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\>surc Yourself of Cleanliness
and Sanitary Conditions.
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LEASING BiLL
URGED BY LAKE
WASHINGTON. Jan.. 10— Pallor
utilization of national resources u
coal, oil, water power, iam:. am: in lu
* man beings, is urged by Sciueti’}
Franklin K. Lan of th vnu nor •
partment in his annual report . b r <i
»Iip observation post that his office at
fords ove** varied governmental ac
I tivities he draws the conclusion tVel
"tar beyond all our posses-srons. ?s tnc
American man. in a strong app« >>
for Americanization ar ! '‘duration.
•*To him. to his spirit am: cuarac vr
IMS'! II.LA I K p**r c;im? at GraeG
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Home of Hait Schuffner & Marx
clothing— l IJUAC H S
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Lady Torrington \accutn sweepers
at GRAEF’S
Sleds for hoys and girls at Graefa.
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KAYO lamps with shades $3.50 at
Graefa.
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Electric Sewing Machine motors at
Graefa
National Water Motor Washers
at J. L. Grwfs.
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Elaine Eocene and Pearl Oil at
Graefa.
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Ice Creepers and Skates— Graefa
Fishermen's Supplies at Griefs.
FLASH LIGHTS and batteries at
J. L. Graefa.
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PLUMBING AND
HEATING
Sheet Metal Works
CHAS. LECHN ER
Tel. Madsn l lt>
let us do
your washing
Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 1 57
JOB PRINTING
AT THE
GATEWAY
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ty his skill and intellgence, is due
Li’l the credit for the land in which wo
live.” Mr, Lane said. “That resource
we are neglecting. Twenty-five n< r
c« nt of the 1.600,000 mem between :’I
and 31 years of age who were fii ;t
draftvl into our army could neitiie
read nor write our language, are *er.s
of thousands could not speak it o.*
understand it.’’
Tinning to the motive power facili
ties of the nation, the report says:
“The measure of a people* indus
trial capacities seems to be surely
fixed hv its motive power possibility,
and the coal strike has hi ought con
crete!v before us the disturbing fact
that we live virtually by unanimous
cons nt. * Let less than one-half of 1
p r cent of our population quit their
w »rk of digging coal and we ate
tl reatenod with the combined horro’.s
of pestilence and famine.”
Mr. Lane asks adequate provision to
collect statistical information about
the industry, paving the way to better*
utilization of fuel in future.
Consideration of water power and
petroleum deposits taxes Mr. Lane
to the wider spaces of the west. Ke
states that TO per cent of the avail
able horse-power in the nation lies
west of the Mississippi, and places the
total oil production in 101s at 35d,
000.000 barrels. Passage of public
land leasing legislation will make
available further rich supplies, ho
says, and eventually the deposits r.f
oi! shale “can be made to yield vast’y
more oil than has been found in pools
or sands.**
“Vet with all the optimism that can
b • justified,” the report says, *“1
would urge a policy of saving as t*>
P 'troleum that should be rigid in ‘he
e xtreme. If we are long to enjoy the
benefits of a petroleum age, we mo ‘
save this oil.**
Ships using fuel oil should be
equipped with internal combustion
motors, Mr. Lane believes , and not be
allowed to bum oil to make steam.
A foreign oil supply should also he
sought and diplomatic and industrial
moans used to develop it.
A new basis for the operation of lh ?
rec’amation sendee, which has chiefly
h 'en occupied in Western states, with
a total of 1.602 000 acres made irri
gable is suggested.
“The day has come when it (recla
mation) must be nationalized and ex
t -nded to all parts of the republic,”
Vr. Lane says, “To the deserts of
tue West we have brought th“ ere
ative touch of water, and we must fir !
a way to go on with this work. P»-'t
it is of equal importance that w«
should liberate rich areas now held
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Just received
the finest
assortment of
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MOCCASINS PACS
and Four Buckled
ARCTICS
In light and heavy
weight. Come in and
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ALL RIGHT! LET’S GO
MALAMUTE STAGE LINE
Now Carrying PASSENGERS & EXPRESS Between
Taikettna, Broad Pass, Ncnana and
ALL INTERIOR POINTS
Arrangements can be made by letter, telephone
or wire.
J. A. STEWART,
Talkeetna* Alaska.
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Furnished Rooms
Hot and Cold Water
Steam Heat
VANGILDER BUILDING
in bondage by the swamp, convert mil
lions of acres of idle cut-ovcr lands
to profitable use, and raise from tbe
rtead the once vigorous agricultural
life of our abandoned farms.”
This does not mean more federal
appropriations, the report explain;,
but assistance to local districts whul
will provide funds by pledging th.'
value of lands within them.
Mr. Lane says that inn 000 demob’
li".ed soldiers have applied for public
lands. He reasserts his belief that
V. » government is justified in doing
fc*r soldiers what it would do for no
other class, as he has proposed in
p nding measures.
Masha Road Fconnmically RuH\
The Alasha railroad, Secretary
Lane says, has been well and sotMlv
built for “.as little moncv as privnt
parties could build it.*' Though totn*
cost*? have he^n rising, due to goner0
price situation the report places e\
n 'nd;t"ros at £70 000 .and $80,000 n ••
main line mile so far, as compared to
$’51 000 n^r mi’e reached recently b
seme private roads in the Uniti*1
Slates.
In a summary of the department'.0
work the renorf shows that the Osag
t?ihe of Indians collected last yen*
$’7 000.000 ir returns from oil and g:*
land leases. Un in Alaska the depart
r* mt mined 55.200 tons of coal. I'
Washington the patent office issue I
jy* 259 grants to inventors, while th
p nsion office paid out $222,159,202 t<
v terans of the Civil and Spams'
wars.
At the national parks 755,527 vis
it >rs were recorded during me yea
On irrigated lands last year $f>8
0°0.000 in agricultural products wo
g own. and Mr. T.ano remarks that :
federal expenditure of $100.000.00:
h *s added dose to $500 000.000 to th.
t x valuation of Western states. Th '
Salt Kiv^r project of Arizona, who •
c-ip values totaled $18,188,000, wn»
the banner producer of the reclame.
t en sendee.
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ten thousand ton
FLOATING DOCK HAS
BEEN PUT IN OPERATION
GALVESTON, Tex., Jan.. 10— The
'\v 10,000 ton floating drydock here
c nstruction of which recently wn:
c mpleted. has been successfully pu<
i .to operation.
The drvdock is constructed In rw<
p Tions. The first has a lifting cap a
c,fcv of 6,400 tons and the second
0 -0 tons. The structure and operati » >
5 pimple. The bottom of the structure
1 a row of pontoons, similar in ap
pearance to ordnarv pontoons but
c 'sod at the top and divided into two
* Apartments. Steel wings go upwaiu
f )m both ends of the pontoons, ffiv
i ”.t a cross section of the doex nppear
race of the letter "U”. To lower the
d >ck the valves are opened and the
v .iter flows into the pontoons, to rais.
it the water is pumped our.
The two sections of the dock may
be worked sepcrately or together.
When joined together the drydock is
capable of raising any steamship en- j
tering this port.
PISTOL PRACTICE
FOR BANK EMPLOYES
TO AVERT IIOLI)—URS
NEW YORK, Jan., 10— Regular
pistol practice in one of the national
grard armories for all officials and
employes having permits to carry re
volvers is now part of the “prepard
n^ss,, campaign of the Guaranty 'l rusl
Company of this city, in view of the
•eccnt attacks on bank messengers
and the frequent bank hold-ups. Tin
target work of the bankers has im
proved in quickness and accuracy,in
consequence Of the practice to a pour.
I which is characterized as “excellent.”
One official scored 2S out a possible
30 points at the last practice and
clerks, messengers and special officer*
all did well.
three shore whaling
STATIONS IN ALASKA
PRODUCE $1,330.0CC>
Three shore whaling stations we re
operated in Alaska in 1918, one 01
whieh took white or beluga whaler
fur the hides. It was located on the
p. luga river in central Alaska. The
other companies were at Port Arm
strong in southeastern Alaska, am1
1 a Akutan in the Aleutian Islan \s.
Frozen whale meat to the amount of
M8,000 pounds, valued at $7,400, wa
shipped to the States. The tola
value of the products was $834„127,
' an increase of $179,255 over 191'
[ The number of whales taken was 44.^
! o- 25 more than in 1917. The in
1 vestment in the whale fishery in 1913
v is $1,350,971, or $258,9555 less than
ir. the previous year. There were 325
persons employed, or 03 more than in
1917.
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j BREAD RATIONING WILL
CONTINUE IN HOI.I. W'
THE HAUGE, Holland, Jan., in—
I F >l!aml to whose population nearly u!1
! i 'portant foodstuffs wero rationed
during the war, has not yet obtained
sufficient grain to permit unlimited
n.sumption of brradstuffs. It bn«
h on announced in Parliament that ra
ti >ning of white and brown broad V’>M
cotinue.
THIEVES BUSY IN CHURCHES
HEREFORDSHIRE, Eng., Jan, 10—
So many cases of thefts from
o’ urch offertory boxes have occurred
h re recently that the authorities have
h en advised to place the boxes he
v ath the floor with a connecting pipe
to the coin slot.
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The pungent
richness of purs
Havana tobacco,
tempered by time
to a rare mildness
—that’s the
Lever a Monarch
Astual Sim
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: "c, 2 for 2So crJ 15c sizes J JSE LOVE? A COMTAM1
Q?rca r*.se, ?■ ['* S Jc TAMPA
Luri i.~Q . 2 i:r 23c
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ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBliN, Manaceb
Coal, Wood and Ice
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Office Ad'uiral building
Wa>ne iiiuc, Agent.
SCWARH ALASKA
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One pair will outlast a w u>le
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wear two or three ordinary
pairs.
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else.
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