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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1908
Page
5
Dennison Ohio reports the Taft party escaped a wreck when the engine piston rod broke at fifty miles per hour causing a stop by the block system. Passengers were jolted but unharmed as the party continued to New Haven to attend Yale Harvard events and political campaign planning.
Columbus report says Roosevelt and Taft influenced the national convention platform. Attorney General Ellis drafted the planks and states both leaders approved them. The Dawson meteorological summary notes December 5.20 F below zero, January 13.6 F, February 9.54 F and March 0.88 F below zero, with February 4 at 44 below and the Yukon winter described as mild for that year.
New London Conn June 26 The Harvard eight won the annual boatrace against Yale as whistles rang and horns sounded. Yale’s crew was crippled and left far behind with seven men rowing Griswold’s stroke weakening after the first miles.
The steamer White Seal returned from Tenderfoot with $200,000, marking the first cleanups of winter dumps. Laymen praise the work as dirt washed up better than expected, with reports from distant streams suggesting cleanup will meet expectations.
Ex president Grover Cleveland died at his Princeton home at 8 40 am after a winter illness. His family and friends were at his bedside as the disease worsened following midnight. The czar of Russia issued a proclamation expelling all women students from universities amid revolutionary unrest.
Simple funeral services will be held at 5 PM for Grover Cleveland in Princeton New Jersey. United States troops will guard the route to the tomb and a military escort will accompany the procession. The widow has rejected all eulogies.
Walter Barnett former VP of the California Safe Deposit Company is found guilty by a jury in San Francisco on embezzlement tied to Cullen estate securities. The verdict came in under an hour. Meanwhile William J. Bryan blasts the Republican platform in Lincoln. Copper River & Northwestern resumes Katalla to coal fields work as Alaska coal land rights settle. M J Heney directed resumption and ten camps are slated to reopen by July 1 with Cordova division rushing toward Bonanza copper mine.
The Valdez Sitka and Seattle duplex system is now in operation between Sitka and Seattle with Cordova to be cut in soon. Wireless stations will be erected in the territory this summer drastically improving telegraph service in Alaska.
Chicago endures extreme heat with deaths and prostrations reported as New York also records multiple sunstroke fatalities. Washington notes a rich coal deposit in the Bering River region aiding naval logistics. A Seattle accident leaves Mary Palmer gravely injured after a streetcar fall. Tacoma reports a major fire at the copper smelter damaging property but saving vast value.
Judge Reid appoints J H Rogers as receiver for the Alaska Central, relieving Commissioner Goodwin. Rogers says construction to Mile 105 is feasible, with 53 miles already built and rails enough for 78 more. Snow Watson of Spokane plan to resume work if funded, aiming to reach coal fields and Fairbanks by fall.
Alaska Steamship Company cites a $5 fare from Seward if forty passengers join the trip to Valdez for the July 4 ball game. The Pennsylvania sails from Seward to Seldovia, with a hoped noon return to Valdez on July 4. Officials will push for an on time arrival and keep Seward posted.
Valdez plans a big Fourth of July event hosting Seward baseball team. Hotel Valdez offers free rooms and baths. A postgame dinner is planned and a return game may follow. Steamer Elsie quotes a flat rate of 3 from Seward with guaranteed forty passengers. A cable to Alaska Steamship Co seeks Pennsylvania rates with no reply yet.
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