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FIRE INSURANCE
JOE CAMPBELL
Successor to
ENNIS & CAMPBELL
SEWARD . ALASKA
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J FISH PRICES |
! Prices at noon August 29, at 5
{ Seattle, as reported by the Bu- {
• reau of Fisheries, are:
! Halibut, 18 2-oc.
! Sable Fish, 4c.
Red Snapper, 2^c.
Pickled Sable Fish, $14 per J
2 bbl.
Pickled Herring, first grade, |
l $16 per bbl.
! Pickled Salmon, pink, $14.50
J per bbl.
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7, 10 and 15 years. J. L. Graefs. tf
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
RAINCOATS
IBooks like a rainy Fall, and if
it is you will need a rain coat,
and as a matter of fact, there
is scarcely an article that is
more useful in a man’s ward
robe. We have some good ones.
KENYON AND RAYNSTER
These are the best made and
the prices range for the differ
ent styles and fabrics from
$9.00 to $37.50
When you start for the Civic
Fair or get ready to come home,
you will feel a lot safer if you
have one; that is, in case the
ladies stage * their show on a
rainy night.
Better come in and have a
look.
COTTER’S
Broadway Soward
BERLIN NOT IN CLOSE
TOUCH WITH WAR PRISON
LONDON, August 1, (Correspond
ence).—Admission that the treatment
of German war prisoners in Great
Britain was superior to the treatment
received in any other country, was
made by the chief German delegate
to the recent conference of British
and Germans on war prisoners, ac
cording to a statement made by Bar
on Newton, one of the British dele
gates, in the House of Commons.
One impression he derived from his
intercourse with the delegates was
that, in spite of the German powers of
centralization, Berlin headquarters
did not know a great deal of what
went on. That impression, he said,
more or less confirmed what James
W. Gerard, the late American ambas
sador at Berlin, used to tell him, that
there was less centralization than was
supposed and that the control at Ber
lin over prisoners of war was nothing
like so effective as in this country.
He had a strong suspicion that a great
deal went on in various German camps
of which the central German admin
istration knew little.
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be paid for good, clean, cotton rags
by The Gateway. tf
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Gateway.
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
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City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 122.
ACCOUNTING I
FOR "MINNIE" :
NEAR YPRES
When Trench Guns Get Too Active
Along Comes Artillery Expert
Exit Gun
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BEHIND BRITISH LINES IN
FRANCE, Aug. 10, (Correspondence
of The Associated Press).—“Minnie”
is a very forward young lady who
lives as a rule in German front line
trenches. She has no pretensions at
all to beauty. She is for use, not for
ornament. She is a trench gun, and
her projectiles remind one of plum
pudding attachment to sticks. They
fly very irregularly but burst very
regularly in that part of No-Man’s
Land furthest removed from Minnie’s
temporary lodging.
Just before the latest push around
Ypres, there was a particular Minnie
located a few miles from Ypres, which
was more than usually a nuisance. The
British trench was not well sited, nor
very well protected. Consequently,
when Minnie was active, she made
things very uncomfortable for the oc
cupants of that British trench. More
I over, she had no regular habits, she I
worked on no plan, ladylike, she did
just about as she wished.
The young British subalterns hated
her with a persistent, pervading ha
tred. and concocted many schemes for
her undoing, but to no avail. But
one night, chance brought into the
trench a very irritable old artillery
officer, juat as Minnie was active. One
of Minnie’s puddings soiled his boots, i
and thereby aroused in him a grim
determination to devote himself to her
destruction.
He stayed in the trench all that
night, studying Minnie’s location and
characteristics, and on the morrow he
returned, followed by his orderly, un
coiling wire as he walked. At the
trench end of the wire a temporary
telephone was fixed. The far end of
the wire led back a mile and a half
to a battery of filed artillery.
Along about noon Minnie opened up
for her mid-day strafe. Promptly the
artillery officer verified his observa
tions of the night before and spoke
a few figures into the telephone. A
minute later a loud boom announced
the arrival of a British shell just
across on the other side of No-Man’s
Land. The British officer swore soft
ly. and spoke again into the telephone.
The first shell had been at least thirty
yards off. The second was perhaps
twenty yards on the other side. Again
the officer spoke into the telephone,
and for the third time the gun spoke.
“Bull's Eye,” sang the officer into the
telephone, and packed up his belong
ings in business-like fashion. Minnie
was deceased.
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[SEWARD SNAPSHOTS!
Rainy or cloudy weather is report
ed from points out the line.
Seward’s many expert needle work
ers will have an exhibit at the Fair
tonight well worth seeing.
Miss Mate Ix>ng has moved from
her place of residence on Second Ave
nue to the Van Gilder apartments.
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New-comers are due for a surprise
when they see the flower and vege
table exhibits at the Fair tonight.
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The Country Store at the Fair of
fers a chance to double your money
many times over and there is no pos
sible chance to lose.
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F. R. Van Cam pen and Louis Lev
ensalcr returned yesterday from a
trip to Nyka bay to look over recent
ly discovered prospects in that vicin
ity.
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Fred Dunce returned yesterday
from a fish prospecting trip to vari
ous points and reports the salmon to
be conspicuous by their absence.
Men at a camp near Mile 20 report
seeing seven bears in one day, four
brown and three black ones. They
were at a distance above the timber
line.
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So well advertised are the cooking
abilities of Seward’s housewives that
there was a rush among the young
and unfortunate bachelors, to whom
home cooking is a luxury, to serve as
judges of the culinary exhibit.
There will ho a dress rehearsal by
all participants in the pageant for the
Seward Civic Fair at 7:fl0 this even
ing at Pioneer Hall, at which all tak
ing part are requested to appear—on
time.
People visiting the Civic Fair to
night are requested to leave their
dogs outside. The dog ordinance is
not in effect yet hut there are exhib
its of chickens to tempt canine ap
petites and something is liable to hap
pen should they succumb to tempta
tion.
ROAD WORK
PROGRESSES
Extension of Seward Highway to
Kenai Lake Begins Shortly
After Sept. 20th
Martin Lanning, foreman for Super
intendent Anton Eide, is here on busi
ness and reports that his party of
twenty-five men, who have been at
work on the road between Mile *29 and
Sunrise and Hope, accomplished good
results on new construction this sea
son. At the present time the men are
doing maintenance work on road com
pleted in prior years. This will be
finished by September 20th, after
which work will be started on the ex
tension of Seward highway to Kenai
lake and continued until as late in the
fall as possible.
Superintendent Eide is due from
Anchorage tonight on the Mariposa,
after a tour of inspection in the Ma
tanuska and Knik sections.
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JAPANESE TEACHER TO
STUDY IN UNITED STATES
TQKIO, Aug. 10, (By Mail).—Ten
primary school superintendents select
ed from all parts of Japan, will sail
from Yokohama September 19th for
the United States. They are going
to study the educational conditions in
leading cities of America, especially
paying attention to education in war
time. Most of the teachers are head
masters of primary schools.
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[mining NOTES!
A1 Beet, who has been at Talkeet
na and Iron creek mining districts,
where he spent the summer in devel
oping his mining property, reports
considreahJe activity in both camps
and predicts a big rush into that sec
tion with the completion of the gov
ernment railroad.
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That Keys & Sons are preparing to
operate on a large scale next summer
on Moose creek, a tributary of the
Nenana river, is the information
brought to Fairbanks by Jimmy
Haney, the well-known quartz pros
pector, who has just returned from one
of his periodical trips into the Alaska
range. They have purchased the in
terests of Joe Poggi, and will prob
ably put machinery on the ground
during the winter for use in opencut
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BORGEN GROCERY
STORE OF PROGRESS
operations during the next summer.
The Groat Northern Development
Company, at Copper Mountain, on the
Kuskulana river, has completed 8,000
feet of development work, opening up
one of the largest low-grade prop
erties in Alaska. E. F. Gray is the
general manager of the company.
They expect to install a 5,000-ton flo
tation plant, work to commence in
I IMS. There are 165 claims in this
property and the majority of the pat
ents have been issued by the United
States.
Miners and prospectors in all sec
tions of Alaska and in the mineral
states of the Union, are in a quandary
the selective military conscription act,
islation doing away with the require-'
ment for assessment work on mining
claims this year. Decause many young
miners come within the provisions of
the seelctive military conscription act,
a resolution, suspending assessment
work this year was introduced in the
senate some time ago by Senator John
F. • Shacroth, democrat, of Colorado.
It was adopted by the senate and sent
to the house, on the floor of which it
has not yet been brought up for con- *
sideration.
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Bill Whittridge, of Knik, and his
partner, Max Foster, located claims
on Harris creek this summer that
caused a small stampede from Tal
keetna. The property is located (>•>
miles east of the railroad camp and
the discoverers are enthusiastic over
the strike. They left Knik last Feb
ruary and at the end of 114 days pros
pecting found good prospects on Kid
creek which they traced to the head
of the creek. The locations were
made on the bench lands at the north
end of the Talkeetna mountains al
most due north of Anchorage. Mr.
Whittridge reports that twenty claims
have been located in the district which
will be further prospected next sea
son. Charles Ketchum fl’ed on three
claims on the extension of discovery
and the ore which he brought in show
ed very good values.
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! ANCHORAGE VIA RAIL AND WATER ROUTE j
The fast power-schooner, “Kumback,” running between Kern Creek *
and Anchorage and way points, meets all Seward trains at Kern C reek. J
A chance to see the new road on your way to Anchorage.
| CHARLES NUTTER, Manager. E. J. MOORE, Master. |
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