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LEGITIMATIZING MINING
For the first time in the history of the nation the
Federal government has placed its stamp of approval
upon gold mining and elevated it to a plane equal with
other industrial endeavors.
And the first step looking to encouraging of this sort
of investment is taken in Alaska. One can only approxi
mate what this means not only to the nation but to Alas
ka's prosperity.
The decadence of gold mining is not due to its haz
ards or to the miner. Rather it was the outcome of mach
inations by the buccaneers of commerce, whose interests
were centered in the sale of stock rather than in legiti
mate production. This offered a fertile field because of
the romance attached to mining and readily caught the
imagination of the public, making them easy prey to high
pressure salesmanship rather than creatures of judge
ment.
Although there was less jugglery with the industry
than has marked any one of a number of speculative ven
tures, such as real estate,manufacturing, and even those
departures which played an important part in the nation's
industrial life, it was singled out as the horrible example
whenever some big swindle was executed.
What has just happened in Wall Street was sufficient
to convince the powers that be that unless something was
done to halt jugglery with the productive and financial
resources of the country we were riding for an even
greater fall than the tumble just taken.
It is fortunate for Alaska that her greatest resource
is the thing selected by the government to offer a demon
stration to the world. With its endorsation, as displayed
by the work of the Geological Survey last summer, comes
inestimable assistance to the miner and a safeguard for
the investor, in that the latter will have correct data upon
which to proceed in operation and the former will receive
assistance in coming into contact with capital.
But let us not repeat the error of many times past
and cling to the delusion that each cropping of quartz re
presents a million dollars. In the absence of capital with
which to develop, or exceptional circumstances, a pros
pect is worth only what one can get for it. The man who
puts in his money must have an even break or better.
This Seward weather of the last two weeks is enuff
to give any one the “woolies.” First we had a week of
freezing temperatures accompanied by blasting gales,
and now day after day of hurricane-like winds blowing
in every direction piling up snow-drifts a mile high. It
ain’t right! There ought to be a law “agin” it.
These “hard-boiled” editors typified in recent “talk
ies” in Seward get that way from mixing it up with Hol
lywood, we guess. Generally they’re “soft-boiled” and as
tolerant as a mother with her child. While these pictures
are interesting, a newspaperman, in the flesh and blood,
so to speak, stealthily gazes at his neighbors and blushes
like a school girl. This action denotes shame for his fel
low member on the screen.
Every resident in the city should keep careful watch
over fires these days. With the unavoidable condition of
our streets piled high with snow-drifts, the fire depart
ment will have its work cut out responding to alarms.
The city snow plow and tractor are on the job but with
in a few hours the drifts have again filled roadways.
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FUNERAL SERIES HELD j
FOR ILIUM NIELSEN;
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Final tribute was paid yesterday j
to another of the Northland's pio- j
neers, at the funeral services held
in the Seward Funeral Parlors for j
William Nielsen, who died last week i
after an extended illness. Rev. £. J
E. Reisner officiated at the services }
which were under the direction of
the local Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo
No. 9, of which the deceased was
an esteemed member.
The deceased was born at Copen
hagen, Denmark, on August 21,
1877. He came to the United States
in 1898 and answered the call of
the Northland in 1899 by coming to
Alaska.
Besides being a commissioner at
Koggiung, Mr. Nielsen was a mer
chant of that region. He also was
a cannery employe.
Owing to the unfavorable wea
ther conditions there was but a fair
group of people in attendance at
the services.
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CASHIER DIES FROM
BANDIT BILLETS IN
NEWSPAPER HOLDUP;
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 11. (/P)
—Janies Chappie, 55, cashier of the
Arkansas Gazette, died from bullet
wounds received Saturday when
robbed of the newspaper’s $4,600j
payroll by the bandits, Charles and 1
Don Pearch.
The brothers were arrested an
hour after the crime and charged
with first degree murder. Officers
said they had a confession from
Charles, for the past 12 years a
linotype operator on the newspa
per.
They took officers to the cache
where the money was found. He
asserted his brother did the holdup
while he waited in a car a block
away.
TO PRESERVE “HONOR
OF IT CLUED
| HONOLULU, Jan. 11. (/P)—“For
the honor of the Navy,” is the rea
son advanced by authorities here
for the murdering of Joseph Kaha
hawai. It is also stated they were
of the opinion that the killing was
: prearranged. Kahahawai was one
of the five men indicted and ac
cused of attacking Mrs. Massie last
September but at the trial the jury
| disagreed as to the guilt of the five
; men.
A reconstructed theory of the |
, murder is that Mrs. Fortescue, mo- |
j then of Mrs. Massie, sought the aid j
: of two er. isted men and together |
they set out to abduct the Hawai- ;
ian, who was out on bail.
A cap belonging to Kahahawai j
j and which was found at the Fortes
: cue home is ample evidence that
j the youth was taken there when j
! kidnapped. Here the native was
I placed, fully clothed, into a tub
of water and shot underwater to
| deaden the sound of the revolver j
report. |
Because of the quantity of blood j
it is thought that the shot did not
kill him at once but that he died j
| from loss of blood.
Granville Fortescue, husband of
Mrs. Fortescue, who is in New York
| ill with pneumonia, after he had
i learned the murder charge had to
j be rushed to a hospital in a critical
condition. By a cable message to
Mrs. Fortescue in Honolulu, he
. pledged support in their cause and
!! said that he would come to H0110
[ jlulu as soon as he was well.
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! every occasion at the Alaska Shop.
LADIES REMEMBER!
The heels of over-shoes, when
worn through, can be recondition -
! ed and made as good as new. Why
throw them away when they can
be repaired?
SEWARD LEATHER WORKS.
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RICHARD BARTHELMESS
In the Great Newspaper
Detectiv e Story—
‘The Finger oints’
IN 9 REELS
A FAST ACTION PLAY DEALING WITH
CORRUPT CITY LIFE
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WITH IT WE WILL SHOW YOU AN INTERESTING
PARAMOUNT PICTORIAL
and NEWS REEL
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PRESENTS—
“Nothing but the Truth”
Seward High School Jan. 23 and 27,1932
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E. M. RALLSTON.,.E. L. SWEEK
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CLARENCE VAN DUSEN.QUENTIN SMITH
DICK DONNELLY.JOHN NELSON, JR.
GWEN RALLSTON.VIVIAN NILSON
MRS. RALLSTON.MRS. F. E. LESLIE
ETHEL . .EDITH KAEMMER
MABEL. CLARA SKINNER
SABEL. ANNIE HORTON
MARTHA. .DORIS SULLIVAN
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Bennett in New York City.
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