_____ THE WEATHER
The Great Feb. 15i Max. 22, Min. 9—1 p. m. 13
- Clear—Calm
A | A Q K A N Feb> 16! Max-13, Min'0—4 p< 3
*■ “ Light N. Wind—Partly Cloudy.
__ 1 - - LARGEST ALASKAN CIRCULATION
ADVERTI8EMENTSBR.NC RESULTS _ » »A.LV EXCEPT SUNDAY___ ■ ■■===
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VoI l() N() .7_SEWARD. THE GATEWAY Tu ALASKA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1916. ___________ ___
FIRST THREE GAMES j
SHOW CLOSE SCORES
Anchorage Only Thirty-four Pins
Ahead ot Seward in Bowl
ing Tournament.
Last night at The Northern, the
first intercity bowling tournament
ever conducted in Alaska was staged
and the Seward Hopes went down to
defeat, after grabbing the second
frame of the three game event. To
the outsider it looks a whole lot like
a case of stage fright on the part of
both teams as there was not a man
with the exception of Wagner of the
Anchorage aggregation and Johnston
of the home guards that sapped the
maple anywhere near their regular
form.
In the first frame Anchorage got
away to a slight lead by rolling up
a score of 808 pins to the local tal
ent’s 702. This lead was overcome in
the second stanza when the Seward
crowd by bowling somewhere near
their regular form knocked down 827
pins and the adherents of the “froze
in camp" could only bump over a
total of 783.
With a fair lead the deciding
frame of the evening was started and
the local aggregation went on the
rocks and tossed the loosest game of
the evening only totalling 789 pins.
Anchorage took a brace at this stage
of the game and largely through the
high class work of Sam Wagner
rolled up a total of 851, winning the
frame and the firet leg of the champ
ionship.
For the Home Guards, Johnston
was the most consistent performer
and if he had a week more to train
on the local alleys would give Wag
ner. the star of the Government camp,
a good run for stellar honors. John
ston averaged about 175 and that is
no where near where he would be
with practise. Kosmos got off bad
and couldn’t hit his stride until late
in the evening and finished five pins
behind Manthey who really bowled
the most consistent game of the even
ing for the locals. Gus has a good
style of delivery and was not rattled
by the importance of the event as
were other members of the team.
The two Andersons had an off even
ing and did not roll at all up to form,
but will be better tonight.
For the Anchorage aggregation,
W'agner was the star and the way
that the Dutchman dropped the maple
gave the local fans heart trouble. He
went through the game at a 190 clip
and can be depended on to display
the same form all through. Wagner
is a dangerous man on the alleys and
it is safe to predict that his average
for the three games will be better
than 190 to the game, Moore, the
mayor of Anchorage, w-as a close
second to the sturdy Teuton, and
while he did not roll up to his usual
average contributed better than 170
to each game. Blanton, one of the
boys that the Commission camp have
always pinned their faith on, fell
down and it is hard to give a reason
for his failure to rattle the pins at!
a faster gait. Walter Blanton is or
dinarily one or the most consistent
performers in Alaska, and it must
have been a case of an off night as
was showm here by 6ome of the local
team. Charley Bush also had an off
night and failed to roll at all up to
his regular form. Take it all in all,
with an exception on each team, the
boys all fell down and the score of
last night will prove to be a danger
ous criterion to go by in judging the
future performance of the twx> teams.
Anchorage starts off the game to
night with a 54 pin lead and that is
nothing as w'as evidenced last night
w'hen the Anchorage boys pulled Sew
ard down from a lead in one game to
the above named lead in one frame.
On paper the tournament has the
appearance of being one of the most:
evenly matched events that have been
staged in the section, since Col. Revell j
ran for the town council, and either
taam has a chance tonight
The second frame of the tourna
ment will be started tonight at The
Northern at 8 p. m. promptly.
The game was reported last night
by Messrs. Moyer of Seward and
Moses of Anchorage, and the excite
ment was intense when the game* was
close and every frame counted. The
scheme of reporting each ball thrown
l>> telephone and keeping a double
score showing the standing of each
team at every pluy was a pronounced
success and Messrs. Margules and
Robarts art; to be congratulated on
their success in furnishing such clean
sport to the Sourdoughs.
Chas. Martin was appointed official
score keeper for Sew ard and Mag j
Higgins acted in a like capacity for
Anchorage.
Roy Anderson was announced U
referee at Anchorage and Frank J.
! Cotter acted in a similar capacity
here. There were no fouls and the
contest went on with the very best
of good feeling on both sides. The
same officials will again act tonight.
The total score of Seward last night
\sas 2.408 and the total of Anchorage
was 2.442. A thousand people watch
i ed the Anchorage men perform at
Robarts hall which is about 140 feet
in length and has standing room for
spectators all along the side of the
alley. Anchorage also had a grand
stand. All the people that could
crowd into the Northern watched the
contest at this end and cheered good
plays again and again. Over the
phone Operator Moyer heard deafen
I ing cheers at the Anchorage end and
| both cities seemed to be worked up to
a high pitch. Four hundred dollars
(had been wagered at Sew ard last night
| on the series but much more money is
i expected to be put up now as Seward
has shown it can hold its own. The
following is the score:
Seward Team.
1st. 2nd. 3rd. Total
Sidney Anderson 136 173 125—434
G. Johnston 180 164 180—524
A. G. Anderson 153 139 137—429
Geo. Kosmos 150 175 183—508
Gus Manthey 173 176 164—513
2,408
Anchorage Team.
Sam Wagner 172 201 196—569
W. Blanton 136 138 144—418
Chas. Bush 151 149 156—456
J. A. Moore 180 170 165—515
J. Davis 169 190 125—484
2,442
FALLS OVER LOG,
NECK IS BROKEN
JUNEAU—The United States mar
shal's office has received word that
William Hunter, a well known native
of Sitka, recently was killed by ac
cidentally breaking his neck.
He was using a long pole to pdy
loose a log and in some manner the
pole sprung back and struck him and
knocked him over the log. It was
found that his neck had been broken.
It was not deemed necessary to hold
an inquest—Dispatch.
TWENTY-TWO BELOW
AT ANCHORAGE
Word was received from Anchorage
last evening that the thermometer
registered 22 below zero. At the
same time the thermometer registered
two below here.
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SEND FOR SALT AND
BARRELS FOR FISH
The Chamber of Commerce has col
lected $275 for the fund to establish
a cod fish industry and has already
sent out for the salt and barrels. The
intention is to catch two thousand fish
as a beginning.
i
NATIONAL SECURITY CONGRESS WILL
DISCUSS AMERICA’S VITAL NEEDS
1- Hf-KKTrW-CHOATE 3-PARKER
Photos by American Press Association
iThe national security congress to bv held In Washington, Jan. 20, 21 and 22, under
the auspices of the National Security league, will endeavor to meet squarely
not only the questions of need of defense, but will deal with the vital quee
tlons relating to prepared now An exhaustive discussion will present the best
expert knowledge and opinion During the three days of the security con
gress some of the most distinguished men of the nation will discuss the follow
ing subjects: World politics and our country's relation thereto, organization
methods adopted by competitive nations, obligation of the Individual to the
nation, mobilization of transportation and Industrial resources, elimination of
waste and Inefficiency, laws relating to espionage and council of national de
fense. The pictures show: No. 1. S. Stanwood Menken, president of the Na
tional Security league: Nos. 2 and 3. Joseph H Choate and Alton B. Tarker, hon
orary president and honor?rv vice president roonecCvolv. of the lengue.l
Expect Biggest
Convention Ever
Local Committeemen Believe Forty
Delegates Will Show t'p
Here.
Committeemen Whittcmore and
Finnegan of the Republican Terri
torial Committee expect that the ter
ritorial convention to be held here on
April 19 will be the largest conven
tion in the history of Alaska politics.
When asked to give an opinion as to
che exact number of delegates likely
to attend they said it would not be less
than forty. Even Nome will be per
sonally represented as some of the
Nome delegates are outside this
winter and can easily come here.
AN INCIDENT IS
RECALLED BY SHOOTING
JUNEAU.—The shooting of Jack
McLeod in the hand by Jack Camp
bell at Lituya Bay, as told in the
Douglas notes by Lou Miller, in an
alleged dispute over a mining claim,
recalls that the beach diggings of
Lituya Bay have figured in more
than one live-action drama.
Jack Ixmdon’s story “The Unex
pected” centered around actual hap
penings familar to most old timers,
and which are now’ a part of the court
record.
The character of Dutchy in Lon
don’s story is no less a person than
Sam Christensen, who is now day
guard at the federal jail. Two other
principals, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, are
mining in the Atlin country.
The facts briefly stated are that a
man greedy for gold made up his
mind to kill the members of the
small colony and lay the blame to
the natives and take all the gold. He
turned loose with his shooting irons
and after killing a couple was hit in
the face by Mrs. Nelson with a hot
skillet with which she was frying
pancakes and knocked him down. He
w'as then bound and tied. Mr. Nelson
was w’ounded and it fell to Mrs. Nel
son mostly to guard the man. She
knew that if he got loose he would
finish the job and she scarcely slept
night or day. Finally the murderer
made a written confession of his
crime and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson ap
pointed themselves his judge, jury
and executioner and hanged him.—
Juneau Dispatch.
Says Toni Gaffney
Will Be Candidate
Juneau Dispatch Declares Nome Man
Has His Hat in the King.
The Juneau Dispatch of January 28
says that Tom Gaffney, of Nome, is
out for the nomination as candidate
for congress of the Democrats. The
information reached the Dispatch
through private advices from the Ber
ing sea city and the paper states
positively that Gaffney will have his
name brought forward at the Demo
cratic convention at Juneau. Gaffney
was a member of the first territorial
legislature and is now a government
official in charge of Indian affairs in
the Second division. He was former
ly president of the Miners’ and Bar
tenders’ unions in Nome.
KITCHEN IN PAROCHIAL HALL
AND DINNER FOR 100 MEN
Interesting Move Made by the People
of St. Peter’s Church.
The Vestry of St. Peter’s met in
the Parish Hall last night and decid
ed to install a kitchen immediately,
the first object being to make it realty
a social hall with every facility for
the ceremonies of the women of the
parish.
It is decided by the ladico of the
guild to use the kitchen by giving a
men’s dinner on Friday evening,
March 3.
The Vestry are enthusiastic and
expect to have one hundred men pres
ent A good musical program will
be rendered by the men's quartette
and some interesting toasts on per
tinent topics will be responded to by
special speakers. Tickets will be one
dollar each and a rousing good time
is assured.
WANTED.
TWENTY EXPERIENCED
TEAMSTERS wanted by the
Alaskan Engineering Com
mission for work freighting
in supplies in Matanuska;
Valley; pays seventy five j
dollars -$75« per month and
hoard. For further inform
ation apply Room No. 7, j
Alaskan Engineering Com-j
mission. City.
Reports Anchorage
Could Be Open Port
REMARKABLE STATEMENT AT
TRIBUTED TO GOVT.
OFFICIAL.
That Anchorage could easily be
made an open port for twelve months
in the year is the extraordinary state
ment attributed to Captain Porter in
the report which he sent to Washing
Ion after he had investigated matters
for the government along this coast.
Captain Porter visited Seward sever
al times and while hero he showed his
report to a certain local gentleman
who declares that in that report the
Captain made the statement given
above. It is possible to offer an ex
cuse for a report like this coming as
it did after the mildest winter in the
history of Alaska but it might be to
i the advantage of all parties concern
ed, even to Captain Porter himself,
to point out now that very serious
injury might be caused to the reputa
tions of the government officials if
such statements are not corrected
when the real facts are proving
themselves.
MET ANTON EIDE AND
MEHAFFEY ON TRAIL
Frank Joaquim, who arrived night
before last after a long trip from
Kuskokwim and other points, met
Lieutenant Mehaffey and Anton Eide
on the trail. They were proceeding
finely. Another man who met the
lengthy lieutenant and the stocky
superintendent said they reminded
him a good deal of Mutt and Jeff.
PRESIDENT LABOR UNION
EXPECTED OVER HERE
Jack Sutherland, president of the
new Federal Labor Union at Anchor
age, has informed George Phelps by
letter that he expects to pay a visit
to Seward pretty soon. He and Mr.
Perkins take turns about in driving
the team between the two cities. Mr.
Sutherland is a business man and in
tends to open another store in the
district around the right of wray
somewhere.
KEPT A DIARY OF HIS
TRIP FROM IDITAROD
Ed. Smith, the interior mining and
business man, who passed through
Seward some time ago, kept a diary
of his journey all the way out. He
came out with Captain Norton who
is now' awaiting the arrival of his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Joe Smith, whom
he will take in to the Iditarod.
KNIFE USED IN QUARREL
RUBY.—Ralph Barldo is under $2,
000 bonds for stabbing Cole McDouga!
at Long City last Wednesday night.
He will have a hearing before Com
missioner V. R. McDonald at Long
City next Monday.
McDougal was stabbed three times;
in the hip, in the shoulder and in
the side, the latter wound entering
the abdominal cavity and being the
more dangerous of the three. At
tendants, however, think its results
will not be very serious, unless blood
poisoning should set in.
There are several versions of the
affair; but all agree that in the
Senate saloon at about 7:30 on the
night in question Barldo laid his
jumper or coat on a table and went
into the toilet On returning he saw
the garment lying in a spitoon and
asked: “Who put that there?” Mc
Dougal answered either that he did,
or that he did not—versions differ;
and using some bad language, said if
Barldo didn't like it he could mighty
soon put him in there too.
The men almost immediately clinch
ed and the cutting followed.
Both the parties are well knowm:
Barldo is a native of some South
American country and has lived in
this district about four years. Mc
Dougal lived in Dawson and Fair
banks before coming here in 1911.—
Ruby Record-Citizen.
An operation was to have been per- j
formed today by Drs. Sloan and
Romig on a Russian named Teekoff
at the Seward General Hospital but
the day was too dark and the opera- j
tion has been postponed. Mr. Teekoff
is suffering from rupture.
❖ BOAT MAY COME *
❖ THIS EVENING <*
❖ - ❖
Agent Alex McDonald is positive
that the Alameda left on the 10th. as
scheduled and he guesses that she
will arrive tonight or tomorrow. He
is careful to remind the people,
though, that he has no more means
than anyone else to learn anything
about her. She has probably two
hundred tons of regiht for the Dora
but as this is only a small part of
her capacity sh6 could have lots of
freight for other places. The Far
ragut was scheduled to leave the day j
before the Alameda but her time of 1
arrival could only be judged by the
amount of freight she might have for
way points. Mr. Blue looks for her at,
any time now.
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PROHIBITIONISTS
WORK TO OUST WETS
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
PIERRE, S. D., Feb. 2.—Despite
previous defeats, prohibition fore* -
today set out to get votes enough to
put South Dakota on the water wagon
at the general election November 7th
this year. For five years the consti
tutional prohibition provision in the
original code under which South
Dakota entered the union, was re
tained. In the larger cities the pro-j
vision was not enforced. The pro-1
vision was finally voted out of the I
constitution and has remained out. I
Headquarters of the drys is at
Mitchell, S. D. Revival gospel sendees ]
are being conducted in various parts]
of the state under the direction of A.
C. Rankin. Meetings ranging in
length from one night to two weeks
are being held. The state Sunday
school organization is also working to
mould sentiment against the saloon.
The wets are lining up their forces
to keep the saloons in.
RACK BATTLE ON AT
ST. LOUIS POLLS
Special to Gateway by United Press.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2.—St. Louis
voters are registering today to vote
in the February 20th “leap-year elec
tion” to decide whether St. Louis
negroes shall be excluded from resi
dence in certain parts of the city; al
so whether whites shall be excluded
from negro sections. Negro leaders*
and others opposed to segregation
hope to stop the vote on the subject.
The segregation plan is backed by
real estate men who say their proper
ty values depreciated when, with the
advent of one negro family in a white
residential block, other negroes fol
lowed, causing the whites to move.
The plan would exclude whites from
residential blocks the majority of
whose present residents are negroes
and compel whites living in those
blocks to find other homes; and would
prohibit negroes from residing in sec
tions the majority of whose residents
are white.
4TH OF JULY SHOWS PAY
Member of Legislature Known Here
Strikes It.
RUBY.—It is now common knowl
edge over the district that Fourth of
July has made a showing that entitles
it to be classed with the pay creeks.
On the Smokehouse association, C.
K. Snow and Hugh McCray have
three holes down about 80 feet, with
pay in all of them. None of the holes
were bednocked; yet pans run 15 and
20 cents and the dirt was growing
better with depth.
Next below the Smokehouse associ
ation Fred Swanson and partner have
two or three holes showing practical
ly the same values as those obtained
by Snow and McCray.
Both parties had been keeping the
find quiet until after the first of the
year. ,
Fourth of July creek is a tributary
of the Salatna river next above
Spruce, the creek which had been
put in the pay class last summer.
There had been no adequate pros
pecting on Fourth of July until last
fall. The creek is approximately
seven miles long. The fine showing
made will undoubtedly be the means
of starting a great deal of active
prospecting in that section.—Record
Citiien.
Have You Decided
How You Will Vote?
Lawyers Say You Can Vote For Part
of New Law and Not
For Kelt.
Candidly, the general opinion
around town seems to be that the
majority will vote in favor of the
adoption of the new method of electing
a city council and officials. It should
be remembered that you can vote in
favor of electing a mayor separately
from the council and not vote in favor
of electing the paid officials of the
council separately. In trying to get
an average idea as to the opinion on
electing the paid officials separately
it looks as though the majority will
vote that way. In case of a city at
torney, city clerk, etc., there is a feel
ing that when such officials are “in
cahoots" with the majority of the
council, as they always are, of course,
under the present system, there is al
ways the opportunity for pocketing
the money of the taxpayers. This
has been found out in many places but
it is almost impossible to bring such
people to justice, although time and
time again it has been absolutely
w'ell known that city attorneys, city
clerks and other officials spend much
more money that their salaries allow’
them. The opponents of the new
method hold that the paid officials
should be responsible directly in all
things to the council, but the people
thinking this w’ay seem to be in a
small minority.
As far as can be learned, nearly all
are in favor of electing the mayor
separately, but there is full opportun
ity given between this time and the
date of election to reason out what
is best and every voter should be his
owm boss in the matter.
Seward people, anyhow, for the
sake of the town should make the
registration as big as possible. Local
politics are small compared with ti e
general good.
PASSENGER RATES GO IT IN
EIGHT MID-WESTERN STATES
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Hereafter it
will cost more to ride trains in these
eight states: Illinois, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Missouri and Kansas which will be
affected by changed railroad passen
ger rates on interstate hauls.
The interstate commerce rates in
this section are to be increased from
2 cents a mile to 2.4 cents a mile in
•Illinois, the northern Michigan penin
sula, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and
in the northern parte of Missouri and
Kansas; and from two cents to 2.3
and 3 cents, March 1.
A recent decision of the interstate
commerce commission prevented the
proposed change but at the same time
made possible the smaller increase.
“The carriers have failed to justify
n increase to 2.5 cents and 3 cents
per mile, but have justified an in
crease to 2.4 and 2.6 cents,” the in
terstate commerce commission decis
ion reads.
THE FAMOUS JONES
HEARD FROM AGAIN
WASHINGTON.—When Delegate
Wickersham was shown a copy of the
bill introduced by Chairman Alexand
er, at the request of Secretary Red
field, having for its object the cur
tailment of the powers of the Alaska
legislature, he said that he had ex
pected as much, but that he was pm
pared to meet the enemies of Alaska.
Mr. Wickersham said also that the
bill had been framed up by Dr.
Lester Jones, by and with the con
sent of the scretary, both of whom
arc positively opposed to anything
that the Alaska legislature may do
with the fishing industry of the north,
but that they would be shown up in
due time.—Ex.
F. A. Polley, the prominent An
chorage merchant who has been in
Seward for several days, will leave
for the outside on the first boat. He
will bring in a large stock of goods.
In speaking of the property bought
by Mr. Harlow the Gateway has re
ferred to it as the “Wilson property.”
It should be the “Houston property,"
course.