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BERNARD M. STONE, President.
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SEWARD, ALASKA. SATI'RDAY. JANTAKY, 23, 1915.
Within a few weeks this division of Vlaska may he the most populous
by a long way. It will certainly he the most populous in a year or two and
then will come again the question as to which is the best site lor the terri
torial capital.
If the accounts from the outside can be taken as an indication we ought
to have tens of thousand of people collected around the right ot way of the
government railroad in a very few months. The opening of the Matanuska j
coal fields is a far greater industrial event than the opening of any of the
gold camps that were ever discovered in Alaska although coal can never have
the same romantic attraction as the gold that glitters. This is a stampede—
the first in the history of the territory—where you will never meet men coin
ing out saying that the steamboat companies started it and that it is noth
ing hut a fake. Men who come here on the railroad and coal stampede will
come, not in the hope of making a strike and getting out again, hut with
the intention of settling down permanently.
So. we are likely very soon to have a great permanent population around
these parts. Indeed, we are likely to have a larger population than the total
population of all the other divisions combined. \N ith such a population may
come court houses and federal headquarters generally, school houses and
organizations of various kinds, and then, just as sure as day follows night j
will come an agitation, at least, for a change in the capital, unless Juneau
can keep pace with our forward movement, and every good Alaskan unselfish
ly hopes that it will.
That literacy te^t i> causing just now quite a hullabaloo in Washington.
Woodrow Wilson, president of a university and an unusually well educated
man. says that literacy should not he regard d as a necessary qualification
for citizenship. Perhaps the men who are insisting most on having no one
hut “literates” permitted to land in the I nited States are men whose educa
tion is mighty limited.
Literacy so-called very often only means that a man can read the
newspapers and there were good people long before printing was invented.
Kducation is a very peculiar thing. There is as much difference between
the ordinarily educated man and the really educated man as there is between
the absolutely illiterate and the person with that ordinary education. It is
a positive fact that perhaps not one man in a million knows, for instance, j
what is really pure Knglsh. The Lnglish that might pass for perfect in some '
mining camps would be barred from really educated circles as crude to the
point of barbarous. The great trouble comes when people just know enough
to read and do not know enough to know that they are reading rubbish, both
in substance and in form. The half educated are always prone to take lor
gospel truth what they read from the pen of some half baked philosopher and
in this way they absorb all that is false while not being gifted with the
necessary ability to read and understand the men who can lead them aright. *
This is the real foundation of the old saying that a little learning is a dan
gerous thing, and Mr. Wilson knows it.
He also knows that the most disturbing elements in every community
are those who know a little hut not enough.
Nruts from AU
JJartii uf tin'
ft Nnrtltlauii
W. C. Edes, chairman of the Alas
ka Engineering Commission, recently
declared in Washington that railroad
construction in the territory would
not be costly.
He stated that the work would
entail expenditures only slightly more
than similar enterprises in the West
ern States of America, the princpal
item of increase being the expense of
transporting materials to the North
land.
Mr. Edes frankly states that the
government lines will not be dividend
payers for two years. However, he
indicates that the immense territory
that will be opened up by the lines
ultimately will make them financially
successful.—Seattle 1 imes.
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Adolph John
Jarmuth, an Alaskan mineowner, to
day started suit in the local courts for
divorce from his wife, Edith DeLong,
the noted woman suffrage agitator.
He charges that her activity in the
suffrage cause has destroyed her do
mestic value entirely.
NOME, Jan. 2.—The Northern sa
loon was broken into on Tuseday
night and a cash register containing i
$47 and several nuggets relieved of (
its contents. The robbers overlooked j
the main regster, whch contained j
$100. The police have been unable to
find a clew.
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 7.—Jim Em- j
dahl returned yesterday from the j
states and says that he met several j
people coming out from the Chisana, j
all of whom state that there will be
on-y two or three outfits working
there this year, and that most of the
old prospectors have left the camp.
FAIRBANKS.—By a letter receiv- |
ed today President R. C. Wood, of the |
First National Bank, of this city, is 1
informed of his selection as a vice- !
president of the American Bankers’
Association, representing the Terri
tory of Alaska.
From Kansas City, Missouri word
was received that Ben Biglow, until
last summer a telegraph operator in
Fairbanks, had been killed in a train
wreck near Springfield, Missouri.
While in Cordova Judge Bunnell an
nounced that he had appointed Ed.
Wolcot, of Fairbanks, as stenographer
for the district court of the Fourth I
division.
Finch’s Goiden Wedding Rye at The
Branch.
Does Advertising Pay?
Just to see how many people read our ads. for the bal
ance of this week we will give you a discount of 5 percent
on any purchase in this store when accompanied by a
copy of this advertisement.
We pride ourselves in having the best and most up-to
date stock in our line in Alaska. Our every effort has been
to get goods that are standard and we believe we have
best goods that money can buy.
For town wear we have a full line of nifty, up-to-date
men’s clothing complete—from Paris Garters to Stein
Bloch clothes. We also have a new arrival in the latest
Stetson and Hardeman hats. Guiterman shirts.from $2.00
to $8.00.
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For the trail and outing trips we will show you our
line of Duxbak Mackinaws, Hipress and Gold Seal pacs.
Seal Skin socks, Duxbak Mackinaw riding pants, Guiter
man Leather vests, Saxony Sweaters and Filson’s Cruiser
shirts.
Cut out this advertisement and come in and look over
our stock. It is a pleasure to show goods.
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER. Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
A new shipment of Edison records.
! Come in and hear the National Airs
j of the nation's at war, on an Edison
Diamond Disc phonograph. Brown &
Hawkins. “Quality first.”
Meet me at The Branch.
CABINS FOR RENT.
Apply to V. E. Caves, Seward. 4t
Try our “California Home” dill
pickles for lunches. Brown & Hawkins,
j “Quality first.”
The Car that Selis ny the Trainload
\¥/K guarantee the Ituirlc Valve in llesul Motor to develop
▼ ▼ ami f/e/iVer more power than any other type of auto
mobile motor of the same size American or Foreign
make.
In addition to the jfnul power of tin* Iiui«*k Motor, it i*
unusually economical, Hiving more mileH per uallon of jnukj
line I Into lev* powerful motor* of different type*.
The lain IhiicU in a beauty ifraccful and urUtocratic
on (|,e boulevard* hut a (iiunt of Power when called upon.
What is true of one Buick is true of all
Sizes from $1010 to $IH00 Pours mid Sixes.
F. 0. It. SfAIIlF. WASH.
Northwest Buick Company
802 E. Pike St.
SEATTLE.
ATen
'Vj Strike!
The makers of
llie new shills
and cravels we
/ offer you have
made a real success
of the designs and
patterns.
Come and see them when
in Seattle.
SHIRTS
$1.50 ip
I CRAVETS
7/9 Second Are., Seal lie, If ash. 50c //<
IT PAY S Ko°«ETtiI
STANDARD FURNITURE CO.
SEATTLE— "It’s Heller am! Costs Less”
An Elegant Davenport Bed £ A ') £A
with Pull Size Mattress,
An elegant, fine Davenport bed. as pictured; 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 (iOiich, $22.50
Davenport Couch; sanitary construction: upholstered in fine
Persian velour; diamond tufted; fltte d with patent spring lift; large
wardrobe space underneath; an excel lent value at $22.50.
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Second Ave. at Pine St. SEATTLE
1915, January Fifth, Our I FIN 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 (noth
ods have been such as to merit their greater con
fidence in the future. We an* most optimistic for Seward
in the year 1915. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of Ressur*
roction Hay as the Ocean Terminus of the Government
Railway by President Wilson, not later than February Hh
that actual construction work will begin not later than
April 1st; that Seward will have a population of 5000
people by December 110th; that real estate in Seward will
advance fully J#(K) per cent by September 1st. and that our
business will increase accordingly.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL COMPANY
The Coleman
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. CEO. SEXTON, PROP.
Electric lights. Electric bell. Modern bath rooms. Kates reasonable.
FOURTH AVENUE SEWARD. ALASKA
USE THE PHONE
ALASKA ELECTRIC COMPANY
S. M. GRAFF, - President and General Manager
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL MINCH’S AND MOLD MINfH S SlUTI ICS
Doors & Windows
Lang's Ranges
I X L Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Hatteries
Granite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P H Paper
Malthoid Rooting
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
\\ either Strips
Gasoline
(las Engine Oil
Marine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
Elaine 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 i
Rifles
Shot (Jons
Am munition
Fishing Tack It)
Giant Fowiier
Caps
Fuse
Bencii Forces
Blacksmith's Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Hope
Mercury
Seine Twine
J. L. GRAfc-F
r^A ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. S
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
every eight days lor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. DORA leavcs'Seward 15th of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutch.Harbor.
Regular freight service tor Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep Cieek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
Valdez, Latouche and Sew ard
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-^
F. R. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
Hotel Seward
W. A. M’NEILEY. P«o».
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
Pioneer
Hotel
F. B. CANNON, Prop.
Knik
Alaska
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