INDIANS IN ONE VILLAGE IN IN
TERIOR SUBSCRIBE $200
TO ORGANIZATION.
“I consider the Red Cross of such
great value and importance to the
country that no American man or
woman can fail to do his or her
share,” Bishop P. T. Rowe, of the
Episcopal dio-'^se of Alaska said
when solicista 1 for an opinion
on the advantages of the great hum
anitarian organization. “In my tour
through the interior I have told the
natives that they, too, are Americans
and must do their share, even though
they are not called on to fight. In
one Indian village the natives con
tributed $200 for the Red Cross,” the
bishop said. “That fact ought to
shame any slackers among the
whites.”
Hopes For New Church
wWe hope next year to he in a po
sition to build a new church and par
sonage here.” the bishop said. “The
growth of the All Saints’ church is
such that there will be need for such
improvement in that time. I believe.”
Bishop Rowe is in Anchorage on
his annual visit to confirm, baptize
and administer other rites of the
Episcopal church. An unusual cere
mony for the North will be the ordin
ation, Friday morning at 10:30 of
Rev. T. r. Howard into the ministry
of the church. Rev. Mr. Howard was
formerly a Presbyterian minister and
has been doing missionary work in
this district of late. He will continue
in this work following his ordination.
Bishop Has Wide Field
The diocese of Alaska, of which
Bishop Rowe has had charge twenty
two years, is the largest in the Epis
copal church of the possessions of the
United States and extends beyond the
Arctic circle. There are now twenty
seven missions, four hospitals and
three boarding industrial schools, for
natives. A hospital for natives, cost
ing $20,000, was recently opened at
Tanana. and a similar one was open
ed last year at Fort Yukon.
The native boys are taught trades
hi the industrial schools and the
brightest are selected to go outside
to study. Four native boys from the
interior schools are now studying to
become medical missionaries.
Bishop Rowe came to Anchorage
direct from a trip to the missions in
the interior where, he said, excellent
results are being obtained by the
church. The church is doing work
comparable with that of the govern
ment and in some places work which
the government should be doing i3
being done by the church, he said.
PET PIG ON WAY TO
ANCHORAGE, HELD UP
SEATTLE, Aug. 30.—A woman
from McMinnville, Oregon, recently
sent to Seattle a pet pig which she
wished to ship to Anchorage. The pig
was refused transportation by the
steamship companies and became
stranded here.
The secretary of the Alaska bureau
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
and Commercial club, became inter
ested in the case and the pet will go
north on the next steamer.
WHISKY SEIZURE
RULED UNLAWFUL
OLYMPIA, Aug. 30. — The Wash
ington supreme court today decided
that the seizure, a year ago, of a car
load of whisky consigned to Ketchikan
from Butte, was unlawful. The seiz
ure was made by the Sheriff of Sno
homish county, while the car was
passing through his jurisdiction.
“Did you miss your first husband
very much?”
“Not until after I married my
second.—London Opinion.
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RED CROSS SOCIETY IN ANCHORAGE
EFFECTS PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
Permanent organization was ef
fected and officers and heads of
tanding committees for the Anchor
age chapter of the Red Cross were
chosen last nignt in a meeting held
in the Elks’ club rooms. Dr. F. M.
Boyle was named permanent chair
man.
A committee of twenty-five, to be
known as the executive committee,
was elected as follows:
James E. O’Reilly, A. A. Shonbeck,
Sidney Anderson, Oscar Anderson,
Dan Vucetich, Charles E. Herron, Cap
tain Frederick Mears, Mrs. W. C.
Edes, Mrs. Martha White, Mrs. Felix
Brown, Charles Brown, Rev. Jack
Dunstan, Dr. K. A. Kvvig, Dr. C. C.
Benedict, Mrs. A. Lovas, Miss O. D.
Clark, Rev. J. L. McBride, Rev. Wil
liam A. Shepherd, 0. A. Kenyon,
John Dunn, Mrs. I. Bayless, Dr. F.
M. Boyle, B. A. Ross, Z. J. Loussac,
A. Christensen, Robert Courtnay,
Rev. T. P. Howard, Rev. E. W.
Hughes and Mrs. A. G. Thompson.
The executive committee, after the
general meeting, elected heads of
standing committees, as follows:
Dr. F. M. Boyle, chairman; Sidney
Anderson, Mrs. A. G. Thompson,
Mrs. W. C. Edes, Mrs. Felix Brown, ]
Mrs. Martha White, and A. Christ
ensen, vice-chairmen; O. D. Clark,
secretary, and Robert Courtnay,
treasurer.
Dr. K. A. Kyvig was chosen head of ;
the committee on military relief; O. ]
A. Kenyon, of the committee on civi- \
lian relief; Dan Vucetich, on finance; i
Charles E. Herron, on publicity, and ]
Z. J. Loussac, on membership. j
Other members of these commit- <
tees will be selected by the chairmen, j
who will report their selections to a j
meeting Monday evening in the La- i
bor Temple. t
Robert Scott, the national organ
izer, left here this morning on a two- (
days’ trip to Willow creek and the t
camps beyond the end of steel on i
the main line of the railroad. He r
will return to this city on one of i
the special trains. 1
Twenty-seven men were all that!
Mayor J. G. Watts and Dr. C. C. Bene
dict, registrars under the selective j
conscription act, found to register on'
their trip out on the main lne of the!
government railroad to Houston yes-j
I terday. Those registered were well!
scattered and in most of the camps i
1 virtually all of conscription age had '
their cards, said Mayor Watts.
At Matanuska fifty-five have been j
signed for the draft and at Wasilla, I
I
forty-five. Stops were made at all j
the camps and stations between An- j
chorage and Houston.
At King, on the branch line, regis
tration has been brisk and more than
200 men have been given their cards,
according to information received by
the local board here. The registration
at Camp 187 has also been heavy and
has exceeded the 200 figure. The same
is true of Potter.
Eight hundred and twenty-five
! names are included in the Anchorage
! roll. Registration the rest of this
! week is expected to be heavy.
Only eight came in yesterday. They
were handled by J. L. McBride, third
member of the registering board.
OTTAWA, Aug. 31.—The house of
commons of the Canadian parliament
; today passed a bill for the purchase of
the Canadian Northern transcontinen
i tal ralroad by the Canadian govern
ment.
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WISHERS HAVE
VERY POOR SEASON
SEATTLE, Aug. 30.—The schooner
I Wilson from the Bering sea, reports
I that the codfishing this season has
, been unusually poor and that the
j whole fishing fleet is returning from
northern waters with only partial
cargoes.
SHIP’S BUTCHER
JUMPS OVERBOARD
SEATTLE, Aug. 30.—G. Borgford,
aged 50 years, ship’s butcher on the
steamer Admiral Watson, committed
suicide last Monday night by leaping
overboard from the main deck of the
vessel while she was navigating
Queen Charlotte sound.
The body was recovered and brought
to Seattle.
Jim Theofilos, a Greek, was re
| cently arrested for assault upon the
person of Joe Kel^y, a business man of
Juneau. The Greek claimed that the
j Irishman owed him some money and
proceeded to knock the “L” out of
| Kelly.
NORTHERN LINE
OTTAWA. — Late plans of the'
Canadian government for nationaliza-'
tion for railways in the Dominion on
a large scale were announced in par- j
liament today by Sir Thomas White, j
iinance minister. He declared that in i
addition to the government-owned in
tercolonial railway in eastern Canada,
it is proposed to acquire the entire
Canadian Northern railway system of
over 9,000 miles, of which 6,000 miles
are situated in the western wheat
belt.
The Iinance minister stated the Ca- j
nadian Northern had a common share j
capital of $100,000,000, of which the j
government already owned $40,000,- j
900, and it was proposed now to pur- |
chase the remaining $60,000,000 of;
common stock from the private own
ers. A board of arbitration would be
appointed to determine the value he
declared, and afterwards the govern
ment would create a new company,
appointing its entire board of direc
tors to operate the system. This
would mean that with the Intercolon
ial and Canadian Northern railways,
the people of Canada would own a
system of railways from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
Will Retain Old Heads.
The finance minister said the gov
ernment favored retaining as many
as possible of the operating heads of
the Canadian Northern, especially D.}
B. Hanna, vice-president and operat- !
ing head, and General Manager Mc
Leod, of the western lines.
The transaction involved also, he
said, government ownership of the
subsidiaries, including steamship lines,
telegraph companies, express depart
ments, hotels and grain elevator sys
tems in western Canada, as well as
the Mount Royal tunnel, by which the
road is about to gain access to Mon
treal and the terminal docks at Van
couver.
The finance minister stated that the
government contemplated the even
tual acquisition of the Grand Trunk
Pacific railway, which is built from
Vancouver to Prince Rupert, on the
Pacific coast.
Details of Plan.
The government did not announce
the details of the plan for the opera- j
tion of the road acquired, but stated j
that it would do so after it had con- !
eluded the transfer to the government
of the outstanding stock of the Ca
nadian Northern railway.
The stock of the Canadian North
ern outstanding is held to the extent
of five-sixths by Sir William Mac
kenzie, Roderick Mackenize and Sir
Donald Mann. It is estimated that the
potential value of the stock will re
sult in the owners receiving from
$25,000,000 to $40,000,000 in the set
tlement.
UNIVERSAL CAMERA MAN RE
TURNS AFTER PICTURING
UNUSUAL INDUSTRY.
William B. Woodworth returned
yesterday from Beluga staation* where
he has been for the past two weeks
taking moving pictures of the big
whale industry. Mr. Woodworth is
representing the Universal Film com
pany and makes a specialty of Alaska
scenes. On this trip he took over 500
feet of film which includes the beluga
fishing industry in all of its phases
from throwing out the web to landing
the big white whale.
Mr. Woodworth will remain in An
chorage during the fair and devote his
time to taking street views and other
interesting scenes for his company.
There will be reproduced later at mov
ing picture houses throughout the
United States and in this city.
Willard Herron, son of Charles E.
Herron, of Anchorage, is among the
first contingent to be commissioned
in the reserve corps of the United
States army from the training camp
at the Presidio, San Francisco. He
is now a second lieutenant in the ar
tillery corps and has been assigned
to the Puget Sound defenses.
Lieutenant Herron is quite well
known here, having spent the summer
af 1916 in this city. For two years
iie has been a student at the Univers
ity of Washington, Seattle, and was
>ne of the most prominent and ener
getic men in-college. He was captain
>f cadets at Washington and was a
member of the coast artillery corps
>f the national guard of Washington.
He is a member of Scabbard and
Blade, a military fraternity; and al
though only at the university two
years, was elected to the Oval club,
the upper-class honor society, shortly
before his departure from college
last June. He was on the business
staff of the University Daily, a mem
ber of the Tyee annual staff and a
member of the Dramatic association.
Before America’s participation in
the war, Lieutenant Herron had plan
ned to come to Anchorage this sum
mer to work on the Anchorage Daily
Times, which is owned by his father.
The young man was majoring in
journalism at the University of
Washington, specializing in advertis
ing and business.
The people of Anchorage will have
m opportunity of witnessing a real,
live moving picture show Thursday
norning. The show will be staged in
:he exhibition grounds and depict a
;ypical old time Alaska Dance Hall
scene.
A1 Ira Smith is staging the picture
which had its origin in southern Cali
fornia. One of the Alaska scenes will
be laid in Anchorage.
In addition to Miss Lotta Kruse,
leading lady and a favorite with mov
ing picture fans, and Henry Bolton,
the heavy, Mr. Smith will be assisted
by local talent including Younk Vi
king, Fred Tracy, George Campbell.
Judge Leopold David, Dick Dickenson
and several others.
Mr. Smith is anxious to procure the
services of six young women to take
part in the play. He wants a tall man
to play the part of an Indian and two
to take other easy parts. The picture
PETROGRAD, Sept. 1.—In great contrast with the gran
deur of recent imperial days, Nicholas Romanoff, former czar of
Russia; his wife, their son Alexis, former heir apparent to the
muscovite throne, and their four daughters are living in a large,
but old-fashioned house of fourteen rooms at Tobolik, Siberia.
Nicholas and his wife have one room each; two rooms are
occupied by the four daughters, and one room is used by Alexis.
All the other rooms, except the kitchen and the dining and
reading rooms, are reserved for servants.
The lot on which the house is situated has no garden at all.
The structure has a small balcony.
The house was not ready for occupancy when the former
czar and his family arrived at Tobolik, and they were obliged to
remain two days on the small steamer that brought them down
the Tobol river while the residence was prepared for them.
From the steamboat landing, the former czarina and her
daughter Olga rode to the house, while the other members of
the family walked. The arrival of the members of the de
throned family occasioned scarcely any notice at all from the
residents of the town.
Nicholas has asked permission of the government to engage
tutors for his children.
will later be reproduced on the screens After all, the man who stands on
of the moving picture houses of An-his dignity is to be preferred to the
chorage, as well as in the states. one who sits all over us.
OUR BEEF, MUTTON, PORK
and other meats are strictly high
grade. They are from especially bred
stock and are far superior to meats
cut from common breeds. It wiil take
only one trial to prove our meats’ si^
periority in spit of the fact that they
cost no more.
Fresh Fish, Butter and Eggs.
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..TEMPLE ROLLER RINK..
MUSIC BY WURLITZER MILITARY BAND
Skating every afternoon and evening from 2:30 tto 5:30 and 7:30
to 10:30. Special attention will be given to beginners in the after
noons. With our new $235.00 floor machine we can keep the floor in
first class condition for dancing and will furnish the hall well lighted.
Catering to clubs and societies.
Catering to Ciubs and Societies
MATANUSKA REINDEER
RANCHING COMPANY
INVITE YOU 'BO CALL ON THEM AND INVESTIGATE THEIR
PROPOSITION FOR INVESTM ENT.
P. O. Sundberg, President Oscar Anderson, Treasurer.
Carl Bolte, Vice-President S. R. MacClinton, Sect.
DR. H. O. SCHALEBEN, GEN. MAN.