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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1907
Page
5
Cable dispatch from Washington reports that Alaska home rule is unlikely this winter. Senate debate centers on constitutionality while House members feel the country is too settled for self government. Speaker Joseph Cannon opposes the measure and will try to block it.
Returns from Kentucky indicate Republicans wrested the state government with A. E. Wilson as governor. The legislature will likely remain Democratic due to holdover senators and state House members. Other states report Governor Guild reelected in Massachusetts and a close Maryland election.
Virginia voters elected almost the entire Democratic ticket at the state election. Mississippi followed with the full Democratic ticket winning. In Omaha Judge Reese, a Republican, won a seat on the state supreme court. Cleveland re elected Mayor Tom Johnson by a large margin seen as opposition to Roosevelt backed Burton. Salt Lake elected J S Brans ford as Mayor by about 4000 in yesterday’s city election.
President Roosevelt announced Silas R. Reid to replace Judge Ames Wickersham as judge of the district court for Alaska’s third judicial division. Reid, 38, will travel north soon to assume duties and confer with the Justice Department. he previously contended for Oklahoma attorney general.
San Francisco voters backed the Good Government League ticket in a heated contest. Dr B K Taylor won the mayor race by a wide margin, defeating P L Meyablon fibor and D A Ryan. J A Langdon swept the district attorney post with a large majority, signaling support for Heney's graft prosecution. The Tammany ticket won the city and county election by roughly thirty thousand.
Secretary Root announced he would retire from the cabinet in a short time due to ill health. The steamer Corwin carried Alaska tin, including 80,000 pounds from Cape York bound for Tacoma. The tin is high quality and valued at 42 cents a pound.
Seattle reports a lively turnout as W T Perkins Alex Ry and John Corson vie to be Nome district delegates to the Juneau national convention. W L Jones backs Alaska home rule while threats of floor fights echo at the territorial convention in Janeau.
Maj Wilds P Richardson of the Alaska road commission speaks in Seattle urging a trunk line railroad through central Alaska to open the territory for prospectors miners and farmers. He argues wagon roads should connect from creeks and settlements to link with the railroad.
Fishermen from Bristol Bay Alaska protest traps at the Wood River mouth saying traps prevent salmon from reaching spawning grounds and worsen scarcity. The Bristol Bay Fisherman's Union will send delegates to Washington to meet Secretary Straus of the Interior Department to urge abolition of all traps.
The Guggenheims declare they will halt the Katalla rail project due to a poor harbor and will extend to Cordova instead. M. J. Heney, famed White Pass builder, wins the contract and sails for Cordova with labor to start winter work with a target of twenty miles ready by year’s end. E C Hawkins confirms Cordova as sea terminus. Heney departs on the Yucatan with crew and materials. Roosevelt decides no extra session is needed as panic subsides. he acknowledges possible partial responsibility for the financial panic from prosecuting crooked corporations.
Telegraphers across Seattle Chicago New York vote to end the three month general strike. Operators will return to work next Wednesday after a secret agreement between the telegraphers union and the companies.
State Department reports indicate Japan and allied territories in Hawaii and the Philippines would back the Mikado should war erupt with the United States and threaten insurrection among unfriendly natives. The issue has been sent to the U S Minister in Tokyo.
New York reports the government will place funds in banks nationwide to aid crop movement. Over forty million dollars in gold is being shipped from Europe to ease market stringency. Portland reports Title Guarantee Trust Co. of Portland closed with a receiver appointed. New York bankers anticipate a general settlement of Knickerbocker Trust and other local banks as gold arrives from Europe.
In Seattle on Saturday night November 4 bankers meeting decided that the clearing house would issue certificates to all local banks today.
New York November 8 the government orders an inquiry into all banks that failed during the recent financial panic. If violations of national banking laws are found officials will be vigorously prosecuted and sent to prison.
Never Reached Knik A F McCullum the Montreal railroad man who started for the Matanuska coal fields with Duke Harris as guide remains at Seldovia awaiting the Tyconic. Several other parties are also there waiting for the same boat.
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