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“There's nothing like leather said the shoemaker” and there's nothing
like the army to govern Alaska said Colonel Richardson.
What is the matter with putting the territory under martial law and
firing Strong and putting in the Colonel as military governor? But then
Strong is a major although not in active ser\ice.
A good deal depends on what this proposed new Alaska Development
board means anyhow. Secretary Lane is strongly in favor of such an institu
tion and Secretary Lane b> his past work and present reputation invites con
fidence but. after all. the people of the territory deserve to have their opinion
asked. \N e all know that the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle chamber of com
merce recommended the establishment of the governing board or whatever
it is and when the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle chamber of commerce re
commends anything we ought to humbly bow the knee and submit to the
judgement of the bureau (or burro) in its superior knowledge of things
Alaskan. Of course, that development board may not be empowered to run
Alaskan affairs completely. It may be only intended really as well as nomin
ally as a “development" board. It may not be another name for a commission
form of government or the name may be the sugar coating for the commis
sion government pill. A government by any other name than commission
form of government would smell more sweet and it may be that on this sub
ject the smell is being taken into account. But any kind of a bureaucratic
government smells badly at best.
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I he Alaskan authorities outside are thicker by far than the population
in Alaska. Any man is regarded as an authority on Alaska and as a person
ol superior intelligence if he wasn’t fool enough to live any length of time
in this territory. At least we can see every day men coming forward making
suggestions and speaking about \laska who are gifted with the most sublime
lacK oi Knowledge oi me suoject on wnicn mey noui iorin oracuiariy. une
tells us that the government is taking into account the purchase of the
Tanana Mines railroad, or that the I'anana Mines railroad must be taken
over or paralleled. Now, to parallel the I'anana Mines railroad the govern
ment railroad would first have to cross the Tanana river and keep going on
until it struck the Yukon at C ircle C ity or some place in that neighborhood.
If it is the intention of the government to go beyond Fairbanks with the road
there is reason for the statement but it is certain that Fairbanks has always
been regarded as the interior terminal if the road goes that way at all. Be
sides this the I'anana Mines railroad runs in that direction only something
a little over thirty miles and it> continuation to the Yukon would mean going
over Eagle divide, one of the big mountains of the interior.
But if it is really the intention to hit the Yukon at all the government
would surely select some place nearer the center of the American part of the
river. By hitting the ^ ukon at C ircle C ity the railroad would leave some fif
teen hundred miles of the Yukon down stream and only three hundred miles
up stream to the Canadian line. In other words a railroad to Circle would
do more for the development of Canadian territory near the Yukon than for
I nited States territory on the Yukon. A railroad to Fairbanks and straight
across to the Yukon, even let us say more directly to a point one hundred
miles below C ircle C ity or further, would leave more than a thousand miles
of the Yukon valley just as far from development as it is now. To reach that
railroad the people of Kuby. Iditurod and other places would have to travel
hundreds of mile^ up stream while the people of Dawson could travel to it
in a row boat in about forty eight hours going. It would be just as well for
the people down stream if the railroad stopped at Fairbanks. The only dif
ference would be that they would have to travel up the Tanana instead of the
Yukon.
Nerna from AU
JJarto of tlir
tt Nortlilauii tt
A socialist paper in juneau com
mends “the Chief magistrate of Sew
ard” as it calls him for refusing to
tine the women. The editor of that
paper, by the way, is a lady.
K. B. Collins of Fairbanks is going!
to introduce in the next Alaska legis- j
lature a bill to enable women to sit on
juries in Alaska.
NOME, Dec. 19.—Without doubt,,
the worst windstorm that has ever hit
the Seward peninsula has been rag-j
ing for the past two months, the j
average velocity of the wind during
that time being 30 miles per hour.
The terrific wind, coupled with severe
snowstorms, has caused great hard- i
ship all over the peninsula, and especi
ally at the larger towns along the
I coast.
At Nome, the river and the sea are
higher than during the great storm
of a year ago last October, when a
great deal of damage was done. At
the present time, the bridges across
the river are covered with water and
1 many cabins along the water front
are inundated. Owing to the high
wall of ice along the shore, the dam
age to property has not been so great
this year as in 1913.
At Port Safety and Solomon the
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residents were forced to flee to the
hills to save their lives, and they are
suffering great hardships. A dispatch
from Unalakleet says that the natives
were forced to take to the hills also.
—Fairbanks Times.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29.—
Delegate James Wickersham today in-1
troduced an Alaska road building bill,
which includes the construction of a
wagon road from Skagway to the in
ternational boundary at White Pass
summit along a survey made by the
Alaska road commission last summer
the same to be built at a cost not to
exceed 2r>,000.
Attorney J. H. Cobb, of Juneau,
who sued Jack Dalton for $5,000 al
leged to be due him for legal fees
last week attached two of the latter’s •
mining claims, which are about a mile
and a half below the ocean dock at
Cordova.
—
CORDOVA, Jan. 2.—The rotary
went out this morning ahead of thj
local train. This is the first time this
season the rotary has been employed,
and is the latest date at which it has
been called into service since the open
ing of the road.
Clearance Sale of Men's Clothing!
We have at this time on hand one of the finest lines
of mens suits that has ever been brought to Seward. An
ticipating a big rush from the Interior over the Seward
Iditarod Trail we laid in a larger stock than we would
have under ordinary conditions.
We still have a couple of dozen of these suits on hand
and more coming. On the last mail we received notice
from the Stein-Bloch factory that they had shipped us
another large shipment of high grade clothing and in or
der to have room for the goods when they arrive we are
forced to get rid of the stock on hand. To do this we are
going to cut the prices lower than clothes of this grade
have ever been sold in Seward.
Beginning Monday, January 4th, we are going to of
fer every suit in stock at the following reductions. These
prices are for cash only and if you can use a high grade
suit at a low price
DON’T OVERLOOK THIS SALE!
All $45.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now $35.00
All 40.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now 30.00
All 35.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now 27.50
All 30.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now 25.00
All $21.50 and $25.00 Suits, Now 17.50
All intermediate priced suits reduced accordingly.
Come early while the selection and assortment of fabrics
and sizes are complete.
Just Received
A complete line of up to date hats in the latest Stetson
and Hardeman blocks
Now On Display
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don't Forget the Parcel Post" Seward, Alaska
BRUSSELS IS
GLOOMY CITY!
R ESC)l RCEFUL (J ERMA NS A RE
MAKING BENZINE FROM
COAL.
(By The Associated Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 8.—An attache of the
Belgian Foreign Office, who escaped
from the capital recently, says life
there is not as disagreeable as in
other Belgian cities, largely on ac-j
count of the influential presence of the
American minister. “The price of
food has not greatly increased, and
the people who have money to buy it
are not suffering,” he said. “But the
bread which is strictly rationed (3001
grams a day for each inhabitant) is
black, stodgy and indigestible. Peo
ple with weak stomachs, like myself
cannot eat it. This bread question is
serious. The lower classes are ac
customed to eating large quantities of
bread; soaked in milk or broth it
forms the main article of the child
rens’ diet. The regulation black;
bread is so doughy that it cannot be
soaked, and 1 know that a great many;
young children are dying from intest- j
inal diseases brought on by improper
feeding.
“The lack of fuel is another hard
ship. Nearly all the coal that comes
by canal from Charleroi is taken by
the Germans, who manufacture ben-'
zine for their automobiles from it in
RUSSIA TO USE
CAPTURED GALICIA.
(By The Associated Press. )
PETROCRAD, Jan. 8.—Russian
mining experts who have been sent to
investigate the possibilities of immedi
ate development of the mineral re
sources of the occuppied territory,
have sent back enthusiastic reports to
the Government here. The oil dis
tricts now in Russian hands, it is stat
ed, can easily be made to provide for
the entire southwestern part of Rus
sia, and production on a large scale
can be started early in the spring.
In other parts of the occuppied ter
ritory, the experts find abundant sup
plies of salt, iron, silver, copper, lead
and certain rare metals.
large retorts that they have set up
in the suburbs of Brussels, and it is'
very difficult for the people to get
even the small quantity they require
for cooking purposes.
“Every week 2,500,000 francs
($500,000,) war indemnity has to be
paid over to the German treasury of
ficials. This is a grievous burden to
all classes, and increases the already;
heavy taxes from 150 to 200 per cent.
“No consideration will induce the
authorities to issue passports, and the
inhabitants are to all intents and pur
poses prisoners in the gloomy city. I
slipped out of the city at dusk, and af
ter wandering for four days in the
woods, got in the house of a nephew,
close to the Dutch frontier. There
I waited until I got a chance to cross
the frontier unperceived.”
Meet me at The Branch.
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rrilOSE KNAPP - FELT HATS are
for men who want the very
best. Our stock of both soft and
stiff shapes offers you a becoming
hat in the right proportions.
Two prices, $4 and $6
The $4 hat is worth $5. The $6
hat is the finest hat made.
Get our catalogue, You can or
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IT DAVC TO GET IT
I I r A I O FROM THE
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SEATTLE— "It’s Better and Costs Less’’
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with full Size Mattress,
An elegant, fine Drivenport bed, as oictured; oak frame, fin
ished dull golden; upholstered in imitation Spanish leather; easily
operated, rotary motion; when open presents full-sized sleeping
surface fitted with fine sanitary steel springs and cotton-felted
mattress; a splendid value at $43.50.
Practical Davenport Couch, $22.50
Davenport Couch; sanitary construction: upholstered in fine
Persian velour; diamond tufted; fitted with patent spring lift; large
wardrobe space underneath; an excellent value at $22.50.
Standardly 'tore Co
Second Ave. at Pine St. SEATTLE
CALLS LEGISLATION
HERE BUFFOONERY.
Seattle Times Gets Nasty When
Dealing With Our Solons.
WASHINGTON, I). C.,—Solons are
to be asked either to give Alaska an
enabling act that is useful for other
purposes than those of comic opera |
and general buffoonery or to take the
territory and run it themselves.
Alaskans are weary of the slapstick
comedy that is conducted in the ter
ritorial legislature of the country and
the laws under which the work is to be
carried on as a matter of very serious j
importance. They are inexpressibly
tired of playing the part of the horn
ed ruminant in the extravaganza en
tiled “Creating an Alaskan Goat”—
a little playlet staged biennially at
Juneau when the territorial legislators
meet.
Col. B. F. Millard, a holdover sen
ator in the territorial legislature, with
the aid of a lawyer and stenographer,
is preparing a bill which, if passed,
will give congress the option of en
acting a new territorial government
law for Alaska or of rescinding the
one now in vogue.—Seattle Times.
“Colonel Skinner's Chutney, estab
lished 1841. Especially fine for meats.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality first.’
1915, January Fifth, Our I FN I H
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 Seward
in the year 1915. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of Kessur
rection Hay as the Ocean Terminus of the Government
Railway by President Wilson, not later than February 1th
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 Sew aid will
advance fully 300 per cent by September 1st, and that our
business will increase accordingly.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL COMPANY
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINER’S AND GOLD MINER'S SUPPLIES
Doors & Windows
Lang’s Ranges
I XL Parlor Fleaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P & B Paper
Malthoid Roofing
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Kntfine Oil
.Niarine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
Klaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltum Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
PHONE BLACK 4
Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackle
Giant Powder
Caps
Fuse
Bench Forges
Blacksmith’s Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Hope
Mercury
Seine Twine
J. L. GRAEF
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. ®
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
every eight days lor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. DORA leaves'Seward 15th of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutch,ttarbor.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
Valdez, Latouche and Seward
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
Right reserved to change this schedule without notice's^
F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
Hotel Seward
W. A. M'NEILEY. Prop.
MODERN CONVENIENCES
RATES $1.00 TO $2.50 PER DAY
HOT AND COLD WATER BATHS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
The Bor gen Grocery
Staple and fancy Groceries
Handles the Best Canned Goods from the Pacific Coast—Best
Treatment to Everybody and Prices Right—Goods
Delivered to All Parts of the City
GUS BORGEN, Proprietor
Phone Main 134 Clayson Building, Seward
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