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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1908
Page
4
The Jonf Printinc partment of the Daily Gateway offers full printing and job work services with prompt careful attention to mail orders and special handling.
A.C. Carrier, co owner of one eighth of the Skukum Creek placer claim, notifies co owners that $12.50 each must be contributed within ninety days to avoid forfeiture under Section 2324 Revised Statutes. The claim lies on Skukum creek, tributary to Twenty Mile river, in Alaska Territory. First publication January 4, 1908.
A mixed crew of three French men, one German, one Italian, and one American entered an auto race aimed at circumnavigating the globe via Alaska and Siberia. The piece notes coin wear, mint practices, and the vast numbers of pennies, nickels, and other coins in circulation.
The committee selects a definition describing the Seattle Spirit as a unifying force born from city life, environment, and atmosphere. It notes the phrase inspires success for an international exposition and may influence west coast city development including Elliott Bay, population, industry, education, and home surroundings. Purchasing, the army, and wireless stations are cited as plans, with Nome and other Alaska sites planned. Fort Gibbons and Circle City appear as stations.
January gains in bank clearances, estate transfers and building permits outpace December and January 1907. Real estate, hit early by financial trouble, leads the turnaround with county auditor records showing improvement.
A humorous tale explains how the camel was created to please the horse. A Russian commander, Alexis Diatehkolt, follows the Amn battleship fleet around the Horn to study U S Navy operations. The Buffalo Express notes similarities to Jestvensky and Russia's interest in evaluating battleship performance.
In Karluk Alaska on January 18, 1908 Chas Duncker notifies that his wife Martha Alpink Duncker has left his home and that he will not pay any bills contracted by her after this date. Witnesses M Hansen and A Grown sign.
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