SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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STONE'S REPORT SOURCE OF
WORRY TO ALASKANS
The statement of Attorney General
Harlan F. Stone, concerning the “law
lessness in Alaska,” and ascribing it
to frontier conditions, has apparently
worried a number of chambers of
commerce, who have met and passed
condemnatory resolutions on the sub
ject.
Alaskans should pay no attention to
the Attorney General who is little fa
miliar with conditions in Alaska. That
they are not as bad as believed may
be shown that Seward is so peaceful
and lawabiding we cannot get a term
of court held here, and ever her boot
leggers are so gentle and lawabiding
their stuff has no kick.
The worst breach of the peace that
has happened in our little city for
many weeks occurred yesterday, when
one of our prominent citizens received
a comic valentine from a well known
attorney. While the sentiments of
the epistle are such as to incite arson
and murder, no breach of the peace
has occurred as yet.
Mr. Stone has undoubtedly wrong
ed Alaska. It is not the gun-toting,
hard-drinking Terriotry of dancehall
days, but rather of the home-loving,
church-going kind, such as you will
find occasionally in small towns in
the States. The only lawbreakers we
have, like our insane, come from the \
States and are shipped back to the
States, but they give Alaskans a bad
name.
Attorney General Stone does not
know conditions here, and there is
little use to get into a sweat over his
remarks, for any amount of explain
ing will never convince him that he is
not right in his surmises.
U. S. MARSHAL SULLIVAN HAS !
MADE GOOD OFFICER.
Despite the thinly veiled inuendoes
of the John Frame stalwarts, Marshal
Harvey P. Suullivan has made the
Third division a good officer, and no
criticism can be honestly directed at
any official action. He has appointed
his deputies, with but few exceptions,
front the ranks of citizens in the com
munity in which the appointment was
made; in nearly every instance he has
favored a veteran of the world war,
and his deputies with few exceptions
are men of standing, well-liked and
popular.
When one considers that a public
ofcial in a small town, has an excep
tionally hard job to hold, in that he is
dealing directly with friends and
neighbors, who are prone to criticise
his every action, the wonder is that
more criticism has not developed. It
is human nature for most of us to find
fault with an official if he does his
duty, and with the same official if he
is lax in his duties. We praise him
and damn him in the same breath.
The Third division has been as free
from crime during Mr. Sullivan's in
cumbency as at any time in the past,
the few crimes coinmitteed being
promptly punished, and a larger por
tion of them being merely misede
meanors. It may be true that convic
tions have not been secured in a few
cases, but our readers should under
stand that the marshal’s duty ends
when he has arrested the malefactor
and produced the evidence to the best
of his ability.
Mr. Sullivan came to Alaska many,
many years ago, and has cast his for
tunes with the Territory from the days
when Nome was first discovered. He
has worked at many kinds of employ
“cOI»VIMOMT_UNDt*WOOD * UNMRWOOD. N. V-‘
A LITTLE LESSON IN FAITH, COURAGE AND SKILL
A quartette of pretty society girls at the Lake Placid Club, in Essex
County, New York, show their nerve and their faith in the skill of Mr. De
Wolf Barton, leading amateur fancy skater of Cambridge, Mass., by form
ing an obstacle for him to jump on skates.
ment, and has made good in every
job. When his first term as marshal
expired instead of hanging around try
ing to get on the payroll, he entered
the employ of a local mining company,
and worked with the roughnecks for
his daily stipend. And that he was a
good workman, no one will deny. A
square workman will make a square
official, and there is no question but
that Mr. Sullivan has been as good as
any we have yet had, and far better
than most.
POUND STERLING AT PAR
A dispatch lrom Washington says
the postoffice department has issued
instructions restoring the rate of ex
change iur the British pound sterling
to $4.S7 effective January 22, for
money orders drawn on Great Biit
aiti and Northern it eland, the Irish
F:es State, Australia, Ntw Zealot:'l
and South America.
At the same time a dispatch from
London announces that the pound
this week reached $4.S01/2 on the
London exchange, a post-war record.
There is a reason for this and in
it is a tribute to the financial sta
bility and recuperation of the British
government. Washington Irving, who
was ambassador to Great Britain a
century ago, wrote some delightful
reminiscences and comments on Brit
ish traits. One of his subjects was
John Bull. He pictures John Bull
in terms which made a lasting im
pression, and one of the things said
about the mythical composite Brit
isher was that he always paid his
debts with a growl, but paid to the
uttermost farthing.
It is that trait, noted for ceutuies
in what Napoleon sneeringly refer
red to as a “nation of shopkeepers,”
which has made it possible for the
British pound sterling to establish a
post-war record in exchange, while
most European moneys are consider
ably below par.
The British were the first major
government to fund their war debt
awing the United States, and Britain
now is the only country of import
ance that has paid either principal or
interest on that debt. When the
fact could not be escaped that Brit
ish exchange, and consequently Brit
ish foreign trade, -was suffering griev
ausly on account of failure to ar
range for the payment of the $5,
100,000 war debt, steps were taken
to fund the debt ,and that was the
autstanding feature of the premier
ship of Stanley Baldwin, now prime
minister, during his first term of ser
vice. The British debt is being paid
on terms agreeable to the United
States and in consequence, despite
the fact that other nations are not
paying Great Britain, the poud sterl
ing -again has ascended to par.
It is a fact well known in respo
sible circles that taxes in England
are among the heaviest imposed by
any nation in the world. The in
come tax rates, for example, are
much higher than those imposed in
the United States—high enough, in
deed, to be virtually confiscatory.
Economically, the country is in a bad
way, having had more than 1,000,000
unemployed at all times since the
war, but financially it is the sound
est country in Europe.
Meanwhile, Germany, whose tax
levies were notoriously low, and
France, which has financed itself,
not through heavy tax toll, but thru
borrowing and issuance of hundreds
of millions in bonds against rather
uncertain German reparations, are
faced with serious financial problems,
which will not be solved until more
heroic measures of a financial nature
are adopted.
The British people, who growl but
who pay, are deserving of world
commendation for their Spartan de
termination to protect thier credit,
even though it be but a measure
of self-preservation.
SEARCHERS FIND SECOND
ANCIENT CITY IN NEVADA
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(Bv Associated Press)
TONOPAH, Nev., Feb. 10.—Another
prehistoric city was found recently
30 miles east of Beatty, at the head
of Forty Mile Canyon. The discov
erers, Judge W. B. Gray and W. E,
Bond, of Beatty, have been investigat
ing their find for two months, and
they say it promises to rival in arch
aeological importance Pueblo Grande
Nevada, the ancient city found re
cently in the Valley of Fire.
A considerable quantity of pottery
has been uncovered, nad it is said to
i be unlike anything hitherto found on
jthe American continent. As soon as
j weather conditions permit, further
excavations will be undertaken by
W. M. Harrington, representing the
iHeye Foundation of American Indian
! Research and the Smithsonian Insti
| tution.
! Mr. Harrington at present is su
j perintending excavation at the Pueb
ilo Grande Nevada, where almost ev
jerv day he is finding evidence that
I convinces him this city existed some
i 2,000 years ago and was occupied
i for a thousand years before it was
[abandoned for some unknown cause.
He has uncovered 18 tombs, con
taining vessels decorated in tur.
quoise and pearl shell cut into small
beads. The length of this city of
| antiquity has been established at six
! miles.
F. W. Hodge, curator of the Heye
I Foundation, has recommended an ap
j propriation ample to excavate the
[entire city. It. is estimated the work
jwill cost around $100,000.
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BOULDER CANYON DAM
ADVANTAGES PICTURES i
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WASHINGTON, D. €., Feb. 9.—
The necessity of construction of a
dam in the Colorado river at ,
Boulder canyon, as proposed in the
John-Swung bill, was declared im
perative for residents of the Imperial
valley before the senate reclamation
committee by Commissioner Mead of
the reclamation bureau.
Mr. Mead also insisted there was
an ultimate need for the project for
citizens in the Yuma, Arizona dis
trict. A permanent safeguard of
the water supply, both for irriga
tion and domestic use, must be set
up for the lowTer Colorado river ba
sin, he said. Settlers in this terri
tory have been hampered financially
and it is up to the government to
act, he said.
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Church Begun More
Than 250 Years Ag<i
May Be Completed
PARIS, Feb. 10.—A Paris church
begun over 250 years ago, but never
finished, has at last a chance of be
ing completed after the original
plans. Between 1650 and 1700 work
was begun on the church of Saint
Nicholas du Chardonnet, in Saint
Victor street, with the painter Le
Brun as architect. Want of funds
put a stop to building and the edi
fice, without a front, has stood for
years, a mournful and dilapidated ob
ject.
A mutual benefit society now plans
to erect a magnificent office just op
posite the church, but hesitates as
the unfinished old buildings would
be an eyesore. Completion of Le
Brun’s plans would cost 900,000
francs, but the municipal council, al
though more than usually embarass
ed for funds, has the matter under
consideration.
DOCTOR FILES DAMAGE
CLAIM AGAINST STATE
DEPARTMENT PHYSICIANS
OLYMPIA, Wn., Feb. *10.—Dr. Har
ry Feagles filed suit in the superior
court of Thurston county the other
day for $50,000 alleged damages
against Dr. F. A. Bird, chief medical
SEWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW
FRIENDS INVITED
GUS ANDERSON
ED ERICKSON
examiner, and John W. Gordon,
claim agent of the industrial insur
ance department, as the result o:
their purported action in refusing to
permit Dr. Peagles to treat Eli Jen
sen, who came to him for treatment
for injuries suffered in an industrial
accident. Dr. Feagles charged Dr
Bird and Mr. Gordon refused to allow
the patient to select his physician
and sent him to doctors in Tacoma.
SPRUCE FED RABBITS NOT
GOOD FOR FOX FEED
i Fox farmers who are feeding their
I foxes powdered rabbit meat should be
careful of meat -where the rabbits are
eating spruce for food. The spruce
is full of turpentine which is bad for
the kidneys of the animals.
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