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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1906
Page
7
The District Court of Alaska Third Division calls a special term beginning August 6 1906 at 10 AM in the Valdez courthouse. Judge Royal A Gunnison presides. Clerk Edward J Stier and Deputy S A Crandall seal the notice.
U S Commissioner Hildreth of Kenai precinct divides the district into voting precincts for the August election to select a delegate to Congress for the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Precincts include Seward Sunrise Hope Kenai Seldovia Cooper Creek Lake Tunnel Placer Valley with polling places in each town and boundaries detailed.
J M Moore collected 46 laborers from Valdez for the Alaska Central and advanced fares for 31 men. He said he could have brought 100 more if he had money for tickets. Moore, returning from Seattle, donated travel funds to weary men saying they were idle for want of work.
Thomas Caveny and partner John T. Coles set out May 13 from Seward for Yentna goldfields. Their boat struck a boulder on Kahiltna river, leaving them stranded on a rock for six days with scant flour. Coles disappeared when a raft failed, and Caveny was rescued June 28 by T. H. Jeter and Charles Carlson. Coles is believed drowned. Coles, a former Victoria cook, was about 35.
G KE Moran special representative of the Chicago Chronicle sails on the steamer Oregon to view the Alaska Central railroad and nearby regions. He plans to write lengthy impressions for the Chronicle and will travel the inside passage before returning north. Moran is a former Chicago Times editor and current publisher of the Dictionary of Chicago. He travels with Mrs Moran and daughter Kathryn Leonore Ade lix Glenwood Moran, a child who has logged extensive world travel. A Sun day Post-Intelligencer picture notes her journeys.
A new congress enacted measure requires inspection of all power boats used for passenger transport. Boats fifteen gross tons or less must have one life preserver per passenger and operate only under a licensed individual. Licenses are issued by the local inspectors and can be revoked for misconduct or negligence.
The San Francisco Chronicle summarizes insurance losses from a recent fire with a calculated district risk of 252 363 000 after a 15 percent deduction. Domestic and foreign insurer data are split by burned district risks and capital. Alaska gold shipments valued at 11 747 805 in eight months. Klondike shipments 7 097 402. Lieut. Baskett heads to Knik for military land survey. Windy Jim kills a bear near 63. Alaska Central Railway invites mail to Industrial Bureau HQ in Seattle.
The Cook Inlet Transportation Co offers ticket sales and freight forwarding from Seward via Seldovia to Cook Inlet points and Susitna and Yentna river routes. Steamers Minx Yentna and Woolsey Transit assist, with J. J. McManus as Seward agent. An office is shared with Kenai Lumber & Fuel Co.
The notice describes the Neptune and Cas steamers connecting Seldo Typonok for Cook Inlet and Susitna river routes with passenger and freight service and lists E A Swift as contact. It also appoints J J McManus as administrator with the will annexed for the estate of Robert E Stover and requires creditors to file claims within six months at Seward Alaska, with dates June 1906.
Advertisement urges readers that their check book shows money spent and bank help balances accounts. It claims the bank keeps the books and that loose change can start an account. Also notes a section of Nome-Arctic Railroad Company's wharf at Nome collapsed after ice jarred it.
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