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J. L. GRAEF
HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANGES
Skiis and Snowshoes
Service Is Our Watchword
FIRST WHITE WOMAN TO
ENTER KLONDIKE NOW IN
JOHANESBURG, AFRICA
Mrs. Ulstra McDonald, a former res
ident of Dawson, writes the Dawson
News from Johannesburg, South Af
rica, where she and her husband have
been for the past twenty years. The
letter recites the experience of the
writer (she was then a bride of less
than 18 years old) and her husband
in reaching the Klondike by the Teslin
trail, leaving the steamer at Wran
gell and going up the Stikine. Five
months were required to reach Daw
son from Wrangell. The writer tells
of how “Swift Water Bill” Gates gave
her the glad hand on her arrival at
Dawson early in the summer of ’9S
and makes inquiry for many of the
oldtimers. a great number of whom
are now dead. Mrs. McDonald was
the first woman to enter the interior
via the Stikine Teslin route.
COLD WEATHER AT HYDER
NOT AN UNUSUAL THING
(From Hyder Herald)
Apropos of the cold snap of the
past week it is reported by old timers
i that much cold weather has developed
several times during the camp’s ex
istence. Temperatures of 20 below
zero or lower, have been recorded and
on at least one occasion the cold be
came so intense that Portland Canal
was frozen over from the Stewart tide
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
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Dental and General
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Phone Mad. 108-Seward, Alaska
J. W. Edmunds, Oph. D.
and Dr. ETHEL A. K. EDMUNDS
DOCTORS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
AND GRADUATE OPTOMETRISTS
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ted. Optical office, Fraser-Paterson
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Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska !
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Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 58
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Office in Arcade Building
Phone Adams 121 Seward, Alaska
flats to a point near the mouth of the
Marmot River. This fact was verified
i recently by the master of the steamer
| Cliiliwack who stated that on one of
his first visits to this port in the
| days when Hyder was known as Port
[ land City, the canal was frozen over
| solidly to a point about opposite the
I present Hyder Dock site and his ves
| sel landed its cargo on the ice, from
[whence it was transported to land by
| sleds.—Hyder Herald.
GEOLOGIST SCOFFS
AT IDEA CINTINENTS
WERE OCEAN BEDS
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—The contin
jents Atlantic and Gondwanaland,
| which scientists have said spanned
| the space now covered by the w aters
j of the Atlantic, connecting the west
I ern hemisphere wuth Africa hun
! dreds of thousands of years ago, are
1 little more than geological fantasies,
[according to Prof. R. T. Chamberlain,
[ University of Chicago, geologist.
! “And, what is more,” declares
Prof. Chahberlain, “the present
continents were never ocean beds,
as has been supposed.
“Our continental areas have been
i continental areas several million
j years,” the Chicago geologist con
| tends. He sattes there have been
[ changes, but such changes have been
j slight. The Atlantic ocean, he cites,
for example, was but little farther
eastward three million years ago
j than it is today.
j Prof. Chamberlain, however, finds
| that the numerous disconformities
in the records of rock strata show
[that these submerged areas have
i been transient and shifting.
—
j Rodman Wanamaker, of New York,
carries $6,000,000 life insurance, be
ing the most heavily insured person
in the world.
GERHARD JOHNSEN
Mason and Plasterer
Phone Adams 60 Box 1423
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PRINCESS SIGNS AS DANCER,
FIRST OF LINE TO WORK
Princess Ketto Mikeladz, whose
long line of forbears dating back 500
years had never thought of work, has
taken a contract as a dancer in a
New York Theater. She escaped from
Russia during the revolution, with
her small child, her husband having
probably been killed off. With Jew
els saved by the servant, she lived for
quite a while in different European
cities, before coming here at the be
hest of Prnicess Matchabelli, co-star
of “The Miracle,” who helped her to
go on the stage.
DEPOSTED MILITARY GOVERNOR
GAINS CONTROL OF SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, Jan. 12.—Victors and
I vanquished in yesterday’s coup by
; which Chi Sieh Yuan, the deposed
I military governor, regained control of
Shainghai, joined in an orgy of loot
ing today.
With *3 teiepnones for each 100
people Omaha has more telephones
considering its population than any
other city in the world. Seward has
one to every five persons.
MURPHY RECOVERING
P. J. Murphy, brother of J. C. Mur
phy, Anchorage attorney, who sustain
ed a severe accident while working in
the yards of the Alaska railroad com
pany, has been discharged from the
hospital as convalescent.
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BODY OF MISSING
STEWART EAN
FOUND IN WATER
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Norman McKenzie, who
had been missing from his usual
haunts in Stewart for several weeks,
was solved last week with the find
ing of his remains by Chas. Knipple
in the headwaters of Portland Canal,
a short distance below the mouth of
Bear River.
The body was lying in shallow water
near a float located a short distance
from the end of the old wharf.
Despite the long emersion, the body
was in a good state of preservation
and easily recognized by those who
knew him in life. •
The remains bore no marks indi
cating violence and it is the general
view that the unfortunate man was
the victim of accidental drowning.
McKenzie was last seen close to a
month ago, when he left the cabin of
a friend in Stewart with whom he had
been visiting to go to one of the stores
to make some purchases. He intend
ed to return to spend the rest of the
evening with his friends, but he fail
ed to make his appearance. So far
as could be learned he was not seen
afterward until his mud covered body
I was discovered by Knipple.
When the body was taken from the
water it was found that the pockets
and other openings in his clothing
were packed with mud. This is be
lieved to indicate that the deceased
met his death by falling into Bear
River, the remains being carried down
stream to tide water.
McKenzie was a carpenter by trade
and w'ell-known in Hyder and Stewart.
Automatic couplings have at last
been adopted on English railroads,
which until recently used the chain
couplings in vogue when Queen Eliz
abeth was a baby.
Wm. Shanahan of Lynn, Mass., se
cured permission from the court to
change his name to “Hugh Manity.”
MINER MEETS DEATH
AT PREMIER MINES
_
Alto Lazze, a miner engaged in run
ning a raise in the Premier Mine, was
fatally injured by an exploding round
of shots in the mine workings early
last week and died shortly afterward
in the Premier hospital. As the un
fortunate man was alone at the time
no one knows the full details of the
accident, beyond that Lazzo had fired
a round of fifteen holes and was on his
way to safety when the shots explod
ed.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
The regular meeting of the Ameri
can Legion will be held tonight at
Fisher Cafe at 8 p. m. All members
are requested to be present.
A MODERN CHEMELEON
A cache of 96 bottles of bonded
goods, including King George, John
j ny Walker and other popular makes
j of liquor, was discovered on Garden
! Island on Saturday by Special Officer
i D. W. Flannigan. The booze was hid
in an old trunk and box, where it had
evaded detection since last July. La
ter—It was found, upon examination
at the courthouse after the liquor had
been removed to the marshal’s office,
that the bottles contained only com
mon mule, its only virtue being great
er age than most of the booze handled
by the average bootlegger in Alaska.
An aged Italian in Rome who had
been bedridden for years, recovered
the use of his limbs when struck by
lightning. We would not advise our
readers to experiment in this manner.
Gasoline and Storage
P. M. OGLE
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Builders’ Supplies
The “Saturday Evening
Roast”
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E. E. KURTZ, Manager
Frew Delivery Phone Main 130