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LO! THE POOR MARINER
'There are times when you are chugging along the wild
* coasts of these Southwestern Alaska islands as the
deepening dusks gather in and the fogs hang low along
the frowning headlands when you sort o’ begin to wish to
pray. You may never have prayed in your life. You
may not know how to pray but you kind o’ say to yourself,
T wish God and Uncle Sam had fixed this up a little. Just
a friendly light over where that deepest gloom is gather
ing would be such a comfort/’
Then you take the captain bv his iev hand and hands
and implore him to assure you, “Is it all 0. K.?”
“Yes son.” he smiles in a wintry wav. “Be of good
cheer. I didn’t wait for Uncle Sam to mark these rocks
and points. I learnod thorn from actual experience. If
i’d waited fnv bim tPo nporYle o^t to tpp Wpctward mi edit
still be in doubt about thp war of pnd 1917. We old
timer* havp frrnwn so nopd to sfppvinrr }w frnp** }w frosh
that it hecomps fzpnrmrl notnrp to ns. hot wp avp wondpring
T\rhot tbp or<3 will fin wbon tbo obi nor industry
reallv o^ts hncv ^Irmfr fbo noninsnln pnd tPp islands.
‘We nick un a b'oht now and then son. but they are
mighty few and fpy* Vwtwppn. This is p bio* country out
^ere. WTe kind o’ wicb TTnolo Ssom would npv more attpg
tion to it. with his hmnr* pnd licrht.s. Jt wouldn’t cnst him
much ord he sore has a rich country to look after out
here,”
Sam Small of the Atlantic Constitution, himself a
staunch Democrat, annears to be unimpressed with the
political sagacity of his fellow Southerners. He refers
to the South as “the backbone, the breastbone and the
bonehead of the Democratic party.”
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A doctor sav« insane peonle are happier than those
’who are sane. Which may account for some of the hilar
ity we have observed..
Henrv Ford has ppne to Europe for.a second time.
But he isn’t trying to get anyone out of anything before
Christmas,
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In a minortav rpnonf nnnAcinn’ p farm vplipf mPQsnvp.
Congressman Flankp of Npw VmP locf titooV fnvnpd p nook
plHfprpfinn dp'davinrr fbof fbp bill would “bpmnpr. bindpgj
humiliate, bumble and hamstaina*” the law of sunnlv and,
demand.
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“Chicae-o Tense for Election’—And some of them are
now in the past tense.
WIN
A FIVE PASSENGER
0LDSM0B1E SIX SEDAN
Tickets $1.00
The five-passenger OLDSMOBILE SIX owned
by Sol J. Urie will be given away. The car is in
first class condition. Goes to holder of lucky
ticket.
Ticket. Car will be displayed Saturday at the
Candy Cottage comer.
Tickets on sale Seward Drug Co.,
and Candy Cottage
Gasoline at Fairbanks for a motor
tour to the Arctic Circle almost as
cheap as you can buy it in the
States is the result of the Standard
Oil equipment at Sewand and the in
land town, coupled with cooperative
efforts of officials of the Alaska
Railroad, according to W. C. Erwin,
local manager of the Standard Oil
plant which now has storage facili
ties at Sward to supply the whole
'"p-Hfarv of Alaska for six months.
New and ample means of getting
>v,e liquid to t^e consumer has placed
° territory of the North on
’n almost equal bn sis with her sis
ters of the West. There are parts
of Utah and Nevada where gas costs
more than at remote stations along
the Yukon in the heart of Alaska. J
There are remarkable features con- 1
nected with the distribution of gas
oline, Diesel oil, lubricating oil and
kerosene used by boats, mining com
mnies, road bouses and even pros
pectors a thousand miles away in
’""cd -'•"-.ms *>nd vdlages, that
ou’d almost he scoffed at by the
sophisticated chechako, acco”'!ing |
For instance, 500,000
'ralions of. g^s. 200.0Ao gallons of
Diesel oil, large quantities of lubr- I
catuig oil and 25,000 cases of kero- !
sene go through the Seward plant i
each year. The Iditarod used to be
reached by boat direct from Seattle.
Now they get their gas and oil sup
plies through Seward, over the gov
ernment railroad to Nenana, down
the Tanana and Yukon by govern
ment boat and up the Innoko at
about one-fourth the cost of their
old supplies. Two dredges in the
Iditarod are using 25.000 gallons of
Diesel oil and two boats on the In
noko about 7.000 gallons each. The
Kuskokwim is still being supplied
by boat direct from Seattle, but be- f
tween Tanana and Eagle the liquid
fuel is supplied from Seward.
Gasoline lamps, burning aviation
gas, are largely used in the outlying
camps for lighting purposes, Mr Er
win said. Gasoline consumption at
Fairbanks is considerable and will
increase in the summer with the op
ening of the Richardson highway.
There is a small storage plant at
Fairbanks which is supplied from j
the Seward plant, the later having I
i
been started here in 1923 and the
capacity later increased. Even though
fishing boats from the far Westward
come here for refueling and nearly
all of Alaska depends upon Seward
oi fuel and lighting supplies, the
local institution could carry on for
six months without embarrassment
even though the tankers from the
Slats should be delayed that length
o: nine.
WOMEN DRINK MORE
THIN MEN, Tit JUANA
SAN DIEGO, May 4. (/P)—Women
visitors to Tia Juana who indulge
too freely in intoxicants give the
traffic officers much more tro'ib s
than the men who bring back an im
ported jag, the board of supervisors
learned yesterday from F. T Zim
merman, inspector for the state mo
tor vehicle department on duty here
Almond Roca candy. $1.50
pound can. Schallerer’s Al
aska Shop.
Yesterday E. J. Bath of the High
school faculty was called upon to
teach the fifth and sixth grades for a
short period in both the forenoon and
the afernoon.
Local golf fans are out on the
course every day now.
Council meeting Monday night The
salary ordinance will be among the
j items of business to come up.
LIBERTY
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8 O’CLOCK
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8 O'CLOCK
The great “Ace of the West”
TOM MIX
in the redblooded western tale
‘The Last Trail’
This is another fine story by
ZANE GREY
Never has better horsemanship been shown
than in this feature
A THRILLING ACTION PICTURE
Ten stage coaches in a most spectacular race
There will also be a Charlie Chase 2, reel comedy
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