Portland 10 Put On Boats and Alaska Steamship Plan
Portland Dec 1 The Muska Steamship Company, capital $1,000,000, prepares to run to Seward and Nome with one steamer per route starting next day. Organized by Portland Board of Trade, early opposition from local merchants softened as stockholders include major firms. Congresswoman Jenkins introduces a bill for a fourth Alaska judicial district, splitting the Third District by an east west line and creating fifty Alaska judges under attorney general assignment, backed by the president.
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Alaska Steamship
Alaska
Seward
Jenkins
House
San
Portland
Po Muska Steamship Company
Lyar Canal
Nome
Portland Board of ‘Trade
Chamber of Commerce
Cale
Daily Gateway
Washington, D. C
Jeckins
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
Gateway
San Francisco
Cali
Dr. Coe
Rutherford
Early Gold Mining on Kenai Peninsula
A survey by Fred H. Moffit of the federal geological service outlines Alaska's early mining history on the Kenai Peninsula. Doroshin’s 1848 1850 expeditions yielded only scant gold from streams feeding Lake Skiluk, hindered by rivers, supply transport, and fires. Later near Hope, King found gold around 1888 on Resurrection Creek, with Bear Creek also yielding local activity, while Russians previously exploited some streams.
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Kenai Peninsula
Turnagain Arm
Fred H. Moffit
Federal Geological Survey
Alaska
P.P. Doroshin
St. Petersburg
Baranof Island
Cook Inlet
Gord
Turnagain
Hope
King
Res Ncreek
Hopeles Miller
Bear Creek
George Beady
FP. R. Walcott
Riley
Doroshin
Kenai River
General strike up to Harriman on Southern Pacific dispute
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen served a second notice on E. Harriman demanding settlement of the Southern Pacific dispute. Harriman replied that he run his own business and will not permit interference, warning that a general strike could spread to all Harriman controlled railways.
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Harriman
Peoria
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Southern Pacific
Omaha
Neb
Regulate the whalers urged by Treasury secretary Shaw
Treasury Secretary Shaw pushes stronger navigation laws to curb outrages by whaling masters against crews and to close loopholes in penalties. He backs Capt Hamlet’s proposals after his Bering Sea cruise on the Thetis to study conditions and suggests targeting offenses under the navigation laws. The article also notes the steamship Saratoga’s voyage from Seattle to Valdez and Seward with freight, plus a California gold record of 2340 ounces.
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Washington, D. C
Secreary Shaw
Treasury Department
Seongly
Bering Sea
Capt
Hamlet
Coal Shortage Is Artificial Report From Lane
Washington January 3 Franklin K Lane interstate commerce commissioner told President Roosevelt the coal shortage in the Dakotas and Minnesota is caused by an illegal combine of transportation companies He urged a special message to Congress on the matter and recommended a law to create a car clearinghouse for faster freight car movement and a reciprocal demurrage law.
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Daily Gateway
Washington, D. C
Franklin K. Lane
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Roosevelt
Dakotas
Minnesota
Congress
Lane
Annual Postal Figures Show Big Gain for 1906
The local post office reports a strong jump in 1906 over 1905 with stamp sales of 2 076 42 dollars and 1 364 registers received and 1 708 registers sent. Money orders issued in seven months total 1 γ 68, and the overall money order activity reaches 80 675 01 dollars with 20 181 92 dollars paid and repaid. New rich strikes on Cleary creek in the Tanana are described as among the richest ever found.
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Cleary Creek
Tanana
Train Crash Near Washington Kills Forty, Wounds Seventy
A Baltimore and Ohio railroad collision near Washington yesterday evening killed forty people and injured seventy as two long trains ran at high speed. Mangled victims lay along the track for about half a mile amid wrecked cars and sprawling debris.
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Washington, D. C
Dee
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Prospect of Quartz Development Near Chulitna Headwaters
Proposals to develop quartz on the Chulitna headwaters near the Susitna, with Oderkirk and John Sample powering an assay program. An assay yielded 57 dollars in gold from ore sent north last spring. Region described as rich in gold quartz along with copper, iron and coal, with prospectors frequenting the area as near daily departures toward Kuskokwim and Granite Creek.
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John Sample
Oderkirk
Chulitna
Susitna
Harry Ellsworth
Sample
China Tries 10 Revive Boycott In Shanghai Canton
Shanghai and Canton see renewed boycott of American goods after U S Congress fails to modify Chinese exclusion law. Japanese influence spreads the drive to cut U S trade and align China politically against America. Merchants in Canton move to renew the boycott as Hong Kong reports early January actions.
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Shanghai
American Congress
China
United States
Canton
Japan
Hong Kong
Famine Threaten Four Million as Relief Lags
A vast famine district faces 4,000,000 people near starvation with minimal food. Government aid is weak and foreign relief slow, risking mass deaths before systematic help arrives. Freight to Seward in 1906 totaled 14,548 tons including local goods and railroad materials, with eighty four vessels reaching the docks. Alaska gold output for 1906 is pegged at 1,742,017.
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Vekin
Van
Seward
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Francisco
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Pepe Ieeeeres
Yucatan
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Puget Sound
Northwestern Steamship Company
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Chicago
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Hoggart
West
Copper River
Committee On Public Lands
Albany
Hugues
McClellan-Hearstn Oof
New York City
Supreme Court of
Gov. Hughes
S. 14
Atorney
Jackson
Hearst
McCellan
Hearst Promply
McClellan
Washington, D.C
Attorney-General’s Department
San Francis
Fede
Pat
Shaw
Saratoga
Seattle
Port
Valdez
Saratoga Sted
California
Baltimore & Ohio
Washington
R. Oderkirk
Treadwell To
Juneau
Treadwell
Kuskokwim
W. E. Geiger
Quickstep
Geiger
Alfred Lowell
Knik
Susitna and
Tyonok
Anton Eide
Jens Mene
France
Kodiak
Empire
Percy G. Charles
Alaska-Pacific Express Company
Fairbanks
Tananay
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