Valencia Sinks After Striking Coast Rock Near Victoria
Steamship Valencia hit a rock ten miles from Victoria on Monday midnight and sank hours later. Sixty to sixty five crew and passengers are missing or believed lost, with fifteen survivors taken from a life raft. Rescue attempts were hindered by heavy seas and fog as tugs and ships stood by.
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Gily
Topeka
Valencia
Vancouver Island
Victoria
Pacific Coast
Gateway
Port Angeles
Wash
Dan
Midnigh
Fearch
John Johnson
Cook
C. L. Allison
St. Paul
Minn
W Dorothy
John Waiter
A. G. Willis
G. Primer
W. D. Harraden
M. Turpley
W. Raymond
W. D. Johnson
J. C. Ayals
Fleepme
Franklin
Joseph McCaffrey
A. Hawkins
P. Peterson
J. Hoddenot
J. O'Brien
Kenpont
Bantheta
Ver Island
San
Valencia & Up
Allon de
Vassengi
Cape Beale
I. D. McCarty
Charles Brown
Thomas Shields
John R. Monk
W. Goslin
B. C
Katouche
Victorian
Toel Cann
Yester
Steamship Queen
Alaska politics and gold discoveries prompt resign, rail push
Washington and Seattle dispatches chronicle Gov. Brady of Alaska urged to resign amid Churchill report questions. Possible successor W T Perkins backed by Northwestern Steamship Co. and Alaska appointments loom. Reports from Valdez describe 150 ounces of gold dust from Valdez creek near Shushetna, with Alaska Central Railway plans tying Seward to future mines and a potential river route to Shushetna.
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Daily Gateway
Washington, D. C
Gov
Brady
Alaska
D. A. Jarvis
District of Alaska
Northwestern Steamship Company
Innee
Perkins
Hogart
Jarv
M.johansen
Nelson
Minnesota
Washington
D.C
Dan
Gov. Brady
Churchill
Interior Department
W. T. Perkins
Batty Gateway
Valdez
Peter Monahan
Copper Center
Valdez Creek
Shushetna River
Misks Uhe summit progress and winter rail work update
The report details track progress toward a summit 45.79 miles from the dock end with the terminus set for winter. By February 1 a transfer station will move, tunnels are bored, and rock cuts continue under cold weather while construction speeds up in six tunnels and a new air compressor arrives to aid High & Harris contracts.
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Mondsing
Turnaygain Arm
Hieh & Harris
Seattle
New Man May Head Reindeer In Alaska
President Roosevelt weighs asking Rev. Sheldon Jackson to resign as superintendent of Alaska reindeer stations amid graft and incompetence complaints. Secretary Hitchcock aims to purge mismanagement after Agent Churchill's report. Yukon operators reportedly used the aurora to communicate along a north south telegraph line.
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Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Sheldon Jackson
Alaska
Interior Department
Portland Seeks Line to Seward Harbor Trade
At a meeting of wholesale merchants in Portland, 9 Harriton line agent and John Jaine of the Alaska Railway Company discussed establishing a steamer line from Portland to Seward. Manager Schwerin and Maj. Ballain will confer with Pacific interests. Portland merchants show lively interest in Alaska trade prospects.
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Aable
Gateway
Seattle
John BE. Ballaine
San Francisco
California City
Seward
Ballaine
Prent Frost
Alaska Central Railway Company
Washington
Alaska
Portland
Harriton Line
John Jaine
Ala C Railway Company
Schwerin
Pacific Cisco
Ballain
Fire clay found on Resurrection River near Seward
Fire clay of good quality located on Resurrection river about fourteen miles from Seward by G M Kerns and R F Groom. Clay in a valley near enclosing hills shows potential for building brick and possibly queensware. Small test bricks were unusually hard and smooth with no cracks, suggesting a new building material source for Seward if widespread.
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Resurrection River
Seward
G. M. Kerns
R. F. Groom
Kerns and Groom
Kerns
Nedwand
Ricr
Rich Copper Finds Reported Along Interior Creek
McKinnon, a Seward figure, reports locating copper deposits last fall about fifty miles north of Kashwhitney. Some specimens are nearly pure copper and others require little assay. He expects gold discoveries in the same region lower on the creeks. Eidson and Dobson of the Louvre partner with McKinnon to develop the property next season.
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Valdez Creek
Shushetna
al White
Valdez
Shushetna Station
Rive
W. G. Atwood
Iss Nt
Alaska Central
Railr
Seward
Shushetma
W.G. Jack
Crow Creek
Alaska Central Railroad
Tanana
Talkeetna
McKinnon
Kashwhitney
Messrs
Eidson & Dobson
The
Louvre
Ben Downing, Alaska mail carrier, dies in San Francisco
Ben Downing, famed Alaska mail carrier, died January 11 in San Francisco from blood poisoning linked to feet freezing years earlier. He went to the Yukon in 1894, carried mail and freight, helped run stage routes, and, starting from poverty, built a fortune over 200000 through grit. A Northern acquaintance recalls he made many friends in ten years of work. Meanwhile John D. Rockefeller’s 1905 income is estimated at about 40 million dollars.
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Ben Downing
Alaska
San Francisco
Downing
Yukon
Hydraulic plant to work King river claims launched north of Latouche
H Anderson lands a hydraulic mining plant twelve miles from King Bay on a tributary named Moneycreek. Forty four claims. Anderson, with partners Abney and Sumrall, plans to move equipment from Latouche to King Bay by small boats ahead of spring break up. The Alaska venture, begun last year, aims to develop hydraulic operations with a California miner at the helm.
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King River
King Bay
Latouche
Farallon
H. Anderson
Moneycreek
Samme
Anderson
R. R. Abney
J. W. Sumral
Abney and
Sumall
Bootha
Alaska
North
Messrs
Sumrall
Abney
Laurel
Mississippi
Raffle Off $200 Fox Skin Robe on Single Wheel Turn
A roulette wheel last night awarded Frank Watson a robe made from ten foxskins valued at 200. He entered a raffle with ten chances at 4.50 each, and 38 tickets yielded 171 for H. H. Hicks, the robe’s owner. The wheel had 36 numbers plus single and double zero. luck favored Watson’s number five, which drew the prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Watson
Mr. Watson
Watson
H. H. Hicks
Kamna
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M. H. Anderson
C. Allison
R. Brown
F. L. Banker
W. Cole
J. J. Dusel
Fred Ericson
F.T. Fonda
J. B. Graham
Mat Hl. Harraden
G. D. Harden
H. Hoelsher
A. Loban
W. Loomvaradina
Ith Avenue
J.C. Morie
JF Nelly
G. Nonendacker
Hellingham
Bert Parker
F. Peterson
Don
Peters
W. C. Rosenberg
Wiliam
Ali
Bellingham
Mike Nikko
M. O'Neil
I. Ranthee
Cuma
T. J
Shane
Swanson
M. Smith
James
W. Weiler
C. West
Juneau
B.D. Stewart
EB. Pentill
J.C. Thompson
Hume
Vancouver
G. E . Donald Ross
Howe du
Frisco
Seward Trade
Peter Monafian
Jarvis Ballaine
Wickersham
Jud Rsham
Wicksham
FM. Brown
Fairbanks
James A. Burke
Capital Force 3
Hitchcock
Raulterminus
Dawson
Attin
Joe Anderson
Wom Knik
Matanuska
Dollar Creek
Kahilina
Yentna
Srich
Brotherhood
Sewara
Arcue Browerhood
Interior
John D. Rockefeller
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