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Entered** Second -Claa* Matter September 2nd, 1115, at the Poet Office at
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PETE VtbOVICH’S DEATH *
N. Y. merican— A few minutes
before midnight on August Uth a
* trainman and porters half-carried a
tall, thin old man. with dark grey
eyes . and sweeping mustache and
clothed in garments that were almost
dilapidated to the booth of the
* Traveler's Aid society in the Pennsyl
vania station.
"This old guy." explained the train
man briefly, "had all his dough— $485
—stolen on the train. The Southern
Pacific paid his fare. He was going
back to Serbia on the President Wil
son. 1 guess maybe he ought to go
to a hospital."
„ Miss Mary L. Gibbons, worker in
charge questioned the traveler. He
*akt he was Peter Vidovich, sixty
five adding:
‘4I have only fifty cents I wanted
to go back to Riaan, Serbia to die,
t am a poor old man, without friends
or relatives."
A Miner from Alaska.
The appeal was so touching that
Miss Gibbous hired a taxi and took
him to the Municipal Lodging House j
There he said he was a miner andi
had come to New York from Alaska I
by way of San Francisco.
Next morning old Peter failed to
leave his bunk. He was so patently
ill that the superintendent had him
ivmoved to Belevue. Here also he1
•aid he was penniless.
During the twenty-six days that en
sued, while his weakened frame
fought off death, the old man en
dured his sufferings stoically and
kept his own counsel stolidly.
Conscious, but without fear, the
old* man died yesterday morning. His
body was removed from the public j
ward to the morgue, and as he had
given the name of no “next friend”
or uext of kin, it seemed certain the
Potter’s Field would be his resting
placo.
Hanging in a closet off the ward
was the dilapidated clothing that
covered the derlict It was about
to be sent to the cellar to be destroy
ed when a ward physician suggested
the pockets be searched.
A Startling Discovery
The search disclosed that the old
man had been a walking gold mine—
possessed of property that may total
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. Cash, jewelry, Liberty Bonds
and valuable papers were crammed
in almost every pocket.
Some of the items were: $54,000
in Liberty Bonds; bank transcripts
showing $60,000 deposits in three
Sun Francisco banks; $1,900 in cash;
a $5,000 ruby ring; a $3,000 diamond
ring; a $2,000 diamond stick pin; a
small gold nugget and deeds to prop
erty in San Francisco. Nome and
Fairbanks, Alaska.
There was also a sealed will. It
had been drawn up in February, 191?
by Joseph W. Beretta, San Francisco
attorney. The Union Savings & Trust
? company, of San Francisco, was
• named as exeeutor and directed to
employ Geretta in settling the estate
Another friend mentioned in the will
is T. S. Alexander, of No. 1840 Frank
lin street, San Frandseo.
Valued Client of Bank.
News of the old miser's illness was1
I sent to San Franciseo hy the Travel* I
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jer’s Aid society. A wire was re
• ceived late yesterday from the San
Francisco office of the society read
“We are authorized by I. S. Alex
ander to take charge of all effects of
Peter Vidovich.”
Another wire indicating the finan
cial importance of the “penniless
patient came to the Guaranty Trust
company from its San Francisco cor
respondents, reading:
“Peter Vidovich is one of our
most valued clients.”
Making the story even more dra
matic, this provision was found in
the will of old Peter:
“I hereby will and bequeath to
each poor person in the town of
Risan, Austria” (it is now Serbia)
“or each poor family being sup
ported by the Church of St. Peter
the sum of twenty-five dollars.” .
Legacies to Many Relatives
The church 'of St. Luke, Risan. gets
$2,000 and $3,000 goes to the town's
public school fund. Twenty or thirty
relatives (chiefly brothers and sisters
nephews and nieces) in San Fran
cisco and Seibia receive sums rang
ing up to $3,000 apiece.
The public administraor yesterday
placed the old man's effects in a box
at the Park National bank. Before
turning the property over to the ex
ecutor, the administrator will consult
with the state comptroller to see if
New York State is entitled to an in
leritance tax.
\ And old Peter, it is certain , will be
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buried in a style befitting a man who
arried $126,000 in his pockets.
NEW METHODS
TOKIO. Dec., 10— A method where
by iron may be smelted from volcan
ic iron oxide sand, heretofore regard
ed as wholly refractory has been re
ported by scientific experimenters
working for the War Department.
While the discovery cannot be employ
ed as yet commercially, the cost of the
iron so obtained being too high to com
pete with iron smelted from ore, the
value of the process to Japan from a
military standpoint is said to be great
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in-as-much as it places this country
in an independent position so far as its
supply of steel for military and nav
al uses is concerned.
Japan, like every other volcanic
country, is rich in deposits of iron ox
ides. A statement of the war office
yesterday Bays:
“The recurrent anti-Japanese move-1
ments in different parts of the Chinese
Republic that have been pronounced
since the peace conference at Paris,
demand of the Japanese government
very effort for the discovery of some
means to ensure a steel supply ade
quate enough for domestic consump
tion, in anticipation of a possible fu
ture suspension of iron imports. The
experiments of a year have chiefly
with the military necessity in view
and also with the object of making up
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the existing shortage in the iron sup
plies. The process discovered, there
fore, does not necessarily ensure econ
omic advantages, while the success is
limited to that stage of producing
iron-sand blocks which magrwith ad
vantage be blended with the prdinary:
pig iron in product steel”
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1 PERT PARAGRAPTHS OF 8BMX
i AND NONSENSE FOREIGN AN»
LOCAL. CAUGHT ON TIB
FLY BT *TH* HUMAN
TOOTHPICK "
About one month ago there was a
•little girl in Seward who was continu
ally complaining about having a head
ache. Her parents thought that these
i headaches were caused by something
the girl 'had eaten. Sick headaches
caused by a disarranged stomach.
They doctored her accordingly. Doses
of this and that medicine were given,
many dollars worth, but notwithstand
ing the little girl still continued to
i complain about her head. Her parents
became worried as the headaches be
came more frequent. One day the mo
ther was talking lo another mother
about her child. She spoke of the
headaches. The,other moter suggested
tat they might be caused by the childs
eyes. Miss Wilson, Sewterd’s efficient
i optician was consulted. The childs*
eyes were tested. Glasses were fitted1
with the result that today the child is
never bothered with headaches. Don’t
neglect the childrens’ eyes. They may
be the means of preventing perma
nent injury to the undeveloped eyes.
when the children’s legs get tired they
ait or lie down, when their hands be
come tired they cease doing that which
makes them tired, but their eyes are
under a continual strain. The same
applies to us grown ups. Don't squint,
suffer with headaches, let your eyes
get inflamed or get sore when all you
need is a properly fitted pair of glass
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es. Miss Wilson understands eyes and
their care. Consult her if your eyes
need attention. Consult her if you
think the childrens' eyes need atten
tion. Do it now. 1
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The Ounce at .the Oddfellow* Hull
tomorrow night is the first dance to
r>e given by the Malamute Club. This
club is composed of young men who
live in Seward and the vicinity. Young
fellow* who have reached the age
when sentiment and the desire for
companionship (of the opposite sex)
arc predominant. Many of the memb
ers have reached the age when men
marry. AU of them are men who sec
retly cherish the picture of some girli
whom they would like to call “my
wife". This is Leap Year and will con
tinue to be for twenty more days. The
dance has been arranged by the memb
ers of the Malamute Club as a sort of
Last Chance affair. Nuff said. Every
body is invited tomorrow night
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Met a man last night with his wife
Both of them were loaded down with
parcels and packages and bundles.
Hiey had been doing their Christmas
shopping, doing it early and doing it
with the merchants of Seward. They
told me that prior to this year mo6t
of their Christmas shopping had been
done through the medium of a catar
!og with outside firms. More than
$200.00 worth of'money orders had
been sent out for different things.
Groceries, stockings, dress goods, a'
coat, a hat, shoes and other articles
had been bought by mail because they
thought that by so doing they were j
leally saving mpney. They subscribe
for the Gateway. They read what is
published every day. The recent artic
le based on fact, about the mail order
business started "them thinking: From
thinking they went to investigating
and comparing. They read the adver
tisements of the Seward merchants in
the Gateway and last evening both of
them started out and visited every
merchant who advertises in the Gate
way. In every store they made a pur
chase. In eVeiy store ‘they found \fhat
they Were looking for at prices as rea«
sonable aa those in the mail order ca
talog and in many eases they were ab*
le to save on the pries and at tfcr
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! same time get better quality. Why not
do aa they did t
You wiU learn whena merchant ad
vertises his warn in yodr heme town
that the thing* he advertises are Just
they are represented. The reputation
of the-merchant is behind the goods he
offers tor s#R you. The HI*of his busi
ness depends upon the quality of tho
merchandise he handles.
Patronise those merchants who arc
consistently advertising in the col
umns of your home newspaper (The
Gateway) and you will find that you
eventually save money. You will dis
cover that their price and the price
quoted by the mail order houses are
identical where quality is concerned
and when you spend your money with
your home merchant he will not ask
you to pay for stamps, for money or
der chair s and then take your money
and deliver to you the article pur
chased sixty days after you have giv
en him the money. Get wise. Make one
of your New Year’s resolutions thus.
MI will patronize the merchants of
Seward who advertise their wares ex
clusively during the New Year. "Do
this and you will have no cause for re
gret.
NOTICE
Pioneer meeting tonight at Odd
fellows Hall at 8 o'clock. All members
art requested to attend. Visiting bro
thers welcome. There will be initiation
and subjects of importance will be at
tended to before the “Big Doings"
commence. Coffee and sinkers will be
sewed to every hungrey person at the
finish ^of the* “Big Doings."
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR KE
NAI PRECINCT, THIRD DfV
SION OF THE TERRITORY
OF ALASKA.
Before Hon. Wn. H. Whittlesey,
Probate Judge.
It the Matter of the
Estate of
Fred A. Steinman,
Deceased.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
FINAL ACCOUNT.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:—
That P. M. Ogle, administrator of the
Estate of Fred A. Steinman, deceased,
has rendered and presented for final
settlement, and filed in said court, h
final account of administration of
I eitate of Said deceased, together with
his report and a petition for final dis
tribution, and that Wednesday the 9th
day of February, 1921, at eleven xf
clock in the forenoon of «aid day, at
the court room of said court, at Sew- -
and, Alaska, has been fired and ap
pointed as the time and place for the
settlement of said account and the
hearing of said report and petition, at
which time and place any person in
terested in said estate may appear and <
file his exceptions, in writing, to the
s®d account, and contest the same.
* NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN:— ..
That said account is for final settle
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m&nt, and the said estate is ready for
distribution, and on confirmation of
said final acount final distribution of
slid estate will be immediately had.
Dated this 4th day of December, 1920.
1 Wm. H. Whittlesey,
Probate Judge, Kenai “Precinct, Third
Envision Territory of Alaska.
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NOT*CM OP DISSOLUTION OP
PARTNERSHIP
Notice ia Hereby Qhrea: The* the
ee-pertnsnfap ^relation heretofore ex
erting between Joseph S. Badger and
Harry Kawabe, doing budnees Bader
4be Him name and style at
SEWARD STEAM LAUNDRY, at
fcwaadi Alaska, ja, by mutual eeapent,
hereby Diaaotod, m at the dale of
August tdt, lttO.
AS. Badger.
Hairy 8.KaNdthe» ■
Dated at Seward, Alaaka, December.
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Booksellers, Newsdealers anil Stationers
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BUFFET CAR CONTRACTOR ON THE
ALASKAN RAILROAD
INFORMATION FURNISHED TO ANY
PERSON REGARDING ANY DISTRICT |
IN ALASKA.
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=sPAgnC STEAMSHIP COMPANY*
Alaska — Washington — California ALASKA ROUTE
Safety Courtesy Service Speed
OFFICE ADMIRAL BUILDING
Admiral Watson Leaves Seattle Dec., 14th.
Arrives in Seward About Dec., 22nd.
Watson Does Not go West Qf Seward.
C. A. Glasscock, Master.
Company reserves right to change schedule without notice.
Wayne Blue, Agent.• *_Seward Alaska.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPAHY
SAILING SCHEDULE
Sailing from Seattle Leave Seward
Northwestern Dec., 5th via Inside Passage Dec. 11th.
Victoria Dec., 17th via Outside Passage Dec, 22nd.
Northwestern Dec 30th via Inside Passage Jan, 4th.
Victoria Jan., 10th via Outside Passage Jan; 15th.
NOTE— The S. S. Victoria sailing of the 17th will he
the Xmas Trip. She does not go the Inside Passage.
A. H. McDONALD, Agent
TRAPPERS TRADERS
SHIP TO
GEORGE R. GOSHAW me. I
DEALER IN
RAW—FURS
NEW YORK — 127 W. 27th St *
SEATTLE — Alaska Building.
NOTICE — A Word To You j
At our Seattle office we have opened a buying department for the
benefit of the Alaska trade.
We solicit the accounts of individuals, firms and corporation# de
siring' closer connection for buying and selling. The service rendered
is direct; we, at every step, exercise close supervision over all transac
tions, thus assuring accurate and prompt altentfoa.
We are READYr WILLING AND ABLE to buy right, to ship right
to insure right— to attend to all matters as your personal agent Your
enquiries and wants will receive our immediate and most courteous
attention.
WRITE US—there is no obligation* Wo ore just the business con
nection that the Alaska Trade has been , looking for in 4he buying ot
fining, cannery and fishing supplies, drygoods, groceries, cigars
tobacco, drugs, rubber goods, furniture, household sundries, electrics,
goods, gas engines—in fact, anything that grows or is manufactured.
We are also Willing and anxious to develop a market for all Alaakai.
products. Get in touch with us, giving full particulars, and your goocL
will be sold right. > . -.
J.M. SLOAN-M.D.C.M.
Office Honra _— 1 to 3 and_7to8 P. M.
VAN GILDER Budding_PheM Adams 70.
^ v*A. POLLARD Dentist
Office .Hours 9to 12 A.M...._ItoSP.M.
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