| Piano Tuner j
Geo. Anderson, Expert, is in
! Seward and is making his head
| quarters at the Overland Hotel. J
J Orders taken for Pianos and
* Player-Pianos. Pianos for rent.
J Expert work guaranteed.
I 1 JO. Address orders, Juneau, J
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CHARLES CRAWFORD
GKNKRAL BLACKSMITH
H»r»eshoeing Wheel "righting
vv \i(ii \1, X'SK A
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The Garstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Bee?. Pork. Veal. Mutton. Poultry
Lard. Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Egg*
Orders from the Westward and total*
Inlet Giten Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
VWllb KSMI 11\ A I j
J. H. ROM 1(1. M. KX
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams A*; Kesi*
dence. Adams 4$.
L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh.
K. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN. M. D.. C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: l to 3 and 7 lob p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
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DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: ** a. in. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. To Res., Mad. oi'
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i FRATERNAL |
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U O. 0. M. 1425
Regular meeting every V rulay
night at 8 o’clock in A. B. llu 1.
Visiting brothers invited.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C. E. Mullin
Noble Grand Secretary
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HONKERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meeU on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. n., Fioueer Hall
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M
WATCHES
Howard
Hamilton
V'erithin Grucn
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
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C. E. ORLANDER
SWVKSSOK TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER
Scratch pads—for for your
desk, for the counter, for the work
room—10c at The Gateway.
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Certain-teed Rooting. Guaranteed
10 and 15 years. J. L. Graefs. tf.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 143.
U. S. RAILROAD RECORD
y0| i. All the news of the line from Seward to Fairbanks. No. 108
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FORTY MILES
OF TRACK
THIS FALL
Forty miles of track will be laid
south from Nenana and trains "ill
he running over it by October 1, ac
cording to Thomas Riggs, Jr., mem
ber of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission. All the narrow gauge equip
ment now in use at Nenana will be i
shipped farther south and none of it
will be used again at Nenana . The
standard gauge equipment will he
used exclusively.
Later in the season, or just before j
the close of navigation, the narrow j
gauge equipment will be sent to Fair
banks for use in construction during
the early spring.
Xenana River Trouble
Regarding the washout of the Ne
nana river, at the 20-mile point,
south from Xenana, Mr. Riggs says
that the river changed its course from
the west side of the river at right
angles and cut through to Lost Slough
to an absolutely new channel. In the;
course it tore out trees 12 inches in,
diameter and cut a channel through
the woods fully 150 feet in width.
In diverting the channel so that it
would not wear on the railroad right
of way. the engineers found it nec^s-l
sary to blow out one bridge.
• Fortunately, the railroad work he-;
: tween the two crossings of the river j
was !>0 per cent complete, so that the!
work will not be lost.
I nder the direction of Mr. Riggs
the men diverted the channel to the
west side again by widening and
deepening an old slough anil by plac
ing sheer dams across the stream to
force the water through the new chan
nel. When Mr. Riggs left there 25 j
per cent of the water was going thru;
the slough, as intended by tae engi
neers, and was cutting it to such an
extent that the old current will be go
ing that way soon.
Some of the railroad work was hold
up nearly a month on account of the
washout, but now it is hoped that it
will go along nicely.
General Conditions
Lp to the present time the commis-'
sion has received about one-third of
its freight. All the rails that came up
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SKI’TKMUKU TIDKS
Thursday, Septe..r.cr 28
First high tide, 9:40 a. m., 7.8.
Second high tide, 9:26 p. m. 9.2.
F irst low tide, 3.12 a. m., 0.07.
Second low tide, 4:17 p. m., 2.6.
F'riday, September 28
F irst high tide, 10:20 a. m., 8.S.
Second high tide 10:24 p. m., 9.6.
F irst low tide, 4:00 a .m., 0.3.
Second low tide, 4:17 p. m., 1.4.
Saturday, September 29,
First high tide, 10:56 a. m., 9.7.
Second high tide, 11:16 p. m., 9.9.
First low tide, 4:42 a. m., 0.1.
Second low tide, 5:06 p. m., 0.2.
Sunday, September 30
F'irst high tide, 11:33 a. m., 10.5.
F'irst low tide, 5:22 a. m., 0.2.
Second low tide, 5:52 p .m., 0.6.
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fires, at The Gateway; 10 cents per
sack.
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Waterfill & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
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j Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
| Special Sale j
Two doz. pretty Hats at cost, j
Just three Winter Coats left, I
j to go at cost price.
Black shoes, with white tops, j
j at a bargain. i
Will pay you to call early.
| HALLETT & SCOTT j
(Of Course) j
BAILEY HERE
FROM NENANA
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P. H. Bailey, divisional engineer
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion in charge of the division of the
government railroad extending from
Fairbanks to Broad Pass, arrived in
Anchorage recently in the commission
launch Sunbeam from Nenana. It
is understood that he will make a sev
eral days' visit to the camp of the
commission at Happy before return
ing to headquarters at Nenana.
PIKE’S PEAK
OSEDFOR TESTS
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept.|
24. — United States aviation experts
are using Pike’s Peak to test the
horsepower efficiency of an aeroplane
engine which is proposed for use in.
government war planes. At the top
of the peak fourteen thousand feet,
experts daily are watching to deter
mine the engine’s value for altitude
flights.
At sea level this giant eight-cylin- j
der engine has a horsepower of 2501
but at the top of the peak it devel- j
oped only 90 horsepower in a test. In
other words, the decrease in horse
power is about 4l/L- per cent for every [
one thousand feet the engine goes (
above sea level.
Attached to the truck are all scien
tific appliances for testing and regis
tering horsepower, speed of revolu
tions, strength of parts, vibration and
other scientific points. The experts, of
course, will not make public their con
clusions in the interests of war se
crecy.
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Waterfili and Fra*fv*r whiskey at
the Branch.
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Andy’a Kxpreas. phone MfcdUno 148
river were those which were shipped
from Seattle last year. None of this
year’s shipment of rails has yet reach
ed Xenana.
As practically all the railroad ma-j
terial has left Seattle, it is hoped that J
it will get through before the end of <
the season.
The total tonnage being shipped
this year is approximately 10,000 tons. I
At the first of August, the total j
number of men in the employ of the,
commission, including the work at Ne-:
nana, Happy station and on the Tan-;
ana Valley system, numbered 1,008.
A Through Ticket J
Via
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE &
ST. PAUL RAILWAY
Saves Money
Insures Comfort
By buying a through ticket you
save from $10.00 to $15.00 as
against buying to Seattle anti
rebuying there.
By buying over the C., M. & St.
P. Ry. you are assured the com
fort that comes from riding be
hind an electric locomotive—the
most powerful in all the world—
and that personal attention
which is a feature of “Milwau
kee0 service.
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i For tickets, berth reservations
and other particulars consult
your nearest Steamship Agent.
A. P. CHAPMAN*. JR.
AmI. (ien’l. Paetenger Agent
Seattle, W»»h.
J. F. BAHL
City Ticket Agent
Second and C1*rry
Seattle, Wash.
The Seattle Assay Office, during the
fiscal year ending June 30, last, re
ceived from Alaska and Canada gold
bullion to the amount of $11,193,000.
Nome sent the largest amount, $2,
790,000; Iditarod sent $1,552,000; Yu
kon Territory $1,441,000 and South
eastern Alaska, $1,342,000.
Gold bricks weighing 655 ounces
were brought to the city of Anchorage
and displayed at the fair recently held
at that place. They were from the
Alaska and Free Gold mines on Wil
low creek, and were the result of eight
days’ run of the mills.
Captain A. M. Jones, commanding
officer at Fort William H. Seward,
sustained a serious rupture recently
while working in his garden.
Recent arrivals in Fairbanks from
the creeks report that Giske and Wes
tenvik, who are operating at the head
of Cleary creek, are meeting with
good success in their galena mine.
The ore is said to run fully $10 per
ton in silver, and has good values in
lead and gold. Others operating ga
lena and tungsten mines on Cleary
and Gilmore are said to be doing well.
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A chapter of the American Red
Cross was recently organized at Cor
dova, with Mrs. W. W. Council as
president; Mrs. W. H. Chase, vice
president; Mrs. Sam Hedges, secre
tary; and Mrs. Clifford Philips, treas
urer. The chapter starts out with a
membership of 400 and has $1,000 in
the treasury.
Guard Norton, from Walla Walla
prison, who came north recently to
take back a prisoner who had escap
ed from the penitentiary, has prom
ised the marshal’s office at Juneau a
half-trained bloodhound pup, bred in
the Walla Walla kennels, for use in
trading escaped prisoners.
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At a Juneau grocery store recent
ly there was fdled an order for a
large quantity of canned meats and
foods of all kinds from hams to soda
biscuits for shipment to England. The
purchaser was Jack Turkovich, an Au
strian, who will ship the foodstuffs to
his brother, who is a war prisoner ii
an English prison camp, and from
whom he received a letter not long
since, requesting that food be sent to
him.
Cal Townsend, fur warden for the]
Fourth Division, arrived at Nenana
recently from the Upper Yukon, and
brought the report that a gold strike
of considerable magnitude had been ■
made a short distance below Rampart.,
E. W. Herschberger, a well-known j
Fairbanksan, is said to have made the I
strike.
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James Miller, the U. S. Deputy j
Marshal at Skagway, has lost his job ;
through the escape of Bawlf, the Wal- j
la Walla convict, from the Skagway j
jail recently while awaiting the
arirval of a boat on which he was to
be taken south. N. O. Hardy wall
succeed to the position of Deputy Mar
shal at Skagway.
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WANTED—Ladies' and gents’ wash
ing, ironing and mending. South
east corner of Washington St. Mrs.
La Fontaine. S27
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BOY WANTED—Good strong boy to;
work evenings after school and on :
Saturdays. Wanted at once. In
quire at Gateway office. tf.
This week for cash only
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we offer you 25 per cent,
off on all Silk Afternoon
and Evening Dresses. i
Also all Cloth Coats.
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Ellsworth’s
$20,000 Worth
Ladies Crosset Shoes
Men’s Crosset Shoes
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
WANTED—Five cents a pound will
be paid for good, clean, cotton rag*
by The Gateway. tf
Ask your grocers for Seward
Bakery Bread.
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We cany Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
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City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 122.
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Long distance telepnone booth at
The Branch.
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Mclver, licensed undertaker.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 143.
THE
HOTEL
SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANGES
Rl'BBER BELTING
Doors and Windows Giuollne Stoves Oil Stovea Ammunition Gaaollns
IX L Parlor Healers Deadening Felt Spark Plug* Bench Forge* Bellow*
Air Tight HeaUr* Weather Strips Jump Coil* Brushes Cutlery
Aluminum Ware Blacksmith s Coal Batteries Varnishes Fire Clay
P. & B. Paper Wheel Barrow* Asbestos Turpentine Rifle*
Malthoid Hoofing Fishing Tackle Tar Papei Japan Fire Brick
Marine Engine Oil Alcohol Stove* Valve Oil Coal Tar Llm*
Gas Engine Oil Seine Twine Floor Oil Lamp* Cement
Lacqueret Paint Granite Ware Linseed Oil Lantern* Glass
Denatured Alcohol Cook Stove* Chip Grea** Tent* Rop*
I.ang s Ranges Camp Stoves Palnta Shot Gun* Mercury
Phone Main 8/ J. L. GRAEF Seward, Alaska
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON. Manager
Office- Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD ALASKA
JUST ARRIVED "
A fresh shipment of Augustine & Kyers’ and Lig
gett’s Candies. A big assortment to choose from.
'SEWARD DRUG CO.
Open
in Dav
H and
1 ,s Night