Bears, Mountain Sheep and
Humming Birds in Seward
lu some respects at least Seward
can lay claim to being one of the most
remarkable towns in existence; From
the center of its chief street can be
seen often the wildest animals in their
wild state.
It would be difficult to get outsnh »v
to believe that a man can stand Tn the
center of the business district on
Fourth avenue and watch great bears
living in their natural wild lives in
plain view on the nearby hillsides.
On one hill is seen bear and on the
other hill a few hundred feet away
are browsing a flock of mountain5
sheep. From those great animals
down to a humming bird is quite a
step, but right in a cigar store on
Fourth avenue this morning was cap
lured the prettiest specimen of the
diminutive humming bird that could j
possibly be seen.
Some skeptical people imagined
that the sheep grazing on the mount j
am two days ago were dogs but it has
now been proven clearly that the\
were real mountain sheep and nothing
else. In the early morning after tin
first four sheep were seen the night
cook at the Seward drill, iTurn
Julius, and the other men in the res
taurant saw not less than a dozen
sheep browsing on the same spot.
The number alone proves them sheep
and if anyone can get a dozen white
dogs in Seward he will ha\e perform
ed a minicle.
There have been times when it if
, hard to get people to believe that
grouse, ptarmigan, porcupine, rabbits j
and other small wild living thing*
have invaded the city regularly, so it
would be mighty difficult to get them
to believe the rest, but, strangers, it
is a positive fact. This is written and
published here amongst hundreds of
.
people who have seen those bears,
sheep. cK., walking about calmly in
1 full view from the streets. Somehow.
I it sounds like Alice in Wonderland or
* some other tale from a book of weird
and poetic fancy.
t ue uuuumiig bud was caught tuis
morn>tig t>v *U at tiewitl ui the lve\
cigar store m a bunch of bananas. It
1 s\a." thought by some that the beauti
ful little creature came from the
tropics some way or another in the
bananas, and the wonder was great,
but it is learned that humming buds
live in this region.
While talking about animals in this
district, it may be of interest to state
that lien Swc.>ey recently had a
strange sight presented to him. Over
in tlu* inlet he saw two ‘•brown" bears
together, one of which was perfectly
black. Mr. Tucson from long experi
ence knows the shape of a brown bear
and could not be mistaken, besides,
a brown and a black bear will not
chum together. More remarkable
*ti||, be met a fresh bear track which
proves that the animal making it
must have weighed about two thou
sand pounds. 1 be paw print was 11,
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incut's long. Ik tween the print 01 the
bind loot ami the fore paw the dis
tance was 7 feet, and between the
two hind paws was 4 feet.
All told, the district around Sewaru
is probably the most remarkable wild
animal country on earth. Some day,
l u haps, someone will get busy and
take photographs and compile farts
that will prove it.
HOW THE ORGANIZED
COMMON PEOPLE OF
RUSSIA BRIDGED DISASTER
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
(Special to Gateway by United Proas)
PETROGRAD, July 10.—Slowly,
like a giant getting under way, Rus
sia. backed by her plain people, is
gathering strength. Today, working
for her, she has an army of them fifty
million strong.
This is not sob-sister hysteria. It
is the truth.
The Russian war is the peopleV
war. With their incalculable forti
tude the people are backing up the
army in a way peculiar to them and
not to be found in any other country
of Europe. In England and France
for instance, the governments are
co-operating with industrial corpora
tions and bankers to the exclusion of
I well-defined citizen’s groups-thus
keeping the nation and the army sup
plies.
In Russia the government and army
also co-operate with these. But they
co-operate with an organized people
too, through non-political groups
which have been formed all over the
country—-citizen’s associations, co
operative societies, peasants’ unions—
and whose aims is but to serve Rus
sia.
Then there is a Central Committee,
j composed of civilians, to co-ordinate
! the efforts of the groups and take the
I army’s orders.
So some of the fifty millions are at
the front, in uniform, under arms.
Others are back of the lines drilling
to go to the front. The rest are;
scattered all over the Russian Empire
working at their jobs, big or little, but ^
for the nation. They are farmers and ^
merchants, tailors and chemists, boot- j
makers and doctors, druggists and
nurses, seamstresses and carpenters,
machinists and plain day laborers all
mobilized just as effectively, so far as
carrying on the war is concerned, as,
the foremost soldiers in the foremost |
trenches.
The Citizen’s organizations for aid
ing the country and the army are lit
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majority of these can be bunched
under one or tl e other four general
names.
Then there is the Municipality
Gruen, Howard and Hamilton
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