PREDICTS THAT
TANK BATTLES
TO COME SOON
Kritish "lie” Machines Will be Sup
ported b> the Amazonian "She”
Tanks on Various European
Kat lief runts
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WASHINGTON. Oct. 1, (By Mail).
—Herculean battles between droves of
Allied and Teuton "tanks** will be "as
common as air fighting on the west
ern front shortly. Colonel L. IX Swin
ton, commander of the first British
today.
Colonel Swinton, who is here with
Lord Reading’s commission, origin
ated the now famous British lighting
monster. He believes the Germans
are building these land cruisers and
the day is not distant, he thinks, when
the fittest between
"Teddv” tanks. He then drew* a word**
picture of these future struggles be
tween the steel monsters.
"There will be both male and fe
male tanks.” he said. “We will have
•Mary and ‘Molly* tanks along with
their lords and masters ‘Teddj tanks.
The males will lumber into battle sur
rounded by their harem's.
Is Seldom Cheeked
‘‘With the destruction of machine
tank starts acros> No Mans Land.
Shell craters will he crossed, trenches
and even small forests are no barrier.
With his two six pounders he blasts
his way forward. Being bullet-proor,
it is sr’dom that he is checked, unti.
he has accomplishes I his mission—do
stroyed machine gun emplacements.
“However, he is more or less use
less at close lighting and often gets
into a place where he cannot extricate
himself. It is here that his ‘better
har.es* get into the game.
“The female tanks—dubbed thus be
cause of their man-killing propensi
ties- tug along behind, in advance an 1
on all sides, lighting like mad. They
beat otT the enemy trying to storm
the big “Teddy.**
Thus far “tanks** are the only
means that have been devised in
breaking the deadlock along strongly
entrenched infantry fronts, Colonel
Swinton stated. Great improvements
are being made in their construction
and defects remedied. The tank of the
future will he a “perfect lighting ma
chine, capable of feats more startling
than heretofore dreamed ot, ’ he said.
1*0 Stop Carnage
Of the development of the crawl
ing fortresses, which have changed
modern warfare, Colonel Swinton
“During that awful tirst year every
soldier realized that something had
to he devised to stop the carnage. The
futility of a naked man attempting to
c*oss No Man’s Land was apparent to
and Bodies alike. It was an
impossibility to sweep that maikcsi
patch of Hell with men dtone.
**! had seen one of your Yankee in
ventions — Holt's tractor. I remem
bered seeing its feats in navigating
rough country and simply applied the
idea. At about the same time some
one else got a similar idea and wrote |
Winston Churchill, first lord of the!
Admiralty. Independent of each other,*
the war and navy branches began per-!
fott:ng the same idea. Navy officials
unknown to me worked on *a land
cruiser,* while we struggled with the
‘tank.’ Then we got together with
tt.c remit you read about.”
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V r would ‘ c fot hsli to pan
JL your gravel in a [\m time
was full ot seams or braky.
It s just as senseless to wear a
pair of boots w«ch soles stuck
onto the uppers so that they can
spring a leak any time.
“Hipress” hoots are made Ml h
wliw so that they can7
And they’re made of actually ^the
same tough rubber that cos
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giving you boots that will outwc a*
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E~ F you’ll jest stop t’anerlyze most
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thar ain’t nothin’ t’
anerlyze. I alius carry
a tin o’ VELVET in my
hip pocket an’ when I
see trouble cornin’—I
draw first.
VELVET, the Smoothest Smoking Tobacco,
smoothes the day’s cares.
REINDEER MEAT
TO AID MARKET
SAYSTACOMAN
I Alaska Herds are Pointing that Way
—Reindeer are Easily Raised
and Meat is Most
Valuable
TACOMA, Oct. 1, (By Mail).—
Alaska reindeer meat will become a
more productive source of our nation
al meat supply to make up for the
reduction in domestic livestock. This
ta *he opinion of C. O. Sutherland, who
has just returned to Tacoma after
spending two years in that Territory,
where he was engaged in contracting
and mining. Mr. Sutherland plans to
return to Alaska in November.
“Cattle as a source of food are dis
appearing from the face of the Amer
ican continent/* says Mr. Sutherland.
“The supply now does not equal the
demand. The tremendous increase in
population during the last 25 years has
forced the cattle ranges of the west
under cultivation for production of
the cereals. The great cattle ranges
oi twenty years ago are becoming only
a memory. With the sheep and cattle
supply rapidly decreasing from year to
year the American people are facing
vegetarianism unless a new source of
meat supply can be found and devel
oped in the near future.
“Reindeer and the great moss cov
ered plains of Alaska are the only
hope of supplying this long-felt want,
and it would seem that the necessity
of the human race is to bring to light
another unsuspected source of wealth
in Alaska. The reindeer is valuable
not only for food but as a beast of
burden and his skin is valuable tor a
great many purposes. He lives on
I grass in the summer and moss in the
winter and the only shelter he needs
is his own thick coat of hair. He re
quires no artificial shelter in the win
ter time and no prepared food. He is
easiiy handled and herded, and two
experienced men can handle from 1,
500 to 2,000 deer. The experience of
the United States government has
proved beyond all question of a doubt
that he is the coming meat food of not
only the the people of Alaska but of
the United States as well. Beginning
in the year 1802 and ending in the
year 1002 the government imported
into Alaska 1,280 deer. Growing from
this small number the herds of Alaska
have increased until at the present
time there are over 100,000 deer in
Alaska.
“It is estimated that 00,000 deer
have been slaughtered for lood foi
the natives, for clothing and for other
purposes. Thus it will be seen that
i the original number of 1,280 deer has
increased until today if none hud been
slaughtered there would be nearly
1200,000 reindeer in Alaska. Reindeer
meat is considered by many to be su
perior in taste and flavor to the moun
tain sheep, which is considered the fin
est meat of all game animals in Alas
ka.
“Reindeer as an investment is not
a get-rich-quick scheme, but it is sate
as any investment can possibly be, and
still it will yield a large profit on the
money invested.
“At the close of the fiscal year 1015
1 the govemm°nt had invested $30<,000
in Alaska reindeer and the returns
from the investment, calculated up to
the same time, show a total value and
I income of $2,243,000, showing a gain
on the investment of 621 per cent.
Now when you consider the enormous
expense of the government in import
ing the deer from I.apland to Alaska
and compare it to the present time
when the deer can be bought for from
$20 to $36k, per head it can readily be
seen that the returns of the invest
ment are large. Reindeer are ready
| for the market at the age of two and a
half years and will dress from 130 to
180 pounds. The meat is selling in
Alaska all parts of the deer could be
pound, according to locality. In addi
tion to this the hides would always,
find a ready market and with the es
tablishment of a packing plant in
Alaska al parts of the deer could be
used for commercial purposes/'
GREAT LEDGE
IS UNCOVERED
RACK OF HOPE
James Regan \h Passenger on the
Alameda for Seattle and is Tak
ing Out Valuable Samples
With Him
“An eight-foot zone all through a
mineralized ledge running $1000 is
what we have at last uncovered in 100
feet.” This was the statement made
last night aboard the Alameda by
James Regan on his way to the Out-,
side.
The mineralized ledge referred to
by Mr. Regan is on the Robin Red
Breast, Numbers 1 and 2, on Palmer
Creek above Hope. Mr. Regan had
samples of this high-grade quartz in
his stateroom which he was guarding
zealously. Mr. Regan is the junior
member of mining tirm of Chase and
Regan.
Frank Cotter and several other well
known Seward citizens were down to
the Alameda and Mr. Regan gave
them all the exceedingly gratifying
news of his discovery.
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ENGLAND FACING
MONEYCOLLAPSE
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 4.—
Warning against the collapse of ster
ling exchange in New York was giv
en by K. H. Brand, member of the
ministry of munitions of England and
of the imperial munitions board of^
Canada, in a plea for a continuation
of loans to England, before the na
tional bank section of the American
bankers’ convention. Every elTort is
being made to stabilize sterling ex
change, he said.
England has drained herself of gold 1
and of liquid American securities. If
she cannot borrow, finuncia '\huos will
result.
The future peace of tlie world will |
depend upon the perfection of an un
derstanding between the United
States and the British empire,” Mr.
Brand declared. He placed the bur-1
den of financing the war from this
time on for all the allies upon the
United States.
Mr. Brand declared his belief in -the
adequacy of the allied credit to win
the war, but said it must be extended
to all. There is no question about the
integrity of the external debts of all
the allied nations, he said; they will J
be paid. America's strictly fundamen
tal problem is ships, he continued.
He predicted the abandonment of the j
private automobile before long in
America.
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GOLD EMBARGO SCALE
fixed by united states
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — Regula
tions goveniing the exportation ol
gold, silver and currency, announced
today by -the federal reserve board,
indicate that the government will re
strict such exports to the maximum
degree except where they cannot be
avoided in settling trade balances.
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CHICAGO’S MAYOR
WOULD BE SENATOR
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Mayor William
Hale Thompson, of Chicago, tonight
announced his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for United States
senator to succeed James Hamilton
Lewis, Democrat, at the primary elec
tion next September, basing his con
test on the ground of giving the peo
ple of Illinois “an opportunity to vote
•on vital government policies, involv
ing the most precious rights of Amer
ican citizens.”
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Taylor’s Express meets all boats
and trains. Phone Main 122.
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Mclver, licensed undertaker.
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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Waste paper, suitable tor starting
fires, at The Gateway; 10 cents pel
sack. __
H. V. Hobf.n a. F. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
TI. V.JJOBF.N, Manager
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transferring. Phones, Main 17 and 41
HOTEL OVERLAND
E. L. WHITTEMOKE, Proprietor
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, * - • Al^ASKA
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Pool and Bltllero, _ | /l|_/lVI_ Proprietor
Best Liquors and Cigars
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lunch Counter in Connection
C. M. PETTIBONE CO.
Packers’ Direct Selling Agent
SALT SALMON, HERRING, COD
CANNED SALMON
If Service Counts Our Interests are Mutual
OFFICES: L. C. SMITH BUILDING SEATTLE, U. S. A.
CAPTIVES USED
AS TARGETS BY I
THE AUSTRIANS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Stories of
inhuman treatment ot Italian prison
ers by their Austro-Hungarian cap
tors have been brought to Rome, ac
cording to dispatches received here to
day by a prominent Italian lawyer,
sent home by the Austrians among a
number of incapacitated prisoners.
This man reported captives were
systematically tortured in the prison
camps, in many cases being used as
targets for revolver practice or de
liberately poisoned.
A Hungarian Lieutenant named
Parks, who is said to have led in such
atrocities, is now in Italian hands.
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POPE MAY PROPOSE
SPAIN AS ARBITRATOR
PARIS, Oct. 4.—News distributed |
to Spanish newspapers by German
representatives, according to a dis
patch to the Temps by way of the
Spanish frontier, announces that Ger
man newspapers aver that the pope
intends to propose to the belligerents
that King Alfonso of Spain act as ar-j
bitrator of the war. The German press .
is described as welcoming the sugges
tion.
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I. \Y. W. TARRED AND
FEATHERED BY FARMERS
STUTTGART, Ark., Oct. 4.—- Four
white men, believed to be I. W. W. j
agents, were taken from the county i
jail here by a mob of 150 rice farm-1
ers, who administered a whipping and
applied tar and feathers to each of the
men and drove them from town. The
men had been arrested on a charge of
! inciting laborers to cease work.
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2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.00—
Seward Drug Co.
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Long distance telepnone booth at
! The Branch.
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.
Get your Steel Cable at Graef s. tf.
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Ask your grocers for Seward
Bakery Bread.
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Waterfill and FrazTor whiskey at
the Branch.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
OF FINAL ACCOUNT
AND DISTRIBUTION
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
the Territory of Alaska, Third Divi
| sion, Kenai Precinct.
In the Matter of the Estate of Eliza
beth D. Gray, Deceased. Notice of
Settlement of Final Account and
Distribution.
Notice is hereby given, That Frank
L. Ballame, administrator of the es
tate of Elizabeth D. Gray, deceased,
has rendered and presented for tina!
settlement, and filed in said court, hi*
final account of his administration of
said estate, together with his report
and a petition for final distribution,
and that Saturday, the 8th day of De
cember, 1917, at 10 o’clock in the fort -
noon of said day, at the court room ot
said court in said Precinct, has been
fixed and appointed as the time and
place for the settlement of said ac
count and the hearing of said report
and petition, at which time ami place
any person interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions iti
writing, to said account, and contest
the same.
Notice is further given: That said
account is for final settlement, and the
said estate is ready for distribution,
and on confirmation of said final ac
count final distribution of said estate
will be immediately had.
Dated this 1st day of October, 1917.
(Seal) WM. H. WHITTLESEY,
Probate Judge, Kenai Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska.
Pub. Oct. 2, 9, 1G, 23 and 30.
City Express. Phone Main 122.
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Meet me at The Branch.
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VVaterfill & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 1|3.
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WANTED—Position as cook in road
house camp or hotel or private fam
ily; experienced, steady. References
if required. Anna A. Hill, Care
Mrs. M. Rucker, Valdez. OS
FISH PRICES
Price at noon, Sept 18th, at
Seattle, as reported by the Bu
reau of Fisheries, are:
Halibut, 15 %c.
Sable Fish 4^c.
Red Snapper, 2&c. •
Pickled Sable Fish, $14 per
bbl.
Pickled Herring, first grade,
$16 per bbl.
Pickled Salmon, pink, $14.50
per bbl. *
DR. II. T. HARVEY
(Ex-President Michigan State Boaid
Dental Examiners)
Pyorrhea Specialist
Diagnostician
DENTIST
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