Local Happenings of Week
Monday
Herman A. Gentsch, well known
Anchorage druggist was a passenger
for Seward on Saturday’s train. He
was accompanied by his mother and
sister who left on the Alaska for
their home in the states after spend
ing the past two months in Anchorage
visiting with Mr. Gentsch. He return
ed to the Interior city on today’s train.
Bob Schroeder, well known old-tim
er of the Valdez section was a passen
ger on the Alaska Saturday enroute
to Anchorage where he will join his
father who is having his eyes treated
at the hospital there. They will go
into the Interior on a prospecting trip
for the remainder of the season.
Aron Ericson, the sign painter and
decorator, who has been engaged for
the past week doing the interior dec
orating on the new Tecklenberg
building, is making rapid progress
with the work.
Rev. Fr. Turned, returned to An
chorage on this morning’s train.
Mrs. Parsons, nee Carrie Suits and
son, Chester, were passengers on the
Alaska enroute to Prince Rupert, yes
terday, where they will make their fu
tui^ home. Capt. Parsons left on a
preceeding boat to make preparations
for then coming.
Frank Caraway, who has been lo
cating engineer with the Alaska Road
Commission at McKinley Park, prior
to the closing down of operations
there, recently, was a Seward arrival
on Saturoay’s train .
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Rev. Fr. McMillan was a returning
passenger on the Alaska for his par
ish at Cordova, after visiting while
the boat was in port, with Rev. Fr.
Tumell.
It is reported that the Victoria is
due to arrive in Seward from Nome
and way ports, sometime Wednesday.
Mrs. K. C. Jones, wife of the popu
lar brakcman, spent Sunday in Sew
ard, returning to her home in Anchor
age today. She will accompany the
Frank Reedy party of tourists to
Fairbanks as violinist in the orchestra
_ which has been provided for the oc
casion. Mrs. Jone's is said to be an
accomplished pianist as well as violin
ist.
Andy Simons was an arrival in the
city Saturday from Mile 20.
Joe Reno, the merchant prince of
Girdwood, was a Seward visitor over
Sunday . He was accompanied by
his daughter Jessie, and Miss Ethel
Peterson of Anchorage.
Hans F. Fryvelund and Miss Joana
Faduni, were married Saturday night
July 19, by U. S. Commissioner Mci-l
ford. Mr. Fryvenlund is from Wasilla
while the bride was an arrival on the
Alaska from Minnesota.
"'■Si, Tuesday
E. F. Jessen, manager of the Wil-1
son-Jessen Syndicate, of Anchorage, j
arrived in Seward last evening on the
special train. Mr .Jessen is a guest
at the Van Gilder hotel and leaves
tomorrow morning for the Interior.
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A1 Hardy, United States fur war
den and deputy game warden with
headquarters at Anchorage, arrived in
Seward yesterday on a brief business
trip. He left town yesterday morn
ing on a freight train for Kenai Lake
where business of an official nature
has called him.
George Johnson, official photogra
pher for the Alaska Railroad, who ar
rived in Seward yesterday from Tun
nel, left for Anchorage yesterday, a
passenger on the Frank Reedy excur
sion train. Mr. Johnson expects to
accompany the Texans over the rail
road and snap a number of still and
moving pictures.
Miss Janice Meredith, private sec
retary to Colonel Lee H. Landis, gen
eral manager of the Alaslfa Railroad,
and who arrived in Seward last even
ing on board the special train, left to
day for the Anchorage headquarters.
Ross H. Hale, superintendent of mo
tive power and equipment, returned
to Anchorage from this city, on this
morning’s special. Mr. Hale, who
formerly wore the title of master me
chanic, was promoted to his new po
sition about three weeks ago. He ar
rived in Seward from Anchorage
Monday evening.
J. H. King, formerly associated with
the Lathrop Interests in Anchorage,
following a brief business trip to
Seward Monday .returned tq^Anchor
age this morning. Mr. King is now
in charge of the upkeep of the An
chorage public school and is now on
his annual vacation. He expects to
make the round trip over the Alaska
railroad before school opens in Sep
tember.
Wednesday
Mrs. G. W. Colwell and two child
ren were arrivals on last night’s tram
from Tunnel. Mrs. Colwell is mak
ing preparations for the family’s de
parture on the steamer Yukon next
Sunday for Newcastle, Calif., where
Mr. Colwell’s mother is seriously ill.
Mr. Colwell will arrive in town Sat
urday.
Miss Selma Simonson, a popular An
chorage Miss, was an arrival last eve
ning from the Interior city.
“Big Mike” Sullivan, tie inspector
for the Alaska Railroad, was an in
coming passenger on yesterday’s pas
senger train from Anchorage, leaving
the train at Moose Pass station .
Joe Wilson, mine owner from the
Moose Pass district, arived .in Sew
ard yesterday from Mills Creek.
Misses Helen and Betty Balderston
are visiting with their father -who is
president of the Bank of Seward.
Thursday
E. F. Jessen left for Anchorage on
the freight this afternoon. Mr. Jes
sen is manager of the Wilson-Jessen
syndicate handling railroad advertis
ing.
Friday
Mrs. Claude Shea and children of
Anchorage, are visiting with Mr.
Shea’s parents in Seward.
Mrs. F. A. Hansen, wife of the
superintendent of the Cordova railroad
is expected to arrive on the steam
er Yukon tomorrow, en route to An
chorage, where she will visit with
friends for a time.
Mr. and Mrs. McManus, employees
of the Alaska Railroad, will be south
bound passengers on the Yukon fo •
Seattle.
Mr. Anton Eide has a force of men
working on the Road Commission
warehouse, replacing the old roofing
paper with a new galvanized roof.
Mrs. 1 Boyles and daughters will
'arrive on the train tomorrow to take
pa.-v.ujc on the Yukon Sunday for fhe
States. Mrs. Bayles is the wife of
the well-known Anchorage clothing
man who will join them later in the
staves . • »
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The fire hydrants are being paint
ed white and red so as to make them
metre noticeable.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Abercrombie
and children, Miss Queenie Russell,
I Mr. W. Durham, Miss Katherine Mc
I Mahon and Mr. W. L. Mackie, all
I holding positions with the Alaska Rail
road in Anchorage, were week-end
! visitors at Tunnel last week, with Mr.
and Mrs. George Colwell. Mr. and Mrs.
Colwell and children will be outgoing
passenger on the Yukon Sunday.
‘‘Big Mike” Sullivan, tie inspector
for the Alaska Railroad, i? a vis
itor in town for a few days.
Mrs. H. L. Hugg and daughter Mon
ica, were week-end. visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor at Tunnel.
Harry Hoben had a crew of men
and horses working the past two days
moving the two cabins situated in
the rear of the Arcade building, to
one of his lots located on Washington
ton and Second.
Mrs. Drager, wife of the superin
tendent of the fish hatchery, at Mile
8 is spending a few days in town vis
iting with friends.
Charles Krefting, foreman of the
Carpenter shops of the Alaska Rail
road here, and who was sent to Fair
banks some time ago to do some spec
ial work in the Interior Metropolis,
will not be able to return to Seward
for about two months, according to
word received here.
Mrs. R. D. Chase, wife of the dis
bursing officer, accompanied by her
daughter Nancy, vvii1 sail on the Yu
kon oman extended visit to the States.
Mrs. Howard Johnson, of Anchorage
has accepted a position temporarily
on the diner, of the Alaska Railroad,
and made her initial trip to Seward
Tuesday. Her husband is a member of
the train crew.
It is said the Standard Oil Com
pany will erect oil tanks at Port
Ashton, near Latouche this summer.
WIFE OF LIBERTY THEATRE
MANAGER UNDERGOES
APPENDICITIS OPERATION
Mrs Joe Burns of Seward, wife of
the owner of the Liberty Theatre, suc
cessful underwent an operation for
appendicitis yesterday morning at
nine o’clock, in Anchorage, according
to a telephone message received by
Mr. Burns last evening. Dr. Beeson
performed the operation at the Alaska
Railroad hospital at 9:30 o’clock and
reported that at four o’clock in the af
ternoon, that Mrs. Burns came out
from under the anesthetic.
According to Mr. Burns, he states
Dr. Beeson said that Mrs. Burns un
derwent the operation just in time,
and that her condition was fairly well
advanced. Following the operation,
Mrs. Burns mother, who accompanied
her to Anchorage and has been at her
bedside constantly since ^er illness,
went back to her hotel and enjoyed
the first good rest in days. Dr. Beeson
| told Mr. Burns that he can expect his
i wife home again in ten days.
WILL INSTALL ELECTRIC
SIREN FOR TOWN NOME
NOME—It is planned to install an
electric siren at the Hammond Pow
er Plant to be sounded daily at a morn
ing, noon qnd evening hour. The time
will be regulated and kept as accu
rate as possible thru the courtesy«of
the men of the local Radio Station. A
daily whistle of some sort is needed
and would soon become accepted as
the official time everywhere within
hearing distance of the siren. This
would eliminate our present system of
each ship, firm, hotel and individual
trying to keep his own time with the
result that no one knows within half
an hour of the correct time because
he got it from so-and-so. It may take
a little time to learn to distinguish
the siren itself from the prompt and
correct imitation which will no doubt
be given by the dogs. A second sir
en will be installed at Little Creek.
WILL ESTABLISH SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY NEAR
EKLUTNA; FIRST UNIT BE STARTED AT ONCE
(Anchorage Times)
As a result of recommendations
made to the bureau of education by
B. B. Mozee, local superintendent last
fall, recommending the removal of the
orphanage at Tyonic to some place
in the Matanuska Valley ,arrange
ments have been completed for the
building of the first unit of a large
industrial school at Eklutna. This
first building, which ultimately will
be a dormitory, will be built under the
direction of Casper Malmberg, re
cently appointed superintendent of the
| school.
Several car loads of material for
the first unit are on hand and work
w i11 be started on the building this
week.
Mi. Mozee stated this morning that
the primary reason for the establish
ment of such an industrial school at
Eklutna is due to the bureau of edu
cation's desire to train the Indian
children in their native environment
and -limate and not send them out Lo
the Indian schools in the states. In
the past Indian children have been
sent to schools ft eh as Chemeva at
Salem, Oregon.
The industrial school at Eklutna,
when finished, will consist of several
units grouped in a square. The main
building of this square will be used
as classrooms for the elementary and
grade school classes . On either side
of Uie main building will be shops for
vocational and trade courses. In
fronc and at the corners of the hol
low square will be two two-story dor
mitories, one for the boys and the
other tor the girls. Teachers cottages
will also be built.
The plans for this year only include
the building of one of the buildings,
ultimately a dormitory, but to be used
this year for all the work of the
school. This building will cost ap
proximately $11,000 and will be 36 by
52 feet in size. It will have a ce
ment basement, electric lights and
steam heat throughout.
The staff chosen for the year will
include Mr. and Mrs. Casper Malm-!
berg and three others to be announc- j
ed later. It is planned to have a
staff consisting of the superintendent 1
PULP MILL PROJECT
FOR SEWARD IS
STILL UNDER WAY
ENGINEERS ARE IN SEATTLE
COLLECTING ALL NECESSARY
DATA FOR PROPOSED BIG IN
DUSTRY AT SEWARD.
(The Alaska Weekly)
For the last month engineers have
been in Seattle and other points on
Puget sound and in British Columbia
getting necessary data ,sent here by
the big Eastern interests that will fi
nance the proposed pulp and paper
making industry at Seward, Alaska.
Frank L. Ballaine, yromoter of the
big proposition, declines to discuss the
matter, taking the position that any
information on the subject must come
from those who are financing the in- j
dustry. As far as he would go was ■
to say that “everything is coming
along all right."
The**thoice of the Resurrection bay !
town as the site for a pulp mill and;
paper making plant recalls to mind
an opinion expressed by a big East
ern Canada pulp and paper manufac
turer many years ago. The writer
of this article was at the time editor
of the Seward Gateway. The paper
manufacturer was financially concern
ed in the old Alaska Central Railway.
and made a trip to Seward and into!
the Matanuska valley to see the coal
fields. Upon his return to Seward
from the trip, he was interviewed, and
said, in part:
“If I were a younger man, I would
locate in Seward and establish a pulp
and paper making plant. That’s your
big resource here, as I see it. There
is an abundance of spruce on the pen
insula and cottonwoods grow in pro
fusion in the Matanuska and Susitna
valleys. The great Kenai Lake and
river will provide adequate water
power facilities. We have nothing like
it in my couiftry.
INFORMATION WANTED
Inquiry has come to the Governor’s
Office concerning one William J. Mea
gher, or Marr, who is supposed to
have died somewhere in Alaska prior
to December 1923, where a notice in
quiring for his relatives was seen in
Boston papers. This notice cannot
now be found and his relative} are
anxious to learn of the circumstanc js
of Lis death, etc. Any information in
the matter should be forwarded to the
Governor’s Office.
Raincoats at Urbach's.
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who will be the chief instructor in
manual training, a teacher of the el
ementary school, a nurse ,a matron
and a general utility man.
Although, Mr. Mozee stated today,
most of the orphans from the orphan
age at Tyonic will be brought over to
Eklutna as the first students, the
school at Eklutna will not be an or
phanage but purely an industrial
school where any of the Indian child
ren who have finished the fourth, the
fifth and sixth grades may receive a
finished trade of vocational training.
A man and a teacher will stay at
Tyonic this winter to take care of
the school at that place and what In
dian children stay there. The ftficials
will also look after the fishing reser
vation rights of the native Indians.
Thg reserve for the Indian Indus
trial school at Eklutna ,calls for all
land in the vicinity of the mouth of
the Eklutna not already filed upon by
homesteaders. The school itself will
be built upon the tract of land north
of the Eklutna river, between the river
and the Alaska railroad, about two
hundred feet east of the railroad right
of way. The school building will face
the railroad and the Inlet.
Mr. Mozee stated today that the rea
sons for establishment of the indus
trial school at Eklutna was such that
its location was such that when the
proposed Anchorage Light and Power
company built their hydro-electric
plant at Eklutna,, the school could re
ceive cheap electric power for use in
the shops and buildings. Further
more, said Mr. Mozee, the tract of
land has good opportunities for large
agricultural areas for the extensive
gardens which the Indians will culti
vate for school use. Also the dis
trict around Eklutna is a fine game
country and has excellent duck hunt
ing.
One of the weighty reasons for
building the school at Eklutna is due
to its facility to the bureau of educa
tion reindeer herd in the Broad Pass
country. It will be able to send In
dian lads to the herd for their train
ing as reindeer herders, and also it
will be easily possible to procure rein
deer meat for use at the school.
JUNEAU BOY DROWNS
WRANGELL—Willoughby Bartlett,
the twelve year old so nof Glen Bart
lett ,former manager of the Gastineau
hotel at Juneau was drowned here on
the seventeenth of this month . He
came north on one of the recent steam
ships to visit his grandmother who
lives here .
FORMER SEWARD BOY
DROWNS IN VIRGINIA
According to a telegram, which was
seven days in transit, owing to irregu
lar telegraphic service, “Happy” Me
Neer, was drowned July 13th, while in
bathing, at Haysi, Virginia. Doctors
worked several hours trying save his
life, but he had been in the water for
too long a time, and could not be re
vived.
“Happy” was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. H. McNeer former residents of Sew.
ard, Mrs. McNeer being a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Root, of this city.
He was about thirteen at the time of
his death.
DAVIS SAYS HE IS
JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT
ISLEBORO, Maine* July 25—Davis
said in an interview last evening, that
he pleaded guilty to the charge of be
ing a Jefferson Democrat adding:
“I personally think that Jefferson
was the greatest political thinker this
country has produced, and I expect
to die in that faith.”
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OVER TO COURT ON *
FISH PIRACY CHARGE
JUNEAU, Alaska,—Charged with
robbery of a fish trap on Mansfield
Peninsula, the latter part of June, Iv
er Stolpe, captain of the gasboat Show
Me, Vernon G. Nelson and Jean Con
stantine were one day last week
held td answer to the District Court
by Judge V. A. Paine, following a
hearing in the U .S. Commissioner’s
Court. Their bond was fixed at $2,
500 each ,the same amount at which
it was fixed following their arrest.
Ingvald Olsen, trap watchman, was
the main witness for the Government
at the hearing. He told of the alleged
robbery and said that after taking the
fish the men gave him money which
he turned over to the cannery super
intendent, A. Dano. He identified the
defendants as the men who took the
fish.
OGDEN, July 25—John M. Brown
ing, noted firearms inventor of this
city and inventor of the Browning
machine gun, announced today that
he has designed a new double barrel
shotgun, with one barrel resting on
top of the other.