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OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
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SIRLOIN STEAK, Pound - - 27 l-2c
SIRLOIN TIP ROAST, Pound • - 30c
Old customers come and bring your
new friendp
We carry a complete line of Butter, Egg3, and Cheese
H. L. McGHIE, Manager
TEL. MAIN 94 FREE DELIVERY
' FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219f F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
'VoV'and third Wednesdays of each
/V\i
»month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
'8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION, SEWARD
POST NO. FIVE
Meets the second and Fourth
Tuesdays of each month,
at the Fire Hall. Visiting
members are always wel
come. J. S. Bogart, Commander; L.
W. Olson, Adjutant.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall. Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
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BYRON OLSON TAKES OVER
MANAGEMENT ZYNDA HOTEL
Friday, February 13, Byron Olson
took over the management of the
Hotel Zynda, at Juneau, under lease
from S. Zynda, the proprietor. In addi
tion to the hotel the lease includes all
the buildings in the hotel block which
are the large apartments facing on
second street, and the former brewery
building at the rear of the hotel. The
lease it is said, includes option to pur
chase at the end of the specified time.
Associated with Mr. Olson will be his
wife and two sons, Wade and Clar
ence. Mr. Olson will be at the desk
during the day and the two young
men will be in charge during the eve
ning and night.—Empire.
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POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
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Phone Main 55
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
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MODEL OF AMERICA’S GREATEST CATHEDRAL BUILT BY
BOY OF SIXTEEN
Bishop Manning of New York accepts from Thomas M. Emory, 16,
of Montclair, N. J., a huge cardboard model, perfect in architectural de
tail, of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Devine, as Am
erica’s greatest religious edifice, will look when completed. The model
is on a scale of one to 80, using 200 square feet of cardboard and 2,400
pins. The 97 windows are paned with color tissue; so that a stained
glass effect is given when a light is placed within. It will be placed on
exhibition to aid the $15,000,000 Cathedral building fund drive.
Museum of Babylonian
Princess Reveals Rare
Articles of Antiquity
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.—A mu
seum, the property of the daughter of
the last king of Babylon, who ruled in
the sixth century B. C., has been un
covered and many priceless objects
obtained by the joint archaelogical
expedition of the British museum and
the University of Pennsylvania at Ur
of the Chaldees, according to the re
port of British and American scien
tists, made public February 4.
Further investigations of the rare
find shows that the museum contained
objects dating as far back as 2500 be
for the Birth of Christ.
C. Leonard Wolley, hd&d of the ex
pedition, recounted what has been ac
complished at the hall of justice, called
E-Dublai-Makh, the other site in the
city, on which archaeologists are now
working.
“We have worked out the history
of the building from Nabonidus,” he
said, “king of Babylon through the re
pairs done by Sin Balatsu lkbi, a hun
dred years before, by Kuri Galzu, the
Kassite, in the sixt century; by Ishme
Dagan, king of Islin, 600 years before
that; to its original foundation by
Bur-Sin of Ur about 2250 B. C. Even
below the walls of Bur-Sin we have
come upon brickwork of a more prim
itive sort bearing no name, but mark
ed with two finger prints deeply im
pressed to hold the mortar, a record
of the shadowy kings of the second
dynasty of Ur, who may have reigned
some 2800 years before Christ.
“From an inscription preserved in
the museum at Yale we know that
the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus,
ted his daughter, Bel-Shalti-Nannar as
high priestess of the moongod at Ur
following ancient precedent, consecra
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references
and built at E-Gig-Par a cloister for
her dwelling.
“The ground plan of the place an
swers perfectly to the word ‘cloister’
used in the Yale inscription and there
can here be no doubt we have the
actual convent of the priestess.
“The contents of the building were
not less important than its character.
School materials, writing exercises,
etc., seemed to show that the religious
houses then as now had their educa
tional side, and the daughter of Na
bonidus, himself a well known anti
quary appears to have kept a museum
in her convent, for there were found
in the ruins a large number of objects
of such different dates that it is hard
on other theory to account for their
presence all together in rooms of the
latest period.”
What the Climate On
Planet Mars Is Like
The climate on Mars in such that it
may support life, mosses and lichens
or trogdolytic animals able to with
j stand a freezing night and a thawing
midday on that ruddy plante. These
are the conclusions which were re
1 cently presented to the American Phy
! sical Society by Dr. W. W. Coblentz,
of the United States Bureau of Stan
; dards, who, with Dr. C. O. Lampland,
' of the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff,
1 Arizona, has measured radiation from
! that planet and determined its tem
perature accurately.
The North Pole during the Martian
winter has a temperature of 94 de
grees below zero, Fahrenheit, and in
summer at the South Pole it is 76 de
'grees below zero. In the equatorial
regions of the planet higher tempera
tures corresponding to those on earth
j are attained in the daytime, reaching
141 degrees Fahrenheit. In the equa
j torial regions higher temperatures
i corresponding to those on earth are
attained in the daytime, reaching 41
degrees Fahrenheit in the bright re
gions and 59 degrees Fahrenheit in
; the dark regions. The integrated
temperature of the whole disk is 22
degrees below zero.
“The foregoing measurements show
that for a few hours at noon day on
the equator of Mars the surface tem
perature is not unlike that of Wash
ington on some bright day in March.
But consider the exceedingly cold
nights and the great daily variation
in temperature amounting to perhaps
180 degrees Fahrenheit. Water is not
present on Mars in sufficient quantity
to form permanent lakes.
“Hense with noonday temperatures
of only 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit,
even on the hottest spots on the equa
tor, and with temperatures so low
that probably all the water freezes
out of the atmosphere at night it is
evident that though vegetable and per
haps animal life appears to be possi
ble on Mars it must be adapted to
withstand prolonged drought and in
tense cold.
“Moreover, with such rapid temper
ature changes the reactions must be
rapid. With most of the surface at
Arctic temperatures it is reasonable
to assume that if vegetable life simi
lar to ours can exist on Mars it must
be likes the mosses and lichens which
thrive under the Arctic snows. Simi
larly, animal life must be trogdolytic,
able to burrow deep and hibernate, or
able to withstand the intenst cold in
a benumber state, as for example, the
torpid grasshoppers, wasps and ants
one finds on warm days in winter.”
HEAVY TAX ON BALL
TRADES IS PROPOSED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.—
Imposition of numerous taxes and
fees are a serious imperiment to the
development of the use of automo
biles in Germany, according to ad
vices received by the department of
commerce by its foreign representa
tives.
Owners of motor cars are one class
that rarely escapes paying taxes,
because of the police registration of
all motor vehicles. But even before
an automobile of German manufac
ture reaches the user it has been
the subject of considerable taxation
through the turnover tax that has
been assessed upon each transfer of
the material going into the car.
With the purchase of the car the
buyer must pay a luxury tax of 10
per cent of the selling price. Upon
issuance of an operating license and
registration, payment of the yearly
operating tax is required. As in
other countries, except that Ger
many’s is much higher, this tax is
based on the horsepow'er of the ma
| chine. The tax on a six tax-horse
power passenger machine is 120 gold
marks a year or about $30. For an
18-tax horsepower car the tax is 840
marks, and for a 24-tax horsepower
ar, 1,320 marks.
UNIFORM GRADING OF BUTTER,
EGGS, CHEESE AND POULTRY
PORTLAND, Feb. 20.—Development
and adoption of a uniform system o?
grading and standards on produce, ef
| forts to bring about appointment in
all markets of inspectors under these
standards and appointment of a com
mittee of arbitration in all markets to
deal with disputes arising out of in
spectors’ ratings were recommended
by the Pacific States Butter, Eggsf,
Cheese and Poultry association in res
olutions adopted at the closing session
of its convention here last week.
John Wyatt and John Langford
each got ten years at Harlan, Ken
tucky, Wyatt for murder and Lang
ford for stealing 50 cents.
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LAW
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
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Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
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Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
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Physician and Surgeon
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