Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
Published Daily except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered in the nost office at Seward, Alaska, as second-class matter
H. V. HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietors
E. F. Jessen Editor and Manager
Otto G. Sandbeck, Associate Editor Bdwln A. Sandbeck, City Editor
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HOW TO OBTAIN A FARM IN ALASKA
Most of the farms in the Territory are acquired in
two ways: by homesteading and by purchase. The
homestead laws require, among other conditions, the
following:
FIRST: That the land desired be agricultural in character.
SECOND: That no person who is not a citizen of the United States
or who has not declared his intention to become a citizen of the
United States, can make entry.
Any person who is qualified to make an ordinary homestead entry
in the United States under Section 2289, United States Revised
Statutes, is qualified to make homestead entry in Alaska, and a
former homestead outside Alaska does not bar the claimant’s
right to make entry in that Territory for not exceeding 160 acres.
THIRp: That the homesteader must establish residence within six
months of taking up the homestead and must continue it for
at least seven months out of each year for three years.
FOURTH: That one-sixteenth (1-16) of the area included within the
homestead must be cultivated within the first two years after
taking the homestead and must be increased to one-eighth (1-8)
before the end of the third year. The Secretary of the Interior
is authorized to reduce the requirement if a satisfactory showing
of the reasons for the homesteader’s failure to comply with the
law is made to him.
FIFTH: That a habitable house must be erected on the land.
SIXTH: That proof must be submitted within five years from the
date of entry. At the end of fourteen months continuous resi
dence and cultivation of one-sixteenth (1-16) of the land, the
homesteader may commute on his entry by paying $1.25 per j
acre for it.
Also that at the time the homesteader makes his entry he is to j
pay:
Entry fee . $10.00
Commission at .0375 per acre .$ 6.00
At the time when he makes final proof he is to pay:
Testimony fee .$ 1.80
Commission at .375 per acre ..$ 6.00
Advertising notice, final proof $12.00 to $15.00
Homesteads upon unsurveyed land may be surveyed at no expense
to the settler, provided he has sufficiently complied with the law
in the matter of residence, cultivation and improvements to sub
mit three-year proof.
There are no taxes in Alaska on land or property outside of in
corporated cities. The only tax a settler is required to pay is a
school tax of $5.00 per annum on all males between the ages of
21 and 50 years. The funds of the Territory are raised by license
on various lines of business such as, fisheries, cold storage fish
plants, mining, etc. There are also certain sums for specified ob
jects appropriated by the Federal government. Should, however,
a settler keep an automobile for pleasure or family use, he is
required to pay the Territorial automobile license of $10.00, but
this does not apply on automobiles with truck bodies for use on
farms.
The foregoing does not exempt any person from the provisions
of the Federal income tax law.
A single issue of a newspaper offers the following
remedies for the depression: Beer, a Federal board,
State boards, a special session of Congress, give wheat
away, destroy some of the cotton, stop war, and cancel
debts. In a multitude of counselors there is wisdom.
Government entomologists find that some persons
are more attractive to mosquitoes than others. That
is a brand of popularity that isn't very eagerly sought,
however. We won't mind if the Anopheles and Culex
never discover that we have “It."
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An Alaskan has a skunk farm containing 400 ani
mals, it is said. Now one begins to appreciate the value
of radio as a means of communication in such cases.
Member 1q31
National Editorial Association
PILOT ON 55 ALASKA
! POSITIVE B PUNE
| Captain H. Hanson, pilot on the
SS Alaska, which arrived here
! last evening, reported that he
heard the hum of a plane flying
overhead of the northbound liner
Alaska, longitude 138.40 west, lat
itude 140 north, approximately at
a point off Lituya Bay on the
Gulf of Alaska at 11 p. m., Sep
tember 8.
| When heard, the plane was ap
jparently flying east about 30 miles
off shore. It is not probable that
a commercial airship would be
travelling in that vicinity at that
time of the day. Weather con
ditions were described as dark and
) misty with a fairly calm sea.
i This report was given by Pilot
! Hanson wiht the view of assist
| ing in the present search for Av
jiators Moyle and Allen, missing
j Tokyo-Seattle fliers, and has been
(forwarded to the Associated Press
land other sources.
Contracts aggregating slightly
less than $20,000 have been award
ed for the construction of the
new government school building at
Hoonah, it was announced in the
Juneau Empire by Architect N.
Lester Troast, Office of Indian
Affairs.
R. J. Sommers Construction Com- •
pany was the successful bidder
for erecting the building and Rice
& Ahlers Company was given the
contract for installing heating
and plumbing equipment.
Mr. Sommers’ bid for the build
ing was $16,018 and that of Rice
& Ahlers Company was $3,685.
Work on the structure will be start
ed as soon as materials can be
landed on the ground. It will
be a two-story frame and stucco
building. Local materials will be
used on construction.
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MAYOR UNHURT IN COLLISION
MACON, France, Sept. 11. {/P)—
The train on which Mayor James
J. Walker of New York was re- :
turning to the Riviera from Paris j
was in a collision here with a
locomotive in the station. Three !
train hands were killed and a
score of passengers injured, but |
the New York mayor is said to i
have been unhurt.
MEN RESCUED
Three men, composing the crew
of the fishing boat Mary C. Fisher,
Capt. Cliff Sumerlin of Cordova,
were reported by the Juneau Em
pire to have been picked up by
the steamer Starr in Shelikof
Straits after having drifted for
seven days in an open boat. They
told Captain Anderson of the SS
Starr that their boat had found
ered in a gale on August 28, four
miles southeast of Cape Cubu
gakli. They were taken to Kan
atak.
Don Moe of Portland, Ore., West
ern amateur golf champion, and
one of the most promising of
young players, was a recent visitor
in Southeast Alaska and played on
some of the courses in that sec
tion, says the Juneau Empire.
United States District Attorney
Warren N. Cuddy arrived on the
SS Alaska from his Valdez head
quarters on business connected
with court matters and the next
term of court which will be held
at Ancnorage within a few weeks.
Diner (to waiter): "What’s the
name of that selection the or
chestra is playing?”
Waiter: “Go Feather Your Nest.”
Diner: “Go jump in the lake.
I asked you a civil question.”
Miller’s Barber Shop
Shower Baths
Seward’s Pioneer
and Expert Barber
Fred C. Miller, Prop.
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All Talking Pictures Theatre
Show tonight—8:00 o’clock
Once Again We Have One of Those Great
ZANE GREY
Outdoor Pictures of the West
This Time in Our Biggest State, Texas, Where There
Is Plenty of Action
IN THIS PICTURE—
‘The Last of the Duanes9
Every Element making an Interesting Picture, With
Plenty of Thrills, is Brought Out With the Well
Known Ability of the Author... To Insure
The Quality
GEORGE O’BRIEN
Was Selected to Head the Cast.
With the Feature We Will Show You a Two-Reel Comedy—
“BULLS AND BEARS"
ALSO A ONE-REEL COMEDY OF RADIO BROADCASTING
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