General Contractor
fireproof Hotel, Appartment House,
Office Building Construction,
Dock, Warehouse and Bridge Building
All KINDS or COSCHI It WORK
Will be pleased to submit estimates aud
bids for all kinds of construction work.
J. P. MANTELL. Suite 4, Daggett Block
C.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
Schooner Lucy
Has arrived with a full cartfO of
WELLMAN CANNED GOODS RED CLOVER BUTTER
TIP TOP EGGS SPERRYS FLOURS
MARSHFIELD CHEESE
And a full fine of
hardware, stoves, hay and feed
No Better Goods Can Be Bought At Any Price
0. W. PALMER, Knik. Alaska
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION CO.
“The Admiral Line”
STEAMERS SAIL FROM SEATTLE 5 P. M.
5th. 15th, 25th of Each Month
for SOUTHEASTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA PORTS
bailing of 15th calls llliamna and Kodiak.
All Vessels call at Knik anchorage Daring Open Season
-CALIFORNIA-—
Seattle to San Francisco, every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting
With Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California Points^_
Right reserved to change steanier> und ruling dates without notice.
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD. Manager. WAYNE BLUE. Local Agent.
Pioneer! kniics leading hotel
t-J^.4-^1 N0 UAR
11U I'vl ] Accommodations for Ninety Guests
f. b. cannon. Prop. > Large General Ix>bby
y*. • | Private Lobby for Ladies
A l ^1 I Best Ratks : : Best Treatment
Alaska s Best Accommodations
HOTEL OVERLAM I
E. L. WHITTEMORE, PROP.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER CO.
Incorporated November 1905 under the Laws of the Territory of Alaska
*S. M. GRAFF, President and General Manager
Controctors and dealers In Electric Supplies and Apparatus.
Office: At the Station. TELEPHONE MAIN 123
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Lang's (Pat.) Hot Blast Smokeburning
5TQVES AN*t> RANGES
Are GUARANTEED to born but one-half as much
fuel as OLD STYLE RANGES.
Because they consume all gases and smoke In
fuel. All fuel is burned from top.
The “PACIFIC," as shown In cut. is our Stand
ard Family Range- made in three sizes.
We Make Stoves from $1.00 to $300
Write us for Catalogues,
f. S. LANG MANUFACTURING CO.,
2756 First Avenue. South, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
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USE
Reliance Coffee
Rich and Satisfying
NATIONAL GROCERY 00., Sole Distributors for Alaska
- SAFETY FIRST! -
Ruhstaller’s
Gilt Edge
Beer
Sacramento, Calif.
SERVED AT ALL CAFES
| PALACE OF 8WEET8
ICE CREAM
Cigars Cigarettes Tobacco
Stationery Candy
Post Cards
Seward W ater
and
j Power Company
John A. Nelson, Manager
Offlea-Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD. - ALASKA
CNAS. H. MUELLER
Manufacturing furrier
Honesty end Reliability
Seud your Raw Furs to me to be made
Into Sets while Summer Prices prevail
Remodeling and Repairing
1621 SECOND AVENUE
SEATTLE, - WASH.
OLD CROW
OLD HERMITAGE
OLD WINES
Blue Ribbon Beer
Olympia Beer
ONLY MINERAL CABINET
WHERE? AT
JACK’S
J. P. Stotko - Proprietor
i
ANDERSON & MURPHY
THE
TERMINAL
Olympia, Rainier, Budweiser
and Lemps Beer
Olympia Beer on Draught
AH Beer and Wines Strictly =
Cold Storage
Try Us once
then Ton be the judge f
The Commerce
F. W. POWERS
Proprietor
t
' ROOMS IN CONNECTION
Wines, Liquors
and Cigars
BEST BRANDS Draught ana
Bottled Beers
USE THE PHONE
ALASKA ELECTRIC CO.
S. M. dRAFF
President and General Manager
Igloo No. 9, j
Order of Pioneers
Meets the First Tuesday Night of«ach
* month at the A. B. hall.
j. LINDLEY GREEN. ISAAC EVANS.
FresMeat. Secretary. J
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 Careful Attention
•Fourth Ave, Seward
The new
Royal
Price $100
(In Canada ijj
$125) fjg|
“The Typewriter of Perfect Presswork99
THE flawless presswork of the new Royal
Master-Model 10 carries the high-grade busi
ness message in as fine form as your thoughts
themselves! Royal presswork reinforces the result
getting power of your business-letters—for it adds
the forceful stamp of quality io every letter you sign.
Heretofore, you have been
obliged to accept a standard of
typewriting inferior to high-class
printing, yet you would not accept
poor printing. But with the new
standard of “typewriter presswork”
created by the new Royal “10” it
is no longer necessary to accept
inferior typing in your office.
**Th« Typ® That Teiu ” pick up the letters you have signed
to-day. Examine them—then see a sample of the faultless
presswork of the Royal! On which kind of typing will you
send your signature to represent YOURSELF?
Which one will you trust to convey unmistakably to the world
the character of your house ?
Get the Facts !
Send for the “Royal man” and ask for a DEMONSTRATION.
Investigate the new master-machine that takes the 'grind out of type
writing. Or w’rite us direct for our new brochure, “ BETTER SERVICE,
and book of facts on Touch-Typing—with a handsome Color-Photograph
of the new ROYAL MODEL 10—nil sent free to typewriter users.
“Write now—right now! "
ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY. Inc.
214 Marion Street, Seattle, Washington
The Last Word
in Quality
Society Chocolates
aud
Tru Blu Biscuits
Ihe Cracker falto imperial candy co.,
Seattle
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Hotzl Seward
w. A. M’NEILEY. Prop.
MODERN CONVENIENCES
RATES SI.00 TO S3.00 PER DAY
HOT AND COLD WATER BATHS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
The Coleman
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. GEO. SEXTON, PROP.
Electric lights. Electric bell. Mixlcrn bftth rooms. Iiiites reasonjible.
FOURTH AVENUE SEWARD, ALASKA
$14,000 INCREASE IN
SEWARD MONEY ORDERS.;
Post Office of the Terminal City
Show* Vast Increase of
Business.
The work of the Seward Post office
has increased greatly in the past year
as can be seen from a few figures
which will follow'. During the fiscal
year which ended June 30th. and in
crease of 452 was found in the num
ber of pieces of mail registered over
the same period which ended a year
previous. For the same period an
increase of 1,269 was observed in the
number of money orders written writh
an increase of $24,321.24 in their
Value.
In the same period the increase of
the amounts paid on money orders
showed the substantial increase of
$20,281.72.
An increase of $770.59 w’as found
in the stamp sales for the same
periods. The yearly expenditure of
the post office department in Seward
for salaries, rents, etc., runs about i
$4,650.00
In the local distribution af mail
this office handles about 3,000 sacks
of papers, parcels, etc., and about 150 ;
pouches of letters and registers for
this city alone in one year.
In the distribution end of the office
an average of about 600 sacks of mail j
per month is received and a like
number dispatched. There are also
handled in that end of the office year
ly about 5,500 pieces of registered
I mail.
The importance of the Seward post
office is daily increasing. Besides
handling the local mail it is the dis
tribution point for the great western
coast all the year. In the winter it
! handles mail for the Iditarod country,
and as soon as the railroad is com
pleted will handle all the mail for
the Fairbanks and Kuskoquim
countries.
NEWS NOTES.
It was Mr. and Mrs. Steve White
head, of course, who left yesterday
on the Watson instead of Guy White
head.
Mrs. Ward entertained a party of
f ladies yesterday afternoon at the resi
dence of Mrs. W. C. Edes.
In the passenger list of the Ala
meda printed on Tuesday appeared
the name of N. Sexton. Ihis is the
| son of Mr. and Mrs. George Sexton
who comes to Seward to spend his
vacation. George Sexton returned
yesterday afternoon from a fishing
trip on Kenai Lake. He reports the
fishing to be very good. According to
talk out there, he says, this year’s
berry season is unusually poor.
George Mirlach, the local jeweler, is !
moving his stock to his new' head
quarters one door north of his pres
ent location, in the place formerly oc
cupied by the Alaska Land and De
velopment Co.,
Benj. Campbell, of the Engineering j
commission, while out the line the
other day w*as bitten by a moose
We Design, Build,
Install and Oper
ate for a
Period of 30 Days
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Dredges Designed
and Built to
Suit Conditions
under which they
are to operate
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Leading Builders
of Smaller
Sized Dredges
with buckets II to
5 cubic foot
capacity
Our Special Design
Fine Gold Saving
Devices
Installed on
Dredges of the
Flume type
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We build light
Drills capable of
digging 4-in.
holes 50 feet
Two men can
handle them
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Write for prices
and particulars
AMERICAN GOLD DREDGES—TYPE OF AMERICAN GOLD DKEDGe. OrKKAliwi# Ai
AMERICAN DREDGE BLDG. AND CONSTRUCTION CO.
503-504 Pioneer Bldg. B. BERNARD, Manager SEATTLE, WASH.
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CIITCD’C A Jewelry Store
1 EL Iv For Everybody
DIAMONDS—Extraordinary facilities for securing the
Choicest Gems from the Diamond Markets, together with
our Large Turn-Over, enables us to always Sell at the
Lowest Prices—and the Same Price is made to every
SOURDOUGHS ATTENTION—We make a specialty of
Nugget and Ivory Jewelry, and Mounting Same to Order.
WATCHES—All Reliable American and Foreign move
ments will be found in our Watch Department, in both
Solid Gold and Guaranteed Cases: Please remember that
Visitors are always Welcome at the Suter Jewelry Store.
Mail orders promply attended to.
We i it p n Jeweler and Silversmith HZ'XL
m ^jlJILImj 1115 Second St, SEATTLE
___y hi m—iwlHldllM——frgi— ■mill ■
on one of his fingers and now blood
poisoning has set in. Dr. Romig is
treating it.
It seems that this hot weather eith
er has caused the porcupines to multi,
ply or driven them into town for
food. Yesterday while Mrs. John
Nelson and Elizabeth Romig were
crossing the bridge over the Glacier
stream one of the animals got in
their way. It is hard to tell what
happened after the meeting.
BECKER’S WIFE APPEALS
FOR HUSBAND’S LIFE.
Governor Says He Can See Nothing
That Could Induce Him to
Interfere With Justice.
NEW YORK, July 29.—Becker’s
wife appealed this evening to the
governor to save the condemned man
from the electric chair, but the gov
ernor says he does not expect to in
terfere with the course of justice.
Becker himself is said to be bearing
up well and to be still hopeful that
Something will occur to keep him
from the death chair. The sudden an
nouncement that a new trial had been
refused affected him badly at first but
he seems to get more reconciled.
CHATANIKA BUILDS NEW
BRIDGE AND LOSES IT.
FAIRBANKS.—Chatanika built a
bridge across the Chatanika river, on
the road from that place to the Tolo.
vana camp, and after they had form
ally dedicated it and celebrated ita
completion, the high waters washed
it out. The loss of the bridge waa
evidently a great disappointment to
the people of that hustling commun
ity, but the rains have so helped the
mining there that is is probabl* that
the loss is more than repaid in that
way.—Fairbanks Citizen.
Plumbing and tin shop at Brown &
Hawkins, “Quality First.”
Force & Pitcher pumps, iron and
' steel pipe and fittings at Brown &
Hawkins, “Quality First.”
Dr. Draney A. 1 dentistry at mod
erate prices. Telephone Adams 114.
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Visiting cards, invitations, anything
pretty is done by the Gateway just as
well as outside.
Wall paper at Brown & Hawkins,
1 ten per cent discount. “Quality First”
Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.
CHARLES GREETING
Pioneer
Carpenter of Seward
Contractor and Builder
Cabinet Work a Specialty
Third Ave. Bet. Adams and Clasur
Telephone Main ">4.
STANDARD GOODS
at
Eastern Prices
GFORGE
the Jeweler
H. E. ELLSWORTH
SEWARD. ALASKA
2Sfc ASSAY OFFICE ££
Reports on Mines Ore Analysis
Gold .fl 50
Gold and Silver... 3 00
Copper . 1 5®
Lead . 1 5®
Gold, Silver and Lead. I 6#
Gold, Silver and Copper. t 50
Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead.4 50
Gold and Silver Umpere . 5 00
Iron . 4 00
Sulphur, Aluminum. Tin, Platinum,
Quicksilver, Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt,
Chromium, etc . 5 00
Mill Test* .$16 to $30
Ore analysis...$10 and op
HARVEY & CO.
Y. M. C. A. HuiMintf.
Next to Commissioner’s Office
Contractors and Builders
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
The Brown-Powell
Liquor Co.
fill THIRD AVENUE
SEATTLE, WASH.
CATERS TO THE ALASKA
TRADE
WHEN COMING OUT HAVE YOUR
MAIL ADDRESSED IN OUR CARE
Charles Powell Felix Brown
LATE or DAWBOM LATE or NOME