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In British polities the people look for what they call the swing of the
political pendulum every once in a while, lhis pendulum swings back and
forth apparently without reason in popular elections everywhere and its
movements themselves are a gurantee that it will keep moving.
The Associated Press is responsible for the statement telegraphed to
the Gateway yesterday that the republican victories are due to the Underwood
Tariff. As the Associated Press ought to know this statement carries a lot
of weight but it would also be probably safe to say that there were other
things besides the tariff.
President Wilson began his official career by doing things, front the
the time he wont in until last week he has been running congress like a regi
ment of German soldiers. In his hands the nationtl legislature has been a
machine for making really revolutionary changes in the internal arrange
ments of the United States. There was never a moment when we were not
reading about filibusters, revolts refusals and general Cain in Congress
while outside of it the great newspapers of the whole nation, or the major
ity of them, were casting shafts at the men who were trying to kill privilege,
and who had been placed at the head of the government. It was impossible
that support should not fall away, but that old pendulum has lots of time yet
to slip back before another general election.
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We here in Alaska know that personal considerations may count more
in an election than the welfare of the country. We even have learned that
voters will vote according to their own personal dictates even when it might
mean loss. But America is a free country.
It is clear that the people of the country as a whole do not want pro
hibition. The chances are that many people voted against prohibition that
never took a drink in their lives. What they object to is not the effort to
create temperance but the effort to force them to temperance. They object,
so to speak, to have temperance shoved down their throats as they would ob
ject to have whiskey shoved down. No one denies that drinking is an evil.
It is one of the evils that have been handed down with the birth of the race
but the race seems to have clung to the habit so carefully that it must have
some compensations.
But it is also true that the drinking habit is decreasing all the time. As
people advance in civilization and intelligence they see for themselves how
far thoy ought to go and they want no one to tell them. Indeed many intelli
gent people rather get sore when others try to force them to be too angelic.
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SEATTLE. Oct. 17.—Col. A. C.
Swanitz. of Alameda. Cal., the chief
engineer of the Alaska Northern rail
road, is a recent arrival at the Rain
ier-Grand, from his home in the
South, where he has spent most of the
summer. Col. Swanitz is rather elated
over the passage of the Alaska coal
bill. “It is an excellent bill,’* he said
“It meets all of the requirements
ami will undoubtedly result in good
work as soon as a railway is complet
ed into the Matanuska coal fields. 1
know of one concern on the Pacific
coast which wishes to take out 100,
000 tons of coke a yeai, and they are
perfectly satisfied with the law. It is
an effort to bring about better condi
tions in Alaska, and demonstrates
that Secretary of the Interior Lane is
the right man in the right place.”—
Seattle Post Intelligencer.
WRANGELL.—The body of a man
named Peterson, commonly known as
“Scow Pete,” was picked up floating
in the bay about noon *oday. The
coroner’s jury this afternoon conclud
c<l that he had fallen overboard while
intoxicated last night.
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WRANGELL.—Geo. Ramburg, a
fisherman, was brought to town last
Sunday morning and taken to the
Wrangell Hospital suffering from be
ing accidently shot with a shotgun.
According to the information given
out by the patient, he started to go
out to a boat in the bay at Point Bak
er, and having a shotgun with him,
went down to the boat lying on the
beach and climbed in leaning the gun
on the side of the boat and after get
ting in the boat he reached behind him
for the gun and started it in the boat
when the trigger caught on the side,
of the boat and set the gun off, one
of the discharges entering his back
near the spinal column and lodging in
the hip bone.
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SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425
J. J. McGRATH, District Director
Stories Of The War By
The Associated Press
PARIS, Nov. 4.—The American
Embassy, under its obligations to re
present German and Austrian inter
ests in France, is looking after about
80,000 persons who are detained as al
ien enemies in eleven localities in
France. Theso were Germans and Aus
trians living in the country at the out
break of the war. The French Govern
ment provided special trains going to
neutral frontiers for two days after
hostilities had begun, and all those re
maining within France after those
days weie obliged to report themsel
ves to the police and go to those tovns
in France to which they were assigned.
The State Department at Washing
ton has attached H. Percival Dodge,
formerly Minister to Panama, to the
Embassy here as special agent to
have charge of German and Austrian
affairs. The third floor of the Embas
sy office building is taken entirely for
this work and a considerable staff of
secretaries ami interpreters are at
work.
The reason that France holds 80,
000 civilians as prisoners of war ap
pears to be as hostage for the proper
treatment of French citizens who are
similarly held in Germany and Aus
tria, and to have in hand a means of
reprisal should there be any illtreat
ment of French soldiers captured by
German or Austrian armies. The
most distinguished prisoner is prob
ably Count Fejacsewich, member of
the Hungarian Cabinet for Croatia,
Slavonia and Dalmatia. He happened
to be at Vichy taking a cure when the
war broke out. He is allowed to re
main in his hotel and has entire freed
om of movement within the town. A
good many hundreds of German and
Austrian subjects have been allowed
to remain where they were, in each
be cause of special reasons; other hun
dreds upon the representation of the
American Embassy have been allowed
to leave the country, in each case also
for spec;al reasons, usually those of
ill-health. But there are still about
80,000 who had to go to the detention
camps. These are usually in barracks
formerly occupied by troops. There
is a good deal of crowding and the
food is probably about what French
soldiers receive. There appears to be
every intention on the part of the
French Government to treat these in
voluntary hostages as well as they can
under the necessities of war. There is
in France a great deal of suffering
among French people. It is likely
that millions are less fed than the
German and Austrian prisoners. Nev
erless these prisoners, being forced to
live away from their own homes find
life difficult and full of inconveniences.
They are allowed to receive money
and spend it as they please. They al
so write arid receive letters freely ex
cept that they are all read by censors.
Switzerland has undertaken to con
duct the exchanges of prisoners and
among the first that are being ex
changed are French people caught in
Germany and Austria by the war, and
Germans and Austrians detained in
France. Germans and Austrians are
taken by French police to the Swiss
border and turned over there to Swiss
agents, who in turn transfer French
citizens to the French representa
tives.
LONDON, Nov. 4.—London has
1 produced the meanest crowd of swind
lers on record since the English twoops
got into the fighting line in France.
Every day the London papers are
filled with appeals from the wives,
mothers and sisters of missing officers
seeking information as to their fate.
Hundreds of officers are not accounted
for who are not known to be dead.
Swindlers have taken advantage of
the women distracted by failure to
get news of their relatives and are
constantly preying on them.
The mother of a young officer who
has not been heard from since the bat
tle of Mons was recently approached
by a swindler who represented him
self as a valet and said he had seen
! the missing officer in Brussels and ex
pected to return there the next day.
The swindler was short of cash
through the failure to get a remittan
ce and asked for money which he
would promptly return upon his arriv
al at Brussels. The money was sup
plied and letters to the missing son
were entrusted to the sympathetic
courier who never was heard of again.
These men have even represented,
that they saw wounded officers in cer
tain hospitals near the fighting xone
and have delivered fictitious requests
for funds to supply delicacies to the
injured.
LONDON, Nov. 3.—The common
greeting in London is “How are you
getting along with your war song?"
Kvery one is writing a war song, hop
ing to give Britain another Marseil
laise. But so far none of the recruit
ing songs which the music halls are
trying to popularize have taken with
the recruits, whose favorite remains
the entirely unmartial “It's a long,
long way to Tipperary." The favorite
whistling tune on the march is by all
odds the Marseillaise, although the
soldiers’ chorus from “ Faust" and
any spirited air has only to be started
to be taken up by the entire line. This
is why most of the war song compos
ers choose the old tunes rather than
those made to order.
One amateur poet sent a set of ver
ses to the Times with the chorus:
Here’s to Lord Kitchener, brown as'
the sun,
Gentle, pursuasive and balmy,
Giving his orders and getting them I
done.
All that he wants for the army, j
In this case the writer's attempt to;
rhyme balmy with army cmiicd great
er indignation among the un* itored
I
recruits than among the s 1 olarly
poets, for barmy in comm ui use
means weak in the intellect.
Barmy, however, is used in its cor
rect sense by the brokers batta’ion of
the Glasgow stock exchange, who
call themselves Cameron men. Their j
| wail begins: •
Why did we join the Cameron men ? j
Why did we join the army ?
Why did we come to Aldershot? !
Because we’re bally well barmy.
Skilly and duff, skilly and duff,
Because we’re bally well barmy.
The Liverpool regiment has a dis
tinctive marching song in the Lan- j
cashire dialect. It runs:
We all coom fra’ Lancashire,
We all coom fra’ Lancashire,
Gradely fowk from a gradely place.
By gum, we mean to show the pace.
We all come fra’ Lancashire,
We’re all bairns of a feyther.
If tha’ll ha’ one wi’ me,
Then I’ll ha’ one wi’ thee,
For we’re ail good pals together.
There are many songs in dialect by
which commands from certain provin- j
cial points identify themselves. Of
the purely patriotic songs, by far
most popular is “Rule Britannia.
Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.
The name “Gamble's” is a trade
mark and wherever seen is a guaran
tee of wholesomeness and cleanliness.;
Cross cut Saws, Axes, Wedges,
Mauls everything for the wood j
chopper. Brown & Hawkins Hard-,
ware & Furniture Dept. “Quality
first.”
Finch’s Golden Wedding Rye at The
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Branch.
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A new line of Duxbak, waterproof;
hunting coats, norfolk coast, Pants j
hats and caps at Brown & Hawkins, j
“Quality first."
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ment has just received the very latest
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Patronize the paper that is helping to
build up your city. —
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Letterheads, envelopes, billheads,
cards, posters, announcements of al*
kinds at The Gateway Job Printery.
Commerce Cafe, open day and
night. Established 1905.
T. * M. APPLICATION NO. flit*
Department of the Interior
United SUtee Land Office
Juneau. Alaska. September L 1914
Notice Is hereby given that the Port Helden
Packing Company of Portland. Ore‘jon-a^°r'
poratlon organised under the laws of the State
of Washington, has made application In this
office under the provisions of the AcU 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 slU. said lands be
ing located on the east shore of Port Helden,
Bering Sea. Alaska, In latitude M 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 chs., on lino of ordinary high tide of
Port Helden. thence due E. 26. ehs.. to Cor.
No. 2, thence due N. 30 chs., to Cor. No. S,
thence due W. 13.88 ehs.. to Cor. No. 4. on
line or ordinary high tide Port Helden, whence
low point at east entrance bears N. 17 deg.
80 min. W., thence meandering along the
shore of said Port Helden, (1) N. 16 deg. 45
min. W. 18.66 chs., (2) S. 25 deg. 07 min. W.
16.61 che., to Cor. N6. 1, the place of begin
ning. containing an area of 28.69 acres, Mag.
Var. 21 deg. 24 min. E. . .
Any and all pereone claiming any portion of
said lands, or desiring to protest said applica
tion or sntry, are required to file their said
adverse claims or protests under oath within
the period of the statute or thereafter they
will be barred. c B WALKER,
Register.
Date of Flret Publication, Sept. 17, 1914.
SEWARD! SEWARD! SEWARD! SEWARD!
Ocean Terminus: Government Railway
Don’t Forget This
'Hie Seward Commercial Company will tfive the Public the Pest
Parhams in All Lines of Merchandise*l(*xce|)t groceries) for the next
20 days that evt*r was pulled off in Alaska. Ix>ok at a few of them.
20 per cent Off
Men’s $8.00 Shoes. $6.10
Men’s 7.00 “ 5.M)
Men’s 6.00 “ . 4.HO
Men’s 5.00 •• 4.00
Men’s 6.00 Union Suits 4.00
Men’s 5.00 “ “ 4 00
Ladles’ 5.00 Shoes . 4.00
Men’s Mackinaw
$8.00, Now.$6.40
$6.50, Now. $6.00
$6.00, Now. $4.80
$5.00, Now. $4 00
10 per cent Off
$5,00 Gold Seal Pacs... $4 50
$4.50 “ “ “ $4.00
^6.00 Hlpress White Pacs $5.40
Hen’s Wool Sox
25c to 65c per pair
We have 60 dozen on hand
Warwick China
$25.00 Sets, Now.$20.00
$20 00 Sets, Now. $16.00
$12.00 Sets, Now.'$ V.60
Full Lines Stetson Hats-Cro.«sett Shoes-Women’s Men’s ami
Children’s Underwear - Chippewa Shoes- -Ladles’ Knit Skirts,
Swerters, hosiery. Cotton, Cashmere and S Ik. The same Bargains
In All Lines (except (Iroceaies). W'e mean to (iet the Business.
Seward Commercial Co.
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER’S AW GOLD MINfR’S Slim If S
Doors & Windows
Lang's Ranges
I X L Parlor Healers
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Catnp Stoves
Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
U&tUM’ies
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P & H Paper
Mahhoii) Rooting
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Knyine Oil
Niarine Enyine Oil
Valve Oil
i Elaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Faints
Lacqueret Faint
Asphaltiiin Faint
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 Force*
Blacksmith’s Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
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Steamers leave Seattle every ten days each month on the
5th, 15th, 25th,
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Via the INSIDE PASSAGE, for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat.
Katalla, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez, Latouche, Seward,
Cook Inlet Points and Kodiak Island.
PUGET SOUND-CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Seattle to San Francisco, connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Points.
Right reserved to change steamers and sailing dates without notice.
B F. WATSON, General Agent. WAYNE BLUE, Local Agent.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. «
Steamers Alameda, Mariposa and Northwestern
sail from Seattle every six days for Ketchikan.
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and
Seward. Direct service to Knik Anchorage via
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S. S.'DIrlQo'leave*'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, l^touche and Seward
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
tjF*Right reserved to change this schedule without noticeTfcfc
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Hotel Seward
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