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Taking everything into account Seward can hi* called the pleasantest
place to live in Maska.
There are inuny beautiful spots in this old territory and there is a charm
about most of them which clings to one long after he has parted with them.
There is the beautiful beach at Nome all the way down to Nome river and
beyond. Fairbanks has its beautiful trails along the slough and the lovely
stretch of water down to Chena. Skagwav has its mountain lake near Dt
wey and the glorious White Pass. Juneau has its picturesque road along the
seashore to the big mines miles below. Ketchikan has its pretty lawns and
its walk along the mountain torrent. Cordova has its railroad along and
across the Copper river. Tunana. Ruby, Circle, Nulato, Eagle have the giant
sweep of the Yukon where the summer sun shines golden at night while the
wild fowl send their cries over the flood, but Seward seems to have them all
and more.
Seward has its magnificent harbor sheltered between the surrounding hills
and lies like a pretty painting in the bottom of a saucer. At the feet of the
hills are wood*' where game abounds, and farms where the refining touch of
agriculture shows side by side with the gloom of the untouched forest.
Seward has everything that any other part of Alaska can boast of and
has much more. It ha* the strange attraction which is known as the charm
of Alaska and. perhaps, better still, she has the future which, even without
the pleasant things of the present, is worth waiting for.
When the time comes for the choice of the railroad terminal it would be
well that these facts were known to the world.
An official of the Inited States land department who has recently been
over this district expresses the opinion that within a very few years ranchers
will be settled all o%er this country as thickly as they are in many of the
agricultural state* outside, louring the past year several farmers ha>e taken
up homesteads and the coming of the railroad will give an immense impetus
to the search for permanent homes. The great trouble has been that Alaska
has received a black eye from some of the irresponsible scribblers that know
absolutely nothing about the territory. As long as they can sell a lot of rub
bish about outlaws and people freezing to death they are perfectly satisfic'd
and the people who read their poppycock are satisfic'd that Alaska is abount
as fine a place to \isit as the North Pole*.
There are thousand* of people residing right in the territory today who
know less about the real possibilities of Alaska than if they had never left
Puyallup. There are other* who write' fiction and so-called facts about the
country with the sole* aim of making the territory look as weird and “interest- j
ing" as their ignorance will permit them. To make Alaska look interesting
they find it necessary to speak of it as a country of desperadoes, demi-numdes,
dogs, dugouts, death and devilment generally.
Never for a moment do they pause to discover that in the valleys of this
part of Alaska, at least, there is fertile* ground enough to feed millions of
people w ho are stars ing their lives out in the slums of the big cities all over
the world.
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GERMAN SOLDIERS WORKING she received the news. When the sol
EIGHT HOt'RS SHIFTS, diors fight for their eight hours they
go to the rear, away out of hearing
A very well known resident of Sew- of lhe Suns an<1 enj°>' a line slecP b<"
, , , . , . 1 fore going to “work" again. It is
ard has received a letter from his . _ ., .
stated by another German resident or
mother in Germany in which the lady e f rA1.n,nt,lf
* Seward that the papers of Germany
states that the German soldiers in now §eem to be bent particularly in
the trenches in France and Belgium showing sympathy for the French as
are now “working" eight hours shifts, if they desired to wean franco from
Her brother is fighting and from him * its alliance with Russia and Britain.
MILITARY MEN
RUN GERMANY
DURING WAR THE ARMY OF
THE KAISER IS
SUPREME.
BERLIN, Nov. 17.—To suy that the
civil authority in Germany has every
where given way to military govern
ment would be to overstate the case,
and yet it is true that within its own
field of affairs the military is not only
absolute, but also at times inclined ut
terly to disregard even the highest
state officials. This prevails to such an
extent that passes, for instance, from
the Minister of Foreign Affairs art.
only valid when some army officer is
disposed to recognize them.
The foreign correspondents left in
Berlin have recently had occasion to
witness the working of military gov
ernment. The Foreign Oifice sent to
them unsolicited, an invitation to visit
the war prisoners’ detention barracks
at Doberitz, some fifteen miles outside
the capital. The newspaper-men as
sembled at the time and place direct
ed. With them were Captain Loch
lein of the Imperial Admiralty and
several high officials of the Foreign
Office. The commandant of the mili
tary camp an elderly general, ap
proached the group and addressed
them brusquely.
“Nobody will be admitted to see the
prisoners,” he said. “And as long as
I am commandant here, the same rule
will prevail.”
He turned his hack on the state of
ficials and newspaper-men and strode
back to his room without a word of
explanation. The fact that the vistors
were present by invitation of the gov
ernment made no difference to him.
The civil officials of Germany reali
ze that the fact that the neutral na
tions are getting so little news from
! the German side is in some degree the
j fault of this lack of co-operation be
■ tween the civil and the military of
ficials. If the former could have their
way, the foreign press service from
Germany would be much more nearly
complete, but they are blocked by this
j attitude of the army officials.
SOCIALIST FOR WICK.
A dispatch from the Fairbanks so
cialist paper to a Juneau paper just
before election stated that the “inde
| pendent socialists” had decided to vote
1 for Wickersham and this fact ac
1 counts, no doubt, for the result. This
little storv vividly illustrates what a
fine chance the socialists have of mak
ing the world one happy family. If
socialists could only see themselves
as others see them.
THE MINERS’ STORE
The Place Where Men Outfit in Seward
^WTE now have on hand a
complete line of Men’s
Furnishings, that for quali
ty, durability, style and
price, have never been
equalled in Seward.
The Goods You Want to Wear
The Styles You Want to Wear
The Quality You Like to Wear
The Price You Want to Pay
The famous
Kenyon Balmacaans
The snappiest, classiest line of
Top Coats ever shown in Sew ard.
The qualitj stands out on them
like the Wickersham majority.
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Guiterman Shirts Cloth Hats
Military Collars, Coat Cut* Balmaoaan Models
Fancy Checks and Plaids Fancy Tweeds
The Latest, $2.5o--$*.00. $2.50-12.00.
STEIN-BLOCH SUITS
The very latest tn Men’s Beady-to-Wear Clothes.
Best Fabrics, Latest Styles, New Models.
Two dozen specially selected Suits on the next steamer.
Call and see them. Prices ranging from $27.50 to $45.00.
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Twenty cases of Shoe Pacs just fresh from the factories.
Fresh new goods, made up with and without heels. All kinds
including the Famous GOLD SEAL SEWARD, The HIPRESS
and the ARROW BRAND. Prices from $4.00 to $5.50.
SNOW SHOES-Just io from Knik. A fresh stock. Whilt
they last, $0.00.
A Complete Line of Underwear In All Weights and Styles
Madlicott in Both Union Suits and Two-Piece Suits
Our three pair for a Dollar Heavy Wool Socks has captur
ed the town, and we have sixty dozen of them
still on hand and more ordered.
EVERYTHING FOR MEN TO WEAR
THE MINERS' STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
PARIS FIREMEN ~
BURY THE DEAD
SEVENTY THOUSAND BODIES OF
SOLDIERS ON ONE
FIELD.
ESTERNAY, France, Nov. 16.—
Parties of German soldiers separated
from the main bodies of troops during
the German retreat from the Marne
are still hiding in the woods in this
vicinity. The French armies passed on
and there are too few soldiers left in
this part of France to hunt down the
German stragglers. They live upon
the country but otherwise commit no
depredations.
Along the whole countryside peas
ants who have returned point out bur
ial places of those who fell in the
fierce fighting in this neighborhood
and for 60 miles to the East. The
dead were buried by 800 Paris fire
men, assisted by 600 civilian laborers.
It is said that the tally kept by the
firemen show's that 70,000 dead were
buried, about 30,000 of them French.
The greatest slaughter was in the
marshes near Sezanne. Fifteen thous
and dead are buried in long trenches
at the bottom of a wooded hill.
French and Germans are buried
separately. On the long mounds above
the French trenches have been set up
rude wooden crosses; a few wild
flowers have been scattered on the
mounds and sometimes large stones
have been placed at either end. Caps
of French soldiers, showing the name
of the regiment, have been placed on
the crosses or the stones. The trenches
in which the Germans are buried are
unmarked. The son of General von
Moltkc is buried near Easternay.
Champillon, about two miles south
east of Coulommiers, is the farthest
place south reached by the Germans
on their march for the investment of
Paris. The village did not have more
than 25 houses. All were burned.
Twelve inhabitants have returned and
among other repairs have patched up
the schoolhouse. Six children are be
ing taught there.
Strewn over the plain near Fere
Champenoise are small piles of empty
cartridge shells, pieces of broken
rifles, artillery carriages, fragments
of uniforms and various other wreck
age from the fighting. In an open
space about two miles long by a mile
wide were some thickets where the
German quick-firers had been con
cealed. On the ridge behind w’erc
placed German long-range guns,
which were doing great damage to the
French. It was here that three regi
ments of Turkos asked to be allowed
to charge the height on which was the
artillery. Nothing was known of the
quick-firers in the bushes in the mid
dle of the field. The three regiments
started. When they were within easy
range the German quick-firers opened
upon them. Only about half a regi
ment succeeded in getting forward
and taking the machine guns. Re
serves w’ore then brought up and an
other charge resulted in the capture of
the German guns on the hills after
j tremendous hand-to-hand encounters.
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
, IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA THIRD
JUDICIAL DIVISION
George E. Nichols,
I and J. P. Stotko,
Plaintiffs.
vs.
F. W. Isham, Trustee, and
Seward Alaska Gold Mining
Company, a corporation.
Defendants.
The President of the United States of Amer
ica, Greeting: ___ — ,
To the above named defendant, F. W. Isham,
Trustee.
You are hereby required and directed to ap
pear in tho District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Third Judicial Division, within thirty
days after the completion of the publication
of this summons upon you, to-wlt: within
thirty days after the 22 day of December A. D.
1914, and answer the complaint of the plaint
iffs on file herein. Failing to do so, judge
ment will be taken against you for the relief
■ prayfed for in said complaint.
The said action is brought to obtain a decree
of this court for the foreclosure of a certain
mortgage described in said complaint, execut
: ed by said F. W. Isham. Trustee, on the 19th
day of January A. D. 1912, to secure the pay
ment of two promissory notes of even date
there with, in the sum of $7,600.00, described
therein; that the premises conveyed by said
mortgage, to-wit: six mining claims, the same
being those certain quarts mining claims
’ known as Utica, Fraction, Sunrise, Texas,
Stewart and Oro, being six full mining claims,
contiguous, each six hundred (600) feet wide
by fifteen hundred (1600) feet long, located on
the western shore of Resurrection Bay and
about six hundred (600) feet west of Seward
! Dock of the Town of Seward, Alaska, In Kcnai
I Precinct, Territory of Alaska, may be sold, and
the proceeds may be applied to the payment
of said notes, and in case such proceeds are
not sufficient to pay the same, then to obUin
an execution against the said F, W. Isham,
Trustee, for the balance remaining due, and
also that the said defendants, and all persons
claiming by, through or under them may be
barred and foreclosed of all right and title,
claim, lien, equity of redemption, and Interest
in and to said mortgaged premises, and for
such other relief as may be equitable.
Date of order for publication 16th day of
October, A. D. 1914.
Witness the Honorable Fred M. Brown,
judge of the above entitled court, this 16th
day or October A. D. 1914.
ARTHUR LANG.
Clerk of said Court.
By K. L. MONAHAN,
Deputy.;
S. O. MORFORD,
Attorney for Plaintiff*.
First publication Nov. 10, 1914.
Last pubtlsatien Dee. 21, 1114.
HEWITT SPEAKS WELL
OF WESTWARD TOWNS
E. S. Hewitt, Alaska representative
of the L. C. Smith Bros. Typewriter
company, who recently returned from
a trip to the Westward, says that it
looks good out that way. “Valdez,
j is a good solid town,” says Mr. Hewitt,
„but Seward and Knik seem to be the
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livliest spots out that way just now,
i owing to the activity toward opening
up the coal lands and the building of
the government railroad. Every house
in Seward is occupied and several
were compelled to leave because there j
were no house.* in which to live dur
ing the present winter.—Juneau !
Empire.
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COMMERCE CAFE
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Established 1905 E. LEVIN. Prop.
T. & M. APPLICATION NO. 01676 ^
Department of the Interior
United Statei Land Office
Juneau. Alaska, September 3. 1914.
Notice is hereby given that the Port Helden
Packing Company of Portland, Oregon, a cor
poration organised under the laws of the State j
of Washington, has made application in this
office under the provisions of the Acts of Con
gress of March 3, 1891, and May 14, 1898,
amended by the Act of March 3, 1903, for the
lands embraced in U. S. Survey No. 481 as
a trade and manufacturing site, aald lands be
ing located on the east shore of Port Helden,
Bering Sea, Alaska, In latitude 66 deg. 62
min. N. and longitude 168 deg. 44 min. W.
and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, W. C. Cor. due
E. 1.06 cha., on line of ordinary high tide of
Port Helden, thonce due E. 25. ehs., to Cor.
No. 2, thence due N. 30 ehs., to Cor. No. 3,
thence due W. 13.88 ehs., to Cor. No. 4, on
line or ordinary high tide Port Helden, whence
low point at eaiit entrance bears N. 17 deg.
30 min. W., thence meandering along the
shore of said Port Helden, (1) N. 16 deg. 46
min. W. 16.65 ehs., (2) S. 25 deg. 07 min. W.
16.51 ehs., to Cor. No. 1, the place of begin
ning, containing an area of 26.69 acres, Mag.
Var. 21 deg. 24 min. E.
Any and all pirsons claiming any portion of
aald lands, or desiring to protest said appllca- ;
tlon or entry, are required to Ale their satd
adverse claims cr protests under oath within
the period of the statute or thereafter they
will be barred.
C. B. WALKER,
Register. •
Date of First Publication, Soft. 17, 1914.
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Steamers leave Seattle every ten days each month on the
5th, 15th, 25th,
ADMIRAL WATSON AND ADMIRAL EVANS
via the INSIDE PASSAGE, for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat.
Katalla, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez, Latouche, Seward,
Cook Inlet Points and Kodiak Island.
PUGET SOUND-CALIFORN1A ROUTE
Seattle to San Francisco, connecting with steamers Yale and Har
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Right reserved to change steamers and sailing dates without notice.
B F. WATSON, General Agent. WAYNE BLUE, Local Agent.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. 3
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
every eight days tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. Dirlgo leaves Seward 15th of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutch Harbor.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
Valdez, Latouche and Sew ard
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
(9*Right reserved to change this schedule without noticeTkS
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Hotel Seward
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