Mail service delays and Oregon freight updates
The Oregon handles 249 tons of steel and about 200 tons of general freight for Alaska Central. Officials debate subsidizing a January to March mail run to Knik and Tooonok due to high costs and limited funds. The Santa Clara rests in drydock, with the Escelsior’s run shifting to December 1.
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John Last
Eth
Oregon
Alaska Central
Mackay
Theatt
Santa Clara
Quartermnster Harbor
Escelsior
Orevon
Vaska Centra
Bnusinel
Seagahw
Whittemore's Bowling Alley Equipment Ready Soon
Equipment for E. L. Whittemore's bowling alley arrived on the Oregon. Ardent workers dismantle restaurant fixtures in the former Northern restaurant space to prepare the room for plating. Seward's first bowling alley aims to be a popular new diversion, joining a growing national trend sparked by the Nations Bowling Congress.
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EB. L. Whittemore
Oregon
Arpenters
Seward
Congress
Rotel Opens New Rooms At McNeiley Hotel Extension
Six rooms finished on the new third floor of the McNeiles hotel to shelter travelers arriving on the Dora and from Sunrise Tuesday night. Seventeen more rooms remain incomplete awaiting lumber.
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McNeiles Hotel
Dora
Steamer Dora Floods Seldovia Hotel Guests Sleep Rough
On Tuesday night the steamer Dora brought a large crowd to the hotels. Many men slept on blankets on the floor in the Cole man house office, a scene locals already saw at Seldovia.
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Dora
Coleman House
Seldovia
Caylb Moore
Valdez
Seward
Seldor
Mississippi
Wilma
Uail
Dutton
Sound
Seward Steamers Sail From Seattle and Seward
Mariners listed include Bertha reaching Valdes at 4 PM yesterday. Vessels Excelsior and Orexon also sail from Seward. The fragment notes ships and departure points with rough dates in December and from Seattle, Seward, and Portland.
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Bertha
Valdes
Santa Aga
Seattle
Seward
Winstad Clara
Portland
Excelsior
Orexon
Alu
Min ing and Real Estate Notes and Local Anecdotes
Mining and real estate entries list Nov transactions for properties near Hope and Resurrection Bay, including multiple 20 acre quartz claims on Lake Kenai and White Creek. Also notes transfers, water rights, and a Nome theft report alongside brief local anecdotes and train arrivals.
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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 antics mingle with delays and drift
Seattle telegrams report the Alaska convention turmoil with credentials fights over absent delegates, a push for territorial government bills, and Maj. Nixon urging road funding. The Dora steamer carried 42 passengers to Seward while courtly delays and rough seas tested transit time and supplies.
Woman makes remarkable Alaska mushing trip
Mrs. C. W. Parington, wife of a mining engineer visiting Crow Creek property buyers, completed a 35 mile journey in heavy snow. The party faced four foot deep snow, wet conditions and near night danger as crow creek men built a fire while she pressed on unscathed and cheerful amid astonished sourdough companions.
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C. W. Parington
Call Road
Johnsonereek
Crow Creek
Boston
Jon
Seattle invitation to use Industrial Bureau in Seattle
All Alaskans traveling to Seattle for business or other purposes are asked to have mail sent to themselves in care of the Industrial Bureau of the Alaska Central Railway Company at the Lumber Exchange Building Seattle. The Bureau is proposed as headquaters during stay in the city. A woman in New Jersey was arrested for posing as the wife of James J. Hill after borrowing substantial money under that pretense.
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Anton Fide
Knik
Fatnes Valdes
Hin
Washington
Cati
Jananey
Eile
Meg Eames
Nerth
Inet
Hvst
Valdez
Tooonok Wimness
Daily Gateway
Seattle
Akiska
Congress
Omar Humphrey
Coney District
Tanana
National House
Platform Committee
Cochrane
Tn City
Committee On
Maj
Richnixon
Army Board
Alaska
Committee On Resolutions
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 Offering Squatter Claim
Alfred Lowell of Seward offers Fox Island ten miles from Seward for sale. The two by one mile island includes a squatter’s claim and foxes with skins worth about 20 dollars each. He asks 2500 dollars, less than a third of the skins’ value, to fund a year prospecting on the Susitna.
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Seward
Susitna
Alfred Lowell
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