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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1906
Page
4
Governor Curtis Guild was renominated defeating Eugene Foss, amid tariff plank battles led by Attorney General Moody. Roosevelt era news also reports earthquakes near the Indian Ocean, a Seattle murder mystery, and a Yukon winter mail deal expanding newspaper carriage.
Seward residents spotted Robert S. Dunn a noted writer and former war correspondent touring the Alaska coast. Dunn described Perry Island's 400 foot crater with molten andesite, sweltering water at 94 degrees and steam from cracks while planning further pieces for the New York Evening Post and Gateway. He joined a voyage on the Dora with pumice deposits magnate Mr. Warner en route to California.
The editorial attacks Chicago Mayor Dunne for packing the city board of education with alleged misfits and hints at a broader political clash. The county prosecutor ponders warrants against Tribune editors or Dunne for malfeasance as a bitter fight seems likely. Arthur Barrus, stranded on a Kahiltna rock, recovers in Seward under Dr. Cook and is joined by rescuers, with others returning to mining duties. Sunrise reports local hotel moves and hires, including Mrs. Rachel Walton and Edward Crawford, as a dance and entertainment close the evening. A note on fiscal independence urges spending less than earnings and mentions Bank of Seward.
Martha Smith and G D Hitchcock owners with B B Rogers in ten placer claims on Lynx creek Kenai precinct Alaska report 1904 1905 expenditures total 2000 dollars with 900 dollars unpaid per owner to contribute within ninety days else interests become property under US law Address Seattle Washington and publication dates noted
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