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$15 per month. See Dougherty A
Stewart.
Small house, cheap rent. Madison 44
Water fill & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
Stamps for sale at The Key.
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Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Residence.
Adams 48.
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DENTIST
Office over Hour*:
Bank of Seward 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Phone: Office. Mad. 76; Res., Mad. 58
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
DENTIL OFFICES
Stull Building
Office Phone Residence Phone i
Adams 111 Madison 44
LEON C. BOOKER
ATTORNEY at law
Bank of Seward Building
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Phone Madison S4
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ROBERT SIMPSON
Juneau, Alaska
Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground
Seward
1 1 Geo. A. Mitchell
Vj I 111 Proprietor
t >pen l>ay and N itrhi
Phone Adams III*
Service Cleanliness
l»ri\ate Boxes for Ladies or Parties
The Broadway Barbershop
For Courtesy and
Sanitation
Clean steam towel for
each customer.
S. L. COLWELL
WINTER WEAR FOR MEN
New Location
Brosfust & Noon Building.
Washington Street
DOUGHERTY & ROMIG
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent Rents Collected
Lots for Sale Large Listing
Phone Red 147_Seward, Alaska
SEWARD BAKERY
Phone Madison 82
Excells in Good Bakery Goods
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Seward Steam Laundry
HARRY K AW ABE, Prop.
Fifth Avenue Phone Main 157
Best of Work—Latest Machinery
Work Delivered in 24 hours
Extra Charge
Rough Dry 10c a pound with flat
work finish.
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Lunch Counter in Connection
REX BEACH WRITES CLEVER SATIRE
TO ALASKAN EDITOR WHO PUT OVER
YARN ON SQUAW AS A FORMER FROU
An article quite startling in nature
appeared in a Fairbanks paper re
i cently and was reprinted by other Al
aska papers to the effect that a squaw
who had once lived with Rex Beach
as his wife was in jail.
The woman referred to was Annie
l,von, a native of Tanana, in jail at
the time on a charge of vagrancy.
The story in time reached Rex in New
York and produced the following
from his nimble pen.
Other Alaskan scribes are wonder
ing if it wasn’t a scheme to get a
story from Rex without paying him
the usual fee now collected by the
noted novelist for his efforts. His
reply being a masterpiece of satire:
“l am in receipt of a copy of your I
newspaper, dated September 2f», 1916,
containing a story headed:
4RKX REACH’S FORMER WIFE IX
JAIL HERE.
“Alaskan Wife of Famous Writer is
Serving Term for Vagrancy.”
“There follows a unique and highly
imaginative account of a drunken!
squaw, who poses for kodak bearing
tourists at four bits a pose, on the
strength of the statement that she
lived as my wife in the early days of
Rampart City.
“I am lost in admiration of the
Alaska Citizen’s enterprise, its accu
racy and its nose for news; it repre
sents journalism in its highest form.
And l congratulate The Citizen upon
it start* of fiction writers. Undoubted
ly there is something in the Alaskan
climate which stimulates the imagina
i
tion.
“Your story gains in interest anu
impressiveness, if that is possible, by
reason of its grave; almost melan
choly assumption of truth, and in its
amazing positiveness. When you as
sert “* * The former wife of Rex
Reach is therefore practically certain I
that she will not want this winter
* * “ and “there is but little doubt
that the woman's story that she lived
with Rex Beach is'true * * * *"
1 note that you do not make use of
the customary ‘It is alleged/ ‘she
states/ ‘we are informed/ and the
like. Doubtless you consider SUch
qualifying phrases to be mere rhetori
cal refinements or literary airs with
out meaning or purpose and totally
lacking in journalistic vigor.
“My dear Alaska Citizen, allow me
to assure you in all gravity ami in
earnestness equaling yours, that the
matrimonial claims of your injured
I squaw are purely imaginary and that
her past, so far as l am concerned, is
blameless. As to your assertion that
I “taught her to drink” and that her
association with me is responsible for
‘all of her troubles’—I must likewise
deny the soft impeachment. Crimes
of various sorts you may attribute to
me, and perhaps with reason, but I
have no squaws upon my conscience.
“Nor do I drink. In view of your
nagged virility, 1 make the latter
confession with trepidation, if not
with shame, for doubtless by so doing
I fall even lower in your estimation.
And yet in my endeavor to be strictly
truthful to you, at whatever cost to
my own feelings, I shall confess
more. Now that 1 am in a mood to
confess, I shall bare my darkest and
most secret past to your accusing eye,
even at the risk of reputation, honor,
' everything! Yes—even at the risk
of being misquoted in your inaccurate
but entertaining columns.
“Here, then, is the horrible truth:
I did know a squaw named Annie—
perhaps she was Lyon then as now—
certainly somebody is. Please take
no olTense, dear Citizen. Her name
was Annie, but she was better known
1 in the colorful and expressive idiom
of Kampart as ‘Short and Dirty.’
The nickname, I assure you, was not
unwarranted. The lady who lan
guishes in your bastile as result of
the evil influences you so generously
attribute to her Association with me,
may be the same—1 don’t know. I
am led to believe it is, for I recall no
other ‘Annie’ in Rampart, and the one
I knew was even at that time marked
with a ravenous appetite for booze.
“You will doubtless find verification
for your assertion that she was my
former wife, when I confess that the
same roof sheltered both of us for a
time. Rut it so happened that it
likewise sheltered five other white
men, two of whom had come from the
states with me in search of gold and
glory. These two young men, each
now prosperous in business, were m>
partners. They will undoubtedly flua
much interest in your story of my
past. Hut to return to that roof—
alas! it, and Annie herself, belonged
to another—a man from whom my
partners ami 1 had taken a mining
lease. I regret to state that we were
not a happy family—even during the
brief interval we all dwelt there to
gether. Memory tells me that one
reason was because Annie, my “sour
dough” associate’s helpmate, insisted
upon boiling frozen fish heads in a
tomato can and eating the eyes while
we college boys were at our meals.
It was not appetizing to try to eat
while those fish craniums were being
vacuum cleaned. Nor was Annie’s
other habits those to which we were
accustomed in our 'homes.
“Anyhow, I moved. 1 am moved
now to tears at the thought that all
unwittingly, 1 injured* the maiden’s
prospects, wrecked her later life and
became a squaw man, by refusing to
stand for those fish heads.
“1 am assuming, of course that the
intemperate lady mentioned in your
columns and my ex-asscoiate’s light
o’ love are one and the same. Hut I
hear your scoff. I hear you exclaim,
‘Ha! the wretch betrays himself. An
other’s wife, forsooth! This Beach
has written nothing but lies about
Alaska. This is a gross libel upon
the name of her fair daughters and;
constitutes his crowning infamy.’
“In the light of those mortifying
disclosures contained in your dignified
editorial page of September 25, I am
I reminded that a man’s evil deeds will
rise and plague him, and I am con
strained to advise all young men that
they cannot be too careful in sowing
their wild oats, lest, surer than a
shooting, some insane editor will har
vest them, and offer them for public
sale.
“My dear Alaska Citizen, you can
not know what emotions you have
aroused in this breast of mine by thus
prying into a past which I considered
dead and gone, nor with what feel
ings I shall paste your clipping into
my scrap book,- after it gone the
rounds of those other fellows who
knew ‘Short and Dirty.’ It has the
makings of a splendid press story in
it, and I trust you will pardon me if
I avail myself of that fact, giving due
credit, of course, to The Alaska Citi
zen.
“In closing, permit me to assure
you that you have added greatly to
the enjoyment of a dull winter, even
though that enjoyment is tempered by
the melancholy conviction that your
paper is edited by a maniac.
“Admiringly and. sympathetically
vours. * REX BEACH.”
Waterfil! S: Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
Andy’s Express, phone Madison 14“.
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MILE 40 ROADHOUSE
G. W. ADAMS, Proprietor
Dog Mushers Made Comfortable
All freight and express forwarded
from end of steel.
DOG FISH TO
BE CANNED BY
NEW COMPANY
“Succulent” Grayfish Will
Find Way to Tables
of America Yet
SEATTLE, Thursday, Feb. 15.—
The humble dogfish, which by another
name (grayfish) would probably taste
a great deal better, in the future will
cease to annoy the fishermen of Hood
canal, according to Walter Estus,
head of the Hood Canal Canning
Company, of Bangor, who is in Seat
tle. Mr. ISstus, who has been canning
dams successfully for the past four
years on Hood canal, came to arrange
for labels, and, starting on the first of
next month, will can all tlu dogfish
the fishermen bring him. he expects
to bundle 100 cases a day at first and
will increase the capacity later. Mr.
Kstus, who is familiar with the under
water denizens of Hood canal, does
not expect any difficulty in securing
all the “grayfish" he wants, and there
are several hundred fishermen in the
same region who will be eager to sup
ply him.
SINGS HIS WAY
PAST INSPECTORS
I OF IMMIGRATION
BOSTON'. — (Special). — Dominic
Pacificio, 80 years old, sang his way
into the country tody. He had been
detained because of his imperfect
j physical condition.
“Give me a chance," said Pacificio;
“I am an opera singer."
“Sing then," challenged an immiga
tion inspector.
Before a board of special inquiry
Pacificio sang an aria from “La
Tosca," At its conclusion applause
echoed through Commonwealth pier
and the board of inquiry unanimously
voted it was not likely Pacificio would
oecome a public charge.
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forfeiture—notice""
To A. F. SPRAGUE, YOUR HEIRS
AND ASSIGNS.
Your are hereby notified, and will
take notice that I, the subscriber, J.
C. Gilpatrydc, have expended during
the year A. D., 1916, the sum of One
hundred ($100.00) dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the fol
lowing: described mining claims, to
wit: “MEAT THE POT,”
“CLARA,” “OLYMPIA,” “SUMMIT,”
“LISBON” and “HATTY,” all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Judi
cial Division, Territory of Alaska. The
notices of location thereof are of
record in Book One ot Locations, at
pages 132 and 133, and Book 5 of Lo
cations at pages 45, 46 and 84 in the
office of the United States Commis
sioner and District Recorder for Ke
nai Recording District and Precinct,
at the Town of Seward, Territory of
Alaska, to which book and pages ref
erence is hereby made for a more par
ticular description of said claim. Said
expenditures were made for the pur
pose of holding possessory rights and
title to said mining claims under the
provisions of' section twenty-three
hundred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and the amendments thereto and the
Session Laws of the Territory of Al
aska, providing for the* annual labor
upon mining claims, said amounts be
ing the sums required in each instance
to hold said mining claims during the
period ending the thirty-first day of
December, 1916.
If you fail and refuse or fail or re
fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, if per
sonal service be had, or within ninety
(90) days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-owner,
your proportion being in the total the
sum of Two hundred and eight dol
lars and thirty-two ($208.32) cents,
made up of the following amounts, to
! wit: ‘MEAT IN THE POT,” $50.00,
“CLARA”, $25.00. “OLYMPIA,”
$33.33, “SUMMIT,” $38.33, “LIS
BON,” $33.33, and “HATTIE,”
$33.33, your respective interests in
and to said mining claims, and each
' and every one of them, will become
the property of the subscriber, who is
your co-owner, and who has made the
expenditures and improvements as
above mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute and the said Session
iLa'VS’ - J. C. GILPATRICK.
First publication, Feb. 2, 1917.
Last publication, April 27, 1917.
G.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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