NEWS OF THE WEEK
Monday—The House rejected the
three proposals introduced by Repre
sentative Treadway of Massachusetts
to reduce to $500,000 the $1,700,000
Alaska Railroad appropriation; to dis
continue the appropriation at the close
of the fiscal year and to authorize the
expenditure of $500,000 for a wagon
road, taking these monies from the
capital account and strike from the
Annual Interior Department the an
nual appropriation of $18,700 used for
the McKinley National Park.
The House also rejected the amend
ment of Rep. Treadway in the recla
mation bill to strike out $50,000 of the
appropriation for the investigation of
Alaska’s mineral resources.
Rep. Crampton of Michigan defend
ed the item saying, “It will enable
Uncle Sam to find out what he has
up there. We ought not to kick Al
aska around continually. This meek
little item is of considerable impor
tance to the Territory.”
A clause in the bill provides that
not more than $30,000 of the $50,000
be spent in Alaska. Rep. Blanton
said, “This will take care of the em
ployes of the government who get
tired of Washington and want to take
a nice trip to Alaska in the summer.”
A. H. Sousthagen, herring fleet op
erator of Douglas, says the poor fish
in Alaskan waters cannot find their
way home because the Japanese cur
rent is believed to have strayed from
its course.
A court martial held in Seattle, con
victed Dr. Arvite Silverberg, who evad
ed the war time draft. He got three
years at hard labor.
Democratic members of the Senate
Finance Committee in a program re
cently drapted a proposed tax reduc
tion of $5,000,000 for this year. The
measure would increase the House
reductions on incomse from $20,000 to
$100,000, repeal taxes on capital stock,
admissions and dues.
The assay offices in Seattle handled
$7,295,000 worth of gold and silver in
1925, of which $4,474,000 was from
Alaska.
The discovery of a vein of gold and
platinum bearing ore three feet wide
and nearly one hundred feet long is
reported near Centennial, Wyoming.
The ore runs $250 per ton in gold and
$100 per ton‘in platinum.
The special election for the exclu
sion of the Jesse Lee Home site from
the city limits of Seward carried near
ly unanimously. The election was
held for the purpose of excluding the
Home site in order that a school build
ing might be erected there under the
jurisdiction of the Territorial School
Board.
Tuesday—President Coolidge and
administration leaders surrendered to
the demands of western farmers for
crop surplus control legislation and ac
cepted the Surplus Products Bil, in
troduced in the House Monday by Rep.
Dickinson of Iowa, leader of the farm
bloc.
Skirts for women are doomed, says a
dispatch from Gewnany. They will
gradually get shorter until they be
come extinct and this, in the very
near future.
Shop conditions on the Alaska Rail
road are normal, according to rail of
ficials. About 147 men are employed
in the Anchorage yards, the total num
ber of shop forces on the road being
about 247.
Henry Ford paid a 16 per cent divi
dend to the employes of the Detroit,
Toledo and Irontown Railway for the
use of $500,000 of their money in the
past twelve months.
The U. S. S. Boxer arrived in port
from Seattle with about 400 tons of
material for the Alaska Railroad and
Bureau of Education department.
Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Hoelscher of Nom
arrived in Seward en route to the
States. . Dr. Hoelscher lost his entire
dental equipment in a recent fire at
Nome. He returns in the spring with
a new outfit.
New fixtures are ordered by P. L.
Neil, postal official for the new Sew
ard post office quarters in the federal
block. The office will move next
June.
Wednesday—Great progress toward
the prevention of all future railroad
strikes was made when representa
tives of fifty leading railroad and
over a million rail workers perfected
an agreement at Washington. D. C.,
for friendly arbitration of all disputes.
Gordon Scott of Detroit, arrived in
Seattle and will start assembling 3
snow motors for the Wilkins North
Pole expedition. Scott, A. Malcolm
Wilson and Earl Rossman, will sail
for Seward Saturday en route to Ne
nana from which place the long over
land journey to the Arctic will com
mence.
Horn, assistant general manager of
the Alaska Railroad, announces that
in all probability a like number of
men, some 1300, will be employed by
:the system next spring, about the=same
as last year. Over a thousan*tons
of scrap material, the gather*s since
early construction days, is being ship
ped to the States will be disposed of
to the highest bidder.
Thursday—Owen D. Baker, of Ta
' coma and Harry F. Howash of Seattle,
were hanged at Okalla prison for kill
ing Capt. Wm. J. Gillis and son, in a
hi-jacking raid on the Beryl G., Sept.
15, 1924.
Charles Schwab, chairman of the
Bethlem Steel Company, forecast con
tinued prosperity for the coming year.
Furs valued at $250,000 were sold
Cal M. Brosius
Nails, fifty varieties, Automobile Glass,
Glass, Locks, Hinges,
Stockholm Tar,
Hyd. Lime,
Plate Glass,
Colors,
Chimney Brick,
Varnish,
Corner Bead,
Mirrors,
Medusa,
White Atlas,
Keens,
Metal Lath,
Cedar, Oak, Maple,
Arch Brick,
Fire Clay,
Plaster Paris,
Hickory, Iron Bark,
Beaver Board,
Gal. Cor. Iron,
Pulleys,
Flooring,
Fir, Spruce, Maple,
Ceiling,
Rustic,
Roof Pitch,
BB1. Lime, Paints.
Glass Cutting,
Terps, Oils,
Fibered Plaster,
Stains, Putty,
Corner Lath,
Belting, Cement
Doors,
Windows,
Lumber,
Fir Lath,
Fire Brick,
Spruce Finish,
Mouldings,
Z-Lath,
Plaster Board,
Mahogany,
Roof Paper,
Building Paper,
Asbestos Paper,
Shingles,
Sash Rail,
Fir Finish,
LIBBY-OWENS WINDOW GLASS, Single and Double Strength,
Standard Oil Products, Rubber Matting, White Sand,
ASBESTOS STRIP SHINGLES, HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS,
METAL BASEMENT SASH AND FRAMES,
Sidewalk Coal Hole Covers Sidewalk Walk Lights, Etc.
CAL M. BROSIUS
BUILDING SUPPLIES
at the first auction of the season, in
Winnipeg.
Cecil McKinney, one of the 101 min
ers entombed in a burning mine near
Wilburton, Okla., was rescued alive,
eight others being rescued yesterday
from a higher level. The other 92
have been given up for dad.
The Howard & Jesson coal mine at
Moose creek will lower the price of
coal about two dollars a ton in the
very near future, Bartley Howard said
in an interview with the aGteway.
Short course in mining opens at the
Alaska College at Fairbanks, Febru
ary 1. Alaskans and the general pub
lic are invited to enroll.
Alaska Railroad has ordered huge
quantities of ties from the States to
be shipped to Seward on the Boxer.
MOVEMENTS OF
SURVEY PARTIES
ARE DESCRIBED
COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
REPORT GIVES MANY ITEMS
OF INTEREST
News notes appearing in a recent
monthly publication issued by the De-1
partment of Commerce, relative to the
movements of the Coast and Geodetic
survey work vessels, in Alaskan wat-1
ers, is herewith republished:
The Surveyor, A. M. Sobieralski in
command, closed field work along the
west coast of Baranof Island on Oct.
21, and after laying up the launch
equipment at Ketchikan, Alaska, ar
rived in Seattle November 4. During
the remainder of the month the party
was engaged in the completion of
field records and in making repairs to
the vessel.
The Natoma, H. B. Campbell com
manding, completed field work in!
Southeastern Alaska in the vicinity of ■
Kaigani Straits during the latter part
of October, laid up the launch equip
ment at Ketchikan and arrived at Se
attle on November 6. During the re
mainder of the month the party was
| engaged in making preparations for re
j pairs to the vessel and in completion
j of field work.
The Explorer, F. B. T. Siems com
! manding, completed field work on Oct.'
119 and laid up the launch equipment
| at Ketchikan, Alaska, sailing from the
latter place on October 24 and arriving •
at Seattle on the 28tli. During the
j entire month of November the party 1
! was engaged in the completion or the
: records of the past season’s work and
| In making repairs to the vessel.
Other items with reference to Al
aska follow:
During the month automatic tide
gauges were in operation at eight pri
mary tide stations on the Atlantic
coast, four on the Gulf coast, five on
the Pacific coast and four in Alaska.
| Sam O. White completed his recom
naissance in Alaska, from Fairbanks
to Eagle, and will be on furlough un
til work is resumed in the spring of
1926.
R. W. Woodworth returned to the of
fice on November 20, after a hunting
trip in the Canadian Rockies. He i
has started work on a publication de-!
voted to itdes and currents in south
eastern Alaska.
The tide station which has been in
operation at Ancnorage, Alaska, was
discontinued on November 6.
SAYS LITTLE THEATER TO
INFLUENCE DRAMATIC ART
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 15. (£>)—
Not Broadway, but “the sticks’' is
the hope of art in the drama, believes
Jesse Lynch Williams, the play
wright. The man who wrote “Why
Marry?” and other substantial suc
cesses is here as the holder of the
1926 Fellowship in Creative Arts at
the University of Michigan.
“Art is right enough in its way,”
Mr. Williams said, “but I am afraid
its way lies far from Broadway. In
the drama there is a cold dollars
and-cents proposition. Every con
tract contains a stop clause, which
means when your play fails to net
$8,000 a week at a popular theater,
out you go and somebody else moves
in.
“New plays are failing like autumn
leaves, and some of the old hands
have been afraid to come into New
York at all.”
Teaching China to help herself may
be a big problem, but keeping tire oth
er nations from helping themselves
looks like a bigger one.
ACTRESS PLAYS ONE PART
FOrR YEARS AND YET FRESH
CHICAGO, Jan. 14. (#»)—By con
stantly enriching and rounding out
her characterization of the role of
unhappy “Sadie Thompson,” Miss
Jeanne Eagels Relieves the Sadie of
today is a far more human and liv
ing person than the one she creat
ed nearly four years ago as the ti
tular part in the stage play “Rain.”
Miss Eagels is approaching - her
twelve-hundredth performance of this
same Sadie, and she is not tired of
the part. Although it is an exacting
role, one demanding an emotional in
tensity and nervous concentration be
yond the average, the portrayal of
this character has not become me
chanical. Sadie is always refreshed
by inspirational small changes in the
wording of her lines.
The Powers are advised to handle
their affair§ in China with gloves. The
yellow nation seems to be handling its
affairs in this country with Tongs.
How can it be silene drama with
some one reading the titles out loud.
During the last year births in the
United States have averaged five a
minute. Thus does nature work over
time to repair the havoc wrought by *
gunmen and automobiles.
Photo Albums, $1 to $9—Alaska
Shop. tf
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Pennsylvania has more trapshooting
clubs than any other state.
nl Portugal the most popular sports
are tennis and football.
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Back of Brown & Hawkins
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Builders’ Supplies
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Approximately four billion feet of
timber was used last year to
replace wood destroyed by decay.
USE SUPERIOR CEMENT AND
HAVE NO DECAY
When things Look
BLACK Phone the
Seward Steam Laundry
Telephone Main 148
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HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F. I. REED, Proprietor
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Strictly Modern Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Serv’ce
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
£ £
Piping and Fittings for
Power Plant Construction
5000 feet 2 1-2 double extra strong steel pipe, in random
lengths, 12 to 30 feet each; each length fitted with
square machined, four-bolt flanges. One end of run
grooved, opposite end and outlet tongued with steel
machined bolts, hexigon heads and nuts.
3000 feet 1 1-2 double extra strong steel pipe in lengths
12 to 30 feet each; each length fitted with square ma
chined four bolt flanges. One end of run groved, op
posite end and outlet tongued, with steel machined
bolts, hexagon heads and nuts.
500 assorted 11-2 and 2 1-2 steel four bolt flanges, elbows,
tees, crosses, return bends, divided return bends, re
ducing companion flanges, flange unions, globe and
angle valves, etc.
The pip<*.g and fittings are in first class condition, ready
for immediate delivery F. O. B. mail steamer Starr,
at Portlock, Port Chatham, Alaska.
Our price will be based up Walworth Manufacturing Com
pany’s factory catalog price F. O. B. Boston, Mass.,
thereby allowing the purchaser the cost of the freight
from the Aatlantic Coast to Alaska.
Will sell all or part of above piping and fittings and fur
nish list of quantity of different sizes on hand, upon
request.
Alaska Consolidated Fisheries, Inc.
PORTLOCK, ALASKA