ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
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Anchorage, Alaska.
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RIVAL ALASKA CITIES.
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The tapping of the Matanuska coal fields and progress in
the Alaska railroad construction have stimulated a strong ri
valry between Seward and Anchorage as to which shall be the
ultimate commercial metropolis and terminal of the govern
ment line.
Seward is .just now asking for the construction of bunkers
and a fuel supply station for the vessels of the navy, to which
Matanuska coal may be delivered next spring or summer. It
is already the terminal of 71 miles of road on the Alaska North
ern railway, and will be connected with the new line in another
season.
The Anchorage Times hears that the government engineer
ing commission is to remove its headquarters from Seward to
Anchorage on January 1; that an army post is to be established
there; that harbor improvement will be followed by the instal
lation of coal bunkers; that big operators have applied for
Matanuska coal leases and are to develop mines next spring.
The Times calls for a United States land office and a judicial
division, with headquarters and a court house at Anchorage.
We’ve got the votes and we’re a political power,” says The
Times; “let us employ our power to get what rightfully be
longs to us.”
Seward, in turn, contends that it has a deep water harbor,
open the year around, and that Anchorage is fronted by shal
low waters, closed to navigation during a portion of the year,
and that the future metropolis of the Alaska coast will be
found at Seward.
The rival cities should complete their joint debate during
the winter mouths, while they have plenty of time, because it’s
going to be a very busy season for both of.them beginning with
next spring. There will be “something doing,” as the Anchor
age Times remarks, at both places.
Railway construction is reaching a stage where develop
ment of the country will rapidly follow. Perhaps the peninsu
la is to have two commercial and population centers instead of
one, and a great deal may depend upon the degree of aggressive,
unselfish public spirit that may be evidenced by the citizens of
the rival communities.
NO HARM IN ASKING.
(Ketchikan Progressive)
There is no harm in asking for something—anything from
the government, because asking does not impose an obligation
on the power to grant that which we ask.
The Anchorage .people want the government to draw up a
line somewhere in their vicinity and call that part so divided
the “FIFTH DIVISION” of Alaska with their town as the
hub upon which everything that goes to make up a division
shall be centered.
The idea is worthy of encouragement. If Anchorage con
tinues to grow, carrying along some assurance of permanency,
it is only a matter of a year or two before that part of the ter
ritory shall be thickly populated. They have about all kinds of
resources that southeastern Alaska has, with the addition of a
vast coal field. Next to the “Banana Belt” region, of which
Ketchikan is the center, Anchorage is the next best favored
part of Alaska. Kven in bootlegging sports it appears to be a
favorite spot.
Householders would appreciate it very much if there were
some way devised whereby they could gain advance informa
tion before the water in the main is turned off. The writer of
these lines worked overtime in a heroic attempt to thaw water
pipes leading into his home when they were not frozen at all—
the water in the main had been turned off. A fellow feels rath
er foolish—and gets rather peeved, too—when he works sev
eral hours in applying hot towels to a water pipe, in an effort
to thaw it out, only to find that his labors are useless. A lit
tle more consideration for householders, who are paying the
bills, will be appreciated. In other towns, we observe that
when the manager of the water company wishes to make re
pairs, he inserts a public notice in the papers calling attention
to the fact and the time. Householders are warned, and may
drawr a sufficient amount of water to last them until the repairs
are completed.
Down in Southeastern Alaska, the people are boosting the
establishment of a plant for the manufacture of pulp, which in
turn is made into print paper. Territorial Senator Heckman
is taking the initiative in the project down there, and it’s go
ing to prove a success, too. In the Cook inlet country, with
ample cottonwood timber adapted to this purpose, and little
else, we are doing nothing along this line. It is about time to
to start an agitation along this line. Manufacturing enter
prises are essential to a permanent community. The wood
pulp resource is here in abundance. It is only a question of
utilization of the raw material.
EPLER BLOCK
OWNER DIES
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—W. F. Epler,
owner of the Epler block in Seattle,
died here last night. He was a pio
neer resident of Seattle and had
reached the age of 77 years.
SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—The Kodiak
Fisheries company, through Manager
Blodgett, let a contract today for the
construction of a cannery tender tc
cost $20,000.
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ANTI-WOMAN SUFFRAGE
LEAGUE HOLDS A SESSION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The
“Antis” had their inning recently,
when 1,000 members of the national
Association Opposed to Woman Suf
frage, convened here.
This was the first national conven
tion in America of women who be
lieve progress for the sex lies with
out the realm of politics.
The antis are going to try and down
the old “destructive” bugaboo, and
show the constructive side of their
organization—the ultimate union of
women of all creeds and classes for
the advancement of womanhood. The
imijiediate objective—the defeat of
the national woman suffrage move
ment—is going to be more or less rel
egated to discussion along these lines.
President William Howard Taft,
Elihu Root, William Cabot Lodge,
Charles W. Eliot and Lyman Abbott
have been invited to attend the big
banquet. Mrs. Lansing, Mabel Board
man, Ida M. Tarbell and Kate Doug
las Wiggin are present.
The association is composed of 25
state organizations, and has an en
rollment of more than 35,000 mem
bers.
SCANDAL GROWING OUT OF
ERECTION CAPITOL BUILDING
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 17.—The
ventilation of scandal as awful or
worse than the Pennsylvania state
house scandal connected with the
construction of the Argentine nation
al capitol today promises to be an ear
ly incident of Hipolito Irigoyen’s re
cently-begun regime as president.
Work on the capitol was started
about ten years ago. It is nearly but
not quite done.
The original plan was to spend 6,
000,000 pesos, or $2,640,000 United
States money. In fact, 32,490,220 pe
sos, or, to be exact, $14,295,696.80, has
gone into the building. It has been
charged in print and practically
proved that, of this sum, 12,000,000
pesos, or $5,280,000, was “graft.”
It is understood that President Iri
goyen is getting ready to start civil
and criminal proceedings against the
persons accused of sharing in the
plunder. They are said to include
some big contractors and numerous
politicians of great prominence.
The building is a small edition of
the Washington capitol and is popu
larly known as the “palace of gold”
because it cost so much.
Modest Claim of Prisoner.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 27.—Would
Germany’s U-boat campaign Zeppelin
raids and other aerial activities cease
if it were not for an Ohio convict-in
ventor, Dr. Emerich W. Ritter? Dr.
Ritter today claimed they would “be
cause my process for converting nat
ural gas into gasoline is all that
saves them.”
Dr. Ritter, imprisoned on a con
spiracy charge, is the inventor of Ger
many’s liquid fire. Both inventions
mentioned and others he had perfected
and presented to Germany from his
cell in state’s prison here.
“There is no gasoline and Germa
ny’s aerial and undersea activities
depend on my invention. The Deutsch
land is fed with my product, made rr
from the great gas fields belonging to
former Ambassador Dumba in Aus
tria.
“I have planned ten factories for
making my gasoline in this country
when I am released in January. My
wife is being paid-$30 a week by Ger
many and our ancestral estates, con
fiscated in 1S48, will be returned to
us when the war ends.”
Prison officials say Dr. Ritter real
ly is a genius with chemicals.
A SALE OF MERIT
TO THE INTEREST OF ALL: We will put on sale W entire stock of merchandise at greatly
reduced prices all during the month of January. Suits, separate coats, skirts, furs and millinery, all at
one-fourth off the original price. Petticoats specially priced, dress shoes and slippers 10 per cent off,
dress goods of wool, corduroy and silk also velvets for trimming, extra special. Wool caps, tains and
scarfs must go now. Gents’ ties, formerly to $3.00, now $1.50. Ties that were $2.00, now $1.00. Silk
hose for gents now 60c a pair. Bath towels, large size, now 40c a pair. Kitchen aprons and cotton
middy blouse suits for house wear cut in two. Just a few corsets left. Brassieres 10 per cent off. A
few party dresses that will go below cost. All art goods and cottons for crochet at cost. Our patrons
will receive the same courteous treatment during this sale as before, although we are sacrificing our
merchandise. COURTESY AND QUALITY IS OUR MOTTO.
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