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SEW VRD. ALASKA* SATURDAY* FEBRUARY fi. lift.
Once in a while comes a telegram front the outside as there did today
telling about a czar or a kaiser "going to the front.". That story is first de
cided upon by a few men in whatever capital it might be. I'hen the czar or
kaiser, whatever he might be, moves out and the masses of the citizens shout
while the few men begin to think up something else nourish turther the
feeling that keeps millions of human beings worshipping one who is just the
same as themselves.
The last real stampede to Alaska will probably come before the snow
goes off the ground this time. It will be a big stampede—probably bigger
than the people seem to realize. It will probably be a coming of a different
sort of people, though, and that is something to be remembered.. Most ot the
crowd coming to work in the coal mines will be different from the people who
came to Alaska in the past. The oldtimers came just because i; was some
thing uew to go to—something out of the ordinary rut. They could have made
just as g.vod. or better, money on the average somewhere else. The probabil
ity is that the majority of people who came to Alaska in the early days lost
money and spent the best years of their lives without material profit.
In the next stampede will be people of money who want to make more,
hut for the greater part it will be composed of crowds to whom the wotd
money means something like two dollars a day. I he latter are the ones that
will open the coal fields and the only ones that could open any coal field, or,
for the matter of that, the only ones that would open coal fields.
What's the matter with that railroad report. It was to have been ready
on the First of this month sure hut no one has ever heard of it. When the
railroad commission was here it was said by the members that the report
would be ready by the First of the year and we all had a sort of an idea that
the commission would issue a report like some business corporation, nicely
type-written and everything else so that one could start right in and read it.
Maybe that report has already been issued. Maybe there will be no re
port at all except an oral one to the president and the secretary. It surely
looks as if the matter about the railroad work this year has been decided with
out the issuance of any public report. It looks that way now.
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE NORTHLAN D
—
Public opinion at Juneau is pructi
tally unanimous that an Alaskan law
yer should have been named for Dis
trict Attorney for this Division. It
should have been so. The record has
shown that real Alaskans make more
satifactory public officials in the N'orth
than those appointed from the Outside
and the principle of home is best serv
ed by the appointment of men to high
place who came to Alaska to enjoy
Alaskan opportunities annd not for
the sake of obtaining a salary.
The circumstance that the appli
cants for the appointment as United
States District attorney at Juneau
were both men of high character and
excellent ability accentuates the in
justice of appointing a non-resident
to the position.
However, the appointment has been
made, and let us hope that the new
official will measure up to the fullest
expectations of the appointing power.
The welfare of the community in
every way demands that District At
torney Smiser should have a fair
chance to make good. It not only
would be unfair to him to judge him
adversely in advance, but we cannot
afford to do it on account of the public
good.—Juneau Kmpire.
Of course District Attorney Spence
knew nothing about the Intended res
ignation of Assistant Attorney Bru
baker, while in Cordova yesterday,
but by this time he has no doubt been
fully acquainted with the fact that
Mr. Brubaker has taken over the busi
ness of Judge Bunnell at Valdez, and
if in so doing it in any interferes with
his holding dawn a federal job, his
resignation will be tendered Uncle
Sam, as announced in Tho Times a
week or ten days ago.—Cordova Al
askan.
Urom Ruby Record.—Gordon C.
| Betties, one of the best-known old
I timers in Interior Alaska, has gone to
' the Coast with the intention of mak-,
ing his future home at or near Knik.
Mr. Betties has for the past four or
five years resided on the lower Kusko
kwim. It is learned that he and his
family, consisting of Mrs. Betlles,;
Miss Elsie Korines and Ben Ivorines,
departed over the Seward trail the
| first part of December.
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FAIRBANKS, Jan. 11.—Judge F.
E. Fuller, who has been in Southern
California almost all the time since
he went Outside, is planning to enjoy
himself for a time before he settles,
down to work again, according to a
letter received a few days ago from
him by Clerk of the Court McBride.
At the time his letter was written,
Judge Fuller was planning to leave
Los Angeles for a trip to the San
Diego exposition. After looking that
over, he planned to sail for Honolulu,
and upon his return from the islands,
he purposes to enjoy the big exposi- j
tion in San Francisco.
Because the Seward Gateway said
that “any man worthy of the name
believes that governing himself badly
is better than to be governed well by
others,” the Douglas News reads it
and those who agreed with it a lecture
for favoring self-government in order
to get bad government. This is not
fair. With so much suflfereing on ac
count of wars and earthquakes and
cold waves it is unseemly to make
people laugh over-heartily. The News
is altogether too funny.—Juneau Em
pire.
McCarthy, Jan. 30.—The party
taken into custody on suspicion of be
ing connected with the murder of
Sehornborn, in the Chisana, and
brought here Thursday, is one James
Kingston, of Dawson, an alleged con
fidence man. Where the arrest was
made or any particulars in connection
with the case are being kept closely
guarded by the deuty marshal, who
refuses to give out any information.1
—Cordova Times.
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS
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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 Ressur*
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 30th; that real estate in Seward will
advance fully 80<) per cent by September 1st, and that our
business will increase accordingly.
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Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
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Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month; S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
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