OVERLAID
HOTEL
On the Main Street
MEL A. HORNER
Manager
SEWARD ALASKA
AL SERV
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ed by any enterprise that is genuinely in
terested in the growth and development of a
community; and it is the constant aim of
The Alaska Railroad to at all times render
such service as will aid most materially in
the healthy growth and consistent develop
ment of the Territory.
The Alaska Railroad operates year
‘round freight and passenger service be
tween Seward, Anchorage and Fairbanks
and over the Chickaloon and Chatanika
Branches. For time tables, descriptive liter
ature, etc., write
DEPARTMENT OF THE fNTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(ML McKinley Park Route)
Anchorage
Alaska
Capt. 0. A. Johansen.
NEXT SAILING STR. STARR OUT OF SEWARD
The latter part of November
Chas. H. Jansen, Agent
PHONE MADISON 139
.SEWARD, ALASKA
WHEN YOU THINK ALASKA THINK
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO
Sails From Seattle Every Saturday at 9 o’clock
VESSEL
YUKON
ALASKA
NORTHWESTERN
ALAMEDA
ALASKA
NORTHWESTERN
ALAMEDA
ALASKA
Lv Seattle
Northbound
NOV. 5
NOV. 12
NOV. 19
NOV. 26
DEC. 3
DEC. 10
DEC. 17
DEC. 24
Lv. Seward
•Southbound
NOV. 12
NOV. 19
NOV. 26
DEC. 3
DEC. 10
DEC. 17
DEC. 24
DEC. 3t
midnight
Making all ports of call as business warrants.
FOR RATES AND INFORMATION APPLY
Tel. Main 125 J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent. Res. Madison 149
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sajis from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
Oct. 26tb Nor. 2nd Nov. Stii
Nov. 23rd Nov. 30th Dec. 7th
Dec. 21st Dec. 28th Jan. 4th
Calls at all Southeastern and Southwestern Ports.
*The Admiral Watson will connect with Wednes
day's train on dates shown above, Southbound,
sailing at 9 p. m.
Wayne Blue, Agent Seward.
Pacific Coastwise Jervice
^ADMIRAL LINE
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ETHNOLOGIST OF SMITHSONIAN,
JUST BACK FROM YUKON,
MAKES DISCOVERY
The folklore of Alaska is in danger
of complete extinction, says Herbert
W. Krieger, who has just returned
from the Yukon, where he conducted
investigations for the Smithsonian In
stitution at Washington. A statement
recently issued conveys the news -that
the language, beliefs, traditions and
primitive customs of the Alaskan In
dians are rapidly fading out of exis
tence—forget ten by younger genera- j
tions that have come in contact with
the current of modern life and are
adopting modern ways.
“Mr. Krieger,” says the Smithso
nian Institution’s report, “found that
the younger Indians have become thor
oughly Americanized.”
Not many years ago as time is reck
oned historically the tribes of Alas
ka lived a life effectively cut off from
the rest of the world. The natives of
the icebound land knew nothing about
the world except to the extent that
ancient tales perhaps revealed it—in
the usual fantastic form of race leg
ends. They had a culture of their
own, such as it was, and the typical
Indian religion in which multiple spir
its were seen ruling the universe.
There were elaborate ceremonials de
signed to propitiate these spirits, so
that members of the tribe might en
joy successful hunting and fishing
and might be protected against all
evil. They dealt in magic, after their
fashion.
But at length, we are told, “they
have forgotten their own magic and
their tribal folklore. Only the old
people remember these things, and if
they are to be preserved these old
people -must be interviewed before
they die.” Radio and moving pictures
and the accounts that come to them
of exploits in aviation are proving,
|for the present citizens of the snow
lands, more engrossing than the mira
cles of old
Mr. Krieger believes that any ar
chaeological evidences of ancient man
that may exist in the interior of Alas- •
ka are going to be hard to unearth.
This National Museum ethnologist,
while in Alaska on the trip just fin
ished explored some of .the ground ,
covered last year by Dr. Hrdlicka and
the Canadian archaeologist, Dr. Jen
ness. Mr. Krieger found places in
the lower Yukon district where Indian
and Eskimo cultures fuse. In what is
now entirely Indian territory, for ex
ample, he picked up pottery, masks
and other objects belonging to Eski
mo tribes that occupied those parts at
an earlier date.
School supplies. Schaller
er’s Alaska Shop.
NOTICE OF SUBMITTING FINAL
PROOF
U. S. Land Office, Anchorage, -Alas
ka, September 26, 1927.
Notice is hereby given that Frank
D. Burke, entryman, together with
his witnesses, Thomas William Haw
kins, and Thomas Babcock, all of
Seward, Alaska, has submitted final
proof on his homestead entry, serial
06181, for the northeast quarter,
section 35, Township 1 North, Range
1 West, Seward Meridian, and it is
now in the files of the U. S. Land
Office, at Anchorage, Alaska, and if
no protest is filed in the local land
office, at Anchorage, within the peri
od of publication, or thirty days
thereafter, said final proof will be
accepted and final certificate issued
J. LINDLEY G™™
Register.
Date of first publication Oct. no, 1927.
Date of laat publication Not. 22, 1927.
JOHN C. WHITE
& CO.
High Grade Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos &
Candies
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
i SEWARD WATER
i SUPPLY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
John Nelson, Mgr. Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Building. Phone Main 17
Seward Machine Shop
Electric and Acetylene Welding, Plumbing,
Heating, Sheet Metal Work
Ford Sales and Service
Agents for Fairbanks Morse Station
ary and Marine Engines
FIRESTONE TIRES AND TUBES
CHAS. LECHNER, Proprietor
ECONOMY VALUE IN
RELIANCE CANNED’FRUITS
It Will Pay You to Investigate
P.C.McMullen
Telephone Main 34
THE PlIIHE
Soft Drinks and Candies
Cigars and Tobaccos
CARD TABLES
J. A. Eamon
Proprietor
Phone -*• Madison 54
Next Door to Liberty Theater
FRESH KILLED CHICKENS FROM
LONGS RANCH, AT FRYE BRUHN.
Ton read it in The Gateway first.
THE BEST PLACE FOR
CLEANING—PRESSING
AND ALTERATIONS
At
C. Henning’s
TAILOR SHOP
Chocolate and vanilla ice
cream. Schallerer’s Alaska
Shop.