Seward weekly gateway., January 19, 1907, Image 3

About Seward weekly gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1905-1914

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SEWARD
IS THE
GATEWAY
TO THE BEST PORTION OF
CENTRAL ALASKA
Through this harbor passes nearly all the traffic
of the vast region lying north of Cook inlet and
between the two mountain ranges which bound
the Susitna valley, an area as large as one of the
great states of the Middle West.
In the Near Future
Through the extension of the Alaska Central
railroad, now building northward from Seward,
the territory tributary to the town as the chief
seaport of the southern coast will gradually ex
pand until it embraces the Tanana and upper
Kuskokwim, each a region of imperial extent and
resources.
Seward Already
\
controls the trade of the Yentna gold mining dis
trict, which old Alaska miners pronounce one
of the coming bonanza camps of the territory.
! It controls the trade of the numerous mining
camps along Cook inlet and its arms. Fiom it
start the prospectors who are constantly pene
trating and exploring the interior between ( ook
inlet and the Tanana in the search for rich depos
its of the metals which abound in all its hills and
streams.
Seward Outfits Miners
i For all this territory. From this town leads the
best route to the new bonanza fields. They are |
more accessible than any other great district of |
Alaska, an important factor in their development. 8
Limitless Coal Deposits
lie at Seward’s back door. They have been ex
amined and analyzed by the best experts and
rated by them with the best bituminous coal of
the Atlantic coast. In another year this coal will |
be hauled to tide water over the Alaska Central
railroad and can be mined in quantity to furnish
steam to all the ships that sail the North Pacific.
In a few years it will furnish coke to smelters
which will be erected at Seward to reduce the |
copper ores of that bonanza field. Prince William
sound, whose richest deposits are within a few
hours sailing.
The Longest Railroad
in operation in Alaska has Seward for its ocean
terminus and its track lengthens each month,
s On the finest townsite in Alaska, at the head of
the best harbor on the Alaska coast, ice-free every
day in every year, Seward is building. The town
has water works, electric lighting, sewerage; and
its development is based upon exhaustless re
sources.
TO INVESTIGATE
SEAL COMPANY
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House Committee Begins Inquiry
Into Operations at Pribi
lof Islands.
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By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, L). C., Jan. 14 The
house committee on merchant marine
and fisheries began an investigation to
day of the charges made by Prof.
Elliott that the North American Com
mercial Company has been leasing its
sealing privileges in the Pribilof isl
ands; that it has been guilty of crooked
dealing in various ways and has vio
lated the terms of its lease. Elliott
says the company has engaged in
pelagic sealing, while the terms of its
lease restrict it to sealing on the
islands.
Prof. Elliott charges that Senator
Elkins is a stockholder in the North
American Commercial Company and is
its Washington representative. He
I asserts that through the influence of
Elkins t he company lias been protected
from investigation of its unlawful pro
ceedings in the seal islands.
DEADLOCK IN
RHODE ISLAND
Aldrich Machine Unable to Elect
Its Man for United States
Senator.
By Cable to Tb« Dally Gateway.
Providence, Jan. 17—The first joint
ballot in the legislature for the Rhode
Island senatorship resulted in a dead
lock, which is likely to continue for
several days. R. H. I. Goddard, Sam
uel Colt and Senator George P. Wet
more are the candidates, with strength
in the order named.
Goddard is believed to have the best
chance, as ho will get the entire demo
cratic strength whenever it will elect
him. The republican machine is tor
Colt, who is the rich gun manufac
turer, having selected him to succeed
Wet more. It is believed that when
ever Wetmore finds he cannot win he
will throw his support as far as possi
ble to Goddard, in revenge for his
turndown by the Aldrich machine.
T. P. MURDOCK MISSING
AHD THOUGHT TO BE DEAD
Alan Who Mad Narrow Escape from
Drowning a Year Ago Disappears
But Blankets Are Found.
T. P. Murdock left Knik five weeks
j ago on a hunting trip and has not since
I been seen, but three weeks ago bis
blanket" and other articles carried by
him were found on Fagle river, not
far from Knik arm. It is believed that
Murdock was drowned or frozen to
death. The weather has been, very
cold and it would have been impossi
ble for a man to survive long unless
well-equipped for camping.
In the late summer of 1905 Murdock
appeared at Knik nearly starved with
an account of a narrow escape from
drowning by the capsizing of a raft on
which he and a man named Smith
were ooming down the Matanuska
river. Above the mouth of the
Chickaloon the raft upset and Smith
was drowned. Murdock walked and
crawled through the brush to Knik,
without food except a few fish he
speared, which he claimed he ate raw
because he had no means of making a
tire. He and Smith had started on a
prospecting trip.
Murdock had been around Knik ever
since he first came there. Last sum
mer he worked part of the time for O.
G. Herning.
OLD INDIAN NEAR KNIK
FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH
Matanuska, an old Indian who had
lived around Knik for many years,
was found frozen to death a few miles
from that place recently. Near by
was a heap of wood arranged for a fire,
and a box of saturated matches. The
old man had evidently attempted to
i build a camp fire and failed because
his matches were wet. Finding that
death was certain the stoical old In
dian sat down under a tree, leaned his
back against it, folded his arms and
passed into unconsciousness. He was
found iu that position.
William McCarty and Klmer Camer
on came over from Valdez on the
I Pennsylvania to see a real town. Mc
Carty has the copper fever as bad as
i ever and is about to build a 70-foot
| boat for use in Prince William sound.
It will have an 8o-horse power gasoline
engine. He is also planning to buy
the Hammond. Harry Moore, engi
neer of the Hammond, is in with him.
CAPTAIN NEWTH
PLEADS GUILTY
Whaling Master Gets Day in Jail
and $2500 Fine for Ruin
ing Eskimo Girl.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Seattle, Jan. 16-Capt. E.W. Newth,
the Arctic whaling master, who was
bound over at Nome to answer the
charge of felony for criminal intimacy
with an Eskimo girl on the high seas,
pleaded guilty yesterday in the United
States district court to a lesser degree
of crime for the offense and was sen
tenced by Judge Hanford to serve one
day in jail and to pay a fine of $2500
and the costs of the prosecution.
Newth promptly paid the fine and went i
to jail, from which he was released
this morning.
Newth is oue of the most notorious
of the whaling masters whose olTenses
led to the dispatch of the revenue
cutter Thetis to Bering sea last
summer with special government
agents to investigate. Newth has
been in the north a long time and
many charges are made against him.
Newth Touched for $4000
Seattle. Jan. 17—The costs in the
prosecution of Capt. Newth amounted
to $1500, besides the $2500 fine inflicted
by the court under bis plea of guilty to
the charge of seduction of an Eskimo
girl in Bering sea. Newth has paid
the fine and costs and served a day “at
hard labor” in the .county jail, and is
now free again. _
RIVERS RUNNING
OUT OF BANKS
Ohio Overflows Lowlands and
hundreds of families Driv
en From homes.
By Cable to Tbe Dolly Gateway.
Cincinnati, Jan. 19—The Ohio and
Mississippi rivers are overflowing
their banks in many places and are
still rising in consequence of the gen
eral thaw. The lowlands are covered
with water in many places and num
erous towns are threatened with in
undation.
In Ironton, Ohio, last night 100 fam
ilies were driven from their homes.
In Portsmouth 1000 refugees are hous
ed in the public school buildings At
Newport 300 families are homeless and
the whole region along the river is
under water.
MOORE’S GIRDWOOD HOTEL
BURNS WITH ALL CONTENTS
Occupied as Lodginghouse by Hacy
and Watson Who Lose
Everything
James M. Moore’s building in Gird
wood, occupied as a lodginghouse by
Mrs. Watson, burned a few days ago
with the contents. The cause of the tire
is understood to have been an over
heated stove which communicated tire
to woodwork in the building. A small
building adjoining was torn down to
prevent a spread of the tire. The ten
ants of the Moore building lost practic
ally everything. Mrs. Watson’s less
is about $1500.
CANADIAN FISHERIES
WORTH $29,479,562
The annual report on Canadian fish
eries says the catch of fish for the sea
son is valued at $29,479,562, nearly as
much as the total production of gold
and coal in the Dominion during the
same period. It exceeds the high
record of the famous yield of 1905 by
more than $4,000,000. The large in
crease is ascribed to the catch of sai
mon in British Columbia, which ex
ceeded that of the previous year by
about $5,000,000.
The lobster industry comes next in
importance to the salmon, with its
aggregate value of $4,000,000, an in*
crease of $215,847 over the previous
year’s pack. Cod shows a falling otT of
nearly $250,000. More than $16,000,
000 worth of fish was exported to
foreign counties, mostly to the United
States, during the year.
The industry employs 98,908 persons.
Goes Among the Mormons
Rev. J. P. Eaker, recently of the
Baptist mission of Seward, is located
in Garfield, a new smelter town fifteen
miles from Salt Lake City. Eighty
houses and six hotels were built there
last year, and the place has a popula
tion of fifty families, and about 200
men in the hotels. They hold ser
vices in a tent, and will soon have
another for reading room and club
purposes.
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QUALITY
IS OUR WATCHWORD!
Believing that only the best is good enough for our
trade, we are untiring in our efforts to maintain the high
est possible standard by handling only the choicest pro
ducts the markets afford. Our prices are in harmony
with the quality of our goods. We make a specialty of
outfitting and the prospector will not be disappointed in
his outfit If he buys of us, for he gets the BESY at
WHOLESALE PHICES.
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BROWN & HAWKINS
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
WHOLESALE RETAIL
CHAS. A. TECKLENBURO
THE SEATTLE BAR
-ONLY THE BEST
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Bohemian and Olympia Beer
FURNISHED ROOMS WITH STEAM HEAT
Fourth Ave. and Waahln*ton St. Seward. Alaaka.
NORTHERN SALOON
E. L. WHITTEIYIORE. PROPRIETOR
WINES. LIQUORS AND CIGARS
FOURTH AVE. SEWARD. ALASKA
THE COMMERCE
FOURTH AVENUE
■ A Gentleman’s Resort and Club Rooms.
furn ISHED ROOMS
First Class Cafe in Connection
PETERSON & BROWN, Proprietors
COLEMAN HOUSE
Electric Lights and Electric Bells in Every Room
Rates from 50c to $2.50 per Day
ABSOLUTELY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avenue Seward, Alaska
HOTEL McNEILEY
Completely Renovated. New Management. Hot
and Cold Water. Modern, Plastered Rooms.
Electric Lighted. Baths. Reasonable Rates.
HAWKINS & W.HITTEiMORE, Proprietors
Fourth Avenue, - Seward, Alaska
THE BANK THEATRE
Del Clark, Proprietor
Entertainments Every Evening
Best of Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar
THE PALACE
W. P. HENRY & CO.
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
First Class Cafe in Connection
Fourth Avenue ___Seward, Alaska