SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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THE NOME MARATHON
News dispatches received today
show that the Northern marathon from
Nenana to Nome, is an epic in the eyes
of easterners, and has caught the fan
cy of millions of readers throughout
the States. The dispatches say that
this will probably be the last Alaskan
race of its kind, “a fitting finish to a
long list of records made by heroic
dogs of the Northland.”
While the sentiment is pretty the
statement is untrue, as the dogteam
will be Alaska’s chief mode of travel
in the backlands, as long as the Terri
tory is settled. The inference given
that the railroad has put the dogteam
out of business is too ridiculous to
the Northerner to be considered for
an instant, for the government rail
road traverses a very narrow strip of
the Territory’s domain, and thousands
of square miles remain uninhabited
and practically unexplored. The dog
is the logical means of transportation
for the back stretches of the northern
wilderness. They can pack in the
wilderness. They can be used as
pack animals in the summer, and as
a means of transportation in the win
ter. Two or three dogs will pull as
much, if well trained, as a horse, and
will go where a horse cannot be taken
at any time of the year. A dried sal
mon once a day, a little rice or ce
real and the offal of game, will keep
them in good condition. They * will
dig down in the snow at night in tem
peratures a horse would die, and are
ready and fit the next morning to re
sume their daily grind. Their feet
may be a mass or sores, their ribs
stick through their skin, and they
may stagger as they pull their load,
but they are never whipped by adver
sity, and follow their master blindly
and faithfully to the end.
The dog is as much a necessity to
day as it was in the past, and serves
the many camps throughout the terri
tory in a way that can never be told
in story or in song. It would take
pages of print and hours of time to
tell one-tenth of the heroic sacrifices
made each winter by the Alaskan dog.
And each winter will see some
adventurous driver and his team rac
ing to far-off places to take help or
necessities to isolated sections. The
day of the dog in Alaska is far from
done.
FRAME’S CHARGE ARE PIFFLE
John Frame accuses Governor Scott
C. Bone and other Federal officials of
“voting the Democratic ticket” and
otherwise misconducting themselves
in the recent election. Which is about
as far from the truth as John could
come. Governor Bone may have op
posed Frame as Territorial commit
teeman, believing as do many other
republicans, that the office is not an
elective one, and that Frame is not
now and never has begn a republican.
If Frame is placed at the head of the
so-called republican constituents of his
it means the disruption of the regular
party and the turning over of the Ter
ritorial patronage to the democrats.
This was the intent when the bill was
passed. It was the intent when a
man of Frame’s caliber was placed
in nomination. The democrats had no
candidate and voted en masse for
Frame in order to muddy the waters
for their opponents. Outsiders are
unable to understand Alaskan politics
and it is no wonder,—if a democrat of
many years standing, a leader in the
democratic conventions of the Third
division, and opponent to every re
publican idea, can be elected to head
the republicans in Alaska.
Governor Bone didjiot vote for John
Frame as Territorial committeeman.
A thousand other republicans refused
to consider his candidacy as any
thing but a joke. He was elected by
mischance and the party cannot af
ford to prostitute the offices of the
Territory by politicians of his stamp.
AMERICAN LEGION DANCE.
Seward Post, American Legion, will
give a dance in Odd Fellows’ hall
February 21, the day before Wash
ington’s birthday. The Legion mem
bers are making every effort to make
this dance a success, and should re
ceive the support of every citizen in
their efforts. This clean, progressive
organization of young men will take
hold of civic and territorial affairs
within the next few years, and will
make good in their administration.
The young man who had the patriot
ism and nerve to enlist in the world
war for what was believed to be for
the best interests of humanity, can
not help but have the energy and pep
to make for better conditions.
« If you have the good of the com
munity at heart save Saturday night,
February 21, for the American Legion.
ORDINANCE NO. 86.
1 In yesterday’s issue of The Gate
way Ordinance No. 86, “An Ordinance
to Provide Rules and Regulations for
j the Transaction of Business by the
I City of Seward and to Define the Du
ties of the Mayor, Common Council,
and Other Officers of the Town, and
to Provide for the Manner of their
Appointment or Election, and for oth
er Purposes, and Repealing Ordinance
No. 60A and all other Ordinances and
Parts of Ordinances in Conflict,” was
published in its entirety. This ordi
nance should be read by every citi
zen and understood thoroughly before
going to the polls. To be brief, the
intent of the ordinance is to change
a number of elective offices to ap
pointive ones, provided the electorate
so wish. It will affect principally the
offices of clerk, city attorney, and
treasurer, the others being appointive
[at the present time. Proponents of
the ordinance argue that it will in
I crease the efficiency of those officers
appointed, as they can be removed any
time by action of the council, while
opponents declare it is placing too
much power in the hands of a few.
Without arguing for either side of
the Question The Gateway believes
the Council acted wisely in ordering
the publication of the proposed ordi
nance, and that it should be well read
by the voters.
Too many voters go to the polls
and vote for this or that change, and
later cavil and find fault with the city
council, who are only trying do what
i in their belief affects the greatest
' number.
The ordinance will be published
again, the day before election, and it
should be cut up and pasted in your
scrap books in order that you may see
how the city is governed. At the
present time one-half our citizens
have no idea of the rules and regula
tions governing municipalities, or of
[the laws under which they work.
Pittsburg Recruit Made
Good in Three Positions
77EMr YORK, Feb. 7.—Eddie Moore,
Pittsburg’s brilliant recruit, played
two infield positions and an outfield
position and batted .351 in his first
year in a big league uniform, accord
ing to the official averages of the Na
tional League.
In many’- respects Moore was the
most valuable recruit of 1924. He
played in a utility role for the Pirates
except "for a brief period when he wras
on the hospital list. His remarkable
playing was somewhat obscured by
that quarter of rookies who went to
Dreyfuss about the same time and
won regular berths.
Kremer, Yde, Cuyler and Wright, all
in their first year in fast company,
went great guns for the Pirates and
their work somewhat crowded out
Moore, but the latter’s showing in the
face of such opposition stamped him
as one of the greatest finds of the
season.
Moore first played professional
baseball in St. Petersburg, Fla., in
the Florida State League in 1922. The
next season he went up to Atlanta
and at the start of the 1924 cam
paign w-ore a Pittsburg uniform. He
was only 21 when he arrived.
Aviation Tricks Amused
Ancient Hawaiian Chiefs
(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, Feb. 7.—Naval avia
tors who accompany the United States
fleet to territorial waters next spring
may find interest in the spots where
the thrills of modern aviation were
enjoyed centuries ago by Hawaiian
chieftains according to stories told
by their descendants today.
The aerial excitement was obtain
ed by jumping off cliffs into the sea
in home-made planes. The game,
for such it was, is known as “lele
pali,” literally “jumping from the
cliff.”
The late William J. Coelho, former
newspaper editor, legislator, historian
and officer of the Hale o na Alii o
Hawaii (House of Chiefs of Hawaii)
described the vanished sport. The
game was played with huge but light
contrivances constructed of stout
sticks and overwoven with palm
leaves, he said. Several of these
were made ready, the Hawiian, “avia
tors” boarded their crafts and were
pushed from towering cliffs simul
taneously. The aviator who remain
ed in the air the longest won the
game. Sometimes carelessness 6r
over-evcitement led one of the planes
to execute a nose dive similar to
those encountered today. The only
damage was the loss of the game.
Old Hawaiians say their “aces”
were exceptionally skilled. Their
rude appliances could be guided only
by shifting the bodies of the aviators
to maintain balance. Outrigger ca
noes were anchored off shore to pick
up the competitors and retrieve the
planes. Daring men often hopped off
cliffs one thousand feet high, it is de
clared.
iHELEN KELLER SCORES
DOINGS OF MODERN FLAPPER
(By Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7—“I’d rather
be myself, blind and deaf, than the
modern flapper without any goal in
life,” Helen Keller, the famous and
nationally blind woman declared.
‘‘From morning to night they play
mah jongh, smoke and curl bobbed
| hair, leaving them no time to aaccom
| plish anything useful.”
WIFE OF VALENTINO IS
GRANTED LOST CITIZENSHIP
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK. Feb. 7.—Jean Acker
j Valentino, first wif eof Rudolf Valen
tino, motion picture actor, regained
I in the Federal court here the citizen
| ship she lost five years ago upon her
marriage to Valentino, who is a citi
I zen of Italy.
SWITZERLAND HOLDS RECORD
(By Associated Press)
BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 7.—It is
claimed that Switzerland holds the
smoking record for Europe, according
to statistics issued here, consuming
ten thousand tons of tobacco annually
or five pounds per capita. France is
next with three pounds per capita.
Charles T. Wrightsen, freshman at
an Oregon college, is paying his ex
penses by taking up aeroplane pas
sengers in spare time.
FOOTBALL DEMANDS
ENORMOUS STADIUM
ON PACIFIC COAST
(By Associated Press)
PALO ALTO, Cal., Feb. 7.—The ath
letic stadium at Stanford University,
which seats sixty-five thousand, is
expected to be enlarged to accom
modate ninety thousand by next foot
ball season.
This would provide the largest foot
ball stadium in the country. Plans
for the enlargement followed the big
game with California Nov. 22, when
ninety thousand people overflowed
the California stadium at Berkeley,
w^hich seats 76,000. Those who could
not get into the stadium occupied a
hilltop just above it. Next fall the
game will be played in the Stanford
stadium and efforts will be made to
take carQ of the throng sure to wrant
tickets.
The Stanford stadium was built five
years ago. Designed by professors
in the engineering department of the
University, it was hollowed out of the
earth and the tiers of seats rest on
terra firma. The earth for the sides
was thrown up from the excavation
made for the playing field. At pres
ent it is a horseshoe, with an open
side used as a straight-away for track
events, to supplement the cinderpath
1 Liberty Theatre i
H Two Shows Tonight - - - 7 & 8:45 g
Saturday, February 7.
I HOPE HAMPTON NITA NALDI |
| LEW CODY CONRAD N AGEL |
IN THE BRILLIANT PICTURE
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| “Lawful Larceny” |
Showing both ancient and modem settings. S
A program of Egypt showing Cleopatra and
her Court and the wonderful Egyptian dances. M
3 Then to New York with Cleopatra as the mod- m
s ern Vamp. All woven into a beautiful and jj
strong story. m
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SOMETHING RICH AND EYE FILLING
With it there will be a roaring 2-reel Comedy H
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AND THE “BARNYARD ORCHESTRA”
U that made such a hit the other night H
jj will play again B
y SUNDAY ONLY: An unusual and very fine |§
U Comedy-drama entitled: jj
| THE HUNTRESS |
H . With ■
COLLEEN MOORE and LLOYD HUGHES
And a two-reel Comedy
( “PLEASANT JOURNEY”
1| A program that will please you
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that encircles the edge of the field.
According to plans, this open space
will be filled making the stadium
bowl-shaped. More seats will be add
ed by increasing the height of the em
bankment on all sides.
Interest in college football in this
region has increased so rapidly in re
cent years that it has been hard for
the athletic authorities to keep up
with it. Ten years ago a crowd of
twenty thousand at a Stanford-Cali
fornia game was considered large. The
California stadium was completed a
little more than a year ago, in time
for the big game, which was held
there two successive years. The
Berkeley stadium is just across the
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