Financial Statement of the Bank of Seward
of Condition of Business Nov. 10th, 1915:
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts $131,969.92
Overdrafts .... 327.90
Real estate, banking
house, furniture
and fixtures . . . 18,173-06
Bonds, warrants and
other securities . 2,360.00
Other real estate . . 3,000.00
Cash and exchange 118,976.27
$274,807.15
LIABILITIES
or
Capital stock . . . $25,000.00
Undivided profits . 2,317.30
Deposits . . . 247,489.85
$274,807.15
Reserve required by law on above statement.$ 61,872.15
Our reserve... 118,976.27
Bank of Seward
ESTABLISHED 1905
LOCATION NOTICES AT THE CATEWAY
EMPRESS THEATRE
NEW A. B. HALL
Tuesday, Nov. 16th
8:15 P. M.
THE EMPRESS CIRCUIT
Will Show the Following Program:
Select Music
“The Old Flute Player”
J
A Strong Drama in Three Reels, Featuring
Charles Kent ami Edith Storey
Pathe W eeklv News
Admission 25 cents Children 10 cents
A Good, Big, Clean, Interesting Program
Special Prices
on WATCHES
All Makes Until Nov. 15th, 1915
GEORGE The Jeweler
| TO START TEN DAY
BOAT SERVICE SOON
Starting with the next trip of the j
Northwestern out of Seattle, which
leaves that city November 30th, Al
aska Steamship Com pay steamers will J
sail every ten days from Seattle, i
This schedule will remain throughout:
the winter. The City of Puebla cut \
out Skagway this trip, and the rest |
of the Alaska steamships for the |
winter will not make that place a;
| port of entry.
MORE COAL TO COME
A. G. de Sherbinin made a trip over
to Seldovia on the Admiral Eavns re
turning on that bo< t this morning.
He states that J. A. Herbert has
l
driven his coal tunnels for 392 feet
in a vertical, and the coal at that
place is capped by over 400 feet of
rock and is the best quality of coal
yet produced from the Seldovia
| mines. The coal is harder and of
much better quality than has hereto
fore been taken out. Mr. de Sherbin
in will receive a shipment of coal
either on the Farragut or the Alliunce
| to supply the growing local demand.
Best cigars and refreshments at
Terminal Bar. See ad. 11-1—tf
Sourdoughs and Chechacos. Get
ready for mushing to Matanuska by
boarding at Commerce Cafe.
Nicety Furnsi'ned Rooms. Winter
Rafes. Over Carstens. 9-23—tf
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See the ready made skirts and
I waists at Butt’s.
PIONEERS MEET
There will be a regular meeting of
the Pioneers tonight at the Pioneer
Hall. Several new members will be
taken in and initiated. Tonight is
the regular time for the nomination
of officers for the ensuing year, am;
all members are requested to be pres
ent. A program and social for the
ladies was planned on for this even
ing, but owing to the inability of the
committee to make the necessary pre
parations the social will be called olf
until the next regular meeting night.
NEWS NOTES
Lt. C. A. Dougherty, of the Cable
Service, and Crit Tolman will leave
tomorrow for the lower Kenai Lake
and Chickaloon flats on a moose hunt.
They will be gone three weeks or a
month.
C. D. Moyer, Doc Daykin and E. J.
McFarland, of the signal corps, re
turned about noon today from a trip
out to the tunnels to ascertain the
cause of the poor working of the
telegraph between this city and An
chorage. The cause was found to be
in the method of stretching the tele
graph wire through the tunnels. The
telegraph service has been resumed
between Seward and Anchorage.
Charles Krefting left on the Evans
for the outside. This is the first
time he has left Alaska in nineteen
years. He will visit the Exposition.
J. Sherman Haynes has taken the
Thede house on Second and Washing
ton and Mrs. Haynes will return soon,
when both will take up their perman
ent residence here.
FOR RENT
Neat furnished cabin, near business
center. Rent $10.00 per month. In
quire Gateway. 11-16—2t
FOR SALE .
Furnished cabin. Apply Gateway
office. 11-13—6
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
Noodle Cafe. Phone Main 111.
Tray service receives prompt at*
tention. 10-6—tf.
Rub-Less. The best polish ever
manufactured. Brown & Hawkins
has it. “Quality First.”
. Second hand goods bought arid sold
for cash or on commission. See But
ton's ad. Tuesdays and Fridays. 28-tf
WINSTADT’S REVENGE
OR
A Bloody Time in the
Seward City Council
THRILLING TALK OF VIRTUE
TRIUMPHANT AM) VIL
LI AIN Y EXPOSED. HA!
In Three or l our Chapters.
PROLOGUE
“1 hereby offer my resignation as
a member of the school board.'
Quoth Dagget at the meeting of the
city council last night. “I see it is
impossible to have harmony and ef
ficiency as that committee is at pres
ent constituted.” (Meaning Chamb
erlin).
“I’d advise the gentleman to resign
from every committee he’s on” shot
back Chamberlin, “if he wants it to
have harmony and efficiency.”
“The gentleman is neither witty
nor truthful” burst forth the first
speaker in angry tones and the mayoi
interposed to prevent the spilling ot
any more blood.
CHAPTER 1
For the first time in the history of
the present council Councilman
Chamberlin prevailed last night. He
performed the miraculous task ol
breaking up the combination which
has been the Inner Council of oui
fair city since last April. It all hap
pened thusly:
Councilman Daggett asked that C
W. Winstadt, the architect, be pap.
for work which he had done in draw
ing up plans for the school building
Chamberlin objected strenuously, de
claring that this was no time to bring
in such a bill three months after th(
work had been done and when th(
council had never promised to pay foi
the services. “This is the usual waj
with Daggett,” said the other. “Be
tween meetings all the time he is
taking things on himself without ask
ing me, another member of the
school committee, or anyone else.’
Daggett apparently lost his tempe;
and insinuated that Chamberlin was
not worthy of being taken into ac
count for certain reasons, to whicl
Chamberlin replied that Daggett ha<
broken his word several times. Dag
gett called for the intervention of the
chair and seemed to forget that when |
he insulted Chamberlin the latter took
his medicine without caPing on tin
mayor for help. And then came the
dramatic denoument, or whatever it
was, when Councilman Borgen took
the side of Chamberlin and declared
the bill had been presented too late
He protested against the disgraceful
fighting in the council. Then came
the motion to pay Winstadt fifty
dollars but the motion was lost as the
council voted three to three. Those
voting against were the mayor,
Chamberlin and Borgen. Daggett
Crawford and Chovin voted for it.
Then Daggett moved that Winstadt
be paid thirty-five dollars, which, he
said, Mr. Winstadt had been out of
pocket in doing the city’s work, but
again the voting was three to three.
Winstadt got no money but he looked
on while he saw himself becoming the
rock on which the Big Four had
wrecked itself. Then came the wordy
war after Borgen stated that “it did
n’t look good to present a bill months
after the supposed work had been
done.”
CHAPTER 2
In the manner of some other fam
ous and original novelists Chapter 1
is not the first chapter. The meeting
opened with a proposal by Dr. Romig
which stated that the government
would donate some lots on the south
line of the government tract and that
Ballaine and Whittlesey would sell
for their assessed value some lots ad
joining, all to be a site for a high
school. The council thought it did
not have money to buy anything.
Every member seemed to be opposed
to the idea at present. L. L. James
presented bonds and an affidavit for
C. E. Bade and the bonds having been
accepted Mr. Bade was paid the final
amount coming from contract. The
payment last night was $4,107.
Former City Engineer Whitfield of
fered to make a map of the city and
prepare everything for the future for
$550 but the council could not see. its
way to give the money and the matter
was given to the street committee to
look it over or shelve it.
CHAPTER 3
Then came the matter of the John
Ballaine taxes. The agreement was
read again between the city and Bal
laine and there was no mention of a
certified check. Those who were
present at both meetings are convinc
ed that in the first agreement Ballaine
promised a certified check but the
agreement read last night mentioned
only a personal check, which change
could only have been possible by some
more secret manipulation. *rhis time
he made his check, a personal check, •
payable on December 15. Several
members of the council admitted that
they were under the impression that
Ballaine had offered a certified check.
Indeed, let is be admitted to their,
credit, they seemed to have the idea
that Ballaine had been getting in
some new work since the last meet
ing. The finance committee was in
structed to see Ballaine at a hotel,
not in council, and later the council
resolved itself into a committee of the
whole and the sequel will be given
later.
The proposed telephone franchise
was then taken up and the rates and
jther matters gone into. It tran
spired that the rates in the proposed
franchise are the same as those now
prevailing. Chovin said he had en
quired of Walla Walla, Portland and
Seattle and he found that the Seward
rates are far less than the rates in
any of the cities named. The Seward
rates are about the same as those of
Cordova, he said. There was ob
jection to giving the franchise to Mr.
Graff personally instead of to the Al
aska Electric company but Mr. Graff
said it would be all the same. He
>tated that he owned all the stock of
the Alaska Electric company. The
franchise was referred to a committee
jf the whole and will be taken up in
a few days.
THE SEQUEL
Bailaine Must Pay
After the meeting between John E.
Bailaine and the finance committee
last night it was decided to cut out
agreement by which Bailaine got un
til the first of February* to pay his
taxes. Mr. Bailaine very cleverly of
fered a personal check'* payable on
December 15 but wanted the agree
ment that he could not be compelled
to pay taxes until February 1 go on.
This would have meant that even if
his personal check were dishonored on
December 15 the council could not
force him to pay taxes anyhow until
February the first. But this game
did not work owing to the publicity
given the matter and Ballaine’s taxes
will go delinquent on December 24
just like other taxes if the personal
check is no good. So. the scheme is
knocked on the head as the council did
not ratify the agreement.
FINED FIFTY DOLLARS
George Brown was fined fifty dol
lars this afternoon by Commissioner
Conroy on the charge of violation of
the game laws. Sentence was sus
pended owing to the youth of the
boy.
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Meet me at The Branch
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SERVICE WHICH WILL PLEASE YOU:
The accommodating, personal service which this
bank extends to every person who enters its
banking rooms is just the kind of attention
that will please and satisfy you.
We not only handle carefully and efficiently
all the business you entrust to us, but we do
everything possible to make you feel the in
terest and friendliness which we have in the
people of this community.
We invite your business.
BANK OF SEWARD
Established IdOS
‘•HELP US," SAYS KING
GEORGE TO GREECE,
••AND WE LL GIVE YOU
CYPRUS."
r HUM6 GcOkGEQvprer')
KIMG COtiSTRmtME
| ftliD MAP OF CYPRUS^
[Cyprus, an Important and large Island ly
ing In a strategic position at the extreme
eastern end of the Mediterranean eea,
near the coast of Asia Minor, has been
offered to Greece as the price of her aid
to the allies In the war. The Island has
been virtually British territory since the
Berlin conference of 1ST3 and became ab
solutely British In 11*13. It is very rich
The inhabitants are largely of Greek
origin, but there are many Mohamme
dans. The Island Is famous in history.]
A HAT FOR MANY
OCCASIONS THAT
ALSO HAS STYLE.
[/) wtriGED v/crofsr
[This modish ha£ h^! o narrow tilted brim
from which mount folds of black velvet
intersected with a bird of Iridescent
beads. Drooping gracefully forward is a
black ostrich plume of exceptional
grace.]
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Snow shoes, dog harness and mush
ers’ supplies at Brown & Hawkins,
“Quality First.”
Second-Hand Goods Bought and Sold
If you have anything to sell and we cannot agreeon price, leave
your goods on sale with me, state your pripe.and 1 will charge you
5 PER CENT COMMISSION WHEN SOLD
BUTTON’S SECOND-HAND STORE
New goods of many kinds always on sale. Fourth and Railroad Avk.
“ PALACE JINGLES "
The summer’s slipping away again,
And winter’s almost here;
The boys are coming from the hills
In search of warmth and cheer.
Come; all you lads from Anchorage
When you crave a glass of beer.
You're welcome as the flowers fn May,
And no one is siwashed here.
THE PALAGE BAR
Furnished Rooms for Men
JOE MORRIS | Cafe and Lunch Counter in Connection~| BILL DEVINE j
“ PALACE JINGLES "
They meet down at the Palace
For a glass of Sherwood Rye,
And to tell about the finds they’ve
made,
As the winter passes by.
Bring on that fast Interior bunch,
And from every camp afar,
For we join you in goodfellowohip
At the famous Palace Bar.
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