SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 10, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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DECIMATING THE MOOSE HERDS.
Are the moose herds of Kenai lake
district becoming decimated? Inquiry
to this effect of Messrs. Lucas and
Nelson, well known guides and big
game hunters of Skilak lake, in the
heart of the moose district, brought
out the fact that the authorities be
lieve they are not, but that, on the
contrary they are increasing. They
believe, however, that the law on kill
ing nothing but bulls should be re
pealed for a time, allowing cows to
be killed for a time, in order to allow
the animals to be bred up to a better
standard. Both hunters believe that
killing nothing but the largest and
best bulls tends to destroy the best
breeders, causing stunted stock to be
raised from the younger and smaller
bulls.
While the idea is probably original
with the above-named gentlemen in
this district, prominent guides and
sportsmen in eastern Canada have ad
vocated weeding out the cows, claim
ing they are too many for the num
ber of bulls. To do this would un
doubtedly increase the grade of ani
mals. and it is a matter which should
be taken up with the game commis
sion.
THE GAME BUTCHERY BUNK.
Dawson Weekly News.
“Can you not do something to stop
the awful slaughter of big game in
your country? What are your law
makers doing? Will you do something
to save the moose, elk and caribou
from extermination in Yukon and
Alaska
This and more like it was the ten
or of a letter lately received here
from New England. The writer,
whereever he gets his information,
seems to think that we do nothing
but murder big game—including elk!
In his letter he mentions the “killing
of the caribou herds,” and he evi
dently thinks Yukoners herd the ani
mals together—or round them up —
for the purpose of slaughtering them
wholesale.
On inquiry it was found that the
authorities got protests of a similar
nature, and there is now quite a stack
of them on hand.
Where do these writers get their
information? They read about our
caribou herds and that the animals
number tens of thousands, and they
think we kill them all. No wonder
they write letters. Rut how are we
to force the truth of the matter on
them when they so eagerly swallow
Action? If one caribou was killed
each year by every white man, wo
man and child in the Yukon, it would
have no noticeable effect on the im
mense herds that move about the
country. But there is nothing like
that number killed. Three or four
hundred would be a big yearly bag
for the Dawson district.
And as for moose: well, lie is a
pretty sly animal, and he will never
be wiped out by the amateur hunter.
He has got nearly 200,000 square
miles of Yukon Territory to feed,
play and propagate in, and only rarely
does he meet a white man along the
fringe of some river.
So, with all due respect, we will ad
vise the easterner to forget it. Or, il
he insists, let him produce the evi
dence.
So shall we.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
BOOST, DON'T KNOCK.
Seward eannot exist without a news
paper. Us citizens must admit that
the Gateway under the present man
agement has been eminently fair and
impartial in its attitude, it has criti
cised no one, and has refrained from
spreading stories calculated to injure
anyone. By giving the news as we
get it from day to day, and with the
help of our patrons, we have built up
a paper of which the town may well be
proud. Few offices in the Territory
have the Gateway’s equal in equip
ment or workmen. Every man is a
specialist and is working 24 hours a
day for Seward and their employer.
The Gateway has spent many thou
sand dollars of outside money in the
town, its payroll being well over one
thousand dollars per month. It has
been forced to comb the adjacent dis
tricts for work for its hungry ma
chines, as Seward alone could not
support a plant of this size.
Having been engaged in the busi
ness the past forty years, we probably
know our shortcomings better than
our critics. Our failure to make a
| better paper is not caused by lack of
1 knowledge, but from a lack of a larger
| field.
When the present management took
over the old Gateway plant, the town
had no paper worthy of the name. It
was dying from lack of proper pub
licity. No news of Seward ever pene
trated the Outside world, and its
reputation for bickerings and petty
quarrels was not enviable.
Today the Gateway receives the
same Associated Press service that is
received by Juneau. Ketchikan and
Anchorage. The paper is well printed
and our job patrons are receiving
the best grade of work and stock that
skilled workmen can turn out. This
is worth much to the town. One sat
isfied customer abroad calls for an
other. Within the next two years a
large part of the legal and bookwork
of the Territory will be printed on Tin*
Gateway’s presses.
While we want the support of every
business man in Seward, we want each
j customer to feel that he gets a quid
! pro quo for his money. The liberal
; patronage of our merchants plus en
! ergy and knowing our stuff, has built
j up a larger business than our people
! know. It is not good business to at
tempt to throw a monkeywrench into
l the wheels of any industry in Seward.
ALASKANS WELL OFF.
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I Alaskans are much better off than
they are aware of. The climate is
I not as good as some localities, but we
i have no hurricanes nor cyclones, no
extremes of heat or cold, living is as
cheap as anywhere in this day of high
prices, and the healthfulness of the
| population outweighs the advantages
\ of more salubrious climes. Nowhere
in the world can one find as good wa
j ter as in the Northland. The work
; man is treated more in the nature of
a partner in the business than an em
ploye, time clocks are unknown, and
nowhere can a man live so cheaply
as in Alaska by some lake or stream.
Practically every ohltimer who has
left for the Outside “for good,” is
back in the Territory, or is attempting
to get back. The workman in the
States may have greater, opportune
ties for enjoyment than the Alaskan
i workman, but he has not the money
to spend for the enjoyment he craves,
Rather he is compelled to punch the
clock and “hit the ball,” one pay day
after another finding him in debt as
deeply as the one previous.
Shakespeare has said that it is bet
ter to bear the ills we have than turn
to others we know not of. This is par
ticularly true of Alaska. Our ills arc
many, but there are greater ones tc
bear in many sections in the States
FILTH BELONGS TO THE SEWER
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Hendrik Van Loon, writing in the
Commonweal, a Catholic weekly, and
Paul Hutchinson, writing in the Chris
tian Advocate, a Methodist weekly, ex
press the same feelings of disgust and
call decency to arms as the result ol
dipping up an armful of garbage fron:
a newsstand in the form of certain
publications which are now much ir
vogue, as are certain types of plays.
These story magazines, which circu
late by millions, belong in Sodom anc
Gomorrah and not in the Unitec
States. Sometimes their prurient “se?
interest” is under the guise of physi
cal betterment and of physical beaut?
for its own sake; again degeneracy o
detail in a pornographic narrative run:
THE LIBERTY THEATRE
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‘Mademoiselle Midnight’
A Sensational Spanish melodrama with a kick in every reel. Full
of action from start to finish and staged with beautiful scenic
backgrounds This is something good and should not be missed.
AND A PATHE REVIEW AND A CORTOON REEL.
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j through many pages to an end which j
I points a moral as an excuse for the 1
I compendium of smut between gaudy]
I covers.
| There is talk of censorship, but the !
j right sort of censorship is education as I
j to the true character of this printed ,
corruption. Adults who think that the
gangrenous stuff amuses them and
does them no harm, if they feel no
sense of duty to their own debauched
minds, have one to younger minds
which are not yet debauched.
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Every copy they buy is endowing
indecency by creating a further mar
ket for its flaunted wares whose sale
enriches some person in human form
to whom money, however dirty, is the
only object. It means a copy which
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SMOKES CARDS
AND TALK
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
may fall into the hands of adolescent
youth.
It is such influences which, through
all time, have led to the physical and
moral degeneracy of peoples and their
downfall. The old rule, unassailable
out of the deep experience of church,
law, education and all human prog
ress, which has made peoples strong
is to keep the mind and body clean.
There are enough publications whose
standards are kept as clean as those
of the Weekly, regardless of profit, as
the first duty of editors as decent
::itizens, which give us information and
normal entertainment without resort
to the dope of salacity.
Stupidity which is decent is better
than cleverness which is indecent.
Physical betterment means physical
exercise and not suggestive descrip
tions of nudity, and sex is something
to respect and guard with a healthy
mind. Sweep this newsstand filth
back into the sewer where it belongs.
Gas On Your Stomach
Won’t Let You Sleep
Gas pressing on heart and other or
gans, sometimes causes a restless,
nervous feeling and prevents sleep.
Adlerika helps any case gas on stom
ach. unless due to deep-seated causes.
The QUICK action will surprise you.
Because Adlerika is such an excel
lent intestinal evacuant it is won
derful for constipation—if often woiIv
in one hour and never gripes.—Sew
aril Drug Company.
Why Suffer So?
Get Back Your Health as Other
Seward Folks Have Done.
Too many people suffer lame, ach
ing backs, distressing kidney disor
ders and rheumatic aches and pain^ ( ^
Often this is due to faulty kidne:
action and there’s danger of harden
ed arteries, dropsy, gravel or Bright.
disease. Don’t let weak kidney
wear you out. Use Doan’s Pills bt
fore it is too late! Doan’s are v
stimulant diuretic to the kidneys
Doan’s have helped thousands. Her
is one of many cases in this local
ity.
Mrs. E. S. Spaulding, Central Ave
South Bend, Wash., says: “For year
: Doan’s Pills have been a householc
remedy in our family. They hav
always given good results when I
have suffered from any trouble caus
ed by disordered kidneys or back
ache and I couldn’t recommend a be:
ter remedy.”
OVER THREE YEARS LATER
Mrs. Spaulding said: “I haven’t hac ‘ •
the least return of kidney troubl
since endorsing Doan’s.” f
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburr.
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv.
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