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PCHL1SHRD DAILY KX» KI'T SUNDAY'S AND HOLIDAY'S
BY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Harry V Hobcn. Pres, Frank L. Ballaino. See. F.rtoh Lucas, I’rcfts,
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Entered as second class matter September $. 1915. at the posioUWM* at Sew uni. A la O'a, umlcr
the act of March 21. INTO.
mibstbiption BATES
Onk Yeah. in advance.$10.00 « Pkk Month, deliver*!.. ....... *U*‘
Thk Alaska Wkkki.v I’osr. by mail- .$21.00 I Advkktiai.v; Ratkn on application.
DRIVING THE WORK
With requisitions in Seattle for millions ot dollars
worth of supplies for the government railroad, cargoes ot
material enroute from Panama, and plans under way to
drive the work at top speed this season, it is apparent that
Chairman Edes is doing his best to put the first train over
the Alaska range and into Fairbanks by 1919.
With ten locomotives instead ot four coming 1 t orn
Panama, and large number of cars already ordered, it is
evident that the road will be equipped with rolling stock
sufficient for ordinary needs before it is completed.
In only one end of the work is activity apparently
lacking, and that is terminal facilities to handle the coal,
but as plans of the commission are not announced until
finally approved, it is possible that active construction on
the coal docks is nearer than the public is aware.
OPPOSITION TO MILITARY ACTIVITY
News from Washington today by wire as well as by
mail correspondence, received on the last boat, indicate
that a bitter resentment to the administration’s war pre
paration is developing in congress, backed by the ‘‘paci
ficist’’ element.
The espionage measure, which it is charged is an at
tack on free speech, measures to increase the army, and
now the bill to give the president increased power to
handle the German situation are being strongly opposed.
Big newspapers outside are accused of stirring up
war feeling, and it is intimated that the munition makers
are the real trouble makers.
Such a situation always arises in time ol stress and
it takes a cool head and careful thought to pick the real
from the artificial causes for military activity.
ALASKANS MOST NOMADIC OF TRIBES
Just a few weeks ago when the prohibition bill was up
in the lower house of congress, an Alaskan named Mc
Kenzie told the house committee that the people of this
territory can boast of a higher average of intelligence
than the people of the states and to prove his argument
he told of the traveling of Alaskans and compared them in
this respect with people in Virginia who had never seen
Washington, D. C.
McKenzie is right. If wandering about can make a
man intelligent there are several thousands ot Alaskans
who ought to be able to give Solomon a hard fight for the
heavyweight championship of the world. It you can ever
find a man who has been a resident of this territory for
anv number of vears and who has not traveled some thou
I
To show you a line of merchandise at prices that will encourage you
to buy from us when in need of clothing.
A BIG LINE
OF BALL BAND and ARROW SHOE PARS. These paks are the
best you can buy for comfort and durability.
Everything You Will Need
For the trail can be bouKht at SEWARD’S LEADING CLOTHING
STORE
The Miners'
Frank J. Cotter
HOTEL SEWARD
FORTY ROOMS-OUT OF FIRE ZONE
J. 0. PATTON, Prop. Rates by Day or Month
Modern Conveniences Well Lighted and Heated
The Seward News Company
GEORGE PHELPS
Booksellers, Newsdealers and Stationers
FINANCIAL PROBLEM.
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— Berryman in Washington Star.
sands of miles for every year’s residence you will have
discovered a man who must be suffering from locomotor
ataxia.
The towns of the territory are populated entirely by
people who have been in other towns. If you take any one
town and analyze its residents you will find a most inter
esting mix-up.
While we hear a lot of the great “foreign” population
of Anchorage you will find that ninety pci cent of tlu j
property holders are men from other Alaskan towns, and
from all Alaskan towns. Seward, Valdez, Cordova and
the other coast cities are very strongly represented but
you will also find there Koyukukers, Kobukers, Iditarod
! crs, Kamparters and all the rest of them easily holding
their own. and everyone of them has traveled about <is
many thousands of miles as there are years to his age.
' This knocking around certainly does add to a man’s
intelligence as a rule even if the addition it brings to his
bank account is written in letters of red. V hat is a thou
| sand miles in a country where many have tied a few logs,
together and floated that distance with the tide? And
what a number have, after all, floated with the tide since;
| those dear old days when the first human tide swept into
the Alaska wilderness like a fabled host of Argonauts of
i old. Sometimes, indeed, the population looks like the
flotsam and jetsam on the ebb and flow from cam]) to cam])
I as the rumors of strikes take the place of the moon, make
those tides eternal and solve the problem of perpetual mo
| tion.—(Juneau Dispatch.)
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ASKS HONOR FOR ALASKA
The appropriateness of naming one of the new bat
tleships Alaska, after the country’s last great frontier, is
to be urged upon the navy department by the Alaska
bureau of the Seattle chamber of commerce. This action
was decided upon at a meeting ol the members of the
bureau, held recently in the Arctic club. A resolution de
claring that Alaska is a land of rich and unlimited re
sources and that its great coal fields contain the only coal
on the Pacific coast suitable for naval purposes, was
! adopted by the members of the bureau and ordered sent to
Secretary of the Navy Daniels. — (Seattle Post Intelli
gencer.) _
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PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
THE AHMIRAL LINE
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE:
Admiral Watson, Feb. 25th.
Admiral Evans, March 2nd.
Admiral Farragut, March 9th.
SAILINGS FROM SEWARD:
Admiral Watson, March 5th.
Admiral Evans, March 9th.
Admiral Farragut, March 16th.
First Sailing for Anchorage: Admiral watson, Apm Jtn.
Admiral Watson, sailing from Seattle Feb. 25th goes to Kodiak.
Through Tickets to Eastern Points at Reduced Rates.
"or full information on sailings from Seattle to San Francisco, ad
dress Wayne Blue, Agent, Seward, Alaska.
TOGO CAFE
Commerce Cafe Bldg.
JACK U. TOGO
Proprietor
Open Day and Night
Tray Order Quick Service
Private Boxes
for ladies or parties.
Phone Adams 52 ,
Charles Crawford
General Blacksmith
Horseshoeing
Wheelwrighting
Comer Sixth Avenue and
Railway Avenue
SEWARD, ALASKA
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CAFE ROOMS r A /» I | Sherman Haynes
Pool and Billiards | — - /lL/lv/L ProprieUr
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Best Liquors and Cigars
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-Si WARD. AI ASKA
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Sailings from Seattl® to all Alaska Ports.
For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
h:i> been established in connection with this piper, and a’i tli'^e de>ir
ine informal ion as to the value of real estate and business oi»|M»rt uni
ties are requested to address their communication* to
IN FORMATION DEPA ItTM ENT. SEW A RI)
GATEWAY.
Seward. Alaska.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - * ALASKA
Seward Saw Mil! Co
A. F. RASMUSSEN, Prop.
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, Ilams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
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PIONEER 1
HOTEL
F. U. CANNON, Prop.
Headquarters for the
Prospector, Miner and
Farmer
KNIK - - - • ALASKA
HENRY FATHERS
KXCLUSIVR
Paint and Wall Paper Store
Picture Framing. Painting, .Tinting
und Pai>erhanging
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The RAINIER BUFFET
Ashland Block, corner of
Broadway and Railroad Ave.
WINES, LIQUORS,
CIGARS, ETC. /
The House of Good Service.
Quality Goods Our Motto.
JUST TO REMIND VOU
-of
Union Pacific System
Through Cars
between SEATTLE and Chicago
Kansas City. Denver
San Francisco, Los Angeles
Direct Connections for all
points East via the Famous
COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
Trains protected all the way
- all the time by Automatic
Electric “Safety * Signals.
H. L. HUDSON. A. G. F. 8c P. A.
SEATTLE
JOE RENO
MILE 75 ROADHOUSE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
GIRDWOOD
* Everything for Dog Mushers
and Travelers
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Best Roadhouse on the Line j
REASONS
are what bring customers back
to us for more lank Books,
Loose Leaf Work, etc., etc.
The main reason is that every
job we turn out proves perfect
ly satisfactory.
TRICK & MURRAY
Blank Book Makers
85 Columbia St.—Seattle.
Anlerson & Nelson
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BAR
RAINIER BEER
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