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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 191. ~ .. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, ' OffiOifeiTYoT 19261 __ — - TEN CENTS PKfc CdPf .
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CORK, Oct, :i0— British Intelli
gence officer? declared today that they
were in iw dpt of infoiination that
every off eer and man ot th*' millitary
forces-of (Meat Britain who appeared
on the >t ecu of Coi k tomorrow was
likely to he shot.
LONDON. Oct., ::0— Sinn Fein ex
ecutives dot i<led to postpone the 21c
Swinev funeral until Monday and have
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protest'd agam l die governments ac
tion restricting tht procession to not
more than a quail 'd ot a mile in
length.
< WASHINGTON. Oct. :'.0— Friends
of Irish Freedom announced Unlay
that a memo> nil service lor the Laic
Lord Mayor McSwiney would be hcid
thioughout the United States tomor
row. Bishop ihahan lector of the Ca
tholic University in his se .
*•#nn High .Lass yesterday said that
never before in tne history ol man
kind has the ye ever been an individual
action of sen. suiriiue equal to that
of McSwiivy whom ho said had won
the reject amt admit awioii oi even his
i'liimies.
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RANGERS NEEDED BY
ti.K FOREST SERVK K
The United States Civil Seme*'
Commission will hold an open com
petit’W* ixamination for forest ranger
on October 25, 1!>20, at the various Na
tional Forest headquarters of the Nor
th Pacific District, located at Cordova
and Ketchikan, Alaska; Albany, Baker
Bend, Eugene. Grants Pass, John Day,
Lakeview, Medford, Pendleton, Port
land, Prineville, Roseburg, and'Wal
lowa, Oregon; Bellingham, Okanogan,
Olympia, Republic, Seattle, Tacoma,
Walla Walla, and Wenatchee, Wash
ington.
Persons desiring to enter this ex
amination should sc|ure application
form 1312, from the Civil Service
Commission or from the Forest Sup
ervisor at any of the places where the
examination is to be held.
Candidates must be between the
ages of twenty-one and forty years.
They must be able-bodied and are re
quired to pass a medical examination.
Persons whose military service en
titles them to preference are released
from age requirements. Other require
ments are at least a common-school
education and knowledge of the rudi
ments of compass surveying, timber
e t’mating and scaling, land laws, and
and the livestock business.
Forest ranging offers men who like
the forests and mountains an oppor
tunity for a vigorous outdoor life
where they may fight forest fires,
build trails, telephone lines, and cab
ins. To a person fond of an outdoor
life the w’ork is varied, interesting and
healthful. However, the forest ranger
must be willing to endure hardship if
1 necessary*. His work often takes the
ranger into remote regions where he
must know how to take care of him
self and his saddle horses.
Applicants who reside in the state
where they take the examination are
given preference in appointment over
non-residents. Preference is also giv
en by act of Congress to honorably
discharged soldiers, sailors, and ma
rines, who should attach to their appli
cations their original discharge or a
photostat copy or a certified copy
thereof, or their official record of ser
vice, which will be returned after in
spection by the Commission.
The work of a forest ranger gives
the necessary training to make an ex
pert woodsman. Many rangers devel
op special skill along some pnase Of
their work, — as timber cruising, sur
veying, logging, engineering, or tele
phone construction. . .
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IELAQRAPH
FLASHES
ODDS TEN TO ONE
SEATTLE , Oct., 30— A specia
message to the Post Intelligencer ol
Seattle from Wall street says the odds
in the betting on the result of the elec
tion are ten to one for l
st Cox. In Seattle they are Four tc
one.
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KIDS FIND MANY CHECKS
OKMULGEE, Okla., Oct., 30— Twc
m gro kids playing in an Indian grave
yaid at this place tin lay found several
mail pouches filled with letters and
containing scores of chocks amounting
to more than $200,000. The sacks are
some of those stolen from a train last
..iMuiU. fhey wire open and most oi
tin* letters were strewn on the grave.
WINTER HITS IDAHO
IDAHO Falls, Oit.. 30— A fierce
blizzard is sweeping this section of
Idaho today. The snow is drifting rap
idly caused by a gale which has reach
ed a velocity of more than forty miles
per hour.
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SEES HIGH OFFICIALS
WASHINGTON, Oct., 30— E. L.
Rice an aeroplane inventor of the Pa
cific Coast has filed suit in the Su
preme Court to recover $102,000,000
damages against Secretary La
Lurleson and other Democratic mem
bers of the House, also several army
officers whom he charges with pigeon
holing all the orders to purchase aero
planes containing his invention.
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JAPANESE ARRESTED
SEATTLE, Oct. 30— Thirteen Ja
panese, said to be. agents of a gigan
tic smuggling ring engaged in bring
ing Japanese to the Pacific Coast in
violation of the immigration laws were
ai rested here today. The Japanese
Government has promised to make
similar arrests throughout Japan in ai.
effort towards exterminating the rinj.
entirely.
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ANOTHERa COAL SRTRIKE
CHARLEROI, Belgium, Oct., 30
Fifty thousand coal miners at thL
•place plan to strike Monday following
a decision made when their demands
for a wage advance were rejected.
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MRS. WILSON VOTES
WASHINGTON, Oct., 30— The
President’s wife today voted. She
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marked her ballots and sent them from
the White House to Princeton by
mail.
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OIL USE INCREASES
WASHINGTON, Oct., 30— The
consumption of oil reached the high
water mark in September, while pro
| duction decreased slightly.
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NOTICE
The city water will be shut off to
| night at eight o’clock on parts of Ad
i ams, Fourth and Fifth streets.
, COAL DEALERS INDICTED
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BIRMINGHAM'S., Oct., 30— The
Federal Grand Jury today indicted
eleven retail coal dealers and two mine
operators on the charge of violating
the Lever Act
SOME DANCE TONIGHT
Lo*-h1 soldiers some decorators.
The boys have been kept quite busy
(hiring eke whole forenoon, finish fog
tin* decorations and bringing in the
refreshments for this evenings’ choice.
Many people have ahead)* seen how
well the hall is decorated, and*their
opinion is that never was a dance hall
so profusely decked out in this town.
If you like to ch.nce. If you l:ke to fox
trot. If you like to waltz. If you like
to hav<» a good, jolly time* put on you
co'tuine and mask tonight and be lea
dy to dance with the bunch at nine o’
clock.
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3T. John’s N. F. Oct., 29— Recent
surveys of Labrador which have dis
closed immense resources of timber
suitable for pulp and paper manufact
ure have led to a revival of efforts to
bring about a determination of the
boundary line between Newfoundland
and the Canadian province of Quebec.
This line has never been laid down by
actual survey and its various definit
ions a; given in documents issued at
intervals in the last century and a
half a o so vauge that government of
j i'icials do not know just how much of
Labrador belongs to Newfoundland
■ and how much to Canada.
Thi.t Labrador is rich in many na
tural lesources, including enormous)
vaterj ower, has long been known, but
the practicability of utilizing its for- j
e>is for i riper making was not demon
strated until the world-wide paper
shortage led to exhaustive investiga- j
uoiio of the territory. This resulted in ;
applications by promoters to the New-1
foundiand government for timber lim-4
.ts in Labrador. As these could no. bo ,•
acted upon until it was determined ’
.vhother Newfoundland owned the land j
n question, representatives of this col
3ny were sent to London late in the
summer to discuss with eminent Eng
lish counsel the preparation of a for
nul draft of Newfoundland’s Labra
dor claims as opposed to those of Can
ada.
3 be coast of Labrador was annexed |
to Newfoundland in 1763. Ten years
later, owing to difficulties arising out
of giants made to a number of per
sons under the French rule, it was
changed to Canadian jurisdiction. In
1801) it was again transfered to New
foundland and has since been attached
co this colony.
The difficulty arises over differ
ent interpretations of the words “coast
of Labrador”. One view is that New
foundland can claim only the coast be
tween Blanc Sablon and Cape Chidley,
with perhaps a half a mile inland, and
that the rest of Labrador belongs to
Canada. As defined in the letters pat
ent constituting the office of Gover
nor of Newfoundland, the boundary
was described as a line drawn between
Blanc Sablon and Cape Chidley, which
would.pass through the ocean in cer
tain sections and leave large areas of
the coast to the westward of the line
and therefore not under Newfoundland
jurisdiction.
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SEWAUI) METHODIST CHURCH
Open Forum Class 10:45 A. M.
Sunday School 11 A. M.
Morning Sermon 12: Noon.
Evening Service 7:30
Discussion in the Open Forum Class
:— “The Ideal Life”.
Subject* of Morning Sermon:— “A
Constructive Program.”
Evening Subject:— “The Power ol
the (iospel”.
For the Evening Service the Special
Music will be; A selection by the Choir
and a Solo Ijy Dr. Wilson.
Dr. McQueen will preach both morn
ing ami evening. As he leaves soon you
wiiL want to hear him.
To all the above Service you are in
vited.
Duane Earl Carter, Pastor.
Dr. McQueen is well worth hear
ing and those of you who wish to go
to church and attend the show aftei
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wards will find ample time. (
UTI1S BEATING IT
RIGA, Oct., 30— The Lithunian
government is hastily evacuating Kev
no and removing all railway material
as a result of General Zellgouskies ar
my having broken the lines forty live
miles north east of the city. The of
fensive is continuing along the entire
front.
Many Newfoundland officials hold
to the view that the correct delimita
tion was made in a sessional paper is
sued in this colony in 1864. Under the
phraseology of this document New
foundland would be entitled to thous
ands of square miles of the interior of
the Labrador peninsula in addition to
*the coast.
in view of these facts it is some
what surprising that the value of the
piii.uuy aluminum produced in the
United States in 1919, $35,558,000,
was about 6 percent less than that in
1918, according to the United States
Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior. This decrease, however, was
due chiefly to the accumulation of
large stocks in 1918. With a favorable
market the output in 1920 may be
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NOT USED FOR BLASTING
Brown and Hawkins have purchased
from Mrs. Charles Hubbard, the local
Agency for Klim, the well known
powdered whole milk. B. & H«.will
carry a complete stock of the differ
ent size cans of Klim in their Gracery
Department
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ALASKA WOMAN
DIES IN SEATTLE
News received By the Gateway last
evening states that Mrs. George An
derson wife of George Anderson of
Willow Creek died in Seattle on Oct.,
10th! Mrs. Anderson who had many
friends in Alaska was particularly
well known in Anchorage. She was a
musician of unusual ability and will be
sincerely missed by the many friends
she had in the Territory.^
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HIGH SCHOOLS
Washington, Oct., 28— New
high schools have been added to the
American educational system at the
i rate of at least one a day during the
i las\ *28 years. #
Statistics compiled by the Federal
Bureau of Education show that there
are now more than 17,000 such schools
an increase of 452 percent over the
number in 1800. Attendance figures
from 14,000 of the schools give a to
tal of 1,735,619 schoolars, ihdicating
in effect that one-tenth of the popula
tion is getting high school educations,
the bureau states.
Only 632 of the school reporting to
the bureau enroll 500 students each
and 278 enroll over 1,000, while one
' half of the 13,951 schools tabulated
r have an enrollment of between 27 and
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! 100 students. City high schools con
stitute less than 10 percent of the to
' tal. They enroll 52 percent of all.stu
dents. Almost 85 percent of the high
j schools are rural with 40 percent of
j the students.
As 65 percent of the schools offer
ing a four-year course have terms of
1 only : 80 days during the year, a
longer school course have tcims of on
ly 180 days during the year, a longer
l school term is “unmistakably foresha
dowed." according to bureau officials.
The schools cost thousands of dollars
to envet and to utilize the property
for only lo0 days a year is “bad judge
ment/’ the statement said.
The number of high school gradu
ates has increased from 21,882 in 1900
to 224,367 in 1918. Considering the in
crease in population during this period
it is found that American yojuths are
becoming over six times as well edu
cated as they were.
The state of Texas leads in percent
age of high school graduates who con
tinue their studies in prepratory school
or college. North Carolina and Ken
tucky are second and third respective
ly
The average high school principal,
the statistics show, receives $1,272 a
year, or about $100 a month for the
entire year. Principals of the District
of Columbia, California, Arizona,
Massachusetts and New York receive
the highest salaries in the order nam
ed, while Nebraska pays the lowest
average salary.
In 1918 there were 81,034 high i
school teachers, as compared ttith 9,- j
120 in 1890. Since 1902 there has been j
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a steady increase of women entering i
the profession and today only 34 per
cent of all high-school teachers are
men.
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9P.M.SHARP
SATURDAY DANCE
NOTICE
Come One — Come All
To The
MASQUERADE
Ball and Dance on
HOLLOWEEN
NIGHT '
At ODD FELLOWS Hall
Good Music and Refresh
ments. PRIZES
Ladies Artiitk
Gents Comedian
No Men Allowed in
Ladies Costume.
BARRACK- NOTES
BARRACK NOTES
Boys extend a glad hand. We have
with us a new painter, he paints with
iodine.
A bachelor is a man who has no
wife, doesn't want a wife, and can't
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get a wife.
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An old saying is: “Where there is
smoke there is fire." Now you have
gas, get busy and find the oil.
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We have a medical department now,
it is composed of Private Beyer.
WANTED— A position as a chick*
en dresser. By a neat appearing young
man. hirst*class hotels prefered. Call
0. M. Brown.
(Wadya mean?)
Tonight is the big night Why not
post guards around every fence, chick
en coop, and coal house?
And don’t forget the DANCE.
A Young lady of this town remark
ed, “This weather is fine for ducks but
it is hard on the chickens.
“Tim” Johnson received a report
that his acting was all to the good. In
oilier words he made a success as a
hero in “Dorothy, a Daughter of
Alaska.”
Indoor Sports; Doing K. P.
Outdoor sports; Wading through
rain.
►Some-facts worth kppwing:—• .
Arkans^ uses apples for cash when
f urchasing beef from Texas.
ti» yah drinks grape juice.
Alabama is attached to Virginia for
rath>ns.
A Demirep is a fur bearing
tfcmebody will be elected for prest
cier.t.
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NEW GATEWAY FEATURE
The Editorial Staff of the Seward
Gateway has been strengthened by the
addition of a society editoress. Miss
Elsie Leslie wiU handle the social hap
penings of Seward in a column which
will appear every Saturday and we
kindly ask you to co-operate with her
in every way possible so that every
item of possible interest that occurs
during the week will appear on Satur
day. Tell her verbally, call her on the
piione or send her a written communi
cation. Notices of meetings and social
gatherings will be published as usual
in the Gateway during the week.
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NEGOTIATIONS SOON
WASHINGTON, Oct., 30— Formal
negotiations looking to the recogni
tion of the Mexican Govemmeht.it is
expected will be inaugurated immed
iately after the coming election. In ad
ministration circles it is pointed out
that full recognition depends entire
ly upon the action of Mexico as the
rebels against which the Antenjan
government protested which were
made by Carrhnxa haye not yet been
made. * . ,
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The largest high school in the Unit
estates is^tfce Polytechnic Evening
High School, Los Angeles, Califi,with
an enrollment eft 8,440.
, NOTICE “ •
City taxes are mom duo and may bo
paid at the office of H. Dougherty,
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