Chesterfield Escapes Pen and Turbulent Alaska Rail Tale
An escaped convict using aliases including Dr Chesterfield roams Seward and Valdes, borrowing money, later shot a man in Valdes and is blamed for forging A K Beatson’s name to checks totaling over 1300 dollars. The Tanana Valley railroad, Alaska, is described as the first interior line, finished twenty six miles, with extensions and seasonal operation, enabling year round use and regional development.
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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 Claims Rise in Alaska Arctic Waters
Ice has cleared from Knik and Turnagain Arms as the Tyconie breaks free at Kern Creek and heads to Seldovia. A quartz claim dispute defines allowable vein lengths under statutes, limiting excess from senior to junior locator. In Chandlar county Big creek a quartz mine yields vast wealth with $35000 per ton assay. Newton and Bowles own the discovery shaft site. Alaska reports 2524 miles submarine cable and 1403 miles land cable with telegraph and money transfer offices nearby.
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Knik
Turnagain
Ith
Tyconie
Kern Creek
Seldovia
Discovery
Big Creek
Chandlar
Newton and
Bowles
Alaska
Blood flows at jail delivery in Reno breakout
Convicts at the Nevada state penitentiary staged a dash for liberty last night. Several guards were wounded and three convicts were shot. A number of escapees fled to the hills as a posse pursues them through Reno.
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Nevada Penitentiary
Daily Gateway
Reno
Nevada
Viets W
Machinery for Ready Bullion Copper Mine
Nathan P. White superintendent of the Ready Bullion Copper camp has hauled a large amount of machinery from Sune to the Lynx Creek mine. The gear includes a six drill shaft and a large water wheel. It will be installed early spring for next season. White hopes the property will be operable next year with cheap transportation enabling a wood mine.
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Nathan P. White
Ready Bullion Copper
Sune
Companies
Lynx Creek
White
Compres
President Sets Coal Bidding Ceiling For Pacific Fleet
Before leaving Washington for a southern trip the president instructed Admiral Cowell to tell American coal 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 needs, so seventy five percent must be let to foreign-flag rivals.
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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 guest of honor at a Lotus Club dinner in New York where the commander toasted and warned that while the fleet may be a feast or fight, he fears hospitality crowds rather than flower or dog shows.
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Hampton Roads
San Fran
Lotus Club
New York
Coast Survey Work Maps Alaska Coast by Patterson
Fifty miles of the Alaska coast near Kodiak Island were surveyed and platted by the Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Patterson during the past summer. Under Captain W. C. Hodgkins the crew of ten officers and complement of assistants mapped the area despite bad weather, identifying dangerous rocks and completing details for guides to be issued next year. Resurrection Bay was among the zones visited.
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Alaska
Kodiak Island
Bay
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Patterson
W. C. Hodgkins
Resurrection Bay
Date Promises From Swedish Clerk and Hogs and Wheat
A Wisconsin merchant recalls a Swedish clerk’s tale of debt collection. Yim Yonson says payment will come when he sells hogs, Yim Olesen when he sells wheat, and Bill Pack when he pays in January. The boss questions if January was really meant to be a payment date. The clerk insists Bill spoke of a cold day to retrieve the money.
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Wisconsin
Yim Yonson
Yim Olesen
Bill Pack
Harpers Weekly
Bank of Seward Changes Hours to 10 to 3
The Bank of Seward will hereafter open at 10 o'clock instead of nine and close at 3 p m.
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Bank of
Seward
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First Railroad
Interior of
Cook Inlet
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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Alaska Transfer
Christiensen & Laubner
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