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lewariiPailtjMettiar OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904 Published daily except Sunday by THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY Entered in the postoffice at Seward, Alaska as second-class mail matter. H. V. HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietors E. F. Jessen, Editor and Manager " ADVERTISING RATES Per single column, one to six issues, per inch --- Per single column inch, per month ....—. Legal Notices, per line per issue ....— -. Classified Advertisements, per line, per issue .. Notice of Final Proof Notices -•.-. Notice to Creditors Notices .-.-.-. _$ .50 _ 3.50 _ .15 _ .10 _ 12.00 _ 15.00 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily, by carrier, per month ...... Daily, by mail, per month .... Daily, by mail, per year ... .— _$ 1.25 _ 1.00 _ 10.00 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights for republication of special dispatches herein are reserved. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ~~ THE NEW CONQUEROR A strangely equipped United States battleship docked at Seward this morning. From outward appearances she might have been just an ordinary vessel. In fact she was a former brigantine, built in 1894, and looks rather odd in comparison with the U. S. S. Pannsylvania, with her steel decks bristling with powerful guns. Unlike the big fortresses of the navy, this ship's “heavy stuff” was concealed 'tween decks, while her lighter ordnance was stowed in staterooms and here and there in convenient nooks and crannies. Yet her armament is the most pow erful of any warship afloat Her long-range guns are school houses! Her strategists are school teachers. Her enemy is ignorance—the arch-enemy of mankind; the blight which fills the prisons and enslaves the individual. This most powerful of Uncle Sam's naval fleet is the Bureau of Education ship Boxer. She is the product of the new age of warfare against the primitive peoples of the nation. She is born of the new era, post-dating the period when regiments of soldiers marched against the frontier to subdue the primitive natives which peopled it. In those earlier days it cost approximately $1,000,000 to kill one native. It costs the United States only $130,920 per year to salvage 3,912 native children and shape them for future citizenship. That is the average annual en rollment in the native schools of Alaska, and it is in de fense of these children of nature that the peculiarly armed warship now lying at the dock is now awaiting the zero hour when the battle of the schoolhouses will open. What changes have come! The roar of musketry is smothered beneath the chime of the bell calling the new army into action wherein the white and the brown man are marching shoulder to shoulder against the common enemy. When a Chinaman desires to write the-word “peace” he draws an idiograph of a roof with a woman under it; his sign for “marriage” is a roof with a woman and a pig under it. The pig makes it harder for friend wife to de termine who is making the noise the baby or friend husband shoveling rice into his face with chopsticks. A school girl writes to ‘‘Mr. Fixit” of the Seattle Star to know “when the prohibition law passed several years ago, will go into effect in Seattle.” The Chinese believe there are no thieves and robbers in America. They must have purchased all of their wear ing apparel before coming to the States. China has adopted the expediency of lopping off the heads of Bolshevist agitators. And still they maintain that we cannot learn from the heathen. To some Legislators the bill they are most interested in is the one they will present to the Treasurer for their per diem and trimmings at the end of the session. When the Chinese get through with their fighting, those foreign concessions will look like some of the gar ments returning from the mangles. #v MORE TANK CARS EN ROUTE Two more tank cars are en route now for the Standard Oil Company, stated W. C. Erwin, local manager, who, accompanied by Mrs. Erwin and baby returned home yesterday from a six weeks vacation in Seattle. When asked about contemplated work or improvements during the present year Mr. Erwin said some were being con sidered but that announcement as to their scope would be announced at a later date. Private Wayne O. Galloway, of the local U. S. Signal Corps, returned yesterday from Haines where he un derwent entry examinations for West Point. He was absent a month. MILLIONS OF SNOWBALLS A weird and fantastic sight occur ed on the beach near the radio sta tion the latter part of last week dur ing the heavy snow storm and gales. Balls of snow, thousands of them, from the size of a hand grenade to demensions three and four feet in circumference literally covered the beach rolling hither and yon at the will of the storm. In attempting to roll them by hand they immediately broke, it was reported, the bottoms being heavy and the top portions ex tremely light. The local kiddies overlooked a wonderful opportunity to stage a sham battle for there was ammunition, already made, to have lasted them for days. IT THE HOTELS VAN GILDER Louis Vinton, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Heaston, Moose Pass; Samuel Asp, Seattle; Dr. F. E. Warner, Seat tle; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scully, Sea tie; H. B. Lee. Seattle; L. M. Jesson, San Francisco; Mrs. Vaughm, Tokotna; Dr. Haverstock, Anchorage; Wm. Murray, Anchorage; Gertrude Gamble, Juneau; S. Svendsen, Geo. M. Heldman, Nenana; Mrs. Jack Neilson, Mrs. Kate Woolard, Hot Springs; J. J. Chiiisholm, Oscar Web er, Fairbanks; J. A. Denny, Seattle; Eva Hermay, Mrs. M. A. Flecken stein, Geo. S. Moshier, Matanuska; Harry Wertz, Chulitna; D. McDonald, a/. Louise Bissett, Tacoma; Richard Wakelin, Seattle; John W. Jones, Ketchikan; Mr. and Mrs. R. Lund, Miss A. Edw. Richter, Sam Shucklin, B. B. Mozee, Jas. S. Truitt. SEWARD Carl Olson, H. K. Rosenoff, Port land; Mrs. Bessie Anderson, Seattle; Chas. O. Sunstedt, Fairbanks; F. McGarvey, Fairbanks; F. E. Mills, W. F. Deaner, San Francisco; J. Johnson, Roy Foss, Calgary, Alta; P. O. Holm, Stanley Wickersham, Fairbanks; F. M. Wickersham, Sil verton, Ore; Geo. Swanson, Valdez; Louis Nissen, Adolph Olson, Job Mc Girr, M. Carlson, John Harris, J. Ryan, W. A. Smith, O. E. Harrington, J. S. Bartley, John Roderick, F. B. Curran. OVERLAND Walter Isaacson, Val Berger, Fair Banks; E. Ryden, Seattle; Wayne McDonough, J. W. Thompson, J. P. Martin, Seattle; Geo, Kirlinds, Knud Solberg, Juneau; Paul Drouin, Miss Vivian Howard, Takotna; Dan Mc Millan, Moose Pass; Jim Crane, An chorage; Charlie Lee, D. Mackenzie. SEXTON Ernest L. Peck, Nenana; George W. Goff and family, Anchorage; W. W. Flynn, Lakeview; Harry Brown, Riddiford. Incense and Incense Burners. Schal* Ierer’s Alaska Sho*. Just received fresh Aplets in bulk and boxes. Delicious! Candy Cottage. LIBERTY THEATER 8 O'CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK “WITHOUT MERCY” A story half in the Argentine, and half in London Rich in everything to hold your attention, and some thing more The villain’s prey was woman—his goal was gold. The girl was kidnapped, whip-lashed, tied to a tree and left to die; but she survived and devoted her life to revenge. Twenty years later found him at her mercy. Not the common ending A thrilling and wonderfully played melodrama, played by VERA REYNOLDS DOROTHY PHILLIPS ROCKLIFFE FELLOWS ROBERT AMES Something good And there is a Pathe News and a reel of Jokes and a Fable > t \ OVERLAND GRILL > Next to the Overland Hotel Open Day and Night Private Boxes Gabriel Santos Proprietor and Chef < Better Groceries ONLY handle Groceries that are better than usual—in fact ours are the best you can buy. Wholesome food-stuffs pro- \ ductive of tasty,, enjoyable meals—that’s what you get here. Low prices are our usual ones. Seward Trading Co. Inc. Telephone Main 135 for Quality Goods Seattle Ice Cream High Grade Candies Framed Pictures, Curios and Photographs Phone Adams 128 A regular meeting of the Seward City Council takes place this evening beginning at 8 o’clock. Great Britain, already a well wood ed land, is planting 40,000,000 trees to make 1,750,00 acres of new for rests, chiefly of Scots and Corsican j gew&rd Weekly Gateway 12 pages* pine and Norway and Sitka spruce.