Local Happenings of Week
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Monday
r.Iiss Mary Harris, who has been
spending the past year writh her un
cle, T. F. Khinehart, was an outgo
ing passenger on Saturday’s boat.
Miss Harris has been employed in the
ofiiies of the Alaska railroad for some
time.
George M. Tierney, foreman of the
Alaska Miners mine at Hope, accom
panitd l y his wife left yesterday for
the States. They will retu-n next
spring.
Frank J. Cotter, who has been in
Seward the past two weeks in the in
terests of a Seattle publication, left
on yesterday’s boat for the States.
Mr. Cotter found many warm friends
while in Seward.
Mrs. George Cotter, who left Sew
ard a few weeks ago with her hus
band, is said to be in London polish
ing up as play-writer by her which
has made quite a hit on the British
stage.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Humphreys of
Cache creek, arrived on Saturday’s
train and left for the States. Mr.
Humphreys is president of the Cache
Creek Dredging Company.
Carl D. Pollock, former bridge en
gineer for the Alaska railroad, ac
companied by his wife and two chil
dren left on yesterday's boat for the
States. Mr. Pollock has been em
ployed on the railroad for the past
eight years.
Charles Balhiser, an employe of the
Alaska railroad and well known in
Seward, left on yesterday’s boat for
Washington, D. C., as representative
of the Alaska trainmen. Mr. Balhiser
will attend the conference with Sec
letary Work at Washington, present
ing the demands of the trainmen for
an increase in wages and better con
ditions under which to work.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Jones, and son
left on yesterday’s boat for Seattle,
where they will reside in the future.
Mr. Jones, who was known by the eu
phonious cognomen of “Hurry Up,”
has been connected with the road
since it was first started and was an
employe under Mears.
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Romig left on
the boat yesterday for the States,
where they will visit in Philadelphia,
Chicago, New York and other eastern
cities before returning to Seward.
Mrs. Ralph Anderson, wife of Com
missioner Anderson of Seldovia, left
yesterday for her home to the west
ward. Mrs. Anderson has been visit
ing in Anchorage and Matanuska,
and was a companion to Mrs. James
E. Hill, while the latter was in An
chorage.
500,000
in one day*
saw the new
Standard Six
Announcement of the new Buick
“Standard Six” brought approxi
mately 500,000 people into Buick
salesrooms on the first day this
car was shown.
Why? Because everywhere every
one is marvelin g atthe new “Stand
ard Six”—the “Six” that sets a new
standard of quality and price.
See it for "Yourself
ELLSWORTH’S
Buick Sales and Service
l’etcr and Fred Nelson of Wasilla
; left on yesterday’s boat en route to
J the States to spend the winter.
Mrs. Agnes Nielsen, widow of a for
mer Seward railroad man, and wrho
has been conducting a light lunch
stand at Anchorage, was married
last week at Anchorage to Cresley G.
Collins, a private stationed at the
Anchorage {post.
Mrs. James E. Hill, widow of the
late James Hill of Seldovia, arrived
: on Saturday’s train and left on the
j boat for her westward home. Mrs.
' Hill will reside at Seldovia for a time
at least.
The Seward Plumbing Co. has in
I stalled a new' heating plant in the
, hothouse of the Seward dairy.
D. W. Flannigan returned from
I a trip to Fairbanks on Saturday’s
train.
Mr. Robert S. Donaldson, superin
tendent of the Healy River Coal com
pany’s mine at Healy was a Seward
visitor over the week end on busi
ness. He left on this morning’s train
for Anchorage.
Sumner S. Smith, president of the
Alaska Minerals corporation, operat
I ing a mine near Hope, Alaska, left
on the last boat for the States.
Mrs. Mary Mullino and baby of
Anchorage, left on Sunday’s boat for
the States.
The hard times dance given at Odd
Fellows hall Saturday night by mem
: bers of the order, was well attended,
and a good time was enjoyed.
Captain Haverstock returned on the
Yukon from a two-months’ leave of
absence in the States. He will leave
' for Anchorage on one of the next
,trains.
Mrs. Thomas Sheehan and children
were outgoing passengers on the last
boat. Mr. Sheehan is foreman of the
material yards at Anchorage, and has
j held his position about 5 years.
—
U. J. Wenke, transfer man and con
tractor, who hauls the mails from the
I station to the postoffice at Anchorage,
was registered at the Van Gilder. It
is said that “Shorty” establishes a
zoo in Anchorage every now and then
but his fences are not tight and con
I sequently when the animals wander
i over the right of way it necessitates
a new start.
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A bridge on the Nash road dropped
in yesterday and a crew of men is at
work today repairing it.
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| Deputy Marshal H. I. Staser and
: son, of Anchorage, arrived on Satur
i day’s train to confer with Marshal H.
i*. Sullivan.
i
Ernest G. Grove, a resident of Mc
Grath, was registered over Sunday at
the Sexton.
H. Stone and George Kennedy, of
Fairbanks were guests of the Hotel
Seward over Sunday.
John G. Brady, chief forester, was
a Seward visitor over Sunday.
Robert S. Donaldson, of Suntrana,
registered at the Van Gilder Sunday.
H. G. Ilderton, general agent for
the Alaska railroad, was a Seward
visitor over Sunday.
The Seward Volunteer Fire Depart
ment donated $10 to the Red Cross
today.
Conductor Archie Lewis, of the
L, West & Crooked, Lowell creek di
vision, left the latter part of the week
for Anchorage, accompanied by Mrs.
Lewis. Archie ran a work train on
the government railroad fill at Mile
Five.
Talking about pool halls, we believe
that Seward has the largest and best
place of this kind in Alaska, with
four billiard tables and six pool ta
bles in play. And the way the ta
bles and cues are kept in shape
makes it a pleasure to indulge in
the popular indoor pastime. Busi
ness has been unusually good, too,
say Beck & White, proprietors.
Tuesday
Frank Horn and wife arrived on the
Cordova this morning from Uganik
where they have put in the summer
with the Kodiak Island Fishing and
Packing Co. They will leave on the
Northwestern for the States spending
the winter in either Seattle or San
Francisco. Mr. Horn was formerly
chief radio operator on the Starr.
Mrs. John Gilpatrick, will leave on
one of the next boats for the States.
Mrs. Christ Larsen was an outgoing
passenger on the last boat for Seat
tle for medical treatment.
t
It was somewhat of a surprise this
morning when the steamship Cordova
from Nome, landed at the wharf to
see the passengers hit for the Van
Gilder hotel to see “Joe.” Practically
every oldtimer of the hundred or
more on the boat knew Mr. Badger
in the old days at Nome, and also
asked for Gus Borgen, another old
Nomeite. Asked by a Gateway rep
resentative if they knew Joe, one of
them exploded, “Know Joe? h—, ev
erybody knows Joe from Nome to
Ketchikan, and from Ketchikan to
Point Barrow.”
Mrs. Chas. Stanford, an oldtimer
of this section and of Nome, return
ed this morning on the Cordova from
Uganik where she spent the summer
season.
Max Wagner, who has been baker
for the Seward Bakery, left on Mon
day for Anchorage where he has
taken employment with the North
Pole Bakery.
Mrs. Frank and son, left yesterday
for Fairbanks.
Oscar Hart, traveling salesman, left
yestreday for Interior points.
H. O. Roberts, manager of the Ko
diak Fishing and Packing company of
Seward and Uganik was an arrival on
this morning’s boat.
T. G. Allison, an oldtimer from the
Hope district, now registered from
Moose Pass, is registered fit the Sex
ton.
Miss Jennie Peterson, a former res
ident of Seward returned this morn
ing from Uganik.
Messrs. Rylewod, H. O. Roberts and
A. G. Carlson were Uganik passen
gers on the Cordova to Seward.
Wednesday
A number of tie camps have been
established along the road to the fish
hatchery. The cabins of Mr. Dryden
and Mr. McConnell have been filled
by tie cutters.
The gas schooner Teddy Bear, Capt.
Joe Bernard, sailed this morning for
Seattle. She had on board a cargo
of furs and native curios. The ves
sel was outfitted while in Seward by
McMullen’s grocery.
Frank J. Cotter, who had reserva
tions on the last boat, failed to re
turn from the Interior and it is re
ported will leave on the Northwest
ern.
Seward’s three weeks’ spell of good
weather has been broken, a rain drift
ing in from the coast yesterday aft
ernoon.
The December issue of Outdoor
Life will contain the first of a series
of eight articles on “The Live Brown
Bear,” by Dr. W. H. Chase, of Cor
! dova. These articles will be copiously
illustrated.
It is reported that the Anchorage
basket ball teams will be sent a chal
lenge by the Seward teams in the
near future.
Thursday
Charles Denton, who arrived here
recently from Teller left on today’3
train for Fairbanks.
Walter Holben returned to Seward
for the winter. He has spent the
summer season at Moose Pass in the
employ of the Bureau of Public
Roads. •
Anton Kyas, who has been employ
ed at the Seward Grill for some time
left on today’s train for Anchorage
where he will take over the terminal
restaurant.
James Keenan left on today’s train
for Fairbanks.
Irving Reed, who arrived her# from
Nome on the Cordova, left on today’s
train for the Interior.
Mrs. Leon Urbach entertained at
bridge last evening. There were
eight tables at play. Miss Sylvia
Sexton and Mr. A. E. Rucker won
high prizes; Mrs. „E. Swetmann and
Mr. C. C. Hinde won low prizes, and
Miss Stella Fuller was the guest of
honor.
Mrs. Wayne Blue will entertain
the bridge club Friday afternoon at
1:45 o’clock.
Mrs. Andy Simons was a passenger
on today’s train from Mile 20. Mrs.
Simons is the wife of the celebrated
big game hunter and guide.
Miss Stella Fuller will leave on
the Northwestern for the States, aft
er spending the past two years in
Seward and to the westward. Miss
Fuller has been the Delano Red Cross
nurse for this district and her work
has been of great aid to the people
of Seward and the Aleutian ports.
Mrs. C. C. Hinde entertained the
Priscilla club yesterday afternoon.
M.M. Rognavich is in from Mile 52
and will return on Monday’s train.
The ' committee appointed by the
chamber of commerce to look into a
site for the Jesse Lee Home has sev
eral sites in view. They will make a
trip over the ground with Rev. Dun
lap soon.
Mr. Peterson and wife, who have
been on a Moose hunt with Steve Mel
choir, returned from Kenai.
Corporals Dumarce and Robinson,
of the Signal Corps, recently left on
a moose hunt on lower Kenai lake.
They are expected to return Friday.
Attorney Frank Foster and wife of
Cordova will leave on the Admiral
Watson for Seattle and San Francis
co, on a few weeks' visit.
Chas. Nelson of Seward visited in
Anchorage this week.
Corporal Dumarce and Corp. Robin
son returned to town this week with
some fine moose meat secured near
lower Kenai.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roycroft of
Moose Pass visited in Anchorage this
week.
GREEN HAIR IS POPULAR
IN COPPER MINE CENTER
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 14.—
Green hair is quite the rage in Bing
ham where everybody works in a
copper mine. There are even green
beards and green mustaches.
The only way to escape the em
erald tinge is to leave the mine,
chemists say, so the style bids fair
to last.
NEW OBJECT COMING FROM
HEAVENS; IS MOVING FAST
LONDON, Nov. 14.—A dispatch
from Copenhagen to the Greenwich
Observatory said that Baade, German
astronomer, has discovered an object
the tenth mganitude of planetary as
pecti. moving rapidly with the orbit
close to the earth.
OLD TIMER DEAD
Gustav E. Beraud, an oldtimer of
the Fairbanks district, died recently in
Chula Vista, California. Mr. Beraud
was formerly an assayer for the ‘First
National Bank of Fairbanks. He re
moved to California about five years
ago, locating at Chula Vista, a small
town near San Diego. Deceased left
a wife and two children.
OLD DOBBIN LEADS DRY
SLEUTHS TO RUM HAUNT
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 14.—
Old Dobbin has been deputized as a
prohibition agent.
When dry officials spied a wary
eved individual driving a horse at
tached to a spring wagon down a
narrow, wooded lane, they had a
hunch.
After removing several thirty
gallon jugs of moonshine, they gave
old Dobbin “his head.” He went
straight home, of course, and there
another arrest was made and two
stills confiscated.
"Now' I know what ‘horse sense’
is,” said one dry agent.
MANUSCRIPT BY STEVENSON
BOUGHT FOR TEN THOUSAND
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—The origi
nal manuscript of “Kidnapped,” by
Robert Louis Stevenson, was bought
for $10,000 at an auction sale here
last night.
SEATTLE SUFFERS
OUTBREAK BANDITRY)
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SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—Five men and
a woman were held up and robbed
last night by bandits. One man was
slugged by the outlaws and badly
beaten.
OLDTIMER FROM KENAI
IS VISITING SEWARD
Bob. Selfort, one of the oldtimers |
of the Kenai lake district arrived in
town yesterday, from Cooper’s Land-'
ing. Mr. Seifort has a fine place on
lower lake and his latchstring is al
ways out to his friends, who are le
gion. He will remain in town until
next week.
BORAH AGAINST THE
LEAUGE OF NATIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.—
Senator Borah, who as next chairman
of the Senate foreign relations com
mittee will be a dominant figure in
moulding the future foreign policy of
the United States, today declared he
would oppose the present plan to put
this country into the world court and
league of nations.
MEXICO HAS SHOOTING
AFFRAY IN CONGRESS
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14.—In a
shooting affray in the chamber of
deputies last night two members of
the Mexican congress were wounded.
BOMB SENT THRU MAILS
WRECKS POST OFFICE
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 14.—
An explosion which partially wreck
ed the postoffice and injured twelve
persons was caused by a bomb being
sent thru the mails according to pos
tal authorities who are investigting
the affair.
Eastman Kodak Agency, Sehaller
er’s Alaska Shop.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
U. S. Non-Mineral Survey ..
No. 1420.
Serial No. 0541S
United States Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska.
In the matter of the application of
Wilbur J. Erskine, for leave to en
ter as a Soldier’s Additional Home
stead a tract of land situated on the
north-east shore of the north-east
arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island,
lerritory of Alaska, and containing
21.03 acres.
Notice is hereby given that Wilbur
J. Erskine, a citizen of the United
States, whose Post Office address is
Kodiak, Alaska, as assignee of James
M. Wyrick, a beneficiary under Sec
tion 2306 or 2307, United States Re
vised Statutes, has filed application
to enter the lands embraced in U. S.
Non-Mineral Survey No. 1420, which
are situated on the N. E. shore of the
N. E. arm of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Is
land, in the Territory of Alaska, Lat.
57 deg. 46 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 153
deg. 23 min. 30 sec. W., containing
21.03 acres, and more particularly des
cribed as follows, to-wit:
(Mag. Var. 23 deg. 45 min. E.)
“Commencing at Corner 1, whence
U. S. L. M. No. 1420 bears S. 41 deg.
20 min.rl6 sec. E. 9.96 chs., thence me
andering mean high tide line N. 75
deg. 17 min. W. 1.29 chs., N. 87 deg.
12 min. W. 4.74 chs., N. 53 deg. 47 min.
W., 1.39 chs. N. 36 deg. 40 min. W.
3.27 chs., N. 84 deg. 50 min.' W. 4.98
chs., N. 52 deg. 58 min. W. 2.61 chs.
N. 22 deg. 43 min. W. 1.78 chs, to
Cor. 2; thence N. 7.57 chs. to Cor. 3,
thence E. 16.72 chs. to Cor. 4; thence
S. 15.27 chs., to Cor. 1, the place of
beginning.
Any and all persons claiming any
portion of the above described tract
are required to file in the United
States Land Office, at Anchorage, Al
aska, their adverse claim or claims
during the period of publication, or
within thirty (30) days thereafter.
Dated this 1st day of May, 1924.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register U. S. Land Office.
First publication Nov. 14, 1924.
Last Publication Jan. 27, 1925.
ISLAND OF JAVA
SHAKEN BY OUAKE,
HUNDREDS DEAD
RIVER NEAR KAMPONG TRANS- *
FORMED INTO SEA OF MUD
FULL OF CORPSES
BATAVIA, Nov. 14.—The island of
Java was badly shaken by an earth
quake in which 300 were killed and
many towns destroyed. The river
near Kampong has been transformed
into a mud channel in which the bod
ies of men and animals are putrefy
ing. Forty-five houses in the Lek
son district have disappeared and the *
whole of Dessah Badjingan has been
engulfed in the Pring river. Many
hundreds of persons are missing.
In all probability the list of dead
will never be known as the outlying
dstriet are wild and inaccessible. The
earthquake threw the inhabitants into
a state of terror never equalled, thous
ands putting to sea in proas and %e
ing engulfed by an enormous tidal
wave.
THINKS NEXT WAR
MAY BE OVER RUHR
STEEL PROPERTIES
CAPITALISTS MAY FIGHT TO GET
CORNER ON INDUSTRY, SAYS
LABOR M. P.
LONDON, Nov. 14—Will the Ruhr
furnish the spark for the next war '
This suggestion is thrown out by
J. T. Walton Newbold, Labor M. P
wrho has recently disavowed member
ship in the Communist Party on the#
plea that there is no present hopes
for a revolution.
Newbold takes the view that steel
rather than oil is the most contro
versial commodity in the world to
day and declares that the Ruhr is
the center of- the world's steel indu
try.
“Under the Treaty of Versailles
the Germans handed over iron and
steel w'orks. ships and plants that
were war-worn or largely out of
date,” Newbold declared.
“The Allies insisted that the Ger
man Government should compensate
the German capitalists up to the
market price of these properties.
“The German capitalists lent out f
of war profits the money to com
pensate themselves and then pro
ceeded to spend the compensation ir.
the ;e-equipment of their works in
the Ruhr.
“Now the British, French and
American coal, iron and steel mas
ters me in a blue iunk. Who is to
secure control of these mo-t up-to
date establishments, that splendid
coking coal, that limitless French
ore, those workers wretchedly paid
and producing so much surplus vai
: ue‘;
■ Coking coal is limited in suppl>.
It is the great basic material of *
chemical industry. It is indispens
able for steel manufacture. Steel
is, the basic material for machinery
and transport, as these are the prime
factors of capitalist production—and
i destruction.
“The Ruhr may, therefore, even yet
1 prove the vortex down which modern
I civilization will disappear into the
abyss.”
I Newbold points out that there is l
! too much steel now, and he regards
: this as a danger. His intimation is
: that—with an over-production o
steel and the control of the most de
sirable steel district in the balance_
capitalists may bring on a catastro
phe in their efforts to secure a cor
ner on the world's steel.
ZEPPELINS CARRY MANY
PASSENGERS IN GERMANY
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FRIEDRICHSHAVEX, Nov. 14—
ZR-3, the dirigible baloon that is due
to make another trip from her hang
er in New Jersey, has been given more
| space in the German newspapers, than
i any other. The fact that she was
j built under the treaty of Versailles
for the United States government, ac
counts for this.
Another Zeppelin dirigible, the Bo
den-See, acquired considerable fame
I after the war. This ship made 103
| successful Rights, traveled 34,000 or
more miles, carried more than 2,600
passengers, and was eventually turn
| ed over to Italy.
SPEEDING AUTOMOBILE
RUNS OVER DEAD MAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.—While
a policeman was telephoning to the
coroner for a car to remove the body
of an unidentified man, an auto
mobile dashed around the corner. ®
ran over the dead man, and sped
on. At the morgue it was found
the man died of heart failure.