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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1907
Page
8
Wallace Idaho reports the murder case against Steve Adams is moved to Rathdrum by court order following state motion. defense counsel C 5 Darrow files notice of appeal. Richardson is not involved.
In Spokane the United States district court of Idaho will try Senator Borah of Idaho on land fraud charges. Judge Whitson of the Eastern district of Washington will preside, with trial set for September 23.
Secretary Taft is in Seattle and will stay until Thursday. A reception and several public meetings will be held in his honor.
New York reports Secretary Root departed Muldoon’s sanitarium today and will travel to Washington on September 19 before heading to Mexico on September 25.
The king returned today from the springs at Marienbad Bohemia. In Seattle a steamer named Yucatan sailed for Seward at 10 o clock this morning.
Three months will be needed to repair the revenue cutter Manning after it struck an uncharted rock near Knight Island in Prince William Sound last month, causing a deep bow hole. Officials noted the incident occurred during voyage operations and outlined the dockside repairs and inspections.
Contract operators holding fixed term positions with business houses and newspapers will remain at their posts. They have stayed in so far and it was decided today they will continue at work regardless of the strike.
Secretary Root reports a twelve pound gain during stay at Billy Muldoon’s sanitarium and says he feels like a new man in New York.
Gov Hoggatt of Alaska sailed for Juneau last night. In Seattle Francis J Heney arrived from Portland where he outlined land fraud prosecutions to be tried this fall in the U S district court. He denies pursuing graft locally and says he will quit unearthing fraud. In Wallace Idaho the Steve Adams trial at Rathdrum is delayed until the November district court term.
September 11 report says Countess Montign, ex-wife of the king of Saxony, wed Signor Torzell, an Italian opera singer, in London. The ceremony follows her divorce and marks a high profile royal connection in European arts circles.
Sept 11 Mrs Orin Rank wife of a prominent Alaskan will sue for divorce in Seattle claiming breakdown of marriage. The action names Rank as defendant and seeks relief under applicable law.
Eighty Jews were killed during last night’s riot in Vienna, a brutal repetition of the Ghetto riots of 1906. Police and military units were deployed as crowds clashed in the city center amid suspicions of ethnic violence.
Secretary Taft traveled to Aberdeen today and planned to return tomorrow before sailing for the Orient. He will depart from Seattle after completing duties in Aberdeen.
Service of the warrants for the arrest of Ex-Gov Taylor was suspended today and it was announced that if he comes to Kentucky to testify in the Caleb Powers murder trial, he will be allowed to return unmolested to Indiana.
Seattle dispatch reports the steamer Santa Barbara, grounded in Active Pass, was towed to port yesterday evening for repairs.
In Chicago on Sept. 11 dispatchers for the Northern Pacific railroad issued a formal wage demand and may join the operators strike if rejected. In New York President Gompers of the AFL warns the striking telegraph operators not to surrender, saying arbitration may come soon.
Dawson area report states a man arrested for the heist of twenty thousand dollars in gold from a mail pouch confessed today. He implicated others and said the loot was buried in the Yukon river near the city.
In Seattle on September 12 the injunction case between two railroads at Katal la was argued before the circuit court of appeals. It was appealed from Juneau where Judge Wickersham refused the injunction sought by Bruner Company.
The imperial yacht carrying the czar and his family is stranded on rocks near Horsoe Finland and will be pulled off today according to dispatches from Hangon.
Prof. Jaggar and his party of scientists arrived in Seattle reporting volcanic eruptions observed by steamers on the Akutan islands in the Aleutians.
O L H Allen known as Tony Allen of Valdez Alaska died this morning on a train en route to California with his wife. He was traveling with his spouse when the fatal event occurred.
Marion Biggy was appointed chief of police in San Francisco. The court appointed him as elisor to arrest Abe Ruef and hold him in custody.
H. H. Rogers of the Standard Oil Company is seriously ill in New York. The report comes from local sources noting Rogers is undergoing medical evaluation and treatment.
The imperial yacht stranded in Finnish waters yesterday and the imperial family reached shore today after the sinking occurred off St. Petersburg.
The steamship Minnesota failed to sail as scheduled due to a defect in the steering gear discovered before departure. Secretary Taft was aboard. In Victoria British Columbia observers report many Japanese poachers active in Bering Sea seals.
The labor unions ended the boycott on street cars in San Francisco today after the strike began.
The Twenty second infantry was assigned to Alaska today from Fort McDowell and the Presidio at San Francisco. Fort William H. Seward will be headquarters and the band and two companies are assigned there, two to Fort Liscum, two to Fort Egbert, two to Fort Gibbon, two to St. Michael and two to Fort Davis. The troops now in Alaska will go to Fort Harrison, Indiana.
Abe Ruef must go to jail now as Elisor Biggy will have no time to guard him after assuming the office of chief of police.
George A. Pettibone Federation leader held on murder charges in connection with Ex Gov Steunenburg is critically ill in Boise Idaho. He was moved to a hospital today and will undergo an operation. No further prosecution steps will be taken during his illness.
Thondjem September 15 Walter Wellman announced abandoning this year’s plan to reach the north pole by balloon. He ascended but a strong wind drove him back, forcing him to cut away part of his airship to prevent total destruction.
From New York on September 13 the American Geographical Society reports that explorers Mikkelsen and Leftingwell are en route from the Arctic. They plan another northern expedition next year.
North western Fisheries Company as assignee of Franklin H Quiggle applies under Section 2300 to enter lands in U S Survey Nos 326 327 and 396 on Marmot Bay and Kodiak Island near Shellikof Straits. Public notice urges adverse claim filings with the U S Land Office Juneau within ten weeks. Publication runs in Seward Gateway from July 20 to September 21 1907.
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