SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
SEWARD ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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H. B. Selby, Editor
Entered as Second Matter, Septem
ber 2, 1915, at the Post Office at
Seward, Alaska, under Act of March
3, 1879.
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-ENCOURAGE AN INDUSTRY
A recent news dispatch states that
the Department of Agriculture is do
ing everything in its power to en
courage lur tanning, which has al
ready reached huge proportions.
While this may be true to a certain
extent the actions of the department
tend rather to harass than encourage
fur farmers in this district. The Ter
ritorial Legislature also placed sever
al burdensome taxes upon fur farm
ers and their products at its last ses
sion, all for several years with no
income. Few farmers start in on
a scale insuring quick returns, pre-,
ferring to stock their islands and
pens with a few animals and de
pending on the increase to bring
their herds to a producing point.
Another thing that causes for dis
content is the fact that a fur farmer
can secure no title to his land, but
is liable to be overbid or dispossess
ed and not given time to remove his
buildings and stock. Several cases
of this kind have occurred in this
division, and in each case the man
who leased the island was a heavy
loser.
There is no more reason why a fur
farmer should not have title to his
land than there is to keep any other
homesteader or agricultural farmer
from owning his land. Buildings cost
money and improvement placed on
leased islands are insecure. If the
department really desires to aid the
fur farmers let it give bona fide res
idents the same chance it does the
agriculturalist. Let the onerous tax
es on pelt be remover, and let the
farmer catch fish for fox feed with
out prescribing his limits and holding
him to sections where no fee is ob
tainable. The rentals of these fox
islands is too high and in sections
controlled by one bureau is lower
than sections controlled by others.
This should be remedied.
Fox farming is a risky business at
best, the percentage of failure being
about three out of five. With ex
penses mounting and taxes being
slapped on indiscriminately, there is
little chance of the business reaching
anything like the magnitude it should.
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Also Earlier Sailings
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WAYNE BLUE,
Agent for Seward, Alaska
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THE FISHERIES SITUATION
Henry Roden, independent candi
date for attorney general, struck the
keynote of the salmon industry when
he stated that a case tax should be
placed upon the larger companies
high enough to protest and encourage
the small local canner. This is the
principal involved in the tariff, which
seeks to protect the local manufac
turer against unjust competition by
foreign manufacturers. In no other
way can a business be built up at
home. Protection should be extended
Alaska capital in every possible way,
and unless this is done, the local
man will be frozen out, and the mar
kets manipulated until he is forced
to suspend operations.
This has been the principal argu
ment against the efforts of the Bu
reau of Fisheries to establish fish re
serves for the protection and propa
gation of salmon. Criticism is not
directed so much at the establish
ment of reserves as at the way in
which they are established, where in
nearly every instance the larger can
nery combines get the apple and the
small concern the core. If the bu
reau is really sincere in its efforts
to ameliorate conditions, why not
curb the larger companies and give
the smaller ones more latitude.
Certain recommendations were
made at a recent meeting of the
board to close up Resurrection bay
and Uganik bay, at which places the
twro small canneries are operated by
the Kodiak Island Fishing & Pack
ing Co., a Seward concern, operated
entirely by local capital, a number
of citizens combining their capital
for the building of these small plants.
In Resurrection Bay the local cannery
which is a small concern operated by
water power packs probably 3,000
cases on an average. Whenever fish
are running the escapement is two
or three'times as large as the num
ber of fish packed. This can be
shown by watching the number of
fish ascending the streams. When
no fish go up the streams the can
nery gets none. In other words
whenever the fish run in the bay
at all, the streams are full of fish.
Seward is fortunate in having one
of the best wharves in the Terri
tory, according to Captain Nord, of
the Alaska, who believes Cordova
has the next best. The Seward wharf
can accommodate three boats the
size of the Yukon, and has a depth
of water giving ample safety to the
largest boat calling here. The gov
ernment wharf is supplemented by
the Standard Oil wharf and the San
Juan packing company wharf, which
insures ample berthing space for a
large number of vessels. Seward is
also fortunate in that the winter
winds blow off shore instead of on.
No boat can be blown away from
the dock, the only menace being
heavy seas making up from down the
bay.
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A. B. Hall, October 31st. Prizes. Suits
arriving on Yukon. Special decora
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Miss Lois Price returned from Cor
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court as a juror. Mrs. Truman Par
ihs accompanied her.
A fortune awaits the • man who
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taste like something to eat.
As soon as a man get old enough
to have some sense folks begin to
call him an old fogy.
The presence of fingerbowls on the
table usually adds about fifty cents
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Office in Arcade Building
Phone Adams 121 Seward, Alaska
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
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Seward Chapter No. 10
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SEWARD REBEKAH
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CHAS. LECHNER, SEC.
SEWARD POST NO. FIVE
American Legion
Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
A. E. RUCKER, Commander.
J. P. HANNON, Adjutant.
IGLOO NO. NINE
Pioneers of Alaska
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday at
Odd Fellows' Hall.
F. B. MOORE, President.
C. A. M’DOUGALL, Secretary
EPIDEMIC OF BANK
HOLDUPS IN ILLINOIS
BANKS URGING STATE POLICE
DEPARTMENT CURB BAN
DIT RAIDS.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 16—Leo
pold and Loeb have been blotted
out by peniteneiary walls. Herrin is
quiet. Rut Illinois has another claim
to headlines—bank robbers.
Bank robbing has been developed
to its highest point in this State.
Throwing up hands and being locked
in the safe are becoming part of the
routine of Illinois bankers. The loot
taken by crews of bandits who cruise
the State’s paved roads makes Cap
tain Kid’s "pieces of eight’’ appear
mere pocket money.
All this is indicated by statistics
j compiled by the Illinois Bankers’ As
| soeiation in urging the establish
| ment of a State police force to check
! the bandit raids.
Bandits who operate in this State
of cornfields and coal mines boast
of 139 bank robberies in the last
three years. Their fellows in New
York State were able to tap only
nineteen “tills” in the three years.
And Pennsylvania bandits had to
subsist on the booty from twenty
jobs. Even the Missouri yeggs, with
their wealth of tradition from the
James boys, could not equal the
Illinois total. And this year the Illi
nois bandits are well on their way
to a new record, with nearly half a
hundred banks looted.
Bank robbing used to be a nocturn
al art. It wras a laborous process
of jimmying and dynamiting, but
modern methods have changed all
that. High noon is now the hour.
Then most of the employes of small
banks, on which the bandits prey, go
out to lunch, leaving the cash on the
counter, and only two or three clerks
at work. Innocent looking automo
biles empty a squad of masked men
at the selected bank. The employes
are forced into the safe at the point
of sawed-off shotguns. When the
sheriff investigates a half hour la
ter the bank could not cash a post
age stamp.
Illinois authorities believe most of
the bandits who operate in the State
are gangsters from St. Louis and
Chicago. With the State’s new con
crete road system putting the most
remote point within a few hours’
drive of these centers, bandits have
found it a short and comparatively
safe day’s work to shoot out to a
rural Illinois bank, gather a harvest
of banknotes and dash back to their
refuges in the labyrynth of city
streets.
Bankers of the States are taking
determined steps to meet the bandit
menace. A fight for a State consta
bulary will be made in the Legisla
ture this Winter. Banks are buying
shotguns and distributing them to
special deputies employed in second
floor offices near bank buildings.
Armored pursuit cars, manned by ex
pert riflemen, are being equipped in
some counties. Small banks are lock
ing their doors during the noon hour
to foil attack.
The following “bandit don'ts have
been issued by the Illinois Bankers’
Association:
“Don’t leave one person alone in
the bank at any time. It is safer
to close the bank at noon and all go
to lunch.
“Don’t leave your vault door open
unless you shoot the bolts and throw
the combination. It’s a wise man
who profits by the experience of
others—it may be your turn next.
Do you want to be locked in the
vault?
“Don’t have all your money out
on the counter. Keep the reserve
locked under combination and time
lock at all times.
“Don’t do business on payroll days
without extra guards.
“Don’t expect your bank to be im
mune from attack. Be prepared at
all times.”
Fresh cigars and tobaccos at Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop. tf.
Hallowe’en Masquerade Dance on
Saturday, November 1. Watch for
the Odd Fellowrs ads. tf.
Men’s Second Hand Clothes bought
and sold at Jordans Valet Service.
Phone Madison 103.
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5018 43rd Ave. S., Seattle, Wash.
FOR SALE—Singer Sewing Machine
in fine condition with all attach
ments, cheap for cash, $25 takes
jt; inquire Cateway. tf.
FOR SALE—Some slightly used over
coats at a bargain while they last.
See JORDAN VALET SERVICE.
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