V. S. Deputy Marshal Staser of An
chorage arrived in Seward Saturday
night, to meet Marshal Sullivan, and
also to confer with Karl Theile, an
old lriend of Mr. Stasers. Anchorage
is reported somewhat quiet at the pre
sent time, and business dull, owing to
little travel. Mr. Staser reports ob
servance of law in Anchorage consid
erably improved by the recent arrests
for bootlegging.
Joseph E. Burns and wife of Nona
na, were guests of the Seward over
Sunday.
Miss Stella Fuller, popular Delano
Red Cross nurse, stationed at Seward,
returned from Unalaska on the Starr,
after a two-months’ visit to the west
ward. Miss Fuller said a very stormy
trip was made. The inhabitants of
Unalaska and westward ports are in
a prosperous condition this winter,
and much fur has been caught. But
little sickness was encountered on
the trip.
Nels Steel, in charge of the dining
cars on the Alaska railway spent Sun
day in town.
It is reported that two members of
the dry squad arrived on Saturday’s
boat. If they are any more dry than
most Sewardites they are in bad
shape.
The Republican club will meet to
morrow night.
R. Morrison, roadhouse keeper at
Hope, was a Seward visitor over Sun
day.
Assistant District Attorney Julien
Hurley, who arrived on the Victoria
from Valdez, left on today’s train tor
Anchorage.
JACK M’CORD RETURNS
Jack McCord returned on the Starr
from the Westward, where he had
been looking after his oil interests.
He reports very stormy weather and
much wind on the trip.
205 TONS OF FREIGHT
The steamship Victoria brought 205
tons of freight to this port this trip,
a slight increase over previous sail
ings.
RAILWAY PUTS UP ICE
The Alaska railway is putting up
over 300 tons of ice in Seward for use
in its cars this summer.
Capt. Auaerson, a Seldovia resident,
who arrived on the Starr left on the
Victoria for Seattle. He sold out his
grocery store at Seldovia, formerly j
owned by Antone Johnsen.
William A. Shields was a passen
ger on the S. S. Starr from Chignik
to Kodiak. He is a fur buyer and is
well known in Seward and westward
points. He will probably locate in Se
ward and start a taxidermy shop.
Melvin Startzman, a lineman, who
spent Sunday in town, left today for
52.
Fred Stanley, former owner of the
Marathon Cafe, left on today’s train
for Anchorage for a few days’ visit.
Mr. Stanley stated that he might re
turn to Seward and engage in the
restaurant business.
,T. D. Mertie and H. A. Tait left on
yesterday’s train for the Interior
They are members of the oil survey
party.
With the issue of February first of
the Petersburg Report, Sydney D.
Charles takes the reins and is start
ing a campaign to revive the Cham
ber of Commerce in his town. Charles
is well known throughout Alaska, hav
ing been connected with many papers,
his last being publisher of the Satka
Tribune.
He succeeds M. S. Perkins, who, for
the past few years has been owner.
Howard Long was an outgoing pas
senger to Lakeview this morning.
John Rice left on today’s train for
Lakeview.
Jennie Ponchene arrived from Ko
diak and is going to Anchorage to be
treated for appendicitis.
Charlie Olsen, from Seldovia, who
has been visiting some friends at An
chorage is returning to Seldovia on
the Watson. He is accompanied by his
daughter.
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NEVILLES RETURN TO SEWARD
Thos. B. Neville, and son, William,
who arrived from Portland on the Vic
toria to take their old position in the
local car shops, state that the Neville
family will return to Seward some
time in May, after school in Portland
closes. Mr. Neville, who left for An
chorage to confer with the master me
chanic, declares that there is no place
like Alaska, work being scarce Out
side, and wTages unsatisfactory.
A meeting of the Seward Republi
can club will be held in the rooms un
der the Bank of Seward, Tuesday eve
ning at 8 o’clock. All members of the
party or those desiring to affiliate
i with it are requested to attend.
George Spangler, who for several
years worked for the Commission, is
visiting Seward for a few days.
John Dunn, connected until recent
ly with the Anchorage Times as sub
scription clerk or circulation mana
manager, left on the Voetoria for his
former home in Juneau, where he
will take a position with the Empire.
Paul Buckley, of Renton, Wash.,
former deputy marshal at Unalaska.
arrived on the Starr Sunday from his
sulphus properties on Akun island
He states that Mr. and Mrs. Elwell.
of Seward, have comfortable quar
tors and are well satisfied with their
job watching the property.
Arthur H. Mellick, former mate on
the old steamer Dora, the ’’bulldog of
the seas,” which carried the mail so
long to the westward from Seward,
writes from Sand Point to friends in
Seward sending his regards, and stat
ing that he is doing well at his loca
tion. Mr. Mellick is a son-in-law of
Andy Grosvold, pioneer trader of Un
ga, island.
Warren Fenton ,of the engineering
firm of Fenton & Glossop of Anchor
age, was a week-end visitor in Se
ward.
John H. Heady, 75, a resident of the
Matanuska valley for many years,
was found dead in his lonely cabin
near Palmer last week, the body be
ing taken to Anchorage for Interment
by the Pioneers. Mr. Heady had no
known relatives in Alaska, and his
brother, George Heady, residing in
Vevay, Indiana, has been telegraph
ed.
At a meeting of Anchorage Igloo
No. 15, action was taken to refute
the assertion by Secretary Work that
game was being slaughtered by pros
pectors, and present true conditions
as they exist at the present time.
Much untrue propaganda has been
published regarding Alaskan game,
and the Pioneers desire to set the
Secretary right in his premises.
Mrs. June K. Bolton, mother of Mrs
Harry I. Staser, is a returning pas
senger on the steamship Admiral
Watson, on her way to Anchorage fol
lowing a visit of several months out
side.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Burns, of
Nenana, who arrived here last week,
returned Monday to the Interior. Mr.
Burns who is the pioneer moving pic
ture man of the Interior, has had
show houses in nearly all the Tanana
valley camps, and now is proprietor
of the Coliseum at Nenana.
Gill Rich, representative for the
Black manufacturing Company of Se
attle was a recent visitor in town, ha\f
ing come north on the Victoria. Af
ter making his rounds he left on the
train for Anchorage and Fairbanks.
He will return in about two weeks.
Gerhard Johnson, who has been in
Anchorage the past two months en
gaged in plastering the new Odd Fel
lows hall returned home Saturday.
He states that he has the interior of
the building completed but that the
outside is yet to be stuccoed.
R. G. Chambers, a former editor of
the Gateway, now foreman of the me
chanical department of the Seattle
P I. was operated on last week for
acute appendicitis and Is reported as
i.ipidly recuperating.
J. F. Bergen, wife and daughter, of
Seldovia, who have been in the states
for the past few months, passed thru
on the Admiral Watson. Mr. Borgen
and family are in the fox farming bus
iness on an island near Kodiak.
A. W. Lipke and wife, who jjft Sel
dovia oil the Watson on a shit bus
iness trip to the States, returned on
the same boat. Mr. Lipke hat been
wireless operator at Seldovia, kving
installed a commercial outfit, ;Ll his
trip was for the purpose of In Jailing
a larger outfit.
CORDOVAN 16 DEAD
Gus Anderson, who formerly Irun a
pool hall at Cordova and McCarthy,
died recently in Vancouver, D. C. At
one time he was a partner of Ed. L.
Harwod, at Cordova.
District Attorney Sherman Duggen,
left on the steamship Victoria for San
Francisco, where he goes to represent
the Government in a number of cases
appealed to the California coutrs.
Deputy Marshal Willard Scot was
a through passenger on the Acmiral
Watson en route to Kodiak alter a
trip to the States with insane prison
ers.
Martin Killian has been appointed
game warden for the Cordova and the
Prince William Sound district, to suc
ceed Chas. H. (Senator) Hill, who has
tendered his resignation.
Peter Johnson, a well konwn old
timer of Seward, is reported serious
ly iil at his home in north Seward
Mr. Johnson is suffering cancer of
the throat.
Mrs. John Gilpatrick left on today’s
train for Anchorage to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Chas. Mathison, who
has been seriously ill.
Lieut. Bissell, of the Army air ser
vice, left on today’s train on a sight
seeing trip to Anchorage. He will
return Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hinde left on,
today’s train for Anchorage. Miss
Waugh is in charge of the bank dur
ing Mr. Hinde’s absence.
Dr. H. C. DeVighne, who arrived on
the Watson, left this morning for An
chorage, where he will look the field
over with a view of locating. The
doctor is much impressed with the
railroad section and believes it will
be the most prosperous in Alaska.
Mrs. Chas. Lechner, left on today’s
train for Woodrow, from which place,
she will mush back to Seward.
Karl Dregor, superintendent of the
fish hatchery at Grouse Lake, left on
today’s train for the lake. A crew of
men is busy building troughs and get
ting ready for the king salmon run.
Joe Meherin, of the firm of Olson
& Meherin of Seattle, is in Chicago
selecting samples for his trade.
George Norton, manager of the Dil
ler Hoi el in Seatle, is a former Alas
kan, having lived at Cordova for.
some time; Sam Brightwell, oldtim
er of Seward, La touche, Valdez and
Cordova, and who under Marshal
Brenneman served as deputy U. S.
Marshal at Cordova, is now a clerk
at the Diller Hotel, Seattle.
C. H. Packard, old time Alaskan
newspaper man, printer and prospec
tor, is now located in Everett, being
the representative there of the Un
ion Record, of Seattle. Mr. Packard
has just been awarded t he contract
for getting out the 12th anuual edi-1
tion of the Everett Labor Journal,;
which wlil come out July 4, next. It
will be a booster edition and under;
Mr. Packard’s direction should be a
fine, constructive publication.
Eleven vessels from the Orient
have coaled and taken on fuel oil at1
Unalaska this winter and the port is
increasing in importance.
Sergeant William Rogers of the
Signal Corps, stationed at Valdez, will
arrive in Seward on the Alameda, en
route to Chignik to open the wireless
station there for use by the Army
aviators. Sgt. Rogers is one of the
oldest men in point of service on the
system, having been stationed on the
trail for many years.
SEWARDITES ENTERTAINED
AT MILE SEVEN SATURCAY
Prof, and Mrs. A. J. Goodskey, and
the Misses Betty Dykstra and Virginia
Hawkins, spent the Sabbath at Haw
kins’ bungalow at Mile 7, mushing out
Saturday morning and back last night
While at the popular resort, the party
were lavishly entertained, a party and
dance being given at the home of Mr.
Hendrickson. There was card play
ing, reciting, debating, dancing and
other amusements. Prof. Goodskey
and Miss Dykstra carried off the ten
ors in the shoe-pac quadrille. Nejfly
every Saturday now, some Seward^es
take advantage of the hospitality of
Mr. Hawkins and spend the nightjn
his bungalow, where some great tires
are had.
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Miller Creek In Old
Yukon Still Active
(Anchorage Daily Alaskan)
Charles McDowell returned to Daw
son recently from a trip to Miller and
Glacier Creeks. He reached Miller
creek just in time to share in Chiist
mas festivities there, and was invited
to join in the good cheer prevailing.
After an elaborate dinner a whist
tournament was arranged between the
people of upper and lower Miller, in
which William Barry and Pat Owens,
the upper Miller Creek champions,
were the winners.
In speaking of the mining activties
on Miller, Mr. Dowell said to a rep
resentative of the Dawson News:
“William Barry and Michael Dulin
have struck good pay on some bench
ground on the upper end of Miller and
are taking out a good dump.
“Collins and Weinberg are working
a crew taking out satisfactory pay,
and another crew of men is engaged
by them in doing prospecting and de
velopment work.
“Pat Owens and partner, Mr. Gay,
are mining on upper Miller, and also
have satisfactory pay.
“John Paul, who owns a large block
around on lower Miller, is making
preparations to work it on a largcer
scale, and is making preparations to
install a hydraulic plant in the spring.
He aiso contemplates the purchase of
a Holt caterpillar tractor.
“Jakie Debold has a number of
claims on Big Gold, near the mouth of
Glacier, and is taking out fair pay
this winter. He contemplates install
ing a big scraping plant on his prop
erty next summer. Jakie welcomes
all comers to his hospitable home and
his place is called the “Skinner’s Par
adise.” He is a splendid cook, and it is
a pleasure to partake of the good
cheer he provides.
“Mr. Greenburg is prospecting on
Big Gold. He has not struck pay as
yet, but has found encouraging pros
pects.
“John Spradley at the old roadhouse
near Glacier has mined successfully
for several years at that place. He op
erates with a scraping plant and
handles a large quantity of pay dire
each season.
“Middleton, Bungate and Hunter al
so are operating on Glacier Creek, and
are doing well on their property.
“Tred Hurst, who gained local
faiws as a breeder of fine Airdales,
has a wood contract and employs a
fine string of Airedales to assist in
hauling.
“J. T. E. Bridgewater, accountant
for Collins, Weinberg and Collins, has
had great succes swith his radio re
ceiv ng set, having picked up messag
es, music, etc., from thirteen broad
casting stations. The only serious
difficulty he experiences is that his
batteries become drained and he is
forced to send them to Dawson to be
recharged. There seems to be little in- !
terference in receiving with his set ex- j
cept from the powerful radio stantions
throuhgout Alaska.”
WILLIAM LEE AND WIFE
ARRIVE FROM WIDE BAY
Wm. Lee and wife arrived on the
btarr lrom Wide Bay, where Mr. Lee
has a valuable property, which it is
stated has been leased at a handsome
figure to an outside company. Mr.
Lee is an oldtimer in the district, and
his good fortune is appreciated by his
many friends.
CANNERY WORKERS BUY
MUCH ALASKAN FURS
A large loss of revenue is caused
the Territory each year by cannery
workers from the Outside purchasing
furs which are taken Outside and
sold at a profit.
The KOHLER
Automatic POWER
and LIGHT Plant
—requires no storage batteries
for power and light
—produces standard 110 volt
electricity
'—has a capacity of 1500 watts or
two electrical horsepower
—operates simply at the touch
of any button anywhere on
the circuit
Write for illustrated literature.
Come in and see the plant in
operation
C. E. Orlander
TRIP TO UNALASKA
TOLD B YCORRESPONDENT
Unalaska, Alaska,
Feb. 1, 1924.
Dead Editor.
See Rome*first, then die, signified
to the Latins the desired end of life.
Seattle is the pun that the Washing
tonians spring, but to those who
would remain rapt in adoration among
the beautitudes that never pall no
matter how long the trip, i Commend
the journey by water from the dock
in Elliott bay to the one at Unalaska.
the metropolis of the Aleutian isl
ands.
The description of Niagara are over
done. Niagara is a big water roar
which has had, and has, zealous press
agents. The Yosemite Valley is a
beautiful picnic park over which elo
quent tourists who had the privilege
of airing their superlatives in some
one of the first few magazines lurid
ly colored. Yellowstone Park is a
fine collection of natural cauldrons
that spill over frequently, and has a
tine system attached for collecting
spare coin which is scarcely equalled
to the Alpining-for-your-cash deni
zens ol the Alps. And there are oth
<is. Lut they are all comparatively
small places, and are easily brought
under the expploitation of the brig
ands who happen to have strangle
holds on them. No one has taken the
pains to systematically whoop for Al
aska. The place is too big. n0 man,
or set ot men, can corral the whole
,Place and adroitly find out how much
cash you have in your pocket, and
then put you on the right toboggan
that will leave you high and dry at
the end of the run..
To those who would know some
thing of the grandeur of the natural
scenery ot Alaska, I respectfully re
fer the books of anyone who has writ
ten on that subject. No matter how
grandeloquent and expansive the
writer’s imagination may seem to
have run, or what a vocabulary of su
perlatives he may have employed in
his descriptions the descriptions fall
far short of the actual art gallery that
the Creator has spread over this part
of His Footstool,
One of the most picturesque of the
settlements in Alaska is the village
of Unalaska, six days’ steamship trav
el west of Seward, which is seven
days from Seattle. Unalaska is the
center of trade for the Aleutian isl
ands, and when on stops ot think that
the islands extend as far as from one
Canadian line to the Mexican border
it will begin to seep in that they are
some islands.
1 came up from Seattle on the S.S.
Starr. I am convinced that the guy
who wrote “Rocked in the Cradle of
the Deep” was on the Starr on her
maiden trip. But that undoubtedly is
owing to the fact that as far as deep
sea sailing goes I am a “chick-a-ko.”
The Captain of this ship has the en
viable reputation of having never lost
a ship or a man in his long career on
the sea.
Unalaska is approached from Ber
ing Sea. The most easily seen land
mark is the Greek Catholic church. A
mission having been established here
over a hundred years ago. Sitka
spruce were planted here in that first
year, and they have not attained the
magnificent height of fifteen feet.
The assertion that timber will not
grow on the Aleutial isls. is absolutely
false. Before I came to the Aleutian
islands I asked what the natives did
for a living, and was told that in the
summer they slept and fished, and in
the winter they could not fish. But
this also is a fabrication. The winter
time is the season when hunting is
chief industry, and there are many
furs brought in from the distant parts
of the islands.
As I stood at the top of the gang-1
plank when the Starr drew into the
dock I was met by the efficient su
perintendent of the Jesse Lee Home,
wrlio welcomed me with all the ardor
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of a man from Tacoma from which 4 A
place I discovered he was.
The business of the wharf center
ed round a medium-sized man of dom
inant deportment whom i determined
must be the excellent chap described
to me by the office in Seattle. I was
not mistaken, and the hospitality ex
tended to me is to be equalled only
in the south, or by some place in Al
aska similar to Unalaska. I was ex
tended an equally warm welcome by
The Lady among the ladies. Both
keep open house for their friends,
and for the stranger who so-journeth
within the gate, and both are grate
fully remembered from all parts of
the world.
The United States government
maintains at Unalaska a Deputy Mar
shal, a physician in charge of the Me
dical service for the Aleutian islands,
a customs office also clothed with au
thority of administering the law, and
a custodian of animal and bird lift*.
The marshal, though a bachelor, is a
lover ol his fellows, and numerous
informal social events are staged in
his quarters to the intense gratifica
tion of all of the participants. The
physician dearly enjoys a rod and
gam and shows his love of outdoor
sport by not using either. The com- ^
missioner metes out justice to the in
digent natives, and the birdman be
sides attending to his duties as pro
tector of the Aleutian natural life, is
qualifying as the best and most en
tertaining story teller of his tribe.
The territory maintains here an ef
ficient school of eight grades with a
total enrollment of one hundred and
one. A large number of these report
from the Jesse Lee Home, an orphan
age maintained by the M. E. church, ^
and which has in it at this time
twenty-six boys and forty-three girls
The teachers are worthy and well
j qualilied, duly and truly prepared, of
successful experience, and great per
■ sonal charm. The principal for years
! was in state institutional work in Vir
ginia and is a real representative of
the Old Dominion. The instructor
in the grammar grades is from the
isle of Porto Rico, and a native or
Pittsburgh. She has captivated all
the hearts that can enthralled which
includes all that are located in this .
village. The next in line is a prod
uct of the Jesse Lee Home, a worthy
representative of that excellent insti
tution, and a young lady who is wor
thy of emulation by many of the peo
ple outside who imagine that they
have no chance to get any place in
theworld. And in control of the pri
mary grades is a young lady whom
the pupil adore as do the rest of the
public here. The school is not excel
ed by any of the schools down in the
States.
And if any of the highbrows outside
think that they are coming to a land
of uncouthness, of social crudeness,
of ignorance, or semisavagery they
will be happily surprised to find all
social events conducted with strict
observance of the habits and customs
prevalent in Washington, D. C., New
York, Chicago, Seattle, or any other
center that prides itself upon its cult.
Our pianos are kept in tune, and our
musicians play classic music. The vo
cal selections are of the best and are
rendered by cultured voices. At our
social gatherings our neighbors and ^
their affairs are left severely alone
and the discussion runs to the latest
events which are happening in the
world with which the radio station at
Dutch Harbor keep in touch.. The
latest books, and magazines are evi
dence. And frequently readings are
given interspersed by piano and violin
recitals. The step from the outside
is into one’s own familiar family cir
cle.
At some future date I may tell you
more about the Jesse Lee Home, and
of the Spanish class with which the
good folk of Unalaska are now occu
pying their spare moments.
HERBERT B. WENTZ.
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