Today in the Sobel Timeline: November 7

On November 7, 1897, Kramer Associates President Diego Cortez y Catalán sent his private secretary, Russell Smith, to meet with Alberto Puente, the Governor of California. The object of the meeting was to work out a way for Puente to provoke a war between the United States of Mexico and the Russian Empire, allowing K.A. to seize Alaska and take control of the Yukon gold fields.