Slip §piuari (Satnuay
and THE ALASKA EVENING POST.
Published Daily Except Sunday by The Gateway Publishing Company.
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Published Daily Except on Sundays and Holidays.
Entered as second-class matter September 2, 191*r at the postoffue a
Seward. Alaska, under the act of March 3, 18 <9.
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ALASKA MUST HAVE ROADS
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Word from Washington that the half million dollar
appropriation for roads was cut front the military appro
priation by the house is enough to arouse the ire of all
Alaskans.
From Valdez, Saturday, came a plea that Seward
join in a protest and earnest etlort to have the fund re
stored before the hill is passed by the senate. I his plea
also contained the information that the appropriation had
been cut out on motion ot Delegate V ickersham. A tele
gram was rushed to Senator ( hamberlain by the ( ham
ber of Commerce, asking him to do all in his power tor the
measure.
Should full reports from Washington show this to be
the case, the delegate will he in tor severe criticism fiom
his constiuents. It is difficult to imagine extenuating cir
cumstances sufficiently serious to warrant such an action.
Until the facts are at hand, however, it is best that
judgment should he withheld. In the meantime every per
son in Seward who cares to hear the expense of a telegram
might well wire to the delegate and to Senator ( hamber
lain, chairman of the committee which has this hill in hand
in the senate. That the people of Seward want that road
and trail appropriation to go through is certain. 1 he
building of roads and trails as feeders to the government
’•ailroad and throughout the territory must not be stop
ped.
Action on the hill is expected before Wednesday so
obey that impulse now.
HAIL THE KING OF DOG MUSHERS
Representative "Scotty” Allan, of Nome, the world
famous dog musher, who has won a stack of trophies
through owning and driving more dog teams to victory in
the Alaska sweepstake race than any other man in the
north, will soon be a Cordova visitor. He was recently
elected a member of the territorial legislature and is now
on his way from Seward peninsula to Juneau behind a
string of fleet footed canines, with the famous "Baldy
in the lead, and hopes to establish a new record between
Nome and Chitina.
Although a man past middle age. "Scotty” has.won
an enviable record as a dog musher, and when the I- rench
government decided to use dogs in the field service at the
front, it sent a representative to Alaska to hunt up Allan
and have him select more than a hundred of the best ani
To show you a line of merchandise at prices that will encourage you
to buy from us "hen in need of clothing.
A BIG LINE
OF BALL BAND and ARROW SHOE PARS. These paks are the
best you can buy for comfort and durability.
Everything You Will Need
For the trail can he bought at SEWARD'S LEADING CLOTHING
STORF
TheM iners* Store
Frank J. Cotter
HOTEL. SEWARD
FORTY ROOMS-OUT OF FIRE ZONE
J. 0. PATTON, Prop. Rates by Day or Month
Modern Conveniences Well Lighted and Heated
The Seward News Company
GEORGE PHELPS
Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers
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AN UNMANAGEABLE INFANT.
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_Fitzpatr.rU in St. Lo* & Post-UiSpatch.
nulls he could buy and take them to Eurape, "hieb ne dal,
and where they are now at the front and proving of gieut
value to the - bulance corps in the locating of wounded
soldiers.
Under favorable conditions Allan should reach Cor
dova next week, and as he is well known and has man\
friends here it has been suggested that he be given a roy
al reception by our people upon the completion of his long
overland journey, and before he takes the steamei foi the
capital to enter upon his legislative duties. His arrival
at Chitina will be noted, and when he reaches the coppet
gate of Alaska the best should be none too good for this
sourdough intrepid nmsher, who now enjoys a national
reputation for the feats he has accomplished on the trail.
—(Cordova Times.)
NO ALASKAN TOWN HAS EVER DIED ENTIRELY
In the first years of the rush to Alaska one constant
ly heard it said that such-and-such a place would “go back
to the Indians” and it is interesting now after nearly a
score of years to remember that not one of these predic
tions was fulfilled. You see, every district has some po-j
i tential resources that may not be seen in the beginning.
Atlin was a camp which people, even in 1899, were saving
was on its last legs. The sentence of death has been pro
nounced on Wrangell a thousand times. Nome was dead
. and gone in 1902 although they had not then discovered
its real wealth in the third beach line. Such examples
could be enumerated as often as there are towns in this
northern land. Our neighbor Skagway has probably a
better future than it seemed to have ten years ago. And
while talking of Skagway it occurs that the only excep
1 tion to rule would be a place like the classic White Pass
City which flourished for a few months while the railroad
was in course of construction, but which could be called
nothing more than a temporary settlement at any time.
What is proven by all this is the old fact that people
will find resources anywhere. The government really
made a mistake in warning crowds of people from coming
to Alaska when the railroad construction began. Lots of
them of course, would go broke wherever they were but
! they would eventually find a means of making a living.
This city like all the rest of them only had its chief re
! source discovered when people came for something else,
and the same is true of all of them—(Juneau Dispatch.)
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