SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
LIGHTHOUSE
SERVICE MAKES
BEACON REPAIRS
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Local mariners will be interested
in the latest bulletin received from
the office of the federal lighthouse
service in Ketchikan, giving a report
on the condition of all lights in this
division which have been misplaced
or disappeared:
Prince William Sound, Orca Bay—
Channel Island Rock Buoy, 3, re'
ported partly submerged April 14
1925. was restored to normal condi
tion May 12, 1925.
Seacoast—
Egg Island Light reported destroy
ed March 17, 1925, was rebuilt and re
lighted May 14, 1925.
Port Chatham—
Chatham Island Light reported ex
tinguished January 16, 1925. was re
lighted May 14, 1925.
Cook Inlet—
Flat Island Light reported extin
guished January IS, 1925, was relight
ed May 10, 1925.
-Cook Inlet, Port Graham—
South Spit Buoy, 2 2nd class nun,
established May 11, 1925, in 63 feet
of water to mark shoal on approach
to cannery wharf.
Cook Inlet—
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Seward Real
Estate Co.
REAL ESTATE AND
RENTALS
General Agents for
CLIMAX OIL BURNERS
—at—
Valdez, La touche, Ancho
rage, Seward, Seldovia,
Kodiak and Kanatak.
All sizes Heater8, Ranges,
Furnaces and Boilers
FRANK M. KEMPFER
PROPRIETOR
Box. 1094 Tel. Mad. 114
Seward, Alaska
THE
Alaska
Hog
PUREBRED
TAMWORTH
BACON HOGS
either sex
Six Weeks Pigs, each -$20.00
Eight Weeks Pigs, each_ $22.50
10 to 12 weeks Shoats, each $25.00
Prices f. o. b. Kodiak
ROY E. CLARKE,
KODIAK, ALASKA
Kalgin Island Light reported extin
guished Nov. 23, 1924, was relighted
May 9. 1925.
Seldovia Harbor—
Seldovia Entrance Buoy, 1, report
ed partly submerged March 18, 1925,
was restored to normal condition on
May 8, 1925.
Seldovia Harbor—
Seldovia Entrance Buoy 2, report
ed missing Feb. 12, 1925, was restored
to normal condition May S. 1925.
Seldovia Harbor—
Watch Point Shoal Buoy 3, report
ed partly submerged March 18, 1925,
was restored to normal condition on
May 8, 1925.
Cook Inlet, Seldovia—
Seldovia Buoy 4, reported missing
February 14, 1925, was restored to
normal condition May 8, 1925.
THOUSANDS LOST
BY PUBLIC; POOR
MAIL ADDRESSES
Fifty thousand dollars in cash is;
removed annually from misdirected j
envelopes in the United States, ac
cording to statistics from the office of
the Postmaster General. Coopera
tion of the public in saving this sum
which should reach various individ
uals is asked by all postmasters, to
begin during the Better Mailing Week
campaign, which is now going on.
This large sum could be saved if
each piece of mail was plainly addres
sed and carried a return address, the
postmasters say.
OLDTIMERS OF
VALDEZ DISTRICT
ARE GOING FAST
John Ruef, for many years a well
known and popular resident of Val_
dez. died suddenly at his home on
Keystone Avenue last Sunday evening
of tuberculosis, after a brief illness.
Mr. Ruef Avas born in Switzerland
in March, 1S75, and came to the states
when about six years of age, living
for, some years in Wisconsin. He
came to Alaska a number of years
ago and for a number of years past
had made Valdez his home. He was
married to Miss Edith Nelson, of Val
dez, several years ago, whom he sur
vived only about two months.
Con Walker Found Dead
Con W alker, one of the oldtimers
of Valdez, was found dead recently,
at Dempsey’s upper camp on the Chis
ana river, by Robert Sehroeder, ac
cording to a letter received a short
time ago by William Sehroeder. Mr.
Sehroeder stated his belief that the '
deceased had frozen to death, but the '
general opinion prevails that he had '
been taken ill and died from that
cause, the body freezing after his
death. Mr. Sehroeder wired to the <
authorities at Chitina, and as there j
was no suspicion of foul play, he was (
instructed to bury the body, which a
he did, performing the sad task alone, ]
as there was no one nearby to assist.
The deceased left Valdez about two
years ago for the Slate Creek coun- *
try> and had spent the past two win- e
ters in that section trapping. He had r
arranged to work some ground on e
Slate Creek owned by Mr. Sehroeder, ^
in conjunction with the latter, this
summer and Mr. Sehroeder had gone
in to jom him w'hen he made the 0
grewsome find. cl
Mr. "Walker had been a resident of ^
Valdez for many years. As near as
can be learned he was born in Ger
many, and in his youth followed the t;
sea. Since his arrival here he en- d
gaged in mining, prospecting and in "w
trapping. Nothing is known con- b
cerning his relatives. li
GEOLOGISTS NOW
ACTIVE, ALASKA
MINERAL FIELDS
DR. CAPPS, RECENTLY IN SEW
ARD, RELATES BRIEF OUTLINE
OF SUMMER’S FIELD WORK IN
ALASKA.
Almost an equal number of geolo
gical parties will be in the Alaska
field this summer as there were last
season, Dr. S. R. Capps, government
geologist stated to the Gateway the
first of the week, upon his arrival in
Seward from Washington, D. C. Dr.
Capps has since departed for Mount
McKinley National Park station from
which point he will take in his out
fit to the Kantishna district where,
the season will be spent.
Three men, including himself, will
comprise his party this season, he
said. They are Frank Lee, well
known packer and Andrew Lelinde,
both of whom were with him in the
field last summer. The district to
the Southwest of the park is ap
proximately the region they will be
located in.
K. K. Landes, a son of the former
acting mayor of Seattle, Mrs. Lan
des, who was appointed as a mem
ber of the Seattle City council at
the last election, will arrive in Sew
ard within a few days. He was a
member of the Capps party last
season. Mr. Landes, accompanied by
one man, will study the geology south
of the Matanuska river, from King
river on the west. They will be in
the field all summer.
F. H. Moffet, geologist, left the
steamer Yukon at Cordova. He and
his party will cruise the western
portion of Prince William Sound this
summer. A gasboat will be used
in this connection.
R. H. Sargent and his party, were
passengers on the Admiral Evans
which left Seward yesterday for the
Westward. Mr. Sargent will go to
C'hignik and with his crew of six
men and fifteen horses, study the
geological conditions of that district
of the western x\laska peninsula. Both
typographical and geological survey
work will be accomplished.
J. B. Mertie and his party are on
their way into the Yukon river dis
trict where the season will be spent
on International boundary work, |
north of the Yukon and in that area
between the Yukon and Porcupine j
river region.
E. F. Buddington is at work in
Southeastern Alaska, cruising be
tween Ketchikan and Wrangell.
Gerald Fitzgerald and his party,
which includes W. R. Smith, went
into the Naval oil reserve No. 4, over
the ice. The first of Marcn they
were reported from Novitak await
ing for the spring breakup.
P. S. Smith, now chief geologist
3f Alaska, who previously has head
'd the Arctic parties, is expected to
arrive in Seward next month on a ■
"ound of inspection of this summer’s
Activities.
CLIFFORD LANG RAPIDLY
IMPROVING FROM ILLNESS
Clifford Lang, nephew of Mr. and
VIrs. Gordon Shea, is improving so
-apidly that he was moved yesterday
Tom the Claude Shea apartment to
he Overland hotel where he will
lonvalescent until his complete re
:overy from his recent serious ill
less.
BURROUGHS MAN HERE
The Burroughs Adding Machine
Company offer exceptional values in
lew rebuilt Adding-Bookkeeper-Cal
ulating Machines, fully guaranteed.
V. G. HODSON, Room 11, Van Gilder
lotel. 232-4t
F. H. Sorrow is the fitting name of
he secretary of the Alabama fun
ral directors’ state society. At the
ecent Birmingham meeting he spoke
loquently on “Giving the Public
VThat It Wants.”
Lonnie McIntosh of the Ketchikan
ffice of the Federal narcotic squad,
eparted from Seward on the Starr
ionday on his way to Bristol Bay.
Warning his fellow farmers to cur
lil cotton production, a Texas man
eclared that in future no cotton
ill be worn from the knees down
y either men or women, and very
ttle elsewhere.
CARIBOU VISITS TOWN
A stray caribou was seen standing
on the Klondike bridge at Dawson,
one night last month, apparently un
decided whether to pay the city a visit
or give it the go-by.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
CUMMINS
OIL ENGINES
FULL Deisel Engine working
at fuel pressure of only 20
to 30 pounds. No wires or
electrical apparatus, no heating device,
no high pressure ignition, no tricky
valves, no inaccessible parts, and no
carbon trouble. Amazingly low cost
of operation from any free flowing oil.
12 TO 75 HORSEPOWER
Prices for complete outfits, including
shafting, air starter and propeller, f
o. b. Seattle.
12 1-2 h. p.$1150.00
25 h. p.2200.00
37 1-2 h. p__ 3150.00
50 h, p. 4300.00
76 h. p... 6100.00
C. W. SNOOK, Agt.
UNGA, ALASKA
LOOK UP
Cameron’s Cafe
WHEN YOU ARE IN
ANCHORAGE
Good Coffee, Good Food
Good Service
CHAS. CAMERON
PROPRIETOR
OLD CLOTHES MADE
NEW
By Dry Cleaning Them,
and for quick service
, this machine
Presses your Clothes in
from 15 to 20 minutes
Sanitary Hoffman Presser Does It
Jordan’s Valet Service !
PHONE MADISON 103
SEWARD, ALASKA
ELL15 BALL'CHILI ill LI.
ELLIS BALL
CHILI WILL
The mill that takes the pros
pector off the labor market.
Cheaper than an trastra, more
efficient than a stamp mill.
MADE IN SIZES FROM
TWO TO FIFTY TONS
DAILY CAPACITY
Priced $150 to $1989
Investigate the Ellis Mill First
NELS HAGEN ■
ALASKA AGENT#
P. O. Box 1105
SEWARD, ALASKA
JUNEAU CHAMBER
ISSUES FOLDER
FOR THIS SEASON
Beautifully finished in orange and
white, with a colored photograph on
the cover and frontispiece, well illus_
trated and containing a wealth of in
formation concerning Juneau and its
locality, the 1925 folder published by
the Juneau Chamber of Commerce is
issued today. The folder is one of
the finest which has ever been pub
lished in Alaska. It was written and
arranged by the publicity committee
of the Chamber of Commerce, and is
a product of the Empire Printing Co.
FAIRBANKS COUPLE WED
The Fairbanks Presbyterian church
was the scene of a beautiful wedding
last week when Alta Herzer, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Pc. Herzer, of
Fairbanks, was united in marriage to
Robert James McCombe of Montreal,
Canada.
Marathon
CAFE
JOS1E EMSWILER, Prop.
THE HOME OF WELL
COOKED FOOD
SEWARD, ALASKA
Get This
Point, It’s
Important
Pack along a DaofoSd
Ask To See It At
ORLANDER, the Jeweler
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. D. Coppemoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of tha
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. Morford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Dr. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
3hone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
Hugh Dougherty
FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT
Real Estate and Insurance
Business Phone Adams 152
Residence Phone, Madison 58
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114