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SEWARD. ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 20. 1916.
When we have lived for some time in Alaska we pay
little attention to the extraordinary place occupied by the
malamute in Alaskan life although the brute permeates
almost every phase of it. He is to Alaska what the camel
is to Arabia. He is indigenous to the soil of the territory.
He gives local color to stories of Alaska as a kangaroo
gives it to Australia and long ago Alaska would have prob
ably enshrined him as its national and only beloved em
Neiii if he were only pretty enough and could conduct him
self with anything approaching gentility.
It is impossible anywhere in the whole length and
breadth of the territory to get awav from him. Touch at
Petersburg or Wrangell or Ketchikan for the first time
coming north and you hear his chorus. Steam down the
Yukon river, up the Takhini, the Tanana, any of them and
the first intimation you receive that you are approaching
a village comes from the Malamutian answer to the steam
boat whistle. Travel the trail and you either have him
along as your best friend or you must hide your bacon to
keep some stray specimen from eating it. Enter a modern
town and he runs between your legs on the sidewalk.
The malamute is a peculiar beast. On the trail he is
man's best friend. He has made the gold discoveries and
the consequent development of the territory possible. The
malamute has opened Alaska to man. The other side of
the Malamute, however, is that he is a treacherous wretch.
Over and over again when he is traveling in packs he has
taken human lives. Near the citv of Nome a few years
ago a pack almost completely devoured a boy in his teens.
But he is not all to blame for this. He probably threw
the boy down first in play and then saw no harm in doing
the rest. He is onlv a dorg.
In nature he is just like the territory and its Native
inhabitants. For this reason he is worth studying. He is
an uncultivated type of dog as the territory and the terri
tory’s Natives are uncultivated. No three things in this
world harmonize with such poetic perfection in their three
different spheres as the wilder parts of Alaska, especially
near the mouth of the Yukon, and the Native and the mal
amute. Each of them is possessed of an uncanny peace
of exterior and of a latent and fatal fierceness. Nothing
can kill so quickly as the wilderness when it becomes arous
ed and of the Malamutes and Natives the same holds true,
'fhe Malamute is not only indigenous to the land but he is
part of it. He grows as naturally out of it as weeds grow
out of* uncultivated ground. Let us hope that as the coun
try and its original inhabitants only need care to flourish
the Malamute only needs the same to make him an animal
of which we might he proud.
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YUKONER BLOWN TO
PIECES IN FRANCE
DAWSON.-—Robert Fenwick, old
time Klondiker, who left here with
the Boyle detachment in October,
| 1D14, is reported killed in Fiance.
The news comes in a letter from Joe
ilarkin who left Dawson last June
with the Yukon boys under Lieut.
Hulme, and who has been transferred
to another detachment at Vulcartier,
j where he is driving a motor truck in
the service. Joe writes to his mother,
Mrs. Harry HosKTns of Dawson and
Glacier, saying:
“Poor Bob Fenwick was killed in
the transport section. He was driving
a truck load of ammunition to the
front and the Germans concentrated
their artillery fire on him. A shell
i struck his auto, and they never even
found the pieces—just a big hole >r»
the road.”—Ex.
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Buy a Home in Woodrow
The Beautiful Suburb
Of Seward
WOODROW is located 6% miles from Seward.
The Govt. Railroad runs through this beautiful tract.
Woodrow’ lies near Bear Rake the famous fishing
ground of Seward.
Woodrow may be said to be in the warm belt as the
hills are so situated as to shelter this tract from the w inter
winds.
Woodrow is situated just this side of the Bungalow
and plotted on the most desirable portion of the Johnson
Homestead.
A tract in Woodrow is equivalent to more than 12 lots
in Seward.
The price is so low that no one can complain.
You can buy a tract of about one third the size of a
block in Seward for $125. — Some fractional tracts are
selling as low as $25—$50 and $75.
The title is clear—A warranty deed, first handed.
Woodrow is plotted in tracts situated each on a street
and corner on an alley. Each plot is easy to access.
Woodrow is a beautifully wooded tract and a veri
table park.
ROMIG & ROMIG are handling this property and
will be pleased to interest you in the best offer for a suber
ban home ever made in Seward.
ADDRESS:— * *: - ^
Fourth Avenue, "r
Seward, Alaska.
PHONE ADAMS 48
PHONE ADAMS 93
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ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
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General Transferring Phones, Main 17 and 41
Seward W ater
and
Power Company
John A. Nelson, Manager
Office-Bank of Seward Building
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THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER CO.
Incorporated November 1905 under the Law* of the Territory of Alaska
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Contractors and dealers In Electric Supplies and Apparatus.
Office At the Station. TELEPHONE MAIN 12J
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER'S AND COLD MINER’S SLPFI II S
Doors &. Windows
Lang's Ranges
I X L Parlor Heaters
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Batteries
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Paints
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Cutlery
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Lime
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Hope
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