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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1906
Page
3
The isle of Pines plans to petition the American congress for annexation rather than return to Cuban sovereignty. The island is largely American populated and pro annexation sentiment grows in Cuba with property holders backing annexation to safeguard property.
New York dispatch reports J Mervallos & Company Cuban bankers planned to secure 4 million dollars but faced defalcation by Manuel Silvera of Havana who fled with 21 million in company funds aboard his own steamer. The Havana firm left cash depleted and branches face heavy losses on deposits.
Sunday in Seward the harbor hosted three steamers Bertha Dora and Santa Clara with passengers and cargo. The Bertha from Seattle sailed for Seldovia and back tomorrow while the Dora from the west ward carried about seventy passengers and may stay on the route another month due to Santa Ana’s disabling. The Santa Clara sailed to Seattle and the Dora to Valdez, with plans shifting as boats adjust to contracts and weather. Cook party members and miners from Yentna were among the travelers, and Hope’s Edina Watson opens a Girdwood restaurant signaling Hope's winter decline.
Five hundred U S infantry and three hundred engineers landed at Havana with four hundred more aboard the cruiser Brooklyn. Rebels at Santa Clara resist disarmament and troops move to restore order as unrest spreads across Cuba. Taft assigns Steinhart to Havana to ease factions and prepare amnesty for political offenses.
The Panama canal commission issued a call for bids to construct the entire canal by contract. Foreign contractors are eligible, and the government will oversee construction inspection.
Westburg Oct. 8 Elliott F. Shepard driving the Vanderbilt cup car struck Bert Gruener a close friend who stood on the track. The impact hurled Gruener 100 yards killing him and fatally injuring two spectators. The car was demolished as the lever misfired causing a sudden swerve. Mr Vanderbilt says racing may stop in America and withdraws the cup offer.
A Russian cruiser engaged six Japanese seal poachers off Copper Island near Kamchatsky. The battle left seven Russians dead and many Japanese killed as the poachers escaped. John W. Pew of San Francisco, known as the Admiral, traveled from Seward to Seattle after reportedly purchasing a controlling stake in Union Fish Company fisheries.
A snow storm rages across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan with one death reported in Cleveland as John Reece froze last night. Snow also spreads into Kentucky and Georgia, harming cotton crops. Temperatures are unusually low for October across the region and frost is noted in the deep south.
The schooner Excelsior with 2105 barrels of salted salmon went ashore August 30 in Nelson's lagoon on the north shore of the Alaska peninsula and was total wrecked. All aboard survived, cargo saved, and crew of eighteen plus master Captain J Christiansen and owner Captain Johnson. They reached Sand Point, then Seward aboard the steamer Dora and plan Seattle if possible.
Correspondence from Kahiltna reports about fourteen boatloads of native families with many dogs traveling up the Yentna river to stock meat for winter. Birched canoes drift down loaded with moose and bear meat. Natives hail from Tyonok Susitna Alexandria and Croto with Croto located ten miles above the Yentna mouth and Alexandria six miles below Susitna Station.
John E. Thwaites mail clerk aboard the steamer Dora since last fall has obtained a leave of absence and will travel to Seattle soon. He may not return to the west ward run. Thwaites contributed a detailed voyage diagram and zigzag course chart that appeared in the Post-Intelligencer and provided a vivid account of the trip from Port Angeles via the mid Pacific. He also supplied news to the outside world with each Dora arrival at Seward at the cable line end.
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