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SEWARR M ASK A. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1916
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Seward during the past week reminds one very forcibly of the old days
in a new camp when the rest of the world was millions of mdes away. It rr
latte to mind the fact that long before- Dawson was discovered men lived in
Circle and other diggings and had the same chance of getting a telegraph
message from the States as they had from Mars. In spite of all this they
seemed to be perfectly content. In the early days of Dawson, an.l then of
\tlin, the arrival of a telegram would havo been tantamount to the arrival
of a Zeppelin, and yet people seemed to get usd to it. You can get used to
anything.
It may be to the advantage of Seward that the cable went down just as
the government was ready to hand over the emergency money to the Engi
neering Commission. Nothing conceivable would be better calculated to
show Washington to what a plight the terminal of the railroad could be re
duced by the lack of quick communication, and it is quite probable that the
result may be that the fact brought right home as it was to the cabinet itself
will convince it of the need of the immediate'establishment of a wireless
station.
Some time ago a newspaper, let us say in New \ork, asked the support
ers of its ideas to boycott ail the business people who did not agree witfi its
policy. This publication objected to those who favored Germany in the war
or some such matter, but the cause need not be taken into consideration;
The chief thing is that the paper asked all the people of the city rot to
buy their goo*b in stores that did not support it and advertise in it.
In the first place this is blackmail, one of the lowest crimes after mur
der and rap-'. It is punishable by terms of years and years in the
penitentiary.
It is the admission of cowards that they have failed in their purpose and
that a stab in the back is the only recourse left open.
It is the weapon of fools and knaves.
It is an attempt to rob your neighbor.
It is something which proves the perpetrator to have the brain of a
guinea hen, the heart of a chicken, the soyj^of a ^og.
“THE KEY *
Seward-made candles. Johnston
Chocolates fresh from the factory.
Also fruits. 12-16—tf i
..
Noodle Cafe. Phone Main 111. S
Tray service receives prompt at
tention. 10-5—tf.
“Jersey Cream Kisses,’’ VANILLA
FIxAVOR. xA pure food candy, made
in Seward AThska. For sale at the
Key.
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All kinds of tools and builders’
hardware at Brown & Hawkins,
“Quality First.'*
You Business Men
#
A becoming presence is essential in the present day
scheme of things. Those around you, judge you largely
by the impression you create. Your every request, your
every command finds a response the more quickly if you
look the part. You arc cordially invited to visit head
quarters for
Schoenbrun aisg Tailoring
Say “Shayne-Brun”
You are sure to find here the most advanced in tailor
ing, courteous treatment and complete clothes satisfaction.
There’s no other way of dressing so effectively.,
Make your selection today and be measured.
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 , “Don't Forget the Parcel post** Seward, Alaska
RUSSIA GETS
FORCES READY
ARMING NEW MEN AT THE
RATE OF A MILLION
A MONTH. '
Special to Gateway by United Prets.
LONDON, Feb. 2.—With the begin
ning of the New Year various esti
mates place the number of fresh-arm
ed Russian troops at five million. At
least two million more are being arm
ed at the rate of over half a million
a month. An additional million of
twenty-year-old youths were called
upon December 4. These will take
their places in the ranks early in the
year.
Russia’s veterans already holding
the battle-line from Riga to the Black
Sea and operating in the Caucasus
are estimated to total at least 4,000,
000, all hardy fighters, making the
total of Russian military strength in
sight approximately twelve million
men.
Like England, France, and Italy,
Russia is preparing to fight in the
Balkans. This campaign, which is al
ready urvler way, is unde’* the leader
ship of General Dimitrieff, ex-com
mander of the Ninth Bulgarian Army
who renounced Czar Ferdinand and
Bulgaria, and sent back the military
decorations tendered him by his form
er sovereign. DimitriefT's first ob
jective is Bulgaria, anticipation of]
which early in December s<jnt Austro
German and Bulgarian regiments
hastily to Rustchuk, the nearest Bul
garian city to the Russian border.
It was Russia that delievered Bul
garia from the Turkish yoke. When
faced by tho Russians as a foe, led
by a former popular general of the
Bulgarian army, wholesale desertions
from the Bulgar forces are consider
ed a potent possibility.
Russian forces too, have been sent
| in ample numbers to the Caucasus in
order, if necessary, to lend aid to the
British in the event the Suez Canal
should be seriously threatened by the
reinforced German-led Turks.
Though Russia has lost an esti
mated million and a half prisoners
to Germany and Austria, nearly a
million men of the double enemy have
I been captured and sent to Siberia
where they are in no danger of liber
ation, as are the Russian prisoners in
Germany and Austria. The Austro
German losses during the last three
months, on the Russian front, have
been enormous, Russia’s own losses
have not been slight, but they un
doubtedly are far under those of the
enemy, most of whose fighting has
been offensive. The activities of
General Ivanoff in Eastern Galicia I
during September, October and j
November are credited with putting1
200,000 of the enemy out of the
flight.
Optimism has now taken the place
of the pessimism that prevailed in
Russia during the dark days of the j
Summer. The man on the street inJ
Petrograd knows as well as the high-1
est official that Russia plans an of-j
fensive against Germany and Austria
in the Spring of 1916 the like of
which the world has never experienc
ed. Perhaps it will come sooner.
Whether the expenditure of vast
quantities of ammunition on the front
starting in November and continuing
through December, is preparation for
an advance earlier than March, or
just a measure to keep the Germans
from digging in and protecting them
selves against the intense cold of a
Russian winter is not quite clear.
Russia generally is watchfully
waiting, but it akes no clairvoyant to,
forecast that the animal that con
fronts the Germans before many
weeks will not be the same sorenosed
beast oft he Summera nd Autumn of
1915.
WHY GIRLS SHOULD
WEAR BIG SHOES
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.—Tight
shoes make bad tempers, according to
a bulletin issued by the Young
Womens Christian Assn., here. An
investigation by the employment
bureau of the organization revealed
that many girls lost their jobs be
I cause they got “pevish" at their em
ployers, all on account of pinching
; boots jangling their nerves. The
| first requirement of a girl seeking
| work through the Y. W. C. A. here
now is—wear big shoes.
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Ripe olives. Thirty-five cents per
pint. Brown & Hawkins, “Quality
First."
You have read about the Raisin
Bread, made from Sun Maid Raisins? j
j We make it. Try it. We’re at The I
Home Bakery.
HENRY FORI).
Henry Ford has been called a jack- j
ass and a clown because he hired a
ship and sailed across the sea to
stop the most frightful slaughter the;
world has ever known. The big thing
in his,action is not the question!
whether he will or will not stop the i
war, but the fact that he is willing to
try! It was by trying that he got
where he is. Hut still he keeps on ^
trying.
In the face of overwhelming odds,
in spite of a world-wide criticism, he
is willing to undertake the greatest
job that ever fell to the lot of a
human being in the w’orld’s history.
He brushes aside the thousands of
columns of newspaper criticisms, he
ignores the public utterance of so
called statesmen, he sets his face to
ward the most glorious goal that any
man ever hoped to achieve—and goes
on his way Trying.
So far, he is the only person who
las taken a delinite step toward end
ing the war. True it may not be the
right step, you get that by trying.
The men who sit in swivel chairs and
! sneer and make funny jokes about
that man Ford are not taking steps of
any kind to end the war. The job
looks too big and too hopeless to
them. It looks big to Ford and may
be it looks hopeless to him. Hut he’s
got the nerve to try and spends his
own money. Asking aid of no man.
What a nation this would be, if each
industry could be headed by a Ford
who was willing to try, what chance
would any other nation under the sun
/
have with us. What if more of us
were willing to try and less of us
were slaves of convention and
creatures of habit. There is a word
in the dictionary called can’t, leave it
there. Never use it. Well w’e’ve been
“Henry Fording” it for the past
twelve years, and expect to keep right
at it, until the Powers that be, and
the Engineers that direct it, awaken
to the fact that Seward is the Begin
ning and Final jumping off place of
construction of Government railroads
in Alaska. In the meantime, we have
plenty time and help to serve you.
Best treatment, best price, and sure
ly the Best Goods.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.
L H C S*! F'dlnburRh•
L. F. P. Si S.. QlARfrnw.
J. M. SLOAN, M. D., C. M.
OVER OATEWAY
Office Hours, I to 3 and 7 to 8 P. M.
Formrhlt or Nomk.
M. 8. COBLE, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
OVERLAND HOTEL
PHONE MAIN 120
J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
OFFICE THIHD AVENUE
Phone Main 48
DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Ofllce Over Httrriman National Hank.
Hours 9 a m. to ,"> p. M.
JAMES McCOY
Mines and Investments
Fourth Avenue
SEWARD, ALASKA
F. A. Strvknh O. J. Van Pki.i
STEVENS & VAN PELT
Attorneys at Law
SEWARD, - ALASKA
LEANDER L. JAMES, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Otf«r Bank of Seward
SEWARD. - ALASKA
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WM. D. COPPERNOLL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
; Daogktt Block, Seward, Alaska
ROMIG & ROMIG
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent, Rents Collected,
Titles Examined, Lots for Sale.
Large Listing.
Phone Main 48 Seward, Alaska.
Igloo No. 9,
Order of Pioneers
Meow the First und Third Tuesday Niifhts
of each Month ut the Pioneer Hull.
IEANDER L. JAWS, Jr. ISAAC EVANS,
President. Secretary.
Arctic Brotherhood '
Camp Seward No. 21
Meets every Monday at 8 |>. m. at their
Kail,Cor.Washington and 5th Ave.
PERCEY PDUEN, P. 0. ENNIS,
Arctic Chief. Arctic Rrcoidrr.
Loyal Order of Moose
Meets every Friday nitfht at
8 o’clock, A. B. Hall.
M. J. CONROY, f. R. BIOFORD,
Dictator. Secretary.
Miller’s Barber Shop
Wo make a specialty of
removing warts, etc.
Hot and Cold BATHS Always Ready
HOTEL SEWARD
511 THIRD AVE.
Arctic Club Hldtr. SEATTLE, WASH
ZBINDEN BROS., Props.
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WirBlWsi.50 Special Weekly Rates
THE ALASKA HOUSE
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Warm Rooms First-Class
Rates Reasonable
BILLY PETERSON & D. TURCATTE, Props.
Good Eating!
Every Day Something Good at
the COMMERCE CAFE.
Everybody Knows Ernie Levin, Prop.
HARVEY & CO.
Contractors and Builders
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
Near Primary School, Second Ave., Seward
ALL-AROUND
MESSENGER
ALEXIS BENJ. WOCHE
MADISON 132
Seward W ater
and
Power Company
John A. Nelson, Manager
Office— Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD, - ALASKA
ASHCROFT HOME BAKERY
Bread, Rolls, Doughnuts, Cakes, Pies, Pastr>
Only Unbleached Flour Used, which Insures Bread without any
Chemical Impurities.
PHONE YOUR ORDER_ PHONE ADAMS 115
HOTEL OVERLAND
E. L. WHITTEMORE, PROP.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - ' ALASKA
Pioneer
Hotel
F. B. CANNON, Prop.
Knik
Alaska
KNIK’S LEADING HOTEL
NO BAR
Accommodations for Ninety Guests
Large General Lobby
Private Lobby for Ladies
Best Rates : : Best Treatment
Best Accommodations
ADELMAN & QUILTY—SEWARD DAIRY
MILK ane CREAM
Cottage Cheese and Butter
MILK STATIONS AT BOTH BUTCHER SHOPa
THE SEWARD LIGHT AND POWER CO.
Incorporated November 1908 under the Law. of the Territory of Alaska
S. M. GRAFF, President and General Manager
Controctor. and dealer. In Electric Supplies and Apparatus
Office At the Station. TELEPHONE A!AIN 123
H.V. HOBEN A. F. DAN IS
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
--——Dealera in
COAL, WOOD -AND ICE
General Transferring Phone*, Main 17 and 41
□A I A Q A sn'AMSM,r> sitiiil
rK L. r\ Q |\ M con pa ny spud
steamers Alameda and Northwestern sail from
battle at V p. m. the 10th, 20th and 30th of each
nonth tor Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau,Cordova,
'alder and Seward.
yard about the Ifth of each month for I n<tl<nka, and in
May, June, July and August she goes through to Nushagak.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, 1 hane,
Treadwell, Douglaa, Skagway, Cordova, fcllamar,
Valdez, Latoucne and Seward
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
tfsTRight reserved to change this schodule without notice*^
F. B. TRACY, General Agent _A)\^'"'l'''"ll ,
ORE TREATED
H. E. EJ-LSWORTH, Assayer and Chemist
A Complete Equipment for Mining SftWflrfl.. AlflSlO
and Technical Determinations ODWUIU >1
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER’S AMD fiOLD MINER’S SUPPLIES
Doors &. Windows
Lang's Ranges
I XL Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tight Heater*
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos >
P & B Paper
Malthold Roofing
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Oasollne
Gas Enprine 0(1
Marine Engine Oil
Valre Oil
Elaine OH
Floor Oil
Linseed OH
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqaeret Palat
Aaphaltum Paiet
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcehol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
PHONE MADISON 87
Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackle
Giant Powder
Caps
Fuse
Benoh Forjrea
Blacksmith’s Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Rope
Mercury
Seine Twine
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