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Would you like to know what
:ppened to Jones?
Dr. L. Prior of Kodiak, former
of I', .srsburg, has entered the
r farming business. He has
.rchasv d 25 mink already and
..s had pens built to accommo
ute 65.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Patten are
n from Five Fingers.
Charlie Stedman is in from
.Cake and is visiting with his
jon Bill and family.
Mrs. Jennie Lewis came over
from Wrangell Friday with her
son Fred on the Charles W. She
returned to her home the follow
ing day.
! Would you like to know what
happened to Jones?
Don’t forget the Women’s
Community League food sale on
Saturday at Campbells’ Storv
The goodies will be on dismay at
3 o’clock
j HUSVIK—Of 8036, 25th N. W.,
[January 26, 1930, Nels Husvik,
higed 52 years; beloved husband
i of Emma Husvik, brother of Ole
Husvik of Petersburg, Alaska,
Mrs. Gudrun Beck of Texas, also
I two sisters and one brother liv
>ng in Norway. Funeral servic
es at Mittlestadt Funeral Par
lors, 1776 Market Street. Inter
ment, Washelle Cemetery, Seat
j lie.
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tional Halibut Commission, ar
rived in port for engine repairs.
I Experimental work by the Com
mission is being carried on in
the vicinity of Cape Ommaney.
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Bob Campbell was in from
Castle Islands on Thursday and
shipped out three bales of blue
fox skins to the London mar
kets.
Bill Abbes arrived in town
Thursday from Storm Island fox
ranch.
Miss Imogene West is having
a party tonight at the Devi’s
Thumb, in honor of her birth
day. Forty boys and girls are
invited.
Mrs. W. J. Brown, nee Ellen
Farrow, former student of Pe
tersubrg High School, arrived on
the steamer Queen, Saturday.
She is visiting with her cousin
Boadecia Albott, at the home of
Cy Coyne.
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Miss June Thompson gave a
dinner and theatre party to
fourteen girls in honor of her
oirthday, last Tuesday evening.
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Guy Skyman has been con
fined to his room for several days
with pneumonia.
I Rev. and Mrs. David Waggon
er and son Robert, arrived from
i
IKasaan on the mission boat
j ‘ Princeton” Thursday and will
'spend a few days in Petersburg
before going on to Kake and Ju
neau.
J. C. Ludeman left on the
steamer Queen for a visit with
his mother, who is seriously ill,
in Oregon.
Albert Jorgenson and John
Wallace are making a trip into
the Farragut Bay country with
prospective purchasers for their
mineral property discovered last
fall. This is reported to be a
large body of ore running h go
values in gold, silver, lead and
zinc.
.P’rank Booth had a near ac
cident on his boat while coming
;n from Kake, Wednesday. He
was oiling a bearing on his shaft
line and his sleeve tangled with
a set screw on the line. His
arm was pulled down against the
ahaft bruising the forearm in a
couple of places and straining
I the muscles severely. Fortun
ately the clutch slipped enough
to prevent more serious hurts.
Luther Phillips pulled the clutch
and got “Boots” out of his pre
carious predicament.
Mr. Wayne Walther, buyer for
New England Fish Co., arrived
this week from Ketchikan with
Mrs. Walther and daughter
Noreen. They have taken Louis
Vick’s house on E. Street for the
season.
Found:—At Sons of Norway
Hall after the Firemen’s Ball,
part of gent’s watch chain. Call j
at Alaskan Office.
William L. Paul, candidate on
the Republican ticket for the
Territorial Legislature, will ar
rive in Petersburg on the North
land.
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FOR SALE: Gasboat “Regal,”
26 feet long by seven feet beam
with 4 h. p. Regal. $350 cash gets
a bargain. See owner, Axel Pear
son.
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CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Petersburg Lutheran, Rev. W. J.
Maakestad, Pastor
There will be no services this
Sunday as the pastor will be at
Point Agassiz.
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At The Presbyterian Church
Mrs. Wm. Tamaree, Layworker
Sunday School meets at 10:30
Christian Endeavor at 3 p. m.
A cordial welcome to All.
William
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KOYD IN DIALOGUE IS GREAT
ENTETAINER
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William Boyd, as a talking
picture star seems destined to
eclipse even the great popular
ity of William Boyd as a star of
the silent drama, judging from
advance reports on “High Volt
age,” Boyd’s new Pathe dialogue
attraction which is announced
as the feature of the new pro
gram at the Coliseum Theatre
starting Sunday.
‘High Voltage” differs from
the general run of talking pic
tures, it is said, in that it is pri
marily a good screen drama
With the addition of sound and
dialogue, it i s hailed as “one
hundred per cent entertain
ment” and William Boyd’s deep,
clear voice and Southern drawl,
has been termed by the critics
as the outstanding discovery of
the talking pictures.
“High voltage' tens a dram
atic story of six persons of wide
ly different character and tem
peiments, who are marooned in
a wayside chapel in the High
Sierras, when the motor bus in
which they are riding becomes
snow-bound. One is a deputy
sheriff, another is an underworld
moll whom he has captured,
while the others are a wealthy
banker, a young girl who is hur
rying East to be married, and an
eternally optomistic bus driver.
These strange persons are
thrown together in a mutual
cause when they face starvation,
but the loves and hates and
weaknesses and strengths of
each character is vividly brought
to th fore thru the unusual cir
cumstances which surround
them.
In “High Voltage,” William
Boyd appears in one of the vir
ile roles for which he is famous,
while Owen Moore, Carol Lom
bard, Diane Ellis, Billy Bevan
and Phillips Smalley are all said
to exhibit their mastery of the
new talking picture technique.
Howard Higgin directed “High
Voltage” at the Pathe Studios
and in the snow country of the
Sierras. Elliott Clawson wrote
the story while James Gleason
prepared the dialogue. It is a
Ralph Block production.
Bert Cornelius who left here
for the South recently is report
ed as having undergone a major
operation in the Marine Hospital
in Bremerton.
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The U. S. Marshal’s boat Hel
mar is undergoing machine re
pairs and the hull will get spring
repairs at the shipyards.
Jack Mitchell returned to town
this week from lean trapping
grounds
Would you like to know what
happened to Jones?
Southbound passengers on the
Alaska Liner Alaska wero Cash
Cole, Territorial Auditor and
candidate for relection in the
primaries, Robert Sommers,
Higway Engineer, U. S. Marshal
Albert White, John Adams of
Cordova.
Hoonah .
Hoonah Camp of the Brother
hood has initiated 20 new mem
bers since last November and ex
pect to initiate that many more
by next convention.
The new officers for 1930 are
as follows: President, George
Edward Martin; Vice President,
Lonnie Houston; Corresponding
Secretary, Robert Carteet; Re
cording Secretary, Mathew Law
lence; Financial Secretary, J. J.
Houston, Treasurer, William
Johnson; Camp Council: David
Lawrence, James McKinley and
James Johnnie.
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An Alaska salmon seiner who
started business 39 years ago
uhth only $1 is now worth $100,
000. His accumulation of wealth
is attributable to his frugality,
good habits, strict attention to
business and the fact that an
uncle died and left him $99,999.
Under direction of Hans Floe,
the Hawk Inlet cannery has
been rebuilt.
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The freighter Depere of the
Alaska Steamship Company has
again gone into commission. She
was wrecked near Cape Decision
last November, salvaged by the
Pacific Salvage Company and
towed to Seattle where she was
overhauled and repaired by the
Todd Shipyard.
Seventy-nine plates were re
placed and the engines and boil
ers and condensers lifted in or
der that the work might be ac
complished.
The district court in session at
Ketchikan expects to adjourn by
the 4th of March.
Fog at Nanuk prevents flying |
of the funeral cortege with the
hA/iioc rvf PaI Don ITinl CAn onH
Earl Borland. Joe Crosson, fly
ing mate of Eielson’s, is to be
highly commended in his per
sistence in making effort to find
the bodies of Eielson and Bor
land.
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The family of Hal Cawthorn
are on the Northwestern which
is due to arrive here on Tuesday.
REPUBLICAN FILINGS
For Delegate to Congress:
James Wickersham Juneau.
lor Treasurer:
Frank L. Knight, Anchorage.
For Auditor:
Cash Cole, Juneau.
FOR THE LEGISLATURE
For the Senate:
Will A. Steel, Juneau.
For Representatives:
William L. Paul, Ketchikan.
J. E. Johnson, Ketchikan.
Grover Winn, Juneau.
Pete Sommer, Petersburg.
AN INDEPENDENT TREASURER
IS NEEDED
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The general public does not
come into direct intercourse with
the Territorial Treasurer and
while the average voter may be
familiar with the name of Wal
stein G. Smith, he knows very
little about him or the methods
of the man who has held office
for the past seventeen years. He
was first appointed by Governor
Strong in 1913, and each suc
ceeding Governor has in turn
given him reappointment.
It has been easy for Treasurer
Smith. All he has had to do to
retain favor has been to keep a
listening ear to the demands of
the various governors. And he
has served them Well, both Dem
ocrats and Republicans, with
the exception of Governor Riggs •
md then he only broke away |4
man from New York during the
last few weeks of his reign.
Treasurer Smith always fought '
the making of his office elective.-'
He did not wish to be subject to
the judgment of the voters. In
fact he has always insisted that
he would never be a candidate
for elective office. He knew
from long experience that he
could serve one master at a
time. But he has shied from
having to be fair and consider
ate to all elements.
When it was a question of
placing Territorial funds where
his master would be pleased, the
appointment of clerks or incom
petents as bank examiners, the
naming of tax collectors who of
times didn’t care to exert them
selves in the proper collection
of taxes, the taking of funds to
pay expenditures for which
there was no appropriation, etc,.
Smith could be relied upon to do
the bidding of a master.
Those whose personal interests
have been well served, will tell
you that Treasurer Smith has
been a good official. If they were
candid, they might also admit
that the gentleman has been in
th position long enough. And
many Republicans believe that
they have an efficient and well
balanced man to take over the
duties of the office, in Frank L.
Knight, of Anchorage. He has
studied and performed banking
lequirements and has good ex
ecutive ability. And it is the lat
ter that really counts.
In many respects where
Treasurer Smith has had to rely
upon his own judgment, he has
| been arbitrary, disobliging and
hard to deal with. But only the
few know that, for the many do
not come in touch with him.
Servile to his masters but arro
gant to the public, is the way
the Treasurer might be desig
nated. Sherman Duggan, of
Ketchikan, and formerly U. S.
Attorney for the Third Division,
lias just issued a bulletin, in
which he pays his respects to
Treasurer Smith, as follows:
“Smith and Banks”
“When Mr. Rasmussen and his
associates desired to organize a
Territorial Bank in Ketchikan,
I am informed that Walstein
Smith refused them a charter,
saying there were banks enema
in Ketchikan, although at that
time there was but one. Tha
company then was forced to
double their capitalization and
organize a National Bank, wn:oh
1 they did. Mr. Smith fought tins
at Washington, but they are no v
here and have a million do'Jars
deposits. Think of a Territorial
official forcing Alaskans to or
ganize National Banks when the
law gives them a right to terri
torial charters. An Alaskan of
ficial (?).
Walstein G. Smith is a candi
date for Treasurer of the Terri
tory. He has held office eight
een years, but never elected be
fore. When members of the Am
erican Federation of Labor and
their friends of Anchorage de
sired to organize a Territorial
Bank, Smith refused them a
charter, saying there were banks
enough there, which was beyond
his authority. They were forc -
ed to double their capital frv.r
$25,000 to $50,000 and apply for
a National Bank charter. At
that time there were two other
banks in Anchorage. Since then,
one of these has gone out of
business. The First National
the laboring men’s bank, has a
million dollars in deposits. The
other bank has about a half mil
lion. The stock of the First Na
tional is worth about $175, an
increase of $75 in eight years
and they have paid ten per cent
Dividends every year except the
first. They began business Feb
ruary 1, 1922. Frank Knight,
conductor on the Alaska Rail
road and member of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, is Pres
ident of this laboring men’s
Dank. He is a candidate against
Vfr. Smith in the primaries for
rreasurer."