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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1906
Page
4
News roundup covers President Roosevelt cutting short Bay stay for Cuban crisis with cabinet meeting called. Secretary Root returns from South American tour aboard Suipit. Beveridge predicts permanent US Cuba control amid tariff talk and stock subscription notes for Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.
The article reports Taft appointing Winthrop as provisional Cuban governor under U.S. supervision, with 700 marines deployed to Havana and troops mobilized in New York and Tampa. It notes Ex-President Palma's relocation to Matanzas, Cuban officials’ assurances of continued law, and Roosevelts cabinet statements insisting intervention aims to restore order before handing power back to Cubans.
A. K. Vosper, general agent of the Alaska-Pacific Express Company in Seattle, arrived in Seward aboard the Santa Clara and will stay during the steamer’s westward voyage while he inspects the firm’s offices in Southern Alaska.
Governor Hoggatt refused a request by Reverend L H Pedersen to designate Alaska Day as a legal holiday, stating no law grants the governor authority to create special holidays in Alaska. The dispute centers on official recognition without statutory authorization.
President orders Gov. Magoon to take over duties of Secretary Taft in Cuba immediately amid smooth disarmament and no reported discord. The move addresses the yellow fever sanitary force increase and aims to bolster administration in Havana.
Oct 1 report says the cruiser Ta coma, dispatched to this port with marines, has not arrived and may have been lost in the hurricane incurring much anxiety due to the delay.
A tale from Seattle describes revelers at a Board of Trade saloon who mixed whisky into hot water by mistake. Fred Thomas ordered the Jap Porter to fill the hot water tank, leading to several gallons of liquor consumed before the error was discovered. The Savoy hotel opens in Seattle, and a new copper field at Greenwater, California, is touted for vast potential.
Martha Smith and G D Hitchcock claim co-ownership of ten Fred Smith placer claims on Kenal precinct Alaska. They report 1901 and 1906 expenditures totaling 2000 dollars with 900 dollars unpaid. Within ninety days after publication, nonpayment will transfer ownership to the undersigned co-owners unless the nine hundred dollars is contributed.
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