Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. C.—One of the :
most Interesting relics of early avia
tion extant has just been given the1
aviation branch of the United States
Army a3 a Christmas present,
was presented by Leon P. Lowe of
San Francisco. The relic is a piece
of the only balloon ever owned by the
Confederate State of America. The
balloon was made of pieces of silk
from the dresses of the women of
Richmond who contributed them for
that purpose during the setge of Rich
mond, the capital of the Southern
Confederacy.
The relic was found among the
effects of the lute l’rof. T. S. C. Lowe
who was aeronaut of the Union Army
of the Potomuc in the Civil War. Tho
donor of the relic is Prof. Lowe's son.
Picf. Lowe had'the rare distinction of
being the first aeronaut to take Count
Zeppelin up in a balloon. The exper
ience gave the famous German Count
much of the .inspiration \thtch later
piompted him to construct the tre
mendous heavier than air machines
which the Kaiser’s .Government now
is using in its aerial raids on the
Ik.giish Coast and'the city of London.
Pi of. Lowe also, was the first aeronaut
to take up an American army officer.
He took General Heintzman on an as
cension.
The balloon, a relic of which has
just come into the possession of the
av'a.tion branch of the army, was
captured from the Confederates and
ub it was ust-IOss for practical pur
poses, was cut up into the pieces £iv
on to various notables of the day.
While In possession of the Confeder
ate a, the balloon made but one as
cirsion and that not u very success
ful one. The use of balloons in the
Civil War was prompted by their use
in the Crimean War. General Me- 1
Clclland had an aviation corps of a
pr'mitive nature attached to his corps.
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TO INVESTIGATE MEXICO’S
SMUGGLING OF ARMS
WOMAN CONGRESSMAN
FOR FEDERAL
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Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau
W'ASiiiKU d'UN, Miss Jeanne At
..uiikin, newly elected Congresswoman
uom luoticuna and too mat woman to
a* emceed 10 Congress is out ootnlj
.or the adoption oi a loueral consutu
ticral amendment providing for wo
men sumage. She has telegraphed
..ns. Walter MeNabb Miller, Vice
. nsident of the national Association
.or W oman bum-age, who makes liei
noadquartois here, denying reports
that she is in favor of suiie-by-stale
adoption of woman sumage. Miss
Konkin says tout sumage must be
granted to all women of the United
mates by virtue of an amendment to
ir Constitution.
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to attend a special meeting to be hold
idler the regular meeting of the Nome
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Following we me lowest nc.'iii
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n the .la; s Icaignuled. Tin. minus
gn before a cumber means below
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U. S. Weather Bureau.
1916 1917
Feb. 1. 4 —22
Feb. 2. 25 —23
Feb. 8. . 17 —20
Feb. 4. . 18 —22
Feb. 5. 17 -9,
Feb. 6 . 12 6
Feb. 7. 0 22
Feb. 8. —1 20
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Paoiflo News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Represented! v
Kern of California is on the trail 01
smugglers of arms and ammunition
into Mexico. He has offered a resolu
tlno la the House providing tor an in
vestigation of reports that there is a
bold conspiracy to send large quanti
ties of munitions of war into the
southern republic. Mr. Kahn’3 resold
tic n would have Government officers
oi the Customs Division investigated
o determine whether or not there has
been any collusion of connivance on the
part of government officials in connec
tion with the unlawful forwarding' of
arms and ammunition into Mexico.
I Special Agents of the Customs Plvi
* sion and operatives of the Department
or Justice are looking for evidence of
a plot in which. Americans are believed
to be implicated for the supplying ox
munitions aid money to Mexicans.
New York and New Orelans banker,
are suspected of beixxg collected wit.,
ibe conspiracy.
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ALASKA NOTES
F<'om Our Exchanges
Andrew Vitol, an old timer of Ssw
ard and a French chef of ability, died
recently at Seward at the age of ^5.
An enterprising Douglas saloon
keeper now sells draught beer over
the bar at 6 cents per.
The sum of 1278.30 was recently
netted at an emertaiment given by
Anchorage for the benelit of the Alas
ka Labor Union at that place.
Ivan Seaberg, a ICoyukuk miner
who arrived at the northern er.mp
early In the summer, waa killed re
cently-by a falling ginpole.
Judge Bunnell of the district court
at Fairbanks, has appointed A. J.
Griffin as1 United States Commissioner
at Richardson to succeed E. E. James
Sidney D. Charles for the past throe
yedrs city editor and editorial writer
for the Juneau Daily Dispatch, has
resigned and will branch out In busi
ness for himself.
The Atlas Educational Film Co. has
agreed to feature Anchorage In a
1000- foot reel of motion pictures, to be
exhibited throughout the country for
.ho small sum of $500.
The statement published recently
by' two banks in Anchorage show tha.
their combined deposits aggregate.
about $750,000, a remarkable show
.ng for a community only about a [
year old.
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Joe Brown, a Mexican, was arreste i
recently in Douglas for selling liquor
to natives. Hcv was convicted in the
Commissioner’s court and sentenced
to 200 days In the federal jail at Ju
neau.
Lena Morrow Lewis the candidate
of the Socialist party in the recent
> lection for delegate to congress. Is
new engaged in writing for the An
| chora ge Labor News. Mr3. Lewis is
j a writer of great ability.
The children of the native Sunday
j School at Sitka recently contributed
i the sum of $25 for the relief of the
itarving children of Armenia. Many
natives are nerving In the Northbnc
but the Armenians must bo fed first.
The common council of Seward has
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A K SHl IRFRY fnr 25-27 WES r AUSTIH AVE. j
ri. fl. jnUDLKi,mC. Dept. 72 CHICAGO, U.S.A. |
. "■'■i- ‘ ‘;1 '
repealed the ordinance providing for
the ringing ol the curfew. Many peo
ple with shattered nerves objected to
the use of the alarm bell for this pur
pose and the practice will be discon
tinued.
The drivit-a of the piles on the 10
n*il« 'river bridge at Mile G5 on the
government railroad outr of ' Seward,
to replace a section of the bridge re
cently washed away was completed
the past week, and the line opened
to Kern creek.
The IJcrax pass district is declared
to be the coming Rand of the United
on* lea when the transportation be
elines available. There is no known
mineral that the district does not show
in unlimited quantities und unlimiteu
water power and coal.
Shall the city of Juneau purchas
of K. F. Rewis, the present owner, the
Juneau water works system at a pnc
Of $100,000, is the question now agi
tating the people and the common
council of that city'. Rewis agrees to
accept $28,000 down adn the remain
der »o be paid in yearly payments cov
.. i.ig a period of eight years.
Mrs. R. Murdock of Fallbrtdgc.
Wash., Is enquiring for her brothei
v\ illiain M. Sells, who idi believed- to
or somewhere in Alaska, lie is de
scribed as being 38 years of age. u
feet 4 inches in height and weigh
unween 136 and 140 pounds. Has
light blue eyes, brown hair and the
ups o1' the first two Ungers and thumb
on left hand are missing.
The first issue of the Alaska Rail
mad Record, issued by the Alaska
Engineering Commissi Au has. made
its appearance. The Record includes
weekly (progress, official circulars,
dates of sailings, budding construc
tion, contract settlements, .land spe
cials, train schedules, weather data,
!w-isofials, new contracts, awarded,
mussing men, tho railroad Y. M. C. A.,
and other information of an officfiia
nature.
Moiur Merrill, un old timer of Fair
barks, who has been living In a
wi etched cabin at Chena In a state
-if destitution, has been arrested and
was given a' sentence of 25 days In
j<il> and fined $250 on a charge of va
gu.ncy. Terrill lost both feet- by
freeing some time ago £fnd was sup
plied with artificial. He it toe proud
to acept charity and refuses to go
r the Pioneer’3 Home, so the auth.ir
It’cs took this method of providing
-■win a home for the winter.
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UNRESTRICTED SEALING
PROBABLE IN 1917.
Pacific New3 Service, Wash. Bureau
\VA. KINGTON, U>. C:.—More than,
101,000 seal have 4>een added to the ;
protected herd in Alaskan waters|
'uri g 1016 according to Government!
reports. The herd notv numbers ap
proximately 400,000 The closed Sea
son, as provided. by . international
agreement, will close in 1917 and
many young males can then bo killed j
ot their pelts. This is expected to j
bring the price of seal skin—now very I
gh back to a normal price again.
Until the seal herd, which is dcclar
ed to hi the most valuable herd of any
l<i <1 of .mimals In the world, was
hriioil under government protection,
it was being rapidly destroyed by in
<!itcriminate hunters who killed the
• el regardless of sex and without re
i r 1 to the necessity for reproduction
■-•• save the breed. Tho seals have
been given a chance to multiply under
'.ho international agreement and have
token advantage of the opportunity
Ti e- Bureau of Fisheries has charge
of the herds which makps its home
on two American owned islands in
tl <■ Bering Sea.
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