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SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
"Good Water a Necessity in Every Borne”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Sar.tiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
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MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
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FRESH MILK AND
CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
Our Motto:
“THE BEST”
SEWARD DAIRY
TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
MO TIME TO HUNT
for a doctor or drug store
when one of the family is
suddenly seized with agoniz
ing intestinal cramps, deadly
nausea and prostrating diar
rhoea
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COLIC and DIARRHOEA
REMEDY
gives instant warmth, comfort, ease
from pain. Keep it always in your
home, ready for emergency by night
or day.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM OSBO
Residence—Madison 123
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HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
8EWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMER8
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
hot AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
•TEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
Skeletons of Japanese
Sacrifice Victims Found
TOKIO, Aug. 26. (.■£>)—Consider
able interest is attached to the re
cent discovery beneath the corner
stones of the Double-Bridge ((main
entrance to the Imperial Palace) of
eight human skeletons. Most of the
skeletons were found upright about
twelve feet below the bed of the
Palace Moat, which is undergoing re
pair work necessitated by the earth
quake of 1923.
The theory of some Japanese sci
entists is that the skeletons are the
remains of persons who, several cen
turies past, offered themselves as
“Human Pillars” for the immortali
zation of the corner stones used in
constructing Edo Castle. The tra
dition of the “Human Pillars” is an
old one in Japan. In the past age
it was believed that if human beings
were buried alive beneath the corner
stones of great structures, the gods
would accord permanent strength and
solidity to the foundations and, in
addition, those who thus sacrificed
themselves, would become immortal.
It was considered that those chosen
as “Human Pillars” were greatly
honored. They were buried alive
in a standing position.
The first traditional instance of
the “Human Pillars” recorded in
Japan dates back to the reign of
Emperor Nintoku, more than 1,000
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The Alaska Shop
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
,,%«H^and third Wednesdays of each
/\r\ month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
—Meets every Thursday at
8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month In Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, y. G.
Alaska Interior Silver
Black Foxes, a limited
number of 1925 pups will
be sold this season. If you
wish good foxes to start
your ranch with. Let me
furnish you your breeders
Price $500 per Pair f. o. b.
Kasilof, Alaska
Kasilof Silver Fox Ranch
Louis Nissen, Propr.
Kasilof, Alaska
years ago. The Yodo river at Osaka,
where the emperor nad his palace,
used to overflow each year, drown
ing many people and causing much
damage. Every dike built by the
best engineers was unable to with
stand the floods. One night the em
peror dreamed that the gods had
advised him if he would use human
bodies as pillars for the construc
tion of the embankment, there would
be no more flood troubles. The
story has it that the emperor im
mediately caused human beings to
be buried alive beneath the founda
tion stones of the dike, and, since
then, the embaukment has withstood
all floods.
West Pointers Will Drill
for Fraternity Delegates
NEW YORK. Aug. 26. (/P)—An
exhibition drill b; cadets at thp Unit
ed States Military Academy at West
Point, will be given for the benefit
of visiting delegates to the tri-enni
al Phii Beta Kappa convention to be
held in New York City, September
8 to 10, the arrangements commit
tee has announced. A steamboat
will carry the delegates up the Hud
son river fo West Point.
Among the business matters to
come before the delegates, represent
ing the 99 chapters of the organiza
tion, are applications for new char
ters** fro mAgnes Scott College, Uni
versity of South Carolina, College
of Wooster, University of South Da
kota, Occidental College, University
of Idaho, University of Kentucky,
and the University of the South.
Arrangements also will be made
for the sesqui-centennial to be held
next year in honor of the original
chapter which was established in
1776 at the College of William and
Mary. The organization has includ
ed 57,761 members, of whom more
than 40 are living.
Join the Chamber or Commerce.
When you think Oxfords, think Ur
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VIEWED NEAR
VALLEY SMOKES
BROTHER AND SISTER LOST FOR
TWO DAYS ENDEAVORING
TO REACH KANATAK
Returning To Alaska Again
Forced To “Siwash” In Sea Muck
Owing To Darkness Overtaking
Party at Katmai Lake.
Due to the great amount of trouble
in getting into the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes, Miss Florence
Taylor and brother, S. Gale Taylor,
were somewhat disappointed after
they arrived at their destination, for
it was not as spectacular as they
had thought, Mr. Taylor stated this
morning to the Seward Gateway rep
resentative. A longer stay in the
valley would have been desired but
on account of the necessity of return
ing to the States, Miss Taylor to
Chicago and himself to Yale, they
were forced to return. However, they
plan in the near future, to come back
to Alaska and visit other regions.
Lost Amid Mud Region.
Darkness overtaking, Mrs. D. W.
Handy, Mr. Taylor and Miss Taylor
while they were at the crater lake
on Katmai, and as the footing in the
sea ol mud was more or less pre
carious and dangerous at night, they
were forced to Siwash it practically
all night. Shivering and chilled to
the very marrow, at times they would
wander on for a bit until sunrise
when the return journey to the camp,
ten miles away was made. Mr. Han
dy had remained in camp on this
particular trip.
roresi or cmarcoal.
Three nights were spent on the
river Lethe, where each day sulphur
baths were indulged in. At this
point it was stated the river flow
has washed away a great deal of the
hot, pink, incandencent sand, expos
ing parts ot a pure charcoal forest.
This was made when the millions of
tons of hot sand poured over the
forest, making a natural charcoal
oven, from which all air was exclud
ed. This was a remarkable sight, it
was explained.
Lost for Two Days..
This side of Cold Bay, after broth
er and sister left Mr. and Mrs. Han
dy, in order to try and make con
nections with the steamer Starr at
Kanatak, which was due at that
pftrt, August 18, missed the Bear
lake trail, 20 miles, and passed Kan
atak a considerable distance. They
“Siwashed” it for two nights, and
were running quite short of food.
The next morning the camp of Niko
lai, No. 10, was reached, after sight
ing the camps’ smoke from a dis
tance. Nikolai No. 10, an Indian,
hospitably welcomed them into a
sourdough hot-cake breakfast, which
was their first meal in two days. A
Mr. Bryan from Cordova was met at
this camp and together with him they
reached Kanatak in good order.
Mr. Taylor praised the courage of
his sister on the trying trip, whose
fortitude never relaxed and instead
of being greatly worried treated the
adventure as a wonderful lark. While
awaiting the departure of the steam
er Yukon from this port, both are
guests at the Hotel Sexton.
Children of U. S. and
Canada Aid Education
of Young Chinese
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. (/P)—A cam
paign of cradle internationalism has
been inaugurated by the Wiorld As
sociation of Daily Vacation Biible
Schools whch is being carried on by
correpondence between boys and girls
in 3,000 daily vacation Bible schools
in China and children enrolled in sim
ilar schools in the United States
and Canada. The latter are raising
in penning and nickels a $10,000 of
fering to help Chinese children, 60,
000,000 of whom have no schools
whatever.
The beneficiaries have been writing
individual greetings and thanks to
the American and Canadian children,
and letters of good-will have been
sent by the latter to the little Chin
ese.