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KODIAK, ALASKA
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Fresh Meats and Vegetables
SUPPLYING FISHING BOATS
A SPECIALTY
GRANDMOTHER’S BREAD
From the best of flour to you
SANITARY WRAPPING
DAIRY LUNCHES FROM EARLY
MORN TO LATE AT NIGHT.
SEWARD BAKERY
“And To Think I Used To
One of our customers said that after the second
time we returned her clothes to her just as clean
as she could laundry them herself
You’ll eventually realize the economy of calling
us. So why be burdened with future washdays?
ALSO REMEMBER, OUR MODERN CLEAN
ING AND PRESSING DEPARTMENT.
Service and Satisfaction Always Certain
Seward Steam Laundry
Do My Own
( By special correspondent )
Mr. Edmnnds, superintendent of the
j Alaska Road Commission in this dis
! trict of Alaska, stopped over at this
I station a week ago to inspect the new
| vragon road that is being built over
Portage Creek. The new road is near
50 per cent complete at the present
| time. The new wagon bridge across
Indian River was finished last week
and is now in use.
Roy and Elmer Poedeker arrived at
Chulitna last week with a very large
outfit and three dogs and will estab
i lish a main camp on the upper Forks
of Portage Creek where they will trap, j
j They plan spending the entire winter !
trapping and next summer expect to
prospect the district. Both of the men
are hard rock men. Their father is
| sheriff at Lamar, Wyoming. During
ithe past summer the brothers worked
■the greater portion of the time at Me
: Kinley National Park, on the wagon
| road, getting a grub stake together.
They have decided to stay in Alaska
and make their fortune.
* * *
The Caribou Kid arrived back in
Alaska again on September 11 and he
I brought his mother and nephew with
him as far as SewaLd. Both were very
much pleased with the Territory and
upon returning to their home in Ohio
are going to do a lot of boosting The
| Caribou Kid is going 'to locate a home
| stead in the Matanuska district and
j settle down for life.
Tom Dickson, foreman for 'the Alas
ka Road Commission at Chulitna, has
moved his big camp and road crew to
the summit, about half-way to Portage
Creek, on the new wagon road. Mr.
Dickson is doing fine work and ex
pects to be through to Portage Creek
by the time the big snow comes. Bryan
is chief cook at the camp and a fine
one at that.
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Moose Johnson went to Anchorage
on September 1 to take in the Fair. He
enjoyed every minute of the time
spent there. He returned to Chulitna
September 13. Sam Guthrie, mine in
spector for the government, came with
him.
• * ^
Mr. and Mrs. John Gail, who had
been stationed at Canyon, Mile 269
for the last five years, left the first of
the month for the big Outside. They
did not say whether they were return
ing or not.
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H. W. Nagley, U. S. Commissioner
at Talkeetna, reports everything and
everyone doing well in the Cache
Creek region, to which country Tal
keetna is the front door. Mr Nagley
displayed some excellent gold nuggets,
running from $10 to $40 apiece, that
come from his mine holdings in the
district, this summer.
* * •
Frank Lang, brakeman on the pas
senger train north of Anchorage to
Healy, says he has bought a small
stamp mill to put on his property in
Nuka Bay. He has a fine showing at
the mine.
m m 9
Harry Wertz has been bothered with
rheumatism the past few days but is
feeling better now. He plans to trap
on Portage Creek this winter.
• • *
“Whiskey” Bill Shreeve went to
Anchorage and stayed a week on some
business and came back to Chulitna
on September 22 on the Brill car. He
reports Anchorage very quiet. He is
now working for Tom Dickson on the
new wagon road.
JAP BEETLE DAMAGE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (£>)—
Federal scientists believe the Japa
nese beetle, new insect pest in the
J United States, may be a menace to
the corn belt. A recent inspection
tour in New Jersey, where the beetle
has appeared, reveaeld injury to sweet
corn. By destroying the silk, beetles
prevent the pollniaiton of the grain.
Incense and Incense Burners. Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop. *
FRESH KILLED CHICKENS FROM
LONGS RANCH, AT FRYE BRUHN.
OSAGE INDIANS SEND
DELEGATION TO PARIS
PAWHUSKA, Okla., Sept. 29. (/P)—
Support will be given to the European
impression that all Americans are mil
lionaires when Pawhuska’s delegation
of 17 full-blooded Osage Indians, garb
ed in barbaric splendor, arrive in
Paris to dance for the American Le
gion convention there. The Osage
tribe is rated as the richest race, per
capita, in the world. With its vast
income froom oil royalties pooled in
a common fund, the tribe distributes
about $15,000 annually to each of its
2,200 members.
Fresh killed local chickens. Car
stens Packing Company.
The finest Safety Razor In the world
at $15. Schallerer’s Alaska Shop.
See Blue Shop for late styles.
MRS. TOWLE IS ILL
Mrs. Frank Towle, lias been very ill
for the 'last ten days at her beautiful
home at Coopers Landing, arrivals in
Seward last evening bring word. Mr
Towle, who has.been employed by the
B. of P. Roads, at Moose Pass through
out the summer, was sent for and went
down the lake last night.
NEW CHAMBER MEMBER
Among the local business men to
have taken out membership in the lo
cal Chamber of Commerce, is Fred C.
Miller, proprieter of Miller’s Barber
Shop.
Read the ads every day.
Cleaning and Pressing
Ladies’ Work a Specialty
Phone Adams 120 Shoe Shining
WM. SLEDGE, Prop.
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