Navigation Into
Ships Fnable to In load Because of
Ice Forced to Come
Out.
The Northwestern returned to Sew
ard hist evening after having failed
to unload rails and other portions of
her cargo intended for Anchorage. It
was found impossible to unload ot!
that town because of the heavy run of
slush ice which, carried by the tide,
threatened to cover the scows anti
swamp them. The steamship Alliance
also was forced to return.
The other boats now on the way
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to Anchorage, it is feared, will find it
altogether impossible to unload there
and some hardship may be inflicted
on our neighbors because of miscal
culations due to the unusually mild
winter hist year when the Inlet had
phenomenally oi>en water. Oldtimers
believe that navigation to Anchorage
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EMPRESS THEATRE
NEW HALL
Tuesday, Nov. 23 rd
8:15 P. M.
THE EMPRESS CIRCUIT
Will Show the Following Program:
Pat he W eekly News
Sl ES UJL SIloWS Al l.
SPKCIVL FEATl RE
“THE ONLY SON”
\\ incbell Smith's
Great Heart Story in Modern Pictures j
5 PARTS—200 SCENES
A Masterpiece No Advance in Price
Seward Pictorial Review
Select Music
Admission 25 cents Children 10 cents
A Good, Big, Glean, Interesting Program
SL_—-—«
Special prices
on WATCHES
All Makes Until Nov. 15th, 1915
GEORGE The Jeweler
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“ PALACE_JINGLES "
The summer’s slipping away again, Come; all you lads from Anchorage
And winter’s almost here; When you crave a glass of beer.
The boys are coming from the hills You’re welcome as the flow’ers In May,
In search of warmth and cheer. And no one is siwashed here.
is now hopelessly ended for this year
but it is hoped that our friends up
there will find some way to get in
their supplies.
RELOCATION PARTY MOVES
OUT TO KEN AI LAKE
The relocation party, which has
been at work between miles Seven
ami Twelve, moved out to the new
field of operation near Kenai Lake
this morning.
TO PROBE NAVY LEACil K
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Congress
man Tavenner intends to introduce a
resolution in congress to investigate
the Navy League. Morgan and other
directors will be required to testify.
His purpose is to find out if it is not
a fact that some of the directors of
the League are not stockholders in
war trafficking firms that are drawing
| fat contracts form the navy depart
j ment and other government depart
ments.
NEWS NOTES
| ~*Col. Revell, Frank Cotter and Tom
I Finnegan left Anchorage last Satur
j day noon on their way to Seward via
! dog team.
Jim McLaughlin left Mile 34 this
morning by dog team and is on his
| way to Seward from Anchorage.
Martin Panning left this morning
! with the Iditarod mail, going right
through “overland”, for the first time
this winter, to Knik.
D. U. Grant and John Leo left this
morning for the Moose Pass country,
a few miles out the Mile 34 and Sun
rise trail, to spend most of the winter
; trapping and hunting.
Jim McCarron left this morning
for his mining claims on Bertha
creek after a stay of several weeks
in the town. He will spend the rest
of the winter out there doing pros
pecting and development work.
George Laughlin and William
Nichols returned to Mile Seven yes
terday from a moose hunt down
Kenai Lake. Mr. Laughlin killed two
of the big animals.
Miss Byles and Miss White went
out to Mile 12 on the train last Sat
urday evening to spend the week end,
returning last night on a ham! car.
Tom Tesse, D. 0. Carter and
“Missouri” Sturteyvant pumped in on
the hand car last night for supplies
from Mile 12, returning again yest
terday evening.
J. H. Roper, who has been with B.
Campbell around Mile 71 and Kern
creek, came in yesterday morning and
joined the relocation party at Mile 23
this morning.
Rudolph Petersen and Arthur Tutt
left this morning for the Mile 21
property where they will spend three
| or four weeks doing assessment work
} on some claims.
The party consisting of the Misses
Turnbull, Sexton and Margaret
i Romig. Mr. Sexton and Mr. Farmer,
who spent the week end at the Bunga
; low, walked in yesterday evening.
They report poor hunting and little
snow. Bear Lake is frozen pretty
solid near the shore line.
Mrs. James McConnell and daught
er came in yesterday morning on the
train from their home near Mile Six
to spend the day in town, returning
on the train this morning.
Vergil Rich has accepted a position
with the Alaska Pharmacy.
Seward Commercial Co.
AGENTS
Ohio m Si. Cum
RANGES
SEWARD. ALASKA
W. Todd, of the Engineering Com
mission, left on the train this morn
ing to join Engineer Campbell at
Mile 71.
Mrs. liona Morrow Lewis, who ar
rived on the Northwestern yesterday
from Anchorage, will give lectures in
the Pioneer Hall tonight and to
morrow evening. The theme for this
evening will be “Socialism, the
Coming Issue.” Tomorrow night’s
theme will be “The Industrial Com
mission.
The Kansas City went into Port
Graham the other day to clean out
her circulating pumps, before com
mencing to unload freight at Anchor
age.
P. J. Hickey received word from
his wife on the Admiral Farragut
that she had arrived in Seattle safely
and would spend a few days there.
She left for California on the twelfth
and will enter the hospital for opera
tion on or about the first of Decern
her. On her way down the Admiral
Farragut struck a rock in Seymour
Narrows, which, however, did very
little damage.
C. D. Moyer and linemen left Sat
urday morning for out the line to re
pair the telegraph service to Anchor
age. It is thought communications to
that city will be resumed some time
this afternoon.
Alex Bolam and Charles Lean
walked in yesterday from Mile 20.
They had been down Kenai Lake
hunting moose, having killed two of
them. They will mush out again to
morrow.
Andy Simon came in on the train
yesterday morning from out the line
and left this morning with the Sun
' rise and Hope mail, this being his
second trip on the route.
Altamon Knight left for his home
in Sunrise this morning on the train
via the Mile 34 trail. He has been
here for a couple of weeks having
some dental work to attended to.
John Rice left this morning for a
moose hunt down Kenai Lake. He
will be joined by Wayne Robinson at
Mile 20.
Charles Wold, of the bridge re
pair crew, walked in last Saturday
from the Mile 12 station, returning
again this morning.
Mrs. H. D. Vaughn went out to
Mile 20 this morning to pay “Mother
White a visit.
The train took out a big load of
hay, lumber and provisions this morn
! ing to the prospectors and miners
along the line.
A. C. Yeomans is now in the city
again after quite an absence. Mrs.
Yoemans is in California.
W. N. Reed, of Roosevelt, and H.
C. Emery, of Knik, are visitors to the
city.
Martin Lanning says Turnagain1
Arm is just joked full of ice.
The train left for the front last
Saturday evening about 8 o’clock, re
turning yesterday morning about 7
o’clock. i
Joe Meherin, one of the best known
traveling men, arrived on the Far
ragut and went out on the North-j
western.
Mrs. Guy Whitehead has been laid
up for a couple of days and has been
unable to leave her apartments .
Grover Craig left Mile 2fi this
morning with two horses from the
K. A. G. mine.
The body of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Miller’s baby was shipped out on the
Northwestern yesterday for burial.
John 0. Parker will leave on the
Alliance to spend the winter of re
creation at the Tenakee Hot Sprnigs,
near Sitka.
DORA SAILS
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The Dora sailed Sunday morning
at 12:20 after making connections
with the Admiral Farragut. Those,
leaving on her from Seward were:
John Erickson, Chignik; Mrs. H. D. j
Higland, F. E. Whelpley, and Chester
Collins for Unga.
Waterfill & Frazier whwkey at
“The Branch.”
Good size sailing boat for 6ale
cheap. Inquire Gateway. ll-18-6t
Meet me at The Branch
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
Dry goods at Butts.
THE PALACE BAR
Furnished Rooms for Men
JOE MORRIS Cafe and Lunch Counter in Connection | BILL DEVINE
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❖ PRESIDENT TAKEN *
❖ UP WITH MESSAGE ❖
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—'The
president has laid aside everything
now but his forthcoming message to
congress and he is deeply engaged in
having it ready for the opening of
the session on December 7. He has
fully decided to read the message in
person.
BODY OF MAN IN THE
TRUNK IS IDENTIFIED
Room Mate of John Linn, the Mur
dered Man, is Now Being
Sought by Police.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 22.—*The
body found in the trunk in the Wil
lamette river has been identified as
that of John Linn, of Boston, who
recently came from the cast to this
city. It is known that he had a room
mate named George Bartholemew
and the latter is now being searched
for by the police but has apparently
left the city without leaviug any
trace.
ENGLISH TO REVOLT
AGAINST LIQUOR LAW
Big Struggle Next Week When Gov
ernment Will Try to Shorten
Hours for Liquor Sales.
LONDON, Nov. 22.—The Delegates
to the Trades Congress which is now
in session here passed resolutions
Saturday night pledging themselves
to ofFer the utmost resistance and to
revolt if necessary if the regulations
shortening the hours for the sale of
liquor are enforced next week when
the government says they will he.
M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL
TO GIVE XMAS PLAY
The M. E. Sunday school will give
a Christmas play, entitled “Christmas
In Finnegan’s Flat,” the evening of
Dec. 24th. The A. B. Hall has been
arranged for that evening and plans
for a large Christmas tree are being
discussed.
Four good dogs and complete out
fit for sale. Inquire Gateway.ll-18-6t
Fox’s Oyster Cocktails at the
Branch.
WANTED—A pair of high resist
ance phones for wireless receiving
set. Inquire Gateway office. 11-20-tf
TOM BARTO SHOOTS
HIMSELF THROUGH HAND
While hunting in the woods yester
day about noon a 38 revolver held by
Tom Barto went ofT unexpectedly and
the bullet went clean through his
hand. The revolver had failed to go
off when he tried to fire and he was
engaged in examining it when it ex
ploded. Dr. J. M. Sloan, who is in
attendance on Mr. Barto, says he will
get over the injury all right.
ALLIANCE HAS BIG LOAD
The steamship Alliance had eight
thousand feet of lumber and one hun
dred and fifty tons of coal which she
was unable to unload at Anchorage
and which she brought back here to
unload. She discharged a cargo of
sixty tons of hay at Fort Graham.
The Kansas City has also gone to
Fort Graham to unload.
NORTHWESTERN LEAVES
The Northwestern arrived from the
westward 3:30 vesterday afternoon
I bringing the folio .ng passengers: C.
Edwards, C. A. Jones, Lena M. Lewis,
A. C. Youmans, Oscar Warren and
four steerage. She left about 200
tons of freight here for the Commis
sion, consisting of about 400 rails, 100
tons of coal and other stuff. The
Nortwestern sailed for the south at
3:20 this morning with the following
passengers: E. J. McFarland, L. V.
Ray, and Joe Meherin for Valdez.
Pete Jensen for Cordova. H. M.
Muscott for Juneau. Otto Poehl
mann, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Patten, J.
T. Bradley, N. J. Koontz, Arthur Jett,
J. R. McDonald, Mr. Anderson and
one steerage for Seattle.
SISTERS ARRIVE
Sister Germaine and Sister
Aloysius, who will take charge of the
' new hospital, arrived on the Farragut.
I*. (). MAY STAY
There is reason to believe that the
post office will not move from its
present location, at least for a long
time.
HANOVER, N. H., Nov. 22.—
President Nicholls of Darmouth has
resigned to become professor of
physics at Yale.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. The
government has announced that it has
succeeded in supplying two hospitals
with radium for the treatment ol
cancer.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.- Presi
dent Wilson denied today that Mrs.
Galt is buying her gowns abroad.
ROME, Nov. 21— Pope Henrdirtu.
is sixty-one years of age today
The Alameda sailed out of Juneau
this morning and is expected to arrive
here late Wednesday evening or early
Thursday morning.
Dr. H. O. Schalehen, superintendent
of schools for this district, return*
Saturday night from a tour of in
spection to the government schools
at Tatotloek. He reports con id. r:,b *•
impiwement in the appearance o'
| the town over that of a year a, -*
Six natives, one white and one Jap
were convicted recently of boot'eg
ging at that town and are now erv
ing sentences.
Furnished Houses for rent.
Dougherty & Stewart.
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I See Button’s ad. Tuesdays and 1
days. Second hand goods, cash o>
commission. 9 JS tf
i Best cigars and refreshment
i Terminal Bar. See ad.
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The Key, sole agent for Lloyd's
“Specialty' Candy.” Absolutely Pure,
made in Seward, Alaska.
Second hand goods bought and sold
for cash or on commission. See But
ton’s ad. Tuesdays and Fridays. 28-tf
Ladies’ and childrens’ furnishing*
' at Butt’s.
Sourdoughs and Chechacos. '
ready for mushing to Matanu. ka by
• boarding at Commerce Cafe.
j Fresh Bulk Oysters at CarCen*.
THE ALASKA SHOE & HARNESS SHOP
JACOB PHILE, Prop.
Shoes, Boots and Harness Repairing
WASHINGTON ST. SEWARD, ALASKA
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“ PALACE JINGLES "
They meet down at the Palace g ^ ^ ^ Interior bunch|
For a glass of Sherwood Rye, And from camp afar>
And to tell about the find, theyve ^ we Join yQu fa goodfellowihip
ma<^*’ At the famous Palace Bar.
Aa the winter paaaea by.
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