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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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APOLOGIES ARE ACCEPTED
That it pays occasionally to register a protest at some
of the “cracks” made with reference, to Alaska is realized!
and especially so when even in a jocular way the Territory |
is made the butt of ridicule—and by a Cheechako. We;
heartily resent this; we are immensely proud of Alaska,!
our home.
Some weeks ago the Gateway took occasion to read
the riot act to a salesman who wrote East from Seward
about the terrible Alaska weather and high price of ham
and eggs.
Read what his boss has to say:
Abject Apologies to Our Alaskan Friends
The Frozen North Isn’t Frozen After All
We are beginning to believe that one H. B Lee, Buzza
representative, is the prize kidder of the Great Northwest.
Recently it was his good fortune to take a trip through
the “frozen North” in search of .Greeting Card orders.
Whereupon he got the Editor of Greetings in a peck of
trouble.
Mr. Lee’s familiarity with the Alaskan country being
much greater than those of us who live many thousand
miles away, he capitalized this more or less intimate
knowledge by sending th& folk back at Craftacres some
spectacular photographs showing the “hardships” endur
ed while in search of the elusive order.
It now appears that there isn’t any such thing as a
“hardship” in Alaska and that Mr. Lee was spoofing the
whole crowd, and no one in the bunch was familiar enough
with Alaska to know that Mr. Lee was writing messages
on the cards with his tonguedh his cheek and a grin on his
face.
Now Alaska sounds cold to the person who has never
been within several thousand miles of the place! Eevry
time a manufacturer down in the States who wants a
name for his product that makes the cold shivers run up
and down your spine he names it “Alaska-this” or “Alas
ka-that.” The result is we fell for Mr. Lee’s snow scenes
and made, what we supposed, was a neat little story out
of the cards which he mailed back from time to time.
Lo ’and behold, we had no more than started on the
next issue of Greetings than along came a red hot letter
of protest from Elwyn Swetmann of the Seward Drug
Company in which he took the Editor and Mr. Lee severe
ly to task for maligning Alaska in general and Seward
in particular. In the meantime Mr- Lee had confessed to
the Editor that his pranks had not been intended for pub'
lication, and had been perpetrated for the purpose of
making some of the Craftacre folk shudder at the mere
thought of Alaskan travel.
So we were all wet and didn’t know it! Seward, on
the day Mr. Lee was there, was warmer than Minneapolis
where the furnace fires are still burning merrily in many
a happy home. Struggling with winter as we are in these
parts at the present time, it is only natural that we
thought of Alaska as a bit frigid
We will greatly appreciate it, however, if the Seward
Chamber of Commerce will buy up and burn all those
“Alaskan” postcards which Seward merchants appear to
have on sale and willing to sell. The local newspaper
could do some good work in protesting against the prac
tice of offering misrepresentative post cards in the Sew
ard stored. Otherwise, some one-.else may also regard
them as authentic.
Anyway our apologies to our Alaskan readers!
We present two pictures which show Seward.as is!
It looks good to us,—good enough so that Seward dealers
ought not to be guilty of selling any other kind of picture
cards.
Builders' Supplies
C. M. B.
Thomas Smith of Nenana, who
entered St. Joseph’s hospital two
weeks ago, is feeling better, it is re
ported from the hospital.
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Several forest fires are reported to
be raging at -the head of th Copper
River in the vicinity of Mile 192. So
far as known to date the fires have
not endangered the workings at any
of the mines, nor has the railroad
bed been approached.
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Alaska salmon will be featured in
International News Reel releases in
the near future, if the plan-s of Rich
ard Surratt, photographer for that
concern, are realized. He is arrang
ing with the Bureau of Fisheries to
secure pictures.
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Lieut. F. A. Pettet, formerly dis
bursing officer of the Alaska Road
Commission, and more recently in
charge of some bridge construction
work in the Interior, has been trans
ferred to the Wrangell Narrows pro
ject as assistant to J. C. Truitt, resi
dent engineer, it was announced in
Juneau by Col. James G. Steese. He
bas already gone to Petersburg to
take up his new work.
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Captain Jim Davis, Juneau steam
ship man, has purchased the two
3tern wheelers “W. H. Bancroft” and
‘Ames,” formerly, operated on the
Flats by the Northwest Fisheries J
Company, it wms learned from his j
brother, who is at present engaged i
in fishing in the Sound. Capt. Davis J
bas had the - vessels recalked and j
overhauled and is planning to put j
them into operation as barges out of i
Juneau. ^ .
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John F. Thayer, ^who for the past
three years has been district forest
ranger at Craig, Alaska, on the Ton
yas s' National Forest, has recently
been# appointed junior forestor on
headquarters at Cordova. This ap
pointment fills the vacancy caused
by the resignation of H. J. Lutz who
resigned last fall to take up research
work at Yale University. For the
next few months Thayer will spend
most of his time, engaged in exten
sive timber survey work in the
Prince William Sound and Katalla
districts.
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Fred Olson is at the general hos
pital at Cordova, recovering from an
injury to his skull received at Mile
13, while engaged in unloading ties
there for the railroad company. The
accident occurred when the swivel
fell off frmo the derrick and struck
him on the head. He was brought
by special train to the hospital where
it was necessary to take several stit
ches in his skull. Hospital autho
rities had not yet determined this
afternoon whether or not the injury
was serious.
LEGAL NDTIGt
SERIAL 06696.
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE AT ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.
In the Matter of the application of the
Crescent Herring Company for a
Patent to land embraced in U. S.
Survey No. 1738, situate on the north
shore of Shuyak Strait, Alaska.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
the CRESCENT HERRING COMPA
NY, a Washington Corporation, whose
principal office and Post Office address
is 1911 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle,
Washington, has mgde application in
the United States Land office at An
chorage, Alaska, Serial No. 06696, to
enter the land embraced in United
States Survey No. 1738, as a Trade and
Manufacturing Site under Section 10,
Act of May 14, 1898, said tract of land
being situated on a small bay on the
north shore of Suyak Strait, Territory
of Alaska, more particularly described
as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1 of
said U. S. Survey No. 1738, a me
ander corner on the east shore of
small bay, north shore of Shu
yak Strait, south side of Shu
yak Isiand, irom which United States
Location Monument No. 1696
bears north 80 degrees, 47 min
utes east 39 links distant (varia
tion 25 degrees east), and from
which corner No. 1 of this survey,
corner No. 1 M. C. Of U. S. Survey
No. 1696 bears north 23 deg. 11
min. 21 Sec. west 15.8 chains dis
tant, and Tunning thence from
■ said corner Np. 1 U. S. Survey.No.
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This is one of the old type Comedies that won
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He never did anything better, and that’s all we
need to say.
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HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
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lousa next Wednesday
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KET, BUT USE OUR TRUCK INSTEAD
In the meantime we have fresh arrivals of
fruits and green vegetables twice weekly
Leave your orders to insure getting yours
before it is gone
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AGENT FOR DUPONT POWDER, CAPS AND FUSE
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1738 along the meander of above
described shore line (first course
south 18 deg. 28 min. west 1.20
chains, second course south 16
deg. 2 min. west 3.2 chains, third
course south 44 deg. 21 min. east
2.60 chains, fourth course south
4 deg. 8 min. west 3.91 chains) i
a total of 10.91 chains to corner
No. 2, thence south 71 deg. 5
min. east 9.2 chains to corner No.
3, thence north 3 deg. 8 min. east
9.71 chains to corner No. 4, thence
north 71 deg. 5 min. west 10.04
chains to corner No. 1 M. C., the j
place of beginning, containing an
area of 9.30 acres.
United States Location Monument
No. 1696 is an iron pipe 4 inches di
ameter showing 2 feet above ground,
marked USLM No. 1696, situated on
top of bank about 20 feet high on east
shore small bay north shore Shuyak
Strait in Latitude 58 deg. 29 min. 17
sec. north and Longitude 152 deg. 35
min. 2 sec. west.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely any portion of the above de
scribed tract of land are required to
file with the Register of the United
States Land Office at Anchorage,
Alaska, their adverse claim thereto
under oath, during the period of pub
lication or within thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the Statute.
This Notice is issued at the United
States Land Office at Anchorage,
Alaska, this 16th day of June, A. d!
1927, and ordered published for a pe
riod of sixty days in The Seward Gate
way, a newspaper of established char
acter and general circulation, publish
ed at Seward, Alaska, nearest the land
herein described, and hereby desig
nated for that purpose.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Rpfirisjfpr
E. JEWELL WATKINS,
Agent for Applicant,
315 Railway Exchange Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication June 16, 1927.
Last publication August 25, 1927.