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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1906
Page
6
Fragmentary notice reports a August 2 1908 event involving Seward Alaska and a Congress meeting with references to Atworth Bulktise and Duluth Minnesota. Chas I Aske is noted as author of a keeta sent.
The article argues Congress should fund more lighthouses and life saving stations along perilous straits and coastlines. It urges recharting channels and better marks after shipwrecks like the Valencia and Clallam, warning that increased shipping demands urgent protection of life and property at sea.
Senator Tillman warns that the remote Yentna district will reject unprepared newcomers who rush into the Yukon with no provisions. The article describes hunger, harsh camps, and the unwritten code that treats freeloaders as targets for immediate expulsion. Miners with months of supplies and experience resist free lunch and defend a harsh frontier where only self-sufficient, seasoned prospectors survive.
Seattle seeks to secure Alaska trade by placing a steamship on a regular Seattle to Alaska run, claiming dominance over regional commerce. Tacoma is criticized for payroll ties and delays in competing, while Seattle's Alaska-connected rivals and dissidents fear loss of influence as Seattle expands its enterprise.
A countrywide press debate swirls around Jacob H. Schiff and his warning of a financial panic unless banks are allowed to print all the money they deem fit. Critics accuse him of banker self interest while Valencia wreck rescuers face bleak sea conditions and the public ponders who is to blame for the perilous effort.
The Seattle Municipal Ownership party and labor unions jointly nominate Ex Judge Moore for mayor. They anticipate Democrats may back Moore as well, and if the remaining Democratic faction in Seattle aligns with the opposition, the coalition could pose a serious challenge to the Republican organization.
A garbled pickup notes groundhog Day in Seward with jokes about shadows and stars. It hints at Alaska political timing, a Hearst service story in Seattle Times about a political arc wheel, and mentions copper river rail and a moon stock scheme condemned as libel.
Testimony from wit nesses described rescue boat crews as believing their missions were only for viewing the show. A man named Wustof was struck and killed by a railroad train near Seattle. The text also mentions John Rockefeller and a comment about poverty, with incomplete and garbled phrases about money and trimming hills in Seattle.
An interview in a Paris paper envisions life on Mars as advanced and agreeable, arguing Martians may outpace humans as science grows. The piece contrasts Mars weather certainty with Earth’s unpredictability and notes Alaska’s vast untapped resources awaiting railways and roads. Also mentions Leslie L E a deputy customs official and several Juneau travelers arriving in Seward aboard the Excelsior.
SEWARD STEAMERS Bertha sailed from Seattle on the 25th Santa Clara and Santa Ana left Seattle on the 1st and 6th respectively Farallon and Oregon departed Seward on the 28th and 1st Excelsior followed from Seward on the 2nd amid a list of vessel departures with routes between Seattle and Seward.
Washington reports the federal board, including Metcalf Murray Smith and Uhler, is tasked to probe the Valencia disaster. Seattle responders demand government experts, and survivors accuse rescuers of cowardice and self preservation while lives were lost.
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