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The three weeks we have to wait for the decision on the railroad quest
tion are like the fifteen minutes before the boss of a gang ot shovelers calls
“Time.** After having waited ten years or so three weeks don’t look much
but they probably feel like the deuce to most of the people ot Seward.
Every paper on the coast of Alaska now seems to be on the qui vivc
for what is coining next and the people are probably the same, as papers
only print what they believe the public is most interested in.
Remarkable stories come with people who arrive here from the outside
and from other parts of Alaska. Judging by some of them there is a most
temarkable lack of knowledge of the conditions in the different places
which aspire to the terminal. “People outside think Seward would be all
right if it wasn’t for Kenai peninsula” said an oldtime Alaskan from other
parts who arrived on the Mariposa yesterday afternoon. The meaning which
that phrase was intended to convey is rather puzzling but the comparison
shows clearly that there is some attempt to create a feeling that the pen
insula is a drawback for some extraordinary reason, for the phrase evidently
expresses the thoughts of a great many people according to this gentleman.
Some of the opponents of this place are apparently at work and, being
unable any longer to say any thing against the townsite or the harbor, there
must be found some other complaint or the knockers would lose their vo
cations.
The learned professor who said that there is a glacier hanging over the
entrance of Resurrection bay ready to drop a quarter of a mile and block
the channel to ocean steamers was the most original of all the talented
creatures whose live> seem to depend on whispering horrible things about us.
At least that man’s imagination showed a livelier turn than many others
and his story had the virtue of being so ridiculous that we could afford to
have a good laugh at it.
Hut the people who throw out hints about. “Seward being all right if it
wasn’t for the Kenai peninsula” are apparently using methods which are
questionable without being relieved by a bit of originality. They are simply
following the old plan of insinuating imaginary drawbacks as a virago might
says “Mrs. Jones i«. all right if it wasn’t for something that she knew about
her.”
It would ht* fine if there was some means to show all the world the real
truth about Kenai peninsula. The people who live in its nighborhood rightly
believe it to be one of the most promising parts of Alaska, bar none. Instead
of being a drawback to Seward in its claim to be a terminal the peninsula
by its very promise ought to aid in the campaign to secure the government
railroad. There is no part of Alaska which is more deserving of development
than this very peninsula, and in addition to that fact the peninsula seems al
most to have been placed specially where it is by nature to permit the coal
from the Matanuska to be drawn as far as possible towards the States by
land. To use a word that so often now occurs in the war dispatches, Seward
is the best “strategical** point, and this is aside from the fact that Kenai
peninula has no superior as a mining and agricultural territory in the whole
length and breadth of the territory.
But, three weeks will tell the story.
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CORDOVA NOTES
CORDOVA, Jan. 11.—C. E. Bunnell,
the newly appointed judge of the
Fourth judicial division, is said to be
coming over on the next boat from
Valdez, enroute to Fairbanks, where
he will assume his official duties.
There is considerable business await
ing the court at that point and sever
al appeals have been sent from there
to the department of justice request
ing that the appointment be hurried.
CORDOVA, Jan. 13.—George Haz
zard, who was arrested at Juneau on
the arrival there of the steamer Ala
meda, on a warrant from Cordova
charging him with obtaining money
under false pretenses, will arrive here
this evening on the Mariposa in
charge of a deputy from Juneau.
COKPOVA, Jan. 11.—A. J. Simons,
formerly of Chitina, who conducts a
store at Chisana, arrived in McCarthy
from the new camp a few days ago
with both hands and feet badly frozen.
His feet are so badly frosted that he
is likely to lose some of his toes, while
his hands will escape with the loss of
' some of the skin only. Simons got
! his feet wet, and because of the cold
! did not stop to change his socks.
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CORDOVA, Jan. 11.—Late arrivals
from the Sushanna, at McCarthy,
state that Louis Schonborn, the Su
shanna storekeeper who was murdered
Dec. 26, was killed outside of his store
and the body afterwards dragged in
i side. At least this is indicated by the
appearances. The deceased was
known to have had considerable
money, and this has disappeared, the
pockets having been rifled. There are
several parties under suspicion, as
well as a band of Indians. The na
tives were camped near the scene of
the crime, and are reported to have
said that a white man committed the
murder, and shortly after they left
i camp. Deputy Marshal Frank HofT
! man has left camp in search of them
and will bring them back.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
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get all of which a knowledge is
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General household utensils at Brown
& Hawkins. “Quality first.”
THE MINER’S STORE
The Place Where Men Outfit
There is a pleasure in selling, either to an old custom
er or to a stranger, an article of known merit: To know
and feel that the article is going to give satisfaction and
service and to feel when you make the sale, that the mem
ory of the quality will stay with the customer long after
the price paid has been forgotten.
That is the kind of merchandise that we carry, the
kind where the memory of the quality of goods lingers.—
Dependable merchandise. When we sell a man a Stein
Block Suit, we know that he is buying Style, Fit, Quality,
and Satisfaction. It is the same with a Kenyon Coat,
Dougherty Shoes, Guiterman Shirts, Duxbak Clothing,
Guiterman Mackinaw Coats and riding pants, Filson Stag
or Cruiser Shirts, Chippewa Shoes or Hipress Pacs.
It is this kind of merchandise, sold at prices that ap
peal to the trade, that has made it possible for us to build
up in the past four years, from a most modest beginning
to our present standing, and it is the memory of the
quality of the goods that we have handled that has sent
the customers back to us and enabled us to hold their
trade year after year
There is not one article in this store that we know
now where we could get a better one to take its place. If
we should find a better one, we would immediately order
the line. We want the best and we want you to feel and to
know that when you buy an article in THE MINER
STORE, you are buying the best that can be purchased
by us.
When you want a suit of clothes, a hat, a pair of shoes
or even a pair of socks, don’t you like to buy from a store
that is making an earnest effort to give you the highest
grade and the best value possible to give for your money,
to buy from a store that stands behind every article that
is sold in the store?
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
DO NATIONS
OWN THE AIR
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: SWITZERLAND C AUSES NOVEL
DEBATE IN RELATION
TO AIRSHIPS.
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(By The Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 15.—Now that Swit
| zerland has raised the point that, in
! flying over her territory, British
■ aviators who dropped bombs on the
j Zeppelin sheds at Eriedrichshafen
| violated Swiss neutrality, British
i lawyers have asked the even more
novel question as to whether the re
I cognition of said sovereignty logically
involves the prohibition of wireless
communication by nations at war.
In other words, if the passage of ar
airship through the air of a neutral
country, is a violation of neutrality,
how about a message sent through
the air? The question, as fantastic
j as it may seem, raises a nice point ir
[ international law—one that may yet
have to be thrashed out at some fu
ture conference.
Great Britain expressed regret that
her Aviators crossed Swiss territory
but she emphasized at the same thru
that she did not concede sovereignty
of the air to anyone. On this poinl
lawyers disagree. English courts have
held in the past that there can be nc
trespass where free air is concerned
In the United States, on the othei
hand, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, con
tested in the courts and lost in a
ease where it erected a bridge part of
which projected in the air over the
property of a tax payer. For this priv
ilege the city was forced to pay ten
thousand dollars.
British legal opinion thus far voic
ed seems to be that the air is private
or state property only insofar as it
is effectively occupied. That is to say,
effective occupation consists at pre
sent cf dominating the atmosphere to
the limit of modern rifle range—say
seven thousand feet. “1 can not see,”
said a lawyer, “that a country would
be guilty of a breach of neutrality if
an aeroplane passed over it at a height
beyond the range of control. I told
that the air above the globe is free to
the use of the aircraft of all nations,
and is only subject to such rights as
are required by the subjacent powers
for their respective protection against
attack, espionage, infection, infringe
ment of fiscal rights and danger to
the life and property of their sub
jects.”
LONDON, Jan. 14.—The belligerent
armies in the fields of war today num
ber all told nearly 18,500,000 men, or
28,000,000 with all reserves and “new”
troops counted, according to a French
statistician, M. Yves Guyot.
The expenditure required he esti
- mates at an average of nearly $2.50
daily per man, or about $11,000,000,
- 000 for one year of warefare. A single
i year of the present war, he thinks,
. will cost about the same amount of
• money as the total expenditure of all
. the wars of the previous fifty years.
GOOD
Clothes at
Moderate Prices
These Clothes wear, they tit
and they have the right style.
Note the prices at which we
sell them and the next time you
are in Seattle, come in and see
them. If you are not satisfied
with the value you get, you can
have your money back.
$20 to $40
719 Second Ave. Near Columbia
King Bros. Co.
Correct Apparel tor Men
Seattle, Washington
IT PAYS FROM THE
STANDARD FURNITURE CO.
SEATTLE— "It’s Belter and Costs Less"1
Good Comfort
Rocker
$25.00
A splendid COMFORT
Rocker. Upholstered in
imitation Spanish leath
er. The seat springs are
of oil tempered steel; back
diamond tufted; base
frame of oak; strongly
made, fitted with patent
springs; great value at
$25.00
Large Pullman
Carriage folding
Go-Cart—$20.50
Folding go-cart; made in
the latest Pullman carriage
style; strong springs nnder
ne'ath, eliminating jolts; tub
ular frame construction
throughout; nickel trimmed
handle-bar and wood parts;
rubber-tired wheels; side and
back curtains; price $20.50.
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Write for our new Go-Cart Catalog. Folding Go
Carts from $7.00 and up. Baby Sulkies $1.50 and
up. Carriages $15.00 and up.
Second Ave. at Pine St. SEATTLE
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EMINENT ARCHITECT
BROKE IN LONDON.
(By The Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 15.—An eminent ar
chitect of London, whose business
was broken up because of his being
an alien enemy, applied for relief at
the Religious Society of Friends the
past week as Ik* had but a single half
penny in his pockets to subsist on.
He was expecting 25 pounds from his
wife, and the money had not arrived
from Austria. Many other alien
enemies have been spared the monoto
nous life of the concentration camps
only to find themselves dependent on
charity. They are largely painters,
musicians and professional men of
long residence in England and not in
frequently married to English wive.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
The finest kind of job work as v II
as the plainest is done by the Gate
way.
Yost water motor wash machines
at Brown & Hawkins. “Quality first.*
Finch's Golden Wedding Rye al The
Branch.
Job printing of every description a'
The Gateway.
1915, January Fifth, Our I KiN I H
J
Anniversary of Business in Seward
J
WK wish to thank tin* public in general for their liberal
patronage in tin* past and trust our business meth
ods have been such as to merit their greater con
fidence in the future. We an* most optimistic for Seward
in the year 1915. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of Ressur
rection Hay as the Ocean Terminus ol the (*<>\cinm« c
Railway by President Wilson, not later than February I":
that actual construction work will begin not later than
April 1st; that Seward will have a population of .'>0po
people by December 30th; that real estate* in Seward will
advance fully 300 per cent by September 1st. and that cur
business will increase accordingly.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL COMPANY
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER’S ANJ) COLD MINER’S SUPPLIES
Doors & Windows
Lang’s Ranges
l XL Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P & B Paper
Malthoid Rooting
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Knj'ine Oil
Nlarine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
HI nine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
(’up Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltutn Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
PHONE BLACK 4
Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackia
Giant Fowiler
Caps
Fuse
Bench Forges
Blacksmith's Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Hope
Mercury
Seine Twine
J. L. GRAEF
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. S
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
every eight days tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. DORA leaves'Seward 15th of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutch Harbor.
Regular freight service tor Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
Valdez, Latouche and Seward
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Sew ard carries Explosives)
Right reserved to change this schedule without notice'^
F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
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Staple and Fancy Groceries
Handles the Best Canned Goods from the Pacific Coast—Rest
Treatment to Everybody and Prices Right—Goods
Delivered to All Parts of the City
GUS BORGEN, Proprietor
Phone Main 134 Clayson Building, Seward
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