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mas Toilet Goods. Our line is
complete, fresh and attractive.
Prices to fit your pocketbook.
SEWARD ALASKA
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash* prapr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS A?® FRUITS
THE NUDE
Soft Drinks and Candies
Cigars and Tobaccos
CARD TABLES
James Stewart — John Lofgren
Proprietors
Phone Madison 54
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
For any kind of
GENERAL REPAIRING
G. THORKELSON
Leave Oall at The NORTHERN
Typewriters and sewing machines
made as good as new
THE BEST PLACE FOR
CLEANING—PRESSING
AND ALTERATIONS
At
C. Henning’s
TAILOR SHOP
‘HOTEL SEWARD’
HOMELIKE
WARM
MODERN
CONVENIENT
OSCAR DAHL, Prop.
BELIEVED SUBPOENAS HAVE TO
DO WITH KUSKOKWIM MAIL
ROBBERY
Word is received from Fairbanks
that a great number of subpoenas
have been issued for witnesses to
appear before the grand jury to be
called there January 10, 1927.
Deputy marshals with hands full
and pockets full of subpoenas are
rushing hither and yon, serving such
witnesses as can be found. It is be
lieved the greater portion are to be
questioned in reference to the Kus
kokwim mail robbery, alleged to have
been committed on the winter trail
December 30, 1922.
William C. Schirmeyer, owner of
a roadhouse 16 miles from Iditarod,
and Nellie Beattie, were placed un
der arrest at Flaton June 11, 1925,
after an alleged confession made by
Schirmeyer implicating himself and
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Nellie Beattie as principals in the
theft of a $3,000 currency package.
Schirmeyer is alleged to have said
that Nellie Beattie planned the rob
bery, cut open the pounch, gave him
the money to hide, and instructed
him to get rid of the pouch and bal
ance of the registered contents, which
he did by burning in his stove at the
roadhouse.
Four years have passed, important
witnesses for the prosecution are
scattered to the four corners of the
earth. Many of the witnesses are
for the purpose of showing thru
whose hands the pouch traveled,
keeping it identified as the pouch
supposed to have been stolen from
the mail carrier and destroyed.
The missing sack is thought to
have been among the first consign
ment of mail routed over the new
trail from Kobe instead of the old
established route from Nancy to Mc
Grath via Reiny pass. It is alleged
that a blunder was made at the
Nenana postoffice by sending out the
pouch with a rotary lock, McGrath
not being a rotary lock station and
having no key.
The contract on this route was for
800 pounds of mail, and when the
carrier came to load his two sleds,
he claims to have discovered that
Nenana had sent him over his limit
in weight. E. Coke Hill was the
mail contractor, ^who says he then
phoned the inspector, who authorized
him to take off enough sacks to make
the "weight 800 pounds.
The trail was a new one and had
Local potatoes, $3.50 a
hundred; canned milk, $5.00
per case. Brown & Hawkins
Corporation.
not been traveled by any of the car
riers, nor had Hill provisioned the
trail with dog feed and supplies for
the men, it is claimed. The trail
was little more than a blaze now
and then, and very difficult for a
lone carrier heavy loaded. The first
carrier is said to have reached a
point 65 miles beyond Kaamisguard’s
roadhouse at Lake Manchuna, when
he had to cache his load and go back
in search of feed for himself and
dogs, as his dogs were then 11 days
without feed and he was six days
without grub.
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When he got back to Kaamis
guard’s the carrier says he got word
the contractor would have dog feed
there on the 19th, but claims it did
not put in an appearance until the
26th, and consisted of a sack of
rolled oats.
The mail is said to have been
scattered along the trail, sometimes
cached on brush piles, sometimes in
Indian cabins, all unguarded, no at
tempt was made at keeping a sched
ule, carriers met and exchanged mail
when they could, the carriers and
dogs suffering great hardships. It is
alleged that roadhousekeepers refused
food and shelter. Then came the
reported robbery on top of all of the
other complaints, and the government
stepped in and took the contract
away from Hill.
Nellie Beattie has denied all the
statements alleged to have been made
by Schilmover, and intends to fight
the charge. Both were held to an
swer under a 325,000 bail bond. Mrs.
Beattie gave bail, but Schirmeyet is
confined in jail at Fairbanks.
MEN—For Christmas give her a box
of Holeproof Silk hose, from Urbach’s.
“Henry the Fourth”
“It’s ALL in the taste”
At all Dealers.
You read it in The Gateway first.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Wardrobe trunk
in good condition. Phone Adams 45.
FOR SALE—Small complete canning
outfit for the home. Enquire the
Gateway.
FOR SALE-Fine large safe, Urbach’s.
FOR SALE—Quartz and placer not
ices, proof of labor blanks and any
other legal blanks applying to the
Terlrtory, at The Gateway office, tf.
FOR SALE—Lumber and building
material of all kinds. Cal M. Bro
sius, Seward, Alaska. tf.
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