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FIRST FINDER OF
 GOLD ON SOUND HERE

Al Nordstrom who arrived last night from La Touche on the Mari posa is the man who first discovered gold on Prince William Sound. This discovery was made in 1907 and re- suited in what is now known as the Thomas mine on Curot island on a quarter of which Colonel Willard has just taken an option The quartz which Willard has taken over is owned by Carlson. After the discovery there came the discovery of the Cliff mine and then the Granite Mr. Nordstrom believes the lead on the CuIross island property is stronger than the leaf on either of the other two. Mir. Nord- strom has also been interested in val uable mining properties in Nome ant other districts and is now going to tackle a new place.
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JAPAN PLANS TO BUILD
 26 NEW EMPHASIZES
 AND MANY SUBMARINES

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 TOKYO, August 17.-Japan plans to improve her navy as fast or faster than does the United States build up its sea fighting machine. At least, that is the deduction made by the Jap anese people from the just announced plan to spend 254 4,OOO,OOO to 31O,OOO,- OCO yen building new battlers in tie next seven years.
 Epctly what the plan under cOnsid- eration by the Finance Department of the government is, nobody knows, but according to the paper Jiji, usually N we'll informed publication, the outlay for "the ideal fleet" calls for about $15O,OOO,OOO. Other papers estimates are bit lower.
 A hot debate on the program is ex- pected at the forthcoming session of the Diet because of the expenses in- volved. The program is backed by navy leaders and also, it is said, by the ministers of marine and finance.
 Newspaper reports have it that Japan proposes to build 8 super dreadnaughts, battle cruisers, II light cruisers, 10 destroyers and many U-boats.
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SEWARD NIGHTS
 BRIGHT AS DAY CITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO MAKE THIS BRILLIANTLY
 LIGHTED CITY.

Seward is from this time forward to be not only the most brilliantly lighted city in Alaska but, probably, the best lighted city of its size to be found anywhere. At a special priv ate meeting of the council last night at which Sam Graf attended to dis cuss matters, it was practically de cidcd to put in one hundred fine lights where only seventeen now exist Al the corner of Adams and Broadway three new cluster lights will be es- tablished to correspond with the clust- CT light on the fourth corner near the Bank of Seward and at each point down Broadway and up to Church street where there is a conduit will be placed a pole for one bright light. The distance between each light will be 15O feet. They will be erected down to the dock. Nice bracket lamps will be erected on Adams street and on the other streets from the hill eastward and also on the streets north of Adams, so that the whole city out as far as the houses are plentiful will be all lighted
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GERMANS ATTACK BRITISH

LONDON, August 23-The Germans launched two determined attacks last night from the British the newly captured positions south of Thepau which was regarded as a German stronghold before it was taken
 from them With respect the attacks last night General Hag reports that both of the assaults were repulSed al though in one of them the Germans gained temporary footing in the British trenches. The German losses are described as heavy The today taken as meaning that the Teutons have again taken the offensive on the western front more detemnedy than at any time for many months
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Alaska Packers to
 Deal Now in Fruit

SAN FRANCISCO, August 23.-By a pooling of stcck the merging of the Alaska Packers Association and the principal fruit canning concerns of the west the formation of twenty five million dollar corporation is practically certain in which the fish company and the fruit companies wiI merge.
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STILL WORKING ID
 AVERT R. R. STRIKE

WASHINGTON, August 23 - The President today called Chaimen Newlands and Adamson of the senate and house interstate commerce committees to the " ite House for conference and the belief is that this summons resulted from conference which held last night be- tween Mr. Wilson and several railroad presidents The meeting with the committee chaimen is probably the
 first step in the effort to have legislation passed that world avert the great strike most likely legislation granting the railroads the privilege of securing better rates to leet the expense enaied in the giving of eight hour day
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GERMANS NOW TAKE OFFENSIVE
 AGAINST ALLIES IN THE WEST
GERMANS PENETRATE ALLIES

PARIS August 23-Strong forces of German troops made powerful attacks last night on the allied trenches south of the Souue southeast of Esrees and west of Seyecourt which were captured by the French last Tues day, and succeeded in penetrating the French lines at several points, it is officially admitted The attack was preceded by an intense 0om0ardmet lasting for several hours in which the whole French front south of the Son. me was placed under heavy hre North of the Somme the Germans maintained also fierce Oombardment on the French first line and the communicating trenches While the war office canddy admits the successes of the enemy declares that nothing has occurred which cannot be re- paired
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ARRIVED ON MARPOSA

The following arrived on the Mari posa which came on schedule time last evening:
 c. J. Livingston, Miss Edna J.0bb, J. W, Keller, w. S. Kennedy, Mrs D. W. Harvey, Albert Lund, D. Warner,
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Mclean Must Give
 Up Fathers Mail
Letters Are Believed to Hold Secrets
 of Prominent People.

WASHINGTON, August 23.-Ed- ward B. Mclean has lost the right to prevent the American Security and Trust Company taking possession of the private letters found in the estate of his father John R. Mclean These letters are supposed to involve many persons of national prominence in connection with matters of a serious nature. An injunction was obtained several weeks ago by Mclean against the taking of the letters which he declared were necessary to a suit which he had instituted to break his fathers will on the ground that the latter was of unsound mind at the time he made it. The supreme court has now dissolved that injunction.
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FATAL EXPLOSION ON
 WEST SIDE CHICAGO

CHICAGO, August %. - One man is known to be dead and eighteen are in the hospital as the result of an oil tank explosion on the west side today. The police report that several others were probably killed but that proof of the fact has not yet been obtained.
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TODAYS BASEBALL FREAK

CHICAGO, August 19.-Joe Jack son, White Sox slugging gardener, has a hunch that he always plays be- fore every game, and Manager Raw land is content to let him work it as long as he keeps punching the ball.
 He gathers a handful of pebbles shortly before the game, retires to the club house, and losses them to his teammates, who to humor him, bat the stones. Joe says 'It's just a hunch."
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Postmaster Here
 Gets am Increase
List Comes of Changes in Salaries
 For Coming Year.

The salary of the postmaster at Seward will be sixteen hundred dol- lars a year from last July until July 1917, and this means an increase Of four hundred dollars a year over the salary of the previous year The fiscal year begins on July 1. The following is list of the salaries of the different presidential postmasters for the year ending last July |, and their salaries beginning from that +ir,,o.
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NEWSPAPER AT MCCARTHY

"The Avalanche" is the resOunding name of a brand new newspaper which has just been launched at Mccarthy. It is small but as it has come to ad- vertise a great mineral country may it prosper.
The Seward gateway., 1916-08-23
PREPARING FOR MAIL
 OVER TO ANCHORAGE

Alvah Flames, the chief clerk of the railway mail service, has arrived la Seward to make arrangements re- garding the mail service to Anchorage next winter. The bids have been call ed for and Mir. Eames is now prepar- ing to have things fixed up. He is authority also for stating that the Seward postmaster has had his salary increased.
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RUSSIAN NEWS SCANT

LONDON, August 23. - News from the Russo-Aus tran front today has been awaited in vain The last n formation indicated that the Teutons had inflicted some minor reverses on the Savs and it is assumed that the Russian drive has been checked temporarily The reports from other fronts except those mentioned above shows this morning very little change in the condition.
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SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR HEADS COMMISSION
PERSHING REPORTS VILLA IS
 ALIVE AND WITH SMALL FORCE

WASHINGTON, August 23.-Gen- eraI Pershing reports that Villa is now hiding in the Durango mountains and has with him a small force of fol-
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LONDON, August 17.-The annual conference of United Methodists adopted a minimum wage of $500 for Methodist ministers because of the in- creased cost of living.
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lowers. This report was made to the war department and is taken as prov ing beyond doubt that the bandit chief is alive in spite of all the reports re- garding his death.
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WENT ON MARIPOSA

On the Mariposa twelve Northwest ern passengers went west and also the following: J. c. Gaffney, Mrs. Hill brick, Mrs. George w. Seay.
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DEUTSCHLAND UNREPORTED

BERLIN August 23.-Berlin is still without news of the submarine Deutschland which sailed from Baltimore on August 2 The trip the other way made in 16 days but pointed out greater precautions might have been necessary this time as the allied fleets were on the watch more closely.
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ARMY BILL GOES TO
PRESIDENT AGAIN

WASHINGTON, Augut %. - The S267, ,O96,535 army appropriation bill passed the senate today with the clause which caused its former veto ing eliminated. It passed the house yesterday and once more goes for the signature of the President.
The Seward gateway., 1916-08-23
LADIES AID TO MEET

The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church will meet tomorrow at the home of Mrs. E. L. van Glider,
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Quaint

The most curious example Of war
economy, as practiced in London, ia
that two Of the greatest London stores
have now dropped apostrophes in
their announcements and catalogues.
A large teashop firm issue advice for
economists by way OF a notice on
their tea tables. One suggestion Ia
that If people who formerly took two
Jumps of sugar would now take only
one there would be a considerable
saving to the nation and assistance
in carrying on the war. Some of the
customers have acted on the advice
but, fearful that they might embarrass
the firm by making their economy a
matter Of profit to them. make a habit
OF unblushingly pocketing the second
lump to be used at home. Empty tin
cans have now a value, and one firm
has exchanged a pound OF their coffee
for n and a half dozen coffee tins.
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welcome.
Wa CHAPTER VII 6
A Turn in the Trail

For Brouillard 1t had seemed the
most natural thing in the world to fall
under the spell of enchantment. He
knew next to nothing Of the young
woman's life story; he had not cared
to know. 1t had not occurred TO him
to wonder how the daughter of a man
who drilled and shot the holes in his
own mine should have the gifts and
belongings-when she chose to display
them-of a woman of a much wider
world. It was enough for him that she
was piquantly attractive in any char.
acter and that he found her marvel.
ously stimulating and uplifting. On
the days when the devil of moroseness
and irritability possessed and mad
dened him he could climb to the cabin
on high Chigringo and find sanity. It
was a keen Joy to be with her, and up
to the present this had sufflced.
"Egoism is merely another name for
the expression of a vital need" he
said after the divagating pause, de.
inning the word more for his W sat.
isfaction than in self-defense.
You may put it In that way II you
please" she returned gravely. What
is your need?"
He stated It ccncisely. "Money-a
of it."
How singular" she laughed. She
got out Of the hammock and came to
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Totem Pole Must Don Some Clothes.

Clothes make the totem pole, &C.
cording to John Oscar Davis, collector
Of the port, at S@n Francisco.
Mortified at what he saw when a
Burmese specimen consigned to the
Rev. j. H. East OF Portland was un.
covered at the custonhouse early in
February, Collector Davis has now
recovered sufficiently from the shock
TO announce that when the proper ha.
biliments have been placed on the
relic it may be allowed to proceed on
its way to the Indignant consignee.
Painting, the collector said, had
been considered, but clothing would
be better. His plan now is to arrange
for a proper costuEing Of the mooted
totem pole at the expense OF Doctor
East and that then the curio, decor.
ously accoutered for appearance
among the most select circles, might
be allowed admission to the land 0
the free and the home Of the brave.
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Long Time In Transit.

On October 3, 1883, a clerk In the
employ of a New York steamship bro
ker mailed a letter to tho master Of
the Swedish bark Superior at Mar.
settles.
n letter was never delivered. But
IN the autumn of 1913 1t was returned
to the steamship brokers' office,
stamped all over its face. The best
explanation offered for It's 80 years in
transit was that 1t had lain in the
swedish consulate at Marseilles all
those years, and that during a house.
cleaning was found and remailed.
In the post office department ofi.
Gals tell OF a letter that was mailed
from there in 1852, addressed to Rob
ert 3. Mckay at New Orleans. Tho
letter followed Mr.. Mckay to Russia.
where he was a consulate attache. But
ne had died there and had left in his
Will a provision that all his papers
should be locked up until his fye.year.
old son and namesake attained his ma.
jority.
When 1868 arrived the son was tray.
cling and exploring in Africa. A law
clerk, not knowing the provisions OF
the 1852 will, supposed the letter was
for the present Mr.. Mckay and start.
ed 1t forth again. 1t rested in Cape
Town through error until the year
1871.
When 1t was started back to New
Orleans Mr.. Mckay had left for ex-
ploration in Chile. Letter and adj
dressee finally got together In Louisi-
n in 1874. And strange to say, mat
tiers of business importance to tho
father were still of business interest
to the son.
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DESERVES WELL OF FARMER
Phoehe's Voice Is Faint and She Ger
tainly Is Not Pretty, but Shs
Hates All Beetles.

After you're we'll acquainted with
the phoebe and catch some OF her spir.
II or 2riendlineSs and companionship,
you won't care a snap OF the finger
that she can't sing very well, nor that
she isn't good looking. You'll wei.
come her in spring just as II she were
Q Venus for looks and Melba for voice.
You'll listen for her first notes and
say: There's Phoebe back again"
She's the earliest arrival among the
fiycatchers, reaching here about March
Fl. even before the flies. She seeks
out her last years home under the
bridge, or beneath the rafters of the
barn. and starts ~renovating her nest.
Often when an INSCRIPTIONS cowbird
usurps the nest to lay eggs OF her
OWN the phoebe will build another
nest atop the old one and start house.
Keeping over again as IL nothing had
interrupted.
We've remarked that she couldn't
sing. yet her little "phe,bee" note ia
one of the cheeriest of springtjme.
We've said she wasn't beautiful. vet
her dull olive-brown coat, with a vel.
lowish-white breast are far more at.
tractive than some birds OF gay plu.
mage. The phoebe Is beautiful be.
cause she is useful.
From the time of her arrival until
h leaves late In the fall she's busy
warning on the farmers enemies.
She'll sit on O mullen stalk and watch
Tor a beetle. Suddenly she will dart
into the air and her bills go shut with
a snap-good-b by beetle. She Is a for
conservationist, because she eats
the elm leaf beetle. She Is the farm
er's friend, because she eats the Nav
beetles and click beetles, which in.
1ure crops. She is the gardeners
friend because she eats the SQUASH
In fact, she Is the friend OF EVERYONE
except the beetles .-Philadelphia
American.
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lean' with her hands behind hee
against the opposite porch post. But
tell me, what would you do with your
pot of rainbow gold-if you should
find it,"
Brouillard rose and straightened
himself with his arms over his head
IKE an athlete testing his muscles for
the record-breaking event.
What would | do? A number NJ
things. But first of all. | think. I'd
buy the privilege of telling some WON.
an that love her"
She was silent for so long a time
that he looked at his watch and
thought of going. But at the deciding
instant she held him with a low.spo-
ken question.
Does it date back to the handicap?
o needn't tell me il you don't want
to-"
1T does. And there is no reason
why shouldn't tell you the simple
fact, When my father died he left me
a debt-a debt of honor: and 1t must
be paid. Until 1t Is paid-but | am
sure you understand"
Quite fully" she responded quickly.
n now there was no trace of levity
in the sweetly serious tone. is II
much?-so much that you can't"
He nodded and sat down again on
the porch step. Yes. 1t is big enough
10 go in a class by itself-in round
numbers. a hundred thousand dollars"
"Horrors!" she gasped. And you
are carrying that milestone? Must you
carry it,"
III you knew the circumstances 0
would be the first to say that | must
carry 1t. and go on carrying II to the
end OF the chapter"
"But-but you'll never be free!"
Not on a government salary" he
admitted. AS a matter Of fact. II
takes more than half OF the salary to
pay the premiums on-pshaw! Let's
drop it,"
She was looking beyond him and her
voice was quick with womanly sympa
thy when she said: III you could drop
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ful reply to be made to this, Brouillart
bent lower w his work and saiC
nothing. At every fresh step In tn,
forced acquaintance the newcome,
was ~painstakingly developing new an
tagonisms. Sooner or later. Brouillart
knew, it would come to an open run
ture. but he was hoping that the actua
hostilities could be postponed unit
after Hosford had worn out his tenn
porary welcome as a guest in the engi
neers' mess.
For a time the big man In the easy
chair smoked on in silence. Then he
began again:
Say, Brouillard, l saw one little girl
today that didn't belong to your work
men's-family outfit, and she's a peach:
came riding down the trail with her
brother from that mine up on the
south mountain-Massingale, isn't it
By Jove! she fairly made my mouth
water!"
lnasmuch as no man can read field
notes when the page has suddenly be-
come a red blur, Brouillard looked up.
You are my guest, in a a Mr..
Hosford; for that reason I can't very
we'll tell you what l think of you"
So much he was able to say quietly.
Then the control mechanism burned
out In a flash of fiery rage and he
cursed the guest fluently and compre-
hensively, winding up with a crude
and savage threat of dismemberment
If he should W. venture so much as
to name Miss Massingale again In the
threatener's hearing.
Hosford sat up slowly, and his big
face turned darkly red.
WE'LL" he broke out. $50 you're
that kind Of a f%ire-eater, are you?
l didn't suppose anything like that
ever happened outside of the ten-cent
shockers. Wake up. man; this is the
twentieth century we're living in.
Don't look at me that way!"
But the wave of insane wrath was
already subsiding, and Brouillard, half
ashamed of the momentary lapse into
savagery, was once more scowling
down at the pages of his notebook,
when the door opened and Quinlan,
the operator, came in with a commu-
nication fresh from the Washington
wire. The message was an indirect
reply to Hosford's te~legraphed appeal
to the higher powers. Brouillard read
1t, stuck 1t upon the file, and took a
roll of blueprints from the bottom
drawer of his desk.
Here are the drawings for your
power installation, Mr.. Hosford," he
said, handing the roll to the man in
the chair. And a little later he went
out to smoke a pipe in the open air,
leaving the message of inquiry he had
intended to send unwritten.
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it-but you can't. And it changes ev.
erything for you. d~istorts everything,
colors your entire life. It's heart,
breaking!"
This was dangerous ground for him
and he knew it. In the ardor of young
manhood he had taken up the vicari.
Gus burden dutifully, and at that time
his remuneration of the things thai
other men strove for seemed the light,
est OF the many fetterings. But now
love for a woman was threatening to
make the remuneration too g~rievous to
be borne.
How did you know" he queried GU.
riously. 1T does change things. I'd
sell anything I've got, save one, for a
chance at the freedom that other men
have-and don't value"
What is the n thing you wouldn't
SELF" she questioned, and Brouillard
chose to discover a gently quickened
interest in the clear.seeing eyes.
MY love for the-for some woman.
I'm saving that, you know. It is the
only capital I'll have when the big
debt Is paid"
DO you want me to be frivolous
or serious?' she asked, looking down
at him with the grimacing little smile
that always reminded him of a caress.
/ have been wondering whether she
is or isn't worth the effort-and the
reservation you make. Because II ia
all in that, you know. You a do and
be what you want to do and be IL
you only want to hard enough"
He was looking down, chiefly be-
cause he dared not look up, when he
answered soberly: She is worth
it many times over; her price is above
rubies. Money, much or little, wouldn't
be in it,"
That Is better-much better. Now
we may go on to the ways and a
they are all in the man, not In the
not non whatsoever as Tig
would say. Let me show you what I
mean. Three times within my recol.
lection my father has been worth con.
siderably more than you owe, and
three times he has-well, it's gone.
And now he Is going to make good
again when the railroad comes"
Brouillard got up.
I must be going back down the
he said. And then, without warm
ing: What II | should tell you that
The railroad is not coming to the Nj
quota, Amy?"
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\ jumping t~Oothache is no excuse
for smoking in a. factory in New
York. as two sufferers found when ar.
raigned in court today, charged with
smoking in a loft building In violation
Of the law. ITS true, your honor"
admitted the first sufferer. 1T v'aa
like this. | had an awful toothache.
/ had to have relief: couldn't work and
all that sort of thing, SO | smoked a
cigarette and the ache disappeared.
presto, like that. Thirty dollars or
three days in Jail" was the only sym
pathy the sufferer received from rpe
magistrate. The second sufferer was
soaked 500 or two days. And, BY
the way the magistrate added as tha
Two men were led away, you fellows
might call in the Tombs dentist while
you are serving out your sentences.
it might save you a return engage
ment,"