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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1906
Page
6
The Yentna and Tanana areas are described as rapidly advancing prospects with surface gold near streams. Analysts project tens of thousands in revenue this year with further development next year as Seward remains the main outfitting hub.
Dispatches mention a $78000 gold dust theft from the Yukon steamer Ida May with arrests on suspicion. The piece also questions Hearst style reporting and cites Cuban and Seattle politics with a Seattle woman killed by a revolver in a lodge trunk incident.
Col. Henri Watterson and Col. Wilhelm Bryan clash on government rail ownership while other attractions stall. A Spokane undertaker undercuts rivals to bury paupers cheaply. Bryan debates Jim Crow cars under state control. Bryan taunts Sullivan for another bout in the ring. Nelson claims a jab in his fight with Gans. The Cuban revolution is likened to a chess game.
The August mean in Seward was S189 degrees and July averaged 55.06 degrees. Maximums reached 6S degrees, with August peak on the 13th and a 42 degree minimum on the Shed. May and June posted higher maxima at 72, while only six clear days in August and three in July are recorded.
Cache Creek precinct cast 27 votes for Frank Youngs for the short term and 2s for Shoup for the long term without realizing both had withdrawn a month earlier. Other notes reference Goodellde stown at a Was mouth voting site, Kelly at camp 49, and railroad labor and teaching moves via the Excelsior to Kodiak.
News from the Yentna district reports gold finds and mining activity as Gov. Hoggatt travels to Seward from Valdez aboard the cutter McCulloch. Miners on Poor Man's creek yield ounces and plan further work while Hildreth notes days of steady take. Hicks, a Cook Inlet miner, predicts the Yentna district will become a permanent rich area with copper prospects near Iliamna.
The cruiser Boston struck Peapod Rock in fog off Blaine Washington and began taking on water. Crew worked pumps with buckets while Paul Jones failed to assist. Seattle tugs ordered to help haul the ship ashore as divers later found six holes. The ship headed for Bremerton navy yard for repairs after divers assessment.
The transport Sherman broke a main steam pipe and drifted onto a reef near Honolulu and is helpless amid heavy surf. Small boats attempt to reach the vessel to rescue passengers as a relief effort is urged to prevent the ship from being pounded to pieces. Tugs later abandoned the Sherman making a pull impossible. the ship is a total loss, half-full of water, with all passengers saved.
Bertha sailed for Seldovia at 4 p.m., Santa Clara bound for Seward in Valdez at 8 a.m. today, Oregon to depart Seattle on the 8th, Portland to leave Seattle on the 10th, Excelsior sailed for Seattle on the 3rd, Dora departed Seward for Valdez on the 1st.
Weather record for the week ending September 8 notes the standard weekly summary. A Bank of Seward notice urges financial prudence with guidance on independent living through budgeting and saving, encouraging forward planning.
Construction starts Monday to build a new reservoir drawing water from a spring behind the Brownell residence near the ice house. It will be 24 feet by 10 feet and far larger than the Lowell creek tank, with year round supply and better fire pressure.
Mrs L L Bowers wife of Deputy Marshal Bowers of Kodiak died there August 2 and was buried the next day two hours before her husband arrived on the Dora. She was a native of Ohio and had lived in Alaska nine years leaving a child Mrs Harry Baehr of San Francisco. Alaska shipments for 1906 up to early August reached 910 562 870 with twenty two shipments. half to Nome and St Michael and gold totaling 4 618 000. Eleven southeastern shipments brought 35 944 870. Forest fires in Oregon erased 5000 square miles of timber.
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