Seward weekly gateway., December 02, 1905, Image 3

About Seward weekly gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1905-1914

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Sole Leather ] EVERYTHING j
Harness Leather j FOR
Dog Harness |
Dog Collars ^ WINTER
Dog Sleds | AT
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\tm\ 10ST HIS JOB
Green Clerk Managed to Wriggle
Out of Tight Place
Hi> “hai-cent" Ix-trayed his nation
ality. and his small twinkling blue
eyes denoted a dceix-r sense of humor
than is usually ascribed to his coun
trymen. The man sitting directly oj>
posite to him in the Wells street car
Overheard the following:
“Yes, f was a bit green when 1 came
over to this country, and 1 ad to tike
hanythiak in the w y of a job. I got
started in a department store on State
street, and the floorwalker s’ys to me,
s'ys >:
“ Now, 'Arry. we'll give you three
trials, and if you let three people get
away without selling them, we’ll’ave
to bounce you.'
-Well, I came down jolly early on
Monday, took my pi ice be'ind the coun
ter and w’ited for customers, l’lvtty
soon a lidy walked up anil asked me
where she should take the tram for
Hevanston. 1 didn’t know, and she
went aw y. I looked# the floorwalker
ami the floorwalker V looked at me.
That niideone.” holding upa lean fore
finger. “Then a man came along and
stopped toarsk me where 'e could buy
a 'at. I told ’im where the'at counter
was and 'e went aw *y. 1 hat mule two.
Jolly poor luck, w asn't it now i l
looked at that floorwalker, and that
floorwalker looked at me like ‘ell, hut
what could I doV Then another lidy
c.- nie along as ’hU a large piece of g<xxl>
ti match, and she wanted another yard
of the same. I took it and pulleu out
heverythink on the shelves, but there
was no more of it left. 1 was in a bit
of a flunk then, for if l let er go with
out miking a ^ale I would lo-e tuy job.
so 1 sez:
“*\V'ite a bit. lidy. I'll s. e if we 'ave
any upstairs' I went un. and seeing
there was no more there either. I just
cut a yard off her own goods, and
brought the two pieces down, rolled
them up. t<x>k the money and she went
aw-'y. I 'ad plenty of customers after
that, but I didn't feel just comfortable,
don’t you know .
"The same afternoon she came back
ami asked for the floorwalker.
“ *Kre,' sez she, "1 brought tive yards
of goods 'ere to match this morning
and bought a yard more, but when l
got home 1 found only four yards in my
own piece. Can you expl'ine that,
please?’
“1 'emrned an’ awed and tried to
measure the goods and hat tempted to
tell the lidy that she must be mistaken
about 'er own piece, but sin only
glared at me. and in u jiffy she w as
hup to the floorwalker expl'ine tin
condition of affairs. Kr tone hin
* dicated that she was mad. and 1 said
to raeself, “Arry. you're a dead un.’
“The floorwalker called nn- hunt,
- and I ’ad to tell 'im all a Unit it. *ow
the first party wanted a tram-car, tin
next a 'at. and this one wanted more
goods when we 'adn't any. I ad
to sell her some'ow , or lose my job, so
I give 'er a bit from *er own piece.
The floorwalker looked so bloomin'
mad for a bit that 1 thought my time
was come for sure, but then V started
to larf. and In- larfed till I thought Vd
bust. Then 'e sez, “Arry.' sez e. ‘1
guess we’ll 'ave to keep you. and raise
your wiges.’ And ’e did." Chicago
Record-Herald.
TO HOLD MSK INQlitST
Commissioner Hildreth Goes to
Seldovia to Obtain Finding 1
r. S. Commissioner Hildreth went j
to Seldovia on the Bertha to hold an
inquest on the remains of Joseph Fisk. *
who was murdered by John M. Murray ;
or Moreira, at Halibut bay last spring.
Fisk’s skeleton was found early in Oct
ober near the cabin which had been
occupied by the two men.
It is claimed by men who knew Mur- ^
rav in this region that they have seen j
him in Seattle this summer. rhis j
statement has been made by several
who have been on the ontside. Police
officers all over the coast have been
notified to look out for the murderer.
Hotels Turn Men Away
The hotels as usual set a lot of men
Into the street who applied for moms
the night after the Santa Ana arrived.
The departure of the Santa Ana and
Dora relieved the pressure slightly,
but there are still no rooms to spare.
Wolves Come Near Town
Cold weather and snow in the mount
ains have driven the wolves down to
the lowlands. They are seen frequently
in the timber near town. One night
this week they confiscated a small dog
belonging to Harry St. Clair, foreman
of the railroad sawmill, a mil** and a
half north of Seward.
HUMPY STEPHEN DROWNED
Noted Indian Character of Inlet
Falls into Resurrection Creek j
“Humpy" Stephen departed this life
1 November 2, by falling into Uesur-j
ivction creek near Hope, while intoxi
cated. “Humpy" was one of the in
teresting characters of the ('ook Inlet
region, where he hail lived since the
memory of man runneth not to the
‘ contrary. He was native Indian, and
was a sort of assistant priest or servi
tor in the Greek church.
Humpy was so named because of
his physical deformity. He was a
humpback, very short of stature, and
; his eccentricities achieved him cousid
ecable local fame. He was about 50
years of age and had probably lived in
Southern Alaska all his life. He was
I rather intelligent anti while his relig
ious usefulness was doubted by persons
of different faith, or none at all. he,
was well-liked because of his good
1 nature.
The precise nature of Humpy s com
mission from 'he church was unknown
except to the elect, but his authority
' ;n tin* absence of a priest was not dis
puted by tin* other natives. It was re
ported that he received a salary of
a month for his ministrations, hut
' in his capacity as acolyte he managed
to string out his income by various
levies upon the brethren.
It is said that when all other re
sources failed Humpy would induce
the lambs of his dock to join him in a
poker game, in which he usually
sheared them. "Some way or other,M
said a man who knew Humpy well,
**ln* made all the Indian money come
! his way, b it he always put it into cir
culation again and it gravitated rapidly
to the white man."
Humpy's official and legal residence
; was at Tyoonok. but hi* habitat em
braced the entire Cook Inlet region,
| especially the localities where the
j white man's hootch grew rankest. It
I was under the inspiration of Cook lnle»
vodka that Humpy fell from a vertical
; bank into the deep waterof Resurrect
ion creek. He was unable to pull him
n>• 1 f to a place of safety and when his
i inanimate body was dragged ashore
further down it wa* found that hi*
spirit had down to the happy hunting
I grounds.
TO MUSH TO MATANIISKA
Three Men and Five Dogs Will
Start on Rough Trip Today.
Three men and live dogs will start
this morning t«> mush to the coal :
camp on the ('hickaloon. a few miles!
! above the confluence of that stream;
with tbt Mutanuska. The distance
; is about 210 miles and the snow is of
I varying depth. Much of the way there j
J is practically no trail, but men and
i dogs have traveled that way before.
The men who will make the trip are
j \V. S. Harris, who had been working
1 in the coal camp since March until he
I left to come to Seward a short time
i ago. Thomas Freeze, and John Van.
i the Indian who has been keeping the j
jeoal camp in fresh meat all season.
John is an expert hunter, and there
fore may Ik- termed what women in
the corn-fed middle west call a "good
provider,’’but none of them has suc
ceeded in catching him yet.
Tp at the coal camp whenever the
; inns yearn for fresh meat they say,
I "Johnny, get your gun," and the
I slaughter begins.
Wind Blows Gale
The wind blew great gales from the
west all la>t Friday night and all day
Saturday. The zephyrs tipped over the
big frame of F. G. Hale’s new block,
which was just ready for the rafters
and siding, and laid the timbers flat on
the ground. In the fall the heavy
sticks just grazed the paintshop and
residence of U.G. Crocker, adjoining.
Starts Building Over Again
As soon as the high wind abated
Contractor Houle started work again
on the Hale building, which was blown
down in the gale Friday night. The
wind came at the only stage of the
work when it could have done serious
harm. In another day the rafters
would have been on the frame and all
parts tied securely together. Very
few of the timliers were injured in the
fall, so that practically the only loss
was the lalior which went for naught.
VV. N. Armstrong, who has Winded
his interests in the Falls creek mines
to the Lane syndicate, and who re
ceived a healthy payment on account
yesterday, went out on the Santa Ana
last Friday. Ho will spend the win
ter in the eastern states, hut will re
turn about May seeking mot e worlds
to rotupier.
SEWARD TO Bf
SUBPORT JAN. I
- _
Collector Hobart Designates Dep
uty Pitman of White Pass
To Have Charge.
It apix*ars to luive been settled that
Seward will lx* :» subport on or about
January 1, and whenever the big thing
takc*s place steamers can come and go
in and out of this port without asking
permission of some landing which has
less business in a year than Seward
has in a month or two.
The consummation has come about
sooner than was hoped. When Col
lector Hobart of the customs district
of Alaska was here last month he
promised that he would arrange the
matter with the secretary of the
treasury by spring. Some influence or
other has managed to spring the event
forward a few moon-'. Late Seattle
papers casually mentioned that the or- j
tier creating a subport at St*ward
would take effect January 1, and that
K. Finch Pitman, now deputy at
White Pass, would he placed in
charge.
The Seattle papers seem to have
guessed right, for now comes the
Skagway Alaskan and affirms posi
tively that Mr. Pitman has received
formal notification of his appointment
by Collector Hobart, and that he has
heee ordered to Juneau to familiarize
himself with the duties of a deputy
collector at a sub-port.
TWO MtN TAKE SEA BATH
Step Off the Dock While Walking
to the Steamer
Two men walked off the passage way
between the docks Wednesday night
and dropped into the bay, about ten
minutes apart. The first man shinned
upa pile and climbed out himself. A few
minutes late another man stepped on
thin air at the same place and as the
air compressed beneath him he de
scended rapidly to t lit- water, where lie
lloundered until a line was thrown to
him by spectators.
Moth men were on their way to the
Santa Ana when they went overboard.
Several ears were standing on the
track leaving Jonly a narrow passage
beside them. Tie* light was dim and
the men stepped off without noticing
that they were at the edge.
POWtR PIANT COMPltTtD
Pipe Line Flushed Out Today and
Lights May Burn Tonight
The Lowell creek pipe line to gener
ate electric power rnd light by water
power was completed this afternoon j
and the pipe Hushed out to clear it of
gravel which may have entered it dar
ling construction. All the machinery
! is in place in the power house and the
| main wire from the power house to
connect with the town wires was strung
I this forenoon.
Lights will lx^ turned on this even
; ing unless tests show that something is
not in perfect working order, in which
i case another day may he required. S.
' M. Graff of Butler & Company, stated
i this morning that he felt safe in as
suring the public that the town will
j certainly be lighted again by elect
| ricity tomorrow night, if not tonight.
STEAMLRS WILL BUNCH
Will Come This Month in Twos
and Threes
Steamers from Seattle will be closely
hunched this month, from present in
dications. The Portland is only four
days ahead of the Santa Clara, and the
Oregon is scheduled to sail three days
behind the Santa Clara, coming by the
outside, which will bring the two here
almost together, with the Portland
only a little ahead.
The Bertha will reach Seattle be
hind time, and will be lucky if she sails
again by December 15, a day ahead of
the Santa Ana. The two are likely to
to make a race of it coming up this
month. It was thought they would
race down, but it does not look now as
if the Bertha would get started soon
enough to get in the race.
The Grace Dollar, which has been
chartered for a special trip by the
Kenai Lumber* Fuel Company, is now
liooked to leave Seattle about Dec
ember 12. but if she follows the example
of all special steamers and most of the
regulars she will be several days be
hind schedule in starting, which would
bring her up herein a bunch wiih the
Santa Ana and Bertha.
Hunter Missing Five Days
William Long, a hunter who had
been making his headquarters in Win
dy Jim's old camp on mile 40 for about
six weeks, has not been seen there for
live days. It was decided today to
make a search for him. although it is
thought probable that he is safe. He is
an experienced hunter and has l>een in
this part of Alaska several years. He
had with him a winchester belonging
m James DmismuiFk
GRACE DOLLAR
TO COME HERE
Steamer Chartered by Kenai
Lumber Company to Bring:
Lar^e Carpo.
Steamer (Trace Dollar will sail from
Seattle for Seward about December (0,
with a large cargo, chiefly lumber and
coal for the Kenai Lumber & Fuel
Company, by which she has been char
tered. The charter was signed yester
day in San Francisco by the owners
and by .1. .T. McManus, representing
tiie Seward company. He thereupon
wired the fact to K. K. Gray also of
the local company.
The Dollar will bring .'150,000 feet of
lumber and 000 tons of Roslyn coal for j
the Kenai Lumber & Fuel Company. 1
She will also bring 120 tons of explo
sives for the railroad company and for
Rich St Harris, the tunnel contractors.
Besides this she will bring all the gen
eral merchandise she can pick up
without delaying her departure. Her
exact tonage is not known here but she
is understood to iiave a carrying capac
ity of about 2000 tons.
The chartering of the Grace Dollar
was the result of considerable hard
work by .T. J. McManus, who went to
San Francisco nearly a month ago to
get a big boat to bring up a lumber
and coal cargo. He found it easy to
pick up all kinds of small craft, but
none large enough to bring the cargo
desired by his company. Finally he
secured the Grace Dollar and she would
have been on the way before now had
she not been slightly disabled. She is
still in the dry dock, hut will sail from
San Francisco about December 5. She
should reach Seattle about December 8
and sail from that port two or three
days later.
The Kenai Lumber & Fuel Company
was incorporated in October by F. R.
Gray, J. J. McManus. A. G. Baker and
other local men to engage in the lum
ber and fuel trade on a large scale. It
will take over the business of the Yak
utat Lumber Company and theSoward
Fuel Company, and proposes to keep at
stock adequate to meet the growing I
demands of the sea terminus of the i
Alaska Central railroad.
found Out Who Was Boss
Once upon a time a youth, who had •
commenced to navigate the sea of mat-1
rimonv. went to his father and said:
“Father, who should he boss. I or my
wife?”
Then tho old man smiled and said:
“Here are loo chickens and a ‘team of
horses. Hitch up the horses, load the
chickens into the wagon, and wherever !
you can find a man and his wife dwell
ing, stop and make inquiry as to who j
is the hoss. Wherever you find a wo
man running things leave a chicken.!
If you come to a place where the man j
is in control, give him a horse.”
After 70 chickens had been disposed
of the voting man came to a house and i
made the usual inquiry.
“I’m the boss o’ this ranch,’’said the ,
man.
“Got to show me.”
So the wife was called, and she nf-j
1 firmed her husband’s assertion.
“Take whichever horse you want.” i
was the boy’s reply.
So the husband said: “I'll take the
hay.” But the wife didn't like the bay
horse and she called her husband aside
and talked to him. He returned and j
| said: ”1 believe I’ll take the gray!
horse.”
•’Not much,” said Missouri. “You’ll
take a chicken.” San Francisco Chron
' iele.
The locked horns of two moose were
| found recently by W. L. Springsteen
j in tbe tundra near Nome river. The
horns were covered by a growth of
moss a few inches below the surface
and willows grew above them. How
long they had lain there none can tell.
From the way in which the antlers
were locked together it was evident
that the raonarchs of the northern
plains had probably died in mortal
combat. No Iwnes were found. The
Eskimos of Point Hope say that the
moose disappeared from that section
about fifty years ago.
1
During the recent German army ma
neuvers Prince Ilarold of Denmark
was expecting an attack at 7 a. m., but
the enemy had the bad manners to at
tack three hours earlier, and captured
the prince, bag and baggage.
In a terrible storm at sea, near Solo
mon. the gasoline schooner Anglo-Sax
son drifted ashore in Bonanza river.
Fred Ott, engineer, and Ole Oleson, a
deckhand, were washed overboard and
drowned. The bodies floated ashore.
Paul Buckley, of the Crow Creek
Mining Company, sailed for Seattle on
the Santa Ana, leaving several of his
partners waiting for the Bertha.
The people of Ketchikan want to
secure a patent to their townsite. A
committee has recently been appointed
to tiik«k charge-of t.hv matter.
f* COLEMAN HOUSE
H. N. COLEMAN, Proprietor
Electric Lights and Electric Bells in every room
Rates from 50c to $2.50 per day
Absolutely First-Class
EXCELLENT CAFE IN CON N VA "NON
F. 0. HALE, President G. E. DICKERMAN, Vlce-Pres
BANK OF SEWARD
Transacts a Genera! Banking Business
Wp receive deposits, buy and sell exchange, foreign and domestic: buy gold
dust and bullion: make collections. All business committed to our care will
receive prompt and careful attention...
Your Business is Solicited
THE LOUVRE
EIDSON flt DOBSON. Proprietor!
A Gentleman's Resort. Gold Dust Bought
Cor. Fifth and Washington streets Seward. Alaska
CHAS. A. TECKLEN3URC J- CUMMINGS
THE SEATTLE BAR
-ONLY THE BEST
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Bohemian and Olympia Beer
FURNISHED ROOMS WITH STEAM HEAT
Fourth Ave. and Washington St. Seward, Alaska.
NORTHERN AALOON
E. L. WHITTEMORE, Proprietor
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
FOURTH AVE. SEWARD, ALASKA
ASHLAND HOUSE
AND BANK SALOON
1 Wines, Liquors and Cigars First-class Furnished Rooms
Fourth A re..Opposite Alaska Control Commercial Co.
! Restaurant in connexion. WA1LACE S THOMPSON. Proprietors
A Lesson in Mining
A lode is a streak, as sure as you’re
born:
A dip is a pitch of the same:
A hi? bunch of rock, that spoils the
pay shoot.
Is called a horse in the vein.
A han?in? wall's the top, you know.
Or roof, of leads in place.
The foot wall's just the floor of them,
Or the bottom, bed or base.
An incline shaft is one that’s sunk
Down on the lead’s own pitch,
A strai?ht one just don t se<*m to care
’Bout strikin’ ore that’s rich.
A crosscut runs to tap the vein>
From a point that’s picked as hest.
A tunnel's about the same old thin?,
So we’ll let that subject rest.
A drift is a tunnel that follows a lead,
Not down but in on the level,
A stope’s a hole where ore was mined;
Now. don’t that beat the devil?
A winnze is a sort of a shaft, you see, (
That starts from a level below,
And why they picked that name for it
Ls more, my friend, than 1 know.
A raise is made to connect two levels
Or to strike the shoot overhead;
And the face of a drift is the end of
the thin?:
And so, we’ll say, enough said.
-Mines and Minerals.
Editor (to office l>oy)—How do you
spell auricular?
Office Boy (promptly)—I can’t spell
\ it at all.
Editor (angrily)- What did you go to
; school for?
Office Boy (sadly)- Because I had to.
Express t'lerk C'unliffe, who Stole
, •'*101 .tttttt, go.l >>iv \ears in prison.
Seattle Headquarters
All Alaskans jfoiny to Seattle on bus
iness or for oilier purposes are cordially
! invited to have their mail addressed to
i themselves in care of the Industrial
Bureau of the Alaska Central Railway
Company, Lumber Kxchunye Building,
i Seattle, Wash., and make the Bureau
; their headuarters while in that city,
j * Alaska Central Rail wav Co.
rOX ISLAND FOR SALt
Ten miles from Seward. The island
is two miles long and one mile wide.
.1 will sell my squatter's claim and 423
foxes, whose >kin> are worth an average
of $20 each, for $2300. which is less than
one-third of the value of the skins.
Offer is made because 1 wish to go up
the Susitna to prospect for a year.
Alfred Lowell,
Third avenue. Seward.
FOR SALE—Bes- offer takes lots 25,
20. 27. block 40: lots 15, 10, block 20;
lots 12. 13, 14. block 7. Seward, Alaska.
Owner 5)48,22nd. Ave.. Seattle, Wash. *
Mrs. Teller—Mrs. DeSplurge told
I me that the new residence they're
i building has live entrances.
Mr. Teller—Well, when the wolf ar
rives that’ll keep him guessing for a
while.—Fuck.
The steamer Corwin, which was in
Seward recently on the way down from
Nome, reached Seattle leaking badlv.
All hands were kept pumping during
the last two or three days.
Barley growers of Eastern Washing
ton formed a trust and ran the price
up to 1M) cents.
Take a bath *it Could and Conner*.