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.
BE ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS, and have
the advantage of the kind of a bank you
would like to deal with.
Bank of Seward
SEWARD, ALASKA
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can be remedied by joining the Seward
Athletic Club and participating in In
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or Volleyball.
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Children’s ------ - $1.00
Boys’ and Girls’.$1. to $1.25
Women’s ------- $1.25 to $3.25
Men’s - - - - - - - $1.50 to $4.50
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FRESH VEGETABLES
received on every boat
Fancy and Staple
GROCERIES
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
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BIGGEST GAME
HUNT ALASKA
AUSTRIAN BARON SPENT $100,000
ON SUMMER HUNT ABOUT
16 YEARS AGO.
CHARTERED BIG STEAMER
Charles Madsen and John Dubriel
Acted As Guides on
Big Trip.
It was sixteen years ago yesterday
that Charles Madsen, well known
Kanatak business man, arrived in
Seward from what is believed to have
been the record big game hunt ever
undertaken in the Territory, for it
has been estimated $100,000 was ex
pended on the expedition.
Older residents of Seward will re
call the big hunt by Baron von Gutt
man, Austrian nobleman, who with a
personal friend, and a retinue of sci
entists, French chefs and valets, ar
rived in port from the Arctic on the
Norwegian steamer Transient, a thir
teen knot vessel, which was charter
ed all summer at the rate of $500
a day. The Baron and his friend
completed their hunt in the Kenai
lake district bagging about five big
moose, it is said.
Mr. Madsen stated he joined the
Baron at Nome, and acted as guide
along with John DuBriel, who has
been a Seward resident for many
years. From Nome the vessel sail
ed to the Arctic and along the North
coast of Siberia where polar bears
and walrus were killed. They then
proceeded down to the Kamchatka
peninsula .country where mountain
sheep and brown bear specimens were
obtained. Next, the Baron ordered
the vessel to cross over to the Al
aska peninsula where, in the vicinity
of Merindeen bay, near Chignik, sea
lions were shot.
Mr. Madsen, said the Baron was
well pleased with his hunt and with
the boat load of big game specimens
he was taking home. Mr. Madsen
was paid off in Seward for he was
anxious to get back to Seattle in or
der to make connections with the
i last steamer sailing for Nome.' Be
' fore he left for Seattle, however, the
Baron decorated him with many de
plomas and medals, in appreciation
of his services.
The greater portion of Mr. Mad
sen’s life has been spent in the
Nome and Siberian regions, having
entered the Siberian trading game,
along, along with Joe Bernard and
Alexander Allen, all three of them
having won fame as Arctic naviga
tors. Captain Bernard is perhaps bet
ter known as the famous skipper of
the Teddy Bear; Captain Allen is
still in the Nome district with his
schooner, the Donaldson; Captain
Madsen owned several schooners the
most recent being the Sea Wolf,
« which he had built in Seattle.
When asked how he came to name
his vessel the Sea Wolf, Captain
Madsen said he met Alec McLean,
the hero of Jack London’s story, in
Victoria in 1908, and McLean asked
him what he was going to name the
craft so he told him that he would
name it after the title Jack London
gave him, the Sea Wolf. Two years
previous to 1908, Captain Madsen
recalled he brought down to Seattle
from the Arctic 100,000 pounds of
walrus hides for the Hibbard-Stew
art Co.
I Twenty days after the World war
broke ou£ Captain Madsen decided
to abandon the Siberian coast trad
ing so after making a few trips in
the Nome vicinity, with his schoon
er, he located out to the Westward
where for four years he served in
several official capacities for the
government. He then moved to Ko
diak, then four years ago, to Kana
tak, where he and his wife and
five children have resided since. Mr
Madsen conducts a large general
mercantile establishment. Mr. Mad
sen has heen a business visitor in
Seward since the first of the week
and plans departing tomorro/w nighl
for Valdez, where he has been sum
moned to appear as a governmem
witness. He expects to return to Se
ward prior to November 17, in ordei
to make connections with the Stan
for Kanatak.
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ords at the Alaska Shop. tl
PATRICK MACKINAWS
AND OVERCOATS
Are well known, having been on the mar
ket for years. Their high standard of
V
manufacture has never varied. Come in
our store today and be convinced that they
are really better.
Mackinaws - 15.00 to 25.00
Overcoats - 35.00 toT5.00
BROWN & HAWKINS
CORPORATION
“QUALITY FIRST”
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SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
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awaiting you in California.
Warm, suns wept be aches,
fascinating cities, zeetrul
mountain resorts—join
happy thousands at these
delightful playgrounds.
And the trip is so easily
arranged. From Seattle,
through sleepers daily to
San Francisco and to Los
Angeles. Reduced round
trip fares, too.
Learn more about the
Shasta route journey south
ward. Read of the service
on any of the four popular
daily trains over this route.
—The comfortable accom
modations; the tempting
food in Southern Pacific
dining cars.
Qet this further information; write note for booklets,
fares, reservations, schedules, etc., to
Southern Pactficlines
B. C. TAYLOR, Gen. Agt.
J 314 Union Street • Seattle, Washington
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Kilian and Lutz of
Forestry Department
At Work in Woods
Trail reconnaissance has been un
der way the past week in the Cooper
lake district by Martin Kilian, forest
ranger, who is expected to return to
Seward tomorrow. It is stated this
work will continue as long as the
weather will permit.
H. J. Lutz, forest service timber
cruiser, who has been in the Chugach
forest for the last two weeks, is still
engaged in marking oi^t cutting area
for tie contractors, in the vicinity of
the Alaska Railroad.
Mrs. John H. Flower, wife of the
well known local grocery store propri
etor, arrived on the Alaska after
having spent thepast four months in
California and Michigan. . '
Join the Chamber oi Commerce.
ALASKA IN PORT
FROM THE SOUTH
DEPARTS ON SAT.
Beating all records for early arriv
als in port during the past season,
the steamer Alaska, Captain J. G.
Nord, of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany, tied up alongside the Seward
wharf this morning at 9 o’clock, com
pleting an ideal voyage for this pe
riod of the year.
Few passengers arrived on the ves
sel and most of the general cargo
to be discharged at this port, about 4
375 tons, is billed thru to railroad
points. The Alaska is scheduled to
depart for the South, Saturday night
at midnight.
Mrs. Leo Rogge arrived in Seward )
this morning from Seattle on the Al
aska en rout© to the Interior where
she will join her husband who is op
erating on Gold Stream.