BANKER FROM STANWOOD
Clyde Brokaw, president of the
Stamvood bank, Stanwood, Wash.,
is one of the prominent citizens of
that state who is a visitor id Sew
ard today. He is enroute to Fair
banks on business matters. Mr. Bro
kaw, whose na me. is quite familiar to
the editor or this paper, is a grad
uate of the University of Washing
ton and about 1913 handled a bow
ore on the famous Varsity crew
which first invaded Poughkeepsie.
REBEKAH MEETING
The Seward Rebekah Lodge will j
meet this evening at 8 o’clock in reg-1
u!ar session. Social follows.
YOU WANT FRESH EGGS;
Call up the Seward Trad
ing Co., and order eggs from
the Seward Chicken Ranch.
HEAVY QUAKE SHOCK FELT
A decided thump .vas felt in Sew
ard this morning at 11.10 uc.o.;1-.
when another earthquake shock hit
as r the town ha 1 been struck with
a giant ’s maul. So n i say it was one
ol the snow rot im3 attaching a skde
out the line but .this could not have
been so. Last night two slight shocks
were felt.
Between Campbell and Windy it
is reported the snow drifts in places
measures 15 feet in depth.
The rotary, cutting through the
snow drifts in the vicinity of Ta!
keetna and Curry could make but 21
miles in six hours.
Seattle ice cream at Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop.
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Hoben. A. F
Davis
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necks.
“The night following we stopped in
the Midway relief cabin and I became
cook of the party. I might utter
some wise crack here about the viands
I set out but I won’t. It was a blank
sight better than they deserved. If
anything it was overdone in spots.
There is a good deal of blah about
cooking. McCoy is the man I get my
dope from and he says nothing you
cook is fit to eat anyway.
“There had been plenty of moose
on the trail so far. We saw them
looking at us out of the tall timber.
David, the harp playing bantamweight
could have killed them with his sling
at 50 cubits and I’d bet a shekel on it.
No other game but thousands of
tracks of moose, weaving a net over
the snowy fields everywhere. We saw
two near Bob Sievert’s home and one
near Frank Towfe’s. Then, half-a-mile
from the cabin of Otto Glotz, two ran
right across our path.
“The mprning we left the Midwmy
cabin it was zero flat but we didn’t
mind. We had slept on bare poles,
plus our thin quilts and got a good
night’s rest at that. We had had a
good breakfast. The dogs snapped the
lashing line and in a whirl of snow
we were off thru a magnificent wood
sy lane, as it were, down hill, hell
bent and breaks cutting the nigger
heads whenever the sled i;bt close
enough to the earth. Mr. Hardy,
game warden of Kasilof was occupied
with a dog fight at the cabin so lost
half an hour. Lars said it was custo
mary for a dog musher to sing to the
dogs to quite their nerves after one
of these combats. I heard some of
the words Hardy used but he had not
begun to set them to music yet. We
photographed the dogs on a smoothly
frozen lake 14 miles from Kenai and
then took coffee at the cabin of
George Miller and John Wick, two
trappers.
“Kenai came at 4 o’clock, We start
ed to pick up a dog fight theVe, but
avoided it by a few diplomatic phras
es by the musher. Then we drew up
at the Kenai roadhouse of Joe Conseil.
Kenai may be in the throes of a fam
ine as Mr. Wagner said, but we saw |
no signs of it. Mr. Conseil runs a
hotel that feeds, bathes and sleeps
you like a king. It seemed to be as
good as any place of the kind I have ■
ever been in. He has a seperate two-!
story cabin just huilt, with rooms for;
women upstairs. He is an excellent
cook. We decided not to come back
the next day, but stay over and feed
up. So it was the day after the next
that we started out at whirlwind;
speed. We must have seemed to be
in a hurry to get away but really wej
were sorry to leave Kenai. It is a j
fine little town of 700, Illiamna was |
smoking across the inlet and giving |
us gorgeous sunsets; the people were
hospitable.
“The dogs tried to keep on the right1
trail but we interfered and got lost a i
couple of times. Three times we'
spilled as only a team of 17 dogs canj
spill you. We stopped again at the!
cabin of Miller and Wicks for coffee
and learned that 800 lynx have been
trapped in the vicinity this winter.
At the Midway cabin again we spent a
comfortable night and were off again I
! making Cooper’s Landing roadhouse!
! at noon. Some more wonderful meals
j i
with the Leans and the next morning j
! across the frozen lake Kenai in a j
! blinding snow storm. Eighteen inch
! es fell in a few hours. Our dogs were
1 bounding when we reached Lawing.
; There we camped but later loaded the
’ pups. The next morning a freight
came along and took Lars and the
l-ITLLE GIRL ARRIVES
**> To Mr. and Mrs. T'^os. Neville, on
Saturday, the stork again arrived at
their home in the afternoon bring
ing a fine 11 pound girl. Mother and
tab? are resting comfortably. Dr
Baughman was the attending physi
cian.
W. A. C. MEETING
Tomorrow night is calesthenic nite
T the Seward Woman’s Athlefic
Club and all members are asked '«>
attend who possibly can do so. The
usual other sports and exercise will
be indulged in as well.
noble 17 to Fairbanks. I stood up to
my knees in snow and looked after
them and experienced the well known
hardships of Alaskan winter travel—
that of parting with wonderful friends.
As the freight went around the bend
by Gehling’s cabin, I had a woman’s
inclination to shed a bucketful of
tears. But Mrs. Decker had a table
covered with the morning’s breakfast,
you knowr; steaming hot coffee, oat
meal, two eggs, bacon, toast grape
fruit and a stack of wheats.
“Well. Next to a man’s heart is
his stomach. But gosh! It was sad
at that. I’d like to do it all over again
next tveek.’*
When you want a good steak or
roast, give Carstens a call.
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CLOSED WEDNESDAY
Following the custom of former
year? many of the local business
firms will be closed on Geo-ge Wash
ington’? ,birthday, Wednesday, Feb- '
runry 22. Government offices, the
postoffice, schools, Bank of Seward,
and The Gateway, will be among
those closed for the day.
S. A. C. MEET TONIGHT
A *eguar business meeting of the
Seward Athletic Club take’s place to
night in the gymnasium. All mem
bers are asked to be present and
’•tip things along.
A splendid large new mirror ex
tending from the front to the rear of
the modern shop, has been installed
in* Miller’s Barber Sh.cn.
The Married men’s baseball *ean»
| defeated the Single guys yesterday,
ar was expected. The score is not
known for the sporting reporter went
out and got soused.
The S. S. Admiral Watson, of the
P. S. S. Co., is due to arrive in port
tomorrow from the South.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES. SCHALLER
ER’S ALASKA SHOP
BOY SCOUT BOOKS THREE FOR
$1.00 AT SCHALLERER’S ALASKA
SHOP. FORMERLY $1.00 EACH.
Builder** Supplies
C.M.B
fjenuine superior roasts and fowls, backed by
" the Frye—Bruhn Company reputation for
quality, and sold at reasonable prices.
START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
A. C. GRAUNSTADT, MANAGER
We deliver in a hurry at anytime
FRYE BRUHN & CO.
WHEN YOUR CAR LEAVES OUR SHOP, YOU CAN BET
THAT IT’S IN TIP-TOP RUNNING CONDITION AND YOU
WONT RECEIVE AN EXORBITANT BILL EITHER.
BENUITS MACHINE SHOP
Geo. Benuit, Prop. Garage bldg.
It s All Fixed Now!