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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1906
Page
4
A week’s news from Washington reports a bill to regulate Alaska salmon fisheries moving to the House. Other items include Moody's cabinet departure, Roosevelts eight hour law push, a King David wreck, Alaska rail survey prompts, and local crime notes across the West.
Victoria British Columbia reports that Lionel Terry, former Nanaimo labor leader, was given life imprisonment after a New Zealand death sentence was overturned on insanity grounds. Terry, an Oxford graduate and socialist, killed a Chinaman in Wellington claiming British law protected such actions. Secretary Metcalf urges extending Alaska salmon hatchery work due to projected hatch totals around 110 million next year being insufficient.
Alaska agriculture highlights scattered stations at Sitka Kenai Copper Center and Rampart testing nursery stock grasses and dairy work. Dairying appears promising due to abundant coastal grasses with Finnish colony on Kenai planning settlements. Officials McIntyre Dickey McGuire Parnell Snyder traveled from Skagway on the Farallon to locate in Seward.
Farallon sails westward on the 25th with return due on the 28th. Excelsior leaves Seattle on the 16th and Sitka on the 23rd. Oregon departs Seattle on the 22nd. Bertha sails from Seattle on the 25th. Santa Clara, destined for Seattle, lat.
Reports from Seattle detail the Valencia wreck off the Pacific coast with 33 survivors found after a fierce gale. The City of Topeka arrives with more counts as Captain Johnson went down with his ship and rescuers battled to save passengers amid raging seas and burning debris. The Valencia, an aging fast liner, previously ferried laborers from San Francisco to Alaska and Nome, with the Shamrock securing several others.
Petersburg reports brief trials on mutiny charges ending in rapid execution in three squads. Descriptions say laborers on government projects were shot as their companions watched. Reports also note brutal conditions in government works and widespread abuse of girls, with Red Sunday commemorations and mounting Baltic unrest as troops move to Riga Mitau and Lithuania.
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