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BERNARD M. STONE, President.
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Someone started a rumor yesterday that the government had taken over
the Copper River railroad. No one knows who was the author of the story.
Naturally it caused a lot of people to talk and, of course, the orginator of
the yarn felt highly pleased. If that “joke” had been perpetrated by a boy
it would make one fell inclined lo smile as it was characteristic of puerility.
When a man finds time to get so humorous one is inclined to hope that he
will secure work soon to turn his mind into some more profitable channel.
With gentlemen of this description at large we may hear many more delight
ful bits of fiction along the same line. The field is by no means overcrowded
and there is room for the play of genius unlimited. Tomorrow we may hear
that Portage Bay has been selected, or that this road has been bought, or
that something else has happened. Before being deceived by transcendant
geniuses of the fabrication school it is better to wait and hear what the
Associated Press has to say.
All the people of Seward are now looking forward eagerly for the final
news about the railroad. Many of them have given valuable years to this
city in the hope that they might receive their well deserved rewards. It is
easy to understand their anxiety. But, they can take comfort in the
thought that whether the government buys any other railroad or not Seward
will he the metropolis of the region which includes the Matanuska coal fields
and that is the chief consideration. If the government does not take this
road private capital will. But the government will take this road, you may
be absolutely certain, unless the owners and their backers see that they can
make more money bj holding the road at an exorbitant figure or by operating
it themselves.
History’s lesson shows us that those who are foes today will be friends
tomorrow and vice versa. The allied nations now engaged in war at the same
side may he on opposite sides in the next war. Indeed if that almost in
fallible guide, history, is to he followed this will actually be the case. Let us
take the last century’s wars at random. The nineteenth century opened with
Prussia, Britain. Spain. Russia opposed to France. About the same time
Britain and the I’nited States went to war. Then came peace amongst the
European powers for a time. Afterwards Turkey fights Russia. Then France,
Britain and Turkey tight Russia. Germany, or Prussia, rather, tight Austria.
Germany later fought France. Just before that Italy joined Prussia against
Austria. About the same time France prevented Italy from attacking the
pope. About the next big fight was the Balkans where the Balkan allies
first beat Turkey and then started to eat each other up. But, to go back a few
years; Kitchener met Major Merchand in the Soudan and France and Bri
tain were on the verge of war because both Kitchener and Marchand claimed
the territory where they met for their respective countries. So bitter were
they that both mobilized their fleets. The French cartoonists insulted Queen
Victoria and held up the British to ridicule. The British cartoonists, especi
ally those on Punch, pictured France as a monkey. Today what has hap
pened? And tomorrow what will happen? And then came the war between
Russia and Japan a few short years ago. Both are on the same side today.
Let us all remember when we let our passions rise about the European war
that history repeats itslf. Vnd one of the most remarkable historical facts
is that the nations of the world are like a lot of school boys; They scrap
without caring a hang with whom.
NEWSPAPERS
ARE HARD HIT
CENSORS IN FRANCE AND BRI
TAIN KNOCK THE NEWS
OUT OF SHAPE.
(By The Associated Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 13.—Peculiar things
happen to news in these days when it
is so scarce and censors are so strict.
Much news is “lifted” from one news
paper into another, and when a writer
gets a story into print there is no tel
ling under what date line, or whose
name, it may reappear.
One of the few graphic- and au
thentic stories from the front appear
ed in an afternoon paper here on a
recent Sunday. It was cabled to New
York the same evening. The next day
a Paris newspaper picked up the story
and that afternoon another paper did
the same thing. Other papers, morn
ing and afternoon, ran the story on
Tuesday. And then, on Wednesday
morning, an English newspaper print
ed the item as a special despatch from
the north of France, over the sign
ature of an authentic war corres
pondent.
The incident is not so much an ex
ample of loose editorial work as a
demonstration of the journalist s
troubles during the war. Copy is
scarce enough at the best, and the
censor ruins the best of it while the
staffs of all the Paris papers are
decimated by the mobilization.
Each copies from all the other and
a story that passes observation today
may catch the eye tomorrow. -This ap
plies to the censor’s staff as well, for
1 an article approved in the morning is
sometimes cut out in the atternoon.
One man with the official scissors sees
one paragraph that will not do. His
colleague passes the same article in
another paper, but finds another ob
jectionable paragraph that the other
i did not see.
Clcmenceau’s rechristened paper,
L’Homme Enchaine, recently contain
ed the heading of an editorial “Is it
True?” The rest of the column was
blank and the public shall have to
wait for the end of the war to know
whether it is true or not.
In another case a dangerous news
item was cut out but the head was
overlooked. It was a good and, of
course, contained the meat of the
article.
The Cri de Paris says “the censor is
as capricious as a pretty woman/
then proves it by giving details of
certain incidents in which ex-Minister
Caillaux and Madame Caillaux were
concerned, but regarding which the
censor had imposed a strict silenie.
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
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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
Monsieur and Madame Caillaux ap
peared arm-in-arm on the boulevard,
and, were hooted. They went to a
restaurant to dine and all the other
guests rose to leave. They went into
! the garage where the requisitioned
I motor-cars of the military govern
ment of Paris an* kept and ordered
a car but the car was refused and
• Gallieni approved the refusal. All
these incidents, suppressed pitilessly
by the censor in Paris, were passed
in the Eclaireur de Nice, and now the
Cri dc Paris has had the chance to
smuggle them into Paris under the
nose of the censor who previously cut
them out.
The newspaper was one of the first
Institutions hit by the war. With the
first excitement circulation went up
by leaps and bounds, while the mob
ilization cut otT sources, of supply of
paper. Dailies that had not a good
reserve stock shrank at once from
four page to two, then from a lull
1 sheet some even appeared for weeks
in quarter sheet size.
At the same time so many unem
ployed men, women and children be
came newsvendors, that Paris suffered
for a time from a riot of news. The
military governor decided that it was
too much for the nerves of Paris, and
at the first sign that the situation was
becoming panicky, all extras were
suppressed and the crying of news or
titles of newspapers prohibited.
The temporary disappearance of the
illustrated journals was a severe
blow to those who gather around the
kiosks and get cheap information and
diversion from the dozens of periodi
cals displayed.
GERMAN OFFICER TALKS
OF INDIAN FIGHTERS.
Brown Devils Charged and Fought
With Knives and Butts.
(By The Associated Press.)
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 14.—-The
Frankfurther Zcitung publishes the
following letter from a German of
ficer, commenting on the prowess of
Britain’s Indian troops:
“Today for the first time we had to
fight against the Indians, and the
devil knows that those brown rascals
are not to be underrated. At first we
spoke with contempt of the Indians.
Today we learned to look at them in a
different light. For three days we
were shelled continously; the British
thought we were pounded into a jelly,
so they sent us a little surprise in the
shape of a visit from their brown
allies.
“Satan only knows what the English
had put into those fellows. Those
who stormed our lines were drunk or
possessed with an evil spirit. W ith
fearful shouting, in comparison with
which our hurrahs were like the whin
ing of a baby, thousands of these
brown forms rushed upon us as sud
denly as if they were shot out of a
fog.
• “We opened a destructive fire at a
hundred yards. It mowed down hun
dreds, but in spite of that the others
advanced, springing forward like cats
and surmounting our obstacles with
unexampled agility. In no time they
were in our trenches, and truly these
brown enemies were not to be de
j spised. With butt ends, bayonets,
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RELATIVES TO FRONT.
(By The Associated Tress.)
LONDON, Jan. 14.—'The British
Red Cross has extended its activity to
the financing of trips to the front for
relatives of men lying seriously
wounded in field or advance base hos
pitals. For the present, the privilege
is restricted to one relative for each
patient, and the seriousness of the
patient’s case must be properly certi
fied by the Army Medical Corps.
swords, and daggers we fought each
other, and we had bitter hard work
• until our reinforcements arrived and
we drove them out of the trenches.”
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lished 1841. Especially fine for meats.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality first.”
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
The finest kind of job work as w**ll
as tho plainest is done by the Gate
way.
Yost water motor wash machines
at Brown & Hawkins. “Quality first.”
Finch’s Goiden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.
Job printing of every description at
The Gateway.
1915, January Fifth, Our 1 FIN 1II
Anniversary of Business in Seward
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WK wish to thank the public in general for their liberal
patronage in the past and trust our business meth
ods have been such as to merit their greater con
fidence in the future. We are most optimistic for Seward
in the year 1915. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of insur
rection Bay as the Ocean Terminus of the Government
Railway by President Wilson, not later than February 1“:
that actual construction work will begin not later than
April 1st; that Seward will have a population of 5900
people by December 30th; that real estate in Seward will
advance fully 300 per cent by September 1st. and that our
business will increase accordingly.
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Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P & B Paper
MftUhoid Rooting
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Deafening felt
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Niarine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
Elaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltum Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
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Japan
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Coal Tar
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Lanterns
Tents
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. «
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
every eight days lor 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 for 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. Seward carries Explosives)
t&r Right reserved to change this schedule without noticed
F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
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