CONSIDER THE VALUE
OF YCUR POSSESSIONS
If fire or thieves should come tonight
what would become of your prized
possessions.
Of course you could replace some lost
articles, but others of particular value
to you can never be replaced.
Put your valuable papers-—especially
your will and your insurance policies,
and jewelrv which vou do not use
every day, in a jBANK OF SE WAR 1 >
safe-deposit box, where tlie)T will be
safe and convenient to get at.
Boxes Rent lor $5.09
and up yearly.
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
GRIM TRAGEDIES
(S«,ro^ers Weekly)
Thursday, the third oT April, wa>
the 2Jih anniversary of one of the
greatest disasters the history of Al
aska, the snowsiide which ocurred 01
the Chilkoot a few miles out 01 Dyer
at about 8 o clock of the morning ol
April 3, 1898; when sixty-five Klon
dike-bound argonauts lost their lives
it was a dark and gioorny morning
that upward of one hundred men am
women left Dyca for the summit ol
Chilkoot Pass. The procession stretch
ed out for a mile or more. All classes
of people from all parts of the coun
try were represented in the line oi
march and everyone was packing some
thing—professional packers from lot
to 200 pounds and others lighter loads
i o’it < verybody carrying something
And then the avalanche came thun
dering down the mountainside unan
nounced and clearing nearly a quartet
I of a mile of trail of everybody and
i everything in its pathway. Some were
! covered to a depth of several feet with
: debris while others appeared to ride
the crest of the avalanche and escape
! uninjured, but they were few compar
I eel with those who were lost.
| It was some days before all the bod
ies were recovered, but so far as an
j estimate could be formed, sixty-five
i persons were killed. It is doubtful if
| all the bodies were ever recovered, but
that number were accounted for and
; later given burial.
The writer talked later with a man,
| who with his wife were swept down in
! to a canyon in the slide, the man be
ing taken out in an unconscious con
dition and soon revived. His wife,
however, lying immediately by his
side, was taken out at the same time
but she was dead. The couple were
from Iowa, where the man had been
a telegraph operator and agent at a
country depot for the C. B. & Q. rail
road company. He said he was aware
! of what happened when they 'were
j swept from their feet and down into
a canyon and that he had a distinct
recollection of the light being shut
out when the slide covered them. Ask
ed as to his sensations at that time,
he replied: “They were not unpleasant
I knew what had happened to us, that
myself and wife had been permitted
to die together. I simply made my
piece with God and went to sleep. The
next thing I knew men were support
ing me and I was looking into the
face of my dead wife.”
The unfortunate man, in view of
the calamity that had overtaken him,
gave up his intended journey to Daw
son. His wife was taken to Skagway
for burial and he secured employment
for a few weeks as a carpenter, but
within three months he returned to
his Iowa home a broken and discour
aged man.
It lias always oeen ioiu 101 it ran,
and the writer knowing the party i
later never doubted the story, that as!
the bodies were rescued they were car-;
lied some distance back down the trail
and placed in a shack and that not
one of them had a dollar in their
clothes when taken from the shack
later, the self-appointed custodian of
the temporary morgue having looted
every body that was brought in. The
same party later had a very unenvi
able record in the interior.
The snowslide on the Chilkoot trail
was the second terrible disaster resul
tant from the Klondike rush. Some
| two or three months previous to the
| slide the steamer Clara Nevada, Capt.
Ed Kelly, left Skagway for Juneau
with a party of discouraged gold
seekers, who gave up the trip after
reaching Skagway. The Clara Nevada,
left Skagway about the middle of the
afternoon and several years later her
hull was sighted at extreme low tide
at a point in Lynn canal about half
way distant between the two towns.
She carried upward of fifty passen
gers and a crew of probably two dozen
but not a soul was saved to give an
account of her fate.
Construction of the White Pass i
Railroad forever put the Chilkoot trail
out of business and it is doubtful if it
has been trodden by a human being
for a quarter of a century. Its history
! is forgotten save by a few oldtimers
the old trail, bleached by summer suns
and winter snows, is still there, a si
lent reminder of what it witnessed in
the clays when moiled and toiled over
it, spurred on by the lure of gold.
SUITS MADE TO ORDER. At
URBACH’S. tf
Monarch Mailable Ranges at Graefs.
Fresh Pig'n Whistle candy, Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
Charles Ray at the Liberty tomor
row night and Friday.
COUSIN OF ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON DEPORTED
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO. NEW YORK
Robert W. Stevenson, a cousin of
Robert Louis Stevenson, the well
known poet and writer, was deported
•ecently as an undesirable. lie re
turned to Glasgow railing at the
treatment received in the U. S.
AUTOS GET SPACE ONCE
LSED FOR PRO AD WALKS
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 16—San
Francisco is shaving its sidewalks.
The automobile has come to be so
common that comparatively few San
F. aneiscans walk. To combat traffic
congestion the man at the wheel is
‘o lake same of the space formerly
dedicated to the man afoot.
Tn a papulation rf approximately
6->0,000 persons within the city’s area
of 42 square mile;., ther11 are now
f.0 000 motor vehicles
One of the pedestrian ways being
shaved is Sacramento street, where
the Vigilant.s hung outlaws in tie
• arty ’50's. Try hie congestion has
b c me sr> great, however, that i ity
C't’cials have decided that twelve
main arte-ies of automobile Pave!
reft be nrovid1 d; throug.h the city.
When San Francisco was laid out
the founde > ma ie excepir nally v, tde
streets, Market street, the prim-'pal
business thorough far?, being 125 feet
! wide, but the automobile has upset
I all calcula h; is lor the future.
! Thus the policy has been adopted
that when any through streets aie
repaired the roadways will be widen
ed by cutting down the sidewalks and
I forcing all superstructures into un
' lerground conduits. On streets where
j sidewalks now have a width of 15
feet if is found that pole lines use
up five feet of this space, so that
these sidewalks can be cut to ten
feet without interfering with pedes
trians.
Eastman Kodak Agency, Schallerer’s
Alaska Shop. tf.
New Spring Suit Samples now on
display—We guarantee a fit—Prices
$50 and up to $55; at Urbach’s.
PREVENT FOREST FIRES
A one cent cigarette may start a
510,000 forest fire. Put out that snipe
aefore throwing it away.
Forests mean health and wealth.
Help prevent fires.
Eternal vigilance with fire is the
price of a successful vacation in the
mountains.
FOR SALE—Four room furnished
house and bath, easy terms. Phone
Madison 58. tf.
Alvah Eames, chief mail clerk of
this division left today for Anchorage.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover returned to
Anchorage this morning
Genuine Peterson imported pipes, at
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
NOTICE
J. B. Burford & Co. of Juneau are
offering for a very limited time, large
allowances for second-hand typewri
ters on the purchase of a new L. C.
Smith & Bros, machines. Send us
the serial and model numbers also
the make of your machine and we
will make you a most attractive of
fer. Write today as this offer will be
withdrawn in a short time. It will
pay you. 92-k96
Ladies’ and Gents’ Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
Ansco Cameras’, Schallerer’s Alaska
Shop. tf.
NOTARY PUBLIC—Always on the
job from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., D. H.
Tyer, at the Gateway office. tf
FOR SALE—52 foot V-bottom gas
boat, 12 feet beam; draws four feet;
heavy duty 50 h. p. engine. Box 1724,
Anchorage. tf.
Developing, printing, enlarging, at
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
JUDGE WICKERSIJAM’S
MOTHER SUSTAINS STROKE
Judge James Wickersham received
word last week that his mother, aged
86 years, had suffered a light para
lytic stroke at her home, Enumclaw,
Wash. Ho has instructed that he be
kept posted as to his mother’s condi
tion and if her symptoms become very
alarming, he will leave on the fir^t
steamer for the south.
Mrs. J. 11. Klein, wife d the audi
mr lor the Pacific Steamship (.' >.
:i'ri\<‘d on Watson.
AGED MAN FOUND DEAD
A man believed to be Carl Sjoberg
was found dead in a cabin at Fair
banks recently. The body when
tound was lying on the floor in the
iront room of the cabin face down
and was clad only in a shirt. He had
been dead many hours.
Senator E. E. Chamberlin left to
; day for the interior, where he goes
j-:n the interest for his candidacy for
1 Territorial Senator.
Henry Lucas and George Nelson,
; guides and trappers in the Skilak lake
region, left today for their home. They
will be forced to nntsh from Mile 29
to Skilak.
Alaska Egan, the “Twenty-Four
Hour Kid,” who has been visiting in
Seward during the arrival of the air
planes, left this morning for Anchor
age.
Easter Cards and Candies, Schaller
er’s Alaska Shop. tf.
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ORIOINAI/
/JEFFERSON)
SHOE
All Leather
SJio-es
HIGH 0UAL1TY
LOW PRICE
URBACH
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NOW OPEN
FOR BUSINESS
With a full and new stock of
Fresh and Salt Meats
Poultry and Oysters
Butter and Eggs
SPECIAL PRICE TO LOGGING CAMPS,
MINES, FISHING BOATS AND
HUNTING PARTIES
CARSTENS PACKING CO.
E. E. KURTZ, Manager
PHONE MAIN 130
P. G. McMullen
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Kitchen Hardware Fishermens Supplies
SPECIAL
SATURDAY ONLY
Libbys Milk
10c per can; $4.80 per case
Limit, one case to each customer
Telephone Main 34
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DUNN FOUNTAIN PENS
Holds nearly three times more ink than and rubber sac pen of
the same size.
Transparent barrel shows ink supply at a glance.
Every pen sold with an iron clad guarantee.
PRICES RANGE $2.50 AND UP.
Try one on approval.
Seward Drug Go.
Headquarters for Dunn “Camel” Pens.
HARDWARE AND FURNITURE
Doors and Windows.
Lang Ranges
Coal Stoves
Air Tight Stoves
Oil Stoves
Gas Engine Supplies
Evinrude Engines
Iron Roofing
Roofing Paper
Building Paper
Gasoline and Oils
Paints and Varnishes
Canvas and Tents
Lamps and Lanterns
Window Glass
Crockery & Glassware
Rugs and Linoleum
Ship Chandelry
Anchors
Rope and Twine
Hay and Oats
Chop Feed
Chick Feed
Egg Mash
Bran and Midlings
Fire Arms
Ammunition
J, L. GRAEF
TELEPHONE MADISON 87