1,000 1.000 1.000
Pipes Pipes Pipes
AT THK KEY
With every 75c pipe sold we
Rive can or box of tobacco free.
A I.anjc Assortment
Real Value s
THE KEY
PHONE MATH1SON 115
Stationery
. PAPER IN BOXES
Tablets*
Pens
Ink
Library Pa*te
Memo Books*
Knvelopea
Pencils
.Mucilage
Paper Clips
Paper Files
In fact everything in the Sta
tionery line, also a big line
of School Supplies
SEWARD DRUG CO.
WATCHES
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Grut»n
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
C. E. ORLANDER
srCCESSOR to:
GEORGE THE JEWELER
Seward
«|| Geo. A Mitchell
C I I Proprietor
Open Day and Nitfht
Phone Adams 11W
Service—Cleanliness
—am^mmmmmtmwm—■
Prirate Boxes for Toadies or Parties
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef. Pork, Veal, Mutton. Poultry
Lard, Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Carefnl Attention.
BROADWAY AVR SEWARD
FRATERNAL
L. O. O. M, No. 1428
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brother*
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
F. K. BIGFOKD, Secretary.
ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
P. H. Pederson John Noon
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. •
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 y. o., Pioneer Hall ^
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ALEX FRAZER.
Moot mo at the French. tf
WILL H. HAYS
Will H. Hays, the new chairman ot
tht Republican National committee
though only thirty-eight years old, has |
developed the natural Indiana gift of |
politics from the precinct organlza
tion through the state chairmanship
and right Into his present, position
without a hitch in his record for sue :
cess as a political organizer. In the |
'1st general election as chairman o j
the Indiana organization he tu-nec
*hat looked like defeat Into a big Rl‘
puLllcan victory. He is a lawyer wltl
a large practice.
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NO CANNERIES
PERMITTED ON
INTERIOR YUKON
FAIRBANKS, \piil X — Million’s
cf salmon run eveiy summer in the
Yukon River, Alaska’s great inland
water way, and its tributaries, but by
order of the United States govern-;
trw nt, no* n cannery dots'the nundreds
of miles of shore line on the American
side of the Yukon boundary.
Alaska’s interior liver salmon are
reserved for consumption by ihe r mi
anc the sleigh dogs of the north and
are not to be exploited commercially.j
the government has ruled. The same
orders arc enforced on the Canadian
side of ;he Yukon boundary, it is be
lieved here.
Although the fish may rin free with
out thought of cannery nets or traps
they are caught in thousands by the
hundreds of creaking fish wheel traps
operated by the white residents and j
the Siwash Indians, the natives of in
ti »ior Alaska. Smoke from .-cores »f j
fish curing camps rise along the river
P VRTIES OWING
Ellsworth’s
Please call and settle as I am
leaving on the \laska on a busi
ness trip.
JESSIE ELLSWORTH
PROFESSIONAL j
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DR. 0. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. n. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Re*., Mad. 58
J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
L. F. P. & S.f Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. D„ G M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable price*, prompt service.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheelwrighting
SEWARD. ALASKA
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Do you know that the El Roi Tan
Cigar is the largest selling High
Grade Cigar in the United States?
JS
hanks every summer.
The Yukon is closed the greater
part of the year by the ice but enough
lish a»c tught in the summer months
to feed the dogs the year round, and
the inhabitants during the open
months. The portion of the catch not
consumed is cured over open fires *md
stored away for use as winter do0
feed. ' j
A fish diet is said to form not o*'y
the cheapes-t food for dogs but is »lso
i the best food for keeping them in
good condition for their winter work
of pulling sleds on the snow trails.
Recently it was reported a Seattle
Shing o npany in* nded to est«iui,qh
a cannery at Andrcafsky, on the low
er Yukon. W. H. Smith, federal fish
commissioner, wrote the firm regard
ing the truth of the report.
“There is a strong prejudice against
the establishment of canneries on the
lower "Yukon as it would mean the
cutting off or greatly reducing the
eimplv of salmon up the river, the re
sult of vhich would be a great priva
tion and hardship to the people of
that district,” Smith’s letter said.
• Theroi* re, uider present conditions
the Yukon should remain undisturbed
commercially in its production of sal
mon save for local needs.”
'Although there are quite good runs
of chinook, coho and chum salmon up
the Yukon, it does not appear that the
establishment of canneries would he
profitable or advisable. The lack oj
transportation facilities and the high
cost of putting up a pack would not
justify V e undertaking.”
WYOMING CITY
HAS MANY WHO
DRINK WHISKEY
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, April 9. —
Cheyenne statiticians claim tnat toria>
this little city of 12,000 persons im
ports more whisky than any city of
equal size in the United States.
Cheyenne imports an average of
one carload of liquor a day. Recent
ly promulgated shipping orders pro
vide a cur loaded with liquor shall con
tain from ninety to 110 barrels. On
the basis of but 75 barrels of whiskey |
each car would contain 3,700 gallons |
as a standard whiskey barrel contains
loi ty-eigut gallons, or 29,600 pints.
Now the Cheyenne statiticians fig
ure there are eight average sized
drinks in a pint, making the car con
tain 236,800 drinks.
A total of 236,800 drinks would give
every man, woman and child in Chey
enne twenty drinks apiece daily,
enough, say these same statiticians to
keep every man, woman and child per*
petually intoxicated if they were the
only ones to drink the liquor which
arrives here.
But now it is said that but 10 per
cent of Cheyenne’s population or even
less drink liquor. This would make
200 drinks daily for the ten per cent.
And each person included in this 10
per cent would have to take a drink
every seven minutes of the twenty
four hours- i
Colorado officials charge that Chey
enne is the chief base for ‘‘bootleg
gers” who operate into dry Colorado.
They point to these figures as conclu
sive evidence.
It is figured that the 14,800 quarts
imported daily represent a retail value
of $44,400.
MRS. HERBERT SHIPMAN
Mrs. Herbert Shipman of Washing
ton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edson
Bradley, has exchanged her place In
Washington's most exclusive society to
serve as a trained nurse In France,
and 16 now on her way to the front.
Several months ago when her husband
left the rectorship of the Church of
the Heavenly Rest In New York to be
come a chaplain at Spartanburg, S. C„
Mrs. Shipman began training In a New
York hospital.
SUBSTITUTE
FOR COTTON
IS DISCOVERED
TOKIO, April 9. — The discovery
of a practical substitute for cotton
was announced today at the annuai
meeting' of the Federation of Marine
Industries. The announcement was
made by K. Hamada, vice-president
of the Low’d* House of Parliament
who said that the discovery was made
in December in the Tokio Fibre Labor
atory in the course cf experiments on
seaweeds.
The variety of seaweed is known ar
sugamo or gomo guma. It abounds in
Japanese waters and hitherto has been
used as a fertilizer. The method of
extracting the fibre is simply to boil
the v ceds in lye and then in waver
mixed with rice bran after which 4hr
released fibre is bleached. The whole
process is so simple as to be easily
possible lor fishermen and farmers
living near the sea.
Mr. Hamada claims that the fibrt?
in every respect in better than cotton.
Our idea of prejudice is w’hen a per
son imagines the basso prof undo isn’t
good for anything else.
JAMES EL WILSON
I
Democratic Candidate, Solicits
1 •
%
Your Vote for Road Commissioner
Primary Election, April SOth
ED WOOD
Solicits Your Vote for
^ ROAD COMMISSIONER
of the Third Division.
Republican Candidate Subject to the
Primaries to be held Tuesday, April 30
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
▼#te P*r
JAMES L. GALEN
x
Republican Candidate for
Road Commissioner
Primary Election Tuesday, April 30!
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Vote For
HENRY A. SLATER
for
REPRESENTATIVE
on the
Republican Ticket
Primary Election, Tuesday, April 30.
FOR ROAD COMMISSIONER
Third Division
HARVEY SULLIVAN
of Valdez
Former U. S. Marshal
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I have announced my candidacy for Road Com
missioner of the Third Division on the Republican
ticket subject to the Primaries on April 30, 1918
—Paid AdvprtiiMxjent
HOTEL OVERLAND
HARRY WHITTEMORE, Leasee and Manager.
.. 4. ■■ . -
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
H. V. Hobkn A. F. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. FIOBEN, Manaok.r
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfe'*'* I‘hones, Main 17 and 81
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HOTEL
SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
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Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office-Bank of Savtfard Building
SEWARD ALASKA
Attention Mushers!
THE GLACIER BAR, at Girdwood
, is a Restaurant and Pool Hall. Meals are to be
had from 5 a. m., until 10:00 p. m. Good
. • i
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Spring Beds—Horse and Dog Stable*
Hitchcock & Hechcy, Props.
C“ IE th’ Irishman sez: “One
man’s ez good ez another
an’ a dura sight better.”
Anyway, one man
can’t get no better
tobacco ’n another
ef they both get
VELVET.
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smoking qualities that gave Kentucky Burley its title of
“Nature’s Pipe Tobacco,” with an exclusive VELVET
aged-in-the-wood mellowness.