For the Prospector
Can you make an accurate compass survey of your
claim?
The strange minerals you find in the hills—^can you
determine what they are with the blow-pipe?
Do you know how to test your ore for various meth
ods of concentration such as amalgamation, cyani
dation, jigging, table concentration and flotation?
Do you know how ore bodies form and their habits?
If you do you can pick favorable areas for prospect
ing and eliminate much dead work.
Would you like to be able to assay your ore for gold
and silver?
Will not these aids better your chances of putting a
new mine on the map in Alaska?
TUITION IS FREE
This is the nature of the work the prospector takes up
in the Mining Short Course at the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines.
The first short course of 10 weeks duration begins No
vember 3rd. The work is repeated in another short
course beginning February 2nd.
The charge for books and supplies used, totals about
$25,00 for the complete'course.
Work is offered in geology, mineralogy, mining meth
ods, ore dressing, and fire assaying.
There are no educational requirements except the abil
ity to read and write.
This is not a dressed-up course. Bring along your wool
shirt and overalls. You will need them.
CHARLES E. BUNNELL
President.
Gelding Bought for
v Rusty Nickel 2 Years
ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. 28—Two years
ago, Pete Green, bay gelding, changed
hands for a rusty nickel.
Pete Green now capable of clicking
off a mile in 2:06 1-2 has been sold
a second time for $3700, Walter Cand
ler, local horseman, announced.
The nickel was paid for the horse
by Candler to Gus Coggins, another
local horseman, two years ago when
Pete was three years old.
Coggins offered to give the horse
to Candler with several other animals
tie was buying, but the latter would
not accept the gift without some re
muneration, so a five-cent piece
changed hands and the horse went
into the Candler stables.
Recently he was sold to J. C. Haley,
of Madison, Wis., at an auction sale
in Chicago.
Kansas Children to Vote
In Election of State Bird
TOPEKA, Jan. 28.—School child
ren of Kansas are in the midst of an
election campaign. On Kansas day,
Jan. 29, they are to elect a state bird.
Out of a big field of candidates,
“Bob White” is picked to win. He
has the endorsement both of Gov.
Jonathan M. Davis, and of J. C. jVloh
ler, secretary of the state board of
agriculture. In replying to question
naires by the state Audubon society,
each official, unknown to the other,
recommended the quail.
The women have their candidate,
however, “Mrs. Jennie Wren” has
been put forth as a candidate and
champion of “women’s rights,” and
is expected to instill sonm rivalry in
the routest. Other leading contend
ers for the honor whose names have
been proposed are the robin, prairie
chicken, meadow lark, the cardinal
and the blue jay.
Throughout the Kansas schools the
children are now campaigning, fa
miliarizing themselves with the birds
and picking the candidate they will
support at the polls.
Eastman Kodaks and Supplies at
the Alaska Shop. tf
$3700
MANY CITY EMPLOYES NOT
EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Under
a ruling of the Internal Revenue
Bureau many employes of munici
palities who heretofore have re
garded themselves as exempt from
the Federal income tax will be re
quired to pay such a levy not only
in the future, but to cover several
years past.
The ruling was announced by In
ternal Revenue Commissioner A.
Blair in a letter to Seator Short
ridge, republican, California, hold
ing that the employes of the water
and electric light workers at River
side, Cal., must pay the Federal
tax.
Blair said that although munici
pal employes heretofore had been
regarded as exempt under the Fed
eral law, a re-examination of the
statutes revealed that certain class
es could not claim such exemption.
The tax must be paid, he said, by per
sons employed by certain municipal
utilities which compete with private
enterprises.
Honor Code Violated
By University Senior
UNIVERITY OF WASHINGTON,
Seattle, Jan. 28.—A member of the
Senior class here was yesterday con
victed of a violation of the “Honor
Code” in an examination during the
period of final tests last quarter and
was flunked in the course by the se
nior council.
Violations of the code which puts
the responsibility of playing fair dur
ing examinations entirely in the
hands of the students have been so
frequent of late that the U. of W.
daily campus paper, editorially advo
cates a campus vote as to whether
the system shall continue or shall be
supplemented by the old faculty su
pervision system. As it is, professors
are not allowed to stay in the room
during the examinations.
—
j Dear Editor: I went out with a
young man last night and drank two
cocktails, a gin fizz, and a small glass
of moonshine, do you think i did
wrong?
i Ans: You probably did. Let us
have the young man’s address.
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TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
STEAMSHIP STARR
STEAMSHIP STARR WILL SAIL FEBRUARY 1
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13». SEWARD, ALASKA
WED ON FRIDAY AND BE
HAPPY SAYS PREACHER
LIBERTY MO., Jan. 28.—Those who
would be happy should wed on Friday.
The Rev. F. V. Loos, known as the
marrying parson of Kansas City’s
“Gretna Green,” has reached that con
clusion after performing 37G3 mar
riage ceremonies. Mr. Loos, who has
lived here for forty years, officiated
at a wedding just before the stroke
of 12 last night.
The ol|l idea that Friday is an un
lucky day for marriages is erroneous,
he says.
“I find that Americans are becom
ing more like the French in regard
to the choice of wedding days. A
Frenchman myself, I know that Friday
in France is considered the luckiest
day to choose. Friday is the day that
Venus, the goddess of love, rules over
all.”
ENTIRE WAR CLAIMS
OF U. S. TO BE PAID
PARIS, Jan. 28.—The entire war
claims crl the United States, both for
its occupational forces in Germany
and for damages sustained—roughly
$600,000,000—will be paid at the rate
o! $25,000,000 yearly out of the pro
ceeds ol the Dawes plan of reparation
and the payments will extend over
about 25 years.
Such, in a nutshell, is the accrued
officially announced as having been
reached by the delegates to the al
lied finance ministers the ratifca
tion of a plenary conference in ses
sion here. The agreement is sub
ject to session of the conference
which will be held soon, but this rat
ification is regarded as a matter of
form.
Camphor Acts Quick
People are surprised at the quick
action of simple camphor, witchhazel,
hydrastics, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik
eye wash. One small bottle helps any
case sore, weak or strained eyes.
Aluminum eye cup free. Seward
Drug Company.
About to be attacked by a large rat
tlesnake, while gathering mistletoe,
Mrs. Millie Roberts, of Millerton, Ok
lahoma, dispatched the reptile with
a hatchet she was using.
EATING RAW OYSTERS
IN CHICAGO UNLAWFUL
(T’y Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—Eating raw
oysters in liicago henceforth will be
punishable by a fine of $25, Corpora
tion Counsel Busch has ruled. The
state health department has forbid
den the eating of raw oysters be
cause of typhoid fever cases which
have been traced to the bivalves.
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six o’clock please phone us and one
will be sent by special messenger.
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Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel
Alaska
Yukon
Alameda
Alaska
Yukon
Alameda
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 2S
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle Feb. 5, and
will call at Seward if sufficient business is offered.
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