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The Alaska government railroad commission is made up of three rattling
g4*od men in every sense. I hat they are first class men professionally is prov
ed by their selection for the work and that they are first class men every
other way is easily learned by those who meet them. Without in the least
modifying this statement about the other two it can be said that Biggs in
addition to all his other qualities is a ty pical Alaskan. There is something
breezy and independent and outspoken about him that shows him to be a
man who has hit the hills and trails of \laska until the very spirit of the coun
try has become part of his own. He seems to say things which others more
hound hy official tradition pause before uttering. He is a triend of Alaska and
never loses a chance to say that the government can never do enough for it.
W hile he was here he did not hesitate to say that the country around Seward
justified the building of a railroad here and when Biggs says a thing he means
it. He is an Alaskan of the true brand.
W’e might he perfectly sure that C hairman Kdes and Secretary Lane have
made no remarks like those published in the paper of a neighboring town.
Some days ago the Gateway suggested care in accepting reports sent out
about the government railroad from this time forward. These reports are
sure to have a fertile growt'i from this time until the exact facts are given
out hy President Wilson. But when they are given out at all they will be given
out by ihe president or by some one acting for him after he has received the
reports of the railroad commission.
The resources of this peninsula are far greater in an agricultural way
perhaps than most of us believe. There is probably not a place on the penin
sula under a thousand feet elevation which could not be used for producing
something. In the thickly populated countries of the old world railroads may
be found oftener than wagon roads out west hut they all pay. Belgium is
hardly as large as this peninsula but its railroads are thousands of miles in
extent. It is the same with other countries all over the well settled parts of
the world. Only a very few miles of fertile country or industrial country is re
quired to make a railroad pay. Of course no one here expects to see a teem
ing population here like the population of the country mentioned but the ex
tent of the peninsula is so great and a railroad would serve so much more
territory that the result would be the same.
Sfaros from All
parts uf thr
U Anrthlauii u
The following is taken from the
Cordova Alaskan of December-!:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-That
Secretary of the Interior Lane will
make a requisition for $5,000,000 in
the general appropriation bill for next
year's railroad work by the govern
ment in Alaska, was authoritative in
formation given out today. It appears
to be settled that the construction base
for the first work will be established
at Ship Creek on Cooks Inlet, from
which work will be carried on along
Turnagain Arm and up the Susitna
valley, as well as from Seward along
the Alaskan Northern to meet new
construction at Kern Creek. Ship creek
was the main base of operations of the
Alaska Engineering Commission last
summer, and is the summer terminus
for steamship traffic on Cook Inlet. It
' is estimated that the live millions to
be asked will be sufficient to buy the
Alaska Northern railway and build
100 miles of additional track from
Kern Creek. Secretary Lane and Com
missioner Edes believe the railway
will be completed from Seward to the
Matanuska coal fields by next fall.
VALDEZ, Dec. 1.—Delegate Wick
ersham spoke last night to several
hundred people in the Eagle hall. The
Only fifteen More Shopping Days!
As long as the gift giving custom of the Merry Yule
tide prevails there will be giving and receiving of presents
at Christmas Time. I don’t suppose that there is a man,
woman, or child in Seward but what in the past has had
some gift wished on them, as welcome as a flea on a hound
pups back. You have it and you can’t use it but you can’t
get rid of it. Don’t do that thing again.
There are so many things that a man wants in our
line, and articles that a man will use and enjoy and ap
preciate and they don’t cost as much as a gimcrack.
Take for instance Bathrobes. Of course no man uses
one after New Years, but they are a nice thing to hang
in a closet and then a woman can wear them when she has
a sick head ache. Just to fill this demand a lot of them that
we are going to try and get rid of by Xmas for $7.50.
Did you see those new trail vests? Say there is some
thing that is class as far as the trail is blazed out. They
come in Moleskin, Corduroy, and Fustian, are all doe skin
lined and have a knit neck and wrists with big leather
faced pockets, and there is not a man in Seward, but would
really be tickled pink to get one from the proper party.
Have a look before you spend, remember, and they are
only from $6.00 to $8.00 each.
Just to boost the give away, of something nice we have
decided to give every overcoat purchaser between now and
the 24th a present of twenty five per cent off, on our new
stock of KENYON BALMACAANS. They are the neat
est, classiest, nobbiest warmest coats that have been seen
in Seward since the new School House was agitated and
if you want one, get it now Ladies sizes too. Remember
a $30.00 Coat Costs you $22.50.
Have you seen our new Socks yet. Well then you have
a treat coming. Just in some English made socks that are
nice enough to wear for a tie. They come in the late
autumn shades and are all wool, ribbed and worth double
what we charge for them simply as rheumatism insurance.
Drop in and see what we have for six bits.
LOTS OF OTHER THINGS TOO
THE MINER'S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER. Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
delegate outlined hid proposed work in
Washington during the next two
years.
He is strongly in favor of a new
; school system for Alaska. District At
torney Spence also spoke and stated
now that the campaign was over all
Alaskans should work together. He
further stated that he could not under
stand how an Alaskan could be oppos
ed to the delegate, whose record in
congress was endorsed by the district
attorney. Representative F. M. Boyle
: presided at the meeting.—Valdez
| Prospector.
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A telegram received announced the
] death of M. K. Hill at Ocean Park
near Los Angeles, at 4 o’clock this
morning. Mr. Hill was well known in
Nome having been in business there
i since 1800.
Nearly 200 Slavonians have left Ju
neau since the war began to take up
arms for their country.
The returns at Unga were: Bunnell
41, Wickersham 17. Senators, Price
45, Brooks 3, Goshaw 8, Chase 3, Ger
man 2, Hubbard 1. For representa
tives, Al. White 52, Bradford 51, Ly
ons 50, Holland 45, Tansy 7, Day 5,
Noon 4, Markle 1, Socialist candidates
each 2 votes.
W. S. Alexander of London, Eng.,
^ passed through Cordova recently hav
ing walked from Circle to Chitina in
! 14 days, a distance of four hundred
i miles. He is a member of the Aus
tralian Mounted Horse and is return
i ing home to join his company and go
to the front.
JUNEAU.—Willis E. Nowell, agent
for the Alaska Steamship company
yesterday received $1,000 worth of the
new war tax stamps from the Seattle
office of the use of the local agency.
According to the provisions of the new
law all bills of lading, manifest or
shipping receipts must have the re
quired stamp aftized.
George F. Johnson is working on a
plan to have apples grown in the Yu
kon to supply Dawson as well as cher
ries and some of the other more hardy
varieties of fruit. He claims actual
experiments show that fruit may be
grown in the Yukon.
Don’t forget the White Tar Moth
and Dustproof Bags. A good Christ
mas present. Brown & Hawkins.
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build up your city.
PRIVATE IS A
GREAT HERO
FRENCH SOLDIER SHOOTS A
WHOLE BATTERY OF
GERMANS.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Dec. 10.—No Belgian soldier
is receiving more acclaim in the Fren
| ch press than Emile Sapin, who, at the
age of 22, has received the decoration
of the Order of Leopold and the cross
of the Legion of Honor. Le Matin con
fesses it could not believe all the bril-;
liant exploits attributed to this young
man, who was a private when war was
declared, and who was made a corpor
al only a month ago, but that it has
investigated through inquiries not on
ly of Sapin himself, who is now in a
Cherbourg hospital, but also of many
others and it cheerfully recognized the
following achievements:
First, during the siege of Liege,
Sapin was in the fort of Loncin.
Climbing a tree and concealed by its
1 leaves he killed an entire battery of
i heavy artillery said to number 42
men. it is claimed that the command
ing officer of this detachment reached
the foot of the tree, revolver in hand,
only to fall as the rest had fallen
from a bullet sent out of Sapin’s
rifle.
Second, two weeks later, he person
ally captured the flag of a regiment of
Hussars whose Colonel he also shot.
Third, near Louvain, sent out in
company of six other men, Sapin suc
ceeded in capturing 40 soldiers includ
ing one officer.
Just how it has proof of such
achievements Le Matin does not say
but it adds that General Loe of the
Belgian Army and two Cabinet min
isters have personally gone to Cher
bourg to congratulate Sapin, who is
not dangerously wounded.
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THE HOUSE OF RUBENS
OCCUPIED BY GERMANS.
Fight Occurs In House Of One Of
Worlds Great Painters.
(By The Associated Press.)
THE HAGUE, Dec. 10.—‘The Fam
ous sixteenth century mansion of Rub
ens, the great Flemish painter, stand
ing in the line of the German sweep
through Belgium, between Brussels
and Antwerp, has suffered little from
the depredations of war ,although an
unknown vandal has defaced some of
the paintings that cover its walls. For
weeks it had been impossible to ap
proach the place and there was much
anxiety as to its fate.
The Germans had converted this
shrine of art lovers to the service of
war, but neither the house nor the line
old garden suffered much .The house is
now used as a pay station for the Ger
man troops. In the garden are many
roughly marked graves of Belgian and
German soldiers. One stray bullet
found its way into the house, which is
surrounded by heap3 of rubbish and
broken bottles. No doubt a thorough
cleaning will transform the place to
the quaint mansion which Rubens built
for his young wife, the woman who ap
pears in nearly all of the paintings of
his later years, and the mother of the
boy whose baby face smiles out from
so many of his canvasses. Some civi
lian souvenir-hunter is declared to be
responsible for the only intentional act
of vandalism committed on the prop
erty, which is now owned by the Bel
gian Senator de Becker-Remy. The
vandal cut the faces out of some of
the pictures that hung on the wall in
the house.
During the German advance to Ant
werp, a German detachment of fifty
soldiers occupied the mansion. A Bel
gian peasant managed to slip through
the German lines and notify the Bel
gian troops. That night a strong de
tachment of Belgian soldiers sur
rounded the house and after a desper
ate fight killed all the occupants. The
Germans were buried in the old gard
en. Later the Belgians were forced to
abondon the place.
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