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Ent»r«si ee aaeond-claea matter September C. 1915. at the l’oet OfHre at Seward. Alaaka.
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Anvwav Christinas onlv conies once a year and every
body has a perfect right to have that tired feeling the
morning after.
If there will be as many luadaches Wednesday morn
ing as there were indications of being the day after Xmas
many of the caches will be gre ../< eoleted long before
their time.
With the usual watch meetings planned, the card par
ty and dance to be given by the Masons and the masquer
ade bail by the Arctic Brotherhood, also the exit of the
thirst emporiums. New Year’s Eve will be some night for
some and 1918 will lxi given a rousing welcome.
Gov. Strong is going to slip up on one important sus
pension if he does not make a decision suspending the
eight hour law. the nefarious act which was passed by the
last legislature without due consideration to the present
times in Alaska.
Isn't it a wonder what a human being can stand j
on Christmas and still live to tell about it! Any other day j
of the vear the aforesaid human being would be in the
hospital or at home “recovering.”
Soon it will be a long time between drinks but just
pause and reflect what a long time it is between steamers.
The government is striving to do the best to conserve
—if you don’t believe it just vatch the manipulations of
the schedules of the steamers to Alaska. To the man up
in Alaska this certainly seems a poor policy to adopt to
“open Alaska.”
Onlv four more da vs remain to get ready to turn over
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that new page and to scribble down all of the resolutions
for the new year—resolutions which will lx* broken before
the ink is fairly dry.
Within a couple of weeks those who went outside will
be mushing to the steamship offices in Seattle and purchas
ing their tickets for “home” again, and they will be glad
to get back.
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Plots seems to be fairly sizzling through the air. In
yesterday’s dispatches to the Gateway there were only
seven plots reported.
This talk al>out Seward people going to the Outside is
all rot—just try to rent a desirable house and see how
manv are vacant.
It is understood that many of the locations to be va
cated by the liquor interests are already “spoken for”
which shows the faith of all in the future of Seward.
The Kaiser is a nice little four-flusher and then some.
What a yarn was that anyway about a Christmas message
something about peace. Oh, hunt—the same line of talk
has been heard before and few people expected anything
to come of it.
All the world will be anxious to hear what Arctic Ex
plorer Stefansson has to say. His arrival at Fort Yukon
came like a voice from the tomb for this explorer has been
written about during the past years more than any other
man similiarlv engaged.
CHILD LABOR
DAY INDORSED
BY SECRETARY
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NEW YORK, Dec. 2(i. — Secretary
i Newton D. Baker has written the Na
| tional Child Labor Committee in re
I i no use to its plan for a Child Labor
| )ay for churches and schools through
out the country on January 2<*>, 27 and
28, 1918.
“The ravages of hostilities bear
heavily indeed on the present genera
tion, but we must not permit the ef
| forts to be visited on the children of
the nation. The tribulations borne by
i in* present should make us conserve
1 ;o as great a degree as possible the
| health and energies of the coming
generation. Let me add my indorse
I meat of the centering of our attention
v»n Child Labor Day.”
The plan of the National Child La
»or Day Committee is to make Child
i f.abor Day a reminder to the Ameri
• an people of their duty to their ehil
areii in war. Special elForts will be
iade to encourage the keeping up of
chool attendance during the war and
,)r promotion of• industrial education
•*s \vi*ll as the enforcement of child
,abor and tin* promotion of industrial
'•duration as well a.- the enforcement
of child labor laws.
The committee is sending out pam
phlets dealing with the war problems
. ‘.Feeling American children to school
.‘•uperintendents and clergymen
throughout the country, and has mark
eu lists of these pamphlets to public
libraries, so that everyone interested
may have the opportunity of order
ing these publications.
United States Commissioner 01 ftou
cution Claxton has expressed his in
terest in Child Labor Day and has
urged school superintendents every
where to observe it.
“It is impossible to overemphasize
the importance of preserving during
the stress of war all the interests of
the children and of permitting no
lack of effort to prepare the children
for the greater responsibilities and
more difficult and Important duties,
that will come to them as men and
women because of our entrance into
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notice to delinquent co
owners
To GEORGE R. KING and DAVE
BAUMAN, and to their, and each
if their heirs and assigns: »
You. and each of you, are hereby (
notified that during the years ending
December ni. 1909, 1910. 1911, 1912.;
)Di:t. 1914, 1915, 1910, and 1917, the.
Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 157
HARRY KAWABE, Prop.
Best of Work—Quickest Deliv
ery. Family Work. Bough
Dry 10c Per Pound.
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheelwrighting
SKWARP ALASKA
the wa v’ say - Commissioner CJlaxton.
One of the most interesting of the
National Child Labor Committee’s
pamphlets for use on Child Labor Day
deals with the problem of using chil
dren in food production during the
war, summarizing results of the use
of them in 11U7 in various parts of
tin* country ami offers suggestions for
the coming summer.
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delicacies on all the
STKADEUS ARE CUT OUT
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. Meals
on board trans-Pacific liners are min
us many of their delicacies us a result
of the food conservation campaign.
The steamship companies have enter
ed into the movement to curtail the
consumption of meat, sugar and fats,
and to serve more fish.
Iu view of the fact that the govern
mrwt controls every steamer and sail
ing vessel of more than 2f>00 tons, it
is expected that the campaign will bo
effective. The companies themselves
aie said to be doing a!l they can to
aid the plan, while the passengers ap
pear to he complaining but little.
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Tin* road to success is strewn with
beautiful flowers, but the man who
would g**t there has no time to pick
thorn.
undersigned has expended more than
O ie Hundred Dollars in each of said
y ars, or a total of $900.00, in labor
ami improvements upon the Social
Group sulphur place! mining claim,
situate on Makuskan Mountain, Una
la ska mining district, district of Alas
ka, in which mining location you, the
said George II. King claim an undiv
ided one-eighth (1-8) interest, and
you, the said Dave Rauman e a rn an
undivided one sixteenth (1-10) inter
est, as shown by notice of location
thereof and deeds of conveyance of
said interest of record in the record
ing oft ice of the aforesaid mining dis
trict. The said labor was perform* (i
aj; and for the representation of said
cl um for tin* years as aforesaid, as
required by the laws of the United
S ates and district of Alaska concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims
and the same was the amount requir
ed to hold said claim for said years.
The amount required for each of said
years being the sum of One Han
dled Dollars ($100.00).
You are further notified that un
h,s within ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you
contribute your proportionate : hare
of said expenditures, as such co-own
ers, to wit: You, the said Georg* 11.
King, the sum of $112.50, being your
proportionate share of said represen
tation for the years ending as afore
said; and you, the said D ive Rau
man, the sum of $50.25. being youi
proportionate share of said iepr*yon
tauon for the years ending as afore
said, your interest in said claim will
be forfeited to the undersigned co
owner, who has made such expendi
tures and will become his property in
the manner provided by law.
Dated at Seattle, Washington. th>
'fifteenth day of December, 19* f.
FRANK MF.FRWAI FT
Co Owner.
Date of publication Dec. 24th. 1917 to
March 25, 1918.
CHOP SUEY
AND NOODLES
Specialties at the
MOON
RESTAURANT
W ash. St., Between
Broadway & 3rd Ave
things to remember and some to forget
Forget the idea that we are to burn Matanuska coal for at least
t vo .vans. Forget that the Engineering Commissmnexpect.to do
tho right thing by Seward ami the Alaska Noithein on this $i,.»L>,0( )
appropriation. Remember what they have <lone in the past. J'orgot
ti'at President Wilson made the mistake of his life in the so ection
of Seward as the One and only Terminal of the Government Railway
in Alaska. Remember thatthis wonderful constructive aggregation
have willed it to Anchorage! The government Experimental Station,
with its 14 miles of ice in winter and 14 miles of mud in summer,
with its three million dollar tounsite and its $22,000,000 Imilroad
starting at its local bunkers and ending in the tall timbers of lal
KMt Surely this World War should have a tendency to awaken Wash
ington to the fact that this present “Bunch" are NOT “making good
Forget about that ROOO.OOO Emergency Appropriation of Aligns
for the immediate connection of Seward y\G Matanuska^
Fields and the opening up of Unit 12 in the Chickaloon Coal Fields.
How much of that was used in and about Anchorage?
F'orget that statement by Chairman Edes in Washington on Dc
cember 1915, that Seward wouldbe connected up with steel by Nov
on ber 1915. Here we have Christmas 1917, and no railroad in sight,
Forget that history gives Capt. Cook the honor of discovering
Cook Inlet country, accoiding tc recent statistics, certain members ap
pointed by the President claim this distinction. Surely they are en
titled to anything in the way of Townsitoa, Dam Sites, Dredges, even,
to the inevitable Tin Can in the Finis.
How much have they fiddled away on the. lone dredge costing them
one quarter million dollars, and now lying useless in the grass. Re
member they are asking for $7,315,000 for 1918. Add up the funds
allotted to the various sections and you will find only $4,212,000.
What do thev expect to do with $3,103,000? Why on earth don t
they come out with it. Still “Pussy footing” while we are waiting
for coal. Freezing for the lack of Coal. Still compelled to Burn
British Columbia Coal at $19.00 per Short Ton.
Why even the Commission themselves are using thousands of tons
on the Seward Division. Reallv. it's a joke, this Alaska Coal. But
ibe Alaska Railroad is a joker. Three years of construction, $22,
000.000 spent and less than 140 miles of Railroad built. Surely our
Government is Liberal, and the people of Seward should be, as this
is Holiday time. Remember the Red Cross and its work. Remember
that anything in the way of Holiday Gifts are carried by the Seward
Commercial Co.
Don’t put off your Christmas shopping as if it was Government
work. Get a move on vou. Do it now, and let us wait on you.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
Seward Light &
Power Company
Main 153
31 I m O LT 91 STEAMSHIP SAFETY
ALAS & A com jany 5F*ff}o
Sailings from Seattle
Alaska, Dec. 8th; Victoria, Dec. 16th; Alameda,
Dec. 27th. Alaska, Jan. 1st. Northwestern, Jan. 8th; Alameda, Jan. 16th;
Alaska, Jan. 24th.
Sailing of Alaska Dec. 8th, connects with Dora to the westward
'Sailing of Victoria Dec. 16th, is via the outside passage.
A. H. McDONALD, Agent.
The Seward News Company
GEORGE PHELPS
booksellers. Newsdealers and Stationers
i £A M SHjK- ..-4,j
Seward, Alaska Phone: Main 81
.. , , { ADMIRAL EVANS . D.v. II
SAILIN(ih \ Captain C. A. Glasscock
FROM SEATTLE: {
j Admiral Evans Goes to Kodiak on
f this trip
Through Tickets to Eastern Points at Reduced Rates.
For full information on sailings from ScaKle to San Erancitco, Ad
dress Wayne Blue, Agent, Sewa rd, Alaska.
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HARDWARE, STOVES AND RANDES
RUBBER BELTING
Door* and Windows Gasoline Stoves Oil Stoves Ammunition Gasoline
IXT, Parlor Healer* Deadening Pelt Spark Plugs Bench Forge* Bellows
Air Tight Heators Wouther Strips Jump Coils Brush#* Cutler?
Aluminum Ware Blacksmith’s Coal Batteries Vamishss Fire Cda?
P. & B. Paper Wheel Barrows Asbe«to* Turpcntins Rifles
Mnllhoid Routing Fishing Tackle Tar Pupet Japan Fire Brisk
Marine Engine Oil Alcohol Stoves Valve Oil Goal Tar lime
Gas Engine Oil Seine Twine Floor Oil Lamps Cement
Lacqusret Paint Granite Ware Linseed Oil Lanterns Glass
Denatured Alcohol Cook Stoves Cup Grease Tents Rope
Lang’s Rangns Camp Stoves Paints Shot Guns Mercur?
Phone Madison 87 J. L. GRAEF Seward, Alaska
Certain-teed Roofing. Guaranteed
10 and 15 years. J. L. Graef’s. tf. j
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
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Waterfill and Frnrr^r whiskey, at
the Branch.
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MEN—Read Cotter’s Ad today.
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Taylor's Express meets all boats
! and trains. Phone Main 122.
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Subscribe for The Gateway.
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Waterfili & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
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Sec exhibition drill at Seward Mili
tary Unit Ball Saturday night. Tick
ets, $1.00. D22
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Proof of labor blanta for sale at
Gateway.
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Ask your grocere fbr Seward
Bakery Bread.
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For your Xmas dinner Creaca fruit
cake, Heinz* plum or fig pudding, the
best ever. Brown & Hawkins.
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Pearl Oil $1.76 a can at Groefe. tf
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
| The Chesterfield blend
I’ has in it the highest
grade Turkish tobacco
that grows.
\ They satisfy—
I and yet they're MILD. /
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