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SEWARD, \L\SKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1915.
After the Gateway had drawn attention to the fact that the city council
and John K. Ballaine had drawn up an agreement by which he was able to
postpone payment of his taxes this paper thought it was sufficient and that
the matter then lay with the taxpayers generally. It is disagreeable to any
newspaper worthy of the name to be constantly drawing attention to the
sins of others. Such a practise gives a newspaper a tone which is not pleasant
but so many people have asked this paper why it does not say more about
this extraordinary “deal” that it feels justitied in once more drawing at
tention to it.
Some property holders have recently had their names advertised as
delinquents. Some of them, them is reason to believe, received such un
pleasant publicity before they had a chance, owing to one of the usual blunders
of officials, if nothing worse, while the wealthiest property holder in the
city is allowed to let his taxes go because he refuses to sell a lot or two
until he can extract the last pound of flesh.
It is too Lad that publications which are read by the heads ot the na
tion’s government, as can be seen by a story in the Gateway today, are
compelled to speak of matters of which the directors of the affairs of any
municipality ought well be ashamed. But, let it be said, the majority of the j
people of this tow n have nothing to do w ith such acts. The people of Sew
ard as a whole are well worthy to form the population of the terminal city
of the great government railroad and ther«‘ is no one responsible but a miser
able little clique which is apparently under the thumb of two or three men.
This clique has even men in its ranks who under ordinary circumstances are
good citizens but who have not the strength to assort themselves when the
wires are pulled or w hen personal spleen comes to weaken them.
Some of the hardest workers in the city have been compelled to pay the
last cent of tin ir taxi's. Some of them have had themselves pilloried in a
place which is supported by this John K. Ballaine himself—the man who is
so fond of saying in print and elsewhere that thd papers which will not
stand for his work are subsidized—just as though, if a person had the choice,
he would rather not be subsidized by the Guggenheims than by the man
who will not pay his taxes when they come due.
This whole matter is up to the taxpayers of Seward themselves. A
civil action seems to be the only way by which to get at the thing and an)
taxpayers can bring such action if the federal authorities come to the con
clusion not to step in for one reason or another. There are hundreds of peo
ple willing to bus lots from John K. Ballaine and to give him a good price
that will enable him to pay his taxes when other and poorer citizens pay
theirs. The town has been held back by the refusal to sell lots on the part
of some people, and why any man should be “subsidized" for holding back
building is a mystery. I he Gateway declines to say that tne man who is so
fond of the wcid "subsidize” has a strong familiarity with the practise of
subsidizing but there are many people who have suggested such a state
ment. There are poor people in this town who have been compelled to sell
some of their little household goods or personal etfects to meet their luxes anil
why in the name of Justice should a man, w ho has money enough to buy or to
subsidize mediums by which he might accuse others of taking subsidies, be
permitted to avoid hi.' ow n taxes.
COMMISSION CHANGED
RATES NOT COMPANY
The railroad engineering commis- j
sion is to be credited with changing!
f the telephone rates to Anchorage.
The Gateway in telling of the change
last Saturday did not say the Alaska
Electric Company had changed the
rates to Anchorage and did not say
i that the company had leased the
whole line to Anchorage but in the
reading of the story it was possible
to get the idea that the company had
changed the rates, which of course, is
ridiculous as the paper also stated
that the company had only leased the
Mile Thirty-four line. The company,
however, did change the rates, or
rather, the time for messages over
the part of the line leased by it.
Dry goods at Butts.
It makes no difference how the
Townsit* case is settled. Real Estate
in Seward is cheap enough to plant
Flower Bulbs in. We just received
one thousand Bulbs direct from Hol
land. Darwin Tulips, Hyacinths, Ro
mans, Narcissus, Daffodils, Iris.
There will be no question about the
title for enough ground to plant thesd,
and now is the time to do it.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
FRYE & BRUHN
COMPANY
SEWARD. - - ALASKA
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From the least costly to the finest, that guarantee
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The time to be measured is now and the place is:
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Prop.
SEWARD,
ALASKA
WHAT LANE SAYS ABOUT
THE GOVERNMENT R. R. j
Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the
interior, writes of Alaska in the New
Republic:
“In a recent message to congress
President Wilson said of the Alaskan
railroad that it “is only thrusting in
the key to the storehouse and throw- j
ing back the lock and opening the
door. How the tempting resources of
the country are to be exploited is an
other matter. The resources must be
used, but not destroyed or wasted;
used, but not monopolized under any
narrow idea of individual rights as
against the abiding interest of com
munities.’
“This is the keynote of our new
policy in Alaska. Instead of allowing
the vast riches of that great territory |
to be exploited at the haphazard will
or whim of individuals and corpora
tions intent only upon quick and large j
profits for themselves, we have set
our faces to the task of developing f
Alaska ami its resources in a large,
sane and conservative manner suited
to the magnitude of the interests at
stake.”
Hub-Less. The best polish ever
manufactured. Brown & Hawkins
has it. “Quality First.”
Second hand goods bought anti sold
for cash or on commission. See But- j
ton’s ad. Tuesdays and Fridays. 28-tf
Noodle Cafe. Phone Main 111.
Tray service receives prompt at
tention. 10-5—tf.
“
Snow shoes, dog harness and mush
ers’ supplies at Brown & Hawkins,
“Quality First.”
Sourdoughs and Chechacos. Get
ready for mushing to Matanuska by
boarding at Commerce Cafe.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
Nicely Furnsihed Rooms. Wintei
Rafcs. Over Carstens. 9-23—tf
FOR SALE CHEAP: Smith Type
writer No. 5 and stand. TERMS.1
Apply Gateway office. 10-30—tf
National Forest Timber For Sale.
Sealed bids will be received by the
Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan, Alas
ka, up to and including December 1,
1915, for approximately 62.500 linear
feet of spruce piling on an area of
approximately 160 acres on the east
shore of Cook Inlet, beginning Vj
mile south from East Foreland and Vi
mile east from shore, thence east 'L*
, mile, thence south V* mile, thence
| west mile, thence north Vs mile to
place of beginning. No bid of less
than %c. per linear foot for all piling
up to and including 75 feet In length
and lc. per linear foot for all piling
over 75 feet in length will be consul-1
ered. Deposit with bid $250.00. The
right to reject any and all bids is re
served. Before bids are submitted
full information concerning the tim
ber, the conditions of sale, and the
submission of bids should be obtain
ed from the Forest Supervisor,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
First publication Nov. 1, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 15, 1915.
SERIAL NO. 01788
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska,
June 22. 1915.
SOLDIERS ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD
ENTRY BY ASSIGNEE.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO ENTER
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
|NORTH ALASKA SALMON COMPANY, a
corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of California, and whose
post office address is 110 Market Street, San
Francisco, California, as assignee of Joseph
R. llarrigan, administrator of the Estate of
Kyhran Horan, deceased, being entitled to the
benefits of section 2306 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States and amendments thereto,
has applied to make entry of that tract of
land described us U. S. Survey No. 914, and
situated on the West bank of Kvichak River,
approximately six miles above the mouth of
the Alagnak River, District of Alaska, and in
Latitude 59 deg. 1)6 min. 50 sec. North and in
Longitude 156 dog. 41 min. 44 sec. West, and
more particularly described as follows, to wit: 1
Beginning at Corner No. 1 of add survey,
whence U. S. L. M. R. G. M. bears S. 40 deg.
o7 min. W. 20.70 chs. distant, thence East, ,
VHr. 23 deg. 10 min. E., 3.00 chs. to corner 1
No. 2. meander corner at lino of mean high i
water on Kvichak River, whence witness corn
or bears West 1.82 chs. distant; thence,;
meandering along line of mean high water on
west shore of Kvichak River, var. 22 deg. E., 1
N. 28 deg. 25 min. E. 7.20 chs.; N. 29 deg. 61 :
min. E. 3.60 chs. ; No. 30 deg. 29 min. E. 6.86 \
chs. to Corner No. 3, meander corner, whence
witness corner bears West 1.93 chs., distant;
Thence West, var. 26 deg. E. 11.69 chs. to
corner No. 4 ; thence South, Var. 20 deg. E.
16.35 chs. to corner No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing 11.14 acres;
As additional to Homestead Entry No. 1446
unde August 26. 1865, by Kyhran Horan, at ;
Ionia, Mic^gan Land Office, for the S. Lj of
SE. *4 jof Sec, 30, township 18 north, range
10 west, containing 80 acres.
Any and all |>craons claiming adversely said
Iract of land, or any portion thereof, are
hereby notified that unless their adverse
claims are filed during the period of publica
tion and pot ing, or within 30 dnys thereafter,
they will be barred by virtue of the statute
and the regulations thereunder.
It is hereby ordered that this notice be
published for the statutory i>eriod of 60 days
in the SEWARD GATEWAY, a newspaper of
general circulation printed at Seward. Al
aska. published nearest the land applied for.
C. B. WALKER, Register .
Firs* publication Nov. 11, 1915.
Last publication Jan. 25, 1916.
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J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
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