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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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COMMERCIAL EXPLORATION
Three expeditions, one, travel de luxe,
to the North Polar regions..
Object and purposes: scientific, geogra
phical, notoriety, and movie films with ex
clusive sale’s rights for exhibition purposes.
So many have now seen the North Pole
site that, no longer has it any attraction as
a place of residence to the Alaskan.
Some Department will soon issue rules
and regulations governing all prospective
inhabitants, so that we may as well aban
don all plans for a fox farm located in the
new postoffice zone.
Admiral Peary staked and located the
Pole, with all its dips, spurs and angles. So
far, the production of the location has been
on paper only. (NOTE: This is not meant
PAPER MONEY lecturers receive from the
public).
No U. S. patent has been granted: as
yet no he-red-blooded-Nick Carter-Harold
Bell Wright, papier mache official has es
tablished his fort on the Pole, possibly it is
too wabbly.
No baseball magnate seems to want to
make bats out of the Pole. «
What earthly reason can there be, ex
cept a hope of gain, which hope assuredly
has some personal element in it, which rea
son or excuse, causes a sort of combined
Barnum and Bailey-Ringling Bros, halo to
surmount the brows of Dr. Cook and others
who, since Admiral Peary, evidently desire
to jump his location.
Anyway, the assessment work hasn’t
been done.
* Why all the fuss?
PETTY NATIONAL AMBITIONS.
It is now fairly clear that Brazil over
stepped the mark in demanding a perma
nent seat in the League of Nations council
and bringing on the Geneva smash-up when
her demand was refused. When the time
comes next autumn for election of non-per
manent council members it is quite probable
that the assembly will simply fail to re
elect Brazil; this nation will not only lose
what she reached for but also the position
she has held since the league first began tc
function. It is not a matter of revenge oi
resentment; but it is clear that the othei
nations of the league cannot permit one
member—and that a comparatively minoi
one—to hold up business of grave import
ance merely to satisfy its own petty nation
al ambitions.
A MATTER OF SPUDS
A Mississippi woman found a note in z
potato’ as she pared it. It was from th(
grower in Nebraska and asked that the con
sumer let him know what she paid for it
He sold to the dealer for $3.25 a 100 pounds
The lady had paid 7 cents a pound for them
or twice what the planter got. That is noi
the most interesting and pertinent point t(
the story. Why do Mississippi farmers anc
small own residents, with their soil and cli
mate, have to buy Irish potatoes from Ne
braska fanners?
Repetition is reputation.
THE RAILROAD LABOR BILL
The Senate seems indisposed to set a
date for the consideration of the Parker*
Watson railroad labor bill, in spite of the
urgent desire on the part of the railroads
and their employes for legislation. It is
about a month since the House, after long
debate, passed the Parker bill by a substan
tial majority. It has the approval of the
Senate committee, and Senator Watson, of
Indiana, who is sponsor for it in the Senate,
has made repeated ettempts to get a specific
day set for consideration.
In the meantime the association oi rail
way executives calls attention to the fact
that demands for very large increases in
wages are now pending, and that the car
riers are looking to the Parker-Watson bill
as a method of adjusting the demands thus
presented. They have the assurance of their
employes that the machinery which will be
set in motion when the bill is enacted into
law will be availed of by those employes for
the purpose of adjusting any differences
which may arise. Unless this measure or
something equally satisfactory alike to em
ployers and employes can be placed on the
statutes there will exist no governmental
machinery adeauate for the purpose.
In order that there- may be no long
drawn-out controversy between the rail
roads and the enginemen, conductors, train
men and other employes, which would en
| tail heavy losses on business and great pub
lic inconvenience, it is imperative that leg
islation shall be enacted before this session
of Congress adjourns. It is seldom that
conflicting interests have joined so general
ly in the support of a measure before Con
gress. In view of the fact that the rail
road labor bill is of interest to evert* citizen,
whether he be farmer or capitalist merch
ant or railway employe, the measure should
be taken up in the Senate without delay. If
it needs amendment, let it be amended; but
the Senate should act decisively on the bill
before adjournment.
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DOCTORS’ WITS
Dr. Joseph Larkin, of the Casualty hos
| pital, will not be reported to the Carnegie
! Foundation as a fit candidate for a medal, in
all probability, but if little Albert Mack
grows to manhood he will no doubt honor
the memory of the doctor all his life. The
baby, only 10 months old, swallowed a safe
ty pin which had not been made safe. Moth
ers often neglect to put such implements in
to “safety” until they are inserted in the
garments they are' designated to keep in
place. This particular pin was wide open
when it entered the esophagus of the baby.
When mother ran into the hospital with the
partially strangled child its chance for life
was about one in a thousand. It had ceased
to breathe when Dr. Larkin inserted his fin
ger in the infant’s throat and forced the
point of the pin into his own flesh hard enuf
to enable him to withdraw the obstruction.
Artificial respiration again set the human
machinery in motion and the baby’s life was
saved, and he was returned to his anxious
mother, “as good as new.”
So far as the doctor is concerned the in
cident was “all in a day’s work.” Doctors
whose mental processes are of the proper
caliber to make them something more than
mere “pill rollers” are frequently called up
on in emergencies to get their digits into in
stantaneous communication with their
brains, and such instances as that recorded
in the case of little Albert Mack are not dis
seminated through the press by the physi
cian. It is invariably the grateful mother
who shouts the joyful news from the house
tops.
\ Kansas City Methodist preacher makes
■ a sane defense of the iporals of the youth of
. today and he might have added that they'd
. be even better than they are if it weren’t for
, the example their parents set 'em.
t Let’s see; whose turn is it to be premier
l of France next week?
Fatted calves are no longer reserved
exclusively for prodigal sons.
Weekly Gateway, $3.00 per year.
ALBERT E. SMITH PRESENTS
“Pampered
Youth”
Adapted from
BOOTH TARKINGTOVS
Famous Story
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ALEXANDER. ALICE CALHOUN
CHARLOTTE MERRIAM
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