Furs Seals Guarded On Pribilofs By Four Agents
Lempke chief agent at St Paul Island with three assistants oversees sealing rookeries from May to September. Judge and Major Clark plus Chichester patrols on St George Island. native guards under Chief Sempire. Indian guards total about 165 funded by Congress and employed by North American Commercial Company. Patrols under Treasury through revenue cutter service for the past decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lempke
United States
Solicitor Sims
Congress
Sempire
North American Commercial Company
St. Paul Island
Island
St. George
Killing of five Japanese poachers in Pribiloff Islands
Details from a dated Dutch Harbor report state Japanese poachers on St. Paul Island were shot on July 17 by an agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor after a raid by four schooners on seal rookeries. The revenue cutter McCulloch brought 12 prisoners to Seaward, Alaska, two seriously wounded, and they were turned over to Deputy Marshal Harmon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pribiloff Islands
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Seaward
St. Paul
Department of Commerce and Labor
Seal
McCulloch
Marshal Harmon
Northeast Point
Com
Kipling Poem Echoes Alaska Seal Hunting Battle
A reader reports parallels between a recent Alaskan seal poaching clash near Unalaska and Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Rime of the Three Sealers. The piece notes foggy conditions, gunfire, and competing crews described as Yank and Japanese, with a grim imagery of sealing and lawlessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Rudyard Kipling
Unalaska
Kipling
Japanese Seal Raid Foiled by Pribiloff Patrol
Special Agent Lempke of the Commerce Department arrived as Japanese raiders reached the shore near a Pribilof rookery. A skirmish ensued with native guards. three raiders were killed and another body drifted ashore. The raiders slaughtered 200 seals and carried 120 skins before fleeing. Alec McLean suspected organizer, last seen in Victoria, B C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercial Company
Lempke
Department of Commerce
Pribiloff Islands
Alec McLean
Victoria
B. C
Captain Alexander McLean Charged With Piracy Tactics
Seattle reports Captain Alexander McLean once commanded the Carmencita under US, Mexican, and Norwegian flags. He allegedly led authorities ashore and revenue cutters on a lengthy sea chase, described as ruthless piracy bordering legitimate navigation, earning comparisons to Wolf Larsen and Kipling’s harsh northern seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Alexander McLean
United States
Mexico
Norway
Wolf Larsen
Jack London
Kipling
Many Honored Funeral of Henry F. Fitzgerald
The funeral of Henry F. Fitzgerald Jr. brother of Hon. W. T. A. Fitzgerald was held from 258 Harrison Avenue yesterday morning A solemn high mass was sung at St James Church at 9 o clock Between 600 and 700 people attended Burial was at Calvary.
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Henry F. Fitzgerald, Jr
W. T. A. Fitzgerald
Harrison Avenue
St. James’ Church
M. J. O’connor
John J. Fitzgerald
J. J. Baxter
Calvary
Removal of Board Faces Crisis Over Long Island Hospital
Mayor Fitzgerald prepares a statement on whether to remove the Long Island Hospital trustees amid a clash with Superintendent James English. The board, led by W Prentiss Parker, demands English’s signer removal by Friday, while the mayor has no legal power to save him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Board of Pauper Institutions
James English
Long Island Hospital
English
Collins
Old Orchard
Parker
Long Island
W. Prentiss Parker
Walter Hunnewell
Frances R. Morse
Bernard J. Rothwell
Maud M. Rockwell
William J. Sullivan
David D. Scannell
Labor organizing notes from Boston unions in late 1900s
Boston labor groups announce meetings and actions. The Central Labor Union plans a special Friday night meeting at Wells Memorial to push for a Labor Day parade. Wage Earners' Central Club delays its gathering by one week. Teamdrivers' District Council votes to expunge anti parade records and urges affiliated unions to parade. Walters' Benevolent Association schedules its annual ball for January 1907. Hardwood Finishers' Union 109 calls a Wednesday meeting at 45 Eliot Street to decide on renewing a contract with People’s Legal Security Company. Gold Beaters' Union 8 holds a special meeting today at 2 PM at 724 Washington Street to hear strike reports.
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Boston Central Labor Union
Wells Memorial Building
Central Club
Boston Teamdrivers’ District Council
John Gillespie
Union 25
W. A. Henderson
Union 63
William White
Union
Walters’ Benevolent Association
Paul Revere Hall
People’s Legal Security Company
Union 109
Eliot Street
Gold Beaters
Union 8
Washington Street
Four Heat Prostrations Add to City Toll
Four residents succumbed to heat yesterday in Boston though no deaths occurred. Deputy Collector Cornelius F. Crowley collapsed at City Hall and later went home. Annie Monroe, 38, Mrs. E. H. Green, and Emma Gray were treated at Relief and Emergency Hospitals after fainting on Stamford Street and in the Tremont Street area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornellius Crowley
City Hall
Relief Hospital
Annie Monroe
E. H. Green
Emma Gray
Hollis Street
Tremont Street
Stamford Street
Stensland Moves to Save Milwaukee Avenue Bank Debacle
Theodore Stensland vice-president of the suspended Milwaukee Avenue Bank acts to aid 22,000 depositors by turning over to Receiver Fetzer the bank’s collateral valued at 600,000. Paul O Stensland and Henry W Hering remain at large as police restrain crowds.
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Chicago
Theodore Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue Bank
Mmt
Stensland
Fetzer
Paul O. Stensland
Henry W. Hering
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
The
Chicago Tribune
Beverly Farms Auto Hits Boy in Malden
Samuel Barlow aged 56 was struck while crossing near 268 Eastern avenue Malden by a touring car driven by John Kiley 24 Roxbury owner George Lee Beverly Farms. The boy was unconscious and rushed to Malden Hospital where Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Plummer said injuries were head and body but he will recover.
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Malden
Eastern Avenue
Samuel Barlow
Morris Barlow
John Kiley
Whitney Street
Roxbury
George Lee
Hale Street
Beverly Farms
Harry Lee
Young Barlow
Riley
Malden Hospital
J. W. Lawrence
F. W. Plummer
Arbitration demanded of lighting contract
Mayor Fitzgerald announced he had notified Edison to arbitrate the lighting contract. The mayor can name one arbitrator with Edison naming the second. together they select a third. The mayor has 80 days from Aug 20 to choose his arbitrator. A Central Labor Union delegation urged action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Edison Company
Central Labor Union
G A R Commander Innis Fell Ill For Encampment
Commander George Innis head of the Boston Grand Army Club is ill with nervous prostration at his son’s Mattapan home and will miss the Minneapolis encampment. Colonel George A. Hosley and G. W. Masters assume Massachusetts party leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Innis
Boston
New West Boston Bridge Far From Completion
City Engineer Jackson says $300 000 of work remains on the Cambridge Bridge over the Charles. He estimates the bridge will not be in use much before October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New West Boston
Jackson
Cambridge Bridge Commission
Charles
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Unalaskaz
Aleutian Islands
Fur Seal Fisheries of
Judge
Pribiloff Group
Major Clark
Chichester
St. George Island
Department
Miller
Edmund W. Miller
Somerset St
Cor
Beacon St
Mass
Miller Reform Boots & Shoes
Subway
At. Gray Co
Washington and Hanover Sts
C.C.A. Alo Cent Ciéar
Cisco
Baltic
Stratsund
Reuben Paine
Yeddo Port
Henry F. Fitzgerald
Gray Co
A. R. Grover
Washington St
Gray
LABOR
Eton
Peevnen Ze
A.T. Brand
Java
Armour’s
Vogler
Arseilles Wand
Madras
Silk
Vaam ‘Tee
Oxfords Inne
Brighton
Verona
Palmer
Valug
Neurs
G. Bonbon & Co
China
National Cot
National
Eastern Hennery
Innes
Houghton & Dutton
la Punts
North Bennet Street
Ronald S. Stephton
Arthur
Newman
Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Coal Company
First National Bank
Roach River
Moosehead Lake
Twitchell-Champlin Company
Portland
Keen & Sons
Centre Street
J. Calvin McCombie
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