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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1907
Page
6
Dispatches report Ra cohorts defeat the sultan's troops in Tangier state and capture towns. A balloon will locate Moorish troop positions as foreigners are warned to leave Casablanca. French forces clash with Arabs and suffer heavy losses near Port Gueydon. details remain unavailable.
The article describes extreme heat and storms affecting many areas. It notes west and middle western states facing devastating electric storms with wreck and rain, while eastern and southern regions swelter and suffer sunstroke. It cites incidents near Dun cannon with ponds boiling fish and improvised dangers from overheated water and hot surfaces.
Vessels plow South Western Alaska waters and strike uncharted rocks causing large hull breaches and disqualification. The Manning wreck in Prince William Sound highlights the need for thorough charts. Survey efforts drag on, while copper prospects near Seward spur outside investment and district samples. Delegates race in Fairbanks as the Tanana Valley railroad expands toward Richardson.
An electric storm hit 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 named Henry Dennis, a Gloucester mackerel boat, has a varied career. It sailed around the horn in 1888, later wrecked off the Japanese coast after a tidal wave, then rebuilt by Japanese crews as a sealer. Capt. Moore of the Dora recalled a familiar figure aboard Kiowo at Unalaska, prompting inquiry into the vessel’s name change.
The article recounts historic gold nugget discoveries in New South Wales Australia including the enormous 148000 dollar nugget at Hill End and the Welcome Stranger weighing 2268 ounces worth 47070 dollars. It notes the finders Besyri Halman Decon and Oates as unlikely gainers. The stories highlight poverty before fortune and chance surrounding these epic finds.
The good ship Dora arrived from Nushavak and intermediate points Thursday afternoon, loaded to capacity with passengers. She will sail back on Monday afternoon. Deputy Marshal Bates arrived aboard with several prisoners bound for Valdez on the first steamer. One is a Chinaman who fired at a compatriot and missed, another a Japanese man. 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 migratory children at Unalaska retires from missionary field to resume medical practice. His wife assisted in labors of the home for the homeless and the institution is praised as a model for its charit.
Warriner E. Smith, surveyor in charge of preliminary work for the Alaska Short Line railroad from Tiamna to the interior, nearly died from ptomnaine poisoning. The Dora reports he is now out of danger. J. F. McLean, a noted young lawyer, arrived in Seward on the Saratoga with a commission as United States commissioner at Uiamaa and plans to proceed west on the Dor.
Inbound and outbound steamers report ports of call and sailings. Seward Steamer Dor arrived in Valdez from Seattle at noon. Portland sails to Seldovia and Kodiak via Berthels from Seattle on the 4th. Santa Clara departs Seattle on the 26th. Jeanie sailed for Seattle on the 17th. Saratoga headed to Seattle on the 20th and Isie to sound ports on the 18th.
A Bank of Seward policy statement notes its aim to advance customers business interests in every legitimate way, acknowledging motives may include selfishness as patron prosperity drives bank success.
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