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EDITORIAL
What is thought of Seward, ac
cording to the Gateway of that
ci'v by st'iiie people outside Is
show a bv a parcel of papers that
arrived oil yesterday's mail from
Cleveland* Ohio, On the parcel was
">e address: "For the mayor and
'rsding post and post office, Sea
ward, Alaska. Give away to friends
each one a paper." This will re
lieve the gloom of our ignorance in
several ways. ,
Twc states i\i t" e American Un
ion and one Province of the Do
r.)itiiin i . C-.: Ua have entered in
to limited partnership in an uader
'akinjr that i>roniiies well for all.
Tin states ..re Oregon and "Washing
ton; the Province is Bri'ish Colom
and the purpose of the alliance
is to induce tcuristg to come to
rh( P;i i:it- Northwest. With this
on'1 iu view, they have jointly
a .r til to suhs.ribe Sti2,500 a year
U» meet the < ost of advertising.
Here is international idealism made
practical Christian Science Moni
tor.
ALASKA WAS A CHEAP. BUY
The • ri e the Unitod States paid
for the J>auhth West India Islands
amounts to ;.ln>ut ?27r> an acre—ct
$176,000 :i square mile. War prices,
'ruly, and ReOming'y quite high at
>aro it with the two cents an acre,
or $12.50 a square mile, that Alas
ka cost. There is a further con
test in the ccst cf t1 ■»» Danish is
lar 's and th: t of Alaska when we
consider that the United States on
lv secures sovereignty over the
foiratr, title to mist cf the" real
pxcpertv having long ago passed in
to urivate 1; nils, aud the United
Str.tcs recognizes the private xtro
\/ r*v rights. On the other hand,
•he United Suites a'-u-ll.v pu-chas
aska, intluuii . 'he owne-sn,^ .
h» r soil aud other resources.
HoweveT, which, as said, the price
is hi.^t, the United States could not
a '"ord to permit the islands to fall
it tc other hands than her own, aud
sue, therefore, was almost compelle
pay Denmark's price for them. —
C» rdova Times.
NOMF.ITK rl.WS AKKOl'LAXE
SKKYIOK Foil 1'ASSEXGEKS
Elmer I.ee, of Caudle, is at pres
ent working out plans and financing
a company with an object of iiiau
gurutiis? un airopiane service to
handle passengers and mail from
Nome tc other towns of the Seward
peninsula section.
The plans are to finance a com
pauy for $20,000 to secure and op
erate ®a aeroplane catwible of carry
ing live p&neilgeti and several hun
dred pounds of iiia.il from .N'ouie to
outlying districts, and possibly io
Iditarr.d. The amount of $5,000
has already be<n subscribed by the
•residents ;u,d business men of Can
dle towards the project.
Thero died .it Los Angeles, Calif.,
recently, a man v. ho may be remem
bered by early Klondikers. He was
J. B. Barber, and he yas the man
who brought the ii''st linotype in
to Dawson, in the winter of 1901
02. The machine was for th^Daw
son News and ■« s brought via
"U'hitehcrse by sle<L It was con
sidered quite a f at in those days.
—Er. i
~ IT WAS HIS OWN FIGHT.
So Plucky Enver Pasha Wanted the
Scrap All to Himself.
I have known Enver Paslia for some
years now, said a British vice consul
to a traveler who writes to an ex
change. The beginning of our friend
ships dates from the Young Turk revo
lution of 11)08. On the morning that
the revolution broke out In Constanti
nople I went to the bazaars with a
guard of marines to see that the shops !
of British subjects were not attacked, i
I found the Hindus unmolested, but (
the shops of the Armenians, Jews, j
Syrians and Greeks were being ruth- i
lessly plundered, and I observed men |
dead or wounded lying on the pave
ment or across the doors of shops they
had tried to defend. The climax, was
reached when a hulking trooper came
staggering out over the body of a mur
dered Armenian rug merchant, carry- i
ing a sack of loot in one hand and with |
the other dragging by the hair a half
senseless girl of fourteen or fifteen.
Four or five companions, all loot laden
and yelling, reeled after him.
I had been ordered to refrain from
interfering, except to protect British
subjects, and I was still hesitating
when an Ottoman cavalry officer gal
loped up, leaped from his horse and
flung himself upon the soldier. A |
vicious saber cut, shearing through the
turban and scalp, sent the hulking
wretch to the pavement. Instantly the
youthful Galahad stooped to raise the
fainting girl, and it was only by a cat
like spring that he was able<o oppose i
any guard to a descending saber that
one of the other looters aimed at the
exposed back of his neck.
A moment later he had backed into
an angle of the wall and was calmly
I meeting the furious but 111 directed at
| tack of the ruffians.
X wlsQ ttie Egiu couia u;ne gvue vu
to a finish, for so coolly and adroitly
did the young officer stand his ground
that I am confident he would have out
matched his clumsy assailants. But
my jackies got out of hand and start
ed in to equalize a contest that out
raged their sense of sportsmanship.
The Bazoukies scattered at the sight
of the ominously leveled bayonets, but
it was a very angry Turkish officer
who strode up to the big sergeant of
marines and in voluble French de
manded to know what he meant by
mixing up in another man's fight.
"I am K. of the British embassy," 1
interposed in baiting Turkish. "The
marines thought you were in danger
and with the best of intentions tried to
create a diversion in your favor."
"I am Enver, captain in the Young
Turk army," he replied stiffly in pre
cise English. ''In the circumstances
your apology is accepted. As you and
these men appear to have wandered
away from that portion of the city
where protection has been provided
for foreigners, may I not requite your
kindness by conducting all of you safe
ly back to the British embassy?"
And, in spite of my protests to the
contrary, come he did. But lie unbent
on the way, and our meeting of that
morning was the beginning of a warm
friendship.
CHAMPION TREE FELLERS.
Beavers Are More Expert Than the
Best Lumberjacks.
The most exi>ert lumberjack is in
ferior to the beaver as a tree feller.
He cuts down trees in the most scien
tific way. He can fell a -tree so it will
fall toward the pond where he wishes
to construct his home, thus saving
himself unnecessary work.
After the trees are felled the con
struction work begins. He works
chiefly by night, for he is a nocturnal
prowler. The moon is his lantern, the
quiet of the night his inspiration, his
sharp teeth are his hatchet and chisel,
and his little paws are his means of
conveyance, his spade, his hammer *
and his trowel. His bard, flat hairless
and scaly tail is a propeller when
swimming and a balance when he is
cutting timber, for he stands on his
hind legs while gnawing down trees.
The beaver is a strict vegetarian,
:ul his diet consists chiefly of barks,
i, 'uier shoots and water plants.
lo fi >od low grounds the beavers
somet "i' ■ have*to build a dam ex
ceeding li:tv feet in length. They
us ually 1. y it out with the curve fac
ing unstre;::u. The foundation is built
ox poles fot-r or live feet long by an
inch or two thick. These they lay
crosswise, fillii.; all crevices with mud.
The beaver d'gs up mud with his
fore feet, then holds it close to his
breast with his fore legs, swims to
where he has started his dam, and
having deposited it in its proper place
beats the mud down with h'; paws—
not with his tail, as has beet believed
—St. Nicholas.
Henley and Stever.-cn.
W. I'. Henley once met iiobert Louis
Strvwi.-ou rwl found Us friend dis
tressed c he was i: )t a Voltaire
or a Dumas. ;!i-;u '• I ■ Iiud un equip
ment which ave made him
their peer Stevenson put his "failure"
down to the weakness of his lungs
"Perhaps you are right. Louis," said
Henley. "I've always felt that if I had
not been a blessed cripple I could have
taken the earth in my baud and hur'ed
It into tbe sun." ,
Fine Excuse.
The Heavy—I hear that your inter
pretation of Hamlet was hissed at the
High Forehead theater last night. The
Lead—A U, yes! The performance was
billed as a Shakespearean revival and
I suspect some par|jsans of Bacon re
sented it.—Puck.
Willie Did.
Teacher—"Willie, give me a sentence
in which the term hook and eye is
used. Willie—Me an' pa went fishin'.
Ta told me t" ba^t me hook, an' I did.
ELECTING A PRESIDENT.
Power of Congross to Doal With EleO'
toral College Return*.
The electoral commission established
the precedent that congr * should not
seek to go behind certll. .es regularly
submitted by recognised state govern
ments. That principle Is also embod
ied In the Kdmunds law of 1887, which
defined and enlarged the power of con
gress to deal wiih electoral college re
turns.
Tiiis act directs that If any state
sliail have provided by law before the
selection oi electors for tlieJlnul deter
mination of contests reading their
appointment the stute's decision shall
be llnal unless tha regularity of the
state's action is questioned by both
houses of congross.
If two or more returns are received
these rules govern:
First—If the state shall have deter
mined that the votes forwarded In one
of the returns were given regularly
tho.se votes sh;;ll be counted.
Seeond.-If two authorities, each
claiming regularity, shall both have de
termined that the different sets of
voters were regularly cast then con
gress must decide which set shall be
accepted.
Third.—If the state shall have made
no determination, then congress shall
be free to determine. But if the houses
cannot agree the votes of those electors
whose appointment is certified by the
governor shall be counted.
The general purport of the act Is to
recognize the righ*<>f congress to de
cide ull disputed questions In regard to
the counting of electoral votes which
the state lias not decided or has de
cided Irregularly.—Neiv York Tribune.
"Is your husband fond of his work?"
"Very. Especially on the nights any
members of my family are coming to
spend the evening. — Detroit Free
Press.
ORDER AND NOTICE OF SPEC
IAL ELECTION TO BE HELD
ON TUESDAY, MARCH 6th,
1917.
In the Town ol Skagway, Alaska,
Firs* Judicial Division, pursuant
to au order for an election toi
fill a vacancy in th© office of mem
ber of the House of Representor
t'ves from the First Judicial Di
vision of Alaska, made and issued
011 the 31st day of Jamuary 1917,
by the Hon. J. F. A. Strong, Gov
ernor of the Territory ol Alaska,
uuder and hy virtue of the authori
ty conferred on him by section 4,
of the Organic Act, approved March
24, 1912 and in conformity there
with:
Notice Is hereby given that <m
election will be held on Tuesday,
M°.rch. 6, 1917, between the hours
of eight o'clock a. m. and seven
o'clock d. m. o{ said date.
The Common Council of Skag
way, Alaska, having heretofore by
resolution duly designated the vot
ing precinct of said town and the
rolir."' place therein the electors re
siding within tUe boundary of the
s?id Tcwn of Skagway, Alaska,
which are as follows:
Ail cf the platted townsite of
the Town of Skagway, Alaska, will
vote at the Town Hall building
which is located on Lot Three (3)
Biock Eigh' (S) situated on Fifth
Avenue between State and Main
streets the same being the duly
des.gnated poling place in and for
the voting precinct of the Town of
Skagway;
Dated at Skagway, Alaska, Feb
ruary 8th, 1917
(Signed) The Common Council of
the Town of Skagway, Territory
of Alaska.
(Sen!) D. MoKAY, Acting Clerk.
BACK GIVES OUT?
Plenty of Alaskan Readers Have
Tliis Experience
You tax the kidneys — overwork
them—
They can't keep up the continual
strain.
Tho back may give out—It may
ache and pain;
Urinary ^roubles may set in.
Don't wait longer—take Doan's
K'dncy Pills.
40,000 ueople publicly endorse
them.
Can Alaskan readers doubt the
following- evidenoe?
P.. S. Kane, railroad engineer, 719
Seventh St., Sacramento, CaL, says:
"I injured my back and was af
terward subject to a dull, tire
some ache across my loine and in
my icidneys. The jawing and jolt
ing from riding on the engine aggra
vated the trouble. It was hard for
mo to get up after bending over,
owing to the pain and lameness in
my back, ily feet and limbs swell
ed, which showed that my kidneys
were the cause of the trouble,
poan's Kidney Pills gave me prompt
relief. A box or two now and then
keens me feeling all right."
Price 50c at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy —
get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mr. Kane had. Foster-MiH>urn
Co., Prozs., Buffalo, N. Y.
* fraternal orders *
■a I
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Stag wary No. 1,
A. B. meets every sec
ond. &njl fourth! Tues
day- evening at 8:30 p.
m. ssarp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly wtVcme. W. L. Stevansou, Arc
tic Chief. W. K. Burford, Arctic
Kect rder.
Fraternal Order
Eaglets—
Skagway Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Oiiler of
Eagle** meets tlie| first aud third
Wednesday night of oach month at
tnrJi ball on Fifth Avenue. Visit
ing brothers cordially invitefcl to
attend. J. M. Qieiabacn, \V. P.
J. V. Miller, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meet# 2d and 4th
Fri. Ev'gs, of each
montn, Vtsltiog brothers are wel
come.
Harold Talbot, W. M.
AddreBs all communications to
the Secretary.
B. P. O. KLKS
SkagTvay Lodge
No. 421, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday night
&t 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTIIAL, E. R.
r. i. VJkWDEWAJLL, secretary.
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meets fai A. B. Hall first Monday in
every month at 8:80 p. in.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO. Rec. Sec.
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(Formerly of Seattle)
Sprialtet In the treatment of
disease tuid deformities of tl»e|
eye, ear, nose and thi-oat.
Office: Goldstein Building, Ju
neau, Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
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