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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Gauged by the apathy shown with respect to the mu
nicipal election in Seward it bids fair to resolve itself into
a matter of acclamation. With less than two weeks inter
vening before election day there is apparently no interest
being manifested, nobody shying their.hat into the ring,
and few registering. Barely a dozen citizens have placed
their signature on the registration books.
Such situations- are expressive of the general good
times in the city, when practically everyone has his own
immediate business to attend to. It may be necessary to
go forward with a vigilance committee with mandatory
powers to drag forth the blushing violets of political so
ciety and force them to accept the honors of governing
Seward for another year.
There are many important matters in connection
with civic progress which will have to be disposed of, and
good men are needed. There are plenty of them both in
the Council and among those who have not yet felt a de
sire for the sgo flight. But it appears that someone will
be compelled to drag them from their bedroom slippers
and steam heat.
THINK PAUL PUT SOMETHING OVER
Advices from Juneau indicate that the Legislature is
just now more engrossed with political jockeying than it
is with its program. There are hints that, the speaker
ship was the result of a deal whereby Representative Paul
managed to secure an alignment more to his liking than
was anticipated by the anti-Paul faction. Hence, the suc
cess of proposed radical legislation will hinge upon how
closely the speakership and the Paulites are allied.
Forecasts on the matter of naming a Board of Com
trol indicate that while it will receive favorable considera
tion in the House, it is due for hard sledding in the Senate,
as will be other radical legislation.
Whether it merits it or not, there appears to be a
lurking suspicion that the matter of a Board of Control,
as embraced in the Steel proposal is more one of political
machine politics than a purely progressive step. Many
fear the centralization of so many appointive powers in
such a board, and especially its inclusion of such matters
as road building, which would mean the creation of an or
ganization as large as the Alaska Road Commission and
come into conflict with the program of that organization,
with overlapping and confusion.
However, observers place the Third Division Sena
torial and a majority of the House members in the con
servative fold, and look to this division to defeat efforts
of radicalism such as has been proposed by the Attorney
General and in other measures of kindred purport.
A report says a Swiss lake has been stocked with
American fish, but fails to say what will happen when the
native piscatorial tribe begins to yodle and the American
varieties begin jazzing “Yankee Doodle.”
Things are improving in Chicago. The police man
aged to bag some escaped convicts and didn't kill a single
innocent bystander.
Correct this sentence: “He has been in the Legisla
ture three terms and hasn't introduced a single fool bill.”
That New Jersey Legislator who is said to have intro
duced a bijl making lawful the throwing of hand grenades
at saxaphone players must have an ear for music.
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People will buy anything on installments except a
savings account.
Some girls are constantly in love, though not neces
sarily constant.
John Barleycorn may not be entirely dead, but a lot
of his old cronies are.
SIX HMDS MINE
EQUIPMENT COMINC
“Moose” Johnson, Gateway corre
spondent at Chulitna, which is des
tined to become the largest silver
quartz mining district in the Terri
tory, returned from the States today
where lor some months past he has
been completing final details in con
nection with beginning operations at
the mine on a large scale. Incident
ally he took the opportunity to visit
his mother whom he had not seen
for eight years. A complete story
of future activities of the Moose
Mining Company will appear in Mon
day’s Gateway in which will be data
relative to six carloads of mining
machinery coming north on the Ad
miral Watson.
MATT SEFEROVICH HOME AGAIN
M. Seferovich, father of the local
family, who went to California last
month, returned home on the S. S.
Alaska much to the elation of his
family and his many friends. Mr.
Seferovich spent the most of the
time in San Francisco on a proposi
tion which did not mature as he ex
pected.
Gerald Protzman, who returned
home from the Anchorage hospital
earlier in the week, is mending rapid
ly, it is stated, and is up and about
the house. His many friends expect
to see him on the streets taking his
“smorning-smorning” before long.
“Good old Jerry.”
Mrs. Fred Crane, wife of the Fair
banks attorney, returned today from
the States where she has been mak
ing an extended visit.
J. J. Dalton, Interior mining man,
is a visitor in the city today. Mr.
Dalton has been spending the winter
in the States.
S. L. Godfrey, one of the best
knowm of Interior mine operators,
was an arrival from the States on
the steamer Alaska.
Come and try our ice
cream sandwiches. The
newest of ice cream delica
cies. Candy Cottage
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