New Railway Firm Plans Alaska Route to Coal Lands
Seattle reports of the Katalin bon Mountain Railway Company with $1,000,000 capital led by Thomas B. Lippy and partners. The line would run from Carbon mountain to Controller bay near the Boring river mouth, aimed at opening local coal lands and starting operations soon amid storm delays. A congressional resolution proposes a Alaska harbor site and railroad cost study to Yukon linkage.
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Seattle
House
Snow
F. H. Stewart
Carbon Mountain
Controller Bay
Alaska Central
Katalin Bon Mountain Railway Company
Thomas 8. Lippy
Klondike
Jobn Schram
W. M. French
Clark Davis
Boring River
Alaska Ninth district fights over extra judges
Washington officials clash over a bill to add two circuit court judges to the Ninth district. Governor Hoggatt backs an Alaska extending amendment to avoid a new district, while Senator Piles opposes a new Alaska district, fearing Guggenheim Morgan influence. Roosevelt leans toward a fourth district to speed Alaskan governance. Alfred Lowell reports mushers’ slow progress from Seward to Tyonok and Girdwood amid heavy snow.
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Washington, D. C
Hoggatt
Alaska
Piles
Washington
Roosevelt
Guggenheim - Morgan
Senator Newlands Pushes Alaska Railroad Aid Plan
Washington March 1 Senator Newlands of Nevada and member of the Alaska road commission urged uniform government support for all legitimate railroads in Alaska. He argued railroads are vital to open northern resources and compared Alaska’s case to Philippine aid, calling for material federal assistance.
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Newlands
Alaska
Daily Gateway
Washington, D.C
Nevada
Alaska Road Commission
Philippines
St Paul and UP railroads alleged to merge secretly
Officials of the Northern Pacific claim St Paul and Union Pacific have secretly joined on extensions to Puget Sound and that a merger between the two roads has been secretly effected.
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St. Paul
Northern Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Puget Sound
Middleton Island touted as Eden for Alaska farming
Residents describe Middleton Island near Prince William Sound as perfect for agriculture noting successful growth of rutabagas and cabbage, mild winter grass, and strong stock, with only drawbacks a lack of harbor and distance from land. They urge transportation links to supply potatoes to interior Alaska.
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Middleton Island
Prince William Sound
C. C. Georgegeson
Agricultural Experiment Stations of
Alaska
Middleton
Stock Island
Sewardites Locate Gold Claims Near Hercules Camp
Sewardites Frank P. Skeen and Eugene Bartholf, prospecting in Nevada last winter, report several claims contiguous to a rich gold strike at Hercules, a new camp. Living costs rise with wood at 8.30 per cord and water at 5 a barrel. other prices follow. George Eberhard, 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
First Blood for Nicaragua in Frontier Battles
Reports from City of Mexico say Honduras and Nicaragua fought four battles at the frontier with Nicaraguans victorious. Honduran army fell back awaiting reinforcements before renewing attack. Details scarce. Panic aboard Corona as it lies wrecked on Humboldt bar with fifty aboard and one drowned.
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City of Mexico
Honduras
Nicaragua
Gateway
Seattle
Corona
Ifty
February 1906 Cold Snap Sets Weather Records
February 1906 saw the coldest month of winter with a mean 31.64 degrees and a low of 11 below zero on the 19th. January 1906 registered 11 below, while Seward town held a record low. Snow fell on twelve days and fifteen were clear. In Nevada near the California line, a gold strike was reported surpassing prior camps in the state.
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Seward
Northwestern sails to Seattle after Seward stopover
Steamer Northwestern arrived in Seward Tuesday night and sailed for Seattle at 8 30 Wednesday evening. She carried twenty three passengers from Seattle and seven from Valdez. Freight totaled twenty eight tons of merchandise and forty two tons for the railroad, including ten tons of hay and most of the remainder bridge iron. This is the ship's first Seward visit since December. she was in a shipyard for refitting. Captain Truebridge remains master with W R Triggs purser, Captain Soule pilot, and C H Hayden freight clerk. D M Delmas, leading counsel for Harry Thaw, will receive the largest fee ever paid in a criminal trial. Delmas is a California lawyer.
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Northwestern
Port
Seattle
Valdez
Seward
Truebridge
Triggs
Soule
C. H. Hayden
Stevens Quits Wickersham to Panama Canal Be Re appointed
John F Stevens resigned as Panama Canal chief engineer amid dispute over reasons and friction linked to the Oliver bid. The president accepted the resignation and ordered army engineers to direct work, with Maj Goethals to chair the canal commission. A further inquiry will send a special representative to Fairbanks to investigate Wickersham’s record.
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Stevens
Wickersham
Panama Canal
Washington, D
John F. Stevens
Army
Oliver
Maj. Goethals
Canal Commission
Washington, D. C
Med
Department of Justice
Roosevelt
James Wickersham
Third Judicial District
Fairbanks
Hoyt
Nome
Tanans
Seven legislators contract smallpox in Missouri outbreak
Jefferson City February 29 seven members of the Missouri legislature are down with small pox and Governor Folk is indisposed. House members exposed are quarantined and new cases are emerging daily. A general panic spreads among exposed citizens.
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Gateway
Jefferson City
Gov. Folk
Change in Caring for Insane of Alaska Proposed
Washington Feb 28 the secretary of the interior sent to the house a bill authorizing him to contract for the care of Alaska's insane. The bill repeals the five percent of license money for care and places it in the school fund. Alaska's insane total eighty two and are housed at Mt Tabor asylum Oregon under an arrangement with that state.
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Gateway
Washington, D. C
House Today
Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
Yukon
Washington D. C
Secretary of the Interior
House
Mt. Tabor
Oregon
Natives as Prospectors Spark Alaska Gold Discovery
Indigenous communities first sighted and guided the discovery of key Alaska mineral finds from Chicagof Island to Klondike gold. The piece notes natives aided white prospectors, with several major deposits traced to native information, including Beatson copper and Matanuska coal. It also mentions a political note on British Columbia election results.
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Chicagoff Island
Sitka
Alaska
George Carmack
Klondike
Golovin Bay
Hultberg
Nome
Mary
Beatson
Latouche Island
Matanuska
Susitna River Steamers Planned By Woolsey and Thayer
C. Woolsey writes of next summer’s Susitna river transport plans with G. H. Thayer. A stern wheeler 65 feet long, 11 foot beam and 40 horsepower gasoline engine will operate up the Susitna to Indian River and near the canyon mouth where rapids stop boats. The Bat on the Yentna will also run again after ice clears.
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C. Woolsey
The
Gateway
Susitna
Premertton
Yentna
Woolsey and Thayer
Bremerton
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Thayer
Woolsey
Indian River
Big Canyon
Guggenheims Bluffing Opponents Over Alaska Railroads
A Seattle letter claims the Guggenheims favor Katalla as the Alaska railroad sea terminus but will only do token work this year to bluff opponents. It notes rumors of locomotives and shovels prove unfounded and suggests a plan to delay copper claims purchases. Nearby, carpenters convert Dr Burns’s former residence into a hospital for Alaska Central workers using the railroad’s property.
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Seattle
Guggenheims
Katalla
Alaska
Copper Jriver
Grand Bluff
Dr. Burns
Alaska Central
Railroad Company
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A. L. Snow
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Tyonok
Alfred Lowell
Susitna Station
Knik
Girdwood
Harry Ellsworth
Fred Stoll
Starkey
Stoll
al Barton
Placer Valley
W. A. Milligan
George Wilkinson
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R. L. Bixby
W. A. Best
O. B. Helmer
City of
Mexico
Humboldt
San Francisco
Humboldt Bar
California
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Northwestern Sails South
D. M. Delmas
Harry Thaw
Delmas
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Tanana
Missouri
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Susitna River
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