•IDITAROD AFTER
INCREASE IN
WINTER MAIL
Present Allotment is Not
Commensurate With
District’s Needs
l l)IT A KOI'.—Considerable dissatis
faction lias been expressed since the
inception ot* the winter mail service
with the niggardly allotment which is
consigned to this city and district.
The delivery of the mail has been
rather irregular, but no complaint has
been made on this score, because the
weather conditions have not been such
as to warrant the expectation ot fast
time being made. Indeed, so sever*
has been the winter so far that the
residents hereabouts may consider
Jthem selves fortunate that the deliver
ies have been even v» ji.'.mpt as has
been the case.
But in the iiatt?'* of the amo im or
mail consigned to this district there is
a just complaint. Prior to the going
into effect of the Seward-Iditaroc*
tnail contract the mail for this (tts
trict was carried over the route from
Fairbanks to Ruby and thence down
the Yukon to Kaltag, thence to Pis
kaket and thence to Pikeman and
Iditarod. The route followed was
much farther than the present one
from tidewater and consequently
consumed more time. But it was
seldom that the consignments for the
Iditarod consisted of less than the 400
pounds provided for in the contract.
The present contract calls for 275
pounds of mail to leave Anchorage,
which allotment serves Knik, Susitna,
Tokotna. Ophir, Iditarod and Flat.
>But this is not all. The adjoining
Tolstoi district, which has no post
office as yet. is also supplied from this
point. By the time the mail reaches
Iditarod it has dwindled to insignifi
cant proportions, the last three mails
consisting of hut 27b, •'*<•» anti 2*>*>
pounds respectively, which includes
both Iditarod ami Flat allotments.
As a consequence second-class mat
ter addressed to residents of this dis
trict must be accumulated at Seward
in great quantities, as few periodicals
for October, and scarcely any outside
newspaper for that month, have ye%
reached here.
The amount of mail received here
this winter so far even less than
that received last year, because of the
tf'ict that Ophir, which last least y#u.r
was served entirely by the Ruby
Tokotna contract, is this year served
by the Seward-Iditarod route, and as
there was no increase in the weight
lirr^, the result has been to decrease
the amount of mail received bv Idita
rod and Flat.
It should not be necessary to appeal
to those in authority for relief from
this intolerable condition. The fact
that this community receives sucTi an
insignificant amount of mail weekly
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GIRL OF SIX
MAKES TRIP IN j
GERMAN SIB
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COPENHAGEN, Thursday, Feb.
22.—Solveig Jacobson, a little six
year old Norwegian girl is the first
to take a long trip on a war sub
marine. She has just landed here
from Holland after a six day voyage
on one of Germany’s undersea fighters
with her father, who was captain of a
Norwegian ship sunk by the sub.
Capt. Isaiah Jacobson had his
daughter with him aboard the freight
er of which he was skipper and when
he was warned to quit his ship by the
submarine commander he megaphoned
that he had a child aboard who would’
not be able to survive the trip in life
boats in the winter weather. The
captain of the sub ordered him to
come alongside and took Jacobson and
his daughter aboard, where they lived
during the remaining six days before
the submarine returned to port.
WOLF HUNTER IS
VICTIM OF PACK
WHEN DOGS FLED
GOLD HILL. Ore.—(Spec .‘a*.—A
man’s scattered bones, his empty rifle
and the remains of three tinder
wolves, found on Kvans creek, Jack
son county, told a prim story, it is
believed, of a fatal struggle in which
John Hammersley a missing govern
ment hunter, was torn to shreds by a
pack of hungry wolves, but only af
ter he had killed three of the animals.
News of the discovery, which was
made about a mile from Hammers
ley’s camp by timbermen, was brought
here.
In the clearing in the willows,
where the bones were found, the
ground was torn up giving evidence
of a terrific struggle. The hunter's
clothes were ripped to shreds and his
t
bones were licked clean. Indications
were that the fight occurred not long
ago.
A posse, which has been searching
for Hammersley, believes the bones
are Hammerslev's, as no other trace
of him or his pack of hounds has been
found.
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1 should appeal to the postal authorities
without their attention being called
to it. Hut it appears that no im
provements in mail service can be se
cured in Alaska without strenuous ef
forts on the part of the citizens in
terested. This is well illustrated fn
the case of Fairbanks, where continu
al agitation has resulted in awarding
emergency contracts which insure the
delivery of “all the mail all the
time” to that city. Some concerted
effort should be made by the citizens
here to call the attention of the de
partment to the ridiculously inade
quate service furnished.—(Pioneer.)
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Fresh Rutterkist popcorn at the
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City Express. Phone Main 122.
AUGUSTINE & KYER CANDIES
A. fresh supply arrived on last boat, also a big shipment of
EL FIRMA CIGARS
Clear Havana. Special attention given mail and phone orders.
SEWARD DRUG COMPANY
The Seward General
Hospital
desires to acquaint the general hospital inter
ests of this country with the facilities of this
institution for giving the latest devised methods
of nursing care to persons requiring medical or
surgical treatment. Special attention given to
patients requiring gynecological treatments.
Hvdrotherapeutic treatments carefully follow
ed. This building, just complete, electric light
ed, steam heated, hot and cold water. Physi
cians placing patients in our care will receive
every ethical attention. Prompt readiness tor
accidents, obstretrics and emergencies, day or
night. For further particulars address,
SISTER SUPERIOR.
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WIERD BALL
TOSSER STUNG
YANKS’ OWNERS
Other Side of Contracts on
Players Told by an
Eastern Writer
(By Bulger)
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Probably the
toughest contract that a ball club ever
had to swallow was canceled when
the Yanks gave Ed Sweeney his un
conditional release. They also gave
Ray Keating a free ticket, but the fig
ures in his paper were not nearly so
much ot’ a mouthful.
Sweeney got the toe hold on the
Yanks the first year of trouble wifh
the then rising Federal League. Gil-1
more and his fellow revolutionists
had been flirting with Sweeney about
leaving organized baseball, and frank
Farrell, then owner of the Yanks, •
grew frightened. He wired to Ban
Johnson, in Chicago, to get on the;
job. Sweeney, despite the tact that i
he was slipping as a player, nicked
them for a three-year contract call-1
ing for $8,000 a yeaf.
Acquired the t ontract
When Col. Ruppert and Capt. Hus-1
ton bought the Yanks they also ac
quired Sweeney’s contract, with two
years to run. They did not want,
Sweeney at all, but there was the pa-,
per! Rig Ed had gone back consider-1
ably and they farmed him out to aj
minor league club and paid the dif-j
ference in salary between $2,500 and;
$8,000 without any comeback at all.
Again and again they offered to buy
out Sweeney, but he would listen to
no propositions. He would play ball
or do whatever they wanted, but he
insisted on his $8,000 a year.
In their two years of ownership
this single contract, of no use to them j
whatever, cost the colonel and the ^
captain $11,000 in cold cash. Theyj
did not even see the player, but sent
him bi-monthly checks for playing in
a minor league.
The contract is now up, anu ^ api.
Huston came all the way from Dover
Hall., Ga., to celebrate its passing out
( of existence.
In the mean time Sweeney has used
the extra money to purchase a garage
business in Chicago, and that, in ad
dition to his political activities, is
making him quite comfortable.
The moral of this is that the ball
players are not always the slaves with
their noses to the grindstone. For
an indiscretion of their predecessors
the present owners of the Yanks have
| coughd up exactly $11,000 in cash—
with no comeback.
The Keating contract was not so
deadly. It did not have long to run,
but it called for $5,000. He has been
given his unconditional release, and
though he cost $8,000 the club is left
with an empty bag to hold.
When Keating first came in from
the New England League, heralded
as the world’s greatest spitball pitch
er, Frank Farrell thought he had a
pennant sure. He outbid all other
competitors to get Keating and paid
$8,000 for his release. The big fel
low has never been able to do any
thing of real value to the club.
Next to Keating the most foolish
outlay of money known to New York
baseball was the payment of $7,500
for an outfielder by the name of Me
loney. This young fellow got his
chance the first day, and the old-time
fans still remember how he was urged
to wear a mask for fear of a fly ball
knocking his brains out by hitting
him in the head.
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