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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1906
Page
5
A cable report from New York indicates William Sulzer Hughes will win the governorship by about 52,000 votes as official returns come in slowly. Democratic lieutenant governor nominee William Astor Chanler led, with Bruce and Hearst's chances fading. overall Democratic ticket appears victorious amid light turnout.
New York, Nov. 7 Hearst elected by about 000 plurality over William E. Hearst. Missing city precincts show Hearst’s outside-city plurality at 124,000 with 69 precincts. city precincts give Hearst 75,000. Early returns favored Hearst but later tallies shifted toward Hughes, with reports of Hughes winning or leading in several counties. Hearst threatened to contest the results while city votes indicated large Hearst support, and the Tammany independent ticket was elected for judge except in one case.
Delegate Waskey urged Secretary Hitchcock to establish land offices at Nome and Fairbanks to curb land frauds in Alaska. Hitchcock said he would consider after noting District Attorney Hoyt’s complaint. The Bertha arrived from Seattle with lumber for the Reynolds Alaska mine and planned to load ore for Beatson’s mine. G L Banta and Col. Orton visited Latouche on Northwestern business.
In Washington the president and Samuel Gompers, AFL chief, conferred on the Pearce anti injunction bill pending in Congress. Roosevelt seeks a constitutionally safe form and proposed a commission of eight experts to revise it, four from government legal staff named by the president and four labor representatives named by Gompers. Gompers agreed to the plan.
Hanson reports finding $400 worth of gold at Nenelchuk and notes previous larger samples sent to Harry Ellsworth. He mined by panning and minor sluicing, with heavy rains hindering work. Deep Creek near War places, flowing into Cook Inlet, shows potential next year. Wrangell announces a hot spring discovery.
Chicago and Washington dispatches outline 1904 style election shifts with Republicans holding the next House by a solid margin while Democrats gain in Oklahoma and elsewhere. Arizona fails on statehood, Nebraska and Utah show mixed results, and Roosevelt embarks to Panama aboard the Louisiana for the canal project.
Montana voters elect a Republican majority on a joint ballot to choose Williams Clark's successor in the legislature. Smith wins as associate justice of the supreme court. Bray secures a congressional seat by about two thousand. California selects Republican James N. Gillett as governor by roughly ten thousand votes over Bell. Fargo reports about 15 thousand plurality. Burke noted as winner in the city. New Hampshire fails to elect a governor as Floyd falls short by ten votes. Ohio coal and iron output surpasses gold values from Colorado or California.
Gov. Guild is re elected by about 35,000 plurality in Boston. The entire Republican state ticket is likely victorious as well as eleven of the fourteen representatives in Congress.
Republicans win national and state races in Washington with about a 20 000 vote majority for congressional and state judicial tickets. In the county they carried all but the likely state senate winner George F Cotterill over Joseph Lyons and Lester E Kirkpatrick over Henry Beck for the house.
Secretary Hitchcock of the Interior tendered his resignation effective March 4, 1907. He will retire after eight years in office, longer than any predecessor, return to St Louis, and resume the practice of law amid noted political opposition.
About 100 men are employed by the La touche development company on Latouche Island. L. Banta leads operations under superintendent development, with ore piling at the dump awaiting a new tram to water, due in spring after snow. A power plant and four electric compressors push drilling. a mile long tunnel exposes a vast ore body. Beatson's mine ships steadily, while adjacent Blackbird Singer and Buzzard properties see extensive development amid a Dawson Fairbanks stampede trend to Chandler river discoveries.
A Daily Gateway report notes Commander Peary reached 87 degrees north before turning back due to hardship. He and his relief party endured extreme cold and hunger, forced to eat eight dogs, with one rescue arriving at Hopedale Labrador as support was stretched.
Lieut Peary's steamer Roosevelt arrived at Hopedale Labrador with the entire party alive and well after a supply stop for coal and provisions. Peary is within 205 miles of the North Pole, having started for the pole in 1905 with relays planned to forward supplies from a northern base. The latest feat places Peary ahead of Nansen and the Duke of Abruzzi in latitude reached.
Steamer Northwestern, the largest vessel to visit Resurrection Bay, docked Wednesday night carrying 200 tons of freight for Seward. About 300 Cordova railroad workers on board, few residents remained as the ship sailed to Seattle early Friday. Cargo included timber, coal, and horses. the vessel previously Orizaba, built in 1889, tonnage 3496 gross. Captain John Truebridge commands, with W H Triggs as purser.
The steamer Shelikof just returned from Unalaska after a rapid fourteen day round trip. Captain Sprague cites two days lost to diversions off the main line and reports perfect autumn weather with no snow along the route. She sailed for Valdez in the evening.
John J. Kashevnikov of Sunrise has received a commission as notary public, expanding the roster of local officials authorized to administer oaths and certify documents.
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