SEWARD GATEWAY
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A COSMOPOLITAN PEOPLE
Tin -«> arrived in Seward o i tin* last
boat tour men who wore deaf and
dutob. Two of them have mining
el .Inis in the interior, ami tin* other
(wo i ;.i. o >me to seek t heir fori line in
the Northland. The arrival of these
men who are deprived of the power of
speech »ml hearimr serves to illustrate
the iaet that all classes are represent
ed i 11 in s territory. The hiiml. the
dea'. r he halt, the man of wealth, the
hot * s; man and the erafiet*. the man
wh«* has ;i -nod word for every itody
ami everv place ami the mat) who
hates 1;ims f and all his ueijfhlKWs,
the ".01 of codciTe and university
tra nitiiT and the man of no school ad
var. :i.e s. Hat her :i cosmopolitan
co- - e v arc the noople scekiniT homes
ari ; t livelihood on this frontier of the
[’■ ■«•,! States.
Tb. y are a la w abiding people
oat -.b e of :p»vorning themselves and
stand in little need of the constant
le. ' ative acts forced through eon
er< s> to constrain and regulate their |
coi t. It congress is east in- about
to >.-c what can he done to n lievc the
pn .. i,t dull times ami prov'uie op
p, nitiesfor • ho idle thousands in
rlie states, no hotter move could he
made than to put hack into tlie ter
rifnrv some of the miliums of dollars
taken from it.'and open up tin* coun
try at once with rail ways and wajron
rends. It this were done, in a few
years Alaska would he dotted with
thriving cities whose people would he
prov bed with the necessaries of life
from productive farms lyinjf within
easy reach of the centers ol popu
lation. _
SAINT PATRICK S DAY
t >: i* might think from tin* predomi
nance of green in the town today that
the season had already far advanced
into spring. Alaskans especially seem
to do honor to the m -mory of Saint
Patrick. 'They are probably grateful
for what he ha> done for the North
land. It has long be n known that,
although Patrick was horn in Scotland
he took a deep interest in the Irish.
He wanted to convert them from the
error of t heir ways, and either as a
preparation for the conversion, or to
make the narrow path easier to walk
in after they were converted, the good
saint drove the snakes all out of Ire-;
land. There are some reports that
Irishmen have since seen snakes, but
that is probably a pipe-dream. Before j
Stmt Patrick did the snake act for
Ireland he exerted his power in behalf
of Alaska to such an extent that no ;
snake appears within the territory.
It is possible that he did this kindly ,
act especially for the benefit of his,
namesake, Fitzpatrick, who extends
the genial invitation, “Meet me at the
Branch.”
Saint Patrick did a great work for
Ireland in establising schools through
out the land and in preaching the
Gospel. When he was pressed for an
explanation of the rather complicated
doctrine of the Trinity, he stooped to
earth and plucked from the green sod
a shamrock, and holding up the tre
foil said behold one in three, three in
one. In memory of Saint Patrick the
shamrock will be worn today in all
parts of the world.
ORGANIZED CHARITY
The Portland Telegrac gives the
report and details of the work of the
organization known as Associated
Charities. On the organization's own
showing it appears that out of all
moneys received for charity 85 per
eent goes toward paying salaries of the
employes of the organization, and 15!
per cent to charity. Shades of Dorcas!
where are we at? This is fashionable
kid glove charity that rides around in
automobiles and thinks to get a free
pass to the New Jerusalem by posing
as the rescuer of the poor and un
fortunate.
Such revelations make one hesitate
to contribute to any project organized
for the ostensible purpose of benefit
ting the needy. There is no question
but that much good has been ac
complished by means of moneys
raised by benevolent societies through
out the country, and it is just as little
subject to question that an undue pro
portion of tiu> funds have been spent
in maintaining lino buildings and pay
ing salaries of unnecessary officials.
Often n town will have several
churches where one could better do
the work. Numerous are the mission
organizations where a few could it.ore
economically handle the funds for tin*
benefit of those to he aided. Often the
loudest spieler in the field for raising
money is the one who is paid a good
fee for hot air. O temporal O mores!
CRIP GERM LOCATED
The grip has been very prevalent in
certain localities this winter. We
'have always blamed some foreign coun
try for evading the cmigrtaion laws
anti foisting this alien upon us, but
wc have never before been able defi
nitely to locate the guilty people. An
I >wa man has discovervd that the n:»
tiu* habitat of the trip germ is our
in ighbur planet Mac-. That planet is
u tw very neat’ the earth and the germs
have leaped through the intervening
-pace. As soon as our aerial navy i
fully equipped an ultimatum will »mob
abiy h • delivered to Mat’s, an l unless
the dumping of undesirable denizens
from that planet is stopped, there will
probably he something doing in the
heavens above.
LETTER AND SPIRIT
(.'ase.x frequently arise that not only
reveal the injustice that may come
from a strict application of the law,
but also the inability of those in au
thority to distingui>h between the let
ter anti the spirit of the law.
A ease of thi> kind came up in New
Verb recently. A mother ami her
eleven-year-old daughter came over ■
from Austria to join the husband and j
father who had become a prosperous,
well-t -do naturalized citizen of the
I’nited States. The little girl was
weak minded, an imbecile from birth,
ruder the law an alien imbecile can
not enter this country. The mother
could come, the father was here and
!h was a citizen w illing and well able
to care for his family, yet the un
fortunate child was burred out by the
immigration authorities, li is evident;
they followed the letter and not the
spirit of the law, The immigration law
was never framed for such a case as
thix Itx application here works in-!
justice to -ill parties concerned, an in- |
justice to the father and mother who!
wished to live here and care for their I
helpless child, an injustice to the]
country, for it thereby loses a law |
abiding, prosperous and helpful eiti* j
zen. since the father will close out his!
business, take bis wife and daughter
ami go back to their native land.
Sticklers for the letter of the law
have alwa\s been in evidence. A well
known instance of this occurred 1900
years ago, when a company of men
going through a graintield on the Sab
bath day began to gather the heads of
grain and rubbing them in their hands
purposed to eat the kernels. The fault
finder was there and accused the lead*!
er of the little company of allowing his
followers to violate the Sabbath. The
leader of this company was a man who
placed more stress upon the spirit than
upon the letter of the law, and he told
these cavilers to go plumb to-well
tire case of David, the man who weut
into the temple and ate the shewbread
which was not lawlul to eat save for’
the priests, and he said to them: “The
Sabbath \yas made for man. and not
man for the Sabbath.”
Law’s should be made for man and
not man for the laws, and when so
made should be interpreted in accord
ance with the spirit rather than the
letter.
AN AID TO CONVERSION
With the passing of the years the
difficulty of bringing about in the mind
of man that condition known as con
version has noticeably increased. To
overcome these difficulties recourse
has been had to various devices. The
regularly trained professional convert
er is trotted out by the committee in
charge, and is cheered on by a chorus
of as many voices as can be utilized.
The loader of the chorus is a man with
a pleasing voice, very fetching in his
manner and something of a masher
withal. When all is in readiness the
professional converter pulls the throt
tle wide open and turns on all his per
suasive power, and the choir comes in
for the round up. The chorus leader
succeeds in breaking a goodly number
of hearts, and when the debris from
the whole performance is cleared
away things go on pretty much as they
did before.
Word comes from an Indiana town
that in view of the fact that these
fancy aids to conversion were not
producing the net results desired, a !
prominent merchant strong in the i
faith promised to give a new suit of
clothes to every man converted to his
faith. This was the master stroke.
200 men sat on the anxious seat the
lirst night, and applied fo>* the reward
the next morning. The merchant be
gan to hedge, and called for a com
mittee to sit on the applicants, and by
a series of tests discover the real
converts.
It is safe to assume that the number
added to the church that day fell con
siderably short of the 2o0 mark.
Millionaires In the Senate
Washington—In the I nitial Slates
senate every lbird man is a million-j
a ire: in the house of representatives i
one man in twenty seven is reckoned j
worth a million or more dollars. lo|
he explicit, the senate has thirty-two
millionaires and the house fourteen.
I' i-, a good deal easier to say this
man or that man is a millionaire than !
i> is to substantiate tin* statement.
M< n ot wealth are not given to putting
forth appraisements of their linnnrutl
worth. The man with a hundred thou
sand dollars olten makes more display
than a man worth a hundred times as,
much. When a man's fortune is ten
mil lions or more it is impossible accu
rately to gauge it. Thai much wealth,
in certain lines of investment, might,
well shrink or swell a million dollars
over night.
Simon Guggenheim is the wealthiest
and one of the youngest men in tlie
senate. Guggenheim’s fortune, as is
well known, came from the smelting
trust. The placing of his wealth there
at $tH),000,000 is the result of compro
mise. The estimates run all the way
from $20,000,000 to $100,000,000. Best,
informed opinion places it between
$:>0,000,000 and $7r>,000,000. The Gug
genheitus, fat her and sons, practically
control the smelting business.
livery one of the seven Guggenheims
is a millionaire.
The Unlucky Thirteen
l’aris— M. I’rive, an honest French l
citizen, was much surprised the other
day to receive a visit from a young j
man, who asked for the hand of his,
daughter. As he had been separated !
from his wife for twenty years, M. |
I’rive replied that he had no daughter, |
and was unpleasantly surprised to find
out a few days later that, as he had
not been divorced, thirteen children
which his wife had given birth to after
their separation had all been register
ed as his. lie is now taking steps to
repudiate them, but his success is
doubt ful.
Down on Rifle Practice
The New York Woman’s Peace Cir
cle continues its crusade against the
introduction of ri lie practice for
t he school, hoys. At ;t meeting
recently several women denounced i
President Roosevelt for his support J
of ritle shooting for boys and said that j
the practice is a menace to the country, i
as it did much to make the boys desire
war, when the school should teach
them a love of peace. Roy s clubs con
nected with churches and the teach
ings therein of military drill came in
for their share of the denunciation of
the speakers, some of whom also ob
jected to allowing little children to
play with toy soldiers on the theory
that such playthings tended to incul
cate in the children a love of war.
To Deceive the Elect
London—A highly ingenious device
in the way of putting on the market so
called old furniture, the “faking” of
which is quite a considerable industry
in the Western midlands, has been
described to the Manchester Guard
! ian’s correspondent, by a dealer who
had eighty Welch houses on bis books,
in each of which he had deposited for
the use of the tenant, but also in the
hope that holiday people might desire
to buy them, old dressers, cupboards
and tables. The inexperienced hunter
for old furniture invariably looks for
worm holes. They are provided for
him by judicious peppering with small
shot, and lest he should be suspicious
and probe for worm dust, they are
carefully salted with fine sand.
Property Transfer
Christensen and Laubner have
bought from Alfred Lowell lots 9, 10,
11, and 12 in block 2 of Seward.
To Clayson’s for Blankets. *
'THE ALASKA TRANSFER
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Kemti Precinct, Third Judicial Rivis.
ion.
IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the estate of Ferdi
nand Wagner, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given by the un
dersigned administratrix of the estate |
of Ferdinand Wagner, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said deceased to ex
hibit them, with necessary vouchers,
within six months after the first publi
cation of this notice, to the said admin
istratrix, Elsbeth Wagner, at the of
fice of S. O. Morford, Seward, Alaska.
F US BETH WAGNER.
Admidistratrix of the estate of
Ferdinand Wagner.
First publicat ion March 14.
Last publication April 1*.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United State Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Kenai Pree’nct, Third Judicial Divis
ion.
IN PROBATE
In the matter of George Burchy, de
ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given by the un
dersigned administrator of the estate
of George Burchy, deceased, to t lie
creditors of. and all persons having
claims against the said deceased to ex
hibit them, with the necessary vouch
ers, within six months after the first
publication of this notice to the said
administrator. < 'urtis R. Morford, at
the office of S. O. Mot ford. Seward,
Alaska.
Dated this 9th day of March, 1908.
CURTIS R. MORFORD,
Administrator of the estate of
George Burchy.
First publication March 14.
Last publication April 18.
SUMMONS—NO. 242
United States op America
United States District Court, Dis
trict of Alaska, Third Division, Pacific
Court District.
Edith Horan, Plaintiff,
VS.
Thomas Horan, Defendant.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting:
To the above named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the United States District Court, in
and for the District of Alaska, Third
Division, within thirty days after the
day of service of this summons upon
you, and answer tne complaint of the
above named plaintiff, a copy of which
complaint is herewith delivered to
you; and unless you appear and ans
wer, the plaintiff will take judgment
against you and will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
Witness, the Hon. Silas H.
Reid, Judge of said Court,
this 16th day of January, in
\ the year of our Lord one
f thousand nine hundred and
eight, and of our independ
ence the one hundred and
thirty-second. *
EDWARD J. STIER, Clerk,
By E. A. HENDERSON, Deputy
Clerk.
Edmund Smith, attorney for plaintiff.
First publication Feb. 29
Last publication April 11.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE United States Commissioner's
Court, Unalaska Precinct, Third
Judicial Division, Territory of
Alaska.
IN THE matter of the estate of Sim
eon Millovidof, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned executor of the estate of
Simeon Millovidof, deceased, to the cre
ditors of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased to exhibit
them with necessary vouchers within
six months after iirst publication of
this notice to the said executor at the
office of the United States Commission
er in the town of Unalaska,Alaska. And
the undersigned hereby gives notice
that he was duly appointed executor
of the estate by an order of the above
named Court made and entered the 7th
day of December, 11)07.
N. GUAY,
Executor of the estate of
Simeon Millovidof, deceased
Date of first publication Feb. L’lt.
Date of last publication
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
Cook Inlet Precinct, Jan. 4, 1908.
To Harry McCormack, C. J. Wal
ters, James McGill, Thos. MeConety,
Geo. Hanson, Wm. Burns and Alfred
Noel:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended one hundred
dollars in labor and improvements
upon the Skukum Creek placer claim
situated upon Skukum creek, tribu
tary to Twenty Mile river, in the
Territory of Alaska, Cook Inlet pre
cinct, claiming 12000 feet from NOTICE
up the creek in a southeasterly direc
tion, and300 feet each side of Skukum
creek, as will appear by certificate
filed the 23rd day of February, 1900, in
the office of the recorder of said pre
cinct, in order to hold said premises
under the provisions of Section 2324
Revised Statutes of the United States
being the amount required to hold the
same for the year ending December
31st, 1907.
And if within ninety days from the
publication of this notice, you fail, or
refuse to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure, to-wit, $12.50
each as a co-owner, your interest in
said claim will be forfeited and be
come the property of the subscriber
under said section 2324.
A. C. CARRIER,
Co-owner of one-eighth of said claim.
First publication Jannary 4, 1908.