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The great war seems to he dragging out to the point of weariness. The
news coming from the front is apparently so much the same that it will
continue to lose interest unless some great change comes quickly. \et if we
are gifted with the least imagination there is not a sentence of war news that
will not come fraught to our minds with a dramatical interest which has never
been equalled. It is true nevertheless that if Mars and the earth got into
touch with each other and if the two declared war and if that war lasted too
long we should even tire of that so long as the conflict did not a fleet us
directly. Twenty years ago we should have been amazed it the sight of an
aeroplane in action but today we would hardly travel ten miles to see one.
They say wonders never cease hut certainly wonders soon cease to interest.
Without using our imaginations the European war ;s too big for us to
grasp. Ear removed as we are from it and taken up as we are with our
own little narrow cares a hint of some local gossip causes more of a flutter
in our dovecote than the thunder of a thousand guns the death shrieks of tens
of thousands and the trampling of battling hosts who in their agony and
travail are changing the map of the world before our eyes.
Prejudice is an extraordinary thing. It is completely the master ot the
human mind. Most of us while imagining ourselves quite sane are no more
the governors of our own thoughts when prejudice once enter* our souls than
lunatics.
People of different religions firmly believe that the other religion is all
wrong and those same people may he perfectly honest and perfectly desirous*
of doing and thinking what i* right. In th*» pree«mt war people on different
sides read the newspapers and writings of the different countries and each
thinks what he reads in favor of his own side is absolutely true and what
is written by the other side is a diabolical lie.
This is an extraordinary psychological fact and many do not see it in
its real significance. The outlook is actually colored by prejudice just as
much as the point of physical vision is colored by tinted spectacles only we
cannot realize the fact so clearly as we cannot recognize any mental phe
nomenon as easily a** we recognize a physical one.
There are times when we believe things with absolute credulity when,
as a matter of fact, if we were on the other side we should just as absolutely
believe the same thing to he an unmitigated lie. The human mind is limited,
imperfect, impressionable, unreliable, fickle and misleading when prejudice
controls it.
News from All
$Jarta of the
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JXUEAU.—On the thirteenth o!
last August the foreman at the beach
camp of the Alaska Gastineau Co.’s
Salmon creek development work found
the decomposed body of a man in the
tide wated a short distance above the
power house.
Some days prior to that time a fish- [
erman named Henry Schroebach, who
lived on the opposite side of Gastineau
channel from the mouth of Salmon
creek in a cabin owned by his partner,
“Taku Bill." whose true name is VVm.
Smith disappeared.
It appears that the deceased, who «s
a German known as “Henry" has been
in Alaska and around Juneau for per
haps ten years past; that his rela
tives live in Germany, and that last
summer, while his partner, “Taku,"
was working at the Salmon creek dam
and while out fishing in the channel,
he was dragged out of his boat by a
large halibut.
As his partner was away and his
neighbor was away part of th© time,'
he was not missed, and the identity of
the body found was not discovered un
til some time later. The fishing line ■
was found in his hand or fastened to
his body.
JUNEAU.—One of the alleged
vagrants rounded up by the city police
has a bank account of a thousand dol
lars: another has worked for the past
six months and his credit is good, he
says, while still another has only been
out of work a week, his last job hav
ing been for a period of three weeks.
The case against five alleged vag
rants collapsed like a canvas tent in
a Taku storm when they were aired
in the Municipal court, before Mag
istrate E. W. Pettit yesterday. All t
were dismissed, and the “clean up *
has amounted to nil.—Empire.
SEATTLE.—H. G. Godfrey, 0. J.
Eaton and Carl Harger, Americans, |
who were bound from the Columbia
river for Alaska in a sloop, on a hunt
ing and trapping expedition, were ar-1
rested as German spies when their
boat was wrecked at Pachena Bay,
British Columbia.
The members of the ill-starred trip
arrived in Seattle this morning, hav
ing been deported to American soil by
order of the Canadian officials. There I
boat and their outfit was confiscated,
they say. Suit against the Canadian
government is threatened.
Glen C. Bartlett, manager of the
Revilla Hotel, Ketchikan, who has
made the Revilla a by word among
travelers in the North,is wielding the
long and sharp editor’s shears.
Bartlett is at present the brain de
partment of the Ketchikan Miner.
Editor Richard Bushell wanted to go
: to the Sound, for a trip over the holi
' days. He could find no one who want
1 ed to take his job, so Bartlett was
elected editor of the Miner, for the
next three, weeks, by a unanimous
vote.
NEW YORK.—Captain J. Campbell
Beasley, formerly of Nome, has re
turned from South America with the
Story that he has discovered a lost
city of the Incas on that continent.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Unalaska, a
town in the Aleutian archipelago,
Alaska, together with the land around,
it, is rapidly rising from the sea, ac
cording to a report made today at the
hydrographic office of Captain C. D.
Peterson, master of a steamer that
cruised about in the Aleutian islands
last summer.
Tw years ago residents of Hog is
land, near Unalaska, could see only,
the spire of the Russian church in the
village. Now the entire building and
much of the village are plainly' visible
from Hog island, according to Captain
Peterson.
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" SeWSrd, Alaska
JUNEAU.—District Attorney Rea
gan says:
“In further explanation of the stat
utory definition of gambling, gambling
is defined by the lexicographers as fol
lows: ‘To play a game for money or
other stakes; to lose or squander bv
gambling.*
“Therefore, it is manifest, without
further explanation, that any game of
any kind played for a stake of any
value of any kind, is gambling. This
would include not only games for
money but games played in saloons,
pool rooms, cigar stores, billard halls
or other places for trade or trade
checks; the allowing of games to be S
played even for the puropose of de- j
termining who shall pay for the use
of a table whereon the game is played,!
is contrary to the statute; and those!
participating in such games and the!
proprietors of places allowing the
same, are guilty of violating the law
in this respect.
“This statement ought to be suffici
ent for the guidance of the citizens of
this division with respect to gambl
ing.”—Juneau Dispatch.
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HOW RUSSIANS
FORCESJAARCH
STRAGGLE ALONG WITHOUT AN
ATTEMPT TO MAINTAIN
FORMATION.
(By The Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 4.—A letter from
Warsaw says that in marching Rus
sian soldiers present an odd picture.
“The Russian regiments on the
march are the most informal organi
zation in the world/’ it says. 4 Ahead
ride a few officers, and then, in no par
ticular formation, come the troops,
some on one side of the road and some 1
on the other. Toward the rear they
straggle ofT in dwindling streams,
wandering about the fields and plod
ding here and there, just as though
each was ofT on an individual tour.
“For miles after a regiment has pas
sed one pecs little groups trudging
along, apparently contented and with- >
out a worry in the world. Yet at
night they all appear for rations, and
in the morning start off again in a
solid formation.
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“I am told that this method ofj
marching has proved a great puzzle to
the German airmen in trying to esti-j
mate the numbers of troops that arej
moving. When th • columns are so.
strung out, it is almost impossible
from any height to tell whether what
one sees is a battalion in close for
mation or a company strung out.
Most armies march in solid masses j
which can be seen and estimated ac
curately from a great distance.
“The more one sees of the individ
ual of the Russian army the more
one becomes to like the common sold- (
ier here. He is the most good matured ?
child-like, playful person in the world
and in the month I have been with the
army I have not seen any disorder.
On the road and in the camp, all seem
contended and happy as long as the
weather is fine. It must be admitted
they look a little dismal in the rain.”
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Brown & Hawkins. “Quality first.’’
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1915, January Fifth, Our I’EM 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 lhl5. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of Kessur
rection Bay as the Ocean Terminus of the Government
Railway by President Wilson, not later than February H),
that actual construction work will begin not later than
April 1st; that Seward will have a population of 5000
people by December Both; that real estate in Seward will
advance fully 300 per cent by September 1st, and that our
business will increase accordingly.
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Doors & Windows
Lang’s Ranges
1 X L Parlor Heaters
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 Rooting
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Engine Oil
Marine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
Elaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltutn Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
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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
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. ® |
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle g
every eight days tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, |
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. DORA leaves'Seward 15th of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutch. 11 arbor.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellaniar,
Valdez, Latouche and Seward
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle eajh month: S. S. Seward 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Sew ard carries Explosives)
Right reserved to change this schedule without notice‘s
p. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
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