06 Nov 1908
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Newspaper
Fairbanks Daily Times
Location
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
1
Boston reports many manufacturers plan immediate resumption of operations and recall former workers as prosperity is hoped after Taft's victory. In St Paul a retrenchment order cuts section hand wages to 2.25 dollars per day and halts costly system improvements.
In Valdez on November 6 the jury returned guilty verdicts for sixty two officers and crew members from two poaching vessels in Japanese illegal sealing cases. Most defendants were Japanese and the maximum penalty is a $1000 fine and six months imprisonment. The two ships and tackle will be confiscated and sold by the government. District Attorney Crossley led the prosecutions and was praised for presenting strong evidence of guilt.
A man murders his mother after she censures him and then takes his own life in a tragic domestic crime. The incident highlights family conflict and tragic end.
A New York jury convicts Charles Morse and Alfred Curtis of bank fund fraud in the Bank of North America case. Morse gets 15 years hard labor in Atlanta. Curtis has sentence suspended. Morse, ex president of the Knickerbocker ice trust, is described as a millionaire. Curtis once led the bank. The prosecutions are described as among New York's hardest fought fraud cases.
Judge R A Ballinger a Seattle bar veteran and ex head of the General Land Office is urged as Taft cabinet appointee. Senator Piles and Western colleagues lead the effort, hoping the choice rewards Western support after last Tuesday’s election and Taft’s favorable leanings are noted.
Operators watch with interest as A. L. Hamilton drills a line of holes across lower Goldstream from valley edge to edge. Five holes have been made in the frozen ground at about 30 below, with work still preliminary and aims to reach pay soon on the famed streak long thought to extend along the producer.
Rebecca Veit a wealthy prominent New York society member was killed by her banker son Robert Veit. After firing at his mother he took gas in a small rooming house and died. The dispute centered on his relationship with a mistress.
The grand lodge of the Arctic Brotherhood urges Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair directors to shift the exposition closing to November 1. They argue most miners cannot attend during the busy year end and finishing work would allow Northerners to view the show.
Berlin reports the German press condemns Kaiser Wilhelm II after the Bulow crisis and the chancellors resignation. Editors protest his dictatorial style and interference in foreign office affairs provoking a potential Far East war and Balkan tensions.
Corporal Roy Cox formerly U S signal corps operator at Minto Alaska will be awarded a certificate of merit for heroism in saving Monty Terrell a Tanana river woodchopper from freezing to death last winter. The act is recalled by observers who witnessed the extreme cold conditions of that season.
Peter Peterson died following a water wagon accident at Dome when the tank overturned. He was injured when the edge of the tank struck his back while his clothes trapped him under the heavy load. Despite surgery at Overgaard's sanitarium, internal injuries proved fatal at 2 20 pm. He had worked as a bartender in town and was employed by the Grand hotel at Dome. He belonged to the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Washington reports from the Alaska geological survey cite pay dirt on Unga Island and Popof among the Skurra gin islands. Geologists say good bodies of ore indicate a rich gold belt in the North Pacific region off the Alaskan coast, suggesting substantial unexploited deposits.
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