Katalla Mountain Railway Company Proposed
New firm plans a $1,000,000 capital railway from Carbon Mountain to Conteoiion Bay with terminus near the Bering River. Chief stockholders own coal lands nearby and expect to open properties as the road is built. Promoters include Thormaty S Lippy and W M French, Cork Davis and Sebram joining. They aim to start operations soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seavly
Katalla-turbon
Trewi
Enyy
Stim
Thormaty S Lippy
Ktumiike Missionaire
Sebram
W. M. French
Cork Davis
Carbon Mountain
Conteoiion Bay
Wourh
Bering
Alaska Fourth District Bill Sparks High Level Talks
Governor Hoggatt and Senator Piles contested a measure with President Roosevelt over adding two circuit judges to the Ninth District and extending Alaska jurisdiction. Hoggatt backs the amendment to avoid a new Alaska judicial district. Piles fears a special Guggenheim-Morgan influence. Roosevelt leans toward supporting a fourth Alaska district to speed governance amid rapid territorial growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoggayy
Alaska
Piles
Rivevelt
Aml
Hoggatt
Guggenheim - Morgan
Mail from Tyonok details hard Seward to Girdwood trip
Alfred Lowell brought the Tyonok mail after a westward run from Seward on February L to Tyonok on February 9. The journey took eight and a half days with heavy snow and forced trail breaks to Girdwood. Musers on the Seward start encountered deep snow and hardships. W. Starkey frostbitten hands and feet. Haroun toes nipped. Placer Ownsley and others broke through three to four feet of fresh snow. W A Milligan, an expert accountant, arrived in Seward to audit Alaska Central with partner George Willinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Lowell
Tyonok
Susitos Station
Koik
Seward
Girdwood
Woundh
Harry Blisworth
Fred Still
Starkey
Stoll
Haroun
Placer Ownsley
W. A. Milligan
Wordwestern
Alaska Central
George Willinson
Naval storm base delay Alaska work to open line
A Washington dispatch reports Feb 28 that a resolution was introduced authorizing a semi mission to Alaska to select a suitable harbor for a naval base and to study a Gulf of Alaska to Yukon railroad cost and freight issues. The plan includes a 2000 man force for railroad work and a Seattle crew for immediate startup. Panama Canal leadership also shifts as John F. Stevens resigns and Maj. Goethals becomes canal commission chairman while further inquiries into James Wickersham recur.
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Gateway
Washington, D.C
House Today
Rew
Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
Yukon
Calle
Daily Gateway
Washington, D. C
John F. Stevens
Panama Canal
Diayate
Stevens
Army
Oliver
Maj. Goethals
Canal Commission
Department of Justice
Roosevelt
James Wickersham
Third Judicial District
Tuinks
Wickersham
Hoyt
Nome
Railroads in Alaska Seek Uniform Federal Aid
Uy Cable to The Daily Gateway reports Newlands of the Alaska commission urges the federal government to provide material aid to all railroads in Alaska. He argues railroads are essential to opening up the northern territory and compares Alaska’s case to assistance given to the Philippines, calling for equal consideration.
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Washington, D.C
Senawie Newlands
Nevala
Alenka Soail Commission
Comeis
Alaska
Northern Territory
Ine
North Pacific officials claim St Paul and UP merger
St Paul officials allege that the St Paul and Union Pacific railroads have secretly merged and are collaborating on extensions toward Puget Sound. The discovery suggests a covert consolidation between the two lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Northern Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Puget Sound
Middleton Island in Alaska touted as Eden for farming
A resident writes from City of Mexico on March 2 describing Middleton Island near Prince William Sound as an ideal farming site. He claims cabbage and rutabaga can be grown year round, notes extreme cold and light snowfall, and suggests the island could supply Alaska with potatoes if transportation and harbor access existed.
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Middleton Island
Prince William Sound
C. C. Georgegeson
Agricultural Experiment Stations of
Alaska
City of
Mexico
Middleton
Stock Island
First Blood for Nicaragua in Frontier Battles
Advices from City of Mexico dated February 25 report four clashes on the Honduras Nicaragua frontier with Nicaraguans prevailing. Honduran forces reportedly retreated and await reinforcements before resuming hostilities.
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City of Mexico
Honduras
Nicaragua
February 1906 Cold Snap Sets New Local Records
Temperature readings show February 1906 as the coldest month of winter with a mean around 16 to 17 degrees, a low reached near 0 degrees on the 19th, and a high of 41 on the 1st. Snow fell on twelve days, fifteen clear days recorded, and the last cold spell ended February 23. A Nevada gold strike near the California line is noted as surpassing other camps in the state.
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Seward
Sewardites Secure Claims Near Hercules Nevada Prospect Camp
Sewardites Frank P. Skeen and Eugene Bartholf report locating several Nevada claims near Hercules, a rare camp in the state. Skeen notes high living costs with wood at 30 dollars per cord and water at five dollars a barrel while other prices rise proportionally. George Eberhardt, R. L. Bixby, W. A. Best and O. B. Helmer departed for the Yentna this morning.
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Frank P. Skeen
Eugene Bartholf
Nevada
Hercules
Skeen
Seward
George Eberhardt
R. L. Bixby
W. A. Best
O. B. Helmer
Corona Steamer Corona Wrecks At Humboldt Bar
The Corona lies a total wreck on Humboldt bar with fifty passengers ashore safely and one sailor drowned. Faulty steering gear blamed for running aground near the California coast while rel ief is dispatched. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company operates the vessel.
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Gateway
Seattle
Corona
Humboldt Bar
San Francisco
Puget Sound
California
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Northwestern Sails South After Seattle Stopover
The steamship Northwestern arrived Tuesday night and set sail for Seattle at 8:30 PM Wednesday. It carried 23 passengers from Seattle and 7 from Valdez, with 28 tons of merchandise and 42 tons for the railroad including 10 tons of hay and most bridge iron. This is the ship's first Seward visit since December, following a refit at a shipyard to add passenger space. Captain Truebridge remains master with W A Triggs as purser, Captain Soule pilot, and C H Hayden freight clerk. Delmas, chief counsel for Harry Thaw, is noted for receiving the largest fee ever paid in a criminal case for his services in the trial. Delmas is a California lawyer.
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Cadle
Daly Gateway
Seattle
A. L. Snow
Watson
Jude
Snow & Watson
Snow
D'Hix
Fy Hi. Stewart
Northwestern
Willhegin
Stewart
B. Cameron
Seward
Port
Valdez
Truebridge
W. A. Triggs
Soule
C. H. Hayden
D. M. Delmas
Harry Thaw
Delmas
California
Seven Legislators Stricken by Smallpox in Missouri
Jefferson City Mo Feb 20 seven members of the legislature are down with smallpox and Goy Polk is indisposed today. Affected house members are in quarantine and new cases are appearing daily as panic spreads among those exposed.
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Daily Gateway
Jefferson City
Polk
House
Alaska Insane Care Bill Seeks Federal Contract Change
Washington DC February 25 the secretary of the interior moved a bill to authorize contracting for Alaska insane care and to repeal a five percent license fund allocation for care shifting to the school fund. Alaska’s insane total eight two housed at Mt Tabor asylum Oregon under agreement with Oregon authorities.
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Washington D. C
Alaska
Secretary of the Interior
House
Mt. Tabor
Oregon
Natives as Prospectors Spark Alaska Gold Discoveries
The article recounts native discovery of quartz and gold near Sitka and Chicago Island in 1905, noting natives guided white prospectors to major finds like Klondike gold, Beatson copper, and Matanuska coal, and mentions BC election results.
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Chicago Island
Sitka
Chicagoff Island
Alaska
George Carmack
Klondike
Golovin Bay
Hultberg
Mary
Beatson
Latouche Island
Matanuska
Steamer plan for Susitna River transportation
F. C. Woolsey writes to the Gateway detailing Susitna river plans for next summer. Woolsey and G. H. Thayer will operate a stern wheeler of 65 feet, 40 horsepower, 14 knot speed, built in Bremerton. They will run as far as Indian River near the canyon, where rapids stop boats, and launch Bat on the Yentna as last season.
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F.C. Woolsey
The
Gateway
Susitna
Premertton
Yentna
Woolsey
Thayer
Bremerton
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Indian River
Big Canyon
Guggenheims Bluff Opposition to Alaska Railroad
A Seattle letter says Guggenheims favor Katalla as sea terminus but will only do minimal work this year to bluff opposition. It claims they aim to buy copper claims later, counters by noting missing locomotives and shovels. Carpenters convert Dr Burns residence into a railroad employee hospital, a property of Alaska Central.
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Seattle
Guggenheims
Katalla
Alaska
Copper River
Grand Bluff
Burns
Alaska Central
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Lippy
Hoggatt and
NAVAL
Will Stevens
F.H. Stewart
Commission
Tanana
Frank Kelly
Cameron
Fairbanks
Newlands
Uy Cable
U. P
California Line
Sewardites
Humboldt
Northwestern Sails South
Missouri
British Columbia
Susitna River
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