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I SED TO SENSATIONS
For the moment—ami only for the
moment—things are at sixes and sev
ens everywhere. Tne United States
has its heelic oil and polities mixture
each ingredient trying to get to the
top of the seething mass; the new la
bor government in England has just
settied a huge labor strike and France
and Belgium are panicky because of
the collapse of the franc.
Meanwhile Germany is having its
usual troubles, which are no worse and
perhaps a little better than usual, but
Germany has an advantage in being
used to troubles. The other coun
tries are struggling along possibly a
little aggrieved because their own
.particular affairs are being overshad
owed but assured they will soon be
in the limelight. Of course, these
things have their serious and deplor
able aspect but the world has become
so inured to crises that it refuses to
take them seriously.
Correct this sentence: “It’s beauti
ful,” she said, “‘but I’d love you just
as much if you never gave me any
thing.”
Almost every girl reaches the age
when she has pimples and thinks her
family does not understand her.
A Washington man went into a wo
man’s restaurant at Alt. Vernon, Wn.,
last week and made insulting remarks
about a porterhouse steak served to
him. The woman grabbed a catsup
bottle and he awoke in the hospital.
No more complaints, he said.
That the Gateway owners have un
limited faith in the future of Seward
is shown by the amount of money in
vested in new machinery the past win
ter.
Manager Henderson of the San Juan
Fisheries announces that the Starr
may sail west about March 10. Any
change in the sailing date will be an
nounced later.
SENATE FLOATS IN A
LEGISLAT1VE DOLI)RUM
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3.—While
tempest and tornado were wrenching
the timbers ol' the republican house
organization, yesterday the senate
floated calmly in a legislative dold
rum.
In the face of a driving storm ol
democratic-insurgent protest, the
house leaders fought valiantly to save
what they could of their rules revis
ion program, framed primarily to en
able tiie majority to transact the bus
iness of the house expeditiously and
in its own way. While the debate
i continued there was no attempt to
take up legislation.
The senate received a new batch
of bills and resolutions, inserted some
newspaper clippings in the Congres
sional record and then fell back on
the time-honored subject of the tariii
as a topic of debate. Senator Walsh,
of Massachusetts, delivered a long
speech embodying a democratic esti
mate of the republican protective pol
I icy.
A plan to tax theater and roof gar
| den patrons to provide a fund that
; could be used for a soldier bonus—
provided congress is willing—was pro
posed by Senator Curtis, of Kansas,,
while the house ways and means com
| mittee was hearing pleas for tax re
ductions on many things, including
! bon bons and billiard bails. Another
! bonus bili was tossed by Senator
: Copeland, and the committee prompt
ly passed responsibility for all sold
, ier legislation to a sub-committee. .
The farmers continued their relief
petitions before the senate and house
agricultural committees and Senator
LaFollette introduced a bill to reduce
freight rates on farm products and
machinery. Another house commit
tee reopened the highly explosive
Muscle Shoals question, but accom
plished nothing except a disagree
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Towle will ar
rive in town this week from Cooper
Landing. Mr. Towle has a job in this
place.
LIBERTY
THEATRE
f TONIGHT
ANITA STEWART
—IN—
“Playthings of
Destiny”
A FINE SEVEN REEL FEATURE FULL
OF INTEREST AND ACTION
A TWO REEL COMEDY
“Rookies”
L\ND A BEAUTIFUL PATHE REVIEW J
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George E. Lewis gave out the fol
lowing interview while in New York
recently to Cora E. Morlan, publicity
department, Hotel Astor, which was
published in the papers February 18.
When the late President Harding
visited Alaska he first went to Ketch
ikan, then Wrangell, Juneau, Skag
way, Cordova, Valdez, Latouche and
Seward. In each of these towns he
gave a short address referring to
Alaska as a territory, but when he
returned to Seattle he enthusiastically
declared that this Northland was not
a Territory but an empire.
“In my opinion the late President
Harding did more for Alaska by his
visit than anything in recent years,”
said Mr. Lewis. “One often hears the
question—can Alaska come back?
Can Nome, Dawson, Skagway and
Fairbanks bring back the multitudes
they enjoyed a score of years ago ? At
that time each of these cities had a
steady population of 30,000 people. A
quarter of a million people lived in
the Territory and another quarter of
a million were en route to and fro.
Fully a million were personally inter
ested and five millions were indirect
ly concerned, while fifty millions were
enthused by stories and articles writ
ten and told about the silver north.
“What could bring them back? An
other stampede? Nothing could—in a
spectacular way, because the craze is
over —it passed with the age—the old
time mania for stampeding is done
forever. But again, resources now
coming to be generally and widely
known, having a stable merit and a
firm durability can and will bring
back to this unknown frontier a
brighter and better da\ than she has
ever known.
The profits of Ali-Ai are not all
dug with the gold pick and shovel,
nor washed in the sluice box, for the
men who built Skagway in a day,
climbed the icy ramparts of Chilk' ot
pass, moiled at Lake Bennett, shu
the "White Horse rapids and bored the
Yukon hills for gold, have now learned
a diversity of resources Customs and
innovations have now raised another
standard of want and demand. Long
have the miners and merchants of the
Far North known tha': at a lower level
were cteans of oil. And now with
earths greatest oil magnates ready •‘‘o
:ap .his reservoir believed t") bo inex
haustible, who can predict the net re
sults *’
Tluee hundred miles fn-’i an excel
lent harbor on the min. line of the
government railroa 1 and only seven
days 1‘iorn Portland and Seattle is a
c al mountain with 10,000 tons of sur
lace (<al in sight. This coal can and
will be conveyed to Pacific coast cit
ies, outrivaling and unaa.-selling any
coal on the coast today.
there are scores c: copper claims
in the Territory and only two in op
srati-.n. One of the i- the Kcnnicott
mine, s the richest copper mine in any
land too can shut do vn every copper
mine in the U. S. and So. America
and still make a haadscme profit
As high as $60,000,000 worth of fish
have been taken ii\m Alaskan wa
ters in a single year in salmon, her
ring, halibut and whale oil.
I Vi is a stable commodity. Fre
(.uoitiy 60,000 fur sea s are dressed
in a single summer on the Pribiloff
and St. Paul Islands, sable, fox, wolf,
lynx, mink, ermine, beaver, otter and
many ether kinds are there in great
quantities.
T.mber lands are in large areas,
virgin forests covering mountains and
valleys for hundreds of miles with
spruce, hemlock, laren, birch and cot
tenw! od.
The country also boasts of consid
erable agriculture as 150 fine farms
are being cultivated ir. the beautiful
Tanana valley adjacent to Fairbanks.
Tiiece support a large f'ou" mill with
in sixty miles of the A r -tic circle. All
over Alaska the most luscious berries
are grown. There are seventeen va
ries es; blue berries, salmon berries
md strawbrries being the leading
kinds, and for flavor the Alaska straw
berry is unrivaled. Potatoes, cab
bage, lettuce and ail kind- of garden
truck grows as readily as in the U.
F>. J.nu of better quality
There is a hunters’ paradise in Alas
ka today, and it may be f -und in this
vast empire Caribou roam the wood
lands and elevated divides in herds
as great as the bison roamed the
western hemisphere eighty years ago.
Goats, sheep and bighorn are there
in thousands and the grand center of
all the great moose activities is now
on the Kenai peninsula.
The Kodiak bear, the black bear,
blue bear, bald face bear and other
varieties are found in large numbers.
Timber wolves, wolverines, pheasants
of all varieties, squirrels and porkeys,
ynx, bob-cat and many smaller spe- I
ies cf game are found throughout
Central Alaska. In Ihe northern parr
f Alaska are polar bears, musk-ox,
Siberian wolves, walrus a no all varie
ies of seal.
Beauty is par excellent. T. ere are
32 kinds of wild flowe*-.;, 100 fami
ies of birds, shimmering lakes, purl
r.g streams, crashing glaciers, wild
vaters, death dealing cascades, mam
noth waterfalls, mountains and mea-;
lows, tinged in summer with an un
:arthly glow of the mystic sun at
nidnight.
The climate has been shamefully !
nisrepresented. It is actually milder j
md more consistent with business and
deasure in most locations than all of
he United States east of the Cascade |
ange. For tourist travel it is ideal— !
greater than Norway or Switzerland j
—nature's wonders hover together too
marvelous to tell. For picturization it
s the premier of all kingdoms. The
\laska Steamship Company maintains
l permanent weekly schedule all year
round, connecting with the Covern
nent railway at Seward, where trains
■un daily carrying one to Fairbanks,
he heart of the Territory.”
Just
Received
1 New Shipment of
APRONS AND
DRESSES
Come in and
See them
Banbury and Ogle
TAILORING
G. Henning
SEWARD ALASKA
Anchorage, Alaska
BATHS
SEATTLE, WASH.
211 Union Street
Top Floor, Apartment L
Phone Main 2576
IUB, SHOWFR *"D J. R. CASCADE
INTERNAL
EL.L.EN GORDON, Propr.
Formerly of anchorage, Seward and
Kanatak
C. E. ORLANDER
Jeweler
and
Watch Repairer
SEWARD CLUB
CHRIST LARSON
Propr
Pool Soft Drinks
HIGH GRADE
CANDY
Seward Grill
private dining rooms
PLEASANT SURROUNDINGS
COURTEOUS TREATMENT
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
GERHARD JOHNSEN
Mason and Plasterer .
Phone Adams 60 Box 1423
WATSON
EVANS
Sails
Seattle
Mar. 11
Mar. 25
Arrives
Seward
Mar. 18
April 1
So. from
Seward
Mar. 22
April 5
ADMIRAL PERRY Sails from Seattle
March 28, carrying freight and explosives.
The above vessels call at all regular Southeast
ern and Southwestern Alaska ports.
The Admiral Evans sailing March 25 is the
first call of the season for Anchorage.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone, Main 81 Residence, Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jerviee
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STEAMSHIP STARR
Steamer Starr will sail for Unalaska and way ports
about March 15th.
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
phone Madison <3»t seward, Alaska
mmuma
BENSON &
WHITTEMORE
Proprietors
FINEST BILLIARD & POOL HALL IN ALASKA
Exclusive Distributors of Budweiser, Bevo, and Monopole Cigars.
CHOP SUEY
Noodles
Harry Yago
Phone Madison 16
Second Avenue
RAY & DAVID
Attorneys at Law
8EWARD& ANCHORAGE
Seward Office:
Harrlman Bank Building
DR. J. A. BAUGHMAN
Physician and Surgeon
Chronic Diseases a Specialty
Phone Madison 90, Seward, Alaska.
AARON E. RUCKER
Attorney at Law
Office in Arcade Building
'PHONE ADAMS 121
SEWARD, ALASKA
HUGH DOUGHERTY
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
Furnished Houses for Rent
Residence Phone, Madison 58
Office Phone, Madison 136
Seward Chapter No. IQ
ORDER EASTERN
STAR
Meets 2nd and 4th Mon
days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
VIOLA T. SWETMANN, W. M.
CLARA PERRY, Secretary.
Seward Rebekah
Lodge No. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets 1st and 3rd
Monday’s of Each
Month, 8 p. m. Visit
ing members welcome
MRS. A. H. THODAY N. G.
come.
Seward Lodge No. 219
F. & A. M.
& Stated communication*
y 1st and 3rd Wednes
\ days of each month,
visiting Brethern we!.
H. V. HOBEN, W. M.
W. O. Perry, Secretary.
»• o. o. F.
Resurrection Lodge
„ No. A.7.
Meets Thursdays at 8 p. nv Visiting
Brothers welcome. Frank Lagerquist,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, See
IGLOO NO. NINE.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday at
Odd Fellow’s HalL
F. B. MOORE, Pres.
C. A. M’DOUGALL, Sec’y.
SEWARD S»wS7, NO. FIVE
AMERICAN LEGION
Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
ELWYN SWETMAXN, Com.
J. P. HANNON, AdjutanL
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
MORFORD
WM. D. COPPERNOLL
LAWYER
Seward, Alaska
D. H. WILLIAMS
UNDERTAKER
LICENSED EMBAL *ER
AND FUNERAL DJREt TOR
When In need of my services ca
Brown & Hawkins
FRED J. SPACH
general surveying and
MAPPING
Certified Member A. A. E.
Licensed C. E. State of Idaho
Phone 113-R
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA