The Peggy O’Neil spring styles
have arrived.
You read it in The Gateway first.
ARON ERICSON
Signs Wall Paper
PAINTER & DECORATOR
Again in 1926,
more Buicks
toured through
YellowstonePark
than any other
car except the one
of lowest price.
Buickhas held this
same honor every
year sincethePark
was opened to
automobile travel.
Hereis convincing
evidence of Buick
reliability—strik
ing proof of the
faith which Buick
owners repose in
their car.
THE GREATEST BUICK
EVER BUILT
Twenty-four . tie contractors are
cutting ties along the Alaska Rail
road areas located 'between one and
three miles from the roadbed.
Between 50,000 and 75,000 hewed
ties will have been cut by spring be
tween Seward and Anchorage.
Highest Market
Prices
Paid for
FURS
Wire, Write or See
Leo Koslosky
Fur Buyer
K. & M. Store
Seward, Alaska
OUR MILK
| IS RICH, FRESH i
and CLEAN
We Specialize in
QUALITY MILK
SEWARD DAIRY
Seward Trading Co.
Inc.
COURTEOUS SERVICE
Telephone Main 135 for Quality Goods
We Feature
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S. and W. Canned Goods Gold Nugget Butter
Carnation Milk White Nugget Eggs
Hills’ Coffee * Fresh Fruits
Swift’s Premium Ham Fresh Green Goods on
arid Bacon Every boat
A COMPLETE line of Men’s Work Clothes,
“^■Underwear, Boots, Gloves, Blankets, etc.,
Fishermen’s Supplies, Gear and Hardware.
HAY GRAIN FEED
Salt Salmon Bellies—Salt Herring
MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY
Agents for Dupont Powder, Caps and Fuse
NORTHERN NOTES
Thomas Scott, preslderit of the Cor
dova Packing company, announces
that his company Intends to suspend
packing clams this season because
of the poor pack last year.
O—O—0
J. J. Price of Dan creek fame was
in McCarthy early in the week com
pleting arrangements for cutting and
dauling lumber for his next season’s
operations. Mr. Price is also attend
ing to getting out 20,000 feet for
Charles Kraemer of Chititu creek.
The body of John' Hanson, found
early last week in the water near
Checats cove, by two natives, was
brought to Ketchikan by Captain
Clarence D. Payne aboard the Confi
dence. Hanson had been missing for
the past three months.
Wayne Murphy, for several months
on the reportorial staff of the Daily
Alaska Empire, violinist at the Pal
ace theatre and with The Alaskans,
was married in Spokane, Wn., on Jan
uary 7 to Adele Cullen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hope Cullen, ac
cording to wedding announcements
received in Juneau.
G. A. Carlson, w’ho supervised the
construction of the Saxman road in
Southeastern Alaska for Seims and
Carlson, and who is w'ell known
throughout the Territory, is reported
on the road to recovery following a
recent automobile accident in Spo
kane, Wn., in which he was seriously
injured and a companion killed,
o—o—o
The condition of the natives at
Copper Center, where the Tazlina
river flood washed away a S25.000
bridge and swept over the native set
tlement with disastrous results, has
become so critical that Dr. W. H.
Chase, in answer to an emergency
call from O. A. Nelson, Chitina drug
store proprietor, broadcasted an ap
peal for clothing, bedding and sup
plies to relieve the destitution of the
natives.
Indications that a bigger production
is expected this coming season are
seen today in the announcement that
the Warrenton Clam company, which
operated last year in consolidation
with the Pioneer Packing company
under the name Alaska Packers, Inc.,
and the year previous from the Car
lisle Packing company, is going to
operate independently this season at
Cordova. Operations are expected to
begin either the latter part of March
or the first part of April, it is under
stood.
L. M. Hofstad, who brought a ship
load of ore from his Cornation Island
mine to Anyox this month for chemi
cal test, is en route home again, ar
riving at Ketchikan from the British
Columbia port last week. The trip
south was to determine the feasibility
of transporting his ore to the Anyox
smelter for disposition. Tests showed,
however, that this would be imprac
ticable inasmuch as the ore contains
mostly zinc and' lead. The Ankox
plant handles copper almost exclusive
y. Recent tests revealed the ore
jontains 36 per cent zinc, 12 per cent
ead, and runs approximately $6.00 in
jold, according to Hofstad. The miner
said that plans are now being made
;o organize a company and ship the
product to San Francisco.
W. A. C. MEET TONIGHT
The Woman’s Athletic Club meet
this evening at the S. A. C. gym
nasium at 7.30. A good attendance is
asked for a beseball game is sched
lled.
The Peiggy O’Neiil spring styles
have arrived.
KANSAS OWNS CHOICE
INDIAN COLLECTION
ARKANSAS CITY, Kas., Feb. 8. (JP)
—One of the largest private collec
tions of Indian relics in the United
States Is owned by B. F. Lloyd, a
printer, of Arkansas City.
More than 13,000 specimens, repre
senting 16 tribes have been gathered
along rivers in eight mid-western
states by Lloyd, who spends most of
his time stalking river beds and
mounting and studying specimens.
Axes of black, yellow, blue and
white flint; scrapers used for prepar
ing blankets out of hides; pestles such
as medicine men carried; bowls and
grinders for preparing corn; bone
white flint are among* the objects in
beads, and a Souix War club made of
the collection.
J. C. Main, well known calendar
man arrived in Seward on the steam
er Alaska, and has been busy dispos
ing of his stock to local customers.
He left for Anchorage today.
Read the ads every day.
Brunswick Phonographs and Re
cords. Schallerer’s Alaska Shop.
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Ice Cream Made Daily
High Grade Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA’S
Phone Adams 128
TWO OTHER ATTACKS BEATEN
SAN JUAN, Nicaragua, Feb. 7. (JP)
—Two attacks made by the Liberal
forces on the town of Rivas ,on the
Pacific coast side of Nicaragua, have
been beaten off by the Conservative
troops that were occupying that town, *
it is reported.
Raw furs bought at Brown
& Hawkins
By the Sack or Carload
PREMIER LUMP
AND MINE RUN COAL
The New Howard-Jesson
Coal—Try It.
Healy Lump, Nut or Mine
Run
Evan Jones Lump or Mine
Run
Nanimo Range Coal
In Sack or Bulk
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND
GRAIN
Transferring — Teaming
ALASKA
TRANSFER
Telephone—Main 81
ARCADE BUILDING
H. V. Hoben. A. F. Davis
m
;ESPfc®
60m
Veil Fed
Stock,
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QUALITY meats from well fed stock,
carefully inspected and tested. Yet
our prices are not high, considering such
high quality. Quantity buying and sell
ing means savings.
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FRYE-BRUHN & CO.
C. D. BLAKE, Mgr.
PHONE MAIN 94 “WE DELIVER”