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Of- SEW A RD, ALASKA — Established August 15, 1904
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PASSING OF THE FRONTIER
When the last frontier is no more, where will the
nation turn for its stimulus to action? Guaged by the
pace we are going the time is not far distant when the
mysteries of untamed nature, affording a link between
primitve man and what has already arrived in the pre
sent civilization, will no longer be such, and the subject
will be treated in text books along with other bological
treatises and deduri’Dns.
America has its genesis rooted in achievement,
mnning the full gamut of human activates, from the
first foothold gained by the first settlers to the present
day miracles of science and invention. These earlier
epochs in our national existanee are like unto a chapter
harking back to the genesis of civilization, to be read
and digested as the imagination may digest a subject
without actual contact with its substance.
Thus the panorama of kaleidoscopic history in the
making rapidly fading out of our perspective must per
force exert a salutary effect upon the ethics and usages
of near future generations. Will it create new stand
ards of values, based upon pragmatic computation and
with them rear up more marked cleavages between man
kind, as has been the case in previous high forms of civ
ilizations, or will some cateclysm, born of a consiuosness ]
of a steady gravitation toward enslavement of the many:
while vast powers of wealth are accumulating, along ;
with an inclination to apply them, and without the great j
frontiers offering a haven for those who are incap
able of yielding their economic destinies to the caprices
of the few?
Unlike the great American West, Alaska's frontier
is not being eliminated by the encroachment of numbers.
Rather it is being accomplished by the imposition of the
rules and standards prescribed by those whose view
point is the product of an insularity born of conditions
immediately surroundng them, in which crowding and
elbowing for a place in the ant-line of activity supplants j
the broader view as possessed by the frontiersman, wrho j
finds greater tranquillity in turning raw nature to his J
physical needs than would be the^case if his orbit were j
fixed by an inelastic system productive of intensifedi
commercialism, in which the dollar mark supplants the j
human equation in w7hat is termed progress and pm-!
sperity by the high apostles of business.
Every restriction placed upon the frontiersman of
Alaska hastens the day wrhen these will be no longer be j
the mystery of what is beyond the green curtain mark- j
ing what has been accomplished in the hysteria of
monev-madness and where the frontier, with its op
portunities for individuality, conjures up a re-enact
ment of those stirring dramas of life as written by the
man of the covered wagon and the argonauts of a van
ishing epoch.
While the generation just budding into maturity
may, like the son of the immigrant, entertain contempt1
for their progenitors and scorn for the man with the
axe and gun, they will search long and vainly for an
ideal that will match those born of the brotherhood of
the frontier, where values are not gauage by externals
expressed in the dollar sign, but are eomputated upon
individuality wTherein the poorest may claim his or her
niche n the great edifice of human kinship as it was
ordained in the beginnng and for which the cologians
and metaphysicists grope in vain for a means of trans
mission to mentalities developed under the artificiality
of what is boasted as cultural civilzation.
A sea elephant at London eats three tons of fish
a day. That's nothing—Alaska has thousands of sea
lions, any of which weight nearly a ton, and which eat
half of their weight in fish every day. To ascertain
this fact the bureau of fisheries intends to set a trap
for some of these denizins of the deep, then cut their
guts to find out what makes them that way.
lira ON KOOI
SHUNS TREES
KODIAK, May 28, Speical to the j
Gateway—Because of a strange
blight tiiat is killing the trees on I (
Whale Island, causing them to lose
their bark and fall in haphazard
fashion, obliterating trails and
making it difficult to keep track
of the fox that are being raised
there, a new method of handling is
being demised by Dr. B. C. Parker,
of Parker & Klaner, who have a
big blue fox ranch on that island.
Dr. Parkei was a Kodiak visitor
recently and explained that the
blight had reached such propor
tions as to make progress over the
island a difficult matter. In times
past men were stationed at houses
on different points on the island
where they were able to observe the
fox in their particular territory.
This practice was abandoned some
time ago and regular trips were
made by the men over the well de
fined trails and thus a check could
be kept. Now it is proposed to build
big pens of large acreage to
permit an occasional roundup.
OIL ASSOCIATE WEDS
Ivan L. Peterson, son of the well I
known Chickaloon oil man and
with whom he is associated i
in developing the oil holdings at |
that camp joined the ranks of,
the benedicts a few weeks before
he came to Alaska. Mrs. Ivan L. j
Peterson, Jr. accompanied her
husband North.
WOMAN ORGANIZE
A Women’s Chamber of Com
merce was recently organized at J
Ketchikan it is reported from the ]
"First City.” The club which is j
believed to be the first of its j1
kind organized in Alaska will hold
regular meetings each month.
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pictures ot the Arctic made into a travelogue
picture and named
GREAT WHITE NORTH
A moving picture record of the famous search expedi
tion sent out to discover what had oecome of eight men*
who were lost in the frozen North. The expedition waf
especially equipped and commissioned to get fine pic
ture^ of Arctic Life and big gajrte. The picturse were'
made by the well-known sportsmen-photographers
H. A. and Sidney Snow
Very thrilling scenes of the capture of polar bear, walrus,
sea lions, whale. Wonderful ice jams—ice perils to the
ship—the finding of the remains of the men, etc.
A PICTURE EVERYONE SHOULD SEE
as nothing better has ever been taken. An additional at
traction will beLUPINO LANE in a great two-reel comedy
“LISTEN SISTER” ,
There will also be a FABLE: Usual admission
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SUIT WEATHER
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Next Sailing of Steamer Starr out of Seward
JUNE 12
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING
COMPANY
Phone Madison 139
Seward, Alaska
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