'LOCAL NEWS
OF THE WEEK
Fred Stalder returned on Saturday’s
train from Primrose.
The dance Saturday night was a
very successful affair.
R. H. Dodson, an old time interior
chef, is en route to the states to visit
relatives.
Mrs. C. W. Tibbetts wife of the pro
prietor of the Pioneer hotel of I’air
banks is en route to the States.
^ George Colwell left today for Mile
52 after spending Sunday with hi.;
folks.
Grace G. Bostwick, representing \Y
P. Fuller & Co., is a guest of a local
hotel, en route to Juneau.
Peter Pierce, an employe at the
Anchorage dock returned home this
morning.
Mr. ana lurs. juim rauiouuci
Seward are the parents of an eight,
pound boy born yesterday morning.
Hr. Baughman attending.
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Andy Nyland, a mining operator of
the Fairbanks district, arrived on the
Northwestern and left today for his
home town.
j. j. Chisholm, representing the
West Coat Grocery company and C. W.
Chamberlain & Co., Seattle, who ar
rived on the Northwestern, left on to
day’s train for Anchorage.
Mrs. T. P. Hodgson of Amity, Ore.,
arrived on the Northwestern to visit
her sister, Mrs. Frank Kelly, of An
ehorage. Mrs. Kelly arrived on Sat
urday’s train to meet Mrs. Hodgson
J. G. Gilbert, who formerly was fore
man of the local car shops arrived or
Saturday's train and will leave on th<
Northwestern for Seat'le to spenii
^ the holidays vi,h bis lamilv.
Capt. Lamont, of the steamer St
Joseph, operating between Holy Cross
and Dikeman, amvel in Seward Sat
urday night as one of the gu?id;- witt
the gold train. He wiM go 'U>sid.
with the party.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sogn arrivec
from Anchorage on Saturday’s train
Mrs. Sogn has been called outside by
illness in her family. Mr. Sogn is ilie
newly confirmed postmaster of An
ehorage.
The Fire department made a rur
last night to the Cooper residence
but found a false alarm had beer
turned in. It appears that John Rice
one of the roomers, had retired leav
jng a lamp burning without any chim
ney, and that its flicker causee
neighbors to believe a fire was ii
progress.
Robert Sheldon, stageowner ant
hardware merchant, who arrived 01
Saturday’s train to meet Mr. J. L
Galen, his partner in the transfei
business, will leave tonight for Cor
dova, returning on the Alaska. Mr
^Sheldon is looking for a tremendous
tourist travel over the Richardson
road next season. He states the roac
has been placed in good shape anc
that fast time can be made.
ANCHORAGE FEELS SHOCK
An earthquake shoerc served An
ehorage citizens as an alarm clock
last week, the shocks, which wras one
of the heaviest for some time, lasting
25 seconds.
LOUIS HERTLE FOUND GUILTY
Louis Hertle of Anchorage was
found guilty of having intoxicating
liquor in his possession last week. Or
the second count of running a place
of public nuisance the jury hung.
MS L. Mlffl OH
OF SUM Mil
James L. Galen, of Cordova, who is
visiting in Seward at the present
time, is the owner of a 5,000 ton ves
sel, fully found, and with sufficient
coal aboard to steam to San Francisco
if desired. Mr. Galen bought the
Shinkoku Maru from the underwriters
and was given possession. The vessel
, is at present ashore on Montague
i island, but Mr. Galen has hopes of
floating her. If not she will be dis
membered by a wrecking crew and the
metal and furnishings sold.
I Mr. Galen has already taken out
some 1400 tons of Chinese coal from
the wreck. While the captain was ab
sent in Cordova a fishing boat called
at the wreck and removed numerous
articles, chopping into several cabins
and otherwise damaging ilie vessel.
As the boat was not abandoned and
the owners of the gasboat are known
action may follow.
Mr. Galen stands to realize hand
somely by his purchase.
He will leave tonight on ilie North
western lor his home in Cordova.
JUNEAU TRAP ROBBERS GET
THREE MONTHS IN PRISON
j JUNEAU: Frank Harris, W. K.
Beach and Arthur Caret, indicted for
fish piracy, were found guilty of per
jury by Judge Reed and given three
months each in jail. The jury disa
greed and was discharged. The court
and District Attorney Shoup claim to
have seen the vessel at the trap the
day it was robbed, and the court took
judicial knowledge of the facts known;
to him.
WOMAN FINED $200
Miss Nancy Berg, proprietor oi1
Nancy’s Kitchen in Anchorage, was’
'given a sentence of sixty days in
! jail and fined $200 on her plea of guii_
ty to possession of intoxicating li
quor. The court suspended the jail
sentence on promise by the defendant 1
she would keep no more liquor on her
premises.
KENNECOTT WANTS MEN
i Six miners are wanted at the Ken-j
necott mines, according to informa
tion received here. The wire states
that wages paid are $5.25 a day less
$1.45 board and eight cents for hos
pital fees. Railroad fare from Cor
dova to Kennecott will be refunded
after six months service.
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FISHING BOATS WRECKED
The fishing boats Universal and St.
Marco, owned in Seattle and chartered
i by tne Alaska Pacific Herring Com
pany of Latouche went on the rocks
near Katalla and reported a total loss
The boats under command of Tim
■ I Collins left Cordova for their home
port. Heine Berger of Cordova had
[ $2500 worth of material which the
launch \\ aif salvaged last summer
from the Cardinal, wrecked on Cl.<=ri
kot reel, on the boat^which was lost.
The crews of 15 men are at the Hoo
; nah cannery.
ALASKAN MUST PAY $10,000
AS GRUBSTAKE FURNISHED
OLIMPIA, Wn., Dec. 17.—A recent
j decision of the Supreme Court sus
. tained the King County court in al_
lowing Henry Embola $10,000 for a
loan of $320 to John Tuppella. Tuppe
j la. who was committed to the insane
asylum at Portland after he had dis
covered valuable mining claims in
Alaska wTas willing to pay the money
but his guardian refused. Tuppella
borrowed the money to fight for the
mining property and the court held
that it was a grubstake and not a
; loan.
STARR WILL SAIL WEST JAN. 10
The steamship Starr will sail west
January 10th, connecting in Seward
with the steamship Northwestern.
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Edward Robinson, an aged resident
of Seward, was found dead in his cab
in on Fourth avenue, by the glacier
str.eam, yesterday afternoon.
Robinson’s was found lying on the
floor on his back, with his hands
clutching his breast, while in one cor
ner of his cabin a small blaze was
eating into the woodwork. It is sup
posed that some friend had been vis
iting Mr. Robinson, and that he had
tossed a match or cigarette into the
place where the blaze started. When
found rigor mortis had set in, indi_
eating that death had occurred sev
eral hours previously, presumably
from heart failure or other organic
trouble.
For the past severa, years Mr. Rob
inson had subsisted by doing odd
.jobs, living in a small shack at the
bridge head. He came to Seward from
North Bend, Wash., where it is said
he has relatives living. He had been
married several times, being divorced
from his last wife. It is stated that
a daughter lives in Fall City. Wn.
The body is being held at the under
taking parlors until relatives can be
communicated with.
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The season’s clean-up from the Idit ;
arod district amounting to several
hundred thousand dollar-., reached.
Seward Saturday night and will be ‘
+aken to the States on the Northwest
ern tonight. The gold train composed
of 15 persons, left Iditarod November
20, in cuarge of Ira F. Wood and W.
S. vVooi, 01 the firm of Wool’:. Trans-,
.or Company. They came over thO|
trail to Nenana from Mol -at 1, and
experienced no trouble until after they;
passed Tacotna, from which point the
trail was very rough.
The Woods Brothers operate gas,
boats on the river.
Henry P. Daley, t former \ aidez
mining mine, who left for the states1
about two years ago, suffering from
bad health, died at Doise City, Idaho,
November 24.. Mr. Daley was 63
years of age and was born in Marys
ville, California, and was one of the
pioneers of the Boise Basin having
gone there with his parents in 1867.
With the discovery of gold in Alaska
Mr. Daley joined the stampede and
spent about twenty years mining and
prospecting. He is survived by a son,
Dewey, of Idaho City, and three sis
ters, Mrs. Jos. Penrod and Mrs. Reid
of Boise, and Anna Daley of Tacoma.
RIIFliS J. DIMS DEAD
Deceased Was a Recent Visitor to
Seward in Company with Manager
KETCHIKAN, Dec. it.—Rufus J.
Davis, engineer and marine superin
tendent for the New England Fisher
ies Company died here yesterday of
pneumonia.
Mr. Davis only recently returned
from a trip to Seward and Kodiak in
the interests of his company.
MINOR MATTERS DISPOSED
OF IN CORDOVA COURTS
At the Cordova session of district
court for the Third division Judge E.
E. Ritchie of Valdez disposed of the
following cases:
In the case of the appeal of William
Tiedman he plead guilty to two counts
and was fined $250 for larceny and
given a 60-day suspended sentence for
violating the dry law.
Two divorces were granted in the
cases of Caroline Barry versus James
Barry and Harriet Beasley versus
Richard Beasley. Judgment was re
served by the court in the case of
N. J. Black versus Selma Black.
The case of George Osnorne versus
Ben Osborne was settled by stipula
tion.
John Angus Cameron, Patrick Dono
hoe, and Paul Hartman were granted
citizenship papers.
In the U. S. Commissioner’s Court
at McCarthy last week Chas. G. Lan
ell alias Chas. Gilbert, alias Charles
Olsen was charged with being an ac
cessory to a felony by concealing and
aiding in the theft of $60 from Arvid
Anderson. Defendant was bound over
to await the action of the grand jury.
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If You Are Doing Business
With Mail Order Concerns
If you are sending your cash out of town—doing
with mail order concerns—keep mum about the growth—
business
-the indus
tries—the advantages or beauty of the town. You have no boast coming. It
is a good town not because of you, but in spite of you.
If you are not a Hosie Trader Yea are a
Traitor to the Best Interests of the Town
This community is made up of individuals. Its prosperity
depends on individual effort. If you send your money away for goods
that can be purchased here, you injure the town—and yourself
When you buy from a mail order concern—your money is
gone for good. Not one red cent of it ever comes back. None of
it pays for taxes. None of it pays store rent, clerk hire—or does a blessed
one of the dozens of things accomplished by home-spent money.
Suppose everyone in this city sent away for their mer
chandise. The town would go to rack and ruin. You wouldn’t be
able to give property away. There would be little employment for labor.
Schools—churches—everything of a public nature would be stripped to poor
house poverty. There’s no reason why anyone should deal with mail order
concerns. Your home town merchant carries the best grades of merchandise
on the market. They are goods of recognized merit. They are sold at
practically one price the world over. You know you are getting full value in
quality. The biggest manufacturers in the country insure that with their
trademarks. Your purchases are protected. There is no buying dissatisfaction
—long waits—long distance return costs—or delivery charges.
Your dealer appreciates your patronage. He puts forth
every effort to hold your trade. He becomes intimately acquainted
with your likes and dislikes—consequently can serve you in the most satisfac
tory manner. And to top off all of these important advantages—your local
merchant can save you money.
By all means talk up your town—but first win the right to
speak by spending your money at home. It is the solid worth of home
spent money — not words that establishes the public wealth and welfare
of the community. . ,
Donate to the good of the town by trading IN town—and get the greatest value for your dollars.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company
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