GOLD EXTRACTION MOVE NEAR ARASTRA RAILROAD WORK
Falls Creek mine near Mile 26 on Alaska Central railroad shows crude mill grinding about 100 dollars weekly in gold while Skeen and Lechner push development on Betty claim with high grade assays. Owners plan greater activity as eastern capital backs Cameron O Reilly Youngs and McClure claims and Welch takes charge of grading toward Mata- Nenka coal fields with new tunnel work near mile 53.
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Morrison
Alaska Central Railroad
Falls' Creek
John Lechner
Frank P. Skeen
Skeen and I
Ekite
Betty Claim
Tacoma
Skeen
Alaska Central
Welch
Turnagain Arm
Martin Welch
Matavnuska
Seward
Poland
Receiver Takes Charge in Zion City
Judge Landis in U S court named John Hately receiver of all Zion City property and ordered a Zion election for September 18 to decide by popular vote whether Dowie or Voliva will be general overseer. Deacon Lewis warned the decree uproots the church. Dowie faction likely to appeal.
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Daily Gateway
Chicago
Landis
U.S. Court Today
John Hately
Zion City
Zion
Dowie
Voliva
Lewis
Church of Zion
Dowle
Gage Ends Debauch With Suicide in Touraine Hotel
Eli A Gage son of a former secretary of the treasury and noted financier died by self inflicted gunshot in his Touraine room after a two week spree. He registered as Gorst from Chicago and drank heavily. detectives were sought to locate him before his death. The report also notes European Russia coal production in 1904 totaling 19 857 000 tons.
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EH A. Gage
Secretary of the Treasury
Touraine
Gage
Northern Commercial Company
Klondike
Alaska
Chicago
Gorst
European
Russia
Revolt and Martial Law as Tsar Names Nicholas Military Dictator
News from St. Petersburg reports the czar rejecting Stolypin cabinet picks and naming Grand Duke Nicholas as military dictator. Cronstadt declares martial law while the czar flees to Tsarskoe-Selo, guarded by troops. Mutinies, uprisings, and planned general strikes spread across northern Russia as rebellion intensifies. The Asia, with Admiral Rivilew aboard, pursues mutineers toward Sveaborg amid widespread clashes and censorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Stolypin
Nicholas
Russia
Cronstadt
Tsarskoe-Selo
Sveaborg
Revolutionary Committee
Sveabor
Asia
Rivilew
Basin
Tanana Trail Route Debate From Seward Alaska
The article compares the Tanana River trail options from Seward to the Alaska Central railroad. It favors the Johnson creek route between Hope and mile 35 for lower cost, easier grades, and better summer viability, noting heavy rock work and a critical 40 foot by 60 foot bridge at Groundhog creek.
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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 at Atlanta Daily Gateway
Anderson Pittman returned today after more than 40 years away to find his former wife now widow to another man. He had been believed killed in the Confederate army. He killed a Confederate officer near war’s end, faced murder charges, was sentenced to life, later pardoned, used an assumed name to spare his family disgrace, and served a long prison term under that alias before being identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Gateway
Atlanta
Anderson Pittman
Pittman
Democrats Clash at North Dakota State Convention
At Minot on August 3, Democrat leaders clashed as Liver Scrumgard accused Germaine Brinjolfsen of aiding George Wilkinson in a public denial that the national committee sold the presidential nomination in 1904. Senator Crafts and Brinjolfsen fought on the floor over the charge. The convention nominated John Burke for governor, endorsed Bryan for president in 1908, and backed direct primaries, a state railroad commission, and referendum legislation. A German expedition planned to explore the Pilcomayo tributary of the Paraguay to open 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 on the outskirts of town by W. C. Rodman, the Northern Commercial Company's agent. The box was uninjured and none of the $10,000 was missing. A $500 reward had been offered by Superintendent Charles of the express company. Several men are under suspicion, but no arrests 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
Falls Creek
Portland
California
Oregon
Idaho
Cape York
U. S
Eli A. Gage
Secretary of Treasury
Seattle
Czar
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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