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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1907
Page
2
Dispatches from Tan gier state report that the bandit chief Ra cohorts defeated the sultan's force and captured many towns. A balloon will locate Moorish troop positions. Foreigners warned to leave the county Casablanca. French forces repelled Arab attack with shrapnel. Port Gueydon bowed by French fleet. details unavailable.
The piece contrasts Alaskan showers with harsher storms across the central regions and the Southeast. It recalls extreme heat in Dun cannon near Hors and Newport, Pa, describing boiling ponds, scorched leaves, and workers scalded by dangerously warm mud.
Sea dangers persist as uncharted rocks injure ships near Prince William Sound. The Manning wreck underscores need for thorough charting and faster survey work. Copper prospects near Seward attract capital and samples for display. Delegates race to Fairbanks with Clum candidacy. Tanana Valley railroad expansion to Richardson. Greasing near Cleary City nearing completion.
An electric storm swept northern Minnesota yesterday during church services. Several people were killed outright and others were severely injured as buildings were struck and burned, causing panic among worshipers.
The Japanese schooner Kiowo once sailed as Henry Dennis from Gloucester and rounded the horn in 1888. Capt Moore of the Dora recalls a crew member, confirming the vessel’s change of name after a tidal wrecked abandoned hull drifted ashore. Japanese buyers repaired it into a sealer, then renamed Kiowo.
The article recounts Australia’s giant gold finds including the Hill End nugget in New South Wales worth 148000 and the Welcome Stranger nugget weighing 2268 ounces valued at 47070. It profiles two luckless discoverers, Bersyi and Halman, and two poor puddlers Decon and Oates, whose fortunes changed with surprise luck near a road. The tales highlight luck, poverty, and dramatic wealth from gold discoveries.
The good ship Dora arrived from Nushavak and intervening points crowded to capacity with passengers. She will sail back Monday afternoon. Deputy Marshal Bates came aboard with several prisoners headed to Valdez for rein on the first steamer. Among them is a Chinese man who shot at a fellow countryman but missed, and a wry Japanese. O. Anderson, charged with rape, was taken on at Unga.
W Newhall, founder and first ten years in active charge of the Jessie Lee home for native children at Unalaska, accompanied by his wife, was a passenger on the Dora en route to the states. He retires from missionary field to resume medical practice. The home is praised as a model and its work lauded for guiding native children in right living and education.
Warriner E. Smith, surveyor in charge of preliminary work for the Alaska Short Line from Tiamna to the interior, nearly died from ptomnaine poisoning. The Dora reported he is now out of danger. J. F. McLean, a young lawyer, arrived in Seward on the Saratoga with a commission as United States commissioner at Uiamaa and will depart west on the Dor.
Inbound and outbound sailings listed for Seward Steamer line vessels. Dor arrived at Valdez from Seattle at noon. Berthels from Seattle departed for Seldovia and Kodiak on the 4th. Santa Clara sails from Seattle on the 26th. Jeanie departed for Seattle on the 17th. Saratoga departed for Seattle on the 20th. Isie sailed for Sound ports on the 18th.
The Bank of Seward states its aim to advance the business interests of customers in every legitimate way. It acknowledges motives may be tinged with selfishness, since patrons’ prosperity underpins the bank’s own success.
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