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SEWARD. THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1916.___ _. __\_ P- .
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MILLION LBS.
MEAT WANTED
BIOS ASKED FOR SITTLYING
the RAILROAD 01 t from
ANCHORAGE.
Bills have now been asked tor to
supply more than a million pounds of
meat to the Railroad Commission in
the Anchorage district during the
coming year and this does not include
the meat supplies for the Sew aril
division which will be probably asked
for later. Manager William Ellis of
Frye, Bruhn & Company has received
the proposals for bids. The Commis
sion asks for 840,000 lbs. of beef, 200,
000 lbs. of pork and 130,000 lbs ot
mutton to be supplied during the
fiscal year from July 1. 1016, to July
1. 1017. The meat is to bo delivered
at intervals as required to the camps
that will be situated between Kern
creek to a point on the Susitna river
above the Talkeetna Forks.
HOW MANY MEN WILL EAT
MILLION LBS. OF MEAT
The Engineering Commission has
asked for just 1,170.000 lbs. of meat
for the year beginning July 1 and the
question now is how many men will
be required to eat it.
Dot's a workingman eat two lbs. of
meat a day?
Let us say he does and that would
make a little over 700 lbs. for each
man during the year. This would
mean that the Commission figures on
employing more than one thousand,
six hundred men on railroad work in
that division alone in the coming
year.
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<;rs HOLSTROM BOUND
OVER TO GRAND JURY
Bonds of Man Accused of Shooting at
Seldovia Fixed at $1,000.
Gus Holstrom was bound over to
await the action of the grant! jury
this morning on the charge of shoot
ing with intent to kill a Native near
Seldovia nearly a year rgo. Com
missioner Conroy fixed the bonds at
a thousand dollars. According to
what came out in court the Native
and Holstrom had a fight. The
native grasped an axe and a gun
went off, the bullet from which, the
Native says, hit him on top of the
head. Holstrom says they fell over,
the gun while they were struggling
and that it went off accidentally. L.
V. Ray, counsel for Holstrom, declar
ed that it would be impossible for a
bullet to hit the Native if a gun were
held in the hands of Holstrom in the
manner described by the Native.
Holstrom has been working near Sel
dovia for the Goose Bay Cannery
since the occurrence.
MORE TALK ABOUT ALL
SORTS OF CANDIDATES
It would take a man all his time
just now to follow up all Uu rumors
about people who are likely to be
candidates for the different places in
the city government Some of the
men seen deny there is any truth in
the rumors connected with their
names. It has also been hinted that
some new candidates will appear for
the school board, but it is to be hoped
that election, at least, will be kept
free of so-called politics.
EVERY SCHOOL TEACHER
IN THE UNITED STATES
WANTS TO COME HERE
Curtis Morford of the school board
is now busy answering letters from
almost innumerable school teachers
all over the United States who want
to come to Seward. “If other kinds
of people have the same desire to
come to this part of Alaska,” says
Mr. Morford, “we’ll never be able to
tind room for them. I expect to have
the number of applications for school
positions reach two hundred on the
next boat or so.”
MAIL TONIGHT
The mail from Anchorage and the
interior will arrive on the work train
this evening.
EDES WILL WAIT
THE BIG MONEY
REMAINING SIX MILLIONS FOR
YEAR S K. K. WORK MAY
SOON BE PASSED.
It haj> been intimated to the Gate
way that the remaining six millions
of the year’s fund for the government
railroad work may be passed with the
other national appropriations this
month. It was stated before th*.
Chairman Edes of the Commission
and Commissioner Riggs would wait
in Washington to help the larger ap
propriation through congress but this
does not mean that they would stay
until the money is available. The fis
cal year begins on July 1, three
months from now, and at that time
the remaining six millions will have
to come as all appropriations for the
whole country must be ready for the
beginning of the fiscal period.
In the Gateway’s statement of the
manner in which the two millions will
be divided it could be noticed that
only about half the amount was ac
counted for. The remainder probably
included money for work in the in
terior end of the right of way.
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ODDFELLOWS HOLD
A PLEASANT SOCIAL
Lodge Will be Organized and
Rebekahs Abo Probably.
The Odd Fellows held a smoker
last evening in the offices of Dr. O. j
J. Keating. The affair was well at
tended and proved both pleasant and
profitable.
At the last meeting of the Odd Fel
lows dub it was definitely decided
that a lodge of the order would be or
ganized in Seward just as soon as the
necessary number of demits could be
obtained. These have been sent for
and will soon be received. During the
smoker last evening the details of or
ganization were discussed, and an
portant points,
port points.
Nearly all the Odd Fellow lodges in
Alaska are under the jurisdiction of
the grand lodge of the States of
Washington. The Seward Odd Fel
lows will organize under the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of the World, and will
not affiliate with any state jurisdic
tion. This course will be followed
because it is thought that within the
next two years a grand lodge of Odd
Fellows will be organized in Alaska.
The ladies’ auxiliary to the Odd
Fellows organization is known as the
Rebekah lodge. The discussion last
evening brought out the fact that
there are enough Rebekahs in Seward
to organize. The Odd Fellows will
encourage the Rebekahs to organize
as early as possible.
It is more than probable that the
Odd Fellows will build within a short
time after organization. However,
no definite plans can be made in this
matter until after the lodge is insti
tuted.
The Odd Fellows are starting out
patronizing home industry. The
cigars used last evening were of Sew
ard manufacture.
FEARED AN OLD
TIMER HAS PERISHED
DAWSON, Feb. 4.—Fears are en
tertained that Sam Timm, old time
Klondiker, has perished in the snow
somewhere near Granville on the
mouth of Gold Run. He had been liv-*
ing in a cabin on Twenty-three pup,
Gold Run, for a long time. No one
of the district remembers having seen
him since December 19. He had been
^ talking of going to Stewart Crossing,
| to visit a man there at the roadhouse,
and possibly of going to Eureka
creek. The police and others have in
quired at the various points, and
have found no trace of Timm. His
friends at Granville believe he must
have fallen in the snow somewhere
near the mouth of Gold Run or Gran
ville on his way home. Owing to the
heavy’ storms the body of anyone hav
ing been lost in that region during the
period probably would not be reveal
ed to view until the snow disappears
' in the spring.—Ex.
Myers Has His Hat in the Ring
C. A. Myers, the present mayor of
Seward, came out openly this morn
ing with the announcement that he is
a candidate for the mayoralty under
the new' law adopted by this muni
cipality.
Mr. Myers, who is the manager of
the Carstens Packing Company here,
headed the poll in the election last
year and, following the usual custom,
he was elected by the city council as
its presiding officer.
MOOSE NOMINATE
OFFICERS TONIGHT
The nomination of officers for the
Seward Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose,
will take place this evening and a full
attendance is requested.
R. L. THOMPSON LOSES MOTHER
By an oversight the fact was over
looked mentioning that R. L. Thomp
son, a popular young Soward man,
recently received the sad word of his
mother’s death and has gone outside
for a visit. The lady died at Everett,
Washington, and Mr. Thompson went
on the Alameda. Mrs. Thompson has
remained here. On the day on which
Mr. Thompson went out the Gateway
was published at noon to let the peo
ple have the war news and on that
account several local items were over
looked.
NATIVE BORN YUKON
BOYS AT THE FRONT
Dawson News: Y'ukon Territory
has three native born sons at the
front, with the British forces, while a
fourth boy, who was born at Fort
Norman, on the Mackenzie river,
Mackenzie Territory, also has enlist
ed. All four are sons of the clergy of
the Church of England of this region.
The first two boys are Kenneth Mc
Donald and Hugh McDonald, sons of
the late Archdeacon McDonald,
pioneer missionary of the Mackenzie
and the Y'ukon basins, and of Mrs.
McDonald, now' of Dawson. The
mother is a full blooded member of
the Peel River tribe of Indians, and
first met her husband at Fort Mc
Pherson. Kenneth, the eldest of the
McDonald boys, is in the British
navy, on his majesty’s 6hip Victory.
Kenneth is 38 years of age, and un
married. He is the eldest child of the
McDonald family. Hugh, the young
est child of the archdeacon’s family,
is 21 years of age, and married. His
wife, who is in Winnipeg, visited
Dawson last summer. Both the Mc
Donald boys were born at Fort Mc
Pherson. Hugh is a member of the
Seventy-ninth Cameron Highlanders
of Winnipeg.
Another of the boys is Elliott
Totty, son of Rev. Totty, missionary
at Moosehide, near Daw’son. Elliott
was born at Fort Selkirk in 1895, at
tended school at Moosehide, and later
at a college in Victoria, and is With
the Canadian medical corps, now- in
England, en route to the front.
The fourth northern boy is Stanley
Granham Saunders Hawksley, son of
Rev. John Hawksley, Indian superin
tendent for Yukon Territory. Stanley
was born at Fort Norman, on the
Mackenzie river, 21 years ago, while
the father wras missionary at that
point.
MILTON'S VILLAGE HAS
PROUD WAR RECORD
I
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
HORTON, Buckinghamshire, Eng.,
Feb. 22.—'This small English village
where John Milton wrote L’AUegro,
II Penseroso, a portion of Paradise
Lost and other poems, has a proud
war record. Practically every man
eligible for war duty out of Horton’s
TOO population is in khaki. Some of
them have been killed. The woman,
children and old men are carrying on
the village’s chief occupation, market
gardening, as usual. Milton left
Horton in 1683, a year after the
death of his mother. Her body lies
,under the southern aisle of the Parish j
church. The spot is marked by a flat
«
blue stone which distinctly bears the |
date "April 8, 1637.”
May the Gateway remark here that
though Mr. Myers ha3 been alligncd
against the Gateway on many ques
tions he has always been a gentle
man. He comes out now openly with
out waiting to find who will or will
not be a candidate in opposition.
In making the announcement of his
candidature he declared that as he
intended to run for the office he might
as well come out first as last instead
of doing politics by a “watchful wait
ing” policy.
HOW THE RAILROAD
WILL SHAPE UP
The fact that the Commission has
given the quick order for ties and
that part of the emergency appropri
ation will be used for the purchase of
two or three new cars for the Alaska
Northern has given rise to the belief
that Seward will be made the base for
the rock work next winter beyond the
present northern end of the Alaska
Northern. This belief is apparently
well founded and, indeed, there seems
to be no other way out of it.
MILLIONAIRES TO TESTIFY
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
COLUMBUS, Feb. 21.—Ohio State
Utilities commissioners today consid
ered the application of the New York
Central railroad for permission to
buy more than $12,000,000 worth of
equipment for use in Ohio. At the
request of Clarence Venner and
James Pollitz, New York capitalists
opposing the application and who
fought the New York Central-Lake
Shore railroad merger, are to be wit
nesses. Among those who are to be
asked to come to Columbus, it is said,
are A. H. Smith, president of the
New York Central; William Rocke
feller, Chauncey Depew and the
Vanderbilts, who are directors in the
New York Central.
ELKS BEAT THE
MOOSEJOWLING
TONIGHT THE TWO GREAT AL
ASKA ORGANIZATIONS
WILL MEET.
The Elks beat the Moose last night
on the Northern alleys after a good
game. Sidney Anderson made the top
number of 471 last evening but Mont
gomery was only two pins behind
him. Tonight the two great Alaska
organizations, the Pioneers and the
Arctic Brotherhood, will meet and a
close contest may be looked for. The
scores last evening were as follows:
Elks.
Heine Haasch ...160 133 161—454
Sid Anderson ...164 166 141—471
F. Youngs .124 146 172—442
Andy Anderson ..121 148 128—397
Bryce Howard ..106 148 153—407
Totals .675 741 755 2171
Moose.
Joe Anderson ...172 157 130—459
Gus Manthey ....133 134 139—406
E. A. Anderson . .104 108 125—337
Montgomery .,..139 141 187—469
Geo. Kosmos ....129 104 140—378
Totals .677 644 721 2042
Tonight’s line up:
A. B.s: Bill Henry, Chas. Martin,
Geo. Mitchell, Chas. Sheldon and Leo
Margules.
Pioneers: Otto Moses, Gus John
son, Grant Carlson, Crit Tolman and
Ben Sweezey.
REPUBLICANS MEET
TOMORROW EVENING
An important meeting of the Re
publican Club will take place tomor
row night ai. 8 o’clock at the Pioneer
Hall.
OFF FOR IDITAROI)
Senator Henry Roden and Harry
Whittemore are two people who left
for Iditarod this morning. Harry
took two passengers and expects to
be back in forty days or so. A. Mr.
Krieger also went over the trail.
GATEWAY STORY OE R. R. STRIKE
SETTLEMENT IS CONEIRMED
MEARS TO GIVE
LANE^ANSWER
AT SPECIAL MEETING OF UNION j
WORKERS WILL KNOW RE
SULT OF DEMANDS.
ANCHORAGE, March 3.—At a
special meeting of the labor union this
afternoon Commissioner Meurs will
deliver the answer of Secretary Lane
to the demands for higher wages
made by the Union men. Nothing has
been given out that would indicate
the tenor of Lane’s reply but plenty
of rumors are afloat. Tho subject will
oe covered fully for you immediately
after the message is read to the
Union.
—
TODAY’S ODDEST STORY
(United Press StafF Correspondent*
CLEVELAND, Feb. 22.—A. R.
Rumsey, chief commissioner of the j
lake carriers’ association, is looking
for his dog Perry again. Rumsey 1
says his dog is the champion lost j
canine of the United States. “Perry i
has been lost 168 times in 14 years,” |
said Rumsey today. “It has cost me
an average of $500 a year to get him
back.” |
SAYS COTTON MEN CONSPIRE
TO KILL CHILI) LABOR. BILL
(Special * ateway by United Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — Charg
ing the southern cotton mill interests
are conspiring to kill the child labor
bill, Representative Keating of Colo
rado, its author, today isseud a warn
ing to the public and an appeal to
“write your congressman.”
“The plan of the selfish interests is
to stave off action on the bill in the
Senate until it will be sidetracked by
the preparedness program and put
over at least until next term,” said
Seating. “The cotton mill interests
hope to delay auy action by the
Senate Interstate Commerce commit
tee, which is friendly to the legisla
tion and reported it last session.
They propose to this end that the
legislative committee visit the mill
districts.
By holding up the bill in committee
until the preparedness bills get before
the Senate, they plan to have 8 or 10
southern Democratic Senators then
serve warning that they will begin an
endless filibuster against the prepar
c?dness measure unless the child labor
bill is sidetracked for the session. It
is then hoped to sacrifice the child
labor bill in the interest of the pre
paredness program. The people
should know just what this conspir
acy is. They should write their con
gressmen and Senators. Senator
Robinson of Arkansas, who is in
charge of the bill in the Senate, is
friendly to the measure.”
J. LINDLEY GREEN TO
ASSIST SAM GRAFF
Pictures of the Famous Vocal Celc
brites for March 17 Now
I
Appearing.
Splendid theatrical posters are now
being got out by the Arctic Brother
hood showing the various artists who
will appear on the Minstrel stage on
March 16. The first one posted up
is one of Sam Graff who will sing the
touching melody: “Let There be
light." The bill says he may be as
sisted by J. Lindiey Green.
The second one to come out was
one telling that Sam Bone Soupcoff
who is down for that ribald ditty:
“Tis Always Fair Weather When
Good Fellows Get Together." Dick
Lane and others were getting theirs
when the press time came in sight.
The artist is Jimmie Hawkins and his
work is certainly remarkably credi
table for one of his years.
The story told in yesterday’s Gate
way that Secretary Lane had confer
red with Secretary Wilson, Samuel
Gompers and Secretary Morrison ot
the A. F. L. and had entrusted them
with the formation of a committee to
fix the wages on the Alaska Railroad
was confirmed this afternoon when a
telegram came from Anchorage tell
ing of the announcement by Commis
sioner Mears of the answer of Secre
tary Lane to the demands of the
workingmen.
The following is the dispatch re
ceived from Anchorage this afternoon
by the Gateway:
ANCHORAGE, March 3.—Commis
sioner Mears spoke before a monster
meeting of the labor union this after
noon and laid Secretary Lane’s an- j
swer to the union demands before it.
The following is Mr. Lane’s answer:
“Have consulted with Secretary
Labor Wilson who will send commit-!
tee to Anchorage to hear all sides and
fix reasonable schedule wages. Secre
tary Wilson has consulted with Presi- |
dent Gompers and Secretary Morri
MAKS, MIDAS AND Cl 1*11)
FINISH A FINE ROMANCE
(Special to Gateway by United Press) ;
NEW YOKE, Feb. 1'L—On the I
wharf here today as Mr. and Mrs.
Yves Nat sailed away on their honey
moon to France, stood a strange:
triumvirate of gods: Mars, Midas and
Cupid, smiling their united benedic
tion upon this happy conclusion of the
war zone romance they three halcheu
| up. Mr. Nat is a pianist well known
in the United States and France.
Nearsightedness prevents the artist
from serving at the front, but he has
devoted himself to war relief work in
America ami Europe ever since the
war began. Mrs. Nat w*as Miss Piney
Sutherland, only daughter of the late
Canadian financier, Daniel Fraser
Sutherland of Winchester, Ontario.
After her father’s death Miss Suther
land became the active manager of
the twenty-five Canadian banks her
father bequeathed her. It was in
pursuit of the affairs of Midas, god of
gold, that Miss Sutherland met Mr.
Nat, who was seeking funds at the
behest of Mars, god of war, for the
relief of some of Mars' victims. In
New York, in Paris and in Ontario on
several occasions the two met. Then
Cupid, (you all know him), came
slipping around the corner and s'hov
them both with a weapon more fatal
than any Mars, writh all his science
and ingenuity in munitions making,
has devised. Mrs. Nat is a friend of
Mrs. David Belasco, who w'os one of
the fewr guests at the wredding here a
few days ago. In Paris Mrs. Nat will
organize recreation centers for Cana
dian soldiers on furlough and Mr.
Nat will devote himself to the work
of the Appuy aux Artistes, an organ
ization that cares for the families of
destitute artists.
3,326 MICHIGAN SALOONS
MAY BE FORCED OUT
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 23.—‘Three
thousand, three hundred and twenty
six saloons in Michigan will be forced
out of business if the state wide pro
hibition amendment is passed at the
general election November 7. Of
these, about 40 per cent are located
in Detroit. The value of the saloon
interests in the state has been rough
ly estimated at $100,000,000. Already
nearly 42 per cent of the entire popu
lation of the state is in dry territory,
through the operation of the county
local option law. Local option and
restrictions imposed by the Warner
Crampton law, have caused 2,934
saloons in Michigan to suspend busi
ness during the last eight years.
Grant Carlson, a member of a well
known family, is now the messenger
for the Engineering Commission’s
telegraph Bervice.
non of the American Federation of
Lalwr who will advise Anchorage lab
or union that such committee is going
to Anchoruge with their knowledge
and approval. 1 wish you lay ail mat
ters before this committee. 1 do not
know who the committee will be but
as Secretary Wilson is a former lab
or ollicial I am satisfied the committee
will be fair to labor. You are author
ized to put into effect schedule of
wages fixed by this committee which
Secretary of Labor says will start for
Anchorage on next steamer from
Seattle. President Gompers and Sec
retary Morrison say that they will
wire union advising them to continue
on present wage schedule until com
mittee makes its report.”
In closing his speech to the Union
meeting this afternoon Commissioner
Mears said:
*‘I wish to assure you that I am
prepared to co-operate with the com
mittee in recommending an :ncrease
in present scale of wages.”
The meeting adjourned without
.taking action.
LINDERBERG
FDR GOVERNOR
ANOTHER MAN MENTIONED AS
LIKELY KEITBLICAX CAN
DIDATE FOR JOB.
Through some channels which it is
impossible to follow the report has
come that Jafet Lindcrberg, one of
the discoverers of Nome and the
president of the Pioneer Mining
Company, will be a candidate for the
governorship of the territory if the
Republicans win the national elections
this year. Lindcrberg is a reputed
millionaire and is undoubtedly popu
lar. For several years, even before
he became a full-fledged American
citizen, Lindcrberg has been associat
ed in a prominent way with Republi
can politics and was even a delegate
to a national convention. He was also
recently decorated by the king of Nor
way. The question of a candidate foi
Republican gubernatorial honois
seems now to be agitated quite a bit.
There is nothing more heard about the
idea that Wickersham will be a candi
date but one might guess that noth
ing more will come out until after the
Republican territorial convention.
One little item which must be taken
into account, however, is the side that
will be elected in the presidential
struggle.
GETTING OUT.
ORDERS FOR WORK
ENGINEERING COMMISSION AT
SEWARD CLEARING THE
SHIP FOR ACTION.
The Engineering Commission at
Seward is now getting out orders for
work with the emergency money.
Everything is being cleared up in
readiness.
There is no way of telling what the
result has been of the call for bids for
cutting ties and so much difficulty
has been found in securing the names
of any bidders that it creates a feel
ing that not many arc looking for the
contracts, but this cannot be said
positively. From what can be learn
ed by men who are thinking of ask
ing Jor contracts it appears that 37
cents a tie is the regular price and
that the 32 cent ties are only to be a
small number and of the cull variety.
There is some talk of another bowl
ing contest between Seward and
Anchorage a week from now. Wag
^ ner, the Anchorage terror, has left
for the interior and Anchorage would
not have his aid in the contest.