SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Qood Water a Necessity in Every Borne"
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
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Phone Adams 128
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
F. B. MOORE
Gore'Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM
Also fresh Lettuce, from
our hothouse, delivered
daily by order.
Our Motto:
“The Best”
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TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
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Seattle, Wash.
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COAL MINERS SEEK PROFITS
WHERE MINE OWNERS FAILED
RUABON, Wales, Apr. 29.—Trade
union and industrial circles of Eng
land are watching with interest a
new adventure in coal mining in the
case of the Vauxhall Colliery, at Rua
bon, which has been taken over and
is to be operated by the managers
and 700 men entirely independent
of the owners.
The men decided to take over the
business when it was announced re
cently that the plant was to be clos
ed because the owners had been los
ing heavily financially for many
months. The experiment will con
tinue for three months.
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six o’clock please phone us and one
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SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
and third Wednesdays of each
/Nr \month; visiting brethren wel
icome, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Mrs. Viola
Meeets the second and
!ourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem*
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
POPULATION OF U. S.
ESTIMATED ON JAN. 1
AT 114,311,000 FIGURE
NEW YORK, Apr. 29.—The popula
tion growth of the United States is
slowing up, In spite of the fact that
the number of people in the country
is placed at 114,311,000 for Jan. 1,
1925, according to estimates announc
ed today by the National Bureau of
Economic Research, of this city. Both
the birth rate and the death rate are
falling, the latter faster than the for
mer, while immigration accounts for
only one-fifth of the annual popula
tion increase of continental United
States. The total population figure
for Jan. 1, 114,311,000, compares with
the bureau’s estimate of 112,684,000 on
Jan. 1, 1924, and the census count of
105.711.000 in 1920.
Continuing the bureau says that the
estimated gain during the year 1924
was 1,627,000, which is approximately
! 100,000 less than the average gain
for the last five years. The year of
greatest gain since 1920 was 1923,
[when the population grew by 1,996,
000. In a 16 year period the year of
greatest gaiu was 1909 when 2,173,000
were added.
The natural increase of population
through excess of births over deaths
was four times the amount added by
net immigration in 1924, the bureau’s
figures declare.
In 1924 net immigration was 315,
000, while births are estimated at 2,
645.000 and deaths at 1,333,000.
Since 1911 the number of deaths has
tended to remain constant, while the
births have increased by nearly 11 per
cent and the population has growm
by some 21 per cent.
Of the total population, 38 out of
every hundred persons are engaged in
some gainful occupation, that is work
ing for a direct money income.
.iThis study of population growth was
made by Dr. Willard I. King, of the
bureau’s research staff, as a part of
the bureau’s general and continuing
investigation of income in the United
States and its changes from year to
year.
ine greatest percentage growth, ac
cording to the figures of the bureau,
took place in 1909 and the smallest in
1918, a year of war and of influenza
epidemic. The year 1923 shows oue
of the peaks of the period, while 1924
is slightly below the average, the
change from 1923 being due to the
falling off in immigration.
Estimates made by Dr. King indi
cate that, during the 16 years, there
occurred in the United States more
than 41,000,000 births and approxi
mately 22,000,000 deaths. It appears,
therefore, that the gain in population
from excess of births over deaths was
something over 19,000,000, or more
than three times the increase in pop
ulation due to immigration. The chief
cause of increase in population in the
United States, therefore, the bureau
says, is not migration but rather the
tact that more people are born than
die.
' T“e number of births since 1909 has
been a little less than double the num
ber of deaths, but the figures indicate
that, during the last five years, the
ratio of births to deaths has almost
reached 2 to 1. This ratio has chang
ed materially since 1911, a year which
was about normal. In that year the
number of (births was apparently some
2,389,000, while the number of deaths
was about 1,328,000. In 1914, 13 years
later, the number of births appears to
have increased by more than 250,000,
while the number of deaths was ap
proximately unchanged. Since 1911
the number of deaths has tended to
remain constant, while births have
increased by nearly 11 per cent and
the population has grown by some 21
per cent. The death rate, in other
words, has fallen faster than the birth
rate. The death rate has been per
sistently low during the last decade
except in the last half of 1918, the
first half of 1919, and the first half of
1920. This low death rate has been
responsible to no small degree for the
rapid gain in population.
The gainfully occupied constitute
about 38 per cent of the population,
the remaining 62 per cent being al
most equally divided between child
ren and adults. The proportion of the
popluation gainfully occupied increas
ed noticeably during the war period,
but had returned by 1924 to approxi
mately the same percentage as that
prevailing fn 1909.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
NOTED ARLINGTON FLAGSTAFF
WILL BE GIVEN A NEW HOME
WASHINGTON, Apr. 29.—The
great flagstaff that has topped the
heights of Arlington, in front of the
Custis-Lee mansion, ever since the
national cemetery was established
shortly after the Civil war, is to fall
before the modern conception of har
monious landscape.
The National Fine Arts Commis
sion has ruled that the 100-foot shaft
doesn’t blend with the beauty of
the natural surroundings of the ceme
tery, and the war department is con
tracting for its removal. It will be
preserved, however, by re-erecting it
on the Fort Meyer Reservation a
mile or so away.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office.
Anchorage, Alaska, April 24, 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Robert
W. Johnston has submitted final proof
testimony on Homestead Entry, Se
rial 04169, embracing the SW^SW^i
Lot 1, wy2wy2 Lot 2, W%wy2 Lot 3,
SE^4SWy4 Lot 3, SW*4SE% Lot 3,
Fractional E^SE1^ Lot 3, Fractional,
SE^NE^i Lot 3, Fractional, and Lot
4, Section 12, T. 1 N. R. 1 W. Seward
Meridian, together with his witnesses,
P. C. McMullen and George J. Laugh
lin, all of Seward, Alaska, and is now
on file in the local land office, at An
chorage, Alaska, and if no protest is
filed in the local land office, at An
chorage, Alaska, on or before June 15.
1925, said final proof will be accepted
and final certificate issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First publication April 29, 1925.
Last publication June 2, 1925. dly
Call for Bids for Operation of Vessels
Along Coast Seward Peninsula,
Alaska, Season 1925.
Pursuant to Act of Seventh Alaska
Territorial Legislature, approved April
21, 1925, written or telegraphic bids
or offers will be received at office of
the Governor of Alaska, Juneau, up
to noon, May 15, for payment of sub
sidies for—
(1) Operation of vessel, American
registry, as common carrier, from
Nome to Kotzebue, touching at Teller,
Wales, Shismareff, Deering, Weewra
lik, making not less than seven (7)
regular stated trips and return not
less than once each two (2) weeks
during season of open navigation 1925.
(2) Operation of vessel, American
registry, as common carrier, from
Nome to St. Michaels, touching at Sol
omon, Bluff, Chinik, Unalakleet, mak
ing not less than sixteen (16) regular
trips and return not less than once
each week during the open season of
navigation 1925.
(3) Each vessel much have cargo
capacity of not less than forty (40)
tons under deck with passenger ca
pacity of not less than twenty (20)
persons and loaded draft not to ex
ceed seven (7) ft., and a maximum
speed of not less than eight (8) knots
per hour. Passenger accommodations
to be approved by United States
Steamboat Inspection service.
(4) A sum not to exceed five thou
sand dollars ($5,000) will be paid for
the vessel on the Nome-Kotzebue
route and a sum not to exceed thirty
five hundred dollars ($3500) will be
paid for the vessel on the Nome-St.
Michaels route.
(5) Each bid must state size,
speed and accommodations of the ves
sel over the requirements above set
forth, together with the subsidy de
manded. Contract will be let to the
lowest and best bidder, but the right
is reserved to reject any and all bids.
(6) Each bidder must agree to
make full report under oath at end of
season showing passenger and freight
tariffs; total tonnage and total pas
sengers carried; gross passenger,
freight and mail service earnings un
der separate headings; gross expense
and gross earnings of the route cov
ered, to the end that the amount of
subsidy to be paid may be determined
which amount is specified in the act to
be 'that portion w hich, w’hen added to
the net profits, make a total not ex
ceeding the total amount of the sub
sidy provided.
v i) immediately upon acceptance
of bid contract will be entered into
embodying conditions and provisions
of the bid accepted. Each bid must
be accompanied by a surety bond to
the Territory of Alaska in the sum of
$1,000 conditioned upon faithful per
formance of terms of bid.
SCOTT C. BONE,
Governor of Alaska.
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, Apr. 22, 1925
Publish April 29, 30, May 1, 1925.
Call for Bids for Operation of Vessel
Along Coast of Cook's Inlet; Sea
son 1925.
Telegraphic or written bids or of
fers for subsidy provided by Seventh
Alaska Legislature will be received at
the office of the Governor of Alaska,
Juneau, up to Noon, May 20th, 1925,
for the operation of a vessel, Ameri
can registry, of not less than sixty
(60) feet in length, not less than
forty (40) tons under deck, with a
passenger capacity of not less than
twenty (20) persons, and a loaded
draft of not to exceed seven (7) feet, 1
and of a maximum speed of not less
than eight (8X miles per hour; from
Anchorage to Iliamna Bay, along the
coast of Cook’s Inlet touching at Sel
dovia, and making regular stated
trips and * return not less than once
in each ten (10) days during the sea
son when navigation is open in these
waters, as a common carrier of freight
and passengers.
The law appropriates the sum of
Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) defin
ing the open season to be from April
1st to November 1st; the amount of
subsidy to be paid will be computed
from the time the successful bidder
begins the service provided two (2)
bona fide bidders submit bids accpm*
panied by bond in an amount equal to
fifty (50) per cent of the amount of
the bid.
Successful bidder will be required
at close of season, to make sworn
statement, under oath, to the Treas
urer of Alaska, showing tariff of
freight and passenger rates; total
tonnage and total number of passen
gers carried; gross earnings from
passenger, freight, and mail service
rendered, under separate heads; gross
expense and gross earnings of the
route covered.
Successful bidder will only receive
that portion of the subsidy which,
when added to the net profits, make a
total not exceeding the total amount,
of the subsidy provided.
Contract will be entered into im
mediately upon the award to the sue
cessful bidder. The right to reject,
any and all bids is reserved.
SCOTT C. BONE,
Governor of Alaska.
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, Apr. 24, 1925
Publish April 29, 30, May 1, 1925.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
No. 119.
In Probate Court for Kenai Precinct,
Third Judicial Division, Territory
of Alaska.
In the Matter of the Estate of Seymour
L. Colwell, Deceased.
Notice Is Hereby Given, That the
undersigned is the duly appointed, act
ing and qualified administratrix of the
estate of Seymour L. Colwell, Deceas
ed; and, in accordance with an Order
duly made therefor, Notice is now
hereby given to the creditors and to
all persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit such claims,
with the necessary vouchers, within
six months after and from the dato
of this notice to the administratrix at
the office of L. V. Ray, in Seward,
Alaska which the undersigned selects
as her place of business in all mattem
connected with the estate of the said
Seymour L. Colwell, Deceased.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, this 10th
day of April, 1925.
KATHERINE COLWELL,
Administratrix of the Estate of Sey
mour L. Colwell, Deceased.
First publication April 13, 1925.
Last publication May 4, 1925. Mon. 4fc
PROOF OF HOMESTEAD
Anchorage, Alaska, March 5, 1925.
Final proof testimony on homestead
entry, Serial 05927 embracing Lot 4.
Section 32, T. 8 S. R. 14 W. S. M. ha*
been submitted by Dora Brooks, en
trywoman, and her witnesses, Walter
L. Lippincott, and Milo Hurlburt, re
siding at Seldovia, Alaska, and is now
on file in the local land office at An
chorage, Alaska, and if no protest is
filed in the local land office at An
chorage, Alaska, on or before Juna
1, 1925, said final proof will be accept
ed and final certificate issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN.
Register.
First publication April 4, 1925.
Last publication May 8, 1925. 30t dly
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppemoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT!
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
Hugh Dougherty
FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT
Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 68
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114