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.
Young Girl of Spokane
Writes Winning Novel;
Is University Graduate
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—In writing
“The Bitter Country,” a first novel J
that is being published this month by
Doubleday, Page & Co., there is al
most as much drama as in the novel
itself. The author is Miss Anita Pet
tibone, of Spokane, a girl who is still
in her twenties. Her story, as well as
that of the book, centers in the State
of Washington.
The records of Knut Hamsun, No
bel prize winner in literature and
John Masefield, noted English poet,
are recalled by Miss Pettibone’s suc
cess. Hamsun was once a streetcar
conductor in Chicago. Masefield, in
his early days, was employed as a
swamper in a New York city saloon.
Miss Pettibone has been in a Seattle
department store, a wrapper up of
packages. At present she is employ
ed in a Spokane store as a director
of education.
But as with the other authors, Miss
Pettibone’s occupations have not been
confined to humble ones. She is a
graduate of the University of Wash
ington and for two years was em
ployed as a Finnish settlement work
er.
Whatever her position or work, Miss
Pettibone has never known a literary
person. She had an ambition to
write, but did not do so. The road
by which she might have reached her
goal was neglected.
About four years ago Miss Petti
bone subscribed to lesson in story
telling technique that w'ere advertis
ed by a Western School.
She tapped off her novel at the rate
of two hours nightly. Then followed
a period of waiting. At last she re
ceived notice that her story had been
sold to the famous publishing house.
It is reported that the last of the
once numerous tribe of cigar store
wooden Indians in St. Louis has been
stolen from the store of Louis Grot
sky.
From Minneapolis comes the story
that Irving Meyers of that city ate
twenty “hot dogs” at one sitting,
breaking his own previous record of
seventeen.
FRENCH MERCHANTS
SHOWING INTEREST
IN JAPANESE TRADE
TOKIO, Feb. 12.—A French busi
ness mission, led by the vice-minis
ter of commerce, will reach Yoko
hama the latter part of March on
board the French Paul Luka.
The members of the party will all
be representative owners of fac
tories and heads of big companies.
They have in view the promotion of
Franco-Japanese friendship and the
development of commercial interests
between the two nations.
NAVIN WINS WEALTH
AND BASEBALL GLORY
WITH DETROIT TEAM
DETROIT, Feb. 12— Unlucky in
politics, lucky in baseball, is the way
Frank J. Nuvin, president of the De
licit American League baseball club,
probably would say it.
Mr. Navin, who has transformed
Benoit from a rube ba^ebail town
to me < f th ce: p;:al.< o I'ar.dr.'.fn
confesses he was a falsa alarm as a
politician, a sort of modern Don
Quixote jousting with the windmill.
He could not convince several hund
red voters in a Detroit suouib that
!he should be their choice for justice
of the puce, but in the yaais that
have fci.owed he has been eiorv.ed
to important places in the baseball
worli by his fellow magnaros. lie
•o.* ire. ntiy to member mv on the
Advisory Jouncil, highes' nibuna’ o<
baseball. b> replacing Ban < :Mvnv
as the American League s repiesenta
ti’e.
Mr. Naviu set out to become a law
yer. Coming to Detroit from Adrian,
Mich., where he was born in 1871, lie
worked his way through school and
j graduated in law, a profession he
never followed, however. His ini
tial flyer in politics proving a fail
ure, he was mentioned for a city j
hall clerkship paying $2,500, and then !
he took up baseball. He became an
employe of S. F. Angus, owner of
Detroit’s drowsy ball club. Angus
[wanted to get out of the game. Bar.
Johnson, president of the American
League, came to Detroit in an effort
to get rid of the white elephant.
Mr. Navin, whose friends call him
a modern Midas and who, they say,
! never gambles with fate, made his
! greatest gamble then. Without suffi
cient money himself to swing the
deal, he interested William Yawkey,
wealthy sportsman. Yawkey put up
the money and Navin became mana
ger of the club.
The rest of the story of the De
j troit baseball club and Frank J. Na
i vin is the story of a man taking a
^losing proposition, driving thru years
of discouragement to bring his or
ganization finally to the peak of fi
nancial and diamond success.
Two major chapters appear in the
book Frank Navin has written with
bats, balls, mitts and money on the
hard clay and green grass of Navin
Field. The first was his coup in
bringing to Detroit as manager Hu
ghie Jennings—“Eeh-ah,” grass-pull
ing Jennings. The second was the
purchase of Ty Cobb.
By many the signing of Jennings
is regraded as Mr. Navin’s greatest
stroke in baseball. The new manager,
obtained for $1,500 from Baltimore,
calked the seams of discord in the
Tiger craft and developed three pen
nant-winning clubs. He took Detroit
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
Feb. 4th
Mar. 4
Arrives
Seward
Feb. 12th
Mar. 12
South from
Seward
Feb. 15th
Mar. 15
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
STEAMSHIP STARR
STEAMER STARR WILL SAIL MARCH 1
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*. 8EWARD, ALA8KA
by storm and is credited with having
aroused this city to the intense inter
est in baseball which it displays to
this day.
Mr. Navin’s smartest piece of re
cruiting was done in 1905 when die
got Ty Cobb from Augusta, Ga., for
$500. To get the fiery Georgian in
| mid-season he had to pay an addi
tional $200. This $700 has been
called the most fortunate baseball
investment ever made, insofar as
player purchases are concerned.
In carrying through his baseball
politicies Mr. Navin has had the sat- J
isfaction of seeing Detroit move from
the joke classification of baseball cit
ies to a city with a gate exceeded
each year only by New York; and
he has seen the Detroit baseball club
rise from a liability to an asset
which, it has been estimated, returns
to its president $100,000 annually.
AMERICAN TEETH ARE
GETTING MORE FEEBLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11 —
Teeth of the American people are get
ting feebler or Americans are having
more work done on their teeth, judg
ing by an increase of 25 per cent in
the production of dental goods within
two years, reported by the Depart
ment of Commerce in its biennial re
port on manufactures.
The value of dental goods in 1923
when the census was taken, was over
$32,000,000 as against $26,000,000 in
1921.
—
WORKMAN CLAIMS HE WAS
PAID 1700 IN PENNIES
DANVILLE, 111., Feb. 11.—Found
with 1700 pennies in a sack similar
to those given to customers by the
Hamilton National Bank, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., Will Henry, a railroad
worker of Meridan, Miss., told detec
tives in the Southern Railroad yards
the foreman of the section gang he
worked in paid him his wages in pen
nies.
He was sent to the workhouse to
give the authorities time to investi
gate.
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Remington Portable Typewriters at
the Alaska Shop. tf
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Germany Calls For
More Horrors In War
BERLIN, Feb. 11.—Writing on the
war of the future and the weapons
it will be fought with, Hans Ritter, at
one time a member of the German
general staff draws a picture of the
indiscriminate slaughter of women
and children. Electrical science will
make possible the wiping out of en
tire districts behind the enemy lines
without danger to the aggressor, he
declares, and non-combatants will be
in as much danger as uniformed sol
diers.
Electric rays offer many destructive
possibilities, the author avers. Inven
tors must devise methods to ignite
explosives at lang distance, put mo
tors out of commission and destroy
the eyesight of opposing combatants.
Science today can increase the viru
lence of bacteria, and the use of cer
tain gasses w'ill render the human or
ganism more susceptible to disease.
Upon examining a watch that had
stopped, a watchmaker of Golds
boro, N. C. found a boll weevil in
the works.
Coming up, St. Patrick’s Day dance.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
i
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENA/
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Alaska
Yukon
Alameda
ALASKA
Yukon
Northwestern
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
February 7
February 14
February 21
Feb. 28th.
March 7
.March 14
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
February 14
February 21
February 2S
Mar. 7th.
March 14
March 21
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
February 14
February 21
February 28
Mar. 7th.
March 14
March 21
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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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
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McKINLEY PARK ROUTE
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices