SEWARD GATEWAY
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
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Kntered as Second Class matter Auirust 24th,
1904. at the j*ostofT!ce at Seward. Alaska, un
der the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
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SATURDAY, MAY 1!HN
ALL HANDS AROUND
At an early hour this uiorntng all
hands were at work on the glacier
stream. With the consent of Mr.
Taithrop, agent for the receiver of the!
Ala>ka t'entral railroad, -several loads
of iuml>er were donated from the rail-:
road lumber yards, and yesterday i
hauled to places along the stream i
when* they can Ik* used to advantages,
in strengthening the bulkheads and!
guarding against overllow of the i
water. The railroad property is as
much in danger from the waters as is
the pro|K*:*ty in any part of the town,
and the agent is ready to respond to
any just request in order to conserve
th-* interests of the railroad.
'|'li** citizens have entered into
hearty co-operation in this work of
protecting th*1 town from any possible
damage that may come this season
from the rains and melting snow on the
hills and in the valleys. The people of
St*ward have not yet dropped to that
**ate of mind where they are willing,
to let any part of the town suffer dam
age, even though some of them have
homes that are in little danger from
any probable overflow of the stream, j
They all pull together and purjose to!
protect the interests of the town
equally.
BLEACHED PRODUCTS
ll may be clair **d with some show of
reason that nature should be improved
upon by art. Nature produces the ar
ticle in ihe rough and art changes it
and adapts it to human use. By art
the wild fruits are iumrov nl and made
palatable. Art also turns raw materi
al of various "kinds in o products thai
are thus lvmlovd highly useful.
Sometimes it is chietlx for the purpose
of making an article look better that
it is subjected to artificial processes,
as xvhen cloth is bleached to make it
white. Nothing i> claim- d to he ad
ded to the wearing quality of the
goods by the bleaching process. The j
Millie may be -aid of the custom of
bleaching the hair, it i- largely a
matter of taste and i - l* tr to the in
dividual judgment to try to improve
on nature by arts beat tm ans.
There is ho\v< v- r. a bleached pro-j
du *t in which w«* art ad vitally inter-j
e-te 1. and that i- b!* u*hed Hour. ;
Bleaching Hour- i- a process for making j
1 >x\ grau“ !'• :r - ">k !::<• i Is rst class
article. Dr. Ladd. chem - and food1
commis-iou< r of Nortn Daloita, states
that ore* )f the be-* known mills in
that -tate has in-* i! U <t two bleachers.
If 1- claimed not only low grade Hour 1
but also patent Hour can be increased]
bx the bleaching process from It) to 20 .
per cent. Nitrogen peroxide is the
bleaching’ agent and Di. Ladd says
that having investigated carefully the
subject of Hour bleaching as now gen
erally practiced, he has become con
vinced that the process of bit aching
results in the productioi of a product
prejudicial to tbe health.
WOULD-BE SLEUTH
When the crimes committed by
Mrs. Belle Gunness at her home in
Laporte, Indiana, became known, and
the suspicion went abroad that the
woman herself had not perished in the
tire that had destroyed her home, the
would-be sleuths got busy. Among
them was a traveling man, who was
sure he discovered evidence of guilt in
the fact that two women traveling on
a train, one of whom wore a black
veil, had their berth made up and
both retired early. As further evi
dence of the identity of the veiled wo
man with Mrs. Gunne>s, the suspected
party had once raised her veil long
enough to show her face, which to the
excited imagination of the would-be
sleuth bore some sort of resemblance
to the mug of the Gunness woman as
pictured in the newspapers. The re
sult was that the two innocent women
were gathered in by the police at Syra
cuse, New York, and compelled at
considerable inconvenience and much
unpleasant notoriety to establish their
identity. The veiled woman proved
to be the widow of the recently de
ceased president of the Sethness Chem
ical Company of Chicago.
There seems to he no adequate rem
edy at law for such outrages upon in
nocent people who may or may not
bear resemblance to some one guilty
of crime. If the \vould-l>e sleuth had
minded his own business and not
sought to please his own vanity by be
coming officious in ferreting out crime,
the police would not have been called
in to hale two unoffending women to a
»v>li«*e »n h<» put through an of
fensive examination. Some means
ought to he devised to put a quietus
on these would-be sleuths who are much
more likely to get innocent people into
trouble than to aid in bringing the
guilty to punishment.
HOME IMPROVE ENT
The literary society which has held
regulat meetings during the past fall
and winter lias been a decided benefit
to the town in furnishing opportunity
for those interested in literary and
musical work to keep in touch with
the intellectual world. This work of
home improvement in the broad sense
of including the town is to be kept up.
an interesting concert is in process of I
preparation, and other entertainments
will from time to time be given. For
the purpose of better carrying forward
this work a piano is needed. The lit
erary society an 1 the church working
in harmony with each other purpose
to secure and own a piano. This will
be cheaper and more satisfactory than
to longer continue to pay rent for an
instrument.
It is not thought advisable to sit
down and wait »> r more prosperous
times and in the meantime grow des
pondent and drop into the habit of
grumbling. The literary society has
therefore wisely concluded to go ahead
at once with their plans for the pur
chase of a piano. The people here
now an* like one large family working
for the benefit of the individual mem
bers and the betterment of the town
as a whole. With the enthusiastic
workers here in the musical line and
the generous support given them by
the citizens it will not he long before
the literary society will he the owner
of a good piano, and thus better pre
pared to aid in the work of improve
ment which the church is doing for
the community.
BILL BECOMES A LAW
A coal measure having passed both
branches of congress and being signed
by President Koosevelt thus becomes
a law. There have been different
coal bills before the house and senate
during the present session of congress,
and it is n >t yet definitely Known
which part icular measure was finally
parsed. One of the coal bills was
drawn by Secretary of the Interior
James It. Ourtield, and his bill embo
died the provisions concerning the
limitatl" s on the number of acres of
coal land which any one corporation
can hold, and also the clause in refer
ence to the coal for the use of the
United States navy, it is presumed
that it was the administration bill that
passed the bouse and senate and was
made a law by the president’s signa
ture.
It is not probable that any very
strong objection was made to the limi
tation to L'.ofiO acres which any one
corporation can bold. This number of
acres would include a tract of land two
miles square, and if underlaid by a
good deposit of coal would be enough
to warrant the expenditure of the
money necessary to its development.
The reservation which the govern
ment makes for coal for the navy may
be an encouraging feature. It indi
cates that the government is looking
forward to a coal supply from this
source, and may also point to the es
tablishment of a coaling station on the
site reserved near Seward for that
purpose. At any rate it is a move
ment in the right direction and will
lead to the development of the Alaska
coal fields.
Use for Old hats
What do you do with yourold winter
hats when warm weather comes?
“Just phone to me and I’ll come
after old hats,” said Philip Welch,
jailer at police headquarters. “I
don’t want them myself, but I would
like them for the men we turn loose
every morning after they’re locked up
the night before. When a man’s
intoxicated he always looses his hat
and he feels further degraded the next
morning when he leaves the station
bareheaded. I would be willing to
j get on a car and come after old hats.”
i - -Kansas City Times.
USE DYNAMITE
FOR REVENGE
Dwelling Houses Owned by Wit
ness in Graft Cases Blown
Up at Dead of Night.
By Cable to The Dmly Gateway.
Oakland, Cal., Ma.v 27—Three large
dwelling houses under process of con
st ruction, and which are owned by one
Gallagher, who is a witness in the
graft cases now being tried here,
wore wrecked with dynamite last
night about midnight. No clues have
yet been found of the perpetrators of
the deed.
Dor Makes Owner Rich
Roy W. EmiR and Leon J. < ’ox of
this city are much interested in a story
which comes from near their RinsenR
patch. It is a story of a doR that
hunts RinsenR, and if they can buy
this doR for a reasonable fiRure they
say they will do so.
The doR is owned by a Brown county
man who is ReltinR rich merely by j
waitinR to hear the doR bark. The;
doR Roes into the woods and sniffs, it
can smell RinsenR a mile, the owner j
says, and as soon as a RinsenR root is
found the doR begins barkinR as if it
had treed a coon. All the owner has
to do is to follow the doR’s bark, diR
up the RinsenR root and take it to
market.
When the root is not too deep the
doR does the diRRinR, stores the Rin
senR in its mouth, takes it home and
deposits it at the feet of its master.
The owner of the doR is havinR an
easy time. He sicks the doR on the
RinsenR industry and the doR is tnak
inR him rich. The dOR is said to never j
make a failure and on that account the ;
local RinsenR magnates are anxious to
talk business to the owner of tho ani
mal. —Indian pol is News.
Pineapple Plantation
Wahiawa, Hawaii—We are in the.
midst of the largest pineapple planta- i
tion in the world, embracing some
thing likv 3,00(5 acres and about 12,000,-.
000 plants.
Wahiawa, the home of these pineap
ple plantations, is a plateau running
in height from IKK) to 1000 feet. It
lies at the base of the beautiful
Waianae mountains, some of whose
peaks tower 4.000 feet into the purple
mists.
It is delightfully cool up here, a
blanket at night being not only a com
fort, but a positive necessity; as is also,
a finely meshed bar, for the mosquitoes,
like the wise old owl, sleep in the day
that they may husband their strength
for the coming night. We never be
fore had much respect for the intellect
of the mosquito, hut of the \\ haiawa
variety it must he said that they have I
sa keen an eyofor a break in the de
fenses as a a Homan general or an In
dian scout.
It is said that a trio of Irishmen, un
accustomed to the pests in the land of
Erin, suffered so much from their at
tacks that they decided to sleep out in
the bushes. However, they had hard
ly crossed over to the land of Nod, be
fore they were attacked by a larger
army than before. Fireflies added
their presence, also, giving a hazy
glow to the dismal scene. Finally one
of the Irishmen, in a tone of surrender
called out, “Git up, Mike, it ain’t no
use. They’re come with their lan
terns.”
Animals All Ambidextrous
Right handedness and righteyedness
came with genus homo. Dr. George
M. Gould has watched for them in
squirrels that use their front paws to
hold nuts, cats that strike at insects in
the air or play with wounded mice and
in many other animals, but he is cer
tain no preference is given to the right
side over the left.
But in the lowest human savages all
over the world choice in greater ex
pertness of one hand is clearly present,
one cause for its development is in
primitive military customs. In all
tribes and countries since man used
implements of offense and defense the
left side, where the heart lies, lias been
protected by the shield, and the left
hand was called the shield hand, while
the right hand was called the spear
hand.
For a square meal and a square deal
go to The Palace.
I BROWN & HAWKINS
Every Stetson
bears the
Stetson Namn p
II If you select a |
Stetson
I you are bound to get ;
the popular style, as
I well as the hat which j
is well proportioned :g
and becoming. ^
We have the Stetson 2
Soft and Derby Hats 'f
in all the latest styles. gi
! The Store With the Goods J
| GENERAL MERCHANT I
| A large stock of Clothing; Suits, Underwear, Hats, Caps, |
S Boots and Shoes—Everything the miner requires—Prices %
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WEEKLY WEATHER RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
May 30.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Sunday 51 40 Coudy, rain
Monday 46 40 Cloudy
Tuesday 53 40 Rain
Wednesday 56 49 Part cloudy
Thursday 62 36 Clear
Friday 56 38 Part cloudy
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plain dog collars at J. L. Graef’s hard
ware store.
NOTICK OF FINAL ACCOUNTING
AND SKTTLEMKNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Kenai Precinct, Third Division.
IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the estate i>f George
West, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that II. H.
Hildreth, administrator of the estate
of George West, deceased, having tiled
a tina 1 accounting that the loth day
i of July, 15KIS, at Id o’clock a. m., at
the court house (Bank bldg.) in Sew
ard, Alaska, has been ap|>ointed the
time and place for hearing of objec
tions to such final accounting and the
i settlement of said estate.
Dated this llth day of May, 1908.
H. II. Hildreth, administrator.
: First publication, May 16, 1908.
. Last publication, July 4th 1908.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Seward. Alaska. May £1. 1908.
To J. D. Sheldon:
You are hereby notified that there has been
expended in the year 1907. in labor and imT»rve
ments upon the Ohio placer group of 100 acres
the sum of eight hundred dollars (|800); said
group being situated on Cache Creek, a tribu
tary of the Kahiltna River. Cook Inlet Pre
cinct. Territory of Alaska, the same being the
amount required by tho laws of the United
States governing the location and holding of
mining claims, necessary to hold said group of
claims aforesaid for the calendar year. to-wit»:
the year 1907; the said work having been per
formed by your co-partner T. R. Wilson.
And unless within ninety days after the com
pletion of the publication of this notice, to-wit;
within 90days after the23rd day of August. 1908.
you contribute your proportion of such annual
assessment work as co-owner, to-wit; the sum
of fifty dollars ($50) for the said Ohio group of
claims, your interest in said claims and all
of them will be forfeited to and become tho
property of your present co-owner, aforesaid.
T. R. WILSON.
First publication May 23rd. 1908.
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