SEWARD GATEWAY
rUBUSIHD WEEKLY BY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING CO.
Entered a* Second Class matter August 31th.
’HH. at the postofllce at Seward. Alaska, un
gar the Act of Congress of March S. ItCV
SUBSCRIPTION* RftTPS
On* Y«ar (In Advance) - *3 00
Six Montha ... *1.50
Eastern office 212 Alworth Building. LYuluth.
Minnesota, t*has. II. Aske. juthorl/€'l airent.
Saturday. novemher it. umw
TO STOP WILD-CATTING
legislation against wildcat raining
promotion, particularly that aggra
vated form which consists in .noon
••orating a holt* in the ground and sell
ing shares whose value is I tast'd upon
the atmosphere in the hole, was pro-,
jtosvd hy the recent session of the
American Mining t ongres- an 1 is
widely advocated. Kvery person in
• ormed ujhui the subject admits that
.something ought to he done.
A- usual however, it is proposed
that a new crime be created anil a
special penalty attached. as if the law
making the obtaining of money under
;i’,se pretenses does not reach the case
so far as the criminal law can do it.
t oloruuo and l tah demonstrated a
decade ago that tin easiest and surest
wa\ to suppress w ildcat and fake min
ing schemes is by tin* exertion of the
mightiest force in civilized govern
ment the taxing power. Colorado'
.ttixeii a tax of 1 per cent u|*>n the
Mated capital mock of a new eorpora
lon as the fee for the privilege of in
» or|H)iatiug, and l tah followed a year
iter. Whether the wild-cat tors have
>een able to obtain the repeal of these
■ nactments the w riter is uninformed
Put they produced the desired effect
iud if they have Iwen repealed the re
sult was no doubt achieved through
■ he universal desire of men interested
n corporations to escape taxation a>
tr as nossible.
Tax-dodging seems to lx* inherent in
s orjxirations. Perhaps it is because a 1
•orporation has no soul. Incorpora
tion is a special privilege and those
* ho avail themselves of the privilege
• night to pay the government which
grants it something for the !*enetit.
\n annual a> well us an incorporation
tax of a small ixuventage on the capi
tal stock is simple justice. Legitimate}
corporations could afford to pay it and
and its requirement would keep illegi
■ mate corporations out of existence.
JOHN SEGALOS ESCAPES
So tin “<'arnecte hero medal com
-sion” hits refused a medal to John
>,-c»h*s. the C.tvek hero who made
- vera attempt* o> swim ashore front
ri< wricked Valencia to land u life
,e. The ‘•••:tsi*n - that S--,_ei! *-. a
nnile-s -ai ir with orohably little
ncat: tit and * not tnor than ordi
heater-to • *t him for a -tittend
e hich wa- a I* mu. ip* him.
if i- di-C! e i'f »o Se^alo* that lie
;..t- t; » i .-'i'." i.:e t'arfm_,e
urarni. ! : ■ hau '>■ • n - ittieiently en*
chten d * decline an offer trotu
ideal* iu':i' t- le would al-** have
l»rn -i !-resj»ectiim enough to decline
a t'arne'ie 1 ahet if it nai heen offered.
If i- * latt'ih. < *nce more the tltte
>ay i-eunpln i to observe that (hi
1 arn> c<" hero medal fetwah i- ti»• -
-eribab only by tin e,xp:>*Hve winch
« atnbro.me embalm**! in history at
Wafer, *o.
TIMES ALASKA EDITION
N ikon edition < lefobet* 2f( wiiich
eciip-eii any t.* w-paper de-eription of
‘a-,\ ’i oh- .• • -everal year-. It
,iv*-- nple -nave to all portion- ot
Via - ei. i?i article- written by men
■,it- >! . > tatniu h tbvir subjects
from'actual'residence on the •;round.
Iteeai-are late- and numerous and
.edited in the-ty'.e which marks all
•■*• ' inn s' half-tone work Seward is
. veil a -even column cut acre— tin
>i> <> :• pair*' and ampl* -pace de-crip
ve in the town and it- tributary re
sources. Kvery \la-kan omcht to h:r <■
t copy of this papi-r for reference.
The Time- .Mask a*Yukon * lit ion
i.ui ret eo-t anylMidy a cent exeept the
Timt - 1 Yintinc < ’ rupniy.
A i- ;u is -pleasetl to lie tnformed
through its meager press service that
i beach of the Chicago 1‘almers have
shopped off in Seatth . Now there i- a
■. ab of news of vital importance to
laska. and it makes the sourdough
gtad that the territory is an annex
’o Seattle.
Brown tot has destroyed a large pot*
tion of the prune crop in Oregon and
vVashingtou ami the boarding house
trust is tiguring on how much of a rise
:u the price of U.uml it will have to
nact to get even.
Tie Alaska Monthly Magazine, of
.Juneau, the only magazine published
in Alaska, came out in November with
a better make-up than ever. Its cuts
are handsome and the articles are all
interesting.
U appears that Count Castellano
knows a ftw others who live behind j
gla s> partitions.
The president’s idea that the gov*'j
eminent ought to get something out of
ii* coal deposit* for the whole people is
advocated by a ^reat many thinking ,
men. and perhaps the experiment
might as'well bigin iri Alaska. WjjieliJ
is accustomed t6 being ufeed as official
taster fofr tt& government. The" 1
scheme to lease the coal lands looks
good on paper but Missouri people 1
will have to be shown that it will not
result like the leases of grazing lands
in thb" Indlaii territory' to big corpora
tions.
■ JJLL. 11*^
The postal authorities between Nome
and Seward, via Seattle, could confer a
favor on the Gateway by digging up
the Nome papers for the month of
October, which have been sequestered
somewhere on the route. They could
confer this favor but probably will not.
Not a Nome paper later than Septem
ber hu> reached Seward although
several mail boats from the northern I
city arrived in Seattle in October and j
several have left Seattle since thej
non hern boats arrived.
A careless statement last week in ;
the account of the Reynolds Iron
Mountain copper mine at Latouche,
written in haste and overlooked, \ (
asserted that a tunnel had l»e.*n run
on the ore vein nearly a mile. The
statement should have been that thej
lode had been exposed by open cuts for
nearly a mile. The tunnel cross-cuts'
the vein. 41
President Roosevelt disapproves ter
ritorial organization for Alaska.
Whatever self-government is left over
from the states he is saving for the
Philippines.
FINISH RAILROAD GRADE
ALL WAY TO MILE 67
W ork Until February Will Be Con
fined to Logging and Turnagaln
Arm Rock Cuts.
The railroad grade in 1‘laeer valley
is now finished, the last of the con-;
tractors having completed their allot
ment this week. The tunnels are all
finished except number 4. which is be
ing bored by station men. They will
finish next week, and the railroad
grade will then be complete from the
end of the track on mile 4b. to G7.except
bridge construction. Failure to secure
material that was ordered sev-j
*ra! months ago has compelled a sus
pension of bridge building and rouse-'
juently of tracklayiug until about j I
February 1. Until then daylight wiil |
>» so meager that little progr—, could j
>*• made and as no work that van be
loot* until bridge timber arrivesI
would hasten trackia\ing no effort
will be made to pusii i:.
About l«Ht men will !««• employed on.
in rock work between cuinp • »T and
; iong trestle on mile b>. The
‘•■mpletion of that will enable the con
action company to abandon all grati
ng ramps this side of mile 7»> when i
-.ill oper.it ions begin and to lay rails
bat far as fast as the bridges are put
n. About tx\ rnty-tive men will work
n tie logging camps on miles 7.5 and
during tlte winter.
The track is laid hrough tunnel 1
i. the high trestle, where it had to
because not enough stringers'
•ould be obtained to deck the trestle. ;
:”n. '.a* • s .■•♦eked about two-thirds
>f i-s . ngth and work will stispentt on !
it toniorrow . vetting for lack of timber.
'!' i w: be operated as often as
sufficient i afiic is offered to make it
pa; Last \ ear at least 400 prospectors
went m over the railroad between i
.lanuarv and^March. bound for the in-1
>r. ft U e>;j.ect* d that fully twice
that nuaio» r "til take the railroad
route for tit-- Y-ntna district during
i,i -ii'-w >• n. Al*out fifty are wait
ing -ox i Seward to start as soon as
tie- m oxv is h ep enough and at least
- maity mure are going from the rail
>.nt work. All will start before the;
end of the month.
Forms Juneau Partnership
.) aC. L. V. Kay of Seward has
formed a law partnership with I.*. R.
Gillette of Juneau, one of the leading
lawyers of that city, and the firm will
continue offices in both cities. Owing
11> Mr. Gillette’s enforced absence in
thetas! fer several months this winter
un tht- business tit a big mining com
pany Mr. Ray will go to Juneau on the
n* xt Portland to take care of the
firm’s business in a terra of court
which wi begin November 2*> and
continue nearly two months.
Mr. Ray is one of the best trial la w
yers in the north, and it was the
record he made recently in Valdez
which led to the offer of a partnership
from Mr. Gillette.
K. W. Young and James Wallace of
Girdwood came to Seward Saturday
night on busine
The Guggenheims bought the lower
eight miles of Hunker creek in the
Klondike for $2,0tX).OOO.
Reaufort. South Carolina, has a
woman 121 years old who never heard
of Chicago.
The roar about the car shortage in
the Pacific Northwest grows constantly
more violent.
STEAMSHIPS
^=5==H^=5 SEATTLE Katalli. Cordon, Orta, looldir lay, Laadlock lay, Ellaaar, Valdaz, Latoaeht, Fai lalaad) SEWARD I
: W E HAVE SHIPMENTS ON ALL OF THEM |
We are not like our competitors; they don/1 needl the money, we do. Do you fcriow we
cannot afford to give away the Entire Cash Sales for even one day. We don't believe in
handing you boquets in baskets. We confine our efforts to the General Merchandise
business only. and, ive don't even handle Coal. Our cat-rale Prices still continue the
same us in October.
DOES IT PAY TO ADVERTISE? 1 \'ell, judging from ou/r sales the past month, YES. We
do us ire advertise: not advertise what ire will do. Don't wait for the trumpet call at
/.SO every night, but get in during the (lay: ire open early and, close late.
WE ARE NOT CLOSING OUT NEW GOODS CONTINUE TO ARRIVE ON EVERY BOAT
SEWARD COMM RCIAL COMPANY
WHITE HOUSE ON THE LEVEE
We have on hand a full stock
of drugs, sundries, toilet arti
cles, rubber goods, stationery,
photo supplies, cigars, tobaccos
Come and get our prices, it will be to
your advantage.
OWLDRUGCO.
Wholesale and Retail.
D. C. BROWNELL
THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE
Hardware Store
TROY HAND LAUNDRY]!
Don’t worry about your flannel
shirt collars and cuffs when you
.can have them returned as new
Next to Moon’s Hall_fifth A>e. Seward
G. W. PALMER
GENERAL MERCHANDISE1
Prospectors Outfits High
est Prices Paid for Furs—
Knik P. O. Alaska
ftY>1 \J;SSS jgjgl y B e 3
HHwlllicElaBM
If you desire. write or >lii|> to
mcmillan fur & wool co.
41 Langley St., Victoria, B. C.
Seward Bakery
Opposite Postoffice
Fresh home-made Bread. Pies
and Cakes every day.
Whole Wheat. Graham. Kye
Bread and Pomperniekle al
wuys on hand.
C. WERNER. Proprietor
SEWARD STEAMERS !
Saratoga: in Valdez: >ails tor Seward |
thi- evening.
Portland: sailed from Seattle 11th.
Dora: sails from Seattle Kith.
Northwestern; sailed for Seattle Nth.
Bertha: sailed for Seattle Nth.
Pennsylvania: sailed for Seattle 11th.
Shelikof: sailed for Pnalaska Kith.
WtEKLY WEATHtR RECORD
Weathet record for the week ending
November hi:
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Saturday W> 2d Cloudy
Sunday id -IN Rain
Monday 42 •{.’> Clear
Tuesday .'IT dd Clear
Wednesday .'id 2* Clear
Thursday .‘54 2d Clear
Friday .'id 26 Snow
Keep everlastingly at it. Spasmodic
attempts at saving money accomplish
no permanent good. Money in the
bank makes any man independent.
BANK OF SEWARD.
H. E. ELLSWORTH
SKWARO. ALASKA.
ASSAY OFFICE
Reports on mines Ore Analysis
Gold .. SO I
Gold and Silver. tJO
Copper. 1.80 !
Lead . 1-80 :
Gold. Silver and J^ead ;L50 ]
Gold. Silver and Copier. 8.80 j
Gold. Silver. Coppor and Lead. 1.80
Gold and Silver Umpire. S.00 i
Iron. ,-,NI
Sulphur. Aluminum. Tin. Platinum.
Quicksilver. Zine. Nickel. Cobalt
Chromium, etc... .. ■ 0.00 ,
Mill testv . ... .*15 to *30 |
Ore analysis. *10 and up ;
Gold refined, melted, assayed and bought
t mmm , ini—mira -p———a
H. S. WATERMAN
MINING ENGINEER
Assay Office. Valdcx. Alaska.
(iold - • • *1.80
Gold and Silver • - 2.«l
Copper - - * 1.80
Gold. Silver and Copper 3..V'
Reports and examinations of mines.
('ash should uceompnny all samples.
REMODELED-"]
THE RAINiER-GRANO HOTEL
SEATTLE
Fopuiar Prices New Management
Central Location European Plan
Greatest Cafe and Bar Service in the City
Wilson & White Co., Prop. Chas Perry, Mgr
GAWLEY EOUNDRY &
MACHINE WORKS
Tacoma. Washington. U. S. A
founders, Machinists,
Blacksmiths.
Designers and Builders of
Sawmill Machinery, Wood
Working Machinery, Marine
Machinery and Steamhoists.
Seward Bowling Alley
Fourth Avenue, Seward.
BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES
In Connection
Ladies’ Day Friday Afternoon
A Good Place to Spend
the Evening.
t. L. WHITTtMORI. Proprietor
Eraser’s Smoke Shop
X fine line of choice Cigars, To
baccos and Pipes.
CLUB ROOMS IN CONNECTION
H. II. PHASER Fourth Ave. and Washlnoton St.
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THE BRANCH
J. E. FITZPATRICK &. CO.
The New Up Town Resort for Everyone
THE COMMERCE
O FOURTH AVENUE
A Gentleman's Resort and Club Rooms.
. FURNISHED ROOMS
First Class Cafe in Connection
PETERSON 8c BROWN, Proprietors
NORTHERN RALOON
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E. L. WHIT! EIVIGRE, Proprietor
WINES, LIQUORS A MD CIGARS
FOURTH AVE. SEWARD, ALASKA
colemXn HOUSE
Electric Lights and Electric Bells in Every Room
Rates from 50c to $2.50 per Day
ABSOLUTELY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avenue Seward, Alaska
THE LOUVRE
EIDSON & DOBSON Proprietors
A Gentleman’s Resort. Gold Dust Bought
Cor. Fifth and Washington streets Seward, Alaska