9-- ’*
you WILL BE SICK
' at heart if you buy ydub hardware outfit ot anybody but
me. WHY? BctfauSe when you find whAt poor stuff
it is you will be sdrvy you did ndt get it of me, for 1
have the BE'.ST hardware at the SAME PRICE
you pay elsewhere fob poor.
BROWNELL
FIRST SEWARD BAPTISM
Paul Brondell CaUlIu Beck Given
that Distinction
Paul P.rondelt < ualla Peek, aged
right and one ha'u month'', was baptiz-i
vd Sunday by Itev. Ik H. l’edef>en .
at the evening >ervice ih the Met ho* |
di>t chuivh. l«-ing the first person
tu mv v. that ordinance inSeward.
>o fat* a' known.
Ti r ..>y \v:t' U I Plumber Is. HhH
at P ita a. \laska. on the mainland
n,ar Kayak. hi- father ha> U'v'.x
working u> a carp* >ter On the railroad
i.guv building, b : will leave with his
f”miiv or. ti.P> tiaad for Seldovia.
Not knowing whet hr r they would find.
:i • i'i>T th tv he parent' had the
kirti'tnal rite p. rfort ted on their last
Sunday in Sew are.
Hods. Girl from Seattle
Miss Adelaide M. Mon toe came to
Sr ward on ti •' Pur land to many
1. a > K. IT no <>i Sunrise, who had ,
bee . wait ing for her since a day or
!> ! re ill * a’-i ival of t he Santa
Ana. Ho . \p. et. d the girl On that
< r. The two w< *emarried Monday
l»v Father Tune i. and imtn - i lately
.i«• to s ■ si» on the Port land.
1. mo s tn-oo! tot* of a hole* and
V.ill tnforce Ga.rr Law
\\ >. i on i " • t.er tildreth says;
ti.i t the game law w iii he strictly i tt
fe:v* d against or . '..iors w ho may be
caught violating it. Fr go.-nt reports
c. in that hut.’* ••> are killing ex
, •) a s. . i;o i oi,;:.g with
o* g >. •’Th _ ' ' 11 w s Aive hunters.1
p . nt’. of leeway.” says Judge Hildreth,
••nt.ti detect, u violator* wiii be prose-,
CUted.”
f. If. Stewnrt Begins To Build
F i(". Sto\vart, tt'o. « .••>••• of the bis-.
kat'< ‘to hi> \\Yduesday In-gun tie
construction of a v. ' deuce on Third
u-.< r.u . just hey one Lowo.l eroot,. It !
is , A.o.i to II. Oi • of ti.o hamls.uu- .
» s; dwoi lings in tow n.
Office 8a,IJim , Minus! l inished
V io rail rust-1 " ce huikib.g I* near
i completion. The worn! work is*,
so ". uriy none ti t sutue oi theearpen- (
s h i\ v tio work e Mr. Stew
art’s IU W 1 eskh (tee.
Sawmill Begins Operations
TI o railroad siiwmili at the h< ad of,
11ha> U-g.c. < : • rath t ' v't Wednes
day. It has a large supply of log'
eoeib g ut’ to be >aw il mt * lumber.
tuelsior To Take Dora’s Run
Th. Valdez P: spent of August ill
savs that the completion of her present
trip to ti • w.-st w it*, the Dora will go,
to Seat tl lor re pa o, and the Kxccl-j
sior w ill take }>• r rut..
Miss. Gordon Takes Vatatio*
Mrs. IJliiun N. (b rdon, postmistress
: s. ward, 'ailed on tiie Port1 and this;
morning for Seattle for a few weeks va
cation. She will visit the Portland
exjHisition.
Railroad Building I lag Pole tp
A flag |H>ie fifty 'i.\ foot long wo set
in position on top of * he railroad build
ing Thursday evening. 'The -tar- and
stripes will soon Boat from it.
Don't overlook the Troy Laundry
for up to date an-1 first class work.
Tad is’ and gen’s wo k a specialty, tf
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A- Also an a-«>cHi»ont of
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DIGGING SEWER TRENCH
Contractor Has Force of Men at
Work on Local Improvement
Work U'jfan Tluh-sday on the
: trench Tor the sewer, which istoVx
^ tenVl tVvhi Adams street to the hay
thruiyh the alley between FoUFth atul
Fifth avenues. Kijrht hunt wore at
work uniter the direction of George J
1 Salami, thn contractor, and the number
will he increased to a doyen as soon as ;
th* \ eayt ho employed. The demand |
for labor in the local market at the pro- J
nt time i* rather in excess of th>>>up-j
! ply. as tlve railroad contractors are j
hieing all the men they can jret.
The contract for the sewer calls fori
! its completion by (>etober !•>. 1 his
' will require steady work as in some 1
I places tiie trench will he quite deep, j
At the Adams street end it is to be ;
n no feet and thi~ depth i* to increase
' lor otne distance tin*I1 * dip in the j
»u *faee is reached.
Ti;e laying of the sewvr is tiie result
! of dili.ireiit work by the ehamher of i
: commerce and is the first step toward
, divine Seward modern city ituprove
n lent % co! due! i vo to hc;i It it and con veil* ■
ieiice. It w ill relieve the alley of the |
it.ty.ii which i* now thrown in it ami
a lowed to decay upon the surface.]
i making it both am ye* >re and a menact 1
*o health. The propert v o\\ mr* ladly
’*ub*e»*ilM*d the cost.
VISITOR LIKES SEWARD
George W. Mahoney ol Seattle
Tells Home Paper About It
George W. M *bon> y of Seattle, a
t w ealthy realty owner of that city, came
up on the Santa Plat a on her last trip
• i lot k at some Sewanl lots which he
; had bought “sight unseen". While
! here he expressed satisfaction with his
f purchase, and when he went hack he j
talked this way to the 1’ost-lntellijfen- :
Cel*:
“Sixteen hours* sail brought us into
!*. surreetion hay, on the north shore!
1 i f which i< situated the town of Sew
ard. Here is the grande*t landlocked
! harbor in al! the uii!'> of Alas
kan s.-a coast. It is some sixteen miles
north and south by six to seven miles
• tsi and west practically surmuned
! by towering mountain ranges.
"Leading up a gentle slope from this
grand sheet of water, so gentle indeed.
: that you ilo not fee! the ascent or di>
1 emit, at th«- streets of S» ward, to an
elevation of altoui loo feet. Hut more
pleasant still is the fact that they are
, m the business portion) practically
j paved by a slate gravel deposit that in
sures that a mud-hole is not and never
van he in all this portion, and that all
business property can have cellars un
! der tln-m free from seepage,
i “The docks, however, present the
most animated scene. Locomotives and
! slut cars are moving load after load of
| provisions and building materia1 out to
tin railway warehouses as fast as a
large body ol men can load them,
wh.ie every dray and w agon available
is engaged in handling the miscellan
eous merchandise to the town stores;
and despite all effort, tin dock-houses,
dock and passages are hi led to over
, (lowing. Five vessels moored at dock,
besides barge and numerous small
1 craft. This is the picture that met my
gaze during the thirty-six hours our
j steamer lay at Seward.”
TEUGRAPH NEWS
New York. Sept. 7 It is reported
from Ktap that the Roosevelt, carry
ing Lieutenant I Vary and hi> Arctic
exploring party, left that port August
10, and should now be well up along
1 the coast of Greenland.
New York. Sept. 7 Judge Alton R
Parker Democratic nominee for the
Presidency las’ year, has been appoint
ed chief counsel for the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company at a salary of
A UM U MM) a year.
London. Sept. 7 -Marshall Field, the
i'unions Chicago dry gmsls lVierclrantf,
I married Mrs Arthur Caton in this city
yesterday.
The dance in Moore's hall last night
was largely attended by the young
people of the town.
j Temperature at - p. in. today—07.
I Seward Commercial Co.
Remember
we have a fine line of Ladies’ Underwear and
Furnishings—Silk, Wool, Muslin«rS':f;£$:£&s':S;
Lace Collars, Laces and Embroideries, Chil- .
dren’s Underwear.fefeSSSfcfe&SSSSS-SSSfcSfe
Men’s furnishings if,dics’Silk WaisJf; Gown% Go'T CovT
■■ ' ■ Thompson Glove Fit Corsets
A full line of Men’s Shoes arrived on this steamer
.
The White House
on the Levee
I
Ladies Bazaar
Millinury. Suits. Notions l n
dorwoar Hosiorv, Art Hoods.
MISS KlNCSl’.l'KY
Adams St root Suward, Alaska
NEWS OF ALASKA
S"\'pn nil'll escaped from the steam,
v haler Thrasher, t apt. Met umbo. an
chored in Port Clarence bay. on July
)T. hr. i not belore live -'!iot-> had been
lined at them from tin \es«.(,l. Nome
j of the took etfect. M’lie men who <•-;
| cape*! w <Te Alfred .Nelson. Fioyd Van]
i \ . lien Earle. Mike Sharkey. W al- j
t--r Sneigrove, l’a> Brennan and]
< ieorje Smith. A!! of I hem made ;
their u a \ to Nome, e' perieticing’ hard- |
>|iip-, which they say wen* easy eom-1
pared with their life on tin* Thrasher, j
The Miocene Ditch Company and the ]
t ainpion Com puny at Nome have settled
their dilTerences. after nearly four j
weeks wets eoitsumed in trying the j
ca-e recently. By the terms of the j
settlement it is understood the water;
rights i:i emitroversy are divided
(equally, each company taking one-half
| the Miocene to take the lirst Jb'o inches
! from iiutlalo creek, but there will al
ways be 120*1 inches left for the Campion.
* Humors have reached town of a verv
rich strike that has jn>t been made by
Joe Dalton and I ’at Itegan in the Mt.
' McKinley district. Pont us Majrmison
el Wort man’s Koudhousc. bas received
a telegram from Dalton t* lling of tin
litul. It says s,*,,ooo has been panned
■ out of the ground in a short time and
ihnt on bedrock $•> to $10 ;i pan bad
been obtained. A big stampede is on
from Fairbanks. \ aide/. News
During the las*, few years the pro
duct ion of tin in the world has not
been equal to the demand, and the ac
! cumulated stocks of tin that have been
j held in various count ries have become
,-ery much diminished since ls,.io. < >no
of the chief reasons for this increasing
1 demand is the wider use of tin boxes
and cases in shipping sundry articles.
The steam shovel owned and operat
ed by the Northern Miner Limited on
Spruce creek in the Atlin district is
working and giving excellent satisfac
tion accoi ding to people from Atlin.
It handles without diHieulty s h) buck
ets of gravel a day. It requires two
shifts of eight men each to do the
work.
The Alaska Improvement company
lias leased the mines of the Grindall
Mining and Smelting company on Ka
saan peninsula and will start to work
soon. 200 tons of the ore from this
mine, lately tested at Coppermount
showed 5 per cent copper and over $.'<
in gold per ton.
The biggest nugget ever found,
which weighs 202 ounces and is worth
, St.'172<i. is exhibited as part of Nome's
display at the Lewis and A Murk exposi
tion MMie nugget is kept in a cage,
and visitors are permitted to lift it.
The big Seward ditch at Nome is
taking shape very satisfactorily. 100
men and 50 head of horses being con
stantly employed. Much rock work
lias been found necessary.
Two thousand and forty acre*? of |
placer tin ground in the tape York
region have recently been bonded to
English capitalists for $5,000,000.
Late advices from Ketchikan ?ay the
Hadley smelter is being put in condi
j tion for business and that it will start
np in a very short time.
Fairbanks now has a brickyard, born
of prohibitive prices for brick taken in
from the outside
SUPPLIES
A largo lino always on hand. A ploasuro to show you
our now goods at any tinio. S«*o our display window.
I THE OWL DRUG CO. suvard ,md VALDtz
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II. N. COLEMAN, Proprietor
Electric Lights and Electric Bells jn every room
I Rates from 50e to $2.50 per day
A bsolutel y F i r s t-C 1 a s s
Excellent Cate in Connection
^ rot irm avkm i:, skward, \laska ^
BAY CITY MARKET
W'HOI.KSA I.K AND KKTA 11. DKAl.KKS IN
fresh Beef, PorK, Veal and Mutton
Hams, Bacon and Lard Constantly on hand
Small & Glasbrenner
EIDSON & DOBSON. Proprietors
fx Gentleman’s Resort. Gold Dust Bought
: Cor. Fifth and Washington streets Seward, Alaska
ASHLAND HOUSE
AND BANK SALOON
Wines, Liquors and Figars hirst-class Fr.rnishe l Rooms
Fourth A ve.A )|*i>osin Alaska Central Conitnereial Co.
Restaurant in connection. WALLACE & THOMPSON, Proprietors
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SEWARD CHURCHES
Episcopal, Rev. F. (' Taylor in
charge. Holy Communion at 8 a. m.
Regular services at II a. m. and 8 p. m
Catholic Church of thk Rf»suk
ukction, coiner of Adams and Fourth;
Rev. P. H. Turnell, S. J., in charge.
Holy Mass and sermon at 1»» a. m: Sun
day school at 2:80 p. in: Evening ser
vice and lecture at 7 p. m. On week
j days Holy Mass at i a. m.
Mkth<.idist Episcopal Rev. L. H.
Pedeif" n, pastor. Preaching until fur
l ther ne’tice every Sunday evening at 8
o’clock, preceded by 20 minute <onp
service.
In the list of officers of the Indies’
Aid Society of tne Methodist church
published Thursday the name of the
president, Mrs. L. M. Morris, wasomit
ted. The society will give asocial
soon
MEN WANTED
By P. Welch & Company, contract
ors on the Alaska Central at Turn
i again Ann Station men, rock men.
ax men and laborers. Steady work
all through winter and next summer.
Top wages paid. -<>*
-„
Olympia flour $1.10 the sack at Sew
ard Commercial Company.
Take a bath at Gould and Conners.
Use Galt's Teas Seward Commer
cial Co.
LOWNEY’S CAN DIES at the New s
i Stand
The very latest in stationery ut the
News Stand.
Corono Java, the only coffee in town
Seward CommercialCo.
Cntil the close of the Portland ex-,
position, October 1*>. the Alaska Com^
I-\ercial Company will sell round Urif
i tickets to Seattle for