SEWARD GATEWAY
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SATURDAY. MAY 1C», RHYS
LOST THEIR BEARINGS
An article appeared in the New
York Herald recently touching upon
the charges made that some powerful
moneyed interests are engaged in
keeping railroad capital from l> iodine
roads in Alaska. In the article it is
stated that “Several attempts have
been made by outside interests to tap
the rich Tatiana district, both from
Valdez and Kamila. In each instance
a rival road backed by tin unseen hand
has projected a parallel road liejrin
nin*f within a few miles ot the termi
nal. and subsequent events in connec
tion with the efforts to float stocks and
bonds and carry on construction work
have led to the charge that somebody
is trying to prevent railroad construc
tion in that part of the territory.
\fter speaking of tin* \\ Itite l’ass
raidtvul which is said to be in close
the (luyfqvnh'mns, the
w"it t of the article yoes on to say
“that the only other railroad in the
territory that has been allowed to pro-j
_»i s% unhindered is tin* Alaska ven
tral project ad from Cordova bay to
Fairbanks.** There may he more ex-1
ci st tor a far off New \ ork paper pub-;
!i' , U'l :m art in witich * ordova is
confused with Seward on Resurrection
Pay than for Mo editor of a pap r pub- !
lished in the s ate of Washington to
locate the . ire capital of Alaska |
>,omo where over in Canada. but it .
\v,m'd be better for them both to b.ush 1
up ;; the :/e miupby of the Northland
before attempting to enlighten ihej
piddle I a the state of affair m Alaska, j
.—
TH£ HEYBUrtN BILL
S • . Ih-yl-uim ■ Idaho ha- the
following hill !• toi congress:
■ lie ;t en tv t d 1*. the Senate audj
House of 1 Icpre-* ntatives of t he I’niteu
Stat.*- of America ir < 'ongre-s as-em
w ,!. Thai p*-r- theif heir
in.: a-sign-, wh » hive ’ am- locations'
>f .] i: "- ' ’h* ’• rritory v>; Alas
ka a! the tin* of the passage of this
\ • a - -aid claims ■
or I »cati'»n- h\ riel i: . m a single
claim or lev at *u not • i \cee»t three
thousand ! w o i.under t :: •:< - o! COlltig
uo .- latnls, and !<>; . - p.* ;>o-e -ueh
person-. tleir :■ *aia- - assigns, may
form a—oc:a!. -a- • ' ■•re mu’ions, Of!
may transfer Mmir said daue to other ,
per-on-, a—oclat ton-, or c- ooration
i nia. \ •! : a - : 1 '■ r- or
shared- .■;»•; - a • ■, •» !•» tuake Oil* j
iry of c- i•. p- dec! er»
try am. aequi * id to - Id lands
*u a tv ■•rda..e«- a h i • - •• m-r prov is- .
io: - o « • r mu >e ;tions
Wt- m it*., ly i ’:•»* mwl, that
m> c irporation or association of pors<-us
diali i»< perm .t*u hnva :< r to obtain
title to in-.-re thaa tin > thousand two
liumir -i acres of -ucn lands: And pro
vided lnrt’m-r. that the corporations or
as-■'.edition- -o acquiring not to exceed
three thousand two hundred acres of
lands shall not at any time hereafter
consolidate or acquire any greater
amount of coal lands than that herein
permitted, or enter into any agreement
iu restraint of trade, under pain and
penalty of forfeiture of the land here
by permitted to be acquired.”
FEEDING HUNGRY MEN
An article appeared in a recent num
ber of the Times-Union of Albany, N.
Y., descriptive of the work that the
First Baptist church, under the charge
of the pastor, Creighton R. Story, was
doing for hungry men in that city dur
ing the past winter. Sometimes nearly
300 men were fed in one morning.
The church also runs an employment
bureau, and the writer of the article
states that when a man appears seek
ing employment they first have him
shaved by two or three barbers in
order to make him look presentable to
his prospective employer. They evi
dently think that if he gets a job it
will be a close shave.
That there are so many men in the
east depending upon charity is due not
only to the financial panic of last fall,
but also to the fact that families have
lived beyond their means in time of
moderate prosperity. There is a tend
ency in the older states to ostracize a
man who does not dross in the latest
style and live in a part of the city
where rents are high. It is different
in Alaska or in any new country where
people have not yet become corrupted
by false ideas of what constitutes the
true worth of a man. If people back
in the older settlements in the east
could live within their means and not
be regarded as eccentric for so doing,
there would he less occasion for the
wionnl church to devote its time
' to handing out free soup and anti
| suicide advice.
THE STORMY SEASON
Spring and fall are the two seasons
of the year when windstorms and tor
nadoes seem to be most frequent. The
reports of the last few days would
seem to indicate that the frequency of
these storms along the storm belt in
the states is by no means lessening.
It is possible that the violence of the
J storms and disturbances throughout
tin* world seems greater because of
i the greater facility with which the
Knowledge of them now readies all
j parts of the world. It may lie like the
life of the married man, not longer
lull seems longer.
There is reason to believe, however,
that with the wholesale destruction of
timber there have come not only sud*
den and overwhelming Moods followed
• by drought turning once fruitful gar
dens into deserts, but also windstorms
that can sweep unimpeded through a
long stretch of territory.
When destructive tornadoes are
laying waste the towns in certain
parts of the stati s anti leaving in their
wake hundreds of people dead, it 1m -
j comes more evident that Alaska, neg-J
; looted as it has always been and still
; is by the I’nited States government,
; is not a had or undesirable place in
which to live. The Creator of the
i universe has made a country here that
can support a large population, and
i all there is needed from the govern*
! ment is the kindly and helpful inter
est that should he taken in all the d,
pendent territories.
PUBLIC CONSCIENCE
Governor Charles K. Hughes of New j
York published an article in a recent
number of one of the magazines in
which he takes the ground that there
j never has been a time in the history
! of business life when the desire for a
••siptare deal" was as strong in tin*
niimi-', of the whole people .is at the
pres *nt time. The belief, however, is
‘ prevalent that what is called grafting
i is the chief occupation of most public
1 officials, and that instead of growing
httter, we as a people have steadily
become more corrupt in business and
1 oilicial life. Thi> general belief may
have arisen from the fact that more
.is ii" w known ami said about corrup
tion in public life. There was a time
in ;he history of other peoples when
; only the ruling c.asses were recog-j
i nized as p ssessing the right to ai
square (h aI. In the old world it was
nut at uncommon thing for a ruler to
borrow money Uom his wealthy suit-,
jects. e.«,picia!!y the .lews, and when it |
became dm* h--would trump up some j
i charge aguin> them and have them ex-j
pelled from his realm. Tliat we have
ci to rec» gnize tfiat all have rights
has led to the outcry against public
; ottieials and strong combinations of
capital that have ignored the just,
claims of the more helpless, and the
demand that this unri hteous use of
I otliee and money shall be curbed.
I’nless we are willing to admit that
| the order of the universe is downward
rather than upward we must believe
in the power of the good to hold the
| winning hand. Could we have an ex
perimental knowledge of the history of
the past as we have of the age in
which we live we would probably see
that the balance of good is largely in
our favor. /
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Guarding Against Flood
The Seward Light and Power Com
pany have a force of men at work put
ting in timbers along the side of the
glacier stream below the bridge on
Fourth avenue. They are doing this
in order to keep the high water from
rains and melting snow’ from cutting
through the bank of the stream and
doing serious damage to their plant.
The Seward Water and Power Com
pany have a similar work to do above
the bridge in order to protect their
pipes. Unless this is attended to the
stream is likely to cut aw’ay from its
old channel and sweep in by the rail
road building and the Gateway office
and do great damage to that part of
.the town.
A-Y-P MEASURE
PASSES SENATE
Members Become Harmonious
and Agree to Let the Lxpo
position Bill Go Through.
jy Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, D. May 15—The op
posing factions in the I’nited States
senate that have been at war over the
appropriation for the purpose of aiding
the Alaska-Yukon-l’acilic exposition,
have tit length united and have passed
the bill for the desired aid without op
position. __
A Pocket Wireless
Walter.!. Willenborg is a boy who
has decided to conquer the problems
of wireless telegraphy. He lias his
own laboratory adjoining bis bedroom,
He bus constructed a wireless receiv
ing station at the top of tin* bouse.
Curious to see what could be done on
a very small scale, says St. Nicholas,
he invented and made a portable wire
less telegraphic station that he could,
carry about in his pockets. From t ho j
top button of his coat lie hung a !
slender wire that reached to the ground
and so arranged that when he walked
alongHcountry road the wire would
trail upon the ground behind him.
In his pocket he carried a little bat
tery. On a hit of board as big as your
hand lie placed a complete wireless ,
transmitting apparatus, induction coil'
baby sounder and all, supporting this ;
: fairy telegraph station by fastening it
to a belt around his waist.
From this traveling station he sent
messages from a country road to his ;
folks at home eight milesaway in town, I
telling them when* he was and where '
he was going and that he would reach
home in time for supper.
Hillers’ Outfit is Lost
Valdez- Two horses, sleds and a
complete summer's out lit was lost on
Cliitinu river April <» by the Mother
j Lode Mining Company. The outfit
was being sledded to tie* mines by a
party of three men, and while they j
were crossing the river the ice gave
away, carrying j|orses, sleds and men
into the river. The men succeeded in
getting out. hut the horses and outfit
were swept down the stream under tin*
ice. For t wo weeks the weather had
been ver\ warm in the Chitina valley
! and the ice wa> rapidly rotting, mak
ing it unsafe lor travel. All of the
! other outfits hound for the copper dis
trict have reached their destinations
and no more sledding will he done on
| the river this spring.
Far From Civilization
Four hundred mites from Point Har
I row, far from all the haunts of civili
i zed people, lives an old white man,
: who at one time “went the pace’* in
i San Francisco, spent an inherited sum
! of *100,0U(), and then left tor the wilds
! to hide himself forever. This strange ,
i being w.ts * ncountered by i aptuin
j Kjnard Mikkh-sen, the famous voung
Arctic explorer, who headed the An-{
i glo-American Arctic expedition ini
search of a great archipelago believed
t
to exist in lleaufort sea.
The captain came across the* hermit
while he was on iiis way from Ilerschel j
Island to Nome. He obtained the
hermit’s name, hut refuses to divulge
it, saying the nan's family was promi
nent in tite states and some members
of it are well known on the Pacific
Coast. The exile has taken a native
wife and is raising a large family.
One bov is 17 vears old, and this fact
| * * .
alone goes to show the length of time
which this strangest of modern human
beings has spent on the bleak coast of
the Arctic Ocean looking out over his
desolate environment.—Portland Tele
gram.
WEEKLY WtATHLR RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
May 16.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Sunday 58 40 Clear
Monday 48 44 Cloudy
Tuesday 48 36 Cloudy
Wednesday 53 40 Cloudy
Thursday 49 40 Cloudy
Friday 56 40 Cloudy
Saturday 61 42 Clear
We have founded an institution in
which the people can deposit their
money with a feeling of the. utmost
confidence and safety.
* Bank of Seward.
I BROWN S HAWKINSI
If”
Every Stetson
bears the
H Stetson Name ^
Ilf you select a
Stetson
you are bound to get
I the popular style, as
I well as the hat which
is well proportioned
and becoming.
I We have the Stetson
W Soft and Derby Hats
in all the latent styles.
I The Store With the Goods J
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THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
(Incorporated November, 1903, under the laws of Alaska)
Office—on Fourth avenue, near Adams, Seward, Alaska
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aid and Minsril Decisions
Published by Woodford I). Harlan.
1 md attorney, Washington, I).
Application presented during vacan
cy in local office confers no vested
right.
(Mutest—Pract ice - (Mutest should
not be dismissed if prima facie case is
made out.
(Mai Lands—Right of coal-land
claimant to make entry is not affected
l»y hi-, salt* of an option to purchase an
assignment of such right, where the
option expires with no advantage
taken thereof.
Entry- -Effect of entry relates back
to the proper initial steps.
Final Proof having been lost, a dup
licate may be substituted without re
publication.
Mineral Land—Discovery of mineral
aftersale or disposal as agricultural
1 land will not affect the title.
Mining Claim—The purchaser of a
mining claim, after entry, but prior to
patent, takes the land subject to all
the infirmities of title, so far as the
government is concerned.
Relinquishment—The purchaser of a
relinquishment does not secure a pre
ferred right of entry.
Settlement—An act of settlement is
sufficient if it tends to disclose a de
sign to appropriate the land in ac
cordance with law.
No nore Wooden Indians
From time immemorial the cigar
store sign in the older portions of the
country has been a wooden Indian.
This has been as much a matter of
course as the use of the striped pole as
a sign for a barber shop. Oklahoma,
where the Indians have a considerable
vote and are an element to be consid
ered politically, has decided that the
use of such signs is a libel upon the
primitive Americans, and therefore
the legislature of that state has passed
ji bill, prepared and introduced by one
of the Indian members of that body,
forbidding the further use of the
wooden Indian sign.—P.-I.
NOTICE OK FINAL ACCOUNTING
AND SETTLEMENT
In the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Territory of Alaska.
Kenai Precinct. Third Division.
IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the estate of Georjfo
West, deceased.
Notice is hereby yiven Una il. 11.
Hildreth, administrator of the estate
of George West, deceased, having liled
a final accounting that tin* loth day
of .July, 1908, at 10 o’clock a. m., at
the court house (Bank bid”.,* in Sew
i ard, Alaska, has been appointed the
I time and place for hearini* of objec
tions to such final accounting and the
settlement of said estate.
Dated this 11th day of May, 1908.
11. II. Hildreth, administrator.
First publication, May 10, 1008.
Last publication, duly 4th 1908.
Paraffine Keeps Fruit
The Dalles, Or.—Fruits that ripened
last July.are now displayed by John
Pashek of this city, as an illustration
of the preservative qualities of paraf
fine. Mr. Pashek has had excellent
success in this mode of keeping fruit
fresh throughout the winter months,
and in addition to some fine specimens
of Flemish Beauty peas, has grapes,
melons, tomatoes and various other
fruits that present an appearance of
being as fresh as when picked. To
get the best results the fruit is picked
when just ripe for shipping. It is then
dipped in molten paraffine, which is
not allowed to become warm, and the
wax makes an air-tight covering, pre
cluding the admission of decay-creat
ing bacteria.
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been sold by its former proprietor, J.
W. Frame, to W. C. Ullrich and Claud
H. Dech. The new proprietors pur
pose to improve the paper in every
way.
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