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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1907
Page
3
A fire traps more than 100 miners at the Tenarse copper mine, delaying any escape efforts. The mine is owned by the Guggenheims and workers were still blocked between the mine and the surface when the blaze broke out yesterday afternoon.
Gov Gooding conducted a personal visit to Harry Orchard in the Idaho penitentiary sparking a court ordered probe. Judge Wood condemned the move and may cite the governor for contempt, fearing the orchard report sways the Haywood jury amid slow progress to seat jurors.
The Journal prints the Interstate Commerce Commission report on Harriman railroads. It portrays Harriman as the era’s dominant railroad power, alleging he built influence by sinister methods. Testimony claims western roads funded eastern acquisitions, harming equipment levels and reducing competition through consolidations.
Local marine officials find Capt. Emil Francke negligent in the Dakota loss but cannot discipline him due to an expired master’s license. The marine board’s formal findings are due next week.
May 13 Steamer Yucatan sailed for Seward yesterday morning. The Portland sailed last night. Capt Blodgett planned to sail for Girdwood with the Tyonie within a day or two after the Santa Clara left Seldovia. The inlet was nearly ice free to the head of the arms. He carried fresh meat and other supplies for railroad workers on Turnagain Arm. In Dutch Guiana the family wealth is converted into jewelry and the wife wears it.
Chicago May 18 Katherine Hill a 19 year old girl says she is the daughter of actress Mabelle Gilman who married W E Corey the steel magnate this week. She lives with her grandparents and claims they took her as an infant and never told her who her mother was until recently.
Rev. Ik, the Brooklyn Congregational minister who officiated the wedding of W. E. Corey and Mabelle Gilman, returned the cash gift and asked forgiveness from his church, then retained his pastorate. Reports say Pastor Claryn resigned amid criticism over the ceremony as calls for stricter rules on marrying divorcees spread nationally.
The strike was declared at midnight and all union longshoremen walk out across Puget Sound ports led by organized pickets at docks. By May 16 the waterfront remained quiet in Seattle with no disturbances reported.
L V Ray becomes assistant United States district attorney for the Third division based in Seward after Cecil H Clegg resigns to move to Fairbanks. Appointment dated April 20, notice delayed. Ray to file oath per cable from Scott at Valdez. Ray, Massachusetts native, moved from Seattle to Seward in 1906, noted for legal ability. Inaj palm leaf claim appears in same account, noting South America leaf size.
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