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Alaska, under act or March 3, 1879.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1917
WHY I AM A LIBERAL.
YYfHY? Because all I liaplv can and do,
” All that 1 ain now, all I hope to bw
Whenoe comes It save from fortune set
ting free
Body and soul the purpose to pursue
Bod trace for both? If fetters, net a few.
Of prejudice, convention fall from ms.
These shall I bid men. each In hie deeree
Also God guided beer, and gayly too?
BUT little do or can the best of us.
That little is achieved through Liberty
Who, then, dares hold, emancipated thus.
His fellow shall continue bound? Xot I,
Who live, love, labor freely nur discuss
A brother's right to freedom. That Is
why.
—Robert Browning.
ONE HORSEPOWER AND A BRICK
OE BI TTER
Americans have a rather unenviable
reputation among the European peo
ples of being boasters and bluffers,
and probably our reputation has been
half earned by our inclination as a
people to use tbe loud pedal in pro
claiming our merits to the world.
Since the war broke out wild state
ments have been made by high of
ficials regarding the part we were
destined to play in putting the kibosh
on the kaiser. It will be a big part, in
deed, but regard for the truth forbids
the we should underestimate what the
allies have done and are doing.
In one respect, however—if not in
many more—-we cen claim credit for
having accomplished more in three
months than European genius achiev
ed in three years. In designing what
promises to be the most efficient air
plane motor in the world we need not
boast of what ,we are going to do, but
•
can modestly take credit as a nation
for already having found a way to
supply energy for the thousands of
airplanes which will be sent to Eu
rope, and which. In the estimation of
many conservative observers, Will be
a preponderating influence in turn
ing the tide so strongly against Ger
many that recovery for her is impos
sible.
The best motor the allies have
turned out—a French development—
weighs 880 pounds^nd develops 276
horsepower— an average of one horse
power for each 3.2 pounds of weight.
The Germans have done somewhat
better than this but not much. The
new American liberty motor also de
velops 275 horsepower but it weighs
only 495 pounds, on only a little more
! than half the weight of the French
1 machine, so that average weight per j
i horsepower is only 1.8 pounds. When j
j one realizes that a motor has been.
I tested and accepted by the United.
States government that has the pow-1
er to raise 33.000 pounds one foot
per minute and yet weighs less than
a brick of butter, he has a faint no- j
tion of what American engineers have|
accomplished in designing the liberty
! motor. •
The importance of airplane devel
opment in this country has come home
to us since the great war begun but
happily we are making up for the
years of valuable time that were lost.
By conscripting the best engineering
and manufacturing brains in the na
tion. we shall be able, within a year
or two, to pass the European nations
which seized and utilized this dis
tinctly American invention while our
own government peacefully slumber
ed.
A MEMBER of the reichstag warn- |
ed the government the other day that
a military decision on land is impos
sible, and that while the shadowy
hope of the submarine remains, there
is no immediate prospect of forcing!
England into submission. He added
that the workers are eager for peace
and that if the government persists
in what appears to be a war for con
quest, serious strikes may be expect
ed. In this connection a report of a
Swiss Journal that the strikes in Ger
many were more widespread this year j
than last, is interesting. It says 63,- j
137 munition workers from 109 fac
tories were on strikes during the first
three months of this year as compared •
with about 3,000 men from twenty
three factories during the same per
iod of 1916. The reason assigned for
the strikes, bad and insufficient food,
is becoming monthly more pressing. <
IT WILL require the services of an i
expert mathmetician to determine
just what the coal dealers of Washing
ton will be permitted to charge for
coal, on the basis fixed by the govern
ment, but the average lord and mast
er of the household will hope that
whatever occurs there will be a down
ward revision of prices.
LLOYD-GEORGE, the British pre
mier, during the present year, will
have constructed four times as much
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merchant shipping tonnage as during
1916, and that the crop for 1917 and
1918 is assured. Thus the gigantic
contest of endurance goes on.
SEATTLE might appropriately
change its name to Sodom.
STIR VOI R COFFEE
AND SAVE Hl'GAK
OLYMPIA, Oct. 30.—"Stir your
coffee." that sign displayed in mil
lions of hotels and restaurants and
even in private homes would accom
plish much in the saving of sugar,
according to Secretary Goodner, of
the State Council of Defense. Secre
tary Goodner says it hard to educate
the individual into believing that his
little saving will have its efTect on
the grand total. Once the American
public learns to curtail its rations,
then the food supply will be greatly
increased as a whole, so far as the
amount available for exporting to the
allies is concerned, he declares. He
thinks that right now the slogan "Stir
Your Coffee," is what is needed to
bring about a great saving in sugar.
I
KAlIJtOADH IN GERMANY
ARK SHORT OK KI EL
LONDON. Oct. 30.—The German
state railways are faced with a great
shortage of fuel and drastic limita
tion of traffic has begun, according to
reports reaching here. The railroads
propose to levy heavy excess fares on
express trains so as to discourage all
except unavoidable business journeys.
Schooner is Safe
A GULP PORT. Oct. 30.—A cable
gram from Montemo Bay, Jamaica, to
lay says the schooner Lady Shea,
'eared lost in the recent West Indian
turrlcane is safe here.
Mug Brings Price of Cow ]
MT. VERNON, Oct. 30.—Seventy
ive dollars and twenty cents was the
jrice paid for one Skagit county hog,
iwned by Grant Pranklin, manager t
it the Fisher Brook farm, eight miles ]
south of Mount Vernon. The hog |
weighed 470 pounds and was purchas- <
d by Woollen Br'there meat mar- i
<et of Burlington. It was a registered i
Berkshire and was eighteen months i
)ld. At the Skagit County fair this t
log was the center of attraction in |
he swine department. “I paid that i
sum for the first cow I bought in i
Skagit county,” said a farmer at the t
air, “but it does beat all that an t
ild sow costs as much as a cow used 1
o.”
NEW OVERCIIATS
Ulsters in handsome patterns, warm, but
not too heavy.
C on vertible collar
coats in new Scotch
tweed fabrics.
Black and colors
in Cravenettes
• Now is the time to
make your choice
while the sizes are
complete.
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GOOD GOODS
KORXIIiOFE GENERALS
ARE MOBBED
PETROGRAI), Oct. 30.—The gen
erals arrested for participation in the
Korniloff uprising, on their departure
from Berdieheff, province of Kiev, on
October 20, were compelled to walk
three miles to the railroad station,
while they were jeered, pelted with
missies and threatened by a mob of
several thousand persons. The officers
barely escaped alive thru the stra
tegy of a member of the cadet guard
who started the train out of the sta
tion as it was being fired upon by
the mob, according to reports which
have just arrived here.
Gen. Arloff was struck in the eye
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SAVED
WHY send out for your printing when we can
furnish you with anything needed in stationery for
the office and store.
A dollar kept at home is a dollar saved to the com*
munity. If you send for your needs your neighbor
will follow your example and we all suffer. The town
that is up and coming is the town with an abiding
faith in its future, and how can you maintain your
faith in the city when you buy all you eat and wear
outside?
Beers, Sawbuck & Bunk have busted more towns
than they have built up, and you never saw a dollar
of your money ever come back to you.
' When- you send your money outside to the old re*
liable printing houses of Seattle and Tacoma you
may get a cheaper job in every sense of the word,
and you may also have to pay a higher price for it.
Location notices, both quartz and placer; warran
ty deeds, mill site location notices, proofs of labor,
quit clai mdeeds, amended location notices, and all
kinds of legal blanks at The Prospector Office.
We sell a good quality of typewriter paper at $150
per box, a better quality for $2 and the best Crane's
Japanese Linen for $250, legal size.
Why not let us print you 100 calling cards in the
latest style type, for $150.
$ $ $
MADE
by a mtssle, while Gen. Vanoufsky's
spine was seriously injured
DKMAND FOR SILVER
COIN IS GROWING
WASHINGTON, D. C\, Oet. ;50—
Demand for silver coins is so great
that every mint in the country has
been placed on a 24-hour-a-day basis
to meet it. This never has been ne
cessary before. Raymond T. Baker,
director of the mint, announced today
that the total subsidiary silver coin
age thus far this year totalled $16,
551,000 or an increase of more than
800 per cent over the corresponding
period last year—in itself a new rec
ord—when the total of such coinage
was $1,769, 000.
Five mushers arrived last night
from Fairbanks.
FOR SALK—Basket baby sled with
wheel atachment, and baby's bath
tub. See Frank Mi»'ard. kl
Genuine Sweet Apple Cider at
Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf
HOTEL SEXTON
Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL SEXTON
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ViUn A lulu.
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Vaidaa Alaafae.
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Weekly tripe from Valdes to j
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way ports. Paasesgers landed |
at all points. |
Carrying freight and paaaen- 4
For rates apply on board. l
CAPT. H. L. RIDER j
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Horses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
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Tillikum Club.
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