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SEW VRD. \LASKA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1913.
In todayV paper appears a cable telling that Mr. Falcon Joslin considers
it a mistake that the government did not buy the Copper River Railroad.
It may have been a mistake at that. That is. it may have been a mistake
that a hundred million dollars were not asked for instead of thirty-five mil
lion dollars so that several other railroads might have been built. Un
fortunately. however, there was only the smaller amount granted and as that
much will be required to build one road to the interior, with a few feed
ers. there is no use in regretting what was impossible. Everyone knows
that one big road to the Yukon river would he better than twenty short roads
just tapping the eoast ranges. The former will give a chance to all Alas
ka ami for the testing of ail kinds of resources.
Everyone who knows the least thing about Alaska knows that Mr.
Joslin is very friendly to the Guggenheims. He may, indeed, have a desire to
aid them to get what they want, ami this is said in no offensive spirit. We
are too fond of regarding the Guggenheims as arch enemies of everything
Alaskan when, as a matter of fact, the Guggenheims and people like them
are what we want if they only do not try to take too much and do not try
to influence legislation or general industrial activities.
President W ilson and Secretary Lane are men of some intelligence, no
doubt. Occupying the portions they do it would be safe to say that they
possess a ver\ high order of intelligence, and there is hardly reason to fear
that wire pulling will have any effect on their decision about the railroad.
This i> not saying that Mr. Joslin is wire-pulling. It is merely saying some
thing that might obviate the suggestion that there might be wire-pulling or
that wire-pulling might have any effect.
Joslin has been a mighty useful resident of the Territory. It would be
the easiest thing in the world for some scatterbrained individual who never
did anything for Alaska to become offensive in speaking of the suggestion
that the government made a mistake in not buying the Copper River Rail
read, but. really, the task of the opponents of that idea is fulfilled when Mr.
Joslin and those of the same opinion are reminded that no earthly advantage
can be gained now by cavilling with the accomplished acts of the administra
tion. The Copper River Road has not been bought. There is only enough
money to build a railroad to the interior and every baby knows that a road
that will tap the interior is what the Territory wants chiefly. The adminis
tration know; what it is doing and knows what it will have to contend with,
and all that remains is for even, Alaskan to get behind Wilson and Lane.
When Joslin >ays money should be appropriated more quickly he is speaking
in the proper spirit and he shows that, whatever his opinions about the
Guggenheims might he. he is satisfied, now that the road is started, to give
it his full support. That is the Alaska spirit.
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NEWS NOTES
W. F. Elliot and J. W. Adams left
on the train this morning for Kenai
Lake where they willl spend a few
days on a moose hunt.
Martin Lanning left this morning
on the train with the second mail for
Iditarod, viu Sunrise and Cook Inlet.
Mrs. Itoycroft returned to her
home at Mile 29 this morning.
Fred Ounce returned to Mile 20 on
Lake Kenai this morning to take
charge of his gas boat, the Nellie B.,
running down the lake.
W. A. Smith returned to Sunrise
this morning via Mile 34, after hav
ing spent several days in Seward.
lx)uis Nissen walked in Saturday
from his home at Mile 23 and was
also one of the first passengers on
the train from Mile Seven. He re
turned this morning accompanied by
Jack Petersen, who will spend a few
days out there.
Mrs. H. 0. Schaleben, who enter
tained the ladies of the bridge whist
club last Saturday at her home, gave
the party complimentary to Mrs. F. L.
Ballaine. The tables were decorated
a la Thanksgiving and birthday gifts
| were presented to Mrs. Ballaine,
: whose natal day is during this week.
| A small Christmas tree was also
i prettily decorated.
Lai's Anderson, who formerly own
ed the harness and shoe repair shop
in the Crocker stand on Washington
street, has sold his interest to Jacob
Chile, who today took charge of the
shop. Mr. Philo has ordered consid
erable new stock for his shoe shop,
and is an oldtimer at the business, j
I having run similar establishments in
; the States.
Kov Fonda, Mr. and Mrs. James
McCoy left on the car yesterday
i for the lower Kenai Lake to spend i
a few days on a moose hunt.
D. Colquohon and Frank Riskol
went out yesterday to their min
ing claims down Kenai Lake, near
Cooper Creek.
The Seward Gateway, published
daily and weekly, is the only estab
lished publication of this kind in the
: district included in government plans.
J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
Pioneer Hospital
Phone Main 48
J. L. REED
Attorney-at-Law
Representing
National Surety Company
BONDS
Valdez. Alaska
IMI E also carry a complete line of Men’s Ready
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When it comes to outfitting the working man
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SEWARD ALASKA
BRITISH FEAR
FOR THE RACE;
SOME EVEN SUGGEST POLY
GAMY TO MAKE UP FOR
THE WAR LOSSES.
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LONDON, Nov. 1.—More import
ant than winning the war is the fut
ure of the British race.
With ever-increasing seriousness
the problem of future citizenship ol
the British isles is being discussed in
the nation. While thousands ol
Britain’s best men are being slaught
ered, serious British minds at home
are asking:
How can the pub'ic be encouraged j
to increase England’s declining birth
rate? What are we going to do for
children, who alone can repair the
loss of the military slaughter house?
Will England tend to become a race
of weaklings after the war ?
These are but a few’ of the ques
tions that haven’t been answered.
The subject is being talked in hun
dreds of ways in hundreds of places.
It ranges from suggested polygamy
to taxation of bachelors.
Dr. Philip Boothyer, well-know n ,k
Nottingham, medical authority, in-,
jected the prevailing topic of discus-1
sion into the meeting of the Royal
Sanitary institute, at Brighton, when
he told the delegates:
“British stock is sound. Its moral
quality has not deteriorated. War
has taught us much and will teach
us more. It will teach us, I hope, to
follow’ the example of our great
1 enemy. I hope w’e shall learn in
some measure, as a nation, the folly
and immorality of cutting down our
offspring to one or tw’o individuals
i per family, as many have in recent
j years.’’
Dr. Duncan Forbes, another author
ity on the subject, after pointing out
that the government has taken steps
to minimize infant mortality situa
' tion, emphasized that the government
should immediately take cognizance
of the birthrate peril and after some
inducement to the various classes in
which the tendency to raise children
was limited to one or two infants.
He suggested a law’ of immunity from
taxation that would cause fathers and
mothers to feel that every new child
would not be an added burden of ex
pense.”
A certain coterie of society women
in England, some of them titled, are
arguing the points ofl egalized ploy
gamy. Another society suggests a
broader latitude of marriage and
scores of organizations and move- ;
ments suggest scores of things.
It is up to the government. It is
! believed the government will deal
j with the situation soon in a manner
j that will place a premium on babies
| in future.
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taste. Royal Olvules are made of the
finest and purest olive oil in the
world. Twenty-five cents per box.
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.
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ceive reward. 10-30 tf
A great many people outside and
inside Alaska are now anxious to get
! any news they can of the place where
'.he government railroad will be. To
save writing letters you could send
the Gateway, cither your own read
j ^opy or get another.
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I pretty is done by the Gateway just a*
veil as outside.
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National Forest Timber For Sale.
i
I Sealed bids will be received by the
! Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan, Alas
' ka, up to and including December 1, j
j t915, for approximately 62,500 linear
! feet of spruce piling on an area of!
J approximately 160 acres on the east
shore of Cook Inlet, beginning Yz
mile south from East Foreland and Yk ,
mile east from shore, thence east l/z j
i mile, thence south Yz mile, thence
; wejt Yu mile, thence north Yz mile to
place of beginning. No bid of less
than \c. per linear foot for all piling
, 'ip to and including 75 feet in lengthj
and lc. per linear foot for all piling |
over 75 feet in length will be consid
> ered. Deposit with bid $250.00. The
right to reject any and all bids is re
served. Before bids are submitted
full information concerning the tim
ber, the conditions of sale, and the
submission of bids should be obtain
ed from the Forest Supervisor,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
First publication Nov. 1, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 15, 1915.
The All-Alaska Review
Features in * October Number:
Richardson-Wickersliam (Controversy
Stories of Discoveries? in Alaska
The Discovery of Chisana
The Discovery of Nelchina
The Discovery of Nome
J
Alaska Gold Mines
By Eminent Engineers
Rise and Fall of Alaska's Home Railroad
Alaska at the Panama Exposition
Personal News from Every District
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