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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1905
Page
7
Cable report states Alaska Yukon exposition directors vote to push the fair to 1909 due to date clashes with Jamestown Virginia event marking the 300th anniversary of America's first permanent white settlement. Corporate aims include showcasing northern region products and cattle, with capitalization at 300000.
Mrs Anna Blumerlen sought to eject tenant J D Sheldon from a house two months after leasing it to him. She entered in his absence and tried to remove belongings, but Sheldon and W W Wilson intervened and kept possession. Legal steps discussed with Jude Hildreth. Sheldon plans to move and may place a mechanic’s lien for improvements. Both sides now keeping the peace.
Special Officer J. C. Graves supervised William Dougherty, committed to the Sie Jem asylum in Oregon, with Deputy U. S. Marshal R. S. Bates aiding on the same boat Valencia from San Francisco. John McPherson, a bridge carpenter at mile 45, was struck by a falling timber Thursday morning, knocked off the bridge, suffering head contusions and a knee injury, and was taken to the city hospital.
James Ickes and Bob Shafer were badly hurt when a blast at Solomon Gulch near V Doz misfired. Ickes dug for the faulty device and the blast finally went off injuring him and sending rock fragments into his eyes. Meanwhile, Portland steamer updates include arrival at Port Liseum, with further movement toward Seward and Seattle plans. Two workers on Rich & Harris tunnel at mile 52 were hurt, one with a hip dislocation. The Fifth Avenue sidewalk improvements delight local kids as cold weather ends their coast. Mrs. H. Stull traveled to Valdez aboard the Berths and plans to proceed to Seattle.
After six days of westward storms the steamer Bertha returned to Seward and sailed south again three hours later. Weather pushed her to Kodiak then back to Seldovia, with a blocked inlet and blinding snowstorms delaying operations. Passengers included mining men from the Inlet and Alaska Commercial Company agent AL Goss with Mrs. Goss.
Despite near zero temperatures Collier continues building with site activity centered on Fourth Avenue. Starsholt and Finstad rush renovations to turn the Northern restaurant into a new bay area dining and lodging space near Brownell’s store. Nelson Brothers near completion on a house adjacent to the restaurant site. Sheffer cottages nearing finish with another underway. Dr. A M McMasters to relocate to Seward joining Alaska mining and medicine practice. BE Whittemore’s bowling alley nearly done. The Oregon sailed from Seattle carrying 186 tons of steel rails for Alaska Central and 110 laborers.
Floyd Huddle, a Fox & Huddle station contractor, died when dynamite thawing in a tent on mile 47 of the railroad exploded. D Norlin, entering the tent, was badly wounded with three head wounds and remains unconscious. Huddle had been thawing No 2 dynamite and was finishing up when the blast occurred. Norlin had just entered the tent to assist. The accident involved about a half dozen workers under Huddle. An inquest is unlikely. railroad officials will file a formal report. Huddle was buried Thursday near the death site, his home in Meadville Nebraska.
John Johanson a teamster sustained a fracture of his eighth left rib after a runaway wagon loaded with lumber rolled down Fourth Avenue. He held the team until a wheel hit a rock, the load slid, then the team dashed along Adams Street. Johanson leaped free below the railroad building and landed badly. The team stopped near the cable office.
The Moose and Coleman cafes in Seward swapped ownership last Wednesday. Mrs. Walton left the Moose for Walter DeLong, who arrived from Oregon and has worked night shifts since late hours began. Coleman’s hotel cafe moved to S. A. Sutherland, the longtime chef, while Coleman becomes a boarder.
Senator Mitchell remains critically ill after a severe hemorrhage following the extraction of four teeth. He bled for four hours and has been weakening steadily since his last summer trial and subsequent issues with accepting fees for major government services.
Orris root, the base of perfumed powders, could yield large profits if grown in the United States. Federal support notes the plant adapts west of Maine to south of Lake Superior, with strong drought tolerance and year round greenery. Imported Italian roots supply a multi million dollar market, but US cultivation promises domestic supply and duty protections.
The text describes perfume powders largely made from orris root with lasting fragrance and a yellowish white color, notes a bitter taste in some tooth powders, and aging fragrance development. It recounts mice and rats gnawing elephant and rhinoceros hides, a Scotch terrier killing many rats to protect a rhinoceros, and Puyallup Washington widening the river channel. It ends with the U S circuit court of appeals ruling a six member jury in an Alaska criminal case as unconstitutional.
Alaska Central Railway Co invites All Alaskans headed to Seattle on business or for other purposes to have mail sent to themselves in care of the Industrial Bureau at Lumber Exchange Building Seattle Washington and treat the Bureau as their headquarters while in the city. Several ships and sailings are listed with routes from Seward Valdez Sitka Seattle and other ports. The text notes heavy man in Maine and a casual line about weighing on hay scales.
Alfred Lowell ward offers to sell his squatter's claim on Fox Island ten miles from Seward. The property includes 423 foxes with skins valued at about 20 dollars each, total skin value far above the asked 2500 dollars. Lowell plans to prospect on the Susitna for a year and lists his Seattle address for inquiries.
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