SENDS DIRECTIONS
ON CAMP FIRES.
Land Department Asks Facts to be
Published and Also How Danger
Should be Avoided.
The Gateway has received the fol
lowing communication from A. Christ
ensen, chief of field division of the
land department, directing people now
to build camp tiros ami drawing at
tention to the danger to which forests,
etc., are exposed:
“The forest tires raging at Haines
and vicinity reminds us that when
there are periods of dry weather there
is always great danger of forest tiros.
Large areas of forests, public and priv
ate. are destroyed each year by lire.
This destruction i^ an injury to every
one and is a great danger, especially
in all mountain countries where a
regular flow of streams is of vna!
importance. It is also well at this
time that the attention of the i tblic
be called to certain laws passed by
Congress which forbid:
1st. The setting of fires in the
woods, and
2nd. Forbid leaving t an*p-1 res and
others without tirsi extinguishing
them.
This law also provides a maximum
punishment in a line of or im
prisonment for two years, or both, if
; a tire is set maliciously, and a tine of
$1000 or imprisonment for one year,
or both, if a tire results from care
les>tie.'S. This law also provides that
the money from such lines be paid to
the school fund of the country in
which the offence is committed. It is
unfortunate that people will lie so
careless as to leave tires without ex
tinguishing them and thereby cause
the lov*; of valuable timber which can
1 not 1m* restored for centuries, and the
destruction of homes as well. It is,
| therefore, suggested that since so
mans tires start from negbvted camp
tires the public be requested as
follows:
1. Do not build a larger tire than
you need.
! 2. Do not build your tires in dense
LOCATION NOTICES AI IHf (iATfWAY
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I General Contractor |
| fireproot Hotel. Appartment House. §
1 office Building Construction. |
§ Dock. Warehouse and Bridge Building |
1 All KINDS Of CONCRUE WORK 1
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E bids for all kinds of construction work. E:
| J. P. MANTELL, Hotel Seward |
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masses of pine leaves, duff, and other
combustible material where the lire
is sure to spread
:i. Do not build your fire against
large logs, especially large rotten logs
where it requires much more work j
and time toput the lire out than you
are willing to expend, and where you
are rarely quite certain that the tire |
is really and completely extinguished, j
4. In winds weathei and in dang
erous places, dig a fire hole and ch'ar
off a place to secure your tire. You
will give wood and trouble.
5. Kvcry camp tire should b * com
plctelv put out before having camp.
<; lk> not build tires to clear off land
and for other similar purpose- with
out first taking the necessary precau
tion to see that the tire will not spread
to surrounding timber.
WANTED—Work in Camp or Road
House by good woman cook. P. O.
I Box 103. 5-24—ot
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PIANO FOR SALE.—Apply Gate
way ottice. 5-18 ?t
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Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.
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Meet mo at Tho Branch
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On account of some of tin
machinery tfoing astray
between Chicago
ami Seattle
The Seward Soda Works
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Will Not Open Until
About June 1st
Upstairs Over the Soda Works a
First-Class Photograph Studio
managed by one of the bc>t art
ists on the coast.
Will Open About June 1st
ROBT. ASHLAND
Proprietor
BEAR AS BIG AS COW.
On the last trip of the Santa Ana
came the skin of a brown hear that |
must have been larger than a bitf ox. ;
The animal was killed somewhere
near Cnpa by Oscar Olson and the
skin now huritf up in a shack near the
wharf measures twelve feet Ion# and
over ten feet in width.
SELLS LOTS IN CITY.
Robert Ashland has sold an undi
vided one half interest in lots 7, 8, 9,
and 10 in block 15 to Sidney Anderson !
for $6,000. The lot* are stationed on j
Fourth and Church streets.
FINED FOR LARCENY.
.John Doe Smith was lined seventeen
and a half dollars yesterday by the
commissioner for the larceny ofj
lumber from the Alaska Northern K. i
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R. Company. The fine is said to just
cover the costs of the trial.
Our List Today Contains
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Three of the very
I vest and cheapest
corners on Fourth
avenue with reason
able terms,
Several inside Business
Lots and a lew close-in
lii«di - class Residence Lots
p—
in the ver\ best location
in Seward.
It will pay you to look
these up at once.
ALASKA LAND AND
DEVELOPMENT
COMPANV
G. lit VI. POINDIATIR, Manager.
Best Corner in‘,Town
Lots 19-20 Block 24
I $3200.00
TERMS
LOOK AT THIS NOW
RESIDENCE
Block 111
$1,900.00
$500.00 Cash. 1 year
B. R. 1 ABERff S Co.
Real 1:state. Insurance,
Investments
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LOOK!
Lot *21, Block 26.$500.00
Lot 22. Block 26. 500.00
Lot 22, Block 26. 500.00
Lot 21. Block 26. 500.00
Terms
HOME PROPERTY
The Opportunity of the Year
Best Residence Property in Seward now
on sale at Prices and Terms that make it
cheaper to own your home than pay rent
1 erininal Addition Lots--- / onus
Location the llesl. I ille Absolutely Clear
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Only, per lot s180.00 <)nl>’ ',,r ,ot
Small Payment Down Balance Like Rent
Now Don't Delay. Investigate This Today
These Lots are Going to Move Fast
E. H. L. MITCHELL, Exclusive Agent
Lane, Whitehead & Hayden
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