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~V0L7XlV^ NumberlH The Seward Gateway' Thursday, Dec.. 30. liftST • ten cots fib q£*
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NO CHANCE FOR HIM
In spite of the advanced prices the
barber was dull* and the razor he was
^weilding seemed to share his discour
agement
“I*ve Just about * decided to open a
butcher shop,” he said, reaching for
the powdered astringent.
“And will you close this one,” his
victim gasped feebly.
If you love your neighbor as your
self, can you peddle scandal about
him?
The 1913 nickel without the Buf
falos' head may be worth $600.00 but
the rest are worth only about a cent
and a half apiece.
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WEATHER REPORT
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SEWARD 23 Cloudy Calm.
Anchorage 14 Cloudy Calm.
Matanuskal6 Cloudy Calm.
Chkkaloon 10 Cloudy Calm.
Wasilla 10 Cloudy Calm.
Talkeetna 4 Cloudy Calm.
^Goldcreek 0 Clear Calm.
Hurricane 6 below Clear North.
Summit 8 Below Clear North
Healy 2 Below Clear Calm.
Nenana 18 Below Clear Calm.
Fairbanks 20 Below Clear Calm,
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Father Markham came to Seward,
on the Flier last night from Anchor
age. He has fully recovered from the
cold that bothered him recently and
will hold services in the Catholick
Church on New Years and Sunday at
9 and 11 o’clock.
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SEWARD METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School 11 A. M.
Open Forum Class 12 Noon.
Evening Service 7:30
Tlie Evening Service is our New
Years Service. Sermon Subject “The
Marks of Man.” Come and join with
us in the New Yean Service you will
be very welcome.
Duane Earl Carter, Pastor.
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SECRETARY McPHERSON RETURNS
_FROM WASHINGTON
SEATTLE. Wash., Dec., 30— Secretary Mac-Pherson
of the Seattle Branch of the Chamber of Commerce stat
ing yesterday before the Trustees declared that while the;
present Congress could not be counted on to pass the legis
lation advocated for Alaska, that the next Congress would
probably enact laws permitting for the development of
Alaska. The present Congress will probably limit its activ
ities for appropriations to a few bills permitting home
stead entry of lands now preserved for seal. The law will
preserve the coal rights but will permit a surface title. The
result of this will be a relief to a large number of home
steaders on Cook’s Inlet. The hearings are now approach
ing development.
MINING !INTENTION BILL MAY BE VETOED
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec., 30— Senator Ashurst
oi Arizona started for Washington vesterdav with the our
bbse c f getting “Frank Manlv”. The announcement came
i rom Watson alter a doubt was expressed as to whether
the president would sign the bill extending the six months
provision law which requires-that one hundred dollars
| v.’orth of work shall be done on all raining claims before
i mio.night December 31. Senator Ashurst declared that the!
| C'aim lumpers were “Sitting like bla-ck birds on a fence,”
V'rating to lump the claims at midnight if the bill was veto
i eu. He explained that while there is nothing in new bill
! a bout filing n otices as reouii ed under the old law for su
! spended assessment work during the war that the Claim
i ants, must, tile notices setting forth assessment work that
j has been done or claim exemption under the new Bill.
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ANOTHER HOLDUP
| SPOKANE, Dec., 30— Three bandits held up a store
i and bound and gagged the proprietor, his wife and daugh
ter and then waited until customers in the store had left
before rifling the cash register. Thev obtained $100.00 and
made good thier escape.
CRITICISES DEPORTATION
WASHINGTON, Dec., 30— Criticizing the gove-m
ment for the deportation of Martin, Senator France Mark
land declared it was time, “Our government should forget
all prediudices and follow the example of Great Britain in
opening channels of trade for Americans in all parts of the
world.
MRS. McSWINEY RETURNS HOME
NEW YORK, Dec., 30— Mrs. McSwiney sailed for
home last Saturday after testifying before the Commis
sion Committee of one hundred who are investigating Ire
land.
TO PREVENT TAX EXE.Ml'i'L'hN
WASHINGTON, Dec., 30— Chairman McFadden of!
the House Banking Committee,. yesterday introduced a I
constitutional ammendment toorevent the ss-uance of any i
tax exemptnon securities bv the Federal Government for i
states, counties or any municipality.
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NO PEACE FOR POLAND
COPENHAGEN, Dec., 30—The Russian- Polish
peace negotiations at Riga have been defnitelv broken.
Ihe Soviet delegates declared the Russia’s international
siutation was so good that it was unnecessary to treat -url
ther with Poland.
STEAMER DORA A TOTAL LOSS
SEATTLE, Dec., 30— The steamer Dora, which went
aground on the east shore of Vancouver island, lias slipped >
into fifty-two feet of water and is a total loss. The Dora
was one of the most famous vessels on Che coast and was
known as the “bulldog” of the North Pacific.” She was
built in 1880 for the Alaska coast trade. Captain Hovick
express the hope that the Dora’s cargo might be salvaged.
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FIRST BIG SUPPLY MEASURE COMPLETED
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec.. 30- The Sundry Civil
Bill carrying a total ox $033,011,393 or approximately $431,
ouo.ooo less man me amount asxeu ior oy. tne government
departments is reponeu out 01 me nouse -oy me House
Appropriation oomuuctee. it is tne first Dig supply meas
ure 01 me year to be completed. Tne Alaska appropria
tions include $4,000,000 ior rail road construction. $335,
OoM ior euucation, $130,030 for the care 01 insane, $35,U00
lor tne protection 01 game, $3i,0d0 lor National Park Ser
vice. No appropriation lor tne cinstruction of military
posts in Alaska. Tne paragraph indicating a desire to put
expenditures on a pre-war Oasis.
For tne care of disabled service men the committee on
ly set set aside $166,193, for tne actual sundry civil expense
of tne government only $34,uou,UOO man the amount ap
propriated in 1916. The largest single reduction of $147,
000,000 applies to the Shipping Board and the Emergency
Heet Bill wmch provides mat the organization be support
ed entirely out of the various sources of income. The re
quest of the department of Justice for $300,000 for the en
forcement of Prohibition was eliminated, but $15,000 was
appropriated to supress the liquor traffic in Alaska.
Other principal items include war risk insurance, $87.
000,000, Vocational Training $13,000,000 Sunday Military
P6i|ts, $60,000,000, National Cemeteries $19,000,000, Ni
trate Plants $10,000,000, panama Canal $7,000,000, Immi
gration Service $3,503,000, Employment Service $1,250,000
Reclamation Service $5,800,000, Public Health $4,000,000,
Armories, arsenals $5,800,000, Public Buildings $6,700,000
Department of Justice, $1,900,000. The bill also includes
$228'.(»00,000 for the accounts -of the military, naval, ccm-.i
pensatipn. Death and Disability Service, war risk insur
ance and rehabilitation. .1
CHICAGO. BURLINGTON and QUINCY REDUCES
AURORA, 111., Dec., 29— Orders were received here
yesterday to lay off one fourth of the Chicago Burlington
and Quincy R. R. shop employees- at this point. About two
mousand men were employed here last December.
•( EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS CLOSED
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WEST ORANGE, N. J. Dec., 30— The Phonograph
Works of Thomas Edison were closed last night and will
remain closed indefinitely. The record department is un
affected. General business conditions are given as the
cause. Eight hundred men are affected.
DEAD AND DYING
SAN FRANCISCO* Dec., 30— Two men are dead and
third is dying, the result of drinking poisoned moonshine
whiskey, according to the police and physicians who at
tended them.
BALOON DESCENDS NEAR LAKE
OTTAWA, Dec., 30— The American Navy baloon
with three officers aboard which has been missin-g since
the thirteenth of December is believed to have descended
near Lake Tomiskainig, about two hundred miles north of
this place. ' * |
SENTENCED TO FIFTY YEARS
Dec., 30— Spud Murphy one of the gangsters who at
tacked girls was yesterday sentenced to serve from one to
fifty veal’s. The court recommended that he be made to
serve everv day of the maximum sentence.
HARDING MAKING PLANS FOR -CABINET
MARION. Dec.,30— After weeks of dscussion and!
consultation President elect Harding is nearing a decision
of his choice of important cabinet members. He has not i
vet made any definite decision but those who are intimate- •
lv acquainted with him believe the names he has under
sonous consideration include Hughes for Secretary of
State, Charles Dawes of Illinois for Secretary -of the Trea-:
surv. Weeks of Massachusetts for the Naw. Hays for i
Postmaster General or Secretary of the Interior, Henry
Wallace of Iowa for Secreta-rv of Agriculture, Hoover for
Labor and Daugherty for Attorney General.
S. S. SPOKANE LEAVES
FOR SOUTH
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Arriving from the Westward last
evening about 6:30 the S. S. Spokane
south bound stopped at the dock just
long enough to ick up the Seward pas
sengers . The following people from
the Westward were aboard.
For Seward:
S. L. Caldwell,
R. Smith,
C. Westby,
C. Nelson,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Amston,
T. E. West and
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Miss Mollie Bakken.
For Ketchikan:
J. Rodilik,
For Seattle:
E. Tumquist,
Miss Annie Strand,
Miss Ada Hanson,
Miss Agnes Degerstrom, and
T. Knudson, All these people are*
from Seldovia and Halibut Cove coun
try. The following passengers sailed
from Seward.
A. J. Blake,
C. 0. Bennigan,
J. N. Bulick,
Arthur Miller
Peter Simene,
Joe Simene,
Mac Simene, '
Agnes Simene,
Jack Adams,
Mrs. Edna Bates,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Colwell,
John Xonras,
Fred Wackivits,
Thomas Nettelson,
Allan Hansen
A. Johnston, . . r
Robt Deacon,
Patric Gilden, . .
Jack Woklinn,
Jim Driscol, '
Robert Myers, '
and eight steerage.
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d’ANNUNZIO SURRENDERS
FIUME. Dec., 30— Gabrielle d’Annunzioearlv vester
dav morning surrendered all powers of the Fiumean Com
munal Couticil to. General Caviglia, the leader of the Ital
ian Regular forces. Conditions of neace will be arranged
with a delegation of the Council today.
Complete recognition of the trertv of Raoallo wlucn
d'Annunzio opposed to be given bv representatives at the
negotiation for. peace according to a report received from
Caviglia. .
BIG FRESH HERRING
LUTFISK-S. F. CO.
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