Cattle, Crime, and Alaska Rail News Mix in Telegraph
A composite item notes J C Fuller alias Hunt escaped from the penitentiary and fled through Seward posing as Dr Chesterfield, forging notes, and courting Nellie Hubbard before arrest. It also recounts the Tanana Valley railroad in interior Alaska, its 26 miles in operation in 1905, planned extensions, and its role in regional development with year round service and reduced freight rates.
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Gateway
J. C. Fuller
Hunt
Chesterfield
Fuller
Seward
Av Ky Chesterfield
Latouche
A. K. Beatson
Tanana
Tanana Valley
Ice Out and Quartz Wealth Report in Alaska
Ice has melted from Knik and Turnagain Arms. The Tyconie freed from Kern Creek and heads to Seldovia. A quartz claim rule limits location spans to a maximum 1500 feet per a single vein. In Chandlar County on Big Creek Newton and Bowles strike a wealthy quartz vein, assay yields 35000 dollars per ton. Alaska shows 2524 submarine miles, 1403 land miles, 107 wireless miles, 45 telegraph offices, 18 money transfers and 10 cable offices.
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Knik
Turnagain
Ith
Tyconie
Kern Creek
Seldovia
Big Creek
Chandlar
Newton and
Bowles
Alaska
Blood flows at jail delivery in Nevada riot
Reno dispatch reports convicts at the state penitentiary attempting an escape last night. Several guards were wounded and three were shot. A number of inmates fled to the hills as a posse sets out in pursuit. Local details indicate ongoing pursuit and unsettled conditions.
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Daily Gateway
Reno
Nevada
Viets W
Machinery for Ready Bullion Copper Mine Moves In
Nathan P. White, superintendent of the Ready Bullion Copper camp, has hauled a large supply of machinery from Sune to the Lynx creek mine. The haul includes a six drill ser and a big water wheel. The equipment will be installed early spring for next season. White hopes to open the property next year as ore is rich and transportation is cheap.
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Nathan P. White
Ready Bullion Copper
Sune
Companies
Lynx Creek
White
Compres
President sets coal bid limit for Pacific fleet supply
Before leaving Washington for a southern trip the president instructed Admiral Cowell to inform American bidders that the contract could be awarded if bids were not more than fifty percent above foreign bids. American bids cover only twenty five percent of the coal needed, so seventy five percent must be awarded to foreign-flag owners.
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Washington
Cowell
Bureau of Equipment
Admiral Evan
Pacific
Fleet Will Make Good to Depart from Hampton Roads
The fleet will depart December sixteenth from Hampton Roads for San Francisco with sixteen battleships and other war vessels. The group was honored at a Lotus Club dinner in New York where a toast to the fleet was followed by a remark, You won't be disappointed in the fleet, whether it proves to be a feast, a frolic or a fight. The speaker warned I do fear the hospitality people.
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Hampton Roads
San Fran
Lotus Club
New York
Coast Survey Ship Maps Alaska Coastline This Summer
The United States coast and geodetic survey steamer Patterson surveyed and platted fifty miles of the Alaska coast near Kodiak Island and Resurrection Bay. Under Capt. W. C. Hodgkins the crew of ten officers and complement marked final details for map publication next year. Unfavorable weather hindered work but rocks that caused wrecks were located and charted by the crew.
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Alaska
Kodiak Island
Bay
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Patterson
W. C. Hodgkins
Resurrection Bay
A Wisconsin merchant and the unusual pay pledge tale
A Wisconsin merchant sends a Swedish clerk collecting. The clerk reports cantankerous debts promised by Yim Yonson, Yim Olesen, and Bill Pack. Bill supposedly fijes a date to pay in January on a very cold day, per a Harpers Weekly remake.
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Wisconsin
Yim Yonson
Yim Olesen
Bill Pack
Harpers Weekly
Bank of Seward Alters Hours to 10 to 3 Daily
The Bank of Seward will hereafter open at 10 oclock and close at 3 p m each business day, adjusting its previous nine to three schedule.
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Bank of
Seward
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First Railroad
Interior of
Cook Inlet
Discovery
Nevada Penitentiary
Bank of Seward
Stein -Bloch
OWL Drug CO
E. V. Boyle
Mar
McMillan Fur & Wool CO
Langley St
Victoria, B. C
Dis Clayson
Clayson Clothier
Knik Trading Company
G. Herning
Hotel McNeiley
Fourth Avenue
Seward, Alaska
L. W. Ray
E. E. Ritchie
Bank of Seward Building
J. A. Baughman
Owl Drug Store
At Railroad Hospital
Booth & CO
Hope and Girdwood
Mrlleedon Cigars
Old Line
Hunter Rye
Nelson Co
Olympia Beer
Girdwood
C. R. Booth
W. P. Henry
Northern Saloon
E. L. Whittemore
Brown Hawkins
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Christiensen & Laubner
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