arctic vessel will leave
SEATTLE JULY 1 AND MAY
RETURN IN OCTOBER.
\\ i L L M E E T STEFANSSON.
Craft. Which Is Under Charter to
Hudson Bay Company, Will Take
Tno Years* Supplies for Crew in
i a>e She Becomes Icebound.
Once more the famous little power
schooner Bender Brothers of Seattle
is to defy the perils of the Arctic
ocean, voyaging first to Point Barrow
and thence 450 miles eastward to re
mote Herschel island. Sheated in iron
bark, .-he will sail from Seattle July
1, according to advices from the Puget
sound metropolis.
If all goes well, the little vessel,
veteran warfarer of the north Pacific,
Bering sea and the Arctic waters, will
retuiTi to Seattle in October.
But to be on the safe side she will
can \ two years’ provisions for offi
cers and crew.
On the run to Point Barrow, the
»> vessel will meet Stefansson, the ex
plorer, hound out from the Arctic in
t t power schooner Polar Bear.
The Bender Brothers was chattered
>/ the Arctic voyage, from the Kus
kok.’.im Fishing and Transportation
company of Seattle by the Hudson’s
Buy c ompany. She will carry the Unit
ed States mails to Point Barrow, but
^ otherwise will have only Hudson Bay
company cargo—200 deadweight tons
of groceries, coal, matches, coal oil.
exits.: :ves and other general merchan
dise. .ho height including neav!\
e . thing in that line. She w ill ioa,
i a V.. raver.
Dales Lack to 1G/Q.
; e Hudson’s Bay company was in
c >;: •*’utecl in 1070, and the contrac t
l that the Bender Brothers cliar
• tade by “The governor and tin
company of adventurers of England.
< i. illy known as the Hudson’s Bay
c e . any.” a phrase that gives a touch
o. i. ‘. tuiesejue historic coloring to the
contract.
From all indications, the Bender
id t ■ is is the only vessel to enter the
Arctic this year that will venture to
t! e • -istward wasters. From Seattle
to He sehel island via Nome and Point
• the distance is 3,700 miles.
( ;me itly the stout little ship will
t:\nv a. total of 7,400 miles on the
round voyage.
Traced on the chart, the voyage rep
resents an enormous horseshoe of ir
regular shape. The schooner will sail
wes vard to Unimak Pass, thence
noix.:v.ard to Nome and Bering Strait
an. into the Arctic, where she will
; ; a curving northeasterly course
to Point Barrow, the most northerly
lard of the American continent.
Tii.-r.ce the voyage will take her on a
.--.•uti easterly course to Herschel
f
Shortest Way There.
A crow flying overland from Her
sCw! island to Seattle would travel
1.700 miles, or 2,000 miles less than
the instance to be covered by the Ben
der Brothers. In this case, however,
the ’ingest way round is literally the
shortest way there.
(’apt. Frank Whitlam, master of the
B ' -r.i k'.vim Fishing & Transportation
c nr ; uny’s power schooner Ruby, now
h -wanl bound from Pei*u, will com
ir t:.'. the Render Brothers on the Arc
tic voyage. He is one of the younger
Arctic navigators of Seattle, but has
. ailed the icy polar waters many sea
sons.
Ti.o cargo to be taken by the Ben
do;- Brothers into the Arctic is all des
'ined for discharge at the Hudson’s
Bay company’s Herschel island sta
tion. the historic corporation’s distri
buting point for the eastward re
gion-. The station is situated in Pau
line Cove.
Crucial Period of Voyage.
£> If the Bender Brothers is unable to
deliver her cargo this year on account
of the ice, she will deliver it in the
summer of 1919, but there is little
chance of such a contingency develop
ing. The crui ial period of the voyage
will come when she sails from th<
island on the return voyage. She will
hasten back toward Bering Strait ir
the effort to got out of the Arctic be
fore the ice closes in. She will bring
j shipments of furs, calling at Tellei
I for orders on the way to Nome.
The Bender Brothers is now in Seat
| tie l'or repairs, overhaul and specia
' preparations for the Arctic venture
She will be fitted with new knees am
a new keelson and her hull will be
I sheathed in iron bark, while the prow
! and bow will be armored heavily ir
steel to aid her in bucking the ice
fields.
Before sailing for the Arctic, Julj
1, the Bender Brothers will be sent In
I Captain Knaflich on a voyage to Goor
News Bay and the Kuskokwim leaving
Seattle April 25 with a full cargo oi
supplies. She will arrive home in Seat
tle the latter part of June anil aftei
discharging her return cargo will shift
to Vancouver, B. C., to begin hei
great voyage to Herschel island.
Nine Seasons in Arctic.
The stout little schooner has spent
nine seasons in the Arctic. Last yeai
she went to Point Barrow, sailing
homeward from that place September
10. The voyage was made for the
Alaska bureau of education. Ten yean
ago, Captain Knaflich, head of thi
Kuskokwim Fishing <£ Transportatior
company, commanded the Benriei
Brothers on one of her Arctic veil
tures. Two years ago he went into the
Arctic as master of the Ruby, alsi
owned by his company, but this yeai
• will content himself with Bering
. ea and the Kuskokwim river.
The Kuskokwim company’s powei
schooner Ruby sailed recently fron
Cancay, Peru, with a cargo of cotton
seed cake for San Francisco. Froir
San Francisco she will come to Seattli
to prepare for the 11 > 18 season in the
Seaitle-Kuskokwim river route.
Between the Peruvian voyage on the
Ruby and the Arctic voyage on thi
i leader Brothers, Captain Whitlai
. iU hav ■ r.o reason to con p'a.in o
u'k of Yuiicty ir. climuio thi.' w : r.
iNPl FI LL FLOODED REDSKIN
l\ FLEET V EDS GIRL IN
BRITISH PORT.
BASE AMERICAN FLOTILLA IN
BRITISH WATERS, March .23.—Thi
only full-blooded American Indian n
the United States naval forces ovei
here has just been married. He b
Frank M. Puryear, seaman, gunner’s
class, and hails from Villanow, Geor
gia. While his destroyer was visiting
at an English port he met Dorothj
; Hapten, of Newport, England, Then
i marriage was not delayed.
1 Puryear is a Cherokee Indian and ji
i direct defendant from the tiihe wide!
! 'ormerly roamed those southern plain.
I east of the Mississippi. As such hi
I -till has a claim to participate in the
funds arising from payments made b\
ihe United States government to thi
Cherokees for lands invaded by thi
white man. Puryear holds a deed tc
certain property rights as a membei
of the Cherokees.
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HOMESTEAD BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
MEASURE PROVIDES FOR FREIi
SURVEYS OF LAND ENTRIES
MADE IN ALASKA.
.
I WASHINGTON, I). C., March 23.—
, Delegate Charles A. Sulzer’s bill pro
: viding for the free survey of home
: steads in Alaska passed the lowei
! house of congress this afternoon. Tht
bill provides that the surveyor-genera
shall cause a free survey of home
stead entries where public, land sur
veys have not been extended, aftei
proper showing that the homesteadei
is in a position to submit final proof o
settlement.
Another bill introduced by Delegate
Sulzer and which was passed by th<
lower house today provides for a bom
issue by the city of Seward for th<
purpose of improving the channel ol
Lowell creek and other public better
ments.
NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB Ih
URGED TO REMARK ROAD
WAY TO ANCHORAGE.
1 PRESENT ROUTE TOO EXPOSED
_
| Highway Should Ho Cut Through Tim
her, According to Prospector ant
Representative of Roadhouse Me;
Who Complain of Business.
The Nenana Commercial club has
been urged to take immediate action
with a view to improving the trail
over Broad Pass, says the Nenana
News. J. Dickson, who has spent a
considerable portion of the wintei
1 prospecting in the bills south of Ne
nana, appeared before the club the
other day for the purpose of inform
ing the members of conditions as he
found them out the trail, and to regis
ter the complaint of roadhouse men
who claim that travel over the Broad
Pass route will ce.ise entirely units
trail conditions are muteiially in.
proved.
Objection is made to the trail as
marked last season.
Mr. Dickson informed the club tha
this marked trail pases through an
open, exposed country and cannot pos
sibly be kept open, no matter how
much travel may develop. The v. in
blows constantly, and the lakes am
streams which the trail cross render
traveling unsafe during the fall and
spring.
Yne markings are distinct enough
according to Mr. Dickson, but the tri
pods are too far apart to afford pro
tection to mushers in stormy weather.
The club was informed that a much
better trail could be cut through the
timber, by way of Jack river, mater
ially slioitening the distance and
avoiding both wind and siivrms, t a
making it a passable summer trail a:
well as a protected and easily followed
winter trail.
The statements of Mr. Dickson were
substantiated by M. LeGault, owner
of a roadhouse on the summit. He ex
pressed the belief that a new trail
through tin timber couid be cut for
io iparatively small sum of mone;
and suggested that immediate actioi
he taken in order that travel from
the Anchorage end might be stimu
lated. It was stated that at least one
party of mushers, headed for the in
terior, had abandoned the trip before
reaching the summit, when they
learned of the bad trail conditions.
Woodbury Abbey was appointed to
confer with Mr. Dickson for the pur
pose of preparing a map of the dis
trict for submission to the club at the
.e.\- snouting, when deunate aw i,
probably will bo takmi.
*'it” Attorney J. Findley (in n, (
Seward, announces that he is not
candidate for rc-ebetic.i at the cit;
election April 2 as he will devote Im
time to his candidacy for the legicia
tare cf the Territory on the republican
ticket. Dr. J. M. Sloan announced tha
L. L. James will be a candidate for
city attorney, the latter is now in
San Francisco. Dr. Sloan also an
nounces that he is a candidate for the
school board to till out the unexpired
term of Mr. Martin.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Geraghty and
prisoner, Sam Sullivan, recently made
the trip by dog team from Iditarod
to Tanana. Sullivan was sentenced to
seven months in jail for theft com
mitted at Flat last summer.
The office of the Alaska Transfer
company at Cordova suffered from a
small blaze caused by an overheated
' stove. Only the prompt use of chemi
; cals saved the building.
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! The Serbian National Defense
■ league of Ellamar recently turned in
11 forty dollars to the Valdez Red Cross
i Chapter.
Many cannery employes are arriv
■ ing in Alaska for the spring work. A
large pack is expected this year.
PATRIOTISM IS PUT ON BUSI
NESS BASIS TO SUPPRESS
G ERM A N PROP AG AN DISTS.
TWO TARRED ANI) FEATHERED.
Young Man, Who Had Enlisted in
Navy, Is Killed Under Misapprehen
sion—Campaign Is Successful From
Every Viewpoint.
ST. LOUIS, March 26.—Enforced
oyalty has been placed on a business
basis in Macoupin, Madison and Mont
gomery counties in southern Illinois
where the activities of pro-German
propagandists recently became so pro
nounced that vigilance committees in
numerous towns have forced hundreds
of suspected persons to make public
manifestations of their allegiance to
the government. In one town two al
leged leaders of seditious movements j
were tarred and feathered.
Brunches of the American Defense
ociety operating through vigilance
.ommitte. s in practically every tow,
n the district hare taken the lead i.
damping out disloyalty. The firs',
iove to oust the propagandists was
.auk* in .Staunton where an alleged
•eader of the Industrial Workers 01
in* w orld and a Chicago attorney
.ere escorted lu the city iimits, coate
. i'd; tai a d foatheis and static
.a.long j., diiferent directions, ih
carer, for this aggression was said t
> ■ the activity of the men in causir,
issension among several thousum j
o »i miners near Staunton.
On the same night more than one [
hundred persons were made to sign!
pledges of loyalty.
I Jtlier I lemons! rat ions.
Ne-.vs of tiie use of such stern meas- I
s ; proud and within a week Wo;
on, Mount Olive, *Gi:lispie. William !
; n. Hillsboro and vev >v.l o+her siuaii j
■r towns made demonstrations. In
some of these towns scores of persons j
were taken from their homes and re
quested to make public profession of
their loyalty. Several men were taken
from their beds and, kneeling on the
sidewalk, were forced to kiss every
star in the flag. Some were made to
sing the national anthem while others
were compelled to play patriotic aim
on musical instruments. Protests
’.gainst such actions were construed
.s evidences of disloyalty. In several
rucli instances arests were made and
edeval charges preferred against the
I
r.en.
The most serious result of the dent- j
onstrations was in Hillsboro where j
Clifford Donaldson, -] years old, was
shot when the vigilance committee
called at his father’s home in search
of Industrial Workers of the World
members. Shots were exchanged. Don
aldson was killed and E. L». Emory,
city marshal, and Ernest Flath were
wounded. Later it was learned Don
aldson had enlisted in the navy only a
few days before his death and that his
father was unacquainted with any of
the suspected persons.
Members of the vigilance commit
tees deny that they counsel violence.
They declare that their actions have
the approval of civic officers. They
insist that the district embraced by
Macoupin, Madison and Montgomery
counties for some time has been the
objective of an active campaign by
pro-German sympathizers.
As evidence of their $•.row- tb
point to a recent meeting of represen
tatives of more than 1,600 members
of a miners’ union in Staunton. In less
than one week after two alleged sedi
tion leaders had been tarred and
feathered, the union voted a contribu
tion of $810 per month for the Red
Cross, purchased $1,000 worth of
thrift stamps, reinstated all members1
who had lost standing because of army i
or navy enlistment, arranged for pay- j
ment of their dues during the period j
of the war, and ended a mass meeting;
insuch a burst of patriotic fervor that j
the singing of the national anthem I
was drowned in cheers for President i
Wilson and the government.
Reports from other cities where
iemonstartions were staged indicate
that the same leaven of patriotism is
it work and that prospects are brigh:
for a fulfillment of the wish of “loyal
ty” leaders that he district be made
‘one hundred per cent American.”
PATRIOTIC PARADE
CAUSES ASSAULT
SAMUEL DESCHAMPS IS ARREST- j
ED FOR ALLEGED ATTACK
ON JOHN KLONOS.
Samuel Deschamps was arrested
yesterday afternoon at the comer of
Fourth avenue and C street charged
with assaulting John Klonos, known as
“John the Greek.” The accused is a
wood chopper and lives about two
miles northeast of Anchorage. The
assault grew out of a quarrel over
the patriotic parade of last Wednesday
when the Home Guard, of which John
Klonos is a member, formed a guard
of honor to the sixtv-one Anchorage
youths who had volunteered their ser
vices to their country.
Deschamps is said to have made
some remark concerning the parade
that was resented by Klonos. It is
charged that Deschamps pulled Klo
nos from a dog sled on which he was
riding and beat and kicked him after
knocking him to the ground.
After the assault Deschamps de
parted for his cabin in the woods.
Deputy United States Marshal Har
ry Kavanaugh later visited the cabin
and. arrested Deschamps charging him
.vita assault. His bail bond was plac
ed at $1,000 by United States Com
ms. inner Leopold David. Friends of
)e-champs raised this sum and he
vrs released from the jail at 7 o'clock
hist night. He will be tried on the
•barge some time Monday.
BEQUEST MADE SIXTY YEARS
AGO WILL BE USED FOR
EDIT AT 10 X A L IT EPOS ES.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March
23.—A bequest of a million ruble
made sixty years ago for education .
purposes by Countess Branitza, a
member of one of the wealthiest
landowning families in L’kraine, has
just been turned over, with accumu
lated interest, to the new Ukranian
government. These funds had lair
sequestrated under the former Rus
Man regime which, as the Berlin
Vorwaerts observes, never favored
any outside encouragement of public
instruction.
YOUNG MEN OF MILITARY AGE
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA CLAIM
TO BE AMERICAN.
YAUCOL'YEE, B. C., March -3.—
Dual nationality is giving officials at
ho American consulate a lot oi' extra
work these days. Since Canada and
the United States have both selective
service acts, hundreds of young men
of the military age in British Colum
bia have come to the conclusion that
they are Americans, and the staff of
the American consul is kept busy
proving that they are not, or certify
ing that they are, as the case may be.
Under certain conditions in British
Columbia young men coming of age
have the privilege of declaring wheth
er they be Canadians or Americans.
Whether they think their chances bet
ter with the American forces rather
than the Canadian forces, is not ap
parent, yet numbers of young men
who have lived in Vancouver nearly
all their lives have come to the con
clusion that they wish to be Ameri
cans, according to members of the
consular staff. Some of them decided
too late.
One of the newer electric batteries
for medical purposes is no larger than
a flash light and can be carried in a
pocket.
Job Printing of Distinction at the
Times office.
NATIVES OF ISLANDS WILL OR
GANIZE CHAMBER OF COM
MERCE OF THEIR OWN.
ARE NOT SELF-SUSTAINING.
Japanese and Chinese Dominate Situ
ation Now and This Condition, Ac
cording to Plans of Honolulu Mayor,
Will Be Changed.
HONOLULU, T. H„ March 26.—A
plan to make native Hawaiians self
sustaining and economically independ
ent of men of other nationalities was
announced today by Mayor Joseph J.
Fern, of Honolulu, who is himself a
Hawaiian.
Mayor Fern’s plan includes the for
mation of an Hawaiian chamber of
commerce the business of which it
shall be to look after the financial and
economic interests of the natives.
A return to the old pursuits in the
fishing and agricultural districts,
which Hawaiians have relinquished al
most entirely to other races, is the
goal the mayor is seeking, and he says
he has the support of many other
prominent Hawaiians.
“My people have been asleep,” said
the mayor today, “and it takes some
predicament like the present food
situation to bring them to a realiza
tion of their condition. We have awak
ened at last to the fact that we are
dependent upon the Japanese and
Chinese organizations for our daily &
sustenance and this situation has gone
to the point of hunger, which was in
many cases required to quicken the
easy going Hawaiians to a realization
of the plight.
“The old days when our people lived
an easy, care-free life with very little
physical effort and with a standard of
living that made small demands on
them have passed. They must all real
ize now that they must raise up and
compete with other races who have
come to their shores or they must
eventually disappear as a race. It is
time we all combined our efforts to the
problem of becoming self-sustaining
and I think our effort in our new or
ganization will accomplish that.”
It is the plan of the Hawaiian
Chamber or’ Commerce to extend its
activities until every market product,
home raised or imported, is handled
and distributed under a perfectly
working plan of organization.
ERUPTION IS FEARED.
Great Rise of Lava in Volcano of
Kilauea Takes Place.
HONOLULU, T. H., March 2G.—
Activity in the fiery pit of Halemau
mau, volcano of Kilauea, has drawn
the attention to the people of the pos
sibilities of another serious eruption.
Careful study of the history of the
volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa
by Volcanologist T. A. Jaggar, in
charge of the Kilauea observatory,
has developed the fact that great
eruptions occur in cycles of approx
imately 130 years, which may affect
several volcanoes at the same time.
This 130 year period seems to be
definitely established, but there is al
so a secondary period of accumulation
and discharge of lava every nine or
ten years, alternating in Kilauea and
Mauna Loa, with a marked rise of the
lava column in each volcano about ev
ery three years.
The present great rise of the lava
in Kilauea is a little ahead of sched
ule. The year 1920 would be the end
of the 130-year and 65-year cycles,
but a matter of two years is consid
ered close enough approximation by
scientists.
The volcano presents a more spec
tacular appearance now than for
many years previously.
GOES TO CACHE CREEK.
John Parsons, a brother of Fred
erick Parsons proprietor of the Hotel
Parsons will leave during the course
of the week for the Cache creek dis
trict where he will be empolyed for
jthe summer by the 'Cache Creek
Dredging company.