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SEWARD; ALASKA* WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, *915.
Here's one on an Alaskan paper—the Juneau Empire. In a recent issue
the Empire toook the Seattle Times to task for calling Sitki the capital of
Alaska. It was, indeed, crowing loudly over the Seattle Japer hut in in the
very same issue the Empire spoke of the local clerk o' the railway service
as going back home to Cordova, and called him th« clerk for the Fourth
division.
Already the results that many had predicted fwi the present war seem
to be casting their shadows before. They speak c revolution in Russia that
will overwhelm bureaucracy, and the workers of Britain are asserting what
they believe to be their rights against the war?overnment of aristocracy.
Is the war really going to prove itself to be on! one more step in the evo
lution of mankind?
The granting of an electric franchise does‘ot, as some people seem to
think, compel consumers of eiectricty to pay icertain rate permanently if
the franchise is not exclusive. As long as te way is left open for the
granting of another franchise there can be mmonoply.
The Germans have traveled so fast into ussia that they have beaten
the war geographers. The old maps of Russi&ontain only a fraction of the i
total places ami it is difficult at times to folio the course of the campaign.
For this reason also it may happen from time ttime that a name gets in badly
spelled as it comes over the wires and throug different hands. As long as
the lighting went on in Galicia and western Hand there were war maps to
consult to discover the real spelling. Kven ouold friend Przemysl had come
to sound to us almost as familiar as Kodiak bt, alas, we are going fast into
a terra incognita and one of these days we bump up against something
really tough. While speaking of this it may * remarked how accurate tele
graphic operators are in sending and receivig such outlandish names. In
addition to the ordinary difficulty, it must * remembered, each of those
places goes under two names at least. In ihool Knglish people were ac
customed to ."peak of the Dvina river as the wina, which is simply the real
phonetic pronunciation. One gentleman sop time ago told the Gateway
there was no such river as the Vistula and ttt the Gateway in speaking of
such a river showed its ignorance of geogra y. This gentleman is from a
foreign country and he knew of the stream * a totally different name.
The thing he did not know was that each lanuage has its own name for al
most every place. A Frenchman might well ell you there is no such place
as the United States because he knows it b\i different name altogether al
though by a name that means the same thij.
MINER KILLED IN
ACCIDENT NEAR AT LIN.
SKACiWAY. Sept. 0.—Reginald
Brooks of the Engineer mine, arrived
at Atlin. B. C\, this morning with the
body of Mike Piper, who diet! as the
result of drilling into a hole where
powder had failed to explode. The
accident occurred Wednesday at 11
a. m.
Piper was working alone in a "0
foot shaft, and was in a sitting post
lire, loth legs and both arms were
brok< and there was a large hole
in hi head, apparently caused by the
end i the drill.
OI K WANT PENSIONS.
A| ications for Pioneer’s pensions
have en tiled at the office of the Gov
emo ly the following men: William
Hen Kobinson, 84 of Valdez; John
Ken<’4, of Nome, Manel Batard, 83,
of N ie; and Cap King, 68, of Nome.
T1 e applications will not be pass
ed upon until Professor C. C. George
son returns from Southeastern Alas
ka.—(Empire.)
WILL STEEL’S BROTHER KILLED.
All Alaska newspaper men and
many other friends of Will A. and
Harry G. Steel, the well-known Al
askan newspaper men, now of C r
dova, regret to learn of the killing of
their brother, Stewart Steel, also a
newspaperman. The latter was kill- j
ed when a passenger train struck
him as it was passing through
Shamokin, Pa., August 7, where the
dead man was employed on the
Shamokin Daily Herald, of which an
other brother, J. Alvin Steel, was j
editor and proprietor.—(Ex.)
NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. Lou Manthey returned to her
home at Mile Six this morning, after
after a short stay in town.
J. I*. Mantell and young Mr. Man
tell went out to Mile 12 this morning
on the car to spend a couple of days
hunting.
Nate White came over from Lynx
creek near Sunrise yesterday on a
business trip. He will return tomor-1
row. He says that all the properties
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on Lynx creek have shut down for
the season because of lack of water.
Mr. and Mrs. George Sexton last
night entertained at five tables of
Bridge Whist at their home. Mrs.
Hancock won the ladies’ prize and Mr.
Sauers the gentlemen’s prize. A
cpke was given to Mrs. Schaleben ns
a birthday gift. Those present were.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Ballaine, Dr. and i
Mrs. J. M. Sloan, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Hancock, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Romig,
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Evans, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. W.
M. Sauers, Mrs. H. 0. Schaleben. Mrs. j
W. E. Root, Miss Sylvia Wold, L. F.
Shaw and G. M. Chambers.
Dr. T. P. Barnes and Miss Grace j
Gaines returned to Sunrise this morn
ing on the car.
A! Roberts returned to his home at j
Roosevelt this morning.
Charles Nutter went out to Roosc- j
volt this morning. Mr. Nutter is in
terested in a sawmill which he and
Mr. Roberts will put in operation in
the near future at the upper end of
Kcnai lake.
New consignment of Libb’s apple
butter—twenty-five cents per can. I
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.”
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district included in government plans.
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Special Article#
GOVERNMENT RAILROAD—By Thou. Riggs, Member Gov't. Engineering
Commission.
PEN PICTURE OF VAST ALASKA—By William Sulzer, Former Governor
of New York.
MINING DEPARTMENT.
Mines in Alaska are Given Review.
Mining at Port Wells.
Review of Work in Chisana.
Review of Quartz Mines Along Coast.
Gold Handled by Assay Office.
Willow Creek Work.
Sulzer Copper Property.
Copper Activity Boon to Alaska, etc., etc.
OPINIONS OF ALASKA.
Editorial Expressions of the Papers of the Territory.
ALL-ALASKA.
Condensed News From all Parts of the Territory.
THE FUR INDUSTRY.
Review of the Conditions Shown by Latest Fur Sales.
FISHERIES.
Westward Fishing Had Poor Season.
Ships Lost in Alaska Waters—The Antiquity of Alaska— Discovery of the
Klondyke—Meanings of Indian Names in Alaska—Number of Passengers
to Alaska, etc., etc., etc.
EDITORIAL.
News of All Parts of the Territory
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