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Entered at aecond-claet matter September. 2.1915. at the postoffice at Seward. Alatka.
under act of March 3. 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
ONE YEAR. In advance.$10.00 PER MONT, delivered.$1.00
THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by mail 3.00 ADVERTISING RATES on application.
GREAT HOPES FOR THE SPUDS
Unless our potato crop yields unexpected results we
will have to join the awkward squad of the agricultural
army and be drilled in the rudiments of garden warfare.
We put in fifty-six dollars worth of time hauling rich
dirt, digging, building fences to keep out malamutes, and
biistering our tender hands and our irreproachable dis
positions,
Not to mention
Ninety cents worth of seeds
And a dollar's worth of Kink spuds,
Or forty-six rocks we threw at our neighbor’s pet
d°g, . __
Which nearly caused a fight,
Or the time we awakened at 4 in the morning
And stepped out in our bare tootsies
To chase a malamute
Out of the carrots (meaning the place we planted car
rot seed) -»**••*
And stepped in the hot ashes we had emptied the night
before— w.
Not to mention any of these things,
But after all this we carried eighty-seven buckets of
water during the dry spell to keep things from wilting
and, now after waiting over a month, the only harvest
to date has been
Nineteen small radishes.
In the meantime our neighbor’s garden, planted in
the gravel the same night he spaded it up, is doing fine.
There is something more to this garden stuff than ap
pear on the surface, for the bugs have helped themselves
to the tunips, the beets won’t grow, and the carrots and
parsnips seem kind of backward.
Visions of the agricultural awkward squad disturb
our rest, but we still have great hopes for the potatoes.
A GREAT WORK WELL STARTEED
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Care is to be exercised in the spending of the hundred
and ten millions contributed by the people of the United
States to the war Red Cross fund, according to Chairman
Davison. This vast sum gathered in a single week of ef
fort throughout the length and breadth of this mighty
republic will go to supply base hospitals for the army in
France, and in the mobilization camps at home, to furn
ish hospital ships, furnish a sanitary engineering corps
and for the elimination of tuberculosis and diseases con
tracted in the trenches.
ROOM FOR MEN
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From reports along the coast it is apparent that labor
was never so scarce in Alaska nor opportunities for able
bodied men to secure employment so plentiful as today.
New mining properties are being prospected by the
Treadwell mine at Douglass and men are reported scarce
there. Juneau is bustling with mineral and fish develop
ment in full swing, and it is the same way all along the
southeastern coast.
Cordova is enjoying a genuine boom of prosperity,
thanks to salmon, clams and copper, Valdez has a cannery
in action and the usual amount of quartz development un
der way.
Here it is impossible to secure as much help as needed
on the government railroad and every trip of the U. S. A.
T. Crook brings new men into Anchorage.
THE COLOR OF SOULS
Formally, white race solidarity has been abolished.
The European entente allies cannot forget that they owe
the tranquillity of their Asiatic possessions to the power
and good will of Japan. We in the United States will
presently realize how fortunate it is that Japan is on our
side now, not ready to fall upon our defenseless flank,
"he friendly neutrality of China has given the allied
HYPNOTIZED.
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YOU ARC VICTORIOUS.
! WELL FED AND CONTENTED
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— Harding in Brooklyn Eagle.
group a better understanding of China’s national aspira
tions than could have been derived from the events of a j
generation of peace. Indias desire tor a fiscal policj i
that might foster her national interests now seems worth j
the British government’s attention, though exporters pro
test the danger to their trade. And has not Germany
icrself yielded her passionate devotion to the ideal of a
white man’s world? What shades of color does she find
revolting in her allies the Turks? And if red Mexicans j
ml yellow Japanese were preparing to slay and lay waste
on our soil, the German’s sacred horror of excess pig*1
inents would hardly he invoked in our defense. The world
is becoming dreadfully mixed. Soon we shall he dis-1
tinguishing races by the color of their souls, instead ot,
their skins.—(The New Republic.)_
UNDER CALL OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY
REPORT OF THE CONDITION of The 1IARR1MAN NATIONAL RANK of
ALASKA, at Sewanl, in the Territory of Alaska, at the close of business
on June 20, 1917.
No. 10/0.)
RESOURCES
. . , ..$ 68,15 4.0(>
Loans and discounts • 1212
Bonds other than U. S. bonds pledged to secure l . S. <le'J?1() ()00 0()
Securities other than l\ S.‘ bonds (not including stocks,) ,, (m000
owned unpledged . , V-0‘nn
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription). p
Furniture and fixtures........ ...
Net amount due from approved reserve agents in other reserve ^^^1
cities oo*i iq ori
Net amount due from banks and bankers..••••• •- •
Other checks on banks in the same city or town as reporting bank
Outside checks and other cash items.. no
Fractional currency, nickels, and cents. r^nnf)
Notes of other national banks. on on
Federal Reserve notes .. . .
Lawful reserve in vault and net amount due from rederal Keseive
Bank .
Total ...$244,858.3!)
LIABILITIES „ v_
Capital stock paid in.v.v.«Y7V Y<T«in$ 25’°°C °
Undivided profits and reserved for contingencies.1, nnrri
Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid. O.lUb.bf ii,uuo.b.»
Net amount due to approved reserve agents in New York, Chicago
and st. Louis -
Net amount due to banks and bankers. 10c noo or
Individual deposits subject to check. 907 on
Cashier’s checks outstanding... o oro'liQ
United States deposits..
Total demand deposits. $144,5ol.(>8
Other bonds borrowed without furnishing collateral security for
. • 10,000.00
Liabilities other than those above stated. —0
Total ...$244,858.39
Territory of Alaska, Third Division, ss.
L Erich Lucas, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
ERICH LUCAS, Cashier.
Correct—Attest: Gaston Hardy, Hugh Dougherty, Gustaf W. Borgen,
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of June, 1911.
(SEAL) CLIFFORD MOOERS, Notary Public.
_My commission expireSj!ulv_KL_H)20^ _ M m
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thing you have al
ways wished a
cigarette would do;
they satisfy— and
yet they’re MILD.
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Sailings from Seattle:
^ Alaska .June 7
Mariposa .June 13
Northwestern .June la
Alameda.June 25
Alaska .June «'»0
All ships go through to Anchorage.
All passenger ships will touch at Skagway northbound. rl he Alameda
and Mariposa will be the only ships to call at Skagway southbound.
For further particulars of service, rates, apply to Agent.
A. II. McDonald, Agent.
For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
fias been established in connection with this paper, and all those desir
ntf information as to t fie value of real es'lute and business opportuni
ties are requested to address their communications to
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD
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Best Harbor on the Alaska Coast
Big Game Paradise of all Alaska
Future Fishing Center of Alaska
Gateway and Distributing Point for Central Alaska
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Public School System; is the principal city on the Kenai Penin
sula; the outfitting point for all big game parties; the natural
Gateway to all of Interior Alaska; has the finest harbor on the
coast—bar none; the most advantageously located townsite in
Alaska; a fishing industry that alone will make a wealthy town;
a modern and complete cold storage plant and cannery; will have
one of the finest Radio Stations in the North Pacific.
SEWARD has a first-class gravity water system, modern electric
light and power plant, has twosolid financial institutions and is
the selected site for the North Coast Government Coaling Station,
the SALT WATER TERMINUS of the Government-built railroad,
the nearest port to the GREATEST HALIBUT BANKS in Alaska
and is tributary to the great mining districts of Alaska.
For further information regard Seward, Alaska, or
your own particular business, address
THE SEWARD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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