WOMEN PLAYERS GIVE UMPS
COTTON TO STOP THEIR EARS
BELFAST, Ireland, Jan. 12 (JP)—
The captain of the woman’s field hock
ey team presented the umpires with
cotton with which r.Q stuff their ears
before the beginning of a match as a
slam at the officials who had filed for
mula complaint that women hockey
players were indulging in swear words
when whacked on the shins during
the game.
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ROPES MOOSE IN
CASSIAR RIVER
LAST SUMMER
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MILTON WILLIS, RETURNS TO
SEWARD FROM CASSIAR 'RE
GION AND TACOMA.
IS NOT GOING BACK THERE
Was One of the First Stampeders
Into District; Staked On
Discovery.
On the Grady property, Discovery
creek, Cassiar district, $10 per day
is the average recovery, states Mil
ton Willis, “The Cassiar Kid,” who
arrived in Seward last Saturday from
the south. The country is a good
looking district all right and he stak
ed a bench claim alongside of Dis
covery, but he does not expect to go
back. The gold is concentrated on
Discovery, all of which claims are con
trolled by Grady who forked them
part of last Fall and plans going
ahead on a greatly enlarged scale
next summer. It w'ill be all pick
and shovel work, Willis said.
Leaving Anchorage a year ago this
month, Willis went direct to Wran
gell where he procured as much in
formation as possible, got an outfit
together and on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, with a “gee” pole clasped in j
his sturdy right hand and a harness ;
slung over his shoulders, he headed ;
for the new district, 250 miles away, |
pulling a home-made sled loaded
down with 300 pounds of baggage and
supplies. He stuck with it until he
reached his destination at Gold Fan.
This was on April 4.
For the last few days he traveled
with a chap named Wm. Perkins, a
former mining man in the Cache Ck.
district. He also met “Curley” Smith
from th© Chandalar ngion. From
O-old Pan to Telegraph Creek, a dis
tance of 152 miles, Willis furnished
his own motive power for much of
the distance. This trip was made in
four days, a quick trip, due to the
fact that Smith had a dog team of
five Irish setters and the trail was
broke.
• 'Ajiiis has many fine photographs
oc the trail trip and of the Caspar
region. One picture though, is very
UL.mual for it reveals two m. re
swimming in open water in a river
partly frozen over. It was peculiar,
but on that day Willis and another
chap were out gunning for fresh
meat. Sighting the moose which
were making frantic efforts to climb
up thru the decomposed to solid ice.
and using a pack rope for a lasso they
successfully roped one and dragged
him out on the ice, but the other
moose, apparently suddenly became
weakened from its long struggle in
water for it slowly sank under the
ice. The photograph ot the “Bill
Hart” stunt is one that Willis prizes
very highly.
Last summer, after convincing him
self the uselessness of continuing to
dig out a small part of a fortune
from the ground, Willis began the
coastward trek which ended some
weeks later at Tacoma, where his
family resides. Arriving home he
discovered his step-son, John Mark
ert, who with his mother, left Anch
orage a year ago, to be just on the
verge of recovery from a severe at
tack of appendicitis. On one of the
lad’s first auto trips, about town, fol
lowing his illness, he featured in a
collision which resulted in seventeen
stitches being taken in his head.
Willis remained at home until a few
weeks ago, and upon the recovery
of the boy’s second convalescent pe
riod, hied for Alaska. He left Se
ward yesterday morning for Anchor
age where he will be employed by
the Anchorage bakery, owned by
Ira Losey.
THE SEWARD
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Will be published every Friday, the
first issue appearing in,February
THE SEWARD WEEKLY GATEWAY WILL BE A NEW DEPARTURE in
the field of Alaska journalism, and will start off with a circulation of nearly 1000
copies It will contain the Associated Press News of the week, local news and Ter
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Weekly Gateway will have nearly exclusive entry to the vast district west of Sew
ard owing to geographic location, and will have a splendid staff of correspondents
in each camp. Subscribers taking the Saturday Gateway will be transferred to the
Weekly Gateway as it will be more in line with what they expect m a weekly paper.
We believe this new venture will prove sueessful inasmuch as it will offer an ad^ei
tising medium for outside advertisers to reach the westward public.
While The Seward Weekly Gateway will be published m Seward, for a time at
least, it will be distinctively an Alaskanpublication, by Alaskans for Alaskans. Ad
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Saving Effected By
Installation Burners
On Railroad Cars
The charcoal heaters, Installed in
many of the freight cars on the Alas
ka Railroad last summer and fall,
have worked very successfully giving
splendid satisfaction in maintaining
even temperatures in the freight ears.
The charcoal is made in the Anch
orage yard ovens from native birch
and compares favorably with the
best produced in the States. A -few
of the special heaters were purchas
ed Outside (but the remainder were
made in the mechanical shops.
Since the installation of th heat
ers it is believed, a considerable item
in freight handling, especially of
produce has been saved the railroad.
Channel Swim Still Eludes
Women, Three Failed 1925
Three women of three different
•countries made valiant attempts to
swim across the English channel
during 1925. All of them failed and
the world’s most difficult swimming
feat has yet to be accomplished by a
woman. The three who tried to
make their way through the treach
erous currents from France to Eng
land were Miss Gertrude Ederle of
the United States, Miss Lillian Har
rison of the Argentine and Mile.
Jeanne Sion of France. Of these
three Mile. Sio came the nearest to
reaching her goal. She made her at
tempt on Aug. 4 and was forced to
give up w'hen only a mile and a quar
ter -from Dover. Miss Ederle made
her bid on Aug. 18 and was forced
to quit when 6^ miles from Dover,
However, she set a Channel record
for both men and women by swim
ming 231/& miles in eight hours. Miss
Harrison, who had made two at
tempts prior to this year, tried the
feat twice during 1925. On her first
attempt she had to retire five miles
from Dover, and on her second try
she almost drowned within eight
miles to go.
Fred Whitfield of Decatur, 111., was
fined ?4.15 and tried to sell the
judge’s crutches to the prosecuting
attorney to raise the money, but was
sent to jail.
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