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.... 1 T'.-V-' •i"- ” " ■' fenmri>|aUt)$atenmij OP SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904 Published daily except Sunday by THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS H. V. HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietors E F. Jessen, Editor and Manager The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republicatiox of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise in this paper and als< the local news published herein. * ■* All rights for republicatiou of special dispatches herein are reserved SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily, by carrier, per montb Daily, by mail, pei month Daily, by mail, per year __I 1.2£ .. l.Ot . . 10.0C Entered in the postoffice at Seward Alaska as second-class mail matter. ADVERTISING RATES $ To 3.50 .1b .10 12.00 15.00 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 _ SEALS AND A MAN’S LIFE A side from his many other duties Capt. 0. A. Johansen, n master of the S. S. Starr and veteran navigator of what is said to be the roughest stretch of water in the world, bar none, takes over the duties of a government cutter as witness Captain Johansen’s recent hunt and dis covery of the gasboat Universe and its crew on Cherikoff Island which small boat was blown ashore in a heavy gale. Each winter it is the same old story of vessels being wrecked and, occasionally, lives lost. It would seem that one of these cutters which, during the summer months patrol the North Pacific could be stationed throughout the winter when they are needed. Is the seal herd more valuable than even one man’s life? Perhaps the countries of Europe are striving for real peace but it would appear, judging from the past, war in the old country is more or less a business proposition. Nations are similar to individuals, when there is nothing ;; to fight about there is no rest until someone starts some thing.And by the same token it is what makes the wheels go round over there. v, They sure treat the commissioners in Russia rough. Yesterday they chopped the head off of one. They haven’t j got that bad in Alaska yet!! KANSAS CITY IS NEXT CONVENTION CITY REPUBEICANS i ) BALLOTING DEADLOCKED FOR HOURS; IS VICTORY FOR CHAIRMAN BUTLER ) WASHINGTON, Dec 7. (/P)—Kan sas City has been chosen as the 1928 republican convention city. The con vention will open at 11 o’clock on the j morning of Tuesday, June 12. The i t i selection was made in the breakup of1 a spectacular 20 ballot deadlock in . the national committee during sever- ! al hours of balloting. The advantage swung; between San Francisco and I Kansas City with several other cities !• trailing with the final vote Kansas 1 City 58, San Francisco, 39, Detroit 4, Chicago 1. The result represented a hard fought victory for Chairman ! Butler. BUILD II SUBARCTIC RAILROAD III CANADA FORT CHURCHILL, Dec. 7# (/P)— Work haa been resumed on the Hud son's Bay Railway, a sub-Arctic line which is expected to bring Cankdian j grain fields 1,000 miles nearer to i Europe and to open a way to the; highly mineralized regions of North ern Canada. Observers with aneye to the future see in the caribou herds of the Barren Lands a possible sup ply of meat. Chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. 5± JSiUA. 'O’JHifll! 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X Wa^1 h°w other smokers are changing to Chesterfield! -awmmA’av. «•■ WAwCWWWWajjD^^jyy .^.wvw^owpooeoowoooftjoift^sgsW'' .<.wwvwi»liMieMSgy SH8MMw<«wtc»w COL* MINE WIN OradTH OF RECENT SICCO-lliCETTI COSE DENVER, Dec. 7. (>P)—The mine war in the Colorado fields is the di rect outgrowth of the Sacco-Vanzettl incident | The radicals picked the weakest I sp t in the nation to assert their j strenght and the miners were caught i '■■ with no one to represent [t em but the Industrial Workers of ; the Word which the State refuses to deal with, it was revealed. ERWER FROM PERT IS USED IN NEW PERNT tEN7VHRAD, Dec. 7. (>P)—Peat 'von!d be used for fuel in a new electric power station to be built here at a cost of 60,000,000 rubles under tentative plans. The statio* ’’d have a total capacity of 240,000 ° or use of Leningrad indus *rd a railroad. Engineers say ' instruction would be about of projected hydroelectric ‘ o-s w' ile the output would be fw e as great. tides * TOMORROW'S wrter hgh water • w '.ter ' : nr’ low water 11:52 a. m. 11:50 p. m. 5:13 a. m. 6^56 p. m. 1 • m m mmmmm*