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
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sendee required for their best interests.
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Bank of Seward
SEWARD, ALASKA
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driving snow and piercing rain—that’s the
kind of regular Alaska weather our Over
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warmth and turn the wintry winds.
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received on every boat
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NEWS OF WEEK
Monday, Nov. 9—Ward Taylor, life
termer, with Ernest Browning and
Frank Holmes, the latter serving ten
and twenty year terms for burglary,
escaped from Walla Walla penal in
stitution.
Noel W. Smith, general manager of
the Alaska Railroad, left Seward en
route to Washington.
Vicco Perovich, who killed a man
named Jacobi, Sept. 15, 1905, at the
mouth of Deadman’s Slough, near
Fairbanks, was freed after serving 20
years.
Thieves entered J. C. Penny depart
ment store at Olympia and escaped
with $46,000.
Baxter Gillion, junior captain and
fullback of Lenore College, died of a
broken neck, sustained in football.
Five women employe at Hibbing,
Minn r found dead in hotel room. Died
from either inhaling gas fumes or
from poisoned wine.
October halibut sales strong eclips
ing all former records.
Col. Mitchell at Washington says he
is prepared to prove Shenandoah went
on its western trip unfit and unpre
pared against the will of Commander
Lansdowne.
Harbor refuge survey, Resurrection
Bay, being made by Anton Anderson,
junior engineer, Alaska Road Com
mission. Four map sites being sur
veyed by him.
j Schooner Donaldson, Capt. Alexan
der Allen, in Seward from Nome, en
route to Seattle.
Steamer Victoria depart from Sew
ard for Seattle with over 200 aboard.
Tuesday—John E. Ballaine told the
Seattle Press Association that Alaska
development is being throttled. He
bitterly attacked Congressman Free
for advocating abandonment of the
Alaska railroad
Nine millions of dollars will be
spent in the Fairbanks district in the
next five years, declared Norman C.
Stinnes, manager of the Fairbanks
Exploration Company, upon his arrival
in Seattle last week.
Capt. Harry Weeding of the gas
schooner Chukatsk, arrived in port
from Siberia, en route to Seattle.
Admiral Watson arrives in Seward
from westward.
The Bureau of Education ship Boxer
arrived in Seattle from Nome with
a cargo valued at $30,000..
Merle La Voy, Fox film man, left
Seward for Point Barrow.
Wednesday—Armistice Day. No pa
per published.
Thursday—Federal judges in Alaska
must pay income taxes rules the In
ternal revenue department.
Browij & Hawkins store in Seward
filmed for the nationally known Fox
film corporation
H. C. Cutler, secretary-treasurer of
Arctic Fishing & Trading Company,
arrested at Seattle charged with em
bezzling funds of the company.
Wm. Sulzer, former governor of
New York, addressed Seattle mining
club, stating the people of Seattle owe
Alaska a debt that can never be re
paid.
President Suzallo of the University
of Washington declared at Seattle that
Gov. Hartley’s message recommend
ing reorganizing the entire school sys
tem of the state under a non-salaried
governor, abolishing regents, trustees
and office of superintendent of pub
lic instruction is unworkable and ruin
ous to education.
Congressman Free, at Washington,
recommends to President Coolidge
that the Alaska Railroad be abandon
ed and a highway constructed over
the fight of way.
Thirteen die and scores are injured
when an express train jumps the track
between St. Louis and New York.
Thirty-six witnesses residing out
side of Washington, D. C., were sub
poenaed for Col. Mitchell.
The Moose Pass road will be com
pleted in three weeks.
Friday—Mild weather prevails at
Nome, believed to be caused from re
cent volcanic activities.
Steamer Starr sails from Seattle
for Seward. Will resume westward
run out of Seward Nov. 19.
Secretary Wilbur resigns as honor
ary president of Wilson Memorial As
sociation.
Attempt made to legislate Ku Klux
Klan out of British Columbia.
A goat owned by George Fogg,
near Middletown, Mass., after being
missing six days, was found in an
abandoned well and rescued.
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Tourist Shirts”
(Regular Wool Shirt, but have knit bottom)
Fancy Shades and Patterns
Jast received from the
Great Patrick Wjoolen Mills
Priced $7, 7.50
On Display at
Brown & Hawkins Gorp.
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GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
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4 Popular Trains
every day—to
California
That’s the fine, conven
ient travel service offered
you for your trip south
this fall.
Through sleepers from
Seattle to San Francisco
and to Los Angeles.
Stopover privileges.
And the most satisfy
ing accommodations en
route. Long, easy-riding
Pullmans of steel. Ob
servation car with spa
cious open platform.
Food of tempting vari
ety and wholesomeness
in Southern Pacific din
ing cars. Thus a journey
of entire contentment,
over the ever-fascinating
Shasta route.
Reduced Roundtrip Fares
Learn more about this logical way to Cali
fornia. Write now for booklets, fares,
reservations, schedules, to
Southern Pacific lings
B. C. TAYLOR, Gen. Agt.
314 Union Street, Seattle, Washington
Hope of Rescue of Sub
Crew Been Abandoned
PLYMOUTH, England, Nov. 14 (£>)—
Hope of rescuing any of the 69 offi
cers and men on the submarine, Moni
tor M-l, has been abandoned. While it
is believed the vessel has been locat
ed in 225 feet of water off Start point,
the report cannot be confirmed
Two Dead, Four Injured
In Submarine Explosion
TOULON, France, Nov. 14 (JP)~Two
are dead and four injured from an ex
plosion in the accumulator room of a
French submarine, last night. The
vessel was towed near shore and will
probably be salvaged.
John Papritski of Springfield, 111.,
whittled a set of false teeth out of
wood and declares that they answer
thei purpose very well.
Warsaw-Riga Express
Hit By Freight Train
BERLIN, Nov. 14 (/P)—Twenty-two
are known to be dead and 20 were
injured by the telescoping of the War
saw-Riga express near Dunsberg, Rus
sia, by a freight train, due to an er
ror of a switchman.
Col. Leroy Springs, of Lancaster,
S. C., has 400 mules and knows each
one of them by name.
For use on upholstered furniture
and other small surfaces, a handy
new vacuum cleaner weighing less
than three pounds has been devised..
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A new steel and aluminum diving
suit makes possible a descent of 600
feet under the sea, almost twice the
depth formerly attained.
Flashlights and batteries, Schaller
er’s Alaska Shop. tf. ^