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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1907
Page
3
The Haywood trial adjourned to Monday as Haywood and Moyer prepare to testify for the defense. Judge Wood asks for expected jury instructions to minimize summing up time once evidence closes. The defense plans to show miners’ disturbances caused by mine owners agents and Pinkerton detectives.
Charles H. Moyer elected president and William D. Haywood secretary of the Western Federation of Miners this afternoon. A resolution directs payment of their salaries for the year regardless of Boise trial outcomes. C. E. Mahoney of Butte re-elected treasurer. Denver July 2 the federation adopted a preamble to a new constitution pledging support for socialism.
The Sanwa lara reports Fred Stoll is lost near Willow Creek in the upper Kahiltna region after going bear hunting. Miners joined an exhaustive search after he disappeared June 13. Stoll, well known in Seward, left February to go inside with Harry Ellsworth and W. A. McNeily.
Dawson News reports an unprecedented ice jam at Selkirk with George McLachlan noting the jam is the greatest in fifteen years. Indian witnesses corroborate the event as ice high as a cabin piled along both riverbanks after the water fell.
The Bank of Seward offers deposits subject to check and pays interest on time deposits. It issues money orders valid worldwide, buys gold dust or bullion, and makes collections. It guarantees prompt accurate safe service and invites business with conservative banking.
The July 3 fight in San Francisco ends in a swift first round KO as Burns knocks down Squires twice. Burns, confident, expected a longer bout. Squires admits Burns showed superior cleverness. Bill Squires was favored 10 to 8 in bets. Jeffries acts as referee for the July 4 bout.
In San Francisco on July 4 the boxers Squires and Burns are in peak form. They weighed in and entered the ring at 2 o'clock amid a clear hot day. betting odds stood at 10 to 8 favoring Squires.
In San Francisco on July 4, streetcar workers who walked out demand union recognition while stating they did wrong to strike. President Calhoun pledges he will never agree to the walkout.
Three hundred men staked claims the first day at Quartz Creek concession in Klondike. Locators planted posts at midnight and many staked on the same ground with as many as twenty corner posts close together. Miners’ strike in Lanana ends as many return to work and others arrive, resuming operations as water supply allows.
Special to The Daily Gateway from Susitna Station reports Woolsey building a new boat at Tyonek for river use. The Swan launch has made two trips, up the Yentna and Susitna. Frank Churchill is constructing a freight launch at Tyonek due on the river soon. Upper country reports are favorable and several men head toward Skwentna and Kahiltna bars as waters recede. Weather is cooler than last year with no high water yet.
Steamshipmen estimate Seattle to Cook Inlet freight this year is one-third higher than last year and rising steadily. Rich Iron Field Vancouver reports a large bog iron ore discovery in Quatsino Sound with 108 claims staked across about 5,600 acres on Vancouver Island.
Seward fixates on "Shorty" Dooley as juries stall over whether he is a trespasser on railroad beach land or a rightful resident. Twenty three jurors have sat without agreement, a second dozen was disrupted by intoxication, and a last jury kept overnight without consensus.
M. D. Snodgrass travels from Manhattan Kansas to Seldovia aboard the Santa Clara and will head to Kodiak to take charge of the station after a stint at Kenai. He notes cattle removal from Kenai to Kodiak is postponed until next year due to the Kenai crop supplying winter fodder.
The steamer Caswell is at Seldovia for refitting before its transfer to Katalla. It has been purchased by the Rogers company. The Caswell operated on the Yentna river last year.
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