This Bank Has been in
Business Twenty Years
THE MANAGEMENT of this institution
is in full accord with modern ideas.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN as the
bank that renders its customers the kind of
service required for their best interests.
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the advantage of the kind of a bank you
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Bank of Seward
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BERNERS’ BAY PROPERTY
SOLD TO HAYDEN & STONE
Twenty-six lode claims and eight
mill sites, comprising the well-known
Kensington group at Berner’s Bay in
southeastern Alaska were sold this
week on execution of judgment re
cently given to H. Lonsdale in the lo
cal district court. The property was
at once transferred to Hayden &
Stone, eastern investors.
SHOOTS FOX, IS FINED
Because he shot a fox which he saw
running in front of his speeder on the
railroad, Otto Smith was fined §25 in
the commissioner’s court at Cordova.
He was charged with possessing a
pelt taken out of season. Smith is em
ployed in the railroad yards at Cordo
va. George Anderson, a fisherman,
pleaded guilty to fishing in a closed
area, on the Copper River, and was
fined $75.
MRS PERCY REID DEAD
Gertrude Isabel Macpherson Reid,
wife of Pery Reid, acting gold commis
sioner for Yukon Territory, passed
away at Dawson recently.
GREY GOOSE KILLED AT DAWSON
A fine young grey goose was killed
in a pond near Dawson last week by
W. J. Rendell. The bird was the first
seen in that section in many years.
JURY FINDS INDIAN DIED
FROM INJURIES BY AUTO
A coroner’s jury at Juneau holding
an inquest over the remains of Jim
John, an Indian, returned a verdict
Monday that death resulted from in
juries received when deceased was hit
by an auto driven by James Keegan.
The accident took place on the Glacier
road.
CHILDREN ARE HAPPY
A more interested and happy lot of
children than those at the Jesse Lee
Home was never seen. The young
sters were a bit shy when first landed
from the revenue cutters, but quickly
adapted themselves to their surround
ings and are helping get the big build
ings ready for the remainder of the
children who will arrive on the Vic
toria. They are a healthy, bright
looking lot of boys and girls, and will
be a great help to the community.
REPORT OF WASTE FALSE
Strollers’ Weekly, published at Ju
neau says that the howl put up about
the waste of herring by salters and
packers in that vicinity is not true.
Investigation has shown that no such
waste exists.
FRANK FOSTER CANS CRABS
Construction work at Cordova on
the new crab cannery being built by
F. H. Foster on the city dock is well
under way and it will be completed
in ten days. Chris Michaelson is in
charge of the work. Machinery will
be moved in as soon as the building
is finished but it will be at least three
weeks before the concern is ready to
pack crabs.
GEORGE TOWNSEND DEAD
George Townsend, an old time pros
pector of the McCarthy and Chitiua
district, died last week at Cordova of
heart failure. He recently returned
from the states in apparent good
health. No record is known of his
relatives.
CATCHES ONE WHALE
Capt. Louis Lane killed a whale last
week near Latouche for the Eleanor
Island fox farm. He is operating in
the vicinity of Cordova this week.
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STEEL FREIGHTER BOUGHT
SEATTLE—The U. S. Shipping j
Board has sold the steel freighter
Memnon to the Columbia River Pack
ers’ Association for service in the
cannery trade in Alaska. The Mem
non, a vessel of 5100 tons, has been
idle here a year and a half. It will be
fitted with passenger accommodations
and will replace the sailing ships in
the cannery fleet.
NEW INDUSTRY DEVELOPS
By another year a new industry
will develop in Wrangell in the ship
ping of wild blueberries to the Seat
tle market. It is said there are tons
of this luscious fruit near Wrangell,
and an effort will be made to market
it. s'
CHARGED WITH FORGERY
James Prevost, a Russian, is charg
ed with forgery at McCarthy. He was
taken in custody by Deputy Marshal
Close.
Jos. Imlach, who conducts numerous
herring salteries in this district arriv
ed in Seward this morning from the
westward on the steamer Redondo.
Miss Lois Price, daughter of Tom
Price of Anchorage, is returning on
the Yukon. Miss Price left here with
the Elks delegation and after attend
ing the big convention visited a time
in Sound cities.
CORDOVA BEAVER RUNS AWAY
CORDOVA: Captured in a crab net
a stray beaver belonging to a con
signment shipped to the Alaska Game
Commission for Kodiak, was returned
to its cage this week. It was making
tracks for Eyak Lake when caught.
Dr, L. von M-Zesch, who arrived in
Nome recently, has fitted up dental of
fices over Milo’s Cafe, according to
the Nome Nugget and is opened for
business. Dr. von M-Zesch has been
located in different parts of Alaska,
and recently removed to Portland.