SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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Frank H. Foster, a prominent attor
ney of Cordova, believes that Alaska
will see one of the best years in its
history this season, owing to the re
ported increased interest in oil drill
ing in the Territory. Speaking of
Seward Mr. Foster believes that the
town will go forward rapidly from
now on. The building of the Jesse
Lee Home is a good advertisement
for the community, and the many hal
ibut boats in port showing that this
industry is building up.
The need of a marine hospital m
Seward is shown once more by an
accident happening to one of the sail
ors of the halibut fleet, who will be
taken to Cordova for injuries receiv
ed because no marine hospital is lo
cated at this port. Seward has a fair
hospital for civilian cases but sailors
are loath to pay out their money for
services they get free from the gov
ernment. Last Sunday a sailor was
taken to Anchorage on a speeder for
hospital attention. Thousands of dol
lars each year leave Seward on ac
count of lack of facilities here.
The unanimous response to a re
quest by the council and chamber of
commerce that our citizens meet one
day this week to clear the site for
the Jesse Lee Home is a matter of
pride to those interested. With but
few exceptions every man in the city
joined the army of workers with pick
and mattock. For the first time in
many years Sewardites are united on
a local project, which shows improve
ment in civic spirit.
Southeastern Alaskan papers are
profuse in their commendations on
the services of the legislators from
the Third division. While most ev
ery one likes to have the approval of
thjp public it is no news to citizens
that we have a brainy and competent
citizenry to select our legislators from.
And everyone of them are boosters
for the district in which they live.
Residents of the Territory should
keep their eyes on Kodiak and Seldo
via. Both these ports are growing
rapidly and both will yet be towms of
several thousand population. Kodiak
has a climate unequalled in the Terri
tory, good fishing, fine grazing and
excellent soil. It is situated to serve
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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
the great westward district and has
one of the most progressive citizenry
of any small town we have yet seen.
Seldovia is located in the heart of the
halibut and herring belt, and serves
a large portion of Cook Inlet. Its
stores carry fine stocks and much
prosperity is evidenced.
Seward citizens should now go after
a branch of the Pioneers Home to be
located here. There is need for an
establishment of this kind in this part
of the Territory and few towns have
as much to offer as has Seward.
LOWELL THOMAS GIVES
LOWDOWN ON M’CORD
The following article, from the pen
of Lowell Thomas, whose “World
Flight’* stories have been appearing
in syndicate form in many papers
in months past, was recently pub
lished in the Denver Post:
“Sourdough Jack" McCord.
Although the wild and wooly west
with its gold stampedes and two-gun
men, its Flora Dora dance halls and
the vigilance committees, has passed
into history, Uncle Sam still has one
last frontier empire that will con
tinue to develop two-fisted pioneers
for many decades to come. That
land is Alaska. And one of its lead
ing sons "who has done as much as
any other man to open up our golden
empire of thenorth, is “Sourdough
Jack” McCord, who has just “come
outside” for the second time in twen
ty-five years.
Jack McCord was an Iowa boy
who left his home in search of ad
venture and started west. He kept
going until today he lives near the
uttermost point on the American con
tinent beyond which lies the Far
East. He is an engineer, an explor
er who thinks nothing of “mushing”
alone for a thousand miles along the
rim of the Arctic, a miner who dis
covered one of the largest producing
gold, camps in the north, and today
he is an empire builder engaged in
building up the reindeer industry in
the heart of Alaska, raising blue
foxes on Marmot and Kodiak islands
near rumbling Mount Katmai and the
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, and
lastly he has just raised nine mil
lion dollars from the six largest oil
companies in the world for the op
ening up of the old fields of the little i
known Alaska peninsula, (Kenai).
Jack came “outside” recently to
discuss the development of Alaska
with the President and his Cabinet.
He is one of the few men ever in
vited to meet in private session with
the chief executive of this nation
and his counsellors.
He also came out to see his aged
Mother who lives in Des Moines.
Jack is a baehellor and a typical
pioneer. He lias neither smoked
nor drank in his life and keeps
himself physically up to concert
pitch, ready at any moment to strike
out and walk across Alaska. Few
men have lived through such thrill
ing experiences as “Sourdough Jack”
McCord. He is a character straight
from one of Robert Service’s poems,
and Rex Bedch used him as a lead
ing figure in his famous Alaskan
novel, “The Iron Trail.” He loves
Alaska and thinks it the most glori
ous land on earth. Despite his long
years near the Polar Rim he is as
much at home at the “Waldorf” or
the “Willard” as he is when associat
ing with “Fiddler John” and “Dutch
Marie” along the Kobuk or the Koy
ukuk.
Frank Foster, wrell known attorney
of Cordova, who has been making
a brief trip to Anchorage on busi
ness of a legal nature, arrived in
Seward yesterday. Mr. Foster de
parts on the S.S. Northwestern for
the Copper Gateway town.
H. H. Brown, foreman of the me
chanical shops of The Alaska Rail
road at Anchorage, was a Seward ar
rivals yesterday on the freight train.
Mr. Browm came over to check -over
the bridge steel which arrived on
the Oduna.
According to reports from Anchor
age, Carl Bolte, formerly the pro
prietor of the big Bolte hardware
company, which business was sold
last fall to the Anchorage Commer
cial company, has decided to remain
in Anchorage and will re-enter the
hardware business.
Parker’s Duofold Fountain Pens, at
the Alaska Shop. tf
MISS SELMA SCOTT IN CHINA
A letter was received from Miss
Selma Scott, formerly assistant clerk
of the court with headquarters at
Valdez, stated that she is now in
the employ of the American Tobacco
Company as stenographer, in Tien
tsin, China.
OH! MY BACK!
Aching Backs Make Life Miserable
For Many Seward People.
It isn’t right to suffer day in and
day out with dull, unceasing back
ache. Or be utterly miserable with
sharp stabs of pain whenever you
stoop or lift. But chances are you
will suffer these tormenting aches
and pains as long as your weakened
kidneys are neglected. You may
have headaches, too, spells of diz
ziness and urinary disorders. Then
use Doan’s Pills—<a stimulent diuretic
to the kidneys. Experiences of folks
in this locality prov£ the merit of
Doan’s. ; *
Mrs. J. J. Robinson, 730 Exchange
St., Astoria, Ore., says: "My kid
neys were out of order and I had a
sort of dull aching across my back
and felt dull and languid. Headaches
were frequent and I had no energy.
My kidneys acted irregularly, too.
I read of Doan’s Pills and used them
as directed. Doan’s soon relieved
the backache and other signs of kid
ney trouble.”
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv.
A. E. Rucker, attorney of Seward,
accompanied by Mrs. Rucker, left
port this morning on a short visit
to Days Harbor. They are expected
to return home this evening.
PHILLIP LONG WILSON
Inquiry has come to the governor’s
office for information concerning
Phillip Long Wilson, born and raised
in Farmington, Missouri, now about
50 years of age, and thought to have
come to Alaska about the year 1917.
Information is desired by his aged
mother. Any facts concerning him
should be sent to the governor’s of
fice, Juneau, Alaska.
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The LIBERTY
Tonight: Two Shows, 7:00 and 8:45
THE BIG EIGHT REEL FEATURE
“ANOTHER
SCANDAL”
WITH LOIS WILSON AND HOLMER HER
BERT IN THE PRINCIPLE ROLES
This is a fine feature showing a battle of wits
between two wromen for a man
(NOTE: This play came with the advice that it was unfit
for young people to see, and so we asked three ladies to sit
as a board of censors to advise the management as to the ad
mission of minors. The entire picture was run yesterday after
noon before Mrs. C. C. Hinde, Mrs. H. S. Balderston and Mrs.
L. V. Ray, who advised the management to deny admittance
to anyone under 18 years of age unless accompanied by their
parents.)
AND A PATHE NEWS
Sunday Only: A thrilling crook play,.. “TOR
MENT,” with Owen Moore and Bessie Love in
the stellar roles. Also a fine two reel comedy,
“RAINSTORM,” and a Pathe Review.
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