Americans Get Business
Canadians Get Peeved
VICTORIA. B. C., Mar. 19—There
is a growing teeling of resentment
against American tugboat operators
among the tugboat men of British Co
lumbia.
Within the near future steps will
be taken to bolster the Canadian bus
iness in such a way that American
encroachment will not be felt to such
an extent.
In the state of Washington there
is an organization, which every tow
boat concern joins, known as the
Northwest Towboat Owners’ associa
tion. and which has a set tariff for its
territorial waters. In this way there
is no price cutting in American waters
among American boats. But when the
Washington tugs come into competi
tion with Canadian operators it is dif
ferent. The result is that the big
tugs, economical to operate, with Dei
sel engines, slash their prices to such
an extent that they put the Canadian
boats out of the running, so far as the
big towing jobs are concerned.
The only places where Canadian
tugs gets towing jobs are from the
nooks and crannies along the coast,
where small booms are assembled,
and are then towed to the booming
centers on Vancouver island, where
immediately tlie powerful American
towboats snap up the orders and tow
them into American mills.
It is utterly impossible for Cana
dians to compete with Americans in
the latter's home waters, and it is
growing equally hard for them to com
pete even within their own limits, lo
cal tugboat men say.
What the Canadian towboat men de
sire is that their tugs should tow logs
to the port of entry in Washington
nearest that point where the mills are
located, without making a break in the
trip and leaving the big booms for the
American tugs to handle.
The rates for American tugs in
territorial waters keep the tariff at
a fixed point and there is a stability
of business that is never seen in Can
adian waters. Every operator is a
member of the towboat association
and there is no such thing as cut
rates within the states. This cannot
be said of the Canadian tugs. The Am
ericans can cut their rates when in
competition with Canadian tugs, but
their fixed tariff in home waters make
it possible tor them to make up for
a possible loss in this way.
Local tugboat men are organizing
to take drastic action and will put up
a stiff fight for business which they
believe is rightly theirs.
Rum Issue Is Faced
In British Columbia
'VANCOUVER, Mar. 19.—When the
new Canadian law prohibiting the
importation of liquor into British Col
umbia or any other province in Can
ada by private concerns goes into
effect, this province will bp in the
same position as the United States
in enforcing it.
At the present time bootlegging is
common because boats clear from
here for foreign ports with bonded
liquor, but these goods find their way
back without paying duty.
Should the new law force these
export houses without distilleries out
ot business there is every probabil
ity that it will cost the Dominion of
Canada millions of dollars a year to
maintain a rum chasing fleet similar
to that of the United States.
With myriads of little uninhabited
islands from one end to the other,
of the British Columbia coast, all af
fording shelter for Ihe contraband
carriers, the cost of preventing smug
gling into Canada from the western
coast would far outweigh anything
the United States has ever attempt
ed, it is believed.
Long stretches of shoreline run on
the Washington, Oregon and Califor
nia mainlands that are entirely ex
posed to the ocean and afford no pro
tection for the rum runner. This is
not the case in British Columbia
and customs officials and police have
been speculating for the past week
about the hundreds of ways liquoi
will be able to enter this province
without paying duty.
One official of his Majesty’s cus
toms stated that he saw visions ol
thousands of gallons being landed ir
caches all the way down the Pacific
coast of Canada, to furnish supplies
for small boats, fishing crafts, tugs
booms of logs with false carrying
equipment underneath, and scows.
JOHN H. EDWARDS TO BE
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
| WASHINGTON, March 19— John
| H. Edwards, former speaker of the
i Indiana house of representatives,
; has been selected by President
I Coolidge as assistant secretary of
j the interior.
| Mr. Edwards, whose home. is in
I Mitchell, Ind., and who now is so
j licitor of the interior department,
l will succeed Francis M. Goodwin, of
Washington state, who has resigned
effective March 4. The nomination
of Mr. Edwards was sent to the
senate recently.
MINOR OFFENDERS FAIL
TO RETURN CASH TAKEN
FROM FUND FOR NEEDY
SEATTLE, Wn„ Mar. 19—Payments
from a $1,000 fund to aid destitute
persons who appeared in court on mi
nor offenses were suspended today by
Justice Dalton because “the money’s
all going out and none’s coming back.”
“When the fund was established the
disbursements were only loans,” said
Dalton. “Some of the beneficiaries
must have believed the monetary aid
was a gift. I’ve not seen them since
and the fund is dwindling alarming
ly.”
Only two of many persons aided
have returned the money.
UPPER AMAZON EXPLORER
REPORTS ALL GOING WELL
LONDON, March 19.—The expidi
tion under Dr. Alexander Hamilton
Rice, which is exploring the upper
Amazon region, got in touch with the
Royal Geographical Society of Lon
don yesterday through an amateur ra
dio operator, Gerald Marcuse, of Cat
erhatn, Surry.
Dr. Rice’s operator asked Marcuse
to inform the society that the expedi
tion had reached the junction of the
| Rivers Urgri and Uricatara on January
, 19. The progress of the party has
i been slow as the country is extremely
difficult to travel. The party had
been unable to use its hydroplane, but
had achieved the object of the expedi
tion and all were well.
Avaliable maps do not show the
rivers named but it is indicated that
| the party is near the Venezuela bor
i der.
A writer asks what lias become of
the old-fashioned cook? She started
a fire with gasoline.
Few great reformers were married
men. Kicking the world’s shins is
the peculiar privilege of those who
I have no children’s shoes to buy.
Lester D. Henderson
Again Reappointed
At the -first meeting of the Territo
rial Board of Education at Juneau last
week, Lester D. Henderson, commis
sioner of education was reappointed
to the office.
The Board met in the office of Gov.
Bone, who is chairman. Members at
tending were: Senators Aldrich, Ayer,
Dimond and Dunn. Mr. Henderson was
nominated for another term by Mr.
Ayer, Mr. Dimond seconding it. He
was promptly reelected without oppo
sition.
Mr. Henderson was first named as
Commissioner of Education in 1917, at
which time the Territorial Department
of Education was created. He has serv
ed continuously since that time and is
now entering on his fifth term. On
one occasion only, in 1923. has any op
position developed to his administra
tion. At that time, after the appoint
ment of Commissioner had been held
up for several weeks, he was unani
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/\r\ month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
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-0=^^ Meet3 every Thursday at
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Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
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Tuesdays of each month,
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members are always wel
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Adjutant.
come. J.
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IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
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Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
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March 24
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Arrives South from
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March 31
April 7
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
April 20
April 14
S. S. ADMIRAL PEARY
April 27—With freight and explosives.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jerviee
^admiral line
iH.F.ALEXANDER. PRESIDENT
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING OF STR. STARR WEST, APRIL 5
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 135. SEWARD, ALA8KA
mously re-elected on April 21.
At the meeting of the Board, and
prior to the action on the Commission
ership, Gov. Bone paid a high tribute
to Mr. Henderson. He mentioned brief
difficulties existing in Alaska that
hampered school administration and
praised the efficiency of the Commis
sioner’s work. The Territorial school
system evolved under him, he said,
was one in which the Territory duly
felt a pride.
After the Board had reelected him,
Mr. Henderson was called into confer
ence with it and briefly discussed edu
cational matters and some of his rec
ommendations to the Legislature. At
the Board’s suggestion he will prepare
a compilation of all Territorial school
laws for modification.
“Honey boy,” said a Seward girl,
as she entangled herself from the
barricade of arms, “didn’t nobody a
tall help you to win that war?”
Adversity is all right. Nobody ever
became heavyweight champ by lick
ing little fellow's.
LADIES PLEASE NOTICE—that
Schweizer’s Spring samples are now
on display at Urbach’s Store. * k31
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Scheduled
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March 14
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April 4
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April 18.
April 25
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in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Freighter Oduna is scheduled to sail from Seattle March 23rd.
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