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Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05
DRILLING WILL START OCTOBER
 AT YAKATAGA
GENERAL PETROLEUM CORP. AT YAGATAGA FIELD INSTALL
 INDUSTRIOUS RADIO.
Will Be a Permanent Camp
Admiral Evans Makes Special Trip Back to Pick Up the We'll
 Known Mike Sullivan.

All of the oil drilling equipment has been moved to the camp with the exception of probably 25 tons and that was supposed to have been moved up the day following M. J. (Big Mike) Sullivan's departure from Yagataga, according to Seward arriv- als on the Admiral Evans, on which vessel MT. Sullivan arrived in Sew ard. It might be stated that the Evans was 65 miles past Yagataga when a wireless was received from him announcing his desire to be pick ed up The vessel turned about and made for the beach, sending a boat ashore for Mir. Sullivan. That's ser vice! it was stated.
 The companies which recently en- tered the Yagataga oil field are drill ing on MT. Sullivan's and his asso- ciates' property and from reports emanating from the region, there never was a better looking oil bear ing country than that district. Ire mendous oil seepages are found in abundance and, it is stated, pros poets for bringing in oil are extreme ly rosiate. Drilling will actively be- gin October 1, it is stated. A per manent camp has been established, and everything will soon be ready for two years consistent work in the field. Eighteen mean, each of them an expert in his particular line, are employed by the company.
 Companies Getting Busy.
 Next year if the Sinclair and Gen. eral Petroleum interests strike oil at Katalla and Yagataga, the old Alas ka Coal Oil Company, which holds five claims at the former town, will get busy, according to D. B. Me Bride of Portland, one of the direc- tors of the concern. With Andrew Comrie, also of Portland, hSAreturn- ed to Cordova recently after@Ynspect- ing the company property, which is about ten miles from the Chilkat Oil company holdings. MT. Mcbride said four of the claims are in dis pute and the corporation must wait until the application for patents is decided upon. He is confident that the Katalla fields have a future.
 The Alaska Coal Oil company put down two wells several years ago. and struck oil, but no other devel- opment has since been done. The company is entirely made up of Port land people.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05
KU KLUX KHAN ORGANIZER TO
 FORM KHAN HERE
MAJOY POWELL STATES THAT EVERY TOWN IN ALASKA
 WILL HAVE Al KHAN

Within the next two months there will be 1500 klansmen in Alaska. ac- cording to Major l.. l. Powell Impe- rial representative of the national K. K. K, who arrived in Seward from the South Saturday. In statement made to the Seward Gateway yester- day, he stated that on Friday night of this week initiation of candidates into the order would be held. The mi tiations are generally held in the woods, far from towns or cities, from desire to keep the membership se- cret. Klans have been fully instituted the Major stated, in Ketchikan, Pe- tedsburg, Wrangell, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Cordova, Kennecott, Valdez. From Seward Major Powell proposes to go to Anchorage, thence to Nenana and Fairbanks, and later to Nome, re- turning to the States in September at which time charters for the various Alaskan lodges will be mailed out.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

meeting. Included in this large sum was the regular payroll of s420; the street, Glacial stream and miscella- neous payroll of $S275; Seward Dock, $8.27; Postmaster, $2O00; Stan. dard Oil Co.,, s25; Gateway Publish ing Co.,, sS9.25; Seward Light & Po- wer Co.,, s1275O; Alaska Transfer, SEATS; Seward Drug, s6.25; cement ing sidewalks, s117.75; Mrs. Horton, $40; City Express, $S.75; D. B. Chase, s55.OO; Brown & Hawkins, s650; Bank of Seward, $25.OO; Fire Hose, $346.03; A. c. Long, $S4O.
 The finance committee was author iZed to borrow the sum of s4,000 for a period of five months.
 The law and ordinance committee recommended the adoption of an or odinance fixing a tax for itinerant merchants, or peddlers. This mat ter was turned over to the city at torney for action.
 The light committee authorized the fire chief to hire one man to assist him in cleaning the light globes on Washington and Adams streets.
 The attention of the council was called to the condition of the side walk on Fourth and Washington, zir sffonts of the property of Dr. Dag get. q former resident O. this city. T..t city attorney was instructed to n2t fy the property owner of the prt1e.1y to repair tle walks or tie city would repair same, charging sail costs to the prope.ly.
 1h, school committee reported ncthng further had be ,1 decided re- ga'dlIg quarters for tca a:sh school bu: uat a lease woll' be entered
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05
INFORMATION WANTED

Information is sought by Seward Chapter, A. R. C., concerning the whereabouts of Elizabeth Rodenhouse aged 15. Miss Rodenhouse is suppos ed to have been en route to Seward about one year ago to visit with her father, Anton Rodenhouse. Anyone having information concerning these two parties please communicate the same to Elwyn Swetmann, Chairman Seward Chapter, A. R. c.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

il1., this week, to secure tie front r3l.i Il of the Harrl1?an Bank build ;7.r, according to feoeD. vote oI the cuuLci
 The city attorney was instructed to prepare papers for deeds to the city on delinquent property taken up by city and upon which deeds are now due.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05
BASEBALL

COAST Los Angeles l, Salt Lake 6. Frisco 9, Sacramento 0. Seattle 6, Oakland 5. AMERICAN
 Phila. 9, Chicago 3. New York 1, Cleveland 1. Boston 7, St. Louis 10.
 Washington ,, Detroit 2. NATIONAL
 Pittsburgh 1, Phila. 8.
 Chicago 5, Brooklyn 2.
 St. Louis 4, New York 2.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

Acting on the principle of the Flett- ner rotor sailing ship, a new rotor
 propeller for airplanes as declared to
 increase the pulling power 50 per cent or more.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

Pictures from Germany show a new airplane with 60 men standing side by side on the wings, so great is their spread, yet the plane carries on eight passenders.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

FOR sALE-Ford Touring car, self starter, demountable rims, new, one spare tire, car 1925 model, run but a few miles See Fishers Cafe. If
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

Weighing only $50 pounds and small enough to fit in an ordinary garage a baby air plane is able to attain a speed of 100 miles an hour.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

Missing his mark an aviator acci- dentally landed on top of his hangar near Paris with little damage and without injury to himself.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

Bob Rose, Los Angeles cowboy, strapped his saddle on an airplane and rode it while the pilot did stunts imi- tating bucking horse.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

LOST-Elgin, 15 jewel, green gold, watch. Liberal reward. Return to J. Ratliff, Overland Hotel. St
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

FOUND-Keys of all descriptions; if you have lost any keys lately come to the Gateway
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

FOUND-One corkscrew and bottle opener; no attachments; call at the Gateway and recover property.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05

Join Urbach's Circulating Library, 15c to read a late book. If
Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-05
TIME REDEMPTION DELINQUENT PITY
 HAS EXPIRED
LEASE WILL PROBABLY BE SIGN. ED THIS WEEK FOR SCHOOL
 QUARTERS BANK BLDG.
Owners Must Fix Sidewalks
peddlers Will Be Taxed-Much Mon- es change Hands Due To First
 of the Month.

Claims totaling over a thousand dollars, to be exact, s1,39S.33, were approved at last evenings council
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
FRAMES CHARGE ARE PlFFLE

John Frame accuses Governor Scott c. Bone and other Federal officials of voting the Democratic ticket" and otherwise misconducting themselves in the recent election. Which is about as far from the truth as John could come. Governor Bone may have oD- posed Frame as Territorial commit
 teeman, believing as do many other republicans, that the office is not an elective one, and that Frame is not now and never has been a republican If Frame is placed at the head of the so-called republican constituents of his it means the disruption of the regular party and the turning over of the Ter ritorial patronage to the democrats. This was the intent when the bill was passed It was the intent when a man of Frames caliber was placed i'll nomination. The democrats had no candidate and voted en masse for Frame in order to muddy the waters for their opponents. Outsiders are unable to understand Alaskan politics and 1t is no wonder,-if democrat of many years standing, a leader in the democratic conventions of the Third
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
AMERICAN LEGION DANCE.

Seward Post, American Legion, will give a dance in Odd Fellows hall February 21, the day before Wash ington's birthday. The Legion mem bers are making every effort to make this dance success, and should re- ceive the support of every citizen in their efforts. This clean, progressive organization of young men will take hold of civic and territorial affairs within the next few years, and will make good in their administration.
 The young man who had the patriot ism and nerve to enlist in the world war for what was believed to be for the best interests of humanity, can not help but have the energy and pep to make for better conditions.
 !. If you have the good of the com munity at heart save Saturday night, February 21, for the American Legion.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
DEMANDS ENORMOUS STADIUM
 ON PACIFIC COAST
(By Associated Pressl


 PALO ALTO, Cal, Feb. 7.-The ath- letic stadium at Stanford University, which seats sixty-five thousand, is expected to be enlarged to accom- modate ninety thousand by next foot ball season.
 This would provide the largest foot ball stadium in the country Plans for the enlargement followed the big game with California Nov. 22, when ninety thousand people overflowed the California stadium at Berkeley, which seats 76,OOO. Those who could not get into the stadium occupied hilltop just above it. Next fall the game will be played in the Stanford stadium and efforts will be made to take care of the throng sure to want tickets.
 The Stanford stadium was built five years ago. Designed by professors in the engineering department of the University, it was hollowed out of the earth and the tiers of seats rest on terra firma. The earth for the sides was thrown up from the excavation made for the playing field. At pres ent it is horseshoe, with an open side used as straight-away for track events, to supplement the cinderpath
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
THE NOME MARATHON

News dispatches received today show that the Northern marathon from Nenana to Nome, is an epic in the eyes of customers, and has caught the fan cy of millions of readers throughout the States. The dispatches say that this will probably be the last Alaskan race of it's kind, "a fitting finish to a long list of records made by heroic dogs of the Northland."
 While the sentiment is pretty the statement is untrue, as the dogteam will be Alaska's chief mode of travel in the backlands, as long as the Terri tory is settled. The inference given that the railroad has put the dogteam out of business is too ridiculous to the Northerner to be considered for an instant, for the government rail- road traverses very narrow strip of the Territory's domain, and thousands of square miles remain uninhabited and practically unexplored The dog is the logical means of transportation for the back stretches of the northern wilderness. They can pack in the wilderness. They can be used as pack animals in the summer, and as means of transportation ill the win ter. Two or three dogs will pull as much, if we'll trained, as a horse, and will go where horse cannot be taken at any time of the year. A dried sal mon once day, little rice or ce- real and the offal of game, will keep them in good condition. They will dig down in the snow at night in tenn peratures a horse would die, and are ready and fit the next morning to re- sume their daily grind Their feet stick through their skin, and they may stagger as they pull their load, but they are never whipped by adver- sity, and follow their master blindly and faithfully to the end.
 The dog is as much a necessity to- day as it was in the past, and serves the many camps throughout the terri tory in way that can never be told in story or in song. It would take pages of print and hours of time to tell one-tenth of the heroic sacrifices made each winter by the Alaskan dog.
 And each winter will see some adventurous driver and his team rac- ing to far-off places to take help or necessities to isolated sections. The day of the dog in Alaska is far from done.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
Pittsburg Recruit Made
 Good in Three Positions

NEW YORK;. Feb. Eddie Moore, Pittsburgs brilliant recruit, played two infield positions and an outfield position and batted .351 in his first year in big league uniform, accord ing to the official averages of the Na- tional League.
 In many respects Moore was the most valuable recruit of 1924. He played in utility role for the Pirates except for brief period when he was on the hospital list. His remarkable playing was somewhat obscured by that quarter of rockies who went to Dreyfuss about the same time and won regular berths.
 Kremer, Yde, Cuyler and Wright, all in their first year in fast company, went great guns for the Pirates and their work somewhat crowded out Moore, but the latter's showing in the face of such opposition stamped him as one of the greatest finds of the season.
 Moore first played professional baseball in St. Petersburg, Fla, in the Florida State League in 1922 The next season he went up to Atlanta and at the start of the 1924 cam paign wore Pittsburg uniform. He was only 21 when he arrived.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
ORDINANCE NO. 86.

In yesterdays issue of The Gate way Ordinance No. S6, An Ordinance to Provide Rules and Regulations for the Transaction of Business by the City of Seward and to Define the Du- ties of the Mayor, Common Council, and Other Officers of the Town, and to Provide for the Manner of their Appointment or Election, and for oth- CT Purposes, and Repeating Ordinance No. GOA and all other Ordinances and Parts of Ordinances in Conflict" was published in it's entirety. This ordi- nance should be read by every citi- zen and understood thoroughly before intent of the ordinance is to change la number of elective offices to ap- pOintive ones, provided the electorate so wish. It will affect principally the offices of clerk, city attorney, and treasurer, the others being appointive lat the present time. Proponents of the ordinance argue that it will in- crease the efficiency of those officers appointed as they can be removed any time by action of the council, while opponents declare it is placing too much power in the hands of a few.
 Without arguing for either side of the question The Gateway believes the Council acted wisely in ordering the publication of the proposed ordi- nance, and that it should be we'll read by the voters.
 Too many voters go to the polls and vote for this or that change, and later cavil and find fault with the city council, who are only trying do what in their belief affects the greatest number.
 The ordinance will be published again, the day before election, and it should be cut up and pasted in your scrap books in order that you may see how the city is governed. At the present time one-half our citizens have no idea of the rules and regula- tions governing municipalities, or of the laws under which they work.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
Aviation Tricks Amused
 Ancient Hawaiian Chiefs
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
 HONOLULU, Feb. 7.-Naval avia- tors who accompany the United States fleet to territorial waters next spring may find interest in the spots where the thrills of modern aviation were enjoyed centuries ago by. Hawaiian chieftains according to stories told by their descendants today.
 The aerial excitement, was obtain ed by jumping off cliffs into the sea in homemade planes. The game, for such it was, is known as "lele pali," literally jumping from the cliff"
 The late William J. Coelho, former newspaper editor, legislator, historian and officer of the Hale na Ali Hawaii (House of Chiefs of Hawaii) described the vanished sport The game was played with huge but light contrivances. constructed of stout sticks and overwoven with palm leaves, he said. Several of these were made ready, the Hawiian~ "avia- tors" boarded their crafts and were pushed from towering cliffs simul- taneously. The aviator who remain ed in the air the longest won the game Sometimes carelessness or over-evcitement led one of the planes to execute a nose dive similar to those encountered today. The only damage was the loss of the game.
 Old Hawaiians say their faces" were exceptionally skilled. Their rude appliances could be guided only by shifting the bodies of the aviators to maintain balance. Outrigger ca noes were anchored off shore to pick up the competitors and retrieve the planes. Daring men often hoped off cliffs one thousand feet high, it is de- clared.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07

that encircles the edge of the field. According to plans, this open space will be filled making the stadium bowl-shaped More seats will be add ed by increasing the height of the en- bankment on all sides.
 Interest in college football in this region has increased so rapidly in re- cent years that it has been hard for the athletic authorities to keep up with it. Ten years ago a crowd of twenty thousand at a Stanford Cali fornia game was considered large. The California stadium was completed a little more than a year ago, in time for the big game, which was held there two successive years The Berkeley stadium is just across the
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division, and opponent to every re- publican idea, can be elected to head the republicans in Alaska.
 Governor Bone did not vote for John Frame as Territorial committeeman. A thousand other republicans refused to consider his candidacy as any thing but joke. He was elected by mischance and the party cannot af- ford to prostitute the offices of the Territory by politicians of his stamp.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07

All rights for republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are reserved.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
SWITZERLAND HOLDS RECORD

(By Associated Press)
 BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. Tt is claimed that Switzerland holds the smoking record for Europe, according to statistics issued here, consuming ten thousand tons of tobacco annually or five pounds per capita. France is next with three pounds per capita.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
WIFE OF VALENTINO IS
 GRANTED LOST CITIZENSHIP
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Jean Acker Valentino, first wifi eof Rudolf Valen- tino, motion picture actor, regained in the Federal court here the citizen ship she lost five years ago upon her marriage to Valentino, who is citi- zen of Italy.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07
HELEN KELLER SCORES
 DOINGS OF MODERN FLAPPER
(By Associated PressI

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7.-"Fd rather be myself, blind and deaf, than the modern flapper without any goal in life" Helen Keller. the famous and blind woman declared.
 From morning to night they play nah jongh, smoke and curl bobbed hair, leaving them no time to aaccom- plish anything useful"
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07

Charles T. Wrightsen, freshman at an Oregon college, is paying his ex- penses by taking up aeroplane pas sengers in spare time.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-07

bay from San Francisco, while the Stanford campus is thirty miles down the peninsula from the city.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

was feeding almost 100000 per-
sons every day.
We spent 100000 in that work,
raised through the efforts of Her
bert Hoover. Our own Congress
voted $24,0O0,000. The Soviet au-
thorities of Russia gave So, 1000, 900
for the purchase of seed and paid the
10000 Russian employees at one time
under my charge.
CONTRACTION WIPED OUT.
The heads of tie Russian govern
ment, and the Russian people gen
orally, still make grateful acknowl-
cdgement of their tremendous debt Of
gratitude to America. We furnished
supplies to more than $4,000 hospi-
tails and institutions in those dark
days, and by organizing a system OF
sanitation stamped out the most dan
gerous center of contagion in the
entire world.
/ was particularly interested III
seeing the hospitals of today in Rus
sia, because in 1922 they were stuff
ing wounds with newspapers and
sewing them with thread picked from
old cloth. They had no anaesthetics.
Now the hospitals in Russia arc
clean and sanitary. and fairly well
equipped with modern appliances.
STREETS ARE CLEAN.
The streets of the big cities. which
were in filthy condition in 1922, are
now MS clean as New York, and con-
siderable attention is paid to municipal
sanitation. This is of first import
ance because Moscow has popula-
ton of 100000, nearly double that
of ten years ago, and. Leningrad, or
Petrograd, at least 100000.
The population is too congested in
Moscow. The government is trying
to solve the problem by building
houses for the workingmen. When
the seat of government was moved
from Petrograd to Moscow, the popu-
lation of the former city dwindled,
but it has picked up again.
You see many beggars in the streets
of the cities, but proportionately nc
more than in other large cities IN
Eastern Europe, and certainly not as
many as in the old days of Russia
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

STA is more or less of joke. as /
shall explain in a future article
In fact, / shall go over in detail
much Of the ground i am now cover.
ing very skctchily. The government,
rs | shall show, does not claim that
it is democracy, or n representa-
tive government. The Communist
party, which is the real political
power Of the land, is more of big
political club than anything else.
But l believe that the men who ore
running Russia are working earnest
ly for the common good of their
country, without thought of graft, and
if their methods are stumbling and
imperfect as yet. they are at least
sincere and unremitting in thcir eff
forts to make the interests Of those
who work with their hands para-
mount.
The government fosters. no religion,
but every man may worship his own
God in his own way. Th.re are 10
longer any restrictions on the Jews.
Many of them are memoirs of the
government. though anyone TO be a
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

member of the government must be
an atheist.
The Jewish traders of middleinen,
like all others in these classes, are
under the ban. The government IS
trying to make farmers of them The
farmer seems fairly well contented,
though he is constantly in fear of
being over-taxcd. Oddly enough, he
is under-taxed at this time.
MANUFACTURES UNDER PAR.
The chief drawback of the new
Russia today is the inability to sup
ply the demand for manufacturer
goods. most of which now cope from
Germany.
But a light of hope undoubtedly
CLEANS ahead for the country they
used to call the land of the white
czars, and nowhere is there any of
the suffering that the American re-
lief administration in my charge en-
countcred. when it had $4,000 relief
stations in operation Mt one time and
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08

Lcnin. paralyzcd and dying. still DOM
mated the government of Russia, with
his iron will, with Trotzky, Kemenev,
Zinoviev. Djerjinsky and Stain rs
his chief deputies, controlling the red
army, Moscow, Petrograd, police and
railways, and the party organization
respectively.
Today Russia is governed by a
small group IN which about six men
are the dominant personalities. Stain
bosses the party with the acquiesence
of the six other members Of its politi-
cal bureau. Kamenev controls Mos
COW. Zinoviev does the same in
Leningrad and heads the third inter-
national. Djcrjinsky directs internal
trade.
Copyright, 1895. by san Antonio Light