Mrs. Ida Eocles, mother of Miss
Hiuth of the Seward school faculty
departed on Saturday night’s boat
for Seattle. Many friends were at
the dock bidding her bon voyage.
The axis upon which Mother Earth
rests evidently is running dry oF
oil resulting in her bearing running
hot, which in turn account for the
tropical climate being enjoyed in
in Seward during the holidays and
according to the weather man will
.stay with us for a time to come.
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Seattle, Wash.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
.n . . Meets every first
, and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellow®
Hall. All visit
i n g members
^_w welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER. Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
VEof and third Wednesdays of each
/Nr\ month; visiting brethren wel
come, H. V. Hoben, W. M.; Elwyn
Swetmann, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
^^^08:00 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; F. B.
Moore, President; C. M. Brosius, Sec
retary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
i month in Odd Fellows’
l Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel*
come; Dorothy Urbach,
W. M.; E. L. Sweek, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. JF.
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.
CROwV PRINCE LOST
BUCHAREST, Jan. 4 (/P)—Queen
Marie of Rumania has begun a search
for her son, the Crown Prince Carol,
it is reported here today.
NEW AVIATION BILL
WASHINGTON—A new aviation bill
which would carry out the recommen
dations of the Morrow board of in
quiry is ready for submission to Con
gress by the War Department.
AVIATOR FALLS INTO LAKE
SEATTLE, Jan. 4 (£>)—Lieut. Ralph
Davidson narrowly escaped death to
day when a new plane he was testing
plunged into Lake Washington.
Phil Abrams, real estate, insurance
man and notary public, who came
with the first and planted his lot
in Skagway passed away in Seattle
recently. Mr. Abrams was secretary
of the Skagiway Commercial! club for
many years and at all time worked
for the interest of the little town
on Lynn Canal. His passing means
a great loss to the community.
SCHOONER BURNED
PORTLAND, Me., Jan. 4 (£>)—A six
masted schooner was destroyed by fire
in Portland Harbor last night.
AGED STOREKEEPER BEATEN
RED BLUFF, Cal., Jan. 4 (vP)—
Thugs beat and probably fatally injur
ed an aged storekeeper at Mountain
croossroad near here, and escaped
after two midnight gun battles with
sheriff’s posses. The victim, Law
rence McKenna, 81 years old, is in a
critical’ condition.
Hand tinted pictures wrapped se
curely for mailing—Alaska Shop. tf.
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Posters,
Movie Slides,
Cartoons,
Advertising,
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TERRITORY HIT
BY PUBLISHER
SOURDOUGH EDITOR OF ANCHO
RAGE TAKES UP CHARGE FOR
FAR AND FRUITFUL NORTH
Alaska is not a drain on the Gov
ernment of the United States, in the
opinion of Bernard M. Stone, two
fisted editor of the Anchorage (Alas
ka) Times.
On the distinct and emphatic con
trary, Alaska is paying its own way,
and doing it promptly and well, ac
cording to Stone, who has been a
newspaper man all over Alaska for
more than twenty years.
Editor Stone is in San Francisco on
his biennial vacation, but he simply
had to blow off steam yesterday, and
here is how he did it:
“Alaska has a great future, althc'
she is having an uphill fight, consid
ering the fact that a number of Con
gressmen and Senators, some of whom
have not even visited the Territory,
believe that Alaska is just so much
waste land and simply a show ground.
Nevertheless, the outlook is encourag
ing.
Agriculture Is Second
“Contrary to the opinion which gen
erally prevails with regard to what
Alaska needs to increase her papula
tion and for the betterment and ad
vancement of the Territory, I believe
agriculture is, next to mining the sol
ution to these problems. I believe
that the Government making a mis
take in that it should encourage the
immigrant in a manner similar to that
in which the Canadian government
has assisted her farming pioneers. The
Government of the United States
should appropriate a large sum of
money for the sole purpose of induc
ing settlers along the right of way of
the Alaska Railroad.
“Alaska can produce nearly all the
food supplies now imported from the
States. If this is done, it will keep
in Alaska an annual outlay of $4,000,
000 which is now spent in outside
markets. Steps have been taken by
Dr. C. C. Georgeson, head of the Unit
ed States Government experiment
stations in Alaska, to establish a crea
mery at the Matanuska experiment
station on the Alaska Railroad, where
butter and cheese will be manufac
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tured, and from that will grow other
industries which will attract addition
al homesteaders and result eventual
ly in the development of the Matan
uska valley, capable of supplying the
entire territory with practically all
its food needs.
Mr. Free “Mistaken”
“When .Congressman Arthur M.
Free suggested recently that we ‘pull
up the rails and make a highway’ of
the Alaska Railroad for the fiscal
speeding the development of that sec
tion cf Alaska now served by the
railroad, which, he said, ‘begins no
where and* ends nowhere, and serves
no useful purpose,’ he displayed a sur
prising ignorance of the Alaska situ
ation, of railroading and of highway
transportation. He posted as he would
have the people believe, or that he has
been indulging in deliberate misrepre
sentation or both.
“The charge for carrying freight on
the Alaeska Railroad for the fiscal
year 1925 amounted to 04.8 cents per
ton miles, including maintenance. The
approximate cost on a highway—a
hard-surfaced one on which five-ton
trucks can be used—is 30 cents per
ton mile, and this does not include
maintenance. Surely Congressman
Free does not expect the people of
Alaska or the people of any other sec
tion of the Nation to believe him
when he declares, in effect, that high
way transportation would be more
helpful to a pioneer country than rail
road transportation? Congressman
Free was in Alaska less than a week.
He had insufficient time in which to
formulate a correct opinion or obtain
correct data or information.
Must Await Profits
“The history of the railroad is one
of pioneering. It is the railroad
which hazards its investment on an
appraisal of the future of the coun
try, and it does not and cannot be ex
pected to pay at the beginning. The
Alaska Railroad has been the means
of opening the coal fields or Alaska,
which never would have been devel
oped by wagon roads, and this coal is
essential to the development of the
country. Without Alaska coal at a
reasonable price Alaska may as well
abandon any hope of industrial prog
ress.” .
HOLD UP IN FAFIRBANKS
REPORTED WEDNESDAY EVE
Passengers arriving from the Inte
rior on yesterday’s train report a hold
up occurred in the Interior metropolis
last Wednesday evening, two masked
men entering a grocery store and re
lieving the proprietor of all spare
cash on hand.
No details of the robbery had reach
ed here up to the hour of going to
press.
COMEDIENNE GIVEN DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (^P)—Marie
Mosquini, a film comedienne, was
granted a divorce today from Roy
Harlow, a cafe man.
FORD’S PLANE DAMAGED
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 4 (#>)—
One of Henry Ford’s planes en route
to Florida was slightly damaged in a
mixup here this morning. No one was
injured.
CHOP SUEY, NOODLES,
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Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
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WM.F. THOMPSON
DEAN EDITORS,
DIED SUNDAY
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 4 (#>)—'William
Fentress Thompson, aged 62 years,
died in St. Joseph’s Hospital early
today of pneumonia. Death was unex
pected as he was at his desk yester
day.
Mr. Thompson, who was editor of
the Fairbanks News-Miner and presi
dent and manager of the Tanana Pub
lishing Company, came to the Klondike
via the Edmonton trail in 1898. He
leaves a widow, Nell Maroony Thomp
son, three children, William 12, Rich
ard 10 and Beulah Marion, 7; and
two sisters, Mrs. Harry Parrish of
Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs. E. G.
Tennant, of Yakima.
Mr. Thompson was dean of northern
newspaper men, having been in the
publishing business in Yukon territory
and in Fairbanks for nearly thirty
years.
He was an ardent booster for Alas
ka and a writer of great ability.
ALAMEDA DEPARTS
WITH SMALL LIST
PASSENGERS, STATES
The steamer Alameda departed for
Seattle Saturday night at midnight
with one of the lightest outgoing pas
senger lists of the present winter.
With few exceptions all were from the
Interior and Anchorage.
The reservations southbound fol
low:
For Latouche—Claude Dilley, Geo.
LaRue.
For Valdez—Wm. Butler.
For Juneau—Mr. and Mrs. L. G.
Peck, H. O. Berg, Otto Finne, Pete
Nelson.
Seattle—M. G. Miller, Mrs. M.
Maxwell, Paul Paltray, C. F. Town
send, Mrs. Otto Lehmann, Mrs. Ida
G. Bccles, Grace Corson, G. C.
Dickens P. I. Wolden, Milo Kelly, Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. W. Bush, Edward
Bush, Wolf Simons, Mrs. M. O’Brien,
Mrs. A. B. Ostensen, Mr. and Mrs. G.
G. Lennan, Miss Mary Stevens, J.
S. Vance, J. B. Beeson, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl B. Ericksen, Mrs. Frank E.
Carlquist, Barbara Carlquist, Doris
Carlquist, Miss Helen Miller, John
G. Murray, Blaine M. Cunningham,
Mrs. J. R. Parker, G. W. Anderson,
John F. Swanson, T. E. Shea, Aage
•Hansen.
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