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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
7
Tacoma dispatch reports the jury in Chester Thompson's insanity trial returned a verdict of sane after about twenty minutes. An appeal to the supreme court is planned. Thompson remains jailed.
The Bertha captained by Zim Moore ferried 225 Merchant's Exchange guests to witness an Alaska voyage of the Dora. The Dora previously navigated Dutch Harbor to Seward all winter and is noted as a Pacific coast mariner. A brass band accompanied the excursion. Pinellas Cigar Co. offers Havana cigars via mail order with prices from $3 per box.
Weather record for the week ending June 6 reports temperatures and trends. The item also advertises Swift's Premium bacon and hams and strictly fresh ranch eggs from Brown and Hawkins.
M Stephane Lauzanne notes the Hudson tube cost 90 million and took eight years to build by 65 men. An official says the tunnel will save nearly ten minutes for passengers, illustrating a contrast between American and French spending and time value.
A glacier stream in Valdez faces opposition from residents on both sides and in the center. A proposed plan would redirect the stream southwest toward the willows at nearly twice the earlier cost to avoid property damage.
H. H. Hildreth as administrator has filed a final accounting for the estate of George West deceased. A hearing on objections and settlement is set for July 15, 1908 at 10 o clock a m at the court house in Seward Alaska. First publication May 16 1908. Last publication July 4 1908.
A single maple on Charles Halslander's Sullivan farm yielded thirty five pails of sap averaging three gallons each. From the sap, seven pounds of sugar were produced per barrel, totaling almost twenty three pounds of sugar from one tree. The tree was about two feet through at the base and tapped in five places.
A new institution is established to allow people to deposit money with the utmost confidence and safety, promising secure handling and reliable safeguarding of funds.
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