Owing to weather conditions the dredge at Anchorage
is unable to operate until the summer of 1918—
Talk About Your Summer Wages!
Anchorge, 20 below Temperature—Seward. 18 above.
If you can’t keep warm, remember we have the larg
est lines of Men’s and Women’s Furnishings, Beddings, etc.,
in Seward.
We are not selling anything at cost.
We aim to make some profit on everything we sell.
These are War Times and war prices prevail in the
States and they must here.
We will give you the best prices possible under exist
Remeniber. we are fourteen years in Seward and hope
to continue until we get Matanuska Coal, if it takes 14
years more.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
Seward
Geo.A Mitchell
Proprietor
i ijmmi I\ :m«l N i'jlit
Service Cleanliness
Prn Ate it' x«"* f<
CHARLES CRAWFORD j
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing W heel w righting
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef. Pork. Veal. Mutton. Poultry.
Lard. Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Egg*
Orders from the Westward and Cook
tnlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
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THE KEY
Ice Cream, Anytime j
Any Quantity
THE KEY KIND
PHONE MATHISON 11S
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! Seward Steam Laundry:
Phone Main 157
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HARRY K AW A UK, I’rop.
Best of Work—Quickest Deliv
ery. Family Work. Hough
Dry 10c Per Pound.
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i ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia, Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices, prompt service. |
I DON’T
| OF XMAS SUGGESTIONS.
I FAIL TO SEE OUR WINDOW j
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j Ellsworth’s
Scratch pads—for emoo\ for your
desk* for the counter, for the work
room—10c at The Gateway.
PROFESSIONAL
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J. H. ROMIG. M. D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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' L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. D.. C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. in.
Formerly of Nome.
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DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office. Mml. 76 Res., Mad. 58
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FRATERNAL !
Q- JJ
L. 0. 0. M, No. 1425
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
H. R. BIGFORD, Secretary.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
C harles Lechner C. E. Mullin
Noble Grain! Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. ;n., Pioneer Hall}
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I WATCHES
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Grutn
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
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C. E. ORLANDER
srcCESSOR TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER j
; New Goods
; Arrived ;
LADIES BATH ROBES
BOYS AND GIRLS WINTER !
UNDERWEAR
i THE BAZAAR
WANTED—Good boy to deliver pa
para. Inquire Gateway. tf
{SEWARD SNAPSHOTS] j
The weather forecast for the next
24 hours is snow and caaler.
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Robert J. Weir is 'out on the line
on a tour of inspection today.
Steamer Dora is expected to arrive
in port tomorrow forenoon from the
westward.
The Home Guards moot tonight at
S o’clock for the regular drill at the
\. B. Hall.
W. L. Lodge, of Mile 17 is regis
tered at the Sexton, having come in
on the train last night.
Seward’s weather report for yester
day was as follows: maximum, 40,;
minimum 22, and current 20; cloudy
and snow.
L. E. Large expects to leave for the!
states on the Admiral Evans. Mr.,
Large, until recently was wharfinger
at the Seward dock.
R. S. Giddings, of the Alaska Road
Commission, stopping at the Over
land, expects to go to Juieau on the
steamer Alaska next Saturday.
Steamer Alaska is due in Cordova
tomorrow and should arrive in Sew
ard sometime Saturday. The Alaska
has seven days mail aboard for here.
One week from tonight the formal
dancing party of the Red Cross will
be given at the A. 1L Hall. Tickets
are $1 and are reported to be meeting
with a ready sale,
A business meeting of the Metho
dist Ladies’ Aid Society will be held
at the parsonage, Thursday at 2:20
P. M., financial reports will be made,
and work planned for the coming
year. It is hoped that a good atten
dance may be had.
l\ 'I. Shaw is in the hospital with a
fractured thigh. Shaw was tossed
from a trestle out on the railroad
and was thrown 20 feet. The hand
car upon which Shaw and companions
were riding, had no light upon it ami
the engineer of the locomotive did
not see the car until it was disappear
ing over the trestle.
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WRITER OF STORIES ON
ILASKA SPIELS IT T0
SEATTLE NEWSPAPERMEN
“ I am on my way to New York,
and, gee, how I hate it,” said Helen
Van Campen, famous writer of theat
rical, race track and Alaskan stories
for the Saturday Evening Post, who
arrived in Seattle yesterday from her
home in Seward, Alaska, on the
steamer Alameda, says a recent issue
of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. '
“Like the bibulous rustic who was on
his way to town for his weekly rois
tering, I can truthfully say that I
hate it. When 1 get there they will
not give me the things I want to eat.
I do not drink anything but water,
and the New Y'ork water is fierce, and!
they compound the felony by putting!
ice in it. I detest ice water. And,
then, l will not be able to see any
body, because I go to bed at 9 at night}
and get up at 6 in the morning. Think
of doing that in New Y'ork.”
Helen Van Campen in private life is
Mrs. F. R. Van Campen, wife of a
mining man of Seward. She is ac
companying her husband on a trip
East in the interest of his company •
and they are guests at * he Seattle
hotel.
During tie past year she.
has been enjoying life in,
Alaskan mining camps and tho;
she has been obtaining fiction
material and much local color
has done no writing in that time. She <
says she is planning to' start work in
a few days on a number of stories on i
Alaskan themes, and also some tales
of stage folks. “I usually write two <
stories at a time,” she says, “I find 1
this very restful. When 1 run out of <
ideas on one story I can jump onto ]
the other.” ; i
Before breaking into writing she ]
owned a stable of racing horses and '
followed the spoil of kings in many ■ i
parts of the country. She also spent ■
a number of years mining in the
West. In 1905 she began to write! j
features for the New Y'ork Telepraph
and her feature, The Troubles of Two j ]
Telephone Girls,” embellished with ;
the current slang of Broadway, made
a hit. Later on she sold several stories <
to some of the smaller magazines and
determined to go after the big ones, j
Accordingly she sojourned in the tro-, i
pics and wrote six stories. None of j <
these being accepted, she wondered
what was the matter with the editors, i <
In her early story-writing days her
ambition was to write Indian stories.
She found she could write them with
perfect ease, but that nobody would j
buy them. “I finally figured it out
that the average reader puts himself
in the place of the principles of the
story,” she said.. ‘‘And who would
care to bo an Indian?”
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VEGETABLES OF !
MILE 17 TO BE
PUT ON DISPLAY!
Vegetables raised at Mile 17 are!
better than those that are raised in
the Matanuska according to samples
brought in last night by W. L. Lodge
and which were on display at Bor
gen’s this forenoon. Mr. Lodge had
a sack of nitabagas and turnips, aver
aging from 2 to 4 pounds each. These
were raised by Mr. Ix)dge in his gar
den at Mile 17 as an experiment and
hext year a large crop is expected.
The sack brought to Seward, which
will be shipped to Seattle for display,
contained the following varieties:
rutabaga’s, yellow; Aberdeen turgips;
purple top strap leaf; white Milan
and yellow petrosfky.
Mr. Lodge claims that he has a
preparation which destroyed the
ground worms so injurious to vege
tables in this section of the north.
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SOMEBODY IS SLIPPING
ONE OVER ON A BACHELOR
Seward, Nov. 21.—-'To the Editor of
the Gateway:
“A good bit of news, though its j
publication has through somebody’s
neglect or carelessness, been delayed,
is appreciated. It is greatly lamen
table that an episode so intensely in
teresting as one that occurred in the
neighborhood of a month go, should
pass unnoticed and un-talked-of into
sad oblivion; and especially is this
true when it is taken into considera
tion that tin* person whom it con
forms is one of the most distinguished
bachelors in our midst, one Dan Cor
fhoran, tool inspector on our Alaskan
Northern Railway.
Dan. like the great majority of our
companionless bachelors who l\*ve no i
immediate object upon which to lavish
their super-abundant affections, crav- J
[*d the companionship of somebody or(
something that could in some degree!
show an intelligent return of affec-1
Lion. He found the personification of
all these desires in the “person of a
very vivacious and bright-eyed por
cupine which he soon had transported ,
from its forest haunt to the domestic
life of his Seward habitation. Theiri
friendship increased, and with their
friendship their confidence in each
jther, and especially Dan’s confidence
in the “porky,” so much so that Dan, I
one day, upon his departure out the j
line, surrendered his whole domicile
to the safe-keeping of this new and
supposedly harmless inhabitant.
“In this land of the North, where
separations last beyond one’s expec-'
Nations, men have acquired the habit
if providing their household with
plenty of gastronomic comforts foi
:he long period that might intervene
lefore their return. And so it was j
not altogether an original idea that;
struck Dan, when, upon his departure, j
he loft with his prickly friend, a twen-'j
:y-five pound sack of potatoes, a j
hindquarter of beef, some bread, a lit- j
tie water and a pot of molasses.
“Several days were spent by Dan j
in the comforts of camp life along;
the A. N. R., in sweet forgetfulness;
if his porcupine pining for the re-\
turn of his departed captor.
“The day of rc-union came; it wasi
1 bright one. with a flood of sunlight,!
ind a delicate breeze which gently
agitated the trees along the trail, and •
:hc hair on Dan's brow; and he was
in a marvellously serene mood. He
ipproached the door to his cabin with
faltering steps, in the fashion of one
vho draws near to the person ho is
fond of. Ho opens the door, enters.,
Presto! There the porcupine, with
juills pointed like daggers, has turned
Voni a friend to an immitigable cne
»y- , . j
“Then, but alas! too late, the provi-,
lential bachelor, who had supplied
(he “porky” with so many goodly
:omforts, had it forcibly brought '
ionic to his mind his absent-minded-;
less in mistaking the habits of the
lorcupine for carnivorous, instead of; *
vegetarian; for the “porky,’ without
ncurring a momentary risk of star-;
vation, had at once proceeded to scale j
:hc wall and commenced to nourish
Its appetite on the more indigestible
furniture of his house, initiating its j
nischiof bv first clearing the walls of!
ill its pictures and crowning its oper-!
ations by leaving his bed in an unrec
>gnizable and unavailable condition.
Pan’s memory immediately grew
keen, and there was not an epithet inj
Creole, Latin or Spanish in any near
>r far-fetched way applicable to the
porky/ which Dan did not exhaust
5n the dumb butt of his abuse.
No intimation has been given the
public of the fate of the porcupine,
t)ut it is suspected that, putting aside
ill antipathies and animosities, Dan ,
[nade a friendly pot roast of it and j
site it.
jEs “porcupine” no bueno para
hombro bianco?*’
P. F. A. j
HOTEL OV :R( AN»
E. L. WHITTEMOREp Proprietor
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
H. V. Hoiikn a. k. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HO BEX, Manager
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfo- Phones, Main 17 ar d 81
CAFE — ROOMS I j1jjj r* /| 8 A| ? Sherman Haynes
Pool and Billiard* J — £ ^ ^ Proprietor
Best of Drinks and Cigars
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lunch Counter in Connection
THE
HOTEL
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modem Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
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^JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office- Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD ALASKA
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WHY WEAR DIRTY
I Clothes, when we will do your
j family wash, rough dry? We -
I call for and deliver laundry.
DEE SING LAUNDRY
Phone Madison 111
! Cor. Washington & Adams St. j|
CONSCRIPTION VOTE TO
COME UP IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 21.
—.Via Reuter’s Ottawa Agency) —
The federal government has decided
to postpone the meeting of Parlia
ment and conduct the referendum on
conscription under the existing pow
ers. The voting day probably will be
December 15.
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Lake Trout just in—Fish Market.
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WHEN Timothy Jimson hex
a good crop, he’s a' admin
istration man, but whea
crons is bad, he’s agin’ _
the gov’ment. I say,
principles is one thing,
an’ pocketbook another.
Both of ’em’s in right
when you smoke VEL
VET’ '
VELVET, the Smoothest Smoking Tobacco.