Waskey Seeks Alaska Home Rule and Mining Reform
The article quotes Waskey from Alaska urging home rule and changes to mining laws. He asks for a Nome land office, a Fairbanks office, and a lawful declaration of assessment work with perjury penalties. He also proposes a lighthouse district at Ketchikan and self-sufficiency for Alaska and Exquimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ir. Waskey Ress
Alaska
Rome
Waskey
Cale
Muntci
Nome
Fairbanks
Juneau
Ketchikan
Tremor Triggers Fever Epidemic Across Mexican Region
Cable dispatch reports a tropical storm in Jalisco accompanied by a distant Indian Ocean disturbance and a following earthquake that devastated Sepotitia. Widespread fever from putrid carcasses hits thousands, with many deaths among children as Colima volcano erupts and fumes spread through the valley.
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City of Mexico
Act
Jalisco
Indian Ocean
Sepotitia
Colima
Stolypin backs Octoberists to win parliamentary seats
Petersburg reports Premier Stolypin has embraced the Octoberists as the government party and will push for their success in upcoming elections. He intends to stress the czarist pledge of reforms from last October while blaming prior disorders for delays. Also notes the Lagrange hydraulic mine near Weaverville California yielding 250000 in gold this year with 60000 in operating costs and US copper output exceeding 1 billion pounds annually.
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Gateway
Petersburg
Stolypin
Lagrange
Weaverville
California
Big Steamers On Seward Run In Alaska
Seattle Oct 18 Steamer Saratoga sails for Seward with cargo and cabins to Seward and Valdez. New cable plans from Sitka to Wrangel and on to Chena are proposed as wireless service proves reliable across Norton Sound. Taft and Bacon report Cuba intervention details including troop disarmament and shift to regular army. provisional government for Isle of Pines discussed. Valdez plans to close gambling and dance halls following licensure rule repeal. unrest prompts relocation of gamblers and women to Cordova and Latouche.
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Seattle
Alaska
Portland
Valdez
Seward
Wthwestern Steamship Company
Steamship Company
Seattle Spirit
Ile
Quator
Gateway
Valdez and
Beneficent Steamship Company
Sth
Saratoga
Ossory
Stratoga
Northwestern Steamship Company
Pennsylvania
Northwestern
Chara
Santa
Northwestern Company
Moran's
Nome Pun
Daily Gateway
Washington, D. C
Gen. Allen
Signal Service
Sitka
Juneau
Cape Fanshaw
Wrangel
Prince of Wad
Hadley
Ketchikan
Allen
Alaska Road Commission
McCarthy
Glen
Tolosana
Tolona
Chena
Gakona
Norton Sound
Nome
St. Michael
Ales
United States
Taft
Bell
Cuba
Funston
Iland
Gen. Greely
Chicago
Havana
Isle of Pines
Polor
Dan
Department of Justice
Washington
District Attorney's Office
Cordova
Sevant
Latouche
Excelsior Condemned by Local Marine Inspectors
The Excelsior, a 830 ton steam er built in Eureka California in 1893, is condemned after marine inspectors say her frame work must be rebuilt. It is likely she will never return to Alaska. Several older steamers serve the Southern Alaska run, making the Excelsior a comparatively new boat that now faces possible retirement.
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Seattle
Alaska
Eureka
California
Mapping Yentna Region by Cook and Porter Names
Dr. Cook and R W Porter plan a map of the Yentna region south and southeast of Mt McKinley outlining the mining district. Porter led topography for the Cook expedition and both studied mineral resources and travel routes, predicting a next year gold yield higher than this season. Dr Cook captured moving pictures along the railroad to mile 41 this week.
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Cook
R. W. Porter
Mt. McKinley
Yentna
Porter
Dr. Cook
Poachers Get No Sympathy From Japanese Inquiry
Victoria B C Oct 16 The Empress of Japan reports that a Japanese poaching voyage near St Paul Island was misrepresented by guards firing on the party. Investigations show the men sought seals, the Toya Maru crew demanded shore leave to club sea, they landed and tried to escape when spotted. One sailor was fatally shot in the chest and his body salted for shipment to Japan.
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Gateway
Victoria
B. C
St. Paul Island
Japan
unmapped 13000 foot peak found near Mt McKinley
Dr. Cook and topographer R W Porter report an unmapped peak about 13000 feet high south of Mt McKinley that does not appear on current maps. The peak, seen as a McKinley slope from the south, lies close yet is separated by a deep notch. Porter surveyed 3000 miles near McKinley’s south and southeast. Anton Eide builds two Johnson creek trail cabins to shelter winter mail carriers and holds the Sunrise mail contract November through March.
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Cook
Sing
Mt. McKinley
R. W. Porter
McKinley
Big One
Kahiltna
Mc- Kinley
Porter
Anton Eide
Johnson Creek
Mr. Eide
Yellow Jack Menaces Cuba
Havana reports ten yellow fever cases today with twenty more on the island. The American administration enacts strict measures to curb contagion amid disorganized local governments. Gov Magoon notes liberals declined to seek office and contemplates a cross party commission to draft new restraining laws. Water flows from a new reservoir. conditions are cold but clear. The Seattle Times says Great Northern plans electric Cascades trains.
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Havana
Magoon
Gets Fine Crop of Vegetables
Thirty six sacks of fine potatoes and fourteen of turnips totaling about two and a half tons arrived this week from Ole Martin’s ranch near Seward in the Resurrection river valley. Pacific Coast Trading Company purchased them, praising quality. W A McPherson and Martin cultivate green vegetables through summer, also growing flowers in several hothouses. The soil, though gravelly, proves highly fertile. The MacArthur survey steamer reached port, noting uncharted reefs near the Kent peninsula and Seldovia, with Captain Rhodes reporting chart discrepancies.
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Ole Martin
Seward
Resurrection River Wall
Pacific Coast Trading Company
Mr. McPherson
Seversl
Mr. Martin
MacArthur
Seattle
Kent Peninsula
Chiswell Islands
Seldovia
Rhodes
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Pipe Dream
Valdez Creek
Susitoa
Dan Kain
Tramp
Hogan Bay
Knight Island
Canada
Seward Run
Next
Island
Santa Clara
Wireless
Bureau
Bacon
General Funston
Louisiana
Excelsior
Messrs. Cook and Porter
Ballarat
Donnelly
Yellow Jack
The
Seattle Times
Great Northern
Cascades
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