BRIEF SKETCH
SOME MEMBERS
TOURIST PARTY
NUMBER OF PROMINENT OIL
MEN WERE MEMBERS OF
FRANK REEDY PARTY
IS LOUD IN PRAISES
Some Express Desire to Return for
Longer Stay Both in Winter
and Summer
Dominating the Frank Reedy party
of tourists were the number of Texas
oil operators, among whom were W.
P. Ferguson, who has lately disposed
of oil holdings with a value of over
a million dollars. He was much in
terested in the future of Alaska’s oil
industry, though agreeing that a moi'
complete personal study of the vari
ous oil districts would be necessary
before he could make a definite state
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. John Marshal of Ok
lahoma were also interested in the
prominent development of Alaska’s as
yet untapped mines of gold.
T. W. Roberts, a retired banker and
oil man was an enthusiastic booster
for that part of Alaska with which
he became acquainted, via the Alaska
Railroad. Mrs. Roberts, who is prom
inent in church and social work in
the Texas metropolis was equally im
pressed with the wonders of the
Northland Territory. The world re
nowned oil fields of Burkbarnett, Tex
as. one of the greatest producers in
the history of oil, were developed by
a brother of Mrs. Roberts, Burk Bur
nett.
C. H. Laessig, cf the Automobile
Gasoline Company of St. Louis, ac
companied by his daughter and his
secretary, stated before leaving Sew
ard that he could not have conceived
the possibilities of Alaska unless he
had taken the trip into the North.
Mr. Laessig has just returned from
a tour of Mexico and the contrast of
fered by his visit to Alaska, was a
most pleasant surprise. When his
business affairs will permit Mr. Laes
sig contemplates a winter trip into
the Territory.
Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Shugart of Dal
las are carrying away with them a
new found love for the vastness .of a
Territory that eclipses their own
great state of Texas. Mr. Shugart
and his son, Walter, expressed a de
sire to come back and spend a cou
ple of months big game hunting, or
long enough to exhaust the complete
list of trophy possibilities.
Mrs. Bennie Donald, now completing
the second half of a series of world
tours, found in the natural artistry of
Alaska’s mountains and in the inspir
ing work of Sidney Lawrence of An
chorage, sufficient appeal to induce
her to make a more extended visit,
and a desire to return and devote her
self to a period of seasonable paint
ing and sketching. Mrs. Donald said
that nowhere else in her numerous
travels had she been so intrigued by
the splendors and varieties of still
life subjects.
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Massie of Wichi
ta Falls, Texas, were laudatory in
their praise of the scenic offerings of
Alaska’s majestic coast line and the
■even more alluring Interior. Dr. Mas
sie, who is a prominent physician and
a mill owner of Wichita Falls, showed
equal facility in the handling of a
casting rod as with the deft mastery
of the scalpel. An enthusiastic sports
man, Dr. Massie, while in Seward,
had the opportunity of landing the
limit in the way of rainbow trout, the
climax to a perfect trip.
MANY ENQUIRIES REGARDING
ALASKA COLLEGE FROM THE
OUTSIDE RECEIVED BY MAIL
Not a regular mail arrives ia Fair
banks but that there are letters from
students from all over North Ameri
ca asking for information regarding
the College, that they may know if
5t is what they need for their edu
cation, says the Fairbanks News-Mi
ner of recent date. Six such letters
were received in the last mail. The
lure of the Short Courses for Elderly
People is also immense—at the Col
lege the other day General Wilds
P. Richardson more than once stat
ed his desire to return to Alaska in
some capacity ‘by “Alaska” he
meant “Fairbanks” and stated that
if he “made the grade” he would
plan to take a short course in min
ing—“a gentleman’s game,” as he ex
pressed it. When the College opens
this year, or before the College year
is ended, there will be students at
tending it whom the people of the
inner city never saw before. So it
will continue to be with increasing
ratio, as the years roll by.
A LITTLE HISTORY
(Fairbanks News Miner)
In the early days a sailing schoon
er named the Sophie Sutherland,
Captain Smith, master, and George
(Jack) Cunningham, pilot, plied the
water of Cook Inlet, Turnagain and
Knik arms, and transported the min
ers and their supplies to and from the
outside world. This clipper rigged
craft had more speed than any other
good quality, and had more need of
it, too. She could run rings around
the fastest revenue boats of those
days. As to the whereabouts of Capt.
Smith, if living, we have no data ex
cept that a short time ago the writer
met an old sea captain at Joe Chil
berg’s Alaska Museum at Long Beach
who claimed he had run a boat in
Cook Inlet in the early days, but he
went away before details could be
learned. As to the pilot, Mr. George
Cunningham, we know a whole lot;
he is now one of the most successful
oil men of Southern California, and
longs for the day when he can go
back to Alaska. At first Mr. Cunning
ham was called “Jack the Pilot,” but
later the miners adopted what they
thought was the more appropriate
name and called him “Jack the Pi
rate.” The Sophie Sutherland was
snatched out of obscurity and made
famous by Jack London in his Alaska
stories. May the ocean sands rest
lightly o’er her ribs.
Mrs. D. F. Moore, of Glencoe, 111.,
hit a burglar who was trying to gag
her and he fled.
Dont try to raise
your family without it. For
stomach aches and pains; for
sudden cramps, severe intesti
nal colic; for indiscretions of
eating and drinking, for
changes in water, diet or cli
mate, take
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COLIC and DIARRHOEA
REMEDY
Take it with you when you travel.
Keep it always in your home.
Take
THE FUR FARMER
MAGAZINE
and know the fur business. It
deals with every phase of fur
farming. Learn how others made
a success of farming fur bearing
animals.
Address
21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
OLD CLOTHES MADE
NEW
By Dry Cleaning Them,
and for juick service
, this machine
Presses your Clothes in
from 15 to 20 minutes
Sanitary Hoffman Presser Does It
Jordan’s Valet Service
PHONE MADISON 103
SEWARD, ALASKA
Henry Lucas In Town
Awaiting Sportsmen
Henry Lucas, one of the best known
and most successful guides of the Ski
lalc lake district, arrived in town yes
terday to await the arrivl of the
steamship Alaska, which has a party
of sportsmen en route to Skilak dis
trict for moose and sheep. Mr. Lucas
and Mr. George Nelson will have
charge of the party.
An unusually large number of moose
are reported in the lake district thi3
year, and hunting should be good.
FISHING PARTY RETURNS
C. C. Hinde and wife, and Mr. and
Mrs. Hal Evarts and son returned
yesterday from a fishing trip to Rus
sian river. They report an excellent
time and plenty of rainbows.
PUTS UP BIG PACK
H. J. Emard, superintendent of the
Gorman cannery operating at Anchor
age,, says they have already put up
12,000 cases of salmon this season and
that the salmon run is turning out
better than was expected with the fish
still running good.
BANNER RETURNS NORTH
The banner and flag used by An
chorage lodge, B. P. O. E. in the pa
rade at the Elks conceution held in
Portland, recently arrived in Anchor
age. The banner is a beautiful piece
of work with Anchorage Lodge No.
1351, and Alaska, Farthest North, in
scribed upon it.
LOSY MOVES BAKERY
Ira Losey of Anchorage will move
his bakery and lunchroom from its
present location about the fifteenth
of this month to the building next to
Stoddard’s on the west. He is having
the new location remodeled and w'hen
completed it will give him more
room for his increased business. The
new place will be known as Losey’s
Bakery and Luncheon.
BIG RUN AT NOYES BAY
G. M. Tozier of the Circle T. Fish
company at Noyes Bay says that
“the largest run of salmon, both for
number and size, he has seen for 13
years is on at present.” §§
Bathing Suits at Urbach’s.
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Get This
Point, It’s
Important
—the point of a Parker Jj Duofold
is made of genuine n native
Tasmanian Iridium fly which costs
over three times as / / much as the
iridium used in //ordinary
fountain pen / /points. That’s
why the Parker If Duofold is
called the 25- If year point.
That’s whyit If I is the cheapest
pen on earth Igfat $7—because its
usefulness k^f is everlasting.
Lady Doofold or DooKold Jr., $5
Gold Ring or Gold Pocket-clip
included free.
Pack along a Doofold
on you? vacation
Ask To See It At
ORLANDER, the Jeweler
LOOK UP
Cameron’s Cafe
WHEN YOU ARE IN
ANCHORAGE
Good Coffee, Good Food
Good Service
CHAS. CAMERON
PROPRIETOR
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Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA'S
Phone Adams 128
■1I1M
HARVARD PROFESSOR IN
INTERIOR FOR HUNTING
Theodore Lyman of Brodliem, in
Massachusetts is registered at the
Nordale hotel in Fairbanks. He is
professor at Harvard College and ac
cording to the Fairbanks paper, is
spending his summer hunting in Al
aska. He intends to leave the In
terior city shortly for Donnelly’s
where he will leave the highway and
go back into the mountains. Four
years ago Mr. Lyman made a trip
into the mountains back of Rapids
on a hunting trip and liked it so well
he is now back for more.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
Mon.—Wed.—FrI.
A train leaves Seward at 8:00 a. m.
Sundays for Anchorage and interme
diate points. Arrives Seward at 2:15
p. m. from Anchorage.
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:00 P. M.
T ues.—Thurs.—Sat.
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING FOR WESTWARD AUGUST 3D
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON. Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*.
8EWARD, ALA8KA
RUING ALASKA
R^gular[y and J)ependab[y
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from
Seattle—
July 28
Arrives at
Seward—
August 4
South from
Seward—
Aug 11, 9 p.m.
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
August 11 August 18 Aug. 25, 9 p. m.
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 Service
ADMIRAL LINE
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Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Scheduled Scheduled Scheduled Sail
Ar. Seward
Aug. 1.
Aug. 8.
Aug. 15
August 22
Aug. 29
Sept. 5.
Lv. Seattle
July 25.
Aug. 1.
Aug. 8
August 15
Aug. 22,
Aug. 29
from Seward
Aug. 2.
Aug. 9.
Aug. 16.
August .23
Aug. 30.
Sept. 6.
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5 <?, Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska. s
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5 o CLOCK Sunday afternoon, sailing dste.
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“The Golden Belt” |
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter- 5
ests m the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understand, and E
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con- 2
cernmg all Alaskan activities and devleopment; travelers to the =
Northland are urged to visit S
ALASKA'S “GOLDEN HEART"
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake the —
Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm’ An- S
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon Mt. Me- E
Kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley ad Fairbanks,’hold S
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent- S
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the =
good things that Alaska hag to offer. 2
fnritrain *nd autom°bile schedules, passenger rates and other in- S
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or IS
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR f
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