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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1906
Page
7
The Isle of Pines will petition the American Congress for annexation to the United States rather than return to Cuban sovereignty. The island is largely American settled and natives support annexation as sentiment grows in Cuba. Property holders favor annexation to protect their holdings.
New York report says J Mervallos & Company Cuban bankers planned to move 4,000,000 in Cuba but defalcation by Manuel Silvera of Havana drained funds. Silvera disappeared aboard his own steamer with 21,000,000 of company money. Havana branch left cashless. all branches face heavy losses.
Sunday waterfront bustle as three steamers Bertha Dora and Santa Clara arrive in Seward. Bertha from Seattle sails to Seldovia with miners and Emila Gilson aboard. Dora from the westward brings about seventy passengers and may stay another month. Santa Clara sails to Seattle while Santa Ana disruption shifts routes.
Five hundred United States infantry and three hundred engineers have landed in Havana with four hundred more aboard the Brooklyn. Troops to be distributed as arrivals come. Rebels at Santa Clara refuse to disarm and unrest spreads as Taft moves to restore order. Provisional government to take shape under Gov. Magoon, with amnesty to be issued for political offenses.
The Panama canal commission called for bids to construct the entire Panama canal by contract. Foreigners are eligible to contract for the work. The government will control inspection of construction.
Elliott F. Shepard in the Van derbilt cup race struck Bert Gruener who stood on the track, hurling him 100 yards to his death. The car demolished and two other spectators injured as officials blamed a lever fault. Mr. Vanderbilt predicts racing may end in America and withdraws the cup.
A Russian cruiser engaged six armed Japanese sealing vessels off Copper Island near Kamchatka. Battles ensued, seven Russians dead, many Japanese casualties, poachers fled. Also noted is John W. Pew of San Francisco known as the Admiral, who reportedly has taken control of Union Fish Company fisheries and left Seward for Seattle.
A heavy snow storm rages across Pennsylvania Ohio and Michigan with fatalities including John Reece frozen to death in Cleveland. Snow extends to Kentucky and Georgia where the cotton crop is damaged. Temperatures run unusually low nationwide and frost covers many southern locales.
The schooner Excelsior with 2105 barrels of salted salmon went ashore in Nelsons lagoon on the Alaska peninsula August 30 and was totally wrecked. All aboard were saved along with the cargo. Captain J Christiansen led the crew of sixteen and Captain Johnson was aboard one of the owners. The ship, 331 tons net, was owned in San Francisco and had just loaded for that port. The crew walked to Sand Point, then boarded the steamer Dora to Seward and planned to reach Seattle.
Correspondence from Kahiltna notes fourteen boatloads of natives traveling up the Yentna to stock meat for winter. The procession includes families and many dogs, with birch canoes carrying moose and bear meat. Natives hail from Tyonok Susitna Alexandria and Croto near the Susitna.
John E. Thwaites a mail clerk aboard the steamer Dora since last fall will soon travel to Seattle for a leave of absence. He is unsure whether he will return to the west ward run. Thwaites helped chart the Dora’s voyage last winter to Port Angeles via the mid-Pacific and his diagram and chart appeared in the Post-Intelligencer. He also provided news wires from each Dora arrival at Seward, ending the cable line.
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