SiiLZZR TO UaGE
ALASKA MEASURES
New York Congressman Renews
l ight for Delegate and for
Local Government
( , of ( > i c*'v-mau Sul/ I- lulls
ti. v tii;.if Hu- tin' eiectionof a delegate
Itt t’. n 'ss from the district of Alaska
a ti to orf mize the terntifry ot Alaska
| ve reached tin (iatev.av. lie
fo toer measure provides tor t lie elec
ti i t.f a dele at an election to be
I ; tin r.l Ti! '« tv III A st,
; -vet » iv • ye.;' hen-after. 1 he
l - - ton;; bill J i\Vv it!' s for a local
j, non s -it., r tt> t osc in hnve
\, , s : ; Alaska.
I , o.v i s p,o »er»y in the dAtrict ami
% s. s o evoiy >1 ; t tie last v 'on
L he -at e-d a bill 'ivinjf
« fit le- 10.1. i a ■ c.l ".oh set
f. c ’ font1 th Mi:-, in -tits in f tvor
Lis speech ne sa .it
o’ t m p-ts.. ar.d !>.. w ay of comparison
v . tii. .it..' s of our country that
| .oil -a Ml in.' t t-t’i'l i ‘tries ill or.l
[ behove It d A tska is m re
et.i ii led today to t. .-mortal ib»v em
inent than sover-'enths of tlie ether
torr.ttirie that were organized. tain
<mo.-swi, a> 1 matter ot t • - ’» and ins
ti, .o. t . t proa* pic. I** taxtDjf tile
tskan poop <*« spit h r f t ae tax.'
b> a teder.nl tax c it. or, and instead
Ot ifivinsr lhe t i\. s to tilt* people ot
A ask a for th ;i on Ue:i: purposes,
d-p-sir in-_ the money in the federal
\ ■ sv.r, an i ;ry f to sfovvrn Alaska
f: an t e treas ry hep rtment or by
t • t jet's, when r. ue-U tit tvs of the
, . i! t ! > ' p : p i :
*-.Ve t . ht t * do somethin if for
A' - i .-j we iid,. hi - •». tt is a sham.
t -A 1 t ''•Opr- ss , J .Its At/.'..'I. Ii !'
II s- .-rtiericail. !M » v. ic. and III.*
i!i tut;. [»• ■ i: v; - * ,»-s ■ ■ i \i- .-ricau cit -
ze ' ; p. I cry » .t _ n it u-rn ills?
Alas ;.t li t- a e. u. u. : -st p: \ ince itt
bavc d •: e d i t.ou n U ' Atn-ska since
1 a • " of congress, hat
J have U"! h 1 n a t » make ntuco
i»- uf > 'st but l sine keep up th • lisfht
■ , . • . • \ ' ■
C wtuit they wan . "Suit they de
mand as American f t *««* namely.
l.o e rule, terr rial government.
\v i* 1, I rill ;* l -•*! . t. ... ■' it'.i i.
the territory to t • !!<> of le*pr."
entativ s, t »;i in* ;t> ‘hi *. loma. tin*
s . • as \r >;ui. ' ; • o:t ’ :.s New*
Vexico do now.
**i s*iv it is an out rapt* on thecitim:***
of Alaska in*'.* brave. industrious
!». in . > who have jfoue to Alaska
fron. every state in the Union, who
have made it their home, who intend
to iveaiatdn there, and who are de
veloping ht-r vast mineral resources,
ht r preal agricultural resources, and
the other nt|Mirtant resources, of that
vast empire in our put at Northwest
1 .say it is an outrage and a shame that
the I’onjfress of the United States dues
n >t ^ive those ifood and worthy citizens
a representative of their own ohoosinjf
in the Congress of the United States.
RUl ESTATE. MINING
AND COIRT RECORDS
Jan. 14—R. liay Ross and S. S. Con
nanton to Win. N. Armstrong,
power attorney to locate mining
ground.—J. t . Streng and Win. N.
Armstrong, power attorney to lo
cate mining ground.- 1*\ I*. Skeen
and John Lechuer, agreement with
Win. N’. Armstrong to sell raining
property ou Falls creek,
Jan. 15—M. H. Parker to W\ C. Stull,
lot 21. blk., 14, Seward, $1.- Win.
N. Armstrong, map of Falls creek
claims.
Jan. 17- G. M. Kerns and K. F. Groom,
location notices of the Juanita and
Juanita No. 2, tire clay placer
claims.
SEWARD CHURCHES
Mkthodist Episcopal Rev. L. H.
Pedersen, pastor. Preaching until fur
ther notice every Sunday evening at 7:
30o'clock, preceded by 20 minute song
service. _
The Gospel Mission reading room is
open at all hours. Mission services
every Sunday evening at 8 o’ctock.
L. B. Sly, Missionary.
WEEKLY WEATHER RECORD
Weathet record for the week ending
January 19.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Saturday 20 10 Clear
Sunday 12 7 Clear
Monday 24 7 Clear
Tuesday 13 11 Wind
Wednesday 14 6 Clear
Thursday 12 0 Clear
Friday 0 —4 Clear
MAKE ROUGH TRIP
OVER FROM KENAI
Three Men Find Lake Unfrozen
and Are Compelled to Hew
Trail Along Shore
Alexander li. Ryan, special deputy
rsiial at Kenai, arrived in Seward
ast ni^flit after as difficult a mush as
,n Alaska sourdouirh is often called
upon to make. He came to hrin<; a
juvsoner. Ivan Salava, who is accused
i'l >1.luifhte.'iiur moose for amusement
■\oud the limit allowed by the irainc
nv. Rliilip Wilson came alontf as
:ard. Hob Wilson and Salava party
iVo.v feet, hands or face and Wilson's
■ ,ii hand is practically helpless,
.sai.ua's sutTeritiifs have been sufficient
to make hi t wish he had never seen a
moose, regardless of what the court
may do to him if he should he found
guilty.
T e men were eitrlit day son the trip
,,f mu, miles. Much of the distance
ere s n 11 rail, and when t hey reached
A, i.ii lake it was not frozen, t on
s j.mntly they were obliged to blaze a
ah in'_r i lie rocky hillsides which
, ..close i he water for eighteen miles,
piiis oeeiip 'Hi four days, and the weath
er vv as extremely cold.
”1 n vet* would have started on the
re : 1 had known the lake was not
,> en." said Mr. Ryan. "1 have been
ni. s country since lss* and it is n
ran thinyf for the lake to he free of
lirm ice in January. The trip alotitf
: 11,• binds where we had to make our
: rail was ;o rou^li a job of mushing as
I w « r did in this country.”
From Kenai the party came nearly
straight east until they struck the old
w inter trail to Sunrise, of which the
,ake. when it is frozen, is the easiest
part The country is rotijli most of
h< way hut Alaska mushers are not
• ..khu: for asphalt pavements and
i...\ s ttVer d no disagreeable surprise
nit it they lound they could not travel
on the s'arlnee of the lake.
Mr. Ryan is a trailer at Kenai, and
s as*■ • inai’ carrier to the post office
i ere from Homer, carryitur the mail
,; iini t he steamer Rertha. The di>
;,e" i' ninety miles and usually takes
s.-vrii day>. He follows t he shoreline
, t’■!. k inlet and makes his own trail
win trip. There is little snow but
li emuitry is rou^h and rocky.
\ Ky.m brouirlii with him a speci
, n Alaska pn duct which would make
thei.vera.t ”ohi mine lock like a com*
n i n; leek quarry il he laid more like <t.
i is a Mark t< \ skin, for which he re
n.s.ii an i lift' if ■jjco from the fur
i! pany at Kenai. Two other black
: \t s | ,tve been eauflbt in that vicinity
; a pill. 1-in-bi at im,' animals are
i . mi l-,s in that m ini but black
foXi s aii* as Malic everywhere a> biy
uuiii novels.
NGIRLS ON ALASKA TRADE
Portland Journal Learns That
Something is Going on Here
The Portland Journal devotes a long
article to the discussion of the develop
ment of Alaska and urges the mer
chants of that city to reach out for
Alaska trade. After describing the
great increase in gold production the
Journal says:
“Hut gold, let us bear in mind, is
only one of Alaska’s products. In the
production of lish, fur and timber it
has been making steady advance; and
in these later years comes l he discovery
of oil and coal deposits that are said to
equal in richness anything to he found
on the American continent. The coal
fields are not fairly in the way of de
velopment as yet. There is no meas
uring their ultimate richness, nor can
there he adequate appreciation of their
value to the industries of Oregon.
“As the case now stands, Alaska
will show for this year a total produc
tion, gold included, of close to $40,000,
000. All of this great volume of
wealth finds its way to the Pacific
Coast ports for distribution. From
these same ports there is also shipped
the material that serves the Alaska
industry which this wealth represents.
These are facts the more worthy of our
consideration in view of the efforts
now being made in this city to secure
a fair share of the Alaska trade.”
To Tight Steamship Combine
The Juneau papers announce that a
movement is on foot to petition Judge
Gunnison to call a grand jury to inves
tigate an alleged combine in violation
of the Sherman law by the Pacific
Coast and Alaska Steamship compa
nies. The petitioners allege that the
combine has agreed upon a schedule of
rates and wharf charges that is an
oi>en violation of the Sherman law and
ruinous to the trade of this district. It
is further alleged that there is a dis
crimination on the part of the combine
iu favor of large shippers, one of
which will have such an apparent ad
vantage as to ruin many of the mer
chants. _
John Holland, inventor of the sub
marine boat, claims to have invented
an aeroplane, by which men can travel
easily through the air. He says he
can equip a traveler with wings on
hands and feet so he can fly at will.
NEW COMPANY BUYS
ELECTRICAL PLANT
Takes Over Property of Old Cor
poration and Will Install a
Larger Dynamo
The Seward Light & Power Com
pany this afternoon purchased the
property of the Seward Electric Com
pany, or as much of it us is available
lor the generation of electrical
current by water power. The
transfer includes the dynamo and pole
lines of the old company, which
abandons the local electrical field.
The new company, which is the in
corporation of Puller Company, who
built tlu* Powell creek water pipe line,
has ordered a new dynamo with a
capacity of ff(HH) lights. It will be a
two-phase machine and the company
expects to furni.'.h power as well as
light and to be able to supply either
for twenty-foui hours a day.
NATIVE GETS TIMET MONTHS
Ivan Salava Pleads Guilty to
Charge of Unlawful Hunting
Ivan Salava. thi* half-breed who was
brought over from Kenai to answer the
charge of killing moose unlawfully,
pleaded guilty yesterday and was sent
enced by 1’. S. Commissioner Hildreth
to serve three months in jail. He is in
poor health and will receive medical
at tendance which will make the penalty
a benefit to him.
The moose slaughter was perpetrated
last June, when Salava killed three for
the fun of seeing them drop, and made
no use of them whatever. He is a
harmless young man, and the killing
seems to have been hut an outburst of
barbaric instinct, inherited from his
ancestors of the Stone Age. It is said
that the natives at times become seized
with a sort of frenzy when they see a
hand of moose or sheep and they shoot
as long as an animal is in sight.
Salava's moose slaying diversion was
reported several mon Its ago and for a
time Judge Hildreth intended to go to
Kenai to try him, hut was unable to
get away for so long an absence, so the
man was brought to Seward. It is re
garded as necessary to haul up a native
or two every year in order to restrain
the children of nature by contempla
tion of horrible examples from killing
game animals as they would gophers.
JUDGE MOREORI) RETURNS
Gives Graphic Account of Seattle
Convention Incidents
Judge S. < >. Morford fame in on the
Santa t'lara after an absence of more
than two months. He visited his par
ents in Ohio and a brother in Buffalo,
after the adjournment of the SeattIt
convention in November. He made a
-hurt stay at his old home, North
Yakima.
Judge Morford gives an interesting
and in many ways amusing account ol
the Alaska convention. He says the
schemes which a lot of fellows tried to
work through were worthy of the
average state legislature, but he be
lieves that on the whole the conven
tion did some good, lie stands with
those who believe that all future
Alaska conventions should be held on
Alaska soil, and as he is on the perma
nent committee which will call the
next convention will have a potent
voice in support of that view. Judge
Morford was chairman of the creden
tials committee in the Seattle conven
tion. which had a warm time in dealing
with the queer assortment of proxies.
Rotary Plow Goes to the Front
The rotary snow plow went out on
the railroad line Wednesday to clear
the track of ice wherever it is bother
ing the train men and for a tryout on
its own account. General Manager
Poland and Master Mechanic Van
Cleve went out with the rotary. Mr.
Poland will make a trip beyond the
end of the track and will not be hack
for several days.
Open New Barber Shop
The “Comet” barber shop has been
opened in Commissioner Hildreth’s
former office next to ('layson's store on
Fourth avenue. The proprietors, Ed
St. Arnaud and F. Roskow, came here
recently from Dawson, where they had
a shop for several years, and are well
known to all old Dawsonites in Seward.
Mineral Surveyor Locates Itere
C. S. Hubbell, a deputy U. S. miner
al surveyor, well known in Southeast
ern Alaska, has located in Seward in
pursuance of the belief that this part
of the territory will have a lot of
business in his line.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Farallon; sailed from Seattle 15th.
Excelsior; sailed from Seattle, 16th.
Oregon; sails from Seattle, 22nd.
Bertha; arrived in Seattle 17th
Dora; sailed westward from Kodiek,
24 th.
Harold Dollar; sailed for Seattle
11th.
Santo Clara; sailed from Seward for
Seattle, Uth.
BROTHERHOOD CAMP
HAS 103 MEMBERS
Local Organization Makes Great
Start and Plans to Erect
Building At Once
Seward camp, No. 21, of the Arctic
Brotherhood numbered 103 members
Thursday night, and this total " ill he
increased considerably at the next
meeting, which will be held this
evening. Nearly eighty Chochacoes
were led over the trail Thursday night
at the big meeting in Moore’s hail,
and are now classed as sourdoughs.
The session was a long one as it was
a big job to round ut»all the mavericks
and a great deal of special business
was transacted, including the installa
tion of otlicers. It was decided to
meet regularly every Saturday even
ing. as that is Arctic Brotherhood
night all over the Northwest.
Tiie camp will probably purchase a
lot and erect a building of its own
w ithout delay, as the membership fees
from the unexpectedly large number
of accessions make that course easily
possible. It was agreed Thursday that
t lie camp could prolit by the purchase
of land as the certainty of a rapid
j growth in the town insures a steady
advance in the value of all realty.
The hoard of trustees reported that
they already held an option on a
Fourth avenue lot.
It was decided to take advantage of
the clause of the Brotherhood constitu
tion wnich permits a camp to grant
life memberships upon payment of a
large fee. As soon as the motion ear
ned Dr. Burns announced that he
would take the first life membership,
and he was quickly followed by Martin
Welch, 11. II. Hildreth and II. 1*.
Wybrant. Others expect to take out
life memberships within a few days,
and the fees will add comfortably to
the camp lund.
Comes to See Seward
Deputy f. S. Marshal J. M. Lathrop
came over from \ aide/ on the Santa
Clara to see Seward and a lot of
friends who live hen*. He will return
on tlie same strainer. In explanatit n
of his visit Mr. Lathrop said he was
looking forward to tin* time when
Alaska olliees will he elective and he
wanted to stand in with the boys. As
he is a native of Ohio and a good mixer
his friends think he will be right on
hand when thedistribut ion routes otT.
Seattle lleathi'jarlers
All Alaskans going to Seattle on
business or for oile r purposes art* cor
lially invited to have their mail ad
dressed to themselves in care of the
Industrial Hureau of tlie Air ka Cen
tral Railway Company, Lumber ex
change Ruilding. Seattle, Wash., and
make the Hureau their headquarters
while in that city.
* Alaska Central Railway Co.
FOX ISLAND FOR SALE
Ten miles from Sewaril. The island
is two miles lonjr and c;ne mile wide.
I will sell my squatter's claim and 422
foxes, whose skins are worth an average
of $20 each, for $2500, which is less that
one-third of the value of the skins.
Offer is made because I wish to jfo up
the Susitna to prospect for a year.
Alfred Lowell,
Third avenue, Seward. *
IN THE COMMISSIONER’S COURT OK
KEN AI UK EC INCT Kt > R TH K T E K It I TO R V
OK ALASKA.
Before H. H. Hildreth. United States Commis
sioner.
In the matter of the estate of > Notice to
Ludwig John Jonsson. deceased. ( CREDITORS
All persons having claims against the estate
of Ludwig John Jonsson. known as Lewis
Johnson, are hereby notitled to present them
with proper vouchers, within six months from
the 20th day of January, 1906. A. D. to the
undersigned administrator of said estate, at
his omet; in the townsite of Seward, District
0,AI*S,“- J. u REED.
Administrator of the Estate
of Ludwig John Jonsson.
First publication January 20. 1906.
Last publication February 10. 1906.
Seward Assay
Office
Chemical Analyses and Assays Made
Price List for Assaying
Gold or Silver. $1.50
Gold and Silver.$2.00
Silver and Lead.$2.00
Gold, Silver and Lead $3.00
Copper. $1.50
Gold and Copper- $2.50
Gold, Silver and Cop
per . $3.50
Gold, Silver, Copper
and Lead. $4.00
Prices for other metals and min
eral on application.
Gold and silver bullion refined,
melted and assayed or pur
chased.
H. E. ELLSWORTH, C. E.
The McKEILEY CAFE
Under New Management Best of Home Cooking
NEXT DOOM TO MeNEILEY HOTEL
Short Orders Diy and Night
I _^
E1DS0N fit DODSON, Proprietor#
A Gentleman’s Resort. Cold Dus>: bought
Cor. Fifth and Washington streets Seward. Alaska
[the SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
(Incorporated November, llHki, under the laws of Alaska)
Office—Suite 2-4 Carstens Building, Seward, Alaska
! T H E A L A S KA TRANSFER
CHRiSTIENSEN &. LAUDNER. Proprietors
1 pi• _ ^ ^ C* rTil Special >ttc ltloa to C>ty Tncic
Pisnos and nlov^d ,-.,rdcfSi0, coT.. rood
General Forwarders Pi1L>Ni£ r.:AlN Seward. Alaska I
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A Philadelphia man sold tie* family
burial lot containing the body of his
father and a monument erected by his
I mother over the jrrave.
DR. C. T. DAGGE i T
DENTIST
s. r. (’or. Fourth Are. Rn*t Washintrton St.
SEWARD - - ALASKA
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTiST
Over Brown Hawkins’ store
SEWARD » - - ALASKA
c. H. GIBBONS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office and Residence—Carstens’ Build
ing. Fourth avenue.
Office Hours—2 to 4 p. m., and when
ever not otherwise engaged.
CECIL H. CLEGG
ATTOKNEYAT-LAW
Fourth Avenue, - Seward, Aka.
J. L. REED
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Notary Public
Richards’ Bldg Seward, Alaska
SAMUEL M. GRAFF
attorney-at-law
Suite 2-4, Carstens’ Building
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Seward, Alaska
E. R. GRAY
NOTARY PUBLIC
SEWARD - - ALASKA
REMODELED
THE RAINIER-GRAND HOTEL
SEATTLE
Popular Prices-Net Manasenent
Central Locetloe-European Plan
Greatest Cafe and Bar Service in the City
Wilson L wmte Co., Prop. Chas Perry, Mfr
i
F. E. YOUisSGS
NOTARY PUBLIC
SEWARD • ALASKA
H. H. HILDRETH
NOTARY PUULIC
ano CONVCYAN.CSP
AbstiartK of Title t> niinin/ mid ■■ »n
l»rot« rt> furnished Ksaru.i.tiiioti aid
report' made »»n any property...
SEWARD - - ALASKA
A. G. BAKER
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
COLEMAN HOUSE
SEWARD - - ALASKA
C. S. HUBBELL
Civil Engineer
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Coleman House Seward
I. O. O. F.
RELIEF ASSOCIATION
J. S. SLATER, President,
E. W. YOUNG, Secret* ry-Tre»*
Meet* every third Sundaj afternoo*
in each month.
Seward Iron Works
JULIAN MOTT. Proprietor.
Engineers and Machinists—All kind
of machinery repaired. Gasolene am
Kerosene Engines, Motor Boats, etc
Shop on Waterfront, bet. Adame &. Waah. at
G. W. PALMER
GENERAL MERCHANDISI
Prospector's Outfits High
est Prices Paid for Furs....
KnikP. O. Alask
I Seward Water & Powe
Company
JOHN. A. NELSON. Manager
Office—Third and Washington Rtrei
PIKE STREET WHAF
SEATTLE, WASH,
Forwarding Agent, Wharfage
Storage and Shipping
Can save you time, trouble and expei
on all shipments from Seattle
Represent Lloyd’s Underwriter*
Writ* for Particulars at One#