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GASOLINE FROM ALASKA’S LIGNITE COAL
The lignite coal fields of Alaska, the largest in the
world, are certain in time to furnish the principal supply
of gasoline and other by-products to the consumers of
the United States. The German chemical process by which
lignite is reduced to coal tar, and the coal tar then distill
ed identically as natural oil is distilled, producing the
same results, is more and more the sensation of the oil
and coal world.
Fifteen thousand men are employed in Germany
building plants to treat German lignite, and England is
following suit.
The time will come when the oil wells of the United
States will go dry, as they have done in many sections.
That time is not so far off. ,
But long before that time, the cheapened processes
of distilling lignite coal tar will bring the Alaska lignite
fields into commercial use on a large scale.
It is not stretching the imagination to visualize the
port of Seward as the biggest shipping center in the
world for gasoline, distillate, fuel oil, and other by-pro
ducts, obtained from the 50,000,000,000 tons of lignite
tributary to the Alaska Railroad.
That enormous lignite field can supply the United
States in gasoline and fuel oil at the present rate of con*
sumption for 500 years.
A new movement to find uses for cotton is on foot,
but not on milady’s foot.
A human skull with horns was recently found to the
Westward. Maybe Old Nick is dead, after all.
It will soon be that time of the year to discard the B.
V. D.’s and put on something more substantial, as it were.
One of our professors declares that married men are
smarter than single ones. But then they have to be.
Naturally. Captain Courtney had trouble in inducing
his seaplane, the Whale, to rise from the water.
With President Coolidge’s ten-gallon hat out of the
ring there will be ample room for the others.
Vice- President Dawes will not comment on what
anyone says about him. What hurts most politicians is
having nothing said about them.
One more day of vacation then school. Goody! goody!
Speaking of the Second A. E. F. reminds us of the
people who say they pay little attention to troubles, but
probably they were never infested with cooties.
Judging from the many poems received by The Gate
way, but which are seldom published only on account of
our limited news space, the authors must be an awful sad
bunch*
A wrecked flivver found in a ditch near Rapid City
bore on the windshield the inscription "I do not choose to
run in 1928.” S
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CITIZENS OF "WOLVERINE"
STITE HERE FOR HUNT
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Three well known citizens from the i
“Wolv>erine” State, 'Michigan, Si
Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Cir
cumspice (If thou seekest a beautiful j !
peninsula behold it here)) the State j
which made the apple blossom famous, ■
arrived in Seward today to see for \
themselves if the famous Kenai Pen- i
insula country surpasses in beauty I
their home land. Incidentally, Dr. j
Chas. Boyes, Dr. Gilbert and Leonard j j
Cooper, will take a run into the Inter- j \
for to hunt big game for the next few j
weeks.
Mel A. Horner, the incomparable j
guide and good fellow, also Alec Bo- j
lem and J. P. Sherman, the latter of j I
Healy, will accompany the party as j
guides. The Healy region wiill be !
combed over for sheep after which j
they will move down to Broad Pass i
after caribou. The men leave Seward I
on Monday. j
Dr. Boyes is a prominent surgeon of ;
Kalamazoo, Mich., Dr. Gilbert is a not- j
ed specialist on eyes and ears main- \
taining headquarters in Nile, Mich., j
Leonard Cooper is the Dodge automo- j j
bile distributor at Kalamazoo.
GOING OUTSIDE
Staff Sgt. Clifford A. Beseck^;,
Signal Corps, has completed his
tour of duty in Alaska and will leave
tonight on the S. S. Yukon for the
alleged sunny South. Sergeant Be
secker will be missed by his many
friends who wish him a pleasant
voyage and good station upon his ar
rival in the. States.
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All together now!
“School days, school days, dear old i j
dear old,” and so on. This by way of ]
again notifying the wide world that i
the 1927-28 Seward school term will j
officially open Monday, lest some of I
the pupils may have forgotten this im
portant event. '
The Gateway star reporter has been j
busy all wyeek picking type lice from
the forms otherwise a good descrip
tion of the new.high school quarters
could be given but the word has been
passed down that the recent altera
tions have made the class rooms the
envy of teachers passing through
Seward enroute to points as far north
as the shores of the Arctic. Commo
dious rooms with excellent natural
lighting and good ventilation, make a
vast improvement over last year, it
is stated.
Public dance at Odd Fellows hall
tonight.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES. SCHALLER
ER’S ALASKA SHOP
Strictly fresh candies. Schallerer**
ierer’s Alaska Shop.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF SUBMITING FINAL
PROOF
Anchorage, Alaska, July 19th, 1927.
Notice is hereby given that Horace
Samuel Abbert, entryman, together
with his witnesses, Zeph T. Halferty
and Karl Armstrong, all of Kodiak,
Alaska, has submitted final proof on
his homestead entry, Serial No. 05546
for the land included in Non Mineral,
U. S. Survey No. 1464, containing
159.986 acres, Situate Latitude 57
deg. 48 min. 43 sec. N., Longitude
152 deg. 28 min. 05 sec. W. and said
final proof is now in the files of the
U. S. Land Office at Anchorage,
Alaska, and if no protest is filed in
the said U. S. Land Office at Anch
orage, Alaska within the period Qf
publication or within thin. "ays
thereafter, said final proo; be
accepted and final certificate . be
issued-.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
Date of first publication Sept. 3, 1927.
Date of last publication Nov. 12, 1927.
TONIGHT-TWO SHOWS 7 AND 9
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