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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
4
The United States Mint in Philadelphia has resumed full operation with about 550 workers after layoffs. New orders from Washington for immediate coinage include a $10 000 000 run in 320 gold coins, likely followed by another similar order, plus heavy coinage of silver and copper.
Tomorrow at 11 a.m. the pastor preaches on Some Meditations for Lent and at 8 p.m. Sacrifices Acceptable to God. Sunday school at 1:23 p.m. Public cordially invited. L. H. Pedersen, pastor.
The article notes Cale urging Alaska Home Rule before the Territorial Government committee, facing opposition from Governor Leggett. It also reports Prof. C Alphonso Smith discussing an English grammar from a Southern perspective, with a wartime arithmetic example reflecting Southern viewpoints. The piece includes a New York dinner remark and a large job line at 516 West Twenty-eighth Street where hundreds seek work and a limited number can be employed daily.
Major Richardson is moved from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Infantry, not affecting Alaska road work. Secretary Garfield urges Congress to raise Alaska schools appropriation from 200000 to 250000 dollars, saying only that amount will fund ongoing urgent territorial projects.
Forty to fifty riders arrived by buggy and on horseback in Brooksville Bracken County. They guarded the Bracken County Telephone Company exchange to prevent word from being sent. They burned 15000 pounds of tobacco owned by Robert Stenton, avoiding violence or warehouse destruction and departed quietly.
An official probe reports a severe situation in southwestern coastal areas where a short tobacco crop has led to widespread job losses. The resulting unemployment has caused money shortages and food scarcity.
The Jewish Chronicle notes the chess championship has stayed in Jewish hands for forty two years with Steinitz holding it until 1894 and Lasker champion since. Dr Lasker credits Jewish genius in chess to the self defense basis of its rules, seeing Jews as adept in this art.
The Seward post office reports letters remaining unclaimed for recipients including W. J. Foster, Dick Groom, G. N. Gray, M. H. Handcock, J. C. Minney, J. W. McNamara, Mrs. S. McClame hon, Otto L. Olson, Julius Ranning, Mr. Constantine Youlander, Lillian N. Gordon, and P. M.
The Seattle Magazine portrays an Alaska trip starting from Seattle, detailing inland sea sailing and grand mountain scenery. It highlights the Manley Hot Springs near Baker Creek as a tropical Arctic retreat owned by Frank Manley, offering a hotel, bath houses, and a mining enterprise in a remote, scenic landscape.
The Sun notes one steel plant in the Chinese Empire operating since 194, producing about 50,000 tons annually, far behind the 23,000,000 tons of the United States, illustrating China’s lag in modern steel making. The piece also references British concern over unrest in India and a punitive expedition led by Gen Sir James Wilcox.
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