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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01

The President of the United States of America, to the Residents of the Third Division of the Territory of Alaska, and to all Whom 1t May Concern:-Greeting:- You and each of you will please take notice that by an Order of the Court, duly made and entered, a Special Term ot the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Division, has been called and will be held in Seward, Alaska, beginning on the tenth day of August, 1917, and will continue as long thereafter as the public welfare may require.
 Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 9th day of July, 1917.
 FRED M. BROWN,
 District Judge. Attest: ARTHUR LANG, Clerk. (SeaD
 First Pub. July 10, 1917-
 Valdez, July 2S, 1917. The above term of court is hereby postponed until the twentieth day of August, 1917, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
 F. M. BROWN,
 District Judge.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01
RAILROAD NOTES

The freight warehouse on the indus trial spur is ready for use, but con siderable work remains to be complet- ed inside.
 Work on the depot is progressing and the new structure shows up very much like a regulation "Outside" de- pot.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01
THE SEWARD GATEWAY SEWARD ALASKA WEDNESDAY AUGUST
NEW LOCOMOTIVE FIRED
 UP-IN SERVICE SOON

Locomotive No. 285, from Panama, has been fired up for test purposes and will be in service in a few days. It is the largest engine in use on this end of the line and will be of consid- erable help, as the Seward division has been short of rolling stock ever since the start of reconstruction.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01

Ask your grocers for Seward Bakery Bread
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01
NOTICE

Dog tax is due, payable at Treas urer's office on or before the 25th Of July.
 Order CHIEF OF POLICE. tt
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01

City Express meets all boats and trains. Phone Maine 122.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01

If your sweet tooth is your wisdom tooth you will buy your candy at the Key. tf
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-08-01

Andy's Express, phone Madison 14S.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

when he asked the Advertising Convention
TO Judge St. Louis by its fine institutions
and new spirit and not "to think of us as
suspicious men who always wish to be
shown" and of men "who live in the shade
of the breweries and read the 'Westiche
Post" Whereupon this German-lan-
guage paper reminded Mr.. Pulitzer Of the
fact that bis father was once on the pay
roll of the "Westliche Post" having asked
DR.. Preetorius, the editor, for job as re-
porter. THE fortune Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer,
jr., is now enjoying is founded on this be-
ginning" the present editor of the West
liche Post" declares, probably without de-
string to intimate that in those days the
remuneration of reporter must have
been higher than at present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
What They Think of John
BarleycOrn

TT is to be hoped that the Senate, If 1t
i decides to continue wine and beer
manufacture, will offer some better rea-
son than the internal revenue they pay.
For every dollar of that they cost the
American people an even hundred.-Des
Moines Register.
The Senate will do prohibition and tenn
rerance an injury if it lets the Prohibi-
tionists hitch up their wagon to measure
that ought not to be held back by anything
else.-Baltimore Sun.
The public opinion of the country would
doubtless support a moderate restrictive
law, aimed first at the use of distilled
liquors and contemplating gradual re-
duction in the manufacture and sale of in
toxcants. But it would not approve
sudden change in the national policy IN
matter involving such varied interests and
possessing so many intricate ramltica-
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
On the whole, period of abstinence will
do the country good.-Portland Orego-
Man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

avowedly set against Germany But
Japan, according to her own words, will
assist the Allies only within limits that
will not put Japan to any serious disad-
vantage. What that means, 1.-THE Tribune"
declares, is that Japan is for Japan alone,
and unless America ceases all sentimental
ism and sees the truth clearly, she will find
herself some day fighting Japan that
has profted in every way by the present
war; a Japan grown to impressive stature,
confident, defiantly asserting mastery of
the Pacific, and aggressive. For America
it will be a disastrous struggle unless she
learns the lesson of to-day and keeps her
self ready to fight.
"The San Francisco Chronicle" also a
careful observer of the Oriental horizon,
finds little chance to doubt that Japan will
establish a Monroe Doctrine in China, and
docs not tremble at the consequences. +"
And "The Los Angeles Times" says of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

japanese proposal that the United States
recognize the position of japan as domi-
nant power in the Far East that 1.-The VIII
son Administration is not framing Far
Eastern policy; it has received one framed
and delivered with charges prepaid
But there is still another angle to the
matter which recent developments in
China, some question of the policy pursued
there by Minister Reinsch, and the death
Of our Ambassador to Japan, have raised.
THE st. Paul Pioneer Press" fearful of
hcavy-handed political diplomacy in the
midst of relations which it calls "of an
unusually delicate nature" declares that
"a single blunder might entail serious con-.
sequences; any man at Toxic who has not
a comprehensive grasp of the situation will
be a puppet in the hands of Japan's astute
statesmen, who know what they want and
also know exactly how they intend get
ting it,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Spotting the
German Spies

The hue and cry after spies has been
given fresh impetus by the narrow escape
Of the American overseas expedition. The
Tribune's disclosures of laXity toward
aliens has opened Washington's eyes, and
Secretaries Baker and Daniels are aroused.
THE Telegram" expresses the general at
titude. though its voice is pitched rather
high in this strain:
.They did not make the voyage unattached.
They were assailed in force by German sub
marines in Atlantic waters hitherto free from
U-boats.
"This is evidence that the unusual route
adopted and so zealously guarded was be-
,raved 10 Germany That the enemy was
beaten of and at least one U-boat sunk is
indeed glorious news. One can even forgive
Secretary Daniels for concealing II until July
4 But il will be even more glorious news
for the country when we learn that the
enemy spies operating in Washington nave
been uncovered and stood against wall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Finding "Grave
Inaccuracies'

How the War Came to America" the
pamphlet published by the government,
has found little favor in the German-lan-
guage press. Several papers assert hav-
ing found grave inaccuracies" one Of
them being the assertion that our govern
ment deferred hostlities till Count Bern
storff arrived in Berlin, as the pamphlet
says it had promised. The former Ambas-
sador reached Berlin on March IA. while
the arming of merchant vessels had been
decided upon on March II.
This point is made by the clos Angeles
Germania," while the "Illinois Staatszei-
tung' comments as follows. in part:
"The administration, however, feels that it
has to answer the question Of the so-caled
pacifsts, under which condition Il is willing
70 make peace The administration would
rot answer, did it not see that there are so
many who demand that answer and that 70
ignore their question would be wellnigh
dangerous. But instead OF simply stating
the conditions il argues at length TO show
why the country, instead OF simply trying 70
solve the actual difference with Germany IN
regard to the rights Of belligerents against
neutras on the high seas, has suddenly made
up its mind that Germany fights so that the
German 'kultur' as system must rule the
world. And that, until the German nation is
Invested OF such rulers with the help Of
America, democracy cannot be safe. The ex-
PLANTATION will hardly succeed in convincing
the opponents. Not opponents OF the war as
such, 10 fgh. because Germany has offended
the United States. but against the scope of
the war, which the administration is trying
TO give it,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
The Los Angeles Daily Times
The German-American Press

Many papers discuss the apparent
growing hostility TO the Germans IN
America. The Cincinnati Volksblatt,"
speaking of a new film enterprise in Chi-
cago which is representing a supposed war
episode greatly offensive to Germans
everywhere, praised the intention OF ths
Chicago censor to exclude the picture
from the theatres in that city because the
scenes might lead to trouble. Everything
calculated TO incite one part Of the popu-
lation against another is the reverse OK
patriotic" tie paper says, land should
rot be tolerated.
"In the present instance the pictures
shown at a private view we're repulslve
and might lead persons with weak mem
tally to make attacks on the Germans.
To say that not the Germans in America
but those in Europe are represented IN
these pictures will avail but little, because
this discrimination is not generally made
here. The pictures appeal only to the
crudest instincts and should be sup.
messed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

Mr.. Root knows, when he goes to Mos
COW. how to be Muscovite. lie
is making refractory revolutionists good
by telling them that they are good, and
this is his mission, whatever may be his
personal convictions.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The real American idea 8.
there was no time that liberty
was allowed to degenerate into license or
that freedom was interpreted to mean that
anybody or any group in the army or navy
or civilian life could do as he or it pleased.
-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
The Chaos in
Washington

The coal price dispute in the CABINET
elected some comment from 1.-The Sun
and from "The Mail" both lamenting the
chaotic condition Of executive matters at
Washington. "The Sun" has this to say;
Secretary Lane, Commissioner Fort ana
the members Of the Committee on Coal PRO
duction are held up TO the public as incompe-
tents who allowed themselves TO be gulled by
the coal operators into recommending an 'eN-
orbitant unjust and oppressive price for
coal
"If such charges were made by person
officially Of less Importance than Newton D.
Baker they would require investigations; COM
ING from the source they do, 1t is apparent
that the Administration cannot ignore them
unless it is willing to see the Council OF Ma
tional Defence generally discredited.'
"The Mail" is even more severe:
"This coal price controversy illustrates the
chaos that has come TO reign in Washington
a chaos that is comparable with the chaos at
Petrograd. so competent observers report
"The Administration at Washington Is
doalinr with our purchases in the spirit OF
borse trade. They are not exhibiting the
sligbtest conception Of the broad policies that
must be framed and pursued If we arc to WIN
this war, 20 say nothing Of putting the coun-
try upon an industrial basis permanently
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Aliens and the Draft

CERTAINLY it will double the difficulty
" of popularizing the draft and keep
ing it before the people as an honorable
and equitable institution born Of democ-
racy if more than million men of mill
tary age are to be rewarded for refusing
to take out citizenship papers by the be-
stowal upon them of the comfortable OPP
portunity to stay at home and make money
while their fellow subjects abroad and
their neighbors here are fighting their bat
ties for them.-Boston Transcript.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
! Falling Down
On Love

The Oregon Deutsche Zeitung," dealing
with another aspect Of the same question,
apostrophizes the "Anglo-Saxons" in
America in the following manner:
"You have professed a great love for the
German people and great hatred for the
German government But you have not
shown that great love for the German peo-
pie in your midst, most Of them loyal and
worthy citizens Of this government, and
many Of whom have given OF their blood
for that liberty which you profess to love.
and not.a few Of them descended from those
rave martyrs who fought that liberty might
live when your ancestors were trying to
put the bonds of oppression on Amer
lea.
you cannot hope to accomplish your purs
pose with a divided America. You must
take a united citizenry to the task If you
would win. Are you doing your part to get
the cooperation of the German-American7
This is our country as truly as it is yours
You cannot drive US TO its dissertation. fou
mus. win US by the business OF your cause
Abuse is not convincing. We must bd
united, else we fail II you divide US By
abusing Us and failure TO convince us OK
the business of The act 20 which you have
led America, you cannot hope TO win. We
are as anxious as you are 10 see the world
made FREQ"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
The Race Riots
the human clement involved
IL in the East St. Louis riots is an

DEHiND the human clement involved
X in the East St. Louis riots is an
~ economic factor, but it is the sig
nifcance for human beings themselves that
touches editorial writer's to wrath and hot
indignation in the spectacle of slaughter
which the Illinois city presented few
DAYS ago "The Chicago Tribune" calls it
the shame of Illinois," and in contrast to
THE Washington POST which begins its
editorial with THE labor situation should
be watched and guarded most carefully
throughout the present war" THE Trib-
une" says:
ave do not propose to talk now about race
hatred or economic rivalry or any other
learned aspect of the offence. There IS just
one truth, one sickening, shameful truth in
an American city, in a city of Illinois, there
has been loathsome eruption Of the brute,
and neither civilized public sentiment nor
constituted authority was capable of arrest
ing it,"
Another Chicago newspaper, The Daily
News" calls attention to the fact that
such outrages in Belgium or Poland have
deeply stirred Americans, and demands
they be no less stirred when they are COM
mitted at home.
But it is the nations own earnest con-
temptation of sacrifice for the sake OF
democracy at this time that 1.-The Phi!a-
delphia Public Ledger finds makes the
East st. Louis riots the more outrageous:
AT moment when the nation is engaged
in 4 great war 20 sustain the principle OF
democracy this exhibition Of lack OF self
control, Of utter lawlessness, Of incredible
barbarity. is n disgrace that is fastened upon
the entire country. even though a single
community is responsible for it,
In St.. Louis the riots appear to have
been deplored without any great show OF
anger thereat, if the tone Of an editorial
in "The st. Louis Republic" is to be trust
ed. THE Republic" describes the outbreak
thus:
There was something primitive and child
ish in the summoning Of the negroes oy
ringing of a church bell and their gathering
in close formation in the street near by,
where they could easily have been wiped out
BIZ company OF militia or machine-gun
squad"
THE Republic" points out that there IS
plenty Of employment in the vicinity OF
East ST. Louis and infers that the hostIl-
ity which resulted so fearfully is quite
racial rather than economic in its causes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Mixed Views
On Russia

Kerensky, the Russian wonder Is haiieu
by the local newspaper editorial writers
with loud acclaim. Each compares nm
with favored hero Of the past whiie
"The Call" Socialist thinks 1t has the
last laugh when it comes TO "Iauding req
reyolutionists.' "Thc Times goes 10
Carlyle's heroes for parallel. 1t says
"Kerensky. the occasion being the same
plays naturally the same part that was pIayeu
bv Leyasseur and Salnt-Just, and the armies
n revolutionary Russia respond as did the
.,roi.s NJ Revolutionary France. These men
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Sharpening the Axe for
Mayor Thompson
MAYOR THOMPSON of Chicago

MAYOR THOMPSON of Chicago is
AVI giving valuable aid and encourage
ment to the movement to do away with
Mayors in cities.-Kansas City Star.
The most pronounced member of the
locally "in bad" class of public men ap-
pears to be Mayor Thompson Of Chicago.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
A good beginning at solving the problem
of why the chief executive of the second
largest city of the land irritates the peo-
pie he misrepresents is made when one
realizes that the Mayor is mentally lazy
Detroit News.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
New York Papers on Current News

will become much more terrible to the Ger
mans than they were when they were fighting
for their Car, for now they are fighting for
themselves and their newborn ideal"
The Sun" is not less enthusiastic:
"The great hour almost invariably produces
the great man Is Kerensky the great man
of the Russian revolution? Is he destined
to be its Washington, rather than its Ma
poleon-guding it through the stormy seas OF
war into the haven OF peaceful democracy,
rather than distorting its hard won democ-
racy into an ultimate Imperialism
Whereat "The Call" laughs:
"Kerensky said that Russia never would
f ght for capitalism, for world Imperialism nor
for war aims that would make the world
bear pit after this war
And Russia is lighting
These facts are encouraging and more
than impressive And the mad Glee with
which the capitalist forces of the world hail
the offensive either indicates that they are
blood-lustful savages, and fighting Of any
kind delights them, or else they think that
Russia IS d ndIloH Ilhc OIHtA HosiN'''' 0"''''S
one thing and meaning another; that her Of
fensive means that she now is fighting for
the once repudiated war aims.
"But, whatever the reason, capitalism Is
here applauding something that can mean
nothing but its own destruction and its own
downfall. And it cannot help It, That IS
what makes it such startling and inspiriting
thinn -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Quoting an
Old Joke

One of the Western papers illustrates
the method used by quoting the old joke
of the book review which was a savage
condemnation of the work, but which the
astute publisher, by means of asterlsks
skilfully employed in the right places,
transformed into laudatory notice.
The Seattle German press having been
attacked for its attitude also threatens
suit. While the "Westliche Post" ST.
Louis. does not speak about law suit, it
feels much hurt by remark Mr.. Joseph
Pulitzer. jr., the editor Of "The st. Louis
Post Dispatch" made few days ago
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

ffNUR contemporary, the German
, Express. having failed 20 re-
ceive its orders from Potzdam in
time
These few words are worth 100000, ac-
cording to the publisher of 1.-THE Toledo
Express" German daily issued in Toledo,
Ohio They formed the Introductory SEN
tence to an editorial appearing in an Eng
lish-language newspaper there which had
annoyed THE Express" man by its con-
slant insinuation that the German-lan-
guage paper was financed by Berlin and
took its orders from Potsdam.
The German publisher declares that he
has nothing to do with Potsdam, nor with
any representative of the German govern
'nent; that he has never received either
money or orders from that source-in fact,
that he simply conducts an ordinary news
paper business without any backing, polit-
zeal or otherwise He feels much aggrieved
and thinks his feelings cannot be soothed
unless his English-language contemporary
hands over the sum mentioned. AT any
rate. he has instituted suit for this
amount.
Much rejoicing is thereby caused in
ether German-language newspapers in the
West which have suffered from attacks by
the vernacular press. They say their edi-
toral views have been misrepresented,
mainly by means of sentences torn from
the context and strung together so that
the meaning is entirely altered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
The Shadow of Asia

FAIRY tales are to be trusted, 1t Is
a.b easier TO call djinn ont Of his
ling place than it Is to put him
lair. And there can be no doubt
81 90 since Richmond Pearson Hobson
~ V -, and down the Chautauqua cir
fi'1' .,niuring up a fearful Yellow Peril
Nv go, here and there to get the
y 49,, ,..E 70 his bottle have been more or
!. unsuccessful ,
2, =. :. most critical moment in the history
-. nation finds the United States en-
d ~ .be conflict glancing uneasily over
H-' ,, shoulder She sits troubled and
y . -. at the Allied council, for behind
g. -, ;nmobile mask a spectre moves,
p =. well known ghost Of Banquo come
IAN has a friendly hand for the Allies,
- chicago Tribune points out, and is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

German language papers can
not forget anything Of their old admira-
ton and allegiance TO the Kaiser and his
henchmen. They have mistaken our easy
going American liberation for license. Now
that the first shock of worry as to their
status in this country has passed, they are
resuming their un-American tactics
Shreveport (La.) Times.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

war the tax allotment ought not TO be I'M
moderate II can be increased as war de-
mands increase, and gradual enlargement
Of the ratio Of taxes 20 bond issues will have
less disturbing effects on business than a
very high levy at the start would have.
"The Finance Committee has cut out the
questionable retroactive tax on income for
the year 1916, which the House approved
That is victory for common sense"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
The Bear

DY RENEWING its offensive and TAX
ID ing an important Austro-German
position in Galicia the Russian army, long
inactive, has demonstrated that 1t can
fight better under democracy than under
sutocracy. Washington Post.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

Americans like and admire the German
people, and we are not afraid of them nor
do we mistrust them. But we do know
the world will never be safe as long as the
Kaiser and his war party are in absolute
control.-Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

ganda are negligible. Such
troubles as we face now, in the effective
prosecution Of the war, are due mostly TO
the stupidity Of well-meaning pacitsts who
unwittingly make themselves cat's-paws for
Prussia.-St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

1t seems fair judgment that tire Pro-
hibitionists care more for prohibition than
they do for food control; that with many
of them prohibition ranks their patriotism;
that they'd rather kill John Barleycorn
than defeat the Kaiser. That is not good
Observation-Disclosures City Daily Ok
lahOman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
From the Smaller Cities

JF WE had national army ready we
would have been able to put an end to
the war this fall. Since we were rot thus
rrepared. the best we can do is to have so
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
" the Press of America Divides on Big Issues

will be to slay the subservient agents and
executors Of the Kaiser's will, 10 punish
them so severely that they cannot, II they
would, continue 70 carry on their works Of
wholesale demolition and indiscriminate
slaughter Of the innocent and helpless.
Differentiation cannot be made between
the autocracy that conceives and ordains
and the subservient socialism and bastard
democracy which are willing coadjutors,
and which actually perpetrate unspeakable
enormities. Virginian-Pilot.