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Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-01

Phone for HOrluck'S banish Ic. Cream and we will deliver. Candy Cottage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-01
ITEMS OF ALASKA
 INTEREST AT THE
 NATIONAL CAPITAL
CBy W. A. steeD

By w. A. SteeD
 In the year 1880 the gold output from Alaska amounted to 407,356 ounces. with a value of $8,420, 800 which was second in production in the United States California taking the lead with value of $9,308, 300 Some of the government officials in Washington predict that for the year 1881 Alaska will take the. lead in the output of gold, which am ounted to $47,247,6O in the United States last year.
 President Hoover, on August 4th, signed an executive order excluding three tracts of land from the Ton gass National Forest in Alaska, pre- viously occupied as honesites for cannery purposes, and restoring them for entry under the applicable public land laws. Included in this order is a tract of 2.54 acres oc- cupied by Con E. Giebel, under a special use permit from the Forest Service, which he desires to enter under the act of March 3, 1927. * F :: %
 :, Efforts are being made Co nave some of the big salmon packers in Alaska give a little more thought to the needs of the Natives, partic- ularly in the matter of securing employment in the fisheries. Writ ing on this subject the manager of one of the large companies says: T realize that the conditions are not good at some of the canneries. For instance, during the past win ter the Natives at two of our opera : tions had no money or food, and I instructed our representative to help them by giving some of these men certain amount of work each week in clearing land, when the land will probably have no value to us for many years to come. I believe if more salmon packers, Steamship Companies, and miners will assist along these lines to up- lift the Natives, the day will come when we will be more proud of our Natives in Alaska than could well be imagined"
 ;: j: < !:
 A newspaper man from the Vest ward, Editor E. F. lessen, of the Seward Gateway, writes 3 strong letter to the Assistant Director of the Department of Commerce, in the plea to have Alaska represent ed in the Commerce Reports-A Weekly Survey of Foreign Trade" !" He cites the article written and de- livered by Delegate Wickersham on "Alaska's Trade Value to the United States" upon the occasion of the completion of the Capitol at Jun eau last February, as an example of what might we'll be brought before the people of the country. In clos ing his letter the writers says "The weight of evidence in favor of AL aska is impressive. Increased public interest in the Territory, the de- velopment of more scientific anc more accurate methods of analyzing her trade, coupled with an effort to bring the facts before the thought full citizens not only in the States but in all parts of the world, will receive it's due share of attention"
 * x *
 Ever since the Lindberghs decided on their flying route to Japan, and particularly since their sojourn at Point Barrow and Nome, the news papers in the Eastern states have been playing up Alaska in front page headlines, as possibly never before.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-01

Let us enlarge your favOrite snap shot, ALASKA SHOP
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-01
BASEBALL SCORES

NATIONAL New York 3-4, Boston 2-3. Detroit 8, St. Louis 3. Only National games played.
 AMERICAN Washington s, New OYrk 5. Cleveland 15, Chicago 5. Boston 0, Philadelphia 3.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-01

The SS Admiral Watson, of the Pacific Steamship Company, is due Ito arrive in port Wednesday from the South enroute to Kodiak.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-01

Next Monday, September ', is Labor Day.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-01
THE MOONS-SEPTEMBER

Last quarter 5; new moon 11th; first quarter 18th and full moon 26th.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03

When you happen to be driving over
a stretch Of modern road and you
find it is little 'bumpy," do not
blame the contractor for doing poor
piece of work. because it may not be
his fault. In fact, the really perfect
road has not been invented and the
highway engineers are looking for
just this article at the present mo-
ment. You are more likely to Strike
the right lead if you place the re-
sponsibility upon nature, for she is
beating us, despite all we have learned
about building highways.
Not one of the many types of roads
we have built is an absolute success.
All have their drawbacks. The asphalt
road has a bad habit of walking
and walking backward. Our heavy
traffic-greater than any previous
civilization has had to cope with
acting upon a sun-baked road, causes,
first of all, waves in the road. Eric
ton of wheels then causes these rip
pies to move backward, so that road
nay walk" several inches In a year.
Wood block roads are susc -dble
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03

consist, and minutes made of them
The committee then appointed Mr.. JEFF
ferson and me to draw them up in
form, and clothe them in proper dress.
The subcommittee met, and consid-
cred the minutes, making such obser-
vations on them as then occurred,
when Mr.. Jefferson desired me to take
them to my lodgings, and make the
draft. This / declined, and gave sew
eral reasons for doing so:
al. That he was Virginian, and
I a Massachusettenian. 2. That he
was a southern man, and l northern
one. 8. That 1 had been so obnoxious
for my early and constant zeal in pro-
noting the measure, that every draft
of mine would undergo a more severe
scrutiny and criticism in congress than
one of his composition. 4. And last
ly, and that would be reason enough,
if there were no other, had great
opinion of the elegance of his pen,
and none at all of my own. I there
fore insisted that no hesitation should
be made on his part. He accordingly
took the minutes, and in day or two
produced to me his draft"
When the Revolution ended success
fully, and the Republic was estab-
lished, they became political enemies
Adams the Federalist and Jefferson
the Republican. In the Presidential
campaign to select successor to
Washington, Adams came out victo-
rious only to be swept aside by the
people in favor Of Jefferson four years
later. In 1912 through the entreaty of
their mutual friend, Benjamin Rush
of Philadelphia, correspondence be-
gan between them in which their warm
mutual esteem was evident.
In this correspondence they unbur-
dened their hearts and minds to each
other. Both had the highest offices
their countrymen could give them !;
both had lived long and full lives dur
ing which they had known the great
men of their time and had labored
nightly in laying the foundation of
a great nation; both had read widely
and thought deeply on religion, on
politics and on the meaning of life !;
both had no further worldly ambition
to crafty; both had retired to private
life and so they opened freely the
great riches stored in their hearts and
minds to each other. They never saw
each other again, but through these
years the contact established by this
correspondence and the stimulation
which each received from the keen
mind and the wide interest of the
other bound them more closely to-
gether than they had ever been in the
epoch davs of &c.
L.. -. an aua.;-,.r corrac-.o..i
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03

ence it was! Some of Adams letters
to Jefferson run to 5000 and even
1000 words and to these Jefferson re-
touching of them all is Jefferson's
last letter to his colleague. Deplor-
ing the interruption but asking per-
mission for his grandson, Thomas
Randolph, to pay his respects to
Adams on q visit to Boston he said:
Like other young people he wishes
to be able in the winter nights of old
age to recount to those around him
what he has heard and learnt of the
heroic age preceding his birth, and
which of the Argonauts individually
he was in time to have seen. 1t
was the lot of our early years to wit
ness nothing but the dull monotony
of colonial subservience and Of our
ripper years to breast the perils and
labors of working out of it. Theirs
are the halcyon Gains succeeding the
storm which our Argosy had so stoutly
weathered Crafty his ambition then,
by receiving his best bow.
And so they continued to the end,
these fine old stalwarts, Jefferson at
the age of eighty-three and Adams at
the age Of ninety-one, which came to
them within an hour of each other on
that independence day one hundred
and ffty-fve years ago.
Five years later. 1t was the Fourth
of July, 1881. Again the bells were
pealing and the cannon booming. But
in New York city they were suddenly
stilled for James Monroe, fifth Presi-
dent of the United States, lay dead in
his home on Prince street, far from
the scenes of his youth in the hills of
old Virginia, and far from his be-
loved home "Ash Lawn" near Char
lottesville. 1t was from the Univer-
sity of Virginia there that he had
marched away as young lieutenant
to win the approval of his fellow Vir-
ginian, George Washington, on revo-
lutionary battle fields And when at
last he had retired from a long and
distinguished public career as an am
bassador to foreign lands, as men,
Der of two Presidents cabinets and
finally as President himself, he had
come back to Ash Lawn to spend his
declining years, only to be forced by
debt to sell it and make his home at
last in New York city.
Fifty years later. 1t was the Fourth
of July, 1881. In a darkened room in
the White House James A. Garfield,
President of the United States, lay
stricken by the bullet of an assassin.
Two days previously on July 2 while
he was standing in the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad station, Charles ].
Guiteau, disappointed Office seeker
whose diseased brain was responsible
for his terrible act, had shot down the
President. For several weeks Gar
field fingered between life and death
until it was thought best to move him
to Elberon, Long Branch, N. J., where
il was felt that he might regain
strength more rapidly. At first the
change seemed to benefit the Presi-
dent but his strength had been so
Slapped by the prolonged illness that
the end came at last on September
10. 1881.
But July has not always been
day of deaths for Presidents. On
July 4, 1872 there was born in a farm
house near Plymouth, Vermont, boy
destined for occupancy of the White
House. Calvin Coolidge was his name.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03

The statement that the Chinese pa,
physicians to keep them well' is fall
lacious, but has this foundation In
fact: Upon feast days or holidays,
Chinese families make substantial
gifts Of money to their physicians.
These gifts are expected. They, how
ever, do not pay large fees for actual
medical attendance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03
"Perfect Road" So Far, Beyond Reach of Man

to weather conditions. The rain works
between the blocks and undermines
them. Perhaps the best type Of road
is the concrete, reinforced with steel
mesh. Yet there is drawback here
Heavy rain may cause flooding and
washouts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03
Began Religious Freedom

The first attempt to grant and n,
out religious freedom may be credited
to Constantine in the edict of Milan
313 A. D. This edict granted both
the Christians and to all others fir
power of following whatever religi
each may have preferred"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03
Millions of Mail Bav.

Manufacture Of mail bags at the
rate of more than 100000 each year
and repair of more than 1000, 900 bags
annually is necessary to provide fac;r
tiles for transportation and distripu,
ton Of United States mail
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03
Slaves and Serfs

A slave is the absolute property Oh
his master and may be sold In any
way. A serf is usually one bound to
work on a certain estate, and is thus
attached to the soil, although in some
countries serfs are mere slayeA
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-07-03
ONE OF
THE DIVA'S
RETINUE
By FANNIE HURST

&c by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.l
(WNU Service.l
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
WATER GIVEN
OK. BY STATE
Local System Has Fine
Record for Purity in
Monthly Test

Kennewick people are fortunate
in having drinking water of excep-
tional purity, according to Don
Thompson of the Pacific Power 6
Light Co., who looks after the
plant. Samples of water are taken
at least once a month, and oftener
when there is cause to suspicion
the purity of the water.
The tests made in January and
February, while the river is at It's
lowest stage show total lack of
count on the B. Coli group, and
the total bacteria count of all
kinds is well below the standards
set by the state. This condition is
due largely, according to Mr..
Thompson, to the care which the
company takes with their chlorine
plant. He calls attention to the
fact that this town, formerly con-
sidered one of the worst in the
Northwest from a typhoid stand
point, has not had a single case
since the installation of the plant.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
AIR THRILLER
AT CITY PARK
Filler to Try to Loop the
Loop in Parachute
Saturday

Kennewick merchants are pro-
viding a thrill for those who come
to town Saturday. Jack Ace
White, a professional parachute
jumper has been engaged to give
some stunts. He will attempt to
loop the loop in a homemade para
chute at two o'clock Saturday and
Sunday afternoons.
People from all parts Of the
county are expected to be present
at this exhibition which will be
free. In other towns where the
stunt has been staged, thousands
have come to see the dare devil
risk his neck in his sensational
trick.
Mr.. White does not guarantee to
turn clear over every time he
tries. He says it's a hard job and
conditions are not always right for
it's performance. However he will
make an honest attempt each day
to turn 'er clear over. He leaves
the ship at an altitude of 5000
feet, which gives him time to get
up momentum.
The ship will be piloted by Wal
ter Blair. They are using the old
landing field near the city park.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
MUST
PUSH APPLES
Competition is Getting
Keener Each Year
in Industry

Apple growers and other fruit
raisers must learn to advertise ex-
tensively if their products are TO
compete for favor on the tables of
the American people, according to
Robert Cowan, marketing special
list, who spoke at today's meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Citing the marvellous growth Of
the pineapple and banana industries
as well as the orange, lemon and
grape fruit businesses, built by
modern merchandising methods.
Mr.. Cowan said that the apple men
must adopt similar tactics if they
are to survive the fierce competi-
ton which the fruit industry now
faces.
Pineapples, with record of l.
300 of can per capita a few years
ago, now rates seven cans. Auples.
on the other hand, have made no
appreciable growth in consumption
ration, and if the industry is TO
prosper in the face of this compe-
tltion the growers and all connect
ed with the industry must work to
increase sales.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
TAX MEN TO
START SOON
Assessor Names Deputies
for This End of Benton
County

Be sweet to l.. E. Johnson the
next month or so. He has been ap-
pointed deputy assessor for the
district inside the city limits and
he will be around shortly after the
first of the month to make a list
of the personal property claimed
by citizens.
The lower valley, including Fin
ley and Hover, will be listed by
R. n. Perkins; the Highlands by
R. C. Morgan; Richland, j. A.
Thompson; A. McAlpin will have
Kiona and Benton City; M. E. Car
ley, Carley; Robert Barbee, Whit
stran; Andrew Codding White
Bluffs and Geo. McConnachie, Han
ford.
County Treasurer Harry Forsyth
who is also county assessor, calls
attention to a slight change being
made in the manner of assessing
this year. The state law states
that the valuations be made at so
per cent of actual, instead of 100
per cent valuation as before. This
cut will also affect the exemption,
cutting it to $3.50 instead of $500
as heretofore.
This change will benefit no one,
as the levy will be the same as be-
fore. 1t is merely a matter of the
taxpayer giving the so per cent
valuation rather than the assessor
taking the cut after the books
have been filled out.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
CATHOLICS WIN

AT a meeting Of the church ath-
letic league held Tuesday evening
at the city hall, it was decided to
award the pennant for the 1930-3l
season on the percentage basis,
owing to the lateness of the sea-
son and there being no ties for the
first place. The pennant for first
place in the senior division is
awarded to the st. Joseph's team,
who won ten games out of a twelve
game series. The st. PauPs team
comes next with nine wins and
the Methodist third with seven
games to their credit.
The league wishes to thank its
following for their loyal support
during this successful season and
to the school board for the use of
the gym.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
WOMAN HURT
IN CAR SMASH
Linn and Albee Cars Col
Tide in Street Intersec-
ton Last Night

In a collision on First avenue
last evening, Mrs. ]. L. Albee and
her 12-year-old SON were injured.
Mrs. Albee quite seriously, it is
understood. Their car, driven by
the son, collided with car driven
by Mrs. Harry Linn of Section az
the intersection of First Avenue
and Auburn streets.
Mrs. Albee has head injuries, is
badly cut about the face and has
severela fractured ribs. She is in
the hospital at Pasco. The son had
severe cuts about the face, but was
about to be brought home from
the hospital this morning.
Their car was badly damaged in
the encounter.
Mrs. Linn was not seriously in
cured and was able to drive her
car home after the encounter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
MEAD DIVIDES
LOAN MONEY
Local Project Is Included
in ALLEGATION of Water
Funds

If the loan of ST, O00, 900 to the
reclamation fund is granted, alloca-
tons for work contemplated on the
Yakima project will be made, DR..
Elwood Mead, commissioner of re.
clamation, announced in Washing
ton, D. G., Tuesday, an Associated
Press dispatch said.
Contracts totaling $1,000, 900
which should have been let weeks
ago were held up due to lack of
funds. Among these are included
$4,000 900 for the Gle Elum dam and
$3.50, 900 for the Kennewick divis-
ion. Other items were 100000 for
the Vale project of Oregon, $780,
600 for the Minidoka project of
Idaho and $15O,0OO for the Belle
Fourche of South Dakota.
In letter to Representative
Cramton, chairman of the house
appropriation subcommittee on in
terror department. funds, DR.. Mead
said that contracts for work to be
done before July l totaled approx
imately $4,sO0,000, and that ST.
100000 was for construction al
ready completed.
DR.. Meade said that expenditures
in the appropriations for the fis-
cal year ended June 80, 1892, that
ought to be made included $3.50, 900
for the Vale project, 100000
for the Gle Elum, $3.50, 1000 for the
Kennewick, s3,0OO,OO0 to meet pay
ments on contracts under way on
the Owyhee project of Oregon,
100000 for the Kittftas division,
$375,000 for the Minidoka, and
81 100000 for work on the Owyhee
project that is necessary but not
contracted.-Herald
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
BIGGEST BILL
INTRODUCED
Rep. Summers Sponsors
Huge Appropriation
Measure

The Independent offices appro-
priation bill, recently considered in
the national house of representa-
tives, carried a larger total appro-
priation than any other strictly
appropriating bill ever prepared in
peace time in any country, Con-
gresham John w. Sumers of Wal
la Walla, said in addressing the
house on this measure.
1t fell to Congressman Summers
to handle the details of this mea-
sure, calling for 81 ,052, 568,14O, in
the house where the body for sew
eral days resolved itself into a
committee of the whole to consid-
er this vast request. The chairman
of the Independent offices commit
tee, Representative Wason of New
Hampshire, was i'll, and DR.. Sum-
mers, next in seniority, presented
the case for the appropriation and,
with Representative Woodrum, of
the opposition, controlled general
debate.
After several days hearing this
bill, as finally amended in charge
of DR.. Summers, was passed to the
house, to be the largest that will
come before congress this year. It
covers 80 activities Of the federal
government, including the veter-
ans administration, which for the
first time is all administrated un-
der one head. It covers needs of
the department until June 80, 1892,
and is $246, 79O,555 in excess of the
total 1881 appropriations.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
PRIEST RAPIDS
SYSTEM SOLD
TO DISTRICT
Residents Backed by Railroad
Buy Irrigation Project from
. Receiver; Improvements on
Project Already Started

Plans for the. immediate expendi-
ture of about $4,000 in improve
ments on the power plant and ir-
rigation system acquired by the
Priest Rapids Irrigation district at
public sale Saturday are being
made by the board of directors.
Development Of the power POSSIBLE
tiles of the plant to the point
where the wholesale sale of cleo
tricity will be great enough to off
set the maintenance charges on the
irrigation system is one Of the
ambitions of the waterusers.
1850 Acres Possible
News of the purchase of the
properties of the old Hanford Ir-
rigation & Power Co., which cost
81, 5000 to construct, under fed
eral court order for $4,000 caused
much rejoicing in the White Bluffs
and Priest Rapids district Satur-
day evening. Since the organiza-
ton of the district about Is years
ago, operation of the power and
irrigation plant has been a more
or less uncertain matter and the
Hanford Irrigation & Power Co.
troubles have been pending in fed
eral court much of the time.
Great development of the district
is now considered certain. It is un-
derstood that the Milwaukee rail-
road is putting up the money for
the purchase of the works by the
irrigation district, and that the
railroad will push colonization Of
the district. There are 225 individ-
ual water owners in the district,
although not that many irrigators.
There are 1850 acres under .irri-
cation system which can be inn
proved, according to d. S. Willin-
Son, secretary.
Improvement Needed
Since the Hanford company has
been in the hands of receiver for
several years, no improvements
have been made upon the system,
so an immediate expenditure will
be necessary before the irriga-
systems opens. 1t is expected to let
contracts for construction and to
have materials on the ground with
in q few days. The power plant
will be improved, work will be done
on the Priest Rapids intake and
some WORKOUT laterals will be re-
placed.
w. ]. Kincaid of White Bluffs is
president of the irrigation district.
Wilkinson is secretary and G. T.
Slavens and w. S. Weber are the
other members of the board
Republic.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-02-26
SENIORS PLAY

"Tons of Money" by Samuel
French, is the name of the three
act comedy the seniors are put
ting on at the Liberty Theatre, on
Monday, March 9. The action of
the play centers about family in
high society and their debts and
their troubles over the Inheritance
to be received from recently de-
ceased uncle in Mexico. With many
thrilling situations and narrow es-
capes of the law in their endeav-
ors to evade parting with parts of
their Inheritance in payment of
debts. The characters are well por-
trayed by the seniors.