SET $250,000,000
APART TOR BUILDING
Twelve Railroads Prepare to Spend
That Amount in Western Ex
tensions Next Year.
Bv Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
t'hieuyo. Nov. 27—Twelve bijr rail
road corporations are preparing to
$2o0,000,000 in western exten
sions next year. The total planned is
a hunt 7000 miles.
Most of tins mileaye is in the north
w,»t and the new lines at-*1 nearly all
Imililiny toward I’uyet Sound.
HUMPY STEPHEN DROWNED
Noted Indian Character of Inlet
Falls into Resurrection Creek
••Humpy" Stephen departed this life j
November-nd, by falling into Resur-!
rect ion creek near Hope, while intoxi
cated. “Humpy" was one of the in
i Testing characters of the Cook Inlet
region, where he had lived since the
memory of man runneth not to the
contrary. He was native Indian, and
w;t' a sort of assistant priest or servi
tor in the Creek church.
Humpy was so named because of
hi* physical deformity. He was a
humpback, very short of stature, and
his eccentricities achieved him consid
erable local fame. He was about *>0
year* of age and had probably lived in
Southern Alaska all his life. He was
t at her intelligent and while his relig
ion' usefulness was doubted by persons
of different faith, or none at all, he
\\ i' well-liked because of his good
nature.
The precise nature of Humpy's com
ni "ion from the church was unknown
except to the elect, but his authority
»n the absence of a priest was not dis
puted by the other natives. It was re
ported that he received a salary ot
-l.An u month for his ministrations, but
in hi* capacity as acolyte he managed
to string out his income by various j
levies upon the brethren.
It i' said that when all other re
sources failed Humpy would induce
the lambs of his tlock to join him in a
poker game, in which he usually
'beared them. “Some way or other,v
said a man who knew Humpy well,
“it** made all the Indian money come
hi> way, but he always put it into cir
culation again and it gravitated rapidly
to the white mah.r
Hunijuk official and legal residence j
wa> at Tyoonok, but his habitat em
braced the entire Cook Inlet region,
e'peciallv the localities where the
white man's hootch grew rankest. It
w as under the inspiration of Cook Inlet
vodka that Humpy fell from a vertical
bank into the deep water of Resurrect- j
ion creek. He was unable to pull him- j
self to a place of safety and when His
inanimate body was dragged ashore
further down it was found that his
'pirit had down to the happy hunting;
grounds.
In a terrible storm at sea, near Solo-1
mon. t lie gasoline schooner Anglo-Sax-;
-on drifted ashore in Bonanza river.
Fred <>tt. engineer,, and Ole Oleson, a;
*
dock hand, were washed overboard and
drowned. The bodies floated ashore.
Ladies’ sweaters at Clayson’s
Coal Coal Coal
SEWARD FUEL CO.
TEAL E-H ILLS
FURNITURE AND CARPET CO.
Seattle, Washington.
FURNITURE
CARPETS AND STOVES
Address T. L. L.E WITH. Alaska Representative
T. H. F. & C. CO.
Seward Water & Power
Company
JOHN. A. NELSON. Manager
Office Third and Washington streets
F G. HALE, President C. E. DICKERMAN, Vice-Prcs.
BANK OF SEWARD
Transacts a General Banking Business
We receive deposits, buy and sell exchange, foreign, and domestic: buy gold
dust and bullion: make collections. All business committed to our care will
receive prompt and careful attention.
Your Business is Solicited
Earthquakes and Competitors
Cut No Eigure With lls
We have the largest and best selected stock of Dry Goods and Ladies and Gents Furnish,
ings in Seward. Men’s, Women’s and Children’s shoes, both leather and rubber. Full
line of Holiday goods on the S. S. Santa Ana.
Everything Coming Our Way. Why?
We established the prevailing price in Seward and as a result we are getting our share
of patronage. People don’t mind being held up part of the time, but not all the time.
We will give away $150 in presents Christmas.
Watch this Add next week. No fake!
A fine lot of Thanksgiving Turkeys on the S. S. Santa Ana. Nothing small about them.
TF?E SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
“White House on the Levee"’
Y
Fresh from the Factory
ALL THE NEW AND UP-TO-DATE STYLES
Don’t fail to have a box on your table for Thanksgiving and Christinas
SEE O U R S H O W_WINDOW
OWL DRUG CO.
HOTEL
——tz==. EUROPEAN PLAN
Rates 50c to $2.00 per day
Accommodations Strictly First-class
HAW K I NS & W HITT EM 0 R E, Propr i ETORS
Fourth Avenue, - Seward, Alaska
HAY AN RAIN
P. J. MCDERMOTT, fourth avenue, seward
FURNISHED ROOMS
We Purchase Gold Dust at Regular Kates
PETERSON 8c BROWN, Proprietors
I
Only the choicest goods dispensed
Club Rooms in connection
Furnished Apartments up stairs
New, Neat and Comfortable. f. V. THOMAS, Prop.