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• BUYS TIMBER *
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* An important deal was closed *•
* yesterday whereby Ed Legris pur- *
* chased all of the timber on J. S. *
* flofman’s homestead. The home- *
* stead is located across the head *
* of Resurrection Bay and the tim- *
* her ia said to he large. The-timber *
* will be cut and sledded to tide '
* water, presumably this winter. *
ALASKA
COMING
SEATTLE, Sept., 16— Steamer
Alaska sailed north at 9 o’clock this
* morning carrying 107 passengers the
following being for Seward:
Miss Hansen,
M. Imhoff,
Mrs. J. Koln,
Sam Lachman,
J. A. McGowan,
A. H. Smith,
Mrs. E. Gustaffson and child
Mrs. D. Spence,
Mrs. H. Scott,
Mrs. J. Turner,
Christ Grytness,
Mrs. E. Johnson,
Margaret Sloan,
Mrs. J. M. Sloan,
Ann*: Johcton,
Arthur Wt &ht,
Mrs. E. Wright,
Dorothy Debergal,
Prof. Savage,
E. H. Griffin,
Six Steerage.
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A number of ladies went out on \the
train yesterday o Mile 7 as the guests
of Mrs. C. E. Orlander at the bunga
low. Fishing was enjoyed, then dinner.
• The afternoon was spent in sewing
and at 5 o’clock tea was served follow
ing which the party returned to the
city.
DAY HARBOR CAMP CLOSES
The Day Harbor logging camp has
closed and Ed Crawford, Duncan Lit
tle Tom Towle and G. B. Nelson cams
in yesterday on the Anna W., which
also brought up the last raft from
there for the Bryant sawmill
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Rumors are again going around
Seward regarding commercial activity.
One rumor is that bids for the na
vy coal bunkers at Seward will be
asked for shortly after the first of the
year and the contract will be let aft
er the inauguration of the next presi
dent. This rumor also has attached to
it the P. S., that men have located
proper sand a few miles from Seward
for use in concrete mixing for the na
val coal bunker foundation.
The other rumor is that Frank Bal
laine has secured capital and floated
a company for a pulp mill in this vi
cinity.
When supplies begin to arrive for
the naval coal bunkers and for the
pulp mill, there will be one, now in
Seward, but not until then, who will
believe something actual is going to
happen.
Coal must be mined first before
there will be any need for bunkers.
Sections of Alaska nearer to the
trade centers, than Seward, will see
pulp mills first, because there is more
pulp wood and the freight haul will
be cheaper.
But at that the rumors are cheer
ful, for something, in time, will be
done on Resurrection bay in the shape
of coal blinkers and pulp mills.
SKAGWAY BRINGS COAL
Freighter Skagway arrived in port
late yesterday afternoon from the
south with the following shipments for
Seward:
tf20 tons of coal for the naval radio
station.
250 tons of coal for the Alaska
Transfer.
100 tons of coal for the Bank of
Seward.
60 tons of gasoline, kerosene, lime
and explosives for various local mer
chants.
LIFE SAVING STATION
MAY BE NEEDED HERE
A life Saving station may be need
ed in Seward and the request will be
made by the Seward Chamber of Com
merce very shortly, probably. Two of
Seward's prominent men, out in a dory
yesterday afternoon, near the dock,
tipped over, one quickly swam ashore
and the other hung to the dory until
rescued. The tipping was accidental.
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* SEWARD’S PUBLIC •
LIBRARY OPENED *
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4 Seward’s new public library, *
4 situated in the Seward Public *
* School Building, will officially be *
* opened to the public for the first *
4 time tomorrow afternoon, from 2 *
4 to 5 o’clock. Hereafter on every 4
* Friday, from 2 to 5 o’clock the *
* library will be opened for the is- *
* suing of books. The library is the 4
4 outcome of the zest and zeal r
* shown by the Seward Women’s 4
* club.
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COME BACK MOOSELESS
Elwyn Swetmann and F. B. Camp,
the soldier poet, returned last night
from a hunting trip of several days
around Bear lake. Somebody else
must have shot the moose in that lo
cality, for the two hunters only found
tracks. Likewise the bears and fowls
of the air were shy, for none of them
were shot. But the hunters had a fine
cut mg and returned hardened and
b) own.
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ANOTHER FREIGHTER COMING
Agent McDonald has received cable
advices that the freighter LaTouehe
will sail from Seattle on September
22nd for Seward and way ports with
general freight and explosives. Local
merchants can cable out orders to con
nect with the LaTouehe.
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20 ON THE TRAIN |
There were twenty passengers out |
of Anchorage today on the Gateway
City limited. The tfain is expected to
arrive at Seward on scheduled time at
4:45 o’clock this afternoon.
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MISSING AVIATOR REPORTS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept., 16- Pi-1
lot Eaton, missing Tuesday when he
left Reno eastbound in his mail plane,
is alive and safe at Shafter, Nevada,
according to a report received hwe
this afternoon.
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ANTI—MIXER ACTS
AS CUPID’S AID
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LONDON, Sept, 16— Donald Clark
Tonbridge’s anti-mixed bathing coun
cillor. is receiving many letters from
men who ask him to find thorn wives.
The latest is from a man in Oakland,
Cal., who had read that Clark be?
lieved mixed bathing was tire great
est hindrance to marriage ... today.
The councillbr has promised to ai$
the Californian. i
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ILLINOIS
ELECTION
CHICAGO, Sept., 16— Returns
from more than half of the precincts
of the state,of Illinois shows leads for
Mayor Thompson candidates at the
Republican primaries. Frank Smith
has a lead of 15,000 over Congressman
W. B. McKinley, for United States
Senator. Len Small has a 20,000 lead
over Lieut. Gov. Oglesby, for gov
ernor. County precincts which are ex
pected to return heavy votes for the
candidates of Gov. Lowden, are slow
coming. ' I
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HART NOW IN THE LEAD
SEATTLE, Sept., 16— A tabula
tion of complete returns from 1880
state precincts show that Gov. Hart is
leading Hartley for the nomination of
Governor on the Republican tickci-by
6,000. Hail’s vote is 56,240 and Hart
ley’s vote is 50,240. j
' GREAT FIRES REPORTED
LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept., 16—
Forest rangers and fire outlooks are
rushing, this afternoon to the Colora
do-Wyotning line where great fires
are reported.
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AMERICAN IS SHOT AND
KILLED BY A MEXICAN ON
THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE
WASHINGTON, Sept., 16— Santi
ago, Gavalos, a Mexican, today shot
and killed E. W. Speed, an American,
at the Mexican, end.of the Internation
al bridge at Nuevo Laredo according
to dispatches received by the state
Department. Ganzalos has been jailed.
POLISH OPERATIONS
| ARE SUCCESSFUL IN
NORTHERN REGIONS
WARSAW, Sept, 16— Hie Polish
operations against the Soviet forces
‘in the upper and northern battlefronts
' have reached whaf it is believed,to be
a successful cuUninstion. This is sc
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' cording to' official reports.
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FRENCH ASSEMBLY TO
CONSIDER PRESIDENCY
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PARK, Sept, 18— The National
Assembly convencs'at Versailles on
September 25th to consider the elec
tion of a successor to President Dea
chanels who is to resign on account of
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BULLETIN— NEW YORK, Sept„
16— A terrific explosion, which rocked
all of lower Manhattan, occurred at
noon today, outside of the office of
J. P. Morgan, Wall Street. Several
killed many injured.
BULLETIN— NEW YORK, Sept
16— Never in the history of Manhat
tan haa there been witnessed snch ex
citement following the explosion.
Trading on both Stock Exchange and
N
curb was quickly suspended for the
day.
Lower New York forgot all business
matters and attended to the injured.
Fire apparatus and ambulances
dashed through the narrow streets of
the business district on which lay a
covering of shattered glass, remains
of men and hones.
Among the bodies were those of
three girls, terribly mutiHated.
A police cordon was immplifttelgr
thrown about the entire district, when
thousands, hearing the explosion
flocked there.
Police reports, fifteen minutes aft
er the tragedy had it that fifteen w««
killed outright.
one to approach government property.
BULLETIN— NEW YM& Sept*
The Wall Street district is a scene of
demolition. Every pane of glass is
shattered. Bricks and mortar have
been torn from the base and waBs of
the skyscrapers. ^
Huge blotches of Mood from vic
tims of the explosion have spattered
the white walls of the huildiags
around the scene of the explosion.
BULLETIN— NEW YORK, Sept,
16— Several theories as to the cause
of the explosion have been advanced.
One theory, substantiated by many
persons, is that an automobile, bear
ing two men, approached the front of
Morgan's office. The men alighted
and then dropped or threw what ap
peared to be a bomb.
The police believe tbe explosion was
caused by something containing TNT*
Another theory is that an automo ■
bile collided with a wagon bearing ex
' plosives.
The fire marshal believes the ex
plosion was caused by dynamite.
Federal authorities at Wa*ingten
are to make a probe.
A special ttraiu is expected to ar
rive here shortly bringing secret ser
vice men headed by William J* Flynn,
head of the Bureau el Invootfgatisa
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