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ehr £>nuarii (Satnuay rohMlbfi Daily Except Sunday by The Seward Gateway Publishing Co. BERNARD M. STONE. President. Subscription Rates: □lily_One dollar per month Ten cents the copy. By mail, J10 per year. Weekly—'Three dollars per year. (Payable strictly in advance). Advertising Rates: TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Contract rates on application. Readers, 10c per line first insertion, 5c per line each additional insertion. Legal notices, 60c per Line. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1913. A person must surely have a beautiful old thirst when he finds it neces sary to drink wood alcohol to get rid of it. The next law will have to be one against the sale of that beverage and it may even come to where gasoline can be sold only by druggists. What is tlure, anyhow, in the human makeup which causes a thirst for something stronger than water? The question which prohibition will probably settle for ail time is whether the demand for liquor caused the supply or vice versa. Some people seem to be quite happy to go through life without ever tasting anything stronger than tea or colTee, while others feel that life is made all the n ore beautiful by the temporary glamor created by the magic touch of the highball. Now, is it a tact or is it not that the man who never takes a drink is weaker as a rule than the man who does? Has it been the result of your observation that a man who boasts always about being a tee totaller is less masculine, weaker, more of a molly-coddle than the fellow who takes it just as he wants to? To be brief, is a man a stronger or a more robust man because he has a tittle of the devil in him . Have jou ever seen a man who is absolutely perfect morally and is not at the same time a good deal of an old woman? Answer all these things for yourself and then ask yourself why liquor was ever created. That ipie. t ion of prohibition involves far more than the general public seems to perceive. Many people seem to think that without the chance of spending money over a bar everyone will bo happy, families will always have enough to eat and wear and the whole thing will be hunky dory. Ot course, the fellow with a family who spends money over a bar which should go to buy food or clothes for his kids should be locked up. but he is no more to be taken as an example of the ordinary mortal than any other criminal. The millions of ordinary mortals will have no more money to draw from under prohibition than without it. There will be the same amount of money und the same amount of people looking lor it. There will bo the same amount of work only and if all become sober, steady workers what will be done with the produce? Prohibition has been brought about because of the extremists in drink ing and they are the small minority. The vast majority knows how to be moderate if it wants to be. If it does not want to be it will find some way of indulging its wish to cross over the line in some way or another. There are two desires in the human breast which usually are satisfied. One is to do good and the other i*. to do the opposite and both will be done in spite of laws. Home made Mince Meat from the Bally Green Farm. Brown & Hawk ins, “Quality First.” Noodle Cafe. Fhone Main 111. Tray service receives prompt at* tention. 10-5—tf. All mushers are invited to meet at the Commerce Cafe. Open night and day. Mackinaws, Pants, Socks, Boots, Packs, Underwear. Anything you need. SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO. . The Key, sole agent for Lloyd’s “Specialty Candy.” Absolutely Pure, made in Seward, Alaska. New stock of Eveready flash lights and Batteries. Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.” CLEANING A BATTLEFIELD By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS (United Press Staff Correspondent ) WITH THE FiyCNCH ARMY IN CHAMPAGNE, Dec. 24.—Cleaning up a battlefield is a whooping big job. The Hattie of Champagne began months ago and several regiments are still trying to make it presentable. This battlefield, which will be known in future text-books as in many ways unique, is 15 miles long and 3 miles wide, running east and west. As the French advanced they faced the Germans at its southern edge of it, their trenches, cut in chalk white as curds, being 50 to 200 yard! apart. Two months before their drive the French began to accumulate ammuni tion; mass artillery, dig trenches, build narrow and standard-guage rail ways, wide, well-graded rock^ana gravel higways and other things of the sort. September 22 the French artillery turned loose a hell’s fury of shells. A German ofiicer’s letter, interrupted by death, said the shelling resembled the collapse of a world. Practically every square yard of this 45 square miles of chalky ground was tossed in to the air by explosives. White as sepulchre, it is hard to believe that ever again will man be able to make his home amid these fields. For three days the French poured melinite and chedite into the Ger mans’ barbed-wire entanglements, steel turrets, machine guns, armored trenches, secret traps, hidden de fenses, invisible wire coils with cut ting edges, centers of resistence, fortified woods and what not. The Germans, their food supply cut off because supply trains could not approach, huddled at the bottom of their bomb-shelters 20 feet under the ground while their trenches were blown to nothing. Some companies lost half their men during the bom bardment alone. Underground am munition stores exploded; shelters were ripped up as though they were roofed with paper instead of stone and earth. The world never saw such 1 shell fire. At 9:15 a. m. on the 25th the French infantry charged, and at 9:15 and a half the house-cleaning began. As the attackers entered what was left of the German first line trenches, the clean-up began with the bayonet ing all remaining Germans who w»ffcr ed resistence and making prisoners of those who surrendered. Then the Merchandise and Service If a man is going to succeed in business he must give the public the best value and service lor the price. It is our aim to succeed and we want to help you do the same,when , it comes to getting satisfaction in YOUR faith in clothing. Our aims are in harmony yourself, in your on this Subject. ability to do and dare is the stronger when We represent a complete line ol 11 », i Men’s Furnishings that is the next outwardly evidence the zeal, the ambition you thing to perfection. We invite you feel within you. That's come jn and investigate our one of the very qualities you are sure to find in Stock. We won t ask you to buy, Schoenbrun you 11 want ta shayne-nrun Let us get together on the cloth Tailoring . * ing subject. —come in and let us show - — you the others. Get posted on the new fabrics and the HHl JL 7 new fashions. You won’t be I Up l\/l inPK Q urged to order—you’ll want 1 IVIII LCI O IKJl C to, when you hear the very frank j. cotter, Manager treasonable prices. Phone Adams 131 Seward, Alaska We are at your service. MDon t For*#t the Parc#l Po,r | dead were thrown out and the position turned around for possible counter attack. The dead Germans were buried in their own trenches. I have heard that 20,000 to 25,000 bodies were thus dis posed of, while bodies a*, the bottom of cave-ins, under destroyed bomb shelters and in like places were left in the graves of their choosing. Brand new cemeteries were made for the French who fell. The new graves are curious. Then being no . time to place crosses or head stones to mark the graves, a wine bottle, with name and matriculation number corked inside, is stuck neck down in the middle of each new mound. In cases where identification was impos sible, the dead arc buried in a common grave with some such mark as this serving for all: “Here lie the bodies of 27 French soldiers who died for their country.” The dead removed, the cleaning-up continues. Broken transports, shat tered wheels splintered planks, cloth ing, German and French helmets, am munition,guns, swords, books, shoes, revolvers and numberless other odds and ends including arms and legs lie promisculously about on the churned up earth. These all must be disposed of. This is a sanitary war. If there have been no plagues it is because the cleaning-up has been thorough. All this gruesome collection is disposed of hygienically. Useable material is parked ami sent to the rear; guns are stocked in orderly piles according to make; bayonets and scabbards and swords and head-gear and all the rest, ditto. The stuff is listed and shipped and receipts and way-bills are afr properly made out and signed and sealed. Then the advancing army settles down in its new home. It had made ■ a fairly comfortable place during the months of waiting, but all this has, been left behind, and a new start is made. The former quarters of Ger man officers and men are transform ed, with much scouring and furbish ing and disinfecting, into quarters for the French officers and men. Today the Battlefield of Cham pagne is comparatively clean. But one still occasionally stumps one’s toe ! against something or other very un- i pleasant. FOR SALE: English Setter bird dog pup at $25 each. The best of breeding. Eligible for registration. Write M. D. Snodgrass, Kodiak. Ladies’ and childrens’ furnishings, at Butt’s. SERIAL NO. 01788 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR United States Land Office, Juneau, Alaska, June 22. 1915. SOLDIERS ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD ENTRY BY ASSIGNEE. NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO ENTER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NORTH ALASKA SALMON COMPANY, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, and whose post office address is 110 Market Street, San Francisco, California, as assignee of Joseph R. llarrigan, administrator of the Estate of Kyhran Horan, deceased, being entitled to the benefits of section 2306 of tiie Revised Statutes of the United States and amendments thereto, has applied to make entry of that tract of land described as U. S. Survey No. 914, and situated on the West bank of Kvichak River, ; approximately six miles above the mouth of the Alagnak River, District of Alaska, and in Latitude 69 deg. 06 min. 60 sec. North and in Longitude 166 deg. 41 min. 44 sec. West, and moro^particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at Corner No. 1 of said survey, whence U. S. L. M. R. G. M. bears S. 40 dog. 07 rain. W. 20.70 chs. distant, thence East, var. 23 deg. 10 min. E.t 3.00 chs. to corner No. 2, meander corner at line of moan high water on Kvichak River, whcnco witness corn-^ er bears West 1.82 chs. distant; thence, meandering along line of mean high water on i west shore of Kvichak River, var. 22 deg. E., ' N. 28 deg. 26 min. E. 7.20 chs.; N. 29 deg. 64 ! min. E. 3.60 chs.; No. 30 deg. 29 min. E. 6.86 ! chs. to Corner No. 3, meander corner, whenco witness corner bears West 1.93 chs., distant; Thence West, var. 26 deg. E. 11.69 chs. to corner No. 4 ; thence South, Var. 20 deg. E. 16.35 chs. to corner No. 1, the place of be- . ginning, containing 11.14 acres; As additional to Homestead Entry No. 1446 made August 26, 1866*, by Kyhran Horan, at Ionia, Michigan Land Office, for the S. V6 °f SE. of Sec. 30, township 18 north, range 10 west, containing 80 acres. Any and all persons claiming adversely said tract of land, or any portion thereof, are hereby notified that unless their adverse claims are filed during the period of publica tion and posting, or within 30 days thereafter, they will be barred by virtue of the statute and the regulations thereunder. It is hereby ordered that this notice be published for the statutory period of 60 days in the SEWARD GATEWAY, a newspaper of general circulation printed at Seward. Al aska, published nearest the land applied for. C. B. WALKER, Register . First publication Nov. 11, 1916. Last publication Jan. 25, 1916. LUMBER! Alaska Lumber Made by Alaska Labor DIMENSION LUMBER in Any Quantity Now . DRESSED LUMBER' in Any Quantity Soon -THE SEWARD SAWMILL CO. A. f. RASMUSSEN, Prop. Phone Kenai 2 ■ r.,— — ^ .. USE THE PHONE ALA8KA ELECTRIC CO. S. M. (1RAFF President and General Manager i ' NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 1 Notice is hereby Riven that the lands cm j braced In U. 8. Survey No. 241 and U. 8. ' Survey No. 242, patented by the United States i to William B. Poland and transferred by deed I to Frederick William Low, and the lands em braced In U. S. Survey No. 249, patented by the United Stntcs and conveyed to F. G. Jem mett, situate on the North shoro of Resurrec tion Bay and bounded as follows, to-wlt: on the South by Resurrection Bay. on the West by Rudolph homestead, on the North by Fred Johnson homestead claim and Resurrection river, and on the East by U. S. Survey No. 722. commonly known as the Revell homestead, are private lands, and ALL PLRSONS are warned not to trespass thereon, or cut or re move wood or timber therefrom. Dated. Seward. Alaska, the 4th day of December, 1915. . _ F. G. J EMMETT ami FREDERICK WILLIAM LOW By S. O. MORFORD, Ajccnt. First publication Dec. 8, 1916. Last publication Fob. 9. 1910. L. It. c! S.’ ! Kd,nbunrh L. F. I*. & S.. Glasgow. J. M. SLOAN, M. 0., C. M. OVER GATEWAY Office Hours,J to 3 and 7 to 8 P. M. Form Kin,y or Nomk. LEANOER L. JAMES, JR. ATTORNEY AT LAW Over Bank of Seward SEWARD. - ALASKA ROMIG & ROMIG REALJ2STATE AGENTS House* for Krnt, Kents Collected, Titles Examined, I^ois for Sale. Large Listing. Phone Main 48 Seward, Alaska. Miller’s Barber Shop We make a specialty of removing warts, etc. Hot and Cold BATHS Always Ready Seward Water and Power Company John A. Nelson, Manager Office—Bank of Seward Building SEWARD. - ALASKA THE ALASKA HOUSE ANCHORAGE, ALASKA Warm Rooms First-Class Rates Reasonable BILLY PETERSON & 0. TIRCATTE, Props. IglooNo. 9. Order of Pioneers Meets the First and Third Tuesday NUhts of each Month at the Pioneer Hall, J. LINDLEY GREEN. ISAAC EVANS, President. Secretary. HARVEY & CO. Contractors and Builders ESTIMATES FURNISHED Near Primary School, Second Ave., Seward # • _ J. H. ROMIG. M. D. 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