Mayor Schmitz Granted New Trial In Extortion Case
Supreme Court reverses lower court decision in Mayor Schmitz extortion conviction. Five year sentence set aside as bail efforts begin to secure release.
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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
7
Supreme Court reverses lower court decision in Mayor Schmitz extortion conviction. Five year sentence set aside as bail efforts begin to secure release.
The Reynolds-Alaska-Development Company will hold a January 18 meeting to accept the resignation of Henry D. Reynolds while retaining all investments. The report also notes historic coal activity at Port Graham and local newspaper struggles in Katalla.
The Northwestern Fisheries Company packed red salmon at Chignik about 4,000 cases and at Uyak about 60,000. The Alaska Packers Association reported about 74,000 cases at Chignik and over 200,000 at Karluk.
Report from the Denver News describes eastern Canadian millionaires organizing a corporation to drive the Guggenheims from their lucrative dredging venture in the Yukon Klondike. Writers forecast a peak struggle unseen since ten years ago as operations begin. Eskers of wealth and power loom over the Golconda gold fields.
Abe Ruef, former San Francisco political boss, demands full immunity or refuses to testify in bribe graft cases. Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney has not yet granted immunity and Ruef must decide today.
A cable dispatch from Washington reports President Roosevelt denouncing Rear Admiral Brownson chief of the bureau of navigation as unseemly after a dispute among department heads. The item notes a separate regional wireless telegraph project by high schools and a mining strike at Inter Bay with assays of gold and silver.
The advertisement promotes Profit and Loss Magazine as independent and helpful for mining stock investors. It invites readers to request a free sample by mail, promises no stock sales, and notes clubbing offers and premiums. Address provided: 1715 California St Denver Colo.
The Nome Copper Mountain Copper Co. shipped high grade ore from the Dome Creek area in October. They plan to erect reducing works on the ground to process the ore locally.
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