THF.
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NATIONAL BANK
OF ALASKA
AT SEWARD
MEMBER BANK
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
back to the farm dance
Saturday Night, A. B. Hall.
Gingham Aprons, Hickory Shirts
and Overalls. A Regular Barn Dance.
Everybody Swing. 2t
EMPRESS THEATER
SUNDAY, AUGUST t9, 1917.
LATEST
HEARST-r.ATHE NEWS No. 45
The Vitagraph Feature Com
pany presents to you a wonder
ful drama in six parts:
“THE DUST
OF EGYPT”
featuring EDITH STOREY and
ANTONIO MORENO, with a
splendid all-star cast.
Don’t miss this wonderful
drama.
EXTRA GOOD PROGRAM
10c and 25c
See Our Stock
Ladies' Summer Under
wear, Waists, Sport
SkirtsMiddy Blouses
We have the largest line of Comforters
and Bedding in Seward
If prices cut any figure with you-We
will get your business
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
FIRE INSURANCE
JOE CAMPBELL
Successor to
ENNIS & CAMPBELL
SEWARD ALASKA
SUITS! SUITS!! SUITS!!!
Serges, Cheviots, and Tweeds.
Late Models—Conservative to Extreme.
Belt Back Norfolks.
$25.2 PER SUIT $25.2
COTTER’S
NEW PROCESS FOR
GROWING SUGAR CANE
HONOLULU, T. H., July 18 (By
Mail).—A new process in the growing
of sugar cane was announced today by
its inventor, Charles F. Eckart, man
ager of the Olaa Sugar Company on
the island of Hawaii which, according
to Mr. Eckart, practical tests have
shown will increase the sugar output
by many thousands of tons and the
revenue of the sugar planters by mil
lions of dollars each year.
The process is one for destroying
weeds in cane fields. In the warm cli
mate of Hawaii and other sugar pro
ducing countries weeds grow with re
markable rapidity and prodigality and
much of the expense connected with
the production of sugar is caused by
the necessity of weeding the cane.
This requires immense gangs of la
borers working almost constantly.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
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if your sweet tooth Is your wisdom
tooth you will buy your candy at the
Key. tf
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Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
DIME CREEK IS
WIDE OPEN
C amp on Koyokuk Harks Hack to Old
Days In North—Whoop
It Up
The only wide open camp in Alaska
just now is Dime Creek. Reeking
with consolidated drunkenness, gam
bling and dance halls the new camp
has dug itself a nice little ulcer on
the tributary of the Koyuk, says the
Nome Nugget.
A little log cabin shelters the
gamesters, where the gamblers have
a high old time and rakeoffs mount
as high as three hundred a night.
Currency runs short and checks en
dorsed by a dozen different people
mudstained and tobacco odored pass
for the chips when the gold and sil
ver fail. Pangiggi, black jack, poker
or such other games as separate a
man playfully from his money are to
be had for the asking. The camp is
without a deputy, and when the com
missioner shows up in the vicinity
everything is innocent looking.
But that isn’t all. They have a dance
hall, popularly known as the Monte
Carlo, where a couple of ladies have
initiated the lights of Dime into the
terpischorean and other bacchanalian
mysteries that may be referred to only
as generalizations. Here the tyro
reaches that stage of sociability
wherein he is willing to whoop it up,
and whoop it up he does with the help
of the steersman who guides him to
the cabin where the real games are
played . The delightful condition of
things has raised the mischief with
the camp, but some of the sharks are
a lot richer by their visits and it is
a pretty prosperous field. No gold
mines along the deposits of Dime
creek have produced the wealth that
that cabin has returned to those who
have operated the games, and the fig
ures are prodigious as to the limits
played. It is evidently no place for
pikers. One man lost as high as four
teen hundred, another lost four hun
dred, and another a couple of hundred
within a short time. If this keeps up
the green cloth will be able to buy
steam yachts. So, too, with the ladies.
A recent fair one from the direction of
St. Michaels is said to have amassed a
fortune in the dancehall, and put her
sisterhood from otherwheres in the
shade.
It’s a pretty easy camp with the lid
off and the limit thrown into the
creek. That’s the statement of fact
which returning Dimeites bring to
Nome.
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The power schooner Silver Wave re
turned to Nome recently from her sec
ond trip to York and way points. She
brought twenty tons of tin ore with
her belonging to the American Tin
Dredging Co. Captain Swam reports
there is considerable ice hanging off
the western coast betweeen Nome and
the straits. Although a stiff breeze
was blowing there was no surf, owing
to the immense flees of ice encoun
tered.
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Certain-teed Roofing. Guaranteed
5, 10 and 15 years. J. L. Graefs. tf.
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2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.00—
Seward Drug Co.
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Ask your grocers for Seward
Bakery Bread.
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Mining Power of Attorney blanks
for sale at The Gateway.
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City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 122.
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Old papers, seventy-five for 10c, at
The Gateway.
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A. Mclver, licensed undertaker.
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Legal blanks at the Gateway.
FISH PRICES
Prices at noon August 16, at
Seattle, as reported by the Bu
reau of Fisheries, are:
Halibut, 14^4 c.
Sable Fish, 4c.
Red Snapper, 2c.
Pickled Sable Fish, $13 per
bbl.
MAKING ROOM FOR
WINTER STOCK
Dresses, Skirts,
Middy Blouses, Waists
and Sweaters
AT ALMOST COST PRICE
HAHETT & SCOW
OF COURSE
U. S. BOOSTING
SABLE ElStl
Piscatorial Luxury, Previously Known
As Alaska Black Cod, Well
Advertised
The sablefish, frequently called
black cod, is coming into its own in
this region. The Bureau of Fisheries
publishes the following paragraph in
a recent bulletin:
“The sablefish is being strongly
recommended to consumers by the Bu
reau of Fisheries, and fresh, kippered,
and frozen is now beroming well
known over the entire country. It is
excellent salted, and the Bureau is
confident that in that condition it will
find an extensive market next winter.
“To satisfy this prospective de
mand it is urged that large quantities
be cured, particularly in Alaska.”
An explanation of the cure in de
tail follows. Some of the interesting
facts about the pickling of sablefish
may be cited.
First, the backbone is removed,
some curers splitting the fish down
the back only leaving the two halves
united by the belly walls as is done
with mackerel and salmon.
About one hundred pounds of salt
is used to each two hundred pounds
of fish, a larger quantity than is em
ployed in salting salmon.
The sablefish has been underesti
mated in food value, and there has
been little demand for this variety of
cod. Fish connoisseurs who have
sampled the new salted product de
clare it superior to cured salmon or
halibut.—Wrangell Sentinel.
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PREACHERS NOT NEXT TO
SYSTEM, IT SEEMS
SPOKANE, Washington, Aug. 17.—
Washington clergymen of denomina
tions using fermented wine for com
munion services are having difficulty
to replenish their supplies.
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I SEWARD SNAPSHOTS
The cross-walk between railroad
headquarters and the Harriman Na
tional bank on Adams street is being
put in by the street department.
A crew of men are engaged in clean
ing up and leveling the yard sur*
rounding the new Seward depot.
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Mrs. H. C. Munro, minister at the
Community Christian church, has
taken charge of their “war garden”
in the absence of her husband, who is
en route over Broad Pass on a mis
sionary tour.
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A main of sufficient size to allow for
use of a fire hose within the structure
has been laid to the site of Robert
Ashland’s garage building.
The approach to Lowell creek bridge
on Third avenue is being filled with
rock hauled from the grade work on
Fifth avenue north of Adams. Third
avenue will be open for traffic soon.
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The Hotel Coleman is being given
a coat of paint and with recent im-.
provements inside will be ready for
the winter season.
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Waterfill and Frazier whiskey at
the Branch.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
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Waterfill & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
The HANNAN Shoe
. Stetson Hats
Earl & Wilson Shirts
Hart, Schaffner &
Narx
CLOTHES
URBACH
BROADWAY
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AND VEGETABLES
Plums Peaches Apples
Oranges
HOME GROWN
Lettuce Beets Turnips
Onions
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STORE OF PROGRESS
A PIPE of VELVET is like a good
watch-dog. It welcomes fren’ly
thoughts an’ scares off
unfren’ly ones.
ANCHORAGE VIA RAIL AND WATER ROUTE
The fast power-schooner, “Kumback,” running between Kern Creek
and Anchorage and way points, meets all Seward trains at Kern Creek.
A chance to see the new road on your w ay to Anchorage.
CHARLES NUTTER, Manager. E. J. MOORE, Master.
Chas. E. Brown, President
Sidney Anderson, Vice Pres. H. S. Balderston, Cashier
Robt. H. Romig, Assistant Cashier
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