THE BANK OF SEWARD FOR SERVICE
NORTHWESTERN
SAILS WITH 51
The steamship Northwestern sailed
for Seattle and southern ports Satur
day at midnight with 51 passengers,
as follows:
Latouche—W. T. Jacobson and wife,
Mrs. Ray Greenfield, Frank Majestrik,
< wo steerage.
For Cordova—John Patternson, Wm.
Depperman, John Werta. Fred Schren
ger. P. A. Agnew.
For Juneau—Alfred Smith, M. T.
Martins, John W. Jones, B. C. Del
zelle. Pat Donlen, J. S. Tefferey, 3
steerage.
For Ketchikan—Earl L. Albin.
Wrangell—G. Murray.
For Seattle—Mrs. J. H. Flickinger,
J. C. Lowe and wife, Mrs. E. M. Taylor
and daughter Jean, Geo. Klapproth,
Theodore V. Calkins. Bertrand W.
Miller, A. H. Husby, W. C. Ruthaford.
H. H. Maxwell, Elvin N. Vamroy. Mrs.
Ida Calvert, H. F. Stoy. I. Johnson.
E. Jacobson. J. F. Aher, E. M. Taylor,
Sam Payson, J. F. Tolman, Ollie Grey,
W. E. Ludy, Mrs. L. B. Finley. A. E.
Rasmusen. four steerage.
EMINENT PILOSOPHER SUICIDES
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y„ Mar. 23.—
George Stuart Fullerton, an eminent
philosopher, committed suicide here
yesterday.
SCIENCE PRACTITIONER IS
GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE
WINNIPEG, Man., Mar. 23—Wm.
Elder, a Christian Science practition
er was sentenced today to serve four
months in prison for the death of
Doreen Watson, 12 years of age, who
died November 22, of diphtheria.
MUSTARD GAS AND
AMMONIA KEEPS
ROBBERS AWAY
GOODTHUNDER, Minn.. Mar. 23.—
A gallon bottle of mustard oil and
ammonia broke when the vault to the
bank here was blasted Saturday night,
the fumes driving the robbers away
with the cash, which was left acces
sible by the blast. Cashier Morelock
called it. ‘‘A little invention of my
own designed to foil bank robbers.”
MISTAKES WIFE FOR BURGLAR;
MOTHER OF TEN IS KILLED
PITTSBURGH, Kansas, Mar. 23 —
Antone Belello, of Capaldo, near this
place, mistook his wife for an intru
der and killed her as she entered her
home late at night. The shot made
ten children motherless.
PAYMENT FOR GUARD DRILL
SUSPENDED BY PRESIDENT
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WASHINGTON* D. C.. Mar. 23.—
President Coolidge today ordered pay
ments for National Guard drill sus
pended pending investigation to de
termine whether the expenditure of a
million, three hundred thousand dol
lars appropriated by Congress is ne
: cessarv. The budget bureau had re
; commended against the item, but rep
' resentatives of the guard overcame all
; opposition before Congress. If the
| President finally declines to spend the
money it may mean the suspension of
guard drills until June 30, or the men
will drill unpaid.
Ollie Gray, of Seldovia, left on the
Northwestern for the States.
WOMEN HEAR “HEAVY
TRUTH” ABOUT ALASKA
MRS. HARDY TELLS TWENTIETH
CENTURY CLUB SHE NEVER
SAW SUCH DESOLATION
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(Detroit Free Press)
By HELEN C. BOWER
We assume with confidence that
Mrs Jennie C. Law Hardy, of Te
cuniseh, for many years a prominent
non-resident member of the Twen
tieth Century Club, has never read
“The Ballad of Yukon Jake,” other
wise known as “The Hermit of Shark
Tooth Shoal.”
If she had known this celebrated
poem of Edward Paramore’s and if it
had only been read along with some
of the Robert W. Service pieces at
the Twentieth Century club Thurs
day, the afternoon would have been
complete. Then there would have
been a little bit of facetious leaven
to lighten the “truth about Alaska”
as recounted to the club members by
Mrs. Hardy in the course of a re
scriptive talk on her recent travels,
| As it was, there were several audi
ble gasps from some of the older
| women in the auditorium.
Shares Opinion of Fliers
But we also assume that Mrs.
Hardy will never be given a mileage
book on the Alaska Railroad. As a
press agent for Uncle Sam's north
ernmost territory, she is a hearty
subscriber to the opinions of Robert
W. Service and the world fliers, who
also know “The Land That God For
got.”
“I don’t know where most people
who’ve written books about Alaska
spent their time,” she said, during
the lecture, which was illustrated
with stereopticon views. “There's an
Alaska of the prospector and the
hunter. For myself I never saw so
much desolation in my life as I did
in Alaska.
“It would be absolutely cruelty to
take a white woman to live there.
There is more insanity in proportion
to the population than anywhere else
on the globe. It would be far bet
ter for a man who has to live there
to marry an Indian woman or a half
breed than to sacrifice a white wo
man to that country.”
Born in New Zealand
Mrs .Hardy by birth a New Zea
lander and by experience is familiar
of most countries in the word, has
a background of wide travel against
which to view her Alaskan journey,
begun April 19, 1924, in its proper
perspective.
While her husband and a party of
men aboard a 68-f‘oot gas boat went
off to hunt Kodiak bear, among the
largest and most formidable in the
world, Mrs. Hardy and two other
hunter’s wives stayed in the town
of Seward, which has 500 inhabit
ants and 50 bachelors.
Clearance Sale
TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NEW
SPRING STOCK WE OFFER A
20% Discount
ON ALL OVERCOATS AND
MACKINAWS
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$40 Coats at - $32.00
$35 Coats at - $28.00
$30 Coats at - $24.00
$25 Coats at - $20.00
$20 Mackinaws at $16.00
$15 Mackinaws at $12.00
$12 Mackinaws at $ 9.60
$10 Mackinaws at $ 8.00
at Urbach’s
ip
“I’ve never seen so many bache
lors or deserted husbands as in
Alaska,’’ said Mrs. Hardy. “For the
most part, white women simply can’t
stand it to live there.
Mrs. Hardy was intrepid enough
however, to have gone as far as the
town of Kodiak in the “Princes Pat,”
the gas boat. At Kodiak the popu
lation is composed chiefly of des
cendants of the Russians, who came
there after Shelikof and Bering had
discovered the country in 1741. These
Russians intermarried with Aleuts
and Siwash Indians.
“These ‘breeds’ as the whites know
them, are really Bolshevik to all
intents and purposes,”’ said Mrs. Har
dy, and are decidedly anti-American.
They do not like Americans at all.”
Admits It’s Beautiful
True enough Alaska is a beauti
ful country, admits Mrs. Hardy. There
is nothing more beautiful in the world
to her than Resureetion Bay, that
leaden flood 16 miles long, and about
as wide, whereon the city of Seward
is located. There are lofty mountains
and leaping waterfalls in such number
that the majority of them have no
names. When the Hardy party came
back to the United States, they would
not even trouble to look out of the
car windows at Mt. Shasta, since Mrs.
Hardy says there isn’t mountain in
California or Oregon that would be
looked at in Alaska.
Mrs. Hardy told stories of seeing
snowflakes as large as teacups; she
told of the men’s hardships on the
Princess Pat when the same storm
that wrecked Major Martin’s plane,
as Detroiter’s have read in the world
fliers story published recently in
The Detroit Free Press, wrenched the
rudder from the little craft.
In the middle of the treacherous
currents of the Gull of Alaska, with
a 90-mile hurricane blowing, the
captain threw an epileptic fit. When
the wind had subsided and the crew
were endeavoring to batter an emer
gency rudder from old tin cans and
pieces of deck rail, a 40-foot whale
came blowing up alongside. But
the creature was peacably inclined,
and finally dove under the boat, giv
ing a mere flip of his huge tail by
way of farewell.
Never Saw Tree
Sixty-five degrees below zero;
areas where the Aleuts and breeds
have never seen either a tree, a cow,
a horse or a dog; “modern” rail
roads with Pullman coaches that
saw service on Hill’s Northern Paci
fic 40 years ago; and lunatics; —
never a boat bound out for “God’s
country” but bears at least one to
the Alaska asylum at Portland. An
awful sense mountain oppressing
one, the everlasting whiteness of
24 hours daylight, the rigor and
loneliness; all these contribute, un
til they’ve been a boat too long in
Alaska” becomes a synonym for
lunatic.
So the Twentieth Century club
members heard about Alaska. But
not the pretty-pretty totem pole coun
try of travel bureaus.
BRUCKER RELEASED FROM
WESTERN LEAGUE AFTER
HE RECEIVED INJURIES
LINCOLN, March 23.—Earl Bruck
er, former Seattle catcher, wTho was
signed on the Lincoln club team of
the Western league, was released af
ter he was injured during a recent
game.
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