SEWARD GATEWAY
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SATUKPAY. SK1TKMBKK 21.
KNOCKING AT HOME
Kt -h trouble await- the whitowa-h
inj eonur.ittee of the Seattle chamber
of commerce, which recently jaw a
cert ricate of moral purity to the job*
her- o’ ia! city. The term ohher- i>
useo. here it! it- commercial, not
it- - arj -i t.-e. J !*t a- tin* committee
ami ie Official orjuu e! the Spirit
hatub'o m a v. rhiot of aepuit’ul of tite
char.e that tin jobber- hold up
Ala-\a. eoiU' now the ! line-, Stai ai *.
>>Vw- with otren-:ve oirectm — ami
to-a. ixoid.tncc oi hi piomat ic terms,
are -...j e< rtah. worthy exponent- ol
the St ot i. >i. i: j a;« the p> opie of
>. oal’licular !,' speedy illj the
Coal ; :• and the comm. —;on men.
ill Star a—ert- in tuo-t offensive
l. u j .ajt that the commt-sion men are
• i,t the pub;.c market, which wa
c- ,-lmd :.o protect the nttblic from
the ravaje-ol tho-e -ame commi—ion
m. : It uthrm- that they are unload
ing t .eir own decay > .jooti- in the
j. . c Market th: *ujl a nts of hay
. ;• aio. !•.
Tne coa ’ ru- i- den oncer by til.
fhr< e pap< r-. It * axvu-e of re-irict
ln _ • i.e out put ill order to obtain extor
* trie. >. It - char.-in.- -'■* a ton
now n* cheap -oft coal.
Tit * prinj ot dirty home 1 men in
ti- . - * \ Mt-i.a only th - tar. !t the
v. -■ ;re.. e\p si--’.t- ot the Spirit
we \ brace jume- e1 their ei\ic
n. _• vrhat are they liable to do
to alien- too tar away t>» offer effect
•Ve ■ -t _
< . I . ■ m ■ * :
w i r . * - >r* - • c 1 > jam
i- to - • hi- . -t --i. e and c >tn
iK. ,o t » t; . n tree bow much better
tie-1- ie! jet - a on_ sinc<. it turned
,-y» w * iiinj fo? w bic". i
; i *, i’ ,t,o .:s wilt * to \ aide/, that
, v - vo'-* it; h * eff->i'i *
v, ■ s, at *. o .•* \1‘ ym-.ti*
in a chi'- -y him*‘ f a> a promoter,
ih » 'tie pt \ man .who ever cock
le' , A, . ;,n Seattle i. ouey fot* invest
ment A :a*ka.
’I' I: >, ! i‘ ■ , n ;• ;. M , | (u? t\,f A 1 ‘I *
h ,■ v n i_.,, ■■ i.*eii i "Special
G; -c : in! ie r. * * p-ainly an effort
s * , ; , - 1 mt ■ ■
i,.' »‘it ai.d is •'« go- tt >00>t tor
.T;u,.-au. Doug i- atm Ttv;i« w-11.
L Uot Iwhild takes a giOtittiy view
\ • 'cause of
Americas egiMat-ion > >• curb the ap
p* • it< * ■ : t' trn-t*. The way it look*
m ;o:.a re cla-smay get a little of the
money h< real ter.
1. el \ >o';,i hh y di>covere<i a wotnan
107 \ ars u,o who ha* been eating]
onions thtv time* a day nearly all that
time, which lead* the Ketchikan
Miner to *ugge*t that life i* hardly
worth living with that kind of a
breat h.
Spud* are two-bits a pound at Fair
bank* a> much :i* drinks. *ays the
Douglu* l*Iand New*. 1 wo bits a
pound for drinks would be considered
cheap most places.
Why doesn't the mailing depart
ment of the Valdez Prospector send a
paper to the Gateway before the news
in it is ancient history?
Gov. Hoggatt hasn't given an item
ized statement of the $1,000,000 he as
sures Alaska it will lose by territorial
government.
If the strike malady continues to!
spread nobody will be at work in a
little while but the politicians.
It must be quiet in St. Paul with the
boiler makers out on strike.
Naval maneuvers seem to be almost
as deadly as war.
The Fairbanks Times says the suc
1 ee>s of the Hearst papers is due to the
fact that they get the news first and
publish it first. The only Haw in that
statement is that it dues not contain a
syllable of truth. The Hearst papers
do not get the real news first and
S publish it first. <>n tin* contrary they
have been d'-.i-l rotisly scooped over
and over ag. in on big news. The
Hearst sure*— is due to the fact that
his disreputable yellow rags pander to
the rabble, it* the popular appetite for
sensation and scandal, to ignorance
and vice. The number of Americans
who like to he humbugged is so large
that it furnislu an immense elientage
lor such mountebank publications as
the Hearst pap* hut those sheets are
nferior in litet ry ability, in make-up
,.nd in news tj i; it \ to a majority of
metropolitan lie"-papers. and they
wilfully peddle fa -ehood whenever it
will sell a few eopi> - or in the belief
,if its owner boost his preposterous
political aspirations.
I; is announced that <t >v. Frantz of |
<>klahonia received a bo nh in his mail I
one day this week but it may have been
only the e ectiot: ivurus showing that
democratic vieti \ was about to jar
him loose from his job.
1 ‘outis\ Ivania ^rafters have been j
immune s lone' that a bunch of them
it: -t have read the warrants for their
arrest with a feelinir that a tfreat per
sonal injustice had been perpetrated.
More or b ss of a shock is conveyed
by the news that Oklahoma voted j
democratic and prohibition in the same |
elect ion.
The amputation of $10.oo(M»d0 from |
li. |l. lio-ors seems to have alTected j
him like the loss of a 1
Kataila and Valdez, are betrinninjr
t< knock each ot her.
The miilet's’ trust can make flour
rise without yeast.
Land and Mineral Decisions
FURNISHED by
WOODFORD D HARLAN
LAND ATTORNEY
WASHINGTON. D. C.
Mi ral Land more valuable on ao i
cu.u.t e.t the sandstone therein than for!
a_>■rice.aat < cannot lie entered under!
• he iion.esteau law.
Miningi laim A judanient favorable
the applicant in judicial proceedings
il4vi I! ,;ed by an adverse claimant is no
• to a subsequent investigation on
l,vha]j of the government to determine
w in ; lift* said applicant has in tact com
i . u will, tiie law. A deed in escrow
:i) hind embraced in a mineral app;ica-|
•. i. not de'ivereu until alter entry,
nut defeat the ri*rht of the ap
:hMt ; o make entry of such land.
Pai.-n; Patent for all of a fractional
section conveys only such land as ma\ j
... then included within the approved j
!i»v n»hip plat of survey. Failure to de
it., it. a patent the lands actually
purchased will not leave the lands so
omitted subject to the entry of tin
other.
Reservation of Land No specific au
? irity exists empowering the presi
i . tit to reserve public land: hut the
tmht to reserve sucli lands for public
i> recognized and maintained by
; tin- courts. The power of the presi
; dent to create a reservation extends to
;iji v unappropriated public land.
Settlement A dual date of settle
ment may be shown on contest, or on
final proof, though it be earlier than
alleged in the application. Priority
i of settlement confers no rijrht where
it is not made for the purposes con
templated by law.
SEWARD STEAMERS
Portland: sailed from Seattle 12th;
| from Sitka lsth.
Santa Clara: sailed from Seattle 19th
Bertha; sailed for Seattle 8th.
Saratoga; sailed for .Seattle 17th.
Yucatan; sailed for Seattle 18th.
Jeanie: sailed for Seattle 18th.
Dora; sailed westward 26th.
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WEEKLY WLATHLR RECORD
Weathei record for the Aveek ending
September 21;
Temperature.
Max. ) Min.
Sunday 66 48 Clear
Monday 62 47 Clear
Tuesday 58 46 Rain
Wednesday 55 42 Rain
Thursday 52 44 Rain
Friday 53 48 Rain
Saturday 52 48 Rain
HANG MAN TO
GET CONFESSION
Vigilantes String Up J. E. Kenney
to Make Him Admit Theft
of Cone Poke.
To make him confess the theft of
Cone’s $3000 poke of gold dust a party
of about fifteen miners and others
threatened to hang 3. K. Kenney,
proprietor of t he Lake creek roadhouse
where tho poke was left, and on his
protestation of innocence put a rope
around his neck and pulled him up to
a tree. When he wits taken down he
still aliirmed that he knew nothing ol
tlie poke.
Kenney was then placed on a boat
and sent to Susitna station where he
was put in charge of .1. N. ltaker, who
had nothing to do with tho Lake creek
proceedings, and sent out on a boat
with a warning not to return. Laker
left him at Sunrise. Kennel's road
house was placed in charge of Coorge
I ’inches.
No trace of Cone's poke lias been
found. Several men who have cot te
out express tbe belief that Kenney is
entirely innocent, while suspicion rests
to some extent upon other men who
at least had opportunity to take the
gold, if they did not.
Some of the men who had a hand in
tlie vigilance proceedings are in
Seward now but show a reluctance
about talking of the a flair which indi
that they are not proud of it and are
perhaps a litt le nervous about the con
sequences. There i-> absolutely no evi
dence against Kernel except that the
poke was left in bis bouse. Ollier men
had .access to the room soon afterward.
Kenney was formerly employed hi
the Alaska Central and worked for a
while on the pile-driver.
A waterspout at Rampart last month
wiped out everything loose and some
things that were supposed to be fast
ened down, siieli as the Minook wagon
road, which lost a section. Dams,
sluice-boxes, bridges, pie-lines and
cord wood moved out with the flood.
Tlie Tatiana miners'strike, just faded
aw;iy. Many miners left the district
and tlie others Anally went back to
work, some at the old rate of $t> for
ten hours, others at to for eight hours.
Tlie .luneau Dispatch is out for a
government inspection of food stnil's
shipped, to Alaska. Does it suspicion
that even our food i> charged with Se
attle spirit? Douglas Island News.
The Record-Minercomplains because
.luneau printers must pai io cents a
glass for their beer. Can't they rush i
the growler?-Douglas Isiand News.
The Alaska Coast Company is now j
landing its steamers in Valdez at the
Keistone dock which has been pur
chased by the Reynolds company.
The I’liilippine government is pay
ing a bounty of .1 cents Mexican, or
1- cents gold for live rats, which are
too numerous in the islands.
Copper was quoted at *17.23 to 17.73 |
in New York September 7. according :
to the latest papers from the outside.!
Bar silver was
Soldiers at Nome, engaged in target
practice, put a bullet through the head
of Nels Hansen, a boatman. He died
shortly afterwards.
The Nome Nugget reports a strike
of gold and bismuth telluride in the
Sawtooth range.
Tungsten ore is reported to have been
found recently at Cape Prince of
Wales. _
1
Three tons of tin ore were shipped
recently from Cape York, Seward pen
insula.
Steamer Portland left Sitka for the
westward at noon Wednesday.
Prospecting for quartz is becoming
popular in the Nome district.
The Orca cannery packed 33,000
cases of salmon this year.
Advancing Their Interests
We endeavor to advance the busi
ness interests of our customers in
every legitimate way. In so doing, our
motives may be somewhat tinctured
with selfishness, for upon the prosper
ity of its patrons hangs the success of
every bank.
BANK OF SEWARD.
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IviUSHERS
A U e It t i o il!
Mrs. Watson, formerly of Hope,
will be pleased to see all of her
old friends at her Restaurant in
Gird wood, where they will re
ceive the best, the market affords.
Sleeping accommodations for
guests and place for sleds and
dogs.
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FOR SALE
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ditional Land Scrip.
This scrip takes immediate
title to either surveyed or
unsurveyed lands in Alaska
and is approved by the Gov
ernment. Price, $30.00 an
acre In 40-80 and 120 acre
pieces, or $50.00 per acre in
pieces of, from 1 to 20 acres.
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