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PUHI.IAHKU DAILY. K.YCKPT SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
HY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Harry V. Hoben. P. Erank L. Ballainp, Sec.
tnUr#j •#Cond-claee matter September, 2.1915. at the poetofflce at Seward. Alaska
under act of March S, 1879.
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NOTHING TO SAY
General criticism is being expressed
on the streets of Seward today for the
failure of the District Attorney's of
fice to properly conduct the prosecu
tion, or rather, the case for the people
against the Xushagak schoo teacher
tried here yesterday, but it is pointed
out that a stack of complaints sev-.
eral inches thick have already been
filed with the Attorney General and
that to say more is useless, so The
Gateway will not say it.
Attorneys versed in criminal procod
ure, state that the verdict was all that
could have been rightfully returned,
as the testimony showed no premedi
tation on the part of the defendant to1
commit murder.
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FINE BIT A LITTLE LATE
In these days when there is little
danger of any cannery throwing
away a single fish, comes the an
nouncement from San Francisco that
the cases of the I’nited States vs.
Alaska Packers for wasting fis-h on
Cook inlet had been sustained by the
Court of Appeals.
It was for years, the practice of
western canneries to grab all the hsh
possible during the few days of the
run and can as many as possible, al
lowing the rest to go to waste.
Imagine them allowing any to go
to waste this year!
It is probable that the shortage this
year might be traced to the previous
waste.
On Cook inlet, conditions were a lit
tle different, for traps are used and
the waste of fish results either be
cause boats failed to call for the fish
^>n account of storms, or because the
cannery had more than it could han
dle close at hand ami did not go after
the fish impounded at a distance.
The higher court has upheld the
ruling in this division that canneries
must look after the conduct of traps
where they make a contract to take
the catch, regardless of the techni
cal question that the contractor is in
charge of the trap.
This is very fine, should there again
be need to curb the waste of fish,
but to all intents anil purposes the
barn door has been locked a little
late, and at that, the fastenings arej
not verv secure, for until the far west-1
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ern canneries are required to mam-;
tain a cold storage to care for excess i
catches, it will be very difficult fori
them to avoid waste on years where j
the run is short anil heavy.
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PONT WASTE YOl U MONEY
—
Let it be said, right at the start J
that this is a preachment. Put it is
a brief one. So listen to this sermon j
in three words—SANK NO LI I
.MONEY!
Now. we’re not making this preach-j
ment because we care such a lot about
you. W e re making it because we care
so much about the country. And the
country is made up of YOU and about
a hundred million like you.
The resources of the nation are the
resources of YOU and those others,
put together, if every individual i*
this nation were a poverty stricken
wreck, with no hope and no ambition,
the country would be a poverty strick
en wreck of a country.
That’s plain.
Now we’ve got to have a mighty
strong nation for this war.
We've got to save EVERYTHING.
And that means we’ve got to save
our money.
So, when you’ve economized on food
and clothes, don’t waste the savings
in something else. SAVE YOUR
MONEY.
There’ll be big need for it. That’s
why we’re anxious about it.
Wear a path to the bank with your
savings.
GET THE HABIT OF SAVING A
LITTLE MONEY REGULARLY!—
Exchange.
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A FRANK ADMISSION
The poor old over-worked govern
ment frank is having to carry an aw
ful load these days.
Every day the franked matter mail-j
ed at the Washington postottice
amounts to about TO tons. This goes j
They
Satisfy!
—and yet
they * re
MILD!
STILL ABLE TO BE UP AND TAKE TEA.
I WE WILL HAVE
HIM OH HIS KNEES
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war orf(C£
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— Evan* in Baltimore American
out to the four points of the com
pass, some of it as far as Alaska and
Hawaii and the Philippines, and pays
no postage into the treasury of the
United States.
Postmaster Chance, of Washington.
1>. C., was before a congressional com
mittee the other day on another mat-1
ter and incidentally made some re
mark about the volume of franked
«
mail sent out from the capital. One
of the Washington papers in its re-,
port (pioted him as saying that the,
volume of franked mail is seven tons
daily. Chairman Keating who had
not caught the significance of the post
master’s remark, wrote to him to ask
if the figures given in the paper were
correct, and was surprised to receive
from Postmaster Chance a reply,
stating that the franked matter
amounts to TO tons daily and noti
seven tons.
Despite the frank admission it isn’t
likely that congress will face the situ
ation frankly in the interests of war
saving. It is. always easier to enforce
efficiency and economy on the other
fellow.—Ed.
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LIBERTY BONDS
PREFERRED STOCK
Likening the United States to a
great corporation with more than a
hundred million stock holders and also
with capital stock and resources of
more than two hundred fifty biMions
of dollars, and an annual income of
fifty billions of dollars, each Ameri
can citizen is a stock holder in this
great corporation. Kven those whose
only assets are their earning capac
ity own shares in our public domain
and property and are working in a
profit sharing basis with a vite and
a voice in the management of the cor
poration and with the right to acquire
more stock at any time.
A Liberty Loan Bond may be lik
ened to a share of preferred stock in
this gigantic corporation. Like pre
ferred stock in other corporations it
may not return, at times, so large a
dividend as common stock, but the div
idend from it is certain and sure. It
is stock that pays 31k per cent divi
dend but the stock and dividend can
not be taxed and while crop failures
may decrease the farmer’s dividend
from his land some years to less than
nothing, and various causes may les
ser. or destroy dividends from all
other sorts of property, the dividend
from the Liberty Loan Bond is cer
tain and sure, subject to no failure or
diminution.
The owner of n Liberty liOnn bond
holds written tangible evidence of be
ing a preferred stock holder in the
United States, the greatest, the most
glorious, the most honorable and the
most successful corporation in the
world. He holds the certificate of be
ing a citizen willing to support his
government and to lend money to his
country when it needs it and calls for
it.
There is honor in being the owner of
a Liberty Loan Bond as well as profit.
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ery. Seward Drug Company.
ASK DIRECTORS
FOR THE COIN
All Illegal Dividends* Must Be Bungled
l p by Bankers at
Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 27, (By Mail).
—Not all the judgment rendered by
the United State's circuit at San I* ran
cisco last week against the directors
of the defunct Washington-Alaska
Bank of Fairbanks, for the deposit
ors in the institution is collectible
now
The full text of the circuit court’s
decision has been received here by
cable. It sustains the judgment pre
viously given by the district court of
this district.
According to judicial decree the di
rectors, on two counts, are held liable
for having declared and paid divi
dends on the bank stock after the in
stittuion was bankrupt. These illegal
dividends amount to $7)4,720, and it is
adjudged that this sum be paid by the
directors to the receiver of the bank
and that he distribute the sum among
the depositors.
Of this total $54,720, the amount
of 720, on one count, is adjudged
against K. C. Wood, John L. McGinn,
David Yarnell and L. N. Jesson.
Of the remaining $21,000 of the
judgment, based on another count,
only about $5,000 is collectible, as
some of the directors named in this
second count are without means.
There is scarcely any doubt that
the case will be appealed from the
circuit court to the supreme court of
the United States. The belief is en
tertained here that even if the high
est tribunal affirms the decision of the
lower courts, the depositors will get
very little, as the expense of the re
ceivership in the meantime will have
eaten up the amount of the judg
ment.
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Member of Survey Party Loses Life
While Trying to Cross
Goose River
William Ritz, familiarly known as
“Shorty,” was drowned on August 24
in attempting on horseback to ford
Goose river near Goose Bay.
Ritz was employed by the F. W.
Williamson government survey party
as a packer and was on his way to
select a camp site when he lost his
life. Goose creek empties into Goose
bay near the Deep Sea Salmon com
pany’s cannery, and as the accident
happened at low tide Ritz’s body was
washed to sea and has not yet been
recovered.
There was only one witness to the
accident, a rancher living in the vi
cinity". He reports that the tide was
running very swift and that Ritz was
washed from his horse when about
half way across. As the horse was
lunging frantically, it is generally
supposed that Ritz was thrown
against the saddle horn and tempo
rarily stunned, as he made no effort
to save himself after having been
precipitated into the water.
As Ritz was a splendid horseman,
this theory is plausible. He was well
known around Knik, where he spent
the last two winters. He had been in
the government service for about four
years and had a large circle of
friends.
ALASKA Isfsffi!
Sailings from Seattle:
Mariposa.Aug. 23
Northwestern....Aug. 27
Alameda.Sept. 2
Alaska.Sept. 7
Santa Ana will sail westward after the arrival of the S. S. Alaska,
which left Seattle August 18th.' .
S. S. Ketchikan will leave Seattle August 21st with oils and ex
plosives.
All ships go through to Anchorage.
For further particulars of service, rates,apply to Agent.
A. H. MCDONALD, Agent.
For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
has been established in connection with this paper, and all those desir
ing information as to the value of real estate and business opportuni
ties are requested to address their communications to
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD
GATEWAY.
Seward, Alaska.
JAM AND BASEBALL TALKED BY BOYS
WHO WORK HOWITZERS OVER IN ERANCE
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN’
THE FIELD, Aug. 5, (By Mail).—
Feople can get used to anything, even
to this business of war. Were it not
so, those who have to keep on killing
Hermans month in and month out
would go mad and bite somebody.
I oday I was out among the guns
pounding the Hermans to pieces in the
neighborhood of Lens. It was tea
time. Overhead seven British planes
were winging past on their way to a
wrestling match with the enemy in the
clouds. Now and then a six-inch shell
exploded in the vicinity of the Brit
ish batteries.
Under a scrap of canvas serving as
a shelter from the midsummer sun,
jial a Canadian major, commander of
a battery of howitzers. He was bare
i headed. On a wooden hand grenade
packing case was a cup of tea. By it
.ay a slice of buttered bread. The
•najo»* wa in his shirt sleeves. In his
hands was a hook and a copying lead
pencil, .lotting down something in the
| book, the major laid it face down on
the case and took up the slice of but
tered bread, bit off a mouthful and
chewed away for some thirty seconds,
! then called out t > one of his gun crews
nearby: “Number two! Four seven live
•_I M
nine!
No. 2 lifted a huge shell into the
howitzer’s breech, closed and locked
the breech lock; sighted and stood by,
! one of the men holding the laniard
taut in his right hand. In his left he
held a piece of bread. Swallowing a
' gulp of tea the major picked up his
gunnery book again and casually or
dered: “Number one! Fire!” The
howitzer next to No. 2 bellowed so the
country round about echoed and rock
ed to its thunder. The major set down
I some figures, and refreshed himself
with more tea and bread. “Hey, Bill,”
sang out the gunner of No. 1 crew.
“Whatcher want now?” an ammu
nition tender growled. He was busy
chewing and opening a can of some
sort of tinned food. “Where’s that
jam?” said the laniard chap. “Jam?”
queried Bill as he worked away.
“What jam ? You mean the rhubarb
jam?” “Naw!” replied the lanierder,
“not the rhubarb jam; the strawberry
iam. I’m fed up on that stringy rhu
barb jam.”
“Number one!” bawled out the ma
jor. “Six nought five three” Then
after a swallow from the enameled
cup: “Number Two! Fire.” Num
ber two blazed away and a huge shell
tore through the air screaming in ter
rifying fashion and likely enough it
found its mark and tore to shreds a
dozen dupes of the Kaiser. “Yes,”
said the Canadian gunner who had
pulled the trigger, “that was certainly
some game! Two men out, man on
third, score tied and the ninth inning.
Old Ty Cobb was at the bat wdth two
strikes on him. Ty whaled away at it |
and—
“Number Two.” shouted the officer^
“Four seven five eight!” Then: “By
Godfrey!” he murmured to himself,
“wonder where’n the h—l they got this
butter!” “Number One! Fire!” And
again the howitzer shivered ar.d
leaped, and as the recoil threw it back
into position, Bill came up with a tin
plate in his hand. “Here, sour-face,”
he said to the laniard puller, “here’s
your bloomin’ jam. Shall I fetch you
a finger bowl ?”
And so the manslaughter went on.
Dispassionately and as coolly these
men feed and fire their howitzers.
When lunch time comes they may let
off work for a time and eat it com
fortably, sitting on a pile of shells,
any one of which contains enough ex
plosive to blow up the Wool worth
buliding. Or, if for any reason it is
necessary to keep on firing, the gun
ners eat and talk and fire the guns
without pause.
They seldom talk about the war
Rather they tel! their experiences the
last time they went on leave. They
talk about the shows they saw, the
good things they had to eat, the pret
ty girls they met, what they are go
ing to do when the war is over and
the rest.
In the trenches it is precisely the
same. Between raids, dodging trench
mortar stuff they play checkers anti
other games, write letters, have their
tea and talk about food and girls and
shows and things.
Of course these men do not love the
war. Nobody loves the war. But hav
ing commenced the war, are going
to see it through. Anti the way to see
it through is to make the best of
things, to get used to it all and quit
worrying. Sprinkle the enemy with
shot in one hand and pass the jam
with the other. That is the only way.
the French have found it. So have
the British. The Americans will have
to—and will.
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The Branch.
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