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PUHI.ISIIKD DAILY. K\«'KPr SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
H^ry v. Hoben. P Frank L. Hallaine. Sec. Krich Luca*. Treat.
Kntered at aecond-clata matter September. 2,1915, at the pottofflce at Seward. Alatka.
under act of March 3. 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
ON* Ykak in atlvanc? ....
'I’mk Alaska Wkkki.y IVst. by mail $ •'*.*h» I
Pun Month, delivered.••••.fi.w
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ALASKA BACON
Genuine imported Russian caviar, to use a designa
tion emblazoned on the labels of a canned food produced
largely in Alaska and the state of Maine; at least so label
ed until a meddlesome congress began to interfere with
legitimate private industries and upset the innocent ac
tivities of honest men; genuine imported caviar is no
longer produced in Alaska under that price-boosting
name, but a new company just formed in this territory
gives promise of supplanting it with an article of food
which, if more prosaic in name, will be no less elective in
extracting the nimble pennies- from the flattened purse
of the ultimate consumer. The new company, it is alleged
bv an alleged chemist, formerly in its employ, will manu
facture and market a product to be designated "Alaska
bacon;” howbe, its incorporation papers indicate its name
to be "The Baconized Alaska Salmon company,” and,
doubtless, its stationery, advertising and other sale-in
ducing literature will make plain that "Alaska bacon ’ is
nothing more than ordinary salmon subjected to a new
patent process involving soldification of fiber, sugar-cur
ing, infusing of bacon grease, paper-packing in neat
strips, and other ingenious touches, giving it the exact
appearance, and to some extent the exact taste, of prime
bacon produced from corn-fed hogs.
The price at which "Alaska bacon" will be placed up
on the market does not yet appear, but inasmuch as the
new company will have access to unlimited supplies of
raw material at less than one cent a pound, it is reasonable
to imagine, if not to hope, that the old reliable hog product
now cavorting around oO cents a pound, w ill soon discover
that a new Richmond has appeared in the field of com
petition.
“Alaska bacon is said to be delightfully appetizing,
and even Dr. Wiley, with all his troublesome suspicions,
ought to concede that with salmon as its base, it should be
reasonably nutritious.
But dismissing its dietetic merits as not yet scienti
fically weighed and classified, it may be safely assumed
that the ethical features of its marketing will be above
suspicion from the manufacturer to the retail grocer’s
clerk. These gentlemen, particularly the latter, will be at
pains to explain to the confiding purchaser that "Alaska
bacon” is but an imitation and a substitute. Any other
course of conduct is unthinkable, ten times so; for, like
Sir Galahad’s the hearts of such folks are pure.—(T. B.
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Drayton.)
ALASKA PAYING 900 PER CENT
A magazine writer with a talent for figures has it
that Alaska, which was purchased from Russia in 1867 for
$7,200,000, is paying the United States 900 per cent an
nually on the investment. Four times the original cost
of the terirtory is now taken from it in copper alone.
The annual yield of its salmon fisheries is almost equal to
three times the purchase price. Yet Alaska used to be
called “Seward’s folly,” and it did good service as a joke
for newspaper paragraphers up to the time of the gold
discoveries on the Yukon. Alaska is no joke now, no mat
ter how we may view it—(Juneau Dispatch.)
THE FATHERLAND CHANGES NAME
“The Fatherland," the paper published in New York
since the beginning of the European war, has changed its
name and now comes under the name of “The New
World.” George Sylvester Viereck, its very brilliant edi
tor, says that while it will break the heart of the people
of German blood living in this country to fight the Father
land, thev will be loval to the core to the land of their
adoption.
The existing crisis is so acute that if an American
should tip over in a rowboat off the coast of England the
American eagle might make a noise that could be heard
in Europe—(Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)
Walla Walla farmers are protesting to the income tax
as unfair to them. There was a time when these same
farmers would not have bothered themselves over an in
come tax at all.—(Aberdeen World.)
No doubt Secretary Daniels has already made sure
that our navy is adequately equipped with grape juice.—
(Baltimore American.)
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM.\
— vvcbu in r 1111 autt i ph i a HuuJic Ltdycr.
Cheer Up Folks
TIIERB’3 MORE IN THE KITCHEN
The Bight Man’s on tlu* Job
(By George Willard Ponte)
When the overbearing Prussians
Fight for “freedoom of the seas,”
When the blood-stained hordes of
Turkey
To the Kaiser bend their, knees;
When the Huns, the Czechs and
Slovaks
Fight for “kultur” with their
knives;
When the Japs, the Sikhs and
Gurkhas
For the white man give their lives;
When you hear the blooming British
Praising everything that’s French;
When you see the crafty Dago
Fight for friendship in the trench;
When the sluggish, thirsty Russian
Bracing vodka will refuse;
When the wild, ferocious Cossack
Beams with kindness on the Jews;
Thank God for Brother Woodrow!
Who, despite the howling moh,
Has proved to all Americans
The right man’s on the job."
—(Juneau Empire.)
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$5.00
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and we will take your measure and get the suit here for
you, and when you want it the suit will be here for you.
You don’t have to pay a cent down—we know the goods
and the makers, and we guarantee that you will be satis
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don’t take itf it’s “jake” with us. Just say“Schoenbrun.”
FRANK J. COTTER, Prop.
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ALASKA =r «
Seattle Sailings
Alaska . March !»
Northwestern . March If
Alameda . March 2".
Alaska . March 30
Dora sails westward after arrival of S. S. Alaska, dm* here, about
March !).
For the benelit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
Iijin boon established in connection with this paper, and ail those desir
ing information as to t he vulm* of real esiate and business opport uni
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INFORMATION DEPARTMENT. SEWARI)
GATEWAY.
Seward, Alaska.
The Carstens-Packing Go.
Wholesale and Retail
J Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry,
Lard, Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
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Through Cars r
between SEATTLFand Chicago
KansasCitv. Denver
San Francisco, Los Angeles
Direct Connections for all
points East \ in thcFanvn s
COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
Trains protected all the way
- all the time by Automatic
Electric “Safety” Signals.
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SEATTLE
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A. F. RASMUSSEN, Prop.
Good Rough Lumber of all
kinds $26.00 and up per
thousand, delivered.
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