Railroad Men Reach Seward’s Busy Port
Steamer Santa Clara brings contractors and bridge carpenters to Seward Alaska for early track work as rails near the first tunnel and a long trestle are planned. Wrecking steamer Salvor Victoria heads to Latouche to aid the Northwestern stranded off a reef amid a race to secure labor and materials for rapid construction.
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Gateway
Seattle
Yucatan
Northwestern
Seward Run
Salvor Victoria
Latouche
Anniversary of Railroad Start in Seward
Three years ago March 28, 1904 the steamer Santa Clara landed the first railroad builders in Seward and grading began. By 1906 track reached mile 46 but 49 to 53 tunnels and a timber shortage halted progress. the grade is nearly finished to mile 69 with piles driven for bridges, awaiting bridge construction to extend twenty more miles of rail.
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Santa Clara
Seward
Wock
Lake Kenai
Frost Syndicate
Mile 46
Mile
San Francisco Plans Alaska Steamer Line
A meeting of San Francisco businessmen is underway to raise funds for a direct Alaska steamer line. A Portland fruit trust has been organized to control the Pacific Coast fruit trade.
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San Francisco
Alaska Steamer Line
Gateway
Alaska
Portland
Pacific Coast
Santa Ana Narrow Escape Off Columbia to Coquille River
The steam schooner Santa Ana escaped wreck and fire off the Columbia coast and reached the Coquille River safely as heavy seas doused the blaze. The vessel, owned by Northwestern Steamship Co and chartered to a Portland lumber carrier, previously operated Seattle to Seward. Alfred Lowell notes Knik’s dwindling provisions and George Palmer plans a risky spring run to Seldovia. Provisions left at Seldovia last fall threaten winter shortages. Primary grades of public school reopen next Monday in the Episcopal church basement with Mrs. Tillett in charge.
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Astoria
Ore
Columbia River
Coquille River
Santa Ana
Northwestern Steamship Company
Portland
San Francisco
Seattle
Seward
Alfred Lowell
Knik
George Palmer
Seldovia
Palmer
Episcopal Church
Tillett
Wreck of the Dakota prompts naval inquiry and crew strife
Seattle reports Captain Francke to answer before marine inspectors for alleged negligence in the Dakota wreck off the Japanese coast. Twenty seven crew return from Yokohama bitter at Great Northern. ship split and sank. Concurrently Bucharest describes savage rioting and a state of siege as revolution spreads, with Jewish persecutions and widespread looting reported.
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Gateway
Seattle
Francke
Dakota
Board of Marine
Tremont
Yokohama
Great Northern Steamship Company
Bucharest
Butte Strike Settled and Papers Issue Again
Butte reports resumed daily publication after six weeks due to a strike in the mechanical department. Stereotypers yielded last as printers returned to work. publishers offered no concessions beyond allowing returns. The March 27 note says stereotypers seek prior demands while printers work, with publishers ready to suspend papers if demands persist.
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Daily Gateway
Butte
Federation Officials Will Be Tried May 1
Judge Wood denied change of venue in the case against Moyer Haywood and Pettibone on complicity in the assassination of Ex Governor Stellenberg. Trial to be held in Boise starting about May 1. Northwestern Steamship Company sent a flat bottomed stern wheel river steamer for Copper River use this month. The steamer will operate between the river mouth and Copper Center to assist miners with transport of supplies and passengers.
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Denly Gateway
Boise
Idaho
Wood
Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone
Stellenberg
Northwestern Steamship Company
Copper River
Copper Center
Bertha Not Coming to Seward on This Trip
A message from the Alaska Coast Company states the Bertha will not come to Seward this trip. The Jeanie is scheduled to sail March 30 and pass through.
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San Francisco
Secret Service
Burns
Schmitz
Bertha
Seward
Thirty Die In Southern Pacific Train Wreck Near Los Angeles
Thirty persons were killed and about 100 injured when the Sunset Limited collided with an open switch sixty miles south of Los Angeles. Florence Roberts and her company rode in a rear coach unharmed and aided the wounded. The report also notes a Cordova store fire with $5700 loss, Jacob B Bailey's 25 year murder sentence, and a Nebraska woman seeking her third divorce from the same man.
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Los Angeles
Southern Pacific Sunset Limited
Florence Roberts
ofDykes & Feaster
Cordova
Valdez
C. J. Dykes
Henry Feaster
Sound Mills Out of Grain in Seattle
In Seattle on March 30 the flour mills association plans to compel wheat shipments as mills shut due to grain shortages. Elevators in the wheat region are full while railroads move little stock, leaving farmers with nowhere to deliver. The millers threaten state railroad commission intervention if shipments remain neglected.
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Seattle
Flour Mills Association
Millers’ Association
State Railroad Commission
Hill-Morgan forms bull stock pool on Wall Street
A 25,000,000 bull pool was formed today on the New York stock exchange by operators allied with Hill-Morgan interests to support railroad stocks and avert a panic. Copper prices fell on the exchange as trading continued.
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New York
The
Stock Exchange
Hill-Morgan
Wall Street
Hearst urges independence while eyeing party ties
Steamer Saratoga reached Valdez from Seattle at 10 this morning and will sail for Cordova at noon tomorrow then reach Seward by Tuesday evening. William R. Hearst, in accepting re election as Independence League president, urged independence from old parties but said the league could unite with either when it served its aims, a move viewed as distancing himself from the Democratic Party.
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Seward
Santa Clara
Puget Sound
Valdez
Yucatan
Chester
Pennsylvania
Saratoga
Seattle
Cordova
Independence League
William R. Hearst
League
Democratic Party
Hearst
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Yonduran
Col. Thompson
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Reef
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Mile 54
Placer Valley
W. A. Glassford
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Cable and Telegraph Service
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Scripps Association
War Department
Choluteca
Honduras
Bonilla
Tegucigalpa
Mexico
Washington, D. C
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Central America
Chicago
Labor
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Home Telephone Company
Abe Ruef
Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles P. Neill
Western Railroads
Knapp and Neill
Sgsin
Alaska Central
Bulgaria
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Bailey
Jacob B. Bailey
Wickersham
Robert McIntosh
Nebraska
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Bull Stock Pool
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