TO BE ASSIGNED
TO COMMISSION
ONE LIEN TENANT ASSIGNED AND
TWO RECOMMENDED FOR
DUTY WITH COM’N.
(From Juneau Empire.)
One additional officer has been
assigned and two others recommend
ed for assignment to the Alaska
Road C :n: mission fra: 'he Corps ui
L gi. i» •, with .• -s ‘quarters a*
Juneau, it was announced today by
Lieut. H. E. Fisher, Disbursing Offi
cer and Secretary. This is in ac
cord with a policy recommended to
the Chief of Engineers by Colonel
James G. Steese early last year and
renewed again this Spring.
Lieut. At to Praeger, who has been
attached to the office of District
Engineer at Baltimore for the past
two years, will complete his tour
of duty there on July 31, and is
under orders to report to Juneau
for duty with the Commission. He
will arrive some time next month,
(in August).
Lieutenants F. A. Pettit and A. T.
Bell, of Illinois, who graduated last
May from West Point Military
Academy, have been recommended
by the persannel officer of the En
gineer Corps for assignment to the
Commission. It is believed that the
assignments will be made in accord
with the recommendations.
Early in 1924, Colonel Steese for
mally submitted a program to the
Chief of Engineers asking for the
assignment of young officers of the
Corps to Alaskan duty. He sug
gested that from two to six of them
who had completed their three-year
post graduation course of instruc
tion with district engineers, or else
where, be sent to the Commission
together with a like number of of
ficers just graduating from the Mili-1
tary Academy. This recommenda
tion was repeated again this year
and was favorably regarded by Wash
ington officers.
The main purport of such assign
ments, Col. Steese said in the pro
gram outlined to the Chief of En
gineers, was to give the officers so
assigned instruction and experience
in engineering department methods,
reconnaissances, exploration and
other field and office duties. He
emphasized the fact that such expe
rience would be of material benefit
to both the officers and the Army
generally in their future Engineer
ing Corps’ duties.
Among this year’s Military Acad
emy graduates, of the 30 ranking
students going to the Engineer
Corps, two, C. E. Saltzman, son of
the Chief Signal Officer of the
Army, and S. Weston, of Maine
were recommended for assignment
to Oxford University. E. W. Gar
bisch, All American football player,
picked for center by Walter Camp,
was one of the graduates, being giv
en an assignment to an engineerig
regiment.
Herring Season Helps
Seldovia; Docks Loaded
PACKERS CAN’T FIND ROOM TO
STORE BARRELS AWAITING
SHIPMENT.
SELDOVIA, Aug. 6.—The herring
season is proving to be one of the
most advantageous to this communi
ty. The catch has developed into
such proportions as to exceed the
facilities of the packers, and the
docks are littered with the accumu
lation of barrels of fish awaiting
shipment to market. Everyone is
busy and the community has a very
prosperous appearance.
Christ Peterson has disposed of his
hotel, pool hall and restaurant and
is leaving for Eureka, Cal., to make
his iuture home on a farm which he
has purchased in that section. The
hotel and pool hall has been acquir
ed by Mr. Young, who is said to be
closing out his business at Kenai
with the intention of locating here.
He has taken a three-year lease on
the Peterson property.
Miss Olson and Miss Susie Block
have taken over the restaurant and
they are now serving first class meals
to the hungry fishermen.
MILLIONS SHIPPED INTO
ALASKA FROM SEATTLE
Last year the exports to Alaska
from Seattle reached the huge sum
ol $27,689,364.00, according to a com
pilation made by the Seattle Times.
This was an increase of $1,159,366.
1 he figures further reveal that the
exports reached 214,592 tons and the
tonnage imports were 158,789 tons.
DEFINING A TOTEM POLE
By Miss Katherine G. Kane.
It is impossible *in a brief treatise
to give an accurate interpretation of
the crude heraldry of a primitive peo
ple without making a study of indi
vidual totems.
Whatever suggestions of idolatory
the uncouth and barbarous appear
ance of the totem may convey, to
the casual observer, it is certain that
such a practice was not thought of
by Haidas. Their recognition of su
pernatural power which is common
to all primitive peoples was not cen
tered in one Divine Deity. These
children of nature developed a ven
eration for birds and animals to
which they ascribed human intelli
gence. The transmigratory idea finds
a place in the vague traditions of a
spiritual power for good or for evil
which changed the form of man to
birds or animals or vice-versa. A
crude ideaity led to the association
of each family with some form of
animal life, the recording of which
resulted in the rude carvings called
Totem Poles. As nearly as can be
determined the original purpose in
erecting totems before the houses
was to distinguish each group of
families having the same crest. Take
for example the totem which repre
sents the Eagle. This would be
found all sufficient to indicate the
house of the Eagle Clan, and would
be the home of all those having the
Eagle Crest or emblem of their To
temic system whether visitors or
permanent dwellers.
Left $180,000 if he would stay
sinle, Albert Morse of Philadelphia
eloped with Annie Slosberg and for
feited the fortune.
Charles Slater of Jersey City
woke up in a hospital after holding
a royal flush in a poker game.
Bear Prowls About
Yards In Seward,,
Is Latest Report
This bear came over the mountain
to see what he could see and all he
could see was the big tub of water
in the back yards of the residences
of Mrs. Aron Erickson and that oi
Andrew Horton. It is reported that
last week the strange disappearance
of the water from the tubs more or
less .perplexed the above named citi
zens, so a watch was kept. In the
dim twilight of a still morn a few
days ago, a vague shadow was seen
to drift across the back yards to
the watering troughs, followed short
ly by a wallowing noise. For fear
the large mammal, for it undoubted
ly was a wild beast, might attack
them, no attempt was made to get
a closer view but after the grunting
and nosing had died away and when
the morning sun burst over the
mountains, a furtive investigation
was made bringing to light large size
bear tracks. Lately everything has
been “quiet on the Potomac,” with
no sign of the bear returning. Any
way the big game season isn’t open.
Salesman Makes Trip
Down River to the
Kotzebue Sd. Region
Mike Weaver, Alaska representa
tive of the Western Drygoods, was
a Seward arrival the first of the
week from the Interior. Mr. Weaver
related great tales of his small boat
trip to the Kotzebue Sound district,
vie Nenana and St. Michael. Twen
ty days were required in making
the return trip from the region bor
dering on the Arctic ocean. At one
time his party were hung up on a
sand bar for 24 hours, their posi
tion being extremely perilous for
al concerned. Mr. Weaver departed
Monday for Seattle on the stamer
Alaska.
Two fire companies at Carlisle,
Pa., had a water battle when one
outfit accidentally turned a stream
on the other during a fire. While
they fought the building burned
down.
scrupulous
is keynote at Frye Plant
Your own good taste quickly proves the unusual
quality of Frye’s “Delicious" Hams and Bacon—
and did you know the scrupulous cleanliness that
is the first consideration at every stage of the
preparation* of Frye’s “Delicious” Products,
under Government supervision, satisfying assur
ance would be added to grateful appetite.
THE FRYE
LABEL
gives real assur
ance of unusual
quality and per
fect purity. Look
for It on wrappers
and rind of Frye's
“Delicious” Hams
and Bacon.
Hams and Bacon bearing the Frye’s
“Delicious” label also bear the U. S.
Government inspection stamp, so that you
have double assurance in the all impor
tant matters of cleanliness and quality.
M. J. Linehan, Illinois state game
warden, was fined $150 for shooting
ducks out of season, to which he
pleaded guilty.
Encased in an elaborate diminu
tive coffin, the body of Marie, 10
year-old cat, was shipped from Los
Angeles to Covington, Ind., for bu
rial by tlie family fo Dean Harbor.
Thos. Knight of Alton, 111., was
struck and killed by a train. His
grandiather and father before him
were killed in the same way in for
mer years.
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 TO WESTWARD SEPT. 10
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MAD180N 13*. SEWARD, ALASKA
South from
Seward—
Aug 11, 9 p.m.
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
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
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Aug. 29
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Aug. 9.
Aug. 16.
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Aug. 30.
Sept. 6.
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Aug. 8.
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