The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1915, Page 20

_ the same brand of maiedictions Alaska Has ent Bug; Curses Umps by Midnight Sun GRAND OLD GAME IN NORTH JUST SAME AS IN SAM LAND BUT HOURS OUTLANDISH A baseball game at Seward, Alaska, being played in the shadow of) a terminal of the new $31,000,000) & Bnow-capped mountain. Seward i government railway and the men e yed on the work have organized teame for weekly games thrucut the summer months. Basebali—the good old Amer. that are huried from the bleach. lean game of baseball—sneaked ere in more southern climes. The same brand of fat man Sheard the firet vessel leaving | in shirt sleevee—yee and straw Seattie for the Klondike in the hati—may at times be seen in gold rush, and ever since then Juneau as in Seattle. Alaska has “had the bug.” | In o reepect, however, the Basebali in Alaska is very | game up there differs radically much like baseball in the Unit- | from the grand old sport down ed States. Players rise tofame | here. They play ‘em at mid- and sink to oblivion by the night! same sudden turns of fate—and bad playing—that send them up and down in the baseball world on the “Outside.” Umpires are assailed with Every year at Fairbanks, for the past 1! years, they have opened the season on the stroke of midnight, with the sun turned on in force, and the bleachers full! 100,000 FEET Or Nearly Twenty Miles of Pipe Are Being Installed in the New King County Court House —AND— Municipal Building FURNISHED BY US ON CONTRACT AS THE LOWEST BIDDERS For the Plumbing and Heating System Some idea of the magnitude of this under- taking can be gained from the following com- parative figures: Five cars, loaded to their utmost capacity, were needed to bring the pipe here to be used in this contract. The pipe needed for this contract would reach from Seattle to Everett. We Guarantee First-Class Work and Satisfactory Service Estimates Cheerfully Furnished ahs ped Heating Contractor 214 Columbia St., Seattle. Main 7308. T HE SEATTLE STAR [Alaska Folk Make | Folk Make Plans for Big 1917 Who Is our deadilest enemy? Semi-Centennial | wiisees. tax Cousctone tne setts perl, au cnatnee ? Nope Our Out of Alaska has come the an-T friend, the enemy, is none oth nouncement that that country than the insect Bo saya Dr. ¥ will hold a great celebration IM} sutchinson of New York tn a 1917, which marks th mLoen. dress to medicos at San Francisco tennial of her purchase by the Joaquin Sanchez Toca elected United States from Ru president of Spanish senate, Bet Definite plans for the celebra- | roo in nome.talker tion have not yet been made. Willys-Overiand Auto Co. an The idea is in the formative nounces pe ent raise in salar ® till, but it is known thed iow of employ numbering 10,500 ton will be one in which T beginning July 15. Means $620,000 ail Alaska will participate. more wager. Coming at a time when the Mt. Lassen did it once more yes new government raliroad will be} torday well advanced toward comple. Senor Don Javier Figueroa ap tlon, the festivities will pears to have been elected on early mark the advent of the steel | returns as president of Chile. Con horse Into Al eratulations, Jay Stanley Norberd, he's from Seattle, North Yakima to bu give father’s address purchased by the United States in March, 1867, for $7,200,000 In gold, and in Octo- ber of the same year the formal Won't transfer was made at Sitka Mrs. Frank, ploneer resident of It is probable the celebration | Kitsap county, dead will be In the summer. Britien bark ath, reported at J. J. MePherson, secretary of | St. John's, N. F, ashore on north the Alaska bureau of the Seattle} east coast, owlng to dense fog and Chamber of Commerce, is now] Ice. In the North, offering the vari ous towns the ald of the bureau |) Judge Kenesaw Mountain 1 in the celebration. Landis fined a farmer 2 cents : for pulling a gun on a fed a t Had it been some in surance agents we know In Se. attie, the judge would, perhaps, have given the farmer a couple of dollars. | MD FOR POLAND Damage to Imperial valley, Cal by recent earthquakes, estimated at Pretty nearly everybody now | $600,000 = Alina has some {dea of the sufferings and |, Thomas G. Forney, Washington “ D.C, lawyer, arrested at Pittsbure misery of Poland in this great war. |f ; chia Bagh Je mie Because Poland was not in the [OF Alleked murderous) attac D ace to Allah! Turkish sultan ted to be improving spotlight. like Belgium, her woes fatherinlaw, Franklin Schnelder have not been’ explained as fully, | Mill » candy manufacturer, — Yet Poland's people have suffered! General lockout of Chicago's butlding industry ordered by manu facturera last night Seven coaches, containing 500 Serbs, on way to war front, ed at Chicago. The city of Nashville may go Into hands of receiver. Comptroller Burns asks for one, following ar almost indescribable miser, They have suffered almost beyond endur ance, and altho Amertoa bh done much for them, they still are appeal- | ing piteously for help. Some Indication of what they have endured is seen tn a letter to weeks, is out of dry dock n WHI wail | Szymanouskt, assistant at the Unt versity of Cracow, Seattle ts asked for aid, and Verbon stands ready to | forward subseriptions. | “Among the greatest calamities | which thS war has tnflicted upon | our land 4s the stupendous mortall-| ty among the non-combatant, civil population, which suffers from star! to be held at North Yakima “Aapees made to American Red [Cross for $20,000 to ald flood suffer ers tn Texas and Arkansas Employes of the department vation, misery, and the appalling! present Bryan with gold watch. | #pread of contagious diseases,” says) Commercial Club will consider the letter |question of holding annual rose | “Immediate and abundant help| show for University district at next} jin this respect is the most element-| meeting, July 6 |ary commandment with reference, J, |, Waterbury, New York finan to our people. A whole series of cier, visiting {n Seattle while on his emal! towns and villages {s without | vacation j@ny medical supplies mer Admiral Watson salled “Consumption is rampant tn some | Friday night for Southeastern and | of the more congested localities and| Southwestern Alaska with cargo of | larger cities, like Lodz, on account| general freight |of unemployment, which bas lasted Federal Judge Neterer Friday for a year. Nutritive food prepar-|confirmed finding of U. 8. ( ations are needed for convalescents.| missioner A. C. Bowman for $ “For fighting off contagious dis-|and interest in favor of Alaxk a eases We need all kinds of disinfect-| cific Fisheries Co. agalr am ants; also a few movable bacterio-|ship Jeante, owned by Alaska Const logical Co., and chartered by W. F. Swan Pap Original design for King Cognty Court of which are already completed) to cost $2 500,000.00, ARE AND detain. | Leo Verbon, of 2142 N. 60th at 4 sireat of 4 reasu Mye ‘0 from the American-Polish relief! frnine to me ie aha - jcommittee of New York, which in ‘ fter | |clones a letter se Lpgelant | Cony, wenemecs (BUS “a bred, KEWHERE rose by any other name may amell a eweet, but take It from A, Cheshire Mitchell, the rio at the But never get any pate de fole gras \¢ if It were called by ite right name ° Navigation Co,, for damage to pack ed salmon carried by the Jeante resulting from unseaworthiness of the craft David Morgan, 44, laborer, run down by D. J. Hummer of the Strath tmonts at First and Vine at Friday ankle was broken Morgan's right Annual reunion and plenio of for mer residents of Todd county Minn to be held Bunday in Wood land park Gov. David Walsh of M hu setts, with members of at mem. bers of executive council and com mittee of leginiature of Mansachu setts t6 arrive in Seattle July 14, en route to fair, to attend Massachu fetis day exercises Work on new $12,000 Woodland park Presbyterian church to be started Monday | Firet number of The All-Alaska) {Review, a monthly magazine, edited by J. J. MeGrath, former Seattle man, tsaued ently at Seward Steve Gordon, Thoma R. BE. Nicholson convicted of coun terfelting, sentenced Friday to 2% years’ imprisonment at McNetl's island John F. Taylor, founder of Tay lor's mill, died at hin home Friday morning, at the age of 85 years Puget Sound Alumni association of the George Washington univer sity of Washington, D. C., to enter tain Butler Monday DERNBERG TREATED | WELL BY BRITIS | | COPENHAGEN, June 26-—-Dr Bernard Dernberg was not molest ed by the British authorities when }the steamship on which he was a passenger wan detained at Kirkwa. The kaiser's envoy to the Un now due in Berlin, cabled Chancellor Von Hethmann-Holl weg to this effect from Norway, It wan learned today, Dr. Dernberg informed the chancellor that he was splendidly treated by the British OPERATES ON SELF : ESCANABA, Mich, June 26.— Dr. John Gross left the hospital to day, having recovered from injuries su ined fn an auto accident that necessitated an immediate abdom!-| nal operation, which he performed jon himself. After the operation he | drove to the hospital to convalesce | AUTHORIZE BRIDGE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 26 The construction of a steel bridge }across the Chena river, at Fair. | Danks, to cont $25,000, was authori: for Nome yesterday itt + acatrned Un iH AIEM TARE | | jof Kame to Dixon and) govern | Admiral Charles Stockton at! | of Alaska, Including the bare moun-! | tain ridges of the | ed by Maj. Richardson of the Alas-|sons employed, 1,2! ka railroad commission, who sailed| pared product of 13,68 or about 6,844 tons. CARIBOU, DEER, . MOOSE, WALRUS, BEARS, BIRDS! ANDREW FORSYTHE 8 Wt you get interested tn Alaska it tm azing the number and variety of subjects that that wonderful territory unfolds to you ncle Bam tx golng to build a ratiroad re right away, Does that r mean the fate of the buffalo on our western plains will o the great herds of caribou, me and ¢ in Alaska? Alaska is one vast game resort, perhaps the greatest in the world today. Moone, caribou, deer, moun tain sheep, mountain goat, walrus and polar, grizzly, black and gla cler bears, besides a vast variety of water fowl, shore birds and up birds inhabit this terrt broad rivers, forests and have beer to less than half of the over which they | formerly ranged, and United States governme will t officlain anticipate that enormous destruction furnish food for Kangs who will t at work ment ra Moose Largest Mammal Alaskan moc the largest there on the existing land mammal in America and the largest member of the deer family in the world, Its antlers reach magnificent proportions, av eraging between 5 and 6 feet from tp to tip. Moone nd all thru the timbered Alaska, ex cept in the southeast coast region Caribou inhabit the treeless parts interior and the open rolling tundras of the coast (grass plains underlaid with ice winter and summer) | Mountain sheep and mountain goats are abundant, and while only one Varlety of deer, the so-called "Sitka deer,” is found, and this only in the “panhandle” country tn southeastern Alaska, they are very abundant there 13 Kinde of Bears! Aw to bears, Alaska fs without a rival in number and varlety, there being no fewer than 13 kinds, of four general types, the brown, the grizzlies, the black and the polar bears. The brown bears are most numerous and most important They are of huge size—much larger than the grizziies and others, ex cept the polar bears the} | Congress has enacted fairly good! game laws for Alaska, but in a country of such vast extent enforce. ment of the law is difficult. The law ts liberal to natives, miners and explorers, who are permitted to kill any game animal or bird, when in need of food at any time. But if the fate of many of the game ani- mals of our western plains is to be avoided in the case of Alaska’s game, congress must provide for more adequate protection The capital inves fishing in Alaska ted in halibut per with a pre f CT Ts "A. WARREN GOULD, Architect, Seattle House and Municipal Building, showing completed building (4 stories 7,784 pounds, The Largest Solid Block of Granite in unsurpassed. uments, from our quarry 4,000 granite blocks to be used in the new King County Court House and Municipal Building. Index Granite Works 310 Alaska Bldg., Seattle. SHEET METAL WORK Our Fac House and* Municipal Building doors, ornaments spandrels, lithocrete flooring, exterior and glass and all All these have been awarded to us as the lowest bidders, giving ample guarantee to fulfill the fon- tract in the most satisfactory manner. 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