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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
3
Cable report from Port Angeles June 16 says the gasoline schooner Argus exploded in the straits Wednesday and reached the coast this morning. No loss of life occurred though the crew stayed with the burning vessel for hours before taking to small boats.
Japanese scientist Naka moura, after surveying San Francisco, argues that building quake losses were worsened by defective mortar. He notes debris shows mortar mixed with sea sand and poor material failing to bond bricks as better mortar would.
Seattle reports show steamers City of Topeka Spokane and others sailing with non union crews while strikers headline waterfront protests and police guard docks. A non union board aboard National City opens fire on union sailors leaving one dead and three wounded.
L L Bales reports a huge petrified snail fossil from the Alaska peninsula weighing 64 pounds and about 18 inches across with a damaged head fragment. He also killed a timber bear around Sand Point estimated at 1400 pounds and ten feet long, its skin preserved. plus four black bears and fossil specimens from the peninsula.
Fourth and Adams. Building and furniture entirely new. John Dubreuil, proprietor.
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