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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1906
Page
4
May reports from Seattle and elsewhere show Gov Swineford hedging on Alaska delegate candidacy. He may join race only with strong Southeastern Alaska backing and fears nomination by petition in the tight timeline.
E R Gray resigns as wharf agent for the railroad company. T H Banbury will succeed him, after the end of the week. Gray leaves to focus on Kenai Lumber Fuel Company where he has large interest. Banbury has served as Gray’s assistant and was previously with Northwestern Steamship Company as a purser.
A copy of the Alaska delegate bill signed by the president outlines a new rule for districts outside incorporated towns. It allows a precinct commissioner to subdivide into voting precincts and set polling places with descriptive boundaries and names, noting a minimum of 30 qualified voters per precinct and permanence across elections. Officials from the Treadwell mine have sent experts to study the Chicagoff gold strike near Sitka.
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