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Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01
Mystery Surrounds Theft
And $3.50 Offered For
The Arrest OF Guilty
Party.

Mystery surrounds, what is be.
lieved to have been, one Of the bold
est robberies committed in the his.
tory Of Washington Parish when
approximately 1850 dollars was
taken from the office Of the Southern
Express Co., Monday between the
hours Of 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. With
the strong box locked, nothing in
the office disturbed the money was
missing when Agent J. L. Haley un-
locked the box preparatory to de.
posting the money in the bank,
shortley after three o'clock Monday
afternoon. The money was shipped
to Bogalusa on Monday morning,
being remittances made to the N.
0. G. N. R. R., from various agents
along the line. Mr.. Haley received
the money, placed it in an express
strong box, under lock, With the
exception Of about ten minutes,
when he stepped from the office
Monday morning, he was at his
work until noon.
Assistant A. L. Ledoux locked the
office at noon and when the force
departed for lunch. On their return
there was nothing to suspect that
anything had occurred. Shortly after
three o'clock Mr.. Haley went to the
box to remove the money to the
bank, when the strong box was
unlocked the money was gone. Mt.
Haley, or the employees, are unable
to give any further information on
the matter. However, the theft
could have been committed only dt
the noon hour when the force was
at lunch. The theft must have had
a pass key as the doors were locked,
as left, and no windows had been
distured. The party also had a key
to unlock the strong box and was
exceedingly kind to relock it, after
having made his haul"
| That the robbery was committed
in broad daylight and in the heart
)of the city without being noticed,
is considered somewhat battling to
the officers working on the case, as
there is considerable traffic near the
depot at all hours Of the day.
The loss does not all consist Of
cash as a few hundred dollars is
reported to have been in checks.
The amount will be made good to
the N. 0. G.N. BY the express COM
pany
A reward Of $50 dollars is offered
for the arrest Of the party or par
ties, and an arrest at any time
would cause no surprise.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01

up
Prof. z. D Lenior, Children in
school room,
Rev. j. H. Perkins, The crowded
homes.
Rev. j. Baptiste, Of the A. N. E.
church said many good things re-.
gardine the meeting.
Rev. 7. M. Moses, pastor End, Bap-
fist, also said many good things for
the meeting.
They appointed the following
officers Of the colored clean up cam.
paien.
General Supt, Dr.. Anderson,
President, Dr.. L. J. Johnson.
SeCty, Pr0t., L. y. LenOlr,
Treasurer, Rev. 7. N. Moses,
Vice President, Rev. John
Baptiste.
Each pastor Of the churches ap-
pointed several committees among
the women to 90 into the homes Of
the colored people and see that
everything in there is in sanitary
condition and if not help to put them
in such condition and advise what
to do. In this movement they are
seeking the authorities in order to
have full power to t1lp and advis.
I'd Lenoirs.
| Master Of meeting.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01

ed in the Enterprise the following
week. The prizes offered by the
Enterprise should make induce
ments for the little gentlemen Of
Bogalusa to get busy during the
week of April 5th to 10th.
Clean up week in Bogalusa should
result in the city being PLACED in
most sanitary condition Of any~city
in the South. The city will furnish
free wagons during the week to re-
move any and all rubbish and gar.
bage. If it is not removed the
week Of April 5th to 10TH, the
board Of health will compel you to
remove it at your expense the fol-
lowing week.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01
{ Runaway JUN" ENACTED HERE
. N TWO YOUNG RUNAWAY WIVES
LONDON BETS EVEN
MONEY WAR WILL
END SEPTEMBER |.

London, March 30.-Betting
on the outcome Of the war is
; all the rage in London now.
Several firms and individuals,
through Lloyds Exchange have
on the board today the follow
; ing book on the duration of
hostilities:: That war will end
before June |, 1915, 2 to / :
against.
That war will end before
Sept. |, even money.
That war will end before
) Dec. /, 1915, 10 to | on. !
That war will end before
March /, 1916, IS to | on,
That Germans will take
Parish. Is to | against.
That Germany will take
Warsaw, 5 to | against.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01
enterprise TO GIVE S. FOR most. SANITARY
BACKWARDS IN BDGALUSA ON APRIL 10TH

Nnols going to have the most
altafy back yard in the city of
:. alusa at The end of the biz Clean
Day on April 10th. In order
lnls question may be settled
Enterprise is going to give $3.50
u owner of the most sanitary
q. yad;$l.5O for the next and 81
ne third. Here it might be
atoned that the ground occupied
q. ue Great Southern Lumber Co,
q aa Office will be barred as well
property occupied by officials
y ). L. Co., and the N. @. G..
R The decision is to be
..s BY D.. Cole, of the City Board
le'lh and the winners announc.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01

Mr.. and Mrs. 7. B. Coleman, Of
Ave B, have returned from a de-
liehtful visit with their son in New
Orleans.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01
.R0BBER MAKES $4,000 HAUL
At LOCAL EXPRESS OFFICE.
HERE IS A TIP FOR
CORRESPONDENTS VINO
SEND IN BAD DOPE

No one in Dosalusa desires
!. to see news sent in from this
. city to big dailies, if correct,
than the Enterprise. 1t gives
us publicity. No one in Boea.
!. lusa regrets to see dope sent,
however, than the Enterprise.
. A certain New Orleans paper
had two bad reports from
Bogalusa Tuesday. Both
. stories were wrong and did
: an injustice to the town as
: we'll as individuals and firms.
. Facts are just as easy to OBJ.
: tain, so this correspondent
. should get the facts before he
causes trouble.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-01
Two Missing New Orleans
Women Found Here And
Returned Tuesday Even.
ing.

Herman Raspe, wife hunter,
who left Bogalusa with Mrs.
Rapss and Mrs. Schultz was
put off at Lees Creek because
h had only II cts to pay his
3 fare. Whether he has reached
New Orleans oF-no' is unknown
Moving picture lovers were al
,nd a rare treat this week when
Runaway June" was presented in
lie ,ize form. The scenes may be
,omewhat different, the characters
not 50 clever, the event only adver'
t;,ed in the Times Picayune, New
fA,eans as usual, furnishing the
characters.
FIRST REEL
Herman Raspe, married March 8
. news butch hero Of two wars
and bullet scared, carrying the grip
oibis wife which contained her
clothing to the restaurant at l33
Dsuphine St., New Orleans, wife
only Is years old, says it is wash
ins (Bie secret-lts her getaway
cloihes) Frank Schultz, owner OF
restaurant, decides todiscAaree Mrs.
Raspe because she smoked a cisaret-
t.. Wife is given honor to fire her.
Scene two-Raspe and Schultz
lsport to New Orleans police Sunday
the fact that wives are missing.
They charge women with rifling the
cash register and taking silverware.
Can't file any charges.
Scene three Times Pic runs a
lot Of "slush" because its Monday
morning.
REEL 2
Chief Cassidy locates two women
accompanied by a man, in Bogalusa
who prove to be runaway wives.
Tails with them. Say they left
because husbands treated them
badly, News sent to New Orleans.
Act2-Raspe announces that he
Is coming to Bogausa to blow out
somebody's brains. Arrived Noa-
Day night but does not flash an
altilary. Wife says she will shoot
him before she returns. They meet.
Ncb0odshed, no kisses, no explana'
ton but a nice supper.
SceneS- Spend rather restless
night Landlord issue orders. Fol-
loving morning wife says she will
not return. Spend day on streets
taking with various people and
expressing views about matter.
REEL 8
Board train, wives smiling and
apparently as happy as if they were
gong on a picnic. Women arise
nom seat and act like they were
eonsto jump off train. Everybody
atis6ed.
Aoial-Don't 60 after runaway
yves you can't pay two fares
nome Or else make them walk home
with you.
The Seward gateway., 1915-09-09

A recent publication by the Department of Com merce on Alaska and It's Relations to American Trade and Industry" says in part:
 'In the period since 1867 Alaska has given to the world S25OO0O000 worth of gold, $1S3,000OOO worth of fish, $65,OOOOOO worth of seal and other aouatic fur skins, S2OOO0000 worth of copper, nearly S5OOO,OOO worth of whale, walrus and fish oils, $2OOOOOO worth of silver and whalebone, coal gypsum, marble, tin and vegetables in sufficient sums to bring her total output to more than S5OO,- OO0OOO This result has been achieved by sparse population and an inadequate system of railway and other transportation facilities. With the new area of Government railway construction by the Govern ment, the development of Alaska will be greatly accelerated"
 The locations of the different mineral resources are indicated on the map of Alaska in this booklet That map shows also the mountain ranges and the navigabe rivers with the routes of the Government railroad as designated by President Wilson, in April, 1915.
 Government Railroad.
 Congress authorized the expenditure of not to exceed 5000000 for the building of not more than 1000 miles of railroad in Alaska, and the Presi- dents designation of the routes was in compliance with the provisions of the Railroad Act, directing him to ascertain the most feasible location, which would open the greatest amount of resources.
The Seward gateway., 1915-09-09

Beyond the Kenai Peninsula the railroad will ascend the fertile agricultural valley of the Susltna 15O miles long by 75 miles wide, and rom lOO to TOO feet above the sea- 1t is among the best and largest of Aaskas agricultural areas. Grasses, ber res timber and coal are its distinctive products, but it has gold, silver, copper, and iron aso The route taps the Matanuska coal fields with branch 3S miles long, It passes through the Willow creek cold quartz district one of the richest in Alaska, and comes within easy reach of the Yentna gold district the Mckinley gold district, and the Tal- keetna gold and copper district.
 Broad Pass and Nenana Districts.
 Emerging from the Sustna Valley through Broad Pass in the Alaska Range, 320 miles north ot Sew ard, at an elevation ot z6OO 1eeG' It pisectS te re gently discovered Broad Pass gold district and the long known Broad Pass copper district Thence It follows down the Nenana river through the Nenana coal fields, where seven veins one above the other have a total thickness of 2S6 feet, according to actual measurement by the United States Geological Survey While the Nenana field IS ignlte and not to be compared with the Matanuska, 1t nevertheless will be an important source of supply Tor the ln- terior.
 A few miles below the Nenana coal fields the route cuts the western end of the Bonnifeli and the eastern end of the Kantishna gold districts, finally entering the great Panama Valley, where It is fifty miles wide, and reaching the Panama rver at the mouth of the Nenana.
 Reaching the Heart of Alaska
 There, in the geographic center of Alaska it con- meets with more than 4VVV iies VI I waterways. On these streams are many steamboats and, barges that handle the commerce and the pas sengers of the numerous thriving settlements and mining districts on or near the river banks.
 The advantage of this route over any other In Alaska is not alone that it traverses the best and the most of Alaska's resources of every kind, but it is the only feasible route by which the Matanuska coai is made available alike for the United States Navy for all parts of the Pacific Coast as far south as San Diego and for every town and mining dis trict along the railroad and its branches and along the system of navigabe rivers with which the rail- road will connects it is the only route that can join the agricultural valleys with the markets of the mining districts and the industrial centers to De de-
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Panama and the Kuskokwim valleys, with 100000 square miles more of hay and grazing lands, and another 100000 of reindeer range
 The waters of the Scandinavian countries afford the best fishing in Europe, as the waters of Alaska produce the most abundantly in American.
 Gold, Copper and Coal
 The Scandinavian countries have some copper and iron. but little gold, silver coal Alaska has the richest copper deposits in the world and has btumi equal to the best in Pennsylvania and West Vir- ginia, with numerous fields of Ignite. Its gold mines have produced S250000OO0, and are now pro- duCing S20000000 a year. and, on completion of the Government railroad from Seward to the Tan ana river are expected to produce indefinitely from $5O,OOOOOO to $1OO,OOOOOO year.
 Possibilities of Population.
 The four Scandinavian countries have 12,00O0OO population and 14,OO0OO0 head of live stock On the same basis, Alaska is capable of supporting 2OOOO0OO population and 3O,O0O,OOO head of live stock.
 On their I6.OOO square miles of cultivated lands the four Scandinavian countries produce soil crops worth 5OOO0,000 year. If the tillabe lands ot Alaska were equally cultivated, its soil crops would be worth SS00000,0O0 a year.
 Agricultural Experiments.
 The Department of Agriculture has carried on extensive experiments in Alaska continuously since 1898 on experimental farms under Professor C. C. Georgeson, with results that demonstrate AlaSkas agricultural possibilities to be equal in all respects to those of the Scandinavian countries. Prof. GeorgeSon, whose headquarters are at Sltka, sup plies official data to all nquirerS, so far as hlS ap- propriation enables him to do, and frequently dis tributes seeds specially imported from Northern Europe He established a new experimental farm during the summer of 1915 in the Matanuska valley, adjacent to the route of the Government railroad.
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and the richest of the undeyeloped public domains, These unusual features, coupled with the con- SpicuOuS part Alaska has taken for many years m the production of the worlds output of gold, and with the growing realization that Alaska has agri cultural and grazing areas of vast extent m add- tion to gold silver copper lead and coal, and furs and fisheries, have united to awaken keen and widespread interest in Alaska, it's possibilities and opportunities.
 The purpose of this booklet, issued officially by the Seward Commercial Club, is to meet the de- mands of that widespread interest by answering accurately and concSey the questions that naturally arise in the minds of people who have been to Alaska but who wish to know of the opportunities it offers for farmers, stock growers prospectors, miners and business men.
 Alaska and Northwestern Europe Compared.
 The best idea of Aaska's possibilities may be had by comparison with the four countries of North western Europe-Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark-in the same attitudes, under identical conditions of climate. For convenience they will be referred to as the four Scandinavian countries.
 Alaska covers an area of 566,446 square miles; the four Scandinavian countries, 454y365 square miles
 The Japan current mOderates the climate of Southern Alaska exactly as the Gulf Stream mod crates the climate of the Scandinavian countries.
 In both the winters are mild and damp on the coast but colder and dryer in the interior, with growth in summer.
 Many millions of acres of spruce and hemlock cover the valleys and mountain sides of Alaska and of the Scandinavian countries alike.
 Tillable and Grazing Lands.
 The four Scandinavian countries together have 16000 square miles under cultivation and 75,000 miles in grazing The Department of Agriculture has classified 60000 square miles in Alaska as suit able for cultivation, mostly in the Susitna, the
The Seward gateway., 1915-09-09
Routes of the Government Railroads.

The main trunk of the Government railroad, ex- tending when completed 412 miles from Seward to the Panama river with a 38-mie branch to the Matanuska coal fields and a 3S5-mile through the Kuskokwim valley will unite the 4O0O miles of navgable rivers of the interior directly with the Pacific Ocean at Seward All the commerce of ln- terior Alaska will then meet the commerce of the world with Alaska through the open port of Seward as the commercial center.
 Kenai Peninsula.
 En route from Seward to the Panama river the Government railroad will traverse the Kenai Penin- sula, absorbing the present Alaska Northern, com pleted for seventy-one miles, which the Government has bought to form a part of it's main trunk line The Kenai Peninsula, 1S,O00 square miles in area, surpasses Switzerland in grandeur of scenery It is the hunters paradise for bear, moose, mountain sheep, grouse and ptarmigan. It IS studded With gold and copper veins, and its valleys and mountain slopes are green with dense forests and grasses
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veoped it is the only route from which feeders and branches may be projected to every productive part of Alaska.
 Importance of Matanuska Coal.
 The Matanuska coal, which this route opens, IS the only coal on the entire Pacific slope which has measured up in every official test with the best coals of Pennsylvania and West Virginia It there fore must bear the same relation to the commerce and the industries of Alaska, of the Pacific slope, and of the Pacific Ocean, that the coals of Pennsyl vania and West Virginia bear to the commerce and industries of Pennsylvania, of the Atlantic slope, and of the Atlantic Ocean.
 Why Seward Is the Terminus.
 The question is sometimes asked "Why was the ocean terminus of the railroad established on Resur- rection Bay at Seward, and not at point on hnik or on Turnagain Arm"
 The answer is simple The barriers of nature in
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to be the Stockholm or Christiano of Alaska, and steamers will come and go daily, bringing every part of Alaska and all the principal ports on the Pacific together at Seward, every day In ene year. tourists, attracted from every state in the Union and from every nation in Europe by the incompar- able grandeur of lake and mountain scenery and by the unsurpassed hunting and fishing throughout the Kenai Peninsula.
 Progress of Railroad Construction
 Rv the summer of 1917 the Government railroad is expected to be completed from Seward contnu- ously as far as the Matanuska river, and on up the Susitna Valley. Rapid progress in construction IS being made.
The Seward gateway., 1915-09-09

With reasonable passenger fare and freight rate corresponding, which the Congressional debates on the Alaska Railroad Bill indicated would be adopted as an inducement to encourage rapid settle ment and development, the increase of population should be by leaps and bounds.
 The opportunities for prospectors, for miners, for manufacturers, for stock growers and for farmers in the great new country thus being opened have never been surpassed in any part of the United States.
 How and Where to Get Located.
 For the gardener, the daryman, or the poultry farmer, the numerous valleys in the Kenai Peninsula and the great valley of the Susitna offer locations to tens of thousands Much of the land most of 1t, in fact, has to be cleared of timber but large profits are to be made from small tracts inensivey cultivated. Vegetables of every variety grow lux urianty in the long days of Alaskas summer
 For the stock grower there millions of acres of grass lands throughout the Kenai Peninsula, in the valleys and on the mountain sides. The red top and blue stem grasses here yield two to four tons per acre. Winter feeding is from four to five months. It is within the literal truth to say that of the Kena Peninsula's 1,520000 acres, 100000 is suitable for grazing. 1t has been estimated by Montana stock growers that the Kenai Peninsula alone could support 20OOOOO cattle. It's climate the year through is the best in Alaska.
 Similar conditions presented in the Susltna Valley and the mountain slopes that surround 1t, where hundreds of thousands of beef and dairy cattle can and will be grazed and winter-fed
 For the Miner and PrOspectOr.
 Placer and gold quartz prospects and mines are numerous in all the country between Seward and the Kena river.
 The Kenai Peninsula has gold dredging grounds below Kenai Lake, where the gravels yield from 27 cents to $1.50 yard, estimated to total 2OOOOOOOO yards in distance of fifteen miles. Other dredging districts being developed Sunrise and Hope.
 The mountains of Kena Peninsula are streaked with gold quartz. The Moose Pass district, in par tcular, forty miles north of Seward has we'll defined dike that has been traced for nine miles It is four to twelve feet thick and carries values of $200 to $4000 per ton. Large capital will be re- quired to develop it with mills of minimum ca pacity of 1000 tons day for economical operation, but on that scale the ore is there to make of the district another Juneau Leadville.
 Other well known gold quartz districts in the Kenai Peninsula are south, east and north of Kenai Lake, south of Sunrise, south of Hope, and west of Resurrection Bay. They are in the prospecting stage at present, but inviting fields for mining capital.
 The Crow Creek district on Turnagain Arm, the Knik district Knik river the Willow Creek dis
The Seward gateway., 1915-09-09

Trains will then be in operation from Seward di- rect through to the Matanuska and the Susitna valleys, and from that time forward interior Alaska can absorb many thousands of immigrants every year. The railroad should be completed from Sew ard to tba Tanana river by the fall of 1913.
The Seward gateway., 1915-09-09

CThe principal mineral and mining districts are indicated numbered circles. follows; l. Port Dick district 9 dstEict gold g. Resurrection district copper Creek district gold Laouche district cop; p the coal fields 7 the Valdez district gold and copper: B. Iniamna district gold and copper D. the Bonanza mining district owned by the Alaska Syndicate cop O the Maanuska fields and Maanuska iron and gold district H. Willow Creek district gold; 2 1entns district
 gold: 3O Nuato fields 3l, S2 and sS Seward Peninsula
 districts gold silver Broad Pass district gold and cop nar fields l7 Kantshna district gold; ls
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trct north of Knik the Yentna district south of Mount Mckinley, and the extensive Broad Pass dis trct recently discovered, all will be opened to ac- possibility by the new Government railroad. They have scarcely been scratched.
 Thriving Towns to Be.
 The country between Seward and the Panama river within 100 miles of the route of the Govern ment railroad needs 1000 prospectors for years to to do the country justice, and even they would leave minerals undiscovered for future generations With all these resources of agriculture, grazing, and timber of gold copper and coal distributed over the whole of Alaska between the Yukon river and the Pacific Ocean, there will be many thriving towns along the line of the railroad and the banks of the connecting navigabe rivers, such as Roosevelt on Kenai Lake, Moose Pass, Girdwood on Turnagain Arm, Hope Sunrise, Anchorage, Mata- nuska Junction, the Matanuska coal towns, Willow Creek the junction of the Kuskokwim branch rail- road Talkeetna Broad Pass, the Nenana coal towns, Nenana, Fairbanks, Hot Springs, Tolovana, Panama, Rampant, Ruby, Nulato, Kaltag, Russian Mission, Iditarod, Dykeman, ophir, Georgetown and Me Grath
 It is Stewards purpose to aid actively in the de- veopment of all of them, and to do its full share in the work of bringing population by the of thousands from the overcrowded States and from Europe to these vast unoccupied, weath-stored re- gions.
 For further particulars write to
 THE SEWARD COMMERCIAL CLUB,
 Seward, Alaska.
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s E w A R D
h The Gateway to y8 % A L A s K A Rf

The building of a system of Government-owned and Government-operated railroads to open and pop
 ulate Alaska marks an epoch in the industrial his tory of the United States. It is the first project of the kind which the Government of the United States has undertaken. 1t is undertaken, too, m the last