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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1907
Page
3
W K Steele juror in the Thaw case petitions bankruptcy in U S district court saying financial losses from the trial left him penniless. He was away from work almost ninety days and lost a valuable contract plus other earnings due to the disruptions of the proceedings.
New York May 21 District Attorney Jerome started an investigation into the divorce suit of Mrs Howard Gould against her husband and alleges she employed New York City police to gain incriminating evidence. Mrs Gould, formerly Katherine Clemmons, is suing for absolute divorce alleging consorting with other women. Both spouses are said to have used detectives to press claims, with a rumored effort to prove Clemmons was previously married to Baltimore manager Samuel Dawson before Gould’s marriage.
Steamer Saratoga arrived in port at 3 PM yesterday and sailed for Seattle at noon today, skipping westward due to June 1 sail from Seattle. The Northwestern company lacks another boat for that date, pushing the Nome and Yucatan runs. Saratoga spent a day at Katalla discharging 400 tons, carried 70,000 feet of bridge timber to Seward, a small general cargo, 23 cabin and 9 steerage passengers.
Nineteen indictments including eighty nine counts were returned by the grand jury against Patrick Calhoun Thornwell Mullaly Tirey L. Ford William Abbott MayorE K Schmitz Abe Ruef Frank C Drum Louis Glass and Theodore Halsey alleging bribery in granting franchises by the board of supervisors Bonds of 10000 were posted by all defendants except Ruef Ruef remains in custody on other charges May 20 21 and 22 recount court actions including bail continuances venue changes and juror calls as graft probes shake the city
On West Seattle boulevard an auto ran at high speed, jumped the track, and plunged into fifteen feet of water. Inside were J. J. Kelley a saloon keeper and Messrs Brown and Mack of Seward Alaska. All three swam to shore safely and escaped entrapment as the car lay at the bottom of the bay.
In Kiev on May 20, Russian peasants were killed by Cossacks during several hours of fighting. Rioters armed with axes and crude weapons were finally dispersed.
In San Francisco on May 24, three jurors were temporarily accepted by both sides in the Mayor Schmitz case, with large crowds and many women present. Patrick Calhoun, president of United Railroads, slapped Attorney Troy after being called a hoodlum, triggering a general rumpus that required cooler heads and an assistant district attorney to restore order during the franchise inquiry.
Steamer Yucatan docked from Seattle Sunday at 12 30 bringing fifteen first class and twenty three steerage passengers plus several from Katalla and Valdez. Freight totaled about seventy five tons including fifty tons of hay for the railroad. Half a dozen Japanese were headed west on the Dora. Hadley smelter resumed operations.
San Francisco May 24 rioting erupted over streetcar operations with strike breakers. Cars were dragged from tracks and demolished while several breakers were beaten and carried to hospitals. John T Towers visits from Mills Creek where he will work with Robert Michaelsen on his hydraulic property this summer. Valdez to present an amateur minstrel show May 31.
The steamer Yucatan bumped a whale south of Latouche causing panic among passengers who feared a collision. The whale sidestepped, the ship continued on, and witnesses noted a possible injury to the whale, described with playful nautical exaggeration.
A party of notable men sails on the steamer Dora toward the Alaska peninsula for a two to three month hunting and vacation trip. Emerson Hough author of The Mississippi Bubble travels with Mrs Hough who stays in Seward during the expedition. The group includes A A Anderson New York automobile tourist, L L Bales, W H Bass, G F Henneberry Chicago J H Shirk Peru Indiana E C Barnes Banff Alberta and others.
The Steamer Dora arrived at port at 4 AM Tuesday and departed at 7 AM with freight and passengers at capacity. Several Seward men bound for Seldovia could not secure berths and slept against the smokestack. The Dora will include Nushagak on this run through late fall.
Steamer Corwin arrived Sunday at 5 p.m. from Seattle and left for Nome at 11 15 the next morning. She carried seventy two passengers from Seattle and took on a few here. Several well known mining men of Seward peninsula are aboard.
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