CUTTER BEAR IS
MOTHERSHIP TO
RUM CHASERS
Alaskan Government Vessel
Now Active in South
ern Waters.
NORTH NEXT SPRING
Ocean Wasps Playing Havoc
With Rum Runners On
California Coast
Playing hide and seek with the
dry forces along the Southern Cal
ifornia Coast, is going to be
fraught with more serious haz
ards than heretofore. The ar
rival of a small fleet of speedy
Coast Guard rum-chasers from
the Atlantic Coast is the first
move in a campaign to shut out
the smugglers completely from
this district.
Two of the new wasps, the C.
G. 253 and the C. G. 260 have ar
rived for action. The old Arctic
cutter Bear will act as mother
ship to the little craft.
Out of the trackless watery wastes
of the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles off the
coast of Southern California, war in
.earnest has been started by the U. S.
coast guard against the fleet of rum
running vessels that, for six years
since October 28, 1919, when the Vol
stead Act was passed, has poured in
creasing quantities of intoxicating
liquor into the Southland.
Transferred from the Alantic coast
where they hunted European invaders
to their lairs and then dogged them
until the gurgling of unloading bottles
echoed and re-echoed along the fi
nancial marts of London to the accom
paniment of shattered profit-taking
schemes, eight seventy-five foot ves
sels less than two weeks ago set forth
the vanguard of a protentous armada
coming later by virtue of Presidential
decree—to emulate the example of
their Atlantic success.
Until the arrival some time next
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new and different sights—
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Learn more about the
Shasta route journey south
ward. Read of the service
on any of the four popular
daily trams over this route.
—The comfortable accom
modations; the te'mpting
food in Southern Pacific
dining cars.
Qet this further information; write now for booklets,
fares, reservations, schedules, etc., to
Southern Pacifteiisaes
B. C. TAYLOR, Gen. Agt.
314 Union Street ♦ Seattle, Washington
There’s a glorious welcome
awaiting you in California.
Warm, sunswept beeches,
fascinating cities, ee?tful
mountain resorts—join
happy thousands at these
delightful playgrounds.
And the trip is so easily
arranged. From Seattle,
through sleepers daily to
San Francisco and to Los
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year of reinforcements, these battle
gray ocean wasps are the govern
ment’s sole unit of defense on the
briny deep and to their operating
chief, Commandler L. C. Covell, cap*
atin of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear,
is entrusted full responsibility of stop
ping the tide of contraband beverage,
until a week or so ago so plentiful the
shore distiller was encountering seri
ous marketing competition.
Wasps Have Real Sting
Eight persistent, unrelenting r(nd
tenacious patrol boats are in South
land waters from San Louis Obispo on
the north to below the Mexican bor
der outside the twelve-mile limit.
Eight wasps, each of whose sting is
a one-pound gun bristling just ahead
of a squat, low-browed pilot house;
whose eye is a broad beam projected
from a powerful searchlight; whose
wings are a pair of whirring, purring
motors that thrust it on ahead of a
spray-flashing wake; whose insignia
is a Revenue Marine penant, and also
whose colors are red, white and blue,
on a star-spangled background.
And mothering this busy brood is
the veteran battler of Arctic ice, the
Bear. The Bear is a name that many
times has stirred the world with its
exploits of daring. She will be fifty
two years of age next year, for she
was built in Greenock, Scotland, in
1874, fashioned from stoutest oak tim
bers, finished with almost impenetra- j
hie cherry, braced and cross-braced to j
withstand the crushing floes of ice
bergs, and banded with steel. With j
her sister ship, the Thetis, the Bear
participated in the hunt for Lieutenant I
Adolphus W. Greeley, who, in 1880 was
trapped in the Arctic fastness.
One more cruise to Alaska awaits
the Bear. Though the oldest vessel
in active American service, her stout
heart still drives her on and next May
she will carry law and order, food and
medical supplies to our northernmost
territory. But until then she is the j
inspiration of the dry dogs-here.
Another year and she. is done with I
howling blizzards and the white sea1
horses that pound their heels against J
her shock-proof prow; a vessel cost-1
ing one million dollars and capable of
four times her speed is to be construe-;
ted for service up north.
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cheer and soothe by har
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surfaces. Apply Fuller
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can be wiped clean with a
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keeping easier—saves re
finishing.
Also, ask for booklet, “Color
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about painting or finishing
floors, woodwork, walls, etc.
It’s free.
WE
carry a lull line of Fuller
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can supply your needs.
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. Hawkins Corp.
W JP. FULLER & CO.
301 Mission Street San Francisco
25 Branches in Pacific Coast Cities
Fuller
PA!NTS Hi VARNISHES
PIONEERWHITEf LEAD
272S
ENCHANTMENT LAND
By MRS. H. SANWICK
So this is Alaska, the land of the
North; the land of the ice and
snow. The land of mystery and
big ice bergs, the land of the Es
kimo.
Alaska, Alaska is the place for me,
and there’s where I shall go.
With a parka made of bear skin, and
a pair of mukluk shoes, and a little
Iglbo built in the ice just big enuf
for two.
It’s called the land of the future, it’s
the land of the midnight sun, it’s
the land that keeps you guessing,
and is hard to stay away from.
I’ve lived in the East, the South, and
the West, but Alaska is the land that
I like the best.
There is something about it that holds
you fast at first, but you love
it at last.
It would be interesting to come to
earth a thousand years from now and
see what then is called heresy.
It’s probably those balloon tires
that are bringing rubber up.
This Colonel Mitchell seems to have
cultivated the habit of going up in the
air.
One of the reasons the New York
City Election is interesting Is that the
government has $400,000,000 to spend.
Photo Albums, $1 to $9—Alaska
Shop. tf
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About the only thing reformers have
never denounced is the collection plate
in the churches.
WHEN YOU THING ABOUT IN
STALLING YOUR HEATING
PLANT CALL ME UP AND LET
ME GIVE YOU THE CHEAP
EST AND BEST WAY TO IN
STALL IT.
R. F. TILLMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT !
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timber was used last year to |
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BLACK Phone the
Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
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HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F, I. REED, Proprietor
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Strictly Modern Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Serv'ce
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
WWW.
Piping and Fittings for
Power Plant Construction
5000 feet 2 1-2 double extra strong steel pipe, in random
lengths, 12 to 30 feet each; each length fitted with
square machined, four-bolt flanges. One end of run
grooved, opposite end and outlet tongued with steel
machined bolts, hexigon heads and nuts.
3000 feet 1 1-2 double extra strong steel pipe in lengths
12 to 30 feet each; each length fitted with square ma
chined four bolt flanges. One end of run groved. op
posite end and outlet tongued, with steel machined
bolts, hexagon heads and nuts.
500 assorted 1 1-2 and 2 1-2 steel four bolt flanges, elbows,
tees, crosses, return bends, divided return bends, re
ducing companion flanges, flange unions, globe and
angle valves, etc.
The pip , 4 and fittings are in first class condition, ready
for immediate delivery F. O. B. mail steamer Starr,
at I'ortioek, Port Chatham, Alaska.
Our price will be based up Walworth Manufacturing Com
pany s factory catalog price F. O. B. Boston, Mass.,
thereby allowing the purchaser the cost of the freight
from the' Aatlantic Coast to Alaska.
Will sell all or part of above piping and fittings and fur
nish list of quantity of different sizes on hand, upon
request.
Alaska Consolidated Fisheries, Inc.
PORTLOCK, ALASKA
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