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SEWARD. ALASKA. FRIDAY. Jl l.Y U, PUfi.
There has always been in Alaska a certain element
that makes capital by attacks on capital. No matter what
comes up they see or affect to see in it the hand of preda
tory wealth manipulating with a sinister purpose. In
recent years, however, they seem to have been losing their
ability for noise to some extent because the rest of the
people have got wise. They have shouted “woll ’ too often
and they find it more difficult to get applause, hut still once
in a while some benighted individuals with an eye to the
main chance ami the support of what thex are pleased to
call the masses raise their voices in condemnation of
wealth and the wealthy. They invent bogus charges and
for a time the unwary are hoodwinked and the same old
nauseating agitation against capital nourishes until it
dies for lack of proof.
It is perfectly right that the monopolizing of public
lands should he prevented. Whenever there is a suspicion
that great financial intersts are Umt^on grabbing too
much without making any return the facts should be look
ed into and when proof is secured the light against it
should be determined and serious, hut to attack a man or
combination of men just on the suspicion created by their
wealth is disgusting and should not be countenanced.
What Alaska needs chiefly is capital. Without capital
the chief resources of the territory are practically non
existent. The man, therefore, who attacks capital with
out reason is a traitor to his territory.
The selling of a large number of lots in Seward on
easy terms is a step in the right direction. Hundreds of
people have had the desire to secure sites for residences
and business buildings but a heavy cash payment was
quite an obstacle after the long and somewhat barren
period of “waiting for something to turn up." It would
be the policy of wisdom now for everyone to boost the
coming sales as much as possible. It will at least advertise
Seward and should bring some settlers.
THIS STORY OF THIS
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UFRSONAL FF.FO IN WAR
By WILBUR S. FORRKST
LONDON, July (». — The story of
the Disgusting Face, or a personal
feud in the trenches in Northern
France, was told today in a letter
from a British officer. The letter is
divided into three chanters as follows:
1.—“The Disgusting Face, trimmed
with blond bristles, surmounted by a
grey, peaked for,»ge cap which ap
peared to be more then half filled with
some edible matter than in process of!
mastication, stuck itself over the!
German parapet in front of my obser
vation station two mornings ago.
“I received the full shock of its
ugliness. There the brute stood,
squirming his pudgy nose about in
enjoyment of the pure morning air
and utterly disfiguring the pretty:
landscape.
“I grabbed the infantry outoolkV
rifle and pumped five shots at the face
as quickly as 1 could pull tfrc trigger
and work the lever. The face with
drew.
2.—"Somthing like an hour later 1
was again surveying the smiling
valley. The Disgusting Face was
gone; but in its place a new arrange
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| ment of guild bags«on the trench para
1 pet and the presence of a sheet of
! boiler plating attracted my attention
—very near'y fatally.
“There was a sort of wink from the
| middle of the boiler-plate, a sharp
1 crack and then my cap skidded from
I my head and rolled in the mud at the
bottom of the trench.
“Before l had collected my thoughts
sufficiently to duck, something said
“Phew” right in my ear. Then 1
ducked—smartly. 1 got a periscope
and saw something look over the top
of the boiler plate and down again,
quick as a lizard. The Face again.
—“Half an hour later the infantry
sentry's periscope was smashed. 1
got another place in the trench and
tried to get sight of the brute from
that. Within five minutes he had
spotted me and shot at me again. A
pound or two of gravel went down the
back of my neck and I ducked again.
“Later in the day he smashed an
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other periscope. Then he out-Hunned ■
himself by potting the dog. The dog
was the mascot of the regiment—a
dirty, dusty, doormatty dog, hut quite
a gentlemanly old beast. ’Lived on
bread and bacon and used to drink tea 1
out of the men’s dixies. For some;
unknown rqason be hopped over the
parapet ami next minute “crack” j
went the sniper’s rifle ami the poor old '
dog was shot through the leg.
“After the shooting of the dog
something had to be done. 1 hunted
up a trench mortar officer and we ar
ranged that he should put in four
trench bombs while I threw high ex-1
plosive and shrapnel alternately at
ten second intervals.
“So at 4:25 precisely I and the
trench mortar fellow began. And we
avenged the poor old doormat. My
second H. E. blew the sniper’s boiler
plate to blazes; the trench bomb fol
♦
lowed almost on top and then I j
shrapnelled the whole trench for!
fifty yards on either side. And the
trench mortar, by a really glorious;
fluke, dorpped forty yards left of its
target, right through the roof of an
unsuspecting dug-out and sent the J
whole show skyhigh—occupants in
cluded.
“Altogether the doormat, the per
iscopes and my hat were pretty well
avenged.”
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J. L. GRAEF
(Business and Residence)
At Sew rd, Alaska, July 25,1916
This sale is to meet the great demand for property at the Ocean terminus of the Government Alaska Railway
System, which is building at a cost of $35,000,000 and to reach all Alaska. The property offered is selected from every
block in town and includes residence and business property. A list of the property by lots and blocks will be published
Saturdav.
Seward is by universal agreement beginning a growth
that will make it not only the commercial metropolis of
Alaska but one of the great cities of the Pacific Coast..
TERMS; For residence property 10 per cent cash, 15 per
cent in thirty days. Balance one, two and three years at
7 per cent.. Business property 10 per cent cash 23 1-3 in
thirty days and the balance in one and two years at 7 per
cent.
The terms on these first 200 lots are made easy to enable
purchasers to build residences or business blocks and to
get the big end of the rise in values.
Sales will be held at Seward beginning July 25th ,
FRANK L. BALLAINE