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SEW ARD, ALASk V. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1915.
The Gateway does not wish to dwell too much on any action of the city
council last night. Such action was only on a par with the other actions of the
majority of that body when it came to a choice between protecting the
city’s interests and feathering their own nests or the nests of their friends.
This paper declines to give any cheap advertising to any institution which
is unable to advertise itself sufficiently to halt itself on the road to bank
ruptcy without forcing the public to hold up their hands. It declines to ad
vertise any of those so-called council men or anything connected with them
but for self protection from untruths it has to say a little. One councilman
stated last night that the printing of the city at the prices asked by the
Gateway would have cost the city five thousand dollars. That, of course, is
not the truth. At the price asked by the Gateway for the printing five
thousand dollars would have meant the publication of some forty thousand
line*, or. in other words, it would have meant tilling up entirely a paper forty
or fifty times or more with city notices. To be fully restrained in speak
ing of a matter like this is difficult but it is better to be restrained than to
err on the other side and sink to the level which so many examples en
courage us to avoid. After all it is absurd to take public notice of absur
dities. It is much better to have a little dignity, and while talking of dignity
it may be permissible to say that a lack of dignity alone could enable a man
to keep his self respect after compelling the community by the force of votes
to replenish his own pockets. When the Gateway' asked a price for its
printing it asked nothing but what could be refused ami was refused. If the
Gateway had the majority of votes on the council and compelled the citizens
to make a contract it would have been guilty of GRAFT.
The Gateway loses nothing. This paper was boycotted from the begin
ning by a couple of the tin bosses of the council, and purely because of per
sonal reasons which, on word of honor, had absolutely nothing to do with i
printing contracts. To say anything to the contrary would be a repetition
of the chicanery which has been hinted at before. And-but, let it go at
that. The whole blame thing and the whole blame bunch isn’t worth talking
about. If there was time to write something else to fill this space this
editorial would be eliminated right now, after thinking it over. It is funny
how people sometimes let themselves be drawn into cheap, petty mixups by
cheap, petty-Aw, let’s cut it out. The Gateway cuts it out right here and
now.
Good Old Time Eating
PATTEN S BOARDING HOUSE. FIFTH ST.
Good Old Time Boarding, per day. .. $1.00
Separate Meals.35 to .75
Special Sunday Dinner.75
MRS. THODAV Tht Time favorite caterer!
Legal Blanks and Location Notices at Gateway
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National League.
MONDAY, Oct. 4.—
Chicago.&
Cincinnati.3
Pitchers—Douglas and Dale.
Chicago . 0
Cincinnati . 3
Pitchers—Humphries and Schneider
Pittsburg . *
St. Louis . 2
Pitchers—Mammux apd Ames.
American League.
Boston.*
Washington .*
Pitchers—Wood and Johnson.
St. Louis.®
Chicago.2
Pitchers—McCabe and Benz.
Cleveland . ,r>
Detroit . ®
Pitchers—Mitchell and Boland.
Kain postponed others.
NATIONALS—
First game—
New York.*
Boston.* j
Pitchers—Perrit and Tyler.
Second game—
New York . *
Boston.* j
Pitchers—Foster and Caldwell.
Brooklyn . 2 i
Philadelphia . 2 j
Pitchers—PfefTer and McQuillan.
AMERICANS
First game—
Boston. *
New Y'ork . **
Pitchers—Leonard and Markle.
Second game—
o
Boston. |
New York.2
Pitchers—Benton and Rudolph.
Philadelphia . 2 j
Washington . 7
Pitchers—Neighbors and Harper.
FRANCHISE DELAYED.
The electric franchise matter was
again put off last night. Permission >
was given to the Engineering com
mission to erect poles from the office
building to the railroad right of way
to connect with Anchorage. Many j
bills were approved, several members
of the council, officials, etc., being
amongst those who got some dough
out of the city funds. A lot of out
side dispatches came to the Gateway
last evening and more may come to
day so it is not necessary to fill up
space by making inanity look like
news.
No advertiser can afford to omit
the Seward Gateway.
I SPECIAL I
Our
Reduction Sale
Closes
5«2 October 5^
BUY NOW! SAVE MONEY!
PRICES CUT ON EVERYTHING!
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget tha Parcel Post** Seward, Alaska
RISE AND FALL OF
| HOME RAILROAD
(From The All-Alaska Review.)
When a recent disastrous lire wiped
; out the water front and business sec
tion of Valdez, Alaska, destroyed with
other material in one of the ollices
was the complete file of clippings and
other data of the Alaska Home Rail
way.
Coincident with the destruction of
that record, the present activity of
| the government in building railroads
in Alaska and the successful opera
tion of the Copper River road which
is handling $2,000,000 worth of cop
per ore per month, a review of this
remarkable episode in Alaska’s
history is here given, to be preserved
for a future generation as a matter
of historical record.
One of the national news syndicates*
has recently been publishing a series
of articles dealing with famous
hoaxes and get-rich-quick schemes of
the past two centuries, including the
Mississippi bubble, and other schemes
which hud their inception on the
other side of the Atlantic. The Al
aska Home Railway, promoted by
Henry I). Reynolds in the year of
11)07, certainly eclipsed them all in
the alluring prospects held out to ex
pected purchasers of stock. Reynolds
had quite a career in Southern Alaska
and certainly got any number of fol
lowers. He is the one who figures so
prominently as the promoter in Rex
Beach’s story of “The Iron Trail.”
! While his railroad scheme would not
I stand investigation owing to the im
passible mountain barrier lying back
of Valdez, his plan of making a big
| steamship line of the Alaska (’oast
1 Co. and developing mineral around
Prince William Sound had their good
points and is just what has been ac
complished by others.
In his original prospectus he an
nounced his intention of building a
railroad to the interior. It was to be
narrow guage with 30-pound rails,
electrical power generated by water
falls; policy uniform freight rates
an<l fares, no high salaried officials,
no free passage or rebates. In addi
Beautiful Example of Vrehitecture, Panama Pacific Exposition
tion to a large number of his friends
in Alaska he announced that the
hotels and saloons of Valdez, the
Indies’ Guild of Valdez, the school
children of Valdez, his various em
ployees, members of the Tilikum Club
and prospectors in the district had all
been included in the original stock
subscription. With this as basis he
came to Seattle in August, 11)07, and
with the assistance of a well organiz
ed publicity bureau he tried to put it
over. Seattle turned the proposition
down and Reynolds went to Tacoma
where he offered to make that city
the headquarters of the steamship
line and the railroad, with the added
statement that he could divert to
Tacoma the bulk of the Alaska trade,
but he had only a little better success
in Tacoma than in Seattle and as far
as Puget Sound was concerned in
vestment in the securities was with
held.
Reynolds secured the co-operation
of a number of Valdez people and it is
due to that fact combined with the
later failure of the road that crei ted
the spirit of antagonism on the part
of certain Valdez people to every
other successful enterprise in Alaska.
It was this feeling also which, com
bined with the remarkable publicity
efforts of the Alaska Home Railway,
! that caused the press of the United
States to ring with the imaginary
bloody war in Keystone Canyon. In
this the Home people, having failed
to make good on any of their prom
ises, were not only the aggressors,
but the ones who started the riot.
Those known to be obstructed by the
illegitimate enterprise were held up
to scorn in the faked press dispatches
from Alaska and even to this date the
question is brought up in a more ut
less serious manner to show how this
Alaska Home Railway was blocked in
its legitimate effort to build up the
country. Practically everything that
was sent out from Valdez at that time
was a misrepresentation of the facts
and the one man who was shot, died,
not from the effects of the shooting
so much as from the lack of attention
and other causes which followed the
shooting. Valdez made it appear
that armed men were patrolling the
canyon and were shooting down the
builders of the Alaska Home Rail
way and as the years have passed
that falsehood has grown and circu
lated in various exaggerated forms
so chat the truth can never be expect
ed to catch up with the false state
ment.
However, as a matter of court
record, the famous Keystone Canyon
| shooting was ended in May, 1008, at
Juneau, when the jury in the trial of
the man accused of the shooting, af
ter deliberating 40 minutes, rendered
a verdict of not guilty and it was
clearly shown by the attorneys argu
ing the case in the prisoner’s behalf,
that the Alaska Home Railway had
been the aggressor and had institut
ed a riot. It was also shown that it
was a fight between laborers rather
than any discussion between corpora
tions and that the officials of the Cop
per River road knew nothing of the
matter.
In October, Reynolds and his coun
sel were in the East trying to raise
the money to keep the enterprise
alive. Work on the railroad was sus
pended Oct. 11th with some 400 men
at Valdez clamoring for pay. The
first snow of the season was at hand
and the men were ready for any
violence, although those prominent
citizens of Valdez who had backed
Reynolds were still firm in the be
lief that he would be able to pull out
successfully. It was the beginning
of the end. The offices in Seattle
were closed with several creditors
trying to locate the promoter, but in
the month of October the H. D.
Reynolds bank at Valdez closed Its
doors and the great enterprise listed
under the Reynolds’ system passed in
to oblivion.
Only eight years have passed since
the rise and fall of this remarkable
promoter. His railroad enterprise
} was without merit and the most re
markable feature of his success was
the number of prominent people that
he managed to interest in his scheme
and the extent of the failure was
what embittered many of these men
to an extent that ter this day they fail
, to realize the fact that they were dup
ed but are anxious to blame all of
their misfortune upon those who have
been more successful in the Northern
territory.—(Railway & Marine News.
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| ❖ ALASK A’S INSANE *
I ❖ ARE MOSTLY MEN. *
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(From The All-Alaska Review.)
During the quarter ending June 30,
1915, twelve insane patients were
committed to Alorningside Sanitarium
from Alaska, of this number 5 have
been discharged, 3 have died and 3
have escaped.
Patients arc cared for at the San
itarium under the contract entered
into March 19, 1914, which will last
for five years and will provide that
Alaska patients be cared for at the
rate of $27.50 per capita per month.
This contract is revocable at the dis
cretion of the Secretary of the Inter
ior
Since the insane of Alaska have
been sent to Morningside for treat
ment under contracts of this sort, or
since February 6 1909, the following
numbers of patients have been at the
samtarium from this lerruoryi In
September, 1909, there were 133 pa
tients, in July 1910 there were 122,
in July 1911, 145, in July of 1912
there were 150, in September o' 1913
there were 189, and in June 1914,
there were 181.
The records show that a large ma
jority of the-s? patients have been
men.
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early exportation of
ALASKA CRANBERRIES
(From The All-Alaska Review.)
Among the records ot the govern
ment of the exports from Alaska to
San Francisco, kept during the ear
liest years of the occupation by the
United States, is the item of six bar
rels and one cask of cranberries, val
ue $70. They were sent from Sitka
on the ship “Winged Arrow” on July
17th, 1868.
In the “Alaska Herald” published in
San Francisco, Calif., March lath,
, 1869, appears an item as follows re
lating to the cranberries from Alaska.
“The Kodiak fruit readily com
mands in the market from 15 to 20
cents more per quart than the Ore
gon.” It is also said that the northern
berries are put into casks, water put
over them, and the cask headed up,
in which condition they keep for
months without deterioration through
both warm and cold weather.
VOTE YESTERDAY ON
MINNEAPOLIS SALOONS.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 4.—Voting
is proceeding today on the question ot
local option. Four hundred saloons
are involved. Seventy-nine out of
eighty-six counties in the state are
now dry and the belief is that in the
election today this city will go the
same way.
notice for publication
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska
September 23, 1915.
NOTICE is hereby given that Ole
Martin, of Seward, Alaska, who, on
May 21, 1915, made homestead appli
cation, No. 01724, for EttNWK EVjS
Wtt, Section 26, Township 1 N,
Range 1 W, Seward Meridian and the
E. 24 rods of the Wli NW%, WM: S.
Wtt, said section 26 has filed notice of
intention to make final five year
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before the U. S.
Commissioner M. J. Conroy, at his
office at Seward, Aluska, on the l»th
day of November, 1915.
Claimant names as witnesses:
C. T. Daggett,
George Sexton,
Peter Anderson,
W. A. McNeiley all of Seward,
Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First publication Oct. 4, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 10, 1915.
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lished publication of this kind in the
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