VOTE FOR
BARTLEY HOWARD
Candidate for Republican
Nomination as Delegate
to Congress
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PRIMARY ELECTION APRIL 24, 1928
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LEAVING FOR IOWA
Alaskan lyrics, by Chas. F. Grieas,
author of The Pioneer, will be pub
lished in The Gateway from time to
time. The first of these excellent
poems will appear next week. Mr.
Griess arrived in Seward this week
from the Kantishna and is enroute
to Edge wood, Iowa, on an extended
visit to relatives and friends. Th«
Gateway had intended to run a story
about this likable chap today but
must apologize owing to so many
dispatches from the States, and other
local news.
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SENATOR J. H. STEWART, AFTER
VISIT, TELLS OF SEWARD’S
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WICHITA, Kas.,— The Wichita1
Eagle, Sunday Magazine, recently pub-j
lished the following splendid article
on Senator J. H. Stewart who will be
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recalled by numerous Alaskans during |
his visit here last summer. The arti
cle follows:
J. H. Stewart recently returned to
his work in the First National bank
after a vacation he and Mrs. Stewart
spent in Alaska. “We went for both
recreation and education,” says Mr. j
Stewart, “an(f our trip was just that.
We enjoyed the recreation of a trip
in the North. The education was
such that I returned from my trip with
a much higher opinion of both Alaska
and Kansas than I have heretofore
had, and Wichita looks better to me
than any other city I saw as a perma. ■
nent place of residence.”
“Before my trip,” says Mr. Stewart,
"I thought of Alaska as a small color
ed place on the map. ' Actually I
found it * be made np of thousands
of beautiful islands, a large slice of
mainlaid seven and a half times the
size of Kansas with a population of
about half that of Sedgwick county,
many Imposing mountains, waterfalls
I and glaciers, many beautiful stretches
i of timber and immense fishing re
sources.”
One of the unusual experiences Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart had was when they
attended church in Seward. “We ar
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H. Y. Hoben. A. F. Davis
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the janitor or the preacher, or in fact
anyone else,” said Mr. Stewart. “The
next arrival was Abraham Epp of
met here in Wichita. Third was Mrs.
Bertha Sumpter of Argonia, Kan., and
fourth a Miss Slavins of Glen Elder.
The congregation, the only one in
Seward with its 800 population, was
17. Of these 17, ten were tourists.
The Methodist church had a member
ship of three, including the minister’s
wife who was a Presbyterian.”
“We found many fine vegetables
grown in Alaska. Their growth is un
believably rapid in that climate. The
climate varies from regions where the
temperature drops as low as 75 de~ ^
grees below zero in winter to other
localities where the Japanese current
keeps the temperature moderated so
it seldom reaches zero.
“ft seems most of the Americans in
Alaska are there temporarily, expect
ing to come back to the states when
their fortunes are made. Many of
them are mineral prospectors.
“The largest town we visited is Ket
chikan, abut 4,000 population. Others
are the Capital, Juneau, about 3,000;
Sitka, the old Russian Capital, 600; J
Wrangell, 800; Skagway, 1,000; Ken
necott, 800; Haynes, including the
army post, 500; Petersburg, 1,200;
Anchorage, 2,000; Seward, the start
ing place of the U. S. Government R.
R., 800; Cordova, the starting point of
the railroad to the Kennecott copper*
mine about 1,000; Valdez, 500* These
towns with Nome, 2,000, and Fair
banks, 2,500, make up the principal
towns. We did not visit Nome or
Fairbanks. The latter is the only
place in Alaska enjoying a boom. It
Is caused by the development of a big
hydraulic placer mining outfit, which
is said to be expending four millon
dollars for work and machinery, ex- ^
pecting to realize fifteen million dol
lars from the enterprise. All the towns
named are on the Coast, save Fair
banks, and nearly all are in location? >
seemingly impossible to build a town.
Usually they are partly on a rock
shelf blasted out of a mountain and
the rest on piling with the ocean un
der them twice a day when the tide
is in. This makes the proposition of
disposing of sewage easy and cheap. ^
(To be continued)