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BY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inc.)
Harry ▼. Hohan. P Frank L. Ballalna. Sac. Krlch Lucaa. Traaa.
EnUrrl aa aecond-clase matter September. t. 1915. at the poatoftica at Seward. Alaska.
under act of March 3. 1879. _
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THE HOD PROBLEM
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Speaking of keeping dogs off the streets the other!
day, brought out many complimentary remarks. Every
body favors the idea, and have promised to help the move
ment along; and the chances are that the council will bet
asked to take the matter up. And we don’t know but what
the council should. If it is lawful for one community toj
keep dogs off the streets, we see no reason why it should
not be lawful for the people of Ketchikan to do the same.
We believe that an ordinance could be enacted covering
the point, enforced and incidentally rid the streets of the
biggest nuisance that a town subject to, unless it is a
herd of cattle with bells on.—Ketchikan Miner.
In our opinion certain Alaska papers are going too
far in their attempt to subdue and regulate from sight all
dogs. It is a fact that dogs, next to the hardy pioneers
themselves, had more to do with the development of .Alas
ka than any other agency. True, many dogs are worth
less, but nearly every dog is the property of some boy, and
to deprive and rob that boy of his friend and pet is in
human. The trouble with too many men is that they have
not forgotten that they were boys, they have forgotten
what kind of boys they were—forgotten that they ever
loved a dog. Vive la dog.—Douglas News
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Like every other Alaska community, Anchorage, soon
er or later, will have to settle the dog problem. And this
presents a real problem, too, because there are two sides
to this question. The problem is, “shall dogs be allowed
to roam at large in the community, or shall they be tied or
penned up, as the owners may elect?” As every Alaskan
knows, the dog is a beast of burden in the northland. What
the pack horse or the donkey is to the prospector in the
western states, the dog is to the prospector in Alaska. If
not our most useful animal, the dog ranks as at least one
of the most useful and serviceable. The dog is used on
most of our-mail teams, and practiclly all of our winter
mushing teams, going over roads and trails that the horse
could not accomplish. The dog is a valuable animal, and
one whose services are recognized by Alaskans.
But in the summer time the dog has no employment.
It lies about the streets, on the sidewalk, in front of the
business entrances, and generally makes himself a nuis
ance to pedestrians. Not only that, but a dog that is part
native is liable to be a menace to small children. If a child
fall, a pack of these dogs is just as liable as not to attack
the little one. These atttacks are not numerous, but they
occur, and they are as liable to occur in this community
as elsewhere. As to gardens, it is quite impossible to think
of raising anything unless one builds a fence against the
protection of these playful animals, who, just for the fun
of the thing, will romp around and ruin the growing
plant life.
Of course the owner of the dog will say, let the house
holder fence his garden, and the householder will insist
that the dogs should not be allowed to invade private
grounds. But the fencing of the gardens does not solve
the problem, because there is the menace of the little one
remaining. As we see it, either the children or the dogs
must be denied the liberty of the streets, and as much as
we like the dogs, we like the children better, and shall vote
in favor of the dogs being kept within the confines of the
owner’s property. That is the way other Alaska towns
have settled this problem.—Anchorage Times.
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Seward has nothing on the rest of Alaska when it
comes to dogs and there is need of a rule to keep the dogs
off the streets as well as horses.
Dogs are more likely to do harm to a new made garden
than horses, as the dogs delight to paw around in fresh
turned earth. The w’riter knows—he was out in his gar
den this morning repairing damage done by some big dogs
whose owner has been vociferous in his demands that the
horses be kept off the streets.
Later when fhe gardens are up they will be tempting
\
CRUSH THEM.
—Fitzpatrick in St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
niorseis for stock. The view point of the dog and horse
owners is that the garden owners better fence their gar
dens, but, incidentally, the garden above mentioned was
fenced. The gardeners are unanimously in favor of fenc
ing up the horses and dogs. There are more garden own
ers than horse and dog owners this year and in view of the
importance of raising produce to offset the demands of
war, it is imperative that rights of the gardener be upheld.
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the SALT WATER TERMINUS of the Government-built railroad,
the nearest port to the GREATEST HALIBUT BANKS in Alaska
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