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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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A strangely equipped United States battleship docked
at Seward this morning. From outward appearances she
might have been just an ordinary vessel. In fact she was
a former brigantine, built in 1894, and looks rather odd
in comparison with the U. S. S. Pannsylvania, with her
steel decks bristling with powerful guns. Unlike the
big fortresses of the navy, this ship's “heavy stuff” was
concealed 'tween decks, while her lighter ordnance was
stowed in staterooms and here and there in convenient
nooks and crannies. Yet her armament is the most pow
erful of any warship afloat Her long-range guns are
school houses! Her strategists are school teachers. Her
enemy is ignorance—the arch-enemy of mankind; the
blight which fills the prisons and enslaves the individual.
This most powerful of Uncle Sam's naval fleet is the
Bureau of Education ship Boxer. She is the product of
the new age of warfare against the primitive peoples of
the nation. She is born of the new era, post-dating the
period when regiments of soldiers marched against the
frontier to subdue the primitive natives which peopled it.
In those earlier days it cost approximately $1,000,000 to
kill one native. It costs the United States only $130,920
per year to salvage 3,912 native children and shape them
for future citizenship. That is the average annual en
rollment in the native schools of Alaska, and it is in de
fense of these children of nature that the peculiarly
armed warship now lying at the dock is now awaiting
the zero hour when the battle of the schoolhouses will
open.
What changes have come! The roar of musketry
is smothered beneath the chime of the bell calling the new
army into action wherein the white and the brown man
are marching shoulder to shoulder against the common
enemy.
When a Chinaman desires to write the-word “peace”
he draws an idiograph of a roof with a woman under it;
his sign for “marriage” is a roof with a woman and a pig
under it. The pig makes it harder for friend wife to de
termine who is making the noise the baby or friend
husband shoveling rice into his face with chopsticks.
A school girl writes to ‘‘Mr. Fixit” of the Seattle Star
to know “when the prohibition law passed several years
ago, will go into effect in Seattle.”
The Chinese believe there are no thieves and robbers
in America. They must have purchased all of their wear
ing apparel before coming to the States.
China has adopted the expediency of lopping off the
heads of Bolshevist agitators. And still they maintain
that we cannot learn from the heathen.
To some Legislators the bill they are most interested
in is the one they will present to the Treasurer for their
per diem and trimmings at the end of the session.
When the Chinese get through with their fighting,
those foreign concessions will look like some of the gar
ments returning from the mangles.
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MORE TANK CARS EN ROUTE
Two more tank cars are en route
now for the Standard Oil Company,
stated W. C. Erwin, local manager,
who, accompanied by Mrs. Erwin and
baby returned home yesterday from
a six weeks vacation in Seattle. When
asked about contemplated work or
improvements during the present year
Mr. Erwin said some were being con
sidered but that announcement as to
their scope would be announced at a
later date.
Private Wayne O. Galloway, of the
local U. S. Signal Corps, returned
yesterday from Haines where he un
derwent entry examinations for West
Point. He was absent a month.
MILLIONS OF SNOWBALLS
A weird and fantastic sight occur
ed on the beach near the radio sta
tion the latter part of last week dur
ing the heavy snow storm and gales.
Balls of snow, thousands of them,
from the size of a hand grenade to
demensions three and four feet in
circumference literally covered the
beach rolling hither and yon at the
will of the storm. In attempting to
roll them by hand they immediately
broke, it was reported, the bottoms
being heavy and the top portions ex
tremely light. The local kiddies
overlooked a wonderful opportunity
to stage a sham battle for there was
ammunition, already made, to have
lasted them for days.
IT THE HOTELS
VAN GILDER
Louis Vinton, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs.
R. B. Heaston, Moose Pass; Samuel
Asp, Seattle; Dr. F. E. Warner, Seat
tle; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scully,
Sea tie; H. B. Lee. Seattle; L. M.
Jesson, San Francisco; Mrs. Vaughm,
Tokotna; Dr. Haverstock, Anchorage;
Wm. Murray, Anchorage; Gertrude
Gamble, Juneau; S. Svendsen, Geo.
M. Heldman, Nenana; Mrs. Jack
Neilson, Mrs. Kate Woolard, Hot
Springs; J. J. Chiiisholm, Oscar Web
er, Fairbanks; J. A. Denny, Seattle;
Eva Hermay, Mrs. M. A. Flecken
stein, Geo. S. Moshier, Matanuska;
Harry Wertz, Chulitna; D. McDonald,
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Louise Bissett, Tacoma; Richard
Wakelin, Seattle; John W. Jones,
Ketchikan; Mr. and Mrs. R. Lund,
Miss A. Edw. Richter, Sam Shucklin,
B. B. Mozee, Jas. S. Truitt.
SEWARD
Carl Olson, H. K. Rosenoff, Port
land; Mrs. Bessie Anderson, Seattle;
Chas. O. Sunstedt, Fairbanks; F.
McGarvey, Fairbanks; F. E. Mills,
W. F. Deaner, San Francisco; J.
Johnson, Roy Foss, Calgary, Alta;
P. O. Holm, Stanley Wickersham,
Fairbanks; F. M. Wickersham, Sil
verton, Ore; Geo. Swanson, Valdez;
Louis Nissen, Adolph Olson, Job Mc
Girr, M. Carlson, John Harris, J.
Ryan, W. A. Smith, O. E. Harrington,
J. S. Bartley, John Roderick, F. B.
Curran.
OVERLAND
Walter Isaacson, Val Berger, Fair
Banks; E. Ryden, Seattle; Wayne
McDonough, J. W. Thompson, J. P.
Martin, Seattle; Geo, Kirlinds, Knud
Solberg, Juneau; Paul Drouin, Miss
Vivian Howard, Takotna; Dan Mc
Millan, Moose Pass; Jim Crane, An
chorage; Charlie Lee, D. Mackenzie.
SEXTON
Ernest L. Peck, Nenana; George
W. Goff and family, Anchorage; W.
W. Flynn, Lakeview; Harry Brown,
Riddiford.
Incense and Incense Burners. Schal*
Ierer’s Alaska Sho*.
Just received fresh Aplets
in bulk and boxes. Delicious!
Candy Cottage.
LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O'CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
“WITHOUT MERCY”
A story half in the Argentine, and half in London
Rich in everything to hold your attention, and some
thing more
The villain’s prey was woman—his goal was gold.
The girl was kidnapped, whip-lashed, tied to a tree
and left to die; but she survived and devoted her life
to revenge. Twenty years later found him at her
mercy. Not the common ending
A thrilling and wonderfully played melodrama,
played by
VERA REYNOLDS DOROTHY PHILLIPS
ROCKLIFFE FELLOWS ROBERT AMES
Something good
And there is a Pathe News and a reel of Jokes and
a Fable
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OVERLAND GRILL
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Next to the Overland Hotel
Open Day and Night
Private Boxes
Gabriel Santos Proprietor and Chef
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Better Groceries
ONLY handle Groceries that are
better than usual—in fact ours are the
best you can buy. Wholesome food-stuffs pro- \
ductive of tasty,, enjoyable meals—that’s
what you get here. Low prices are our usual
ones.
Seward Trading Co.
Inc.
Telephone Main 135 for Quality Goods
Seattle Ice Cream
High Grade Candies
Framed Pictures, Curios and Photographs
Phone Adams 128
A regular meeting of the Seward
City Council takes place this evening
beginning at 8 o’clock.
Great Britain, already a well wood
ed land, is planting 40,000,000 trees
to make 1,750,00 acres of new for
rests, chiefly of Scots and Corsican
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gew&rd Weekly Gateway 12 pages* pine and Norway and Sitka spruce.