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This Bank Has been in
Business Twenty Years
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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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Bank of Seward
SEWARD, ALASKA
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When his daughter got married,
t\ P. Giles of Barnet, England, sent
cash presents to 200 people in the
local poorhouse.
For stealing an orange for her
-ick mother, Clara Abrams, 17, was
sent to jail for a week in St. Paul.
Queen Victoria of Spain ordered
the release of a woman beggar who
had been arrested for slipping into
the royal palace.
Gateway Want Ads—Read Them!
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NOTED JAPANESE
ON WAY STATES
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INTERIOR JAPANESE LEAVES
THE IDITAROD—FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN LIFE SEES AUTO AT
NENANA, ALASKA.
j A dimunitive and scholarly appear
i ing gentleman of Japan, G. Wada of
t Idltarod, arrived in Seward last eve
[ ning from the Interior, making his
first trip out of the district in 15
years. Not until he reached Nenana
did he get his first, glimpse of an
automobile for he lias been in Alas
ka for almpst 20 years without going
( Outside. As Mr. Wada stated last
i evening to The Gateway, “It is a
shame one spends such a long period
of their life in a remote district
like the Iditarod, without breakiug
the monotony once in awhile. I do
not know what possessed me ”
High Water On Yukon.
Never in eleven years, according
to the Indians along the Yukon river,
has there been such a high water
as there has been recently, Mr.
Wada said. At Holy Cross, Nulato
Shagarok and Aniulek, the villages
were practically deserted when he
departed up the river for Nenana.
With the exception of the mission
at Holy Cross, every house in the
small town has been deserted for the
muddy water had reached the level
overflowing into all of the homes
and store buildings. All business
men have lost considerably in the
way of merchandise, some w'orse
than other and running into a large
sum. Gasoline tanks, and also 45
cords of stacked up wood mysterious
ly disappeared the first night of the
flood. The tanks were full of gaso
line and up to the time of Mr. Wada’s
departure, had not been recovered.
A telegram was received by Mr.
Wada two days ago from Iditarod in
which the news was contained that
the flood was receding rapidly.
Is Camp of the Past.
When asked how conditions were
in the Iditarod district, Mr. Wada
with a short chuckle, remarked: “It
is true there are two dredges in the
region and off hand, one would nat
urally think it is a busy and a good
camp. The truth of the matter is
there is no business. As an exam- 1
pie take the once flourishing town of
Iditarod; at the present time, out
side of Ira Wood, gasboat and steam- ■
boat operator on the river, and three
men at the wireless station, there i
is no one else in the town. The two i
dredges I spoke of are located at ]
Flat, some few miles from the town i
and employs a total of 32 men. One i
of the dredges is being operated by 1
the Rielly Investment Company and 1
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the other is Johnny Beaton’s dredge.
This dredge Eric Matson is operat
ing on a lay. Eighteen men are also
at work on claims on Chicken creek.”
Meets Seward Man.
Tommy Jasper, former business
man of Seward was met at Holy
Cross by Wad a, en route to Flat. The
meeting took place ten days ago
and Jasper appeared glad to be near
ing his destination. He left Sew
ard within the last two weeks for
Flat where he plans opening up a
restaurant. In Seward, Jasper con
ducted the O. K. Barber Shop, which
Harry Bowers took over recently.
Frank Manley, probably the best
known oldtime operator of the Inte
rior districts, was also at Holy Cross
with 15 men, and a huge stack of
mining machinery and equipment,
en route to his placer ground on Wil
low Creek in the Flat region.
“You can say for me,” Mr. Wada
! said, “that I am no relation to the
Wada that the oldtimers of the ter
ritory recall; who first brought news
to Dawson of the gold strike at
Fairbanks and who also was a fa
mous dog musher in his day. Our'
names are the same, however. I be
l'ieve the Wada Alaskans know so
well is now on the Arctic slope, ■
somewhere in the Colville river dis
trict.”
Mr. Wada went into the Iditarod
during the strike, arriving there
when but 12 tents were on the 4
ground. He engaged in business
and remained there permanently until
a few weeks ago. During this time
| he acquired several businesses un
l til he possessed an entire square
block in the town. One peculiar
' thing was called to the attention of
the Gateway by Mr. Wada, with the
exception of one other Japanese, met
in the early days, he had not seen
or talked with one of has country
men for the last nine years. Prior
to going to Iditarod he was at Fair
banks for a year and at tNorae for ^
about two years. He proposes to re
main in Seward for a week or ten
days and may possibly locate here.
However, he is under the impression
he will take a run into Fairbanks
and look it over and perhaps later,
when he gets acclimated, particular
ly to the coastaal climate, will take
a trip to the States. While in Sew
ard he is stopping at the Hotel Over
land.
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received on every boat
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GROCERIES
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
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