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SEWARD. ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1915.
The assertion of the city council that the school board is the body bound
to supply the schools with lights sou mis funny. In the construction of the
schools and in putting in the necessary physical requirements the city council
refused to let the school board have anything to do with it. The council in
effect takes the stand that whenever there is any work to be done for which
money is to b? spent the council itselt will do it, but whenever there is work
to be done without any extra expenditure the Board is not only trusted to
have it done but is told that it must have it done. “We spend the money,”
says the council to the board, “and you must do the dirty work.* Of course,
there are only some members of the council that way. It is sate to say the
mayor is not one of them.
It is said that some thirty miles of rock work*must be done at this side
of Anchorage before the two towns are connected up by railroad and this
rock \«*rk can be done in winter almost just as well as in summer. Rock
work was carried on without a pause on the White Pass railroad ir. winter and
the climate there is infinitely worse than any weather between Anchorage and
this place. If an emergency appropriation of. let us say, two millions is
granted there is no reason why some of that rock could not be done this
winter. It is difficult to see how so much money could be used to advantage
beyond Anchorage this winter. Congress does not meet again for two weeks
but let us hope we shall get that appropriation, anyhow, soon afterwards.
One of these days when you get a kiss under the mistletoe—or a slap in
the jaw—try to remember that mistletoe is one of the most contemptible
plants, as a plant, under the sun. It lives as a parasite on other trees and
actually kills sometimes the tree on which it grows. It looks as if that were
the reason why it is used by some people to plant osculations where they’re
not wanted but the meaning of mistletoe is different altogether. Once on a
time and a very long time ago it was, according to Scandinavian mythology,
a spirit of evil wanted to kill a g>>od spirit and the bad spirit made an ar
row out of mistletoe, an’ he gave the arrow to the god of Darkness, who was
blind, mind you, an’ the god of Darkness shot off the arrow in the direction
suggested by the bad spirit an’ it hit the good spirit an’ killed him, but the
good spirit was brought to life again an* the mistletoe was given to the god
of Love to ke.*p, an’ every one that passed under it received a kiss to prove
that it was an emblem of love, not of death. The good spirt’s name was
Balder, the bad spirit’s name was Loki an the god of Darkness was called
Hader. That’': why boys, maybe, when they try to kiss under the mistletoe
say “I nearly Hader.”
NEWS NOTES
Charley Harper arrived yesterday
from Anchorage and reports the trail
pretty fair where tho soft snow was
not encountered.
William Sauers received a lot of
mistletoe and has beta the most
popular man in town with the ladies
for the pa6t few days.
Steve Whitehead has not after all
gone as a mere private to the front.
In a letter to Guy it is shown that
Steve is with the engineering con
struction corps and is with men whom
he was associated with in extensive
railroad work in eastern Canada.
N'orth Brooke, who came over fiom
the Inlet the other day, is suffering
from pleuro-pneumonia and is is at
the Pioneer Hospital. Dr. Romig
states that Mr. Brooke is not in a
serious condition. Mr. Brooke is a
member of several fraternal orders.
Jack Lean came in on the train last
night with the Sunrise and Hope mail.
He reports good trails and less snow
out the line than in town.
Christmas goods at Urbach’s
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Get an Order from Cotter Any Amount that You Name
The finest line of Christmas novelties and useful presents in Seward to select from.
Ail you have to do is to decide on how much you wish to spend on remembering your friends,
then call at Cotter’s, get your order and send it with Christmas greetings, and the recipient
can call at any time and select his gift.
dust received on the S. S. Farragut, a beautiful assortment of T H E FA M 0 U S
C H E N Y S 1 L K X E C K W E A K; all of the latest winter styles and shades.
Garter and Arm Band Sets Handkerchief and Tie Sets
Silk Hosiery Silk Suspenders
Sweaters and Sweater Vests Latest Style Hats
Bath Robes Likely Hand Grips and Suit Cases
Overcoats Suits Rain Coats Dress Shoes and Slippers
Dress Shirts flannel Shirts fancy Mackinaws
Snow Shoes All Wool Blankets Hats and Caps
Tie Clasps Cuft Links Scarf Pins Collar Holders
Everything that a man could want and everything in the very best quality, and in the
latest style.
Now, do not delay and put otT your shopping until the last day and then expect to
have the opportunity of selecting from a full and complete stock. Any selection may be
reserved and delivered at any time.
Buy Your Christmas Order Now!
THE MINER'S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post** Seward, Alaska
ALL RACES IN
SALONICA CITY
TURKS, SERBIANS, GERMANS,
FRENCH*WALK ABOUT ANI) PAY
NO ATTENTION TO EACH OTHER
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
SALONICA, Dec. 22.—(Special to
Gateway)—The sun goes down like
an explosion in a paint factory in this
part of the world. All the mixtures
of tongues and uniforms and ships
and flags of the various armies and
navies centering in Salonica are not
in greater contrast than the melange
of color which fills the evening skies
as the sun sinks nightly behind the
peak of Olympus where the Greek,
gods lived and played.
Even greater than the variety of
color in the city or the sky is the
variety of opinion in the cafes when
the thousands of men of many races
gather with the lighting of the even
ing lamps to talk over what the
future holds.
There are Germans here; they |
didn’t move away when the allied |
armies came. Salonica is as much an ■
ally headquarters as France, but the j
Germans haven’t departed because
Greece is neutral.
The Germans are sure that, sweep- j
ing past us 400 miles to the north, the
German hordes are pouring through
Servia toward Turkey. Some of them
think that the time is not far distant
when the Germans will be in Salonica,
too.
Then what will these British and
French do? Where will they run tof
But you don’t hear Germans talking
this way, loudly. It’s amongst them
selves they say such things, in their
own cafes.
Englishmen are divided. Most of!
them are glad the allies came to,
Greece, others say it was a mistake. |
“Why won’t Italy send an army to
help us in Serna?” asks a French
man. “She could easily send 100,000 j
men. She ought to do as much as the
allies, for her future is at stake." j
“But Italy isn’t fighting Germany.
She’s fighting Austria, and she’s go
i ing to put up such a stiff fight on the
Italian frontier that the Austrians
will have to withdraw troops from
Servia to keep the Italians back" ex
plained an Italian newspaper corres
pondent.
Turks, in their red fezzes, sit in
! the same cafes in Salonica with Eng
lish officers fresh from the Turco
British fighting in the Dardanelles.
| Two weeks ago the Englishman was
popping away with his rifle at every
‘ fez he saw. Today he passes them
as placidly as if peace had been de
clared.
Indeed, it is a sort of peace that
you seo in Salonica, a peace of shoot
ing but not of thinking. Bullets don’t
fly, but opinions do. All the differ
ent opinions held in every corner of
the world regarding the World War
may be found here in this city of
185,000 persons and every evening
after the sun has set the pace with
his riot of color in the Olympian sky,
the occupants of the old Greek city
fill, with their riot of opinion, the
Salonicae cafes.
Through it all there’s a tension in
the atmosphere. Servian refugees
are in the city from Belgrade, Nish
and Uskub. They are living remind
ers of that cyclone of war that is rag
ing to the north of us.
Will that cyclone sweep past
Greece? Or will the Germans come
down to Salonica? And if they come
shall we people of the city flee as the
Servians have done?
Or will the Greeks go with the
Germans and try to drive the allies
armies out of Greece? All the men
of Greece arc mobilized; you can see,
them digging trenches along the
Aegean sea as you come toward
Salonica.
Will the Grecian king give the word ;
to his army to fight the allies, the
Queen of Greec, you know—his wife—
is a sister of the Kaiser of Germany,,
and the king’s word is law, now that
all the men of Greece are no longer
mere citizens but have become
soldiers.
Or perhaps the Greeks may go with
the allies; is that possible? Will they
try a dash ifOo Bulgaria? C • will the
Bulgarians try a dasn at Salonica,
this city where Bulgarians and
|
Greeks fought one whole night
through the streets, three years ago
with the result that Salonica over
night became a Greek city, while the
Bulgarians fled? „ j
All of these questions you hear dis
cussed in the excited cafes of Saloni
ca, these warm, semi-oriental nights, j
Just now all the questions that the
world is asking about what is going
to happen in the neighborhood of
Salonica are being asked in Salonica
itself. The folks here don’t know any
more than the folks in New York.
But will the answer be any more
important to them, near as they are;
to the scene, than it will be to New
York ? What happens in the Balkans,
within the next few weeks, may send
tidal waves to the ends of the earth
and to the ends of human history.
Meet me at The Branch
SERIAL NO. 01788
DEPARTMENT OK THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office, Juneau. Alaska,
June 22. 1916.
SOLDIERS ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD,
ENTRY BY ASSIGNEE.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO ENTER
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NORTH ALASKA SALMON COMPANY, a
coritorntion organized and existing under the
laws of tho State of California, and whose
poet office adcire**! in 110 Market Street* San
Francisco, California, as assignee of Joseph
K. Harrigan, administrator of the Estate of
Kyhran Horun, deceased, being entitled to tho
benefits of section 2396 of the Revised Statutes
of tho United States and amendments thereto,
has applied to make entry of that tract of
land described as U. S. Survey No. 914, and
situated on the West hank of Kvichak River,
approximately six miles above the mouth of
the Alagnak River. District of Alaska, and in
Latitude 69 deg. 06 min. 60 sec. North and in
Longitude 166 deg. 41 min. 44 sec. West, and
more particularly described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at Corner No. 1 of said survey,
whence U. S. L. M. R. G. M, bears S. 40 dog.
07 min. W. 20.70 chs. distant, thence East,
var. 23 deg. 10 min. E., 3.00 chs. to corner
No. 2, meander corner at line of mean high
water on Kvichak River, whence witness corn
er bears West 1.82 chs. distant: thence,
meandering along line of mean high water on
west shore of Kvichak River, var. 22 dog. E.,
N. 28 deg. 26 min. E. 7.20 chs.; N. 29 dog. 64
min. E. 3.60 chs.; No. 30 deg. 29 min. E. 6.86
chs. to Corner No. 3, meander corner, whence
witness corner bears West 1.93 chs., distant;
Thence West, var. 26 deg. E. 11.69 chs. tp
corner No. 4 ; thenco South, Var. 20 deg. E.
16.36 chs. to corner No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing 11.14 acres:
As additional to Homestead Entry No. 1446
made August 26, 1866, by Kyhran Horan, at
Ionia, Michigan Land Office, for the S. Mr of
SE. >4 of Sec. 30, township 18 north, range j
10 west, containing 80 acres.
Any and all persons claiming adversely said
tract of land, or any portion thereof, arc
hereby notified /hat unless their adverse
claims are filed during the period of publica
tion and posting, or within 30 days thereafter,
they will be barred by virtue of the statute
and the regulations thereunder.
It is hereby ordered that this notice be
published for the statutory period of 60 days
in the SEWARD GATEWAY, a newspaper of
general circulation printed at Seward. Al
aska. published nearest the land applied for.
C. B. WALKER, Register .
First publication Nov. 11, 1916.
Last publication Jan. 26, 1916.
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S. M. ORAFF
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L. S: 8: S.-!
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OVER OATEWAY
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Fohmkiu.y or Nomk.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
Ovar Bank of Saward
SEWARD. - ALASKA
ROM1G & ROMIG
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
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