ihe Seward Gateway
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HAL B. SELBY
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
ntereo as Second Class Matter Sep
ember 2nd, 19,15, at the Post Office at
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March Third, 1879.
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Seward, Alaska.
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SEWARD PLEASES VISITORS
"This is the prettiest town and the
grandest weather we have yet seen
on our trip,” said several members of
the party arriving on the steamship
Buford. And their words were true.
Seward has a townsite and a scenic
setting that cannot be duplicated in
all Alaska. Its emerald clad hills,
bright sunshine, pretty, modern build
ings and cement sidewalks and elec
troliers invariably bring forth enco
miums from visitors.
President Harding described Sew
ard and Resurrection Bay as “A per
fect setting for a rare gem.” Admi
ral Rodman believed it to be the best
harbor he had yet seen in his Alaskan
travels.
That the numerous evidences of I
prosperity existing in Seward cannot •
but help to enhance our reputation
for a hustling, modern town, is evi
denced by the general expressions
heard on every hand.
OUR VISITORS
The visit of prominent San Fran
cisco business men to Seward will be
helpful to both the Golden Gate city
and to Seward is already evidenced by
the many expressions of good will
for our distinguished guests. For a
number of years San Francisco has
cast longing eyes upon our Alaskan
trade, and likewise have Alaskans
looked with friendly eyes upon San
Francisco’s superior markets.
There is no reason why Alaskans
should not buy more extensively from
San Francisco. There is no reason
why the Golden Gate city cannot have
a share of the trade now enjoyed by
Seattle.
Seward extends greetings to our
visitors and trusts that amicable re
lations may be established, and much
good result from the trip.
BY FILLING DOCTOR’S ORDER
DRUGGIST HAS TO BREAK LAW
WASHINGTON, August 2—An en
tirely new feature of the prohibition
question has reached the supreme
court from California. It involves the
problem of whether states can prohib
it druggists from filling physicians’
prescriptions which call for the quan
tity of medicinal liquor allowTed by the
federal laws. The courts of Caifornia
have sustained an ordinance of Los
Angeles limiting the quantity which a
druggist may dispense upon any pre
scription to eight liquid ounces, half
the amount the federal government
has made the minimum.
Merlin W. Hixson, a druggist of Los
Angeles, has asked the supreme court
to review his conviction for violating
the ordinance. He declares his position
as a druggist—untenable when physi
cians are permitted to issue prescrip
tions calling for one pint of intoxicat
ing liquor and he is restricted by the
city ordinance to dispensing one-half
the quantity the prescription calls for.
FIRS! DESCENT INTO
CRATER OF Mill
Dr. Charles M. Fenner and Charles
Yori, two members of the National
Geographic Expedition of 1919 into
the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes,
are spending the summer there mak
ing an extensive study of geological
conditions. They went in with 15
horses and provisions for the summer,
by way of Kanatak.
They claim the distinction of being
the only men who ever made the de
scent into the crater. They went
over a snowfleld and down into the
north end of the crater, climbing un
der overhanging ledges, surrounded by
dense clouds of steam and with rocks
falling constantly on every side until
they reached the immense lake at the
bottom of the crater.
In the center of the lake is a huge
lava cone shaped like a horseshoe. In
the previous expeditions there was an
attempt made to estimate the size of
the cone. It was judged to be about
400 feet wide, 600 feet long and per
haps 15 or 20 feet above the surface
of the lake. Br. Fenner and Mr. Yori
made accurate measurements with as
tonishing results. The cone is 700
feet wide, 1000 feet long and extends
between 60 and 70 feet above the sur
face of the lake.
Katmai is the largest active crater
in the world and the above figures em
phasize the magnitude of the phe
nomena.
GERMANY m BRITAIN
NOT BREAK WITH FRANCE
LONDON, Aug. 4.—The German
government entreated Premier Bald
win not to break with France under
any condition. Berlin has information
that the French Ruhr forces are ready
to advance indefinitely into the heart
of Germany immediately after the
break.
Liberty Theatre
The Great
Lionel Barrymore
in a wonderful crook play
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Boomerang
Bill”
Something Extra
and an extra good
Vod-a-Vil Movie
(Continued from Page One)
and was in Canadian territory.
‘‘Valdez then claimed 8000 popula
tion. Those 8000, carried on a current
of excitement, were feverishly boost
ing for a railroad from Valdez through
the Copper river valley to Eagle, on
the Yukon, foriy miles below the
Klondike. It seemed to me that the
country between Valdez and Eagle
was a blank in any kind of resources.
But the War Department had recom
mended it, which gave it prestige.
“As a result of my investigations in
1900 and 1901, I selected the route
from Resurrection Bay, at the pres
ent site of Seward, through the Su
sitna valley and Broad pass to the Ta
nana river, where Tanana has since
been built. There was then no popu
lation along the entire 412 miles of
this route, except the Lowell family
on Resurrection Bay, a few scattered
natives in the Susitna valley, and a
native village at Nenana. Fairbanks
was not started until 1903.
“The 8000 at Valdez, since shrunk
to 200, and the thousands in other
parts of Alaska greeted my selection
with peals of derision. But time has
changed their opinions. This route
was centralley located, started from a
magnificent harbor, had easy grades,
and held a large variety of tributary
resources to support a permanent
population and provide a heavy traf
fic. Moreover, it opened all American
territory. So I felt sure of my
ground.
“In April, 1902, I organized the
Alaska Central Ry. Co. to build over
this route. I enlisted the co-operation
of several prominent men, such as
George W. Dickinson, former general
manager of the Northern Pacific, who
served as the first president of the
Alaska Central; United States Sena
tor George Turner of Spokane; F.
Aug. Heinze, the Butte mining opera
tor; former Governor John H. Mc
Graw, of Seattle, who had spent two
years at Rampart; J. W. Godwin, a
wholesale merchant of Seattle; E. E.
Caine, president of the Pacific Clipper
Line; James A. Haight, a Seatle at
torney, and my brother, Frank L.
Ballaine, who with me were the first
board of directors. I was elected
chairman of the finance committee,
with Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Heinze
as the other members, and was made
general manager of the railroad in
charge of all details.
“We employed C. M. Anderson of
Seattle as chief engineer, and sent
out seven crews of engineers, who in
1902 ).rveyed every mile of the route
between Resurrection bay and the
i Tanana river, the identical route now
| occupied by the Government Alaska
; railroad. In addition they collected
j valuable data as to resources. That
| survey cost us $83,000. Mr. Heinze
I was the largest contributor. We defi
nitely adopted that route in the fail
I af 1902, after our engineers had com
pleted their work.
“The Northern Pacific panic of 1903
! made it impossible to sell the Alaska
1 Central bonds, or have them under
j written, as we had planned, so in
I July, 1903, with the consent of my
associates, I organized the Tanana
Constiuction company, owning all the
stock in it myself, except four quali
fying shares for other directors. I was
iected its president and manager.
“The Tanana Construction Com
panv then took a contract from the
Alaska Central Railway Company to
build the railroad from Resurrection
Bay to the Tanana river, 412 miles,
receiving $35,000 a mile in Alaska
Central Bonds and a majority of the
Alaska Central stock.
“With that contract as a basis oi
security, I raised $200,000 from E. A.
and C. B. Shield and four of their as
sociates in Chicago to build the first
twenty miles, with a tentative agree
ment by them to finance additional
sections. They required me to put up
$50,000 more, which I raised in Seat
tle, and I later contributed another
$75,000, which I raised in Chicago, to
go with their $200,000. I personally
endorsed all the notes, which were
given by the Tanana Construction
! Company.
“I brought the first construction
; crew to Resurrection Bay in August,
1903, landing here the 2Sth, and es
tablished Seward at that time. I had
sent my brother, Frank L. Ballaine,
on a previous boat a month before to
make the survey and the filings on
the townsite. I paid Mrs. Lowell $4000
and 32 lots for her relinquishment.
(This interesting story of the building
of a Railway will be continued in
Monday’s paper.)
LIFE 15 SIC
BUT JI BUEfl
LOS ANGELES, Aug 2—The break
ing of his jaw bone against a vent pipe
saved the life early today of Wind
sor Putnam, eighteen-year old son oi
a San Francisco realty man, when he
fell five stories from a window in his
sixth-floor room in a Grand Avenue
hotel. When he recovered conscious
ness at the receiving hospital he was
suffering from a broken jaw bone, a
slight fracture of the skull and manj
bruises. The force of the fall was
broken by contact of the jaw bone
with the vent pipe.
Friends saw he was ill and leaning
I from the window when he fell out. He
landed on the roof of an open garage
Frank Lowell, a pioneer of Chignik,
and one of the earliest residents of
Seward, passed away at Chignik, July
5th. Mr. Lowell came to Alaska dur
ing the Russian occupation in 1867,
the year the United States took it
over.
Mr. Lowell is survived by three
daughters and three sons. 'Two of the
sons are attending school at Cheme
wa, Oregon, and one of the daughters
is on a fox island near Chignik.
Mr. Lowell was buried at the Chig
nik cemetery, the funeral being at
tended by a large concourse of friends
and acquaintances. He hau many
friends in the vicinity and was a
member of the Pioneers of Alaska,
Kodiak Igloo.
Jack Carrol has struck pay in the j
Chisane district, on the Taylor claim
which he purchased last spring. The
claim lies on a bench, but the old
channel cuts through it and is cov
ered with 12 to 18 feet of overburden.
Pans taken from the gravel average
from $4 to $8.
Miss Elizabeth Marshall, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Marshall of Ju
neau, was recently presented with a
baby red fox by J. Coombs, who brot
it in from Glacier Bay. While the fox
is very tame and docile it will not al
low strangers to handle it.
A Filipino boy, employed on the En
trance Island fox ranch was nearly
dfowned recently when he was pulled
overboard by a halibut hook while
making a set. Hans Prueschoff, who
was in the boat with him, managed to
rescue him after considerable diffi
culty.
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! Mrs. N. Deasey, W. F. Durfee, Marga
ret Eade, Stuart Edgar, M. G. Emer
j son, Mrs. L. S. Escheu, Miss H. E. Es
clien, Miss May Gearhart, Margaret
Gibbs, James E. Glendenning, Wendell
C. Hammon, Mrs. W. C. Hammon, W.
P. Hammon, Mrs. W. P. Hammon, Dr.
J. K. Hamilton, Chas. Hauser, Mrs.
Henry Hauser, J. S. Hermann, J. S.
Hermann, J. S. Hermann, Jr., Chas.
H. Holbrook, Mrs. Chas. Holbrook, E.
i A. Holmes, B. S. Hubbard, Mrs. B. S.
Hubbard, Andrew T. Hunt, B. D.
Hyde, Miss F. A. Keep, Eddie Kenne
| dy, Miss M. E. Kuss, Carl Lamont, W.
I D. Leahy, Mabel Linderman, Jane
I •
Linderman, Mariam Liriderman, Isa
belle Linderman, Mrs. M. N. Meri
• weather, Miss E. Meriweather, W. M.
Morrison, W. J. Moreland, Mary B.
McEwen, J. C. Ogden, Mrs. J. C. Og
; den, Mrs. Margaret Ogden, S. N. Pen
field, Geo. W. Pennington, Thomas C.
Pennington, Miss Estelle Phillips, Mrs
Emmett Phillips, Miss Grace Phillips,
R. D. Pickett, Miss Ernestine Porter,
| W. J. Prewett, J. K. Rhinelander, F.
! M. Roessler, Mrs. O. G. Sage, Henry
Schneider, Mrs. H. Schneider, Miss
Agnes M. Smith, Sydney Snow, Mrs.
; Sydney Snow, H. A. Snow, Mrs. H. A.
; Snow, Miss Bessie Stanwood, Fred
Suelberger, Fred Suelberger, jr., F. C.
Sweet, Mrs. F. C. Sweet, George I.
Thorne, W. S. Thomas, Mrs. W. S.
Thomas, Tom Trebell, Josephine Van
Meenen, Mrs. B. F. Walson, Mrs. S.
: H. Woodbury and Miss Mae Coombs.
Seward Passengers
Joe Geist, Otto W. Geist, Alex Hu
sak, Mrs. E. H. Barnes, G. E. Reely,
John Gwakal, Gust Nelson.
For Pribilof Islands
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Nickerson.
Nome Passengers
Mrs. E. C. Buckmaster, Anna Fuchs,
E. E. Powell, Miss G. Hamilton, S. C.
I Anderson, Miss M. Senescu, Isaac
Wakkala, Miss Meel, Chas. Osthus.
Capt. Louis L. Lane in Command
Capt. Louis L. Lane, a well known
Alaskan navigator is in command of
the Buford. He has many A'riends in
Seward. Capt. John O’Brien, another
old-timer, is on the Buford as pilot;
W. A. Hopkins, is purser. Other offi
cers are O. Noren, chief officer; J.
Wosser, chief engineer; L. Barbeau,
chief steward, S. M. Higgins, pilot.
The Buford is a steel steamship of
9000 tons; 400 feet in length, and was
a former army transport. Sue has
been overhauled and refitted and is
one of the finest vessels ever entering
. this port. A complete description of
, s the vessel was published last week,
in the Gateway.
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
July 19 July 26 August 1
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
August 2 August 9 August 15
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Ports, including Anchorage and Kodiak.
For freight space or passenger reservations wire
Dr write
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Seward, Alaska
Pacific Coastwise Jervice
^ADMIRAL LINE
ALEXANDER. PRESIPENTgamBti —
STEAMSHIP STARR
Will sail from Seward for Westward Alaska
on or About
AUGUST 10th
WILL CONNECT WITH NORTHWESTERN SAILING AUG. 4th
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co. j§|
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*. SEWARD, ALASKA
BENSON & WHITTEMORE, Proprietors
Exclusive distributors of Budweiser, Bevo and Monopole Cigars.
The Finest Billiard and Pool Hall in Alaska
RAY & DAVID
Attorneys at Law
SEWARD & ANCHORAGE
Seward Office:
Harriman Bank Building
DR. J. A. BAUGHMAN
Physician and Surgeon
Chronic Diseases a Specialty
Phone Madison 90, Seward, Alaska.
AARON E. RUCKER
Attorney at Law
Office In Arcade Building
'PHONE ADAMS 121
SEWARD, ALASKA
HUGH DOUGHERTY
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
Furnished Houses for Ront
D. H. WILLIAMS
UNDERTAKER
LICENSED EMBALMER
AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR
When In need of my services call
Brown & Hawkins
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
MORFORD
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
General Repair Shop
PHONOGRAPHS, SEWING MA
CHINES CLEANED AND
REPAIRED
LlgFTt Machinery a Specialty
OLD FURNITURE REPAIRED
ELECTRICAL WORK
PHONE ADAMS 66
INQUIRE OF GEO. THORKILSEN
SEWARD CLUB
CHRIST LARSEN
Card Tables, Candles,
Soft Drinks, Tobaccos
Cigars and Cigarettes
i
TAILORING
C. Henning
SEWARD ALASKA
SEWARD LODGES
Seward Chapter No. 10.
ORDER EASTERN
STAR
Meets 2nd and 4th Mon
days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome
CLARA PERRY, W. M.
ESTHER DOUGHEUfTY, Sec.
Seward Rebekah
Lodge No. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets 1st and 3rd
Monday’s of Each
Month, 8 p. m. Visit
ing members welcome
RHODA COOPER, N. G.
VIDA RICH, Sec.
Seward Lodge No. 219.
F. 4 A. M.
Stated communications
1st and 3rd Wednes
days of each month,
visiting Brethern wel
W. O. PERRY, W. M.
Chas. E. Smith, Sec.
Seward Lodge
No. 1425.
L. O. O. M.
Will meet every
Tuesday night at
8 o’clock. Visiting
Brothers welcome
CHAS KREFTING, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
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I. O. O. F.
Resurrection Lodge
No. A.7.
Meets Thursdays at 8 p. m. Visiting
Brothers welcome GERHARD JOHN
SEN, N. G.t Chas. Lechner, Sec.
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IGLOO NO. NINE.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday at
Odd Fellow’s Hall.
CAL M. BROSIUS, Pres.
EARL DURGIN, Sec.
SEWARD PC-ST, NO. FIVE
AMERICAN LEGION
Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays^
ELWYN SWETMANN, Com.
A. E. RUCKER, Adj.
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