Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD AT, ASK A - Established August 19. 1904
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Entered in the post office at Seward, Alaska, as
second class mail matter
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E F. Jes en. Editor and Manager
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Edwin A: Sandbeck. City Fditoi
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WHY HAVE WE BEEN OV ERLOOKED?
When it conies to loosening our purse strings foi
any good we might do for the Pioneers of Alaska, es
pecially those who have sought haven at the Pioneers
Home at Sitka, we won’t doff the lid to anyone.
Our attention has been jogged however, when wc
noted an article in the Juneau Empire that Cordova;
Valdez, Seward, Anchorage, Fairbanks and other towns
have not been included in the call for the Christmas
fund for the Home this year, as they have not been in
the past. W. D. Gross, proprietor of a chain of moving
picture theaters in Southeastern Alaska has been rais
ing this fund for five years. Down in Seattle the Alas
ka Weekly has been handling the States, to a great ex
tent.
We should have remembered and started some
thing before this.
However, it is not too late. Bring or send your do
nations to The Gateway; we will ware the total tc
Gross. Its welcome all the year round, and its a real
privilege that we may respond.
MAKilNljr t KiMIA ALS
Although practically every move he has made in
the past ten years towards the enforcement of prohibi
tion has been, repudiated and resented by the people
ad finally turned down emphatically at the polls, Uncle
Sam still persists in making criminals out of otherwise
honest people. Ever since the chalice passed at the
Lord’s Supper, the cheerng, mellowing spirit of the
vine has been man’s privilege; the soothing influence
of wine has been man’s surcease from the cares and
tribulations of the world.
But no, those holier than thou fanatics would
mould us all in the fashion of their narrow form and
would deny us our inalienable freedom of thought and
action. They wTould take the cup from us, even though
it had been a source of great comfort and cheer and
free from harm. They would throw us into rotten jails,
policed by bribed officers. In seeking our conviction
vile truths are exposed of corruption reaching to our
highest, most sacred courts,—and all in the name of
prohibition.
In a grand roundup, during which government
agents, stool pigeons and “under-cover” skunks worked
like rats in a teeming granary, they have just “pinch
ed” 73 victims of Uncle Sam’s snoopings and sneakings
at Gra’ys Harbor, down in Washington. Look’s like
they are afraid their powers wall soon be stripped from
them and they must get in as much of their dirty work
as possible before the big blowoff comes.
But the handwriting is on the wall. It will not be
long now before America will have shaken off this mias
mic threat of misguided misanthropy and returned to
a sane conception of what liberty realy means.
A farmer near Matanuska, who had been interest
ed in reports of meteors, thought one had nearly struck
him when he heard a roar overhead and the impact of
something striking the ground. Investigation disclosed
a monkey wrench dropped from a passing airplane.
The expression “scared stiff” applies with par
ticular aptness to a certain flock of goats owned by an
Alaskan along the railroad belt. A report states that
these animals when frightened become perfectly rigid
for about 20 seconds, during which time “they can be
pushed or turned over as if they were carved out of
wood.”
Another odd story of animal fright comes from
another point where owners of a silver fox farm have
sued an air transport company. The claim is made that
low-flying planes of the company scared the plaintiff's
foxes to death.
Frfends of Captain Charles Ems
iweiler have trot given up beer t hat
the old-time mariner of Westward
Alaska waters is still alive- He dir
appeared September 17th when he
;left Kodiak on his gas boat to come
to Seward and no word has been
heard since. Although search had
been instituted and no twice found
of him or his bo° t. those who
knew him are somewhat cheered
by the latest news from Kodiak.
1 I According to a wire from U, 8
> Commissioner Stowe at Kodiak to
1 IJ. S Commissioner Morfxwd in So
ward, EmsweUer told Agent Thomas
! Dver of the Standard Oil Company
1 just before he departed that he
1 was going into Nuka Bay and ex
pected to be there for a month or
so. However, that is over three
months ago, so it seems that the
chances that the Captain is still
1 alive are very slim.
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U. S. POPULATION
| WASHINGTON. Dec-, 22, (/P)—
The census bureau announced
that the urban population of
the United States is 68,955,521;
1 the rural population 53,819,525.
j ON OLD STAMPING GROUNDS
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j Tony Parrish, old time resident of
Seward and well-known along the
railroad belt is back in Seward af>
ter a sojourn in Latouche where he
has been mining. He intends to
make this town his headquarters.
I following the cessation of mining
{activities at Latouche and is op
timistic regarding the business out
look for this section next year. He
has been busy greeting old friends
, since his arrival here.
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WESTWARD RADIO
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| Two new men in Westward ra
dio circles are on the MS Pen
guin which left the Port of Sew
ard today. They came up from
the States and will be stationed
at Unalaska, relieving two men
who are being transferred else
ward. They are Charles Havnes
and August Hast, and while in
town were busy fraternizing with
the men of the local Signal
Corps. They declared their in
j tention to keep a close tab on (
Westward shipping and promis- j
ed to keep the Seward office ful
ly informed.
SNOW SHOES AT J. L. Graef
ALASKA VfKWS, at Schallerer’?
\laska Shop.
FOR RENT
Furnished house close in $35
per month. Urbach & Valade.
CHOP SUEY AND NOODLES;
j There’ better than good. Phone
{Madison 107 or call at 2nd and
Railroad Ave., Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
E, Fraser. Now open for business.
THREE LITTLE WORDS
Danish Ice Cream!
Sold only at the Candy Cottage.
List your labor wants with us;
we will endeavor to secure* for
you the help desired. Phone
Adams 126 or call at the M & W
Club, Seward, Alaska.
The
PANHANDLE
Tobaccos
Candies
Cards
Soft Drinks
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Opposite Seward Grill
AMANDA’S HAND
LAUNDRY
We give service, Reasonably
Cali for and Deliver
Phone Madison 126
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LIBERtY THEATER
8 O'CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
SHOWING TONIGHT
We have again that intriguing character
The man with the peculiar smile who has never made
a failure in the comedy drama.
“MiBO0IS PREFERBEO”
A very interesting and absorbing drama of a poor noble
man being coerced into a rich marriage by his creditors
Its full of laughter.
And to give you some more laughs we will show you
that great team of funsters
Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel
“HABEAS CORPUS”
There will also be a good EDUCATIONAL and the usual
PARAMOUNT NEWS.
IF YOUR MEAL IS BUILT
around a FRYE-BRUHN product—it’s the
best MEAL IN TOWN
Try our FRYE’S DELICIOUS Brand Hams, Bacon and
Lard. Fresh Meat, Eggs, Butter and Poultry received on
every boat.
Place your order now for Xmas
and New Year’s Turkey, Duck,
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Goose or Chicken.
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Frye-Brut n Company I
Phone Main 94
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WHITE and CO.
High Grade Line of
CIGARS
TOBACCOS
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
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TAXI IN CONNECTION
COMFORTABLE LODGING AT
MODERATE RATES
Day or Night Madison 128
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Latest Styles in Evening Dresses
$1450
THE BLUE SHOP
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Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
Steam Heat
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