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SKW \RD, VLASKA. SATl IM>A\, OCTOBER 30. 1015.
The |o^ of half a million men to the British means the loss of about one
person out o every eighty in the island of Great Britain. If we take in
Great Britain. Ireland. Canada and Australia the loss of half a million means
just about the loss of one out of every one hundred of the total population.
And the losse> are not the lame, the blind and the halt but the very cream of
the nation's manhood.
To biing home to us exactly what this means it need only be said that
it amounts to taking fifteen of the men of (military age in the town of Sew
ard and maiming them or killing them. And every village in the British
Islands today has a story to tell of casualties in the same proportion. An
other > ear of the war will mean taking thirty of the pick and choice of
Seward's population and butchering them either wholly’ or partially, and as
the numbers of the men engaged are constantly increasing the thin! year of
•
the war would mean taking fifty of the most athletic and spirited young
men of Seward and turning them into cripples or corpses.
This is figuring on the population of* Seward as fifteen hundred people
of all sons. sexe> and ages. If we can divide the children, women ami men
it would probably be found that the men are about half the population. That
would leave seven hundred and fifty men of all sorts and ages. As the mili
tary age is aoout between the ages of eighteen and forty it would give us
most likely th*1 total number of men as tit for miliary service. That is. there
are probably three hundred and seventy-five men of military age in Seward.
In other words the loss of fifty men would mean the loss of one in seven
capable of bearing arms.
Go to a dance at A. B. Hall. It is quite a large crowd when you haVe
fifty couples attending. Take those fifty men and you have the most
athletic as a rale. Then take them out and kill them, take olT their legs or
take out their eyes and you have what the present war is to the nations
«ngaged. This may be a horrible thought but it is war -it is also hell. And
every village in Great Britain is going through it. and every village in
France, Germany. Turkey and Serbia is going through worse.
Worse still than this picture is the picture of those left behind. For each
man killed or maimed from among the homo loving folks of Europe there
are three or four left to mourn. Let us suppose that Seward were a town
of homes where son succeeds sire for generations as in the European vil
lages. Then we should not havt fifty only torn by the war but we shoulci
have hundreds torn by an agony worse than physical wounds or dissolution
itself.
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I TWO BROTHERS HURT
ON THE SAME DAY
Ole Swanson, who has been work
ing with the Engineering commission
at Mile 54, yesterday morning suf
fered an accident which broke a few
\
of his ribs. He was carrying an
angle bar across a slippery trestle,
when he fell backwards on the
bridge with the iron bar on top of
him. He came in on the large car
yesterday evening about 7:15 and
was taken to the Pioneer Hospital.
A brother of Mr. Ole Swanson,
Swan Swanson, also was hurt at Mile
54 yesterday morning have the ball
of his right thumb cut out. The
last named came in on the small car
earlier in the afternoon than his
brother.
THIS IS WHAT HURTS
SEWARD AND ALASKA
The Seattle Times publishes a dis
patch from Seward dated October 9
which shows that we are the in the
fierce grip of winter. Railroad work
was stopped two weeks ago by terri
ble snow storms. “A sixty mile gale
is piling up snow." It may be news
to Seattle to know that today, Octob
er .*’>0, the air is as soft as a glove
with no snow nearer than the mount
ain peaks. The head to the story
in the Times is ‘‘Heavy Fall (of
snow) at Seward delays crews now
building first section of railroad."
t Here is the dispatch:
SEWARD. Tuesday, Oct. 19.—1
Work of construction crews building
the first section of the government's
railroad is being hampered by the
I first severe snowstorm of the season.
Commissioner Thomas Riggs, Jr., of
the Alaska engineering commission,
who is on route from Fairbanks to
Seward, has been indefinitely delayed
by a three-foot snow at McCallum on
the Fairbanks trail. A sixty-mile
gale is blowing in the interior, piling
the snow into large drifts and mak
ing travel over the trail temporarily
impossible.
j Reports from Anchorage, construe
, jtion headquarters, said three inches
! of snow fell there. The thermometer
registeed 20 above zero.
The storm was severe along Kenai
| Lake, along the shore of which the
old Alaska Northern’s line runs.
Track and trees along the shore are
■ coated with ice. The gasoline car
which arrived in Seward yesterday
I was covered with icicles.
Construction crew reported severe
weather at Mile Fifty-two.
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merly A. B. hall) every Sunday at 11
o’clock and Wednesday evenings at 8
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THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Prop.
SEWARD ALASKA
MAN WHO CORNERED EGG I
MARKET IN DAWSON JAILED :
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“Swiftwater Bill” Gates the gen- ;
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ius who corned the egg market in :
Alaska in the Klondike days, and \
made a fortune in gold-mining, and \
who was arrested in Spokane rtaent- j
ly on a warrant sworn to by Mrs, |i
Iola Beebe, of Seattle, charging :
neglect to support his 14 year old \
son, f*red, is out on bond.
Gates says he has given Mrs. Bcbee j
between $10,000 and $12,000 for the i
boy’s support. !
4 “Swiftwater’ never gave me a j
cent,” said Mrs. Beebe.
“He eloped with my daughter when i
she was only 14 years old. She had j
two sons by him. He made her go j
with him to Quartz creek, where the j
first gold in the Klondike was discov- jj
ered, so their first born might be jj
born under lucky auspices. The first- jj
born was Clifford. ‘Swiftwater’ de- j!
sorted my daughter before the second j
son, Ered, was born.
“He got $4,000 from me and put
it into Quartz creek. 1 sold my hotel I:
at Dawson, and gave him $8,000. I I
never got a cent back.
“A woman kidnapped Clifford, hop
ing, I suppose to make ‘Swiftwater’ |
pay her for his return. ‘Swiftwater’
never tried to find him. 1 paid law
yers and detectives to search for i
Clifford until I went brok*. I’m
broke now. Clifford is somewhere I
in British Columbia.
“My daughter died in 1908, and 1
her body lies in Mt. Pleasant cem- \
ctery. Over her body, l took a vow ;
that 1 would compel ‘Swiftwater’ to
provide for his children. .
“I have kept rred all these years.
I propose to send him through col
lege, and I propose to make‘Swift
water’ help me to do it.
“He promised me long ago that he
would pay me $1,000 a year for each
of the boys and 10 per cent, of the
profits of any mining properties he
might secure. He does not come to
see Fred when he is in Seattle. Once
a long time ago. he gave the boy 00
cents.”
About two years ago “Swiftwat
er Bill” returned from Peru, where he
claimed to have discovered the source
of the gold that the Incas had when
conquered by Pizarro. He formed a
company to develope his concession.
He was about to return to Peru
when Constable K. Shrewsbury ar
rested him in Spokane and brought
him to Seattle.—Ex.
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IN PROBATE COURT FOR KENAI
PRECINCT OF THE THIRD DIVI
SION OF THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF No-....
JOHN A. MATHISON,
DECEASED.
NOTICE qi' HEARING FOR PROOF
OF WILE AND ISSUANCE OF
LETTERS i ESTAMENTARY.
Notice is hereby given that Tues
day. the ninth day of November, 1915,
at t .o o’clock P. M. of said clay, and
the iourt loom of the above Court in
the office of the U. S. Commissioner
or the Ivenai Precinct, Third Division
>f the Territory of Alaska, at Seward,
Alaska, have been appointed as the
time and place for proving the will of
the said John A. Mathison, deceased,
and for hearing the application of
Charics S. Mathison for the issuance 1
to him of Letters Testamentary with
the will annexed, heretofore filed and
made in this court. •
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, M. J.
Convoy, United States Commissioner
for the Kenai Precinct of the Third
Division of the Territory of Alaska
and Ex officio Probate Judge for said
Precinct, has hereunto set his hand
and affixed the seal of said court at
Seward, Alaska, within said precinct,
this 1st day of October, A. D., 1915.
(Seal) M. J. CONROY,
United States Commissioner and
Ex officio Probate Judge.
The All-Alaska Review
Features in October Number:
Richardson-^ ickershani (Controversy
Stories of Discoveries in Alaska
The Diseovcn o( Chisana
The Discovery of Nelchina
The Discovers of’ Nome
Alaska Gold Mines
By Emincnl Engineers
Rise and Fall ol Alaska’s Home Railroad
Alaska at the Panama Exposition
Personal News from Every District
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