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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1907
Page
8
Across reports from St. Petersburg officials reveal a high ranking conspiracy to carry out a sudden assault by armed attackers on the czar’s country palace with the aim to kill the imperial family and attendants, a plot promptly foiled.
A Mystic Shriners special train derailed sixty miles north of Los Angeles after a split switch. Thirty-two people from Reading Pennsylvania are reported dead and forty injured. The coroner's inquest found no one to blame, despite public indignation at the verdict.
Abe Ruef tells the grand jury details of franchise grafts including a $200000 overhead trolley deal and his $61000 share with Mayor Schmitz and others. He collapses while testifying and asks the court to discharge the jury. Schmitz plans his own trial while secrecy tightens around the case.
The Cook Inlet climate is described as the finest in Alaska by geologic survey writers A H Brooks and C Abbe Jr. They note cold winters but bright springs and summers with enough rain for vegetation. The Matanuska Valley and Knik arm regions may support major agricultural activity and self sufficiency.
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