Mail service delays as Oregon ship offers strike restraints
Fide offers to carry mail to Knik and Toonok for January March but faces approval delays and funding limits. Captain reports tides hinder discharge while Oregon brings 249 tons of steel and general freight for Alaska Central. Santa Clara in drydock to run December first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anton Fide
Knik
Fatnes Valdes
Hin
Washington
Cati
Jananey
Eile
Meg Eames
Nerth
Inet
Hvst
Valdez
Tooonok Wimness
John Last
Eth
Oregon
Alaska Central
Mackay
Theatt
Santa Clara
Quartermnster Harbor
Escelsior
Orevon
Vaska Centra
Bnusinel
Seagahw
Whittemore's Bowling Alley Equipment Arrives in Seward
Equipment for EB L Whittemore's bowling alley arrived by the Oregon and is being installed after restaurant fixtures were removed from the former Northern space. The project aims to create Seward's finest bowling venue, part of a growing national trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EB. L. Whittemore
Oregon
Arpenters
Seward
Congress
Rotel Opens New Rooms at McNeile Extension
Six rooms on the McNeiles hotel third floor were finished to house travelers after an influx from Sunrise Tuesday night. Seventeen additional rooms remain incomplete awaiting lumber. The Maid of Orleans schooner, halted by heavy conditions, was forced to Port Townsend for repairs on a second voyage. The Methodist church was completed for winter use, with a frame superstructure over the old tent floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNeiles Hotel
Dora
Martin Welch
Thei Work
Steamer Dora Overflow Hits Seldovia Hotels
Hotels were crowded Tuesday night as the steamer Dora arrived bringing many passengers. Several men slept on blankets on the floor in the Coleman house office, a practice familiar to locals in Seldovia.
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Dora
Coleman House
Seldovia
Seward Steamers Sail from Seattle and Seward
Steamship movements listed show Bertha reaching Valdes at 4 p m yesterday, with Santa Aga sailing from Seattle to Seward and Portland. Other vessels like Winstad Clara, Excelsior, and Orexon are mentioned as sailing from Seward or Seattle with unclear dates and routes.
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Bertha
Valdes
Santa Aga
Seattle
Seward
Winstad Clara
Portland
Excelsior
Orexon
Alu
Mining and Real Estate Records and Local Notices
A compilation of mining and real estate transfers near Hope and Resurrection Bay, listing multiple 20 acre quartz claims on Lake Kenai and White Creek, several 160 acre claims on White Creek, and other property actions. Also notes theft, quotes, arrivals by ship to Seward, and a humorous exchange, plus a moonlight anecdote from a traveler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Nelson
Lake Kenai
Wm. Nelson
Lake Kensi
Bartheff
D. M. Kyle
P. M. Anderson
White Creek
B. Palmer
Shiughter Gulch
Juneau Creek
John Hirshey
Palmer Creek
Hope
Alaska convention factions ignite fight over credentials
The Akiska convention in Seattle ends its first day with heated disputes over credentials and proxies. Delegates from Fairbanks clash on voting while Maj. Nixon outlines road projects and calls Congress to fund Alaska construction. The Dora steamer returns from the west with passengers and lingering hardship among crew and awaiting hires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atle
Alaska
Swineford
W.5
McKean
Pnrt
Fairbanks
W. F. Blughes
Johansen
Cus
Airman
Johnson
Johinson
Committee On
Prices
Burns
Dudley da Tose
T. Perkinseph Hutchinson
Ro Nye
Woman Makes Hard Trip on Alaskan Trail
Mrs C W Parington completed a grueling 35 mile journey from Sunrise to Johnson Creek with her mining engineer husband. The expedition faced four foot deep wet snow and nights spent exposed on a mountainside while Crow Creek miners kept a camp fire. Her determined trek impressed fellow sourdoughs and supported Boston capitalists seeking property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Parington
Call Road
Johnsonereek
Crow Creek
Boston
Jon
Seattle Visitors Urged to Use Alaska Central Bureau
All Alaskans traveling to Seattle for business or other reasons are asked to have mail sent to their own address in care of the Industrial Bureau of the Alaska Central Railway Company at the Lumber Exchange Building Seattle Washington and to make the Bureau their headquarters while in the city A woman in New Jersey was arrested for posing as the wife of James J Hill after borrowing money under that pretense
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Industrial Bureau
Alaska Central Railway Company
Lumber Exchange Building
Wash
Alaska Central Railway Co
New Jersey
James J. Hill
Fox Island for Sale Near Seward Alaska
Alfred Lowell of Seward offers his fox island claim ten miles from Seward for 2500 dollars. The two by one mile island holds foxes with skins averaging 20 dollars each. price represents less than a third of skin value. He will vacate to prospect for a year on the Susitna.
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Seward
Susitna
Alfred Lowell
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Port
Anton Eide
E. L. Whittemore
Rotel
Sis
McNeiley
Harry
Methodist Church
Seward Steamers
Hel. G. Jackson
Resurrection Bay
H. 3. Willis
Fred Sheets
Horise Creek
Kenai Development Co
Falls Creek
Rawford Et al
Altatan Knight
Airor
Murison and
McLaughlin
Nome
M. McMasters
Sunrise
Shaw
Mrs. Welch
England
India
Gould and
Conners
Pas
Sengers
Humphrey
Daily Gateway
Akiska
Omar Humphrey
Coney District
Tanana
National House
Ryge
Humphe Steanship Man
Dent
Platform Committee
Cochrane
Tn City
Maj
Richnixon
Army Board
Committee On Resolutions
William Kelly
Quick
Seward Peninsula
Caylb Moore
Seldor
Mississippi
Wilma
Uail
Dutton
Sound
Fox Island
Third Avenue, Seward
J.L. Graef
Fourth Avenue
Seward, Alaska
Fooleman
H. N. Goleman
F. G. Hale
Price Sar Vie Bank OF
Pres
THE
Alaska Transfer
Christiensen & Laubner
Chas. A. Tecklenburg
Bohemian and
Olympia Beer
Fourth Ave
Washington St
Northern Saloon
L. Whittemore
Louvre
Edson & Dobson
Ashland
Alaska Central Commercial Co
Wallace & Thompson
C Fourth Ave
Board of Trade
F. V. Thomas
Prop
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