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Vol. 11 Seward, Alaska* Saturday. November 17. 1917 ■>
SCHOOL NOTES
Nineteen more books were added to
our library. They are the gift of
Elizabeth Toney. We are glad to sot
them come in.
Letters from several old students
were received this week. Maxine Me-,
Donald is in Anchorage: Florence Van
(blder in Ketchikan, and Robert Mull
en in Seattle.
Who would ever have suspected;
that Thelma would begin stargazing
-o young.
Caesar is still living up to his old
military ability, as he has won sever
al successful battles against the Latin
class during the past week. It is
said that Caesar never lost a battle;
we are p*rf«*ctly convinced ot it it
his enemies of old had as much ditli
culty with him as we do. We recom
mend him to the Government as a
buffer against Von Hindenburg.
the wonders of the sin
B> Thelma Ellsworth
The sun has always been a mys
tery. From the earliest time the
savage ha> worshipped it as the mys
terious source of !ght and heat and
although science ha.- found out some
wonderful things, we still know very
little about it.
The sun is miles from the
earth. This distance changes slightly
from day to day. as the earth does
not move round the sun in a circle,
hut is a trifle nearer to it in the win
ter than in summer.
When we look through a telescope
at it, it looks like a bioad, round,
white disc, shaded a little at the edge,
.'O that we can see it is not really Hat
hut a globe.
mere are mack spiasnes on u.
These arc the famous sun spots which
tel! us so much about the sun. They
were discovered by Galileo in the year
Hill. For this great discovery he
nearly lost his life. Since there was
nothing to be found about sun spot."
in the writings of the great Greek
scientist Aristotle, the people who
were powerful in the time of Galileo
said that what he called >un spots
were only the spots in the telescope or
in his eye, and he was put to torture
to force him to say there were no
spots on the sun. Hut later it was
found that Galileo was right.
These sun spots are very interest
ing. They measure often many thou
sands of miles fiom side to side, and
some of them arc so big that you
could lay ten worlds upon them in a
row and still the spots would be seen.
If you were to watch these spots
fiom day to day you would notice,
that they move across the sun. There
are many of these sun spots which ap
pear on one side of the sun, travel
across it and then disappear, and in a
day or two appear again.
No one can acttually say what the
* sunspots an*. Some astronomers
sen's surf ace where the stulI* which it
has thrown out ami which has cooled
.s gradually settling down again. But
this is not certain. All we tan say is
that the spots are caused by great
storms and ereuptions within the sun,
and that they tell us that this great
globe is not solid and steady, like the
earth, but is constantly tossing up and
down almost like water boiling in a
l he hot matter that makes up the
,-un is in ceaseless movement which
gives out tiny particles. On all sides
without end the sun is pouring out
not only heat and light but also these
tiny particles which rush through
space and probably account for some
oi the things which happen in the SO
. iar system. It may possibly be, foi
I instance, that the reason why a comet
develops a tail as it approaches the
and leaves the sun with its tail
in front of it instead ot behind it is.
that, these particles from the sun
strike the comet and drive the light
er part of it in a stream on the side
away from the sun.
The sun is made of the same lamil
,ai elements that go to make up the
earth and our own bodies—elements
like carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, mag
nesium, calcium, amt iron, besides
many others.
The sun does a great deal lor us;
beside: furnishing light and heat it
makes the ruin which waters the
earth*and gives us our crops; it makes
the rivers which make navigation pos
sible; it furnishes the waterpower foi
mills and factories, and for electric
lights; it gives colo»* to the flowers,
troes and grass. Without the sun
there would be no li.e on this earth.
I »ie un is pei naps a sun in uk
al! ."tars including the sun. have* a
history. Wo know that they cannot
remain bright forever, but must grad
ually cool. As they cool the chemical
composition of their outer part chan
ges, and so th**ir light changes. At
it> hottest and most brilliant stage a
star give." a very white light. Later
on we suppose that changes occur in
gets somewhat cooler and becomes
yellow hot like the sun; and we can
see other stats in the heavens which
we many call red hot—Mars is such a
The sun is so bright we can look at
it only for a few seconds at a time.
The flickering appearance is due
to gigantic flames which leap out
from the sun to a distance ot more
than one-third of a million miles.
What keeps up this tremendous Mood
of light? • Mere burning can never
account for such heat. It it had been
made of solid coal, it would have been
all used up in about six thousand
years, burning at the rate it does.
Here is the explanation that science
gives: H«*at is only a form of force or
The Chesterfield blend
has in it the highest-grade
Turkish tobacco that
grows. They Satisfy—
and yet they're MILD.
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energy and energy and heat can bo I
interchanged easily. This is a very!
j startling tiling when heard for the!
first time. Hut when a savage wants;
to make a lire, he rubs a piece ot I
luird wood swiftly between his palms
i pressing one end into a hole in anoth
r piece of wood until a spark bursts
I oui. What is the spark? It is the
uergy of the savage's work turned to
ieat. When a horse strikes his iron
shod hoofs hard on the pavement we 1
see sparks fly; that is caused by the
energy of the horses leg. When at
train comes into the station and the
brakes are put on the sparks that fly
I from the w heels tell us that heat is j
being produced. The motion of the
train and the force that stops it are
being turned into heat. Now if the
Min shrinks, as we know it does, its
outer layers are constantly piessing
upon the inner ones, just as the
brakes press upon the wheels of the
ain, and that pressure is always
making heat. If the sun shrinks only
two hundred and fifty feet a year that
will supply it with all the heat it
sends out in that year, liut the sun
is so enormous and the amount of
-hiinking every year is so small, that
! it would take nearly ten thousand
years before we could tell even with
our most powerful telescopes that it
had grown any smaller.
So we need not worry lor fear tin*
world will come to an end very soon.
MI ST GIVE NOTICE
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 17.—The De
partment of the Treasury has issued!
an order that merchants and manu- i
facturers must give thirty days notice'
of a close down of their factories or!
i businesses.
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REFERENDUM VOTE
MELBOURNE, Nov. 17.—The Aus
tralian government will hold another
vote on the adoption of conscription,
i which was rejected last year by a
small majority.
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NEW WHARFINGER
D. E. Large, wharfinger at the
Seward dock, yesterday took a leave
of absence for two weeks, according1
to announcement at tin* offices of the;
A. E. C., and Harold Fainter is now
in charge of the wharf. Mr. 1 ainter
was formerly purser of the steamer |
Dora.
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MANY YEARS BEFORE
GERMANS CAN VISIT
LONDON, Nov. 17.—A Swiss dis-1
patch quotes “noted German states
man” as having said to Swiss minis
ter to Germany: “The trouble with;
this war is, it will be 10 years after
it is over before I can go to London,
20 before I can go to Paris and 40 be
fore I can go to Vienna.”
ITTKMPT TRAIN WRECK
ROCKFORD, HI., Nov. 17.—Rail-!
road ties across the track were hit by 1
a railroad train near here loaded with
troops on the way to training quar
ters. No damage resulted.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. j
To J. C. Duckcn, his heirs and admin
istrators, and to all whom it may
Take notice that I have done Three
Hundred Dollurs’, ($300.00), worth of
labor each year in order to hold the (
following described quartz claims,,
known as the Bonanza, Eureka and j
Phoenix Claims, situated on Popol
Island, in the Unga-Peninsula Mining
District, Territory of Alaska, the no-:
tices of location whereof are recorded
in the office of the Recorder of the
Unga Peninsula Mining District at
Unga, Alaska, in Book 1, at Page 204,
of Locations for the Bonanza Claim, in
Book 2, Page 50, for the Eureka
Claim, and Book No. 3, Page 39, for
the Phoenix Claim, of the records of
said District for the years ending De
cember 31st, 1913, and December 31,
1914, and December 31, 1915, and De
cember 31, 1916, and unless within
ninety days after this notice by pub
lication you fail or refuse to contrib
ute vour portion of such expenditure,
viz: Six Hundred Dollars, ($600.00),
being One Hundred and Fifty Dollars,
($150.00), for each of said years, your
interest in said Bonanza, Eureka and
Phoenix mining claims will be for
feited to and become the property of
the subscriber under Section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
LOUIS HERMAN.
First Pub. Aug. 31.
Last Pub. Noy. 30.
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house complete. Hot and cold wa
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house, with basement. Terms: Ad
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FOR SALE—One Nome hickory bas
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FOR SALE — One squirrel parka,
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FOR SALE—Furniture, inquire l^ouis
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Adams. Nov. 14
WA NTEO, Miscellaneous
Rayo Table Lamps with shades at
(Iraef's. 015tf.
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WatertiU & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
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Melver, licensed undertaker.
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MEN—Read Cotter’s Ad today.
For sleds and ice skates see Graef.
MEN—Read Cotter’s Ad today.
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City Express. Phone Main 122. j
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Meet me at The Branch.
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 143.
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
MEN—Read Cotter’s Ad today.
Long distance teiepnone oootn at
The Branch.
Certain-teed Roofing. Guaranteed
10 and 15 years. J. L. Graef’s. tf.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
RIGHT PRICE tcE SKATES FOR
EVERYBODY AT BROWN & HAW
KINS,
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Waterfill and frntier whiskey at
the Branch.
MEN—Read Cotter’s Ad today.
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Taylor's Express meets all boats
and trains. Phone Main 122.
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Proof of labor blanks for sale at
Gateway.
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NEW shipment of gasoline and kero
sene. Kerosene at $1.75 a can.
Just received at Brow* & Hawkins.
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Subscribe for The Gateway.
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Eighty-three boxes of Christmas
goods for tlie boys in the trenches for
Christmas have been shipped by the
Douglas Red Cross.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Commissioner’s Court for Ke
nai Precinct, Third Judicial Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of John
Hendricks, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Curtis
R. Morford has been appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of John Hen
dricks, deceased, and to the creditors
of, and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to present
them with the necesasry vouchers,
within six months after the first pub
lication of this notice, to the said ad-j
rainistrator at the office of Morford &
Finnegan, Seward, Alaska.
CURTIS R. MORFORD,
Adminisrator of the Estate
of John Hendricks, de
ceased. 9
Date of first Publication, Nov. 15, 1917
Date of last Publication, Dec. 20, 1917
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