Missing lumber bark seen in gale off Alaskan coast
Reports from the steamer Jennie state the missing Nicholas Thayer, bound for Seward, was sighted off the Alaskan coast amid a heavy gale on April 6. The bark crossed Jennie’s bow with shortened sails, later seen again near Seal Rocks as the gale drove her toward rocks. Lloyd’s lists her as lost with no survival expected.
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San Francisco
Othcers
Jennie
Nicholas Thayer
Alaskan
Seal Rocks
Lloyd's
Dozen Men Sail for Yentna Gold Creeks
About a dozen men sailed for the Inlet on the Dora and Toledo bound for the Yentna gold creeks. They carried large outfits enough to last through the year and include claimants who recently arrived to stock up. They will transport goods by water to Lake Creek mouth or Kahiltna and cache them until the creeks freeze, then sled to the mines.
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Dora
Toledo
Yentna
Lake Creek
Kahiltna
Stibnite Ore Prospects Report From Chulitna Region
Specimens from the Chulitna river southwest of Broad Pass show stibnite in antimony glance. A piece with several per cent antimony was found with galena. Assays by Harry Ellsworth note stibnite as a valuable metal. Nearby quartz samples yield copper with gold and silver. a gold quartz piece assayed 35.5 grams per ton. Multiple surface specimens indicate potential quartz deposits and metal prospects near the ledges located by Blankenship, Hickman, and Rodec.
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Chulitna
Broad Pass
Blankenship
Rodee
Hickman
Harry Ellsworth
Chullina
Rodec
Iron From Black Sand Promise of Low-Cost Steel
The Portland Oregonian reports Dr Day will publish results on extracting iron from Pacific black sand and may enable cheap smelting with electricity. If successful, capital may fund smelters as magnetic ore from sand near the Columbia mouth could yield one ton per three tons of sand. Also notes ships Toledo and MacArthur returning with freight and mail to Inlet ports.
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Portland Oregonian
Est
Columbia
Columbia River
Hearst to Run for Governor
The Independence League nominated William R. Hearst for governor, and he accepted in a speech. In California, the Democratic state convention denounced Hearst as the Independence League boss, supporting Bryan for president in 1908 and nominating Theodore A. Bell for governor.
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Gatows
New York
Independence League
William R. Hearst
Sacramento
Demostate Convention
California
Jm R. Hearst
Bryan
Theodore A. Bell
Alaska Tin Output Grows In York District Venture
Alaska's Cape York tin region eyes record shipments with several companies active. A Bartels ten stamp mill was slated for a tin lode property, aiming to concentrate ore by season end, while earlier shipments totaled about twenty six tons locally valued by the American Lead Company. Stream tin persists alongside discovered lodes, though output lagged expectations.
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Cape York
Alaska
United States
American Lead Company
Bartels Company
North Coast
Guiches
York
York District
Body of Gus Kostki Found After Yearlong Disappearance
The body of Gus Kostki, a 23 year old Italian railroad worker who vanished after setting out to hunt on September 10, 1905, was found last Sunday at the foot of a precipice near Camp 52. Acquaintances identify the remains and gun, casting doubt on a prior glacier sighting. A rusty revolver and bones were found earlier near Kahita River, likely from a hunter who froze to death years ago. The Santa Clara arrived Sunday with 181 tons of goods and bridge timber for the railroad.
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Gus Kostki
Camp 46
Kostki
Camp 52
W. A. Ferguson
Kahita River
Santa Clara
Port
Seattle
Adams to Run in Colorado
The Democratic state convention nominated Iva Adams for governor after a three day session. Adams was unseated two years ago in the contest with Peabody and had previously served one term as governor. The convention endorsed Bryan for president and opposed corporate influence in Colorado elections.
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Denver
Iva Adams
Adams
Peabody
Bryan
Colorado
Dan Patch Paces Mile In 1 54 Flat Beating Record
Dan Patch paced a mile in 1 54 flat at St Paul on Saturday afternoon surpassing his own world mark by a quarter second.His prior record was set in Lexington Kentucky on October 7 105. The murder trial of John J Bailey for Robert McIntosh on the Valdez Yukon railroad grade is postponed to the next term with the defense entering insanity.
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Gateway
St. Paul
Dan Patch
Lexington
Kentucky
John J. Baily
Robert McIntosh
Valdez-Yukon
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Brown & Hawkins
Practical Outfitters
C. T. Daggett
A. B
Seward
C. L. Hale
En & Hawkins
GC. H. Gibbons
M. D
Carsten
Cecil H. Clegg
Fourth Avenue
Seward, Ala
L. V. Ray
Shawhan
Washington St
Samuel M. Graff
Bank of Seward
W. J. Stone
E. R. Gray
Frank H.lasgy
U. S. Mineral and Land Surveyor
District of Alaska
Addres
Seldovia
Cook Inlet
Orcare Mail
U. S
Land and Mineral Surveyor
Coleman House
H. S. Waterman Mining Engineer Assay Office
Valdez
H. E. Ellsworth
EL Assay Office
Arctic Brotherhood
Brotherhood
Commerce Building
C. H. Gissons
Argtic
Nordyke Arctic Recorder
Nicho Thayer
Resurrection Bay
Cape Flattery
Chulitna River
Tietal
Day
Pacific
Latouche
Peninsula
MacArthur
Hearst
Independence League of New York
Fraser’s Smoke Shop
Th. Fraser
T. D. Corlew
OWL Drug CO
Seward, Alaska
Seward Water & Power
John. A. Nelson
Third and
Washington Streets
Wx Furs
Eee
Ots
Shea Hale Ret
A.B. Drug Co
Elgin and
Waltham
Arthur R. Boyle
THE
Brangh
J. E. Fitzpatrick & CO
Kenai Lumber & Fuel CO
Fifth Avenue
Adams Street
the Seward News Co
Peterson & Brown
the Bank Theatre
del Clark
Ghas. A. Tecklenburg
Bohemian
Olympia Beer
Fourth Ave
Seward Club
Goleman
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