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C OME BACK SOON
It is customary, at this time of the year when the
General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, Col. Otto F.
Ohlson, departs for Washington, D. C., there to ap
pear before the numerous committees on railroad mat
ters and to secure next year’s appropriations, to extend
to him all the luck in the world and that he may return
North with the assurance that the next fiscal year ap
propriation will be larger than ever.
But this time we desire to say that whether or not
lie gets a dime, we want him to return because, under
liis administration, it will be only a few years when
he will have the road on a paying basis; judging from
the wav he has taken ahold of the development end.
The quickest way for the appropriation committee
to end this annual petition for funds is to give Colonel
Ohlson what money he asks for to carry out his ideas.
Forget, for once/a paltry million or so, give with a
free hand and then, w^atch the tonnage tolls roll up.
There never has been a general manager of the
Alaska Railroad wdio attained the confidence and coop
eration from the rank and file of Alaskans, as Colonel
Ohlson.
When the subcommittee was here this past summer
they said a lot of nice things about what they were go
ing* to do. Well, now they have that opportunity to show
us whether they were sincere or just "kidding” us along.
A subscriber wants to know what the difference
is between a sockeye salmon and a cock-eyed salmon?
You tell her, we stutter.
ISN’T IT TO LAUGH
We do not wonder that a lot of those residents out
to the W estward wake up with a “crick’ in the back and
an inborn grouch and cuss a blue streak when they go
ahead and put $30 Nanaimo lump coal into their $10.40
stove, F. 0. B., Chicago, which cost them $50 at Kodiak.
They have a right to curse but the only good it does
them is help heat up the room before the fire starts.
Once the good old heater gets under way and Old Sol
looks down to see what’s its all about, things seem more
cheerful and they go out and “hump” themselves to
make enough to buy another sack of that Nanaimo
at $1.75 a throw because winter is coming on and Oh
Boy! What’s become of the summer’s wages?
The answer to this is as plain as the hand-writing
on the wall; buy Alaska coal next time and always.
The usually alert magazine Time was recently in
veigled into printing a communcation signed “R. E.
Voohnmad.” Which being spelled backwards forms an
insulting reference to the President of the U. S.
Of late we have noticed where a number of student
aviators are being trained in Alaska; the students, in
most cases, being young Alaskans. This is as it shoulc
be for undoubtedly, it would seem, they should be best
fitted for future pilots of the North for the local know
ledge gained from childhood to maturity is an advan
tage. In other words the years teach much which the
days never know.
A recent important Alaska historical discovery is
a diary of “Soapy” Smith, in which he notes that “be
fore turning square guy and starting the pea and shel
game, he manufactured dog-hair and jute socks anc
sold them for all-wool.
Its about that time of the year for the keeper o:
the Northern Lights to turn them on.
We notice where a local store (there are probabb
others) is advertising cabbages from Hope and tur
nips from Moose Pass for sale. There, brothers and sis
ters, lies Alaska’s best bet for rapid development; rais<
and*buy Alaska’s own products, whether it be cabbage:
or mattresses or pop.
SEATTLE, Oct., 12, (TP)—After 16
hours of battling with a heavy sea, !
19 members of the ship’s crew of;
the schooner Bretagen, were picked j
up off the Washington coast. They ;
were taken from their frail life- I
boats by the San Francisco steamer j
Whitney Olson, which is proceeding
to San Pedro.
The Bretagen was reported wat- ,
erlogged but still afloat, bouyed up :
by a deckload of 800,000 feet of
lumber. It was abandoned five
miles south of Umatilla Light on
the northern Washington coast, ac- j
cording to the rescued Captain, Leo '
Ozanne.
ALL FOR NOTHING
The case of the United States vs. |
A. B. (Buck) Haines and Joe Flow- :
er, in which the defendants were jE
charged with possession of liquor in | E
violation of the Alaska Bone drv j:
law. which was tried last week, re- ;
ports the Anchorage Times, and a :
jury, resulted in a disagreement ;
and it is probable that the govern- :
ment will not try the case again. :
PRICES SOAR
New YORK. Ot.. 12. (/P)—Prices \
soared in a spectacular fashion on i
Wall Street. Scores of issued ad- ■
vanced from $3 to S10 a share and :
some high oriced specialties went ! j
uo from $12 to $50. A rally wiped j
out more than half of the losses
i sustained in the drastic declines,
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GRAND EXALTED RULER
A. H. Ziegler, prominent Ketchi
kan attornev, and representative
of the Alaska legislature, has been
apnointed district denutv grand
exalted ruler of the B. P. O. Elks
for southeastern Alaska. He sue- ;
ceeds Harrv Sperling who was dis
trict deputy last year.
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“FER GOODNESS SAKE!”
A civil suit was filed in the dis
trict court at Ketchikan, says the
Chronicle, to make Joe Burdett,
Jack Fraizer and Wilford Jacobsen
pay tax of $423.53 on 66 1-3 gallons
of intoxicating liquor, charging
that on the 11th day of July 1929,
the defendants were the owners
of certain premisis and that they
had in their possession large quan
tities of intoxicating liquors and
that the tax thereon had not been
paid as provided by law.
A. J. Dimond, Valdez attorney,
was among last night’s arrivals
on the S. S. Alaska.
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HOME-GROWN Potatoes and
Cabbage from Hope, at Brown &
Il.’wkins Corp.
SEWARD
CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER OF
EASTERN STAR
Meets the second and fourth
Mondays of each month in
, Odd Fellows’ Hall at 8 p.m
'.•i * lsiting members always Wel
lcome: Miriam Painter, W.
M.; Martine Johansen, act
ing Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425. L. O. O. M. j
Meets every first and ;
third Fridays each j
month at 8 p.m. at
Odd Fellows’ Hall.
All welcome. Peter
N. Anderson, Direc
tor. M. A. Horner,
Secretary.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA—IGLOO NO. 9
i C. M. Brosius, Secretary-Treasurer
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SEWARD REBKKAH LODGE NO. 6-A.
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of each I
month in Odd Fellows’ :
Hall at 8 p.m.. Visiting !
members are a Iways !
welcome. Mrs. Marie i
Osbo, N. G., Ludwig
Larsson, Secretary.
UESSURECTION LODGE NO. A-7, I.O.O.F. j
Meets every Thursday at 8:00 |
p.m. in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Vis
Ding brothers welcome
'T Dow I Galloway, N. G., Ludwig Larsson, i
_ secretary.
SEWARD
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LODGE NO. 219, F. *- A. M. J
Stated communications '—t and |
third Tuesdays each mo. Vis- j
iting brethern welcome. J. *4.
Flfckineer. W. M., Martin Ban
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