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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, Jl LY DUO.
The Alaska cable is true to its principles to the last.
As the news arrived that the radio ship was about to enter
Resurrection Bay to prepare for the establishment of a
wireless station bang goes the cable again. For some
months back she has been going to sleep about once a week
regularly. She has been out oi commission for longer
periods, perhaps, than she has been in commission during
those months and she might very well have lived on the
reputation gained, but just as her arch enemy the radio
ship came on the scene this cable eschewed politics and di
plomacy and refused to alter her disposition. She will
die as she lived, an epileptic.
It is really fortunate, no doubt, that the cable goes
down again just as the Saturn arrives in Seward. 1 hat
ship is to get here today or tomorrow and has aboard of
ficials who will give a report. They are now provided with
positive evidence of the decrepit! nature of the Great Al
aska Cable which gives communication between the great
government railroad and the great outside. In several
months past the cable has been out of commission for at
least as many weeks. Sometimes the Canadians have been
compelled to come to our aid and transmit over their lines
what American citizens could not get over their own.
Canada, with its five or six millions, supplies telegraphic
service to the United States of American with its hundred
million!
No one is quite sure yet whether this radio ship ri
really coming to start actual construction of a radio sta
tion or merely to investigate. The establishment of sue!
a station became assured some time or another the very
moment the work of constructing the railroad began, but
the question now is whether more delays are to occur or
not. Heaven knows Alaska needs some other means of
communication with the outside than the elongated sea
weed which has been doing service spasmodically these
past years. Please, Saturn, help us out.
A recent issue of Leslie’s Weekly calls the Alaska
Government railroad a “railroad that will run from An
chorage to Fairbanks.” Some time ago the publisher oi
Leslie’s visited Alaska, including Seward in his itinerary,
and when he went back home he wrote long articles in his
magazine. Then came attacks from at least two Alaska
newspapers and he wrote stating that such attacks were a
poor return for the efforts he made to advertise the terri
tory. Most likely one of these attacks has its result now
in cutting out Seward when speaking of the government
railroad.
Leslie’s Weekly may have a grievance against Seward,
but after all. it is hardly right to take revenge this way.
The publisher did good work in his writeups of Alaska and
he should have been thanked instead of being accused of
conspiring with that eternal Guggenheim bugaboo.
Now, Colonel, remember that the vast majority of Alas
kans appreciated your work, and the people of Seward
did so particularly. Also remember that Seward has been
designated the ocean terminal by the government itself.
OHIO STATE TO HOLD
STATEWIDE HORSESHOE
PITCHING CONTEST
COLUMBUS, July 11. — Ohio is to
hold a statewide horseshoe pitching
eontesst at the annual state fair
early this fall.
Rules to govern all contests, both
county and state, have been drafted
and sent to secretaries of county fair
boards who are distributing them to
all who want to enter.
It is planned to hold contests at
each county fair and the winners will
compete for the state title at the state
fair.
Important among the rules adopted
for the contest are:
The distance between the pegs shall
be feet.
Horseshoes shall not exceed 2Ui
pounds in weight, not 7la in length,
nor 7 inches in width.
A game shall consist of 21 points.
“Ringers’* shall count three points,
“loaners” two points.
Magnetized shoes are barred.
The pegs shall be of steeel, one inch
in diameter, shall be driven perpendi
cular, and extend six incites above the
ground.
SOMEBODY MUST HAVE DONE
SOMETHING TO OKLAHOMA
(Special to Gateway by United Press;
LONDON, July 10.—Oklahoma’s
fame in England is in the primitive
stage, according to the geographical
I expert of a London newspaper.
Printing an account of a cyclone
■ which demolished a portion of Kemp
City, Okla.. the “expert” appended a
footnote to the item to tell his read
ers something about Oklahoma. The
footnote:
“Oklahoma is an American terri-,
tory, adjoining that of Kansus in the
Northeast of Texas and its chief town1
has only a population of 5,000.”
SOCIETY DISPLAYS BATHING
SUITS AND OTHER THINGS
AT ATLANTIC CITY
(Special to Gateway by United Press*
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 10.—
Creations in bathing suits that would
‘turn a Paris modiste seven shades
of green envy in the acquatic style in
troduced with a low bow and a lower
neck to Atlantic City's fashionable
beach by society women today. They
are as gorgeous, thin and carefully
fitted as a cerise stocking. The
sleeves stop before they begin and the
skirts very soon thereafter. That is,
far above the knees. Far. This is to
enable the girls to swim easily.
Maybe one of them will try it some
day.
Oyster Cocktails at "T*o ffranch.”
NOTICE
Dog taxes are now due and pay
able to City Treasurer on or before
August 21. F. L. TORREY,
7-18—tf Street Committee.
FOR SALE
Furniture, Kitchen Utensils, Range,
Piano, Redding, etc. Mrs. A. G. de
Sherbinin. 7-18—tf
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sundays: Communion Mass at 8:31)
a. m.
Mass and Sermon at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school after Mass.
Rosary, Instruction and Benediction
at 7:30 p. m.
Weekdays: Daily Mass at 7:30 a.
m.
RUBBER BOOTS
(iood ones, too BULL’S HYR BRAND all sizes, hip
length; heavy soles,
To Close $6.00 pair To Close
If you can use a pair, better get them now
COTTER’S
The place where men outfit
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
STANDARD ROAD OF THE WEST
___AFFORDS
SUPERIOR SERVICE
between SEATTLE and the* chief cities of the
EAST AND SOUTH
LIMITED TRAINS MEALand SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
SECOND TO NONE THROUGH CARS UNDER AUTOMATIC
ELECTRIC "SAFETY" SIGNAL PROTECTION all t»i* "av to
CHICAGO, DENVER AND KANSAS CITY
LOW ROUND TRIP FARES SEATTLE TO CHICAGO, NEW YORK
and main points of the Hast ■- ■ -
in effect until September 30
PLAN YOUR TRIP NOW UNION
Ask Alaska S. S. Co. or P. A. N. agents. SEWARD.
ALASKA, for folders and information, or wilte PACIFIC
H. A. LAWRENCE
TRAVELING FREIGHT AND PASSENGER AGENT. QY^TTM
p. O. Hox 408. Ill Seward Street OIOI Em
JUNEAU
HOTEL OVERLAND
E. L. WHITTEMORE, PROP.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
Pioneer
Hotel
F. B. CANNON, Prop.
Knik
Alaska
KNIK’S LEADING HOTEL
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NO BAR
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! Accommodations for Ninety Guests
>
Large General Lobby
I Private Lobby for Ladies
Best Rates : : Best Treatment
B ESI A CCO M M O DAT IO N S
AOELMAN & GUILTY milk & CREAM
SEWARD DAIRY Why Not Try Oor Buttermilk?
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MILK STATIONS AT BOTH BUTCHER SHOPS
Rainier Buffet
THE BEST IN EVERYTHING
WINES LIQUORS CIGARS
LOUVRE BLDG. OPP. A. B. HALL
Selected from practically every block in the Townsite of
SEWARD, ALASKA
RESERVE PRICES FOR RESIDENCE LOTS
$250 TO $750
TERMS
10 per cent. CASH
RESERVE PRICES FOR BUSINESS LOTS
$800 TO $2,000
TEN PER CENT IN THIRTY DAYS—Balance in one, two, three and four years at seven per cent
In con pii.-inc«* with many urgent requests, 200 lots, a part of the
holding* of Frank L. and .John K. Ralluiue, will be otTered at public
auction in the A. B. Hall. Seward. Alaska, Tuesday, July 25.
For this occasion the reserve prices have been made so low and the
terms >o exceptionally easy that it is safe to say that a like opportunity
to buy lor^ in the original townsite of Seward may never occur again.
SEWARD
As the terminus of tin* Government Railroad and distributing center for
the whole interior of Alaska, is bound to have a phenomenal growth. It
will become, s Frank Carpenter so aptly put it. “The New York of
Alaska.” and when the railroad is completed to the coal tields and to the
Tananu River, there is not a lot in the entire townsite but which will be
worth from double to ten times its present value. Nature has given to
Seward the finest harbor on earth and an ideal townsite on which will be
built a metropolis which will occupy the same position in relation to this
gn at northern empire that Seattle does to the Pacific northwest, or New
York to the whole country. ^
SEWARD
In addition to being the ocean terminal of the great Government Railroad,
will become an important naval station for the U. S. fleet in the North
Pacific and the principal base for its coal supply. It will be visited yearly
by thousands of tourists, who will come to view the scenic beauties of the
Kenai Peninsula or travel over the railroad to the Yukon. Sportsmen
will soon recognize it as the starting point for the best hunting and fishing
to be found on the North American continent. The wholesale houses of
Seattle and San Francisco will shortly establish branches in Seward. It
will become headquarters for the fishing interests of the North Pacific,
and smelters, pulp mills and other industries will spring up like magic.
Thousands of acres of land in the Resurrection valley and on the Kenai
Peninsula will be cleared and cultivated, and permanent agricultural com
munities will be developed. Every new town from Anchorage to Fair
banks and every mining center along the railroad or on the Yukon or its
branches will pay tribute to Seward. Look the whole country over and
you cannot find a solitary exception to the rule that where a trunk line
railroad terminates at a good all the year round harbor, there you will find
the metropolis of that section. In short, the future of Seward is so bright
that its development from now on will exceed our wildest dreams. The
lots that sell today for a few hundred dollars will within three years sell
for as many thousands.
DON'T FAIL TO BUY ONE OR MORE OF THESE LOTS
We imjght add that a lot in Prince Rupert which brought $2000 at the ^ kL PARIICI LAUS FRANK L. BALLAINE, Seward
auotiou sa;e in V ancouver was ^old two years later for $00,000. Or “