THE BANK OF SEWARD FOR SERVICE
AN EPIC OF WEST
IS JAMES CRUZE’S
FINE PRODUCTION
•‘THE COVERED WAGON” BRIS
TLES WITH DRAMATICS
THAT THRILL
A magnificent epic of the early west
is James Cruze’s latest Paramount
production. "The Covered Wagon,”
which will be the feature at the Lib
erty Theatre for tonight and tomor
row night. This is a picturization of
Emerson Hough’s new novel of the
same name, and it is said to be one of
the greatest photoplays ever seen on
the screen.
The features embraced in this story
are many and varied and include
among others, the start of 350 covered j
wagons from Westport Landing, now ;
Kansas City, in 1S4S. The terrors of i
fording freshet rivers, prairie fires and i
the like are depicted with great real- !
ism. A buffalo hunt is one of the'
most exciting scenes. Old Ft. Brid- j
ger, with a night attack and fight by !
day with Indians, is shown. The di- ;
viding of the trails to Oregon and Cal
ifornia at old Fort Hall, a touch of the
gold fever in California, mangificent j
mountains and a culmination of the
romance with the establishment of
one of the first homesteads in Oregon
—these are all incidents in a picture j
that bristles with big scenes. «j
Such historical characters as Kit I
Carson, Jim Bridger and Bill Jackson, j
scouts and typical western characters, ’
are portrayed in the Paramount screen ■
version of the novel, which is eonced- j
ed to be one of the most notable liter- |
ary achievements of the present de
cade.
The various roles are in the hands
of well known screen players. The
leading man is J. Warren Kerrigan.
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and the leading woman is Lois Wilson.
Alan Ilale is the villian. Others in the
cast include Tully Marshall. Ethel
Wales, Charles Ogle and John Fox.
Jack Cunningham adapted the novel to
the screen.
Chinese Students Resent
Control By Foreigners
FOOCHOW, Mar. 24.—(AP).—To
forestall a proposed strike by stud
ents, the Anglo-Chinese college, a
middle school here, supported by the
Methodist Episcopal church, has been
closed, the faculty declaring that it
intends to maintain control rather
than surrender to student domina
tion even if it results in permanent
dissolution of the school.
The proposal to strike was the re
sult of the faculty’s refusal to ob
serve a holiday which none of the
government schools in Foochow rec
ognizes.
The school has recently made long
strides in the direction of Chinese
control. Fifteen months ago there
were 15 foreigners on the staff. Now
there are only five, the places of the
others having been filled by Chin
ese of similar educational standards.
In addition both deans are now Chi
nese. One of the latter was stabbed
last spring, supposedly by students
who were angered by one of his
rulings. The students in their prop
aganda are promoting an anti-Chris
tian sentiment.
Sheaffer's Life Time Pens, at the
the Alaska Shop. tf
Eastman Kodaks anu supplies at
the Alaska Shop. tf
CAN USE A FEW MORE CUS
TOMERS AT THE 0. K .BARBER
SHOP.
“The Covered Wagon”
Pestiferous Jack Rabbits
Yield Profits After Demise
CORDOVA, Alaska, Mar. 24.—
(AP).—Washington and oilier states
of the Union might profit from the
jack rabbit pest if they killed the
animals, powdered the meat and sold
it to Alaska fox farmers for sum
mer feed, in the opinion of J. Will
iamson, owner of the largest fox
farm along the Russian river on the
Kenai peninsula.
More than 5,000 rabbits were
slaughtered by Williamson last
winter. The meat was ground, plac
ed on racks over a stove where it
was dried, and then pulverized and
stored in sacks.
The rabbit powder was mixed with
water and vegetables, boiled and
served to foxes during the summer,
making an agreeable change of diet
from fish and porcupine.
Another form of preserving the
meat is to pack it when fresh into
five-gallon oil cans. About 35 rab
bits are put into one can. Water
is poured over the meat and the can
set outdoors until its contents freeze.
The can is then thawed loose and
removed from the block containing
the meat. The block is stored in ice
houses that prevent it thawing un
til feeding time in summer.
I Coal Once Was King
In Alaskan Gold Camp
NOME, Alaska, Mar. 24.—(AP).
—In the early days of Nome coal
was more precious than the yellow
metal panned from the mountain
streams and on the Bering Sea
beach.
The only places of business that
had enough coal were saloons. An
oldtimer prospector made a coat with
a sack inside. Each evening he
would go to the “North Star Wine
Palace,” and sit down by the coal
box. When no one was looking, he
would place a lump ot coal in his
sack, go to the bar for a drink, and
return to his cabin. He did this
until the proprietor, Pat Cleary, no
ticed his coal supply dwindling. One
night the prospector stayed too long
and filled his sack too heavily so
that when he tried to rise the
weight dragged him down. Cleary
pounced on him. made him disgorge
the coal and drove him outdoors.
Laughing hearitly the saloonkeep
er called out: “Everybody step up,
the drinks are on me. tit’s the first
time anybody ever mmed coal in
Pat Cleary’s camp.”
LADIES PLEASE NOTICE—that
Schweizer’s Spring samples are now
on display at Uib$gh’s Store. k31
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Clearance Sale
TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NEW
SPRING STOCK WE OFFER A
20% Discount
ON ALL OVERCOATS AND
MACKINAWS
$40 Coats at - $32.00 $20 Mackinaws at $16.00
$35 Coats at - $28.00 $15 Mackinaws at $12.00
$30 Coats at - $24.00 $12 Mackinaws at $ 9.60
$25 Coats at - $20.00 $10 Mackinaws at $ 8.00
at Urbach’s
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MUSIC OF OLD MASTERS
ON RARE INSTRUMENTS
TO FEATURE FESTIVAL
HASLEMERE, England, Mar. 24.
—(AP).—A festival of the chamber
music of the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries is being ar
ranged for August at Haslemere,
where instruments will be used rep
resenting those of olden times. The
festival is to be staged by Arnold
Dolmetsch who with other members
of his family and pupils will play nu
merous rare instruments virtually
unknown to the average music lov
ers of today.
The lute, the recorder, the viol,
the virg. ial, tii^ viola dVm.ie the
harpsichord, the clavichord, referred
to by Rossetti as the “seven sweet
symphonies,” will be used in ren
dering the music of the old masters.
English music of “the golden period”
(the sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turies) will have a prominent place
on the festival program.
Register If you want to Vote.
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on during the dance. Everybody come!
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