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SEWARD, ALASKA
Published Daily Except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Established August 19, 1904.
SELBY & HOBEN, Proprietors.
H. B. SELBY.Managing Editor
Entered a? Second Class Matter September 2nd, 1915, at the Post Office at
Seward, Alaska, under the Act of March Third, 1879.
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DOES IT BENEFIT THE TOWN?
The Daily Gateway in 1923 spent
slightly over $16,000 in expenses while
conducting its business in Seward.
Seven thousand five hundred and i wen
tv-one dollars were spent in the
states, in stock, machinery and re
placements, the remainder going di
rectly into the coffers of Seward mer
chants, through wages work done and
for materials furnished. In other
words about $9,000 was disbursed in
Seward. Of this amount Seward in
return gave the Gateway $5,621, the
remainder coming from Outside. In
other words fifty per cent ot the mon
ey spent in Seward by the Gateway
came from agencies, legal advertis
ing, subscriptions, etc.
This shows that to get a dollars
worth of business in town we have
had to spend a dollar and a quarter.
While this money was scattered over
tlie town promiscuously, practtcally
every citizen was benefited by it, the
money passing from hand to hand un
til it reached the mail order patron
when it went Outside and remained
there. The Gateway employs eight
persons, including three carriers its
wage scale being higher than ever
paid before in Seward.
In 1923, possibly 15 per cent of the
job printing done in the city went out
side Merchants who would shout loi
protection from itinerant peddlers
hand over their work to itinerant sol
icitors without one qualm of consci
cnee. The Gateway spent several
hundred dollars in advertising the
town and the town in turn spent sev
eral hundred dollars advertising ir
outside publications that had mud
less circulation than the Gateway, anc
whose advertising results were negli
gible. Be this as it may, The Gate
way now is asking the citizens toi
all of their business in 1924. Th<
more business we get the better pa
per we can get out. The better papei
the better boost for Seward. We los<
many jobs because we will not do th<
work at the price charged in Seattle
while paying from 10 to 100 per cen
over Seattle prices tor what we buj
ourselves. This is one phase of th<
situation that is puzzling to the av
erage printer.
We have attempted to show in this
article the value of The Gateway tt
the town of Seward. In return, wt
would ask that in 1924 every doliai
spent for jobwork be spent at home
The same argument applies to mai
order job printing bought by mer
chants that applies to mail order buy
ing by the people. Until the merch
ants and business men learn to tradt
at home themselves they can hardlj
educate tne people along these lines.
The coming 1924 elections will mak<
all previous elections look like thirty
cents, judging by the number of can
didates lihng for office.
MORE “HEROIC AC' I (JN
The most amazing episode in law
enforcement efforts that recent Am
erican history affords is being record
I ed in Philadelphia under General
Smedley D. Butler, who was “loaned”
to the city of brotherly love by the
government for one year. “Duck
Board” Butler, as he is called—a so
briquet which he earned because ho
made the city of Brest, France, hab
itable during the war—has his own
unique phrase for what he is doing to
the staid old city of William Pen.
“Raising hell,” he calls it.
And just how much of that stuff he
has raised in ten days is shown by the
fact that in the first week he closed
up 1,428 saloons conducted 540 raids
and confiscated 500 stills, as well as
a small shipload of Philadelphia liq
uor.
A dispatch early this week said
that not a “stick up” had occurred iu
the city in five days—and that in a
city which but a few days previously
was one of the most notoriously wide
open in the country. Criminals are
fleeing iu every direction “Shoot to
kill,” is Smedley’s order to his firing
squads. “Joints,” from which poison
had emanated in large quantities, are
without proprietors. The rings of nar
colics dealer are being shattered. The
city has become unsafe for evil-doers,
so much so that neighboring cities
! have established special guards to ar
rest criminals who have fled from
Philadelphia.
Smedley is a “tough customer.” He
won a congressional medal for his ser
vice when our fleet landed a few years
ago at Vera Cruz. He won other med
als for his distinguished service with
the marines in Haiti and Honduras.
He is a native born Philadelphian, a
: Quaker, but he is a two fisted fighting
man.
i Fortunately the hard-boiled leather
neck who is director of public safe
ty, has the support of the mayor
When Governor Pinchot failed to car
- ry out his promise to make the statt
and city dry, and Mayor Kendrick was
elected, the latter saw an opportunity
• to get results by enlisting the service
• of General Butler, an old friend. But
ler demanded a free hand, giving as
i surance that in the event of interfer
1 ence he would leave the key in his
desk and leave town, and got it. As
' a result he is winning with his own
methods, and those methods are strik
ing terror to bootleggers, moonshin
ers gamblers, drug peddlers, bandits
and other elements of disorder.
Naturally the question now being
asked is whether it will last. So far
as Butler is concerned it undoubtedly
will. When he leaves a year hence
the old gang of crooks may drift back
: unless Philadelphia stands pat. Or it
may be that the people will tire ol
■ Smedley’s methods before that time
and a reaction will set in. That will
LIBERTY THEATRE
TONIGHT
MABEL NORMAND IN HER
GREATEST PICTURE
be for Philadelphia to decide—wheth
er It wants law and order or another
reign of lawlessness.
Congress has apparently ceased
I functioning and resolved itself into
an investigating committee. Following
the Forbes scandal we had the Fall
expose, and if this gets to smelling too
strong public attention will be called
to some other grafter. In the mean
time pay your income tax and res
olve to be a better citizen.
Most of the remarks about the rail
road come from persons who have
been away from the vicinity of rail
roads the past quarter of a century.
Such criticism is a great deal like re
ligion, its strongest critics are those
who never had any, consequently do
! not know what they are talking about.
A bigamist is a man who made a
l mistake and then made the same mis
take over again.
By filing one man for each oft ice,
i the democrats will once more get to
i
j vote in the republican primaries.
If you really want to make a good
town out of Seward first make a good
citizen for the town. It is up to you,
personally.
When we visit some other town Se
ward looks so much better to us that
we are proud we are here.
COOK INLET HERRING
PACK REPORTED GOOD
The herring pack on Cook Inlet dur
ing the past three months’ run has
been a large and good one according
to R. E. Mclver, Alaskan manager of
the B. Bortz company, herring pack
ers. Mr. Mclver went south recent
ly on the Northwestern. The steamer
will load 900 barrels and bring out
j the crew from Halibut Cove the plant
being closed for the winter.
Five thousand barrels of herring
have already been shipped south from
the plant and the 900 barrels will
clean-up the large pack.
“The herring we packed at our plant
this winter as well as the pack at oth
er salteries on Cook Inlet have been
of an excellent grade, perhaps the
best ever caught in the same waters,
j The fish are fat and oily, firm and of
! excellent grade. This is the first sea
son we have packed on Cook Inlet and
the excellent results obtained means
that it will not be the last,” said Mr.
Mclver.
Mr. Mclver is making the round
trip on the Northwestern, having been
ca’rfed to Seattle on business. He will
return on the same ship. During the
summer months Mclver is stationed
at Sawmill Bay at the various prop
erties of the R. Bortz Company locat
ed on those waters.
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B. F. M. LEAVES ON
TRIP WITH FUR BUYERS
| The launch B. F. M., which has been
outfitting the past few days, left for
I the westward in charter of Captain
Andy Peterson, with a number of fur
buyers. They will visit lliamna, Ka
meshak bay and other points.
1 Watch our window for Saturday
' Specials—Brown & Hawkins Corp. tf.
APPLICATION FOR PERMIT
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Anchorage (for
merly Juneau), Alaska.
January 31, 1924.
Notice is Hereby Given that John
H. Costello for himself and as trus
tee for Edward W. Hoffman, Thomas
A. Costello, John H. Costello, Jr.,
William 0. Brunskill, John Brunskill,
Wm. O. Stevens and Percival Bruns
kill, has applied for oil and gas pros
pecting permits under section 22 of
the act of February 25, 1920, (41
Stat., 437) for the following described
lands:
Serial 04713
j Rex Oil Claims Nos. 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10,
! 11, 12, described as an area commenc
ing at corner No. 1, of said Claim No.
1 from which the northeast corner
Sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 41 W., S. M.. bears
north 14 deg. 34 min. 44 sec. west,
i 15,162.28 ft. distant; thence from said
j corner No. 1, S. 41 deg. 00 min. W.,
| 7920 ft., thence S. 49 deg. 00 min. east,
1 10,560 feet.; thence north 41 deg.
•00 min. east, 2640 ft.; thence north
| 49 deg. 00 min. west, 5280 ft.; thence
i north 41 deg. 00 min. east, 5280 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. west,
5280 ft. to the place of beginning.
Containing 1280 acres situate in the
Kodiak Recording District, Alaska and
on Rex Creek, a tributary of Dry
Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04855
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 23 and 24, described as an
area commencing at a point of said
Claim No. 23 known as Corner No. 4
from which the northe&st corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears south 88 deg. 46 min. 59 sec.
W., 18,657.70 feet distant; thence from
said Corner No. 4 of Claim No. 23,
south 46 deg. 45 min. E., 5284 ft.;
thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 10,560
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.,
3960 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 10,560 ft.; thence south 41 deg.
00 min. W., 1320 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence
j south 41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft. to
i the place of beginning, said area em
| bracing 1280 acres and being situa
ted in Kodiak Recording District,
Alaska, and on Bear Creek, a tribu- !
tary of Lake Becharof on the Alaska
Peninsula.
Serial 04856
Salmon Creek Oil Claims Nos. 4, 5,
6. 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, described as an 1
area commencing at a corner known
as Corner No. 3 of said Claim No. 13
from which the southeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears north 71 deg. 9 min. 45 see.
W., 11.173.03 ft. distant; thence from
aid Coiner No. 3 south 37 deg. 15
min. E., 5393 ft.; thence south 49
deg. 00 min. E., 10,560 ft.; thense
north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. W., 5280
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.
‘320 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 5280 ft.; thence north 37 deg. 15
min. W., 5393 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 3960 ft. to the place
-;f beginning, said area embracing
1280 acres and being situated in Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Salmon Creek, a tributary of Lake
Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 01857
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 9, 10,
11 12, 13 16. 21 and 22 described as
an area commencing at a point known
as Corner No. 4 of the said Claim No.
21 from which the northeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears north 84 deg. 36 min. 40 sec.
west, 16,996.61 feet distant; thence
from said corner No. 4 south 46 dng.
45 min. E., 5284 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 2640 ft.; thence
south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 5280 ft.;
Ihence north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640
ft.; thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E.,
5280 f\; thence north 41 deg. 00 min.
E., 2640 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00
min. W. 10,560 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence south
41 deg. 00 min. W., 2640 ft., to the
place of beginning, said area embrac
ing 1280 acres and situated in the Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Bear Creek, a tributary of Lake
Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Any and all persons having adverse
or conflicting claims to said land are
hereby notified that a full statement
under oath of such claim, should be
filed in this office showing a superior
right to a permit or lease under said
act, or valid existing adverse or con
flicting claim to the land, or the min
erals or oil therein und^r the public
'and laws on or before March 12, 1924,
otherwise, such claims may be disre
garded in granting the permits or
leases applied for.
' FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication Feb. 5, 1924
Last publication March 11, 1924
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Meets 2nd and 4th Mon
days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
VIOLA T. SWETMANxV, W. M.
CLARA PERRY, Secretary.
Seward Rebekah
Lodge No. 6-A,
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Meets 1st and Ird
Monday’s o'l Each
Month, 8 p. m. Visit
lng members weicome
MRS. A, H. THODAY N. 0.
come.
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days of each month,
visiting Brethern wel
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W. O. Perry, Secretary.
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