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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
8
The Jos Printing Department of the Daily Gateway handles all kinds of printing and job work with prompt care. Mail orders, specialty.
We have founded an institution in which the people can deposit their money with a feeling of the utmost confidence and safety. Bank of Seward.
Paris January 31 The supreme court refused Maude Gonne's petition for an absolute divorce from her husband. The pair married in Ireland and a special act will be required to grant the divorce.
Indianapolis January 20 John Mitchell second vice president of the American Federation of Labor has been granted a six month release from duty and all expenses paid. Mitchell is highly regarded by the miners for his service and leadership.
In San Francisco Abe Attell, America’s featherweight champion, delivered a brutal beating to Frankie Neil. Neil’s seconds threw in the sponge in the thirteenth round as Neil landed few blows. The piece also notes the president’s addition of 78,000 acres to Southern California forest reserves.
A report on Americo Scarlatti's Minerva article arguing that the motto In God We Trust is often read cynically on coins. He cites Latin inscriptions by Charles on a silver ducat and Louis de Bourbon on coins, noting public misreadings and the irony of pious phrases on money.
President Roosevelt presses Pacific coast defenses and holds talks with California Oregon and Washington lawmakers. He cites Puget Sound and Seattle needs as vulnerable with a wide channel and heavy fogs risking a cruiser entering the sound and bombarding Seattle.
Carson, Jan 23 legislature passes measure to police the entire state due to labor troubles and potential disturbances. Governor Sparks signs the bill on Jan 30.
F. E. Youngs of New York and BE Youngs, officials of the Alaska Home Railway Company, arrived in New York City. He recently completed a large transfer of mining stock in the Kenai Mining and Milling Company, a hydraulic project near Kenai Lake on the Kenai peninsula.
Charles Tecklenburg finished and opened a new 80 by 130 foot dock on Latouche Island south of Beatson, beside Phoenix. The 23 foot low tide depth allows large steamers to dock, reducing prior shore-based transfers. Tecklenburg is sole owner and the dock cost 3500 dollars. Previously steamers stayed in the roadstead, with freight and passengers ferried by small boats.
Jan 30 report notes the wife of Felix Pedro, a renowned Alaska pioneer musher, has begun proceedings to obtain a divorce in Tacoma. The piece highlights Pedro’s fame among old sourdoughs and the local connection to the case.
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