UNITS PREPARING FOR SPRING
TRIPS TO BERING SEA
AND ARCTIC
Units of the United States Coast
Guard fleet, which carry law and
I order to Bering Sea and the Arctic
and provide medical attention for
Uncle Sam’s Eskimo wards on the
far-flung Alaskan coast, soon will
begin their spring and summer
cruises.
The cutter Northland, Comdr.
Stanley V. Parker, formerly execu
tive officer of the famous old cut
ter Bear, will sail from Ean Fran
t, cisco May 5 for a cruise in Alaskan
waters which will take her as far
as Point Barrow in the Arctic. Cap
tain Parker succeeds Comdr. E. D.
Jones, recently appointed chief of
staff of the New York division of
the Coast Guard. The Northland
will call in Seattle on her way to
Bering Sea and the Arctic.
Tahoe Coming in April
^ The cutter Tahoe, Comdr. Wil
liam F. Tole, will sail April 15 from
San Francisco for Bering Sea and
will call in Seattle enroute North,
The cutter Itasca, Comdr. J. S.
Baylis, will sail from Honolulu June
10 for Unalaska to join the Bering
Sea patrol of the Coast Guard.
The cutter Haida, Comdr. M. J.
Ryan, will sail June 25 from Seat
tle for Alaska. A 125-foot diesel
powered patrol boat is to be sent
from San Francisco to Unalaska,
sailing April 15. This vessel will
assist the cutters operating out of
Unalaska.
Capt. Boedeker on Trip
Capt. John Boedeker, who will
command the Bering Sea patrol,
will go from San Francisco to Un
alaska in the cutter Tahoe. He has
been superintendent of construc
tion of new Coast Guard ships on
the East Coast for the last three
years.
Seal patrol duty will be perform
ed by the cutters Snohomish and!
Tallapoosa. The Snohomish, Lieut.
Comdr. Robert Donohue, will sail
from Seattle April 1 and will con
voy the herds of seals as far as
Dixon Entrance. The Tallapoosa,
Comdr. C. H. Dench, will meet the
seals off Dixon Entrance and es
cort them into Bering Sea. Safely
through Unimak Pass, the herds
will head for the Seal Islands. The
Tallapoosa then will go to South
dr eastern Alaska for general cruis
ing.
The Brooklyn Eagle of February
14 contained an interesting inter
view with William Sulzer, former
Governor of New York and owner
of gold quartz properties in the
Chandlar district, which have been
in process of slow development for
a number of years.
A contribution of $100 to the
community relief fund was made
last Monday night by Igloo No. 4,
Pioneers of Alaska, reports the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
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Fresh on every boat at SYLVIA’!
Seward Fraierna) Orders
SEW ARE CHAPTER NO. l(
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR
Meets the second am
Monday’s of each
in McMullen’s Buili
# p. m. Visiting i
always welcome. Mra
Erwin, W. M.; Mrs.
Painter, Sec.
SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE Nf
- I. O. O. F.
Meets the first i
Mondays of eac
in I, O. O. F.
8 p. m. Visitii
bers are always
Sylvia Sexton,
Ludvig Larssor
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at 8 p.
m. in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Visit
_ „ . , in* 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. B.
Roberts; Adjutant, L. J.
Chilberg.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 219
F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
third Tuesdays of each moi
Visiting brethern welcome.
CLARKE ANDRESEN, W.
HAROLD E. SOGN. Sec’y.
fa
S. N. Laurie of Cordova received
a cablegram from G. B. Cedarholm,
superintendent of the Shepard
Point Packing Company announc
ing that this cannery would operate
as usual this year and that he would
be coming north soon reports the
Times.
MINK FARMERS PLAN
TO RELEASE ANIMALS
BECAUSE OF MARKET
Due to the general stagnation
in the fur market, and especially
the low price of mink, alive or pelt,
many mink farmers are preparing
to release all of their pen-bred
;mink and rely upon their rernain
i ing near the farms until they may
be recaptured in the fall
Many of the farmers have ex
perimented with domesticated
I mink and say that the animals
I readily return to the warrens to
I make their home when not for
■ aging for mice.
The mink farmers have express
jed the desire that an order be is
isued by the Alaska Game Com
' mission prohibiting box trapping
| within at least two miles of a mink
'farm unless it is done by the own
! er of the farm. This would prevent
J poachers from taking advantage
I of the farmers and setting traps
near enough to attract the pen
bred animals.
Destruction by fire of the North
ern Commercial Company store
building at Kotlik, on the mouth
of the Yukon River, is reported.
Illustrated lectures on Alaska are
being given in southern California
by Mrs. Lord H. Caskey and Mrs.
Beverley F. Robarts.
MUCH AUDITOR
CANDIDKTl SETS FORTH
RMS 10 UMBITIONS
The Third Division Republican
Club candidate for the office of
.Territorial Auditor, H. I. Lucas of
Juneau, in a letter to The Gateway
sets forth a few of his aims and
ambitions should the voters elect
him to that office.
Mr. Lucas, who is recalled by
many throughout this and the In
terior districts on the occasion of
his visit here last year, feels he has
an excellent chance to win this
office by reason of his qualifica
tions. For 12 years he was assist
ant cashier of the oldest bank in
Alaska and for the last five years
has been Territorial Bank Examiner
in the First Division.
Mr. Lucas’ ideas as to the con
duct of the Auditor’s office is that
it is more or less of a bookkeeping
department for the Territory; the
Auditor passing on the legality and
correctness of accounts and audit
appropriations. The office also car
ries membership on the Banking
Board which he feels is an import
ant position; one, not to be dragged
into politics. A bank is a confi
dential institution and should not
enter politics in any manner.
He also feels that the Governor’s
office has too many Territorial de
partments in his charge. He is a
Federal officer and should be held
in that esteem. Territorial mat
ters should be officered by Terri
torial officials.
Mr. Lucas says he did not enter
this race for the sole purpose of
ousting the incumbent, Cash Cole,
from office; that Mr. Cole and him
self are good friends, but he does
feel he can render valuable service
f TREE FELL ON LEG
Alvar Suominin of Cordova re
cently fought his way heroically
against pain and adversity in a
successful battle for life. Alvar was
caught when a tree fell on his leg
at Mile 13, on the Copper River
Railroad. Suffering almost unbear
able agony he managed to saw the
tree away and crawled between
two and three miles before he was
picked up by Gordon Selmyhr and
Carl Anderson who brought him
bo Cordova on a Yukon sled. Alvar
is now at the hospital receiving
treatment for fractures of both
bones in his leg, according to the
Cordova Tplmes.
Miss Katherine Ebel, who arrived
I In Anchorage recently 'from the
I States, and Clarence L- Donald,
! well known oldtimer of the rail
j belt, were united in marriage last
week, reports the Anchorage Times.
Drilling operations were to be
| resumed by the Fairbanks Explo
| ration Company in the Chatanika !
| district last week providing the j
| weather moderated sufficiently, re- i
: ports the Fairbanks News-Miner. !
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i ANCHORAGE LADY PASSES j
Mrs. Ellen Johnson, wife of Al
fred B. Johnson, who went to the
States last December for the ben
efit o£ her health, died in a Seattle
hospital, according to a message
received in Anchorage by Charles
Carlson. Death resulted from dia
betic poisoning, reports the An
chorage Times.
The contract for construction of
the federal building in Fairbanks
was awarded Saturday to the Wm.
McDonald company of St. Louis.
Next Friday is Good Friday.
to the Territory and work in har
mony with other officials.
PIONEER WOMAN BECKONED
An illness from which she had
been a sufferer for some time past,
claimed Mrs. Annette LaZelle, be
loved wife of Herman A. LaZeelle,
pioneer homesteader of the Fair
banks district. Her demise, which
occurred at Anchorage, is attribut
ed to heart and kidney trouble, ac
cording to the Anchorage Times.
PROSPECTORS LOST
John Meeker reported to the
Cordova Times that two prospectors
and trappers, Harry Cook and P. J.
Pepin, were lost between Mile 71
and 55, on the Copper River Rail
road. Efforts are now being made,
to check up on the track-walking j
cabins and if nothing definite is
learned, it is believed that a search j
will be started.
REDUCED SUMMER FARES
A material reduction in the east
bound, round-trip summer tourist
fares from Seattle for 1932, will be
made this season by the Northern
Pacific Railway, Karl K. Katz, Al
aska representative at Seattle, in
forms The Gateway.
LOCAL GIRL TAKES PART
IKI COLLEGE CONTEST
Katherine Horton, graduate of
the local high school, played ant
important part in the annual
"Freshman Glee” at Williamette
University, Salem, Ore., last week
end.
Each year the Freshman class at
the university challenged all other
classes to a song contest in which
each class presents a song of its
own composition, both words and
music. The winning composition
ea\\> year is handed down to suc
ceeding classes as an official uni
versity. song.
The Freshman class, of which
Miss HortWi; is a member, placed
first in the* .contest for the first
time in seven years. Katherine,
with six other freshmen, carried
out a decoration' scheme for the
auditorium and the platform was
most attractive. They used the
California acacia and the Wood
wardia ferns.
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