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HIS GOOD TURN j
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That human kindness is still abundant and some-|
times manifests itself under unexpected circumstances!
is illustrated by a little story in the Paris Figaro.
A Paris “young man about town’ being driven in a
handsome closed car was halted at a street intersection
to let a hearse pass. The hearse was followed by a woman
and two small children on foot. It was raining hard and
she w7as trying to protect them with a shabby umbrella
as they sorrowfully followed the father’s corpse to the
cemetery.
The young man stepped from his car, asked the widow
and children to get in and instructed his chauffeur to
take them to the cemetery and then to their homes. Then
he bowed to the bereaved group and hailed a taxi for his
own use.
And the Recording Angel wrote that on that day a
blase boulevardier had done his good turn.
The soviets are something like that pickpocket who
said he could make a barrel of money if the police would
just let him alone.
Who can remember the day when, after being scoured
and scrubbed until he shone like a china doll, he was made
to sit on dad's feet in the buggy while he drove to the
cross roads church, where, after a two-hour sermon, all
fished out a hamper basket from the rear of the buggy, ,
spread the fried chicken, pickles, pies, preserves and sweet
potato pudding on the grass beneath the shade of a
spreading elm—and the hour of cutting water melons
that followed the after noon sermon?
CELEBRATE
INDEPENDENCE DAY
IN SEWARD JULY 4TB
Carnival of Fund and Sports
Marathon Mountain race,
Baseball games Athletic con
tests, big street parade, bath
ing beauties, boat racing,
dancing, boxing, brass band.
PRIZES FOR ALL
There will be government
vessels and other steamers
in port.
To date there are five ath
letes entered for the
ANNUAL RACE UP AND
DOWN MARATHON
MOUNTAIN
COME TO SEWARD
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and no more. When the hearings
on the Alaska Railroad act were going
on before the House and Senate com
mittees of Congress, I gave President
Wilson a letter, which is in the official
I •
records, saying that In the event of
the designation of Seward as the
I ocean terniinus of the proposed gov
j eminent railroad, the government
could have any or all of the property
I owned there at its own price. I said
further that I was sure every other
owner of property in Seward was
ready to make the same offer.
“But when the government bought
the Alaska Northern, that railroad
| company had 560 acres of terminal
land| at the head of the bay, and 60
acrei adjoining Seward on the north,
j Besides, the government itself owned
all the rest of the land on the shores
of Resurrection Bay, totaling not less
than 20,000 acres. The government I
therefore did not need and never
asked for any part of my property in
Seward, nop the property of any other
owner except the site on which the
depot was built. I delivered my share
of the 10 lots for that site as a free
gift, but the government insisted on
paying me $100 for the five lots I deed
ed because it was against govern
mental policy to accept real estate as
a gift.
“Not only did the government not
ask any property in Seward at any
price except the site for the depot, but
on the recommendation of Lieutenant
Mears of the Alaska Engineering Com
mission, when the government bought
the Alaska Northern Railroad it de
clined to accept the 460 acres of rail
road terminal grounds which the Alas
ka Northern owmed, and allowed the
Canadian owners to keep all of the 560
acres. The government could have
had the whole 560 acres at no extra
cost. But Lieutenant Means was per
suaded by the people who rushed to
the present site of Anchorage that an
all-year open port could be maintained
there, and he proceeded to build ter
minals at that place.
“In addition to these facts, every
body who has read the Alaska Rail
road act knows that it contains a pro
vision specifically giving the govern
ment the right to condemn any prop
erty it might require for railroad
purposes, and take it over at its own
price. It might interest the people
of Anchorage to know that I myself
wrote that provision, as I did most of
the provisions of that act, on the re
quest of Senator Chamberlain of Ore
gon, who introduced it in the Senate.
Under that provision, the government
can today, or any day in the future,
condemn and take over any parcel of
ground in Seward or anywhere on
Resurrection Bay at any^rice it sees
fit to pay, without consulting the
owner.
“I sympathize genuinely and deeply
with the people who made big invest
ments and suffered heavy losses in the
Anchorage terminal fiasco, but if they
are candid and honest with themselves
they will acknowledge that the faulty
advice they gave Lieutenant Mears
about the possibility of keeping an
open harbor on Knik Arm turned out
to be the source of all their miscal
culations.”
J. P. Hannon, city clerk and secre
tary of the Seward Chamber of Com
merce, departed today for Fairbanks.
The Lawing Lodge at Lawing, Mile1
23, Alaska Railroad, launched then
motor boat a few days ago according
to the local report.
Seattle chocolate ana vanilla
cream. Schallerer's Alaska Shop.
ice
Dr. S. Hall Young, veteran Alaska
Missionary who is conducting a del
egation who attended the recent
annual Presbyterian conference at
San Francisco on a tour through
Alaska, left today for Anchorage.
The party will return to the States
via Skagway.
Brown Carlson, king of the trap
pers of the Clark Lake country,
brought out the largest catch of furs
that was ever made in that district.
--
Hugh Millett of the Jliamna trading
post is enroute to Bristol Bay with
his gas boat after his annual sup
plies.
Special deliver of freshly baked
goods from 11 a. m. to 12 o’clock and
from 4 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
Seward Bakery. Phone Madison 82.
Mrs. F. Scott, wife of the assistant
.superintendent of the freight and
passenger traffic department of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, with head
quarters at Los Angeles, accompan
ied by her son, M. Scott, were among
the prominent tourists on the S S.
Yukon.
Mrs. L. V. Ray returned Saturday
from Moose Pass.
Axminster and Congolian rugs. J,
L. Graef.
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FISHING SPECIAL
All points on Kenia Lake. Connect
trains every Monday from Lakeview.
Round trip §5.00. B c;jrated by
licensed pilot; 14 years in Alaska.
HOWARD LONG, Lakeview, Alaska.
LIBERTY
THEATER
One Show Tonight 8 Sharp
Once again we havethe screen’s most popular actor
Reginald Denny
in the glorious farce
DOLLING HOME"
Here is the king of comedy-drama in one of the best
things he has done
This is a laugh from start to finish with a red-hot
story to boot
The comical side of human nature and pride
It is pure comedy, not crazy slap-stick stuff
ALSO A PATHE NEWS AND FABLE REEL
Specials
for
Today
and every day, and the kind of
cuts that one relishes
TRY A ROAST FOR TOMORROW
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