SEWARD GATEWAY
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING CO.
Entered as Second Class matter August 34th.
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SATUUDAY. DKt’ilMiiKtt LN 11HT7
CHRISTMAS Oi^CE MORE
Christmas comes but once a year
ami with each recurrence presents
new phases to those who learn a little
as they live. To the infantile mind
Christmas is associate 1 with new toys
and an unwonted d free <>t‘ tolerance
of youthful ths irtl'*:’ • » a luit relatives,
ami its advent is id mtt ; ■ 1 by mysteri
ous preparations for the reception of
SantaCluus. A little later the round
eves of wonder smut wen if■•owinif
wisdom, and the re t \ it inn of tin inoial
*trim;s atTords vantage for dctu m is
which would he Useless a any oilier
time.
Adults h ive each their own way of
celebrating the eliief festival of t hrist
nias lands. Some of tho methods h ive
dim allinity with the tra hti uis w lich
vfave it birth and son* are so widely
r-moved that an on-lookiu^1 heath *n
nii^ht easily itnasrin * that th * holiday
was devised by t le party who ii inis
and a lonif tail to hem his trade.
All of which iroes ’ >s 10w that man
wants only a pretev to ind il.f-* his
Chief desire, and can :ir a lebiueh t > a
religious anniversary as ail ninhiy as a
woman can resfaril it as intended solely
for millinery d s day.
Still Christmas is a irood thintf for
everybody who nas toe p !•.*•* of some
form of tempum v * ’i ictfion. be
sides olTe**ini op • > in.t v f >r muen
e toil-ft* l to a sti. p, ft'i -i. -oirt mi"
charity. To neut*i> « > p e:n* it ear
re.*s a store >; >« » > * *o ec: toils and
in the visi t ot i" * n * »n ;e tie* re
cords of prev o is "si iris tiavs a t*
pleasant, memoro*-. irrae. iti f tin*
dreams ot »e . - ' ‘ -otic • n'~
ever. ^
COAL LA.1J L.A MS
Tile pres : law* »v * *" ■ 1 a h ' bis
|> •* ii uf e*>ai iili*
main are a u • wi r »
imbecility a ■; • i c • <t *v * evi iene*
tU it ! e* tv.-*-1 ; • • • • ■*> "i ’1 ' •**'»’•
know n i«* i i it i i \ i i ' x • * i it » •
tt .uiS In !i-‘ • - ' . i i ' ' V '■ ' • -l
la w * an me ■ ’ i > • t ■» mu e
Hellost in> i • *t > * t i i * > t a
m*q sisb Ion » *•!
1 in is in A , - a b» * t .
N me •! t . • i
C i < 11 :
h * >' ‘i a' • 1 * • i
A s * is i r *>» . . f" to
a n-'H-i ! »e • •
t t- > ' it *n's*
st , i »> * • * * * v. *i* \
J* lit ill III" I HI U I'll His
.-at i *.. i • ,i ! t • r i1 It ' t v > w . i. t i
Utaogel* Me nut lien U 1' t lei|*li a
lawyer*. I ti iv ti • Mp: a red int o any
s .. a ideal ; w i ieh ■ t * a • e ebons •*
to place up*n it. J ns re id ■ and then
JniM your it ' i i'll* i. inus \vn;le
yon tr\ to e.\ tin wlnl the president
means, il anv in'i.ig:
•‘The coal land laws should be j
changed so a* to mrt the peculiar j
needs of tin* territory. This should be
attended to at once: for the present
laws permit individuals to locate large
areas of the public domain for specula
tive purposes: and cause an immense
amount of trouble, fraud and litiga
tion.”
This streak of glittering generality
appears to constitute what Jack Buns
by would call a opinion as is a opinion.
If it means anything it means that the
president intends to pursue lus fad of
making Alaska the site of one of his
exercises in empirical statesmanship.
A year or two ago he proposed to lease
the coal lands of Alaska, a scheme
w hich would keep them untouched for
half a century at least, because no man
with as much as a handful of capital is
going to invest it in a game of chance
which has never been played before,
and which in Alaska would seem to
carry the brand of failure before trial.
The amendment of the coal land law
w hich Alaska needs is one which will
permit capital to acquire sufficient
areas to make the investment of large
sums of money offer a reasonable pros
pect of returns. Alaska does not fear
a coal monopoly in operation nearly so
much as it fears a perpetual failure to
develop coal mines through the stu
pidity of government.
Kxisting coal land laws offer a line
prospect that no coal mines will be
operated in Alaska during any life or
lives now in being or for more than
twentv-ono years afterward, which in
law is something like a perpetuity.
PROMISING FOR ALASKA
The cessation for delirious booming
in the states and particularly in the
Pacific northwest promises well for
the development of Alaska. It is a
good thing for the Pacific states as
well, because they had been progress
ing at a rate that swelled all property
values to tie* bursting point. These
values were largely fictitious hut the
fictitious prosperity they created tem
porarily gave a tremendous impetus to
the growth of population, business
opportunities were so Haltering and
wages so high that f*nv people looked
beyond the -.tales to Alaska. The pop
illation of tins territory has not in
creased for several years.
The setback to the boom in the Pa
cific stall's will stimulate the growth
of Alaska and will be an advantage to
I those states by relieving them of sur
plus population which could not find
employment with tin* slackening of I
development there. Alaska will not
build up at the expense of anybody j
else but its gt >wth will benefit the
cities of the nor.Invest by its addition
to their trade.
The first development iu Alaska and
the Klondike eame in the hard times
following the panic of 1S93. The les
>*'!iing of opportunities in the states
now for men " ith small savings will lead
them to the newer country -to Alaska.
Capital will come this way also. The
money panic i> over and when money
com* s out for investment again it will
tight shy of collapsed Inxmis and seek a
field where fictitious values have not
been created.
Gov Hoggatt gets on most of the
republican territorial platform in his
annual report, sidestepping territorial
govern nent. The governor will be
ad r;gli it he will line up with the
boys and get out of factional tights.
('hri-t mas ob-e.*vanee varies accord
ing ’o latitude and individual taste.
,'ovv i:i Ti’micsvr the feudists bowl up
on m > m- line whisky and sail around
i an country decimating the popula
t ion.
A doctor predicts that John D. Rock
t' f» i I * * * * W t 1 * I : V o to lie bl U (ltd
Tne way Standard O l -lock is drop
i:g in too market John may be a
>auper long before that.
I'm- \ h-ka copper out put seems to
nun a dly. It wa- »,lnt t,()00
i.;;i > in 1 *»m 1'.* Mi i? wa- ab mt
0 niii | ion nos, and it is e-t t mat ed at
,o ia,o ») pound- in I’JdT.
,\'t- . V »*• a cuike: --ay too -ituation
goiii ior i le*m, \- Ion ;■ a- they
,, (. i. i we-!el’ll money t bey 1
i > nay ov or I ney nave - mm
i>,i-A f*.«r . pi nii-m.
, 1. 1 > \ , inl- i- -t 11s talking glibly
• rn-h 1 ni'iKin ■ <r.ip'•-!tions to
1 .. nil- I v\ id look belter wliell lie
eot -ign- tne money to \laska.
1 i-i masier Swill of Wrangel is ac- !
eu-ed of oiganiy. A man lias to be
.-wot to hoodwink two women at thel
sum11 iim*.
Tim mine owners and mine workers
of Goldfield may not be making much
money but look at the fun they are
having.
This Brownson fuss promises well for
debating material to keep the attention
of congress away from legit imate sub- j
jects. ____________
Seems like a measly shame that
the president should have to go out
and shoot his own New Year’s tur
key.
Looks like foolishness to make 23 the
sailing date of a boat hoodooed as the
Santa Clara has been lately.
Put More Trust in Gold
The new ten-dollar gold piece lacks
the motto *’ln God \Ve Trust.'’ Many
clergymen have entered a protest, it
was in H64, after two years and a half
of discussion, and after the considera
tion of several phrases, that congress
authorized the use of such a device,
with the approval of the secretary of
the treasury upon tin* new two-cent
piece, and a year later it made it law
ful for the motto to be put upon gold
and silver coins. In Section IS of the
Act of February 12. 1873, this pro
vision of the Act of 1865 was practi
cally re-enacted; but in the Revised
Statutes ($3517) that part of section 18
which authorized the motto was omit
ted; and later ($5596) the omitted por
tion of the section was repealed.
Land and Mineral Decisions
Published by Woodford F). Harlan,
land attorney, Washington, D. C.
Coal land ’I't<• • declaratory state
ment and affidavit must he made hy
the applicant himself; subsequent l\
certain proofs and ax' s mav he made
hv an agent; w n i t* tin* declaration
was improperly made h\ an ageni,
in the jihsence of adverse Iditig or
conflict, it may he made mine pro tune.
Contest During tin* pendency of a
contest. in wlxi<‘h i .icli |>:ir,.x ;i 11 < * • »• * - .
I priority of sett iement. hot h are hound:
! to eomplv wit h t In* i •; and if t hx 1
successful party :'u,s to do, such
I failure is propet ly tie* subject of in
quir\ on helialf of tIn- i<»-ing party.
Final proof !\tkt*n out-mo of ollire
hours max l» ■ e n A-vn<i, when
taken because fh* wh ie-ses could m>
attend at any «*11n•:■ 'me, and their
testimony ua -'ulen te-.i with dm* op
portunity f* ci'O'- i‘*;> hx !; *•
an verse c! limant.
Mineral or A _rietdi oral Land n
Iii'<kif nl tie* nil H-r il i* i i; a .*tx*r ol a
I raet and allowance of i: i 11 • *; •»I euirv
i he ref i >r tin* himi’-ii t ! proil i> up ;
one xv in* asserts the non-mine:
eii a racier ol i n* i raet. even i iioiigh o
xx .i" ret m .ied a> ag ’teiut oral. I *<
burden of prooi i> upon all agricultural
claimant for land returned as mineiai.
Mining Claims -Failuiv to comply
wit h local regulations matter lor p o
1 e-t or adverse >uit. ".Mining v'laiud'
includes a i mine! local ion.
Practice Kx parte statements in
contest ease should not he filed without
service on opposite party; to hear a
case orally is within the discretion of|
the department.
Residence, Homestead —A contract
made by a homesteader through which i
he secures the cultivation of tlie land
by a party who lives on tlie land with
him for such purpose, is not inconsist- j
ent with the maintenance of residence. :
Failure to properly note an entry of
record in the local office does not de
feat the effect of an entry. Absence
of record in the General T^and Office
will not defeat rights secured by the'
submission of proof and issuance of
final receipt.
StWARI) STtAMtRS
Bertha; sailed from Seattle 18th
Santa Clara; sailed from Seattle 23rd.
Northwestern; sailed from Seattle;
26th.
Dora; sails from Seattle 28th.
Saratoga: sails from Seattle 1st.
Portland; sails from Seattle 10th.
WEEKLY WtATHER RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
December 28.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Sunday 30 18 Snow |
Monday 20 18 Clear j
Tuesday 11 1 Clear j
Wednesday 13 7 Clear
Thursday 18 9 Clear, wind
Friday 12 5 Pt. cloudy,wind
Saturday 0 1 Clear
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' The Man
I mot a man the other day
He had a Roman nose,
Kef certainly was well dressed,
For the goods were in tin? clothes.
I asked him where he got That £lit:
He answered me right quick;
He said, ‘‘I got them over there,
’Tis Clayson does the trick.”
ALL WELL DRESSED
MEN DEAL AT CLAYSONS’
CLAYSONiCLOTHIER
[ jiv.hIO COMPANY
I GENERAL MERCHANDISE
We ha\ e no flour, sugar, or evaporated spuus but van
supply you with Tobacco, camp outfits, rubber goods,
i dried fruits, canned fruits, vegetables and meats; pit aws,
sleds, traps and hardware galore.
[j WE DEAL IN RAW FURS
| Knik, ^ o. c. her;.:no,
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i Coleman House
Absolutely I-'irsl*-class. Geo. Sexton, Manager
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1 Electric !duhis and electric Hells tn ererif tlooni
Hales, ner da 7. - - from a0 cents to fid.oO
E< \-ftli Avenue, I eward, Alaska
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, Fine YFines, Liquors and Cigars |
j Cafe in Connection. Seward, Alaska
THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
(Incorporated November, 1!*05, under the laws of Alaska)
Office—on Fourth avenue, near Adams, Seward, Alaska
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Northern Saloon
E. L. WHITTEMORE, PROPRIETOR.
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WINES. LIQUORS AND CIGARS
FOURTH AVENUE, SEWARD, ALASKA.
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BOOTH & CO.
HOPE AND GIRDWOOD
Call on the old reliable firm of Booth & Co. for anythin# in the
Liquor and Cigar line. Mi Eleccion Cigars, Old Line and Hunter Rye,
Nelson Co. Bourbon, Olympia Beer. Everything first-class. Best
of attention, run on the live and let live plan.
Girdwood, Alaska. C. R. BOOTH, Manager.