Seward Happenings
LOCAL AND SOCIAL ITEMS OF THE WEEK
From Monday’s Daily
John White, a Valdez resident, was
a through passenger on the Alameda
en route to Anchorage for treatment
in the government hospital. Mr.
White was seriously injured at Val
dez last week in a runaway. He was
accompanied by George Butler, an old
time Sewardite, who used to reside on
the bay in 1907.
Mrs. J. P. Stotko last week pur
chased the Lloyd property on Fourth
avenue.
POUTER LEAVES FOR UGANIK
The gas boat Pouter of the Kodiak
Island Fishing and Packiug Company
sailed today for Unagik, with a load
of oil. Manager H. O. Roberts and
James Hawkins left on her.
W. L. Keyset*, one of the original
oil locators at Kanataxt. came in on
the Starr and left on <he Alameda for
Seattle
F. E. Walker, representing Occi
dental Flour; W. E. Rugg, represent
ing the Cudahy Packing Co., and C.
E. Young of Folger's Coffees, leU to
day for Fairbanks.
Pvt. Sundberg, from Anchorage, ar
rived on Saturday’s train and left on
the Alameda with his family.
G. A. Gerow, an old timer of this
district, sailed on the Alameda for
Valdez.
Frank Barthoff, a millionaire mine
owner and original discoverer of the
Willow Creek properties, left on the
Alameda for Denver, called there by
the death of his father.
Miss M. Reed, who has been solic
iting subscriptions for popular maga
zines in Seward. 1 *tt on iv-<!:iy’s boat.
E. L. Whittemore is in Anchorage
on business, and it is stated is assist
ing in the big dance hall scene at the
studio of the motion pictures com
pany.
Oak Olsen, a popular traveling man,
spent Sunday in town, leaving on the
boat today for southern points.
Evans Jones of the Evans Jones
Coal company has severed his connec
tion with the concern, it is announced
in Anchorage papers.
7. J. Loussac, the Anchorage drug
gist, is in Kanatak this week on busi
ness connected with his firm.
Ray C. Larson, who has been in
Kanatak the past three weeks, return
ed to Anchorage Saturday.
H. S. Balderston arrived from An
chorage on Saturday night’s special.
Jack F. Chamberlain, a well known
commercial man, arrived in town on
a recent train.
The oil tanker Standard Service
sailed yesterday afternoon for Ko
diak after filling up all tanks in town.
Earl Olmstad and wife, who have
been working at the Gold Bullion mine
in the Willow Creek district, arrived
in Seward Saturday night and left on
this morning’s boat for Seattle. They :
intend to buy a car in Seattle and take
in Northern Idaho, Yellowstone Park,
and will take in the Dempsev-Gibbon
fight at Shelby, Mont., after which
they will proceed to Minnesota to vis
is their parents, returning to Alaska
in the fall.
John T. Elliott, of the bureau of
public roads, left this morning for
Girdwmod, after spending Sunday in
town.
Richard Wakelin, of Seattle, was
an over-Sunday guest of the Van Gil
der.
E. J. Wallace, an Anchorage resi
dent, spent Sunday in Seward.
Ted Heacock spent aunaay in town
returning today to his work for the
bureau of public roads.
Mrs. R. Lavery and child of Fair
banks, was an over-Sunday guest at
the Van Gilder.
Attorney A. E. Rucker was a pas
senger on today’s train en route to
Anchorage. He will return Wednes
day.
Buster and Harry Revelle left to
day for Lake View to take wrork with
the bureau of public roads.
Joe Estes, who has been attending
school in Seward the past winter, left
today for his home in Roosevelt.
Capt. Barndollar left this morning
for Anchorage on government busi
ness.
C. H. Kale was a Moose Pass pas
senger on today’s train.
H.. F. Dott & Company of Juneau
advise the Gateway, that their electri
cal adding machine expert will be in
Seward in about two weeks, ready to
do first-class repair work.
MAJOR HITCHCOCK RELIEVED
Major Francis M. Maddox is on the
transport Cambrai to relieve Major
Hitchcock at the Anchorage barracks.
Louis Simpson left for Anchorage
this morning.
Sixty persons left on today’s train
j for interior points, most of them be
ing bureau of public roads men who
spent Sunday in town. .
Tom Dwyer left today for Anchor
age.
A detail of twenty men and a ser
geant arrived from Anchorage on the
train Saturday night to load and un
load the transport Cambrai.
L. J. Switzer, a Fairbanks resident,
left on today’s boat for the States.
Frank Adelman, a Jervis, Oregon,
rancher, arrived on the Alameda, and
is visiting his brother, Councilman
Adelman. The visit was entirely un
expected, and was therefore, the more
delightful.
O. E. Suitor and wife left for their
homeat Gird wood on today'* train.
TEMBLOR HITS SEWARD
An earthquoke of a half minute du
ration struck Seward yesterday after
noon at 4:10. Two sharp tremors
were felt with a long drawn out vibra
tion.
Robert Michaelson, a Mills creek
operator, spent Sunday in town, a
guest of the Hotel Sexton.
BRIG. GEN. WELLS ON CAMBRAI
Brigadier General Wells is a pas
senger on the transport Cambrai. He |
is coming to Seward and Anchorage i
to look over the military situation.
R. E. Murphy and wi'* were guests
oi the Van Giiaer '**. i Sunday. Mr
Murphy r .pitc» at th Dupont Pow
der Co.
Henry Lucas, a Kenai Lake guide
and rancher spent Sunday in town.
From Tuesday’s Daily
The Alaska Transier is shipping
from seven to ten tons of coal per
trip of the Starr to Kanatak parties. It
retails in Kanatak at $18 per ton.
Alvah Eames, chief mail clerk, left!
for interior points on the train yes
terday.
Capt. Lloyd C. Parsons and Mrs.
Parsons accompanied the Congression
al party to the interior.
Robert Michaelson, the Moose Pass
operator, arrived in town on Satur
day’s train and will be here until
Wednesday having some machine
parts repaired.
A shipment of six Chevrolets was
received on the last boat, consigned
to Fairbanks parties.
R. A. Hansen, official photographer
for the War Department, is accom
paning the Congressional party, taking
motion pictures for the department i
files. It is stated a number of Pathe
photographers made requests to ac
company the party but were refused
on account of lack of room.
The Chamber of Commerce will
give a dance in Odd Fellows hall to
morrow night, June 6, for the officers
and crew of the transport Cambrai.
Dancing will start at 9:30.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Shea enter
tained Delegate Sutherland at dinner
last evening.
Charles H. Gilbert, special assistant
to the Bureau of Fisheries, is accom
panying the congressional party on the
Cambrai,' leaving for the interior on
the special.
Ed Kennedy, an Alaska Transfer
employe, left yesterday for a brief
visit to Anchorage.
John Rowe arrived from the halibut
banks with the gas boat Annie.
From Wednesday’s Daily
Burr Synder, M. S. E., at Valdez for
many years, who transferred to San
Francisco, will return to Vhldez />n
one of the next boats, M. S. E. Quist
being transferred to Sitka.
Mrs. T. Peterosn will leave Monday
for Moose Pass where she will spend
some time at assessment work on a
mineral claim.
Pvt. George Guest, who has been in
Valdez for the past year, will be trans
ferred to Seward in the near future.
Miss Hannah Sponheim, a resident
of Fairbanks will leave on the Evans
for southern ports.
Mrs. S. B. Meyer will leave on the
Admiral Evans for Juneau.
B. Story, the boss truck farmer of
Resurrection valley was a Seward
visitor today.
A carload of coal will be received
by the Alaska Transfer today con
signed for the San Juan Company.
John Gilpatrick, watchman at the
Seward docks, left Monday for the
Moose Pass district, where he will
spend the next three months doing
assessment work on his mining prop
erty.
STARR WILL SAIL SUNDAY
The steamer Starr will sail Sunday
for Bristol Bay points, it was an
nounced today. She will await the ar
rival of the Northwestern.
The Kodiak Island Fishing and
Packing Company received 2700 cases
of cans on the freighter Del Rose.
The same vessel had 4,000 for Uganik,
and the next trip of the Evans 3000
more will be received.
Pearl E. Morris of Fairbanks will
arrive on the train tonight en route
to the States.
DURGIN TO EDIT HYDER PAPER.
Earl Durgin, former associate edi
tor of the Gateway, will take a posi
tion as editor of the Hyder Miner. At
the present time he is in Seattle
where he is being treated for an in
jured leg, strained while playing ball
early in the season. Mr. Durgin left
here for Honolulu, but has changed
his plans since arriving at Seattle.
Mrs. Don Carlos will leave on the
Admiral Evans for a short business:
trip to Ketchikan, returning on one of
the next boats.
Wm. Fairman has about 250 small
chicks in his brooder and has about
the same nnmber of eggs in his incu
bator for hatching.
From Thursday's Daily
C. W. Mossman, who ,as “Pistol
Pete” would say, is “the best danged
deputy that ever wore a star,” was an
incoming passenger on the Evans. |
leaving today for Anchorage. Mr.
Mossman, who is deputy marshal at
Anchorage, accompanied Marshal H.
P. Sullivan to Kanatak and westward
points.
Rev. Fr. Peter Kashavaroff, of Una
laska was a through passenger on the
Admiral Evans en route to Juneau,
where he will visit his brother. Rev.
Fr. Andrew Kashavaroff.
Chas. L. Mason has been appoint
ed assistant to the chairman of the
Alaska Engineering Commission.
W. J. McDonald, head of the for- j
estry service in the Third division,
was a through passenger on the Ad
miral Evans, en route to his head
quarters in Cordova.
Mr. and Mrs. Jensen of Toppenish,
Wash., a prominent sheepman of the
Evergreen State, was a through pas
senger on the Evans, having been to
the westward looking over the possi
bilities of Kodiak island as sheep
range.
Marshal H. P. Sullivan was a re
turning pasenger from Kanatak and
westward points. He left on the same
boat for Valdez.
FR. TURNELL HERE
Rev. Fr. Turnell arrived from An
chorage on last night’s train and will
hold services here Sunday morning at
9:30 o’clock.
Attorney A. E. Rucker returned on
last night’s train from a short busi
iness trip to Anchorage.
Sergt. Milner and wife arrived from
Anchorage on yesterday tarin, and
will leave on the transport for duty
at Fort McDow, Calif.
H. W. Dean, a member of the Sig
nal Corps, from Fairbanks, is a guest
of the Overland.
E. L. Whittemore returned last
night from Anchorage, after spend a
week in the interior city. While ab
sent he gave the big studio of the
moving picture corporation the once
over.
F. R. Moore secured the contract to
paint the front of the postoffice build
ing as soon as the weather permits.
Z. J. Loussac, druggist of Anchor
age, returned yesterday from Kana
tak, where he has been looking after
realty matters, and left today for his .
Interior home.
F. R. Moore this week completed
the paper in Brown & Hawkins’ Corp.
hardware department.
Chas. Stahl and Harry L. Rust, S.
C., arrived from the Interior and left
on the Evans for Valdez, where they
were detailed for duty.
The U. S. S. Gold Star, carrying
supplies and repair crew, which has
been to the westward the past month
was at Unalaska at last reports and
would reach Seward about June 22.
Two men for the local radio station
are aboard.
Mrs. Emelie Weybrecht returned
last evening from a visit to friends in
Anchorage.
J. M. Lathrop left Kodiak on one of
the last boats for Kanatak, where he
will have charge of the Erskine town
site.
Miss Lydia Petellin, of Afognak, ar
rived on last night’s steamer and will
be a guest of Mrs. Emelie Weybrecht
while in Seward.
Gus Gillis, the well known travel
ing man, arrived from the westward
on the Admiral Watson.
Capt. Alexander Allan, and wife,
who arrived last week from Cordova
in his new boat, the Donaldson, will
sail from Seward shortly for Nome
and the Arctics on atrading trip. Capt.
Allan is one of the oldest traders in
the north.
Mrs. C. Anderson and daughter,
of Kodiak, are visiting in Seward, as
guests of the former’s daughter, Mrs.
M. Sargent.
Miss L. Klencke and Miss C. Mar
tin, members of the Fairbanks pub
lic schools, arrived on the train and
left for Ketchikan.
Sergt. Novarra, wife and three chil
dren, formerly stationed at Anchor
age, will leave on the transport Cam
brai for Fort Lawton.
Capt. M. D. Barndollar returned on
last night’s train from Anchorage with
Company B, Seventh Infantry, which
has been relieved from duty at An
chorage and will be taken out by the
transport Cambrai to Vancouver Bar
racks. Capt. and Mrs. Barndollar
during the time they have resided in
Seward have made many friends who
will miss them in future social activi
ties.
Z. T. Halferty, well known residen
of Kodiak, Is in Seward, a guest of the
Hotel Sexton.
H. J. Gaikema, master of the Sea
Lion, is a guest of the Overland hotel.
He will have a party from the States
meet him here in July, when they will
proceed to the Valley of Ten Tousand
Smokes.
Chas. D. Hoff, a Port O’Brien resi
dent, arrived on the Admiral Evans.
B. M. Stone, one of the best known
newspaper men in Alaska, arrived
from Kanatak and the westward on
the steamer Admiral Evans and will
leave Monday for Anchorage. Mr.
Stone has been preparing an article
| on conditions to the westward.
Rev. Fr. Turnell arrived on the
last train and will remain in Seward
until Monday.
Carl Miller, employed at the North
ern, left on the Evans for Valdez. He
will return on the Watson.
Alvah Eames was a returning pas
senger from the interior on last
night’s train.
From Friday’s Daily
The Alaska Shop has erected a six
foot totem pole in front of their place
of business.
Law'rence McNeer arrived on the
Iasi train from Fairbanks, o join his
mother at this place.
Fred Miller yesterday purchased
the Benson house, on Third avenue;
a four room bungalow, for 12700 cash.
Mr. Mil'er will remain in his rooms
above the barbershop and reui out
his new propeity.
Allen Gilbert Parker, aged 70, lelt
on one of the last boats for Sitka.
Mrs. Frederick Mears and Joseph
ine, Betty, Helen and Master Freder
ick Mears, left on the Alameda for
Seattle, where tehy will join Colonel
Mears at Fort Lawton.
ALASKA needs a parcel post zone.
It costs a resident of Seward as much
to send a parcel six miles as it does
to send it six thousand.
RED, WHITE and BLUE Burning,
andd Flags for sale. URBACH. 2t
SEWARD is one of the richest lit
tle towns in the world. We have a
population of 700 and bank deposits
averaging $5,784.23 per capita.
SEWARD is the only port in the
north where a vessel the size of the
Cambrai can dock without danger of
rocks or reefs, or finding the water
too deep to anchor.
SEWARD has timber enough to run
a pulp mill 100 years; the finest cot
tonwood and spruce. It lies within a
few miles of the largest halibut banks
in the world. It is directly on the
oil belt extending from Kanatak to
Katalla. Every vegetable grown in
the northern states grows here.
SEWARD has a two thousand ton
vessel serving every 33.7 persons,
figuring 700 residents and 21 vessels.
An average of 2,000 sacks of mail ar
rive and depart from this port each
month. Last year 12,567 persons ar
rived and departed from this port.
THE ALASKA railroad taps a half
million acres of the finest farming
lands in the north. A half million
people could have happy homes here
if a colonization scheme similar to
that of Jim Hill’s was adopted.
SEWARD is the only port on the
government railway which is abso
lutely ice-free and can be entered at
all times of the year.
SEWARD is the banking port and
the supply port of the country to the
far westward. It sells thousands of
dollars worth of foodstuffs and other
supplies to residents of the Aleutian
peninsula.
ALASKA needs population! Not
the kind who wants to labor eight
hours a day and wear a white collar;
but the axe-swinging, home-building
variety, who will labor without hope
of immediate reward to build himself
and his family a home. For mis sort
of pioneer the rewards are great; the
other kind are useless to develop the
country.
The Third division imported over
thirty million dollars in machinery
and supplies from the States in 1922.
When one considers its population it
is an average of over $8,000 per capita
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