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One of those frequent conineidences happened yesterday. In the Douglas
Island News was read an article from the Alaska Citizen of Fairbanks tak
ing the Gateway to task for saying anything against the proposed Alaska
Development board. 1’he Douglas News itself seemed to endorse the views
of the C itizen as it reproduced the Citizen rebuke to the Gateway on its trout
page and headed the article with the words ** Y Misunderstood Measure. I he
coincidence comes in the fact that within an hour after the reading ot this re
buke a telegram arrived at the Gateway oil ice telling that at its annual meet
ing the Ymerican Forestry association protested against placing the forests
under the control of any such bureaucratic body.
Now. the Citizen, as quoted by the News says in the course of its re
primand.
"Among the duties ot the proposed development board will be those ot
giving patents to mining claims and to other lands. I he hoard will also take
the place of the present road commisson in Ylaska, and will direct the edu
cational facilities for the people living outside ot incorporated towns and
cities
According to present plaits, the board will have the authority to manage
alt the telegraphic lines in Ylaska. and will act in advisory capacity to the
President anil to congress in regard to routine matters here.
Previous to this statement the C itizen says that the "Development
Board" will "have nothing to do with the making of laws lor Alaska hut
will the Citizen or the News tell us that if the Board will have charge of the
patents to mining claims and other lands, control of the schools, the roads
and the telegraph what in the name of Heaven shall the rest ol the people
have? I he Federal government now has control of most of the other things.
\\ e cannot elect judges. We can only tax certain industries to a limited ex
tent. We have been unable even to collect taxes. Many doubt our ability to
pass mining laws or even suffrage lor women. Our Igislatures power is,
indeed, so limited that the lord knows whether vie can pass anything at all
or not.
But the neatest little joker of all sticks its naive head above the surface
when the C ilizen tells us that the Board "will act in advisory capacity to the
President and to congress in regard to routine matters here." So, there you
are. YY e have a governor, a delegate in congress, a legislature, conventions,
political leaders of all kinds and yet «r must have someone else to tell the
President and congress what they ought to do about the tenitory while the
governor, the delegate, the legislators et hoc genus omne sit out on the b.uk
steps at Washington scratching their heads in the perplexity of thought as to
what they were elected tor. YYhy, the delegate has no vote in congress right
why and what in the name of all that's holy was the position ol delegate
established for if it was not to express the opinions of the people of the ter
ritory as to "hat they wanted.
Be careful, ye Citizens and Newses. that you are not swallowing the old
commission form of government bureaucracy pill while it is innocently
coated with the sugar of the Development Board, lie careful, ye Innocents,
that you are not placing yourself under a bureaucratic tyranny that violates
the chief principle of the Ymerican constitution which anticipated Lincoln Ivy
ordaining that government should only he for the people. OF.the people and
BY THE PEOPLE.
Whether the secretary of the interior has really a benelical proposal in
this respect to make or not the people of Ylaska themselves should he care
ful. for once give your unreserved consent to the establishment of such a
hoard and it will last for many long days on the excuse that the people of
the territory themselves endorsed it.
The people of Nome in mass meeting have already gone on reecord as
opposed to the proposal and it behooves us all to he wary, for, good as a
development hoard might hi* in some respects, any man worthy of the name
i believes that governing himself badly is better than to be governed well by
others. Anyone who thinks otherwise deserves to be a slave.
Secretary Lane is a splendid friend of this territory and he will do noth
! ing that would not be for our benefit according as he sees it, but surely the
people of Alaska must see danger in the proposal to appoint a board that
would alone have the ear of the President and congress, a board that would
be independent of the people who made the territory. If President Wilson
and congress want advice why do thy have to pass a law for it. If the people
of the territory and their elected represntatives cannot gi\e that advice can
they expect that five individuals will bo able to supply the deficiency?
Already the Forestry Association sees danger in the proposal and will
it remain for Alaskan themselves to accept this pig in a poke without at least
taking one little look at least, into the interior to see something more than
can be seen on the surface?
Vs the editorial page was about closed came the telegram quoting
Secretary Lane as saying that actual construction work will begin on the
government railroad this spring. What can be said to add to this news?
How can Alaska express itself now that the day of glorious moment
has arrived for the territory; It can only say “Hurrah for President Wilson;
Hurrah for Franklin k. Lane; Hurrrah for Alaska, and. Hv Ceorge, it looks
like Hurrah for Seward!
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District Attorney Spence has mov
ed the admission of his clerk, Harold
Dennett, to the bar of Alaska. Den
nett is a nephew of Mrs. Spetice, and
prior to coining to Alaska passed an
examination for admission to the su
preme court of Georgia, but left the
state before admission. He will take
an examination here to be given by
the liar Association.—Valdez Pros
pector.
Over 500 lives have been sacri
ficed and over twelve million dollars'
worth of property lost in the almost
uncharted waters of the Alaskan
coast, since the territory was ceded
by Russia in 1867.
Two hundred and eighty-one vessels
have been totally lost and many more
have been wrecked and salvaged af
ter large expenditures of money b\
the owners. No record of money lost (
by this means is kept, but a conser
vative estimate puts it at $,>,000,000 ^
more. — Dispatch.
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A conservative estimate of the out- j
put of the Doorman section during
the season just closed is $12o,000.
This estimate; is based on opinions of
operators and others who are in a
position to make a fairly reliable ap-1
proximate estimate. Ruby Record
Citizen.
Wm. Steward, one of the pioneers
of Alaska, died Sunday at the Sitka
Pioneers’ Home. His age was 68
years.
IDITAROD, Dee. 10.—Maintaining
to the last his indomitable spirit, Wil
liam McDonald, known to every resi
dent of the district as “Uncle Rillv,M
THE MINER’S STORE
| The Place Where Men Outfit
There is a pleasure in selling, either to an old custom
er or to a stranger, an article of known merit : To know
and feel that the article is going to give satisfaction and
service and to feel when you make the sale, that the mem
ory of the quality will stay with the customer long after
the price paid has been forgotten.
That is the kind of merchandise that we carry, the
kind where the memory of the quality of goods lingers.
Dependable merchandise. When we sell a man a Stein
Block Suit, we know that he is buying Style, Fit, Quality,
and Satisfaction. It is the same with Kenyon (’oat,
Dougherty Shoes, Guiterman Shirts, Duxbak Clothing,
Guiterman Mackinaw ('oats and riding pants, Filson Stag
or Cruiser Shirts, Chippewa Shoes or Hipress Pacs.
It is this kind of merchandise, sold at prices that ap
peal to the trade, that has made it possible for us to build
up in the past four years, from a most modest beginning
•to our present standing, and it is the memory of the
quality of the goods that we have handled that has sent
the customers back to us and enabled us to hold their
trade year after year
There is not one article in this store that we know
now where we could get a better one to take its place. II
we should find a better one, we would immediately order
the line. We want the best and we want you to feel and to
know that when you buy an article in THE MINER
STORE, you are buying the best that can be purchased
by us.
When you want a suit of clothes, a hat, a pair of shoes
or even a pair of socks, don’t you like to buy from a store
that is making an earnest effort to give you the highest
grade and the best value possible to give for your money,
to buy from a store that stands behind every article that
is sold in the store?
THE MINER S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
1 was stricken with a fatal illness last
Friday night, and breathed his last at
the Emergency hospital, Flat City,
shortly after 4 o’clock on Saturday
afternoon. Everything possible was
done to relieve the old man, but it
was realized that there was no hope
his great age being against him.
Marshal Bishop is rapidly regaining ^
his strength and expects to be back j
in harness soon. Yesterday he took a
walk of eight blocks in the pouring
j rain.
The following appears in an Alaska j
paper: Estimtes of the wealth of this
country show that each of us should j
have $1,400. Wc personally know j
there has been a theft of $1,398—
somewhere.
The Douglas Island News says:
“The appointment of Chas. E. Bun
nell, of Valdez, as judge of the Fourth
division, is made. To he a candidate
for delegate to congress on the demo
cratic ticket in Alaska has been used
before as a stepping stone to a posi
tion on the bench. It was asserted
during the campaign that Mr. Bunnell
was induced to accept the nomina
tion by such a promise. In that ease
he is smarter than we thought.”
SKAGWAY, Dec. 29.—Fred Fonzo
formerly deputy United States mar
shal in Skagway, received the sad in
telligence last night of the death of
his daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Alvilda
Weston, from pneumonia, at her home
in San Francisco, at 2 a. m., Dec. 28.
The American Press Association
has sent out plate pictures of Colonel
Goethals builder of the* Panama ca
nal, who has been slated to build the
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Yost water motor wash machines
at Brown & Hawkins. “Quality first.”
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
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get all the real news of the world
through a great press service, ^ou
may not get all the details but you
got all of which a knowledge is
necessary.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
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best. Our stock of both soft and
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$150
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Latest Style \ictrola.
$100
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$200
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Alaska railroad, and an article accom
panying the engraving says:
“If he makes the dirt fly in Alaska
as fast as he did in Panama Alas
kans will he travelling in Pullmans in-^
stead of dog teams from one place
to another.”
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The Seward (lateway becomes peev-1
ed at the enforcement of Sunday ob
servance laws made in far-away
Washington, and with good reason.
The people of this territory have been
endowed with a form of home govern
ment and should be allowed to exer
cise the right to pass upon these mat
ters. The determined effort that is
spoken of in the news dispatch to
make Alaska dry by congressional
action will he resented for the same
reason. If Alaska people want pro
hibition they should have it; if not, it
should not be forced upon them.—
Iditarod Pioneer.
Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.
A great many people outside and
inside Alaska arc now anxious to get
any news they can of the place where
the government railroad will be. To
save writing letters you could send
the Gateway, either your own read
copy or get another.
19 1 January Fifth, Our I FN III
Anniversary ol llusiness in Seward
'^YA1' wisl‘ tot,ian^ 1,10 m J^«*noral for their liberal
patronage in the past and trust our business meth
ods have boon such as to merit their greater eon*
tidence in the future. We are most optimistic for Seward
in the year Ibid. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict tin1 selection ot Uessur*
root ion Kay as the Ocean Terminus of the Government
Kailway by President Wilson, not later than February 10;
that actual construction work will begin not later than
April 1st: that Seward will have a population of 5000
people by December doth: that real estate in Sew aid will
advance fully UOO per cent by September 1st, and that our
business will increase accordingly.
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SEWARD COMMERCIAL COMPANY
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER’S AND COLD MIMfR’S SlffllfS
Doors & Windows
Lang’s Ranges
I X L Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P & B Paper
Malthoid Rooling
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Engine Oil
Niarine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
Elaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltum Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
PHONE BLACK 4
Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackle
Giant Powder
Caps
Fuse
Bench Forges
Blacksmith’s Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Hope
Mercury
Seine Twine
J. L. GRAEF
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. S
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
every eight days tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. DORA leaves Seward 13th of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutch Harbor.
Regular freight service tor 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)
tt$'Right reserved to change this schedule without notice-^
F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
Hotel Seward
W. A. M’NEILEY, P*op.
modern conveniences
RATES $1.00 TO $2.50 PER DAY
HOT AND COLD WATER BATHS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
The Bor gen Grocery
Staple and fancy Groceries
Handles the Best Canned Goods from the Pacific Coast—Best
Treatment to Everybody and Prices Right—Goods
Delivered to All Parts of the City
GUS BORGEN, Proprietor
Phone Main 134 Clayson Building, Seward
Pioneer
Hotel
F. B. CANNON, Prop.
Knik
Alaska
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NO BAR
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Large General Lobby
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