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Newcomers
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the Bank of Seward offers you a
complete, convenient helpful bank
ing service.
Particularly do we deem it a privi
lege to serve the newcomer in
every possible way. Any officer of
our bank will be glad to give you
information regarding the city'or
surrounding country, to discuss
business conditions with you or to
assist you in any way possible.
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Bank of Seward
Depositary for Territorial Funds
Notice to Public
Seward, Alaska, Feb. 18, 1924.
COMMENCING on September 1, 1924, the
SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
will distribute electric current through meters
only. The rate for lighting, and all other uses
where the unit demand is one electrical horse
power or less will be fifteen cents per kilowatt
hour payable monthly. Current for motors
and other current consuming devices whose
unit demand exceeds one electrical horse-power
will be supplied at the rate of ten cents per kilo
watt hour, payable monthly, through separate
meters, but the right to regulate the hours for
such use is reserved to the Company.
The minimum charge for lighting, and other
uses where the unit demand is one electrical
horse-power or less, will be fifty cents for each
ampere of meter’s rated capacity per month.
The minimum charge for motors or other cur
rent consuming devices whose unit demand ex
ceeds one electrical horse-power will be at the
rate of three dollars per month for each con
nected horse-power or fraction thereof.
Deposits to the value of meters will be re
quired at the time of installation. They will be
repaid to depositor or order upon return of
meter in good condition, less a ten per cent ser
vice charge, provided all sums then due the
Company shall have been paid. Meters will be
installed in the order of the applications there
for.
S. M. GRAFF, Manager.
H. V. HOBEN
A. F. DAVIS
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
Has Coal to Burn
HEALY LUMP, NUT OR MINE RUN
BAXTER NUT OR MINE RUN -
/ EVAN JONES LUMP OR MINE RUN
NANIMO RANGE COAL, SACK OR BULK
WOOD, ICE HAY AND GRAIN '
AUTO SERVICE STORAGE
TRANSFERRING AND FORWARDING
Telephone Main 81
STRANGE THINGS DONE
’NEATH MIDNIGHT SUN
.Story of How Two Pioneer Hotel
Men of Embryonic Town
Waited for Business
‘“There are strange things done
in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their
secret tales
That would make your blood
run cold.’’ —Service.
It was during the summer of 1905
that a mining boom struck a certain
locality in Southern Yukon border
ing on the British Columbia line and
during the next few months two
towns sprang into existence, one in
Yukon and the other in B. C. but
separated by only three miles and
both on the same body of water, a
long, narrow lake known as Little
Windy Arm. Companies made ap
plication / for and were granted
townsites and real estate boomed
until corner lots were quoted in
four figures. The Yukon town was
boomed the strongest and in the
short period of three or four months
boasted a population of nearly 1,000.
But as there were a score or more of
what were touted to be “valuable
mim'ng property’’ there would be
sufficient population to make two
prosperous towns.
In those days in that locality there
were but two industries, mining and
drinking booze, and in order that
the latter might be carried on with
out undue effort on the part of the
patrons, there was a saloon on every
corner and, the blocks being short,
corners were not far apart. As the
two townsites were about equal dis
tance from the mines employing the
largest number of men, there was
no reason why the saloon business
should not flourish in both towns.
The result was that six “-paint
stores” were flourishing in the Yu-!
kon town by the time the boom in
the B. C. town started and naturally
the first buildings erected in the!
latter were so-called “hotels,’’ of
which there were two. Each was i
built of logs, contained a dozen or
fifteen rooms, the largest and best
being devoted to the sale of “gents’
furnishings.”
The buildings being completed \
and the bars generously stocked,
“grand openings” were advertised
and the two business industries were
appropriately launched in the com
mercial world although the popula
j tion of the new town at that time
i did not exceed two dozen. And in
! less than three months the mines
I closed down and by fall the only
J two residents of the town were the
| two “hotel’ ’proprietors, the others
having imitated the action of the
; Arab who folded his tent and vam
i oosed. But firm in the belief that
, the mines would resume operations
! the following spring and having
their substance practically all in
i vested in the buildings and stocks,
| the two remained and, with the clos
' ing of navigation and freezing of
the lake, there was little hope for
any winter travel as no trail by land
and connecting the B. C. town with
its more prosperous rival in Yukon
had at that time been constructed.
One of the hotels was called the
Wyntonia and the other the Belve
dere and they were separated by but
two blocks. As neither proprietor
had any family ,the result was that
each was alone in his building with
nothing to do but guard his property
and ever and anon inulge in a
“1‘onesome,” but of this they soon
became weary, for without sociabil
ity and good fellowship, there was
but little of either comfort or pleas
ure in ‘“hitting ’er up’ ’alone.
Now, it so happened that there
was but fifty cents—“fo'bits”—be
tween them and it was all in one
piece. But they were good sports and
put in with the notion that uncircu
lated money is no good. Therefore,
about 10 o’clock of every forenoon
the one who had owmed the fifty
cents over night would saunter over
to visit his neighbor, throw the four
bits on the bar (all drinks were 25
cents) and say: “Gimme a drink and
have one yourself,” anrl the man be
hinl the bar would comply with the
request and ring up the money. A
few minutes later the host would
sa^:“ Have one with me,” which in
vitation would be readily complied
with, after which the caller would
saunter back to his own place.
During the afternoon the man
who had rung up the fifty cents in
the forenoon would open the cash
Classified Advertising
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.
FOR SALE—Large new building at
Seidovia, now occupied and leased
to pool hall, barber shop, motion
picture show and restaurant. Fine
electric lighting system. Building
has’ running water ,and all mod
ern improvements. Seidovia is
booming. Write Anton Johanson,
Seidovia, Alaska.
WANTED—Cooper in herring salt
ery of 0. Hofstad & Co., Kishu
yak, Alaska, wages $150. Apply to
above on schooner Esther or to the
Gateway office. * kl8
FOR RENT—Furnished apartments,
See Mrs. Paulson. tf
FOR SALE—Three room house with
bath at sacrifice. Mrs. Chas. Krefting.
FOR SALE—Two tenths interest in
producing placer claims on Mills
creek, Moose Pass district. Claim
has three cabins, blacksmith shop,
No. One Giant, 200 feet head of
water and all tools. Cheap at $5,000
cash; money to be used in develop
ing ground. Sale must be made by
August first. Inquire Robert Mich
aelsen ,Moose Pass. tf
FOR SALE
1 Axminister rug 9x12 . $30.
I Art Square, new 9x12 .—. 15.
1 Grass Rug, new 7x8 .7.
1 wash stand . 10.
I Dining room buffet .27.50
I large leather rocker . 18.
1 cabinet bath with lamp . 10.
1 sewing machine nearly new — 20.
1 bed, spring and mattress .17-50
1 laundry stove, four-lid ...... 5.50
1 kitchen stove, four-lid.. 7.50
I wood heater .—. 5.
lbake oven for coal oil stove. 3- j
1 3-4 mattress .— 3.50
1 extra wire spring . 2.50
1 hot point electric iron. 3.00
Phone Main 3 or inquire Gateway.
FOR ONE WEEK
ONLY
We Will Sell Womens’ and
Cnildren’e
HOSIERY
t 1 4 t.
at 20 PER CENT above cost
SEE OUR WINDOWS
Banbury and Ogle
The FLOWERS GROCERY
APPLES APPLES APPLES
WHILE THEY LAST
WINESAP AND YELLOW NEWTOWNS
S3.00 Box
JOHN H. FLOWER
Phone Orders Promptly Attended To
* Phone, Main 65
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HERE NOW
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New Fall and Winter
1925 SUIT SAMPLES
mS <•* ^ „ j n , * i
WE GUARANTEE A FIT
Leon Urbach
Specialists ill Men's Wear
drawer, take out the money and
ch op an -I. 0. U. in the drawer and
step over to call on his neighbor,
where the program, of the forenoon
would be completed, the four bits
changing owners and later a “have ;
one with me.”
And so the long winter was passed, j
each of the men treating and being
treated twice every day and the fifty
cents alternating between the two
cash drawers. Every time it was j
dropped in a cash drawer an I.O.U. j
was taken out and laid to one side j
where it could be easily reached
when next required. But the boom
did not return with the spring and, j
the greater portion of the two stocks
having been depleted, the neighbors
took to visiting each other every
few minutes until the one piece of
silver was very much overworked.
But it, though thin and smooth, held
out until there was nothing left for
it to buy and the day after the last
drop had disappeared the ice in the
lake broke and the two hotel propri
etors locked up their places of busi
ness and rowed down the lake to the
Yukon town which they were sur
prised to find almost as wholly de
serted as the one they had left.
Both towns have long since been
entirely depopulated. Gophers hold
high carnivals there and owls hoot at
midnight in the deserted buildings of
both towns. The writers owns num
erous corner lots in both places, but
the mails never bring him any com
munications signe “Tax Collector.”-- 1
Stroller’s Weekly.
Ladles’ and Gents’ Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
Fresh cigars and tobaccos at Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
Remington Portable Typewriters at
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
SPECIAL FOR THIS
WEEK ONLY
Children’s Dress Hats - $1 50
Children’s CanvaL Shoes -
black or white
Wash Dresses at Cost
ELLSWORTH’S
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