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OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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MISUNDERSTOOD PROMOTER
Possibly no wing of business society comes in for
more caustic cricitism than the promoter,,, yet were it not
for these men of energy and action there would be little
of which to boast in national progress, save in those pur
suits such as farming and the distribution of the neces
sities of life.
The promoter is the keen-scented hunting dog of
industry. It is not his mission to perform the full labor
of turning a thing to account, but, like the trained setter,
locate it, point it out and allow the major details to be
worked out by someone else.
When the promoter, be his field of activity in Wall
street or in the precincts of natural raw resources, brings
into action some great enterprise, he is hailed as a captain
of industry or financial wizzard. When someone else
takes the thing he has discovered and bungles it, like a
mining prospect, for instance, it is the signal for the man
with something else to sell to use the promoter for the
odious comparison.
Thruout national progress the promoter has played
a leading role, especially in the newer portions of the na
tion. To his sometimes reckless campaign of publicity
and exploitation has come the development of the Ameri
can West. Asi the country became settled, the promoter's
field became restricted with respect to natural resources
and he turned his face eastward and to foreign countries
as the scene of his activities.
During this time the United States owned an empire
of 500,000 square miles of virgin resources. The gov
ernment decided that it could perform the work of pro
moting better than private individuals, and yielding to
the importunities of cushion-chair empire builders locked
up this immense area, on which it has been experiment
ing for 20 years. The sum total of its government's re
turns has been an annual deficit of many millions.
So much for governmental meddling in the natural
private concern of the people.
Now the nation is mobilizing dispatching marines
and warships to South America and threatening Mexico
in its efforts to protect the foreign promotions, many of
which might have come to Alaska if she had enjoyed as
much freedom as a Mexican.
The only chance some men have to win an argument
with their wives is to hide her false teeth before the dis
cussion starts.
John C. F. Schwengler, fur buyer,
who recently made the round trip to
the Westward on the S. S. Starr,
came in from Anchorage yesterday.
F. R. Martin, popular member of
the Alaska Railroad train crew, who
left for the States recently on a hur
ried trip to be with his mother, fol
lawing the death*of his father, was a
returning passenger on the S. S. Ad
miral Watson.
Allen and Edward, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. L. M. Strickland of Anchorage,
were passengers on the steamer Ad
miral Watson which arrived today.
They came from South Dakota to
make their future home in Alaska.
Mrs. W. W. Flynn and daughter
Gene, wife of the well-known rail
roader in charge of section 20, Alas
ka Railroad, are guests at the Sexton
hotel. Mrs. Flynn and daughter are
planning making a trip to the States.
Mefford’s fresh ranch
eggs. Seward Trading Co.
Ill THE HOTELS
OVERLAND
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Nutbeen, John
C. F. Schwengler, Charles Mathison
and son Jr., Anchorage; Charles T.
Stafford, A1 Raecker, Fairbanks; Leo
Gerber, Fairbanps; A. G. Gettings,
Seward.
SEWARD
N. Petrovich, R. W. Seruby, La
touche; Joe Wilson, Sr.,; Mrs. R.
Miller, J. H. Lander, Wasilla; Fran
cis Strickland and children, Albert
Lind, George Peterson.
VAN GILDER
Mr. and Mrs. Herschman, Candle,
Alaska; U. G. Crocker, Anchorage; J.
E. Fitzgerald, J. B. Gottstein.
SEXTON
Mrs. W. W. Flynn and Miss Gene,
Mile 20.
What could be more deli
cious than Velvet Ice Cream
for dinner desert? Set the
time and we will deliver
free. The Candy Cottage.
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GEORGE BENIUT LEAVES FOR
INTERIOR WHERE WILL EN
TER MINING BUSINESS
George Benuit, who came to Sew
ard on the S. S. Starr, has had his fill
of sea life and will confine his activi
ties to terra firma, he reports. Last
spring he took passage from Ketchi
kan to Nome on a small craft which
took three weeks to make the trip.
The engine broke down and Mr. Be
nuit, who is a mechanic by trade, was
called upon to repair the machinery,
which took three days and nights
without sleep. After his arrival at
Nome he met the owner of the deisel
boat Husky, who persuaded him to go
on a trading and trapping expedition.
This venture sounded very promising1
to the chechako, who was expecting
big returns in the Northland, so the
two men started south in Bering sea
with no help to man the ship and with
the company of four big Mackenzie
husky dogs.
All went well until they reached
Nunivak Island, where they encoun
tered a storm and were blown to sea
, toward the southeast. Although they
lost track of the time, the storm lasted
at least four days, during which time
they lost the four huskies and two life- i
boats besides all their coal and gaso- i
line. They beached their craft, which i
appeared to be a total loss, on the 1
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Bering sea side of the Alaska penin- j
sula in the vicinity of Herendeen bay. j
The owner of the Husky went trapp- j
ing and Benuit started across the pe- j
ninsula with a hundred-pound pack. J
On the divide he was caught in a snow 1
storm and later fell into the water ■
with his pack. He left the pack and
tramped into Sand Point with his
clothes frozen on him. He later re
covered the pack. From Seward he
goes to Fairbanks to try the mining
business.
'SOUL MATES’ IT THE
LIBERTY THEATRE
The line between comedy and
drama is so fine that it is sometimes
hard to distinguish the one from the
other. Take “Soul Mates,” which
opens tonight at the Liberty Theatre
as an instance.
Aileon Pringle and Edmund Lowe
play the leading roles, those of Vel
ma Schulski and Lord Tancred. Und
er the very capable direction of Jack
Conway, these two humanize the
Elinor Glyn story, and at the same
time keep all the author’s romance
and love interest intact.
Edmund Lowe is as handsome as
ever, and makes an almost unsympa
thetic role entirely plausible to the
audience. This is Lowe’s first com
edy, unless “Nellie, the Beautiful
Clock Model” might be considered
that, and he does exceedingly well.
Minor roles in. the picture are
played by Phillips Smalley, Antonio
D’Algy, Katherine Bennett, Edythe
Chapman, Mary Hawes, Lucien Lit
tlefield and Ned Sparks. The story
was adapted to the screen by Carey
Wilson.
Fritz Anderson, of Sanak, has al
most completed his new residence
in that town.
Axel SamuLson returned to his
home in King Cove on this trip of
the Starr. He has been on the trap
ping ground on Unimak Island.
Coleman’s Gas Lamps and Lan
terns. J. L. Graef.
LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
Snappy, up-to-date Comedy Drama
“SOUL MATES”
with
AILEEN PRINGLE
and EDMUND LOWE
in the stellar roles
This is different from the usual Glyn story and will
please everyone
An unusually good two-reel comedy
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(Not a tin Lizzie
And an interesting Pathe News make up the fine
program
The Orchestra cannot play tonight
JOHN C. WHITE
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JOE STANTON, Mgr.
Agents for Dupont Powder, Caps and Fuses
Shellhorn—Hopkins win three
Maintaining their high average of
wins the handball team of Shellhorn
—Hopkins scuttled Roberts— Urbach
last night in every game played—
three of them.
Tonight at 5 o’cock Painter—Blue
face Roberts—Urbaoh on the firing
line at 5 o’clock and at 7 o’clock
Paulsteiner—Abbott take on Jones—
Balderston.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Nut-been, arriv
ed from Wasilla yesterday and left
today on the Admiral Watson- for
Halibut Cove their home.
BARGE TOWED BACK PORT
The barge on which the logging
outfit for Fox Island, at the head of
the bay, was taken down last week,
was towed back yesterday. Logging
operations are now under way full
blast, it is reported, and good size
rafts are expected to be sent up for
cutting in the local mill.
A. W. Harmon, radio man for the
Kodiak station, accompanied by Mrs.
Harmon and two children, are en
route Westward on the S. S. Admiral
Watson.