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Pursuant to the call of the presi
dent, the officers and directors of the
Cook Inlet Baseball league held their
meeting last night at the Bank of
Alaska.
Many important questions were
brought before the meeting and dis
cussed; the main subject being some
plan to wipe out the old debt against
the park. To this end it was decided
to give a public dance in the near fu
ture, probably soon after navigation
opens. The chair appointed Messrs.
Lankin, Robarts and Watson to serve
as a committee on arrangements with
power to call upon the balance of the
members and act with the managers
of the different baseball teams.
The questions of schedules, open
dates, divisions of gate receipts and
other important matters were held
over until the meeting with the man
agers of the various teams at which
time these matters will be threshed
out and decided.
The motion to require the managers
to put up a deposit of $50.00 with the
league as a guarantee of good faith
was passed unanmously; the deposit
to be returned at the end of the sched
ule upon-fulfillment of the contract.
President DeLong was appointed a
committee of one to confer with A.
Christensen as to what authority he
will delegate to the officers of the
league as regards the ball park, grand
stand and concessions.
The league will hold another meet
ing next Wednesday night at the Bank
of Alaska.
I. H. Fleishman, secretary of the
league, has issued the following call
to the prospective baseball managers
who intend to enter teams in the
league:
By direction of the board of direc
tors, it is requested that the managers
of the teams who propose to enter the
Cook Inlet Baseball league will meet
at the Chamber of Commerce at An
chorage on Sunday, March 25, 1917,
at 10 a. m.
At this meeting a schedule of the
games for the coming season will be
drawn up together with rules and reg
ulations to govern all teams. The
schedule and the rales and regulations
when perfected are to be submitted to
the board of directors for their ap
proval.
Attention is called to the regulation
adopted by the board of directors
which provides that the manager of
each team will be required to submit
to the secretary a deposit of $50.00, 10
days before the start of the schedule
to guarantee their good faith in car
rying out the schedule. This deposit
will be returned to the managers on
the completion of the schedule provid
ed they have fulfilled their contract
with the officers of the league, other
wise it is to revert to the general fund
of the treasury.
It is requested that the managers
send in their names immediately to
the undersgned.
I. H. FLEISCHMAN, Secretary.
SHAMROCK DINNER
An Irish bill-of-fare, enlivened by
Irish songs, Irish after-dinner stories
and a prog-ram of Irish sports, will be
provided at the Shamrock Dinner for
men only in the People’s church, Sat
urday from 5 to 8 o’clock. Come in
your working clothes. No starched
collars allowed. Fifty cents. 617
C Me Felix wants everybody to
smile with a new suit of Stein Bloc’s
costume ready-made suits. None but
the best. Felix Brown & Co. 612
Do you intend to have a garden ? If
so why not have a good one? See
McCain at Third near H about fertil
izer before March 26th. Seattle Prices
plus freight. 614
See the best show that has ever
been given in Anchorage. Friday
night at the Empress. 603
Wanted—Experienced baker at City
Bakery. Fifth and C. 616
C.L. VITER
TELLS OFFICIAL
EXPERIENCES
Seventeen years as a guardian of
the public peace on the edge of west
ern civilization has been a period
crammed full of adventure and ro
mance and interest for C. Y. Vawter,
former United States marshal at
Nome, says the Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer. During these seventeen years
Mr. Vawter has witnessed every big
gold rush in Alaska, he has seen pov
erty-stricken prospectors become flush
with wealth in a fortnight, he has
seen others become crazed because oi
the privation and hardship, he has
seen the territory awaken from a
sleep of ages to stretch its arms anc
rub its eyes in wonder.
When the discovery of the Klondike
first drew the attention of the work
to Alaska, Mr. Vawter left Montane
to take the office of deputy marsha!
under John M. Shoup, marshal for the
whole district of Alaska. Marshal
Shoup’s office was at Sitka; Deputj
Marshal Vawter was stationed at St
Michael. Between the two of therr
the entire territory of Alaska was
guareled. Vawter’s territory includeei
the Yukon valley from the Canaeliar
boundary, including that part of
Alaska which drains into Bering sea
and the Arctic ocean. He also had
supervision over the Aleutian islands,
and in all his domain was 4,000 miles
long from one end to the other.
In 1898 many gold-seekers attempt
ed to reach Dawson by going up the
Yukon river from its mouth. This led
them to St. Michael, where Marshal
Vawter was stationed. Winter over
took many of them on the trail; they
camped wherever they happened to
be when the river froze up.
It was there, in the fall of 1808,
that word came to the St. Michael of
fice that a prospector had murdered
his two partners. Marshal Vawter
took a dog team and started out for
Anvik, near where the murder took
place. A man named Homer Bird was
held by the citizens of a trading post,
15 miles away, charged with the
crime. The citizens were determined
to hang Bird if the marshal didn’t
show up within two weeks. The ap
pearance of Deputy Marshal Vawter
saved Bird’s life, temporarily at
least. Bird escaped from the St. Mi
chael prison the day he was to be
taken to Sitka to stand trial. With a
pocket knife he carved out a piece of
four-inch board and fled toward the
mainland.
Marshal Vawter offered a reward
of $500 for his capture, and had the
meaning of the proclamation trans
lated to the natives. The result was
that within three days the Eskimoes
brought Bird back to St. Michael. He
was taken to Sitka, tried, convicted,
retried, and again convicted, and fin
ally hanged in 1901, the second offi
cial hanging to take place in Alaska.
In 1901 when Marshal Vawter was
in Washington, when President Mc
Kinley signed an order appointed him
United States marshal at Nome, then
in the hey day of opulence. The no
torious Judge Noyes gang was ap
pointed at the same time, and their
failure to influence Marshal Vawter
in their favor during the days of
thievery, crookedness and scandal at
Nome forms one of the most stirring
themes in Rex Beach’s novel, “The
Spoilers,” which was built up around
the incidents of this period. In the
novel Marshal Vawter is Voorhees. It
was the testimony of Marshal Vawter,
offered at the circuit court of appeals
at San Francisco, that convicted
Judge Noyes, the prosecuting attor
ney and the special representative of
the department of justice, and sent
them all to prison.
In his trips to the outside during
the last 17 years Marshal Vawter
has brdught out 35 insane persons.
In the spring of 1899, when Mr.
Vawter was still at St. Michael, over
1,500 persons came down the Yukon
destitute. They managed to make
their way to Nome, where the rich
beach placers had just been discover
ed, and nearly every one of the 1,500
made fortunes within a few months.
Mr. Vawter is now deputy United
States marshal, stationed at Fort
Gibbon, at the confluence of the Ta
nana and Yukon rivers. He has the
distinction of having been in the serv
ice of the government in Alaska for a
longer period than any other employe.
FIRE DESTROYS
(Fairbanks Citizen)
According to information received
from Nenana yesterday afternoop,
the sawmill owned and operated by
| Sylvester Howell near that place was
totally destroyed by fire Monday eve
ning. The fire was caused by an ex
plosion of a gasoline light in the en
gine room.
The plant, which is situated about
ten miles north of Nenana, was moved
up from Hot Springs by its owner
since Christmas, and had been in op
eration for a few weeks only. It had
a capacity of approximately 10,000
feet of lumber a day, which it was
figured could be doubled when the
long spring days arrived. Mr. How
ell had intended building a dry kiln at
the mill, but whether this had been
started or not could not be learned.
It was stated that practically nothing
was saved.
As the lumber was being hauled to
Nenana and sold as fast as it was
sawed, it is thought here that the loss
of the mill will cause a serious set
back to the building operations at the
new town. Numerous new buildings
are in the course of construction, and
it was planned to have them entirely
finished up with the lumber from this
mill before the opening of navigation.
These will, of course, now have to
await the navigation season before
work can be resumed on them.
Mr. Howell, the owner, is at pres- j
ent absent on a business trip to the
states. He is purchasing equipment;
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and supplies for a show house which'
he will build on some property which
he owns at Nenana. Whether the de
struction of the plant will cause the
abandonment of the theatre project
could not be learned last night. Nor
could it be ascertained whether the
plant will be rebuilt in the near fu
ture. It is understood that the loss is
not covered by insurance.
C Me Felix wants everybody to
greet the cheechaco with a costume of
ready-made Stein Bloch’s ready-made
suit. None but the best. Felix Brown
& Co. 613
Zero is what you get at most places
but hot meals are served at Camer
on’s Cafe. 354
Daily War Bulletins at Peterson’s.
Fresh Ranch Eggs!!
75c the Dozen
As long1 as they last we will continue to sell fresh ranch eggs fresh from the
outside ex launch Rosebud, at the same price. These eggs were shipped direct to
Seldovia from Seattle where the Rosebud was waiting to receive them. They were
transshipped direct to Anchorage, coming in on the first vessel to bring fresh sup
plies to this city in 1917. Included in the shipment were fresh oranges, lemons,
grapefruit, and onions. Our Oranges and drape Fruit are sold out, but we yet have
Fresh Lemons and Onions
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These also are selling rapidly, and if you have a hankering for fresh food place
your order with ns at once. While we are talking about things which are good to
eat it is only fair to call your attention to the fact that we have a large supply of
Swift’s Premium Hams
and Bacon
Of which it is necessary to say nothing more.
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