Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA Established August 19, 1904
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AN ENCOURAGING STATEMENT
Alaskans will feel grateful toward Representative
Gibson of Vernont, Chairman of the House Territor
ies committee, for those encouraging words he spoke
last week.
Alaska needs many such staunch friends at court.
“Alaska is a great undeveloped empire; her indus
tries are undeveloped and her population has shown
little increase the last few years. 1 will seek to provide
legislation to encourage settlement in Alaska and de
vel mmem in accord with our development of the terri
tory s of ;hr West. It is possible all administrative
functions \ ill he centralized under a single agency.
Whatever ah A legilation can supply Alaska’s fisheries,
canning in- r tries, mining, lumbering, reindeer, mar
ble and production, I would supply.”
Those wore the encouraging words of the new
c hairman »-dories. May his faith never falter.
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PAGE FROM LIFE
A movie actress is paid at the rate of $8,500 per
week so that the public may be entertained. A widow,
in the same city, struggling along on a pitiful weekly
wage of $3, plus room and board, from which she is
trying to support her two little ones. Which of the two
women are the most valuable to society?
We want entertainment, of course, but it seems to
us, way up here in the North, looking down at these
reports coming from the States, that there should be
a rm re equal distribution of the world’s good's among
mothers. Wlm would want to hear of their mother be
coming a subject of charity? Surely, at this alleged
stage of world enlightment, a woman’s labor is worth
more than $3 a week.
With two children to support, what could you do
with 812 a month? It makes one’s heart fairly bleed to
think of just this one wonderful mother struggling so
heroically against such overwhelming odds; and, un
doubtedly, there are hundreds such.
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It is a source of gratification to have read that
dispatch the other day which said the Alaska Packers
Association had declared a quarterly dividend of $2
per share. Alaska’s fisheries are our greatest asset;
the greater success of canneries in Alaska, the greater
are the Territory’s revenues. And it was a poor year
for fish, too.
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Imagine a town 20 times the size of Alaska com
pelled to ask for charity-something to eat. Yet that
is what happened in St. Francis County, Arkansas, a
recent press dispatch stated. Be thankful we are in
Alaska. We would suggest to those Arkansas folk to
pack up their belongings and come to Alaska. There is
plenty in this glorious Northland for 20 times 20,000,
and then some.
A senator recently declared that a short
of Congress would involve an enormous waste
Me money. But what of the long ones?
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of pub
A North Carolina paper records that a sailor “was
killed by coming into contact with a live wife.” Possi
bly a linotyper’s error, yet such things have happened.
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The new tariff commission might more quickly be
come acquainted with the flexible provisions of the
law by starting with the rubber schedule.
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The desire to go uphill—to discover something,
that is—is the impulse of life. The down-hill pull—the
activity of ignorance, prejudice, passion, superstition—
that is the law of death.
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Nothing in nature is allowed to stand still—in
cluding man.
(By special correspondent)
Aboard the palatial liner SS:
| Louisiana, now bounding on the ,
heaving bosom of the broad At- i
; lantie route to Hamburg, Ger
: many, are Ml*, and Mrs. Otto
i Kraft of Kodiak. They sailed
from New York the latter part
i of last month, according to tel
egraph advices received by Albert
Kraft, a member of the firm of
Kraft & Son.
Mr. and Mrs. Kraft left Ko- !
Idiak the forepart of November,
; last year, and after spending j
: some time in Seattle, traveled to
Arizona to visit their son Emil, j
who is residing there. They spent
Christmas with him.
After spending several months
in Germany, where Mr. Kraft
: will visit relatives now living in
‘ Berlin, they will return to the
United States arriving home at
; Kodiak about June 1.
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Ben Kraft, member of the local
trim of that name, departed two
weeks ago for Ug ,k Island where *
the firm id conducting a blue [
fox farm. The purpose' of his ;
trip is to secure the annual ,
catch of foxes, returning with j
til; pelts to Kodiak for trans
shipment to the States. He ex
pected to return last week. j
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G. S, Wilson, °f the 3, of E.
harbor. near the south end of
; Kodiak Island, arrived here on
: -ainch'd business... leaving soon.' af- .
hr tor his headquarters. Be'ar-;
river here on the gasboat Al- ]
b n ■ in < i\;r-e of Ca.pt. I.any
i Cop6.
; Mr. Wilson has been employed
| by the department for the last
year and a half and aside from
! guarding and stimulating the
‘ mental growth of 35 scholars, he
is obliged, during the quiet night
watches, to aid and assist the .
lame, the halt and the blind, >
whenever affliction overtakes
his charges, parents, relatives
and friends.
He is the “pooh pah" of the
.settlement and upon his young
; and sturdy shoulders, rest the
-care and well-being of all the
residents of his bailawiek. The
village is fairly prosperous as
■ the result of the p St fishing and
! present trading operations. Mr.
Wilson plans taking a trip to
| the States in the spring at the
| close of school. He is undecided
| ms to his future plans.
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COUNCIL MEETING
Everything is quiet and peace
ful in the city, judging from the
small amount of business coming
I before the City Council which
j met in regular session—the first
■ for this month-last night. Bills
to the amount of approximately
$1,061 were ordered paid; the de
linquent tax list wras put over
j to the next meeting.
The SS Alameda, of the A. S.
S. Co., sailed north from Ketchi- i
kan at midnight, last night.
Sam Radish, section foreman
tat Mile 52, an overnight visitor
in the city, returned today to his
mountainous station.
Haas Candy—Fresh shipment
on every boat. The Alaska Shop.
NOTICE
The Belmont Trading Company
will shortly open for business as
trader’s in all kinds of merchan
dise, new and second-hand, at
the old log house on Fifth Ave.
Joe Hof man
Paulsteiner’s
SEA FOOD MARKET
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
Fresh, Frozen, Salt Fish
Ship Anywhere
John Paulsteiner, Prop.
Market Open at
M a. m. to 1 p. m.-3-6 p. m.
Phones—
Adams 56 and Adams 14
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