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to trap anil handle Muskrats, Coyotes, Skunks
-- all ether furs, Gance Laws. Grading Rules, etc.
Big demand all Western Furs this 6ca.jGn -- prices
high. Get ready to trap NOW.
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COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO.. NEW YORK
Oscar S. Straus, .former United
States Ambassador to Turkey, who re
cently celebrated his 74tli birthday at
his home, New York City. He is in
the best of health, having recently re
covered from a serious operation.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
For the Prospector
Can you make an accurate compass survey of your
claim ?
The strange minerals you find in the hills—can you
determine what they are with the blow-pipe?
Do you know how to test your ore for various meth
ods of concentration such as amalgamation, cyani
dation, jigging, table concentration and flotation?
Do you know how ore bodies form and their habits?
If you do you can pick favorable areas for prospect
ing and eliminate much dead work.
Would you like to be able to assay your ore for gold
and silver?
Will not these aids better your chances of putting a
new mine on the map in Alaska?
TUITION IS FREE
This is the nature of the work the prospector takes up
in the Mining Short Course at the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines.
The first short course of 10 weeks duration begins No
vember 3rd. The work is repeated in another short
course beginning February 2nd.
The charge for books and supplies used, totals about
$25,00 for the complete course.
Work is offered in geology, mineralogy, mining meth
ods, ore dressing, and fire assaying.
There are no educational requirements except the abil
ity to read and write.
This is not a dressed-up course. Bring along your wool
shirt and overalls. You will need them.
CHARLES E. BUNNELL
President.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
When mail is carried from one post
office to another office where there is
no railroad why is it called a “Star”
route?
Ans. They are so-called “Star”
routes because in the official docu
ments of the postoffice department
they are distinguished from other
routes by means of little stars.
Was Stonewall Jackson killed dur
ing the Civil War or did he die a nat
ural death during the war? Also how
did he get the name “Stonewall?”
Ans. On May 2, 1863, Jackson, with
has staff, rode out to reconnoiter the
enemies position. A Confederate reg
iment opened fire on them whom they
mistook them for Federal cavalry.
Jackson received three shots from
which he died about one week later.
Jackson was given the name of Stone
wall by his admirers vrhen a man in
his command cried out in ecstacy:
“Look, there stands Jackson like a
stone wall.”
I would like to ask you just what
a man means when he says So-and-So
has a “taste for music”? Can one
taste music?
Ans. The expression is a correct
one. Probably he may mean that Mr.
So-and-So plays a mouth organ.
Is the Fourth of July and Armistice
Day National legal holidays?
Ans. No. Armistice Day is not a
legal holiday in any state, and the
Fourth of July is a legal holiday in
all states by state legislation..
Will you be kind enough to answer
in your worthy paper what was the
first newspaper published in the
United States?
Ans. The Boston New'sleter in 1704.
I wish to know what is the twelfth
wedding anniversary?
Ans. The twelfth wedding anniver
sary is silk and fine linen.
Where did the words dollars, dimes
and cents come from?
Ans. The “dollar” is supposed to
come from Dale, the name of a small
towm where dollars were first coined.
“Dime” come from the French disme,
meaning tenth. “Cent”- is taken from
the Latin centrum, meaning hundred.
How can I erase ink from paper
without marring the paper?
Ans. Put a tablespoonful of acetic
acid in a 2-oz bottle. Then fill the
1 bottle with a solution of chlorine. Ap
1 ply this solution to the ink with a
small brush or pulp stick use a blot
ter and ink will disappear.
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May I ask through your Query and
Answer Column who is the author of
| this: “Let others toll of rains and
•hours?”
Ans. We do not know. It is the in
scription on King Edward’s Sun dial
at the royal palace in London.
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Is it true that Brazil is larger in
area than Texas and the combined
western states?
I Ans. Yes. Brazil is about 200,
000 square miles larger than all of
United States and Alaska combined.
Will you please tell me what day of
the week I was born. The date was
January 7, 1860.
Ans. You were born on Saturday.
Was any president of the United
States a bachelor? How many chil
dren did President Wilson have and
was he married more than once?
Ans. James Buchanan was the only
unmarried man during the full term
as president of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson was married twice.
He had three children (all girls) by
his first wife, and none by his second
wife.
A friend of mine criticised me for
this remark: “I expect you knew it.”
Was she right or wrong?
Ans. Right. You cannot “expect”
backward. You should have said:
“I ‘suppose’ you knew it.”
My history says the battle of Antie
tam was fought on Sept. 17, 1862, but
does not say what day. Will you
please state?
Ans. Sept. 17, 1862, was on Wednes
day.
Homer Vories, of Auburn, Cal., got
in bad when he placed letters to two
of his wives in the wrong envelopes;
now he is said to have married 28
women.
ENGAGEMENT OF PRINCE
GEORGE BROKEN OFF
KEYSTONE VIEW CO, NEW YORK
Prince George, the “Naval Prince”
youngest son of King George of Eng
land, who was engaged as reported,
to Poppy Raring. To prevent his
youngest son marrying so early, he is
only 21, and also because it is expect
ed that the Prince of Wales will an
nounce his engagement soon, Prince
George, slated for the fleet in the
Mediterranean, has been ordered to
the Orient.
The position of Superintendent of
Education for the Natives of Alaska
has been abolished by the Secretary
of Interior and W. T. Lopp, who has
held the office for 14 years, has been
let go from the Bureau of Education
according to authentic advices just
received here. The action of the Sec
retary of the Board which was taken
so far as is known locally without any
preliminary warning, occurred after
January 1, and the order abolishing
the office became effective January
10 of this year.
Mr. Lopp was probably dean of all
Federal officials in Alaska, if his years
of work as missionary and school
teacher on Seward Peninsula be taken
into consideration. His connection
with the Territory outdated even that I
of the late Dr. Alfred H. Brooks, who !
made the first geological surveys in !
the Territory. Mr. Lopp came to Alas- j
ka in 1890, one of four young men out >
of the fifteen who volunteered for ser- !
ice under the direction of Sheldon !
Jackson, then general agent of edu- j
cation in Alaska to open schools to be j
operated under Mission Board in '
Northwestern Alaska. His first work ;
was at Capo Prince of Wales when a |
contract mission school was started by
the Congregational church in 1890.
From that time until his services
were terminated by a recent depart
mental order, Mr. Lopp continued his
work of educating the Eskimos and
Indians of Alaska, devoting more than
34 years of his life to it.
Some 20 years ago he was made a
district superintendent which office
he filled six years. For the last 14
years he was superintendent and in
charge of the wrork carried on by the
Federal Bureau of Education in the
Territory.
The top of their covered wagon
saved a family from injury when a
barn in which they were spending the
night collapsed at Mexico, Mo.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
French Amateur Hears Tokio
MENARS, France, Feb. 3.—A radio
amateur in this little village of the
Pyrenees recently succeeded for ten
minutes in hearing the radio station
IFWA at Tokio, Japan. He used a
wave length of ninety meters.
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TWO BULGARIAN VILLAGES
SURROUNDED BY GREEKS
SOFIA, Feb. 3.—Two villages inhab
ited by Bulgarians on the Greek side
of the frontier have been surround
ed by troops. The police and in
habitants were severely beaten be
cause of the alleged killing of two
Gteeks near the border, according to
two refugees arriving at Vevrokop.
The news lias aroused much ire in
Sofia.
M. J. Cruise, of the New York mar
riage bureau has married nearly 75,000
couples, his best record for a mouth
being 2178 in June, 1923.
Mrs. M. Greenhill, of Pine Bluff,
Ark., found a dime and a diamond
worth $150 in the craw of a chicken
bought at a local store.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
Snow Shoes, $9.50 per pair, at
Graef’s. tf
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
“and third Wednesdays of each
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
S: 00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers w'elcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
AMERICAN LEGION, SEWARD
POST NO. FIVE
Meets the second and Fourth
| Tuesdays of each month,
at the Fire Hall. Visiting
members are always wel
come. J. S. Bogart, Commander; L.
W. Olson, Adjutant.
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
Viola
Meeets the second and
!ourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the^ first and
CEfC’*7'- ""v* - Mondays of
each month in Odd
f ' ! Fellows Hall at 8:00
£i!S ' P- ni. Visiting mem
i-MI hers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Itosness, N. G.
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