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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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NOT SO GOOD
In a recent edition of the Anchorage Times, Gen
era’ Manager Ohlson of the Alaska Railroad, attempts
to explain the rail situation urging cooperation. The
situation is explaining itself and is perfectly apparent
to the business people and residents along the rail belt;
the cooperation of the inhabitants of the railroad belt
has always been extended to the ‘inth degree. The more
loyal the support, the more they get harpooned from
Washington.
However, Alaskans are a patient folk and they will
continue to play the game square; which is more than
can be said of Congres. And we’re sick of platitudes.
' There is no use of endeavoring to pull the wool over
one’s eyes or attempt to throw dust in their face, the
facts are these: Regardless of regret expressed because
of freight and passenger rates increase, business people,
mine operators and other industries are going to ship in
their supplies and equipment by the most economical
route; no individual or group is going to deliberately give
away large sums, through business channels, if he can
avoid it. That’s plain, common sense; nor will veiled
threats of possible future closing of the railroad thru
lack of future business, alarm any one. Alaskans are
immune to that.
Far better would it have been for Congress to pen
alize, or tax railroad residents and adjacent communi
ties, making up the alleged 8,000 inhabitants, $6.25
each to make up the $500,000 cut in the annual appro
priation, than to endanger a further possible stagna
tion in development.
Each general manager hopes that within the next
year or two, the railroad will be self-sustaining;
the present general manager is no different with the
exception he shoves it ahead to five or six years; there
in he shows better judgement but not within the next
50 years will the Alaska Railroad be on a paying basis
so long as the Republican administration continues to
pass by things Alaskan—one of the potentially richest
countries in the world—with a shrug; and send up anoth
er crowd of outsiders who know absolutely nothing of
Alaska except hearsay.
HERMANN MEULLER, GERMAN STATESMAN
In the death of Chancellor Hermann Mueller last
Saturday, a great European statesman was lost to the
world. Little known outside the confines of the Reich
until the revolution of 1918, Hermann Mueller was rais
ed by that upheaval to a place of prominence in the
new Germany.
It was he who signed the Versailles Treaty as one
of the plenipotentiaries of defeated Germany, the first
important act of an international character in which
he figured.
Born at Mannheim, Baden, May 18, 1876, he en
tered the commercial field at an early age and later
journalism. Two brothers of the Chancellor settled in
the United States. He was known as a man with an
iron nerve; he indulged in no theatricals and was a
hard and conscientious worker as well as a simple liver.
His biographers described him as an entirely harm
less looking man, sound and safe..
Speaking of coal, has the reader ever noticed the
obsolete method of loading coal onto locomotives? Or
the expensive method of storing and preserving coal in
the Anchorage yards? Fuel is probably one of the lead
ing items of cost in the operation of railroads. If thou
sands of dollars are lost annually because of inefficient
handling and care, why not correct such extravagance?
and care, it would seem here would be one of the first
A little girl in the Seward school asked her teach
er when the “Sheik test” was to be administered. The
little one meant the Schick diphtheria test.
SOCIETY MEN ST1GE
SIX ROUND DRAW:
BOTH WERE GROGGY
| MADRAS, India, Mar., 23, (JP)
—Repudiating the theory that
women belong to the weaker sex
two Indian society women en
gaged in a fierce six round prize
| fight. The bout ended in a knock
| out- buut the referee with mas
! culine gallantry, declared it
| a draw.
Mrs. Kamballa, of Malabar, amid
; the cheers of her supporters sent
her oppenent Miss Sitabai, of
Tanjore, to the floor with a ter
rific uppercut in the sixth round.
Both women by that time were
battered and bleeding and ap
peared to be groggy. Until the
knockout the unmarried woman
had the better of the encounter.
Navy Radioman L. E. Cook of
Wooded slland, Kodiak, and Mrs.
Cook, are expected to be pas
sengers on the next steamer from
out of the West, Bremerton
i bound.
R. W. Proctor, Navy radioman
at Kodiak, will leave soon for
Cape HinGhenbrook. Radioman
R. E- Miller will be transferred
to Cordova.
DRY Li INCREASES
HE TIUI MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, Mar., 23, (£>)— j
i Prohibition has increased the |
! income tax of 2,000,000 taxpayers
| about $882,000,000 this year ac
I cording to the estimate of Henry
I Curran, president of the Associa
■ tion Against Prohibition Amend
1 ment.
Curran figures this amount
! would have been collected in re
| venue if the Eighteenth Amend
ment was not in force.
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It now develops., according to i
word received by the local Cus- j
toms office which has long been j
carrying forward investigation as!
I to the disappearance of Capt. C. !
i Emsweiler from these waters last
j fall, that the w’heel (propellor)
; reported found half-buried in
j beach sand near Kanatak, was
I from the old Blazer, and not
from Emsweiler’s gaboat, the
; Chase, as had been thought.
Karl Armstrong, W e s t w ard
rancher has written the local of
fice to this effect, stating when
his boat, the Blazer was wreck
ed years ago, the wheels were
not removed and that found re
cently was undoubtedly from
the Blazer.
GAR WOOD CUM
SPEEDBOAT REGDRD
MIAMI BEACH, *Mar., 23, (JP)—
Gar Wood, millionaire speedboat
racer sent Miss America IX skim
ming over the water in fast
time which is claimed to be the
world’s speedboat record.
The new record was 101.15 sta
tute miles per hour or 102.25 nau
tical miles per hour.
Odis A. Porter, of the American
Automible Association, was the
timer.
STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII
WASHINGTON, Mar., 23, (/P)—
The territory of Hawaii may be
standing on the threshold of
statehood right now as its state
legislature is debating a memor
ial to congress asking that the
‘Pearl of the Pacific’ be admitted
as the 49th state. ,
.The Gateway; the papei with “It”
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