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SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
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ALAMEDA
VICTORIA
ALASKA
ALAMEDA
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
Feb. 2nd.
Feb. 9th.
Feb. 16
Feb. 23
NORTHWESTERN Mar. 1
ALASKA March 8th.
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
Feb. 9th
Feb. 16th.
Feb. 23
Mar. 1
Mar. 8.
March loth.
Saheduled
So. fm Seward
Feb. 9th.
Feb. 16 th.
Feb. 23
Mar. 1
Mar. 8.
March 15 th.
Ships in the above schedule will call at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau,
Cordova, Valdez, Latouche and Seward, both north and southbound.
Northwestern also calls at Petersburg both ways. Alameda rails at
Prince Rupert north and southbound. .... ,
J. H. FL1CKINGER, Agent
Phone Mad. 149
Seward, Alaska
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HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F. I. REED, Proprietor ?
Strictly Modern Prices Reasonable
Steam Heat Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Marathon Cate
MRS. JOSIE EMSWILER, Propr.
“The Home of Good Eats’’
QUICK SERVICE WE AIM TO PLEASE
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finest bread, cakes and pies always
ON HAND, AT LOW PRICES
STRY OUR DELICATESSEN LUNCHES
GEORGE SCHMITT, Propr.
I Seward Bakery
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CHAS. H. MUELLER, Inc.
Exclusive Furs
DESIGNING— MANUFACTURING—FURRIERS
WE MAKE UP YOUR OWN FURS
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Remodeling 1619 2nd Ave—Seattle Repairing
SECRETARY WALLACE BEATS MAGNUS JOHNSON IN A MILKING
CONTEST ,
“Bet I can beat you milking a cow,” challenged Senator Magnus John
son, of Minnesota (at right). “You’re on!” came back Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace. And they settled the argument on two prize Holstein
cows at the United States Soldiers’ Home in Washington. The Secretary
beat Magnus on the first round and the second was declared a draw. Now
they’re sharpening up their axes for a wood chopping contest to see which
is the better “dirt farmer.”
HEAVY SNOWFALL REPORTED
The local railroad office reports
11 1-2 feet of snow at Grand View,
and 7 feet at Mile 52.
“TOP ’O THE WORLD TOURS”
The Pacific Steamship Company
I has issued a new booklet, entitled
| “Top ’0 ihe World Tours,” which is
| one of the most comprehensive and
| complete pieces of literature ever is
! sued in connection with the Alaskan
! tourist trade. Seward receives a fine
| writeup in the publication.
TEXAN IS HELD IN TREE 10 DAYS
! SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 9.—Im
prisoned for ten days in the hollow of
a giant oak tree into which he had
fallen, Harry Comstock thirty-one,
was rescued by Bexar county deputy
sheriffs and farmers, who cut into
the tree with an axe. He drank a gal
lon of water within a few minutes. He
had been without food or drink during
his imprisonment.
Comstock told those who rescued
him that he climbed into the tree to
seek shelter and that he fell into the
deep hollow of the tree. He tried to
get out, but failed. At intervals for
ten days he shouted for help. Grad
ually he grew weaker,
i Finally some one walking through
the Otto Reiley ranch heard a cry for
help. It was traced to the oak tree
and help was summoned.
It took half an hour to hew into
the trunk where the man was im
prisoned. He was so weak that he
could hardly speak and his voice was
husky for want of water. His body
was bruised all over from struggles
escape.
Comstock was taken to a hospital
at San Antonio. Food was given him
gradually, medical aid was adminis
tered, and physicians say he will be
none the worse off for his strange ex
perience.
RESIDENTS OF
LONELY OUTPOST
ARRIVE SEWARD
Mr. H. H. Hall, superintendent of
the Mackenzie river section of the
Hudson’s Bay posts, and P. H. God
fell, general inspector, arrived in Se
ward Wednesday about 40 days out
from Herschel Island, the most nor
therly post of the internationally
known company, about 1200 miles
north and east of Sevrard. The party
left Herschel Island December 29, af
ter spending Christmas at the post,
making their way up the Mackenzie
river to Fort McPherson, thence down
the Porcupine to Rampart House, then
Fort Yukon and Circle, where they
abandoned their dog teams taking the
stage line to Fairbanks, via way of
Miller House. They reached Fair
banks last week, and were delayed
several days by reason of the acci
dent at Windy where a freight loco
motive left the track.
The weather while intensely cold at
times was good, and the party made
what is considered a record trip from
Herschel Island to Fairbanks. While
coming down the Porcupine river,
Messrs. Hall and Golfell saw hundreds
of thousands of caribou, the party
traveling througn vast herds of the
animals for days and days, the trail
being so wTell broke by the animals
that it made for fast travel. The car
ibou herds apparently are working to
ward the upper Porcupine this winter, j
and the Indians along the stieam are
enjoying a season of unusual prosper
ity, having food in abundance. Fur
and wild life in the Porcupine section
Is very abundant this year, and the
catch of Arctic fox has been unusu
ally good
Herschel Island is a lonely post
about one hundred miles northwest of
the delta of the Mackenzie, and its
population consists of a few members
of the Mounted Police, a Hudson Bay
factor and Eskimo tribes. A large
catch of fur is handled by the post
yearly, and it is also a supply post
for a district comprising several hun
dred miles each way. It is a British
possession, and visited only by trad
ing schooners and a few whalers.
i This is the first time Mr. Godfell
has made the trip to Heischel Island
although serving many years with the
historical company. His tiip, he de
clared, was a most pleasant one, and
he encountered only the Hardships of
the trail.
Mr. Hall has been in charge of
the Herschel district for many years,
and with Mr. Godfell is on his way to
Montreal, where he will enjoy a brief
vacation, returning north next fall..
He passed through Seward last win
ter on his way to the Island, going
over the same trail traveled this trip
DINES FORGETS ALL HE
KNOWS ABOUT SHOOTING
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LOS ANGELES. F> S.—That (ther
“appears to be a conspiracy” to sup
press evidence in the hearing of Hor
j ace Greer, chauffeur for Mabel Nor
mand, film actress, charged with the
: shooting of Courtland S. Dines. Den
ver ml man New Year’s night, was
the statement made from the bench
today by Judge J. Walter Hanby, hear
ing the case.
Judge Hanby said: “I am not at all
; satisfied with the testimony that has
been given In this case. There ap
pears to be a conspiracy on the part
of witnesses who have already testi
fied to keep from the court many of
i the things that the court should know
about the case.”
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8—Having
shaken hands with Courtland Dines,
Denver oil man, whom he shot and se
riously wounded here New Year’s ev
ening, and having heard Dines say
'•> cTrine. “That’s all right, old
man.” Horace Greer, the chauffeur to
Mabel Normand, screen star, prepar
ed todav to sit throueh what was ex
peeted to be the .concluding session of
his preliminary hearing on a charge
of attempting to kill the Denver man
with Miss Normand’s .25-caliber auto
matic pistol.
At the Good Samaritan hospital late
yesterday Dines testifying from his
bed at an extraordinary session of
Justice J Walter Hanby’s court, de
clared he did not remember what
Greer said when he saw him New
Year’s night; did not see any pistol in
the chauffeur’s hand; did not remem
ber whether or not he picked up a
bottle when Greer entered his apart
ment and sought to persuade Miss
Normand, Dines’ guest, to leave, and
could not sav of his own knowledge
that it was Greer who shot him.
“I remember Greer came in,” he
said, “and I remember hearing one
shot; that’s all; and the next thing
T knew I was on the floor. . No, I don’t
know of my own knowledge that
Greer shot me.”
Greer was present and when the
hearing was over he stepped to Dines’
bedside and extended his hand. The
wounded man grasped it cordially and
smiled. “That’s all right, old man,”
he said.
Earlier in the day Miss Normand,
flashing a smile and a friendly “how
dy do’ ’toward Greer as she took the
witness stand, told her story of the
shooting before a crowded courtroom
while Greer chewed gum and listened
closely. Her memory was hazy as to .
much of what transpired in Dines’
apartment New Year’s night, but she
was sure she did not see the shoot
ing, only heard “what sounded like
fire-crackers popping off, and I made
absolutely no objection to them be
cause I’m used to fire-crackers and all
that sort of thing around the studio.”
She was with Edna Purviance, anoth
er motion picture actress at the time,
she explained, in a bedroom adjoin
ing the room where the shooting oc
curred.
Van fli’rW—J. B. Parsons. Anch
orage; E. D. Pavatte, Seattle; J. W.
Jones, Ketchikan; Rob’t. Huntley, San
Diego; W. W. Batchellor, Juneau;
Mrs. T. W. Parish, Anchorage; J. J
Griffith Tonopah, Nev; L. Mellon,
Mrs. R. L. Mellon, Mabel Tuttle, of
Oakland, Cal.; E. Gabelle, Seattle;
Mrs. J. W. Button; T. VV. Lopp, An
chorage; R. R. Redmond, Los Angel
es; Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Golfrey, Fair
banks; M. Barford, Cordova; Joe
Large and wife, Seattle.
Overland—Issac Lowe, Chas. R.
Stahl, New York; Louis C. Swanker
Seattle; Jas. Brennan, Anchorage;
Tom Williams, Peter Nelson.
Seward—Frank Agoff, E. McNemee,
Seattle; E. R. Lewis, Anchorage.
\»m. Neville, a former resident of
Seward, who has been spending the
win.or in Portland, left for Seward
on today’s boat.
THIRST FOR EDUCATION
GROWING IN WASHINGING
OLYMPIA, Wn., Feb. 8.—The ten
dency during the past ten years to
ward adopting education to the prac
tical things in life is given by state j
education department officials as one
of the reasons for the increase in the
number of students who continue,
their education through high school j
and colleges in the state. In fact the
movement toward more education for
the average person began 20 years
ago and the increase in per centage of
the number of pupils entering high
school who graduated has been grad
ually growing since the first records
J available in the department of educa
tion files
The drawing power of high wages
and scarcity of labor during and
shortly after war is shown in a slum
; amost 50 per cent in the number of
i graduates in the class that began high
school in 1914-15 excepting to gradu
ate in 1917-18 as compared with the
graduates of the class the year before.
Of the 2,572 high school pupils who
enrolled in 1902, 817 or 51.9 per cent
received their high school diplomas
i four years later. This percentage of
graduates was not equalled again,
however, for ten years as it sank to
27.3 per cent four years later. The,
steady rise began with the class en
, tering in 1910 and with the exception
of the war years has shown a con
sistent growth until of the 17,898 pu
pils who enrolled in high school in
1919, there were 7,738 graduates, or
43.2 per cent graduated in 1923.
A more remarkable growth was
shown in the number of eighth grade
pupils who enrolled in high school the
following year. The per centage in
1901 was 37.3. In 1923 87.5 per cent
of lhe grammar school graduates ap
plied for entrance into the secondary
schools.
Among the courses which have been
introduced in the high schools during:
this period of growth is the mu. ic
course, which has during the last few
years acquired the dignity of four
year course with outside credit for
special work. The application of prac
tical principles to many of the tradi
tional subjects has further widened
the usefullness of the high school ed
ucation.
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IDE C8EAM
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
CANDY
PHOTOGRAPHS.
CURIOS
PHONE ADAMS 128
ARON ERICSON
PAINTER AND OECORATOR
MADISON 130
SIGNS
WALL
PAPER
Complete Your
Dinner
With
Whipping Cream
Seward Dairy
C. M. BJ
CAL M. BROSIUS
Builders’ Supplies
Seward Water &.
Power Company
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
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Seward’s Homey Hotel.
“Where the Oldtimers Meet.”
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HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
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“ A HOME WITH A WELCOME”
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