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®ht rut aril ©at r until Published Daily Except Sunday by The Seward Gateway Publishing Co. BERNARD M. STONE, President. Subscription Rates: Daily—One dollar per month Ten cents tho copy. By mail, $10 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. Al.\SKA. SMI RDAY. JCLY S, 1016. It is very evident now that our old friend Villa is alive and terribly active and that some more troubles aie bound to arise. He is a peculiar individual and belongs to the fifteenth or sixteenth century rather than to the present, indeed till Mexico is still very much medie\al. Were Mexico a prosperous country with great manu factories and industries ot all sorts it would he much nioie peaceful. Clearly modern industry and scrapping do not make good bedfellows. Not that a country with capital ists will not light. It w ill, but its light will be to secure more capital. People like the Mexicans are really more to be admired in one respect than some ot the great pow ers that tight each other for increased commerce. Even Villa has something of the nature of the picturesque mar auders of old and it would be impossible to have avoided a feeling of sympathy with him had he only confined his activities to his own country and avoided murdering Americans. Villa belongs to the mental and moral type from which a Robin Hood or a Jack Cade may be produced but never a Napoleon or a Lincoln. He is doomed by his verv nourishing to be nothing but a glorified sort of free hooter, but even at that he will live for centuries, no doubt, in the traditions and folklore of his people. W ho can say, anyhow, that he is not just as good a man as the bewhisk ered and wily Carranza whose fortunes he made. Had Villa been the citizen of some remote country. Had he been a Sicilian bandit, a free lance of the Tyrol, a maraud er of the Persian desert or something like that American literature would be produced in which lie would be the chief character, and a character that would by no means lack virtues and lovable faults. It is easy to make a thing far off look beautiful. This paper now has on hand quite a stock of original “poetry” contributed by amateurs. No matter how much one writes about the uselessness of writing “poems” the supply continues. The real trouble is that the people who do not know enough about the art of writing poetry natur ally are the people who cannot discern the difficulties of the art. Everything that looks easy is supposed to be easy. Even in prose writing of the ordinary kind there is something required and the higher class of prose is so grand and difficult an art that one only begins to discern what it means after years of effort. People who can just string verses and believe them poetry are in the same class as the man who might call himself an astronomer be cause he could tell the difference between the moon and the planet Mars. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM STANDARD ROAD OF THE WEST -AFFORDS SUPERIOR SERVICE between SEATTLE and the chief cities of the EAST AND SOUTH Lf.MlTKD TUVIN'S Ml A , m s'.l’.l'PINC M rt*MM()|) VTIONS SKCOXD To \( »\» THROUGH CARS 1’XDKR AUTOMATIC KLFCTIUC "SAFETY ' SIGNAL FRt>TKCTIOX all the wa.v to CHICAGO. DENVER AND KANSAS CITY LOW ROUND TRIP FARES SE4TTLE TO CHICAGO, NEW YORK and main points of tin* East _ in elTect until September 30 PLAN YOUR TRIP NOW UNION Ask Alaska S. S. Co. or IV \ N. agents SKW VUD ALASKA for fo 1 >. u ■ *>- u .cl. • or u D API CIO H. A. LAWRENCE r Mil M|p THAYKLIXG 1 IKIGIIT AND 1WSSKX*. 1 R AG I XT. OVOTCll 1* O Box Hi, 111 s->’.v i; t str« et 310 I till JCXEAT BE PREPARED When a man begins to outfit to go out in the hills, his first consideration should be QUALITY. We are outfitting men with quality clothing at encouraging prices Everything in the Clothing line for men The MINERS STORE FRANK J. COTTER. Buy a Home in Woodrow The Beautiful Suburb Of Seward WOODROW is located 6% miles from Seward. The Govt Railroad runs through this beautiful tract. Woodrow lies near Bear Lake the famous fishing ground of Seward. Woodrow may he said to be in the warm belt as the hills are so situated as to shelter this tract trom the winter winds. Woodrow is situated just this side of the Bungalow and plotted on the most desirable portion of the Johnson Homestead. A tract in Woodrow is equivalent to more than 12 lots in Seward. The price is so low that no one can complain. You can buy a tract of about one third the size of a block in Seward for $125. — Some fractional tracts arc selling as low as $25—$50 and $75. The title is clear—A warranty deed, first handed. Woodrow is plotted in tracts situated each on a street and corner on an alley. Each plot is easy to access. Woodrow is a beautifully wooded tract and a veri table park. ROMIG & ROMIG a.e handling this property and will he pleased to interest you in the best olfer for a suber ban home ever made in Seward. ADDRESS:— Fourth Avenue, Seward, Alaska. PHONE ADAMS 48 PHONE ADAMS 93 MEAT ON THE TABLE IS A GREAT EVENT By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD (Special to Gateway by United Press) ROTTERDAM, July 1. — Many families in Germany go meatless for days and weeks at a time. This 1 have from a neutral business man of Dresden. “It’s as bad as housecleaning to get meat. It upsets our whole household economy as well as our financial economy. It’s a dreadful operation and we don’t go through it oftener than we have to. In the last sixteen days we have had meat twice. “Fish, new asparagus just in the j market, potatoes, spinach and dry,! crumbling war bread made largely of potato flour, make up our list of edi bles. We get so tired of it we hate to go to the table. Sometimes we even get so tired of it we decided we’ll have meat. Then there’s trouble." He was requested to go into the de tails of a meat purchase in a Ger man town. “Well, it’s like this,” he said, light ing a good cigar; (in some mysterious way a huge shipment of Havana cigars direct from Cuba reached Ber lin the other day); “When we decide to have meat my wife and I talk it over the night before. If the next day is Tuesday or Friday we can’t buy anything but fish, for those are meatless days. “My wife calls our maid, and says: “ ‘Elizabeth, we want you to buy a beefsteak for us tomorrow. ‘Eliza beth frowns and goes out. “This means that Elizabeth must get up at four o’clock the next morn ing ami go to the nearest butcher shop and stand in line until her turn comes to buy meat or until the butcher comes to the door and says to the waiting line: ‘I am all sold out ot meat.’ “It is always a four or five hour job I for her, unless she wants to get into the line at 1 o’clock in the morn ing, as some maids do.” IS BAD WEATHER DUE TO THE WAR IN EUROPE? The Springfield Republican has gone back a hundred years, 1816, and digs up the following summer record of that year: “Some of our contemporaries are speculating over the possibilities that the year 1916 will be summerless. The year 1816, after the disastrous end of the Napoleonic w’ars, had scarcely enough summer to be worth mentioning and the theory seemed to be that the terrible bombardments on European battlefields are bound to have a similar effect upon the weath or this year. “June 1810, we are told was * month of frost and ice. New Eng land, Ohio and Pennsylvania wen covered with snow. June 17 there was a great snowstorm and Hocks ol sheep were overwhelmed and sulToeat-. ed. The ice was an inch thick on the ! Fourth of July and August 20 wit-1 nessed a heavy fall of snow. Not until September were normal condi-, tions restored. “The notion is that history will re- [ peat itself after the passage of a century and the alarming thought in this connection is that if the amount j of explosives used in the Napoleonic | war caused all that derangement of meterological conditions, then the amount used in the present war is likely to keep the temperature zero all summer. If that should prove to be the case it is surely high time for universal disarmament.” Duchess Trousers—for work and dress. $1.50 to $0.00. 10c a button— $1.00 a rip. Drown & Hawkins, “Quality First." Jimmie, the Messenger. Main 10. Any time. Service P. D. Q. Waterfill & brazier whiskey at “The Branch." Mackinaws, Panxs, Socks, Boots, Packs, Underwear. Anything you need. SENVARD COMMERCIAL CO. Special mail delivery. Phone Main 13 for particulars. tf “Something new." "lliluilla Tea" —makes a pleasing and satisfying drink. Three sizes—25c—40c—7bc. Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First." CATHOLIC CHURCH Sundays: Communwn Mass at 8:00 a. m. Mass and Sermon at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school after Mass. Rosary, Instruction and Benediction at 7:30 p. m. Weekdays: Daily Mass at 7:30 a. m. Launch “Pioneer” Tom Parker with the Launch “Pioneer” will hereafter be at Kern Creek on the day fol lowing the day that train leaves Seward prepared to take freight and Passengers for Anchorage. F. It <\ IV I.,., , F k c s. i Filinbunrh. F. F I*. \ S.. U kisr'ow. J. M. SLOAN, M. 0., C. W. OVER GATEWAY Office flours, I to 3 and 7 to 8 P. VI. Fokmkki.y or Xomk, J. H. ROMiG, M. D. OFFICE FOURTH AVENUE Phones: Residence Adams 48 Office Adams 93 Hours: 10 to 12 a.m. 2 to 4 p.m. DR. O. J. KEATING Dentist Oft ice Over Harriman National Bank. Horns 9 A M. to 5 l’. M. I l„ l,. .JAM*:*, JH. ,1. K. WOOLI<KY JAMES & WOOLLEY Attorneys and Counsellors at law Over Bank of Seward SEWARD, - ALASKA ROMIG & ROMIG HEAL ESTATE AGENTS Houses for Kent, Kents Collected, Titles Examined, Lots for Sale. Large Listing, 1 Phone Main 48 Seward, Alaska. Send Us Your Cheek ...ASSAYS... Falkenburg 6- Laucks Ore Testing and Milling Gold anil Silver, fl.00 Copper 1.50 Lead 1.00 Seattle, Wash. “Analyze Anything* USE THE PHONE ALASKA ELECTRIC CO. S. M. GRAFF President anu General Manager Miller’s Barber Shop Shower Baths Ladies’ Shampooing Hot and Cold BATHS Always Ready HOTEL SEWARD Sll THIRD AVE. Arctic Club Illdif. SEATTLE. WASIL ZBINDEN BROS.. Props. with Bath*81.50* Special Weekly Rales THE ALASKA HOUSE ANCHORAGE, ALASKA Warm Rooms First-Class Rates Reasonable BILLY PETERSON & D. TliRCATTE, Props.’ HOTEL OVERLAN I li L. Will ITEM ORE, PROP. Headquarters for Minin# Men SEWARD, - - ' ALASKA I Pioneer Hotel F. B. CANNON, Prop. Knik Alaska KNIK’S LEADING HOTEL NO I!AI i Accommodations for Ninety (tuosts Large (Joneral IA)bb.y Private Lobby for Ladies Best Paths : : Phst Tkkatment Bksi Accommodations AOELMAN & QlilLTY milk & cream SfWABP PAIBV Why Not Try Car Buttermilk ? MILK STATIONS AT BOTH BUTCH E R SHOPS Rainier Buffet THE BEST IN EVERYTHING WINES LIQUORS CIGARS LOUVRE BLDG. OPP. A. B. HA1 L Eastern Trips by Western People Akt M\Dl Him I?tl OR! A(t ST < OMf OR! -VIA THE GREAT NORTHERN RAHWAY To St. Paul, Chicago and the Last. To Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and the South. Tin: H.’if i sr.\N!)\::i) and t«>:*k?st s j: im.ni n< and COMI*A It i'M ' N I’ Oi’.SKKVA i‘i* »N ' AKS It) Portland and California by Rail and Ocean— Steamships “Cireat Northern" and "Northern Pacific’’ ( '.Yiuplete Inform i' Ion from D > ’ ’ StrrinHh'.p Acmdv «>»y A. S. I>AU TRICK. Travel in >r I rei^ht anJ Passenger \*»ent, Room IvS, Vali*.1 tine lUiilUinjr, Juneau r. J. Mo Oil V I ' ;" *’ A i . S * <t: ; :: m: l > i : • ». >(*:»! ’ !»*. PACIFIC ALASKA N4VI0A1IO8 COMPANY "THE ADMIRAL LINE" Vessels leave (irand Trunk Dock. Regular sailings each Sundae II a. m. Sailings third Sundae calls at Kodiak .... EXTRA SIIRN ICI: Admiral \V A I SON KV A NS FARR ACil'T s ^ AROI.IM: S S. Veld LSI F\ RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Manager. WAYNE BLUE. Local Agent. Low Round Trip Fares Fast ;£ ‘MILWAUKEE* June 1st to September 30th. 1916 Hot urn Limit three months, hut not beyond <>et. .'*lst. In ‘THE OLYMPIAN”—* 111! COLUMBIAN” Two Fast ALL•STKLL Trains every day For information and literature write A. H. McDonald. Alaska Steamship Co., Seward. Alaska WAYNE BLUE, The Admiral Line, Seward. Alaska Agents for tin4 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railwa) A. K. Harris, Traveling Pass. Agent. ,Tuueati, Alaska ORE TREATED H. E. ELLSWORTH, Assayer and Chemist A Complete Equipment for .Mining AlrKkd and Technical Determinations Ov"UI filU*3l\U FURNITURE AND HARDWARE COAL MINER'S AND COLD MiMfR’S SUPPLIES Doors & Windows Lanff’s llanffes 1 XL Parlor Heaters Gasoline Stoves Cook Stoves Camp Stoves Air Tiffht Heaters Oil Stoves Alcohol Stoves Spark Fluffs Jump Coils Batteries Granite Ware Aluminum Ware Asbestos P & B Paper Maithoid Rooflnff Tar Paper Deafeninff felt Weather Strips Gasoline Gas Kmrine Oil Marine Kn^ine On Valve Oil Klaine Oil Floor Oil Linseed Oil Cup Grease Paints Lacqueret Paint Asphaltum Paint Brushes Varnishes Turpentine Japan Denatured Alcohol Coal Tar Lamps Lanterns Tents PltONt M\DI$0N 87 Rifles Shot Guns Ammunition Fishing Tackle Giant Fowder Caps Fuse Bench Forges Blacksmith’s Goal Bellows Wheel Barrows Cutlery Fire Clay Fire Brick Lime Cement Glass Hope Mercury Seine Twine J. L. GRAEF