Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — ESTABLISHED Auauft 19. 1904
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DISMISSAL OF BEN B. MOZEE
The announcement of the dismissal of Ben B. Mozee
as supervisor of reindeer service, Department of the In
terior, which succeeded the Bureau of Education under
the consolidation of this latter and the Alaska Road
Commission, may be set down as in line with a series of
maladministrations having their beginning the day Pres
ident Hoover signed the bill making the consolidation law.
Reading the cards spread upon the table by Mr.
Mozee. and knowing of what has been transpiring in the
Arctic respecting the reindeer situation one may form
his own conclusions as to the merits of the controversy.
And knowing Ben B. Mozee, his valiant battle to
make of his position one of trust for his government and
those for whom it was created to serve, every Alaskan,
not biased by a personal interest in reindeer, will give
him an immaculate slate. Of federal employees in Alaska
he stands without a peer in point of sincerity of purpose
and diligence. So great is the esteem held for Mr. Mozee
that it has been repeatedly mooted that he could have
any elective office in Alaska.
This is the kind of a man, tried and proven true,
that Secretary Wilbur dismisses because he considered
honor above personal gain.
Mr. Mozee is not the only one to feel the wrath of
Washington because he would not prostitute his position
and serve interests antagonistic to honesty. And besides
those vvhc ha^e already suffered, it is reported that Wil
liam Sherman i* slated for the axe because he refused to
betray his trust as an agent of the Forestry department
to aid a Seattle firm in taking a $75,000 tie contract
from the Alaska Railroad.
There is, little doubt that Mr. Mozee’s expose of the
Interior bureau’s chicanery will evoke a real investiga
tion of the reindeer situaton. It was thought this would
be the outcome of the Howell committee visit. But, as
pointed out by Mr. Mozee, it vies in hippodrome with the
farcical hearings conducted by the Howell committee,
and practically the same result would have followed with
respect to the Alaska Railroad but for the fact that Roy
O. West, Secretary Wilbur’s predecessor, refused to
yield to importunities of interests inimical to the Alas
ka Railroad.
It is fortunate that a man of Mr. Mozee’s sterling
qualities breaks what has been believed for many years
to be a reeking scandal in the reindeer service, although
unfortunate that he should suffer. His word will go a
long way with honest people, and when the ned admin
istration takes up the reins, one may look for something
startling tc occur.
POPULAR NEWLYWED
"GIB THE MKS" 81
HIS ANCHORAGE PALS1
Seized by the volunteer firemen !
of Anchorage after his marriage
Saturday morning to the former:
Evelyn Meyer of Anchorage, Chas.
Ruttan, star member of the City
basketball team which arrived
here Saturday evening, was bound
to a stretcher, his face painted
a bright red, white sheets spread
over him. then shoved into the
baggage car on the Seward train.
Charlie has been a member of
the department since his arrival in
the North.
Mrs. Ruttan rode first-class inj
the parlor car.
Ruttan was released from the I
stretcher a few miles out and has
been scrubbing his face since in!
an endeavor to rid himself of the i
paint.
“Is my face red?” he asked just
prior to the game Sautrday night.
It was and in all probability he
will have to blast the remainder
off.
The happy and popular Anchor
age honeymooners are enroute to
Cordova, then back home. There is
a possibility that one of his planes
will be dispatched to Cordova to
convey the airman and his charm
ing bride home.
There will be a preliminary to
the Anchorage-Seward City cage
game tonight, between two mixed
boys teams.
HOSPITAL HEWS
John Nelson returned to his
home at Mile 12 after a sojourn |
in the Seward General Hospital.
* * * *
Lewis “Luke” Elwell has been
dismissed from the hospital.
* * * *
Ernest Bailey of Sanak is mak
ing a fine recovery after his ap
pendix operation a few days ago.
* * * *
Mrs. Mills, a patient for a num
ber of days, also is doing well.
* * * *
Frank Burke will probably re
turn to his home today.
ini Ioiciitions
11 PUBLIC DUNCE
Saturday night’s weekly dance'
at Odd Fellow’s hall proved to be
more than ordinarily enjoyable
with the added presence of the1
many folks from Anchorage, most
ly comprising the City basketball
team.
The hall, though not too crowd
! ed, was just comfortably filled,
and resounded with melodies of
5 the Seward Serenaders.
Much of the general merriment
( manifpt-t WPS narf.lv Hup to rpprtv
j dedications rcniiPstoH hv nod for
I tKo<*» orient. Dancing ended at
1:15 a. m.
!*Vv P'vth ^ t •)v«k
Foil*. Wa n" r-'lrn- T-. • ..
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tiersman’s instincts for fair dealing
and humanitarian principles.
From the moment the Eastern
interests gained control of the Lo
men interests there has been trou
ble. Every agent of the Bureau
of Education, set to care for the
interests of the natives has either
been harrassed out of his job or
suffered the fate Ray Lyman Wil
: bur has just meted out to the last
of the faithful servitors of the
people.
LOPP FADED OUT
; There was William Lopp. Fram
ed by interests which could not
use him, he passed out.
It was the idea of Lopp and Ben
Mozee, his co-worker, to eventu
ally transfer native deer to Broad
Pass where they could be marketed
the year round slaughtered or on
the hoof. It -was arranged for
George Ashenfelter. who repre
sented an organization contro’ling
about 20,000 deer, to drive the ani
mals overland to Broad Pass.
A small herd was taken from the
vicinity of the Kuskokwim and
driven to Broad Pass. En route
the herders began to encounter
obstacles. The superintendent of
McKinley Park, met the small herd
in the w'estern boundaries of the
park and ordered them to leave
its boundaries and detour north.
Declining, the herders were ordered
to surrender their guns with which
they guarded the deer from wolves
and protected their lives.
When told the number of herd
ers present and the suggestion of
fered that he come and try to take
their firearms, he thought better
of the situation, and the deer went
through.
No one has been able to explain
the cause, altho several versions
have been civen, but the Broad
.Pass herd became merged with the
wild caribou, and with the excep
tion of some purchased by Miss
Ruth Reit and later vended in the
States, all disappeared.
OBSTACLES APPEARED
Under the administration of
William Lopp, and in keeping with
efforts to provide marketing fa-1
cilities for native reindeer, about j
the year 1925, George Ashentelter
was commissioned by the Bureau
of Education to drive 7,000 deer
from the vicinity of Council to
Broad Pass. When Asheufelter
had collected a corps of herders
with dogs and secured the pledge
of a large number of Eskimo fam
ilies and herd owners to join the
drive, word was received by Lopp
that there were insufficient funds
available to the Bureau of Educa
tion with which to make the drive.
Thus the reindeer question was
allowed to muddle along until the
advent of Colonel Otto F. Ohlson
as manager of the Alaska Railroad.
Colonel Ohlson came with rose
ate dreams that he was to be al
lowed to make of the railroad
something more than a conven
ience ior Congressional junketing
parties and tourist travel. In the
reindeer he saw revenue amount
ing to approximately $100,000 an
nually if he could get the animals
transferred to Broad Pass, fat
tened and shipped over the rail
road to the outside markets at all
seasons of the year. In line witfc
(Continued on Par** ThreO
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LIBERTY THEATRE
.Showing "Again Tuesday \
— CLIVE BROOK-PEGGY SHANNON — |
in the intensely dramatic play *
“Silence”
\n 8-reel feature of complications involving several parties 1
in 3 number of different ways, in which that great virtue, or !
crime, of not telling is the theme. How many crimes have you |
covered up? If you confessed everything you had done, how
many people would be harmed? *
If II RIGOT OR WRONG TO BUY SILENCE? a
We also Lave that great comedian »
— “CHIC” SALES — j
in a fine two-reel comedy drama. And there is an j
interesting Pictorial reel and a News. ;
Seward General
Hospital
Seward. Alaska
The Alaska Railroad
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TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Saturday 6:30 p. m. Each Sunday 7:30 a. m.
Mixed train between Anchorage and Seward.
SOUTHBOUND NORTHBOUND
Each Thursday Each Sunday
Mixed train for Anchorage and intermediate points
leaves not earlier than 10:00 a. m. each Sunday.
Mixed train carries a coach and passengers.
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN ARTHUR RYNING
NEXT SAILING MARCH II
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING CO.
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
ADMIRAL LINE SAILINGS
SEATTLE
5A2V2 FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
NEW YORK
Leaves Seattle North
EVANS .Feb. 25
EVANS .Mar. 18
Leave Sewarfl Sooth
EVANS .„.Mar. 8
EVANS .Alar. 29
Wayne Blue, Agent.
The Admiral Evans
will call at Yakut at
north and southbound.
Pacific Steamship Lines
Steamer
Lv. Seattle Lv. Seward
Northwestern
^Alaska
Northwestern
Alaska
*Yukon
Alaska
Yukon
Alaska
Yukon
Feb. 18
Mar. 4
Mar. 11
Mar. 25
Apr. 1
Apr. 8
Apr. 15
Apr. 22
Apr. 29
Feb. 26 11 am
Mar. 12 11 am
Mar. 19 11 am
Mar. 31 9 pm
Ajm1. 7 9 pm
Apr. 14 9 pm
Apr. 21 9 pm
Apr. 28 9 pm
May 5 9 pm
P< rt« of call: Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Janeaa,
Haines, Skagway, Cordero, Valdes and La ton che. North
and South, except SS. Northwestern does not call Latooche
either direction.
Sailings marked * connect with SS. Starr at Seward
Sailings from Seattle at 9 a.m. on dates shown
J. H. Flickinger, Agent
Alaska Steamship Co.