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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 119. ... ... • v -. 1
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LIBERTY BONDS WAIT
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FOR SOLDIERS \\ IIO
CANNOT BE LOCATED
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NEW YORK. Ort., 0— Brigadier j
General Lord, chief of finances of the
aimy, today that thg Department
has $‘>75,000 in Liberty bonds, belong
ing to soldiers who cannot bo located.
The bonds carry coupons representing
SoO.OOO in interest.
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THIEVES USE PICKS TO
BREAK IN BANK AND GET
AT SAFE DEPOSIT V AULTS
YAKIMA, Wash., Oct., - The
safety deposit vaults of the Moxee
State Bank, near here, was robbed
last night and the loss is estimated to
be evs»- $10,000. The thieves used pick1
to break through the vault walls.
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LONG TRIP AWAY
MARION, Ohio, Oct, 6— With his;
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departure last night for the middle l
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west Senator Harding began a speech ;
making campaign that will keep him j
away from home almost continuously j
until late in October. He will cover on i
bis trip the states of Indianna, Illinois,]
Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri. Oklahoma, *
Kentucky, Tennessee. j
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A yearling mountain goat was re
cently captured on the right of way
of the government railway and taken
to Anchorage.
Miss Barbara Hughes of Grand
Rapids, Mich., and John J. Mitchell,
a member of the coast guard crew at
Nome, were recently united in mar
WEATHER REPORT
SEWARD 30, Clear Calm.
Anchorage 25 Cloudy, Calm.
Matanuska 38 Clear Calm.
Chickaloon 20 Clear Calm.
Wasilla 26 Clear Calm.
Talkeetna 28 Cloudy Calm.
tkddcreek 20 Cloudy Calm.
Hurricane 20 Cloudy Calm.
Summit 14 Cloudy Calm.
Healy 20 Cloudy S. E. ^
•fenana 20 Cloudy S. E.
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JOliN RESTGAUD
John Rustgaid, candidate for At
lo'iicy General will arrive in Seward
Jus evening from Anchorage. He will
aldress the people at the Liberty
Theatre directly after the show. Every
>ody invited.
MORE ARRESTS
WEXFORD ISLAND, Oct., tv
Lord Mayor Cornish, Edward Foley
ami Judge Wexford of the Arbitration
Court were arrested last night and
confined to the military barracks un
!<*»• the same circumstances that sur
rounded the ai rest ol Lord Mayor Mo
Sweeny. McSweeny who is now a weak
and wasted man from his prolonged
fast seems to cling to life tenaciously. •
Today is the 5lth day ot his self im
posed fast.
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READER
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. C. A. Estes. (Thursday)
Afternoon at Two o’clock.
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COLD ARRIVES
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NEW YORK, Oct., G— A shipment
of ten million dollars in gold arrived
here today. It was consigned by the
Bank of England to the Federal Re
serve bank in this city.
SEVERE THREAT
$175,000 WHISKEY STOLEN
CHICAGO. Oct., G— Major Dalry
mple Prohibition supervisor of the
Central States reported to headquart
ers today that more than $175,000
worth of whiskey had been stoien.
Five Federal Prohibition enforcers are
enroute from Chicago* to aid in the
investigation that is now being con
ducted to determine who took the ^
forbidden tonic.
GLACIER BREEZES
The coffee display in one of the
windows of Brown & Hawkins store
looks good enough to eat. The man
who trims the windows is certainly an
artist in his line. A good window dis
play is the equivalent of a good clerk
and it sure pays to advertise.
“ KIDDIES” GONE
Edith, Frank and Allen Guest, child
ren of Bob Guest left Sunday on the
Alameda for the states. They will go
to Tacoma Washington and erfter the
Aquinas Academy which is located in
that town.
EHBETSFIELD. BROOKLYN, Oct. I
- The Dodgers with the assistance !
i)f Grimes remarkable pitching ad
ministered a coat of whitewash to the
Cleveland Indians today. Brooklyn
walked off the field with a 3 to 0 vie
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tory and the second game of the
World’s Series. The spit ball offerings
hurled by Grimes had the Cleveland
players guessing at all times, while
the Brooklyn batsmen connected safe
ly seven times with Bagby and Uhle
who pitched for Cleveland. Each team
made seven hits and not an error was
made on cither side. Brooklyn scored
in the first, third and fifth innings.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct., 6— Cali
foi^a will soon produce a lemon crop
large enough to supply the entire
United States.
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This statement is made in the an-'
nuai report of the citrus industry by
G». Harold Powell, formerly with Her- i
lV?!1 Hoover on the United States Food j
Administration and now general man-!
uger of the non-profit and co-operat-■!
ive marketing organization of cits us
growers, the California Fruit Growers
E> change.
With an estimated increase in pro
duction of lemons of sixty per cent in
the next few years, California, besides 1
supplying the entire national demand,
will be the largest lemon producing
area in the world.
According to figures in the report
the total supply of lemons, both do
mestic and foreign, in the United
States last year was 5,379,408 boxes.
Of this number California shipped
3,826,034 boxes.
There are 36,000 acres of land in
the state devoted to the culture of
lemon. Only 20 per certt of this entire
acreage is at present bearing fruit,
in the 16,000 non-bearing acres the
trees are in various stages of maturi
ty.
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Advices from Washington and in
quiries made locally indicate that
while some progress has been made by
the department of the interior toward
the amalgamation of the Alaska
Steamship Company and the service
ma ntained to Alaskan ports by the
Pacific Steamship Company, no steps
of a positive nature have been taken
by either of the companies named to
bring about such a coalition »
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RUSSIANS ACCEPT
POLISH
PEACE TERMS
LONDON, Oct., 6-- Further reports
of an authentic nature have reached
the outside from Russia, all of which
indicate a deplorable condition of af
fairs. The People has rebelled against
the powers at the head of the Soviet
gwrnment and a spirit of great un
rest exists among the working classes.
The morale of the Red Army has
been badly shaken by the continued
sucres cs of the Poles. Crops through
out the entire country arc reported
exceptionally bad and the revolts that
have broken out in Siberia indicate a
serious state of affairs.
Riga. Russia. Oct., G— The arm
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istice ncgotations between the Poles
and the Russians will be speedily con
chided. +
PARIS, Oct., (>— A Moscow dispatch
received today states that he Polish
and Russiaian delegates signed aim
istice. The victorious Poles can now
direct all of their forces against their
other enemy. Hostilities will cease
Friday Oct. 8th. •
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35 ON THE TRAIN ■ j
The Gateway City limited If ft An-1
chorage at 1) o’clock this morning for j
Seward and Agent Sweek reports j
there are 35 on the train for here.
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EVANS IN MORNING * • j
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Steamer Admiral Evans will arrive
in port tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock
on the way south.
• CABLE IS fa ROUNDED
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The Cable between Valdez and Cor- |
dova grounded during the night and
the service is naturally interrupted.
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PULITZER TO SAIL
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The gas boat Joseph Pulitzer, the
mail boat to the westward, will get
away sometime during the night.
Capt. Naro is again in command.
EARTH SHOCK ,
The earthquake felt at San Jose,
Cal., last night at 10:30 o’clock was
also felt here a few minutes after the
quake was recorded below. The move
ment was from south to north.
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ALASKA FILM TAKEN IN
SEWARD IS ALL TO THE GOOD
“DOROTHY, the daughter of Alas
ka’”, the six part movie film which
\^as taken in Seward recently, is all
too the good according to advices re
ceived by Harry Ellsworth from Geo.
W. Lewis, the producer. The street
scene is perfect and the photography
of all i^tures perfect and something
entirely, new. Mr. Lewis says he will
send that part of the feature contain
ing the street scene to Seward short
ly and it will be shown at the local
movie house.
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Dart L. Thane, E. H. Harriman and
W. W.' Johnson, prominent states en
gineers and capitalists, seek a permit
under the name of the '*»• ,
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~ SAN FRANGISCOrOct, 6—If the
hod carriers, plasterers, roofers and
painters have not returned to work by
Thursday Oct., 8th, the Builders Ex
change has threatened to lock out all
the building trades in the city. If this
is carried into effect many thousands
of workmen will become idle.
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COPENHAGEN, Oct., G— General
Weyand of the French army who has
been directing the Polish armies in
their fight against the Bolsheviki forc
es left this morning for South Russia
where he will take supreme command
of the anti-Bolsheviki army now under
the command of Genneral Wrangell.
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A SEWARD MAN
An unusually interesting number of
The Pathfinder, (Sept.,) contains an
artical on Thomas B. Drayton, which
will doubtless stir up mixed feelings
among his friends. It is known in
printing circles to be from the pen of
the Tanking woman writer of South
eastern Alaska, who slyly pokes fun
at Mr. Drayton’s indifference to dress
and fashion, while freely recognizing
the ability an accomplishments which
am rapidly becoming known through
out Alaska. Articals on Mr. Drayton
and Bishop Itowe run jointly, but
because of special interest in our fel
low town’.s-nian, we reprint the artical,
adding double exclamation points to
the heading
“The Heaviest Hammer in Alaska”!!
Bureaucrats call him tin* Prince ol
Knockers, and they have a right to,
for when he thinks fit to use it he can
swing a club that reaches out to the
ears of several million American
newspaper and magazine readers. But
that is not what was intended to be
talked about; which is himself. There
never lived a man of his particular
type who did not have a lot of yarns
circulating about him— Heavens! how
those who don’t love him hate him—
and maybe this Seattle clothes story
is just another yarn, but even so, it
gives a better picture than a thousand
yards of truth. As the story goes, he
had no more than stepped off the boat
at Seattle than a friend who met him
began:44All, hem; you were first going
up to buy some new clothes, I sup
pose;; or maybe your swell togs are in
your suit case, eh?”
“No, these are all I’ve got,” replied
the Alaskan, 44what's the matter with
’em?”
Oh, nothing, of course; only we are
going to- have you at dinner tonight,
and a ot of these highbrow professors
from over at the University are com
ing down ‘specially to hear you spill a
line of talk about mid-Victorian liter
ature, and I thought maybe you’d feel
better if you were dolled up a bit; I
Know well your friends would.
Oh, well, if you feel that way about
it I will mush right over and buy some
new garments. Sony but 1 completely
overlooked it”
A little later the sourdough dropped
into a clothing store, picked, up the
top suit on the first pile he came to,
paid for it and retiring to the dress
ing room emerged and passed on to
his hotel* with the telltale $9.98 still
attached to the sleeve attached,
attached to the sleeve, and perfectly
satisfied in his own mind that he was
now suitably garbed to mingle with
both the social elite and the intellect
ual aristocrats of the Washington me
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Vic Guimbard, one of the beat
known sourdoughs of this section of
Alaska, is believed to be lost and per
haps dead.
Deputy United States Marshal Ral
ph Reed received word this afternoon
from A. W. Roberts, at Mile 23, that
Guimbard’s “boat was found on lower
Kenai lake. Guimbard is believed to
have been lost for several days and all
the old-timers of tlf; Kenai lake re
gion are out searching for the lost
man.
Iropolis.
It must be admitted that he's not a
swell dresser. In fact one might truth
fully go so far as to say that It would
improve his sartorial effect if he
would have his trousers pressed regu
larly every year or so, and avoid slip
ping his upper vest button into any
thing lower than the third button hole.
But with all that, even his bitterest
enemies will not deny that he is there,
positively there, when he wants to
dish up technically faultless English;
and nobody capable of an intelligent
opinion ever questions his capable as a
publicist and student of civic questions
at home and abroad. They also say he
has a memory like a sticking plaster;
and his pet theory of justice is to re
pay <‘very wrong in full and every fav
v,
or twice.
A lot of folks are convinced he has
long had his eye on the delegate seat,
and his fiiendS^^Ili feHtyou that if he
ever gets it, everybody everywhere
will know Alaska is represented in
Congress every minute of the time.
But, unless some friend treads him off
before he steps up to register as
Thomas B. Drayton, Delegate elect,
Seward, Alaska, the hotel clerk will
ask for further identification. .
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ALASKA NEWS
There is a new sport at Fairbanks,
where scores of men looking for new
excitement are using flivvers and ai*
tomobiles to hunt caribou. Thousands
of these animals are reported to have
cro-sed Fairbanks creek and people in
town can look 'em over as thqy grace
on the foothills. The quickest way is
to hop into an automobile and go gun
ning for the animals which furnish
good sport when they race with the
nru tors.
Mines in the vicinity of Juneau are
showing fair activity in spite of the
shortage of labor, an ailment affect
ing most all Alaska mining camps this
year. The Alaska Endicott Mining Co.,
intend to push active development
work on their property on Windham
Bay. Three thousand feet of tunnel
has been completed and a five stamp
mill is now working on the tailings
brought out. A 30-stamp mill has ar
rived from Seattle . for installation.
There is considerable activity at the
Cry'tal group at Snettisham, at the
property's of the Chicago!, Mining Co.,
on the Usianski group and the Ad
miralty Alaska Gold mining Company
in 'he Funter Bay section. ••
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N. W. AT CORDOVA
Steamer Northwestern will ldavt
Cordova at midnight according to rad
io and cable advioes. The steamer '
could be in port tomorrow aft Mid
night.
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