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SEWARD. ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27. 1917
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BRING ON THE GUNS
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Fortification of Resurrection bay will clinch the work ij
accomplished by those, who have spent many days during!;!
the past 12 years endeavoring to secure recognition for
this, the most valuable transportation and military base
on the continent north of the Canadian boundary of the
United States proper on either ocean.
Only those who have been here, traveled over the i
peninsula and visited its cov es and harbors, its glaciers -
and its mountain peaks can realize what a natural Gi
braltar, Malta, Krondstadt, and Heligoland, all thrown
into one, is this harbor, only it presents difficulties of cap
ture after proper fortification not existing at any of the
fortresses above mentioned.
Given ample supplies at the start with the necessary .
machinery to produce its own ammunition from the nat
ural resources available within reach along the govern
ment railroad and with a garrison of 25,000 to start with ,
an dthe interior of Alaska to draw from, and the enemy,
whoever it might be, would give this place a wide berth,
or else land west of Cook inlet and commence a long over
land campaign. But even this could not be accomplished .
until the fleet had been accounted for, and with a nice lit
tle squadron (maybe it’s “school ’) of submarines at a
base within this bay, the Gulf of Alaska would be un
healthy for all but friendly powers.
General Weaver’s interest in immediate action to
ward erecting the necessary fortifications is most gratify
ing. Today sans fleet, sans forts, sans submarines, sans ■
everything but the old Russian cannon down at the com- '
missioner’s office, Resurrection bay is a “gift from the
Gods” to any power which cares to send a cutter with
fifty men and a few machine guns—providing, of course,
that it has the ships and the men to occupy what it can so 1
easily take.
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“Easy picking" is always a temptation to conquest .
and the sooner Resurrection bay is made “unpickable" the .
sooner the rest of Alaska is safe from possible invasion.
DISTANCE AND DIVISION
The length of time necessary to canvass the Alaskan
election is an object lesson in the size of the territory, and
may tend to bring the scheme to divide it into two terri
tories to a focus.
From the viewpoint of local interests there are two
distinct and natural divisions to Alaska, the one lying
north and the other south of that greatest expanse of ice
outside the polar regions in the world, Malaspina glacier,
extending southwest from Mount St. Elias. This fact
alone warrants the suggestion to provide different centers
of government, for the mountain and the glacier form
an impassable barrier to anything but water communica
tion between the two sections. Of course, a musher may
make it around the beach with a portable canoe, but per
manent construction over the quicksand flats below the
ice where glacial floods sweep from time to time is out of
the question.
The division of the territory may not come during
this administration but it is evident that it will come with
in a few years for with an increased population the pres
ent plan of governing the greater section of Alaska from
a center of population in the lesser where conditions are
wholly different from those in the greater, will become in
creasingly unpopular.
Whether or not this unpopularity is based on facts is]
neither here no there, the distance is the thing. Long
distance government from Washington is bad enough, but
to have added a “local" control anywhere from three
days away by boat to two months away by trail and boat
is rather rubbing it in.
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Office flours. I to 3 and 7 to 8 f*. M.
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Dentist
Phones:
Office: Madison 76
Res. Madison 58
Office over Bank of Seward
HOURS: 9 A. M. TO 5 I*. M.
J. H. ROMIG. M. D.
OFFICE FOURTH AVENUE
Phones:
Office Adanu 93
Residence Adams 48
Hours: 10 to 12 a.m. 2 to 4 p.m.
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HEAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent Rents Collected
Lots for Sale Large Listing
Phone Red 147 Seward. Alaska
Broadway Barber Shop
Shower Baths
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Hot and Cold Baths Always Ready
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WHERE? AT
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ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wholesale and retail dealers in
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Buyers of Metal,Rubber, ManilaRope
Sacks, Machinery, Pipe, Hides,
Furs ami Bottles
1043 R. R. Avi. So. and Barawls. SEATTLE, WASH. <
THE “KEY”
We have just received a stock of
Gauze and other Masques--many
different caricatures.
Have a few choice boxes of Orange Blossom
candy left.
THE KEY, EVERYBODY’S STORE
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MODERN OFFICES FOR RENT
New Van Gilder Block
Electric Light, Steam Heat, Hot and Cold
Water Lavatory in Every Suite.
MORFORD & FINNEGAN
Rooms 20-21-22-23 Van Gilder Bldg.
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ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HOBEN, Manager
-Dealers in
COAL, WOOD AND ICE
GENERAL TRANSFERRING Phones, Main 17 and 41
PACIFIC STEAMSHIPCOMPANY
ADMIRAL LINE
Sailings from Seattle to Seward
and way ports 10th, 20th nnd
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Admiral Watson February 3
Admiral Evans Fedruary 15
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except Sunday. San Francisco to San Die^o Mondays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. Steamers Harvard, Vale, President, Governor, Admiral
Schlev, Admiral Dewey. For full particulers address
WAYNE BLUE, Atfent, Seward, Alaska
Notwithstanding all the hard luck we have experienced
with tires since our arrival in Seward, we are still deter
mined to stay with the city and give the people of Seward
the host on the market in the way of
WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, Etc.
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In the Ashland Block, corner of Broadway and Railroad
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And we stand back of every guarantee we make.
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Headquarters lor Mining Men
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Incorporated November 1003 under the Laws of the Territory of Alaska
S. M. CHAFF, President and General Manager
Contractors and dealers in Electric Supplies and Apparatus
Office: At the Station. TELEPHONE MAIN 123
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Paints
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