PYRALINE TOILETWARE
You can either buy the complete set or just
a few essential pieces which can be added to
from time to time. As all designs are stand
ard, perfect matching is guaranteed. The
Pyralin name-stamp on every article is your
guarantee of lasting satisfaction. Step in and
see our display while there is a wide assort
ment from which to choose.
Seward Drug Co.
The Rexall Store
OIL POLLUTION ACT
The attention of all marine craft
operators of boats using oil as fuel
for their boats in Alaskan navigable
waters is called to an Act of Congress
approved June 7. 1924., providing a
penalty for discharge of oil of any
kind in any navigable coastal waters
of the United States. Copies of this
law may be had by applying to the U.
S. Engineer Office, Juneau, Alaska.
WOMAN’S CLUB TO MEET
The regular meeting of the Worn
an’s Club will be held at the Fire
Hall Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock
Members are urged to be present..
DELLWOOD PICKS UP CABLE
The cableship Dellwood cut in on
the Seward end of the Valdez-Seward
cable this morning, and later buoyed
it and is grappling for the Valdes
end.
If you don’t get your paper before
six o’clock please phone us and one
will be sent by special messenger.
Off the S.S. Yukon
NEW STYLES IN MILLI
NERY AND NEW GOODS AR
RIVING ON EVERY BOAT.
BANBURY & OGLE
SEWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW
FRIENDS INVITED
GUS ANDERSON
ED ERICKSON
NEW GOODS
We are receiving a
shipment of new
1925 Spring Goods
on every boat.
SEE THEM AT
ELLSWORTH‘S
I
: Gold Bearing Onion
Started First Rush
For Gold In 1841
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4—Recent
! reports that the original first nugget
i of California gold was in tlie posses
sion of a private collector in New York
have aroused chroniclers of southern
California to remind the public that
it was an onion and not Sutter’s mill
j that started the first California gold
,rush.
Moreover, chroniclers aver that the
| onion grew in the San Fernado valley
| northwest of here, hundreds of miles
! south of Sutter’s mill, and the gold
| rush it started in 1941, seven years
I before James Marshall’s discovery of
gold in El Dorado county.
It was on March 9, 1841, that Fran
cisco Lopez was riding through San
Feliciano canyon with a companion
and they stopped to eat lunch under
a tree. Lopez liked onions and when
he saw a wild one growing within
arm’s reach he leaned over to dig it
up with his knife and add it to his
meal. Clinging to the roots of that
onion were several small pieces ol
gold.
Soon the rush was on. As far tc
the north as Santa Barbara and as fat
south as San Diego the news of the
gold strike spread. In a few weeks
hundreds of men werq sifting the soi:
of the canyon for gold and many were
finding it in large quantities.
Hostilities between the U. S. and
Mexico interrupted the placer mining
and when, in 1855, mining activities
were refsumed in the San Fernandc
field, the latter but greater gold rush
started by the discovery of nuggets
at Sutter’s mill in the north was in
full swing.
Estimates place the amount of gold
taken out of Los Angeles county bj
the plucking of an onion at $5,000,000
and some say more.
FREIGHTER NABESNA IN SOON
The freighter Nabesna is due in
Seward soon from the south and wil:
probably stop at Days’ Harbor for s
load of ties from the mill of the Re
surrection Bay Lumber company, ai
that place.
SPECIAL, MEETING PIONEERS
A special meeting of the Pioneers o;
Alaska will be held February 6, foi
the purpose of electing delegates tc
the Grand Igloo at Juneau. The meet
! ing was to be held tonight, but has
I been changed to Friday night.
S.&W.
Baking Pears
A REAL TREAT
Try them baked or Saute and serve
with Chocolate Sauce
p. c. McMullen
Purveyor of Pure Foods
Telephone Main 34
BIENNIAL MESSAGE
GOV. SCOTT C. BONE
TO LEGISLATURE
(Continued from Page Three)
tion clause, applicable alike to all
voters regardless of previous condi
tion. In so legislating in a spirit of
absolute fairness Alaska will make
no departure from established prece
dent, but emulate progressive com
munities.
Memorial to Former Governor
The grave of the only former Gov
ernor buried in Alaska, Hon. John
G. Brady, is unmarked. I recommend
as a fitting tribute to his long serv
ice that an appropriation be made
for a memoivU stone to mark his
resting place in the National Ceme
tery at Sitka.
Library and Museum.
The Alaska Historical Library and
Museum, now attractively housed as
a result of the provision made by the
last legislature, is already crowded
for room, and the use of the entire
building will ultimately be required.
Unfortunately the priceless collection
is constantly exposed to hazard of
fire.
KEYSTONE VIEW CO. NEW YORK
:
ALASKA’S GRAND OLD MAN
Scott C. Bone, Who Retires from Of
fice June 15, 1925, with the Friendship
of all Alaskans.
Publicity regarding Alaska is con
tinuously disemminated through the
Governor’s office. Many thousands of
informative pamphlets have been cir
culated during the biennium and pro
vision for a continuation of this
work is important.
Recommendations in detail will
reach you from the various branches
of the Territorial government and to
these I bespeak your favorable con
sideration.
The Governor’s Office will be at
your constant call to aid and facili
tate your work throughout the ses
sion, and 1 bid you God-speed m ibe
pursuance of your duties.
Finger Prints By
Radio Flashed
Across Atlantic
, LONDON, Mar. 4.—All the police
( chiefs in the principal cities of the
United States and other cities of the
, world have been supplied with the
key of a new telegraphic code per
fected by Superintendent Charles Col
■ lins of the Finger Print Bureau at
Scotland Yard. Under this plan, by
which the radio is brought into play
to assist the work of detectives in
tracing criminals, the records of per
sons held on suspicion may be obtain
ed by wireless broadcasting of their
finger prints.
The first use of the new system
was made recently when a man ar
rested in London was identified in
New York upon receipt of finger prints
taken here. The suspect had no po
lice record in London but Scotland
Yard *officials doubted the man’s alibi
and sent his prints by radio to the
New York police, the records of the
bureau in that city revealing him as
a well known criminal.
In establishing the identity of the
prisoner held in London, approxi
mately 60 letters and figures were
used in the Scotland Yard code sys
tem.
British Mills Get Raw
Cotton, Asia Minor
LIVERPOOL. Mar. 4.—The arrival
lere of 1,000 bales of cotton from the i
sort of Mersina, in Asia Minor, marks |
he opeing of a new course of cotton i
supply to the spinning mills of Lan
cashire.
It will be a new source in the sense 1
)f constituting an addition to the cen- j
;ers which now feed Lancashire with j
■aw cotton, says the Westminster CJa- ;
sette, but curiously enough it was I
'rom this quarter that Britain first
ttegan to draw her- cotton supplies, j
nearly four centuries ago. They were !
the mainstay of cotton spinning in j
England before the days of Arkwright
and before cotton cultivation in the
United States assumed serious pro
portions.
A ginning factory has been laid
down at Adana, the headquarters of
one of the three cultivating areas,
and for which the port of Mersina is
a natural outlet. The two other areas
are the hinterland of Smyrna and the
valley of Sakaria. Anada can pro
duce an annual crop of 100,000 bales;
her potentiality is described as a min
imum of 800,000 bales to a maximum
of two millions.
M. Huisna, a member of a Man-1
Chester cototn firm, has expressed the
view that the Smyrna crop would sell
at pass price (middling) and the Amer
ican Egyptian hybrid crop of Adana
would be worth more than pass price.
“The classification of this cotton
in a business and scientific way,” he
said, “is receiving very careful atten
tion and next year’s crops will be of
fered on rigidly defined types.”
Thomas Osbo, employed by the local
light company, is a returning passen
ger on the Admiral Watson.
ALAASKA IN CORDOVA TONIGHT
The steamship Alaska sailed from
Juneau yesterday afternoon at 12:30
and will arrive in Juneau tonight.
Are you a subscriber to the Daily
Gateway? If not ,why not?
Parker's Duofold Fountain Pens, at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Ladles’ ana Gents' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
Haas Fresh Candies at the Alaska
Shop. tf
Hew would you like to have
happy feet all the time?
Weak arches develop into flat
feet unless they are corrected in
time. If you have SHOE or
FOOT troubles this is the place
'or TRAINED service and ad
vice.
Seward Leather
Works.
My made to measure suits always
satisfy in fit, workmanship and
juality—Jordan’s Valet Service. tf
An octopus blown ashore in a gale
was found high on the beach at Brigh
ton, England.
Tony Lugas, a Hungarian of Provi
dence, R. I., was terribly frightened
by the recent eclipse and has since
gone entirely insane.
Children performers with a leading
British circus are educated in a trav
eling school connected with the show.
Brown & Hawkins are offering $50
in cash prizes each month, to custo
mers holding the lucky coupon. The
first prize will be $25, the second $15.
and the third §10, three prizes in all
being given.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
Snow Shoes, $9.50 per pair, at
Graef’s. tf
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Service
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Service
Plumbing and Sheet Metal
Works
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