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SEWARD, \l.ASKA Tl'ESDAY, JCL\ 25, 1016.
One of these days a team representing Anchorage will
face a team representing Seward on the home diamond.
The moment the first ball is pitched in that game the air
will become charged with electricity. All the pent up
feelings of several months will be let loose through the
mouths of the rooters and fans and heaven help the Sew
ard boys if they are not fully trained. The time is short
and the arch enemy approaches. Oh, boys! Get to work.
The delegates or some of them have arrived for the
Democratic divisional convention tomorrow and Seward
bids them welcome. They have come merely to do the
work of the organization in the smoothest manner possi
ble. So far as anyone knows just now there is no program
drawn up. The delegates are evidently waiting to get to
gether and talk things over and just do w hat they believe
best. In other words this convention will be a reproduc
tion in one respect of the Democratic convention at Ju
neau and of the great national one at St. Louis. If it is
true that union means strength the most rabid Republican
must feel anxious.
The feeling cannot be avoided that Seward, intention
ally or unintentionally, is being neglected just at present.
Everything that crops up seems to indicate earlessness
about giving us our place in the sun. Even in the matter
of wireless communication it is felt since the Saturn pulled
out that we are not yet near relief.
In a few months Seward will once again be the only
gateway to the Interior. This year ought to bring an ex
ceedingly large amount of travel and. in addition to this.
the hundreds of men who are now on the payroll will have
! the fruits of the season’s work. We are already standing
jon the threshold of the time that Seward has waited for.
With the coming years and the developments of the thou
| sands of square miles served by the railroad Seward will
continue to grow. Seward is not one of those places that
must be nursed to life. It is a place that cannot be killed.
I or even made unhealthy.
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DROWNED ON WAY
TOLSTOI STRIKE
ANCHORACE.—The latest report
of accidental drowning that comes
home to Anchorage is the one of Lee
Fortner, who was drowned in Happy
river several days ago while enroute
with a party of prospectors, to the!
new Tolstoi placer camp.
Ed. Becker, a well-known miner
and prospector, returned to Anchor- j
age Sunday and was with Fortner at
the time of the accident and gives the
following account of the drowning:
Mr. Becker said that a party com- i
posed of (/has. Tryck, J. B. Waixlman,
U*e Fortner and himself left Anchor
age June 2f> on the launch Sea Lion
for Susitna Station on the way to
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.Tolstoi and when they reached the;
Station they got A1 Stinson to take i
them to Skwenta Crossing, by boat i
and from there they started over the
lditarod trail for Happy river, pack-j
ing only such supplies and blankets
as was necessary for the trip. When
the party got to the road house at
Mountain Climber Fortner was tired
out and Becker and Fortner stayed
over four days to rest up while
Tryck and Waixlman continued their
journey. After resting the four days
Becker and Fortner mushed on to
Happy river where they built a raft
in order to cross the river. Mr. Beck
er said the river was swollen and very
swift and as it is always a dangerous
river he cautioned Fortner, who was
a newcomer to the country and the
experience was strange to him, to use
every precaution in landing.
It seems that there is an island on
tin' opposite Side ot Happy river at
this place where tilt* current is very
swift and rushing with coas.Jerable
force* away from t’ e north hanK woere
tl ey wanted to land and the arrange
ments were timt when th? raft g<d
as rear the oaiK as possible for
Becker to jump otr using the tow line
to haul the raft to shore.
Becker said that when they got
within six feet of the bank he made
the jump ami landed in water up to
his knees and was in the ac; of haul
ing tn? raft ashore* when t'ortner fell
off and was drowned. Becker imme
diately turned the raft loose and suc
ceeded in rescuing the body about
:i00 yards down stream, where it had
lodged on a riffle. — Ex.
NEW CHIEF OF FIELD
DIVISION M VS ARRIVED
JUNEAU.—C. B. Arundell arrived
from Seattle on a recent boat to as
sume his duties of the Field Division
of the general land otlice, with head
quarters in Juneau. Mr. Arundell
succeeds Andrew Christensen, who re-,
signed recently to take charge of the
land department of the government
railroad system.
Mr. Arundell expects to leave on
one of the next boats for Anchorage
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sundays: Communi/n Mass at 8:30
a. m.
Mass and Sermon at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school after Mass.
> Rosary, Instruction and Benediction
I at 7:30 p. m.
Weekdays: Daily Mass at 7:30 a.
m.
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whore ho will join Mr. Christensen .
and W. C. Edes, of the Alaskan En-,
gineering Commission, for a trip to
the interior. The party will go to1
Fairbanks the entire distance along
the line of the government railroad
and examine the land and industrial
possibilities.
On his return to Juneau in the fall,
Mr. Arundell will be joined by Mrs.
Arundell and child and will make his
future home here.—Empire.
FAMOUS WOMAN
MINER OF INTERIOR
STRIKES IT RIC H
Mrs. Cleveland, the famous woman
miner of Fairbanks, and her partner,,
Howell, will take out a fortune on
Woodchopper creek during the coming j
season, according to the Fairbanks
News-Miner.
Their lirst clean-up, made recently,
amounted to $08,000, according to ad
vices from the lower river. While
all will be glad to wish Howell, who
is a progressive miner, the best of
luck, all old timers will be delighted
for Mrs. Cleveland’s sake, for no
woman ever lived in the North has
done more to develope the country.
For almost twenty years Mrs.
Cleveland has been spending money,
tens of thousands of dollars, in de
veloping the country and opening up
new mining ground, to say nothing of
the thousands that she has given to
grubstake prospectors.
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Once used—always used. Brown &
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Tray service receives prompt at
tention. 10-5—tf.
RUBBER BOOTS
Good ones, too BUU.’S EYE BRAND all sizes, hip
length; heavy soles,
To Close $6.00 pair To Close
If you can use a pair, better get them now
COTTER’S
The place where men outfit
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SEWARD, - - ' ALASKA
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AUCTION SALE * 200 LOTS |
In the A. B. Hall, Seward,
Tuesday, July 25th, 2 p. m.
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$250 AND UP terms I $800 AND UP
for residence lots 10 per cent. CASH |_FOR business lots_
TEN PER CENT IN THIRTY DAYS—Balance in one, two, three and four years at seven per cent
THE ORIGINAL TOWNSITE OF SEWARD
Contains only 1200 lots—the purchase of any one of which is like buying gold dollars for a dime
CONDITIONS IN SEWARD
Are rapidly approaching a climax and we are liable to wake up any moment and find that the boom is on. Con
struction of the Government dock is now under way; the number of men at work on the railroad is rapidly being
increased; new business structures and residences are going up; a large amount of street grading has been
started by the city and there is not an idle man in Seward.
PROSPERITY IS HERE—AND HERE TO STAY
From now on Seward will grow with a rapidity that will
surprise the most optimistic, and by the time Cook Inlet is
closed to navigation the town will be overcrowded.—New
stores and new residences will be an absolute necessity.
THIS AUCTION SALE IS YOUR LAST CHANCE
to pick up lots in Seward at present prices.—Every Specu
lator .every homeseeker and every man wanting a busi
ness location should get in at once.—For as sure as the
sun rises and sets Seward will shortly be a city of 10,000
inhabitants and the price of every one of the 1200 lots in
the original townsite will be beyond the reach ot the man
of moderate means.
EVERY RESIDENT WHO LIVES IN A RENTED
? HOUSE
should grasp this opportunity—and every man whose
l
cabin is on the government ground should buy a lot, for
every inch of government ground in Seward will soon be
required for trackage and railroad yards.
IF THE PEOPLE OF SEWARD
Ctfuld look into the future there would not be one unsold
lot when the auction sale is over.
A. B. Hall Tuesday July 25th at 2 P. M.
FRANK L. BALLAINE, Seward