SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD,. ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE' BUILDING
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santlary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
fleets All Boats and Trains
MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
Our Motto:
“THE BEST”
SEWARD DAIRY
TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
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Membership of British Trade
Unions Shows Large Increase
LONDON, AUg. 17. (£>)—’The an
nual report of the General Federa
tion of Trade Unions shows a total
membership of 830,316, the smallest
recorded since 1912. The decrease
last year was reported 89,734. The
receipts, $288,650, show a decrease
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
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
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM OSBO
Residence—Madison 123
of $16,105 from the previous year.
W. A. Appleton, secretary of the
federation, discussing the situation,
said:
“The greatest of the losses arise
from amalgamations and loss of mem
bership in the unions themselves,
and some arise from the poverty
of unions who thru unemployment
find their contributions smaller. In
some cases they find themselves han
dicapped thru war-time commitments
to expenditures which after war
time incomes cannot meet.”
H. V. Hoben left on today’s train
with the Shriner party for a trip to
Interior cities.
Grane's
d&nen dCaton
\ THE CORRECT WHITOv'O PAPER ]
The Alaska Shop
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for the Seldo
via Precinct, Third Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, at Seldovia.
In the matter of the estate of M. C.
Knutsen, deceased, No. 23.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by
the undersigned, administrator of the
estate of M. C. Knutsen, deceased,
to the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against the said de
ceased to exhibit them, with the ne
cessary vouchers, within six months
from the date of this notice, to the
said administrator at his place of
business, at Seldovia, Alaska.
Dated at Seldovia, Alaska, this
14th day of July, 1925.
J. J. JENSEN,
Adm. of M. C. Knutsen estate.
Publish, July 20, 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17. 5t.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
JL Stated communications first
third Wednesdays of each
/\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
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
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
F. 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, M- G
Mrs. Viola
Alaska Interior Silver
Black Foxes, a limited
number of 1925 pups will
be sold this season. If you
wish good foxes to start
your ranch with. Let me
furnish you your breeders
Price $500 per Pair f. o. b.
Kasilof, Alaska
Kasilof Silver Fox Ranch
Louis Nissen, Propr.
Kasilof, Alaska
FOREIGN ENVOYS FIND
LIFE RATHER TEDIOUS
IN BOLSHEVIK CAPITAL
MOSCOW, Aug. 17. (£>)—1To relieve
the tedium of life the foreign diplo
mats and newspaper correspondents,
the Moscow government has adopted
the expedient of giving free theatri
cal entertainments once a month.
Early in June a distinguished gath
ering of ambassadors, consuls and
Soviet commissars were the guests
of the Soviet government at a con
cert given at the State Opera House,
which wa3 featured by ballet dances,
operatic pieces and vocal solos by
Bolshevik Russia’s best artists. The
atrical Square, where the ambassa
dorial automobiles drew up, resem
bles Times Square, New York, at
the busiest theatrical hour. Moscow
has not seen so many fine limousines
since the days of the Czar. The
flags of all nations were seen, the
French tricolor being especially con
spicuous.
Whether because of the complete
absence of social life generally or
to the high cost of living, the for
eign embassies and legations enter
tain only on rare occasions. Invita
tions to dinner or to parties from
the members of one embassy to an
other, or to members of the Soviet
government, are seldom given. Per
haps nowhere in the world diplo
mats lead a more uneventful, unin
teresting life than in the Bolshevik
capital. Such social amenities as
evening dress suits have almost en
tirely disappeared, and a silk hat is
rarely seen.
It was believed the arrival of Jean
Herbette, the new French ambassa
dor, would relieve the dullness that
pervades the foreign missions, but
the hopes of those who sought great
er social activity and gaiety have
disappeared. The French ambassa
dor and his wife live modestdly at
the former house of the Nansen Re
lief Mission, and already have adopt
ed the quiet, unobtrusive social cus
toms of their colleagues in the dip
lomatic missions.
i On the very infrequent occasions
when entertainments are given by
j the government or by foreign mis
sions, the wives and families of the
diplomats are conspicuous by their
absence. The fact is that life in the
Russian metropolis is so dull, dif
ficult and dear, that foreign am
bassadors and ministers prefer to
leave the members of their families
at home where normal conditions
prevail and where they have the
customary social and friendly con
tact with neighbors.
After two days of idleness, owing
to the heavy rains, the Curtis sea
plane took the air today carrying
passengers. The ship has been given
a complete overhauling and varnish
ing by the aviators, Davis and Mer
rill.
Road Improvement Program
Being Carried Out In Brazil
BELLE HORIZONTE, Brazil, Aug.
17. (/P)—A boom has struck the de
velopment of state highways in the
state of Minas Geraes. The head
of the highway commission reports
that public expenditures for good
roads during 1924 totalled $350,000
and that improvements planned for
1925 will require an additional $500,
000. If completed according to pres
ent plans, the state highway system
will include 8,500 miles of good roads.
The state has a population of 6,000,
000.
So few are the good roads in Mi
nas Geraes that it has been impos
sible to motor from Belle Horizonte,
the capital, to any neighboring state.
Three roads are being worked at
present, one headed towards the
cocoa district of Brazil and the other
two towards Rio de Janeiro.
Mrs. Anna Layton of Beaver Falls,
Pa., is making inquiry through the
governor’s office for her brother,
Robert Densmore, who was employed
as a cook at Healy by the Alaska en
gineering commission in 1921.
WILL PLEAD INSANITY
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 17
Temporary insanity will be the plea
of Dorothy Ellingson when she goes to
trial soon for the murder of her
mother. Miss Ellingson was tried a
few months ago and found insane.
JUDGMENT GIVEN
MINING COMPANY
TOTALS $167,187
JUDGE REED AWARDS JUDG
MENT AGAINST KENSINGTON
MINING CO., ON OLD NOTE
(Juneau Empire)
A judgment aggregating $167,18Y
was awarded H. Lonsdale against
the Kensington Mining Co., yesterday
afternoon in the U. S. District Court
by Judge T. M. Reed. The suit was
filed several weeks ago by H. L.
Faulkner, attorney for ths plaintiff,
and judgment was given when no
appearance was made for the de
fendant corporation.
Th basis of the suit was a noie
given tc eastern bankers for $112,000,
the surpiui contained in th* judg
r*ent \< presenting unpail interest on
the note smee July, 1917. The judg
ment itself, bears interest at the rate
of 8 per cent from4 the date of is
suance.
The Kensington Mining Co., is
the owmer of a group of undeveloped
mining claims in the Berners Bay
District. 11 began exploratory opera
tions on them in 1917 but owing tc
war conditions w'as force 1 to sus
pend. No work ha3 been done there
in several years, it is under itood
to be the intention of W* plaintiT
in t.ie piosent suit to levy against
the property and clean up the lit.’o.
RecenCj there has bnen consider
able talk of a consolidation of vir
tually all nf the mining prop rites in
the Berne’s Bay distant, iicluli.g
'no Ken i: t:fon, Juaiin and Com t
groups. !: is known Mi i: this pro
ject has ..it? support of H. Via.phom,
and others with interests there. Mr.
Vanophem has just returned to New
York from a trip to France and Bel
gium. A wire just received from
him by Mr. Faulkner said that the
outlook for the proposed consolida
tion was favorable.
B. L. Thane, interested for many
years in the district, is also inter
ested in the matter. He is at present
in the east, and, it is understood,
will work with Mr. Vanophem in put
ting through the new project. De
tails of the consolidation scheme are
lacking here.
Miss Myrtle L. Simpson, of Seattle,
employed by the Crescent Manufact
uring Company of Seattle is a round
trip passenger on the steamship
Northwestern, taking her first view
of Alaskan coast towns. Miss Simp
son is in the bindery department of
the large company.
KILLS SELF WITH DYNAMITE
WINNEMUCA, Nev., Aug. 17 (/P)—
Jack Allen, a hard rock miner, who
had been discharged from a local hos
pital where he had been ill for many
months, blew himself to pieces with
a charge of dynamite in his hotel
room today.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (5*)— John
McGraw today decided to rebuild his
1924 pennant winning team, and sev
eral members will get their releases.
Details will be given out to the press
this week.
MINERS STAGE DEMONSTRATION
HENRIETTTA, Okla., Aug. 17 (/P)—
Religious processions of striking un
ion members to gain public sentiment
against the soft coal operators, end
ed today when John Russell, sheriff
of Okmulgee county, issued a procla
mation ordering such demonstrations
stopped, threatening martial law if
he were not obeyed.
POLISH FAMILIES HELD
PRISONERS BY GANG CROOKS
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 17 (£>)—Police
today discovered two Polish families
said to be residents of Tavenon,
Mass., held prisoners by a gang of
confidence men for twelve days, while
their captors robbed their i-elatives in
Mass of $2000 for their release.
Cal M. Brosius was a passenger on
today’s train for Anchorage, where he
went with the Shriner party.
Miss Albina Miller has taken the
place of Mrs. Metzdorf in the dis
bursing office of the Alaska railroad,
and Bernice Allen has taken Miss Mil
ler’s place in the accounting depart
ment.