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WE SAY IT IS POSSIBLE
Iron and steel are becoming indispensable to the hu
man family. The demand is getting greater all the time,
and the price is keeping up with the market.
Practically all the iron mines in the United States;
that are accessible are being worked and the largest for
tunes we have in this country have been made from iron
and its kindred industries.
At the present time there is in process of formation, |
a company, that proposes to establish near Seattle, large
blast furnaces for the purpose of manufacturing pig ironj
and steel. The ore they propose to get from China and Al
aska. and their coke will come from the Matanuska coalj
fields. By this we see they figure on making long hauls in j
order to get the material together to operate furnaces.
Why doesn’t Seward reach out for enterprises of this i
characte? She certainly has advantages over the other
places on the Pacific coast. We have the iron ore at Port
Dick and Port Chatham, less than 100 miles haul. (Gov-1
eminent reports are favorable on this ore); we have the I
coke 175 miles haul, and mountains of lime stone six miles
away. If Chinese ore had to be procured the haul would]
be 1.000 miles less to Seward than Seattle, as the northern
passage from one of those ports to the other travels about
•_’00 miles from Seward, and the coke would have to pass
our doors going to Seattle.
Nature has done her share toward loaning Resurrec
tion bay the central point for all this raw material to be
brought to and manufactured. The thiny now is to show
this natural center to capitalists, and there are plenty of
them looking for investment in manufacturing enter
prises.
Think, people of Seward, what it would mean to have;
blast furnaces located here. It would mean this—factories
of all kinds would spring up from the making of jwcket
knives to the building of battleships, and to your question j
“is this possible?” We say it is.
You have the central location, you have the raw ma
terial—now you want the capital to bring them together—
and that you can get.
A QUIET DAY IN CARLISLE
• "There wore quite a number of men on the streets in
an intoxicated condition—more than usual it appeared.
There were few "rough-necks" among them, however,;
and the day passed very peacefully, except for a killing;
of Hen Thurston, and a few fist fights and one stabbing1
affray of no partciular consequence.”—(Carlisle, (Ky.);
Mercury.)
When Uncle Sam wished to borrow a little money the!
other day to tide him over until his June collections are in,
lie went to the banks prepared and willing to pay three
per cent for the accomodation. The banks thought two
percent would be about right and the loan was negotiated
on that basis. To paraphrase the late Mr. Aesop,, it
might be said this incident teaches that the less one needs
help the easier it is to get. And it also teaches another
thing; that American banks and bankers are stronger for
patriotism chan for profit when the public interests are in
volved. ,
Ami now we see that a bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania legislature prohibiting children under 16
from going to the circus save in the company of grown
ups. Either that legislator is one of those, “ oh, I’m just
going to take the children to see the animals” shams, who
needs a law to support his duplicity, or else he is one of
those unfortunates who has forgotten the charms and
thrills and glories of childhood. If the last, his punish
ment is sufficient without our great family journal hold
ing him up to the scorn and ridicule of all the vast regions
round about which our circulation covers like a blanket.
Advertising rates upon application.
If you merely wish a thing to be repeated in general
terms, all that is necessary is to tell it in confidence; but
if you wish it repeated with great accuracy of detail it
should be told in strict confidence.
Far be it from us to question the wisdom of the
prince of philosophers, but when Socrates tells us to first
learn all about the thing we propose to do before attemp
ting it, we naturally wonder if he had given adequate con
sideration to the cultivation of potatoes in Alaska.
Ever since the Spanish war we've regarded with sus
picion anything of a news character emanating from
Cuba; so we merely print as an unconfirmed report the
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story of Edward McGinley that the revolutionists who
stole his circus the other day left the sawdust. This may
be true, but anyone familiar with the Latin-American
revolutionary type will find it difficult to credit so unpre
cedented an oversight.
LANDLADY SLAYS
AGED GERMAN
TOOK HER COAL
BERLIN.—Because he tried to steal
a few pieces of pressed coal to warm
his cold room Carl l’icutka, an aged
former postal official, was killed by
his landlady, Mrs. Marie Bethe. The
murdered man was 82 years old and
no longer in possession of his full
faculties. He complained daily that j
he was freezing in his unheated room, j
but the landlady refused the briquets
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demanded by him, as her own supply
of fuel was very limited. Finally the
old man decided to help himself. In
the middle of the night he went to the
cellar to get a few pieces of the co
veted coal. When he tried to return
to his room with his booty he was
stopped by the landlady, who attacked
him with a carving knife.
The man died within a few minutes,
but the landlady returned to bed as if
nothing had happened. When she was
arrested the next day she defended
herself with the claim that her act
was justified.
“Stealing coal or food in these hard
times is worse than stealing gi id o>*
diamonds,” she said. As there are
doubts in regard to her sanity, sho
was sent to the hospital for obesrva
tion.
Cheer Up Folks 1
THKRK'S MORK \S TIIR KITCHKN
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Hooray!
They’ll soon be playing ball again,
they’ll soon be on the job,
They’ll soon be lining out home t
runs to make our glad hearts
throh;
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They’ll soon be scooting down to first,
or trying to steal home,
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And soon the young recruit will show
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the. ivory in his dome.
They’ll soon be striking out again and
muffing easy flies,
They’ll soon use the old albii, “The
sun wuz in me eyes!”
And we will all be on the job to root
and whoop and shout,
When the bleachers holler: “Robber,;
and the umpire says—“Y-e-r-r
out!”
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Great thoughts know no remorse
and great art has never to repent.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
KEN AI PRECINCT, THIRD DIVI
. SION OF THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA. BEFORE THE HON.
FRANK ENNIS, U. S. COMMIS
SIONER AND EX-OFFICIO PRO
BATE JUDGE.
! In the matter of the estate of ANNA
NIMMO, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned* administrator of the estate
of ANNA NIMMO, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit such claims, with the neces
| sary vouchers, within six months af
ter the first publication of this notice
to the said administrator, at the of
fice of the undersigned in the Bank of
Seward building, Seward, Alaska.
LEON C. BOOKER,
Admisistrator of the estate of Anna
Nimmo, deceased.
Dated and first published on this
18th day of April, 1917.
Apr. 18-25-May 2-9.
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