Run Trains to Kougarok
Nome is doing some active railroad
building, according to the Nugget of
July 24, which says:
“The Seward Peninsula railway is
being rapidly pushed toward the upper
end of Salmon lake, and will be com
pleted toward the lower end in about
a week. The trains will be running to
Bush station tomorrow morning. Bush
river station is five miles north of
River station. River station is seven
miles north of the old Ex station. Ten
days later the trains will be running
to Darling creek station, at the mouth
of Buffalo creek.
“Contractor Morris has 400 men
grading and laying rails. Forty-five
horses are on the ground at work.
The Morris company has built two
river boats. These are regular river
tow-boats. They will be used for
hauling freight for the grading camps
from the head of Salmon lake, down
Pilgrim river, twenty-three miles—a
total distance of thirty miles.
“The bridges on the road have been
completed two miles in advance. Two
new engines have arrived from the
outside, and two more are being
brought in. These engines are of
heavier make than those hitherto
used in this district. Twenty cars
have also arrived, and sixty more are
on the way.
“The Seward Peninsula railway of
ficials expect to have the line throngh
to the Kougarok and trains running
by October 12.”
Tin experts are closely investigating
Seward peninsula for tin ore.
GOLD DISTRICTS
NEAR SEWARD
Whole Region Back of Cook
Inlet Naturally Tributary
to This Town.
BEST POST FOR OUTFITTING
Growing Production in Yentna At
tracts Attention there and
to Other Localities.
Three mining districts toward which
the attention of mining men is now
turned are naturally tributary to Sew
ard and more accessible from it than ’
from any other direction.
These three districts are the Yent
na, which is already assured of a gold
output for 190b as large as the Tanana
yielded: in 1903 the upper Kuskokwira,
where a small number of prospectors
went last winter from Nome, and to
which two steamer loads started
with their outfits from Seattle early
this summer to go in by the river.
1000 miles long: the upper Susitna and
It* branches, lying south of Broad
pass, on the southern slope of the'
range which bounds the Tanana basin.
Everywhere throughout all these
districts gold colors have been found
near the surface and on every creek
where primitive mining has been done
wages or more have been taken out by
the prospectors. Experienced mining
men do not need to be told that it
would be without precedent in gold
mining if this wide dispersion of sur
face gold should prove to exist without
extensive deposits at bedrock and fre
quent occurrence of bonanzas.
By the crudest mining methods one
little group of creeks at the head of
the Ivahiltna river in the Yentna dis
trict will be made to yield this year at
least $50,000, and the output may
greatly exceed that figure, in the
opinion of miners who have just come
out, because each month increases the
rate of production. Sporadic work on
other creeks will add many thousands
to the total of the Yentna district,
which may approximate $100,0(H) for
the year.
This mining development means a
great influx of miners and prospectors
into the Yentna, the Kuskokwira and
the Susitna the coming fall, winter
and spring. Seward offers the only
practicable winter route to these gold
districts and from this town nearly all
the outfitting should be done.
PAY MINERS $6 A DAY
ON KAHILTNA CREEKS
Active Work in Progress Throughout
the District Where Good Pay
Is Found.
Kahiltna, Aug. 10—Correspondence of
the Gateway-The weather in this vicin
ity has cleared up and nights are cool
er causing the rivers to lower. About
thirty-five men are working on Lake
creek, and about fifteen men on the
bars of the Kahiltna below Peters
creek. The claim owners on the tribu
taries of Peters creek are paying $<>
per day for men and there is work for
as many men as they can get during
the sluicing season.
Inspect Lake Creek
P. V. James and M. G. Abney of
Laurel, Mississippi passed through here
August 6 to inspect the work
ing of their properties on Lake
creek about seven miles up from the
mouth. The property is known as the
King River Mining Company of which
Mr. James is president.
Going in to Stay
W. H. Foster, A. R. Barrus and Edw.
Snider, outfitted for a year, passed
up the Kahiltna August 8. They in
tend to work on the Kahiltna at a
point about ten miles up yntil the
freeze-up, then move on up Peters
creek.
To Pack for Cook Party
Mr. Hughes, who went north several
weeks ago with twelve horses to pack
goods from the Yentna to the upper
Lake and Kahiltna creeks, having
got through with that work has been
hired by the Cook party to pack their
outfit to the Kuskokwim headwaters.
First Reynolds Ore Shipment
Tacoma—On her last trip to sout hern
Alaska the steamer Portland brought
to the Tacoma smelter several hundred
tons of copper ore from the mine of
the Reynolds-Alaska Development
Company at Boulder bay, in Prince
William sound.
GET $80 WAGES
ON POOR MAN’S
Miners in Gulch Take Out fi\:
Ounces of Gold per Day
for Each.
THREE ON OTHER STREAMS
Late Arrivals From Kahiltna Creeks
Tell of Increasing Production
in New District.
Five ounces a day to the man on
Poor Man's creek, three ounces a dam
per man on several other creeks, and
smaller but highly profitable result-, in
various places in the upper Kahiltna
region, is the latest statement >!' t!i<
situation there. Nearly all tin- men
who are working steadily are a’ least,
taking out wages and a majority an
doing better than that.
This news is brought by A. Chris
topherson, Charles Kegor, Walter Ste
wart and Charles Viedt. known
throughout the Kahiltna country li
the ‘‘Big Four." who arrived in town
last night via Sunrise and the John
son creek trail. Jerome Ilatchey ac
companied them from Susitna station.
Mr. Christopherson says ho and hi
partners have been working some
claims they have on Cache creek, about
three miles from the head, where they
have been taking out a little better
than wages, though lie is very conser
vative and doesn't care to talk much
of his own affairs. He says their food
supply was running very low. which
was the cause of their coming out.
They intend to go in again in January
or February with a complete outfit and
carry on their work on a large scale
next season.
Several Paying Creeks
Confirming previous reports Christo
pherson says that Falls, Dollar, Thun
der, Nugget, Gold. Willow and Poor
Man’s creeks are showing up well and
good pay is being taken out on each of
them. While definite ligures are im
possible in some instances, tin* follow
ing report of men working on and re
sults obtained from the different,
creeks are very close to being correct:
On Poor Man’s creek Cone, Huddle
son. Larson, Carlson and Nelson are
taking out about five ounces a day to
the man.
On Willow creek Brisbane and
Marsh took out 100 ounces in eighteen
days, and Nace and Barton are taking
out an ounce a day to the man.
Big Yield on Nugget
On Nugget creek Herndon and Ja
cobson are taking out about $oO a day
to the man, and Morris just below is
taking out about the same.
On Dollar creek Peters, Davidson
and Cast are taking out about an
ounce a day to the man, and Eber
hardt and Anderson are taking out
between $30 and $40 a day to the man.
On Falls creek Hammersmith and
three others are working and taking
out wages.
On Thunder creek Peterson is taking
out an ounce a day and C lyde and
Davenport are taking out wages.
On Gold creek, at the confluence
with Cache creek. McDonald and
party are taking out wages.
Some work has been done on Peters
creek but until recently high water
made satisfactory work impossible, so
results are yet uncertain.
Christopherson says Cache creek is
located from the mouth to a mile past
its head, and complains that until such
laws as now exist, allowing1 such
promiscuous locating as has been done
throughout that region, are repealed,
the country will not be opened up and
developed as it should be.
STEAMER OREGON BRINGS
LARGE RAILROAD CARGO
Steamer Oregon arrived in port from
Seattle Monday morning at 9:30 with
200 tons of railroad cargo, including
bridge timber, and forty tons of gen
eral merchandise. She had twenty
lirst-olass passengers. She sailed
again Monday morning at9:30. Among
her passengers were several well
known persons.
One of the biggest stampedes ever
witnessed in Yukon territory has been
on recently, the rush being to Hodnot
and Gold Hill mountains, in the neigh
borhood of the headwaters of the
Watson river, forty miles from White
horse and about twenty miles from
Robinson, the nearest point reached
by the railroad.