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SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1913.
A person must surely have a beautiful old thirst when he finds it neces
sary to drink wood alcohol to get rid of it. The next law will have to be one
against the sale of that beverage and it may even come to where gasoline
can be sold only by druggists.
What is tlure, anyhow, in the human makeup which causes a thirst for
something stronger than water? The question which prohibition will probably
settle for ail time is whether the demand for liquor caused the supply or
vice versa.
Some people seem to be quite happy to go through life without ever
tasting anything stronger than tea or colTee, while others feel that life is
made all the n ore beautiful by the temporary glamor created by the magic
touch of the highball. Now, is it a tact or is it not that the man who never
takes a drink is weaker as a rule than the man who does? Has it been the
result of your observation that a man who boasts always about being a tee
totaller is less masculine, weaker, more of a molly-coddle than the fellow
who takes it just as he wants to? To be brief, is a man a stronger or a more
robust man because he has a tittle of the devil in him . Have jou ever seen a
man who is absolutely perfect morally and is not at the same time a good
deal of an old woman?
Answer all these things for yourself and then ask yourself why liquor
was ever created.
That ipie. t ion of prohibition involves far more than the general public
seems to perceive. Many people seem to think that without the chance of
spending money over a bar everyone will bo happy, families will always have
enough to eat and wear and the whole thing will be hunky dory. Ot course,
the fellow with a family who spends money over a bar which should go to
buy food or clothes for his kids should be locked up. but he is no more to be
taken as an example of the ordinary mortal than any other criminal. The
millions of ordinary mortals will have no more money to draw from under
prohibition than without it. There will be the same amount of money und
the same amount of people looking lor it. There will bo the same amount of
work only and if all become sober, steady workers what will be done with
the produce?
Prohibition has been brought about because of the extremists in drink
ing and they are the small minority. The vast majority knows how to be
moderate if it wants to be. If it does not want to be it will find some way
of indulging its wish to cross over the line in some way or another. There
are two desires in the human breast which usually are satisfied. One is to
do good and the other i*. to do the opposite and both will be done in spite of
laws.
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CLEANING A
BATTLEFIELD
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
(United Press Staff Correspondent )
WITH THE FiyCNCH ARMY IN
CHAMPAGNE, Dec. 24.—Cleaning up
a battlefield is a whooping big job.
The Hattie of Champagne began
months ago and several regiments are
still trying to make it presentable.
This battlefield, which will be
known in future text-books as in
many ways unique, is 15 miles long
and 3 miles wide, running east and
west. As the French advanced they
faced the Germans at its southern
edge of it, their trenches, cut in chalk
white as curds, being 50 to 200 yard!
apart.
Two months before their drive the
French began to accumulate ammuni
tion; mass artillery, dig trenches,
build narrow and standard-guage rail
ways, wide, well-graded rock^ana
gravel higways and other things of
the sort.
September 22 the French artillery
turned loose a hell’s fury of shells.
A German ofiicer’s letter, interrupted
by death, said the shelling resembled
the collapse of a world. Practically
every square yard of this 45 square
miles of chalky ground was tossed in
to the air by explosives. White as
sepulchre, it is hard to believe that
ever again will man be able to make
his home amid these fields.
For three days the French poured
melinite and chedite into the Ger
mans’ barbed-wire entanglements,
steel turrets, machine guns, armored
trenches, secret traps, hidden de
fenses, invisible wire coils with cut
ting edges, centers of resistence,
fortified woods and what not.
The Germans, their food supply cut
off because supply trains could not
approach, huddled at the bottom of
their bomb-shelters 20 feet under the
ground while their trenches were
blown to nothing. Some companies
lost half their men during the bom
bardment alone. Underground am
munition stores exploded; shelters
were ripped up as though they were
roofed with paper instead of stone
and earth. The world never saw such 1
shell fire.
At 9:15 a. m. on the 25th the
French infantry charged, and at 9:15
and a half the house-cleaning began.
As the attackers entered what was
left of the German first line trenches,
the clean-up began with the bayonet
ing all remaining Germans who w»ffcr
ed resistence and making prisoners of
those who surrendered. Then the
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We are at your service. MDon t For*#t the Parc#l Po,r
| dead were thrown out and the position
turned around for possible counter
attack.
The dead Germans were buried in
their own trenches. I have heard that
20,000 to 25,000 bodies were thus dis
posed of, while bodies a*, the bottom
of cave-ins, under destroyed bomb
shelters and in like places were left in
the graves of their choosing.
Brand new cemeteries were made
for the French who fell. The new
graves are curious. Then being no
.
time to place crosses or head stones
to mark the graves, a wine bottle,
with name and matriculation number
corked inside, is stuck neck down in
the middle of each new mound. In
cases where identification was impos
sible, the dead arc buried in a common
grave with some such mark as this
serving for all:
“Here lie the bodies of 27 French
soldiers who died for their country.”
The dead removed, the cleaning-up
continues. Broken transports, shat
tered wheels splintered planks, cloth
ing, German and French helmets, am
munition,guns, swords, books, shoes,
revolvers and numberless other odds
and ends including arms and legs lie
promisculously about on the churned
up earth. These all must be disposed
of.
This is a sanitary war. If there
have been no plagues it is because the
cleaning-up has been thorough. All
this gruesome collection is disposed of
hygienically. Useable material is
parked ami sent to the rear; guns are
stocked in orderly piles according to
make; bayonets and scabbards and
swords and head-gear and all the rest,
ditto. The stuff is listed and shipped
and receipts and way-bills are afr
properly made out and signed and
sealed.
Then the advancing army settles
down in its new home. It had made
■
a fairly comfortable place during the
months of waiting, but all this has,
been left behind, and a new start is
made. The former quarters of Ger
man officers and men are transform
ed, with much scouring and furbish
ing and disinfecting, into quarters
for the French officers and men.
Today the Battlefield of Cham
pagne is comparatively clean. But
one still occasionally stumps one’s toe !
against something or other very un- i
pleasant.
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Write M. D. Snodgrass, Kodiak.
Ladies’ and childrens’ furnishings,
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SERIAL NO. 01788
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska,
June 22. 1915.
SOLDIERS ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD
ENTRY BY ASSIGNEE.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO ENTER
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NORTH ALASKA SALMON COMPANY, a
corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of California, and whose
post office address is 110 Market Street, San
Francisco, California, as assignee of Joseph
R. llarrigan, administrator of the Estate of
Kyhran Horan, deceased, being entitled to the
benefits of section 2306 of tiie Revised Statutes
of the United States and amendments thereto,
has applied to make entry of that tract of
land described as U. S. Survey No. 914, and
situated on the West bank of Kvichak River, ;
approximately six miles above the mouth of
the Alagnak River, District of Alaska, and in
Latitude 69 deg. 06 min. 60 sec. North and in
Longitude 166 deg. 41 min. 44 sec. West, and
moro^particularly described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at Corner No. 1 of said survey,
whence U. S. L. M. R. G. M. bears S. 40 dog.
07 rain. W. 20.70 chs. distant, thence East,
var. 23 deg. 10 min. E.t 3.00 chs. to corner
No. 2, meander corner at line of moan high
water on Kvichak River, whcnco witness corn-^
er bears West 1.82 chs. distant; thence,
meandering along line of mean high water on i
west shore of Kvichak River, var. 22 deg. E., '
N. 28 deg. 26 min. E. 7.20 chs.; N. 29 deg. 64 !
min. E. 3.60 chs.; No. 30 deg. 29 min. E. 6.86 !
chs. to Corner No. 3, meander corner, whenco
witness corner bears West 1.93 chs., distant;
Thence West, var. 26 deg. E. 11.69 chs. to
corner No. 4 ; thence South, Var. 20 deg. E.
16.35 chs. to corner No. 1, the place of be- .
ginning, containing 11.14 acres;
As additional to Homestead Entry No. 1446
made August 26, 1866*, by Kyhran Horan, at
Ionia, Michigan Land Office, for the S. V6 °f
SE. of Sec. 30, township 18 north, range
10 west, containing 80 acres.
Any and all persons claiming adversely said
tract of land, or any portion thereof, are
hereby notified that unless their adverse
claims are filed during the period of publica
tion and posting, or within 30 days thereafter,
they will be barred by virtue of the statute
and the regulations thereunder.
It is hereby ordered that this notice be
published for the statutory period of 60 days
in the SEWARD GATEWAY, a newspaper of
general circulation printed at Seward. Al
aska, published nearest the land applied for.
C. B. WALKER, Register .
First publication Nov. 11, 1916.
Last publication Jan. 25, 1916.
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1 Notice is hereby Riven that the lands cm
j braced In U. 8. Survey No. 241 and U. 8.
' Survey No. 242, patented by the United States
i to William B. Poland and transferred by deed
I to Frederick William Low, and the lands em
braced In U. S. Survey No. 249, patented by
the United Stntcs and conveyed to F. G. Jem
mett, situate on the North shoro of Resurrec
tion Bay and bounded as follows, to-wlt: on
the South by Resurrection Bay. on the West
by Rudolph homestead, on the North by Fred
Johnson homestead claim and Resurrection
river, and on the East by U. S. Survey No.
722. commonly known as the Revell homestead,
are private lands, and ALL PLRSONS are
warned not to trespass thereon, or cut or re
move wood or timber therefrom.
Dated. Seward. Alaska, the 4th day of
December, 1915. . _
F. G. J EMMETT ami
FREDERICK WILLIAM LOW
By S. O. MORFORD, Ajccnt.
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