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SEWARD, ALASKA. ITll KSDA Y, Jl 1A 20, 1016.
Alaska is rather closely connected with naiiomu poli
tics this year in many ways. Our railroad lias been an
important question from time to time in the national legis
lature. We have been told that an Alaska gavel was used
in the national Republican convention, and now we hear ot
W illiam Sulzer of New \ork being prominentlv mention
ed in relation to the prohibition campaign for the presi
dency. Sulzer is well known in Alaska where he has
a town called after him in the southeast. He was also well
known at Nome where he was accustomed to visit from
time to time. His brother is now candidate id Alaskan
Democrats for election to congress irom the teuitoiv.
While William Sulzer was in congress he was the
closest friend there that Alaska bad. We bad no delegate
of our own then but William Sulzer aauost acted in the
capacity of one. Everyone who knew him in Alaska fell
personally hurt w hen the political bosses oi New \ ork bad
him impeached because as governor ot the Empire State
he decided to follow the dictates of his own conscience.
Poor old Greece through no fault of its own is now
passing through a terrible and humiliating time. Here
is the very cradle of civilization being used as the fighting
cockpit of the powers—the powers that arc great because
they lack conscience. A great power is like a great capi
talist. No man with the milk of human kindness or a gen
erous conception of what is owed to his neighbor can be
come very rich. The possessors of great capital are so be
cause they despise the rights of others, and so it is with
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great powers. Not one of those great belligerent powers
today but holds in subjection by force some weaker race,
in spite of the tear shedding and the blood shedding of
those who would be free. The most contemptible cowards
on earth are the great powers of Europe. We who shout
for one side or the other always forget this. Thank God
for America. Let us hope it will never be a tyrant.
One of the leading generals of the United States said
some time ago that it would take 200,000 men and five
years to conquer Mexico.
CACHE CREEK
DREDGE READY
The big dredge on Cache creek is
now erected and ready for operation.
It has already dug a little but, as
usual in such cases, some improve
ments are to be made that will take a
few days before the operations are
started permanently. In a letter to
James K. Hayden, J. C. Muuay ex
presses the greatest confidence in the
richness of that district. Ine work ot
getting the dredge to the scene of
operations overland was a gigantic
task, no roads being available. Min
ing men are now watching the result
of the operations with the greatest
interest as they are bound <o oxer ise
a strong influence on the fut« - •
this part of Alaska as u dro V’ng
country.
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BEER FLOOD IN “DRY** KANSAS
Perhaps if it hadn’t been for a suit
in court, the entire United States
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might never have learned of the ex
traordinary thirst of little Wier City,
in prohibition Kansas.
The following from the Buffalo
(N. Y.) Enquirer has caused some
chagrin among citizens who are try
ing to prove that Kansas is as “dry”
as the Congressional Record:
The appended dispatch, clipped
from the New York World, is highly
illuminating and will no doubt be
read with much joy by the advocates
of national, state-wide and world-wide
prohibition:
“Alleging that .“25 carloads of beer
were sold at Wier City, in the north
part of Cherokee county, during the
past five years, and claiming that he
is entitled to a commission on all
sales, Mike Simone of that place has
brought suit against the Dick Broth
ers Quincy Brewing Co., of Kansas
City, Mo., for the collection of $12,
000, charging that the commissions
amounted to at least that sum.”
Now, when one carefully dissects
the above dispatch, the revelations are
somewhat astonishing. Wier City,
Kansas, does not come in the list of
cities of over 5,000 inhabitants as
published in the World Almanac, in
fact, it is a village.
According to a leading shipper, a
car will hold 500 cases of beer, or 1,
500 bottles, shipments being made in
cases holding three dozen bottles each.
Three hundred and twenty-five cal's
would mean 487,500 bottles of beer in
five years, or an average of 97,000 a
year.
All of which goes to show that Wierj
City, in the “dry” state of Kansas,!
and in the observance of the state
wide prohibition law, was more or
less “wet” in spite of arguments to
the contrary.
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NOTICE
Dog taxes are now due and pay
able to City Treasurer on or before
August i. F. L. TORREY,
7-18—tf Street Committee, j
FOR SALK
Furniture, Kitchen Utensils, Range,
Piano, Redding, etc. Mrs. A. G. de
Sherbinin. 7-18—tf
Don’t walk. Hettel’s sell? postage
stamps.
Noodle Cafe. Phone Main 111.
Tray service receives prompt at
tention. 10-5- tf.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sundays: Communion Mass at 8:30
a. m.
Mass and Sermon at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school after Mass.
Rosary, Instruction and Benediction
at 7:30 p. m.
Weekdays: Daily Mass at 7:30 a.
m.
RUBBER BOOTS
(iood ones, too BULL’S KYK BRAND all sizes, hip
length; heavy soles,
To Close $6.00 pair To Close I j|
It you can use a pair, better get them now
COTTER’S
The place where men outfit
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UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
STANDARD ROAD OF THE WEST
_—-AFFORDS
SUPERIOR SERVICE
between SEATTLE and the chief cities of tie
EAST AND SOUTH
M MIT ED TRAINS MKALand SLKKPINO ACCOMMODATIONS
SKCOND TO NONK THROUGH CARS UNDKR AUTOMATIC
ELECTRIC "SAFETY” SIGNAL PROTKCTION all the way to
CHICAGO, DENVER AND KANSAS CITY
LOW ROUND TRIP FARES SEATTLE TO CHICAGO, NEW YORK
anil main points of ilio hunt -
in e fleet until September 30
PLAN YOUR TRIP NOW UNION
Ask Alaska S. S. Co. or P. A. N. agents. SKWARD,
ALASKA, for folders and Information. <*r witte PACIFIC
H. A. LAWRENCE
TRAVELING freight and PASSENGER AGENT, QYSTFM
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SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
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Hotel
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Knik
Alaska
KNIK’S LEADING HOTEL
' NO BAR '
s Accommodations for Ninety Guests
Large General Lobby
Private Lobby for Ladies
\ Best Rates : : Best Treatment
J Best Accommodations
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AOELMAN & QUILTY milk & cream
SfWAUII DAIRY Wli) Not Try Our Butlermilk ?
MILK STATIONS AT BOTH BUTCHER SHOPS
Rainier Buffet
THE BEST IN EVERYTHING
WINES LIQUORS CIGARS
LOUVRE BLDG.QPP. A. B. HALL
AUCTION SALE * 200 LOTS
TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1916
Selected from practically every block in the Townsite of
SEWARD, ALASKA
RESERVE PRICES FOR RESIDENCE LOTS
$250 TO $750
TERMS
10 per cent. CASH
RESERVE PRICES FOR BUSINESS LOTS
$800 TO $2,000
TEN PER CENT IN THIRTY DAYS—Balance in one, two, three and four years at seven per cent
In compliance with many urgent requests, 200 lots, a part of the
holdings of Frank L. and John K. Itallaine, will he offered at public
auction in the A. It. Hall, Seward. Alaska, Tuesday, July 25.
l or this occasion the reserve prices have been made so low and the
terms so exceptionally easy that it is safe to say that a like opportunity
to buy lots in the original townsite of Seward may inner occur again.
SEWARD
As the terminus of the Government Railroad and distributing center for
the whole interior of Alaska, is bound to have a phenomenal growth. It
will become, as Frank Carpenter so aptly put it, “The New York of
Alaska.*’ and when the railroad is completed to the coal fields and to the
Tanana River, there is not a lot in the entire townsite but which will be
worth from double to ten times its present value. Nature has given to
Seward the finest harbor on earth and an ideal townsite on which will be
built a metropolis which will occupy the same position in relation to this
great northern empire that Seattle does to the Pacific northwest, or New
York to the whole country.
SEWARD
In addition to being the ocean terminal of the great Government Railroad,
will become an important naval station for the U. S. fleet in the North
Pacific and the principal base for its coal supply. It will be visited yearly
by thousands of tourists, who will come to view the scenic beauties of the
Kenai Peninsula or travel over the railroad to the Yukon. Sportsmen
will soon recognize it as the starting point for the best hunting and fishing
to be found on the North American continent. The wholesale houses of
Seattle and San Francisco will shortly establish branches in Seward. It
will become headquarters for the fishing interests of the North Pacific,
and smelters, pulp mills and other industries will spring up like magic.
Thousands of acres of land in the Resurrection valley and on the Kenai
Peninsula will be cleared and cultivated, and permanent agricultural com
munities will be developed. Every new town from Anchorage to Fair
banks and every mining center along the railroad or on the Yukon or its
branches will pay tribute to Seward. Look the whole country over and
you cannot find a solitary exception to the rule that where a trunk line
railroad terminates at a good all the year round harbor, there you will find
the metropolis of that section. In short, the future of Seward is so bright
that its development from now on will exceed our wildest dreams. The
lots that sell today for a few hundred dollars will within three years sell
for as many thousands.
DON’T FAIL TO BUY ONE OR MORE OF THESE LOTS
We m «ht add that a lot n Pi. nee Rupert which brought $2900 at tbe FULL l’ARTICLLAHS F^?ANK L_ R A I I A I N F Pfj
auction sale in Vancouver was sold two tears later (or <00,000. OF * ** ’