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GATBWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
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Elmer A. Friend, Editor
VutereU m •econd-claei matter September 2. 1915. at the Poet OfBce at Seward. Alaska.
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WHAT NEW YORK LACKS
Announcement comes from the New
York States Anti-Saloon league that
it will submit to the legislature at the
next session a bill to prohibit the sale
of lipuor during the period of the
war and during demobilization.
What a pity it is that so important
a matter lelating to the war should
be left to the deciison of the average
legislature. It requires a stretch of
the imagination to view a New York
legislature as up to the average. Too
many of its members are sent from
the great city that burdens itself
with Tammany government most of
the time. Tammany will have a pow
erful influence on the legislature, and
it will fight the bill with all the craft
and zeal of the booze interests.
Because the average legislature is
so easily controlled by selfish inter
ests and can be corrupted without
danger of punishment, we have small
hope that the proposed bill will pass.
If New York had the initiative and
could submit the measure directly to
.the people, the strong probability is
that it would carry.
In Ohio the vote on making the
state bone-dry for all time was pra c
tically a tie. If the issue had been
presented us u war measure only, and
to be effective only until our asmies
disbanded, it would doubtless have
carried by a very large majority. You
can “fix” the average legislature, but
you can’t corrupt two or three mil
lion voters .
THE FAR EAST AND HiK RUS
SIAN SITUATION
Doubtless one of the results of the
recently announced understanding and
agreement between commissioners of
the Japanese government and the
American state department will be
the smoothing out of difficulties that
have made the Japan-China relations
a matter of some anxiety. China has
the utmost confidence in the integrity
of American friendship; and Ameri
can approval of the views advanced
by the Japanese commissioners with
respect to China should be accepted
in that country as, in a sense, an
American guaranty of Japanese
friendliness and fair dealing.
At any rate it would appear that
Japan has candidly laid its cards up
on the table face up, and there is
nothing in the hand that does not be
long there by reason of the trade and
interests and the propinquity of Ja
pan and China. There has been a
conversation between Japan and the
United States, and from that an un
derstanding and agreement that, so
far as Western civilization is con
cerned, tends to eliminate future
trouble from the Kastern situation.
Incidentally, what ought to follow!
as a result of this new understanding
with respect to*the conduct of the
war as it has been affected by the
collapse of Russia? Russia at war
was a heavy buyer from Japan. What
will become of that trade when Rus
sia is beguiled into a German peace,j
if that should happen? For obvious
reasons affecting entente interests it
could not be maintained; for with
Germany at peace with Russia such
trade would mean supply to the cen
tral armies. In what new direction
will Japanese war industry be divert
ed to help win the war against
Prussia ?
Another thougnt tnat presents it
self is this: If Russia not only stays
out of the war, but by concluding
peace with Germany strengthens the
kaiser's arm; and thereby the condi
tions of the conflict as a whole be-|
coma more desperate than they nowj
are, what actual man-power help are
the Western democracies to receive
from China and Japan? Will condi
tions develop that will demand that
help; and if so what are we to ex
I poet ?
VI.A-K V SCHOOLMAWMS
(\idez Prospector)
Why does a schoolma’am who pos
sesses a blight smile and a winning
personality become more precious
than pearls, once she becomes a resi
dent of Alaska? While no accurate
figures can be obtained upon the sub
ject it is estimated that the chances
of an attractive schoolma’am marry
ing an attractive Alaskan, is about
100 per cent., once she lands in this
matrimonial bureau. In a majority of
cases it takes urgent pressure by the
school board to induce the young la
1 dies and young men to postpone theii
connubial bliss until the end of the
school year in order that Minerva will
not be slighted. The schoolma’ams
(God bless ’em- have furnished good
wives for thousands of Alaska’s brav
est and bi-awnieet men, and the Alas
| kan supply is apparently inexhaus
tible. The States turn out the
i teachers and Alaska turns out mo
1 husbands. And this mixture and
• brains and brawn redounds to the fu
' ture of the Territory. All women are
' beautiful, but statistics show that out
of 6791 teachers who have come to
Alaska for the purpose of teaching
the young idea to shoot, 6791 have
very soon become attached to some
g»*nus homo of the vintage of *98.
Dressmakers in job lots do well in
Alaska, and clerks and stenographers
i are quoted at par, hut one good-look
1 ing schoolma’am can cause a stam
pede that lays the Klondike rush far
in the shade.
General Richardson says that Alas
ka will furnish more than her share
of fighting men. - A little thing like
a draft should not give the hardy sons
of the Arctic cold fc**t.—Seatte P.-l.
Are you helping the kaiser by eat
ing more than your share of wheat,
meat, sugar and fats?
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Dan Cupid says the postoftice de
partment is a grasping profiteer. Just
when the concentration of eligible? i
in training camps promised a bumper;
crop of love letters the mean old gov
eminent raised the price of stamps
We hand folks over to God’s mercy i
and show none ourselves.—Eliot.
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Since Sherman’s time Atlantans
have known that war is hell. And now
Billy Sunday is in Atlanta to define
hell for them.
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Bullets and bread will win this war
the bullets we shoot and the bread we
save.
When th» Trost is on the pumpkin!
it’s time to get the pumpkin in thei
pie. ’ I
Xo Gorman pace propose which!
does not becir. with “Wo will repayJ
give up and irakc Kood" is worth the
•..»t»er it is .v.ilten upon.
The unusually early and heavy fall
of snow in so many places convinces
us that Santa- flaus plans to do his
reindeerinp: early.
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Advertise in The Gateway.
SAYS HELL WAS
LIKE SCENES ON
FIGHTING FRONT
Soldier At the Front Is Describing
Scenes, Tolls How Glad He Was
To Gel Tobacco Made in tlu*
Good Old United States
(The following letter was
w ritten by C. A. von Man rer, an
artist of Chicago, who is now
driving an ambulance in France,
to a friend.)
“1 just got in from Hell. Hy that
1 mean that for nine days, I swear,
they have been shooting at me direct,
1 have had so many narrow escapes
ihat the fellows call me ‘horseshoes’,
but 1 suppose it can’t last. I will get
it sooner or later. 1 suppose you have
i-cad in the papers about •Itobert Mail
of Minneapolis getting killed. Well,
l was at the same post twenty min
utes later and had the narrowest es
cape of them all. There were three
ears (ambulances- standing at the
dugout and evidently the Germans
100k the place for an artillery post,
I ami they sure did some grand shoot
ing. While %1 was trying to got one
of the cars out of the way they land
'd three 550’s within fifty feet of me.
* “The only thing that saved my life
was the steel wheels on the car .which
l dropped behind, but you should see
the body of the ambulance. It looks
i like a screen door, so man/ holes that
I vou can’t count them. I ran in the
dugout and we all waited for death.
Some sensation believe me. How they
ever missed landing on. top of that
dugout is a miracle.
“The dugouts are only for protec
tion againstshrapnel and falling steel
if a shell lands on the top of one it
goes right through and all that is leit
is a large hole. Well, they let us
I have twenty, because 1 know; I count
I ed them, wishing each one was the
last. Not one landed farther than 100
- feet from the dugout. When ’'one
would land in the back of the dugout
1 the concussion would send a gust of
air through the dugout that would
nearly take us otr our feet. But I
did not get a scratch.
“This post is in the very heart ol
<0010 2,000 French butteries, and v.e
have to drive two miles thdough con
stant fire that is terrifying. You
know you can hear a shell coming by
| the whistling sound it makes, and if
the whistle slows down you know
that it going to land near. To keep
from hearing the shells, we all run
all the noise possible. After you are
our motors on second so as to make
in it for a while you realize that it
is a case of luck if you don t get it,
so we don’t want to hear it coming, i*
it is going to land, nothing can stop
i it. Hell was never like this, 1 know.
“I could go on and tell you things
that happen every day that would
make 10 cent novels look sick, hut I
am afraid I could not put enough
color in them to come anywhere near
the actual happening*
4‘1 started this letter in a differ
ent way than I intended. Foremost
is my gratitude for your letter and
Watch Our Windows
For new displays of Xmas
goods and suggestions. We will
be pleased to set aside any item
desired by making a small de
posit on same.
We take pleasure in offering
to the people of Seward the fin
est assortment of Christmas
goods ever shown in this city,
consisting of* Pyralin Ivory,
Toys, Japanese Ware, Baskets,
Fountain Pens. Manicure Sets,
Stationery, Books Picture
Frames. Cigars, Ladies Hand
Bags, Moccasins, Ivory Curios,
and others too numerous to
mention.
and by thk way
Do you know that we carry
a big assortment of Liggetts
and Augustine & Kyer Candies,
and also the Famous Bunte
Hard Candies.
Como in and sec for yourself,
and remember the old saying,
SHOP EARLY
We Thank You
SEWARD DRUG CO.
CHOP SUEY
AND NOODLES
Specialties at the
MOON
RESTAURANT'
W ash. St., Between
Broadway & 3rd Ave
CLASSIFIED AD COLUMN
for Sale
FOR SALE—One Nome hickory bas
ket sled. Sec Sexton. tf.
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FOR SALE — One squirrel parka,
hand-made. See Sexton. tf.
W A NT El), Miscellaneous
Well made steel frame suit cases,
leather straps all round. 24 in. size, j
$4.00. Drown & Hawkins, “Quality
First.”
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Kayo Table Lamps with shades at
Gracf'fl. 015tf.
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Mclver, licensed undertaker.
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MEN—Read Cotter’s Ad today.
For sleds and ice skates see Graef.
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MEN—Head Cotter's Ad today.
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City Express. Phone Main 122.
Meet me at The Branch.
Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 143.
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Long distance teiepnone doom at
i The Branch.
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MEN—Read Cotter’s Ad today.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To J. C. Ducken, his heirs and admin
istrators, and to all whom it may
concern:
Take notice that I have done Three
Hundred Dollars’, ($300.00), worth of
labor each year in order to hold the
following described quartz claims,
kuowu as the Bonanza, Eureka and
Phoenix Claims, situated on Popof
Island, in the Ungu Peninsula Mining
District, Territory of Alaska, the no
tices of location whereof are recorded
in the office of the Recorder of the
Unga Peninsula Mining District at
L’nga, Alaska, in Book 1, at Page 264.;
of ideations for the Bonanza Claim, in
Book 2, Page 50, for the Eureka
Claim, and Book No. 3, Page 30, for
the Phoenix Claim, of the records of
said District for the years ending De
cember 3tst, 1913, and December 31,
| 1014, and December 31, 1015, and De*
I cember 31, 1016, and unless within
I ninety days after this notice by pub
lication you fail or refuse to contrib
j ute your portion of such expenditure,
! viz: Six Hundred Dollars, ($600.00),
1 being One Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
; ($150.00), for each of said years, your
j interest in said Bonanza, Eureka and
| Phoenix mining claims will be for
I felted to and become the property ot
! tiie subscriber under Section 2324 of
! the Revised Statutes of the United
' States*
LOUIS HERMAN.
First Pub. Aug. 31.
I Last I*uh. Nov. 30
NOTICE OF jtfTOINTMKNT OF
ADMINISTRATOR and NOTICE
TO CREDITORS.
Number 1.3
i IN THE PROBATE COURT, TERRI
TORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIV
ISION, KEN AI PRECINCT.
1 In the Matter of the Estate of Jay L.
Spencer, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by
i the undersigned that he lias been ap
1 pointed administrator of the estate, of
J AY L.. SPENCER, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the said deceased are hereby notified
! to exhibit and present such claims,
' with the necessary vouchers, within
! six ((>) months from the date of this
Notice, and the first publication
thereof, to the undersigned, L. L.!
JAMES, said administrator, his
office in the Bank of Seward Build
ing, Seward, Alaska, which said of
fice the undersigned selects as his
place of business in all matters con
nected with said estate of JAY L.
SPENCER, deceased.
Dated: Seward, Alaska, November
20th, 1917.
L. L. JAMES,
Administrator of the estate
of Jay L. Spencer, deceased
Date of Pub. Nov. 22, 30, Dec. f>, 13.
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FOR SALE—Lot 24, Block 16, on
Broadway Ave., Next the Alaska
House. Price, twenty-two hundred
and fifty ($2250.00). dollars.
P. 0. Box 1465. P4
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the package of cigarettes. They are
the first 1 have had since I left Amer
ica. French tobacco is terrible, so 1
am smoking these on rare occasions.
“I have to leave shortly, and when
1 get to Paris I am going to start;
a number of paintings of what I have j
seen to bring back with me, and one
is yours for the cigarettes—that’s
what I think of them. •
“C. A. VON MAUER”
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MANY “ARCTICS” WILL
BE USED BY SAMMIES
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Every
manufacturer of rubber overshoes in
the country has agreed to turn over
to the government for the army 300,
000 pairs of four-buckle “arctics" be
tween now and January 5. Orders for(
rubber hip boots had been placed pre
viously.
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Read The Gateway.
Ml M Cl/ I STEAMSHIP SAFfMr
ALASKA company *«ss«
Sailings from Seattle:
Victoria.Nov. 27 Alameda . IVc. 1
Alaska . Doc. 8 Alameda . Dec. 27
Alaska, sailing .Dec. S, will connect with Steamer Dora at Seward.
For particulars of service and rates, apply to Agent.
A. H. McDonald, Agent.
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The Seward News Company
GEORGE PHELPS
Booksellers. Newsdealers and Stationers
Seward, Alaska Phone: Main 81
(ADMIRAL EVANS . I)ei-. 11
SAILINGS \ Captain C. A. Glasscock
FROM SEATTLE: {
I Admiral Evans Goes to Kodiak on
f this trip
Through Tickets to Eastern Points at Reduced Rates.
For full information on sailings from Seattle to San Francitco, ad
dress Wayne Blue, Agent, Sewa rd, Alaska.
Sta amshipAgent will
sell you a through
ticket via this line
To Portland, Spokane, St. Paul, Chicago, Kansas City and East ard
South
Through Trains—Good Meals—Quick Time—Pine Ser\ice
Try it on Your Next Trip
REMEMBER, YOU SAVE MONEY BY BUYING YOUR TICKET
HERE
HARRY R. TAYLOR, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent
Room 18, Valentine Bldg. Juneau Alaska
T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent,
Second and Columbia, Seattle.
HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANGES
RUBBER BELTING
poors and Windows
IX L Patior Hesters
Air Tiltht Heater*
Aluminum Ware
P. & B. Paper
Malthold Roofing
Marine Engine Oil
Oa* Engine Oil
Lacqueret Paint
Denatured Alcuhol
Lang’s Range*
Gasoline Stoves
Deadening Felt
Weather Strips
Blacksmith's Coal
Wiisgd Borrows
Fishing Tackle
A Icohoi Stove*
Seine Twino
Granite Ware
Cook Stoves
Camp Stovo*
Oil Stove*
Spark Plujt*
Jump Coil*
BaUerie*
Aflhecto*
Tar Pai*n
Valve OH
Floor Oil
l.inaeed Oil
"up Qrea*e
Paint*
Ammunition
Bench Forties
Urutthee
Varo lilies
Turpentine
Japan
OoaJ Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
Shot Guns
Gasoline
Hollow*
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Rifle*
Kite Brick
iJme
Cement
Glass
Rope
Mercury
Phone Madison 87 J. L. GRAEF Seward. Alaska
Certain-teed Roofing. Guaranteed
10 and 15 years. J. L. Grae/V tf.
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Andy’8 Express, phone Madison 143.
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Waterfill and Fruiter whiskey Gt
the Branch.
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MEN—Read Cotter's Ad today.
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Taylor's Express meets all boats
and trains. Phone Main 122.
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Waterfill <& Frailer whiskey at
The Branch.
Men’s Black and Oxford Gray cash
mere sox, 30c, 3 pairs for $1.00.
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.”
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Proof of labor blanks for eale at
Gateway.
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Ask your grocers for Seward
Bakery Bread.
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YOUNG foreigner, man, wants a
careful teacher of English. “ A. B.
T”. Box 1505, Seward, Alaska. N2f»
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Pearl Oil $1.75 a can at Graef*e. tf
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
They do what no
other cigarette
ever did before;
they satisfy—and
yet they’re MILD.
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