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The Alaska Weekly Pont
Published Daily, Except Sundays and Holdiays
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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inc.)
ELMER A. FRIEND. EDITOR V\l> GENERAL MANAGER
Harry V. Hohro. Prcnidrnt *>»»* L. Ballamc. Set.
bund .. mndilin :n.tt.r kaptamlnr S. 1D1S. at tka Put Om.-a at Saarard. Alaak*.
undvr Act of March 3. LL9.
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uf all new* dispatches credited ot it or not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local new* published herein.__ ______
I tuck up- Boost- Have Confidence. li
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If Congress wants to help this sec
tion of Alaska it can he shown by pas*
>intr the sevente* n million dollar ap* r
pmpriation for the completion of the n
jjove nment railroad now and not ncx: '
|>ecemlvr. • , k‘
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More residences have been painted
in Seward so far this season than f«»'*
the past throe years combined.
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During the past three months* for* a
t\ seven former residents of the city ’
have returned thorn the states* and (’
they are going to remain. Still* others t!
are thinking of going out* but shuck'* r
;h« y will be back* in time.
An eastern paper, several week'
igo* stated that as soon as Dissident
Wilson returned from Paris and pai l ^
hi> first month's hills, he would begin
to find out about the high cost of liv* ^
ir.g. It ha> come t• ue* according to the
Associated IYe<s disoatches in the
t'.ateway \v>terdav* and the l.cagu * j
»>*' Nation's conferences have bee n
dropped with the Senators and Presr v
dent Wilson i' now delving into tie*
whys and the wherefors for the high
cost of living.
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Don't confuse this “high cost of
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Krrriitly Tlioruuchl' Kcnovalvd.
•*\\ K HANDLE OMA F1KSI C LASS "
HOODS"
•*\\ E I NDEKSTAND HOW TO
1‘KEl‘AKE THEM”
C It-aniim-ss and Courtesy
IS 01 K MOTTO.
1*1!IVATE DINlNCi KOOM
FOK LADIES
Charles Cameron — John (’. Caffney
MEET ME VT THE
CHILL
■* JOHN'S PLACE
That’s All
DIAMOND DICK’S
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meals at all holes.
Our Dili of fare co»is:sU of
All the Market Afford*.
HOME MADE BREAD and PASTEY
BOARD BY THE MONTH
K. RHODES. Proprietor.
ring” with the “high cost of loving.”
oth aiv high but diffoient.
Tlu* e are nearly '•()() men working
i tin* Seward division ot the govern
ont railioud. This number dm s n *;
,elude uncouple of hundred recently
an fmed from the Talkeetna and
nchorage divisions.
So* -id week ago. Mayor Chamber
n \ i:* 1 sed the officers and new o<
ie light house tender Cedar t > o me
* S**va»t: .*!> a street carnival wa.> » •
• i *nt * ''
edar came and the men enjoyed
.no Th * dance Monday niglt
i n l \h( off-cer. and crew of th
■ \\:\ • returning of the coin pi «
*nt. I : Ivays pays to lie cOurteom.
IV'onng*' yo\" homo nu•chant i.
o ‘ tli * sUv • n of tho A!a>kan.. A1*
» purchase tho goods advertised i t
no* tape’s. The Lovora ciga»* :s
> v !> ap advertised in tho fSatewav
nl u> 't > on sale at all trades plan s
i Sowanl- purchase :t. The Lovora N
splendid cipar and its increased sa e
I ' ci • ing pays
The Aocho ago Times- during th *
:ist year- has frequently taken un
died for “shots” at Sew a d. Kdito *
haw has resigned from that pape *•
nv wo will s<e if these shots were h
if they are the policy of the new.
iper.
“(live us that seventeen million dol*
ir appropriation for the railroad**
tould bo the battle cry of this soctio i
Alaska through which the railroa l
* pass. Make the entire seventeen
illion ava' able at ono time- not giv*
ig driblets yearly.
NEW \L \SK \ NEW SI' VI'EE
Tho Ivtclukan Chronicle is the la‘*
4 newspaper *o bo published in Ala -
a am! at tho K»\v City. Tho Chroniol'
an eight page seven column dad \
ell edited* make up snVmlid and has
.any p:ct<> -J f atu os. Tho Chronicle
jammed f H of nows, both telegraph
id locah Ed ward (I. Morrisey is tho
d’to’-. ami r.orna' l M. Stum is the
usiness .Manager. both gentlemen b **
ig well known in Alaska .and both ox*
'rioneed nowsoano^m>n in their dr*
irtmen* . Tf tho people of Ketchikan
low a good thing* they will suppoit
io Chronicle. ,
“look it rr
Thinking men and women will Jo
ell to eons'dor the striking argn*
f Clear
Havana Cigar
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The aristocrat of
all 'Havanas, with
loocra
Monarch
Actual [
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a time * tempered*
gentle flavor.
10c,2 for 25c and 15c sixes
Queen sixe, 2 for 25c
Earl sixe • 2 for 25c
JOSE LOVERA CO., TAMPA
SCHWABACHER
BROS. & CO., Inc.
Seattle, Wash.
Distributors.
ASK FOK
WILD U09E HAMS, SWEET. MILD-FLAVORED
ONLY THE FINEST HA MS CHOSEN FOR THE
SPECIAL WILD ROSE CURE
Fit YE — IiRUIIN COMPANY
u. s. A.
meats brought out by the Woild ihad**
Chil> of San Pranc'sco in their cam
paijra for adoption of the units of th*4
metric sy. tom of weights and mens
lire's.
They show a striking anomaly:
Th'* the ni^,,i'’ system v as invented
hv p. Brt n- .Tame' Watt, in 17^»*,nnd
vet ail civil’ceil nations ba\v adopter)
it e'- h» »vcV excepting the I’nited
States and M on4 Britain.
That tiie so-called “British system”
of weights and moa -U’0 is of Orman
a relic >f the old Merman
Man- atY trade Tongue— and yer
Or many sc rapt it in 1S71 and adopted
\b ' iv trie system, invented by a Brit*
•r.
Poop’e of Britannia and America
j »r iv vMl ask themselves whether ihoy
an *ot ear’yin" conservation too r.ir.
■| \\ j.|( S\ tem is no " " led
‘heory.
Its principle- - he pninciple of deci
mal cor »vi*ation - has been used is
‘ho uuvietrrv ''V. tem of the . nit°«l
<q.,t. • :n,- . i7ST>. if the VniB'd States
bad 1* d si Thomas .Tober.1 on- w*
bon1 - > 1 a”( adopt.si this svstenn
>f v jvl.t. art.1 measures based o’" d '
- o simple a system that *•
" 1 f i it main feattin i \ ten
minute ■ \Y* know how if worl s with
rpenev. B vciM work cqu: l!y well with
weight and measures.
T! • World Trade Club has str.rtr 1
tbo ball roll’1 g What v-e al1 ne« d is t >
look Vyrt -”h;ect im.
A headline in a newspanc* snv :
“Sho • kirt hero hut not long.” Ye*
b it what*’ aim an "
KKi N VTION \L FIKST
M!) MEETS' IN 0(T0I5K1’
WA^’MNTiTON- Autr.» fi-— That
> ni • i*i a can kind her wounds as ski1’
f ;llv a she can fight will he shown
in tli' ’•» at na.t’onal I'irstaid an ! mine
r-’scue *r,#i< na! f;r t-aid and m no-re >*
4. ;o ton to ha hold under /ho nu
s uc 'S of tho Inn0:1*1 ot mine?* depart
n. .1: of r Interior- at PiSsbuigN
Sopteni’ * .0 and October I.
With tho event . li loss than two
inor4h u\ ay- it reaches the hurea'i
of mhu hat coal ami metal n inc.*s
a|. : mn ry are engagi ig —
fi.. t* .id and. mine-rescue contests to
fit them sc v<. f >1 the national deni
on.'* on. la six*non different ni?iv
lo*al »:■ state meets al (a«\
have boon or will be hold in tin* near
future.
It i- c ’iir ’tp'l diat out ot tm» mi
yH n jpinojv in the United States more
than a hundred thousand are well
trained in emergency firat-aid wo1!:
am have been in t umcn,a> in ,>»i\in>,
many lives in and around mines. It
.-aiil to be a frequent occurence to*
hospital surgeons* upon receiving: an
injured miner, to declare* that the *.»?
-aid treatment received in the min*
from the miners undoubtedly had sav
ed many lives.
Those first-aid teams are scattered
throughout the United Stqtes anu
Alaska* where mines are found* and
an* tho results of the pioneer work
iu o nines in maintaining
a mine-rescue car or station in each of
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CARLTON CLUB
NEWEST and Best
Smoking Tobacco.
For pipe or cigarette
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Ih0 mining fields for the purpose of
training these men.
Jn addition to this work* the bu
reau's experts teach the miners' how
to save life in mines* and especially
the u.*'; of the oxygen mine-rescue ap
paratus that permits the wearer* aft*
r a mine explosion or disaster* to
*nter the deadly atmosphere there
•itr. com curative safety* and succor
possible living miners. Those mine
rescue teams, located at the various
mines* are also to participate in tie*
national demonstration.
DKLKf.ATKTO ROOM
MEXICO CITY* Aug - 6 - Joe !)••
vai!on* of the Department of Agricult
ure, has been named the Mexican r*
•sentative to the meeting of the M
toinational Institute of Agriculture
which is to he hel<) sami in Rome. Thi
is the first time Mexico has sen: »:
delegate to the congress in ten year.;
Serial 03616
notice of application
FOR PATENT
Failed States Land Office Juneau
Alaska. May 28, 1919.
NOTICE is hereby given tin
NORTH WESTERN FISHERIES CO.
a corporation, as assignee of Peter M
Steen, being entitled to the benefits o
Section 2306 of the Revised Statutes
of the Cnited States and the amend
ments thereto, lias applied to make cn
try of the lands embraced in U. S
Non-mineral survey No. 1236, situate
on west shore of Hercndeen Bay
Alaska, mo'e particularly described a
follows, to-wit:
lh g. cor. No.L on* beach Herendee*
Buy at average high tide, cor. not se*
wit. cor. bears West 0.98 chs; U. S. I
M. Sur. 1022 bears N. 11 deg. 18* 07
W. 173.66 chs; thence West 3.05 chs t*
cor. No. 2; thence South 28.20 chs U
cor. No. 3; thence East 13.78 chs t*
cor. No. 4, cor. not set. wit. cor. bear
West 1.13 chs; thence meandering
beach llereendeen Ray at ordinan
high tide (1) N. 46 deg. OF W. 1.2'
chs; (2) X. 61 deg. 37’ W. 2.99 chs;
(3) N. 25 deg. 55’ W. 4.03 chs; (4) N
21 deg. 00* W. 1.81 chs; (5) N. 4 deg.
42’ E. 1.18 chs; (6) N. 52 deg 55’ E
0.97 chs; (7) N. 25 deg. 29’ \V. 1.06
chs; (8) N. 10 deg. 20’ W. 3.73 chs;
(!) i \. 10 deg. 16’ W. 1.57 chs; (10.
N. 25 deg.\ 08’ W. 5.60 chs; (11) N.
8 deg. 16’ W. 3.07 chs; (12) N. 17deg
13’ W. 2.42 chs; (13) X. 16 deg. 2F E
1.40 chs to cor. No. 1, place of begin
ning. Area 19.02 acres. Variation a;
ali c rners 19 deg. 30* E. Longitude
160 d g. 12’ W. Latitude 55 deg. 42’ N.
As additional to original homestead
entry of Peter 51. Steen, guardian <*•
John A. Steen, H. E. 1377 dated July
2. 1866 at Winnebago City, Minn.
Any and all pers*vts claiming ad
versely any portion »n* the above de
scribed tract of land are required to
file with the Register and Receiver
the Cnited St.de. Land Office at Ju
neau. Alaska, their adverse claim
thereto, under oath, during the period
of publication or within thirty days
thereafter, or they wiil be barred bv
th** provisions of the statute.
NORTHWESTERN FISHERIES CO.,
By Jnrf R. Winn.
Its Attorney in Fact
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that
Iht foregoing notice be published for
tlu* statutory period in the Seward
Gateway, a newspaper of general cir
culation printed at Seward. Alaska,
the nearest newspaper to said above
described claim or survey.
Effic A. Fiisbee.
Register.
Seward Gateway— 60 Days
First Pub. May 29. 1919.
Last Pub. Aug. 9, 1919. .
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Seward Light &
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Power Company
Main 0
The“Seward Mews Company
GEORGE PHELPS
Booksellers. Newsdealers and Stationers
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_oRACiriC STEAMSHIP COMPANY;:_J
j SAILINGS i’UOM SEATTLE ! I
j STEAMER ADMIRAL WATSON | '
AUGUST 10th.
For regular ports in Southeastern a»ul Southwest
ern Alaska, also to Anchorage ami iiodiak.
Company reserves rij*lU to chan me schedule without notice.
S ADMIRAL LINE BUILDING
Wayne Blue, Agent.••.Seward Alaska.
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Sai! From , Hue Hue l.v Seward
SEVTTl.E STEAM KI5 SKWAHl) - Southbound
July .".Ist NOIMTI'd KSTKKX Aug 7 Aug 7
August 7 ALASKA Aug. II Aug. II
August It A LAM EDA Aug. 20 Aug. 22
August 21 Northwestern Aug. 28 Aug. 28
August 2S ALASKA Aug. I Aug. I
Sept. I ALAMKDA Sept; 10* Sept. 12
Alameda runs through to Anchorage.
Alaska and Northwestern return from Seward on the above sailings.
^ A. H. McDONALL), Agent.
MAKE THE NORTHERN YOUR
HEADQUARTERS WHILE IN SEWARD.
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Elaine-Eo^ene and pearl oil at J.
L. Graef’ft. .
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Evenrude motors and repair parts
J. L. Graef’s.
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Gasoline and distilate at J. E. Graef s
tt.
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