CAPTAIN OF BOAT
LOST IN ARCTIC
ON WAY STATES
Jack Hegness, champion dog mush
er and later commander of the Silver
Wave, the vessel lost in the Arctic
ice last winter, arrived in Anchorage
last week en route to the States, ac
cording to a recent issue of the An
chorage Daily Times. He mushed
•ut over the trail from Nome to Ne
nana, and before leaving the interior
city sold his seven dogs to Superin
tendent of the Alaska Road Commis
sion Lukins, who has charge of the
road work in the Nome Dsitrict.
Hegness drove the winner of the
first All-Alaska sweepstakes in 1 QOS,
v hen he drove Albert Fink’s fine dog
team of wolf hounds from Nome to
Candle, a distance of 420 miles, to vic
tory.
This past summer Mr. Hegness was
commander of the gas boat Silver
Wave, owned by Lomeu Reindeer &
Trading corporation. On October 17
the vessel was caught in the ice near
Kotzebue. Hegness has been taken
ashore by dog team at Saidie creek,
eight miles from Kotzebue, with the
mail. While he was ashore the Silver
Wave, with two passengers and three
of the crew, drifted in the ice for nine
days, finally bumping into solid ice
at Cape Espeuberg, 65 miles from
Kotzebue. where the five persons
walked ashore for a distance of six
miles and made it down the coast to
Cape Prince of Wales, finally being
brought to Nome by dog team.
The Silver Wave became a total
loss in the ice pack.
Searching parties and camp fires
were strewn along the coast in an ef
fort to locate the missing people. Cap
tain Hegness traveled 1,000 miles by
dog team in search of his lost crew
and passengers. He mushed from
Kotzebue to Point Hope, a distance of
200 miles, turning back at this point,
he followed the coast all the w'ay to
Nome.
Captain Hegness is en route to Se
attle to visit with his wife and family,
and intends returning to Kotzebue on
the first boat in the spring. He has
a white fox farm in the north.
Hegness is taking out films of the
dogs and drivers who made the relay
run over the trail from Nenana to
Nome with antitoxin. The films are
for the International News service
and Pathe News.
Homes for Swedish Poor
Provided by Flower Fund
fBv Associated Press)
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 12— Happy
homes tor the living instead of flow
ers for the dead, is the aim of the
Swedish “Flower Fund’’ drive that
has just scored its first signal tri
umpli in the laying of the corner
stone oi a large building designee
exclusively for the aged and infirm
who otherwise might have to eni
their days in the poorliouse.
hue idea of such a fund w.v
Lunched about four years ago b;
Miss Alma Hedin, sister of Svei
Hedin, the explorer, and now, thanki
to many small contributions in liei
of floral tributes at funerals, enougl
money has been procured to guai
antee the financing of the first house
Others will be started later.
The first will contain 69 suites o
one or two rooms with kitchen. Fo
22 of these the rent lias been fixei
at $40 a year and for the others th
rates will be determined by the cosi
The tenants will be people who car
not afford to pay regular rents, bu
who wish to avoid the humiliation o
seeking their final homes in publi
institutions.
GOVERNMENT
ENDEAVORING
CINCH FALI
CHEYENNE. March 12.—The go'
ernment has offered records of Fr
bank account in an etfdrt to show t._
$230,000 worth of liberty bonds pas;
ed into the hands of Harry F. Sincla
previously to the Fall-Kenedy reserv
ruling. Three witnesses from th
Backs of Texas, New Mexico and Co
orado testified concerning the bond
Rockne Plan of Coaching
Enters Upon Second Year
(By Associated Press)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Mar. 13 —
A giant Swede who coached an Irish
eleven of Indian into the national
gridiron pereage will come to the
ancient College of William and Mary
here next June. Ilis baggage will
I consist largely of a bag of crafty
tricks, whose intricate mechanism
he will expound to the coaches who
guide football destinies on southern
greenswards. His name is Knute
Rockne, of Notre Dame, and he
comes to conduct his second school
for mentors in Virginia.
Last year Rockne held first in
stitute here and coaches who attend
ed declare the influence of his teach
ings was reflected on many southern
gridirons during the past season. So
pleased were his pupils with his in
structions that they prevailed on him
to take up the chalk for another se
ries of lectures. Rockne recently
wired assent and J. Wilder Tasker,
William and Mary coach, has broad
cast invitations to mentors over the
entire south to attend. The courses
will cover two weeks*
Originality marks the methods of
instruction. Blackboard diagrams ex
plain the morning lectures while in
the afternoon^ the famous coach dons
football togs with his class and puts
his theories into actual play. He
does not spare himself either in the
classrooms, where lectures last for
five hours daily, or on the field,
where actual demonstrations demand
strenuous physical effort. Carrying
the ball or holding down the crucial
point in the line, Rockne is nearly
always in the thick of the scrimmage.
Many of the formations which
lolled the Irish eleven to victories
in 1923 were seen on the gridirons of
Virginia last fall. Rockne’s teach
ing is never vague, and he stresses
the theory of modern football into
the minds of his students as easily
as he drills his tactics into his fly
ing backfields at home.
MARKETS OF EUROPE
MADE AVAILABLE TO
AMERICAN FARME R S
(By Associated Tress)
1 BERLIN, Mar. 12.—Ready always
j to help American farmers find mar
kets in Europe for their produce,
the department of agriculture at
Washington is showing increased ac
tivity on the continent. After the
war it took over the records and of
fices of the American system of food
j administration, and today has bu
reaus in London, Berlin, Paris and
Rome, with sub-offices in various
I other strategic centers. William A.
Schoelfeld has been sent to this city
as general director for Europe.
The products bought by Europe
from America, are, in the order of
their importance, cotton, grain, to
bacco, fruit and meat. The various
European bureaus study local crop
reports, the needs of the population
for the various articles imported, and
the time when the American crop
is wanted in Europe. They inform
the European purchaser of current
prices and, wherever the department
has established standards recogniz
ed among the American producers,
place these at the service of the Eu
ropean buyers. This increases confi
dence in American business honesty,
and thus helps the American produc
er in winning back the European
market which he lost in large part
during the war.
Another phase of the work of the
European bureaus is that of keeping
information on improved methods of
agricultural development discovered
or introduced by European laimers.
If a sugar bee: grower in Ucrm.my
succeeds in raising a particularly flue
FRATERNAL ORDERS
! SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
,\ngy^and third Wednesdays of each
/vr\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 Fellow*’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION, SEWARD
POST NO. FIVE
come.
Meets the second and Fourth
Tuesdays of each month,
at the Fire Hall. Visiting
members are always w*l
J. S. Bogart, Commander; L.
W. Olson, Adjutant.
i IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
! Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
1 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.
5EWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
A each month in Odd
| Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, N. G.
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING OF STR. STARR WEST, APRIL 5
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*. SEWARD, ALA8KA
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
March 4 March 12 March 14
March 24 March 31 April 7
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak. ^
MOTORSHIP ADMIRAL PEARY
March 27, with gasoline, oils and explosives, for
space reservations telephone or wire agent at
Seward.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81
Res.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Service _____
^admiral line
grade ot beet thru a method pecu
liar to his tarm. the bureau in Ber
lin immediately investigates and
sends its information to Washing
ton.
The department of agriculture in
Europe works in close cooperation
with the commercial attaches and the
consulates, but limits itself strictly
to raw products. Take the case of
fruit, for instance. Apples, pine
apples or oranges in their natural
state are the concern of the depart
ment, but the moment an apple is
canned or dried, it falls within the
jurisdiction of the commercial at
tache. In this way overlapping and
conflict are avoided.
LADIES PLEASE NOTICE—that
Schweizer’s Spring samples are now
on display at Urbach’s Store. k31
CAN USE A FEW MORE CUS
TOMERS AT THE 0. K .BARBER
SHOP.
Read Frye-Bruhn’s adv in this issue.
Picture Framing ai the Alaska
Shop. tf
Brunswick Pnonographs and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
t A. H.
Menday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Let Morrison Fix it for you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
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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.
FRESH MILK,
CREAM AND ALL
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Our Motto:
“The Best”
SEWARD DAIRY
F. B. MOORE
Gore Bldg. Adams 145
WALL PAPER PAPER-HANG
ING, and PAINTING
TINTING
4
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE.
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Alameda
Northwestern
ALASKA
Yukon
Northwestern
Alaska
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
March 7
March 14
March 21
March 28
April 4th
April 11
Scheduled
Ar. Sewrard
March 14
March 21
March 28
April 4
April lltk.
April IS
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
March 14
March 21
March 28
April 4
April 11th.
April IS.
Steamers in the above schedule w’ill make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Freighter Oduna is scheduled to sail from Seattle March 23rd.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125
SEWARD, ALASKA
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
McKINLEY PARK ROUTE
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices
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