A CARLOAD
OR A SACK
_C-O-A-L-„
HEALY LUMP, NUT OR MINE RUN,
BAXTER NUT OR MINE RUN
EVAN JONES LUMP OR MINE RUN
NANAIMO RANGE COAL
IN SACK OR BULK
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND GRAIN,
TRANSFERRING AND TEAMING
TEL MAIN 17
H. V HOBEN
a
ARCADE BLDG.
A- F. DAVIS
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CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHOP SUEY, NOODLES,
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
ANDY’S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
The Alaska Shop
When you have any work in
Plumbing or Steam
Fitting
NEW OR REPAIRS, AND
SHEET METAL WORK
R. F. TILLMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
ARON ERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
Brunswick Phonographs and Re*
] cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
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FISHERMAN CATCH LIVE
LIVE FEMALE BLUE FOX
Four fishermen fishing for the Ka
diak Fisheries Company have a fe
male blue fox that they claim to have
caught in their salmon seine while
fishing off Raspberry Island. Super
intendent Sperring of the company has
informed the Secretary of the Blue
Fox Association that the men are ask
ing S20 for the animal. He has been
asked to pay the fishermen the money
they demand and turn the fox over to
the Association who will make an ef
fort to determine ownership. The
names of the fishermen as given by
the cannery bookkeeper as Charles
Creighton, Fritz Mawry, Ernest Las
kinsky and Andrew Stanley.
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WE LEAVE IT TO FATHERS
Some scientist has figured it out
that children of fathers above the
age of 40 have better chances of
making a name for themselves than
have the offspring of younger men.
The idea may be that the older fa-1
thers can not hold a bad example be
fore the kids so long.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
''JftSyf’and third Wednesdays of each
/\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
(^=^^8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows'
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows' Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary. __
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARO REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, ?T. G.
NO POISON FOR MAGPIES
Relative to an inquiry forwarded
the office of the biological survey last
winter by the Blue Fox magazine, re
garding the eradication of magpies
by poisoning or other feasible meth
ods, in reply Mr. E. P. Walker states
he has no knowledge of a poison that
would be effective on birds and not
harmful to foxes. He recommends
that trapping be done in'trap houses
with pieces of weighted burlap hung
over the entrance which he says will
keep out the birds but the foxes will
soon learn to crawl beneath.
FAIRBANKS COUPLE UNITED
Miss Katherine Trail and Clifford
McClellan were united in marriage at
Fairbanks last week. Miss Odessa
Hall and Hjalmar Nordale were the
only attendants, and fourteen friends
of the young couple were present at
the ceremony. Mrs. McClellan was
formerly the head of the home eco
nomics department at the college.
MAN ARRESTED FOR LARCENY
Fairbanks News-Miner: Deputy!
Fred Parker arrived in Fairbanks last
week bringing with him as prisoner
Victor J. Wallner, recently arrested
in Valdez on a charge of larceny. Mr.
Parker met Deputies Minor and Dow
ling at Miller road house and took
over the prisoner, the coast deputies
returning to Valdez. Wallner is now
being held in the federal jail in de
fault of S2.000 bail.
The Pope’s famous Swiss Guards,
who protect his person and the Vati
can, must be native Swiss, Catholics,
unmarried, at least 5 feet 8 inches
tall and under 25 when first enlisted.
Alaska Interior Silver
Black Foxes, a limited
number of 1925 pups will
be sold this season. If you i
wish good foxes to start
your ranch with. Let me
furnish you your breeders
Price $500 per Pair f. o. b.
Kasilof, Alaska
Kasilof Silver Fox Ranch
Louis Nissen, Prcpr.
Kasilof, Alaska
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OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
Phone Madison 66
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
HUSSEY & BOLAM, Mechanics_
Hardware-Stoves-Ranges
POWDER—CAPS—FUSE—MINERS’ SUPPLIES
SHIP CHANDLERY AND SHIP LINOLEUM
ANCHORS, ROPE AND TWINE
HALIBUT LINES AND HOOKS
Sheet Metal — Plumbing Shop — Gun Repair
J. L. GRAEF
PAINTS AND BRUSHES
BECK & HE
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
CANNON WITH A
HISTORY NOW IN
ALASKA MUSEUM
While it would not have struck ter
ror to the allied armies at Vimy
Ridge or in the Argonne the little
cannon now in possession of and on
exhibition at the Territorial Museum
in Juneau has history behind it, which
is what present day artillery that will
hurl shells weighing hundred of
pounds scores of miles has not.
The history of the little cannon at
the museum which was secured thru
the efforts of Curator Kashevaroff
last year from Louis Strauss, head of
the now Northern Commercial Com
pany successor to the old Alaska
Commercial Company, was something
of a mystery until lately, when the
curator of the museum with the as
sistant of John Oglin, now a resident
of Juneau but agent for the Alaska
Commercial Company at St. Michael
in 1879, secured indisputable proof
that stamps it as a relic of the very
early days of Alaska.
The cannon is one of a number
that were mounted in a blockhouse
which was constructed at St. Michael
by order of Baron Wrangel, Russian
governor of Alaska in the year 1833,
which was 92 years ago, and when
the ancestors of many of the present
natives of Alaska were scalp-taking
savages.
The cannon went on duty at St.
Michael as time circled away, and
after Alaska was acquired by the
United States and practically turned
over to the Alaska Commercial Com
pany to have, to hold and to exploit,
the cannon went with the other as
sets and was acquired by that com
pany, and, with other relics of pre
American days was moved to Una
laska, to which place John Olgin was
transferred by his employers. This
was in the year 1879. The cannon re
mained in Unalaska until last year,
when Louis Strauss donated it to the
Territorial Museum, and it was taken
to Juneau by Capt. John Bodeeker of
the coast guard cutter Unalga, and
turned over by him to Father Kashe
varoff, who at once began to look up
its history with the results herewith
given.
The old cannon is three feet in
length, six inches in diameter at the
base, and four inches at the muzzle.
It is of two-inch bore, unrifled, and
was fired from a touch hole. It looks
as though it might have a somewhat
terrific recoil, but it has not been
tried out since its arrival at the mu
seum to determine its characteristics.
The cannon at the station in Sew
ard is of identical pattern and size,
and apparently was cast at Sitka from
the same mould as the Juneau cannon.
The Valdez Order of Moose also has
a small mortar which was evidently
carried by landing parties, as it has
rope handles on either side, and is of
somewhat larger bore than the can
non above described. It probably was
intended to make a loud noise which
was generally sufficient to dispere
hostile Indian gatherings.
BRUCE BARTON VS. CHRIST
Bruce Barton, advertising agency
president, has written a book on the
lift of Christ, picturing him as a pro
totype of the modern business man,
also as a pioneer advertiser. The
sprightly weekly, Time, comments
on the book thus: “Rapid in style as
a circus poster, with about the same
literary value, this book is an earnest
attempt by Mr. Barton to make
Christ in his own image.”
FURTHER IMMORTALIZED
Brigham Young, once a Methodist
but better known to fame as the
Moses of Mormonism, has been fur
ther immortalized in a biography by
M. R. Werner, New York newspaper
man. Werner made his first literary
success with a biography of P. T.
Barnum, super-showman, two years
ago. The Showman once offered
the Moses $200,000 a year as a side
show attraction for his circus. Moses
Young declined the offer.
Baby seals are helpless at birth
and are taught to swim by their
mothers.
Mrs. E. M. Bolton, a noted British
inventor, has devised a complete
laundry equipment that may be oper
ated by a housewife without touching
clothes or water.