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The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
PRINCE PREFERRED MINERS
 COTTAGE TO MANSION

Special to Gateway by United Press) LONDON, April 13. - How the youthful, democratic Prince of Wales prefers an humble workman's cottage to a mansion in Northern France was >told here today by a Methodist chap lain, just returned from the front.
 "At a certain village" said the chaplain, "is a line of cottages and nany times the Prince has slept on the floor of one of these humble homes. On the other side of tbe road is a beautiful old mansion, but the Prince preferred to live with the poor coal miner.
 q also saw the Prince "dOing his bit at the front He was often in danger and always went where the boys went"
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
The Seward
 General Hospital

desires to acquaint the general hospi- tai interests of this country with the facilities of this institution for giving the latest devised methods of nursing, care to persons requiring medical or surgical treatment. Special attention given to patients requiring gyne- cological treatment. HydrOtherapeu- tic treatments carefully followed. This building, just complete, electric lighted, steam heated, hot and cold water. Physicians placing patients in our care will receive every ethical at tention. Prompt readiness for acei- dents, obstretrics and emergencies, day or night. For further particulars address,
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The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
NUIIcL oE FORFEITURE

10 k. l.. IL. Marshall, Hilda Marshall
 Charles D. Haven, F. C. Miller,
 Riley E. Dill, John Irvine, L. Il.
 HerndOn and George RabehI, de-
 ceaseds heirs, executors, admins
 uators or assigns:
 You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned Co., Owner has expended the sum of One hundred dollars ($IOOOO) in labor and improvements upon the Blank AssOci- atiOn group of placer mining claims, consisting of 16O acres, located on the Right Limit of Nugget Gulch, a tri- butary of Cache Creek, in the Cook Inlet Precinct, Third Division, Terri tory of Alaska, in order to hold said placer mining claim, for the year ending December S1st, A. D., 1915, and if within Ninety (9O) days from the service of this notice upon you, or the complete publication thereof, you fail or refuse to contribute your pro- portion of said expenditure as Co., Owners, your interests will become the property of the undersigned, under and pursuant to the Revised Statutes of the United States. Dated at Susitna, Alaska, this 2Oth, day of March, A. D., 1916. ca
 AL. STINSON. First publication March 2,7 1916. Last publication July i2, 1916.
 Meet me at The Branch.
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To J. H. STEVENS and VIM. IL. CUMMING; your heirs or assigns or whom it may concern. You are here by notified that the undersigned has expended the sum of Six Hundred Dollars (S6OO.) in labor and improve ments on the following named min ing claims for the years ending Dec. 3Ist, 1914 and Dec. 31st, 1915, the above sum being the amount required to complete the annual labor during years mentioned above, and proof Ol labor being recorded with the United States Commissioner in the Recording precinct of Iliamna, Territory of AL aska. To wit: Reward, Reward No. 1, Reward No. 2 and Reward No. Q. Said claims being situated about 16 miles westerly from the s. West arm of Kamishak Bay, and in the Iliamna Recording precinct, Territory of AL aska. The amounts claimed and due the undersigned from the parties shove mentioned are as follows: J. II. Stevens One hundred and twenty two dollars and twenty-five cents, and Wm. Fl. Cumming the sum of seventy two dollars and twenty-five cents. And if within ninety days after the serving of this notice by publication, you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure az Co owners your interest in said claims will become the property of the undersigned as specified in Sec. 2S24 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and amendment thereto con- corning annual labor on mining claims. All amounts due to be de- posted with Dexter Horton National Bank of Seattle, Wash, to the credit of the undersigned.
 CHAS. H. MCNEIL.
 Dated and signed at Ridgway, Colo. Feb. 2, 1916.
 First publication Feb. 29, 1916.
 Last publication June IA, 1916.
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21

Long distance telepnone booth at The Branch.
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
OHIO STATE CAPITOL
 BLDG GOES TO SEA

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 2O.-The Ohio State Capitol building was load ed upon three barges and started out to sea here today. It sailed bHtheIy seventeen miles down the Pacific Coast, its white dome bo5bing garishly about on the waves. At the town of San Carlos it was unloaded and is being set up in the town square where it will form the nucleus of the San Carlos Civic center. The structure was the Ohio building at the Panama Exposition, being a wood and stucco replica of the capitol at Columbus.
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
MORE MARRIAGES, FEWER
 BABIES IN ENGLAND

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 LONDON, April 2O.-Statistics for 1915 available today show there were more marriages in England and Wales than during any other on record. Births established a new low record and deaths were above the ten years average. Marriages dur ing 1913 totaled 2S6,5S3. The year 1915 beat that by 78,OOO. During the year the birth rate was 21.S per thousand population. The number of births over deaths was 252,2O1 as against an average of 87S,36O. The last quarter of the year showed the lowest number of births on record.
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
CHAS. Fl. MCNEIL.

Dated and signed at Ridgway, Colo. Feb. 2, 1916. First publication Feb. %, 1916. Last publication June IA, 1916.
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21
KING STUDIES RUSSIAN

LONDON, April liking George who already speaks several languages, is now studying hard adding Russian to the list
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21

WANTED-Hustler in every town in Alaska to sell our 15 up-to-the- minute household articles. Women delighted, eager to buy. Experience not needed. Sell like hot cakes. Samples furnished active workers. Write Agents Speciality Co.,, Box Al Juneau, Alaska.
The Seward gateway., 1916-04-21

For delicious salad try our new line of Tuna Fish, "The chicken of the sea-" Brown & Hawkins, Quality First"
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
kOkOMO CREtK
 LOOk|AC LETTER

Reports received in town from Fairbanks creek are to the effect that Jack O'Connor, the well known Chatanika mining man, has bed rocked another hole on Kokomo creek And he found ground which will pay to work, the report being that it will go 50 cents to the square foot of bedrock
 It is now believed that the pay channel on kokomo has been locat- ed. Certain it is that a definite paystreak has been found. although its width has not yet been ascer- tained. The prospecting so far done shows the streak to be about 150 feet in width, but it may be wider yet. And to the end that they may ascertain it's width, O'Connor and his partners are continuing their prospecting, The holes so far sunk on Kokomo are from 10 to 12 feet in depth. the last shaft bedrocked by O'Connor being 12 feet deep.
 It now looks as though Kokomo creek will be ideal for opencut ope- rations. The ground is shallow, and there is plenty of wood and water immediately at hand to do all kinds of work
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
u. OF w. PROFESSOR DIES
 OF HEART FAILURE.

In the death of Attilio Filipo Sbedi- co, assistant professor of French and Italian. the University of Washing ton loses the man who has done most for the foreign students on the campus Dr. Sbedico died suddenly of heart trouble.
 Although born and educated in this country, Sbedico retained his love for and interest in Italy and the Italian people. His courses in Itali an were popular, and his work in the Cosmopolitan club and among the Italian people of the city were mutually valuable. Just a short time before his death he was active in raising a large sum of money for the use of the Italian Red Cross. It was largely as result of his eff forts that the university obtained The Wrestlers" by Romanelli Brothers, of Florence, Italy, an un- usually fine bit of sculpture. The bust of Dante presented to the in stitution was also obtained by him.
 He was musician of some abili- ty and an art critic of some re- nown. He received his graduate training at the University of Penn sylvania, and before coming to Wash ington was on the faculty of the University of Illinois.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
MARCONPS INVENTION
 STOPS WIRELESS LEAK

LONDON.-Guglielmo Marconi has just arrived in London from Italy with news of important and far-reach ing wireless developments. In an in terview in the Weekly Dispatch he said
 "The new developments not only make wireless communication in the war zone more effective, but also make it difficult for the enemy to intercept or tap messages.
 "The improvements also apply to instruments on aeroplanes and air. ships. Hitherto aeroplanes have been at disadvantage, because, while able to transmit messages, they have been unable to receive, owing to the noise of the engine drowning out the wireless signals. Now we are able to strengthen the receiving signals sufficiently to en- able messages to be taken"
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
Fairbanh
A FEATHEREO BOMB.

M Guerre, the inventor of an ex, plosive projectile for destroying air craft in the shape of a combined bomb and arrow, recently made some interesting trials of it from the Sol ferino bridge in Paris. The DOT jectile consists of small and very light bomb with very sensitive detonator which can be set just before throwing.
 In the rear of the shell, or head, is a guiding piece, with feathers" resembling short arrow. Several of the projectiles were thrown from the bridge down on bed of sand on the quay, and they took fire at once, exploding at the same time
 Such a bomb would no doubt do great damage to an airship. and it is well adapted for use in an attack of aeroplanes upon airships, for in stance.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
MAIL LEAVES THIS HOnH.nI
 BY bUCkBOhRj
FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS N. C. co. WILL NOT USE THE
 PACK HORSES.

When the Northern Commercial Co. mail stage leaves this morning at ' o'clock for Chitina it will, for the first time in years, go on wheels, and will for that reason be able to carry passengers. Tomorrow Pri- vate Bradley, of the Richardson sta tion, will probably go by the mail stage.
 For the last few years the trail has been in such condition that for two or three months at the be ginning of the season when the N. c. Co. begins their contract the com pany has found it necessary to carry the mail on pack horses. Now since the road has been put into such an excellent condition by the road commission, according to the officials of the N. c. Co.,, it is pos sible to go through with a blackboard.
 The stage that leaves tomorrow morning is the first of the regular mail serivce between Chitina and Fairbanks. Hereafter there will be two mails arrive and two leave each week The days for the de- parture of the mails from Fairbanks will be Sundays and Fridays of each week
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
ABOUT THE MAIL

Mail for the coast and for the Outside is dispatched from Fairbanks at [ A. NJ. on Sundays and Wednes- days. It closes at the post office at s P. NJ. on Saturdays and Tues days.
 Mails for Fairbanks and other points in Interior Alaska leave Cor dova on Mondays and Thursdays. They are scheduled to arrive here in twelve days after they start or on Fridays and Mondays.
 Mails for lower river points are scheduled to leave Fairbanks once per week after the close of naviga- tion They now leave by every boat. They leave the next day fol lowing the arrival of the first mail of the week from the coast.
 Creek mails are dispatched from the local office every day.
 The Brooks Liyengood mail leaves Fairbanks every Tuesday morning The incoming mail is due every Monday evening.
 Nenana mail is dispatched on ev- cry outgoing steamer.
 Mail for the coast and the Out side closes tonight at o'clock It will be dispatched tomorrow morn ing At o'clock
 The incoming mail from the Out side is scheduled to reach Fairbanks this afternoon. It passed Gulkana last night The regular mail stage has turned back and Bobby sheldon is bringing the mail in. He expected
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
ALI IH{ MAIL
 ALL IhE I'M"
 FUR FAIRBANKS
PRAEGER TELEGRAPHS DEAL TO GET COST OF CARRYING
 ALL THE MAIL.

That Fairbanks is to have all the mail all of the time is the inference the postoffice officials draw from a telegram received yesterday from master general. This telegram is an answer to the efforts of the local of flee to secure the second class mail as well as the first during the winter. The proposal of the local office was that the second class matter be car ried by freighting teams.
 The telegram sas as follows:
 Washington, Y. c. Sept. 30, 1916, "T H Deal, pHtmaster, Fairbanks
 Your letter Sept 7th. Telegraph lowest obtainekproposals transporta- ton 1000 pound twice monthly from Valdez to FaiIt banks, with running time, together with the date service should commence.
 OTTO PRAEGER. Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
 eral"
 It has been announced that the local office has already begun to look for bidders on the contract. They expect to telegraph Valdez and ask for bids from that end, as well as from the Fairbanks end.
 With 2,O0O pounds coming in monthly, in aFAion to the 4,Soo that the Northern Commercial com pany's contract calls for there is not likely to be congestion of the mail this winter, as formerly, accord ing to the officials of the local post office
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
WHY FARMER
 BUYS BY MAIL

Recently merchant of Natchez happened 10 see a farmer receive a box at the depot and noticed that it vas from a mail order house. He also noti ed that the goods were right in his line and the same as he carried for years. He Immediately approach
 ! the farmer and said:
 "I could have sold you the goods you have here for less money than the Chiyago house and saved you the ire ght.'
 Then why didn't you do so?" said the farmer. "I have taken the local paper for year and have not seen q line about your selling these or any other goods. This mail order house sends advertising matter to me ask ing for my trade, and it gets it. If you have any bargains, why don't you put them in the paper so We can see what they are? ?'-Natchez (Miss) Democrat
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02

in wheelbarrow Thomas was us ing to carry coal
 Health Commissioner R. X. Me Cracker ordered Chubby" put un- der observation for fifteen days. and although the dog developed no bad symptoms. it was decided to exc cute him that his brain might be examined. Thomas pleaded so hard for the life of his companion that Kelly interceded with the health de partment and the execution arranged for was stayed on "Chubby's' good behavior
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
CAN FARM AT DAWSON
 SAYS DOCTOR MALTE

SKAGWAY, Aug 26.-The Alaskan says: That the Interior has wonder ful agricultural possibilities is sub stantiated by the report of Dr, J. O. Matte, Dominion agristologist, who has been making an investigation and experiment of the lands and eli matic conditions in and around Daw son.
 Dr. Malte is in charge of the cen tral experimental farm at Ottawa and has had practical and technical as well as theoretical experience in the establishment of farms. It is lis belief that the Interior has a wonderful possibility for crop yields and garden truck.
 J. w. Boyle has become so inter ested in the possibilities of agricul- tury in the Interior that he has prom
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
OPENCUTS ARE
 CLOSING DOWN.:
 WORK FINISHED
NEARLY ALL WORK ONLY DAY sHIFT-STRIPPING FOR
 NEXT SEASON.

Work on the openCuts in the Gold stream region Is rapidly drawing to a close. Practically all Of the ope- rators have finished the work block ed out for the season, and a few weeks more will find nearly all of shortage of men now, as there was shortage of men now. as three was during the summer. as all but one or two of the operators have ceased to run night shift. A few of them have closed down entirely for the winter.
 Guy Marks, who was working on No. Goldstream, has closed down. He has taken out about 5O.O00 square feet.
 Harry Atwood on No. II, will work as long as the weather will permit He is still running a day and night shift
 Henry Wagner has finished his work on No. 6. Goldstream, and has moved to No :, which he is stripping for next seasons work.
 E B. Collins has completed the block of ground on No. 5 and is now moving to No. 10. He will strip a block of ground on No. 10 this fall, so that he will be ready for next year.
 No reports as to the amount of the cleanups have yet been given out. This season has been very costly one for the operators as they had to arrange their dumps and cuts before any real work could be done. According to the accounts that have reached Fairbanks, the operators ex- pect to make big killing next year.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
MANS RING STRUCK
 BY LIGHTNING BOLT

WINCHESTER, Va,-Hope Beams finger ring is in the jewellers shop because the ruby setting was loos- ened by lightning Also he is alive and well, after one of the most ex- faced death in an instant's time when a bolt of lightning struck in the concrete midway between the Deaderck and Empire buildings.
 Deam was shocked severely, the electricity following the wiring into the office where he was working. Several women in the office of a physician next where the lightning struck were also shocked.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
THE POETRY OF MASTERS.

It sounds strange to speak of book of verse as a best seller, yet the Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters reached that point last year. In this poem Masters imagines that the dead in the little country church yard on the hill speak. It is a situation that makes it possible to strip off the snug pretensions that people wrap about them in life. This the poet has done.
 Three or four of the characters that he has created in it are truly drawn. Like most of the modern poets. he is extremely plain spoken. Moreover, he speaks in the lan- guage of the people. That, perhaps. explains his popularity. It is in the use of the every day idiom that the critics have attacked the modern poets. But in this regard it is well to remember that the ancient poets spoke in the idiom of the day. It was the Chaucer with his idiomatic use of the dialect of his day that gave us the foundation of our mo- dern English.
 In Masters last volume, Songs and Satire, there is less of the pes simistic view of life In one or two of the poems, such as All In Life. there is as romantic viewpoint as can be found in Keats.
 Masters has given a new impetus to poetry by his bold. vigorous out look. Moreover, he has written something worth while that the mass es are reading It is time that poetry ceases to be the hobby of the dilettante Masters has accomp- lished something.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
WOMAN SUCCESSFUL
 IN FIGHTING COUGAR

SEATTLE.-Armed with a piece of iron pipe, Mrs. F. Burkhardt fought cougar which had attacked her and her baby near Taholah, Wash, thirty miles from Aberdeen. Mrs. Burkhardt was walking along a mountain train, carrying her child, when she came across the cougar, pursuing a fox.
 The cougar abandoned it's chase and made toward her. SeiZing a piece of pipe beside the trail, the woman faced the animal as it sprang, tearing away part of her gown.
 A fierce battle ensued during which the cougar ripped the womans cloth ing to ribbons. The baby clung tightly to it's mothers neck, but the mother managed to wield her weapon with such effect that the cougar finally fled.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
LICENSE MONEY
 |S DISTRIBUTED

The monthly distribution of the li- cense moneys taken in by the clerk s office during the month of October from all over the Fourth division was made yesterday by Clerk of the Court J. E. Clark The money which was taken in from the incor- porated towns in the division was returned to them, while the sum of $1S,736.73 was turned over to the government.
 The amount named was that which was collected from without the linn it's of the incorporated towns during the past quarter. It will later be returned to the territory in the shape of road, school and indigent funds.
 The incorporated towns of the d. vision receive the following amounts:
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
EVEN JOHN D. LAUGHED.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 6.-John D. Rockefeller just couldn't keep from laughing right out in church this morning. And the congregation join ed him, too, when Dr. J. c. Massee, of Dayton, occupying the pulpit of Rockefeller's church, described hen quotation: There's nothin' like a weddin' to make a fellow learn; he thinks that she is his'n and finds that he is her'n."
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02
I'M HEEzALIAR IS DEFENDED BY LOCAL FRIENDS
OEFAMERS OF DELEGATE WICK. ERSAAM ARE TAKEN
 TO TASK.

And now new discovery of our Delegates perfidy has been made by Truthful John" Troy, of the Juneau Empire, according to the ar ticle appearing in yesterdays News Miner, and OUR JIM HEEZALIAR is held up to sCorn before the good people of Alaska as THE horrible eX- ample of all times for his presump- ton in claiming credit for work done in connection with the Alaska railroad bill which Senator Chamber lain is entitled to, It's too bad, as the editorial in the News Miner so mournfully says. Why couldn't Truthful John, Heezaliar, Chamber lain, and the whole blamed caboodle have left us all in blissful ignorance of this last and most damnable piece of effrontery perpetrated by Our Jim, Now they've spoilt it all; and when future generations will turn the pages of fair Alaska history, in place of encomiuns there will stare them in the face this entry: Our Jim -Heezaliar. Never, no time, no place had he anything to do with Alaska Railroad Bill-Rauss- mitem' Now won't that look niCel Yes, it's too bad
 But wait; there's just one small sIeam of hope that Truthful John did not wire Senator Chamberlain TRUE copy of Wickersham' s speech, but instead colored just a little just for fun, (of course he could not tell a LIED as was done in the wire the Empire sent the News-MineT and published on the 2 ult, stating that Wickersham, in conversation admitted defeat in the First and Second Divisions" etc, about it he answered yesterday from Seward, saying: Story that l said would lose first and second divisions untrue; FEEL SURE OF FIRST and am assured from Nome of Second, pay no attention to false telegrams" so it's just possible that the stuff Truthful John and other well-Wish- CTS of our Delegate are circulating are not true, but intended to stir up something's; such things have hap pened to him before.
 Seriously, now, the opposition is certainly hard put to for an issue in this campaign when they have to resort to such methods. They'll have to dig up something better than that before they can convince the people of Alaska that Sulzer is a man better fitted and would be more useful as their representative than Our im."-Advt.