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and THE ALASKA EVENING POST.
Published Daily Except Sunday by The Gateway Publishing Company.
Published Daily Except on Sundays and Holidays.
Entered as second-class matter September 2, 191*c at the postoffice a*
Seward, Alaska, under the act of March 3, 18 <9.
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“Bit; POTATO COUNTY”
With the Land and Industrial department of the rail
road working in the interest of big potatoes and the farm
ers of the Matanuska valley section around Palmer, count
ing on putting in as large a crop as possible, it is appar
ent that one section of Alaska will gain fame as the home
of the delicious tuber which made Ireland famous.
In due course of time when this territory becomes a
state, it might not be amiss to name that section "Big
Potato county."
BIG YEAR FOR ALASKA
Government railroad construction toward the Susitna
valley district of Alaska has progressed to the point
where it is attracting prospectors, business men and in
vestors. Work upon the right-of-way between Seward
and Anchorage is expected to furnish rail connection dur
ing the summer and facilitate the movement of traffic.
Beginning about March 1, the northern steamships in the
trade are expecting a large increase of passenger as well
as freight business. The Susitina main line to Fairbanks
is being extended into a district possessing agricultural
advantages as well as mineral wealth. There will be
many new towns established, and these will offer favor
able opportunities for general business and investment.
Rails and construction material for 200 miles of rail
roads will be supplied at the Fairbanks, Anchorage and
Seward terminals during this season, and approximately
^10,000,000 will be expended in construction.
In material development and in population gains the
coming season should be the greatest in the history of
Alaska, as it will be for Seattle in point of northern busi
ness.— (Post-1 ntelligence r.)
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TRENCHES AS HEALTH RESORTS |
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If the war goes on much longer no doubt the trenches!
will be listed among the favored health resorts. Lord
Northclitfe comes back from his month’s visit to the front
with the report that the annual death rate among the
army—the "natural death rate, of course—is but three
per thousand. The average death rate for the United
States is about fourteen per thousand. The inference is,
that if one is strong enough to stand it the incessant out
door life conduces to longevity. Punch's description of
the gardener writing home to his old employer is not far!
from the truth, for men as well as for vegetation. The
gardener tells what fine soil it is for roses, and wishes the
Why You Should Be I
Measured
You can buy a tailor made suit as cheaply as a ready
made.
You will have exclusive styles to select from.
You can make your choice from a greater assort
ment of patterns.
You will be guaranteed satisfaction.
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THE NEW SAMPLES FOR SPRING AND
SUMMER ARE HERE.
Come in and let us take your measure NOW.
SCHOENBRUN tailor made clothing needs no in
troduction.
The Miners' Store
Frank J. Cotter
HOTEL SEWARD
FORTY ROOMS-OUT OF FIRE ZONE
J. 0. PATTON, Prop. Rates by Day or Month
Modem Conveniences Well Lighted and Heated
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The Seward News Company
GEORGE PHELPS
Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers
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••Chapin in St. Louis Republic.
missus might come there to see for herself how well the
flowers grow.
Medical science is able to render the reason for the di
minishing mortality. Smallpox, typhoid, typhus and
other maladies are making their last stand against war
doctors and surgeons with systematic inoculation. Foim
-erly every large military camp was a hotbed of disease.
Look at the recent record of the Mexican border. From
May 1 to October 16 among 170,000 men there was not
one death from typhoid, of which malady there weie
twenty-four cases in all. In the Spanish wat, with less
than ioO.OOO men, there were 20,000 cases and 2,191
deaths. Last summer Sir Alfred Keogh, surgeon general,
reported twenty-two cases of typhoid among the British
soldiers in France, and remarked that in former days with
the same number of men in the field there would have been
at least 80,000 cases. Out of all that is detestable in war
knowledge issues concerning other plagues more murder
ous than gases, grenades and shells. (Philadelphia
Ledger.)
THE OLDEST NATIONAL FLAG
Tests made a decade ago indicate that only one per
son in twenty could give the correct list of the orginal
thirteen colonies.
The evidence shows that Denmark, Switzerland and
the United States figure in the court records as claimants.
The Danes assert that their red swallow tailed standard
with a white cross was adopted in 1219, but jealous disput
ants have brought the counter claim that alterations have
been made since then. The Swiss flag, a red field with a
white Greek cross, has been in existence unaltered, as the
flag of a canton, since the seventeenth century, but Swit
zerland has been a nation only since the confederation of
1848. The Stars and Stripes was adopted in 1777, and al
though the banner is more of a growth than a creation it
has retained those distinguished figures which Washing
ton breathed into it 140 years ago.
Some of the other national flags are mere youngsters
as compared with the American standard, which can show
a flawless birth certificate. The standard of Spain was
established in 1785, that of Great Britain in 1801, Neth
erlands in 1806, Japan in 1859, Italy in 1861, Germany in
1871 and the tricolor of France in 1794.—(N. Y. Herald.)
AVOIDING MILITARISM
Placing electrical engineers in the reserve corps of
the army signal corp service and the employees of electri
cal concerns in a reserve to a branch of the military sys
tem in which the country may profit most from their
knowledge in case of war is real preparedness.
It will be a splendid achievement worthy of a fame
that will resound through the centuries if this country
can evolve a system of military efficiency and organiza
tion in civil life which will safeguard the nation to a suf
ficient extent, without inflicting upon the people the evils
attendant upon “militarism.”
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PACIFIC STEAMSHIPCOMPANY
ADMIRAL LINE
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE:
Admiral Farragut February 15th, Admiral Watson, February
25th, Admiral Evans March 2.
Sailings from Seattle to California, Mondays, Fridays and Sat
urdays—Steamers President, Governor, Queen, Admiral Schley, Ad
miral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE—San Francisco to Lo* Angeles daily ex
cept Sunday. San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays. Thursdays and Saturdays.
Steamers Harvard, Yale. President, Governor. Admiral Schley. Admiral Dewey.
For full particulars address.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent, Seward, Alaska.
You Want It—
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ALASKA i ;OM>PANYIP Jt“rVfo I
i SEATTLE SAILINGS
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ALASKA sails Feb. 16
i * MARIPOSA will sail Feb. 8.
Seattle Sailing of 8th, connects with Dora to West
ward.
Right reserved to change this schedule without
notice.
a. h. McDonald,
Agent.
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SEWARD, - • - ALASKA
Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.00.—
Seward Drug Co.
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FOR RENT
Two furnished rooms with hot and
cold water, VAN GILDER BUILD
ING. Apply Mr. van Gilder. 1-20-tf
Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
; Seward Saw Mill Co
A. F. RASMUSSEN, Prop.
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Good Rough Lumber of all
kinds $26.00 and up per
thousand, delivered.
Telephone Kenai 2
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry,
. Lard, Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
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Kansas City. Denver
San Francisco. Los Anaeles
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points East via the Famous
COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
Trains protected all the way
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Electric “Safety” Signals.
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