NEWLY ELECTED
COUNCIL TAKES
UP CIVIC DUTIES
The fiscal year of the town of Sew
ard ending On April 10. the council
met last night to close the affairs of
the city for the year 1010-17.
Otto lVehlmann. city clerk, read
his report of the expenditures for the
year and the same was placed on tile.
The routine of approving current
bills was taken up and all were or
dered paid. There being no further
business to be considered the council
adjourned, never to meet again, the
work of the 11Mb-17 council being
done, and three of its members step
ped from the council chamber to the
tranquil realms of private life attei
devoting a year of their time and best
efforts to the service of the city.
As informal as the retiring ot the
old council was the advent oi the new.
Mayor McDonald took his seat at the
head of the table, and eouncilmen Du-;
breuil, Sauers. Cotter and Lechner
took their respective places. On ac
count of the absence from the city of
Councilmen Chamberlain and Craw
ford. the new body adjourned until
next Monday night when they will
begin their active service. And the
historian turned another page.
CRACKER CHIEF
DIES, AGEI) 71
NKW YORK. — (Special.) — A.
Williamson Green, president of the
National Biscuit company since
died here after a long illness. He was
74 years old.
City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 12-.
1 - CORNETS
They Lace In Front
HALLETT & SCOTT
N. E. A. MEETING
OPENS IN JULY
AT PORTLAND
The convention of the national edu
cational association is to be held this
year in Portland, Oregon, during the
week commencing July 7.
Besides Portland’s well known gen
erous hospitality there are other
reasons for the convention being held
there. One of them being the fact
that it is the center of what was the
original pioneering district of the Pa
cific northwestn. Generals Grant andj
Sheridan compaigned in that vicinity
against the Indians long before they
established themselves as heroes in
the civil war, and the first foothold j
that the white man really acquired on |
the Pacific coast was in that section. |
The headquarters of the Oregon j
Hostorioal society are in Portland, I
and its museum contains thousands of
relics and remnants of the eariy days,
many of which represent true stories
of pioneer life that far excel the ef
forts of fiction writers in interest.
The members of the educational
association will undoubtedly gain con
siderable interesting historical in-'
formation as well as a pleasant time,
during their stay in the city of roses. |
All-Alaska News
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Mis. John Hutt, of Atlin, shot and
killed a lynx, which her dogs had ^
treed near her cabin.
(iuy Turpin, of the Tolovana dis- j
trict, passed away at St. Joseph’s
hospital at Fairbanks. Death was1
caused from pleural pneumonia.
Mrs. (aeorge Wilson, wife of the
proprietor of the big Chena Hot
Springs hotel, is seriously ill.
Tom King was badly burned in a
tire which broke out in Clarke &
Graham’s launch at Cordova. The
fire started from the ignition of gaso
line.
Many of the Alaska cannery men
are taking sheet tin along with them
for making cans during the coming
fishing season. Oscar Smith, foreman
of the can factory at the Alaska-l’aci
tic* Fish company’s cannery at Chil
koot. will leave soon to superintend
the making of 60,000 cases of recep
tacles. “Tin is so expensive this year
that it has been keeping everyone
busy getting enough together for the
catch,” Smith said recently. “Wre will
turn out the cans in three sizes, pound
flats, half-pound flats and pound tails.
There is a company here that makes
the body of the can and then com
SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for such items in FURNI
TURE and DRY GOODS as cannot lie readily sup
plied by the merchants in your community.
All such orders received by FREDERICK
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attention of an expert shopper and Parcel
Post shipments are seni POSTAGE PAID
to any point in Alaska.
NOTH: Inquiries for information relative to the New Spring Lines
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WIZARD MAGNETOS NATIONAL SPARK COILS
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SEWARD WINTER
MILD COMPARED
WITH NEW YORK
—
Judge S. 0. Morford, who has lust
| returned from spending the winter in
i the eastern states, seriously considers
advertising Seward as a winter resort.
The judge has been in the north since
the early days in Dawson and has
lived in, and is familiar with ail kinds
of winter weather, as it is done in Al
aska. While in New York lie was on
tertained with zero weather and high
winds, and was* glad when he stepped
aboard a train bound for Ohio. I:e
was due for further disappointment,
however, for there he found the same
wind blowing and the thermometer
registering 18 below. He expected
better things from Chicago, but upon
arriving there the same weather pre
vailed and he spent all his time look
ing at the scenery in the depot build
ing. The judge says that any east
erners who want to talk business with
him next winter will have to come t<»
Seward to do it.
Judge Morford was in New York
City when diplomatic relations were
severed, and says that the break was
received with wild enthusiasm.
“The people of the middle west,”
continued the judge, “did not seem to
take the interest in the war that the
residents of the Atlantic and Pacific
coas-t states did. All show unmistak
able signs of patriotism, however, and
will back the president to the last
man. The various government de
partments have taken on great ac
tivity, and all public works are care
fully guarded against any destructive
attempts by fanatics.”
presses it and ships in compa**4 'ots
to the smaller canneries. When they
want to use the cans they send them
through a machine called the ‘re
storer,’ which brings the body back
into shape. The caps for the bottom
are then put on and the can is n ady
for the fish. This saves quite a bit
of freight, as the compressed cans do
not take up much room, and they are
as sanitary as any of the others.”
(Seattle P.-T.)
Word has been received from the
ChiehagofT mine that there was every
indication of finding the $20,000 gold
brick which was stolen by two mask
ed bandits from the room ov^r the
company’s store at the mine i few
weeks ago.
We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ary the Seward Drug Company.
City Express. Phone Main 122.
DOUGHERTY & ROM IG
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
douses for Rent Rents Collected
Lots for Sale Large Listing
i Phone Red 147 Seward, Alaska
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;| Cake Won’t
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1 When you
make it with i
Crescent Baking
But it will come
out “light as a
feather” even un
der adverse
conditions.
25c. Ih. can
At all grocers.
CRESCENT MFG. CO.
Seattle, Wash.
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Mail your letters at The Key.
FORFEITURE—NOTICE
To A. F. SPRAGUE, YOUR HEIRS
AND ASSIGNS.
Your are hereby notified and will
take notice that 1, the subscriber, J.
C. Gilpatrick, have expended during
the year A. D., 1916, the sum of One
hundred ($100.00) dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the fol
lowing described mining claims, to
wit: “MEAT IN THE POT,",
“CLARA,” “OLYMPIA," “SUMMIT,"
“LISBON” and “HATTY," all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Judi
cial Division, Territory of Alaska. The
notices of location thereof are of
record in Book One of Locations, at
pages 132 and 133, and Book 5 of Lo
cations at pages 45, 46 and 84 in the
office of the United States Commis
sioner and District Recorder for Ke
nai Recording District and Precinct,
at the Town of Seward, Territory of
Alaska, to which book and pages ref
erence is hereby made for a more par
ticular description of said claim. Said
expenditures were made for the pur-i
pose of holding possessory rights andj
title to said mining claims under the j
provisions of section twenty-three
hundred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States!
and the amendments thereto and the
i Session Laws of the Territory of Al
aska, providing for the annual labor
upon mining claims, said amounts be
ing the sums required in each instance
to hold said mining claims during the
! period ending the thirty-first day of
| December, 1916.
If you fail and refuse or fail or re
i fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, if per
sonal service be had, or within ninety
(90) days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-owner,
your proportion being in the total the
sum of Two hundred and eight dol
lars and thirty-two ($208.32) cents,
made up of the following amounts to
wit: ‘MEAT IN THE POT,” $50.00,
“CLARA", $25.00, “OLYMPIA,”
$33.33, “SUMMIT,” $33.33, “LIS
BON,” $33.33, and “HATTIE,”
$33.33, your respective interests in
and to said mining claims, and each
i nnd every one of them, will become
the property of the subscriber, who is
your co-owner, and who has made the
expenditures and improvements as
above mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute and the said Session
; Laws.
J. C. GILPATRICK.
First publication, Feb. 2, 1917.
j Last publication, April 27, 1917.
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