School Supplies
Our stock of Tablets, Pencils- Scratch Pads,
Spelling Tablets, Composition Books Rul
ers, Theme Tablets- Fountain Pens and all
other school supplies is most complete.
HAVE THE CHILDREN GET IT AT
THE DREG STORE
We still give the biggest value in 10c school tablets
SEWARD DRUG CO.
(Elwyn Swetmann)
THE REXALL STORE
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SEWARD ALASKA
Judge E. E. Ritchie is expected to
return to Seward on the Admiral
Watson from Kodiak, where he has
been for the last two days on busi
ness matters of a legal nature. It is
expected that the Judge will proceed
to Anchorage in the morning, where
he will render a decision in the Pre
mier coal mining case.
Antone Nyland, a Seward man,
checked out from the Seward Hotel
yesterday morning for Moose Pass,
where he will be employed on one of
the road construction crews.
Cal M. Brosius, lumber and build
ing material dealer of Seward, who
was a member of the Shrine party
which departed for the interior last
week, returned home on last even
ing’s train from Anchorage.
SPECIAL
This Week
CORSETS, $2 to $6 $1.00
BRASSIERS, $150 to $2.50 1.00
CORSLETS, $250 to $4.50 1.00
ELLSWORTH’S
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ROOM HERE
Rooms, by day -$ 1*00
Rooms, by week - 4.50,
Rooms, by month ..— 15.00
The Most Centrally Located
Hotel In Town.
The
OVERLAND
HOTEL
CERTAINLY
IT PAYS TO HAVE
SHOES HALF SOL
ED WHEN WORK
MANSHI P AND
QUALITY ARE OF
THE BEST.
Seward Leather
Works.
COMMERCE
CAFE
Reopened under new
management
Chop Suey and Noodles
a Specialty
OPEN ALL HOURS
PHONE ADAMS 54
Mrs. Minnis, sister to Mrs. M. D.
Snodgrass of Matanuska, was a Sew
ard arrival on the steamer Alaska,
and departed yesterday morning for
the thriving Alaska farming commu
nity. Mrs. Snodgrass is the wife of
the superintendent of the Matanuska
experimental station.
KODAK MILLIONAIRE
TO HUNT ON KODIAK
ISLAND IS REPORTED
George Eastman, president of the
| Eastman Kodaqk Company is now in
; the Laird river district on a big game
t hunt and according to a local report
upon the conclusion of his trip there
will come to Seward and go to Kodiak
Island after a specimen of the ursus
giganticus which make the island
their habitat.
The present trip of Mr. Eastman to
Alaska is not his first but will be his
first time to visit this section of the
Territory.
Included in this year’s party are
Mr. Eastman, Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Kai
ser and Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Norton,
all of Rochester, N. Y.
Well Known Pioneer
of Seward Married
Wm. DeWitt, an old pioneer of this
district, was married yesterday after
noon at 4 o’clock to Miss Selma Long,
U. S. Commissioner Curtis R. Mor
ford performing the ceremony. Mr.
and Mrs. DeWitt will reside in the
DeWitt home on Third avenue. Wit
nesses to the ceremony were Hans
Hansen and May Mead.
STEAMBOAT NEWS
The steamship Alaska will arrive
in port southbound about 9:30 to
night, and the Admiral Watson about
midnight. Both are southbound and
both have full lists of passengers.
The A. M. Tupper, en route to the
Kuskokwim, is expected to arrive in
port some time tomorrow.
The lighthouse tender Cedar, which
has been in port the past few days
will leave soon for the south.
Blueberries
Blueberries from the In
terior may be had in any
quantity. Well packed in
quart containers for ship
ment. We can supply you
at any time.
Let us know your wants.
I WACKWITZ BROS.
Box 991
Fairbanks, Alaska
Barber Shop
FRED MTLLER
BATHS-:-OPEN SUNDAY A.M.
j CHANDELAR PLACER
OPERATOR QUITS
INTERIOR DIGGINGS
LIKES LOOKS OF SEWARD BE
LIEVES WILL LOCATE HERE
FOR SOME TIME
The Chandelar placer and quartz
caamp has bedn more or less quiet
this season according to J. Rasmus
sen, who arrived in Seward last week
from the interior camp. Mr. Rasmus
sen was on his claim for about one
and a half years and took out such
small pay that he finally gave it up
I as a bad job. There is lots of water
in the district he states and probably
15 men working on the various prop
erties.
Pay was struck on Little Squaw
creek last winter running as high as
32.25 to the foot. The ground is deep
but apparently very rich. Carlson &
Buckley, owners of the ground, are
sluicing at the present time.
A little prospecting is being done
this season. O. I). Nickerson on Big
Creek is sluicing, Mr. Rasmussen
states. Mr. Newton, on the same
creek is open cutting at the head
of the creek. The Chandelar district
is about 150 miles north of Beaver on
the Yukon river just below Circle
City.
Mr. Rasmussen, who is stopping at
the Seward hotel, likes the appear
ance of Seward very much and pro
poses to remain here. In fact he is
thinking of buying a home and settling
down for good.
Ten Rooms Be Added
to Seward Hotel, Says
Proprietor Oscar Dahl
The Hotel Seward, Oscar Dahl pro
prietor, will shortly be the scene of
much activity. Ten rooms are to be
added to the already lar&e and com
fortable hostelry. Lumber and ma
terial for the new addition, which will
be on the third floor, directly to the
rear, have been ordered from the
States and should arrive on one of the
next vessels. Upon its arrival work
will immediately start, Mr. Dahl said
last evening.
Providing time will permit this fall
he anticipates having the entire
building stuccoed, making when com
pleted one of the handsomest look
ing structures in town. The new
rooms will correspond to other rooms
in the hotel, and be modern in every
respect. The addition to the hotel is
being made because of increased pat
ronage, rooms being at a premium on
many occasions.
Big Game Party Leaves
Seward Today for Kenai
Peninsula-Three Weeks
Preparations have been completed
locally for the outfitting of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Brand, big game hunters,
and prominent residents of Johns
town, ra. iney expecieu iu leave uns
morning for Lake Kenai where the
party will go down the lake and into
the Skilak country. A1 Peel heads the
party as guide and for packers have
Frank Revelle and Jack Lean, with
Alex Bolam to rustle the pots and
pans. The party will be in the woods
for at least three weeks and after
their return to Seward plan going to
King Cove for a bear hunt.
Ross Heckey Is Watchman
Chickaloon, Three Months
Ross Heckey, who during the win
ter months, operates his mine on
Coal creek, near Chickaloon, and
from which an excellent grade of
blacksmithing coal is produced has
taken the place at Chickaloon as
watchman for the Alaska railroad, for
Archie Lingo, who is now in Seward
with Mrs. Lingo, en route to New
York. Mr. Heckey up until last
week, has been getting out mine
timbers for his mine,
A. A. Bass, publisher of the Fur
Farmers magazine at Seattle, return
ed to Seward last evening from a
three-day fishing trip at Russian Riv
er. He got the limit of course. Mr.
Bass departs for Cordova on the first
southbound steamer. He is a guest
at the Hotel Sexton.
DREDGE WORK AT
NOME BEGINNING
END THIS MONTH
YOUNG DRILLER WITH DREDG
ING CO. GOING STATES TO
STUDY MEDICINE.
Dredge work had not started in
the Nome district up to the time
John S. Bailey, who has been em
ployed as a drill man by the Mam
mon Consolidated Gold company, for
the last two years and who passed
thru Seward last week a passenger
on board the Freighter Oduna for
Seattle. Thawing will cease by the
latter part of this month after which
two of the big boats will begin their
work.
Mr. Bailey stated there were about
50 men engaged on the dredges for
this company while they operated.
The same number of drillers have
been on the pay roll getting the
ground in shape for the boats. He
J stated there were no idle men in
Nome this season and that there
was ample water for all mining activi
ties.
Mr. Bailey was one of the many
stockholders in the Fred J. Wood
gold mining venture, to which so
much publicity has been given dur
ing the past few years. He joined
the company’s vessel, Fred J. Wood,
a four masted schooner which wras
later wrecked near Teller, arriving
at Nome on it. He was not with the
company long, he said, for he went
to work for the dredge company a
short time following his arrival at
Nome. It wras this schooner, Mr.
Bailey said, that relieved the coal
famine at Nome in 1923, being the
first ship to arrive at the far north
ern port with coal aboard.
The Moore dredge was operated
for part of the season last year, but
not this year. Out of the original
crew of 104 who left San Francisco
for Nome on the vessel, but ten are
now in the Nome district. Mr. Bai
ley is going to New Orleans where
he will enter college and take up
the study of medicine.
Lack of Water Is
Same As Cash Says
Buckland Placer Man
James McQuire, a placer operator
from Buckland, in the Candle district
' which is a considerable distance
above Nome, was forced to shut down
his workings this season due to a
lack of water, which was felt over
the entire Northern region. Mr. Mc
Quire was a passenger on the Oduna
which arrived in port last week en
route to Seattle from Nome.
Fifteen men were employed on his
ground this season until the closing
period a few weeks ago. lie has been
on the ground for the last three years
or since the new field was discovered.
Pay runs fairly good, he said, but
lack of water this year has been one
of the handicaps which will have to
be made up at a later date. Water
in that country means money, he said.
He will spend the fall and winter at
his home in California.
George E. Bailey, foreman in the
employ of the Alaska railroad, was a
Seward arrival last night from An
chorage.
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EVERY LOAF OF BREAD YOU GET
at the Seward Bakery is fresh from our ovens; and
wrapped in waxed paper to insure its freshness.
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