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PUBUSHKD DAILY. KXCKPT SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
HY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Harry y. Hoben. P Frank L. Ballalne. Sec. Ertch Laeaa. Tum.
Entered ai second-claaa matter September. 2.1915. at the postofflce at Seward. AlaaAa.
under act of March 5. 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
ONE YEAR. In advanea.110.00
THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by mall 3.00
PER MONT, delivered.11.00
, ADVERTISING RATES on application.
SHIFT THOSE MEN
There are numerous questions of interest on the tip
of many tongues concerning the findings of Assistant Sec
retary Meyer and party on their trip to the coal fields and
over the government railroad.
Prior to the outbreak of war, the semi-official pro
gram adopted in the minds of certain officials was to have
the Matanuska coal ready to ship about the time the ice
goes out of Cook Inlet next spring. With some of the
work still to be completed along Turnagain Arm, this
would give a lame excuse to commence shipping coal via
the Inlet, transferring it from shore to ship by the ex
pensive barge method.
To forestall this, insure completion of the road and
opening of the Matanuska coal fields under practical
plans, pressure was brought to bear by friends of the
project early this year. Some headway has already been
made, but there is still much to be done and it is to Mr.
Meyer and his advisers that we must look for immediate
and most effective aid.
The time when this project can be considered from
local standpoints and handled to benefit one community
over another, as has already been done, has passed.
Coal is a vital necessity.
There are about 500 men working up the main line
north of Matanuska, who could be shifted to the coal fields
or on work between Seward and the coal fields and insure
the opening of the road at least a month earlier than if
they continue on work not vital to getting the coal and
why, in the face of the shortage of labor and the crying
demand for fuel for the Pacific Coast, is not this done?
Our Allies have learned by bitter experience that
when something is needed at once it must be done. Half
a million men put at one task can be changed and put at
another over night, and the tools, supplies and equipment
on the main line north of Matanuska can be instantly
cached and the men transferred to this end and put at
work of vital importance to the present need. Later—
next year, if necessary, they can be returned to work on
the main line northward.
TREASON IN OKLAHOMA
Frenzied fear, or hatred of the nation, and nothing
else, could cause such an uprising as has occurred in Okla
homa, and the department of justice is not outside its
rights in trying those who took up arms to fight off the
draft officials for treason.
Such cowardly impulse, which causes men to desert
under fire, or turn traitor to save themselves from some
danger, is more liable to result in death than the very
danger they fear.
SAVE A LITTLE AT HEADQUARTERS
While the government is calling on the people to save,
They do whet no
other cigarette
ever did before;
they satisfy—and
yet they're MILD.
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for
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SAFETY FIRST.
—Harding in Brooklyn Eagla.
it might be well for officials at Washington to do a little
saving on their own account. Thousands of columns of
useless literature of every conceivable kind is mailed out
from Washington every week and it is safe to estimate to
say that two-thirds of it finds its way to wastepaper bas
kets within the month. It is the most expensive kind of
printing, on good paper, and means a tremendous waste.
Why not have a printing dictator with similar pow
ers to friend Hoover, go over the public printer’s output
and blue pencil the junk ?_
C. M. PETTI BON ECO.
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.
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T. G. YOUNG
Distributor for MACK Trucks
1000 Pike Street, SEATTLE
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\ Sailings from Seattle:
* Northwestern.... July 12
Alameda.July 18
Alaska.July 23
Mariposa.Aug. 1
Northwestern Aug. 4
Alameda.Aug. 10
All ships go through to Anchorage.
All passenger ships will touch at Skagway northbound. The Alameda
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For further particulars of service, rates, apply to Agent.
A. H. MCDONALD, Agent.
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General and Seward in Particular an
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SUCCESSOR TO
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GENERAL BLACKSMITH
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SEATTLE
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7 • All such orders received by FREDERICK
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