OREGON COMING HERE
Big Nome lher Will Help Relieve
freight Congestion.
Tl«* big steamship Oregon, which
has been on the Nome run for s. veral
seasons, will be sent to Seward by the
Northwestern Steamship Company
next month to nip reduce the freight j
surplus for this port now awaiting j
transportation from Seattk\ C.eneral,
Manager Trowbridge has so informed
S. 1’. Drown, local ageut of the com*;
vany. The On gon is now at Nome, or
vn her way down, but she will prole
iibly be able to sail tor Seward early in
November.
Seward will be a busy port during
the next few weeks. Besides the five
regular steamers and the Oregon, the
Kdith and the Dora are coming. 1 hex
will bring cargoes from Seattle before
the end of this month. ’ he fWith is
, spectnl any day. She will bring;
rolling stock, explosives and l.OdO tons
vf steel for the Alaska t oi tral. I he
Dora, which has liecuon thedryxlock at
Seattle, will hr .n, a cargo for \ aide#
;md Seward and resume her regular
run to the westward. 1 oe t or win is
■u.ie from Nome October -t». She will j
bring passengers from that camp,
many of whom will stop at Seward.
THINKS MURRAY IS ALIVE
Man Who Knew Missing Pros
pector has new Theory
That John Murray, or Moreira, tin*
missing jmrtner of .Jim k isk, whose
skeleton was found recently at Halibut
ba\. did not commit suicide but escaped
.after killing k'isk. is the theory ef
>. Wilcox, an Inlet miner who knew
I nit h.
Wilcox believes that Murray dal not
l»ecome insane but that the two men
\juarreled, as lonesome wen often do
through sheer irritation resulting from
their isolated life, and that Murray
killed Fisk. The interior of their
cabin l*>iv evidt nces of a bloody strug
Fisk’s skeleton had the mark of
a rifle ball in the hack, showing that
j>,* must have lieen shot as he was run
ning away. le hud fallen about
twenty steps from tb« cabin. Murray
was a Portuguese, ami with the hot
Mood of his race would doubtless shoot
« man in the l*ack after a fight,
Wilcox does not l*dieve that Murray
<*■ >>tted to kill Fisk for ids money, be
cause both were well supplied and had
worked together for two or three sea
sons. hut he thinks that after the fatal
quarrel Murray took Fisk's money to
*tid him in the effort to escape. It was
then, according to this theory, that
Murray wrote ti e frenzied letters to
account for the crime. In Ids state of
mind it required no effort beyond de
vising a motive, to write letters which
seerted to lie the work of an insane
man.
Murray was well known all around
>he Inlet and his only chance Tor escape
was to take an cut-going steamer un
der cover of darkness. WilCox thinks
he probably sknlked around Seldovia
until the Dora catoe along, hoarded
her at night and went to Dutch Har
lan*. From that point he could have
gone north, south or west.
8RING LAUNCH TO SEWARD
Local Men buy Lake Creft and
vCiH Use Her in the Bay
The launch Fannie, which was used
as a tug on the Trail lakes hy the
Alaska central all summer until the
railroad wus beyond the lake*., has
been . from J. 11. Smith hy
Kooney O'Donnell and will be
-operated on Resurrection 1*h\ hy the
view owners. They have had her en
tirely overhauled and refitted and have
■changed her registry to Seward.
The launch will hereafter be known
■as the Flossie. She will be Used in
the bay for light freighting and the
taew owners will :.lso make her an eX
vursion boat, runnin* special excur
sions on tb» bay twice a week.
The Sfctfard F.lectric Company ex
pects new transformers on the Santa
Vlara. which trill enable it to meet the
increasMg’demand for lights.
In talkShg'Xorne folk*, never stop to
thmk, w-hRe others never think <o*K.o}>
NO SLACK IN BUILDING
Construction Work Proceeds Stead
ily on all Sides.
Building proceeds rapidly .in all di-j
of C. Uichatds is now receiving I
the inside work. The addition to b.
V. Thomas’ saloon building is ready,
for occupancy and will be opened with j
ceremony this evening. The McNei-j
lev hotel and the Northern Saloon
buildings are getting well along
toward completion.
Similar progress is noted in the res
idence district. The row of houses on:
North Third avenue have reached the
stage of interior finishing. The next
to l*ecompleted will l*e Kugene Hale’s.
This plastered and the first coat of
paint is on the outside. Contractor
Henry Houle said today that he expect
ed to hove it finished within a few
days. The adjoining houses of .T. 13.
Cameron and M. 13. Holland are nearly
a> far along. A large number of 'wall
cottages are going up in every part of
town-.
COOK TEACHES POLITENESS
Camp Chef hits Man with Cleaver
for Wearing Hat at Table
Became one of the tuen in a tie camp
up the line refused to take off his hat
Sunday while dining in the palatial
banquet hall the chef jogged him
gently with a meat cleaver, cutting a
deep gash. Then to show that the
deadly weapon had been wielded merely
as a lesson in politeness and that no
ill-will existed the cook hound up the
bleeding wound of the offending
UiardCfs
Both men came to town later in the
day. the victim of the cleaver threaten
ing to obtain legal redress and the
instructor in table manners to get in
his explanation a«> early as possible.
To a gentleman of the same profession
beside a local bar he was heard telling
the story between deep and frequent
potations. He said it was like this :
The men were all eating with their
hats on and were admoniidvcd he the
eook. who seems to think he was in
vested with the authority of an English
butler, to bare their beads. All did so
but two. The cook repeated his sug
gestion and to give his monitory atti
tude a minatory aspect flourished the
deafer. One man took off his lid
but the other obstinately kept his in
place. The cook advanced and made a
pass with the cleaver and the man
with the hat on threw up his arm in
the belief that he was thereby saving
his head. The arm struck the cleaver
-o hard that the edge went through
cloth and flesh nearly to the bone.
The cook added m his account to his
friend;
“ [ tie up bis arm and offer him $100
if he will dot make'Complaint about
nus He say no. he vill haf me arrested
and so l comes down to see abend i<."
■"I'd HVC killed him if I'd been yon,"
said theother. *‘I cut a fellows ear off
once for sassing me in a camp."
Then the tie camp dilettante sighed
awl dragged another schooner overture
bar. Re bus not yet been arrested.
The v*etii* carries his arm in a sling.
Jo Install New Seram Laundry
Ah Dickinson lias Ordered machinery
for a new steam laundry, which he ex
pects to have installed and ready for
opeCntidn with+n thirty days. He hr
lieves that the growth of Seward will
require another laundry plant before
long and ■proposes to get in on ltlhs
ground door.
Roof (iolng on Butler Building
The roof i*. x'oinjf on the buil<?Ph»f
which w#l ho occupied hv Butler &
Compar.v with their new electrical
plant which Will be run by power from
Lowell creek. The bi& water wheel
is on the ground ready to be installed,
and the pipe for the pipe line is ex
pected rr* the Bertha a 1 mm t October 20.
A -.lnfoe box artist gathered in $loo
that didn't belong to him. on Gold
Run. ____
The Yakutat Lumber Company now
has a full stock of lumber received on
the Dirlg-o * .
PLAN TO BUILD
LOCAL BREWERY
M. S. Moorehouse and Seward Men
Project Plant Which Will
Cost $44),OOO.
Seward's first manufacturing plant
will be a brewery if present plans
mature. A project Is on foot to con
struct a $40,000 plant and the local
saloon men have agreed to take stock
in it. A meeting was bold last night
to discuss preliminaries.
The promoter of the brewery project
is M. S. Moorehousc of Seattle, who
was here in September. He has agreed
to put up $20,000 for the plant if local
men will raise an equal amount. If
this is done Mr. Moore house will come
to Seward at once to reside and will
have the plant installed and in operation
as soon as materials can lm brought
here and buildings constructed.
At the present time several hundred
dollars a month are expended outside
for beer and the amount is constantly
increasing with Lite growth of the town.
The freight on beer from Seattle is $15
a ton. As beer is mostly water the
men who deal in malt are flguringthat
they and their customers pav a pretty
high price for the fluid, and as Seward
lias as good water as any place on earth
it is argued that the town does not need
to import it at fancy prices.
The operation of a brewery with a
capacity sufficient to supply the beer |
demand of Seward would create quite j
a large payroll in the. town from the
'tart, and t his would grow steadily with
the extension of the railroad and the
buikting of new towns along the route.
Mr. Moorehousc is represented in
Seward by W. 1’. Henry, who says the
brewery is a sure tiling as the money
needed can be obtained from an outside
brewer if local men do not feel justified
iu risking the investment.
SEWARD CHURCHES
Episcopal,- Rev. F. ('. Taylor in
charge. Holy Communion at !) a. m.
Regular services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Catholic Church of the Result*
kkction. corner of Adams and Fourth:
Rev. P. H. Turnell. S. ,1., in charge.
Holy Mass and sermon at 10 a. in: Sun
day school at 2:30 j>. m: Evening ser
vice and lecture at 7 j>. iu. <>n week
days Holy Mass at 7 a. in.
Methodist F.piscopal Rev. L. H.
Pedersen, pastor. Preaching until fur
ther notice every Sunday evening at 8
o’clock, preceded by 20 minute song
service.
BUILD R0AD3 BY MACHINERY
^abor-Savlng Device Lays 1,770 Feet
of Track Every Hour—Re
quires Few Hen.
The west is a country of big things
And railroad building by machinery is
oue of them. Even the roadbed on
which the track res>ts is made up by
.he steam and horse.glider, great holes
tilled up to the track level automatically
and the ballast to hold the tie? and rails
in place distributed in the same man
ner. la fact, such 1ms been the de
velopment of mechanical aids it is not
an Idle boast that with them two dozen
men could span the continent with a
band of steel. A few statistics may give
a clearer idea of the quickness of It
all. To put down 60 feet ot track means,
of course, to set in position 12u feet of
rails. The average rail is 3U feet in
length, so that four rails are required to
:over the 60 feet The trach-laylng
machine has laid 1.180 such rails in
ten hours. This means the lay ing of
no less than 1,770 feet of track every
hour, or nearly one-third of a mile.
Yet to accomplish the feat ail the ties
must be placed on their beds and the
rails not only -laid upon them but fas
tened to the wood and made ready for
service. The marvel of it all is the
amount of manual labor that is saved
by the genius of the inventor. First
come the scrapers, doing all the work
of the hand shovel, yet two uien only
are needed for each machine—one to
guide the horses and the other to ad
just the blade and chute. With the
•steam shovel are an engineer and his
assistant, for the shovel tills and emp
ties its ecoop into the ears without
the touch of a hand. Compressed air
unloads the cars, but the dirt train usu
ally has half a dozen men aboard for
emergencies, besides the engineer and
fireman. On the track-laying train two
men load all the ties on the tie car
•and one f»ian moves it to and fro. Foe
bolting the 'rails and handling them oh
the rollway six men are enough. About
twice as many arrange the ties on the
roadbed and fasten the rails. Add the
locomotive crew and you have the act
ual working force. In putting the fin
ishing touches to the track perhaps 20
men may be needed after the ballast
train has passed over it.
STOVES AND RANGES
-Wholesale and Retail
TIN, BRASS AND SHEET STEEL WORK
JOBBING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
JKV-40 Winchester Repeating Ritles.-Axes, Saws
Large Assortment of Tents. Granite and Tinware
~ ;5 A M [ft-M rp* FOURTH AVENUE
J9 ILm* SEWARD. ALASKA
HOTEL McNEILEY I
HU KOREAN I’LAN
ACCOMMODATIONS STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Rates 50c to $2.00 per day
WILL A. McNEILEY Proprietor |
FOURTH AVENUE SEWARD. ALASKA i
BAY CITY MARKET
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
fresh Beef, PorK, Veal and Mutton
Hams, Bacon and Lard Constantly on hand
Small & Glasbrenner
THE LOUVRE
EtDSON 8t DOBSON, Proprietor#
A Gentleman's Resort. Cold Dust Bought
Cor. Fifth and Washington streets Seward. Alaska
ASHLAND HOUSE
AND BANK SALOON
Wines, Liquors and Cigars First-class Furnished Rooms
Fourth A ve.,Opposite Alaska Cent ml Commercial Co.
Restaurant in connection. WALLACt & THOMPSON, Proprietors
Board of Trade
Fourth avenue, • % Seward, Alaska
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
New, Neat and Comfortable. f. V. THOMAS, Prop.
THE COMMERCE
FOURTH AVENUE
A Gentleman’s Resort and Club Rooms.
FURNISHED ROOMS
We Purchase Gold Dust at Regular Rates
PETERSON 8c BROWN, Proprietors
F 0 HALE President 0. E. DICKERMAN, Vlce*Pres.
BANK OF SEWARD
Transacts a >Gene?al Bahki'bfc easiness
We receive deposits, buy and soli exfcftnnirA Tofeiirn and domestic: buy sold
dust und bullion: make collections. All business committed to our ear.- will
receive prompt and careful nttuntion....
Yaar Easiness is Solicited_
Votke to I. 0. (X F»
All members of I. <x O. V. residing
in Seward and vicinity desirous of or
ganizing a fraternal association are
requested to attend a meeting hereby j
called to meet at Howard Commercial j
stor* Sunday, OcfoWr 22 at >1 o'clock
P. Mv *
Pressing Invitations
1 Philadelphia Record
That fishes cannot dancp is true;
They‘cannot dance at all:
Yet oft get invitations to
Attend a codfish ball.
Agent—I ehtne to deliver your book ■
on ” HoW to play the Piano.” Lady
But I didn’t order any such bookv
Agent (consulting his noteliook)—Have
you a next door neighbor named .lories? j
Lady—Yes. Is it for her? Agent No: i
siie ordered it for .you. Cleveland
Leaders
G. W. PALMER
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Prospector's Outfits High
est Pf'rces Paid for Furs—
KnikP. O. Alaska
Marklev-—That boy of yours is very
Vmk-^ like you. Borroughs Do you
•think soy Markley—Yes. He asked
'/no for a quarter today.
A new species of the crook class,
•known as the “black >and robber” 4*
operating at Nome.