ALASKA’S EL BRENDEL
“Beans” Wennerstrom of Anchor
age, member of the “Ice Worms,”
KFQD broadcast entertainers, can
well be called the El Brendel of the
INorth. As a Swede impersonator,
“he bane von goot feller.”
FOR MARCH IS $64,700
Alaska Juneau showed a net op
erating surplus of $64,700 on its
March operations, according to the
monthly statement of estimated
results issued from San Francisco
'headquarters of the company and
made public by General Superin
tendent L. H. Metzgar.
The ore values for the month
averaged 78.37 cents per ton. Re
covery cost averaged 58.17 cents per
ton, showing a profit of 20 20 cents
on each ton handled.
Flowers made to order for all oc
casions. SYLVIA’S.
Try our Seattle, ice Cream—
ff*resh on every boat at SYLVIA’S.
Seward Fraternal Orders
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
Meeta the second and fourth
Monday’s of each month
in McMullen’s Building, at
8 p. m. Visiting members
always welcome. Mrs. Hasel
Erwin, W. M.: Mrs. Miriam
Painter, See.
Seward Lodge No. 1425
L. O. O. M.
Meeta on titty
first a*td third Fri
days of each month
at 8 p. m. at 1.
O. O. F. Hall. All
welcome. Peter N.
Anderson, Director,
M. A. Horner, Sec
SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE NO. 6-A
^s.
O. O. F.
Meets the first and third
Mondays of each month
in I. O. O. F. Hall at
8 p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always welcome.
Sylvia Sexton, N. G.
Ludvig Larsson, Sec’y.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at 8 p. 1
m. in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Visit*
ing brothers welcome. Gustave
K. Manthey, N. G.; Ludvig Larsson, Secretary,
THE AMERICAN LEGION
Seward Post No 5
Meets first and third Wed
nesday at 8 p. m. in the
Harriman Bank Building.
Post Commander, Dr. A. R.
Roberts; Adjutant, L. J.
Chilberg.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 219
F. & A. M.
Stated communication! first ana
third Tuesdays of each month.
Visitinp brethem welcome.
CLARKE ANDRESEN, W. M.
HAROLD E. SOGN. Sec’r.
THE PALACE!
FURNISHED ROOMS j
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND •
CIGARS J
John Mattich, Ptod. •
Phone Main 55 i
A Masters Work
Jonas Bros, offer you a com
plete Fur, Taxidermy and
Tauning Service — unexcelled
anywhere.
Game heads, fur rugs, birds,
etc., mounted true to nature.
Your raw fur skins dressed
and made into coats and
chokers.
Write for free catalogue.
JONAS BROS.
1030 Broadway, Denver, Colo.
NUKA BAY TRANS
PORTATION CO.
MS ROLFII III
Capt. Pete Sather
Leaves Seward 20th
of each month
For Charter or Hire
WHY PAY 50c for a plate
lunch when you can
get the best plate lunch at
10c at the—
Electric Bakery
Also other food stuffs and
bakery goods with similar
prices.
ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST IT THE
niiTinimn mniTf
Dr. W. Carson Ryan, Jr., execu
tive assistant of Indian Affairs, and
j David E. Thomas, chief clerk in the
| office of the Alaska division, ex
pect to leave Washington in a few
days and sail from Seattle on the
i SS Yukon, to go to the Juneau
! headquarters of Indian Affairs, to
■ consult about various pending mat
, tors. Mr. Thomas will likely ex
I tend his trip to the Westward. Var
i ious suggestions are under consid
| eration by the bureau, one of which
i is opposed by the Nome Chamber
1 of Commerce. They have wired the
! Delegate protesting against a
change that would replace six dis
trict superintendent of school and
replacing them with three travel
ing inspectors. The appointment
of a permanent Chief of the Alaska
Division is under consideration, but
will probably not be made until
after Dr. Ryan’s return from the
North.
Delegate Wickersham has re
ceived pleas t from Alaska request
ing that efforts be exerted to se
cure greater radio privileges for
the Territory, so that with increas
ing watt facilities there might be
encouragement for the erection and
operation of more powerful broad
casting stations, whereby various
towns in a section of the Territory
might be connected by remote con
trol. The trouble is that under ex
isting law Alaska is part of the
fifth zone and the radio facilities
are divided among the States and
Territories of that zone in accord
ance with their population. In that
respect we are somewhat handi
capped but the Federal Radio Com
mission has been very lenient and
the Territory today has 24 per cent
more radio facilities than it is en
titled to under the law. However,
a bill to amend the Radio Act of
1927 was introduced in the House
and lias already passed this branch
of Congress and is now in the Sen
ate. The bill contains a clause,
recommended by the Commission,
excluding the Territories from the
zones established, but otherwise
the bill applies with equal force
and effect. C. McK Saltzman,
chairman of the Commission, was
long associated with the Signal
Corps and also the Cable and Tele
graph System in Alaska, and fully
appreciates the needs of the people
of the Northland. He holds out the
encouragement that if the bill pass
es the Senate and becomes a law,
“it will possible to assign additional
facilities to Alaska.”
* £ :}: *
The slashing of Department es
timates continues. The War ap
propriation bill is now being con
sidered by the House Appropria
tions Committee through sub-com
mittees, and with instructions “to
cut to the bone.” A member of the
committee informs Delegate Wick
ersham that many appropriations
are being cut more than he would
like to see, but that it is inevitable
at this time. He adds that it is
doubtful that the Alaska Road
Commission will be allowed more
than $500,000, although $650,000
was stipulated by the budget.
* * * *
A former Alaska fisherman writes
to inquire whether or not he can
pay his own fare from Seattle to
Bristol Bay and to make the effort
there to get employment as an in
dependent fisherman without be
ing placed under arrest. He seems
to forget that men are not placed
under arrest in Alaska for merely
seeking employment.
* * * -x
In reply to a suggestion that a
man might make a very acceptable
foreman of road construction work
the Engineer Officer of the Alaska
Road Commission writes that em
ployees in that grade are now un
der civil service and position must
necessarily be filled from the Civil
Service Register.
* * # *
The nomination of William J.
Shepard as postmaster at Cordova
was sent to the Senate a few days
ago and will be promptly confirm
ed. A postoffice is likely soon to
be established at Aniak, on the
Kuskokwim River, with Thomas L.
Johnson as postmaster.
* * * *
A number of organizations in Al
aska have sent in endorsements
of the services rendered by Charles
W. Hawkesworth as Acting Chief
of the Alaska Division, Bureau of
Indian Affairs. He is also recom
mended for appointment to Chief
of the division, as it is expected
that selection will be made in the
near future.
* * * *
Senator Wolcott’s Special Com
mittee on Conservation of Wild Life
Resources held sessions during
three days of last week, at which
over 100 sportsmen were present
from various States in the East,
South and West as far as Idaho.
Various different opinions were ex
pressed as to the shortage of wild
ducks. In some sections the short
age does not seem to be pronounced
and it is urged that the three
! mohths shooting season be re
| stored. In other sections there has
been a great diminution of ducks
and it was recommended that the
season againbe restricted to two
months. Paul G. Redington, Chief
of the Biological Survey, gave a
lengthy dissertation on the subject
and expressed the view that pos
sibly it would suffice this year if
the season were fixed at two
months. It is expected that what
ever the curtailment of the shoot
ing season there will be two per
iods in Alaska, as in the Southeast
ern section the birds do not appear
until a couple of weeks later than
they do in the northern section.
Delegate Wickersham is endeav
oring to secure hospitalization or
medical service for the people re
siding at the headwaters of the
Kuskokwim River. At present, if
there is any particular affliction
it is necessary to convey a patient
by airplane to Fairbanks at consid
erable cost. A petition has been
received from Ophir, McGrath, Ta
kotna and Medfra, signed by over
200 residents, asking that relief be
afforded them.
* * * *
The American Legion, Depart
ment of Alaska, requests the Dele
gate to introduce a bill in Con
gress granting each person from
the Territory who served in the
World War 160 acres of land, to be
| selected by the grantee from any
j open or unappropriated public j
I lands now subject to homestead
I entry, or one lode or placer mining
| claim of legal dimensions, within
i the Territory.
When the Interior Department
appropriation bill passed the House
it carried an appropriation of $50,
446,432 which the Senate ordered
its Appropriations Committee to
cut 10 per cent, with the result that
a reduction of $5,047,760 was sub
mitted. Alaska is affected to the
: extent of $97,500, as follows: Op
eration of Alaska Railroad. $50,000;
Education of Natives, $40,000, and
Geological Survey, $7,500.
* * * *
Clark M. Garber, superintendent
of schools, western district of Al
aska, Indian Bureau, with head
quarters at Akiak, is on a short va
cation to the States and spent a
week in Washington. The report
| that he is seeking appointment as
1 Chief of the Alaska Division is not 1
correct.
* * * *
A favorable report has been made
by the Committee on Fisheries on
what is known as the Welch bill,
which requires that floating can
neries in Alaska must indicate by
December in which waters they will;
operate the following season. A]
minority report is being submitted
and an effort will be made to de
feat the bill on the floor of the
House.
LUST SINGLE
DOGTEl IN JIUSKII
C. E. Alexander, mine operator in
the Kobuk gold placer region of
northwestern Alaska, set a new re
cord when he hitched 206 dogs on
a single tow line with 30 Eskimo
drivers in an effort to inove a don
key engine and hoist 10 miles up
the Shungnak river to new dig
gings.
Though he failed to move the
heavy machinery, it is believed to
have been the largest single dog
team ever assembled in Alaska for!
hauling purposes.
In the obsence of horses and;
tractors in this remote section of i
the North, Mr. Alexander is having
“dead men” placed at intervals and
is moving the equipment under its J
own power.
Steadily increasing gold produc
tion in South Africa during the last
three years was climaxed with a
record output in 1931 of 10,874,145
ounces.
EXPERT PIANO TUNING
.. .Alaska agent Kohler Brambach
Piano Co. Orders acecpted for tun
ing until first Southbound boat.
Phone Geo. Anderson, Van Gilder
Hotel.
PIRATE BOOZE IS
DISCOVERED NEAR
SEWARD IN CAVE
Early in the morning of April 15,
a local fisherman alighted from his
dory on the surf-swept shore of an
uninhabited island near Seward
for the purpose of replenishing his
water supply.
He set out to search the lonely
j island for a fresh stream. En
I grossed wholly with that thought
| he advanced attentively along the
’ bluff-skirted beach of the rugged
island. His attention was sudden
ly arrested by what appeared to
be a hollow place or cavern open
ing at the base of a broad flat
tened front of bluff rising steeply
above the jetsam-covered sand
bars of tidal waters.
Prompted by an innate desire to
investigate, the intrepid fisherman
rested his empty water cask on a
boulder and moved cautiously to
ward the cave entrance. He found
the portal partly hidden from view
by a heavy growth of willows and
shrubbery. He pressed forward to
ward the passage and safely reach
ed the opening.
Damp, stagnant atmosphere per
meated the cavern. Stygian dark
ness pervaded its mysterious
depths- Pendulous stalactites hung'
from the roof; water percolated
through the rocky walls and ceil
ing.
He entered, directing the rays of
i a pocket flash lamp on its dark re
i cesses.
A brilliant gallery of stalactitic
ornaments extended far beyond the
opening. Staligmite rising in ir
regular columns from the floor
cast fantastic shadows on the walls.
The cavern was extremely pictures
que.
Thoroughly aroused by sounds of
the intruder and the glaring flare
of the light, a colony of bats beat
a hasty retreat.
Some flew in their fright toward
i the electric torch and fastened
themselves on the fisherman’s
arms and shoulders. Intuitively
defending himself against the sud
den onrush of excited bats, he;
hastily retreated several paces
while dispossessing his hairy an-1
tagonists.
Reassured, he made a careful i
survey of the eerie conditions thatj
enveloped him. His torch light
flickered. He groped about clum- j
silv. A steady flow of light fol- ,
lowed a rapid adjustment of the j
lamp- Its penetrating rays fell .on
the broken remains of a 10-foot1
sled constructed apparently from!
driftwood and fastened with whale- I
bone and rawhide lashing. He min- !
utely examined it; it had a straight
top and without side rails and
steering handles. The sled was
shod for ordinary use with strips
of bone cut from the whales jaw
bone. It contained no marks of
identification of ownership. He at
tempted to move it but the sled was
firmly imbeded in the calcareous j
composition of the cavern floor j
abandoned to the elements.
Looking farther, he detected the
remains of several land otters and
other hairy denizens of the coun
try and the animals on whose
bones they had preyed.
On a projecting layer of rock,
four feet above the damp floor, the
fisherman found remnants of an
old straw mattress. Investigating,
he found several broken dinner
plates, a cracked, oldfashioned cup
and twisted fragments of a kero
sene lantern. Another interesting
find comprised five empty bottles
of familiar appearance and anti
quarian design.
A dozen barrel staves that had
composed the sides of a cask were
lying across several rusty iron
hoops. He seized upon these as a
possible clue to a hidden secret
It led him to definite conclusions.
Flashing his torch before dancing
shadows, a tarpaulin covered col
umn-like pile revealed itself to the
fisherman. This was an important
discovery. He approached it and
carefully drew aside the shroud
now in a bad state of decomposi
tion from the all-destroying damp
ness of the gloomy cave. He was
filled with wonder and amazement
at that which lay before him.
Dimly visible were 13 wooden
f cases. Inscribed on the end of
each were the identifying words:
“Old Kentucky Rye, Bottled in
Bond.” Judging from the physical
condition of the wooden cases, they
had been there between 15 and 20
years.
Resting his torch in favorable
position, he pried the cover from
one of the cases. A hasty examin
ation disclosed 24 full and closely
packed bottles encased in straw
sheathing. He withdrew a bottle
and removed the metal clasp. Ex
tracting the cork, he discreetly
tasted its contents. The nectar
proved genuine. A deep feeling of
satisfaction and pleasure took pos
session of him.
Grasping his torch, he moved
stealthily deeper beneath the can
opy of darkness that concealed the
cavern secret. The light pierced the
black depths like the plunge of a
sharp dagger. The rays disclosed
two 50-gallon barrels standing up
right in a depression in the cavern
wall He found them in an excel
lent state of preservation. He re
moved the hidden casks to a more
advantageous position; they were
extremely heavy. A diligent ex
amination revealed fully laden bar
rels, the contents of which proved
to be an excellent brand of well
seasoned whisky.
Somewhere today in the local
channels of contraband trade qual
ity spirits bottled in bond with dis
tilled beverage of a ripe old age
is quenching the parched throats
of thirsty sourdoughs.
NORTH! LIGHTS
These items are taken from var
ious Alaska papers.
In one of the first “hold-ups”
with a gun in the history of Cor
dova, George Simms reported to
the Federal authorities that he
had been held-up at the point of a
gun and robbed of $26 cash, Simms
obtained a fairly good description
of the thief and the federal offi
cials are now working on the case
and running down several clues.
The hold-up took place near the
railway depot.
* * * *
A promotion and transfer has
been given to W. C. Ellis, deputy
fiscal agent in the Regional For
ester’s office, United States Forest
Service at Juneau- He has been
advanced in grade to executive as
sistant and transferred to the
Apache National Forest, with head
quarters in Springerville, Ariz.
* * * *
City Clerk W. Joynt’s annual fi
nancial report of the city of Fair
banks listed total revenues at $76,
781.19 while expenses amounted to
$58,154.44. The deficit on March
31, 1931, was $3,081.65. The sur
plus for the same date this year
was $15,438.88, making a net gain
of $18,520.53.
Andrew Agenia of English Bay
and Port Groham met sudden
death in the woods at Windy Bay
a few days ago while at work in j
the logging crew of Tom Stephen- j
son. No one saw the accident, but!
it is believed that tightening of the
lines released the bight, striking J
Andrew across the back of his j
neck, bringing instant death. The j
deceased, known to his friends as j
Black Andrew, is survived by a
wife and five children. A sister
and brother live between Port Gra
ham and English Bay.
* * * *
Kasilof residents are now en
gaged in getting out their next
year’s wood supplies. Wood-sawing
time at Kasilof is a reminder of
the old-fashioned house-raising
and threshing bees, with all hands
moving about with the communi
ty owned power driven saw, enter
ing a wood-lot nearest the farmer
interested, sawing the wood and
stacking it. Then moving to the
next farm.
* * * *
Frank Cooper spent a portion of
the week in Seldovia, assembling
equipment for his clam cannery
project at Ninilchik. He figures on
a maximum canning capacity of
j 500 cases.
* * * *
| Fred Motschman, formerly of
1 Fairbanks, may be one of the mem
; bers of the United States boxing
| team at the Olympic games in Los
1 Angeles this summer. Fred, who
was a student at the Fairbanks
high school two years ago, has al
ready tried out in the Pacific
| Coast A. A. U. finals at Portland
1 but it is not known yet how he
1 fared.
# ^ if! #
Captain Carl M. Hansen, former
master of the Nanuk and Amund
sen’s companion in the Arctic, has
been selected captain of the Uni
versity of Washington’s floating
oceanographic laboratory, the Cat
alyst, which will be launched May 1.
* * * *
Eris Paulson and Josephine Wat
son, both of Juneau, were married
in Mount Vernon, Wash. Mr. Paul
son has been manager of the Cap
itol Theatre since its opening more
than a year ago.
Miss Margaret Richardson, who
concluded her teaching term at
Homer on April 6, took passage on
the SS Starr for Chignik where she
will teach during the summer and
fall. She will be assisted in the
work by Miss Louise Dobrinz.
* * * *
At the recent meeting of the
Presbyterian Church bodies in Hy
daburg, attended by all clergymen
and many prominent adherents of
i the faith in Southeast Alaska, Rev.
| F. R. Falconer, pastor of the Pres
byterian Church at Craig, was
| elected Moderator of the Presbytery
| for the coming year; Albert Brown,
j of Hydaburg, was chosen president
of the Southeastern Alaska Chris
: tian Endeavor Union, and Mrs.
, David Waggoner was renamed
j president of the Presbyterial of
; Southeastern Alaska.
* * >:= *
Alaska’s total exports amount to
$1,762,968,496 and her imports
$907,873,942. Total trade $2,670,
842,942.
WAKE 5JP YOUR
LIVER BILE—
WITHOUT CALOMEL
And You’ll Jump Out of Bed in
the Morning Rarin’ to Go
If you feel sour and sunk and the world
looks punk, don't swallow a lot of salts,
mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing
gum and expect them to make you suddenly
sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine.
For they can't do it. They only move the
bowels and a mere movement doesn’t get at
the cause. The reason for your down-and-out
feeling is your liver. It should pour out two
pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
If this bile is not flowing freely, your food
doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You have a
thick, bad taste and your breath is foul,
■kin often breaks out in blemishes. Your head
achesand you feel down and out. Your whole
system is poisoned.
It takes those good, old CARTER’S
LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two
pounds of bile flowing freely and make yon
feel “up and up.” They contain wonderful,
harmless, gentle vegetable extracts, amazing
when it comes to making the bile flow freely.
Bat don’t ask for liver pills. Ask for Carter's
Little Liver Pills. Look for the name Carter's
Little Liver Pills on the red label. Resent a,
substitute. " ©1S31C.M.CO.
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1st AYE. & PINE STREET
SEATTLE, WASH.
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From $1.00 Per Day
Rooms With Private Bath
^ From $2.00 Per Day
Rates by Week ?r Month
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Frye-Bruhn Company better
meats.
Try Frye’s Delicious Baby Beef—it
is delicious; it is different; we urge
you to try it.
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