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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-06-21
(By ellison Gardner)

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The fooC
Spectator is now playing tag with
government officials. The question
is, can he be caught? The fooC
Spectator is primarily responsible fol
the high cost of living.
2 A lot has been said and writer
about crop shortage, and there is {
good deal of truth in what has beer
said, but the Spectator is a much
more important factor than the short.
age.
For instance, the federal trade com
mission has been informed that the
pack of canned goods last year was
about the sire of the record pack for
20 years. Yet canned goods have adj
vanced by leaps and bounds, and what
the producer sold for IS cents is now
selling for S2.S5.
A carload of peas left California a
few days ago. The first profit added
to the car was 500. Since then $500
have been added to that car and it is
still on its way to the consumer.
There is a pound of butter in cold
storage in Boston which went in at
% cents. Its market quotation now
is As cents, and this profit has been
already absorbed by some half dozen
middlemen.
These middlemen enjoy such desig-
nations as buyers, brokers, jobbers,
wholesalers and transportation agency
the warehouse trade and the wholesale
distributor are also spectators, and
these all add big profit between pro-
ducer and consumer.
The little, corner grocer is not the
criminal. Evidences of crime may
generally be found in the quantity of
loot possessed If the corner grocer
were adding the big profits which
make cost of living high he would be
living in the big brown stone house.
If he is he will bear watching. If he
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FOOD SPECTATORS, PLAYING TAG
WITH U.S.; CONTROL NECESSARY

is not, look for the man who is.
The government knows the price of
coal is due to two things: monopoly
of the coal mines by the little group
of owners and a combination between
the owners and certain railroad inter
ests which transport their coal.
Prosecutions under the Sherman act
have failed to relieve the coal Situa-
ton, as they have failed to relieve the
monopoly situation generally.
The only answer remaining is to
take over the railroads as a war meas
ure and to undertake, also, govern
ment control of warehouses and dis
tribution.
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IN PROBATE COURT
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE TO
CREDITORS

All creditors of the estate of Bob
Labich, deceased, are hereby notified
that l, Radona Milosivich, have been
duly appointed administrator Of the
estate of Bob Labich, deceased, and
all persons having claims against said
estate are notified TO present them t.
me, as the office f ]. Lindley Gree?
over Bank of Scwa,d, within six
months from the date of the first pub
LEGATION of this notice
Date of first publication June Sth
1917.
RADONA MILOSIVICH,
Administrator.
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION.
The town of Seward, Alaska, Plaintiff
VS..
George Turner, O. G. Labaree and
Alexander H. Bradford, Defendants.
Cause No. S-104
Summons by publication.

IN THE NAME OF THE PRESI-
DENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
To the defendants in the above en-
titled cause, Geore Turner, o. G. Lab
aree and Alexander Bradford,
GREETING:
You, and each of you, are hereby
summoned and required to appear in
the District Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Third Judicial Division, with
in thirty days after the completion of
the period of publication of this sum-
mons, to-wit: within thirty days after
the fourth day of May A. d. 1917, and
answer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff, which has been filed
in the above entitled court, by which
plaintiff seeks an order and judgment
of the court for the condemnation of
Lots numbered One %, Two (2),
Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six
CO, and Seven CD, in Block Six CO.,
in the Town of Seward, in Kenai Re-
cording District, Third Judicial Divi-
sion of the Territory of Alaska, as
shown by and according to the map
and plat of the Frank l.. Ballaine
Townsite of the Town of Seward, AL
aska, and appropriate said Lots to
public use, as a public park with
street and driveway therein, for the
town of Seward, and to continue Rail
road Avenue from its. intersection
eth the south end Of the Alley in said
Block Six, in a northeasterly direction
to intersect with Adams Street in said
Town of Seward at the East end of
said Street;
That unless you so appear and an
swer the complaint of plaintiff, with
in the time above stated and show
cause why such order should not be
made, plaintiff will take judgment
against you, and apply to the court
for an order of the court, condemning
the above named lots to be appropri-
ated by the plaintiff for the uses and
purposes above stated, and for a
further order of the court, ap-
pointing three appraisers, as is
provided by law, to appraise,
the said lots, and each of them,
and to assess the benefits and dam
ages, to each Of you and report to the
court their findings, and that upon the
payment of the amount or amounts
found to be due each of you by said
appraisers, into the above entitled
court to be paid to you and each of
you as therein provided that an order
be made by the court directing you
and each of you to execute to plaintiff
deed conveying any and all interest
you and each of you or any one of you
may have in any one or more or all of
said lots, as the case may be, and will
apply to the court for such other and
further order or orders in the prem
ises as to the court may seem meet
and proper.
Witness the Honorable FRED M.
BROWN, JuS"e of the above entitled
court, this, the 18th day of February,
A. D. 1917.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By ROBERT L. VIEWER,
Deputy.
Date of first publication, March e.
1917.
(sEAL.l ( Sd
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STRIKE SEAM OF
ANTHRACITE IN
BERING FIELD

KATALLA, June II, 1917.-(By
mail. Word has been received from
the Alaska Petroleum & Coal COM
pany's coal mine in the Boring field,
that the main standard size gangway,
upon which they have been working,
has reached the No. vein of coal,
which is four feet in width and of
the best anthracite quality.
During a quarrel between two Greek
fishermen at the Chilcat cannery, one
Of the men was stabbed in the hip.
His tobacco can, which happened to be
in his pocket, prevented any serious
injury, but the mans hand was badly
cut as he tried to grasp the knife. A
warrant has been sworn out for the
arrest OF the aSSailant.
Charles Bethel and Miss Jennie
Rosenberger were quietly married re-
Gently.
Three black bears were killed on the
railroad track back of town and Joe
Waldrom, stepping out to take look
at the weather the other night, came
face to face with a huge black bear
on his front porch He shot the ami
NAL and secured a very fine skin
Mrs. Janet Errusard has announced
the engagement Of her daughter,
Adele, to Harry Anderson Of this
place.
The Admiral Farragut, due tonight,
will unload 21O tons of rails for the
Alaska Anthracite Railroad company
at Goose City, and the work of laying
rails will begin Immediately.
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To NJ. lMHOFF, 4. j. lMHOfF, a.
NJ. IMHOFF, HARRY V. MILLER, H.
D. THIELE, ESTATE OF II. d.
THIELE, Deceased, and AUGUST
MELHORN, your respective heirs and
assigns:
You are hereby notified and will
take notice that we, the subscribers,
H. p. Salisbury and A. A. Helm, have
expended, during the year 1914, the
sum Of Three thousand, forty-six dol
lars and twenty ($3,O46.2O) cents,
during the year 1915, the sum OF
Six hundred ($6OO00) dollars, during
the year 1916, the sum of Two thou
sand, five hundred and sixteen dollars
and seventy (2,516.70) cents in labor
and improvements upon each OF the
following described mining claims, to-
wit: OPHIR QUARTZ MINING
CLAIM, COLUMBIA QUARTZ MIN
ING CLAIM, BESSY PLACER MIN
ING CLAIM, MILL SITE and WA
TER SITE OR LOCATION, all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Ju-
dicial Division, Territory Of Alaska,
The notices of location thereof are of
record in the office Of the United
States Commissioner and District Re-
corder for Kenai Recording Precinct
and District, at the Town of Seward,
Territory of Alaska, to which office
reference is hereby made for a more
particular description of said mining
properties. Said expenditures were
made for the purpose Of holding pos
sessory rights and title to said min
ing claims under the provisions OF
section twenty three hundred and
twenty-four of the Revised Statutes
of the United States and the amend
ments thereto, section one hundred
and thiry-six of the Compiled Laws Of
Alaska, 1913, and the Session Laws Of
the Territory of Alaska, providing for
the annual labor upon mining claims.
If you fail and refuse or fail or re-
fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, If per-
sonal service be had, or within ninety
900 days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-owner,
your respectice interest in and to said
mining claims, and each and every
one Of them, will become the property
of the subscribers, who are your CO.
owners, and who have made the eX-
penditures and improvements as
aforementioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute, Compiled Laws and
Sessions Laws.
A. A. HEN
H. P. SALISBURY.
First publication, March q, 1917.
Last publication, May %, 1917.
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AVIATOR FROM
ALASKA LOST ON
FRENCH FRONT

KATALLA, June 17.-(By mail.)-
Philip, Smith. we'll known in this vicin-
ity as the manager of the old Alaska
Oil & Refining company, and now a
lieutenant in the doth Royal flying
squadron, in France, is reported to be
among the missing.
--..-~-
Wanted.-Young woman as helper
in camp kitchen at Mile II. Call
Mrs. Wright by telephone.
Oye+or cocktails NJ The Branch
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1t appearing to this Court by the
petition for Order of Sale of real
property, filed herein on the 18th day
Of May, 1917, by Leon c. Booker, adj
miniStrator of the Estate of Anna
Nimno, deceased, that it is necessary
to sell all Of the real estate Of said
decedant in order to pay her debts and
the expenses and charges of admins
tration; therefore,
IT is ORDERED that all persons
interested in the said estate appear
before this Court on Wednesday, the
18th day Of July, 1917, at the hour of
two o'clock, P. NJ, on the aforesaid
day in the court room Of this court,
in the town Of Seward, Alaska, and
show cause, if any cause there be, why
an order should not be granted said
administrator, authorizing him to sell
said real estate for the purposes afOre-
said; and it is further
ORDERED that a copy Of this Or
der be published once a week for a
period Of four successive weeks in the
Seward Gateway, a newspaper of gen
eral circulation, published at Seward,
Alaska, and the one most likely to give
notice to all parties interested in this
cause; and it is further
ORDERED, that a copy of this CT
tation shall be posted at three public
places within Kenai Precinct, one Of
which three places shall be the U. S.
postoffice in the town Of Seward,
Alaska.
WITNESS MY HAND and official
seal this 10Th day Of June, 1917.
(SEAL) FRANK G. ENNIS,
u. S. Commissioner and EX-officio
Judge Of Probate.
Observation-Disclosures. %2%as,ala
NG--aI&-S
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We carry Symphony Lawn Station
airy the Seward Drug Company.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-06-21

Skagway is proud of its Home
Guard. That body gave a drill in the
open air recently and the Alaskan
says Of it that more than one Specta-
tor was disappointed as they expected
to be entertained by an awkward
squad, but instead the guards went
through their first outdoor drill like
a company Of veterans.
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Waterfll & Frazier whiskey al
The Branch.
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In the matter of the Estate Of Anna
Nimmo, Deceased.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 143
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

To M. IMHOFF, C. J. IMHOFF, A.
NJ. IMHOFF, HARRY V. MILLER, H.
d. THIELE, ESTATE OF II. D..
THIELE, Deceased, and AUGUST
MELHORN, your respective heirs and
assigns:
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IT. I. OALIoD UN i,
First publication, March q, 1917.
Last publication, May %, 1917.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-06-21

a company Of veterans.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-21
Agricultural Department

2. The water in the soil needs to
be frequently changed or replaced by
fresh supply containing an abund-
ance of atmospheric oxygen because
the roots Of plants and microscopic
life tends to exhaust this supply. If
the soil is not drained the water in it
becomes stagnant in a sense, the
rains which fall simply running of
the surface, leaving the soil water
the same as was there before the
rain.
8. Farm lands must be drained in
order to render them sufficiently firm
to permit the farm operations.
4. Soils must be drained in order
to provide room for soil air.
s. The excess Of water must be
removed to permit the soil to become
warm enough for plant growth.
The cases in which it becomes de-
sirable to supplement natural drain
age fall into five classes:
/. Comparatively fiat lands or ba-
sins upon which the water from the
surrounding higher lands collect.
2. Areas adjacent to higher lands
where the structure is such as to per-
NIT the water which sinks into the
high land to flow or seep under and
up through the low ground, making
them wet.
3. Lands inundated regularly by
the rise of tides or frequently by the
overflow of rivers.
a. Extremely fiat lands in wide
areas which are underlaid near the
surface by thick, close, nearly i'm
pervious stratum of clay, such as
were formerly old lake bottoms.
5. Lands like rice fields, water
meadows and cranberry marshes
where water is applied in excessive
quantities at stated times and must
be removed again quickly.
No plant can utilize the resources
of the soil to the best advantage un-
less there is provided for it an abund-
ance of root room. In all we'll drain
ed soils the roots of most cultivated
crops spread themselves widely and
to a depth of 2.5 to a or more feet
When conditions are such as to per-
NIT crops to do this the best growth
and largest yields result
Proper drainage so lowers the
ground water surface that roots are
able to penetrate to their normal
depth.
When the roots of a crop are fore
ed to develop so close to the sur
face the first effect is to exhaust the
soil of its moisture so much as to
leave it too dry and so lessen the
capillary rise that, although there
is an abundance of water in the soil
below, it cannot be brought to the
roots and the soil below is too wet to
permit the roots to go to the mois-
ture.
On the other hand if the ground
water is lowered the roots are per-
mitted to advance deeper, making it
unnecessary for the water to move
up as high and leaving the soil more
moist, and so capillary action strong
err and capable of lifting water high
err and faster. IS
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-21
P O u l. t r Y
CONSULTING DEPARTMENT
Hen Feeds Are "Shown Up" by
Investigators

Hen Feeds Are shown Up" by
Investigators
A careful analysis of poultry
scratch feeds conducted by chemists
of the experiment station of the
Michigan Agricultural college to de-
termine whether or not these pro-
ducts are endowed with the many vir-
tues that have been claimed for them,
has brought out the fact that pur-
chasers of these mixtures have most
ly been paying more for inferior
grain, weed seeds and grit than it
would have cost them to buy equiva-
lent weights of high grade, whole
grain.
Poultry scratch feeds, while a few
of them are made of whole grain of
good quality, have on the whole, been
credited, like Germany before the
war, with virtues they do not pos
sess. Purchasers of poultry scratch
feeds, instead of coming into pos
session of superior, health-giving
products of high merit, have for the
most part simply been paying beauti-
full prices for a poor grade of grain,
adulterated often with high per cent
of weed seeds and grit. A few reli-
able companies may be embarrassed
by what the investigation has shown
of the work of less scrupulous makers
of poultry feeds, though irrespective
of whose name a scratch feed bears,
the poultryman himself will save
much money if he will use whole
grain and mix it at home. Scratch
feeds are only economical when they
can be bought for what they really
are.
There was one feed, for example,
and it was one of the best, offered on
the market for $4.75 hundredweight.
The corn, wheat, oats, and barley of
which it was composed could have
been secured anywhere for $3.50. The
grain contained in another CONNER
cial feed was worth just $2.S7 at pre-
vailing market prices-mixed up and
christened with pretty name it was
selling at $3.50 to gullible poultry
men. In the very best sample there
was only $4.13 worth of grain--and
it was selling at $3.50 In most feeds
from 1926 to 1878, and they were
selling at prices ranging from $3.50
to SAFE.
OF course much stress has been laid
by the manufacturers on the fact that
these scratch feeds are offered as
balanced rations" to give the hens
variety in their diet, but any poultry
man with half an ounce of brains can
feed his hens superior fare at dol
lar less per hundredweight by doing
the balancing" himself. One feed
was found to contain fifty pounds of
corn, five pounds of oats, ten pounds
of barley, thirty pounds Of wheat,
three pounds of buckwheat and two
pounds of kafir corn in every one
hundred pounds. Another had in it
forty pounds Of corn, ten pounds of
barley, twenty pounds Of wheat, ten
pounds of kafr corn and fifteen
pounds Of weed seeds. Still third
was made up of twenty-five pounds
of corn, ten pounds Of barley, thirty
pounds of wheat, five pounds of kafir
corn, ten pounds of weeds and twen-
ty pounds of grit, while a fourth con-
1 tanned fifty-fve pounds Of corn, fif-
teen pounds of barley, ten pounds of
wheat and twenty pounds q weeds.
! cofnlo4uo AZ feeds tooted.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-21

The extensive purchasing OF pota-
toes this fall for storage through the
winter by farsighted housewives has
led the department Of horticulture of
the Michigan Agricultural college to
-offer a few suggestions which may
1better insure the safekeeping of these
stocks.
In storing potatoes in small guam
titles for winter use, they may he
put away under varying conditions Of
temperature and moisture, bur they
should not be allowed to freeze. Nor
should the temperature be SO high
that they will dry out and become
wilted. An ordinary house cellar, or
even room in the house, may be US
ed for storing potatoes if the frost
is kept out.
Potatoes should also be protected
from the light. If the room or cellar
can not be darkened, the potatoes
should be covered. Exposure to
light causes them to turn green and
become more or less unsuitable for
table use.
The ideal conditions for storage
are those under which temperature
of from 33 to 40 degrees is maintain
ed, and where the atmosphere is
quite moist. Under such conditions
potatoes will keep in sound and firm
condition for long time"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-21
F A r M A N D
O II CHI A X d

fire blight, for this disease, frequent
ly present in such degree as to al
most discourage even the most deter
mined orchardists, may be said now
to be almost on its last legs, and .
few well delivered strokes, applied
without delay, should practically
clean it up, the plant disease special
lists declare.
During the summer just ended fire
blight has been Of relatively small
Importance, for in spite If severe ap-
hid infestation, but little blight de-
veloped. 1t seems probable that the
dry weather in 1916, destroyed the
germs in their hold-over locations. 1t
can be readily understood, therefore,
that if the few remaining cankers
are cut out at once, the disease can be
largely eradicated in Michigan or
chards.
Fire blight, as is well known, lives
over the winter in so-called held
over" cankers. These can be found
at the base of withered, blackened
and blighted twigs. Locating of these
diseased twigs is not difficult, for
while the healthy twigs shed their
leaves, those effected with the blight
retain theirs. There are exceptions
to this rule, but these can be recog-
nized upon examination.
In well cared for orchards there
may not be more than half a dozen
cankers, but at most it will require
more than a few days work to go
over the trees thoroughly and cut out
all cankers.
1t is necessary to do this because
the fire blight germ remains alive
over the winter in these spots and
furnish source of infection in the
spring. If these diseased cankers
are destroyed the problem of hand
ling the blight during the coming
spring will be much simplified.
In cutting out fire blight, cut back
to sound wood and bark, and wipe off
every wound with five per cent car
bolic acid solution.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-21

Forty-nine samples were found to
contain ordinary limestone grit,
which was being charged for at the
rate of approximately two cents a
pound. In other samples the corn,
wheat, oats and barley used were
mostly of inferior quality and light
weight, and in some cases salvaged
grains were substituted for the sound.
But most objectional ingredient Of
a large number of samples was the
abundance of weed seeds, which in
some feeds made up as much as thirty
pounds in every hundredweight.
Among these were many of poisonous
varieties, such as night shade, ergot
and cookie. One sample, containing
night shade, when ground up and fed
to hens on the college farm as an
experiment resulted in the death of
two and effected all the others. The
fact that these seeds are always
whole and are therefore not all eaten
by the hens probably accounts for the
fewer fatalities in the average flock.
The final conclusion drawn from
the inspections is that if poultrymen
will buy the whole grain and mix it
at home they will save thmselves all
the way from % to 100 per cent in
the cost Of their scratch feeds, and
will in addition guard their fiocks
from possible injury by poisonous
seeds and other possibly harmful in
gradients.
Where man insist upon clinging
to commercially mixed varieties, he
should be sure at least that he is buy
ing feed made up of good clean
grains. The difference in cost be-
tween this kind of feed, put up by a
reliable firm, and that containing i'm
purities and poisonous weed seeds is
so slight that there can be no ex-
cuse for buying the latter.