Portland 10 Put On Boats Port in Waskey Write Urges Recount
Portland dispatch reports Muska Steamship Company forming with capital of 1,000,000 to run Steamer from Seward to Nome starting soon. Chamber of Commerce initially withheld endorsement. Portland Board of Trade and major stockholders push the venture amid canyon politics. A second item notes Congressman Jenkins introducing a bill for a fourth Alaska judiciary division along east west line with a 50 judge panel. president supports, no opposition seen.
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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
Early Gold Mining on Kenai Peninsula
A historic account by Fred H. Moffit of the U S Geological Survey outlines early Alaska mining efforts on the Kenai Peninsula. Doroshin’s 1848 1850 Russian attempts yielded only small gold quantities, while later finds near Hope and Bear Creek sparked renewed interest though still modest.
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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 threat escalates on Harriman lines
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen served a second notice on E H Harriman warning that failure to settle disputes with striking Southern Pacific engineers and firemen could extend the general strike to all Harriman controlled railroads. Harriman replied from Omaha that he would run his own business and would not permit interference.
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Peoria
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Harriman
Southern Pacific
Omaha
Neb
Treasury seeks tougher navigation laws for whalers
Washington Jan 3 Secre tary Shaw urges changes to navigation laws to curb outrages by whalers against crews and villages. He backs Capt Hamlet recommendations from last summer’s Bering Sea cruising Thetis investigation and proposes higher penalties and coverage for offenses not yet named. Saratoga arrived Seattle port with 67 tons general goods and 207 tons for the railroad including bridge timber and iron. The ship departed Seward for Seattle after brief layover. A California angling record reports a 2340 ounce catch.
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Washington, D. C
Secreary Shaw
Treasury Department
Seongly
Bering Sea
Capt
Hamlet
Saratoga
Port
Seattle
Valdez
Seward
Coal Shortage Is Artificial
Franklin K. Lane, interstate commerce commissioner, reported to President Roosevelt that the coal shortage in the Dakotas and Minnesota is caused by an illegal combine of transportation companies. He urged a special message to Congress and supported a law to create a car clearinghouse for rapid, fair movement of freight cars 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 large gain in 1906
The 1906 local post office business rose strongly from 1905 with figures for stamp sales 2076.42 dollars and registered mail 2710, money orders issued 1,036.43? total money orders issued 80675.01, total paid and repaid 20181.92. New rich strikes on Cleary creek in the Tanana are reported as among the richest finds.
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Cleary Creek
Tanana
Train Collision Kills Forty and Injures Seventy Near Washington
A Baltimore and Ohio railroad crash near Washington DC yesterday evening left forty dead and seventy injured as two long passenger trains collided at high speed. Mangled victims lined the track for half a mile with cars shattered into wreckage.
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Washington, D. C
Dee
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Quartz Prospects Near Chulitna Spark New Prospectors
Proposals to develop quartz on Chulitna headwaters unfold as Oderkirk and John Sample stock up for assaying at their own site. A $57 gold assay from ore last spring backs claims, with reports of copper iron and coal in the region. Prospectors head toward Kuskokwim Granite Creek and Turnagain Arm as Treadwell mine resumes power plans and oil fueled plants near ready. Local temps show 1907 an unusually cool year, with December Seward at 21.2 degrees and highs near 39. A nine hour day for French coal miners is set to shrink to eight and a half in 1908, eight hours by 1910. Steamer Portland returns from the westward with no passengers.
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Alaska
Congress
Frank Hl. Waskey
Hoggart
West
Copper River
Committee On Public Lands
John Sample
Oderkirk
Chulitna
Susitna
Harry Ellsworth
Sample
Alfred Lowell
Knik
Susitna and
Tyonok
Anton Eide
France
China Tries to Revive Boycott Against American Goods
Shanghai and Canton report renewed boycott of American goods after U S Congress failed to modify Chinese exclusion law. Japanese influence speeds spread in major Chinese cities including Shanghai and Canton. Hong Kong dispatch notes merchants in Canton resolved January 1 to renew boycott action.
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Shanghai
American Congress
China
United States
Canton
Japan
Hong Kong
Famine in Four Million District Demands Aid
The report warns four million people face starvation in a famine district with near total food scarcity. Government aid is weak and foreign relief slow, risking thousands perishing before formal aid arrives. Freight to Seward in 1906 totaled 14,548 tons, including 8,224 tons local merchandise and 6,324 tons railroad supplies. Seventeen ships of various kinds docked at Seward that year. Alaska-Pacific Express head Percy G. Charles puts 1906 Tanana gold output at about 1,741,72 dollars.
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Vekin
Van
Seward
Percy G. Charles
Alaska-Pacific Express Company
Fairbanks
Tananay
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Shaw
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