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®lj? S>nuarft (Satnuaif_ Published Daily Except Sunday by The Seward Gateway Publishing Co. BERNARD M. STONE, President. Subscription Rates: Daily—One dollar per month . Ten cents the copy. By mail, $10 per year. Weekly—Three dollars per year. (Payable strictly in advance). Advertising Rates; TRANSIENT DISPLAY \PYKRTISING—30 cents per inch. Contract rates on application. Readers, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line each additional insertion. Legal notices, 50c per line. SPAN VRD. ALASKA. FRIDAY. JI NE I. 1013. The picnic given by the order of Pioneers yesterday leads to a thought which is now very often present in the minds of Alaskans. The class of wages paid in a new country probably has a very great ef* feet on the future of that country. To populate a territory with the right class of people it would he necessary to attract the best kind of people in the beginning. Alaska's first coiners may have had quite a sprinkling of Soapy Smiths as stampeders to all rich lands must have but they were a red-blood ed lot as a whole. They were of the kind that were ready for something new and something out of the ordinary. If they hadn't had Alaska to come to they would have gone volunteering in some army, digging the Panama canal, prospecting in Timbuctoo or something else like it. They were, in other words just the class of men that Providence holds as the reserves for quick service when there is some new neck of the woods to he opened. They had the generosity of the frontier, the hearts unspoiled by the penury and dis sipation of slums the muscles of men who had neither railroad nor auto-cars to travel, the independence of free citizens of a free nation. They were men, every inch of them. It is to be hoped that those coming in later years to travel over the trails blazed and broken by pioneers will be worthy of the men whose tracks they follow . At the present moment when the territory is about to be developed it would he the part of wisdom for the government of the l nited States to see that encouragement is given to the proper people to work and settle here. Good wages may he influential in bringing about the end suggested. Indeed, it is certain that better wages always induce better men . There are lots of fine Americans, born \mericans and naturalized ones, who would be glad to come to this territory if they received the treatment that American citizens deserve. There are lots of oldtime Uaskans. men who have given their best years and their brain" and brawn and sinews to the development of this ter ritory, who can be induced to stay and make Alaska a country worth living ^ in if they receive onlv what is the right of the men who made a railroad in Alaska possible. It would now, indeed, be a false economy to attract nothing hut the cheap and weaklings to form the nucleus of the Vlaskan people to he because such men can he secured for a le*s price than their more worthy brothers. The pioneers of Maska feel a most worthy pride in the strides taken by their territory. In the mind" of each of them exists that sub-conscious feel- j ing that in one way or another they have contributed to the upraising of the land they cast their lots with. Surely to heaven they are not now to see that great territory "cast to the swine” by any penurious policy that would be un worthy of the l nited States government and unworthy of the people and the territory of Alaska. Machinery for Prompt Shipment Machine Shop Boilers and Engines Wood Working Shop Gasoline Engines Blacksmith Machines Vir Compressors Sheet Metal Works Hoists and Pumps BOTH NEW AND USED MACHINES perine machinery company SEATTLE NEWS FROM ALL P ARTS OF THE NORTHLAND CORDOVA.—A mining deal which involves several hundred thousand dol lars and a large area of gold placer ground in interior Alaska, has just been consummated by John A. Hazel - et, who just returned from the east. While in New York, Mr. Hazelet in terested a number of capitalists in Alaska, and succeeded in bonding to them not only his own property, but also all of the claims on the Chisana river, for which he held options. The deal includes ten miles of placer ground, n addition to this the New Yorkers also bonded three or four claims on Slate creek, known as the Swanson propc rty. The final certificate of patent has been received at Juneau from the Washington land office granting to M. A. Arnold title to coal cairns located near Ratal la. Arnold is from Seattle, and the land office investigated for many months i » ascertain if the loca tion was mad ‘ in good faith. The title to the claims will now pass to ( Arnold and he will receive the final i papers at once. CORDOVA.—After today and for the next four months, the post office force will be reduced one man, Dick Rerwood being the individual to re tire. During the summer the interior Fairbanks mail will go via Skagway and the river route. _ The baseball season opened at l n alaska on Saturday, April 17th, when the “Otters,” better known as the government employes, and the Aleut Seals, composed of natives, had an ex citing game with the native boys hold ing the small end of a 1) to 7 score. The Unalaska Regulars have issued a challenge to any team in Alaska to come to their city and play a series of games. The Unalaska players are willing to wager money, marbles or chalk on the result. Deputy Marshal Paul Buckley, once a famous profes sional ball player, is captain of the i “Otters.” I Pay from $1 to $2.50 lor Boar Skulls In good Condition J. R. STEVENSON Taxidermist Juneau box ;;n Alaska Woodrow Park SIX MILES FROM CITY Best C reek and Lake Fishing Most Beautiful of Playgrounds Perfect Accomodations for Visitors. THE MINER’S STORE The Place Where Men Outfit Just Received Fox Spiral Puttees Frank J. Cotter Special Dress Shoes Original Chippewa Pacs Filder Hand Made Pacs Hipress Boots Hipress Pacs Gold Seal Hip Boots TENTS TENTS TENTS Tarpaulins Blankets Quilts Pillows rHE GUARANTEE: WE ARE NOT SATISFIED UNLESS YOU ARE (Registered) Schoenbrun & Company MERCHANT TAILORS THE MINER’S STORE FRANK J. COTTER, Manager MEASURES TAKEN BY Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska ...........■■■■■■■■ ill.. Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The Branch. WANTED—Solictor, apply City ; Dye Works, Ashland Building. C*l-5t. j <——■! ■ II I ■■ II ■—III II I I m ..■■■■ ■ ■ a PALACE OF SWEETS | ICE CREAM Cigars Cigarettes Tobacco Stationery Candy Post Cards ROMIG & ROMIG REAL ESTATE AGENTS Houses for Kent, Kents Collected, Titles Examined. Lots for Sale. Large Listing. Phone Red 1-6. Seward, Alaska. ___ 1 FRANK L. TORREY n.igjrett House Painting Paper Hanging Decorating ESTIMATES FURNISHED Es,i9oshcdCommerce CafeE>“V,N Dinner 1 1 a.m to 7 p.m Short Orders at All Hours . sp ceial Chop Suey and Noodle Evenings Private Boxes Open Day and Night The Bor gen Grocery Staple and fancy Groceries Handles the Best Canned Goods from the Pacific Coast - Best Treatment to Kverybody and Prices Bight—Goods Delivered to All Parts of the City GUS BORGEN, Proprietor Phone Main 134 Clayson Building, Seward FURNITURE AND HARDWARE COAL MINER'S AND GOLD MINER’S SUPPLIES Doors &. Windows Lang’s ltanges 1 X L Parlor Heaters Gasoline Stoves Cook Stoves Camp Stoves Air Tight Heaters Oil Stoves Alcohol Stoves Spark Plugs Jump Coils Batteries Granite Ware Aluminum Ware Asbestos P & B Paper Malthoid Hooting Tar Paper Deafening felt Weather Strips Gasoline Gas Engine Oil Marine Engine Oil Valve Oil Elaine Oil Floor Oil Linseed Oil Cup Grease Faints Lacqueret Paint Asphaltum Faint Brushes Varnishes Turpentine Japan Denatured Alcohol Coal Tar Lamps Lanterns Tents PhONE BLACK 4 Rifles Shot Guns Ammunition Fishing Tac.tle Giant Powder Caps Fuso Bench Forces Blacksmith’s Coal Bellows Wheel Barrows Cutlery Fire Clay Fire Brick Lime Cement Glass Rope Mercury Seine Twine J. L. GRAEF ___ Minikin rriri Lane's (Fat.) Hot Blast Smokeburning 3T0VES AND RANGES Are GUARANTEED to burn but one-half as much fuel ns OLD STYLE RANGES. Because they consume all gases and smoke in fuel. All fuel is burned from top. The “ PACIFIC,” as shown in cut, is our Stand ard Family Range—made in three sizes. We Make Stoves from $1.00 to $300 Write as for Catalogues, F. S. LANG MANUFACTURING CO., 2756 First Avenue, South, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON H. V. HOBEN A. F. DAVIS ALASKA TRANSFER H. V. HOBEN, Manager ----Dealers In- —-— COAL, WOOD AND ICE General Transferring Phones, Main 17 and 41 SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., SEATTLE, WASH. Carry a complete stock of (JKNEEAIj M k.KCli AN DISK ALASKA ORDERS GIVI-N SPECIAL ATTENTION Goods shipped from Seattle by first bout for Alaska a! ter ordei is ie<1 i\'d. \\ ^ organized a special ALASKA DIVISION to look after the PACKING and INSPKG'I . ION of all Alaska orders. All goods selected from our catalogs will he shipped ordered. All inquires and adjustmc* nts given prompt attention. READ OUR GUARANTEE WE GUARANTEE: That each and every article purchased from us is exactly as des evibed; that it represents full value for the price you pay. If, for any reason what ever, you are dissatisfied with any article purchased from us. we expect you to return it, to us at our expense. We will then exchange it lor wiiat you want, 01 will ii.hiii your money, including any transportation charges you have paid. Our Large Catalog mailed free on request Watch Seward Grow, But Don t Wait to See Our NEW ARRIVALS Ladies Walking Boots, Button or L» vt* Children’s Low Shoes, “The Comfy Kind’ Rad moor Celebrated Silk Hose Lor \\ omen kayser's New Style Summer Union Suits Italian Silk Knickerbockers and Glove-Fitting Silk Petticoats Lor Particular Women Beds, Springs and Mattresses, Pillows, Comforts ANYTHING I OR THE HOME OR TRAIL SEWARD COMMERCIAL COMPANY ALASKA conpA.NY smto Steamers Alameda, Mariposa and Northwestern sail from Seattle at o p. m. the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th. 30th of each month tor Ketchikan, W rangell, Juneau, Thane, Skagwav, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. At AMI DA and M ARIPOSA oo to Koik Anchorage. SANTA ANA leaves Seward 15th of each month for tnalaska, and in May, June, July and August she goes through to Nushagak. Regular freight service tor Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, I hane, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagwav, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez, latouche and Seward Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th; S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th (S. S. Seward carrie> Explosives) Right reserved to change this schedule without notice'll F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL. AgeM I Send for the jSL man" and a DEMONST1 Or write u for our n< chure, — Service, ” ai of facta on Typing—ser typewriter i j $125 in Canada |j _ ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY " i',214 MARION ST., SEATTIE, WASH. IB