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Vol “ ~ . ~ SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1916.__ Ten Cent, the Copjr
CHILDREN WHO i
SCORED NINETY
1NTKRESTING A NSWERS MA DK j
BY PUPILS IN SEWARD
SCHOOLS.
The following is a list of the pupils!
of Seward who received 90 or above
for the examination average for the
tirst semester:
5th Grade.
Arithmetic: William Melvin 94;
Beatrice Baughman 93; Doris Simp
son 93; Alice Daggett 91. Spelling:
William Melvin 99; Doris Simpson
96; Gladys Green 94; Molly Molony
91; Beatrice Baughman 91. Geog
raphy: Wm. Melvin 97; Beatrice
Baughman 93. English: MoBy
Molony 90; Alice Daggett 95; Beat
rice Baughman 95: Wm. Melvin !M.
5th Grade.
Arithmetic: Gertrude Schaleben
99; Geraldine Cook 96; Warren Aider
man 95. History: Gertrude Schale
ben 99; Warren Alderman 92. Eng
lish: Geraldine Cook 94; Gertrude
Schaleben 92. Spelling: Geo. Guest
96; Gertrude Schaleben 92. Geog
raphy: Warren Alderman 92; Gert
rude Schaleben 97.
6th Grade.
Arithmetic: Helen Chovin 97;
Robt. Mullin 96; Mildred Babcock 94;
Helen Tallasen 93. Geography: Mil
dred Babcock 98; Thelma Ellsworth
96; Robt. Mullin 95; Helen Chovin 92;
Helen Tallasen 91. Spelling: Susie
Guest 100; Robt. Mullin 9S; Helen
Tallasen 94; Mildred Babcock 92;
Thelma Ellsworth 90. History; Helen
Tallasen 97; Mildred Babcock 96;
Robt. Mullin 96; Susie Guest 94;
Helen Chovin 91. English: Helen
Chovin 90.
?th (>rade.
Geography: Elizabeth Torrey 96;
Percy Doolittle 91; Joe Bradshaw 90.
History: Elizabeth Torrey 100. Eng
lish: Elizabeth Torrey 90.
The marks in arithmetic ranged
from 76 to 81 in this class.
8th Grade
Arithmetic: Elizabeth Torrey 98;
John Sauers 91. History: Elizabeth
Torrey 97; John Sauers 97; James
Hawkins 96; Ragna Johnson 91. Ge
ography: Elizabeth Torrey 100;
Ragna Johnson 99. John Sauers 97;
James Hawkins 96. Spelling: Jack
Sauers 96. English: Ragna Johnson
90.
High School.
Algebra: Elizabeth Romig 97.
Business English: Helen Romig 99;
Aldoren Carlson 97; John Sauers 96;
Ragna Johnson 93. Rhetoric: Eliza
beth Romig 95; John Sauers 96; Mar
garet Romig 92. American Lit.:
Elizabeth Romig 93; Margaret Romig
91. Commercial Law: Aldoren Carl
son 90. German: Helen Romig 93.
Civics: Helen Romig 98; Margaret
Romig 98.
High School Physiology was only
81 and also Seventh Arithmetic was
81.
The question, “who was Coligny?”
was given in the 5th Grade History
and one boy answerd:
“He was a Spaniard who came over
here to America to kill every Indian
he laid his hands on.”
A boy was asked to recite a stanza
from “The Pilgrim Fathers” and he
startled his teacher by:
“The breaking waves dashed high
on the stem of a rock bound coast.”
In the 7th Grade, the question was
asked: “What is the tariff?” A
certain email boy, well known about
town gave the following solution:
“A tariff is a set of laws about the
duties on foreign goods made by con
gress and they just keep changing it
every minute.” *
The Civics Class are agreed that
the same definition might be used in
p^rt for the Seward city ordinances.
LOT IN BAY VIEW IS
SOLD FOR GOOD PRICE
J. Lindley Green has sold a lot In
Bay View addition for $260. The ad
dition is the one aw'ay out where the
Rudolph homestead is situated.
Mr. Kavanagh who has been suffer
ing from an attack of paralysis in the
General Hospital is reported to be
improving flatly.
CHANGE TEAM j
FOR TONIGHT
BOWLING CONTEST WILL BEGIN I
THIS EVENING AT 8
O'CLOCK.
The bowling contest between teams;
representing Seward and Anchorage
will begin this evuning at 8 o’clock.
The team which will likely represent j
this city is composed of Andy Ander- j
son. Sidney Anderson, Gus Johnson,!
Gus Manthey ami George Kosmos.
Anchorage still seems to be the
favorite but Johnson and Manthey j
are expected to strengthen the home:
team considerably. The Gateway
wired the Anchorage Pioneer today
that we are perfectly confident that
our men can uphold the honor of this
burg. By the way, talking of falling
down in dog races, etc., the Gateway
also wired this morning to ask what
had become of Charley Christensen
who had challenged all comers to a |
walking contest from city to city ami
return, and whose challenge had been
I accepted by George Kosmos. But,
| the game which begins this evening
I ought to be a good one. Johnson is
! said to be a big addition.
The game will be played at the
Northern.
Herron Scow Is
Found By Onward
W
ANCHORAGE. Feb. 16.—The scow
which was lost by the launch Buffalo
last fall while it was on the way from
Sunrise to Anchorage was found in
tact on the beach by the Onward
party. It was laden with gasoline
drums which w ere also found unin
jured.
HUGO FELS SUFFERS
A BROKEN JAW
Hugo Fels is suffering from a
broken jaw and the loos of some
teeth as the result of an accident
while he was working on the dock this
morning. While Gus Manthey, the
foreman, was driving a “dog” into a
iOg the dog broke and shot out
against Mr. Fels, striking him on the
face. Dr. Sloan who is in attendance
says the upper jaw is broken, some of
.he teeth of that jaw knocked out and
tw'o teeth of the lower jaw are also
missing. The injured man bled pro
fusely but Dr. Sloan says the injury
is not serious. “You could break a
man’s whole jaw up and it wouldn’t
be serious,” said the Doctor who prob
ably was speaking from the medical
point of view not from the patient’s.
j*> PHILATHAE <\
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The young ladies of the Philathae
| class gave a most enjoyable party
last evening at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Sauers.
The rooms were most appropriately
decorated with hearts and other
Valentine emblems.
The games and contests introduced
all had some relation to the heart.
In short it was a heart to heart affair.
In a guessing contest Miss Rung
hild Johnson was the prize winner.
I Max Poehlman covered himself with
glory in a heart stringing contest,
while James Hawkins won first prize
in a heart drawing contest in which
the contestants were blindfolded.
Those present were all young peo
ple and life flowed in all its sweet
ness and freshness amidst laughter
and song, hearts and cupids. Could
St. Valentine’s Day have been more
appropriately observed?
Those present were Misses Vida
Rich, Evelyn Carlson, AJdoren Carl
son, Anna Nelson, Margaret Romig,
Elizabeth Romig, Elizabeth Torrey,
Runghild Johnson, Thelma Ellsworth,
Una Korth, Hilda. Turnbull, Alice
Alexander, Mesdames H. 0. Schale
ben, Mabel Lynn; Messrs. Otto Poehl
mann, Bryce Howard, Julian Reed,
Frank Bigford, Roy Ashland, Virgil
Rich, Arthur Wright, James Hawkins,
Jack Sauers, Robert Romig, Grant
Carlson, Large and Hildreth.
The Ladies’ Aid of the Methodist
church will meet tomorrow afternoon
•t the parsonage.
ADMIRAL PEARY TO VOICE MIS BELIEF IN
AERIAL COAST PATROL AND SWISS ARMY SYSTEM.
Photos of Admiral Pearv as an aviator and of Mr. (,'herrie by American Press Association
;T(„ ,,mh .nnunl dinner of the Explorer.’ club will lake place at the Hotel McAlpIn New Vork. on Jan It. when Hear
Admiral Robert E I’eirv will preeld, and will give a abort addreae upon ’ ITeparedneaa Hr will ' h
are two practical conatru. tlve and economical national dcfen.e proposition, which cm be taken up at once by the poop e
oPthe country With™ waiting (or government action There are the aerial coast patrol .yatem for the Prolcclonorour
CL.,, and he adoption of the ft«l» ... ny.iem by the ibd.y.dual ..ate. XveaHolb
one I. part of our ilr.t or see line of defense, .he other of our second or land line of defense, the admiral .v»;
_r vai,, ,hie. ,ia . none# asset should we never have occasion to use either as a military asset. The coast patrol u
va'uiMe is an ad'unct of the life saving service, while the Swiss system In Its training and disciplining of our boys an
ffiSrrs=£?£ »Sa5
ei,t«bred unexplored o-rnt.irv which he hn* pictured In 'i sertew nf remirkihle elews.l _
HR. STRIKE
IS UNCHANGED
REPORTED TEAMSTERS OFFER
ED INCREASE AND WILL
GO TO WORK.
ANCHORAGE. Feb. 16. — The
strike situation remains unchanged.
Most of the teamsters are in town
but it is reported that they will re
turn to work as they have been offer
ed ninety and board. The Union is
now soliciting funds to build a labor
temple and a lot has been donated for
the purpose by E. J. Warner and
George Campbell. (Ninety and board
probably means ninety dollars a
month and board.)
LEARN THE BLACK MAGIC
OF BECOMING INVISIBLE
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—“Black Magic
teaches possessor to perform miracles
and to become invisible; price $4.00."
Post Office Inspector D. F. Angier was
curious when he read that and he ord
ered the book. F. Kempinski, the
magician, was turned over to the
authorities. If you would Uke to be
come invisible, according to his plan,
here is the secret: “Catch a black
cat while it is walking toward the
setting sun. Cut off its left ear.
Wrap the ear in a leaf from a tree
growing in a graveyard. Then go
home w'tihout speaking to anyone and
maintain silence until the following
daybreak. Upon arising, the candi
date for invisibility must wall* toward
the rising sun until he meets the cat
whose ear he has cut off. Then he
must remove the other ear. When
ever the tip? of the 'wo ears a^e join
ed and certain magic words arc re
peated, the person holding the ears
becomes invisible. Ho will remain in
visible as long as the ear tips touch."
Mrs. W. D. Harvey has been strick
en by a slight attack of paralysis and
is under the care of Dr. Romig wfho
1 expects bo pull her around all right
BIG DREDGE WORKING
NOW DEMOTE COLD
DAWSON. — The extraordinary
sight of a mammoth gold dredge op
erating lull blast in tne heart oi tne
iviondiKe in the month oi January
may now be witnessed on the Boyie
concession, near tne moutn oi Bear
vi'eeK. Despite tne tact it was '66 bo
rn w zero last nignt, tlie big dreuge,
Known as Canadian lviondyne Iso. '6,
is grinding away steadily as U*ougn
iiotmng had happened a,nd may be
going ior some time yet. For want
oi power and need-of the annual over
hauling, tiie other dredges shut dow'n
some little time ago. No '6 had been
snut dowm until late in the season,
and on starting up was in fine condi
tion, so can continue operating ad
vantageously for some time.
The latest record for digging in Uie
country prior to this performance
was made by the same company sea
son before last, when the dredge shut
down December 26. Since the dredge*
start so early in the spring now, there
would be a comparatively short space
intervening when the camp was with
out a dredge in action though No. 2
snould shut down now, but there are
hopes she will keep going some little
time.
The Canadian Klondyke Company
is making a survey and preparations
for a large impounding dam on the
North Fork, for the purpose of pro
viding water for keeping mor©
dredges working late in the season
.after this winter.—News.
CARIBOU SHOT IN
SUBURB OF CITY
DAWSON, Jan. 14.—Two caribou
were shot on the Moosehidc trail on
the hill back of Dawson and practi
cally in sight of Dawson yesterday
afternoon by David and Esau, Moose
hide Indians. The caribou evidently
had come from the east and probably
intended to cross the river. Their
carcasses were offered for sale on
Dawson streets before they were
, frozen.—New*.
Most Wonderful
Moose in Alaska
Man Who Is Now Here Has One That
Lives Like Pet Dog.
Arthur Berry who is now in Seward
from the Kuskokwim is the owner of
the most wonderful moose alive. Up
on the banks of that stream where
Mr. Berry lives and conducts the
Kuskokwim Trading Company he has
a cow' moose tnat comes into the
house and lies down like a pet do
mestic animal. When the door is
locked Mrs. Moose comes up to-the
window' and looks in. Then to the
door she moves and tries every means
to gain an entrance, and when the
door is open she rushes right in like
a frolicsome puppy dog. Mr. Berry
got the animal w'hen she was only a
few weeks old and has raised he*-.
She follows him everywhere and has
absolutely no fear. The only human
beings she cannot tolerate arc the
Indians and especially the squaws.
On occasions she goes after the
Native women and chases them. Her
method of fighting the women is to
kick at them with a foreleg, then turn
and kick out with the hind hoof as if
wishing to give her fore and aft
weapons an equal chance. The reason
for this hostility to the Natives is
said to be due to the fact that the
Indians punish moose by whipping
them in the ears. Last season Mr.
Berry grew a lot of cabbage and when
the task of feeding his pet confront
ed him in the fall he let her loose at
the vegetables.
registering now
FOR CITY ELECTION
At 11 o’clock this morning ten vot
ers had registered for the municipal
elections. Steve Malchior was the
first to register. Under the Austral
ian system the books are open all the
year. Be sure to register for the
special election on February 29.
PIONEERS TELL
AWFUL YARNS
OLDTIMEUS GOT TOGETHER
LAST NIGHT AND LOOSEN
ED UP AMAZINGLY.
The Pioneers met in their hall last
night and entertained by relating
stories of the early days in the terri
tory, days before we had mail teams,
nuiroad, waffles, newspapers, la grip
pe, chambers of commerce, city coun
cils, obstreperous cables and city at
torneys or any other blessings or the
reverse. To give the most glaring ex
ample of the wonders related the
story told by one pioneer should be
told first. The name of the relator
of this piece of history has slipped
the memory but the story itself will
cling forever to the mind. Ovei
twenty years ago they told him up on
Cook Inlet of a bear which an an
cestor had killed in that quarter and
which was so large that the thousands
of inhabitants who lived in the vil
lages in them days packed away some
of the meat and continued to pack it
for several years. John Noon is
known to be a perfectly veracious
statesman but he told things last
night that proved him to be nothing
better than a politician. He and an
other fellow once started out from
Juneau, something like a quarter of a
century ago, in a schooner for some
place hereabouts and the fellow told
him he was a perfect sailor. A strong
wind came up and kept up and the
boat was hove to long enough to en
able her to visit the coasts of Japan,
China, the Philippine islands and
Portage Bay or some place near it.
The skipper spoke most learnedly of
sextants ami things and one day when
the vessel was off the coast of Corea
somewhere and tossing in the b/eak
ers with Noon hugging a broken mast
stub the captain remarked that he
was about to catch the sun and take
his bearings.
“If you do, for God’s sake hold on
to 'em," yelled the Alaskan legislator,
above tfie lessor howling of the storm.
This story would be all right until
Noon said they finally hit a piece of
Alaska ^nd found a man there, and
the narrator turns to the man who was
sitting next to him, Mr. Fillmore, and
asked him to state if he was or was
not that man. Mr. Fillmore cor
roborated and everyone came to the
conclusion at once that Noon and Fill
more had ben sitting together not
without some purpose.
E. F. Cassel told of the discovery
by Jack Dalton and the visiting by
Henry Bratnober of a district in the
interior where copper is so plentiful
that there is no room for rock. Noon
came to Cassel’s aid by declaring he
knew the district well. Matt Button,
who acted as chairman of the enter
tainment, read a poem about a dream
in which he saw Lindley Green, Dr.
Romig and several others looking as
though they were dead, but that
wasn’t so hard to believe. A1 Cham
belain was asked to represent the city
council and said he was sick, which
might also be believed. Otto Moses
sang a song which he said he could
do better than story telling and he
succeeded in proving that his modesty
about his power of narration was well
founded. It wa3 suggested that Bob
Guest be asked to tell about some re
markable pile-driving in them days
but the suggestion was turned down,
and after some more things that
materialized and didn’t, the Critic,
Dr. Sloan, summed up in a manner
that showed he was the greatest fic
tionist of all. Next meeting a fine
program will be given.
SOCIETY WOMEN DONT USE
NAMES OF THEIR HUSBANDS
Special to Gateway by United Prets.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 2.—Society
folk of the Northwest are wearing
their names shorter. Engravers,
printers, hotel men, club room mana
gers and society • jeporters today
agreed to this. “Reginald*Woodruffe
Worthington” is now signing it just
“R. W. Worthington." “Mrs. Roger
Marmduke Handrome Wessington” is
no longer using the names of all the
I husbands she may have annexed.
DICK DAWSON
BUYS QUARTZ
WILL INSTALL PROSPECTING
MILL ON CROW CREEK
THIS SEASON.
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 16.—Private
advices have brought the information
that Dick Dawson has purchased the
Barnes quartz property on Crow creek
and that he will bring in a prospect
ing mill and install it this season,
fhc price of purchase is not mention
ed. Dawson is the man who has large
placer interests on that creek already.
KETCHIKAN MAY ADOPT
NEW CITY GOVERNMENT
KETCHIKAN.—A petition was cir
culated last week that found many
signers and will be presented to the
council asking that the qusetion of
I ratifying the law which provides for
the election of town officials by the
people instead of the council, be sub
mitted to the people to vote upon.—
Ex.
ALL RECORDS BROKEN
FOR COPPER SALES
NEW YORK.—A news special says
the Boston News Bureau said today
that 200,000,000 pounds of copper
were sold yesterday, which is more
than has been sold in any previous
twenty-four hours in the world’s
history. The gross value exceeds
$40,000,000, as the price paid was 20
cents or better.
THINKS BROAD PASS
WILL BE BIG FIELD
Joe Marindale, a prominent mining
man of many camps who spent last
year in Broad Pass, is perfectly con
vinced that the section will be a great
mining field but that it has never yet
received a thorough testing. The
Wells brothei*s have gone back and
are apparently as confident as ever.
It has recently been stated by some
parties that Dunkle was called home
by the Guggenheims even before he
had sent out his report and assays.
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❖ REGULAR SOCIAL *
❖ • THIS EVENING *
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The regular Wednesday evening
social of the Methodist church will
take place this evening at 8 o’clock
at the parsonage. It will be a “pie
social” this time and a short program
will be rendered. Everyone is cordi
ally invited.
WANT TEAMSTERS FOR
GOVERNMENT RAILROAD
In this issue appears a paid adver
tisement by the Railroad Commission
offering work to teamsters at $75 a
month and board.
SAYS HUNDREDS
CAME TO SEWARD
P. R. McGuire, who was chief
sleuth in hunting clown the murderers
of Rolfe, Olsen and Clayson on the
Dawson-Whitehorse trail in 1900, was
in Juneau the other day, and the
Daily Dispatch quoted him as follows:
“Between 500 and 600 peop e re
cently came to Seward from Anchor
age for the winter owing to the
shortness of provisions in the gov
ernment railway town,” declared P.
R. McGuire yesterday, who arrived on
the Northwestern, and will remain
several days in Juneau in business.
Frank Joaquim arrived from
Takotna last evening.
WANTED.
TWENTY EXPERIENCED
TEAMSTERS wanted by the
Alaskan Engineering Com
mission for work freighting
in supplies in Matanuska
I Valley; pays seventy five
I dollars -$75- per month and
board. For further inform
ation apply Room No. 7,
Alaskan Engineering Com
mission, City*