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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1907
Page
7
The fragment notes a coming bonanza camps in the territory with control over trade from a rich mining district. It highlights railroads making the area highly accessible and capable of mining in quantity to supply substantial output.
The House committee on merchant marine and fisheries opens a probe into Prof Elliott's charges that the North American Commercial Company leases Pribilof sealing privileges, engages in pelagic sealing, and violates its lease terms. Elliott accuses Senator Elkins of stockholding and protection, stifling inquiry into alleged unlawful seal island actions.
Providence Jan 17 The first joint ballot for Rhode Island senatorship ends in a deadlock with candidates R H S Goddard Samuel Colt and Senator George P Wetmore. Goddard favored by Democrats. Colt backed by the Republican machine. Wetmore likely to shift support to Goddard if he cannot win as revenge for being turned down by Aldrich machine.
Captain E W Newth Arctic whaling master pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of seduction of an Eskimo girl in Bering Sea. Judge Hanford sentenced him to one day in jail and a $2500 fine plus costs. Newth paid the fine and served a day in jail before release. Costs totaled about $1500 in the prosecution.
The Ohio and Mississippi rivers overflow their banks across the region as thaw continues. Lowlands flood and towns face inundation with Ironton 100 families driven from homes, Portsmouth 1000 refugees housed in schools, and Newport 300 homeless families reported amid widespread flood conditions.
T P Murdock, who left Knik five weeks ago on a hunting trip, is missing and believed drowned or frozen to death after his blankets were found on Eagle river near Knik arm. In 1905 he narrowly escaped drowning on the Matanuska river when a raft capsized, with a companion named Smith drowned.
A resident of the Knik area, described as an old Indian who had lived nearby for years, was found frozen to death a few miles from Knik. A nearby fire setup shows wet matches and an abandoned camp effort, with the man seated under a tree in a resting pose.
James M. Moore's Girdwood lodginghouse burned recently, likely from an overheated stove igniting woodwork. A nearby building was torn down to stop spread. Tenants lost nearly everything. Mrs. Watson's losses run about $1500.
The annual report notes sea son catch valued at 29,479,562 dollars nearly equaling Dominion gold and coal output that year and topping the 1905 high by over 4 million. Salmon in British Columbia drives growth with about five million more than prior year, lobster adds about 4 million, cod falls by 250 thousand. Over 16 million dollars in fish were exported abroad, mainly to the United States, with 98,908 people employed in the industry.
Rev. J. F. Baker, formerly with the Seward Baptist mission, is now in Garfield a new smelter town fourteen miles from Salt Lake City. The settlement has eighty houses six hotels and about 200 men employed in the hotels with a population around fifty families. Services are held in a tent and a reading room and club building is planned.
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