Seward Hotel
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
With Steam Heat
Hot and Cold Water
The Seward Hotel offers to the
traveling public the comforts and
privacy of home with modern fa
cilities. It is the only hotel in the
town when comfort is considered.
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FILIPINO WRITES
ALASKA CANNERY
MANY FILIPINOS HAVE EXCIT
ING, THRILLING AND VILLAIN
OUS TRIALS AND TRIBULA
TIONS, HE SAYS.
What one Filipino thinks about the
trip to Alaska on board a sailing
schooner, with his activities and im
pressions gained while working for
a cannery during the season, is re
lated in the following contribution
received in the last mail from the
South. The letter is published ver
batim :
By Santiago “Agaton Yboa”
Every year Alaska becomes one of
the many rendezvous places for Fil
ipinos from the Coast. Hundreds,
nay thousands of Filipinos, from
north of Washington State down to
Southern California are lured to go
to Alaska during the salmon season
regardless of small compensations,
the hardships they must endure, the
sacrifices they would be called to
meet. Very seldom you will meet a
Filipino along the Pacific Coast w'ho
had never been in Alaska. Some of
them have been going every season,,
for ten years; many of them have1
exciting, thrilling and villianous ex
periences, and few have remained,
forever, in the soil of Alaska. Mer
cy to those who had been called by
Our Divine Providence above! They
are working for various salmon can
neries north and along the entire
Southeastern coast.
We left San Francisco on a sail
ing ship, the “Star of Shetland,” and
our trip meant, of course, days of
torture, nights of anguish, and a
weary trudge over a deceitful, tem
pestuous and precipitous ocean path.
As soon as we came out from the
Golden Gate, we caught and almost
dnstantly felt to meet face to face
with hard, cold facts of life of tran
quility. Oh, woe to the ship threat
ened with such tranquility. If you
would know' what it is, go forth in
the silence at the middle of the 1
ocean, when every wMnd from vari
ous directions is hushed, every echo
of the w'aves followed with the wind
is mute, and all nature seems to
listen in dumb, terrified and breath
less expectation; go forth and spend
a few days, and see the terrible
transquiMty by which you are sur
rounded.
Thank3 to Almighty! We arrived
at our destination and upon our
arrival at the cannery, about twenty
miles from the town of Karluk, Ko
diak Island, we found the place few,
very few human habitations. It is
a melancholy atmosphere, indeed,
bijt melancholy as it is, it must be
met with strong fortitude of con
vict:ion for the cause of existence.
Indifference, dislike and disgust
were sickening and miserable, in
deed, among us; but, we started to
do many things to create many sen
sations and improved to the utter
most no matter what and how by
those w'ho have nothing to do sim
ply to overcome the dul world upon
us.
Alaska is a wonderful place—every
tint in the place in which we are
sorrounded spoke Nature’s loveliness,
and every sound breathed Heaven’s
melody, and every breeze was but
embodied fragrance. To every Fili
pino, never, never can he forget this
reminisences. We store in our mind
such memories from Alaska forever,
and in private life, they shall ah
ways be the companion o' our soli
ture whenever and wrhere we go.
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VISITS GULKANA DISTRICT
Major Oliver, engineer for the road
commission, is visiting the Gulkana
district with a view to looking over
work to be done there.
Smyrna ships much of its fig crop
to Egypt.
HORSE MEETS DEATH
IN BROOK CHARGED
WITH ELECTRICITY
iSCHIFFERSTADT, Germany,
June 27. (/P)—A brook charged
with electricity proved fatal to
one of a team of horses recent
ly when the owner drove into
the stream to wash the wheels
of his carriage. As soon as
the horses touched the water
one of them dropped dead, while
the other after frantic efforts
managed to break loose from
harness and galloped out of the
water.
Investigation showed that the
brook was charged with elec
^ tricity, transmitted from a sub
terranean installation of power
plant.
Start the Fourth Clean
For many years we have been doing the
dirty work of the city, but with our modern
machinery and competent help we have tak
en pleasure in lightening the burden on the
housewife. The blacker they are, the bet
ter you will appreciate our service.
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TELEPHONE, Main 148
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