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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1913.
The government Alaska railroad is u peculiar thing. It is not a mere
railroad. It is something vastly more. It is really a great experiment on
the part of the United States, one of the great governments of the earth,
in government ownership and government construction ami when we begin
to look at it as something which is just meant to sell a few lots it just
proves our provincialism.
The railroad which has Seward for a terminal is really a far greater
thing than most of us seem to imagine. We hardly seem to stop for a mo
ment to think that this little city is just the terminal of a railroad which is
being built to test one of the greatest problems that face the human race.
On the success or failure of this work of the great Democratic admin
istration will depend the verdict of the United States on government owner
ship a* a whole, l ot us pause sometimes to think of this.
Whenever a boat comes in after an unusually long interval it reminds
us that Alaska is still a young country and that all of us have affiliations of
a close nature with the “Outside.” If a person lived in a country where his
people had lived before him he would never bother looking for mail from a
thou>aml miles away. Maybe, the day will come when people will live in
Alaska who have no more social connection with the United States than
with a foreign country. Indeed, that day is showing up closer a!! the time.
A local man stated this morning while deeply engaged reading a letter
that a bill never seems to be delayed. Somehow the mail is wonderfully
exact in bringing a notification that there is something due someone else.
How often we wait for that pleasant letter from some old crony and how
seldom we get it. But how sure we are to get that infernal suggestion that at
some time in the past which we want to forget we did so and so and forgot
to pay for it.
NEWS NOTES
B. M. Stone, proprietor of the Gate
way, and Mrs. Stone returned this
morning on the Evans after an ab
sence of about two months. They
were accompanied here by Miss M.
Ryan, a sister of Mrs. Stone, who
came to visit Seward for a while.
A. G. de Sherbinin left on the
Evans this morning on a business trip
to Anchorage.
Aron Ericson left for his new head
quarters at Anchorage on the Evans
this morning accompanied by Dr. J.
A. Baughman, who goes there on
business pertaining to his oflice.
Captain Austin E. Lathrop, the
Cordova moving picture man, passed
through Seward, this morning on his
way to Anchorage.
B. S. Foss, the Iliamua merchant,
passed through Seward on the Ad
miral Evans this morning on the way
back to his home.
Miss E. Bennett, who has been
visting with her cousin, Miss Ruth
Spence, at Unga, arrived in Seward
on the Pora yesterday. She leaves
for Anchorage to teach in the public
schools.
The engine left for out the line
this morning with quite a load of
freight and caboose Xo. 1 in tow.
With the caboose heated by a coal
stove it make it very comfortable
traveling for the passengers.
Pave Miller returned to his home
near Mile 20, on the Moose Pass road.
Mr. Miller has been prospecting in
that neighborhood all summer
C. W. Moot and R. B. Grimm left
this morning for Mile 54, to join the
railroad construction crews there.
Guy V. Gibbs returned to Quartz
creek this morning, where A. H. Case
of the Miami Coopper Company is
working.
Pete Simonoff returned to Mile 54
on the train this morning.
The Ladies Aid of the M. E. church
will meet tomorrow afternoon at the 1
parsonage. This will be the last
regular meeting of the Aid before
the Annual Bazaar to be held Novem
ber 19th.
J. R. McDonald expects to leave on
the Admiral Evans for a trip out to
the States. He will be accompanied
by his two sons, who will remain in
Seattle for the winter attending
school.
Dr. F. M. Boyle arrived on the j
Evans this morning from Valdez and
is here on business.
Mrs. R. J. Wier, wife of R. J. Wier,
of the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion, arrived this morning on the
Admiral Evans to spend the winter in
Seward with her husband.
Clarence Whitney has been indis
posed for the past few days, but was
able to get around this afternoon.
Captain G. W. Porter of the
United States weather bureau arrived
this morning on the Evans from
Ratal la where he has been engaged
making observations. “They say!
they have hundred-a-mile storms
down there” said the captain “but the
best I could find was forty-five miles
an hour.”
T. C. West, attorney for the AJ
aska Northern railroad in the recent
suit here, is still laid up in the hos j
pital at Valdez.
Hammie Graff skated into a crack
out at the pond last Sunday and has
a lamed leg to prove it.
Mrs. Al Taylor and Miss Blanche
Daykin will leave on the Admiral
Evans for Valdez to spend a couple
of weeks with their sister, Mrs.
Beatrice Cramer. The sixteenth of
last month Mrs. Cameron gave birth
to a baby boy.
Miss Elizabeth Code, who has been
at Sand Point for the past few
months, returned to Seward on the |
Dora yesterday.
You can take olive oil without
taste. Royal Olvules are made of the
finest and purest olive oil in the
world. Twenty-five cents per box.
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.
Noodle Cafe. Phone Main 111.
Tray service receives prompt at
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FRANK J. COTTER, Prop.
SEWARD - ALASKA .
Emperor of Japan
is Crowned Today
Commutes Death Sentences in Honor
of the Great Occasion.
KIOTO, Japan, Nov. 10.—The Em
peror of Japan was crowned today
amid scenes that would only be pos
sible in an Oriental country of the
elevated status of this. The prepara
tions surpassed those of any other
coronation in the history of the em
pire. As a coronation gift to the
people the emperor commuted al!
death sentences to life imprisonment,
reduced life sentences to twenty-five
years and cut all other prison terms
in half. He also gave half a million
dollars in charity.
TOKIO, Nov. 10.—The substance (
of all the coronation rites to be ob- ;
served between today and December 1
is ancestor worship “justified by the
grace of Heaven from time immemor
ial.” Not more than twenty white
persons will witness this bizarre,1
splendid, yet simple return to the
primitive days of the world when man
worshipped the spirit of his dead
father in temples that were rude j
huts.
Count Okuma characterized this |
ceremony as “the natural reverence i
of a son for his father, carried be- ^
yond the grave and expanded into a
great system of society in which the
nation is a super-family and the Em- j
peror a super-father.” Every phase*
, •
of the ceremony is some commumca-1
tion of the new Emperor to all the
dead emperors concerning his ascen
sion to the throne.
The shrine, conveyed in a gorge-1
ous and bedizened “bogie carriage,”
is itself just a plain, white, unde-,
corated wooden shed such as the first
emperors used.
Yesterday, the emperor at Kyoto
received Mr. George Guthrie, Ameri
can Ambassador at Tokyo, and form
er mayor of Pittsburg and other rep
resentatives.
There is no crown and no crowning
at the coronation. The ceremony is
conducted in a pavilion of plain
white wood, in the center of which
the Emperor’s canopy, (not throne),
is set. No nails arc used in this
structure, nor paint nor ornaments.
The Emperor reads an address to the
princes, officials and foreign repre
sentatives. It is the first time for
eigners have attended the ceremony.
Count Okuma read an address • to
the Emperor, then 2,000 Japanese
notables yelled three “banzais” and
the coronation was concluded.
The days following will be observ
ed in various ceremonies, such as “the
sacrifice of the fruits of the earth to
the spirits of the departed.” This
i begins at nightfall and concludes at
! dawn.
The bringing back of the Imperial
Shrine to Tokyo completes the corna
| tion.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION J
Department of the Interior.
U. S. LAND OFFICE at Juneau, |
Alaska, September 10, 1915.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Charles Ulanky, of Knik, Alaska, who,
on May 21, 1915, made homstcad ap
plication, No. 01774, for SViNEVi N
WKNE14 NEttSEtt NW%SE% Sec.
34 lots 1 and 2, Section 35, Township
16 N., Range 3 W, Seward Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
final five year Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, be
fore U. S. Commissioner E. M.
Spaulding, at his office at Knik, Al
aska, on the 15th day of November,
1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
0. G. Homing,
James M. Patched,
G. W. Palmer, g
A. M. McNeil, all of Knik,
Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First publication Oct. 5, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 11, 1915.
J. H. ROMIG. M. D.
Pioneer Hospital
Phone Main 48
J. L. REED
Attorney-at-Law
Representing
National Surety Company
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Valdez, Alaska
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Stories of Discoveries in Alaska
The Discovery of Chisana
The Discovery of Nelchina
The Discovery of Nome
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Alaska at the Panama Exposition
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