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Feb. 22: Max. 38, Min. 31—i p. m. 36
Calm; Cloudy—Light S. Wind.
Feb. 24: Max. 40, Min. 33—4 p. m. 37
Calm—Cloudy.
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ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESULTS PUBLISHED 1)A1L\ LXCK1 1 SUNDAY___, . _ ———————
Vol ” N, a SEWAltl). THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1916. _ _ Ten Ont. the Copy
ARRANGING FOR
P. 0. CHANGES
IT TO FIRST OF MONTH CH UR*
M \ N KDKS H VO NOT FIX
ED IT WITH DEPT.
Chairman Etles of the Enginering
Commission had expected on Feb. 1
to have the arrangements made
quickly with the post office depart
ment for the change of location of
the Seward post office to the railroad
building. Judge S. O. Morford wrote
on the first of the month from Wash
ington that the arrangements hud not
been concluded at that time but that
they will be pretty quickly. Judge
Morford is expected back on the next
boat.
HAS TO WRITE 500
LETTERS A HO l T SEW ARD
J. E. Wooley estimates the number
of people who asked him to tell them
alt about Seward at five hundred. He
says it is almost impossible to imag
ine the interest which is exhibited
outside about this district and the
country to be served by the ralroad
generally. If anything, more people
are speaking of coming than were
speaking that way a year ago.
DEMOCRATS WILL SOON
CALL A CLl B MEETING
The Democratic dub v\ ill meet next
month to nominate candidates for'
election at the primaries. Eight dele
gates will be sent from here. At the
same time the club will elect new of- j
ficers.
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FOl'R NAMES MENTIONED
FOR CITY ATTORNEY
Four names have been mentioned
as probable candidates for the posi
tion of city attorney in addition to
Judge Green in case the people decide
to adopt the new method of electing
city officials. J. J. Finnegan and L.
L. James, both of whom had their
names mentioned, deny absolutely
that they have the least intention
whatever of looking for the place.
Both declare they would not accept it
as a present. The two others had not
been seen at the time this was writ
ten.
SOOTH CAROLINA IS
TALKING OK SEWARD
In a letter to John Kacerosky from
his brother, who lives in South Caro
lina, it is stated that Seward is all
the talk there just now. “Keep your
eyes on Seward,” says the writer.
“From what we learn here Seward is
going to make the big place in the
future. Please send me a few copies
of the Gateway as people here want
the news.” Mr. Kacerosky’s brother
is an officer in the United States
navy.
FIW9 NOTES
Dr. Knickerbocker will leave on the
next boat or so for the Tolovana and
other points in the interior. He and
Mrs. Knickerbocker will go by way of
Cordova.
The pile driver “blew off’ last night
and made a noise like an incoming
steamboat. Several people got out
of bed to get their mail.
E. M. Huff, district manager of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, has
been in Seward on business for some
days. His headquarters are in
Juneau.
Uncle Joe Irvine started out on the
train this morning and will get by
rail to Mile 12. From there he will
go with the Royeroft dog team to his
home.
The Gateway has received word
that Society, spelled in capitals,
spent a pleasant afternoon at Mrs.
Johnson’s tea rooms. The lady who
gave the information stated it that
w’ay jokingly but the place really
promises to be very popular.
This paper also received a request
to day to ask the person or persons
who removed a bucket from the house
next to A. B. hall on the night of the
Elk’s dance to return the most im
portant article.
LIKl'T, AND CHAUFFEUR
MARRIES A HEIRESS
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEW YORK. Feb. to.—From Nov.
y to Jan. 2b Miss Priscilla K. von B.
Ebling, daughter of Amanda Ebling
of Weehawken aa 1 heiress to
000, was the secret bride of Fred W.
Wolfort, once a Gorman army lieuten
ant. later her grandfather's chauffeur
and now manager of a tire firm in |
New York.
Wolfort won Miss Ebling despite
the opposition of guardians and rela
tives. Today,.Mrs. Wolfort being 21
she will take her freedom, her hus
band. her trunks and some of her
money an 1 they will go for a belated
honeymoon at Grove Hall, Asheville,
"Lieut. Wolfort,” said his bride to-.
day, "came to this country five years j
ago. He is athletic and energetic:
both in love and business. He did |
drive my grandfather's car for a time
but more as a friend of the family!
than anything else.
"My Mother never objected to my!
husband, but other relatives did be
cause they suit! he didn't have enough
money and because they thought I j
was too young. I told my mother j
when we were married at Gloucester,1
Mass.. la>t November but I never!
told anyone else.**
CELEBRITIES TAKE PART
IN GASPARILLA FETE
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
TAMPA. Fla.. Feb. 4.-~Thomas A.
Edison, James Whitcomb Riley, An
drew Carnegie, George Ade, William
Jennings Rryan, Henry Wattereon,
Mrs. Potter Palmer and about 100,000
other Florida residents and visitors
will celebrate the festival of Don Jose
Gasparilla, that ferocious cutthroat
who sailed the Spanish Main with a
dirk in his teeth and a red rag on his
head a century ago.
Plans to organize a Gulf Coast
Chamber of Commerce, with a view
of replacing, for Americans, the
Italian Riviera with the winter re
sorts along the Mexican Gulf, were to
be discussed at a meeting here dur
ing the carnival ami South Florida
fair. In the membership of the pro
posed chamber of commerce would be
included Gulf coast cities from Key
West to Corpus Christi, Tex. The
chamber also would discuss plans for
a cross continent highway, to be
known as the old Spanish trail, from
Miami, on the Florida east coast, to
the Pacific along the Gulf coast route.
With festival dancing in the
streets, allegorical and historical
pageants, and a sub-tropical fair,
the carnival .is to last until February
12. Harness and running races are to
be featured daily. Most of the floats
and pageants feature the vain at
tempts of treasure-seekers to recov-1
er the vast quantities of gold which
Gasparilla and his crew are said to
have buried on Gasparilla island,
near Boca Grande.
THE SILK WORM HAS TURNED
AND MILADY MUST PAY HIGH
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
CHICAGO, Feb. 8.—With prosper
ity at high mark and millions of
women financially entitled to revel in
silk stockings, gowns and lingerie,
the silkworm has turned. In other
words, it has gone on a stirke,
j Chicago wholesalers declare.
To add to the increased prices of
clothing due to shortage of dyestuffs
because of the war, the whole world
; of styles and textiles is on its knees
| before the royal cocoon. Everywhere
j the raw silk crop is lighter.
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COUTTS HEARING TODAY
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The hearing in the Coutts case was
scheduled to begin at 2:30 this after
noon. James and Woolly represent
: Mr. Coutts.
MOOSE TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the Seward
•Lodge Loyal Order of Moose will be
j held this evening.
Frank Burley, our former baseball
player, is now occupying a position
with the Alaska Juneau Mining com
pany in its mill near Juneau. He is
also making a name for himself in
the basket ball world down there.
"DO ANYTHING” NILES SHOWS JAPANESE
SOME OF THE LATEST AVIATION STUNTS
, . v... , i*'ifi m “Daredevil" Niles- Ida real name ih Charles I*\ Niles-recently went to Japan to snow
himself to the crowd after a flluht; No 3. the SViator In his machine ] _
THE BOMBS USED
BY THE GERMANS
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
(Special to Gateway by United Press) j
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 2.—German J
trench bombs fired from rifles, un
loaded by ally army experts show j
these rifle bombs to be the most in- j
tricate of all bombs so far used in
the great war. Four separate ex
plosions are required to fire a bomb: j
The explosion of the rifle sends the!
bomb perhaps 200 yards, where it j
alights on its nose exploding a per
cussion cap, which lights a brass cap
filled with gun cotton, which also ex- i
plodes and causes half a pound of gun
cotton in the main body of the bomb
to be exploded. The bomb weighs ■
only a pound, is no more deadly than
most other trench bombs and costs
perhaps ten dollars.
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 2.—At last
the warriors have got down to using
clubs; just ordinary clubs, for brain
ing men. The Austro-German
soldiers are supplied with bludgeons
and on parts of the British front the
ally soldiers have been furnished
clubs covered with spikes. These
British clubs look much like the Big
Stick American cartoonists used to
picture T. R. using. The clubs are
for use by troops enterting trenches
on the sly and slaying noiselessly so
that men in other parts of the trench
es don’t know what is going on.
One of the newest missies in the
great war is a huge shell the Germans
threw at the Dardanelles. Only air
guns could throw the shell without
exploding it, and these air guns must
be ten inches in bore and many feet
long. One of these big shells which
fell in the British line unexploded has
been taken apart by experts. It was
tea inches in diameter and fifteen
inches high, made of sheet steel with
wooden plug-disks at each end. This
big steel can contained seventy-six
pieces of scrap iron and twenty five
pounds of tri-nitro-toluol. The mis
sle weighed 51 pounds. The firing of
the big shell must have been touchy
work. Imagine a fire cracker ten
inches thick, that would blow a hole
in the earth six feet deep and ten feet
in diameter. Imagine yourself fac
ing the duty of lighting the fuse on
this fifty-one pound cracker and then,
while the fuse was sputtering, placing
the cracker in the mouth of a giant
air gun in time to get the cracker out
of your neighborhood before it went
Most hand bombs don’t go oil by
contact. They must be lighted lirst
and then thrown. Sometimes the
lighting is done with a match or a
cigaret; other times by pulling a lit
. .,tg which rubs two strips ol
sulphur together somewhere in the
handle of the bomb. Both sides in
the great war have bombs of various
sorts for various needs. If the enemy
is oncoming, for instance, you must
have a bomb that will explode quick
ly; if you’re rushing toward him you
need a bomb thaf you can throw far
ahead and that will have done its job
oy the time you reach the scene.
The Fernch have the fastest hand
bomb known. The thrower wears a
leather thong on his wrist, and A hook
on this thong is attached to a hook
on the bomb. The act of throwing
lights the fuse, which is so short and
so quick burning that the explosion
is almost immediate.
The slowest bomb, perhaps, is the
Servian. It is shaped like a pocket
whiskey flash, neck, stopper and all
and is of iron and brass. The throw
er unscrews the brass top, hits a fir
ing pi a on a stone or the butt of his
rifle and then, after a space of seven
seconds throws it, v The bomb throbs
in the man’s hand just before it is1
due to explode, giving him warning.
If he throws the bomb too soon the
other fellow may pick it up and throw
it back at him. Bomb experts figure
that any soldier can pick up a lighted
bomb and throw it away from himself
if he has five seconds to spare.
TODAY’S ODDEST STORIES
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
GARY, Ind., Feb. 8.—It was so cold
here during a performance of a musi
cal comedy that the chorus girls shiv
ered until their knees knocked to
gether. A bald headed man in the
rear got so excited he rushed to the
box office and bought a front seat,
thinking a new dance was being pre
sented.
GARY, Ind., Feb. 8.—Charles Ale
became so indignant when a bandit
tried to hold up him and his friend,
Miss Barbara Meyers, that he chased
the robber for an hour. He quit then
because he couldn’t run any more.
Miss Meyers went on home.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION
TO GIVE BIG DANCE
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ANCHORAGE, Feb. 25.—The Fed
eral Labor Union will give a big
dance here on Saturday night in aid
of the funds required for the building
of a labor temple. Over two hundred
tickets have already been sold.
BILL FAIRMAN
SOLDPROPERTY
Professor Herschell Parker ha^re
ceived word from William Fairman
that the latter has sold his property
at the head of Quartz creek, the same
creek on which the professor and his
associates hold a large amount of
ground. Mr. Fairman’s ground con
sists of quartz and placer and is at
the head of the creek. He is also in
terested with the Professor in the
lower part of the stream. Quartz
creek is the one that was prospected
last fall by Case who stated that he
represented the Miami Company.
From what Mr. Parker has heard he
believes the prospecting by Mr. Case
was not done in the place to which he
had been directed. It is said that he
drilled in the flat where the valley is;
about a mile in width, and not from
the canon up a3 he had been expected
to do. The Professor has drilled
Quartz creek with a small drill from
the mouth up. He found it too deep
near the mouth but went further up.
Three miles up he found bedrock at
forty-five feet and in one place at
least he found prospects that indicat
ed values of about a dollar a yard.
NO INTEREST TAKEN
IN THE ELECTION
Only about a hundred and fifty
people had registered today at S
o’clock as voters in the election which
will take place next Tuesday to decide
the manner of electing a city council
and its officials. The books will be
closed tomorrow night at 10 o’clock
but will be open all the time up to
that hour that day and also this
evening. There is apparently very
little interest being taken in the mat
ter.
ALASKA IS TO DRAW A BLANK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Brigadier
General Weaver, chief of the Coast
Artillery, told the members of the
House committee on military affairs
this afternoon, that in his judgment
and opinion “Alaska needs no heavy
artillery for its defense.” The .re
marks created some surprise as it is
known that the administration plans
embraced extra precautions for the
defense on the coast of Alaska.—Ju
neau Empire.
The story that C. L. Votaw fell into
the Kenai river and lost some money
was a mistake. This is said in justice
to Mr. Votaw who declares that the
story was told the Gateway to injure
him.
c. PINHEAD SUES AGATHA
AMBEREYE BREACH PROMISE
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
DOPETOWN, lnd., Feb. 11.—Al
fred Claude Pinhead, Dopetown’s Pale
Pink Symphony—and Mr. Pinhead
certainly is all of that, from smile
to socks—created a sensation here to
day by filing a $25,000 breach of
promise suit against Miss Agatha
Elite Ambereye, a member of the
younger social set and well known for
her work as a local telephone operat
or. Some inkling of the sensation in
store was obtained for Dopetownites
£ few days ago when members of the
gang that loaf at the drug store saw
Mr. Pinhead emerge from the Am
bereye home at least an hour before
his accustomed time and, pausing on
the porch, angrily broke his beautiful
walking stick. When next day Miss
Ambereye appeared on Main street j
wearing a bandage over her left
optic, speculation was rife. Told of j
the suit filed against her by Mr.
Pinhead, Miss A. had nothing to say.
It is understood from friends in a
position to know, however, that Miss
A., having proposed to Alfred and
been accepted, broke the engagement
after he me* her unexpectedly in the
hall one evening and stabbed here in
the eye with his mustache. Mr. P.,
on the other hand, insists there is
nothing wrong with Miss A’s. eye but
a slight sty and that she is going
back on her word to him because she
doesn't think he is, to quote Mr. P.
“sufficiently ribald.”
; ♦ RABBIT HUNT IN *
STREETS OF CITY ❖
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The big excitement today was a
rabbit chase through the streets of
the city. Bunny came in from the
country and ran down towards the
dock. He then doubled back Fourth
avenue and hit out easterly along
Washington street with a dog at his
heels. While racing from one dog Mr.
Rabbit passed by another traditional
enemy but the second dog paid not
the slightest attention to him—just
looked at him for a moment. The
rabbit apparently got away clear.
KENNECOTT VXDERWRITING
BOSTON—Members of the Kenne
cott-Braden-Utah underwriting Syn
dicate have received checks totaling
approximately $3,400,000, represent
ing their participation in the profits
of the syndicate.
The managers of the syndicate,
which was the most successful in the
experience of the financial district,
were A. B. Hepburn and William B.
Thompson.
The underwriters, about 500
in number, were not called upon for
a cent of cash, all of the stock hav
ing been sold, Hayden, Stone & Com
pany taking the last 25,000 shares.
The dividend received by the under
writers on the $65,000,000 involved in
the transaction was 5.223 per cent.
TRAIN GETS OUT TO
MILE TWENTY EASILY
The train got out from Mile 12 to
Mile 29 this atfernoon and is expect
ed to reach Mile 34 this evening or
tomorrow morning. It was only hop
ed to reach Mile 12 today when the
train started out.
DAWSON GAMBLERS FINED
A raid on a gambling game at Daw
son recently resulted in a good haul
for the officers. About 30 men were
gathered in and the next day they
were all assessed fines ranging from
$100 each for those who operated the
games to $5 and $10 each for on
lookers. One man explained that he
had just arrived from the creeks and
was just edging into the crowd, thus
thinking he was to witness an inter
esting pool game when he was grab
bed. He was let off.—Ex.
WAR ODDITIES
LONDON.*—An appeal is being
made by the Irish press for a boycott
of Turkish carpets in favor of Done
gal carpets, declared to be superior
to the Turkish variety.
YARMOUTH. — Quartermaster
Sergeant B. S. Parker, serving at the
: Dardanelles read his own death notice
| in a home paper and wrote his home
I folks to take off the mourning.
SAY THEY HAVE
TIN AT EKLUTNA
TWO MEN DRIVING TUNNEL ON
LODE THAT PROMISES
WELL.
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 25. Mandel
and Pauley are now driving a tunnel
on what they believe is a good tin
lode in the region of the Kklutna riv
er. It is said that they first found
placer tin which indicated the pre
ence of the lode and other people say
the indications are very good for the
establishment of the tin mining in
dustry in that section.
ALMOST DECIDE TO
Cl'T OUT SEWARD
I
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 25.—It ha,
been about decided to run the dog
team race from Anchorage to Su.sitf i
1 and return instead of from Anchorage
to Seward and return.
(Seward would still be glad to have
that dog race. Anchorage will prob
ably not object to the suggestion that
as that town took up this race first
and decided upon it without asking
the opinion of Seward this city was
not prepared to take a hand. An
chorage has a fine chance to make
•Seward feel that it should have s.p
ported the race, perhaps. Next year
Seward will be feeling much better )
MANY EASTERNERS ENLISTED
IN EFFORT TO HELP ALASKA
The Alaska Bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce is receiving
letters by the score, through Seattle
business men and citizens, from their
correspondents, throughout all sec
tions of the country, r.nd in many in
stances replies from the senators and
congressmen, to their request for a -
sistance in securing Alaskan develop
ment.
The tenor of these replies are all
most encouraging.
Judge Wickersham, delegate from
Alaska, writes the bureau: ‘T want
to thank all the friends of Alaska for
the great work they are now doing.
Members of congress have apjftnoach
ed me with the assurance that they
are receiving these letters and will
be glad to give me any assistance m
the way of legislative support within
their power."
Through the Sclnvabaeher Hard
ware company, one of their Eastern
correspondents sent most favorable
letters from two senators and five
congressmen, all from Eastern states.
Other firms and individuals who
sent in replies from senators and con
gressmen have been the Crane com
pany, William Hickman Moore, J. H.
Irving, Claude C. Ramsey, Frank J.
Laube, W. D. Allen, Robert K. Dykes,
J. F. Douglas, Simonds Mfg. Co.,
Stewart-Hoimes Drug Co. and the
Bon Marche.
The great and permanent value of
this campaign is in the interest it is
arousing among the usibness men of
the country in Alaska's behalf.
To the Schwabacher Bros. & Co.
the Pillsbury Flour Mills company of
Minneapolis writes:
“We have read with a great deal
of interest the leaflet which you at
tached to your letter, but are obliged
to confess our ignorance as to the
possibilities of that vast country. It
will afford us a great deal of pleasure
to do anything we can toward obtain
ing governmental sanction to further
development.”
To the Crescent Manufacturing Co.
the Matthews Brokerage Co. of
Omaha, Neb., writes: “We arc glad
to comply with your request and will
write to our senator and congressmen.
The writer is following with a great
deal of interest all articles pertain
ing to Alaska.”—Seattle Post- Intel
ligencer.
RESTAURANT KEEPERS
VIOLATE GAME LAW
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 25. — Game
Warden Ericson has secured the con
viction of two restaurant keepers for
violation of the game laws.