WHITE PASS RAILWAY
DISCOURAGE TOURISTS:
STOP ’EM AT DAWSON
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Greeley, of
Puyallup, Wn., tourists who have
been visiting Alaska the past few'
months, arrived from the Interior on
one of the last trains. Mr. Greeley,
who was formerly editor of an east
ern farm journal, states that when
they attempted to buy tickets at
Skagway for Yukon and lower river
points they were told its was impos
sible to get from Dawson to Nenana,
and that their tickets would have to
read by way of Whitehorse on the
return trip. Arriving at 'Dawson
they secured cabins and spent several
weeks at the YTukon metropolis,
where Mr. Greeley found he had been
deceived and that it was possible to
come out by way of the government
railroad.
He circulated a petition signed by
practically every one in Dawson, urg
ing that tickets be sold tourists al
lowing them to go down the Yukon
and out by the Alaska railroad, but
found much opposition to the plan
from government officials and oth
ers. He declares that 160 in his par
ty were anxious to take the railway
route but were refused permission
and it was only by exercising his de
termination and paying no attention
to the knocks. He and his wife were
delighted with their trip and will try
to arrange at Seattle for future tours
by this route.
Advisory Board to
Meet in Juneau Soon
H. E. Ellsworth, recently appoint
ed a member of the Alaska Fisheries
Advisory committee, by Secretary of
Commerce Hoover, left on the steam
ship Alaska for Juneau, where the
first meeting of the committee will
take place some time the latter part
of the week.
Members of the advisory commit
tee in addition to Mr. Ellsworth, are
Gov. Scott C. Bone, Juneau; J. R.
Heckman, Ketchikan; Calvin Haze
let, Cordova; Carl Sutter, Ketchikan;
A. J. Dimond, Valdez; and Sam Butts
of Sitka. The members of the com
mittee were appointed by Secretary
Hoover upon recommendation by
Commissioner Henry O’Malley, after
a series of conferences with the gov
ernor. All members appointed have
accepted.
It has been Secretary Hoover’s
purpose to give every interest rep
resentation on the committee. The
inclusion of the members of the
Territorial Commission on the ad
visory committee insures close har
mony between the federal and ter
ritorial bodies which are actively
concerned with the fisheries indus
try7. Mr. Sutter, who is one of the
leading cannerymen of Alaska, will
represent the packers. Mr .Butts,
who is a pioneer salmon fisherman
and troller, will be able to present
the viewpoint of those actually fish
ing . Senator Dimond was named to
represent the interests of the terri
tory generally7.
Cableship Will Reach
Seward September 23rd
The cableship Delwood will reach
Seward September 23, with the north
ern end of the new cable laid from
Seattle to Seward. The radio station
will be continued and will work with
five men on the job, it is said. A
rumor states that it wall be changed
into a high-powered tube station.
The new cable will greatly facili
tate business between northern towns
and the states.
The KOHLER
Automatic POWER
and LIGHT Plant
—requires no storage batteries
for power and light
—produces standard 110 volt
electricity
-—has a capacity of 1500 watts or
two electrical horsepower
—operates simply at the touch
of any button anywhere on
the circuit
Write for illustrated literature.
Come in and see the plant in
operation
C. E. Orlander
Whittemore Has Qnit
Northland (or Good
(Seattle Alaska Weekly
E. L. Whittemore, for many years
past a prominent business man of
Seward, has disposed of his busi
ness there to Andy Beck and John
White ,and his real estate holdings
to his former associate, Leo. Mar
gueles, and was an ai'riving passen
ger on the steamer Alaska this
week. He is en route to San Diego,
California, where he plans to make
his future home. He will enter
business with his son, Harry E.
Whittemore, who has built up a
flourishing business under the name
of the Whittemore Company, roof
ing engineers. Harry is a graduate
of the Boston Tech. He entered
the roofing business in San Diego
some years ago and has been most
successful. He has been urging his
father to join him for the past two
years.
Ed. Whittemore went to the
Klondike during stampede days of
quarter of a century ago. He and
his partner made some money on
13 and 14 above on Sulphur creek,
right off the bat. Then Ed. and
H. S. Turner, now a well known
Seattle real estate man ,mined 65
below on Hunker creek. The claim
was a bloomer. Ed. then went to
Nome and remained there a few
years. The Alaska Central railroad
started building from Seward, and
Ed. quit Nome and went to that
embryo town. Save for a few years
in business in Cordova, when that
town was put on the map by the
Copper River & North Western rail
road, he has been in Seward ever
since.
Whittemore’s host of friends in
Alaska will regret to see him leave
the Northland, and wish him all suc
cess in his new field of endeavor.
Coolidge Makes Sitka
Cemetery Military Area
(Juneau Empire)
Under an executive order, signed
by President Coolidge, on June 12,
last, the old marine cemetery at Sit
ka has been made a national ceme
tery, according to advices received by
Col. James G. Steese, President of
the Alaska Road Commission, which
will have administrative charge of it.
Peter Trierschield has been appoint
ed caretaker.
Neglected for many years, over
ran with a tangle of weeds, brash
and small trees, the cemetery pre
sented a sorry appearance until
about two years ago, when the Sitka
post of the American Legion ini
tiated a movement to have it prop
erly cared for. It brought the mat
ter to the attention of Gov. Scott C.
Bone and through him secured an
allotment from the Navy department
for having it cleaned up. This mon
ey was supplemented by individual
effort. Later it was made a national
monument and a road was opened to
it with Territorial funds and an al
lotment by the Alaska Road Com
mission.
Early in 1923, Col. Steese urged
the Quartermaster General of the
ArAmy to have it made a military
cemetery in order that funds for
proper maintenance would become
available every year without the
necessity of calling on Congress for
special legislation. Owing to the con
fusion existing as to the department
having control of the area some de
lay was encountered. Finally the
tangle was straightened out and the
executive order of June 12, 1924,
definitely sets it apart as a national
cemetery and places it under t he
jurisdiction of the Army Quarter
master Department. A letter just
received by Col. Steese places it
under the control of the Alaska Road
Commission.
Since the order became effective
the bodies of seven soldiers, buried
originally at Ft, Liscum, near Valdez
have been removed from there and
re-intered in the Sitka cemetery.
In the future, instead of burying
soldiers in cemeteries scattered about
the Territory, they will be interred
in the Sitka burying ground, un
less otherwise specified by their
relatives.
New Radio Set Gives
Pleasure to Citizens
Cal Brosius had his new Radiola
super-heterodyne out last evening on
the dock entertaining the public. Over
150 people gathered to listen to KGO,
the General Electric Co., of Oakland,
broadcasting music from the St.
Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and
KFI, Earl Anthony at Los Angeles.
It was a fine entertainment.
MARATHON WILL REOPEN
The Maratthon Cafe, closed down
the first of the week, will be reopen
ed tomorrow by Mrs. Josie Eims
wiler, a prominent restauranteur of
Seward.
NORTHLAND NOTES
R. Dahl, a resident of Alaska for
the last 12 years was drowned at
Tenakee Inlet the 18, ult., and the
body has not been found. He was a j
resident of Petersburg.
Sailor Dixon, a former pugilist of
no mean fame, has quit the squared
circle and gone to Fairbanks to open
an office. Dr. John B. Lewis, his
right name, has recently completed a
two-year course at a Portland college
of ophthalmology and received his
degree. In the eight years he fought
125 times, was knocked out twice and
lost once on a technical kayo.
W. A. Eaton has taken over the
Louis Smith claims located at Chi
chigof and will develop the property.
A pack trail has been built from
Keno to the Beaver, in the Yukon
territory and a number of shelter
cabins erected.
The Silver Wave, Capt. Knud Ras
i mussen, arrived in Nome recently af
j ter a long exploration trip in the
I Arctic. He left Copenhagen in 1921
| on the {present expedition, with a
large outfit. Rasmussen is said to
nave written six books on the north,
and gathered extensive data of value
to scientists. He talks Eskimo flu
ently.
The Naval radio station at Juneau
has been turned over to the Signal
corps, a branch of the U. S. Army.
Eighty-three Alaskan teachers were
enrolled in the teachers institute held
recently at Ketchikan to discuss Al
aska problems. Commissioner Hen
derson was well pleased with the
success of the first gathering.
Ketchikan reports a great stortage
of rooms in the town, despite the
many new buildings erected the past
year.
The new school building at Ket
chikan may be painted white and a
bright light thrown on it at night in
order that it may serve as a beacon
to mariners.
I Charging that he was cheated in a
crooked gambling game in which he
lost $<tO while en route to Seattle on
the steamship Alaska, August 15,
Fred E. Lcott swore out a complaint
i against 3-ouis Christ and another
man rot yet apprehended. Christ was
attested in Seattle.
Miss M.'nnie Nye of Grant, Ore.,
and Bert Griswold, of Seattle, were
married at Ketchikan last week.
Another industrial home will be
established at Kanakanak in the
Bristol Bay region. This is in the
Southwestern division of the native
school work, which is in charge of
Lieutenant Thomas B. Calkins, su
perintendent. The bureau of educa
tion now has at Knakanak a hos
pital building, an orphanage and a
school building, of an aggregate
value of $18,000. Additional hous
ing accommodations, so as to make
this industrial home similar to the
one proposed at Ekfutna, will be
erected in due course.
Thomas Wilson, heater known to
his intimates as “Tommy” Wilson,
known to be in >'*r.e part of tin
Northland, is s- light by a sister
Mrs. Ella Maag, l172 Pleasant ave
nue, Bremerton, Washington.
Wm. F. Smith, an cldtimer in the
Tanana and Yukon valieys died re
cently in the Imperial valley, Cali*.,
of Sunstroke, and thust, while out
prospecting.
Mrs Hcsea Ross and Mrs. Robert
E. Sheldon recently landed a pickerel
tipping the scales at twenty-five
pounds, while fishing in Birch lake,
near the Richardson road. The fish
measured forty-one inches in length.
Gus Gelles, who was recently in
jured at Anchorage in an auto acci
dent is rapidly recovering and may
be out within a short time. His in
juries consisted of a shattered knee
cap and many brakes.
John Tilly, discover- of Willow
Creek in the Mughal district in
1&13, traveled from Holy Cross to
Nulato on the last upin-er trip of the
Jacobs. He is on a prospecting trip
into the Kaiyuk mountains and wifi
go up the Bana.i? a river for 150
miles to a creek where he has
previously found Rfd pay.
LOCK BOXES FROM CORDOVA
WILL BE USED ANCHORAGE
The lock boxes in the old postof
fice belong to the government and
Postmaster Shepard has been direct
ed to send them without delay to
Anchorage, to be used in the post
office there. It is necessary, how
ver, that keys also be forwarded and
it is requested that any persons hav
ing keys for any of the old boxes re
turn the at once to the postoffice.
If they are not returned before Sept.
1, the holders will forfeit their de
posit.
J. E. BALLANE CORRECTS
GATEWAY’S STATEMENT
“The Gateway’s article in its issue
of August 28 of the landing of the
Santa Ana twenty-one years ago with
the first construction crew for the Al
aska Central railroad, was not entire
ly acurrate,” said John E. Ballaine in
a statement to the Gateway before he
left on the Alaska yesterday for Se
attle. Mr. Ballaine was president of
the Tanana Construction company,
which had the contract for building
the Alaska Central, was general man
ager of the Alaska Central company,
and was the founder of Seward. He
came on the Santa Ana in charge of
the first construction crew.
“The Santa Ana arrived at nine
o’clock the morning of August 28th,
1904,” Mr. Ballaine said. “We tied
up with a 200-foot hawser to a spruce
tree at the end of what is now Fifth
avenue. The Santa Ana lay just
about where the railroad dock now is.
We lightered our freight and passen
gers to the beach at the end of the
present Fifth avenue. The whole town
site wras then a dense forest. Mrs.
Lowell’s cabin, a log hut at the foot
of First avenue owned by Anton Ide,
and two log cabins that had been
built and occupied by our surveying
crews in 1902 both on Fifth avenue
were the only buildings on the site
of Seward.
“There were about fifty men in our
construction crew from Seattle, and
twenty-seven boarded the Santa Ana
at Valdez. Of the fifty from Seattle,
only Walter Jones, now in charge of
engineering at Mile 52 is still a resi
dent of Seward. Wallace Daykin with
McMullen’s grocery was a small child
and come wyith his parents on the
Santa Ana from Seattle.
“Of the number who boarded the
boat at Valdez, T. W. Hawkins, Geo.
Phelps, Lillie Gordon Schallerer, An
dy Rasmussen and John A. Nelson
are still residents of SewTard. Mr.
Nelson had been a member of one
of our survey parties in 1902.
“Only four white men were on the
beach when the Santa Ana arrived.
They were Col. Revelle and William
Scheffler who has married daughters
of Mrs. Lowell, the native woman,
then living here with her family;
Pete “Pistol” Anderson, and Fred
Laubner. Anton Eide was a resident
of Valdez and was in Valdez at the
time. Neither was W. H. Whittlesey
here. He was at Katalla when wTe
came, although he had been with the
survey party in 1902. He did not
come to Seward as a resident until
1904 or later. Mr. Eide had a cabin
here, which he occupied during the
winter months, when he carried mail
between Resurrection bay and Sun
rise.
“Our construction crewr built the
dock and got out ties and bridge tim
bers during the winter of 1903-04, to
be ready for construction in the ear
ly spring of 1904. The dock was com
pleted when the first spike was driv
en April 16, 1904.”
Moving Picture Men
Will Arrive in Seward
Art. Young and W. W. Kelly, mov
ing picture men, who wfith Al. Blair
and H. Christensen as helpers, are at
Iliamna, will return to Seward on one
of the next boats ,having secured
some fine pictures of wild life to the
westward. Messrs. Kelly and Young
upon arrival at Seward will join J.
Robertson, also well known wild life
expert, leaving for the interior to
complete their picture.
According to Mr. Robertson, who
is now in Seward, 100,000 feet of Al
aska wild life films will be taken,
the trio working the past three years
on a moving picture of six to nine
reels, depicting the animals and big
game of Alaska in their native ha
bitat, as well as choice scenes, etc.
It is Mr. Robertson’s belief that his
picture, showing Alaska, not as a
land of ice and snow, but pulsing
with life and color under the azure
skies, with summer scenes in evi
dence in a majority of the pictures.
The party were among the first pene
trating the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes and secured some splendid
films of the natural wonders of this
national playground. Mr. Robertson
is just back from a long trip down
the Yukon, where he followed the ice
down, securing some great films of
the breakup jthence to Holy cross,
St. Michael, and Nome, Cape Lis
bume, Bering Straits, East Cape, and
Sibena. He filmed the natives on the
Diomedes and King Island, and visit
ed the breeding grounds of the wa
ter fowl on the lower Yukon.
The moose pastures of lower Ke
nai will be visited by the party and
other places of interest. The picture
will be one of the best ever taken in
the territory, and will advertise Al
aska advantageously .
Relatives are alarmed for the safe
ty of Cole Costello . Reward for re
liable information. M. E. Costello.
Address, Ingomar, Montana.
Martin Laming Remains
Seward’s Fire Chief
The city council met last night at
the town hall in regular semi-month
ly session. Among the business brot
up wras the appointment of a newr
fire chief to succeed J. H. Walker,
resigned. Seven applicants presented
their names to the council, viz: Mar
tin Lanning, Gordon Shea, Frank B.
Murphy, Walter R. Holben, Gus
Manthey, Robert Guest and H. V.!
Henricson.
No appointment was made, Martin
Lanning retaining the position tempo
rarily.
But four councilmen were present,
Messrs. McMullen and Ellsworth be
ing absent from the city, and Mayor
Ray being in Valdez.
Allaska Education Assn.
Is Organized Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 3.—The Alas
ka Education Association at the an
nual meeting held yesterday adopt
ed a resolution urging the Territorial
Legislature of Alaska to adopt a law
establishing a literacy test for Al
askan voters.
The members of the Association
received the committee reports and
transacted routine business and elect
ed the following officers:
W. Harold Evans superintendent
of Cordova Schools, -as President.
Bernice Scoville, superintendent of
the Douglas Public school, was chos
en Secretary-Treasurer.
W. K. Keller, superintendent of
the Juneau Public school, was made
Vice-President.
These officers, with Lester D.
Henderson, territorial commissioner
of education; Charles E. Bunnell,
President of the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines; Mrs.
Eva Lanterman, of Craig, and I. E.
Heise, superintendent of the Valdez
Public Schools, form the Executive
Board for the ensuing year.
Party to Ascend Mt. Logan,
Second Highest Mountain
An attempt will be made in 1925
to ascend Mt. Logan ,the highest
peak in Canada and save and ex
cept Mt. McKinley, the highest on
the North American continent. Mt.
Logan is located in the southern
corner of the Yukon territory; is
twenty-six miles from the north end
of Mt. St. Elias; is twenty miles
from the Alaska boundary and is
about seventy miles from the shore
of Yakutat bay, on the Pacific
j Coast. Its altitude, determined by
photographic survey, is 19,850, and
its summit stands almost 14,000 feet
above the level of the surrounding
glaciers.
The ascent will be attempted un
der the auspices of the Alpine Club
of Canada, in cooperation with the
American and English Alpine Clubs.
Each of these clubs are invited to
have a member with the climbing
expedition.
The home of Joe Reno at Gird
wood burned last night. No particu
lars other than the loss have been
received.
The house and store were both
burned, according to later informa
tion. A large part of the stock was
stored in another building and es
caped the flames. The fire occurred
at 7:30 this morning.
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MARRIED TO A. J. BARR
A quiet wedding occurred at the
radio station last evening at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cook,
when Miss Hannah Anderson became
the bride of A. J. Barr, Judge Cur
tis Morford performing th eceremo
ny. Miss Anderson is a popular girl
whose mother lives in Seward, while
Mr. Barr is in charge of the govern
ment radio station. The young cou
ple will make their home at the sta
tion.
A sumptuous wedding dinner was
served to the following guests: Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. C. Scott, Mr. and Mrs.
E. F. Hickok, Mr. Charles Christen
sen, Mr. F. L. Melsbach, Mr. L. S.
Kobel, Mr. James Hawkins ,Mr. C. L.
Pugh, Master William Cook, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Cook.
Seward Schools Will *
Be Opened September 8
School will start at Seward, Mon
day, Sept. 8, five teachers and £ 'prin
cipal forming the staff for the 1924
25 tercn. Prof. Guy D. Barnett of
Seattle, has been engaged as prin
cipal and Miss Eccles will teach
grades 1 and 2 ;Miss Betta Xini, to
teach grades 3, 4, and 5; Miss Mat
thews, grade 6 and 7; Miss Rauch,
commercial work, and Miss Ulleland
will be assistant to the superintend
ent.
All the teachers are newcomers and
they will arrive on the Yukon Satur
day, having stopped off at Ketchi
kan to attend the normal.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Pre-war pros
perity will return to Europe now
that the Dawes plan is in effect,
Secretary Mellon predicted on his
arrival from abroad on the steamer
Majestic.
A Fountain
of %uth
Beauty linked with power that ^
stays young — that’s the Willys
Knight! The quiet Willys-Knight
sleeve-valve engine improves with
use—a fountain of thrills and
satisfactions. In ten years we have
never known a Willys-Knight
engine to wear out! Touring
$1195, Coupe-Sedan Standard
$1450, 5-pass. Standard Sedan,
now $1695, f. o. b. Toledo.
WILLYS
KNIGHT
P. M. OGLE, AGENT
Seward, Alaska