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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARE PROSPECTORS INDIGENTS?
Senate bill No. 8 introduced by Senators Dunn and
Brown, avowedly for the purpose of extending aid to
prospectors, will hardly be received by the genuine pros
pector with a relish. In all mining countries the pros
pector is considered the aristocrat of frontier society. The
bill now before the Senate would make him a mendicant
and an object of charity, something the knights of the
pan and prospectors' pick will resent.
And one must agree with him that prospecting has
not reached the low ebb of human endeavor to become a
last resort for financial failures and must be sustained by
doles from the public treasury under this sort of an alias.
There is no more reason why a prospector should
have free transportation and other emoluments than any
one else. Few if any real prospectors would smother
their pride and accept this act of charity. Those who
would could hardly claim the right to stand among that
great fraternity of free spirits whose members refuse to
yield their hope of reward from individual efforts rather
than accept a days' pay job.
Walk up to the average prospector and offer him a
five-dollar note “to help him along" and like as not he will
spoil a good pickhandle on your hear. He is not in the
habit of accepting alms, and he will pay his score at the
trading post just as soon as he has something he has
wTooed from Mother Earth with which to pay.
The bill asks for $20,000 to dole out in the form of
free transportation. It would appear more logical for
the Legislature, if it really desires to aid mining, to use
the funds suggested in a manner calculated to bring the
prospector and investing capital into closer touch. There
are many ways this could be done. It would guarantee
more genuine aid to prospecting and business than all the
doles that may be issued in whatever guise. It would be
easy for the Legislature to establish a publicity fund to
be apportioned on a pro rata basis among the communi
ties wThich supplied a like amount and using the entire
sum, call the attention of capital to the natural mineral
resources in terms which could be understood, and not in
generalities.
The prospector needs investing capital more than
anything else. He will find the values. He is not a pro
moter, nor can he seek capital while following his calling.
Bring him into touch with this capital and mining will
receive a stimilus never before experienced.
But don’t insult him by offering him charity.
Gauged by the number of new departments, commis
sioners, etc., the Legislature is seeking to create, the laws
sought to be passed which will call for additional Territo
rial employes, such as health wardens, labor inspectors,
building inspectors, pure food inspectors, morality inspec
tors, and what not, there appears to be just a chance that
the remaining 91 per cent of Alaska’s population will be
recruited to the public service.
The Juneau Empire describes Colonel J. G. Steese
something after the manner of the ‘‘Go Get ’Em Kid,”
which title blends perfectly with the display of bingles
and ribbons with which the Colonel knocked the Khedive
of Egypt for a row of gasps.
It could be worse, this live animal reservation craze.
Congressman Free has not as yet hit upon the idea of cre
ating a home for those austere little animals with white
stripes along their backs.
The reason why some husbands do not object to the
use of the powder puff by their wives is. that they dare not
talk back while daubing on the finishing coat without
blowing all of the powder out of the box.
Texas has tried a woman Governor and other femi
ning innovations and now has decided on feminine presi
dents of chambers of commerce. If there is a thing
Texas “don't like anything else but” it's trouble.
eii TEAM LOSES
FIRST INLET GAME
(Special to the Gateway)
ANCHORAGE, March 18. (JP)—
The Seward girls lost last night’s
basketball game 6to 5. The score was
tied 4-4 at the end of the game requir
ing a five minutes overtime period.
Roberta McIntosh played the best
game for Seward, scoring two baskets.
The large floor handicapped the Sew
ard girls, but the team is feeling fine
and should do better tonight. Bortz
refereed.
SOCIETY DAMES PISSED
UP BJ PRINCE OF WALES
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18. (#>)—
According to a London report the
Prince of Wales stepped out last night
and instead of dancing with the beau
ties of Mayfair he danced with a tele
phone operator, a girl from a fish shop
and the wife of one of his grooms.
The prince was a guest at the British
Legion at Leicester.
HIJACKERS STEAL WINE
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18. (JP)—
disguised as prohibition men, hijack
ers looted several ranches in the Liv
ermore section yesterday. Wine val
ued at $5,000 was taken from one
rancher, and a threat of death was
made if he reported to the authorities.
LOOK FOR BABY CEMETERY
LOS ANGELES, March 18. (^>)—
Deputy sheriffs redoubled their ef- .
forts today in the search for an un
wanted baby cemetery after Clarence
Hines confessed in the county jail
here that his wife had sold or disposed
of more than 40"1 babies during her op
eration of the Moneta baby farm two
years ago.
SEARCH FOR BROTHERS
LOS ANGELES, March 18. (;P)—
Squads of U. S. marshals armed with
shotguns were today searching Los
Angeles and neighboring towns for
two of the notorious Dautremont
brothers, who have been sought for
the last three yeasr for the holdup of
an A. S. P. passenger train in the Sis
kiyou tunnel in Oregon.
J1IT0R IS HID 8f
LOCAL ATHLETIC CLOG
No more will local athletes shiver
from the frigid atmosphere in the S.
A. C. gym for at last night’s business
meeting of the organization it was de
cided to employ the services of a jani
tor. His duties, that of keeping the
building warm and clean, start today.
Hereafter, unless accompanied by a
requisition signed by the secretary and
treasurer, no member or official has
the authority to purchase supplies or
equopment. The attention of local
business houses is called to this para- .
graph. I
The schedule of periods when the |
children, women and members have
the use of 'the gymnasium floor will
be closely followed and the building
locked when no activity is on. Any
one found breaking into the building
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will be brought up before the local ^
authorities for a hearing.
The city of Amiens has erected a
monument to Jules Verne, the writer.
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Picture Framing. Schallerer’s Alas- ^
ka Shop.
St. Patrick’s ice cream.
Special at Candy Cottage to
morrow.
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LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK — ONE: SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
A
MARIE PROVOST — MONTE BLUE
A great combination
in
‘DAUGHTERS
of PLEASURE’
A modern drama written for modern people
great story of the after results of sudden riches
, from oil
How would you act, and what would you do, if you
became a millionaire over night?
This is a true story with only the names changed
MUCH REAL COMEDY
And a fine "OUR GANG” two-reel comedy
"LOVE BUG"
in which these kids do some wonderful acting
And an Educational Reel
OVERLAND GRILL
Next to the Overland Hotel
Open Day and Night
Private Boxes
Gabriel Santos Proprietor and Chef
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
MM IN COLORIDO
HILTS ILL THIFFIC
DENVER, March 18. (JP)—A bliz
ard in Southern Colorado today de
ayed trains, blocked highways and
lasted the hopes of the San Juan val
ey minings community to r-establish
ransportation lines severed a month
.go by snow slides. Passengers on a
)enver & Rio Grande train en route
rom Durango to Denver were ma
ooned at Cima, where the train was
tailed by snow drifts.
Incense and Incense Burners. Schal
erer’s Alaska Shop.
MEXICAN MIDDLEWEIGHT
LOS ANGELES, Morch 18.(£>)—
Bert Colima, Mexican middleweight,
was defeated here Tuesday night by
Ace Hudkins. Following the bout it
was announced that Colima would for
feit $31,000 because he came into the
ring four ounces over the designated
weight. Hudkins has signed a re
lease for the $31,000 which will be
turned over to Colima by the State
Athletic Commission.
Seattle Tee Cream at Sehalterer’s
Alaska Strop. tf