SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA •
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home** %
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Sanitary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Price*
Keep Us Busy.
LANDERS & SWANSON
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
MOORE & BEAULIEU
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
FRESH MILK AND
CREAM—
and all
Dairy Products
Oux- Motto:
“THE BEST”
SEWARD DAIRY
TAILORING
Come In and Get Measured for
a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. J. A. Baughman?:
Physioian and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
W, D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
8EE
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 £. 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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OVERLAND
HOTEL
Clean, Comfortable
Rooms and Baths
Furnace Heat
Mrs Hilda Wanamaker
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
A photographer can. make another
man’s wife look pleasant and keep
her mouth shut. But he can’t make
his own wife do it any more than
an ordinary editor can.
Bunch of keys on six-sided ring. If
found please return to Gateway.
A great deal of trouble in the
world is caused, by the fact that
a girl will marry a man she doesn’t
love and, then begin to love a man
phe doesn’t intend to marry.
Dunhill pipes, $10.00 and up, Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop. , tf.
A young college graduate is peren
nially surprised at the seemingly vast
number of business men who never
have heard of “Beta Eta Pi.”
Brick ice cream at the Alaska Shop.
Get This
Point, It’s
Important
—the point of a Parker & Duofold
is made of genuine H native
Tasmanian Iridium rf which costs
over three times as / / much as the
iridium used in / / ordinary
fountain pen / / points. That’s
why the Parker If Duofold is
caHed the 25-/ / y • a r point.
That’awhyit ft i8 the cheapest
pen on earth IAI at $7 — because its
usefulness is everlasting.
Lady Duofold or Duofold Jr.t |{
Gold Ring or Gold Pocket-clip
Included free.
Pack along a Dnof old
on your vacation
Ask To See It At
ORLANDER, the Jeweler
SEWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW
FRIENDS INVITED
ED ERICKSON
LAUNDRY DONE ON SHORT
NOTICE
Special Care Taken of Silks and of all
woolens
AMANDA’S LAUNDRY
Next Door to the Belmont Hotel.
PHONE MADISON 126.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
I
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.
A Stated communications first
'^KO^'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
jome; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
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, jr. Q.
WORK PORTRAYS
EVILS OF LOCAL
BUREAU CONTROL
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR FINDS
PRESENT MODE OF THE
GOVERNMENT COSTLY
TEXT OF STATEMENT
Says Too Much Division—Activities
Should Be Covered By One
Department.
A brief and partial summary of
Federal bureau activities in Alaska
is set forth by Secretary Hubert
Work in a pamphlet just made pub
lic entitled “A 1925 Review of the
Department of Interior," states the
Juneau Empire of November 2, Is
sue. The Secretary reaches the con
kilpsion that ‘‘The Government’s ac
tivities in Alaska should be covered
into one department and under one
;Secretary of the President’s Cabi
net.”
» The same document also includes
a survey of the history of the
Alaska Railroad. Heavy mainten
ance expenses, it was said, are the
main factor in the annual deficit of
the road. These are the result of
temporary structures on which con
siderable annual work is required to
keep the road in operation. To cor
rect this, the Secretary said “a six
year program covering expenditures
of approximately $11,878,000 has
been proposed. This program in
cludes reconstruction of the roadbed
in many places, substituting steel
bridges for wooden trestles, con
struction of a tunnel, and other
replacements necessary to put the
physical condition of the Alaska
Railroad on a basis to that its
yearly maintenance of way costs
will be reduced to a minimum."
Text of Statement.
Under the heading “Alaska Jur
isdiction," the Secretary said:
“Alaska was purchased from the
Russian Empire in 1867 for the
comparatively insignificant sum of
$7,200,000. The amount was paid
in gold.
“This vast region, one-fifth as
large as the entire surface of con
tinental United States, has been ad
ministered as a Territory ever since
it came into this country’s possession.
“Expenditures for Federal ad
GEO. ANDERSON
Piano Expert
Will be in Seward in the near
future. Pianos, Grands and Up
rights; Pianos For Rent and
For sale. Fine Violins and
Strings, Musical Merchandise.
ANDERSON MUSIC SHOPPE,
Juneau, Alaska.
CLOSING OUT SALE
Beginning Wednesday
9A.M.
BANBURY & OGLE
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF
United States Land Office.
Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 14, 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Harry
V. Henrikson, together with his wit
nesses, Heitman Kristiansen, and Ed
ward Vogl, has submitted final proof
on his commuted homestead entry,
Serial 06249 for the E^E^SE&SE^i
Section 11, T. 1 N. R. 1 W. S. M. and
is now on file in the local land of
fice, at Anchorage, Alaska, and if
no protest is filed in the local land
office on or before November 1, 1925,
said final proof will be accepted and
final certificate issue.
I J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First publication, Oct. 1, 1925.
| Last publication, Nov. 5, 1925.
ministration in Alaska amounted to
$10,467,064 last year and was di
vided between nine of the 10 execu
tive departments, with 25 bureaus
participating. Based on the entire
population of Alaska, it cost3 $190
per capita to govern Alaska. There
are approximately 3,300 Government
employees. Thus more then one
tenth of Alaska’s white population
at present is in the Government em
ploy in some capacity or other. The
functions performed number 135
and consist of every conceivable
phase of Government supervision and
jurisdiction.
Interior Department.
“The Department of the Interior
has supervision over its Territorial
Government, including the Gover
nor, its public lands, its mining
claims, townsites, manufacturing
sites, hot springs and cemeteries
on publi£ lands, Indian allotments,
wharf sites, homesteads, coal leases,
oil leases, the Alaska Railroad, na
tional parks and monuments, schools
for natives including education in
the protection of their health, the
propagation of reindeer, the topo
graphic and geographic survey of its
lands, the suppression of traffic in
intoxicating liquors, and the protec
tion of its game.
“The Department of Agriculture
exercises supervision over it3 na
tional forests, fur-bearing animal
life, weather bureau, public roads,
migratory birds, and agricultural
development through the operation
of five experimental stations. The
Department of Commerce functions
through the Bureau of Fisheries in
the protection of its fish industry;
and the Coast and Geodetic Survey
enforces its maritime laws and the
Bureau of Lighthouses maintains
lighthouse service and other aids to
navigation.
“The War Department operates
the cable and telegraphic lines in
Alaska, maintains army posts and
military reserves, and, through its
engineering corps, provides for the
improvements of its rivers and har
bors, and other navigable streams,
as well as the construction of
trails and roads through the Alaska
Road Commission. The Nafy De
partment has control of the radio
stations of Alaska, of which there
is one at every important town;
operates a nqval patrol along its
coasts; mines coal from it naval
coal reserves; and has an immense
naval oil reserve over which it ex
ercises jurisdiction.
“The Treasury Department has
likewise a heterogenous variety of
functions to perform in Alaska, in
cluding the collection of customs,
the guarding of the coasts from
smuggling through the Revenue Cut
ter Service and its Coast Guard
Patrol, the collection of Federal
taxes, the construction and custody
of public buildings, the supervision
of national banks, the registry of
ships, the maintenance of quaran
tine stations and hospitals, and the
protection of public health.
“The Department of Justice main
tains courts in four judicial dis
tricts, with marshals to arrest vio
lators of the Federal and criminal
laws and to bring them into courts
for trials, its legal machinery in
cluding the custody of jails and
courthouses in the Territory. The
Department of Labor has charge of
immigration in Alaska. The Post
Office Department operates the mail
service, postal routes, the post of
fices. The Federal Water Power
Commission functions upon all wat
er-power rights in Alaska.
Claims Too Much Division.
“It is apparent that such a com
plexity of Government activities
contributes to ineffective adminis
tration and extravagance in expen
ditures. A multiplication of Gov
ernment bureaus responsible to sep
arate departments also contributes
to overlapping of functions. A com
plete co-ordination of allied func
tions would avoid lost motion and
confusion and save an immense sum
of the taxpayers’ money.
“The Government’s activities in
Alaska should be covered into one
Department and under on Secretary
of the President’s Cabinet.
A man likes to yell about his free
dom, but there ain’t no such critter.
As soon as his mother gets through
bossing him his wife get on the job.
There are plenty of girls wrho won’t
flirt; but they are riding around in
a baby cab and yelling for dinner.