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A CARLOAD
OR A SACK
C-O-A-L
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HEALY LUMP, NUT OR MINE RUN,
BAXTER NUT OR MINE RUN
EVAN JONES LUMP OR MINE RUN
NANAIMO RANGE COAL
IN SACK OR BULK
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND GRAIN,
TRANSFERRING AND TEAMING
TEL MAIN 17 ARCADE BLDG.
H. V- HOBEN A F. DAVIS
CHRIS’ PUCE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phene Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
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CHOP SUEY, NOODLES,
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
ANDY'S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
Mary Garden, famous prima donna
and opera director, has been made a
captain in the French Army and a
regiment was recently paraded in
! her honor.
iUiss Adelle Baxter, noted London
painter nowT engaged in a picture en
titled ‘‘The Crucifixion,” smokes a
pipe as she works.
The NewT York state census will
be taken almost entirely by women
enumerators this year.
Fraulein Ruth Eber is the first
woman veterinarian qualified for
practice in Germany.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
HARRY BOWERS, Manager
R. F. Tillman
! Plumbing -- Steamfitting
| Next to Crawford’s Shop
ARON ERICSON
Painter and Deeorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
Meat Buying
Made a Pleasure
OUR MEAT remains at its us
ual high standards. The only
thing cut about it is the price
—and that’s so interestingly
done that you’ll surely come
here.
CARSTENS PACKING COMPANY
E. KURTZ, Mgr.
CAMILLE FLAMMARION,
POET-ASTRONOMER OF
FRANCE PASSES AWAY
PARIS, June 4—(/P)—Camille Flam
marion, astronomer of France, died
in his observatory today near Juvis
sy.
Camille Flammarion, the French
poet-astronomer, made astronomy pop
ular to the layman. He sugar-coated
astronomical facts, but while he won
applause from the layman some of
his serious-minded contemporaries in
the study of astronomy attacked
many of his theories as pure fancies.
He was the founder, however, of
the famous observatory at Juvissy
and of the Astronomical Society of
France. His books include “Marvel
of the Heavens,” “Popular Astrono
my,” and “Mysterious Psychic For
ces.”
'In October 1920, when in his 78th
year, M. Flammarion married Miss
Gabrielle Renaudot, who collaborated
with him the writing of some of his
best works.
Flammarion, when a boy* mne
years old, witnessed the sun eclipsed
by the moon. Owing by the pheno
menon, his chief concern was in how
astronomers, wrho predicted this
event were able to tell. Thereafter
the lad could usually be found at sun
set on a neighboring hill watching
the departing orb and waiting for the
appearance of the stars.
In his 15th year, he wrote a book
on the origin of the world, but, in
his own words, “It luckily never
met a publisher.”
He entered the famous Paris Ob
servatory, and became on assistant
astronomer to LeVellier, and wrote
his first published book at 19 years
of age. It was translated at once to
almost every language.
He soon assumed direction of the
scientific review “Cosmos” and also
published his second scientific work.
"The Woi4d [Imaginary and ,the
World Real,” was the name of it.
With the famous Aeronaut Godard,
the young astronomer ascended in
balloons to study the' heavens. These
observations extended over a period
of five years.
During the Franco-Prussion war in
1871, he demonstrated the practical
application of his knowledge of as
tronomy and telescope. Hidden in an
observatory at Passy, a captain of a
special corps, he commissioned other
astronomers to assist him in study
ing the Prussian troops banked
around Paris.
All overtures for public offices af
ter the war were refused by Flam
marion. He devoted himself to study
ing double and bultiple stars, their
colors and proper motions and sun
spots, the branches of the science in
which he specialized.
Most of his great achievements
during the latter part of his life w'ere
accomplished in his observatory ai
historic Juvissy. It was called the
“half-way house of Kings and cour
tiers.” Here Napoleon had received'
the news of the fall of Paris and
from here he departed to Fontaine
bleu to bid adieu to his army, in 1814.
The estate was a gift to Flammarion
from an admirer, Mr. Meret.
Flammarion will be remembered
for his many books, written in a po
etic and philosophic vein. While
great secrets of the universe are
therein disclosed, they are clothed in
language that is as entertaining as
a novel. It is on this that his popu
lar fame rests.
Flammarion himself had said:“With
in the last quarter of a century our
sublime science has been wholly
transformed. Instead of watching in
ert masses in motion thru the void
of space, the study of the evolutions
of the stars and life had taken its
the old school, and may be looked
place. It is a signal advance over
upon as likely to prove the grandest
feature of astronomical science in
the near future.”
ALASKA RAIL-ROAD ANNOUNCES
NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE, JUNE 7
According to headquarters of the
Alaska Railroad, commencing Sunday,
June 7, there will be an additional
passenger service between Seward
and Anchorage. A train will ieave
Anchorage at 8:30 Sunday morning,
arriving at Sewmrd at 2 p. m. There
will also be a train leave Seward
Sunday morning at 7:30 o’clock, ar
riving at Anchorage at 1 p. m.
The trains will meet at Moraine,
OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
Phone Madison 65
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
HUSSEY & BOLAM, Mechanics
Mile 62, giving round trip passengers
to Seward, who have not booked any
further than Seward, a chance
to take a run over a part of the Al
aska Ralroad.
Commencing Saturday, June 6, a
parlor observation car will be plac
ed on the train running between Sew
ard and Fairbanks.
The latter part of this month
there will be three trains a week
between Seward, Anchorage and Fair
banks, in addition to the Sunday
train from Seward to Anchorage.
These trains will leave Seward on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
and leave Fairbanks for the coast the
same days.
Dr. Hershell Parker
Discovers New Method
Extracting Oil, Shale
A new method of extracting oil
from the oil shale which literally cov
ers mountains in the Chehalis dis
trict, in the state of Washington,, is
believed will revolutionize the oil in
dustry, according to recent arivals in
Seward from Seattle. Dr. Hershell
Parker, who is very well known in
this city as an engineer and ore geolo
gist, recently brought into Seattle a
couple of tons of specimens of the oil
shale and sand. The new discovery
extracts the oil by a heat and press
ure method. He has been employed
by the Chehalis Oil Company for
many months, prospecting the entire
region. i
_
Ernest Nalle, jr., 6-year-old Texas
boy, has been made a full-fledged
colonel on the staff of his grand
mother, Governor Miriam A. Fergu
son.
Dorothy May Nourse, 16, of Rox
bury, Mass., has 'won eight beauty
contests in and around Boston dur
ing the past year.
Young Alip, 14-year-old son of the
champion Filipino chess player, fin
ished fourth in a class tournament
in which his father was first.
Corine Cordon, 14, of Omaha,
broke a junior world’s swimming re
cord by going 50 yards in 28 seconds
flat.
Staffer's Lire Time Pens, at the
the Alaska Shop. tf
Hardware-S
POWDER—CAPS—FU £
SHIP CHANDLERY A
ANCHORS, ROI
HALIBUT LINI
Sheet Metal — Plumbi
J. L. C
PAINTS AN
FINEST BILLIARI
Mrs. Edgar Jones filled her hus
band’s pulpit at Alston, England, for
three Sundays while he was sick.
Pearl Wong, a Chinese girl, won
the first prize in oratory at a public
school in London, Ontario.
John Tippis, 12,« is gaining wide
renown as a Baptist preacher in
Tennessee.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
'^ray’and third Wednesdays of each
/lr\ 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
^^=^j8:00 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
:ome; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. 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, V G.
HOTEL OVERLAND
GORDON SHEA, Propr.
SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK
OR MONTH
New Heating Plant Just Installed
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PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
to ves--Ranges
JE—MINERS’ SUPPLIES
ND SHIP LINOLEUM
E AND TWINE
:S AND HOOKS
ng Shop — Gun Repair
iRAEF
D BRUSHES
BECK & WHITE
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &
CANDIES
) HALL IN ALASKA