SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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A LARGE SIZED ORDER
In spite of the ever-increasing de
mands of agriculture, there are still
•some sizable cattle ranches left in
this country, one of which was owned
by Mrs. Richard King of Texas, who
<lied recently.
This ranch embraces 2,300,000
acres bordering on the Gulf of Mex
ico for 100 miles. Some years ago
it filled on short notice one of the
largest orders for cattle ever placed
in America, according to B. C. Forbes,
the well known business authority.
At the time of the occurrence
there was a serious shortage of cat
tle in Chicago nad a conference of
leading packers met to consider the
situation, -when a representative of
the King ranch chanced to be pres
ent. After listening to the discus
sion of the situation, he asked how
•many cattle were desired to fill the
requirements and was toid at least
40,000 were needed.
“Wire our ranch and I think they’ll
ship them,” calmly remarked the
"Texan.
The packers were skeptical, but in
desperation telegraphed the ranch
asking if by any means it would
be possible to furnish 40,000 cattle
immediately. The manager wired
back: “Yes, will you have Shorthorns
or Herefords?”
Like other business activities,
stock raising is now a highly special
ized industry, requiring ability and
skillful management to =. insure suc
cess. Pure bred stock is one of the
most important factors. There is no
profit to be made by raising scrubs
any more.
NEW ENGINE OF DEATH
For several weeks stories have been
going the rounds of the press con
cerning a new death-dealing agency,
called the “death stroke,” or “canned
lightning.” Extravagant claims are
made for it by -its inventor, Dt.
Edwin R. Scott, but much secrecy
has surrounded the methods whereby
it is caused to operate.
Among the astounding perform
ances attributed to the death stroke
are its power to burn holes in 2-inch
steel plates at a distance of a mile;
set fire to dead trees at the same
distance and kill animals at two to
seven miles, besides destroying dum
my airplanes in flight.
The Navy department is said to be
interested in the experiments, but
little authentic information is avail
able concerning them. Like the
much heralded “death ray” announc
ed by the Englishman, H. Grindell
Matthews, last year, thereports con
cerning it are too vague to be ac
cepted as reliable, yet too persistent
to be dismissed as visionary.
Dr. Scott is an electrician of stand
ing, however, having been for nine
years a student under the late wiz
ard of the General Electric company,
Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, whose
feats in making artificial thunder
and lightning in his laboratory are
undisputed.
Regardless of the validity of Dr.
Scott’s claims there is no doubt that
the near future will witness the
development of engines of destruc
tion terrible beyond anything here
tofore employed in warfare. As
•one inventor has declared, “in the
near future machine guns will be
seen only in musebms.” ,
RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION
It is said that President Coolidge
will gain recommend to Congress
further legislation to encourage
consolidating the railroads of the
country into fewer systems, with a
view to greater economy of opera
tion and consequently lower freight
rates.
Such a governmental policy seems
diametrically opposite to the “trust
busting” activities of former years,
but in -he light of changed con
ditions it is no doubt eminently
sound.
Railroads and other public service
corporations are now under rigid
government supervision with respect
to service required to be rendered
and rates to be charged, so that the
supposed dangers to the public aris
ing from great mergers have been
largely overcome.
Modern operations in the basic
industries require vast combinations
of capital and resources, which are
only made possible by permitting
such resources to be pooled in a
manner to promote efiicient service
at a low cost.
ALASKA PLANE FIELDS
((Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)
Alaska enterprise is awake to the
importance of the utility of the air
plane, and being a territory of mag
nificent distances, writh few modern
transportation -facilities, iit is prepar
ing to make the most of the air
routes by installing ten landing fields
for planes radiating about Fairbanks,
the railroad terminus.
Important mining camps and towns
will thus be placed within compara
tively aesy communication, with the
Government Railroad, and the people
of the Territory will be brought in
closer touch with the United States.
Commercial aviation means a long
forward step for the people of Alas
ka.
The criticisms of Congressman Free
on conditions found in Alaska are un
fortunate. The Territory spends a
large sum annually for advertising,
and it is nullified in a few moments
by some self-appointed Congressional
representative who goes through the
Territory in a few days and feels pre
pared to solve its destinies.
A newspaper man in the States
is reported to have died leaving an
estate of $50,000. He was a country
newspaper man. The day before his
death he inherited from a rich un
cle $49,999.99.
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McCarthy News: We-have %ever
been in the position where we “could
see pink elephants but when a green
“Phord” whizzed by us the other!
day we immediately went home and
took our temperature and put our
feet in mustard and water. »•
Auto demonstrator (who has tried
for three hours to sell a car).
“Now I’ll throw in the clutch.”
Uncle Eben: “I’ll take her ; then.
I knew if I held off long enough I’d
get something free!”
Ralph Stoock, a British novelist,
does his writing on board an old sub
marine chaser anchored in the Thames
river.
An investigator estimates that Chi
cago beggars average about $2.50 an
hour each day they work.
Daniel Lambert, who died in Eng
landland in 1909 is thought to have
been the heaviest man that ever lived.
He weighed 730 pounds.
The internationaal memorial com
memorating President Harding’s vis
it to Canada will be unveiled at Van
couver, B. C., on September 17.
It is estimataed that there are 19
500 persons over 90 years of age in
Japan, of whom 60 per cent are wo
men. According to the population
Japanese live longer than any other
nationality.
The annual convention of the
American Association of Bank Wo
men will be held in Atlantic City
in September.
OBERAMMERG-AU, Aug. 31. (£>)—
. Anton Lang, the famous Christ im
. personator of the Passion Play, has at
j last succumbed to the offers of a film
> company. Standing in his workshop
> he was filmed as one of the principal
characters in a ilocal flm.
OLD NOMEITE BACK
FROM SIBERIA NEARLY
MURDERED ON BOAT
(From Nome Nugget)
d. Gross, former Nome tinsmith,
who went to Siberia five years ago
when it was made known that
prospectors would not be molested,
is back in Nome, but none know
better than himself that he cable
pretty near going to a place where
his residence would have been eter
nal. Two long axe cuts just above
the temple on his head are the
reminders of how near he was to
being murdered.
The substance of the story fol
lows:
Gross had been trying to get
away from Siberia for quite a while,
it being, hesaid, quite impossible
for a white man to get along with
the Soviets any longer. The trouble
in getting away for thepast two
years was because the Cutter Bear
had discontinued making relief trips
outside of American waters and the
Soviets did not figure that terrorisms
would come to notice.
To get around this high handed
method of the authorities, Gross
had a couple of Russian friends
spread the propaganda that the
Bear was to stop there this year.
This wmrked fine, and when Gross
boarded the little schooner “Twin”
to “meet the Bear,” the officials
dared not stop him.
After the arrival in the Teller
roadstead, Gross found out that
one of the two men he had on
board with him was a lawbreaker
and so he would not land him on
American soil. For that reason
he was going to land him on the
Big Diomede Island, on the Russ
ian side of the boundary. But the
Caucasian, wThose name was Mosivak,
did not like this program and start
ed trouble.
When imprisoned in the hold
Mosivak got dold of some tools
and started to cut into the bulk
heads in an attempt to sink the
ship. He was finally secured and
bound to his bunk. Waiting for
his chance when Gross was asleep,
Mosivak, getting free from his
ropes, v took an axe and in an at
tempt to kill' Gross', cut two
slices out of his scalp. John Aaron
off, the third mad on the vessel
broke into the play, taking after Mos
ivak with a rifle and shooting thru
the partition twice, hitting him in the
shoulder and preventing him from
getting an automatic pistol which
he knew was in the trunk.*
A coroner’s jury Was called at
Teller n’tfd' looking over the boat
made a decision in about five min
utes, exonerating Aaaronoff, by a
verdict” 6f Shooting in self defense.
The body was buried at Teller with
out ceremony.
The Twin proceeded to Nome
where four days later Gross receiv
ed medical attention by Dr. Welch.
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FOUND—Keys of all descriptions; if
you hare lost any keys lately come
to the Gateway.
Cabin for Rent
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living roonv
furnished for six persons,
plenty of bedding and
essentials, stove and all
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week
end to responsible parties.
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
TONIGHT, ONE SHOW, 8:00 SHARP
THOMAS HARDY’S GREAT NOVEL
TESS of the
D’Urbervilles
TURNED INTO A GREAT PICTURE PLAY
WITH
BLANCHE SWEET, CONRAD NAGEL
STUART HOLMES AND
GEORGE FAWCETT
HAVING THE LEADING PLACES
A CHILD OF NATURE AND THE SOCIAL
LAW
A STORY OF THE DOUBLE CODE OF
MORALS
AND A BEAUTIFUL PATHE REVIEW
His wounds were too old to allow
stitches to be taken so they will
have to heal without this scientific
aid.
Gross declared “It is sure good
to be back in God’s country against”
and no doubt he means every word
of it.
FIRPO IS AFTER THE
CHAMPION AGAIN
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sept.
l.(yf>)—L. Firpo, the Argentine heavy
weight, says that he is anxious for j
another fight with Jack Dempsey, and
that the proposed match between
Dempsey and Harry Wills displeases
him. Luis has sent the following
cablegram to Jack:
“For the sake of the game, it would J
please me to hear that your bout with
Wills is not coming off, because I sin
cerely believed the Black Panther is
more of a wrestler than a boxer.
“I am going into training very soon
and intend to abando nail other busi
ness in order to meet you in the ring
in 1926.
BUBONIC PLAGUE TAKES
43 IN SOUTHEAST RUSSIA
MOSCOW, Sept. 1. (A3)—Forty-three
deaths from the bubonic plague have
beefi reported in Southeast Russia
since the outbreak of the epidemic
last month. Eight communities in the
upper and lower Volga regions have
been affected.
The only thing in the world that
seems to grow smaller as you get
near to it is greatness.
TAILORING AGENTS—Fall line now
ready. Make $75 week and up sell
ing Bond’s Clothes, made to mea
sure suits and overcoats. Profits
in advance. Prices as low as $19.50.
24-ho\ir service guaranteed. J. Wal
ter Bond Tailoring Co., 1731 Arapa
hoe, Denver, Colorado. tf
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HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When in Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head*
quarters.
Strictly Modern and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Afaskan
J. A. FARNHAM.
FOOTPRINTS OF A ■
PREHISTORIC MONSTER
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 1. (£>)—
Large pieces of coal in which are em*-,
bedded the footprints of a prehistoric 1
animal believed to be the fiercest of
the carnivorous dinnosaurs which,
roamed the earth millions of years
ago, have been found in the Panther
soal mine in Carbon county, Utah,
rhe find was made several thousand
feet underground.
FOR ONE WEEK
Lowered prices on all
merchandise.
Friday and Saturday
we will have a DOLLAR
SALE.
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