WJ 'CUES
Howard
Hamilton
Vcrithin Grut*n
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
IsH
C. E. ORLANDER
srtX'KSSOK TO
6E0R6E THE JEWELER
1,000
Pipes
AT
1,000
Pipes
THE
1,000
Pipes
KEY
With every 7.V pipt* soM we
jjivc cun or hox of tobacco tree.
A Larsje Assortment
Real Values
THE KEY
PHONE MATHISON US
Stationery
*
PAPER IN BOXES
Tablets
Pens
Ink
Library Paste
Memo Books
Kn> elopvs
Pencils
Mucilage
Paper Clips
Paper Files
In fact everythin* in the Sta
tionery line, alao a big line
of School Supplier
SEWARD DRUG CO.
PROFESSIONAL
;---—♦
DR, O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. in. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office. Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 68
► —---i
J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
--r
L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. D„ C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
k-----«
Seward
^y^ % | | Geo. A. Mitchell
I f 1 Proprietor
Open Day and Nlfht
Phone Adams 119
Service—Cleanliness
Private Boxes for Ladles or Parties
The Carstens Packing Go.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef. Pork. Veal. Mutton. Poultry,
Lard. Hama and Bacon.
Butter and Egft
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Islet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY JIVE. SEWARD
-a
Meet me at the Branch. tr.
- -♦
4. Mdvsr, Ik stated undertaker.
' J
i
DESTRUCTION
OF LUSITANIA !
WAS HUN PLOT
The cipher message which proved
that Berlin directed the sinking of the
Lusitania is made public for the first
time in the World’s Work magazine,
published this month and which
should now bo on sale at the Seward
stores carrying magazines. John R.
Rathom, editor of the Providence
Journal, which exposed numerous Or
man plots in this country during the
last three years, in an article giving
in detail the methods he used to un
earth the work of the German agents,
quotes this message from his files,
and explains how it was decoded. The
message, in cipher leads as follows:
From—Berlin Foreiyn Cftico.
To Botschaft, Wasld: gton
669 (44-W)—Welt iieen-fiftecn
warne 175 29 1 stop 175 1 2 stop,
durch 622 2 4 slop 19 » lo *iop
11 3 4 5 6.
This cipher message came through
from Nauen, Germany, to Sayville, L.
L, at 2 o’clock on the morning of April ■
29, 1915, and was caught by the oper-j
ator at a wireless station maintained
by the Providence Journal. It was es
pecially interesting because it follow
ed none of the codes which they had
previously observed. It was evident
ly important, because four attemptsj
were made to put it through before
the German station succeeded in over
I coming the unfavorable static condi
tions which prevailed that moining.
Every attempt to decipher it failed,
until somebody with a line on the in
ternal activities of the German Em
bassy remembered that during that
morning Prince Hatfield, ol the Em
bassy Stall*, had been looking for a,
New York World “Almanac.” The first
two words of the message “Welt
(German for ‘World ) 1915, supplied
the clue. Following the other num
bers in the message as representing
page line and word in the World Al-^
manac for 1915, the Journal men de
coded th«* message as follows: “Warn
"Lusitania passenger (s) through press
not voyage across the Atlantic, lwo
days later the German Embassy print
eel the now historic advertisement in
»ho New York papers warning trav
elers not to cross the Atlantic, and a
week later, on May 7th, the Lusitania
was sunk by a German submarine.
A dramatic touch of suggestion ut
death in the message lies in the factj
that the word not in it is taken from,
the first sentence of an obituary of
the late Joseph Pulitzer, former own
er of the World, which publishes the
“Almanac.” And another grim bit ot
irony in it is that the last four words
were taken from an advertisement of
a well-known marine motor headed
“The Seal of Safety at Sea.”
Two words of the message are spell
de out in German. They are “waroe, f \
which in English is “warn anu
“(lurch” which means “through. ’ The
word “Botschaft” is German for “Em
bassy.”
The German Ambassador, imme
diately after the sinking of the Lusi-|
tania, declared that the advertisement j
he had published in the New York pa
pei’s was inserted v'l hi> own respon
sibility* and had no particular rcfei-j
ence to the Lusitania. As printed,
this advertisement mentioned no shipi
by name. But the cipher message
now reveals the fact that he deliber
ately lied, and that Berlin directed the
whole tragedy.
Incidentally, Mr. Rathom's article
adds that on the evening aftei the Lu
sitania was sunk, when friends of \on
Bernstorff declared that he was over- j
whelmed with grief and secluded in
his rooms in a New \ork hotel, he
in reality giving a dinner in the apart
ments of a friend in New \ork and
there toasted the commander of the
U-boat which sunk the liner.
-/ -v
Read The Gateway.
_ - - - ^ ■ ■—
FRATERNAL
t---—*
L. 0. 0. M, No. 1425
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
1'. K. BIGFORD, Secretary.
.____
ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
P. H. Pederson John Noon'
i Noble Grand Secretary
>— -—-i
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. •
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. m., Pioneer Hall
a . ..—.--1
VODVIL SHOW BY
A.B. PROMISES TO
BE A BIG AFFAIR
The A. B. Vodvil Show that the lo
cal Lodge is staging on next Friday
night at their Hall, is, in the language,
of the trail going to be “some show.”|
The management has' caioiullyl
combed the market for talent and has |
secured an aggregation of talent that!
would n\ake Alexander Pantages take j
a farewell look at his “hole card” and j
then go out and jump in the bay.
Monologs, fancy step dancing, music,
character sketches, songs and Ha
waiian music will be all blended to
gether to make an evening of enter
tainment that will long be remem- j
bored in Seward.
The boys from the Radio Station,
with characteristic navy spirit have
come to the front in the time of need
with an ict that is distinctly original
and one that promises 10 be a scream
from tie time that the curtain goes
up till the audience sond out an S. 0.
S. asking the boyr to cease firing un
til they get their breath. Of cour?e
it would be impossible at this time to
outline their sketch, but suffice to say
that it is a new departure in Alaskan
vodvil, and is good enough t got on
with an Outside show shop.
“Dad” Kich has a lot of new stuff
under his toupee that he is pian.vng
on putting on and the song and dance
number that Sain Graff and Jack Noon
are rehearsing will put to shame their
best previous efforts. The Hawaiian
Musical number is probably the most
elaborate number thut has e'er been
staged in Seward. A dozen instru
ments, two special dancers and a
chorus of twenty, count ’em, twenty
trained voices backing up the two
soloists will give the audience an ear
ful of the real Island melody and it’s
a shame that “Dad” Tolmtin is not
here to enjoy it.
The complete program with list of
perfoiniers will be printed *r. Frday’s
Gateway, hut in the meantime »t’a a
good idea *o get your tick ts env*y as
on account of the limited capacity of
the A. I>\ Hall, it will be necessary to
limit the .cale.
Tickets will be one sale Thursday
mo! ning at the Seward Drug Co.
CAN’T KILL AIR
MEN OF AMERICA
CLAIM ITALIANS
i
AMERICAN AVIATION TRAIN
ING CAMP, SOUTHERN ITALY,
Feb. f>. — “You can’t kill an Ameri
can,” is the dictum of the Italian offi
cers training the several hundred
young aviators who have been flying
here since the end of September,
when, by arrangement with the Ital
ian government, this camp was estab
lished.
The Americans have such a reputa
tion for luck that Italian soldier*
come here so they may touch one ofj
the aviators. “It brings us good
luck, too,” they explain.
The Americans fly from night vir
tually every day. Not a single one
had been killed and but three have
been injured at all seriously. One of
the latter, on his third alone, got into
an air situation which he did not un
'hvstand, with the result that he
stopped his motor whereuoon the ma
chine hep an to plunge do wnwards vr
til its fall was checked by the tele
graph wires of the railway station of
the nearby city. Thence the machine
dropped to the ground and was
smashed. The aviator was picked up
for dead, but in five days he was
ready for another fly.
The prize story of the camp con
cerns Harry Harris, of California,
who got lost, first in the clouds, and
then in central Italy. He was a cou
ple of hours going away and a whole
week coming back to camp. As he
afterwards explained, ho went up for!
an altitude and when he got above the
clouds he was unable to discover
whether he was flying upside down
or right side up, or whether the caith
was above or below him.
Finally, after gazing at a few moun
tain tops of the Appenines, he light
ed in the center of a village square,;
begging for something to eat. As ne
couldn't speak Italian, his explanation
that he >vas “Americano” didn't sat
isfy the local police, who had never
heard of American aviators in Italy
out had heard a lot about those of
Austria who have Die unpleasant ha
bit of dropping bombs on coast towns
along the Adriatic.
However, he w*as fed and started
eampwrards, after a couple of day* ol j
detention. He had flown nearly a j
hundred and fifty miles aw*ay from,
camp, and when he got back there, h< (
w’as accused of having been on a visit!
to some sweetheart.
VICTORIA DUE
TOMORROW-HAS
MUCH FREIGHT
Steamer Victoria, Capt. Charles
Davis, left Cordova at 6 o’clock this
morning and i sduc in Seward tomor
row forenoon. The Victoria has 35,
000 feet of lumber aboard for the rail
road commission, a fair cargo of gen
eral merchandise, eight days mail and
the following passengers who sailed
from Seattle: J. F. Smeaton, P. J.
Peterson, Mrs. Anna Bubb and baby,
F. L. Knight, Josephine Mason, R. W.
Wooden and Ole Svare.
-v -
EFFECTS OF DEAD
ARE AUCTIONED OFF
BY THE BRITISH
LONDON, Feb. 6. — Dead men’s
effects are sold at auction on the ship's
deck by an old custom in the British
navy. Prices out of all proportion to
the value of the goods are often rea
lized for the man’s heirs, especially if
the late owner was popular with his
shipmates.
Purely personal belongings, such as
letters and photographs, arc first tak
en out to be forwarded to the deceas
ed's relatives. Then, as soon as offi
cial sanction is obtained, the rest of
the articles are taken to a convenient
part of the ship and offered for sale.
The master-at-arms acts as auction
eer.
v —
WEATHER ON R. R.
Zero weather prevails at Anchorage
today and it is cloudy with a north
wind. The conditions at other places j
I aiong the railroad are as follows:
Girdwood, 4 below, cloudy, calm;;
one half inch of new snow.
Matnnuska, 10 belo\v, cloudy, N. E.
King, 4 above, clear, north.
Talkeetna, 10 above, clear N. E.
Deadhorse, 6 above, cloudy, ns'th.i
-*
FOR SALE—Handsome dinner set |
for G people, imported English w’are,
$25.00, also damask draperies, oil
painting, china, electic appliances.
Call Mrs. Lipke, Noon Apartments.
-♦
Meet me at the Branch. tf.
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Homeshoeing Wlieelwrighting
SEWARD. ALASKA
Charley the Tailor
Next to Alaska S. S. Co.
CLEANING
PRESSING
REPAIRING
| Work Called for and Delivered
I
Suits Made to Order
I Telephone—Adams 66
HOTEL OVERLAN I
HARRY WHITTEMORE, Leasee and Manager.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, • - ALASKA
H. V. HOUKN A. F. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
li, V. HOBKN, Manager
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Tranafe-* Phones, Main 17 and 81
»»■— THE PAI AfF S^"
P—l.n4WIH.rd» | -— I flL/lVL RAPICH, Props.
A GENTLEMAN’S RESORT
Meet Your Friends at The Palace
BAR—POOL AND BILLIADS—CARD TABLES
THE
HOTEL
SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modem Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office—Bank of Seward .Building
ALASKA
Attention Mushers!
*
THE GLACIER BAR, at Girdwood
. is a Restaurant and Pool Hall. Meals are to be
*
had from 5 a. m., until 10:00 p. m. Good
Spring Beds—Horse and Dog Stables
Hitchcock & Hachcy, Props.
A PIPE o’ VELVET is a great
teacher. When a ^^gj^k
man’s smokin’ he am t
called on to talk so
much. He gets a
chance to listen some.
I
No tobacco surpasses VELVET as a promoter of reflec
tion and concentrated thinking. This Kentucky Burley
de Luxe, with the aged-in-the-wood mellowness and with
out a trace of bite, truly deserves its name ' 'The Smooth
est Smoking Tobacco.” Coupons of Value with VEL
VET.