notice
Our Collector being absent, we re
quest that customers of the Seward
Water & Power Company and the Al
aska Transfer will call at our office.
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is interested in seeing that tlie\ are
prosperous and successful in the*r fi
nancial ventures.
Depositors who let us help them with
advice born of long experience, can tes
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MEMBERS OF INDIAIN
TRIBE TALK TO ONE
ANOTHER BY WHISTLING
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 30.—A tribe
of Indians whose members communi
cate among themselves only by whis
tling and who can talk to birds in
the same manner has been found in
the Siskiyou mountains in northern
California. The discovery was re
ported to A. L. Kroeber, curator of |
anthropological museum of the Uni
versity of California by J. R. Saxon of
the United States forestry service.
Saxon said that for weeks forest
rangers in a remote part of the
Siskiyous had heard uncanny whist
ings over the service wires that
stretch from station to station thru
the mountains. He went to investigate
and after nightfall was caught in a
mountain storm. He found a small
cabin of Indian construction. It was
empty ana he prepared to spend the
night there.
The ranger recalled that he left the
shack to stable his horse in a lean-to
nearby. When he returned, he said,
he found steaming food laid on the
floor, and beside it a bed of deer and j
bear skins provided for him. But no
one was in sight.
For two days , related Saxon, he
lived there in this way. When he
left the cabin food would be spread
for him, butwith no amount of agil
ity could be discovered the unseen dis
penser of hospitality.
Finally, on the third day, several
Indian men appeared at the cabin,
and in sign language informed him
that he had been their guest.
With Whistle.
“To my amazement,’ ’he said, “I
learned that they did not speak to
one another in any language of words j
or in the ordinary orticulate sounds j
of human beings, but that they con- j
-ersed only with staccato whistl
ngs.”
At a whistled command birds would ,
'hitter from the trees to a clearing to j
■at food scattered there by the wo- ^
nen, according to Saxon’s narrative, »
He described tne men as shy, add- *
ng that the women were like deer '• *
“At the sound of my voice.” he j
xplained, “the women fled into the j
anyons.”
He said the Indians led him to the
leanest forest service telephone sta
ion and by signs conveyed to him
hey had seen forest rangers using
his instrument and had themselves
•xperimented with it in their whist- ^
ing tongue. This explained the mys- ^
erious sounds.
Saxon believes that the isolated I
dan of “whistling people” is an obs
■ure off-shoot of the Karok tribe of £
vlamath Falls Indians. t
Professor Kroeber said the Karoks
ye re an unusually intelligent and in- f
iystrious tribe, number today about
t.OOU. He is investigating the report
if the whistling Indians.
Oolakan nets at Graefs.
Henry Lucas and Geo. B. Nelson of ]
Skilak Lake are in town. j ;
Ben C. Delzelle, well known Juneau
■ommercial man, is in Seward, on his
>vay to the south.
Suits maae to measure, see Urbach.
L. M. Carrington a traveling man,
is registered at the Van Gilder.
New shipment of Men's overcoats
Urbach. U
A1 Harper left on today’s train for
Anchorage.
Eastman Kodaks, Seward Drug
Co. tf
Andy Peterson was an outgoing pas
senger today to Moose creek.
LISTE.V.
Everybody is doing It now! What”
The Turkey Trot to Dryden’s Grocery
Why? Because the prices are right:
the more sales, the lower tue prices
his stock is small and fresh ou every
boat Service day or night
Pox trot delivery.
Phone Madison 62. ff
WANTED—Ten thousand men with
long hair and whiskers to call at the
O. K. Barber Shop. tf
LOST—Two sleds from the Hannisch
residence Wednesday, after school.
Parents please examine your chil
dren’s sleds for names Paul Han
nisch and Eddie Borgen. Upturn to
Mrs. Hannisch. 27-tf
FOR SALE—At a sacrifice, six
rooms and bath; see Dougherty, tf
Be sure and attend the meeting of
the Seward Game Club at the Gate
way if you are interested in the wild
life of the country.
Anton Eide returned on the train
last night from a trip to Fairbanks,
where he went for medical treatment.
MID-WINTER
While They Last
MENS’ STIFF CUT DRESS SHIRTS
in various patterns and sizes. Regular
$2.50 to $3.50 Values—
SPECIAL PRICE, $1.50 and $1.25.
LADIES’, MENS’ AND CHILDRENS’
WOOL KNIT GLOVES
I Regular 75 cents to $1.50 values—
1 SPECIAL PRICE 50c to 75c.
ALL-WOOL TOQUES
Regular $1.00 and $1.50 Values— %
SPECIAL PRICE 75c and $1.00
Kuppenheimer Good Clothes Patrick All-Wool Overcoats
Nettleton—Florsheim—Edmonds and Stal4 Brand Dress Shoes
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HOTEL ARRIVALS
Hotel Seward—Mrs. L. White, Ne- s
ana; John Moore, Anchorage; Mrs. ,
,. B. White, J. W. Bowman, Tom (
I’Hara.
Hotel Sexton—Geo. B. Nelson, H.
/ucas, David Bogart.
Hotel Van Giider—L. M. Carrigan,,
Seattle; J. E. Fullerton, Geo. Hamil- j
on, Flat; B. C. Delzelle, Juneau.
Hotel Overland—M. D. Abslay, Cor <
ova; Leo Olmhauser, Carl Osterland.;
LOCATE STOLEN JEWELS
NEW YORK, Jan.31—Police Jn
ipector John D. Coughlin announced
oday that $8,600 of the $300,000 worth'
>f jewels stolen from Mrs. C. P. Hugo
Schollkopf, of Buffalo, had been found
n Denver in a sealed fruit jar. In-.
spector Coughlin stated that the offi-!
:ers had been led to the cache by J.
{V. Mahan, former Broadway gem
iealer, who is now under indictment
'or receiving stolen jewels. The theft
jccurred after a New Years party in
New York a year ago at which Mrs.
Schollkopf was a guest.
PHILA “DEVIL DOG”
CHIEF, AFTER CROOKS
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.—General
S. D. Butler, marine dictator has
slammed down the mailed fist on Phil
adelphia.
Beginning a forty-eight-hour drive
against the ‘‘crooks and cesspools” of
the city, which ended 1923 with the
greatest number of poison liquor
deaths in the country and an ap
palling crime record, General Butler,
who won fame dux-ing the war, gave
his first order to the Philadelphia
police force, of which he is now
in supreme command.
“I will give you forty-eight hours
from 3 p. m. Tuesday to close up
every illegal drinking place or crook
ed shop in the city. Fail, out you go.
“Put some bandit notches in your
guns,” Butler thundered to the men
in a meeting. “Clean up the crime
cesspools. Don’t waste time bawling
out people who make left hand turns.
Catch the bandits. Never mind chas
ing a couple of blocks after automo
biles without tail lights. Keep the
bandits from robbing mail wagons.
“Get Some Bandits”
“Sail in and get some bandits. It
looks as if no one got shot in Phil
adelphia but policemen. The score is
all wrong.
“Politics and the police department
are divorced. No invisible govern
ment will threaten any policeman.”
Hearing that there were unions in
the police and fire departments, But
ler snapped:
“From now on their will be no such
union. We’ll have none of it.”
Thus, a soldier, brusque, severe in
discipline, begins a year’s effort to
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exterminate Philadelphia’s $8000 blind
tigers stay its flood of bootleg liquor
and enters a zone of activity where
heretofore, because of political influ
ence, his predecessors have failed to
tread.
Butler had two beds moved Into
the city hall Monday, one for him
self and the other for Superintendent
of Police Mills.
‘We are going to stay on the job
until me get things running,” he
said, adding that he wanted to be on
the job night and day.