VOILE UNDERWEAR SPECIALS
Step-ins.
Nighties.
Dance sets.
French panties
MOTORSHIP
DISCOVERER
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Nuka Bay, Portlock, llliamna
Special through rate to Bristol Bay
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Comfortable accommoda
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CAPT. HEINIE BERGER,
Seward. Alaska
A.1 meat and nothing else in the
Frye.Bruhn Meat Market.
MC MUNI'S LEAVE TONITE
FOR VACATION IN STATES
R. J, McKanna, assistant Seward
agent for the Alaska Steamship Co.,
who has been in charge of the office
during the absence of Mr. Flickinger,
who returned last night from Seattle,
departs for Seattle tonight accompa
nied by Mrs. McKanna on a vacation
trip of several weeks.
The McKannas plan to travel about
Oregon and Washington in which two
states both have many friends and
relatives.
ICE BERGS AT LATOUCHE
Over at Latouche a number of good
size ice bergs were seen floating
| about by passengers on the S. S. Aleu
tian which arrived in port last night.
The wind had blown them dowm from
Columbia glacier, it was said.
You read it in The Gateway first.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES. SCHALLER
ER’S ALASKA SHOP
T0TAL1927 SALMON
PACK ANNOUNCED IN
PRELIMINARY REPORT
The total 1927 salmon pack of all
Pacific coast countries, including the
United States, British Columbia aud
Siberia, was 7,260,533 cases, accord
ing to official figures compiled, just
made public by the United States
Bureau of Fisheries. The Alaska
pack was 3,576,873 cases, or almost
50 per cent of the total for all three
countries.
The American pack aggregated
5,082,275 cases, British Columbia, 1,
360,000 cases and Siberia, 817,835.
ALASKA PACK
The Alaska pack was composed of
70,306 cases of kings or Chinooks,
1,320,376 of reds or sockeyes, 1, 423,
764 of pinks, 253,309 of cohoes or
silvers, 509,118 of chums.
The Southeastern Alaska pack to
taled 1,057,158 cases of which 8,051
were kings, 116,513 reds or sockeyes,
115,470 cohoes or silvers, 590,482
pinks, 226,481 chums.
Central Alaska packed 43,465 cases
of kings or Chinook, 319,000 reds or
sockeyes, 137,799 cohoes or silvers,
817,522 pinks, 253,107 churns, totaling
1,570,983 cases.
The western Alaska pack was com
posed of 16,790 cases of kings or chi
nooks, 884,863 cases of reds or sock
eyes, 40 cohoes or silvers, 29,439
chums, aggregating 948,732 cases
PACIFIC COAST STATES
Puget Sound, Columbia River,
Washington coast and the Oregon
and California coasts packed 406.271
ELLIOTT LEAVES TODAY
Major Malcolm Elliott, president of
the Alaska Hoad iCommission, left
Washington, D. C., on February 22 for
the West and is scheduled to leave
Seattle today for his Juneau head
quarters. Major Elliott has been ab
sent since last December, most of the
time being spent at Washington where
he appeared before hearings on road
building appropriations prior to pres
entation to Congress, in the interest of
the Commission program.
A. E. Brown who plead guilty in the
Fairbanks court to the charge of petty
larceny, wras given a suspended sent
ence of six months and fined $100.
‘TWAS EVER THUS!
Well the old dope sheet was upset
again last night by the early arrival
in port of the S. S. Aleutian. Prior to
going to press the last report was the
liner was due at about 11 o’clock but
she slipped into her berth right on the
dot, at $ o’clock.
cases of kings or Chinooks, 123,826
reds or sockeyes, 210,537 cohoes or
silvers, 586,59S steel-heads, aggregat
ing 1,505,402 cases of all varieties.
The British Columbia pack was
made up as follows: Kings or chi
nooks, 58,965 cases; reds or sock
eyes, 328,852 cases; cohoes or sil
vers, 161,148; pinks, 247,617; chums,
562,109; steelhead, 1,741; total, 1,360,
423 cases.
In Siberia the pack reported was:
reds or sockeyes, 588,724 cases; co
hoes or silvers, 84,121; pinks, 134,
489; chums, 10,501; total, S17,S35
cases. ,
A famous “Tarzan of the Apes” play
at the Liberty tonight.
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SEASON SEEN THIS TEAR
All indications are that the 1928
tourist season will be a record breaker
reports J. H. Flickinger, local repre
sentative of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
who returned last night from the an
nual conference in Seattle.
Not only have numerous tours
signed up to visit the Territory but
several national conventions are to
be held in Seattle this summer, and
some of these include in their itiner
ary, a trip to Alaska..
Sailings for the tourist season in
Southwestern Alaska will begin May
26 with the sailing of the S. S. Yukon
and that steamer, with the S. S. Alas
ka and S. S. Aleutian, will continue
on this run until the season ends with
S a sailing on August £5.
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FARTHEST WEST SCOUT SHIP
The Juneau Ship of the Sea Scouts,
organization of the Boy Scouts q*
America, is the most westerly ship on
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the mainland of North American con
tinent, was the announcement made
recently at Juneau.
ENGLISHMAN DEPORTED
A. E. Brooks, a native of England,
was deported from the United States
last month. He had been held in the
jail at Juneau for sometime, Violation
of the liquor laws was the cause.
Ed Young, a pioneer Alaskan aviator
has accepted a position as pilot with
the Bennett-Rodebaugh Airplane Corp.
of Fairbanks.
There will be no preaching service
at the Seward Community church
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock as
Bishop Rowe will conduct services at
the local Episcopal church at that
hour.
At 7 o’clock Sunday evening Bishop
Rowe will conduct services at the
Community church.
We bespeak for the Bishop a full
house at both these services. Bishop
Rowe knows Alaska as no other min
ister does, for he has given the best
years of his life to the moral and
spiritual development of the Terri
tory; and is greatly loved by all.
Sunday school will be held Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock at the Commun
«tty church as usual.
' THOMAS PHILIP GRAHAM,
Minister.
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