Protection of Bird Life Would Materially
Decrease destruction of Crops by Insects
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. Apr. 15.— Ii
birds could be protected from the
predatory house cat, they would ma
terially reduce the $1,600,000,000 loss
caused annually by insects and grubs
which destroy agriculture crops, in
the opinion of the Biological Sur
vey.
The cat, estimated to be 25,000,
000 strong in this country, is not,
however, the only enemy of the wild
birds, says the survey. The boy with
his air rifle, the man with his gun,
squirrels and other small animals,
and the elements all are taking their
toll. But tabby is said to be par
ticularly attentive to the feathered
singers at this time of the year,
which is the nesting season.
Insects, the survey says, each year
eat $800,000,000 worth of seed and
crops, and a like sum is spent to get
rid of the pests. Farmers, fruit
growers and orchardists share the
burden. They depend upon the birds
to help keep down the overwhelming
hordes of insects.
To protect the birds, the survey
recommends building nest boxes and
planting shrubbery to make up for
the disappearance of the hollow trees
and young wild growth in which
nests once were built. It urges pro
vision of bathing and drinking wat
er in the summer and food and shel
ter in winter.
Regarding the cats the survey fur
ther says it is not necessary that
householders part with their pets,
but they “should be kept from un
duly increasing if they are to be
prevented from killing the song
birds.”
“During the nesting season espec
ially,” says the survey, “watchful
care is needed, particularly at the
time when the fledglings, unable to
make full use of their undeveloped
wings, flutter to the ground. The
sight of helpless young birds hopping
across the lawn excites the preda
tory instinct of even a well-fed
house-cat.”
Exclusion of Americans
Be Considered by Canada
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C„ April 15.—
The Council of the Board of Trade, !
which previously recorded opposition i
to closing this port to American fish-!
ermen met recently to consider the
demand of the Retail Merchants As
sociation. which passed a resolution
last Friday night asking the Canadian
government to exclude from British
Columbia waters American boat own
ers who do not become citizens of the
Province or else buy all their supplies
in the Province.
ALGARSSON BORN IN B. C.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Apr. 15.—
Grettier Algarason, the explorer was
born in this city to Captain and
Mrs. William M. Davidson and was
christened Hector Davidson, it was
learned. In order to command the
ship Icelandic the government had
to take the Icelandic’s name.
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full of ideas on finishing
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and ornaments.
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S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Arrives South from
Seward Seward
April 14 April 19
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
April 21 April 28 May 2.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res., Madison 40
Paci/ic Coastwise Jervice
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Sails from
Seattle
April 7
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING STR. STARR MAY 10,1925
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13*. 8EWARD, ALA8KA
Supposed Dead Woman
; Comes fo Life While
Others Plan Funeral
. WHEELING, W. Va.( Apr 15 —
I While friends and relatives gathered
, to arrange tor her funeral, Mrs. Sar
, ah Burge, aged eighty, who was be
, lieved dead opened her eyes after
her granddaughter bather her face
with ice water. She had an attack
of pneumonia. >
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Shoot Human X-ray
Pictures Over Wire
NEW YORK, Apr. 15.—An X-ray
I photograph of a human hand was
today transmitted over .telephone
wire from New York to Chicago in
seven minutes. The new experi
ment is expected to prove valuable
for surgical work.
COACH LINCOL& RODE IN TO
GETTYSBURG BE PRESERVED
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BALTIMORE, Md., Apr. 15.—The (
old railroad coach in which Abraham (
Lincoln rode to Gettysburg in to de- ^
liver the great battlefield address in (
1864 was found on a siding in West- ,
ern Maryland railroad yards. The (
! road will seek to have the dilapidated ,
j coach taken to Gettysburg as an his- ,
I torical memorial to the martyred
| president.
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FUNERAL IS HELD t
| PORTLAND, Ore.^ Apr. 15.—Funeral i
j ceremonies for Archbishop Christie ]
1 have been concluded here. ,
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CHARGED WITH MURDER
CROWN POINT, Ind* Apr. 15.—
Mrs. Anna Cunningham has been j
charged with the murder of her own ,
son, Walter today. ,
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DUNDEE TO SCRAP SID TERRIS ,
NEW YORK, Apr. 15.—Johnny
Dundee and Sid Terris, both New
York lightweights, have been match- ,
ed by Tex Rickard in a twelve- j
rounder on May 5.
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Police Stop Big Smoker
So Ladies Could Hear
London Radio Concert
| WENATCHEE, Wn„ Apr. 15.—Lo
j cal police stopped an outdoor smok
! er for an hour last night because of
noise, so the Ladies Musical Club in
a theater next door could listen to
a London string quartet. When the
last string twanged, the fighters re
sumed from the second round where
they had left off.
One of the largest and most
beautiful artificial .lakes in the
country has been formed at Muscle
Shoals by backing up of waters of
the Tennessee river at Wilson Dam,
near Florence, Ala. An exclusive
residential section and tourist re
sort is being developed on the lake
front.
Natives of three Burma villages .
were terrorized by airplanes flying
overhead and fled to the woods for
a week.
Miss Ellen Curtis of Oxford, Eng
land, was awarded a medal for sav
ing a dog and three puppies at the
risk of her own life.
Herbert Edwards, 82, and his
wife, 76, who had often expressed
the wish not to outlive each other,
died less than an hour apart at
Sheerness, England.
Bobbed hair is becoming less
popular in Paris and many women
are getting their former tresses
out of storage to be worn again.
Mrs. Susan Arnold of Leagrave,
England, lost her shoe in the mud
on the main street and is suing the
village board.
William Harrison found a lot of
wine while burglarizing the home of
L. A. Allerton in St. Louis, got
drunk and was arrested when dis
covered asleep in the home.
Jack Latzel, an 18-year-old Ger
man boxer, 6 feet 8 inches tall and
weighing more than 200 pounds,
wants a match with Jack Dempsey.
Bill To Extend Currency
Passes Through C. of D.;
Is Now Up to the Senate
PARIS, Fiance, Apr. 15.—Painleve
of the Senate of Deputies accepted
the invitation extended him to form
a new cabinet, saying that he did
not expect to have the cabinet com
pleted before tomorrow, as he would
first have to consult President de
Selves of the Senate.
, The president reported that the
finance committee of the Senate and
House deputies on a Socialist motion
are preventing the introduction of
the bill to legalize an increase of
circulation of the Bank of France.
The increase was later defeated by
the chamber of deputies by a vote
of 332 to 164.
PARIS, Apr. 15.—It was remarked
that the Socialist party, which shoul
ders none of the responsibility or
power has only seven hundred thou
sand members. On this meager to
tal they have been assuming alto
gether a too preponderant role to pre
dict a Painleve cabinet with a So
cialist foundation, which must be ex
pected to encounter the same obsta
cles as the Herriot '•ministry would
with the issue over extreme finan
cial policies which is at the climax
and could hope to live but a few
weeks.
PARIS, Apr. 15.—The Chamber of
deputies today voted 325 to 29 to adopt
the bill ratifying the convention with
the Bank of France In which the
legal limit of circulation was in
creased to forty-five billion francs.
The Bill went to the Senate.
PARIS, Apr. 15.—The Socialist bar
fed members for accepting Painleve
to a cabinet post, although voted
unanimously in support of the min
istry and to conform with the elec
tion of last year.
Shriners of Erie, Pa., have au
thorized the expenditure of $30,000
to establish a summer camp for
consumptive children.
Yeggmen frightened away from a
Irug srore in St. Paul left behind
jurglar tools valued at $1,000.
, NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS
HITS LOCAL NEWS FIRMS
The new postal regulations going
into effect tomorrow will hit our local
news stands hard in their out of town
I sales as under the eighth zone rates
which apply all over Alaska it will
cost 34 cents to send a copy of the
Saturday Evening Post by mail to
out-of-town subscribers, according to
local sellers. This will cut many resi
dents along the railroad and to the
westward out of their favorite maga
zines and periodicals.
The rate of postage on publications
entered as second-class matter, when
sent by others than the publisher or
news agent, shall be two cents for
each two ounces or fraction thereof,
for weights not exceeding eight ounces
and weights of such matter exceeding
eight ounces the rates of postage pre
scribed for fourth class matter shall
be applicable thereto, or nine cents
per pound
W. L. Fortner of Oakdale, Calif.,
refused a Civil war pension years
ago. Now at the age of 80 he needs
it, but is unable to establish his
claims, his discharge papers having
been burned.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Northwestern
Alaska
Yukon
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
April 4th
April 11
April 18
April 25
May 2
May 9
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
April 11th.
April 18
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
April 11th.
April 18.
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
NOTE Northwestern due April 11th will go to Kenai before sailing
. south.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
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Special week-eend tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices