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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1906
Page
8
Aug. reports show Chicago teller Frank Kowalski of the Milwaukee Avenue bank who failed weeks earlier shot himself, with friends hinting a bank collapse link. His relatives held substantial deposits and forced notes of President Stetsland were found.
The Isthmian commission plans to hire 500 Chinese laborers for Panama Canal work, replacing Jamaicans deemed unsuited to the labor. Labor unions protest, but the government argues Chinese workers are cheaper and easier to retain to speed completion. Gompers asserts anti Chinese law applies to U S territories. Other notes discuss Alaska Indians rejecting Armour canned beef and early 11th century England surname origins.
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