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SEWARD. ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 1916.
Alaska has more “prominent" men than any other
land on earth. We often smile at the south American
“generals" and the petty princes of Monaco and such
places hut we seldom ponder over the tact that we our
selves are very much on the same status. It is so terribly
easy to be “famous" in small communities. Out of thirty
or fortv thousand white inhabitants Alaska has all sorts
of senators, representatives, poets, orators, great writers,
great everything else. The cause of this is our remoteness
from great centers of population. We lose sight ot the
mountains beyond and our vision is limited by the hillocks
close at home. Hundreds of young men and women have
been led by this false appraisement to leave Alaska and go
to New York where they were sure fame awaited them,
only to find that thousands with greater talent were starv
ing to death there. As a matter of fact a place like Alaska
would be just as good a stepping stone to national lame
as the Empire City while the United States mail service
is in existence. If one has talent there is no better place
than a town like Seward in which to develope it, and get
ting a name for brilliancy is so much more easy here.
Even local fame is better than nothing, little as it is.
The criminal calendar at the \ ablez session ot court
this time is deplorably long but outsiders should remem
ber that the defendants are for the most part men who
just come up to canneries trom the outside. 1 hey are not
Alaskans. Judging by the names some of them must have
received their education in the \ ilia “army.
The war news in itself is getting tiresome and will
have to change pretty soon or no audience will be Jett.
The most thrilling news of the war nowadays is some lit
tic omcufciu wrnen excites the imagination and gets us to
read more than the censor lets pass. For instance, we
read of the execution of soldiers by their comrades and
we see where some poor wretch in a moment of terror has
forgotten his duty to his country, gives way to the terror
and forfeits his life as a coward. We can see in this the
horror of the war more clearly than we can when we are
told that some army lost forty thousand men in a month.
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Such a statement as the latter does not enable us to read
the soul of each individual of the forty thousand but let us
read of the execution of one man such as Captain Fryatt
and it brings home the horror of it all more clearly. Kill
ing thousands is too indefinite but the killing of one man
gives it the human touch.
The Seward News Company
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JUNEAU'
“SWAGGER STICKS” POPULAR
WITH OFFICERS ON BORDER
(Special to Gateway by Un'ted Press)
EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 22. — When
the Kentucky militia regiments ar
rived at the border' nearly every of
ficer carried a “swagger stick” a
short straight wooden wand as is af
fected by officers of the British army.
Regular army officers were disposed
to smile and regard the fashion as a
“militia affection." But it added a
touch of tin* picturesque to the officers
and Colonel Allan (billion of the Ken
tucky National guard, who is respon
sible for the innovation, defends it.
“The swagger stick not only adds
t7ie distinctive touch to the officer,
which our army lacks, but it aids him
in maintaining a military bearing.
When carrying some object in tin*
hand, unconsciously the officer throws j
his shoulders back and walks erect.
Half of the officers on the bonier now
have adopted the “swagger stick.”
NOTICE
All bread tickets sold by Myers
bakery will be redeemed at the
Bakery. ' 9-29—tf.
Watertill & Frazier Whwkey at
“The Branch.”
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For the Bent Heal Estate
Deal in Seward
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USE THE PHONE
ALASKA ELECTRIC CO.
S. M. (lRAFF
President ami General Manager
We carry a complete stock and tire prepared to supply your wants
from the most carefully selected line of Drugs aud Sundries in Alaska.
Send us your orders.
Prescriptions
Face and Cold Creams
Kexall Household Remedies
Patent Medicines
Cotton Ac Bandages
Elastic Stockings
Trussess Ac Crutches
Abdominal Belts
Suspensories
Hand Mirrors
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Safety Razors Ac Blades
S> t inges Ac Hot M ater Bags
Brushes
Russian Ac American Oils
kodaks
Thermos Bullies
Candy
Flashlights
Magazines
Pictures
Moccasins
Post Cards
Stationery
i'yralin Ivory Ware
Blank Books
Waterman Pens (Fountain)
Typewriter Supplies
Hand Bags & Purses
Cigars & Tobacco
Agents for—
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Successors to the ALASKA PHARMACY
SEWARD ALASKA
the palace bar
SHERMAN HAYNES, PROPR.
Service Best Liquors
Cigars
Pool and Billiards
Cafe and Lunch Counter in
Connection
H.V. HOBEN A. F. DAVIS
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
-—Dealer* In
COAL, WOOD AND ICE
General Transferring Phones, Main 17 and 41
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E. L. WMITTEMORE, PROP.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
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WINES LIQUORS CIGARS
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ALASKA. Sept. 2<>
flARlPOSA, Sept. 30 ALAMr.OA Oct. iu
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All ships via inside passage. The Alameda and Mariposa touch
at Ska gw ay.
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THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER CO.
Incorporated November 1905 under the Laws of the Territory of Alaska
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Hope
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SEWARD DA1RV Why Not Try Our Buttermilk?
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