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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
7
Dietz, a Wisconsin lumberman, defied a court order to deliver logs and opened fire on officers entering his home. An outlaw, he resisted as militia moved to arrest him under a bench warrant. More than 500 shots fired left one militiaman dead and several wounded. Dietz’s son was shot but the outcome unclear.
A Vancouver Island report notes the tug Chehalis was cut in two by the steamer Princess Victoria near Vancouver and nine people drowned. Survivors include Dr. Hutton Mrs Bryce P J Chick purser W H Crawford Bargett Wells and four crew. The Princess Victoria faced manslaughter charges as the Saratoga sails Nome bound and recovery efforts unfold.
For sale a complete hydraulic plant including 1500 feet of pipe 40 boxes derrick irons cables blocks cast steel winch capacity ten tons blacksmith outfit 5000 feet of flume lumber and more located at Rainbow creek on the north side of Turnagain Arm M E Davis Hope Alaska.
Engineering News essay by Alex Del Mar extols dredging over placer mining. It argues dredges avoid grade issues and tailings problems, reuse water, float to new fields, and convert gold mining into a manufacturing business with fixed cash payment of 20 17 per Troy ounce.
Steamer Santa Clara arrived Tuesday afternoon with 20 first class and 26 steerage passengers and 600 tons of freight. Cargo included 250 tons of steel and bridge timber. It sailed for Seldovia after discharging by Thursday morning, then returned last night on a 34 4 hour round trip, and went to Seattle with a small passenger list.
Circulars posted along the border exhort foreigners to leave Mexico. The movement, labeled Mexico for Mexicans, targets Americans and anticipates a large labor upheaval. Observers point to months of unrest including the Cananea copper mine uprising as proof of organizers at work.
Cable dispatch from Manila reports six hundred Puljanes ambushed a constabulary troop on Leyte killing Lieut Worswick Scout McBride and twelve privates. British reinforcements pursued the Puljane force numbering about two thousand as the battle continued near Leyland. The Twenty fourth Infantry fought a large Puljanes force with many casualties on both sides. American troops reported no deaths and few wounded.
Information circulated by Mrs Irwin of aturelbank Enoch Belfast Ireland. last heard from in Seward. His father died recently. News notes mention Alaska census, saloon license changes, Fourth of July celebrations absence, Alaska Monthly in Juneau, Nome and Seward peninsula booklet by E S Harrison, and historic claims on quartz and placer patents. Also reports on dock collapse at Tacoma smelter and sailors strike affecting freight.
An advertising snippet urges thrift with the line Dimes make dollars and a hard earned dollar, if saved, will work harder than we who earned it, attributed to 1% Bank of Seward.
The Cook Inlet Transportation Co. sells tickets and forwards freight from Seward via Seldovia to all Cook Inlet points and to Susitna and Yentna river areas. Services operated by river steamers Minx Yentna and Woolsey Transportation Co with packtrains on Susitna and Yenta rivers. J J McManus agent Seward office with Kenai Lumber and Fuel Co.
Neptune connects at Seldo with all steamships to Cook Inlet. Transfers to Cas steamer at Typonok for Susitna and Yen ta river points, carrying passengers and freight. For rates and further information apply on board or to E. A. Swift Tyoonok Alaska.
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