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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Harry V. Hoben. P Frank L. BaUalnc. Sec. Erich Luca*. TraM.
Enteral u aecoud-claM matter September. 2. I9ib. at the poatofflea at Seward. Alaska.
under act of March 3. 1879. _ _ __
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
' ONE YEAR, in advaaee. 810.00 PER MONT, delivered..81.00
THE \LAakA WEEKLY POST by mail 3.00 | ADVERTISING RATES on application
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
History keeps on repeating itself year after year.
Let anv man who has been raised on the frontiers, 50 or
()() years of age, look hack. He will tell you that the de
velopment of the west is the same story over and over.
Wherever a white man came and settled the development
commenced, and from that day on never went hack—first
a few settlers, then a village, which grew to a town—and
many places are large cities now.
The men who prospered and grew wealthy by the de
velopment of new countries were the ones who looked
ahead, figured out the natural resources that would be
developed and come into general use, as soon as the coun
try became populated.
Proceeding to get control of them a little at a time,
Weyerhaeuser worked in a sawmill, gained knowledge of
timber there: he saw the vast possibilities of the use of
lumber in building up the west: he began to accumulate
timber land, when it was considered worthless by the
average man, and continued doing so for years: acquired
countless thousands of acres, and died worth forty
millions.
Miller of California, is another example. He came
to California at an early date rnd sold sausage out
kisket on the streets. He saw the possibilities of land
and cattle, and began to accumulate them. It became a
mania with him. What nobody else wanted in that line he
would bur until he counted his land bv the million acres.
and fmallv when the end came and his estate settled, he
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was found to be worth upwards of fifty million.
Numerous cases of this kind could be cited. It should
be an object lesson to the young man in Alaska, the last
{Treat frontier. Mankind, in one wav or another, has use
or everything, and there are numerous things in Alaska |
that will be in great demand as the population increases.
The opportunities here are just as great as they were
any place in the west. The easiest thing developed is the
irst thing people will work at. and in our own case, it is
lish. Secure a tishing site in a good locality, and stick to
it. Get a few barrels and salt some salmon. They will i
come to your door to be caught, and will cost you less than
s7 put in barrels, and bring you $16 per barrel in Seattle.
-Make vour home where vou do this. Take care of
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your accumulations, both cash and material, and in a few
years you will blossom out in a good big business of your
own making, and in a position to secure other and biggei
things to make money out of. Alaska is not drifting back
ward. She has just commenced to go ahead, and the next
ten years will show development that will surprise us all.
Get your feet under you. Reach out and get hold of
something. Ten years from now you may be the mil
lionaire.
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
It need caused no surprise if Austria-Hungary should
present peace overtures at any time. While we are not a
diplomat nor the son of a diplomat nor in any wise related
to any person diplomatically equipped, we have a hunch
that no better time than this present moment could be se
lected to convey a hint to the Vienna government that it
could have peace without being robbed.
I lie circumstance that the central powers, like the
allies, are pledged not to make-peace separately is of less
importance than one might suppose: if we may judge by
the practice of nations in the past. A great number of
such compacts have been abrogated under stress of na
tional necesshy; such, for example, as our own abrogation
of a similar compact with France, when we signed a sep
arate peace treaty with England to end the war of the
revolution.
\\ hen the 1 nited States entered the world war the
Emperor ( harles and his ministers saw the writing on the
wall, and their vision will never be clearer than it is at
the present moment. More flies can be caught with mo
lasses than with vinegar, and if Lord Palmerston, Lord
Reaconsleld, or Gladstone were now at the head of affairs
in London, this salient truth would not be overlooked; and,
surely, Mr. Lloyd George cannot l>e accused of stupidity.
“CITY BEAUTIFUL”
“Clean-up-day” has become an established institution
in a great number of American cities, and no one has con
tributed more to the success of these beneficial movements
than the moving picture theatres. Some of the movie
shows admit persons who bring a certain number of tin
PLENTY OF FOODSTUFFS.
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— Los Mnjeies Times.
caiis, others accept collections of dead flies, and some will
take anv kind of old' debris the removal of which will
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make for a cleaner and more healthful community. Up
to last accounts no normal bov has been found in such
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cities who is not an enthusisatic advocate of the “City
Beautiful" idea.
We could have understood it of Pennsylvania, and
might have expected it of South Dakota or Alabama, but
when Ohio passes a law classifying partridges as song
birds we are forced to the seemingly ungenerous suspicion
that those Buckeye statesmen are faking ignorance of
rural life on the theory that the rest of us may forget
they’re mostly rubes. Jim Cox, the governor, who sign
ed the bill, trapped more partridges than any other bov in
the country before he got a job in town as a reporter on
the Dayton News; and especially for him to pretend such
ignorance of what was frequently the only kind of grub he
got to eat in those days would be on a par with Col. Henry
Watterson’s asking the nature and use of a mint julep.
In wiring an offer of his services during tiie war to:
the president, the Rev. Matthews, of Seattle, indicated a,
range of jobs he was willing to take which should make it
easy to place him. He would serve, said Dr. Matthews,
“as chaplain in a bureau office, in the trenches, on top of
a ship or in the stokehold.” Whatever opinion one may i
have of the reverend doctor, it is safe to assume that no
one will show himself so crudely inaccurate in designa
tions as to refer to him as a dead one.
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ALASKA COMPANY *fsmo
Next Seattle Sailing: AIAMEDA, April 17th
MARIPOSA, April 5th ALASKA, April 22n<l
NORTHWESTERN, April 9 MARIPOSA, April 2Sth
Sailing of the ninth will connect with Dora trip to
tno Westward. All sailings as above, will go through to Anchorage.
Reginnlng with the sailing of the Northwestern from Seattle on May
4th, all passenger ships will touch at Skagway north-bound. The Ala
meda and Mariposa will be the only ships to touch at Skagway south
bound. The S. S. Victoria will sail from Seattle for Nome on June 2nd.
She will make five trips from Seattle to Nome, during the season. On
the first four trips of the season she will call at SEWARD, VALDEZ,
CORDOVA south-bound. For further particulars of service, rates,
apply to Agent. A. H. McDONALD, Agent.
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For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
ha* been established in connection with this paper, and all those doMr
ing information as to the value of real estate and busir ess opport uni
ties are requested to address their communications to
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD
GATEWAY.
Seward, Alaska.
Long distance telephone booth at
The Branch.
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Waterfill and Frazier whiskey at •
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Shoe Pacs
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE PRORATE COURT FOR'
KENAI PRECINCT, THIRD DIVI
SION OF THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA. BEFORE THE HON.
FRANK ENNIS, U. S. COMMIS
SIONER AND EX-OFFICIO PRO
BATE JUDGE.
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In the matter of the estate of ANNA
NIMMO, deceased.
I Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
! of ANNA NIMMO, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
- claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit such claims, with the neces
' sary vouchers, within six months af
ter the first publication of this notice
: to the said administrator, at the of
fice of the undersigned in the Bank of
Seward building, Seward, Alaska.
LEON C. BOOKER,
Admisistrator of the estate of Anna
Nimmo, deceased.
Dated and first published on this
18th day of April, 1917.
Apr. 18-25-May 2-9.
THE GATEWAY
CARRIES A
COMPLETE LINE OF
MINING BLANKS
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JUST TO REMIND YOU
--of—
Union Pacific System
Through Cars
between SEATTLEand Chicaao
Kansas City. Denver
San Francisco. Los Aneeles
Direct Connections for jH
points East via the Famous
COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
Trains protected all the way
—all the time -by Automatic
Electric “Safety" Signals.
H. L. HUDSON. A.G.F.&P.A.
SEATTLE
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CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheelwrighting
SEWARD. ALASKA
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Shoes and Clothing for Nen at
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FACTS!
We don’t do a lot of things but
the few we do are certainly
WELL DONE!
Paper Ruling, Loose Leaf and
Blank Book Making—we are
Specialists!
TRICK & MURRAY
Stationers and Printers
85 Columbia St Seattle
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