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The Great Feb. 24: Max. 40, Min. 33—4 p. m. 37
Calm—Cloudy.
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Calm; Cloudy—Light Snow and Rain.
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ADVERTISEMENTS BRING RESULTS^_ PUBLISHED I>A1L\ L\t El . . ). -- 1
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(30,000 ON TIES TO
BE SPENT HEBE SOON
It* Money Is Available Next
*
Week Contracts For 100,000
Ties Will Be Ix-t.
The very moment the emergency
fund is available, ami that is expected
to be after the arrival of one of the
two boats which are now on the wa>,
contracts will be let for the cutting of
a hundred thousand ties for use on the
Alaska Northern railroad. There is
no means of telling what the ties will
cost as the cutting of them will be
let out on bills but as the price at
Anchorage is about thirty-five cents
a tie the price to be |Said for ties
alone here in the next few months
will he in the neighborhood of thirty
thousand dollars.
BIG BOWLING
GAME COMING
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FRATERNAL ORDERS WILL
MEET IN CONTEST
NEXT MONDAY.
j
What might be called a “Brother
hood’ bowling contest which is excit
ing the keenest interest begins next
Monday in the form of a tournament j
in which the “select” bowlers from the
dilTerent societies of the city will
participate. A beautiful silver cup
has been posted as the prize for the
first tournament by Leo Margules of
the Northern. The complete rules
aud regulation* have not been entirely
prepared but Margules srys that the
winner will own the cup without a |
string to it. It may take more than
one tournament to decide the final
cr definite winner. Margules himself
will bowl with the A. B. team, so tha*
team should start odds on.
The line-up will be as follows:
Arctic Brotherhood Team: Thus.
Sheldon. George Mitchell, Bill Henry,
Chas. Martin and Leo Margules.
Pioneers of Alaska Team: Otto j
Moses, Grant Carlson, Ben Sweeny,
Crit Tolman,—and a great unknown.
B. P. 0. Elks Team: Gus Seifert,!
manager, Heine Haasch, Frank!
Youngs. Sid. Anderson and Frank *
Ennis.
L. 0. 0. Moose Team: George
Kosmos, Gus Man they, Joe Anderson.
Fred Johnstone and Bryce Howard.
The games start Monday evening,
the 28th, at 8 p. m. Everey term will
play every other team at least once
during the week. Doctors and Sur
geons admitted free, same as every
body else.
LINDSEY FOR
WAR ORPHANS
WANTS TO HELP THE CHILDREN
WHO ARE LEFT WITHOUT
HOMES BY WAR.
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By CHARLES P. STEWART
(United Press Stuff Correspondent *
(Special to Gateway)
THE HAGUE. Ecb. 2.—Judge Ben|
Lindsey of Denver has split off from
what is left of the Ford party to start
a war relief campaign of his own.
The judge went into detail about the
plan today. Originally it was Mrs.
Li dsey’i idea but the judge has made
it also his own and they will pu*h it
together. The Lindsey’s proposition
is to find homes for war orphans.
Incidentally they hope to find an
opportunity to develope a movement
toward ending the war itself. Quite
frankly, they came with the Ford
party mainly in the hope that associ
ation with Ford would give them an
oppo’-tunity to interest the automo
bile meker in their enterprise.
“The end of the Napoleaic wars
found countless thousands of orphans
in institutions," says the judge,
“doomed to grow up without home in
fluences, alone in the world, often ill
treated and under circumstances gen
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Train Will Go Out
Tomorrow Morning
The train will leave with freight
and passengers tomorrow morning at
i> o’clock. The engine went out this
afternoon just after her return to
keep the line open for the train to
morrow.
THREE PEOPLE NOW IN
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL
Only three people are now patients
in the General Hospital. There were
four up to a few days ago.
A RICH STRIKE MADE AT NOME
NOME, Feb. 12.—Although little
information has been given out inside
information is to the effect that Maus
& Co., working on Dexter creek, have
located rich pay. The details of the
strike have been kept quiet, as the
prospector's fear litigation, but from
a reliable source it is learned that
they have three feet of pay that will
average 25 cents to the pan. The pay
is found within five feet of the grass
roots, so that it is easy ground to
work.
The strike is within a short dis
tance of Kathleen creek, where a rich
strike was made last summer. There
is much prospecting in progress in the
district now' and others have hope of
finding the same pay.
Maus & Co. have sunk three holes
a hundred feet apart and have pay in
all of them.—Ex.
CLERK OF COURT HAS THE
LATEST PASSPORT RULINGS
On the last mail from the States
Clerk of the Court J. E. Clark receiv
ed from the state department the
latest rules regarding passports and
also the special restrictions which
have been placed upon travel in bel
ligerent nations. On the face of all
of the instructions and the blanks
there is a piece of red card board
with the words “Important, New
Passport Rules. Effective January 2,
1916“
The new rules are very strict and
seek to prevent all unnecessary travel
to Europe, whether to belligerent or
to neutral nations. After deciding
that the person who applies for a
passport is entitled to receive one,
the following form must be gone
through.
“The affidavit must be made before
a clerk of a court of records either
federal or state, within the jurisdic
tion of which the applicant or his
witness resides.—Fairbanks Ex.
CHURCH SERVICES
At the M. E. church tomorrow at
the hours of 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
services will be held. The respective
subjects will l>e used: “Things that
Abide,” “Christ Manifested.” Sun
day school at 12. Watch for the
Wednesday evening program at the
church. We invite all to these meet
ings.
NOTICE
“Christianity and War,” will be the
topic at St. Peter’s church, Sunday,
8 p. m. Men especially invited. Ap
propriate hymns.
s Quartette: “Come Ye Disconsolate.”
WHEN WILL THE
BOAT ARRIVE
AGENT OF STEAMSHIP COM
PANY LOOKS FOR ONE
ABOUT MONDAY.
Agent Wayne Blue looks for the
first boat of his company to arrive
here about Monday but, of course, he
is careful to say that he has no more
means of knowing than any of the
rest of us. He cannot yet say for
certain whether it was the Watson or
the Evans was to have left on the
18th but he is inclined to think it is
the latter. The Admiral line ship
was scheduled to leave about one day
ahead of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany’s vessel. Mr. McDonald, need
less to say, has no chance to get in
formation either and the time of the
arrival of the next boat can only be
guessed at.
NOMINATION AT MOOSE
LODGE NEXT FRIDAY
Election of Officers Will Take Place
the Friday Following.
The nomination of officers of the
Moose Lodge will take place next Fri
day for the coming year. The elec
tion will take place on the following
Friday.
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ALASKA CONCERN’S DIVIDEND
The North Alaska Salmon company
has declared, in addition to the regu-'
lar monthly ‘dividend of 75 cents, an j
extra dividend of $2.50 per share |
both payable Jan. 1. This is a total
of 114 per cent, declared this year,
amounting to $69,000 on the $600,000
stock outstanding.—Pacific Fisher
man.
MRS. REIGH DEAD
SEATTLE, Feb. 8.—Mrs. Reigh
wife of J. I). Reigh, a prominent
Fairbanks merchant, died last even
ing. She failed to recover from an
operation performed six weeks ago.
WIRES DOWN
The storm of last night levelled the
wires to Anchorage and there was no
communication with that town this
morning. It is feared that the wires
are down in several places.
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* NOW GATEWAY IS *
* FOR COMMISSOIN ❖
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A little weekly sheet published at
Anchorage for the sole purpose of
attacking the Railroad Commission
has the nerve to suggest in its issue
of the 10th inst. that the Gateway is
making an agitation about the strike
over there. Readers of the Gateway
in Anchorage, it is to be hoped, know
that the very reverse is the case.
The Gateway has always had an in
clination to minimize the matter as
it believes it will be settled if agita
tion is abandoned. But the funniest
thing of all is that the same paper
again accuses the Gateway of being
terribly friendly to the Engineering
Commission. In other words this
paper has been accused of being on
tw’o different sides in a week. The
statements of such papers always de
pend on what they are seeking for
their own purposes.
REGISTRATION
IS VERY SMALL
LITTLE INTEREST IN SPECIAL
ELECTION BUT NEW RULES
WILL CARRY.
Only a hundred and eighty-five peo
ple had registered this afternoon at
one o’clock and not much more than
two hundred are expected altogether.
The registration books will be open
until 10 o’clock tonight and quite a
lot more of men and women could
still get themselves registered if they
so wished but there is evidently very!
little interest and it is hardly likely!
that even half the voters will register.!
From what can be learned by speak
ing to individuals around the city the
new rules of election seem certain to
be carried but not enough question
ing has been done to make any posi
tive statement in this respect.
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❖ SHIPPING OUT *
❖ RECORD HEAD ❖
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C. L. Votaw is shipping out a moo-sw
head which is a record, he believes,
for the number of points on the horns.
The head has 48 points and largest
known before, he says, had 42 points.
MAIL THIS EVENING
Colonel Revell says the mail from
Anchorage will arrive this evening.
THE DAVENPORT
IS BROKEN UP
_
VESSEL THAT WENT ADRIFT;
LAST FALL IN COOK IN
LET HAD HISTORY.
*
The Katie Davenport which went
adrift last fall near Anchorage has
been broken to smi'neriens by the ice)
and pieves of her are now scattered i
all over the Inlet. She had been outi
all winter and took a terrible pound
ing which graudally smashed her up. j
The Davenport was being used in her |
later years as a sort of barge but *
was formerly a ship with a good
standing. She was a clipper ship and;
at one time ran out of Puget Sound |
with lumber. She was built about j
forty-four years ago.
CHINESE SOCIAL
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The Philatheas of the Methodist
Church arc arranging to give a Chin
ese social at the church next Wednes
day night, which promises to be a
very unique and pleasant affair. The
young ladies will be dressed in
Chinese costume, and there will be
Chinese music and recitations and
real Chinese refreshments.
COUTTS WORKED FOR R. R.
W. Coutts, the case against whom
was dismissed after the Gateway had
gone to press last evening, worked
for the Railroad Commission for
about two years a.f head packer. The
case was dismissed on the motion of
the complaining witness, E. E.
Anderson. Mr. Coutts paid Mr.
Anderson the money received on the
check. The defendant has been well
recommended by the Commission
people.
TEMPORARY DOCK
WORK FINISHED
The foundation for the dock build
ing was finished today and the actual
dock part of the work is complete.
The building has to be erected yet.
TRAIN ARRIVES
The train arrived this afternoon.
She made Mile 34 last evening and
was well on the way back early this
morning. She arrived during the
I noon hour.
PRESIDENT ADDS TO CITIES IN WHICH
HE WILL URGE PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM
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(PRESIDENT WILSON BEGINS HIS SPEAKING TOUR,
(Visiting New York to deliver the first of his addresses In advocacy of hLs program of notional PrePsrwmeM for war Prert.
rz-sr*
oth'Jtow".along h'li roufe, but hi. acceptance depend, on train schedule.. In addition to preparedness he will discus*
•Pint of the questions now before congress In these speeches.*
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V A. U. DANCE *
❖ IS POSTPONED *
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On account of weather conditions
the A. Ii. dance scheduled for tonight
will be postponed one week. The
series of dances for which tickets
have been sold will be extended one
week longer so that holders of tickets
will have the benefit of the total
number of dances called for.
THOUSAND NEWSPAPERMEN
MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
I)ES MOINES, la., Feb. 10.—Near
ly 1,000 newspapermen are here today
for the opening of the two days’ ses
sion of the Iowa Press association,
formed a few months ago, and al
ready one of the strongest organiza
tions of its kind in the middle west.
So rapidly has' the association grown
that it was found necessary to divide
the first meeting into sections, one for
the daily men, one for the weeklies
and another for job men.
ONE WAY TO GET IT
Special to Gateway by United Press.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 10.—H. K.
Knapp, prone to do what his name im
plies after the alarm clock rings in
the morning, used to get up, shut the
thing off and go back to bed and
oversleep so much that he got three
more arouse rs, put one in each cor
ner of the room and now, by the time
he has made the rounds and shuts
them all olF he’s ready to stay up.
WOMEN AT HOME
IN FRISCO SALOONS
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8.—The
equal rights idea has invaded several
San Francisco saloons. Fashionably
dressed women \^alk in and drink
alongside the men and seem just as
adept as their male escorts at crook
ing the elbow while resting a dainty,
slippered foot on the brass rail.
In one of the Equal Rights Thirst
eries, a landmark of the days of the
’•19 gold rush, it requires a line of
white-coated bartenders working at
top speed to keep abreast of the de
mand for a seductive South American
punch that has made the place fam
ous.
CHITINA HAS NEW
DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Recent advices received from Chit
ina tell of the new “Woodrow” Wilson
Democratic Club” that has been
formed in that town. The Democrats
there held an enthusiastic meeting in
the A. B. Hall, and M. J. Healey was
electod president, and Charles O’Con
nor secretary and treasurer.
NEWS NOTES
The Philathae Society affair next
Wednesday at the Methodist church
will be a “Chinese Social” at which
Chinese selections of all kinds will be
the feature.
Joe Meherin, the very much travel
ed traveling man, came in this after
noon on the train. He spent a day
or two at the Oases with Mr. and
Mrs. Hayden and Derick Lane.
Miss Ruth Chandler, who was a
member of the Gateway staff last
summer, has written to her friend
Miss Ericson that she will return this
spring. She wrote from West Union,
Iowa, where she is having a fine time
visiting her relatives.
Robert Beach has arrived from An
chorage after an absence of about a
year.
Word has been received from Mrs.
Whittemore that she has been under
going treatment outside but the re
sult is not yet known.
Recent arrivals at Anchorage from
Seward were Harry Hicks and Mrs.
Rose Johnson.
Bud Whitney is reported to have a
hundred young pigs on his ranch and
he expects to find a market in this
town and in Anchorage.
W. S. Perkins of the Paystreak Ex
press has arrived from Anchorage.
Christen Olsen is register^! from
i Flat.
CAPITAL TO BE
VERY DRY CITY
PROHIBITION LAW NOW IN CON
GRESS FOR LIST. OF COL
UMBIA VERY STRICT.
Special to Gateway by United Pre s.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. - The
Washington man who keeps bay rum
for his hair and the housewife who
puts vanilla in the angel cake are
both likely to be visited by the
Metropolitan police if Seantor Shep
pard’s prohibition bill for the District
of Columbia becomes a law.
The bill now before the senate i
regarded by dry authorities as the
most thorough, comprehensive, iron
bound, steel riveted lid ever devi c*'
The residents of the District have no
vote or say as to whether they wish
to venture upon so complete a
drought. It’s all up to Congress.
The bill not only prohibits the
manufacture, sale or giving away of
liquor, but it provides that the mere
possession of liquor shall be deemed
sufficient evidence to convict a person
of selling it.
Search of any promises may be
made upon an informal complaint.
Discovery of liquor on the premise*
will void the lease and give the owner
the right to eject the occupant. Com
mon carriers are prohibited bringing
alcoholic beverages into the district.
Any scheme or device to evade the
law shall be regarded the same as the
sale of liquor. The keeper of liquor
may bo restrained as a common nui
sance, according to the proposed regu
lation.
Five wholesale druggists only are
to be allowed to sell wood, grain or
denatured alcohol. Anyone buying it
must make an affidavit that he is
twenty-one, not of intemperate habits
and not addicted to the use of narcotic
drugs.
To obtain wine for sacramental
purposes priests and ministers are
required to make application to the
District Commissioners, specifying
lor what sacramental purposes the
wine is necessary, and how long the
quantity applied for will last.
The commissioners, before grant
ing a permit, which will cost 25 cents,
must satisfy themselves that the facts
are correct. Such wine will then be
allowed to be imported, but must be
delivered at the church between 6 in
the morning and 5 in the evening.
The sale of any liquor containing
more than Va of 1 per cent of alcohol
is forbidden and subject to all the
other restrictions of the bill. This is
understood to include perfumery,
flavoring extracts, proprietary medi
cines, prescriptions and similar pre
parations containing more than this
amount of alcohol.
TODAY'S ODDEST STORY
Special to Gateway by United Press.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 12.—Buried
with the body of Mrs. William Wright
under six feet of sod today, was the
pudding she had saved for 20 years,
to serve when her son, from whom
she had not heard since the Boer war,
came home. Her lone waiting made
her an invalid at 79.
POT POURRI PARAGRAPHS
( (Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—The Na
tional Indoor Tennis championship
for men will be staged on the courts
of the Seventh Regiment Tennis club
here beginning today. The Florida
State outdoor championship will be
decided at the Palm Beach Tennis
club courts February 28th.
MINNEAPOLIS.—Of the 600 jitney
buses operating here last fall, only
64 were left today.
GRAND FORKS, N. D.—North
Dakota newspaper editors have form
ed a mutual operative fire insurance
company, for the protection of their
plants.
FORT DODGE, la.—Clara Gerd
Posendahl, young farmer who is six
feet and eight inches tall and weighs
290 ponds, is married to a woman
over six feet tall.