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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered in the postoffice at Seward, Alaska
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WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES
In a recent issue of The Seward Daily
Gateway, upon information received from
what was considered at that time to be a re
liable source The Gateway undertook to
criticise the disposition of some Chinese
narcotic cases in the Commissioner's court
for the Precinct of Bristol Bay. Upon go
ing into the matter further, with recent ar
rivals on the steamer Starr, it appears that
the affair was taken up from one angle
only, and was not presented in its true light,
and that the handling of these cases was
a matter not of ignorance of the law on the
part of the court, but a matter of necessity
due to the isolated location of the court.
Bristol Bay Precinct is perhaps the most
isolated in Alaska today. Transportation
to and from this district takes considerable i
time and money. In view of this fact, when
it comes to binding defendants over to the
Grand Jury, the court must necessarily
have some very good grounds on which to
do so, and must have sufficient evidence,
against the defendant, or defendants to war
rant the expenditure of money for trans
portation and wages for guards and wit
nesses and for the defendant.
In the case of these old Chinamen, altho'
the evidence presented at the preliminary!
hearing was incriminating, it was not suf
ficient to warrant the conviction of the de
fendants by the district court. In view of
this fact, the Commissioner’s court decid
ed, in the lack of bondsmen appearing, to ac
cept the highest cash bail the defendants
were able to post, rather than to undertake
the transportation of the defendants, and
the hire and transportation of guards and
witnesses to Valdez, only to have the case
dismissed on the grounds of insufficient ev
idence.
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It is the hope of The Gateway this brief
explanation will present to the reader a
clearer understanding of the cash which, we
freely admit, when commented on previous
ly in these columns, was more or less biased.
# That the affairs of the department of jus
tice in Bristol Bay Precinct have been ably
handled for the past year by Weston N.
Peed, deputy U. S. marshal, assisted by
Thomas F. Gardner, a well known oldtimer,
acting as guard, and Leo Shirley, formerly
of Port Heiden, also acting as guard, is at
tested by the recent reappointment of Mar
shal Reed for another term of four years.
Faithful services do not go unrewarded.
STATEMENT INCORRECT
The Anchorage Daily Times of Monday,
June 21, of which a few copies reached Sew
ard in the regular mail, published a brief
account of the local Fourth of July celebra
tion and in the article stated “$50 in prize
money will be offered for the Marathon
mountain climb.” In that to err is human
an “0”, possibly inadvertently overlooked by
the proof readed was the cause. It should
have read $500 instead of $50.
Three trains out of Seward in three days,
Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There are,
however, a few of us left in town.
The picture on the front page of the Gate
way last evening brought home the value of
advertising once again, when about 607
people referred about it today. Everybody
in the picture stood on their heads.
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Seward Speaking:
Make your plans
now to spend the
4th of July in this
He-Man’s Town.
THE BIGGEST DAY’S CELEBRATION
EVER PULLED OFF AWAITS YOU
m ■ ■ I m I I 1»■■■ mwi|^
Hurrah!
FOR OLD GLORY
The Famous
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Narathon Mountain
Gassic
(Seward’s Spectacular Annuai Ever:
SHE’S A PIP !
ATHLETIC EVENS OF ALL KINDS
Sure! There 11 he a haB game
And a Smoky Smoker
Take home a prize; thereU be lots
SIDE SHOW ENTERTAINMENT
Dance the whole nifbt thru
QUESTION:
What’s the Fourth without a parade?
One round of pleasure and a good
time guaranteed.
Under the auspices of the
SEWARD
FIRE DEPARTMENT
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Say You 11
Be Here.
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CONST ANCE TALMADGE
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“Learning to Love”
IXTIBODraXG THE WORLD'S CHAMP
HEARTOREAKER
ANTONIO MORENO
Srory hy John Emerson and Am to l*o<
COME ON AND LAUGH
Has is the funniest of the funny —&1I the
sep of a real Constance Tahnacce shew is here
xith Cupid kading the laughs and Constance
laying then: for al they're worth. You car/t
liford to miss it.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenk
Directed by Sidney A. Franklin
A FIRST N ATION AL PICTURE
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TWO SHOWS—T;15 AND «:«•
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