The Seward gateway., October 08, 1915, Image 2

About The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1914-1917

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SEW \RD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1915.
The story from Nome yesterday to the effect that the new Thin! beach
strike is already the source of much litigation recalls to mind one of the
greatest blots t n Alaskan life. There has never yet been hardly a man who
ever found anything in the territory, or made money in any way, that did not
have to defend his title to his property, in this respect the Canadian side is
a million miles ahead of us. For some reason or another property rights are
secure in Yukon Territory and in United States Alaska you can never be sure
of calling you"s your own. The fault does not lie with the people at all, of
course, but with some great looseness in the law or legal procedure or weak
ness which the poor layman cannot quite understand. Lawyers of a kind are
only tooo often responsible for the institution of those suits ami Nome in the
past has been favored by providence with the gift of quite a large number of
legal lights who seemed to harbor as their life philosophy the idea that the
man who discovered pay ought to contribute to their bank accounts. One of
the men who have just made the strike at Solomon, by the way, has hardly
ever been out of the courts for years and he is now probably on the way to
another prolonged experience.
NOME Oi riM T WILL
BE FOLK MILLION
J. C. Kennedy, a resident of Can
dle. while on his way to the states
recently made the statement that the !
output of he Nome district his year
would be about £4.000,000. Mr. Ken
nedy was a member of the first Al
aska legislature. He will return to
Nome as soon as he can finish some
business which demanded that he
make a trip to Seattle this year. Ac
cording to Mr. Kennedy, the Pioneer
.Mining company will have the best
year in its history.—Kx.
Come in and look over our new and
complete stock of men’s winter wear
ing apparel.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First.”
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EVERYTHING NEW EVERYTHING GOOD
_THE HOUSE OF HETTEL’S, 4th Avenue. SEWARD _
Good Old Time Eating
PATTEN S BOARDING HOUSE. FIFTH ST.
Good Old Time Boarding, per day. .. $1.00
Separate Meals .35 to .75
Special Sunday Dinner •.75
MBS. THOPAV The Old Time favorite CATERER
Legal Blanks and Location Notices at Gateway
Wanted!!
Men to inspect our line of furnishings. Everything
for the man in or out of doors.
A suit? Come in and have a look at the finest line
of Fall samples exhibited in Seward. Let us take
your measure for that suit NOW.
“Schoenbrun and Company’ stands for satisfaction.
Dress and work shoes.
Shoe packs and rubber boots.
Kenyon rain coats and mackinaws.
Famous Filson Stag Shirts.
Dress shirts and popular neckwear.
Wool shirts and sox.
Suit cases, grips and travelling bags.
Wool blankets and quilts.
Everything for men.
Whether you stay in town or go to the hills, you
need clothes, and of course you want good clothes.
We’ve got ’em. That’s why we want you to inspect
our line.
THE MINER'S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
DOUGLAS CLUB OF WOMEN j HI
IS REACHING OUT E
Juneau Dispatch: A special to the 5
Dispatch told of a movement from z:
Valdez to organize a federation of wo- S
men’s clubs in Alaska. The nitial E
movement with the same purpose E
originates with the Douglas Island zj
Woman’s club. zj
Mrs. Thomas V. Connor, the presi- ;E
dent, in the name of the club, has E
drawn up tentative by-laws and con- jz
stitution and is sending out notices to E
other women’s clubs in Alaska. The E
following letter signed by her is being E
sent to the different papers in Alaska: E
“Upon suggestion from Mrs. Wil- E
! liam P. Harper, a director of the Gen- j =
eral Federation of Women’s Clubs, I =
am herewith sending you an open let- E
ter and a constitution and by-laws for E
the purpose of organizing a Territoi j jjj
al Federation of Women’s Clubs. =
Would you please turn these papers ,s
over to your local women’s club, or to =
any woman who you think will he =
interested in forming a woman’s club «■»
in your cit>.” E
That there is to be no boundary line E
in the work of the women is indicated jz
in the following list of names to jz
which the open letter has been sent: E
Mi's. R. W. J. Reed, Aurora Club, |
: Nome, Alaska. jz
Mrs. W. H. Cramer, Valdez Study jz
Club. =
Valdez Civic Club. E
Mrs. C. E. Bunnell, Women’s Civic |E
Club, Fairbanks. =
Mrs. William P. Harper, 551 Kin- =
near Place, Seattle. E
Editors of Skagway Alaskan, Cor- E
dova Times, Ketchikan Progressive, E
Wrangell Sentinel, Petersburg Report, E
Cook Inlet Pioneer, at Anchorage, j =
Seward Gateway, Whitehorse Star, <E
Dawson News, Ruby Record.
One is also directed to the Juneau E
papers and to Mrs. Harry Fisher of E
Juneau. =
The proposed name of the organiza- =
tion is “The Alaska Federation of E
Women’s Clubs of the Territory of E
Alaska.” HI
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laundry tablets. Saves the garments,
half the work and all the worry.
Five cents per package.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First.”
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Sunday: Masses at 8:30 and 10:30
a. m. Sunday school after Mass.
Rotary, Instruction and Benediction,
7:30 p. m. Weekdays: Mass at 8
a. m. «
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Coming Features in October Number:
Richardson-Wickersham Controversy
Stories of Discoveries in Alaska
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The 1) iscovery of Chisana
The Discovery of Nelchina
The Discovery of Nome
Alaska Gold Mines +
By Eminent Engineers
Rise and Fall of Alaska’s Home Railroad
Alaska at the Panama Exposition
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Seward, Alaska
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Dynamo Room Showing 230 K. W. Alternator
Another View of Interior Showing Pelton Water Wheel, Exeiter and Auxiliary Generator
Ill BITS OF EARLY
| JUNEAU HISTORY
2 (To Appear in All- Manka Review)
2 In the Governor’s office is a copy of
E the Alaska Free Press, published here
E February 12, 1887, which contains
E some interesting bits of early history.
2 Among the items are gleaned the
E following:
2 "Geo. E. Rily built the first house.
2 It was framed in Sitka and brought
E on the steamer Favorite." The first
E log houic was built by John Olds.
E Thomas Keenan and another man. It
E was known as the "Flag of All \
E tions" because miners coming in stn
2 ed there a day or so while looking
2 around to get a place to build. Peter
E Erussard brought the first sailing
E vessel, named "The Flatiron." She
E was laden with general merchandise,
E principally Siwash sugar and black
E strap molasses. He was .15 days
E coming from Sitka, with an Indian
2 crew. He also built the first build
2 ing used as a store.
2 By Christmas of 1880 the populu
E tion amounted to about 10 people.
Z Discovery of Cold ( reek
E The Juneau City Mining Record,
E Vo!. 1, No. 1 of April f>, IKK*, a copy
Z of .vhich is also in the Governor’s o'
z fice says of Juneau:
E “In the year 1*74 Joe Juneau and
z Dave Ackerman and two others,
z whose names we have been unable to
z obtain, passed through and prospect
E ed a part of what is known as the
E Harris Mining District. They found
E gold in small quantities, and in one or
z two places obtained goon paying pt >
z peets, but it was not followed up at
z that time.
z “During the summer of 1**0, Mr.
E George K. Pitz, then superintendent
S of the Alaska Gold and Silver Mining
E Company, as an authorized agent of
E the Hall Brothers of San Francisco,
z sent out several parties from Sitka
z to prospect the mainland and the ad
z jacent islands for gold and silver.
E Four of the parties were unsuecess
E ful, but the fifth, composed of R. T.
IB Harris and Joe Juneau, after a ted
ious and discouraging search, were
returning disheartened. While re
tracing their course along Gastineau
Channel, they discovered some moun
tain streams which had before escap
ed their observation. On one of thesw
streams they found good prospects,
and ascending it, they found rich de
posits of earth and gravel and one
gulch in particular literally paved
with quartz, the richness of which
was evident from the fact that the
rock was fairly loaded with five gold
plainly to he seen with the naked eye.
Very little time and labor sufficed to
satisfy them that they “had struck it
rich.” Collecting some of the speci
mens they returned to Sitka, having
named the stream that had guided
them to fortune Gold Creek, and the
wonderful gorge which contained the
mass of gold ore Quartz Gulch. I he
valley through which Gold Creek
wound its way was named Silver Bow
Basin, after a similarly situated dis
trict in Montana.
“It was not until the middle of the
winter (December,) however, that the
first party arrived on the spot des
tined soon to become a scene of ac
tivity. befitting the metropolis of the
Northwest.
“Edmond Bean was the iirst 10 ar
rive, in company with a party of
natives; next came the steam launch
of the U. S. S. “Jamestown," with the
officers of the vessel, accompanied 1>\
J. D. Sage, Miller, John Dix, George
E. Pitz. and Nat. Hilton; Harris and
Juneau also returning with the party.
The third party consisted of Jack
Olds, Pat McClinchey, Tom Kiernan,
Wm. Bennett, John McKinnon, Hugh
Campbell, Walter Pierce, Washington
Barnes, Mike Gibbons, Chas. Wells,
and Professor Moore. Next came
Mike Powers, Luke Nolan, James 1'ul
lon, Mike Ariquitte, Mike Dunn and
Mike Hays.
“The fifth and last party that ar
rived before the close of the year
consisted of Frank Berry, John I rior,
James Roswell, Bill Meehan and An
toine Marx. These are the names of
the first settlers and locators of the
townsite of what was then named
Harrisburg.”—(Juneau Empire.)
CANNOT OVERCOME
LI RE OF THE NORTH
Recent advices from the Outside
are to the effect that Kenneth Jack
son, a former pioneer attorney of
Nome, who later made a fortune min
ing in Nevada, is coming North once
more. He will visit the Broad Pass
country before the freezeup with a
view of making investments in that
country. Mr. Jackson was the law
partner of Senator Key Pittman in
I the early days of the Seward Penin*
i sula camp.—Fairbanks News Miner,
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