Larchmont Disaster Claims 156 Lives Off Long Island
News reports from Boston and Providence detail the Larchmont collision with a schooner off Long Island. One hundred fifty six dead, many frozen in open boats. only two women saved from the wreck, as survivors recount panic and loss in zero temperatures.
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Daily Gateway
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Mail Sacks Backlog Swamps Seattle Post Office
Snow blockade delays flood Seattle mail as 1000 sacks accumulate in two days. Post office faces worst backlogs in history and may need weeks to clear without extra help. Regained train schedules boost incoming mail and Alaska orders stall due to freight shortage.
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Seattle
Alaska
Mail Backlog Forces Stacking Outside Seattle Post Office
A Seattle post office backlog forces 2000 sacks of undistributed mail to be stacked in the alley behind the building under guard. Clerks work to clear the first class mail, with several days needed to dispose of it. The steamer Dora arrived last Sunday and left in the afternoon for westward ports, with John E. Thwaites back on duty as mail clerk after a three month vacation.
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Dora
John E. Thwaites
Frost
Alaska Central
Watson & Snow
Girdwood
Snow
Chicago
Seward
Alaska
F. H. Stewart
Northwestern
Steamer Saratoga Buoyed by Sixty Passengers for Tanana
Saratoga left Seattle yesterday noon with sixty passengers mainly bound for Tanana and a general cargo. It will sail for Seward again tonight at nine if weather stays favorable. a continued storm could keep her in Valdez overnight after arriving from Seattle.
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Saratoga
Seward
Valdez
Cuts Off All Alaska Bills in This Congress
Washington reports that senate committees will not consider new Alaska legislation due to the Brownsville investigation occupying time. The judiciary bill creating a fourth Alaska judicial division to ease court congestion is unlikely to pass this session.
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Daily Gateway
Washington, D. C
Guggenheim-Morgan
Senate
Burleigh
Alaska
Guggenheim - Morgan Syndicate
House Committee On Territories
Waskey
Hoggatt
Guggenheim
Congress
Brownsville
Soldiers say citizens fired on barracks in Browns ville riot
Negro soldiers from the Twenty-fifth Infantry discharged for participation in Browns ville riot testified before a senate committee that citizens fired volleys over their barracks to force them out and start a broader riot. Citizens shouted racist slurs as the soldiers stayed inside to avoid trouble.
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Washington, D. C
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Texas
Senate Investigating Committee
Great Northern Train Breaks Eight Day Blockade
The first Great Northern passenger train from the east in eight days arrived in Seattle last midnight. The Northern Pacific expects to break the blockade on its line Tuesday. Trains have been tied up to Spokane on both lines since the major snowstorm.
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Coe Wany
Seattle
Great Northern
Ost
Northern Pacific
Spokane
Knight Island Mine Sells For $100000 To Seattle Buyers
Seattle buyers acquire the Dago group copper mines on Knight Island in Prince William Sound Alaska for 100000. Other notes mention tungsten price spikes in Pittsburg market and Alaska winter map race offer from Fairbanks saloon. Signal service plans 24 hour Alaska cable operation starting June 1 to handle main line business.
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Daily Gateway
Seattle
Knight Island
Prince William Sound
Alaska
Butte Papers Strike Over Wage Scale Standoff
Butte and Anaconda publishers halted all publication after a wage scale dispute with the typographical union. Indications point to a prolonged, noncompromising conflict as publishers refuse union dictates and unions demand terms.
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Butte
Anaconda
Bridges Out Along Oregon Railroad After Snow Blockade
Oregon Rail road & Navigation Company cleared its tracks after a long snow blockade and found many bridges damaged along the line. Towns suffer shortages as no freight moved for twenty days.
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Gateway
Portland
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Steamer Spokane Strikes Reef Off Cape Flattery
The Spokane bound for San Francisco struck Duncan reef off Cape Flattery yesterday and sprang a hole in her hull. She reached Seattle this morning leaking. Passengers remained orderly after the collision, though Japanese travelers grew excited and tried to lower boats, quickly restrained by officers. The damage proved not serious and the vessel turned back.
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Spokane
San Francisco
Duncan Reef
Cape Flattery
Powers Agree to Keep Liquor Out of Africa
Senate foreign affairs committee backs an international treaty to suppress liquor traffic in African free states by enforcing a prohibitive tariff on its portation. The January recreation piece by Edwin Lowell of Seward covers a Kenai peninsula moose hunt by Lowell and Elgin Vaughan, urging Alaska hunters to plan for moose in fall. U.S. railway construction rose in 1906 to 6067 miles, below 1887’s 7106 miles. 1886 was 13,000 miles.
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Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs
Hecreation
Kenai Peninsula
Edwin Lowell
Seward
Elgin Vaughan
Resurrection River
Alaska
United States
Daily Gateway
House Committee On Public Lands
Alaska Fisheries Bill Dead in Congress
Washington February 16 Congressmen Humphrey and Perkins failed to advance their Alaska fisheries bills. Opponents from small and independent fishing and canning interests oppose government aid that would aid big corporations in Alaska. Neither measure could be brought to a vote this session even with united support.
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Daily Gateway
Washington, C
Humphrey
Alaska
Perkins
Province May Sue Dominion Over Land Grant Rift
British Columbia's Conservative provincial government threatens to sue the Liberal Dominion government to force agreement on land grant terms for the Grand Trunk railway. The dispute involves railroad terminals at Prince Rupert and centers on Ottawa's response to provincial cabinet demands.
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Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Ottawa
Grand Trunk Railroad
Prince Rupert
Calabrian Storm Crashes Houses Buries Inmates
Heavy storms along the Calabrian coast drove waves into Calonna town crushing houses and burying inmates in the ruins yesterday. Rescue efforts were underway as authorities surveyed the damage and casualties.
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Rome
Calonna
Judge Wickersham to preside in Valdez term
Valdez to host a term of court convening March 4 with Judge Wickersham presiding. Jurors are to report on the first day. The report also mentions a Ruble gravel elevator claimed to combine grading and lifting in placer mining, plus Saskatchewan placer discoveries.
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Gateway
Marshal Wybrant
Valdez
Wickersham
Province
Saskatchewan
Alaska Commercial Company Transfer Marks End of Era
William J eras manager of the Alaska Coast Commercial Company and Charles Fletcher will formalize the transfer of stores and stocks from the Alaska Commercial Company to the new firm. The original Alaska Commercial Company, a California corporation, started after 1867 and held a fur trade monopoly in Alaska, later shifting away from mining and steamer service demand. Uncle Gus Niebaum remains as a surviving incorporator, while Portland and Seattle are noted as early parent towns.
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William J
Alaska Coast Commercial Company
Alaska Commercial Company
Charles Fletcher
Latany
Gealing
Alaska
Fletcher
Gus” Niebaum
San Francisco
California
Portland
Seattle
15-Ton Launch Planned for Susitna River
F C Woolsey of Yentna River launches writes from Bremerton Washington that he will put a new 15 ton launch on the Susitna this summer. The craft will have a 40 horsepower engine and reach 14 knots. Woolsey will continue operating the Bat on the Yentna.
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F.C Woolsey
Yentna
Bremerton
Washington
Susitna
Woolsey
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