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Newspaper

Seward Weekly Gateway

Location

Seward, Alaska, United States of America

Date

Jan 25, 1908

Page

7

Reynolds plan to be boosted and prosecuted to the limit

The article reports that the Alaska Home Railway projects started last fall at Valdez will be financed and executed by local and eastern parties. It also notes graft cases in San Francisco involving Mayor Schmitz and Abe Ruef will be pressed to the limit.

Seattle Harry D. Reynolds Valdez Alaska Home Railway Daily Gateway An Francisco Schmitz Abe Ruef New York

Roller Defeats Burns in Pro Wrestling Match

In Seattle a wrestling bout drew about 5000 spectators as Dr. Roller defeated Farmer Burns in a two fall match. Roller won the first fall after fifty five minutes, Burns took the second in twenty minutes.

Daily Gateway Seattle Dr. Roller Farmer Burns Burns Roller

Copper River & Northwestern Railway Contract in Alaska

The Guggenheim interests plan about 25 million dollars in expenditures for the Copper River & Northwestern Railway in Alaska. Builder M. J. Heney of Seattle, who built the White Pass & Yukon Railway, will oversee construction. The Victoria Colonist calls it the largest contract tied to Alaska development.

Guggenheim Copper River & Northwestern Railway Alaska M. J. Heney Seattle White Pass & Yukon Victoria

Post Cards and Stamp Rates in Dead Letter Mail

Post cards printed with post card text fill stores with leather wood and aluminum items. They must be paper to travel via postal sites. Nonpaper cards incur merchandise rates of one cent per ounce, and two cents if written. This category appears in daily dead letter mail.

Mail Arrives From Hope N O Anderson

Mail carrier Hope N O Anderson reports light delivery on his noon trip amid five feet of loose snow on the trail.

N.O. Anderson Hope

Amendment targets officials over crop data before report

Washington reports an amendment to the criminal code making it a penal offense for government officials to release crop statistics before the published report. The Daily Gateway notes other items: Tawney urges restraint on appropriations, Powers murder trial set for July 6, bail denied as Powers offers to post any required amount.

Y Cable Daily Gateway Washington, D. C Washington, D James A. Tawney Minnesota House Committee On Appropriations Eb Powers Goebel Kentucky Powers

Washington rumors link Pacific fleet to US China trade deal

Unofficial talk in Washington suggests the fleet moves aim to secure US control of China trade after US indemnity cancellation to China for the Boxer war. China may shift trade away from Japan toward the United States, provoking Japanese tensions and an English goods boycott spreading to Japan.

Washington Pacific United States China Japan

Going Back to Work National Cash Register resumes Dayton factory operations

The Dayton Ohio plant of the National Cash Register Company has resumed operations and three thousand men have returned to work. In St Louis fifty thousand workers in multiple plants have also returned after layoffs during the panic.

National Cash Register Company Dayton Ohio St. Louis

Changes in Dora's Crew on the Dora Steamer

The Gateway credits Acting Postmaster Thwaites for the Dora items. The Dora's crew changed little on the Seattle trip. two familiar faces were absent on return to Seward. Purrser W. E. Springston is replaced by Manshreck. Clif Morris returns as second officer. Harry A. Nethery fills a two month post as substitute clerk.

Thwaites Dora Seattle Seward W. E. Springston Manshreck Clif Morris Clif Harry A. Nethery

Humorous Exchange Over Husband Quitting Cigars

A brief dialogue shows a wife claiming she persuaded her husband to quit cigars, while he skeptically replies that in seven years she has never seen him abandon one.

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Reynolds Roller Beats Tawney Stein - Bloch Clayson Stein Bloch Kirschbaum Owl Drug Co THE Wilson & White Co Chas Perry Mgr Knik Trading Company G. Herning Northern Saloon E. L. Whittemore Fourth Avenue Seward, Alaska Booth & GO Hope and Girdwood Booth & Co Eleedon Old Line Hunter Rye Nelson Co Olympia Girdwood Vu. R. Booth Ww. P. Henry Latouche Reynolds - Alaska Development Company Prince William Sound Knight’s Island Sound Points Latouche Isl
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