GOLD EXTRACTION NEAR ARASTRA RAILROAD WORK
The Falls Creek area shows rich quartz deposits with Skeen and Lechner reporting a crude mill at Falls Creek mine yielding about $100 weekly. Developments near Betty claim show high value fragments and plans for stamp mill expansion as Skeen and Lechner push ore shipments and tunneling toward Matawanuska coal fields.
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Morrison
Alaska Central Railroad
Falls' Creek
John Lechner
Frank P. Skeen
Skeen and I
Ekite
Betty Claim
Tacoma
Falls Creek
Receiver Takes Charge in Zion City
Judge Landis in the U S court names John Hately receiver of all Zion City property and orders a September 18 election by Zionists to choose between Dowie and Voliva for general overseer. Deacon Lewis warns that civil decrees could uproot Zion. Dowie faction likely to appeal both orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Gateway
Chicago
Landis
U.S. Court Today
John Hately
Zion City
Zion
Dowie
Voliva
Lewis
Church of Zion
Dowle
ELI A. Gage Ends Debauch By Own Action
Eli A. Gage son of a former secretary of the treasury and noted financier died by suicide in the Touraine hotel last night. He shot himself in his room after a two week spree and had recently hid under the alias Gorst. Previously connected with Northern Commercial Company and promoter of Klondike and Alaska ventures. A Chicago wire sought detectives to search for him before his death. The report also notes Europe Russia coal production for 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EH A. Gage
Secretary of the Treasury
Touraine
Gage
Northern Commercial Company
Klondike
Alaska
Chicago
Gorst
Revolution Rages Across Europe as Czar Names Grand Duke Dictator
From St. Petersburg to Sveaborg and Shusha the upheaval widens. The czar rejects Stolypin cabinet picks and will appoint Grand Duke Nicholas as military dictator. Martial law spreads to Cronstadt and Basin while rebels claim to persist. Mutineers seized government funds and a printing office, as arrests, court martials, and mass killings unfold amid a broad regional revolt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Stolypin
Nicholas
Russia
Cronstadt
Tsarskoe-Selo
Sveaborg
Revolutionary Committee
Sveabor
Tanana Trail Route Debate and Alaska Central Plans
Alaska Central engineers assess Johnson Creek and beach trails to connect Hope Sunrise Seward with the railroad. Reports favor Johnson Creek route to mile 35 for lower cost, easier grades, and better load capacity despite longer distance, noting the beach trail’s heavy rock work and slides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska Central
Campbell Point
Seward
Tanana
Valdez
Broad Pass
Tanana River
Alaska
Hope
Sunrise
Johnson Creek
W. H. Rees
J. J. Odale
Geneva
Poland
Turnagain Arm
Rees
Odale
Lune
Reel
Odalé
M. Son
Alaska 1 Mission
Alaska Road Fund
Johnsom Creek
Mr Odale
Richare
Mile 35
Alaska Central Railway
Lyns Creek
Lynx Creek
Bench Creek
Groundhog Creek
Returns After Forty Years in Atlanta Mr Pittman Tale
Anderson Pittman returns after more than 40 years, finding his former wife now a widow. He had believed his wife remarried after he was presumed dead in the Confederate army. He killed a Confederate officer after a quarrel, was tried for murder, sentenced to life, then pardoned. Disguised, he served in prison under an assumed name and was long presumed dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Gateway
Atlanta
Anderson Pittman
Pittman
Democrats Row at North Dakota State Convention
At the North Dakota convention Liver Scrumgard accused Germaine Brinjolfsen of aiding George Wilkinson with a public denial that the national committee sold the 1904 presidential nomination to Parker. Crafts and Brinjolfsen fought on the floor. John Burke was nominated for governor, with Bryan for president in 1908. The delegates backed direct primary, a state railroad commission, and referendum laws. A German expedition formed to explore Pilcomago, a Paraguay tributary, for a route to Bolivia.
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Minot
N. D
Liver Scrumgard
Germaine Brinjolfsen
George Wilkinson
National Committee
Parker
Crafts
Brinjolfsen
John Burke
Bryan
Box of Gold Recovered Near Fairbanks
The Fort Gibbon box of gold stolen from the steamer Ida May was found today in the woods near town by Northern Commercial Company agent W. C. Rodman. The box was uninjured and none of the $10,000 was missing. A $500 reward had been offered by express superintendent Charles. Several men are under suspicion but no arrests have been made. The Northern Commercial Company’s tug Alaska was burned at Andreafski.
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Fairbanks
Fort Gibbon
Ida May
Northern Commercial Company
W. C. Rodman
Charles
Express Company
Gibbon
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Arastra
Sheen and Lechner
Welch
Skeen
Portland
California
Oregon
Idaho
Cape York
Martin Welch
Matavnuska
U. S
Eli A. Gage
Secretary of Treasury
Seattle
European
Czar
Asia
Rivilew
Basin
Kharkov
Preskurov
Ismail
Tts
Southeastern
Czenstochow
Ibis
Shusha
Dreds
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Seaman Koff
Viborg
Vitlis
Helsingfors
Finland
Col. Mataroff
Turnagain Ars
Qdale
Georgian
North Dakota
Paraguay River
Bolivia
Andreafski
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