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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 207.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SICK FISHERMAN
LEFT ON BEACH
BY COMPANIONS
^ AFTER EIGHTEEN HOURS OF IN
TENSE SUFFERING IS LEFT
IN VACANT CABIN
Flies Blow Mosquito Bites
Trapper Finds Man Nearly Dead and
With No Food—Now Recovering
at Sand Point
A pityful tale comes from Portage
Bay on this Starr, in a letter to the
Gateway from Andrew Grossvold:
Four fishermen ran away from a
codfishing schooner, with the inten
tion of getting across from Herindeen
Bay on the Bering Sea side to Port
, age Bay on the Pacific, and then catch
the mail boat for Kodiak, where
some of them had made their homes
for several years.
At Herindeen Bay they hired out
salmon fishing for the Everet Pack
ing Company, until the cannery clos
ed up. On the way from the cannery
to the divide, they encountered very
bad weather, with the result that one
William Aucoin. through exposure and
the hardships of the trail, became
paralyzed and had to be packed over
the peninsula by his shipmates.
♦ * As it is nine miles across the port
age the trip took them all day, and
when they arrived at tide water on
the Pacific side, they left the unfor
, tunate man on a sand bar while they
went down to “Portugue Frank's”
cabin for a skiff, and it seems they
became interested in Frank’s brew
and forgot their shipmate. They stay
ed at the cabin that night and did
not return to their companion until
late the next afternoon.
In the meantime the poor fellow
la yon the bay, unable to move. Suf
fering from cold during the night and
the hot sun the next day he was in
a terrible state. With a creek flow'
ll ing on both sides of him, he was un
able to reach the water, and only se
cured enough to moisten his lips by
tying bis cap to his belt and throw
ing it the little distance he was able.
Daring the eighteen hours he lay
there the mosquitos worked on him
until every exposed part of his body
wras raw' and swollen.
Upon returning his shipmates took
him dovrn to Frank’s cabin and there
left him, placing the remains of an
old dog salmon within his reach and
a bucket of wrater by his bedside. The
$ three men then started for Herindeen
Bay to get their clothes and food they
had left there, but failed to return.
After five days one Harry High
land, wrho lives about ten miles fur
ther down the bay happened to take
a trip up to Frank’s cabin and there
he found Aucoin, nearly dead and al
most out of his head.
The water that had been left him
was full of flies, knats and mosqui
toes—the salmon wras putrid. Every
m part of the poor fellow’s body was a
mass of sores from the bites, and
blue flies had laid their eggs in the
sores.
Harry Highland took what was left
■of Aucoin dowm to his cabin, and
with the untiring nursing and good
treatment from Mrs. Highland and his
little girl, he was soon on the road
to recovery, but still had to be ear
, ried aboard the power boat which
took him to Unga, where Doctor Lane
attended to him.
y According to our correspondent, the
ibest the Unga people had to offer
Mm was to put him in jail for vag
rancy—getting a jail sentence for be
ing sick.
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TGKIO—A new Japanese govern
ment has been formed by Count Kato.
All b\it three of the members of the
old cabinet have been induced to join
tthe new government.
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Steamer Yukon Left
Seattle This Morning
At Nine for Seward
SEATTLE, Aug. 22 (£>)—'The Str.
Yukon sailed from here at 9 o’clock
this morning for Seward and way
ports. The following passengers are
for Seward: J. Pelzel, Helen Chovin,
Mrs. P. Reed, Mrs. S. E. Smith, Mary
A. Lumeister, Mrs. T. M. Sheehan and
two sons, Harry Olson, Dr. C. M. Mc
Coy, Mrs. L. F. Huffman, Elmer By
ers, Mrs. N. A. Byers, Mrs. H. H.
Ross and two daughters, H. J. Murray,
Evan Jones, Brittan Barr, Dr. W. H.
Barr, George Lee, Morton V. Gregory
and wife, Mrs. De la Vergne, Mrs. Y.
A. Gresham, Mrs. W. B. Chew, Miss
Jean Staser, Mrs. Harry Staser, J. H.
Campbell, G. L. Thompson, James B.
Wier, J. W. McEwan and wife, J. B.
Lipplncottj SL< Wm gtrpmbgrg pad
wife, C. O. Allen, E. W. Hemphill, B.
F. Wood and wife, Ida Ahlstrand, Miss
N. Kilian and three steerage.
SIBERIAN SALMON
REACHES SEATTLE
ON THE APPOLLO
JAPANESE ONLY FOREIGNERS
FISHING IN RUSSIAN WATERS
THIS YEAR—POOR PACK
SEATTLE, Aug. 22 (IP)—With a car
go of 500 tierces of mild cure salmon
from Kamchatka, Siberia, the motor
schooner Appollo, Capt. Grove, arriv
ed in port after a voyage of thirty
days. Fishing along the Russian coast
is far below the average, Capt. Grove
said. The catch is only half of nor
mal. The Japanese are the only for
eigners fishing there this year.
BIG ALEX GUILTY
OF MURDER LAIRD
RIVER INDIAN
PRINCE RUPERT, Aug. 22 (/P)—
“Big Alex,” a Mackenzie river Indian,
was convicted of manslaughter yes
terday for inciting Edie Loat, an In
dian woman, to bind Atolor Moccasin
hand and foot and leaving him to die
on the ice at Laird river, i nan effort
to drive the evil spirits out of him.
This happened March 15, 1923.
Jim, Dan and Clem Loat were ac-!
quitted, arriving here with Edie to
day.
Edie testified that Alex told her that
Atolor, through witchcraft, was re
sponsible for her father's illness, and
added that Alex urged her to throw
Atolor in the river, but later decided
to tie him up until the evil spirits
left him.
Inspector Sandy’s launch found the
body, which Fred Allen ( a prospec
tor identified. Allen testified that the
Laird river Indians practiced witch
craft, but that the practice had died
out among the Mackenzie river In
dians.
LAS VEGAS EDITOR
SHOT AT JUDGE
KILLS ANOTHER
LAS VEGAS, N. M., Aug. 22 (/P)_
Carl C. Magee, Albuquerque editor,
who has been the storm center of
New Mexico politics, shot and killed
John B. Lassatter, a state employe,
while engaged in, a fist fight with for
mer district Judge Leahy, who twice
sentenced Magee to jail for contempt
of court when Magee criticised the
coui t s sentences m criminal cases
Lassattef was a bystander.
ANADYR REPORTS
MANY DEATHS
FROM SCURVY
SUPPLIES SHORT AND STORES
NOT ALLOWED OPERATE—
WILL SEIZE TRADERS
Mand Buries One of Party
Plane Smashed in Ice—Many Moving
Pictures Taken by Party—Eski
mo Deserts the Ship
NOME. Alaska. Aug. 22 (/P)—The
schooner Blue Sea, Capt. Pollister,
which arrived in port Wednesday, re
ports sixty cases of scurvy occurred
at Anadyr, Siberia, last winter, with
several deaths. The Soviet govern
ment stores at Anadyr are short of
supplies and no other stores are al
lowed to run in Anadyr. This ruling
does not apply at other places on the
Siberian coast.
Tell Eskimos to Eeize Traders
The Swenson Company discovered
several new trading posts along the j
Northern Siberian coast, but through
a concession from the government,
was allowed to trade along the coast
with a motorship. The governor at
Whalen has issued instructions to the
Eskimos that the cargo of any vessel
captured by them without a proper
trading license is the property of the
captors.
N. E. Galkin, representing the So
viet government in connection with
trading activities, came to Nome on
the Blue Sea, and was with the ves
sel on her recent trading trip. He
is much interested in Nome* and its
mining activities.
No Friction with Russians
Pollister said he had no friction on
his recent trading activities with the
Soviet government, whose officials
were courteous everywhere. He de
clared that the Soviet government
was within its rights in the arrest of
Malsage, as he had taken furs out il
legally. Two other prisoners taken
to the port at the same time were
Russians who were caught in the act
of stealing a row boat.
Captain Jacobsen, with reference to
his visit to the Maud said that he
learned the Maud had many thrills in
the Arctic ice before the attempt to
drift across the Pole was abandoned.
The vessel was caught in ice jams and
lifted 15 or 20 feet in the air from
the squeeze. The vessel was special
ly built to withstand the ice pressure,
being built like a saucer, with rudder
and propeller removable. The party
took many still and motion pictures
of their adventures, some showing the
Maud of top of the ice. Capt. Weis
ling was forced to use much powder
to make openings in order to get the
ship back into the water.
Dr. Sverdrup Has Much Data
Dr. Sverdrup, the noted scientist
with the Maud plans upon his arrival
Outside to go to the Carnegie insti
tute with numerous treasures and
valuable scientific knowledge obtain
ed by the expedition, among which
are charts showing the drift of the
Maud in comparison with drifts of
other Arctic vessels which never re
turned. Jacobsen said that S. Syver
son, assistant engineer, was the first
white man to die on the trip, he pass
ing away the first winter. Funeral
services were held on the ice, the body
of the dead man being draped in the
Norwegian flag. Capt. Weistding
preached the funeral sermon, after
which the body was lowered in a mau
soleum cut in an iceberg 100 feet
high.
Biplane Is Wrecked
The Curtis biplane was tried out
in the mid-Arctic, a runway being
made on the ice fields, but the plane
did not get a good takeoff and crash
ed amid the rugged ice. The plane
was taken back aboard.
An Eskimo, who deserted the Maud,
took with him a gun and a scoop
Alaska Arrive from the
South with Large Local
Cargo, Many Passengers
The steamer Alaska, Captain Nord
of the Alaska Steamship Co., arriv
ed in port last night from the south
carrying a large number of loca
passengers and tourists, and approx
imately 600 tons of freight. Follow
ing the completion of discharging
local freight today the vessel will de
part for Halibut Cove where the
steamer Redondo will be met and
the latter’s cargo transferred aboard
the Alaska, and some of the Alaska’s
cargo turned over to the Redondo for
Westward ports. The Alaska will
also call in a Kenai and pick up a
cannery crew, returning to Seward,
southbound, probably late Monday
night or early Tuesday morning.
PROHIBITION STAFF
COMPOSED OF 24
ADMINISTRATORS
E. C. LYLE ADMINISTER PACIFIC
NORTHWEST DIVISION IN
CLUDING ALASKA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 22 (£»).
Twenty-four Federal administrators
composing the prohibition staff were
named today. E. C. Yellowly, former
ly chief of the general mobile agents
was named to head the Twrenty-first
administrative district of San Fran
cisco; Robert E. Prits, of Los Ange
les district; Roy C. Lyle, the Pacific
Northwest including Alaska.
Andrews said, “The forces will be
concentrated, eliminating smuggling,
the manufacture and illegal diversion
of liquors.
“The treaties being negotiated will
make it more difficult for unscrupu
lous operators to take advantage of
foreign flags. Customs officials are
being organized on the sea fronts and
all borders to prevent smuggling. The
market is the most difficult problem,
because of its -indifference to conse
quences, ignorance, and colossal gul
libility. Some day the boozers will
learn that their imported whiskey is
being made in Canal street from in
dustrial alcohol, which will thus re
strain them from buying.
“The whiskey being made and turn
ed loose on the market today as im
ported goods is most times the rank
est poisons, manufactured by ignorant
bootleggers and sold at an enormous
profit.”
FIRST SHIPMENT
CASSIAR GOLD
VALUED $216
VETERAN ALASKAN MINER AR
RIVES IN SEATTLE WITH
12 OUNCES IN POKE
SEATTLE, Aug. 22 (^—Bringing
the first gold from the Cassiar strike
R. W. Martin, a veteran Alaskan min
er, arrived here today with twelve
ounces of coarse gold, valued at $216,
which was mined at Goldpan creek.
Martin will return to Cassiar this
week. He said the Cassiar strike is
genuine, and “four hundred ounces ofj
gold have already been taken out of
Goldpan creek. It is a rich field, but
needs capital to develop it.”
shovel, evidently to be used in the
construction of a snow house. Search
ing parties were organized and lights
and signals attracted him back to
the ship, after several days mushing
over the endless ice fields. He prom
ised never again to leave as he ex
plained it meant certain death to be
abandoned on the ice pack.
THE SCURVY KID
ARRIVES NOME
FROM SIBERIA
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| SCHOONER WRECKED AND TWO
MEMBERS OF CREW IMPRIS
ED BY RUSSIANS
Cargo and Vessel Seized
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Well Known Seward Man Glad to Get
Out of Clutches of Soviet Gov
ernment—Talked With Maud
NOME, Aug. 22 (/P)—The motor*
ship Blue Sea, arrived here late Wed
nesday night from East Cape, Sibe
ria, bringing Captain Victor Jacobsen
known throughout Alaska as “The
Scurvy Kid.” Jacobsen was captain
of the Nome trading schooner Ram,
which was wrecked recently in Sibe
ria. He said that Sam Malsage and
two members of his crew were taken
prisoners by the Russians and his ves
sel and cargo seized. Malsage is a
well known Russian trader, with many
years experience trading between
Nome and Siberia. He was arrested
on a charge of taking furs out of the
country illegally, and he and his crew
were transported to Petropavlosk on
the Soviet freighter for trial.
Jacobsen said he was glad to get
back “to God’s country.” He declared
he did not know why the Russians
did not grab him too, unless it was
becauase he talked louder, faster and
more forcibly than his captors, he
said.
He talked to Capt. Westing of the
schooner Maud, which is still waiting
for fuel. The crew of the Maud are
anxious to get to Nome so they can
eat fresh vegetables and eggs, which
they have been denied since leaving
Nome in 1922.
It was learned here that Malsage,
before his departure from Nome, was
returning to Anadyr with 50 or 75 fox
skins, which were missing when the
Ram arrived on the Siberian coast.
Malsage contends that the skins were
in transit, all the time in his posses
sion, and were not taken out of Si
Iberia illegally.
STEAMER TUPPER
ON WAY NORTH
TO KUSKOKWIM
VESSEL WHICH SAILED YESTER*
DAY WILL CALL AT SEWARD
ON WAY TO BETHEL
SEATTLE, Aug. 22 (/P)—1The steam
er W. M. Tupper sailed yesterday for
Kuskokwim river points via Seward.
Her passengers are Gordon Betties,
Miss E. Marshy Mrs. K. Hansen and
daughter, H. Gronshong, Mrs. Nj C.
Halbach, Miss W. Steelier, Mrs. Nellie
Brainard, Dorothy Brainard, Ira Webb,
Mrs. Ira Webb, L. Henkleman, Rob
ert.Gurkin and Hans Han.
ANCIENT WALL UNEARTHED
JERUSALEM:—Part of the wall en
closing Jerusalem built by Agrippa and
destroyed by Titus, has been unearth
ed recently. About sixty yards of
the wall some four yards thick have
been discovered by the Jewish Explo
ration Society.
FUR AUCTION CLOSES AT
WINNIPEG WITH GOOD PRICES
WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. 22 (./p)—
The fur auction sale which has lasted
the past four days, closed here yes
terday with good prices obtained. The.
finest Mackenzie river mining brot
$19 each, with the next grade $13;•
Manitoba and Saskatchewan $6 to $19.
Dance at Odd Fellows Hall tonight
after the show. All invited.