FIRE DEPARTMENT MEET
The ghost walks at tonight’s regu
lar monthly meeting of the Seward
Volunteer Fire department, so it is
quite likely a full attendance of mem
bers will be on hand. However, for
the benefit of those who might be
thinking of staying away it is announc
ed the report of the recent New Year’s
Eve dance will be read which should
be of considerable interest. Other de
partmental business will come up for
action.
Starr Dance Saturday night.
Take
THE FUR FARMER
MAGAZINE
and know the fur business. It
deals with every phase of fur
farming. Learn hour others made
a success of farming fur bearing
animals.
Address
21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer in Watches and
Clocks, Nugget Jewelry,
Did Ivory, Curios, and
i full line of goods usu
ally carried in a first class
Jewelry store.
Watches Repaired on
Short Notice
W.VAWW/A'WAV.m'A
ALEUTIAN GROUP
IS WEIRD LAND
SAYS. REPORT
ISLES FORM HUGE ARC ACROSS
PACIFIC OCEAN; CLOSELY
RESEMBLES SlRIDGE
AMERICA’S POWDER MAGAZINE
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I Geological Survey Parties Each Year
Conduct Investigations of
Strange Land.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8. (JP)
—Lying like a huge suspension
bridge, one end of which is fastened
to North America and the other to
old Asia, the Alaska Peninsula and
j the Aleutian Islands describe a tre
I mendous geographic arc' across the
j North Pacific. Atop it lies the
j,Bering Sea, which appears to be
so heavy as to weight down 'the
Ibridge so that the arc it describes
is almost perfect.
It is a mystic land today. It
is known, but most of it Is un
mapped and its idiosyncrasies are
manifold. At the American end
is the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes, that weird land of fire and
! steam, where the earth belches
] flame, smoke, hot gas and clouds
of vapor, and where treacherous
! quicksand lies in wait to trap the
! unwary. And here is where there
; is a river with its bed higher than
i its banks, and where a desolate
and ruined landscape mocks the
visitor.
Following the peninsula one en
counters massive glaciers, hidden
lakes, volcanoes that lie donnant
or supposedly extinct, as Katmai
had lain until it exploded with' a
ifury that was heard 750 miles away
and left the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes as evidence of its power.
Giant {Bears.
Giant Kadiak bears lope about
over the terrain, terrifying in their
size—they often attain a length of
! twelve and .one-half feet—indiiffer
I ent to man and beast, as if they
were conscious of the security their
sizes gives them. The initiates in
ithat weird land say that it requires
many bullets of large caliber to stop
them once they are aroused.
There are forty-two volcanoes in
the Alaskan Peninsula and the Aleu
tian Islands. Some of them are ac
tive; some of them are dormant;
some of them are extinct—supposed
ly so. There is the giant crater of
Aniakchak, which from a distance
appears to be but a circle of peaks,
ibut once one of these peaks is as
cended it becomes apparent thait here
is the mute mouth of a terrestial
monster, which may or may not be
eternally silent. From all appear
ances, at least from cursory glances,
ithe crater is dead, but hidden away
in the vast floor a warm spring bub
bles—a wicked warning that appear
ances sometimes are deceiving. The
peninsula and the islands are a part
of a garland of volcanic chains that
is festooned rather fantastically about
ithe Asiatic Pacific. Starting with
Katmai—and excluding the volcanoes
in interior Alaska, Mt. Wrangell and
Mt. Edgecombe—it scallops its way,
convex to the ocean, thousands of
.miles to tropical Sumatra, where it
runs out, to the east, into the Paci
fic, and to the west, into the Indian
I
Ocean.
This garland begins with Katmai
and one has the impression that
here is the start of a tremendous pro
cession. From Katmai it proceeds to
cross the peninsular-insular bridge,
descending beneath the sea after it
leaves the Near Islands, arising again
at Bering Island, and then leaping
across to Kamchatka* There it turns
sharply to the leflt and runs south,
THE SEWARD
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Weekly Gateway
Will be published every Friday, the
first issue appearing in February
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TIIE SEWARD WEEKLY GATEWAY WILL BE A NEW DEPARTURE in
„ i , , f Alaska iournalism, and will start off with a circulation of nearly K»00
«,picf It wI l contaTn the Associated Press News of the week, local news and Ter
ritorial News as well as news of the mining and fishing industries. The Seward
Weekly Gateway will have nearly exclusive entry to ^.y’^Xco—nd^riTs
ard owin" to geographic location, and will have a splendid staff of corresponaents
in each camp. Subscribers taking the Saturday Gateway will be tians er e
Weekly Gateway as it will be more in line with what they expect in a wee y pap •
We believe this new venture will prove sueessful inasmuch as it will offe
tising medium for outside advertisers to reach the westward public.
While The Seward Weekly Gateway will be published m Seward, time at
least, it will be distinctively an Alaskanpublication, by Alaskans for
vertising rates will be 50 cents per inch ‘per issue or $-.00 per month.
Only $3.00 the Year
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at right angles to its farmer , line
of march, until it enters the Kurile
islands.
It continues south through this
archipelago until it reaches Japan,
and then, at the center of the Is
land Empire, as if it were weary
of the procession, a detacliment
leaves the column and deserts into
the Pacific, where it runs out sev
eral hundred miles from the shore.
The remainder of the parade
continues south, across the sea to
Formosa, and then, turning south
east, hurdles to the Philippines. It
again divides in these islands, fork
ing to the southeast to reach the
(Celebes and swerving to the south
west into Borneo. From these is
lands it jumps to Sumatra and flat
lens out like the cross of a T, run
ning east to the Pacific and west to
•the Indian Ocean.
Here the parade reaches its final
/bivouac and ceases. And all along
that line of march the steps of the
procession are marked by ithe roar
of eruption and the flare of lava
torches and incandescent sand. It
is a violent march they play and
sometimes it shakes the earth and
wrecks cities, of which the recent
cataclysm in Japan gives horrible
evidence.
Investigating.
The Geological Survey of the De
partment of the Interior, the Gen
eral Land Office and the linked
States Coast and Geodetic Survey
are conducting investigations in
this weird land. Each year their
experts are mapping it, laying it
out and determining its character.
Each year they return with news
that add to the picturesqueness of
Ihe place, and every time they re
turn they have a craving to go back
and investigate the many unknown
features that still lie hidden.
Among the most recent discover
ies have been those in connection
with the giant Aniakchak crater and
others in that vicinity. These were
made by a party sent out by the
Geological Survey, an annual expe
dition under the leadership of R. H.
Sargent, topographic expert of the
survey. These discoveries throw new
light on several features of this re
markable country, which might be
termed America’s powder magazine.
Smokers’ sets and fine merschaum
pipes with genuine amber stems—
$8 and up—Alaska Shop. tf.
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POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
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CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
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Next Door to Liberty Theatre
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
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OGLE’S GARAGE
GASOLINE AND
WARM STORAGE
EXPERT MECHANICS
Phone Mad. 66.
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Posters,
Movie Slides,
Cartoons,
Advertising,
Publicity.
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SEWARD, ALASKA
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physlolan and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
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W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FI RE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office In Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
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