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19 16 , A FOREWORD To the People of Seward and Vicinity During 1915 there was a gradual and steady improve ment in almost all lines of business in the United States over the previous year. 1916 promises to be a banner year for the whole country. Business in all lines held up well for Seward and vicinity, bank deposits during 1915 reached a total of tw ice as much as at any previous period. The business of this bank for 1915 has been exception ally satisfactory, and we arc grateful to our customers and the general ppblic for the confidence and good will that has been manifested toward us to such an unusual degree. We enter the new year more resourceful and better equipped than we have ever been to serve the finan cial needs of our customers. AN AUSPICIOUS OPENING 1916 is opening with a bright outlook for Seward and, the tributary country. y The ranchers who have taken up homesteads in this part of Alaska will soon have transportation facilities and an outlet for their products; many of the ranches will be subdivided making room for more people and insuring better and more intensive farming. Many saw mills and logging camps will be busy and employ many men supplying lumber and ties for the con struction of the Government Railroad. Almost $3,000, 000.00 w ill be spent by the Government on railroad work this year in Seward and country tributary to this place. Much outside capital will come here this year seeking in vestments. Alaska has passed thru its first period of mining development. It is entering upon its real, important and permanent expansion with the opening and the develop ment of its great lode mines, only a very few of which are yet among the producing properties, where there will in time be thousands. The outlook for Seward in 1916 is so bright that our people should step into it with a spirit of enthusiasm and with a feeling that things are coming our way. BANK OF SEWARD Established 1905 EMPRESSTHEATRE Sunday. Jan. 23,™»i?a»8 SPECIAL ATTRACTION!_ ' WM. A. HESSE’S Scenic and Wild Animal Pictures OF Alaska! A Marvel of Animated Photography _ 1 ALSO A ROARING COMEDY | Admission 25 cents Children 10 cents Smoke the Key special. Always good. Sold only at the Key. Noodle Cafe. Phone Main 111. Tray service receives prompt at tention. 10-5—tf. Fox’s Oyster Cocktails at the Branch. Brazilian Mate is a healthful and nutritous tea exquisite flavor, sixty five cents per pound. Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.” Visiting cards, invitations, anything pretty 1 • done by tht Gateway Just as well as outsidu Howard and Hamilton Watches! George the Jeweler WILSON WILL NOT ACCEPT CONSCRIPTION • WASHINGTON, .fan. 22.-President Wilson has expressed himself as unal terably opposed to anything ie the shape of conscription ml tvilloppoe any attempt to make military cduck-j Hon compulsory. He says he will not* insist on the continental army plan if it threatens toenduuger the prepareduesa program. . ^_ MURDERERS OF AMERICANS DIE EL PASO, Jan. 2l.-Ottlcial confir mation received that eighteen Mexi cans were lined up and shot in Chihua hua city. Nearly all wore participants in the massacre of Americans*. Villa is reported captured. HOMESTEADER CUTS 300 TELEPHONE POLES J. D. Johnston, of mile 7, came in this morning and reports that lie has eight men at work cutting 575 tele phone poles for the Commission by February 1st. Ho hu9 300 cut now and will take out a horse and two men with him to haul the poles to the track. 75 poles a day is the average cutting rate. May be yout turn next. See Ennis & Campbell, Fire Insurance. 22*2t Floor Falls. DETROIT, Jan, 22.—the floor of the stock room of the Hudson Muter com pany collapsed today and crashed to the main floor. No one w as seriously hurt. NEWS NOTES Frank Riskol returned to his camp at the lower end of Konai luke this morning. The building of Mrs. H ull which was dessroyed by fire yesterday in Valdez was only parly ir.-nud. The insurance is said to be very slight. The tenant has already wired to Mrs. Siull asking her to rebuild. 50 Below at Mile 34 Word arrived this morning that at 7 o'clock this morning the thermome ter registered 50 below at Mile 34. The temperature at Anchorage was probably as low, but Amhora/e lias re versed the old sayinif that “no news is tfood news.” . Must Pay War Taxes Again This Year.1 o The Customs officials of Alaska n”e 1 now receiving instructions from t* d-^ quarters that as the war ux°s haye have been continued for this year they are expected to act accordingly in the matter of collections. These addition al taxes affect almost all business peo ple in Alaska towns directly. May be your turn next. See Ennis & Campbell, Eire Insurance. 22*2t New consignment of Chinese noodles, twenty-five cents per pound. Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.” Special price on all wall paper, twenty percent off for this week only. Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.” Mackinaws, Pants, Socks, Boots, Packs, Underwear. Anything you need. SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO. “Jersey Cream Kisses," VANILLA FLAVOR. A pure food candy, made in Seward Alaska. For sale at the Key. FOR SALE: English Setter bird dog pup at $25 each. The best of breeding. Eligible for registration. Write M. D. Snodgrass, Kodiak. Gaston W. Smalley Gets Final Certifi cate On Last Mail. G.iston W. Smnlley. the Mile ft home steader, received the final certificate for his homestead in tho last mail from the land office. This final cerlificato was announced in the Gateway some time ago. Famous Alaska Films Slsow Tomorrow Night. iWm. Tl» .'se’s four reels of famous / Alaska views will )>* sh*. An at the Kin* i pres* tN'nirw tomorrow night. Two shows win fie run, 7:110 aud 9:00 | p. m. WICK CABLES NOON. Representative "Noon received a cablo yesterday from DelegateWlcker siiam saying that by test vote the house showed approval of the emergency hill. This cable was dated Thursday. Mr. Wickersham was alluding to tho vote on the Gillett motion which tho Gate way told of in Thursday’s issue. Tiu# vote passing the hill was not taken un til yesterday afternoon. .. ——— Candle Dance Tonight. The Seward Entertainment Club will give their dance tonight at the A. B. Ball as usual. As this is next to the last dance in the series all members are urged to attend. Job printing ot every description al The Gateway. — OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 22.-Mrs. j G. D. Cleveland, of Crusher, and •James Shennard, of Sulpher, were drowned In the floods here today. In the last twenty-four hours Texas towns huve been swept by cyclones and great proporty damags was inflicted. May be your turn next. See Ennis & Campbell, Fire Insurance. 22-2t Don't forget the Gateway is estab lished at Seward, Alaska. GIANT SLIDES IN CASCADES MANY KILLED WENATCHEE, Jan. 22. — A giant snowslido has occurred at the summit pf the Cascades near tho scene of the Wellington disaster. It oompletely buried three Great Northern cars un der sixty feet of snow. Three are re ported killed and a second tremendous slide is now reported to be starting. Communication is slow. (Later.) Two cars have been carried down 300 feet into a gulch. The K. It. Co, admits five are dead but reports from the scene say that 20 were lost and many injured. The details are meager and difficult to obtain owing to the inaccessihility of the wreck. SAN DIEGO, Jao.22.-— Long-distance ; reports are to the effect that the Col orado river has bioken bounds and that Yuma is Hooded. One person is report ed drowned. Who Is This West? Many believe that the passenger named West who is coming on the Al ameda is the attorney for the railroad, but the most likely opinion is that it is T. M. West, the mining man who was here about two years ago investigating mining property at Kamishak Bay near Iliamna. FOUND. Found hat, initials C.T.B., and fur cap on Fourth avenue after dock fire. Owners may have same by calling at i the Gateway otllce. I • THE S. 0. S. CALLS sent out by us the past month, seemed to ha\e attracted little or no attention. We hope the ones that Scwarri and a greater part of Alaska arc sending to the Finance Committee in Wash ington, to get a move on them with that “Emergency Appropriation” will be heard by Tuesday tho 18th Whatever the result the Seward Com mercial Co. arc getting in readiness to meet the Big Rush that is bourn! to follow the Annual Appropriation of $8,500,000 for construction. No trouble to wait on you, lots of time to take inventory after waiting on our r* trade. SEWAUI) COMMERCIAL CO. WATER PATRON’S NOTICE Any patron of the Seward Water & Power Company found letting faucets run free or otherwise wast ing water will have their water shut off without notice. 1-119—It. Long distance telephone booth at The Branch. A complete line of flannel shirts, priced from $1.50 to $7.50. Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First." Best cigarc ana refreshments at Terminal Bar. See ad. 11-1—tf CAPITOL CAFE RE-OPENED The well known Capitol Cafe, Hrs. Ayres, proprietor, is open again for business. Best of cooking and ser vice, and a big bill of fare to choose from. tf See us Derore sending outside tot .our tnb nrinting . If you want to get your breakfast on time get a cord of Worth’s Dry Wood. Phone Madison 132 FURNITURE CLOTHING HARDWARE SHOES MID-WINTER Clearance Sale of Groceries PRICfS NfVFR BfFflRI fQIIAUFP—EVERY ITEM A BAROAIW SALE PRICE: Canned Beets, worth 25c, . . 15c, 2 for 25c Carrots, worth 25, . . 15c, 2 for 25c Fancy Toilet Soap, 12 bars, worth 90c, 60c Silver Shield Clams, worth 25c, . 20c Preferred Stock Minced Clams,worth I5C, 15c, 2 for 25c Canned Salmon, Fancy Red, worth 25c, 20c, 3 for 50c Snider’s Catsup, worth 35c, . 25c Patent Excellent Flour, worth $7, $6.75 Sugar, per 100 lbs., regular price $7.50, $7.00 Sugar, 14 lbs. for $1.00, Ordinarily 12 lbs. for $1.00 • Libby’s Peaches, Plums 8c Apricots, 2°5ch, 20c ' Mrs. C’s Brown Bread, reg. price 25c, 15c Mrs. C’s Fig Pudding, “ 40c, 25c Milk, all kinds, . . . . 3 cans for 25c 1:2 gal. Golden Syrup, reg. price, 50c, 40c Ripe Olives in Oil, u 25c, 20c Green “ “ “ 50c, 35c Pearl Oil, . . . “ $3.50, $3.25 per case Bring your container and get a gallon of PURE CIDER VINEGAR for 40c; Ordinarily 50c Best Potatoes in Town, . $1.75 per 100 pounds • •> SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! Irown & Hawkins wQuality First” Anchorage SEWARD Knik PHONE MAIN 1 “ PALACE JiNGLES " The summer’s slipping away again, And winter’s almost here; Thi hoys are coming from the hills In search of warmth and cheer. Come; all you lads from Anchorage When you crave a glass of beer. You’re welcome as the flowers In May, And no one is siwashed here. | THE PAL AGE BAR) Furnished Rooms for Men JOE MORRIS Cafe and Lunch Counter in Connection BILL DEVINE ' “ PALACE JINGLES ” They meet down at the Palace For a glass of Sherwood Rye, And to tell about the finds they’ve made, As the winter passes by. Bring on that faat Interior bunch, And from every camp afar, For we join you in goodfellowship At the famous Palace Bar. \ /