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POHI.IHIIKD DAILY. KX«*»t»»T HONDAYH AND HOLIDAY *
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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inc.)
Harry V. Hoben. Preakicnt Frank L. Ballaine, See.
Elmer A. Friend. Editor
Entered as eecond-claee matter September 2. 1915. at the !’<>at Office at Seward. Alaska
under Act of March 3, 1810. .
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and also the local news published herein.
FOLLOW DIRECTIONS—WIN WAR
You would give your life for your country, ^ou;
would scorn an American whose patriotism ended with
waving flags cheering the trops and standing up when
the hand plays. You want to serve your country.
Are you willing to do what your government asks?
Are you willing to follow directions?
Are you so comfortably fixed that you can afford to
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eat what you please? Ah, but you can’t afford to eat
what vour country needs. Follow Directions.
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Are you saving now of vour slender means all you:
possibly can? Still, as far as your circumstances permit.
Follow Directions.
Follow Directions. Today the direction is to save two;
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slices of bread, an ounce of meat, an ounce of sugar, a j
snitch of butter. Tomorrow as conditions change there i
will be new directions. Follow Directions.
Follow Directions. If Germany wins vou will be.
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obeying orders given by some one you will not care to;
obey. • Your Government asks you to prove that free peo- •
pie can Follow Directions.
Follow Directions. If we fail in this the war will'
drag on. As we succeed, we shall sooner have peace. Fol-1
low Directions.
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BURBANK TO THE RESCUE. j
At the age of <>S, Luther Burbank, the plant wizard,;
is working fourteen hours a dav at his station, Santa Rosa 1
( alifornia, to produce more food for a hungry world, j
Having produced a super-wheat which increased the pro-!
duction from about fifteen bushels an acre to about forty
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five bushels, he is now devoting himself to other super
cereals, including rye and oats. A newspaper correspond
cut who visited him recently says that Burbank has never
worked harder than he is working right now, and never
put in longer hours.
If he had never done anything more than produce the
potato which bears his name, and turned the cactus into a
•accident vegetable which may be grown on desert soil, he
would have won an enduring place among the world’s
benefactors, but he is the type of man who never wearies
'n well doing. For more than forty years his experiments
have been continuous, and there is no telling what he may
yet achieve.
It is very gratifying to note that Burbank at a time of
ife when most men are disposed to look back upon their
labors and take things easier, is devoting his useful knowl
,‘dge and his abundant energy to winning the war.
If the kaiser has, as the press dispatches in the Gate
way yesterday indicate, finally put Russia out of the war,
one must give the devil his dues—he made a great deal.
But the question is how many of the millions of the Rus
sian people are governed by the Bolsheviki? All we here
in Seward know of is the “Petrograd Bolsheviki.” Rus
sia is a mighty large country and there are other factions
—the Kerensky’s, etc., who must be reckoned with.
On another page today is an article concerning the
Rncke’s comet which makes excellent reading even if one
does not care to place any substance in the review. The
prediction sounds very much like the usual run of talk of
the fortune teller, etc., but astrologists especially, place
much, in fact everything, in the signs which are shown by
the heavenly bodies.
Democracy may be a bad war maker, according to
some of the Republican wiseacres, but democracy has cer
tain ideas with respect to peace making that will find in
disputable place and effect in history.
Knitting for soldiers is possibly the most appropriate
war activity for women. It does not interfere with the
flow of conversation.
It needs only three words generally to write an editor
ial on the President’s talks before Congress on any sub
let—Well done Wilson. •
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PRISON FOR TAKING
SOLDIER OVER BORDER
MONTREAL, Feb. 13. — James
Henderson, alias James McDonald,
who posing as a sergeant of the mili
tary police kidnaped a private soldier
from Guy street barracks last Sep
tember and took him on a 2,GOO mile
taxi drive into the United States on a
bogus search for deserters, was
caught at Kingston, Ont., and brought
to trial before a magistrate at Napa
nee. He was sentenced to live years
in the penitentiary.
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT CO
OWNERS
i To GEORGE K. KING and DAVE
BAUMAN, and to their, and each
of their heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that during the years ending
December 31, 1000, 1910, 1011, 1912,
1913, 1014, 1915, 1010, and 1017, the
undersigned has expended more than
One Hundred Dollars in each of said
years, or a total of $900.00, in labor
and improvements upon the Social
Group sulphur placer mining claim,
situate on Makuskan Mountain, Una
laska mining district, district of Alas
ka, in which mining location you, the
saitl George R. King claim an undiv
ided one-eighth (1-8) interest, and
i you, the said Dave Bauman claim an
undivided one sixteenth (1-16) inter
est, as shown by notice of location
; thereof and deeds of conveyance of
• said interest of record in the record
; ing oflice of the aforesaid mining dis
trict. The said labor was performed
as and for the representation of said
claim for the yoars as aforesaid, as
required by the laws of the United
States and district of Alaska concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims
and the same was the amount requir
ed to hold said claim for said years.
The amount required for each of said
years being the sum of One Hun
dred Dollars ($100.00).
You are further notified that un
less within ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you
contribute your proportionate share
of said expenditures, as such co-own
ers, to wit: You, the said George R.
King, the sum of $112.50, being your
proportionate share of said represen
tation for the years ending as afore
said; and you, the said Dave Bau
man, the sum of $56.25, being youi
proportionate share of said lepresen
tation for the years ending as afore
said, your interest in said claim will
be forfeited to the undersigned co
owner, who has made such expendi
tures and will become his property in
the manner provided by law.
Dated at Seattle, Washington, this
fifteenth day of December, 1917.
FRANK MEERWALDT
Co-Owner.
Date of publication Dec. 24th, 1917 to
March 25, 1918.
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Phone Main 157
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