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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1907
Page
7
W K Steele juror in the Thaw case petitions bankruptcy in U S district court stating he is penniless due to business disruption during the trial. He says a valuable contract was lost and other losses followed after nearly ninety days away.
New York May 21 District Attorney Jerome began an inquiry into the divorce suit of Mrs. Howard Gould against her husband alleging the couple used New York City detectives to gather incriminating evidence. Mrs. Gould formerly Katherine Clemmons, an actress, asserts absolute divorce on grounds of consorting with other women and both spouses are said to have employed detectives to corroborate or deny prior marriage claims involving Samuel Dawson of Baltimore.
Steamer Saratoga arrived in port at 3 PM and sailed for Seattle at noon today to cover the June Nome run. She spent a day at Katalla discharging 400 tons of freight, delivering 70,000 feet of bridge timber to Seward for the railroad, with 23 cabin and 9 steerage passengers aboard. The Northwestern Company lacks another boat for June.
Nineteen indictments including eighty nine counts charge bribery in granting franchises by the board of supervisors. Patrick Calhoun Thornwell Mullaly Tirey L Ford William Abbott Mayor E K Schmitz Abe Ruef Frank C Drum Louis Glass Theodore Halsey bond posts set at 10000 each except Ruef detained on other charges. Schmitz appears nervous in court as venue motions, juror selection, and graft probes unfold in San Francisco.
A fast moving auto on the West Seattle boulevard jumped the track yesterday evening and plunged fifteen feet into the water. J. J. Kelley a saloon keeper and Messrs. Brown and Mack of Seward Alaska were in the car. They swam ashore safely but narrowly escaped being trapped when the car sank to the bay bottom.
In Kiev on May Twenty, Russian peasants were killed by Cossacks after hours of fighting. Rioters armed with axes and scythes faced the Cossacks before authorities dispersed the scene.
In San Francisco on May 24 three jurors were temporarily accepted by both sides in Mayor Schmitz's trial indicating progress as large crowds, many women, attend. Patrick Calhoun president of United Railroads slapped Attorney Troy after being called a hoodlum. a general rumpus followed and order was restored amid an inquiry into the URR franchise.
Steamer Yucatan reached port from Seattle Sunday at 12 30 am and left twenty four hours later for the return voyage. It carried fifteen first class and twenty three steerage passengers from Seattle plus several from Katalla and Valdez. Among the travelers were bridge carpenters for Watson and Snow on railroad work and about half a dozen Japanese bound westward on the Dora. Freight totaled about seventy five tons, of which fifty tons were hay for the railroad company. The Yucatan plans a Nome trip from Seattle next month but may not make additional northbound trips. Hadley smelter has resumed operations.
Rioting continued in the city as strike breakers attempted to operate streetcars. Several cars were pulled from tracks and wrecked while the attackers beat the strike breakers, who required hospital treatment. John T Towers from Mills Creek arrives to supervise summer hydraulic work for Robert Michaelsen. Valdez plans an amateur minstrel show on May 31.
The steamer Yucatan bumped a whale off Latouche as it neared the vessel. Passengers feared collision and panic, but the whale sidestepped and the ship continued. Onlookers called the whale a lady for its calm withdrawal and possible injuries to its whalebone defenses.
Emerson Hough author and other notable travelers sail on the steamer Dora for the Alaska peninsula to hunt big game and enjoy a summer vacation. The party includes A A Anderson of New York a famed automobile tourist, and L L Bales and W H Bass, with others from Chicago Peru and Banff. Mrs Hough stays in Seward during the expedition.
The Steamer Dora arrived at port at 4 AM Tuesday and departed at 7 AM with freight and passenger capacity filled. Several Seward men bound for Seldovia could not obtain berths and slept beside the smokestack. The Dora will proceed to Nushagak on this trip and continue this run into the fall.
Steamer Corwin reached Seattle port Sunday at 5 PM and departed for Nome at 11 15 AM the next day. She carried seventy two passengers from Seattle and picked up a few more en route. Several notable Seward peninsula mining men are aboard.
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