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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
Born Here In 1876.

Maj. Fred Dalmah Baker was born
in this city April /, 1876, and served as
a major in the finance department CT
the Army during the World war, and
was stationed most of the time in this
city on duty with the War Department
After being honorably DISCHARGED from
the Army, he was commissioned In the
Reserve Corps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
Will Rogers
Says:

About all we get Of our Sunday
papers is Saturdays auto casualties
and the foot ball scores. That's
two things that the panic didn't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
DRIVER ENDS LIFE
AFTER CAR CRASH
Fear of Having Killed Child
Believed to Have Caused
His Suicide.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, November "a.
Thought to have been laboring under
the impression that he had fatally In
jured a small child in a collision, Roy
Cump, As years old, Of Kauffman's,
near here, yesterday ended his life by
firing q bullet through his head. He
leaves a wife and several children.
According to the story told authori-
ties by Cump's son Paul and step
with him, the automobile driven by
Cump was in collision with a machine
driven by william Brown of Green
castle. Pa, the force of the impact
throwing Browns wife and small child
from the machine.
Driver Highly Excited.
Following the accident Cump seemed
highly excited, they said, and a short
time later walked in the direction of
his home, which is short distance
from the scene. A half hour later he
was found dead near the house, a re-
volver lying beside him.
BY strange twist of fate Cump's
act served only to take him from his
wife and children, for Mrs. Brown and
her child were uninjured in the crash,
despite the distance they were thrown
from their machine. Cump, himself,
was the only one who was injured at
all and he suffered only slight abra-
sion to the shoulder.
Wife Away From Home.
When Cump reached his home after
the accident his wife was not present,
so it was an easy matter for him to
secure the pistol with which he ended
his life. Mrs Cump did not learn of
the accident until after her husbands
body was discovered.
A third machine crashed into the
other two before they had been re-
moved from the road after the wreck,
but there we're no injuries as a result
of this crash. Cump had left before
the second collision occurred
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
WILL PLAY CARLTON

MOUNTAIN LAKE, Fla, R).-An-
ton Brees, son of the bellmaster emeri-
tus at Antwerp, Belgium, will come to
America soon to play on the Edward
w. Box carlton here.
Brees was born in the land of caril-
Ions and received his training at the
knee Of his father, who performed on
the Antwerp bells for years.
The younger carilloneur has played
initial programs on almost all carillons
in this country. and will open the third
season here December l6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
BRUSH FIRES FOLLOW
HIGH EDMONTON WIND
Mercury Drops From go Degrees to
Zero as Gale Wrecks Property
in Northern Alberta.

BY the Associated Press.
EDMONTON. Alberta, November "a
Dozens Of fires were roaring through
the bush country today and several
towns were badly damaged as the re-
suit of a windstorm that swept Ed
monitor and Northwest Alberta Satur-
day night.
From temperature of go degrees, the
mercury dropped to the freezing point
here as the gale passed.
Repair crews today cleared away de-
bris which resulted when the storm
struck Edmonton at q velocity of go
miles an hour.
Stony Plain, 20 miles west of here,
was threatened by fire, but townSpeople
saved it after an all.night battle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
"Last Post" Nightly at LooS.

Every evening during the next IL
months the Last Post" will be sounded
by British former serviceman at the
Loos Memorial to the Missing at Loos,
France. This is being done at the re-
quest of the relatives Of one Of the miss
ing men. Other relatives have provided
for similar arrangements at the Thiep-
val Memorial to the Missing as soon as
its construction Is completed. The Last
Post" is also being sounded nightly at
Menin Gate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24

young men of this country than any
other industry. Everybody felt that
sooner or later Yale or Harvard,
one, would win game and one of
'em did but they had to play each
other to do it and they played to
10000 which shows it amt foot ball
people want. It's just TO tell about
1t afterwards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24

hurt. No mat
ter how hard
times are you
can always get
hit with an au-
tonobile and al
ways find money
enough to at
tend a foot ball
game. Foot ball
should prosper,
it has given
more employ
mpnt. tn the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24

sitting at their directors meetings
month after month, year after year;
perhaps joking with each other that
they cannot see each other growing
DID," the speaker declared.
Mr.. Miles said that many persons
realize that the institute should prop
erly belong to the District government
and said that 1t would even be rightful
to charge the taxpayers for its existence.
"Yet we find it being carried on,
not by the government, not by a phil
anthropic organization, but by a small
group of blind men for the benefit of
the blind" said Mr.. Miles.
The institute was incorporated May
10, 1900. and Is located at 1903 H street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
Honest Parisians Overpay.

A cafe in which customers are ex-
pected to help themselves to beer, wine
or spirits, and to pay according to their
reckoning as they leave, has been
opened in Paris. Thus far, it Is re-
ported, Parisians delight in the conf
dence placed in their honesty and over
pay rather than cheat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
FRED D. BAKER EXPIRES

MONTREAL, November "a R.-
Fred Dalmah Baker, former major in
the Finance Corps of the United States
Army. Is dead here. where he had made
his home since 1921.
Among the survivors are two sisters,
Mrs. M B. Miller of Cincinnati and
Mrs. j. E. Hayden of Washington.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04

All extremely old people, it seems, either used lots of whiskey and tobacco, or none.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04
A CALL TO ARMS

Seward should be just about as much interested in that proposed highway to Kena on Cook Inlet Ke- nai herself and should join that petition recently for Waroed to Juneau.
 Furthermore and besides the other small communi- ties in the vicinity of Kena the fur ranchers along the Kena and residents of Kenai Lake should be heard in behalf of this highway as it would mean much to all of and the voice of 2O0O persons is impressive than 500
 Aside from the important considerations health and public safety-a flour shortage at the present time-better medical attenton mail service, and touch with the world during the long months of winter iso laton there is still the important possibility of opening up of the most attractive portions of the the hunter and fisherman, the tourist the miner and the vacati0nist.
 With road into the moose country of Kenai pen fitting point for hunting parties With road over the route proposed would be opened of the finest pros pecve fur ranch centers in Alaska At cost estimated around S200000 would be made available big stretch of farming and stockraising country This highway might make it possible to get machinery into that re- zion along the Kenai River where much opportunity exists for the prOspectOf and where many insist good dredging ground has been found
 But primarily this road should be built to protect those hardy pioneers down there; protection from i- ness winter and In all that vast area in which there LOGO souls, not doctor within reach and the only way they reach is the winter tra travelling days and nights to the railroad then by train to Seward or Anchorage During the summer the only means of egress is by the monthly boat A road will change all this.
 Seward can well afford to drop every other matter and get behind this to man.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04
STORK BROT GIRL

A baby girl was born to Mrs.
 Francis Groth, local resident, at Anchorage Saturday evening, it was reported yesterday, and both were said to be resting as well as could be expected. MT. Groth, professor at the Territorial school, Jesse Lee Home, has not been interviewed but 1t can De taken for granted ne must be wearing one of his famous smiles and, perhaps, is passing around cigars
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04
MORE O|V MEETING
(Continued fryrn Pa>. c,naA

GContinued fryrn PaD Snaa
 every member possible, regard less of what branch of the gov- ernment they may be in, to be affiliated with the Local in order that a comparison may be tabu- lated as to the needs of each in- dividual branch regardless Of where they may be located.
 The seniority list has finally been extended and issued to the maintenance of way trackmen and B 5 E crews which is now being prepared at Anchorage for mailing to the various sections for careful checking. They will then be sent back to headquarters and be prepared for adoption
 Again it IS emphasized that this organization is not a poli tical group but anything in the nature of legislature will be duly forwarded direct tO Washington consideration. The preamble of the organization IS to promote efficiency of government depart ments and betterment of gov ernment employees in the various branches.
 Tn ending President Priddy again lauded the efforts of Colonel Otto F. Ohlson, general manager Aof the Alaska Railroad, for his hearty personal cooperation in the organizations behalf.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04
SIIAIT ITUCK, BOYLE,
 DEM1CB 'Ts, F.LE FDR
 TERRITORIAL SENlTE

JUNEAU, Feb, 4, (R-Allen n Shattuck filed for the senate and Frank Al. Boyle for the house, both on the democratic ticket.
 First Division filings for the AL aska legislature ticket closes Tues day at 4;;30; for Territorial offices at 5 o'clock. Tt is expected both parties will complete tickets which will be filed today.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04
ATHLETIC PROGRAM

School athletics-3:40 to 5 D. m. Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
 Mems handball-5 to 2 D. n. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,, Thursday, Friday and SaTuday.
 Mems indoor baseball-7S0 to 10 p. m, Mondays
 Ladies indoor baseball--7:30 to no D. m. Thursdays.
 Boys basketball-7 .o 8,30 D. m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and FriGays
 Mems basketball 8:30 to 10 D. m. Wednesday and Saturdays
 Women's basketball 8 3O to 10 ID. m. Tuesday and Fridays.
 SEWARD ATHLETIC CLUB
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

Perhaps in no other industry is there such var iety of conditions in the newspaper business Total- ed indscrininately, there are something like IA, 900 newspapers in the United States
 For the smallest, probably not more than p pounds of paper is required each week. while the Chicago edi ton of the Sunday Chicago all the paper produced from timber grown on 40 acres of land. The Gateway halfton per month"; possibly fraction an acre
 The New York Times employees 31OO persons with 3 payroll of $25OOOOOO year The Gateway's annual payroll is approximately $12OOO. Hearsts newspapers and magazines than $5O0OOO00 worth of paper year
 It is well recognized fact that now, always the town newspaper is the best and ceanest exponent of constructive journalism.
 Losing his pants through politeness was the fate of an Anchorage grocernan last week when he bowed low to lady he serving at the curb passing auto mobile fender attached itself to the seat of his trous ers removing them without injury to him. And it was IA below zero, too.
 All extremely old people, 1t seems, either used lots of whiskey and tobacco, or none.
 Our greatest fear concerning the matter is that too much argument about peace may lead to war.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04
PANAMA TONNAGE

The s. S. Panama of the A. s. s. O., is due in Seward from the south tomorrow according to dis patches received by the local office. the big freighter is carrying two more passenger coaches for the AL aska Railroad besides two carloads of blasting powder and several cars of lumber.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04

There will be business meeting of the Seward Women's club Thurs day aftrnoon, February 6, at 2 p. n. at the home of Mrs. Meyers.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04

EF YOU HAVEN ~T TRIED FRYR RRUHN'S BABY BEEF, you are certainly missing something.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04

This day in history: 1899 Philippine-American war begun.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-02-04

Our greatest fear concerning the matter is that too much argument about peace may lead to war.
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25

dog; he will come in the house and curl himself at my feet and stay there for an hour without moving; he is not daShing here and yon when he goes walking with you; he is at your heels without any training whatever; also he has the good old bull dog guts; all he knows is to fin ish what he, or any other pup begins. Skipper in a voting booth should be given at least 19 votes to every one that Curly would cast, and in dogdom he will be given such advantage.
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25
DOGS AND DEMOCRACY By Hill Billy in Seattle Star

I believe in giving everyman according to his ability, plus the use he makes of his opportunity; I do not believe that all men are created equal, and I do not believe in universal and unlimited suffrage; dumb venal voter is more of a menace than a crook in office, or gun man.
 An uneducated mob of voters will ruin any democracy, and there is a considerable per cent of men born of women who nev- CT can be educated, not even ii they come from families of wealth and graduate from liar yard.
 There are mOrOnS in every an imal species, but no other ami nal does what man does; breeds the most from the lowest.
 For some months I have been watching the last puppy l bought for, the boy. It is my conviction that every boy deserves a dog, and when that poor dumb tramp tof a Curly finally got himself lost, I bought a pedigreed Bos- ton, a tiny bit of a butterball, and expected I had acquired just another dumb dog.
 This Boston, his name is Skip Skipper or Skippy, proved within a week that he was born intelli- gent, loyal and a gentleman From his first week at the town
 
 home he became a fixture; left i to roam at will, enticed by pass i ing, children, playing with inter esting, visiting puppies, whistled to by passing smart alecks, that pup either stayed in his own yard, or if he did play around a bit, he came dashing home be- l fore dark.
 This Boston today Che is less \ than 4 months old) will curl ur on the mat before the front doc and stick there like an old watc
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25
THEY DO RESIGN.

It has been said that bureau cratic employees never resign, they get canned or die. Major Evan W. Estep, superintendent of the Yakima Indian Reservation for the past seven years and in the Federal Indian Service for 25. announces that he will retire under pension July 31.
 Pension for what? Investiga- tion of affairs by a Senate In vestigating Committee, last year disclosed conditions in the Yak ina Agency which if perpetrated in any other civil life would send the principals to the penitenu- ary for varying terms. But that slithering octopus, the inillstone tied to all Indians of the States SAf~S~~ tt-~.v@g4-ser <+@@H-- @&
 and retarding their progress, is judge, jury, prosecuting attorn- ey, defense attorney, and wit nesses all in one. They have and are robbing the Indians with i'm punity; committing crimes of all rg#
 degrees and conniying at de
 frauding these wards of the gov
 ernment-the charges of the Bu- reau. And in spite of the urgent request of the Senate Investigat- | ing Committee and despite a re port by this committe that equals the Spanish Inquisition. the administration winks its eyes at ! all of the evils and continues te permit depredations upon persor
 and property of the Indian bJ l the political pets, friends and re- llations of a system un-Americar and. unwanted by Americas frs citizens. x
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25
A SONS WISH

Richard was disconsolate-the rain had been falling in great gobs for several days. Ma" where do you go when you die?" said he. ITO heaven, son" she replied. Mamma, said the wist- full one, "why don't you die and .go to heaven and ask God to make it stop raining?
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25
MISSED WHOLE MOUNTAIN

c. E. Rusk of Grants Pass, Ore, returned to his home in the States after spending several weeks in Alaska in an effort to reach and climb Mt. St. Elias.
 Leaving Juneau in June, he went to Yakutat where he was marooned for two weeks, think ing he was on the mainland on his way to the big mountain. He plans to return another year to make an attempt to climb the big peaks of Elias.
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25
SIGNIFICANCE OF A PACK OF
 CARDS

\
 An English soldier who had
 been brought before the town magistrate for apparently play ing cards in church, explained
 away the charge that had been
 made against him in the follow ing manner:
 T have been, Your Honor,
 about six weeks on the march and have had neither Bible nor
 common Prayer Book; in fact nothing but a pack of cards" Spreading the deck of cards before the magistrate, he began with the Ace.
 When I see the Ace, 1t re- minds me that there Is but one God. When I see the deuce it reminds me of the Father and Son; when I see the trey. 1t re- minds me of the Father. Son and Holy Ghost; the four. reminds me of the four Evangelists who preached Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; the five reminds me of the wise virgins who trimmed, their lamps. There were ten but only five of them were wise and five were foolish.
 ''The six reminds me that in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth. The seven reminds me that on the Seventh Day God rested from the great work heI had made and haHoWed, 1t; the eight reminds me of the Eight Religious Persons who were sav- ed when God destroyed the world: i. e. Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives; the nine reminds me of the lepers who were cleansed by our Savior There were nine of ten who nev- CT returned to thank Him. The ten spot reminds me of the, Ten Commandments which God, handed down to Moses on the tablets of stone.
 "The King reminds me of, the Queen of Sheba who visited Sol omon for she was, as wise a Wo- man as he was a man. She prot with her 50 boys and 50 girls all dressed in boys apparel for King Solomon to tell which were boys and which were girls. The King sent for water for them to wash and the girls washed to the el-- bows; the boys to the wrists, so King Solomon told by. that"
 The soldier continued; When I count the number of spots i'll a pack of cards, find 365-7the number of days in a year. There are B cards in the pack-the number of weeks in a year, There are F picture cards in the pack-the number of months in a year, and 13 tricks the num- Der of weeks in a, quarter So you see, a pack of cards serves as a Bible, an Almanac and 9 Com mon Prayer Book"
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25
The Open Forum
Seattle, Wash, July.5. 193t

sO Editor The ALASKAN:
 Really, I didn't intend to dwel further on this eagle matter However, I must acknowledge MT. Buchanan's side of the story and tell him that I enjoyed reading it very much.
 No, I'm not the inventor ot the term freak legislation. That came from an Alaskan of f1cial (not bureaucrat) some years back when commenting on the fifty cent bounty provision.
 I haven't gone to any great pains to fathom the why's and Wherefores of the eagle killing law. For the two or three eff forts that I made, I fancy that I was given rather scant atten- tion. dropped it. What did it matter anyhow? Such as it was, it was LAW, and to those who owned, or had in possession, shooting irons it was taken seri- ously. It held out opportunities to those who had no capacity to things worth while, but on the other hand enjoyed a yen for slaughter. I was surprised, all in all. that the emblem of the nation had so few friends in Alaska.
 MT. Buchanan naively says says that he never saw an eagle kill fox pup. He firmly believes that the big birds do such things because others told him so. Yes, ! have been told the same thing many times, and I never saw 9 fox killed by an eagle, nor have ever witnessed an attack Still l am not making an out and out declaration that such tragedies do not happen. I am speaking from what I have closely obServ- ed and from more or less StudyI of eagles in general. Nothing isl gained by making wild asser- tions and guess work doesn'tI add anything of value to the ar gument.
 I can't refrain, to mention an instance wherein error accom- panied direct view and prejudice ed man so strongly that no amount of proof to the contrary would change his mind. I, and two others, witnessed on a Kuiu Island fox preserve, some years back. a bit of eagle play that would have convinced me that there is straight truth in fox de- struction by MT. Bald Head, if l hadn't investigated. On the is land there was a small dock near a smoke house, feed sheds and the managers dwelling. The manager and I were on the dock talking of nothing in particular, Near by was a Rake Indian-I think Peter Grant-Who was busy at the time whittling bark from a hemlock sapling. The time was late autumn, well along in the afternoon, the sky clear and the air chilly Suddenly, flying directly overhead appear ed a bald eagle He was quite close and moving moderately along. This was interesting, for down the beach some $50 or 400
The Alaskan., 1930-07-25

fleet from us a number of adul
 and near grown foxes were nos ing among the rocks near to tn
 waters edge. The eagle was fly ing toward the animals. He pass
 ed over them some distance be
 yond, then it quickly wheeled back, made two or three smal
 circles and with talonS out
 stretched, Swooped to the beach I Instantly he was off and ava.
 with a load that held him neal
 to the water. It was easy to fol low the white tail and head il
 the gathering gloom, and we saw
 the bird light among some drift
 on the gravel beach in a cove where trollers frequently anchor in stress of weather.
 The manager was wild-eyed He damned and double damned all the members of the eagle clan and it's remote ancestors There goes $75 to a damned pi- rate," he exclaimed as he shook a hard fist at the disappearing bird. The Indian said nothing at the time, and shortly there after the manager left us to feed his stock. I felt that the bird had played a rotten trick on me, and since had but recently talk en his part, it didn't make it any easier. Still, there was a some thing out of tune in the wild act; there was something that didn't exactly fit. All at once it came to newly weren't the foxes alarmed and why didn't they scurry off when the bird made his ferocious charge among them? They hadn't seemed to be the least mite afraid; they paid no more attention to the unheralded visit than if a gull had sailed overhead or had rerched on the rocks in their midst. I spoke to the Indian about it, and he replied.
 He took no fox. I don't know what he took, it was too far and too dark to see good, but he took no live fox"
 Perked up by this statement, and what I had visioned, I bor- roWed the Indians canoe, took along my automatic shot gun, and pulled the long slant against a swift running tide to where, the eagle had landed with his cargo. The bird flew before I got within range, but he left the fox and the fox turned out to be the very ragged remains of a freshly killed deer's heart and lungs. Coming back, I stopped where the foxes had been wan dering and there found the rest of the dead deer's viscera Some one with small regard for the mo tresspass" signs on the is- land, and with no regard for the law making it a violation to kill female deer, had made the kill almost in the managers front yard. Unfortunately, I didn't bring back the heart and lungs or what was left of them-and talk as I would, the manager would have it no other way than that he had lost a valuable pelt "You have to believe what you see, don't you"? and that, to him settled it.