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OP SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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SAFEGUARDING NATIONAL FORESTS
Despite the great mass of propaganda, campaigns
of “education” and other expediencies for safeguarding
the national forests from fire, evidence is yet to be pre
sented showing that this is either necessary or the best
guarantee against forest fires in frontier countries. True
where the urban population, unfamiliar with many of
the first laws safetv when in contact with nature, come
into contact with the virgin forest, restrictive measures
along with guards to enforce them are necessary. They
require not only education but supervision. An entirely
different situation presents itself where men and women
are accustomed to the forest, and appreciate its value as
a means to existence. It would be hard to prove a case
where the pioneer, trapped, prospector or traveler in
pioneer countries either wilfully or carelessly caused a
forest fire. The very dangers which beset them stand as
a warning to exercise care. The same may be said of
the native who lives even closer to nature.
The greatest safeguard for the forest is occupancy
bv people who understand these things and who are
more to be relied upon to protect the farest than all the
fire guards and patrols that moght be set to watch.
The most sensible thinp- to do is to take the restric
tions from the national forest in countries like Alaska
where pioneer work is now going on, allow- those w'ho
wash to acquire land, not under special permits and other
annoyances and restrictions equal to the landlord and
tenant act. and thus erect* an army of fire guards and
forest protectors w'bo willm0*1^ s^rve without pav and
prove more effective than all the forest rangers nowr em
ployed in Alaska.
Tb^ nao^eant p-iven bv the Jpsse Lee Home children
at the Liberty theatre Sunday afternoon was a credit to
the children and the teachers, and proved conclusively
that it is a p’eat institution and one of which Seward
should be justly proud.
Two High school girls persisted in giggling and
otherwise disturbing the solemn services at the pageant
Sunday, which caused a good, honest roughneck long
longshoreman sitting just behind to observe: “All of the
heathen are not on the stage.”
The troubles with these Hollywood killings is that
they do not include some of the authors of those alleged
Parisian monstrosities masquerading under the alias oi
art.
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ESTABLISHED 1S05
MRS. A. WALTON BLUE WATER
SAILOR BESIDES BEING GOOD
COOK
I If you should happen to see a woman j
i aboard the power boat Discoverer
giving orders, assisting in putting
things in ship-shape and talking blue
water talk, you will recognize Mrs.
A. Walson, the skipperess who skip
pered the Discoverer approximately
2,000 miles from Puget Sound to Res
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urection Ray.
Mrs. Walton is not only a skipper,
I but a good one, can do her trick at!
the wheel, run a deisel engine if
needs be, and make the average
czar of the cook’s galley think he is
a food assassin when it comes to turn
ing out dishes which would make even
a sailorman wish he was a landlub
ber.
With her husband Mrs. Walton de
livered the Discoverer to its new own
er, Heinie Rerger, sharing the labors
of the long voyage through the Inside
Passage and across the turbulent
Gulf of Alaska with its 36-hour run
from point to point. Reing her first
venture into the far North, Mrs. Wal
ton, in whose name the Discoverer is
registered as owner in the State of
Washington, employed a pilot for the
most dificult part of the jurney.
The (Discoverer has been running
' mail and dynamite, a peculiar mix
ture of cargo, between Seattle and
, Everett without mishap, which shows
( that while Mrs. Walton is a skipperess
( she does not use inflamatory language.
Neptune was kind, says Mrs. Wal
ton, and not once on the trip up from
the States did the little ocean grey
hound take fits or showed signs of
hydrophobia. Tt was like cruising in
^ a private yacht and with all the thrills
| of beautiful scenery and perfect
j weather.
The Discoverer will be transferred
to its new owner today and will have
, trial tests in the bay, after which she
will lay up while improvements ne
cessary to meet marine requirements
in inspection will be made. Then she
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. will be ready for service in the waters
to the westward with Seward her
home port.
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£ Reservations out of Seward Satur
j day on the S. S. Northwestern, south
£ bound, consisted of the following:
Lilia Blake, C. D. Blake. Mrs. Blake.
_ Leona Blake. Juaneata Blake. Darrell
Blake, Richard Blake, Mrs. W. W.
Masterson. W. W. Masterson, Miss E.
Marsh, Mrs. B. J. Boyd, Bessie Boyd,
M. L. Adams, H. A. Parker, R. H.
Smith. Herman Schumaker. Vance R.
McDonald, Chas. Opdyke, Jom Mio
vich, Wan'en Palver, H. R. Miller, Tom
Rouley, J. W. Thompson.
Latouche—H. M. Conrad, E. Feign
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er; Juneau, Sigurd Waldstedt. Chas.
Goldstein, Mrs. Goldstein; Valdez, C.
Moody.
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CHEAPER TO SHOP
PARIS, May 2. (/P)—So many
privileges in France usually cost !
much more than the value of the 1
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game that may be bagged.
Seattle Ice Cream at Schallerer’s
Alaska Shoo.
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Give mother a ox of
Helen Ardelle or 1 0 u Whis
tle candy on Mother's day,
May 8, as a symbol of your
. love,.;- Candy Cottage. •••••?'
LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
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That Popular Player
ROD LA ROQUE
in
A Melodramatic Comedy Laughs and Thrills
A Funny Tragedy of Liquor Smugglers
The Best Kind of Entertainment
MARGUERITE DE LA MOTTE heads the support
ing Cast
And there is also a roaring two-reel Comedy
"THE TOURIST"
Vegetables
AUR Vegetables are always fresh and
” choice. They are shipped to us direct
—and we always price them low enough to
dispose of them quickly. This assures
freshess.
Seward Trading Co.
Inc.
For courteous service phone Main 135, day or night.
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
; SEWARD, ALASKA
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; “Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
| John Nelson, Mgr. Wayne Blue, Agent
! Office, Arcade Building. Phone Main 17
C.M.B.
Builders’ Supplies
PRINTER WANTED
RALEIGH. N. C., May 2. (/P)—
i The state’s modern printing plant'
here is minus a foreman, but is run
' ring just the same. The last fore
i man finished his prison sentence and
, other . printers . seem to be steering
GletHV pf -the • .penitentiary V. •; ,
BUDDHA SHAPED LIGHTHOUSE
NAGOYA, Japan. May 2. (ff)-~
A lighthouse in the shape oi a huge
Buddha, 72 t'e'-t tall, has been erect
ed here. A 100,000 c -die power
light replaces the customary jewel