Nome Business No Favor For Burdens Boats Pacific Coast
Cable reports Nome steamship season to start June 1 with Victoria Oregon and Pennsylvania sailing in order. Watson and Buckman withdrawn from San Francisco route. 1600 passengers already booked for first sailings as freight pileups loom for Pacific coast shippers. Bailey and Tillman vow to block Piles amendment on common carrier restrictions, signaling a fierce Senate conference fight over railroad and steamer ownership in lumber trade.
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Bailey
Tillman
Oppo
Pile
Seattle
Victoria
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Nome
Watson
Buckman
San Francisco
Washington, D. C
Senate
Conference Committee
Fronter
Elkins
Cullom
Boats to Line Yentna River This Summer
A bustling river trade is set to start on the Yentna as Typonok boatyards finish small craft for the Susitna area. Litchfield & Churchill announce new stores and roadhouses as Homer and nearby settlements prepare for incoming prospectors. Government railroad aid debates reference Canadian trunk lines and Alaska commerce, while a postal inquiry seeks the whereabouts of a former mail carrier. The University of Washington hosts a summer library program from June to August.
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Yentsa
A. H. Linhfield
Litchfield & Church Ji
Susitna Station
Porthend
Seattle
Seward
Typonok
F.C. Woolsey
Puget Sound
Opie
McDonald's
Litchfield & Churchill's
Farnsworth, Ferguson & Halstead
William Ferguson
Bichfield
Mountain climbers start for interior expedition
Dr. F. A. Cook leads a six to eight member party bound for interior Alaska with Prof H C Parker R W Port Belmore H Brown Walter Miller and two volunteers. They plan to explore the Susitna Chu-lina headwaters and then reassemble next year with Swiss guides to approach Denali. The party may not reach the summit this year due to altitude snow and dangers of high terrain. Also noted are transit disputes and a note on watch production in the United States and Europe.
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FA. Cook
Seward
Santa Ana
McKinley
de. Cook
New York
Avt
LiuTste
H.C. Parker
Colunsbis University
New York City
American Alpine Club
Cook
British Columbia
Alberta
R. W. Port
Belmore H. Brown
Tacoma
Cook Party
Walter Miller
Seattle
The
Times
Post-Intelligencer
Dr. Cook
Mt. McKinley
Mr. Miller
F. Prince
J. Brill
B. Ball
S. Pf. Beecher
Bombs strike Russian governors and troops in May unrest
Reports from St Petersburg and Moscow describe multiple bombings during May. Gen Alakahanoff, governor of Kutais, wounded and several Cossacks killed as bombs exploded at a train, troops opened fire on crowds, and houses were burned. Police chief Timoseil wounded in an attack on his carriage. Gen Kelle wounded in Te Deum parade. Warden Shatalod shot and killed. Parlia ment pressure grows. cabinet considering land offers to quell discontent. Shipoff and Urusov to meet the czar with possible cabinet fate.
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al Oth
Alakahanoff
Kutais
Russia
Borgin
Stoessel Appeals to Nogi for Help
Cable report from Tokio May 28 says Gen Stoessel, condemned to death by a Russian court martial for Port Arthur surrender, appeals to Gen Nogi for testimony before the court martial. Nogi replies Stoessel could not have held Port Arthur without support and that execution would be unjust. Nogi questions the blame and says surrender was justified.
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Navy Waveway
Tokio
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Ibury
Nogi
St. Petersburg
Idapanese
Secret societies plan uprising in Yeng-Shan province
A cable report notes secret societies plotting an uprising in Yeng-Shan. The British gunboat Snipe has been ordered to protect British residents and property. Hemple the Valdez banker and mining man will begin laying off a townsite at Latouche adjoining the Beatson property on about 100 acres. Hemple, linked to copper projects around Prince William Sound, co-owns Hollow group on Knight Island and resists a large sale. Lake Titicaca in Peru is being tapped for electric power.
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Yeng-Shan
Snipe
Hemple
Valdez
Latouche
Beatson
Priliam Sound
Hollow Group
Knight Island
Seward
Mication for Additional Entry Under Section 2306 Revised Statutes
Notice announces William J. Poland assignee applies to enter lands under section 2306 for U S military land grant near Resurrection Bay Alaska. Description includes survey numbers, corners marked by iron stakes and pins, chains measured, and mentions original homesteads of William F. Isbell and Edward McArdin. Adverse claim period follows publication.
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Randemic
Juneau
Willian
Poland
Sewart Distriet
Alaska
Wm. B. Exbell
Edward Meanie
United States
Resurrection Nav
Fommencine
Resurrection Bay
Application for Additional Entry Under Section 2306 Revised Statutes
William B Poland assignee of Wm J Eakin and Willis S Walkley applies under the Revised Statutes to enter lands in U S Survey No 242 near Resurrection Bay Alaska. The notice urges adverse claimants to file with the U S Land Office in Juneau within thirty days, with publication in Seward Gateway from May 4.
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Wiliam F. Isbell
Topeka
Kansas
Edw. McArdin
Isn Range
U.S. Land Union
Tomi Mich
H. Bon
U.S
Juneau
William J. Poland
William F. Isbell
Edward
Seward
Alisha
John W. Dudley
Register
Ala
William. B. Poland
Alaska
Wm. J. Eakin
Willis S. Walkley
United States
Resurrection Bay
Dist
U.S. Survey
U. S
Concondi Kansas
Wyllis S. Walkley
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Pacific Coast
Yentna River
Hartmilton
Michigan
House Committee On Territories
Maska
Dominion of Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
E “T Simpson
Alvah Eames
Railway Mail Service
A. E H. Stephens
Divisio
Seconday
Charles Race
Rice
St. Michael
Duck Harbor
University
Washington State Summer School For
University of Washington
Interior
A. Cook
Alaska Central
M. J. Heney
Europe
Shatalod
Moscow
Shipoff
Prince Urusoty
Binet
U New
Latouche Townsite
Lake Titicaca
Peru
T. D. Corlew
Seward Plumbing
J. W. Spencer
New Hale
Seward Water & Power
John. A. Nelson
Office
Washington Streets
Missouri
Mellen’s
Eskey
Milliken’s Talcum Lime Water
Seward Owl Drug CO
Aie
Graef Fourth Ave
Alaska Transfer
Christiensen & Laubner
Rogers St
Arthur R. Boyle
Seward, Alaska
Hotel McNeiley
the Seward Light and Power Company
Bank of Seward
Goleman
Fourth Avenue
D. C. Brownell Hardware
Seward Construction & Development CO
Cornice
Fifth Avenue
Adams Street
the Seward News Co
Fourth and
Adams
John Dubreuil
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