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The announcement that work

1 TO

would start immediately on the

Alaska railway is good news for

Prince Rupert.
in discussing it say that it will
mean a bigger thing than the
discovery of the Klondike. That
being the casesrdlushrdluuuu
being so Prince Rupert stands
in the way of securing a good-
ly portion of the trade. It will
be remembered that Seattle
reaped most of the profits from
the opening of the Yukon, while
Vancouver fast
This should teach us and the
railway company to keep
awake. Business moves along
the lines of Jeast resistance and
takes advantage of every econ-
and time but

was asleep.

omy in distance
there must be somebody right
there to do the moving. It wiil
not via Prinee Rupert
just because it is five hundred
miles there
somebody there to get the bus-

come

shorter unless is

iness,
. @¢-¢@

It would appear that the time
is opportune for the G. T. P. to
put on a weekly steamship ser-
vice to Seward.
many of the Seattle boats will
eall at this port but it is not to
their intersts to ship over the
o. Tb. 2. They are looking to
take trade away rather than to

Of course,

bring it here and unless every
encouragement is given it may

pass our door just the way the}

Yukon rush passed Vancouver.
It is possible that the only so-
lution is for the Grand Trunk
to put on a weekly steamship
service to Seward. It might be
good business to put the Prince
John and the Prince Rupert on
the the

Prince George on the northern

southern run and
run, perhaps calling at Massett
At any rate, the time
is ripe for an active intellect
to work out a solution which,
like waits for
no man,”

Se oe

en route,
and tide

“time

The announcement from Pe-

king that Dr. Sun Yat Sen is
igain plotting—this time
against the new “republic’—

will not come as a surprise to

those who have followed the

a Ree Thursday, April 15,

Seattle papers |

 

 

 

 

career of that remarkable man.
Sun Yat Sen made Yuan Shi

Telephone 98.

Contract

1915.

eee }
Kai possible and then stepped ———-

aside in order that the latter BIG DEVELOPMENTS BY
ALASKA RAILROAD

Speaking about railway work in
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pre eT following to say:
He has been invested with | For several months past the
the attributes of a sincere pa-|government has been dickering
triot by his biographers. His | with the Copper River & North-

aspirations, it is said, are those|Western Railroad for the pur-

of an ardent republican and the |Cbhase of that system, and it may
that this will be taken over
In an event, with the fear

inference to be drawn is that} be

he is rather a hasty enthusiast} /ater.
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than a slow, plodding reformer. |of government competition
it

Such a man could see ample | moved, probable that the
Guggenheim road will be extend-
the

re-
is
room for criticism in present)

conditions in China. Import- |ed to serve other mines in

ant as have been the construc-|region of its inland terminal at

tive reforms effected under | Kenicott.

Survey of Route.
The survey for the government
from Seward to

the new regime, it is open to|
of what it!
railroad

criticism because

has failed to aceomplish. runs

around the head of

ie }Kern Creek,
Not the least of these ‘“er-|Turnagain Arm to the broad, well
rors of omission” is the ina-|€rassed Susitna Valley and thence

bility of Yuan Shi Kai so in- | through Broad Pass, a low divide
spire China with a nationalistic |in the Alaska range close to Mt
spirit. If progress along these|MeKinley, and thence to Fair-
lines is being made—and it | banks. The Broad Pass region is
may be that.a change is being |one of the most highly mineral-
wrought—it is so slow that to | ized in the territory, but its in-
the Occidental eye it is imper-|@¢cessability has prevented its de-
velopment.

Lack of this quality, which in| The cost of building the 1,000
other lands gives rise to the|Miles of railroad required in the

ceptible.

strong spirit of patriotism, has |Alaska Railroad law is estimated
the em. the commission at $26,800 a
pire’s chief weakness. China| Mile. Much of the country to be

lacks that spiritual, emotional |*aversed is over a low, gravelly

| by

always been ancient

something which makes,a na-|Plain, and there are no heavy
The chief engineering
difficulties will be in bridge con-
struction, there being some for-
midable streams to be crossed.
Will Open Coal Field.

The road will open up the Ma-
tanuska coal fleld, which, doubt-
less hereafter will supply the coal
used by the United States navy on

; grades.

tion one in war, no matter how
it may divided in peace.
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This is all the more remark-
able because it has at its doors
an illustration of the elevating
influence of this same emofion.
If China could be roused to em-
ulate Japan, it would not be

long in taking its place in the|the Pacifie Coast, and also the
Nenana coal fields, which will

forefront of the world’s great
powers. supply Fairbanks with fuel. These

Sun Yat Sen may believe he
possesses the power to arouse
that sentiment China and
thus rescue it from its tradi-
tional position as-the football
of the earth's militant govern-

coal lands will be open to opera-
tion under the leasing law as soon

in as the government has made res-
ervations for itself and appropri-
regulations have been

ate ecom-

piled.

A commission is now working

The Pink of Health

ments. He may be the man des-

 

tined to bring about this awak-
ening—but it seems reasonably

 

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PRINCE RUPERT COAL Co. |
Wellington Coal

Cleanest Lump—Longest Lasting—Gives the
Most Heat—No Clinkers—P. BLACK, Manager

certain that Yuan Shi Kai ean- is every woman’s ight
, o Seg 3 rg ;
not do it.—Seattle P.-I. but many are troubled
with sallow complexions,

headaches, backaches, low

spirits—until they learn that
sure relief may be found in

BEECHAM's

I bs the President to pl ceed to
Alaska immediately Lieutenant
Mears, as well as a large number |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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: iff th ulations to | 9 .
b ‘ a the operation of MUSIC one 954 P.O. Ben gy
h i inds The Matanuska Toacher of Violin ang all Penman
il iso will supply @ large Band Instruments ANTING. ING
t of the et consumed on A. PESCOTT | VINTING
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pacific Coast and whieh is So | OLISHING AN)
fed from eastern parts “ 2erereer WALL TINTING
United States It is also pom 2 i as
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hracite coal will be brought to D E N 1 ISTRY Martin Swanson
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ast towns on th Pacifl enewn wm Gane a ies al oa
this fleld. A SPECIALTY
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rhe members of the commis- DRS. GILROY & BROWN alalalalalalabaladai a eeeee
s will be located in different} penniere tiny
« Edes, the chairman, Office: - oe Wane Avenue it 35 PHONE
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have his headquarters at Se- ‘i e 3 ~35
i Mears will be at Ship Creek eT
ind Riges in the Broad POSS) pigeeyeypeye ee eee ee eee TA
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country | | X]
The commission was directed }¥ FOR A TAXI

of the office foree, are already in
Seattle, R. D.

arriving yesterday morning

Chase, chief clerk,

be

The work this summer will
done by station men who will}
make direct contracts with the |
commission for work on the}

units. If at the end of the sea-}
son the system has proved itself]
be adopted for the re. |
remainder of the road. Only aj
small foree will be employed by |
the all experi- |
enced engineers. |

|

it will

committee, being
Townsites have been withdrawn |

by the interior department at}
Ship Creek, Matanuska Junction,
in the rich Susitna Valley, one in
the of Broad
another on the Wanana River.

“The
President,”

“will open up a territory not now |

vicinity Pass and
the

Lane,

route adopted = by

said Secretary

served by any railroad line and|

two of the great coal fields of

Alaska—one the Matanuska, with
high-grade bituminous coal ac-
ceptable to the navy, and the
other the Tanana field near the
Tanana River, with high-grade
lignite, which will serve’ the
Alaskan interior.
Warned to Go Siow.
“I have received word of a
threatened stampede to

Alaska
this year, but the gove Aiea |
does not justify such a rush. The
government will employ few men
and these are of a high order of

engineering experience. There is

little chance for employment in
that country at this time.”
AS SHE IS SPOKEN.

A school teacher having in-

to
grammar, the next day received a

structed a pupil purchase a

note thus worded from the ehild’s

mother: “I do not desire Lulu
shall ingage in grammar as I
prefer her ingage in yuseful

studies as I can teach her how to

spoke and rite properly myself,

I have went through two gram-

mers, and can't say they did me

no good. I prefer her ingage in

german and drawing and vocal

music on the piano.”

 

The who believes
courting should be taught in eol-
the

fact that itvalready is an elective

pre fessor

lege apparently overlooks
course in all of the best schools,

Considering the faet that the
it, candi.

date wastes a good deal of time

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