OPERATORS START
ON ESTER CREEK
Brown, McKenzie, Ohlsen and Dun
nely are the first miners on Ester
creek to begin work for the winter,
■says the Fairbanks News-Miner. They
are rigging up at the present time,
preparatory to taking out a dump. It
will not be necessary to sink a shaft
as the one that is already down will
provide sufficient dirt for the winter.
The ground is about seventy feet
deep, find there is not much water.
A crew will be put on as soon as the
actual mining begins.
Brown and Dunnely purchased the
part formerly held by Henry Crook,
who left recently for the States. The
ground is on Discovery, and is own
ed by George McQuarrie. The claim
above No. 3, was the richest on Ester
creek, and a fortune was take from
it.
From all indicatinos, there will
be several claims operating on Es
ter this winter.
MANY PERSONS IN SEWARD
WILL TAKE BULLETINS
A number of Seward firms have sig
nified their intention of taking the
telegraphic election bulletins election
night, November 4, among which are
the Gateway, the Northern pool hall
and the Liberty theater. The North
ern will post corrected bulletins as
fast as they come in and the Liberty
wil give an unusually good show and
continue the bulletin service to a
late hous.
WOMAN’S CLUB
At the last regular meeting of the
Seward Woan's club held Thursday
in the fire hall, Mrs. H. B. Selby
tendered her resignation as President
for the reason that she was unable
to devote the time to the position
that is required.
Mrs. H. S .Balderston was then
nominated and unanimously elected
to fill the position of President.
Mrs. Charles Hinde was nominat
ed for Secretary and unanimously
elected to fill that vacancy left by
Mrs. Balderston. The office of cor
responding secretary and secretary
were temporarily made into one.
Plans for the card party which will
be held Thursday evening, October
30 in the Club rooms under the bank
are well under way and a good time
is being planned for every minute of
the evening.
CORDOVA COURT TERM
COMES TO END TODAY
Word was received this morning
that the court term called at Cor
dova October 1, came to an end to
day, and that the jurors and witness
es had been discharged. Several Se
ward citizens are on the jury, who
will return home on the next steam
ship.
Brunswick Portable Phonographs,
and Records, Schallerer’s Alaska Shop.
Ladles’ and Gents’ Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
The KOHLER
Automatic POWER
and LIGHT Plant
—requires no storage batteries
for power and light
—produces standard 110 volt
electricity
■—has a capacity of 1500 watts or
two ' electrical horsepower
—operates simply at the touch
of any button anywhere on
the circuit
Write for illustrated literature.
Come in and see the plant in
operation
C. E. Orlander
VOT]
AARON E
OF SEWAT
Democratic Candidate for
Lojrif
umwmr tiiikd
DR. GAYNE V. GREGORY
LEAVES FOR CALIFORNL
Dr. and Mrs. Gayne V. Gregory
who arrived from Anchorage on Sal
urday’s train, left on the steamshi
Yukon for California, wrhere they wil
reside in the future. Dr. and Mrs
Gregory will spend the holiday sea
son in Hawaii. Dr. Gregory dispos
ed of his interests in the dental bus
iness to Dr. C. A. Pollard.
MRS. BONE IN STATES
Mrs. Scott C. Bone left on one o
the recent boats for Seattle wher
she will spend the greater part o
the winter with her daughter, Mai
guerite, who is attending the U. o
W. Governor Bone will leave sooi
for Washington, D. C.
MOOSE PLENTIFUL NEAR CIRCLI
0. W. Ribidoux, a resident of tin
Circle Hot Springs district, was «
recnt arrival in Anchorage. In tell
ing of his trip Mr. Ribidoux statet
that at one point on the trail, on th<
sixth of September, the caribou wen
so thick that he had extreme difficulty
in getting through with his team o:
horses. Coyotes wee also very num
erous, he said, and were reaping i
harvest from the stragglers of th<
caribou herd. Mr. Robidoux killed '
of the coyotes and sent the leg bone:
to Juneau for the bounty. He alsc
says there are more moose in the dis
trict than there has been for the Iasi
seven years.
WARREN IN PORTLAND
H. P. Warren, who was in Sewan
during the early days of the Alaskf
railroad, is now engaged in a sane
and gravel business in Portland.
SALTERY BUNKHOUSE
SELDOVIA REBUIL1
SELDOVIA, Oct. 20.—The i*ecentlj
burned portion of the Mclver salterj
has been rebuilt with the erection o:
a complete new bunk house and mess
house. The cannery wemen employ
es are now afforded one room foi
each two women rather than a dor
mitory as was the case heretofore.
The sawmill has again resumed op
erations after the installation of j
new boiler. Mr. Keller has announc
ed that present indications predic
an entire winter program, somethin?
seldom undertaken in this line any
where in the Territory. All of whicl
goes to prove that Seldovia is botl
an enterprising and growing com
munity.
New railings have been ereetec
on the Anderson dock which no
only improves the appearance of th<
water front but also provides a mea
sure of safety not known before.
A restaurant is now under con
struction near the Alaska All Yeai
Round cannery building. It will b*
operated and owned by Bob Orr.
PETERSBURG PIONEER
DIES PIONEE'S HOME
Ole Loman, died at the Alaska Pio
neers’ Home hospital on Oct. 6th. H<
was born in Norway, August 10, 1861
and became a naturalized citizen o:
U. S., in Seattle, Wn.
He came to Alaska in ’98 and het
tied down in Petersburg and lived
there most of his time, where h(
had a garden close to town, and i
small trolling boat. On Septeber 2
last, he was brought to the Pioneers
Home, but only lived a little ovei
a month. He leaves no knowm rela
I tives.
SEWARD RADIO ENTHUSIASTS
LISTEN IN ON COOLIDGE
President Coolidge addressed the
Associated Chamber of Commerce ai
Washington, D. C. last evening and
the Bell Telephone Co. transmitted
the lecture to over 75 Broadcasting
stations throughout the U. S. and
they put it in the air with the re
suit that every one with a good re
ceiving set in North America could
listen to this lecture.
The lecture was heard in Seward
by several of our local people whe
have receiving sets.
CORDOVA SAILS NOME
The steamship Cordova sailed fron
Seattle for Nome Saturday, the las
vessel to make these northern wat
ers. She expects to reach that por
October 30.
3 FOR
. RUGKER
:D, ALASKA
Representative, Territorial
lature
DIVISION 14 YEARS
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ROAD COMMISSION WILL
WORK ON LOWER KENAI
ROAD THIS WINTER
Among the projects to be carried
' forward this winter by *he Alaska
Road Commission is the construction
of approximately eight miles of doubl:
ender and dog team trail from below
Kenai lake to Moose creek. Last
summer six miles of this road was
completed, and whic eventually will
run to Kenai. , .
f The road starts at th boundary line
of the Chugach National Forest, at
r Russian river, about seven miles be
low the west end of Lake Kenai. The
entiVe length of the Kenai trail when
completed will be 55 miles and will
n serve the purpose of opening up a
; large district during winter months
t xvhuh to date has been more or less
nand capped on account of winter
^ transportation.
. Hawley Sterling, superintended of
. the Alaska Road Commission for the
- Anchorage District, returned tc his
’ I headquarters last wvk from an inrpcc
. I tion trip to the new road work.
i _
LINOTYPE REPRESENTATIVE
RETURNS, BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Eugene B. Merovitch, executive rep
resentative of the Mergenthaler Lin
otype copany, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who
has been in Alaska since June, sailed
on the steamship Yukon for the Out
side, While in Alaska, Mr. Mero
t vitch visited practically every town
in the Territory, including Nome, and
I was profuse in his praise of Alaskans
and the beautiful scenery he saw on
his travels. Mr. Merovitch while in
Seward received an order from the
• Gateway for one of the lastest model
“14” machines, with head letter, ex
tra magazines, electric pot, and a
complete series of modern job goth
■ ics. This machine will be delivered
in November, and with the new mod
el “8” recently purchased gives us
the finest composing room equip
. ment in Alaska. Mr. Merovitch stat
ed while here that Seward and Fair
banks were the two most prosperous
. towns north of Ketchikan, and that
both towns apparently had a prosper
. ous future.
Mr. Merovitch served in the late
; war with the lfying squadron in
■ France, and later was annexed to
i the Russian expeditionary forces,
i where he served thruout the cam
- paign. He speaks Russian, German,
French and Spanish fluently, and has
traveled in practically every civilized
i country on the face of the globe.
From Seward he will go to Juneau,
1 Ketchikan, and thence to New York,
■ via Seattle. Next year he expects
to tour Europe in the interest of his
company, and will again visit Alaska
- within the next few years.
Machines were placed in Nome,
1 Dawson, Fairbanks, Seward and pos
sibly Sitka while on his trip.
WHALER KODIAK IN PORT
The whaler Kodiak, arrived in port
yesterday and took fuel oil from the
Standard Oil tanks. The Kodiak is a
sister ship to the whaler in last week
and started for Seward in her com
pany. A heavy gale separated the
vessel and the Kodiak was late in
reaching port.
RANCH NEAR SEWARD
SOLD TO JOE WILSON
Tom King, well known rancher in
this vicinity, located at Mile 314, sold
his 6-acre tract of land including
house and outbuildings to Joe Wil
son of Seward. Mr. Wilson will take
possession immediately.
Mr. Wilson, who is well known in
Seward, with his two sons has been
hydraulicking up at Moose Pass for
the last summer and since coming to
town the other day made the pur
chase. He a-v] hi? two sous will oc
cupy their new home soon.
Tom King, known by many in the
Territory will leave Seward on one
of the next boats for Juneau for a
well earned vacation. After spending
1 about two weeks in the capital city
he will return to Seward. His in
tention is to go into the Kuskokwim
region and do some prospecting. Ow
1 ing to all navigable water being iced
up this time of the year he will go
to Fairbanks upon his return and
then over the trail.
Mr. King came to Alaska 'in the
early days and settled first in Ket
chikan. In Ketchikan he was pro
prietor of a machine and blacksmith
ing establishment and won no mean
reputation at the business. He came
to Seward in 1915 and has been in
this vicinity ever since. .
M’FARLAND-LUBBE WED
(Anchorage Times.)
According to word received by Ma
jor E. R. McFarland from Portland,
Oregon, Miss Edna McFarland and
Fred Lubbe, both well known in Se
ward, were married September 20th.
The newlywedded couple will reside
at 340 Bancroft St., in the Rose City.
AGED SQUAW REVEALS HI
2 JUNEAU EDITOR; A\
(Stroller’s Weekly.)
Mary Thlantich, the Indian wo
man who prevented wholesale mas
sacre of the white residents of Sitka
I in the year 1879 when her cousin
Chief Katlean, was out for revenge
for the loss of five Indians drowned
from the fishing schooner San Dieyc
and who has spent the past three
weeks in Juneau, left for Sitka with
a party of Indians in a small boat
Thursday morning. Much of the
three weeks Mary spent in Juneau
was with the family of Rev. Fathei
Kashevaroff, having, as she says
known Mrs. Kashevaroff since she
was “one leetle girl.” Accompanied
by Mrs. Kashevaroff she paid a visit
to the editor of the Stroller’s Week
ly at his office Wednesday evening
when the following interesting story
of her life was obtained. Inciden
tally, Mary speaks English fairly
well, but when she failed to under
stand questions propounded Mrs.
Kashevaroff would come to the res
cue in the Thlinget language, which
made it easy both for the interviewer
and the interviewed.
Becomes uniet's Bride.
Mary Thlantich was the daughter
of a Thlinget chief and was born at
Hoonah about 75 years ago. Mary
is not certain as to her exact age.
When she reached young womanhood
—she tjiinks she was 15 or 16 years
of age—she was given in marriage
to the young chief of a tribe of In
dians living at Fort Simpson, Brit
ish Columbia, the bridal trip being
made from Hoonah in a canoe. Short
ly thereafter the young couple went
to Seattle to purchase a sloop, the
trip being made in a canoe in which
paddled instead of oars were used,
Mary thinks it was 58 or 60 years
ago that they visited Seattle, which
she says was “just little village, only
few houses.”
The young King George chief and
his bride returned to the North. The
following year was a sad one for
Mary, who lost the only child she
ever had and also lost her chief hus
band, the latter being drowned
from his sloop. Mary then returned
to her own tribe and shortly there
after the seat of the Thlinget gov
ernment was moved from Hoonah to
Sitka, where it has ever since re
mained.
No. 3 Joins No. 1.
Shortly after going to Sitka Mary
married a white man, an ex-soldier
by the name of Michael Travers.
Michael was not long spared to en
joy marital bliss and he passed away
within a few years. Mary, in due
time, married again and a white man
by the name of Jennings. But again
the cruel waters robbed her of her
own, Jennings being drowned as was
her first husband, the chief of the
Port Simpsons.
But Time is a wonderful healer
of shattered hearts and when an
other white man won and wooed
Mary the memory of her previous
husbands became sacred reminis
censes to be reviewed in her heart
alone and she yielded to the blan
dishments of No. 4 and again be
came the wife of a white man. But
the grim reaper was still on the job
and within a few years Mary was a
widow once more, two of her hus
bands having been drowned and
their bodies claimed by the sea and
two of them buried at Sitka where
their relic could visit their graves
and drop silent tears thereon when
overcome with emotion.
Returns to Her Own.
But being four ties a widow had
evidently not robbed Mary of her at
tractiveness, for she was again
sought in marriage—not by a white
man but by no less a personage than
Chief Thlantich of the Thlinget
tribe—and for the fifth time she
was led to the altar. For many
years she presided over the home oi
her chief and as first Udy of the
small but select realm she reigned
with beoming dignity and with an
eye single to the welfare of the
white population which she had ever
befriended. But there came a day
when the relentless angel of death
stalked abroad and touched Chief
Thlantich with his dart. Sadness
spread her mantle over Government
House of the Thlingets and Mary
was once more a widow and as such
she has remained and probably will
as she gently but firmly denies that
she contemplates any further mat
rimonial venture.
When Mary’s Friendship Counted
It was while Mary was the wife of
Michael Travers and when Chief
Katlean presided over the destinies
of the Thlingets that Mary averted
what would have probably wiped out
the white inhabitants of Sitka. Five
Indians had lost their lives, which
disaster, while the whites were in
no way responsible for it, was
charged up to them by Katlean and
in his narrow-gauge mind only
white blood would atone for the loss.
A final tribal council was in prog
ress and the hour was fixed for the
:r experiences to a
ERTS STRANGE MASSACRE
massacre to begin. The last war
ship had been withdrawn from Sitka
some months before and the illy
advised Katlean and his warriors
were confident that they had things
all their own way when a woman
appeared in their midst. This was
something never before heard of,
for women were taboo in the council
house where only men were fit to
sit or even be seen. But Mary was
there and she made her presence
known in a speech that caused the
dusky countenances of the others
present to blanche with fear. Mary
told them what would happen if they
killed the whites; she pointed out
where Uncle Sam’s soldiers were as
the sands of seashore in the matter
of numbers; that Uncle Sam had
canoes and that, in the event his
people were slain, those soldiers and
those warships would disappear sud
denly and soon and that every In
dian who participated in the slaugh
ter would be lined up and shot.
The picture Mary presented was
a rather lurid one but it had the ef
fect she intended. Katlean and his
braves sullenly heeded the advice of
the little squaw and the intended
massacre never ocrnrrpd "
A debt Unpaid.
The foregoing is a brief history
of Mary Thlantich, an aged and
somewhat stooped squaw, who left
Juneau recently for her home in Sit
ka, wrhere she supports herself by
making and selling moccasins. She
has a rather pleasant face and a
bright, twinkling eye. She had not,
previous to three weeks ago, ever
been in Juneau, with which she was
very much pleased. She arrived in
time to visit the late fair and to her
it was the biggest thing ever seen.
She hopes to return for a visit next
summer.
No public recognition of Mary
Thlantich has ever been made and
none would imagine on seeing her
that more than 100 white human
lives and "double that number of In
dian lives had been saved by her
timely and fearless intervention 45
years ago.
Uncle Sam and common humanity
owe Mary Thlantich a debt that has
never even been recognized and prob
ably never wrill be. In the mean
time the humble little old Indian
woman strains her failing eyes while
with her gnarled hands she manu
factures moccasins, from the sale of
which she ekes out a mere existence.
JURY FINDS OLDTIMER
OF KODIAK IS INSANE
P. M. Peterson, said to have re
sided at Kodiak for many years and
more recently employed at Taku
Harbor as a carpenter, was adjudged
mentally unsound yesterday by a
jury in the U S. Commissioner’s court
Court. He wras committed to Morn
ingside Sanitorium by Judge V. A.
Paine.
Peterson with his family, consist
ing of Mrs. Peterson and eight child
ren, moved to Juneau from Taku
Harbor several months ago.
SELMA SCOTT LEAVES
Mrs. Selma Scott, who for the past
two years has been clerk of the court
left on the Yukon for Seattle, from
w'hich port she will take ship to
China to be gone for a year or more
visiting in the Orient.
A Fountain
of %uth
Beauty linked with power that
stays young — that’s the Willys
Knight! The quiet Willys-Knight
sleeve-valve engine improves with
use — a fountain of thrills and
satisfactions. In ten years we have
never known a Willys-Knight
engine to wear out! Touring
$1195, Coupe-Sedan Standard
$1450, 5-pass. Standard Sedan,
now $1695, f. o. b. Toledo.
WILLYS
KNIGHT
P. M. OGLE, AGENT
Seward, Alaska
-U_BliJJ J j. l J_ii ) i i-iBl_
ELL15 BALL* CHILI fllLl.
ELLIS BALL
CHILI MILL
The mill that takes the pros
pector off the labor market.
Cheaper than an trastra, more
efficient than a stamp mill.
MADE IN SIZES FROM
TWO TO FIFTY TONS
DAILY CAPACITY
Priced $150 to $1989
Investigate the Ellis Mill First
NELS HAGEN
ALASKA AGENT
Write for information to
P. O. Box 1105
SEWARD, ALASKA
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CANNERY TO BE BUILT
AT CAPE CHACON, REPORT
According to a recent issue of the
Juneau Empire, the old Marathon
Pkg. Co.’s cannery plant a tCape Fan
shaw is being dismantled and the
machinery and equipment moved to
Cape Chacon, where a new plant will
be established by the Alaska Consoli
dated Canneries. The mess house and
bunkhouses are being moved from
Cape Fanshaw to Pybus bay.
It is understood the Alaska Con
solidated interests expect to have the
Cape Chacon plant completed and
ready for operation by the beginning
of next season. The company had
two traps in operation in that dis
trict during the past season which
are said to have been highly success
ful and which will furnish part of the
salmon for the new plant.
SOLLER’S MILL AT GRANT 4
LAKE NOW IN OPERATION
Al. Sollers, well known in Seward
and vicinity, has completed his saw
mill at Giant lake and is now turning
out ten thousand feet of lumber for
Robert Michaelson, to be used on his
ground in Moose Pass. AI has com
pleted his wagon road from Trail
Lake to his mill on Grant Lake, and
when the freeze-up comes will com
mence freighting.
Steamship Starr Arrives
Will Leave for Seattle
The steamship Starr arrived from
westward points about one-thirty to
day and -will leave for Seattle as soon
as her business in port is completed.
The Starr brought many passengers
from the westward, as well as a full
load of codfish from Unalaska, con
signed to the San Juan Fisheries at
Seattle. A list of her passengers
will be given tomorrow.