SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
SEWARD ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
Published Daily Except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING CO.
Selby & Hoben, Proprietors
H. B. Selby, Editor
Entered as Second Matter, Septem
ber 2, 1915, at the Post Office at
Seward, Alaska, under Act of March
3, 1879.
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Beaver Farming May
Be Lucrative Business
That beaver may be scientifically
farmed in the not far distant future
is the question brought up in a re
cent issue of the Fur Farmer maga
zine. The business is safe, profita
ble and a job which a woman can han
die. The magazine states that a
number of uses can be found for the
animal as well as for the fur among
which are:
As a food delicacy beaver liver Is
considered by the trapper as food
fit for the gods.
Beaver tail soup was once on the
menue of early day hotels and pio
neers.
Beaver castor when available was
the basis of high grade perfumes. It
is still in demand at high prices.
Beaver tail leather consists of a
thick skin covered with thorny-like
scales of a more delicate pattern
than alligator leather. There will be
a big demand for it when available
in quantity for high grade wallets,
fly books, etc.
Beaver castor or beaver musk was
used by old Hudson Bay trappers as
a specific for venereal diseases. Also
as a specific for Spotted or Moun
tain Fever. •
Beaver skin, unlike most other fur
bearing animals, will not peel read
ily from the carcass. It must be
cut inch by inch but one cut being
made in the skin and that is from
the vent to the tip of the lower jaw.
The legs must be pulled through
without splitting as with the front
legs of a mink or muskrat. Stretched
flat on a board or laced in a hoop
and then carefully fleshed. Keep in
a cool dry place until ready for ship
ment.
Continuing the Fur Farmer says
that once the most numerous of all
fur bearing animals, beaver could not
be caught in sufficient quantities to
supply the demand. Furs of the bet
ter grades are gettjig scarcer and
scarcer every day.
‘^GO” A NEW JAP GAME
MAY RIVAL MAH JONGG
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 13.—Now
comes GO, Jape-nose game, as a pos
sible rival of Man Jongg of old CNi
na.
GO—half like tie American n..*
dren’s game of Tic\ tack-toe <:.d
half like grandfather's chess—is tic
favorite pa. t.me <? i vrtland’s • r u
nese colony, *t has hundreds of tit
tle shell or bone Gc jshi (ma'iir*)
which should ulease citinty ferain ne
fingers.
The Go board is a square piece of
polished wood with 38 eris-cross lines
dividing it into squares. The first!
player places a Go-ishi of her color
on any one of the intersections of;
any one of the 38 lines. The play- j
ing goes on turn by turn.
The Go-ishi, once played, remain in j
place until entirely surrounded by;
Go-ishi of the opposite color. The cor-;
nered ones are lifted from the board
and become the property of the
player who has trapped them.
The Go-ishi picked up constitute
the points by which the game is won;
or lost. Play continues until all the
Go-ishi are out of one of the bowls
the player having the empty bowl
■winning. Some players finish a game
in half an hour, other deliberate half
a day without playing a single Go
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
After September thirtieth all lighting current
will be sold THROUGH METERS ONLY, and
all flat rates will be discontinued.
In order to reorganize our accounting sys
tem is will be neeesary for us to discontinue
installations of meters on September twenty
fifth and until after October first.
Seward Light and Power Company
5 ishi. The game is said to be easy
jto learn.
1HE AMERICAN RED CKOSii
AND ITS DUTIES IN WAR
“To furnish volunteer aid to the
sick anil wounded of armies in time
of war in accordance with the spirit
and conditions of the Treaty of Ge
neva’’—Thus does the Congressional
Charter define the initial duty of the
American Red Cross.
The first necessity, that of a com
fortable bed, in an environment con
ducive to recovery, is given the
wounded man in a base hospital,
j From the base hospital, the smaller
mobile units are usually organized.
These care for him in the zone of ad
vance where he is first injured.
The organization of base hospitals
is entrusted by the U.,S. Govern
I ment to the A. R. C. because it pos
! sesses funds independent of Congres
sional appropriation. In the organi
zation and equipment of 54 base hos
pitals for the army and 6 for the Na
vy, the society accomplished the
greatest singlepiece of medical prep
| aration in the history of medicine or
i war. The personnel consisted of 265
persons for each unit, and the equip
ment ranged from thermometers to
refrigerating plants . This equipment
; cost an average of $75,000 for each
unit. When the last bed had been
! stored away and the last surgeon and
| the last nurse had agreed to respond
| to call, the muster-in-i-oll was sent
' to the U. S. Surgeon-General and
there filed as a reserve personnel of
! the military establishment.
At the end of the World war, the
A. E. F. were maintaining 45 base
J hospitals in France and England, 39
! of which had been organized and
; equipped by the A. R. C.
The American Red Cross
Nursing Service.
The A. R. C. Nursing Service is
the official reserve of the U. S. Ar
my and Navy. In time of peace, the
A. R. C. nurses are enrolled for fu
ture patriotic service. When the U.
S. took up arms against Germany,
A. R. C. nurses to the number of 18,
000 went into the Army and Navy
Nurse Corps. Two out of every three
Navy nurses and four out of every
five Army nurses were A. R. C.
nurses.
Women and Children Worked
At Home.
During the great war, 8,000,000
American women and children in Red
Cross work rooms, made 371,500,000
relief articles such as surgical dress
ings ,refugee garments, comfort
bags, front line packets, and other
articles too numerous to mention.
Canteen Service.
The soldier en route to camp—the
sick and the wounded need refresh
ment and a friendly greeting to cheer
him on his way. These are the A. R.
C. furnished at railroad stations and
recreation huts at home and overseas
through its canteen service.
The Motor Corps.
Here at home the motor corps
numbered 12,000 women who donated
their time and the use of their cars
for the soldiers and sailors for am
bulance duty overseas, 4,760 men,
504 ambulances and 141 trucks were
furnished by the A. R. C.
The Evacuation Hospital.
The evacuation hospital is located
as near the first aid station as safe
ty permits. To each division of com
bat troops during the European war
there were attached two such hospi
tals. From the ambulances the bad
ly wounded were taken to shock tents
surrounded with hot blankets and
given transfusions and hot nourish
ment. Only those who know the true
conditions on the western front, know
how stupendous was the task car
ried on by the Canteen and the Med
ical service of the A. R. C.
As soon as possible the wounded
men were evacuated to the rear in a
hospital train of the U. S .Medical
Corps. These trains were often held
on sidings to give way to trains car
rying combat troops. Here again the
A. R. C. canteen women with lem
onade, ice cream, soup, coffee, cigar
ettes, magazines and smiles cheered
the men on their way.
The Base Hospital.
A most appreciated phase of Red
Cross service in the base hospitals
were the recreational facilities for
the nurses and the men. The huts
were comfortably furnished with
wicker chairs and long tables. Red
Cross women and girls were in
charge. Between April 1917 and
March 1919 the A. R. C. maintain
ed 92 recreational houses in the U.
S. and 91 huts in France.
The Red Cross Searchers.
Social workers called searchers
were assigned to base hospitals to
distribute comforts and luxuries to
soldiers; to write letters for them; to
cheer them ;to communicate with
their relatives; and to try to help the
dying in a strange land; to get flow
ers; to attend funerals and to write
the pitiful details to the home folks.
Emergency Hospitals.
When a military crisis created a
need for an emergency hospital at
a given point, the A. R. C. at the re
quest of the Army Medical Corps or
ganized and equipped it from the Red
Cross warehouses and provided the
doctors and nurses to run it. Twen
ty-nine such hospitals were turned
over to the A .E. F.
Service in French Hospitals
Nearly in 1918, the American Div
isions were brigaded among +he Bri
tish and French troops all abng the
French front. The A. R. C. was al
lowed to send nurses and aids with
supplies into the 'Fench hospitals so
that the American wounded might
find near them, in their hour of
need, women who spoke their lang
uage and who would care for them in
the way to which they were accus
tomed. Two hundred and five Amer
ican nurses and aides served in 151
1 iench military hospitals and cared
for 3000 American soldiers. They al
so helped to nurse th° French.
In brief, such is the service of the
Red Cross in war. What it does for
the Army it does for the Navy—
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
U. S. Non-Mineral Survey
No. 1420.
Serial No. 05418
United States Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska.
In the matter of the application of
Wilbur J. Erskine, for leave to en
ter as a Soldier’s Additional Home
stead a tract of land situate on the
north-east shore of the north-east
arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island,
Territory of Alaska ,and containing
21.03 acres.
Notice is hereby given that Wilbur
J. Erskine, a citizen of the United
States, whose Post Office adress is Ko
diak, Alaska, as assignee of James M.
Wyrick, a beneficiary under Section
2306 or 2307, United States Revised
Statutes ,has filed application to en
ter the lands embraced in U. S. Non
Mineral Survey No. 1420, which are
situated on the N. E. shore of the N.
E. arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island,
in the Territory of Alaska, Lat 57*
46' 30" N., Long. 153° 23' 30" 'W.,
containing 21.03 acres, and more par
ticularly described as follows, to-wit:
(Mag. Var. 23° 45' E.)
“Commencing at Corner 1, whence
U. S. L. M. No. 1420 bears S. 41°
20' 16" E. 9.96 chs., thence meander,
ing mean high tide line N. 75° 17' W.
1.29 chs., N. 87° '12' W. 4.74 chs., N.
53° 47' W., 1.39 chs. N. 36° 40' W. 3.27
chs., N. 84° 50' W. 4.98 chs., N. 52° 58'
W. 2.61 chs. N. 22° 43' W. 1.78 chs. to
Cor. 2; thence N. 7.57 chs. to Cor. 3,
thence E. 16.72 chs to Cor. 4; thence
S. 15.27 chs., to Cor. 1, the place of
beginning.
Any and all persons claiming any
portion of the above described tract
are required to file in the United
States Land Office, at Anchorage, Al
aska, their adverse claim or claims
during the period of publication, or
within thirty (30) days thereafter.
Dated this 1 day of May, 1924.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register U. S. Land Office.
First Publication, Aug. 7, 1924.
Last publication Sept. 13, 1924. Dly
Boat Service
Come to Lake Kenai for your
Moose Hunt, camping outfits
for rent. Write or telephone
reservations to
Howard Long
LAKEVIEW, ALASKA
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COPPER BLOCK HOTEL
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Steam Heated Rooms; Solid Comfort
HOT BATHS
BaKery FISHER’S Cafe
Where Meals Are Enjoyed
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Phone — Adams 108
SEWARD chas. fisher, rwp. ALASKA
providing base hospitals and com
forts for sick and wounded in port
and at sea. Such is the help that
will be available to our country when
ever it is needed if we, as members
of the Red Cross continue to give
it our interest and our membership
fees;
NOTE: The information for this
article wTas taken from a new book
by Elizabeth Pickett, called “The
American National Red Cross, It Or
igin, Purposes and Service.”
Ladles’ and Gents’ Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
CAN USE A FEW MORE CUS
TOMERS AT THE O. K .BARBER
SHOP.
Suits made to measure. See Ur
bach. tf.
Remington Portable Typewriters at
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
Classified Advertising
FOR RENT—F.ight toon furnished
flat ,with bath. Sc-e Dougherty—
Phone Madison f>i.
—
FOR SALE—Bargain in tent—8x10,
and large canvass. Call at Palace
Pool Room.
FOR SALE—Eighteen knot speed
boat, 36 feet long, powered with
50 horsepower Buick motor. Take
her away for $400. Andrew Gros
vold, Sand Point, Alaska. tf.
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FOR RENT—Furnished apartments,
See Mrs. Paulson. tf
TO NUKA BAY GOLD FIELDS
GAS BOAT MAY
$50 PER TRIP PER LOAD
Plying between Seward and Nu
ka Bay, carrying freight and
passengers. Will carry |pne to
four persons and outfits.
CHARLES EMSWILER
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEWARD GRILL
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Pleasant Surroundings
Courteous Treatment
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
Framed Pictures, Photographs,
Curios
SYLVIA’S
Phone Adams 128
r LIBERTY THEATRE
Two Shows Tonight—7:00 and 8:45
DOROTHY DALTON
—IN—
“THE LAW OF THE LAWLESS”
A Thrilling Story of Gypsy and Tartar'Life
Dorothy Dalton as the lartar Ala id is sold to satisfy her
father’s debts. Her exciting adventures to her final love
are great. It’s a long time since we have seen this star
and in this she is better than ever.
AND A DELIGHTFUL PATIIE'REVIEW
SUNDAY—“Gypsy Blood” a wonderful Pola Negri
feature, and a fine two-reel comedy, “Babies Welcome”
Big Dance Tonight at A. B. Hall
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA .
BECK & HIE
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &
CANDIES
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Seward Chapter No. 10
ORDER EASTERN
STAR
Meets 2nd and 4th Mon
days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
VIOLA T. SWETMANN, W. M.
SEWARD REBEKAH
LODGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets 1st and 3rd
Mondays of Each Mo.
8:0 p., m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
MRS. A. H. THODAY, N. G.
SEWARD LODGE NO.
219, F. & A. M.
Stated Communica
tions 1st and 3rd Wed
nesdays or each Mo.
Visiting Brethern Wel
come.
H. V. HOBEN, W. M.
Resurrection Lodge
No. A-7.
I. O. O. F.
Meets Thursdays at 8:00 p. m. Vsit
ing Brothers Welcome.
FRANK LAGERQUIST, N. G.
CHAS. LECHNER, SEC.
SEWARD POST NO. FIVE
American Legion
Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
A. E. RUCKER, Commander.
J. P. HANNON, Adjutant.
IGLOO NO. NINE
Pioneers of Alaska
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday at
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
F. B. MOORE, President
C. A. M’DOUGALL, Secretary.
AMY’S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
ARON ER1CS0N
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
C. E. ORLANDER
Jeweler
Fine Watch Repairing
Ivory Curios
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
trains arrive
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
From Anchorage
8:00 A. M.
Sunday
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS \
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
Ray & David
attorneys at law
Seward and Anchorage
SEWARD OFFICE:
Harriman Bank Building
W. Edmunds, Oph. D.
and Dr. ETHEL A. K. EDMUNDS
Doctors of Ophthalmalogy and Gradu
ate Optometrists
E>es Examined, Glasses Correctly Fit
ted. Optcal Department Fraser-Pat ter
son Co. Office Telephone Main 2174.
Second at University St. Seattle, Wn.
20 Successful Years in Seattle
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Located in Harriman Bank Bldg,
until permanent quarter* are
completed in Tecklenberg building
Dr, J, A, Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
Hugh Dougherty
FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT
Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 58
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Arcade Building
Phone Adams 121 Seward, Alaska
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE >
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