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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1905
Page
3
Cable reports Seattle directors of the Alaska Yukon exposition vote to delay the fair to 1909 due to date conflicts with Jamestown Virginia exposition planned for 1907. The Alaska Yukon fair aims to exhibit northern region products and will be corporated with capital stock of 300000.
Mrs Anna Blumerlen attempted to eject tenant J D Sheldon from a house he leased two months earlier. Sheldon and W W Wilson confronted Blumerlen, restoring possessions inside. Both sides currently keeping the peace. Sheldon plans move and may file a mechanic's lien for improvements.
Special Officer J C Graves and Deputy Marshal R S Bates guard William Dougherty, recently committed to the Sie Jem asylum after deranging over an imaginary mining strike. The Valencia passenger, a railroad laborer from San Francisco, is under observation. Also, John McPherson, a bridge carpenter on mile 45, was struck by a falling timber Thursday morning and fell fifteen feet, sustaining head contusions and a knee injury. he is in the city hospital awaiting recovery.
James Ickes and Bob Shafer were badly injured when a blast in Solomon Gulch near Seward exploded after a misfire. Ickes sustained rock fragments in his eyes, while Shafer suffered serious injuries.
After six days of westerly storms the steamer Bertha returned to Seward, sailed south again three hours later, and faced heavy weather as it attempted to enter Cook Inlet. It was driven back by blinding snow and a rough sea near Seldovia, with engines halted to avoid damage, before finally waiting out the storm in Seldovia. Passengers included O Hi Steeper, We Davies, Mrs Fred Smith, AL Goss, and Moss of Kodiak, bound for Seattle.
Even with near zero temperatures, activity lines Fourth Avenue as Starsholt and Finstad push a new restaurant near Vsstore, while Nelson Brothers rapid work on a nearby house continues. Two Sheffer cottages finish, others rise toward the hill as Dr. A M McMasters relocates his practice to Seward. be Whittemore’s bowling alley nears completion and the Oregon sails with 186 tons of steel rails for Alaska Central and 110 laborers.
A railroad station contractor, Floyd Huddle, was killed when dynamite thawing in a tent at mile 47 exploded. D Norlin, entering the tent, suffered three serious head wounds but remained conscious enough to speak later. Huddle’s body was buried Thursday near the accident site. the matter may prompt an inquest, with railroad officials filing a formal report.
John Johanson II, a teamster, suffered an eighth rib fracture after a runaway while driving a lumber load down Fourth avenue. He remained in hospital as Dr. Burns notes possible complications if the rib penetrates the lung. The incident began when a wheel hit a rock causing the load to slide, the team ran wild along Adams street and finally halted near the cable office after the wagon avoided wrecking on stumps.
The Moose and Coleman cafes in Seward swapped owners last Wednesday. Mrs. Walton left the Moose, replaced by Walter DeLong of Oregon origin, who has run night shifts since late hours began. Coleman’s hotel cafe passed from H XN Coleman to S A Sutherland, the longtime chef, with Coleman becoming a merely ordinary boarder. Also notes an injury at a wood camp and a weathered ice-filled Lowell creek, plus the steamer Santa Clara's expected Sitka to Seward voyage and a Manchuria product note.
Senator Mitchell lies dangerously ill in Portland after a severe hemorrhage following four teeth extractions. He has bled for hours and his condition has worsened since a summer health decline. The report notes prior issues with his service and payments to a major department.
Orris root, the base for perfumed powders, has long been imported from Florence Italy but USDA advocates domestic cultivation. Orris supports profits, with plants growing across climates west of Maine and south of the Great Lakes. Shipments to the United States already total millions of dollars, and demand rises as more growers adopt orris farming.
The article notes powders made from orris root with lasting fragrance and a yellowish white color, plus a tale of mice and rats gnawing rhinoceros hides. It describes a Scotch terrier killing twenty seven rats in a rhinoceros cage, leaving no rats after a few days. It also mentions Puyallup Washington plans to straighten the river channel and a U S circuit court ruling on six jurors in an Alaska criminal case.
Seattle based notices list ships Seward bound including Santa Chura Ith, Sitka to Seward 7th, and Bartha from Seward on the 2nd. A Maine football line jab about the heaviest man appears nonsensical. Alaskans traveling to Seattle urged to use the Industrial Bureau of Alaska Central Railway for mail and lodging, Lumber Exchange Building Seattle.
Ten miles from Seward Fox Island two miles long one mile wide Savill offers to sell his squatter's claim and 423 foxes skins worth about 20 dollars each for 2500 dollars less than a third of their value, as he plans to prospect near Susitna for a year Alfred Lowell ward Third avenue S For sale best offer takes several Seward lots and block numbers listed. owner 948 22nd Ave Seattle Wash Take a bath at Gould and Conners
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