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VOLUMK XfV NUMBKK 216. 6EWARD, ALASKA^ v' :| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26/1920. TBh CENTS PH OOP!
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ABOLITION OF DEPT. OF INTERIOR IN RUSH* PROPOSED
STEEL AND WHEAT DECLINE IN PHICEA WHEATAT $1-50 PER DUSHEL
ALL ABOARD
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George C. Potter returned to An
chorage on this morning’s train.
Albert Lind left for Anchorage this
morning to give the town the once ov
er and renew accquaintance with the
old timers.
Mrs. Mathison and daughter return
ed to Anchorage after spending
Thanksgiving day with Mr. Mathison.
Frank Case and Al Harper return
ed to Granite Lake this morning U4
complete the iissessment work on their
properties.
* An tone Anderson boarded the train
this morning for Mile 52.
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Al Solcrs will mush from Mile 20
to the Lake. He was a passenger on
the Flier this morning.
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Hugh Dougherty went to Anchor
age on a business trip.
R. N. Foran and wife left Seward
this morning for Anchorage. Mr. For
an who has been with the Commission
in Seward fo» several years has been
transferred to that place.
Henry Colard was a passenger on
the train.
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There were about twenty passengers
on the/train bound for Anchorage and'
other points along the right of way.
A flurry of snow fell last evening
ywrf whitened the streets. More snow is
needed to make better sledding.
S. S. Alameda sailed at nine o’clock
last night she carried seventy eight
passengers. The Seward ' passengers
are as follows:—
Mrs. F. J. Cottar,
A. E. Fondenburg,
E. R. Tarwater,
Mrs. H. Becker,
I^lly Jeffery s,
Mrs. W. S. Homing,
Alien Homing,
Jean Homing,
Homer Alander,
P. W. Stokes,
One Steerage.
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PORTLAND. O v. Nov., 26—
Twelve passenger j were injured today
when a landslide clrick the N jrth
liank limited near Moxl, Wash iv< ton.
According to report p*»ae were sen ou s
ly injured.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The Annual Moose Dance.
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Saturday November 27th. .
At the A. a Hall *
Everybody Invited.
Come and learn the Newest
Dance, the Fa mops "Moose Gallop”
The Whole Herd of Bulls, Cows
and Calvea wiU he There.
SATURDAY NIGHT At
The A. a Hall
An Bull Moose and other Gentle
men visitors will he Obliged to
Pay $1M
The Cows and the Calves will
bo Addmitted Free.
BOMB EXPLOSION
DUBLN, Nov., 26— Arthur Grif
fith, founder of the Sinn Fein, John
MacKeill a Sinn Fein member of the
parliament and the son of McNeill
were arrested today charged with be
ing implicated in the bomb exgoosion
in a manufacturing plant in Cork
where two people^ were killed and
many injured.
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ANOTHER DIES
1.055 ANGELES, Nov., 26— Eddie
who was injured in yester
day’s crash on the s&eedway, in w.»i?h
Gaston Chevrolet :./il a.s raechan. an
jLyle Jolls were k.tltd. died this n**#rn
| Inp without gainiug«um ciousneos
VANDERLIP CONCESSIONS
TOKIO, Moscow., Nov., 26— Semi
official despatches received today con
i firms the report that Washington has
I lately received that Vanderlip had se
cured concessions in Kamchatka.
ARIZONA IN UNE
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PHOENIX Aria, Not, 26— Gov-1
eraor Campbell toda^ telegraphed the
State Dept protesting against any
treaty being made with Japan which
would give the subjects of that coun
try the privelege of American dtizen
ship.
TO CREATE POOL
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CALGARY, Nov., 26— The coop
erative marketing of Canada's wheat
crop through a farmers pool was pro
posed today in an outline drawn by the
Janadian Council of Agriculture.
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MAN ELECTROCUTED
SACREMENTO, Ca., Nov., 26-^
Charles Haafe a rancher was electro
cuted today when his hand touched a
barbed wire carrying 11000 volts. The
wires from the power line had fallen
on the fence.
UNABLE TO SAY
WASHINGTON, Nov., 26— Offic
ials today were unable to say whether
or not President^ Wilson would accept
the role of mediator for Armenia
! FINAL HONORS .
LONDON, Nov., 26— Final mli*
tary honors were paid the victim! if
ast'Sunday’s assassinations in Dublin.
Thousands filled the streets and paid
tribute to the slain officers. The cere
monies were held in Westminister Ca
thedral. # '
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ANCON, Nov., 26— The question
of preparing the military ,force in the
Canal Zone engaged the attention of
President elect Harding today. He was
particularly interested in the plans of
the War Department to increase the
force at the canal. He conferred with
some of the Zone officials and at a
banqpet given by President Porras
last night he created a favorable im
pression* Judging from comments he
declared Panama and tiro United
States were spiritual partners iu one
of the gigantic advances of tr*n*i»r
tatioa.
EXCITING NATURE SCENE
WITNESSED ON WATERFRONT
A scene full of inUyest and tense
with the possibilities of sharp trag
edy was witnessed by many this
morning. A number of dogs chased
a young caribou down the bluff road
to the ferry landing and into the
water. The animal was seen coming
around the bend at the top of , the
road like a streak of lightning, with
die barking and sparling malamutes
at its heels. It was making a sprint,
aeroic and dramatic with, whai
seemed, most or the chances against
it Head thrown back, the caribou's
gracefuil body hured down the tran
„o the water’s edge and plunged mto
die river. It was safe for the time
oeing. The wolf spirit in the mala
mutes recoils from water. Frustrated,
die dogs ran up and Mown the beach,
yapping and snarling at their pre>
struggling the ice cakes.
Now Jtagan the real fight for lilt
i'hose who witnessed it taw tht
working' out of the age old law 01
«he wilds, where endurance,and de
veloped instinct fight it out . aiont
against overwhelming odds. On out
aide of the river waa sure death from
the wolf-dogs; the ice-filled river
seemed no less dangerous.
With the first plunge into the
water, the caribou disappeared from
. ior some minntes gad it
thought that it had been carried un
der. But presently it was seen
oreasting its way across the river to
the Dawson side through the ice
xloes. It was in the strongest cur
rent; heavy masses of ice were crush
ing in on the caribou from all sides,
cake grinding against cake with om
inous sound. It seemed impossible
for that graceful body of energy — a
mere speck of dark against the
oluish-white ice field— to win out.
Jut the eyes of the animal were
turned toward the safety of the op
posite shore and all its instincts oi
self-preservation were on the alert.
The caribou worked its way grad
ually out into the river, thrusting
through every offering open space
with desperation, seizing every ad
vantage. Now breast high out of the
water, now down, wedged between
cakes of ice, pinched, lodt to sights
gone. No?
“There he is— see!’ an excited ana
relieved voice cried from the crowd
of spectators on the Dawson side.
“Yes, there he is,” responded
others, and intent e^es strained.
Now the scene changed. Exhaust
ed- the caribou scrambled onto an
ice cake and stood erect* alone
and brave in the midst of death. It
was an heroic and inspiring picture:
From the west side came the f.-an
tic yelp of dogs who saw now dearly
theit escaping quarry. The caribou
looked bogk* then all of a sudden
the cake split and it was plunged into
the .vater and lost from sight. The
ice dosed. All was over.
Minutes later a faiat speck was
ebserved drifting down river in the
mid;-t cf the floes. Not a word wns
spoken by the spiktfctors. “A
sport had lost the battle*” was the
hteught.
PITTSBURG, Nov., 26-^- The Jones
—Laughlin steel company, the largest
independent steel company in the
country announced today a reduction
in prices on all finished products. The
reduction will not effect the salaries
of its employees,
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov., 28
The • independent steel companies of
this district announced that they
would meet the reduced steel prices.
The reduction to go into effect im
mediately.
CHICAGO, Nov., 26— For the first
time since the world war wheat today
'.umblea in prices to below a dollar
*»nd one half per bushel. There was a
general rush of holders to sell.
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* STORM WARNINGS
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 26— *
Storm Warnings have been posted to*
day of storms from Point Reyes to
Jape Flattery. Gales lasting thirty
six hours are predicted.
BATTLESHIPS AT FRISCO
The lirst line of battle ships of the
Pacific Fleet except the Tennessee
rill participate in battle manouvers
jff San Francisco next Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday.
ADD YOUNGSTOI STEEL’ *
The heads of Corporations said u
downward readjustment of cost, coal
.abor must follow the decrease in steel
prices.
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But it hadn’t Up rose the oody,
out of the mass of ice, and with an
effort scrambled onto another cake,
rhen, instead of standing still, the
earijwu leaped from cake to cake
rnward the shore. It was opposite
«he old sawmill esting for a mo
ment, when an individual was seen
.o raise a rifle. Had he shot the
jrowd would have lynched him.
But he got no chance to shoot
The caribou made another leap, went
through the ice, swam out into a clear
opening of waiter and struggled on to
ward the shore. It was now near
jt. Mary’s hospital. It scrambled
again onto a cake of ice, and, caught
m the strong current below the hospi
tal, whirled ro, turning round and
iound with the mass.
"The caribou seemed to be sizing
up his chances for the big final ef
fort He stood still, eyeing the bluff,
erect, lithe and splendid. Then made
the dash.
With a leap he crossed an open
space, landed squarely on an ice
cake, and, rebounding like a rubber
nail, flung himself at another cake
and made it safely. He was now
within fifty feet of the shore, but in
che strongest current under the bluff.
Without a second’s pause he plunged
into the water. He disappeared.
The crowd waited, breathless. Min
utes passed. Five—ten minutes. The
spectators got restless and one - by
one began to move away.
“Look!” a hoarse voice suddenly
gasped, and all eyes instantly 'turned
in Hie indicated direction.
Quarter way up Hie precipitous
Muff below the hospital was the cari
bou, making the finest getaway ever
witnessed in Dawaoa. * . (Dawson
Weekly News).
WASHINGTON, Nov., 2S—'Aboli
tion of the Interior department and
the creation of a Department of Pub
lic Works and a Department of Public
Welfare and a general reorganization
of all other government departments
was proposed today in a bill prepared
by Senator McCormick of Illinois. 1.
will be'introduced at the next session
of Congress. The creation of an office
in the State Department to have juris
diction over insular affairs in Terri
tories such as Alaska will be provided
for if the bill is passed.
NEXT SESSION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov., 26—
The next session of Congress, which
meets December 6th, and which will
be the last and third session of the
66th Conress, will last only until the
inauguration of the new President,
March 4th, next, when the session will
expire by limitation of law. Including
the Christmas holidays, which nearly
always last ten days, the next session
will have less than 70 working days.
It will readily be seen fronqfthis limit*
ed time that the December session will
not be able to enact much legislation.
It will do well to pas& the fourteen
big annual appropriation bills, and ad
journ in time for the Presidential in
auguration.
There is another thing, besides lack
of time, which will prevent much, it
any, new legislation in the December
session. As a new Congress And a new
President will take the helm after
March 4 there will be a general desire
on the part of all Congressmen
to defer important legislation until the
new members of Congress, of which
there will be many, can participate in
National legislation.
The first session ox the Sixty-seven
th Congress will be a special session
. ;Jby the new President soon after
his inauguration next March. This
session will last a long time, and ropy
even run into the regular December
session of Congress 1921. At this spec
ial session all the vast reconstruction
problems of the new Administration
will hare to be considered and solved
and it will take months to do that. The
last session of Congress did net really
have time to grapple with reconstruc
tion problems and neither will the De
cember session. Reconstruction will be
effected in thq special session of the
new Congress. These problems are as
gigantic and important as those which
confronted the Federal Government at
the begining of the world war.
Though tjjy December semion will
not have time to take up the problems
of Government,' neverthelees them art
tyo matters of legislation beeidse the
expropriation bills, whkh that session
will endeavor to put through* One ef
them in revision of the tat levy,
some sort of relief team Dm
situation which, has grant mimm in
nearly every urban tormunlty in Ac
whole country.
An effort will be made in December
to completely revise the taping tax
laws, bat. because of the lack of time
in tho session, it is deobtAd If any
new tax bill can be enacted Ihto law.
Both democratic and republican lead
ers are very Saxtons to have ihe tax
laws, particularly the infeofce tax, re
vised from top to bottom. Nudism 1a
say every dtipen concurs in the de
sire, f pr the lame tea, it cannot be
denied, premia heavily on rich'aad
pees •>&* b the Brnnaber aaeekn
WASHINGTON, Nov., 26- Thi
Harbor and Waterways, improved cal
and maintenance will require an ap
propriation of (78,000,000 for the fin
cal year of 1921, according to the astil
mates submitted to Geao^l Turing
by Chief Engineer Bench, ha Ms nns
al report These figures indade (10,
000 for Puget Sound, (36X100 for WUl
ipa Harbor, (300,000 for Gray’s Har
bor, $600,000 for Lake Washingtoi
canal and (125,000 for Nome Harbor
Beache’s report also carries a re
commendation for a ten years pro
gram of road construction and the in
provement of roads in Alaska as out
lined by the Alaska Board of Roac
Commissioners, t proposes the build
ing of seven hundred miles of nen
load at a cost of (10X>00 per mile
Three classes of roads areeontemplst
jo, arterial, feeder highways and de
velopment roads the location of whict
are as yet undetermined. There will al
so be a continuation of the trail sys
tem. . j.
SERVICES AT METHODIST
CHURCH
Thanksgiving services we»*e attend
ed yesterday morning taf'the Metho
diet church by a goodly * number 01
people. Rev. Carter delivered a pract
ical Thanksgiving sermon and call*
attention to the fact that we havi
abundant reason to be thankful f*
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material blessings^for friends, and foj
die constantly growing belief Mnea|
thongbful people that the solutio* a
local aid world problem* I* to b>
found in the practice and spfdicstiM
of the fundamental principles of thi
teaching* of Jesus.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
The Pioneer Lodge will Held a meet
ing Tonight at 8 o'cock. Basins—
of Importance is to be
Trsasicted.'
^NOTICE
I • Gateway Bond Holder*—
* All bond bolder* of the Gate
* way Pnkliihini Co., incorporated
1 are notified to poet tonight, Fri
\* day, November 26th, 1926. at 7 s
* 30 o’clock , P. M, at the office of
4 L. V. Ray, to determine apoa do
■• tail* of sale of the Gateway, to be
’ held, Saturday, November 27tk
* 1920, at 2 o’clock P. N.
Secretary Houston will ask Cengra
to make the new law dttpkr than tfc
present cumbersome statute. Out <
the most important racomsMadaftoi
of Mr Houston prill bo that the Goo
missioaar of Internal 1 minus he m
thorHod to moke final iStereitnaCIsi
is hay tax amesment IhMt tas pr
apd time again until the tax pay
UtigLon with the
lowering of tha nhula inf cane ti
schedule is what h oaths desired I
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wBi.Gim)WHn jtaaUKC# aHC
ate also moor impwfirtiims in tl
present ineesto tax law* as h^yc
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