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SEWARD. YLASKA, WEDNESDAY, fSBBUAOT 3, 1915.
It is really a fact that the climate of Alaska is not as coal as it was some
years ago. If it is not a fact there is still more remarkable phenomenon to
be accounted for. and that is the phenomenon of a whole population of a ter*
ritory believing that a climate is getting warmer when it is doing no suet
thing. No one ever now hears of “sixty below” and “seventy below.” In the
good old days a fellow never minded going outside the tent and coming back
almost freezing to death because the mercury had shrunk out of sight in the
six-for-two-bits thermometer that had been manufactured to aid the Alaskan
in believing that he lived in a cold country.
The raids on England furnish a peculiar lesson. When other English
speaking people hear of airships dropping bombs on towns that sound like
the names in Minnesota it makes them feed that the war is getting more in
teresting. W ar has become so much the theme of people writing histories
that the subject of war under ordinary conditions has lost its news value for
everybody. Many of the people of England read about tie war just as they
read about several other wars in India, Africa or some place else. They heard
about soldiers getting .Killed and read about it as if the killing of a soldier
was just worth reading and no more.
The army in Hrituin in war time is really a thing apart from the ordin
ary things of life. The great body of the people have become altogether ac
customed to taking it so easy that the fighting of professional soldiers is
hardly worth taking notice of. Hut. from that peculiar position the English
have recently been awakened by ihe dropping of bombs. The chances are
that most of them think of the whole matter as something that has just come
to relieve the monotony. The thought of fighting is just as far away from
their minds as the thought of shovelling coal. They are a business people
and the war has come to them as if it were just a war with which they had
nothing whatever to do. If anyone over there ever spoke of the operations in
some of the possessions as being worth talking about he would be put down
at once as someone who was interested in the army for some reason or
another. England is a shopkeeping country, as Napoleon said, but Germany
and France and the rest of them are just the same. The people of either of
those nations had no more to do with starting the war than the people of Al
aska. War was something that had been left to the professional war makers
who were paid for kicking up trouble or anything else that might be in their
line. War is always something apart from the general populations but the
people are always made to take the blame, the expense and all the rest.
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE N ORTHLAN D
Of all the towns on the coast, Sew
ard looks the most promising, accord
ing to H. W. Sheldon and Howard
Fletcher, who arrived in Fairbanks
Sunday afternoon. At Seward and
other coast tow ns it is generally ex
pected that Seward will be the rail
road terminus, and practically all are
preparing for the big boom which is
anticipated. Within the last few
weeks, just before Fletcher left Sew
ard. a big corporation purchased $00.
000 worth of real estate, and it was
reported that the company is to buy
more property in the near furture.— j
Fairbanks Times.
FAIRBANKS.—Seperated for 15
years. C. B. Wilson, formerly of Tan
ana and Fairbanks, and Mrs. Wilson,
who has been making her home in
California, were reunited recently, ac
cording to letters received here on the
last mail. The couple are now in the
States enjoying their second honey
moon, and will come to Fairbanks
within the near furture.
CORDOVA, Jan. 22.—H. Carey
Morgan, heir to the Morgan millions,
big game hunter “and a jolly good
sport,” as described by guides and
traveling companions, arrived from
Fairbanks on this afternoon’s train
from the interior. Mr. Morgan and
a party of friends have been for five;
I
months hunting big game and enjoy
ing a somewhat strenuous outing in a
wide range of country surrouuJ'ng
Mt. McKiney.
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During his examination before Com
missioner A. J. Adams, when asked
his occupation, Hazzard replied after
some hesitation:
“I’d say a journalist—newspaper
work, mostly—but 1 wasn’t educated
for it.” Strike out that word ‘journ
alist’ and put in ‘publicist.’—Cordova
Alaskan.
—
Frank Rotch, well known sourdough
who was here from Seattle several
weeks ago, “sizing up" the railroad
situation, is seriously ill at his home
j in the Grenoble Apartments and is
not expected to be able to attend the?
legislature, of which he is a member,
for several weeks.
ZEEBRUGGE IS NEW
GERMAN NAVAL BASE.
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BERLIN, Feb. 3.—The steady ex
tension of the sphere of activity of
German submarines is the subject of
a recent article by the German naval
expert, Count Reventlow. Ihe sink
ing of the British battleship Formid
able in the Channel, preceded as it
was by the sinking of a patrol boatj
off power and later by the destruction
of two commercial steamers off the
French coast, gives evidence, says the |
writer, that German under water
crafts are able to operate almost any-'
where even in the most frequented
waters.
He dismisses the suggestion that
the revival of German submarine ac
tivity has been due to the restoration
j of the locks at Zeebrugge, Belgium,
' Germany’s new naval base, stating
that to his knowledge the locks were
never damaged by British gunfire as |
i had been maintained. As a matter of
I fact, he argues, German submarines
are not dependent on Zeebrugge as a
base in order to make successful raids
in England waters. That their radius
of action is extensive enough without
it he says is proved by the fact that
i submarines have gone as far as the
' Shetland Islands and to points even
more distant, referring evidently to
the well-authenticated report that one
of the little craft had circumnavigated
the entire British Isles.
A great many people outside and
inside Alaska are now anxious to get
any news they can of the place w’here
the government railroad will be. To
save writing letters you could send
the Gateway, either your own read
i copy or get another.
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FRANK J. COTTER. Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forgot tha Parcel Po*t“ Seward, Alaska
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SEATTLE, WASH.
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1915, January Fifth, Our TENTH
Anniversary of Business in Seward
WE 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 Sewaid
in the year 1915. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of Ressui
rection Bay as the Ocean Terminus of the Government
Railway by President Wilson, not later than February 10;
that actual construction work will begin not later than
April 1st; that Seward will have a population of 5000
people by December Both; that real estate in Seward will
advance fully 300 per cent by September 1st, and that our
business will increase accordingly.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL COMPANY
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Doors & Windows
Lang’s Ranges
I X L 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
Malthoicl Rooting
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Engine Oil
Niarine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
Elaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Faints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltum Faint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lam ps
Lantern*
'Tania
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Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackle
Giant Powder
Caps
Fuse
Bench Forges
Blacksmith’s Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
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Soine Twine
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SERVICE
WEED
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
r every eight days lor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. DORA leaves'Seward I5tli of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutclftlarbor.
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)
WRight reserve ! to change this schedule without noticeTtS
F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
Hotel Seward
W. A. M'NEILEY. Pnor.
MODERN CONVENIENCES
RATES $1.00 TO $2.50 PER DAY
HOT AND COLO WATER BATHS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
The Bor gen Grocery
Staple and fancy Groceries
Handles the Best Canned Goods from the Pacific Coast—Best
Treatment to Everybody and Prices Right—Goods
* Delivered to All Parts of the City
GUS BORGEN, Proprietor
Phone Main 134 Clayson Building, Seward
Pioneer
Hotel
F. B. CANNON, Prop.
Knik
Alaska
KNIK’S LEADING HOTEL
NO BAR
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Large General Lobby
Private Lobby for Ladies
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