OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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MANY WERE STARTED FROM MINES
Banks should be as vitally interested in the progress'
of the mining industry as the Illinois bankers are in farm-!
ing. Bankers say that investors should consult them be
fore they invest. The mining industry in entitled to a:
square deal at their hands. They generally get it. Few
banks, if any, are in a position to give information re
garding mining and oil ventures. The development of
our mining and oil resources are vitally important to the'
prosperity of the state and nation. The bank should not,
therefore, advise against legitimate mining and oil spec
ulations. Early-day bankers in Colorado and other West-!
ern states got their start from the mines. If the banker
of today will treat legitimate mining investments as such
there will be greater prosperity in the West, Alaska and
the Nation.
Thanks to speedy negotiation, the trouble over oil in ,
Mexico is settled about the time the controversy over oil
in Wyoming is half way thru.
Golf is now said to be the poor man’s game as well as
the rich man’s. Our experience shows that it’s anybody’s
game until the last hole is made. j.
WHEN “BABY” IS SUPPLANTED
The coming of a little brother or sister may stimulate
the development of some of the finest virtues in the char
acter of the older child and there need be no hint of jeal
ousy on his part if the situation is properly handled. But
even a thoughtful parent often fails to realize just what a
serious shock the advent of a new baby is to the emotional
life of the “babyr who is supplanted. This period that
furnishes so fertile a soil for the sowing of the seeds of
jealousy, cannot be handled too carefully by loving par
ents.
An astromomer says that if the sun should explode
we would have only 133 hours to live. But the newspapers
could get out a lot of hot extras in that time.
If the farmers ever get as excited over farm relief as
the politicans are, look out!
Life for a Chicago gang leader may be uncertain, but
he is sure of a swell funeral.
Probably New York’s Governor figures that accord-,
ing to the law of chances we are due to have a President'
named Smith.
A FIVE PASSENGER
OLDSMOBILE SIX SEDAN
Tickets $1.00
The five-passenger OLDSMOBILE SIX owned
by Sol J. Urie will be given away. The car is in
first class condition. Goes to holder of lucky
ticket.
Ticket. Car will be displayed Saturday at the
Candy Cottage comer.
Tickets on sale Seward Drug Co.,
and Candy Cottage
SEWARD IS LOGICAL
BASE FOR HOSPITAL
SUCH AS HERE NOWi
bK. R. J. ALCORN DESCRIBES HOS
PITAL SITUATION HERE AND
WESTWARD DISTRICTS
With two nurses now In attendance
| and a third due to arrive within a
i lew days, the Seward General Hospi
tal is preparing to take care of t He
vest territory from Seward west,
where 5,000 persons may develop ills
or injuries to which human llesh is
heir. The hospital has come into 1
its own a-gain after seven years of |
idleness, under the charge of Dr. R. ;
J. Alcorn, who is devoting his life to j
tfie cause of better medical treatment
j for Southwestern Alaska and the
Aleutian Penninsula.
Dr.Alcorn passes lightly over the '
rc-establishment of hospital service '
I
in Seward, and the fixation of a*
thing that means surcease and sue.., i
'hr thousands of people wao for a ■
large part o’ the year are without
i medical or surgical attention or gull- :
j ’r e. After months of hard woik
j during which he has made trips to
the far end of the Aleutians, Bristol
!
j Bay and the Kttskokwim. in the sav-J
| :..g of.-human life he has achieved
| accommodation and equipment for |
many i atients shoul 1 nestilcn-'e or;
calamity ever approach this we ■•tern
countrv.
!
“In the summer time I may relax
vigilance to some extent, says tne
doctor, “because the government
boats come with their trained sar ,
peons ra attend the needs of the ,
people to the We-fwarrl. But there
s a long r.e -i om October to |
M;u when nv'di science is not :
available e • i 1 • i i rt Anchor- •
e re.
“Do you know ?” asked the doctor,
warming up to his subject, “that there
is no hopital to the west of us for
more than a thousand miles? Do you
know that I’ve had to travel 1500 miles
to get around to the Kuskokwim on a
single case? Do you know .that there
are 5,000 persons in all that vast terri
tory, a mixture of Russian and Indian
blood, now inter-marrying chiefly
with Scandinavian fisherman who do
not know or appreciate the first prin
ciples of human hygene ? I think
the government should establish and
maintain at least two hospitals far
out yonder. Maybe just a nurse at
each station but a qualified physician
to travel back and forth between
them.”
Seward is the most logical place in
Alaska for a base hospital, Dr. Al
corn maintains. From it, with far
flung outposts some small degree of
human safeguard can be maintained.
Out to the Westward the white man
is introducing venereal diseases to
the extent that infants may be born
blind, and untold wroe be fastened
upon a new but nevertheless enter
prising race.
“NOw you take that case in Bel
kofsky last February* That was out
800 miles to the west. The son of
Father Hotovinsky had his leg so
badly injured in an accident that it
! wras practically shot away. The boy s
father was in Seattle at the time. It
so happened that Miss Richardson,
niece of General Richardson of Rich- j ■
ardson Highway fame, was at the
| right place at the right time. She
j bound the boy’s leg1, but it was eight
days before I could get there. That
young lady undoubtedly saved the
boy’s life.”
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TWO SHOWS—7 and 9 O'CLOCK ;>
The most famous modem novelist
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Author of <4Main Street” and "Babbitt” wrote
tonight’s feature
“ Mantrap ”
A gripping story of the Canadian Woods
And three of the greatest stars
ERNEST —TORRENCE —
CLARA BOW —
PERCY MARMONT
in the leading roles give you some fine acting
MAGNIFICENT BACKGROUNDS — STIR
RING SITUATIONS ~ AND ADVENTURE
The great combination of author- play- actors
make this a feature you should not miss And at
last we can give you the first 2-reel comedy of
the famous ‘Collegians series that will run for *
some time. This one is
BENSON AT CALFORD”
The popular Hayden Stevenson, George Lewis,
and Dorothy Gulliver
Have the leading roles and are wonderful
AN EXTRA GOOD PROGRAM
SUNDAY ONLY
Something unusual again in the form of a mur
der mystery detective story
A sensational melodrama full of thrills and sus
pense, how innocent persons are
wronged by police officer’s suspicions.
There will also be a 2-reel comedy
THEATER
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SMITHS BABY
And an interesting Pathe News
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