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VOLUME XIX NUMBER 49
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, I EDRLARY 27, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Twenty
thousand dyed sealskins will be sold
at public auction in New York, Mar.
21, rather than in St. Louis, as an ex
periment, the Department of Com.
merce announced today'.
BELGIAN CABINET QUITS
BRUSSELS, Feb. 27.—The Belgian
* cabinet headed by Premier Thunis
has been overthrown. Today the
House of parliment defeated the Fran
co-Belgian economic convention.
FORMER BATRIARCH TIKHON
DYING OF HEART DISEASE
MOSCOW, Feb. 27.—Former Patri
arch Tikhon is dying of heart disease
his physicians announced today.
SENATE RATIFIES TREATY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The Sen
ate today ratified the treaty between
the United States and the Nether
lands.
EVERETT MAN KILLS
HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW
EVERETT, Wn„ Feb. 27.—Chas. L.
Yeomans, proprietor of the Currie
Hotel at Marysville, shot and killed
Mrs. Mary Thompson, his mother-in
law today and took his own life. He
accused the woman of causing his
wife to leave him.
STARR HITS BAD WEATHER
The steamship Starr has been buck
ing heavy gales which are reported
from the westward, the weather being
very squally with many snow flurries.
OREGON-CALIFORNIA DEBATE
BE CONDUCTED BY RADIO
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 27.—A radio
debate, declared to be the first in the
history ot broadcasting, has been an
nounced by the debating teams ot the
University of Oregon and the Univer
sity of California, to be staged soon.
The University of Oregon team, com
posed of Joe A. Frazer and \\ alter A.
Malcolm, will give their speeches
from station KGW, the Orgonian at
Portland, Ore., and the University of
California team, the members of
which are Harold Cherniss and Ray
mond Sanders, will broadcast lrom
station KLX, the Tribune, Oakland,
Cal.
The subject to be debated is the
Bok peace plan. The two debating
' teams will be approximately 700 miles
apart.
_ B. STOREY SELLS RANCH
It is rumored in Seward that B.
Storey has sold his highly improved
ranch at 3 1-2 mile, to Mrs. Fenton,
who will grow truck and flowers on it.
Mr. Storey has one of the finest plac
es in this vicinity with a hot-house,
fine garden and truck patch, and a
1 chicken yard. He has made a good
living out of theplace, wiiich has been
one of the show ranches of the vicin
ity.
About eight inches of newr snow fell
last night and this morning, just as
the ground had been cleared by late
rains. Consequently thesong of the
snowshovel is again heard in the land.
COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD 4 UNDERWOOD.
THE KING RIDES TO OPEN A PARLIAMENT RULED BY SOCIALISTS
The Royal procession arriving outcside the House of Parliament for the King to open the first Labor majority
House in the history of Great Britain.
: HOUSE 1Y ADOPT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The
House is considering the tax bill as
amended, which will decrease the rev
enue about ten million dollars. The
bill increases the tax on cigarettes
$1.00 per thousand, but abolishes the
amusement tax on all tickets up to
50 cents.
SPOKANE WOMAN FASTS 41 DAYS
SPOKANE, Wn, Feb. 27.—A last
i which has continued now for 41 days
has not interrupted the housewifely
duties for recreation of Mrs. M. 13.
: Weichert of Spokane, she said today.
She undertook the treatment, she ex
plained, while suffering from pneumo
nia for th e third successive time and
in an effort to relieve ear and teeth
, trouble.
Mrs. Weichert said she cooks for
I her husband and three growing child
ren, takes care of a five room house
and still finds time and strength for
a one-hour lesson a week in classical
dancing and two vocal lessons each
week.
She is five feet, five inches in
height a/i says she weighed 170
pounds at the beginning of her fast
and now weighs 13S pounds. She ex
pects to continue the fast for a few
days longer.
“SPARK PLUG” WILL
TAKE NEEDED REST
“Spark Plug,” the faithful Ford op
erated the past decade by Alaskan
transfer men, has been suspended
from duty, and is taking a much-need
! ed rest in a deep snowdrift where he
expired last fall. His owner, Barney
Malloy, has ordered a new car, a
Ford Truck, which has bright varnish
and everything, and will send old
“Spark Plug” to the bone yard of de
crepid Fords.
The snowfall on the flats north of
town is reported quite heavy by Ed
Yogi, a recent visitor in Seward. He
states that about a foot of new snow
has fallen in the past few days.
• Bodyguard Former Kaiser
Searches for Job at Hoquiam
HOQUIAM, Feb. 27—A man who
acted as personal body-guard to for
mer Lmjceror William for eight years,
according to his credentials, is at pres
• cnt in Boquiam look log for a job. iiis
name lr. William Hu" : and he says he
Had five brothers on the German fir
ing !:ne during the va•, but two being
gibed But Willi iin Huwe's wartime
duties took him no nearer the front
^ than twenty-five m.!e:. ho sai the
rin per-:*? having viewed hostilities
from that distance though powerful
field glasses.
Huwe was educated in the best mil
itary schools of Germany and is mas
ter of most European languages. He
is reticent concerning his experiences
while in the kaiser s employ except for
a statement that “the kaiser was a
military ruler and his assassination
was the desire of all the radicals of
Germany as well as of other countries
he visited.”
Foiling the plots of such persons
was a part of Huwe’s duties as Wil
helm’s bodyguard. He became body
guard to the kaiser in 1910 and from
that time until the abdicated ruler
fled across the Netherland border he
was in constant attendance. He stood
in the receiving line at state functions
and accompanied the kaiser on state
processions and excursions, was with
the imperial master aboard the royal
yacht on visits to European ports, and
was his companion on his hunts thru
the German forests.
ALASKA SHIPPING IN 1923
LARGEST IN HISTORY
Last year was the greatest year in
the history of Alaska in the number
of vessels which entered and cleared
at Alaska ports, according to the re
port of Collector of Customs John C.
McBride, made public the other day.
The total number of vessels entered
at Alaska ports last year was 2,080
the year before and 2,221 in 1920,
which held therecord before 1923. The
total number cleared was 2,441, com
pared with 2,004 in 1922 and 2,199 in
1920, the previous banner year.
Last year was also the banner year
in the tonnage entering and clearing
both foreign and domestic. In the
domestic trade there were 1,243 ves
sels, 473,885 tons, entered and 1,959
vessels, 478,103 tons cleared last year.
In theforeign trade the vessels enter
ed numbered 1,325, tonnage 317,866,
and those cleared numbered 483, ton
nage 152,322.
This is compared with an 1922 re
cord of S39 vessels 394,407 tons enter
ing in the domestic trade and 1,502
vessels, 395,509 tons, clearing; and
1,341 vessels, 173,27S tons, entering,
and 5702 vessels, 135.851 tons clearing
in theforeign trade.
There were 328 more vessels enter
ed at Alaska ports last year than in
1920 the previous record year and the
number of vessels last year exceeded
those clearing in 1920 by 242.
SEATTLE, Feb. 27.—Mayor Edwin
J. Brown and Alfred Lundin, were no
minated for the mayorality in yester
day’s primaries. The vote was one of
the heaviest in th ecity, about 70,000
being cast.
DAUGHERTY CALLED
AGAIN ON CARPET
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Attorney
General Daugherty was again called
op the White House carpet last night.
He was in audience writh the presi
dent for several hours this morning.
SEWARD VISITOR NOT
USED TO EARTHQUAKES
Lieut. Clayton Bissell, of the Army
Air Service, who is a visitor in Sew
ard, evidently is not used to the slight
tremors which visit Alaska, especial
ly the Seward district, several times
a month. He also sees publicity in
our snowslides, several thousand feet
of which occur each winter.
Visiting the Gateway this morning
he secured several copies of yester
day's paper containing a slight men
tion of those frequent visitors, and
remarked that he thought it queer
they wrere not given front page posi
tions, head of the column.
Before Katmai blew her head off
Valdez had over 100 well defined
shocks in one day, a great number of
which were much sharper than those
Tuesday night. And to record all the
snowslides occurring in this vicinity
would take a larger paper than the
Gateway. Which goes to show that
one can become used to anything.
The steamship Alameda sailed north
from Juneau at 5:50 p. m. yesterday
afternoon.
JUSTICE PEACE DALLON SAYS
MRS. DERBY UNWORTHY OF
HUSBAND’S LOVE
SEATTLE, Feb. 27—Justice of
Peace Dallon today declined to bind
Derby over to the Superior court for
the shooting of Major Muirhead, de
claring Mrs. Derby was unworthy of
her husband’s love and branding Muir
head as a man who was both low in
honor and in contempt.
THE CHAMBER SECRETARY
WANTS PICTURE MACHINE
WANTED—to beg, borrow or appro
priate, one motion picture machine to
be used when the around-the-world
j flight by the army airmen reaches
! Seward. Secretary J. P.Hannon is on
; the track of a machine and in case
| the same can be secured the flight of
; the birdmen will be graphically re
i corded for all time.
Secretary Hannon believes that the
landing and the flight of theairmen*
should be perpetuated for advertising
purposes, and anv photographer hav
ing such machine will confer a favor
by informing him of the fact.
WRESTED RECORD
DAYTON, O., Feb. 27.—Lieut. J.
A. Macready remained in the air for
an hour and fifty minutes at McCook
field having reached an altitude of
forty-one thousand feet. The record
was unofficially announced but it is
believed he has wrested the altitude;
record from Sadi Lecoine of France.
LIEUT. B1SSELL TALKS TO
PUPILS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Lieut. Bissell, of the Army Air Ser
vice, gave a talk from 11 to 12:15 to
day to the pupils of the Seward pub
lic school on the development of the
aeroplane. The youngsters were great
ly interested in his lecture.
PIONEER HAS DISAPPEARED
The cabin of Wm. Hirsch, located
about 60 miles up the Tolovana has
burned to the ground, and no trace
of Hersch has been found. It is be
lieved that Hirsch is insane as a ram
bling note telling of thot transference
was .found pinned to a tree by his ca
I bin.
CURTIS R. MORFORD
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
Curtis R. Morford, U. S. Commis
sioner and long-time resident of Sew
ard ,has announced his candidacy for
re-election as clerk of the school
board. Mr. Morford has served very
acceptably for several terms and is
a very capable officer.
A RADIO STUNT
The sound of human heart beats
was heard at Marshall, Texas, recent
ly the subject residing at St. Louis,
500 miles distant, says a St., Louis
dispatch.
CHARGED THAT SHIPPING BOARD IS PAYING THE
SINCLAIR INTERESTS TEN MILLION DOLLARS
YEARLY FOR TEAPOT DOME OIL FOR ITS VES
SELS—INVESTIGATION IS SEMI POLITICAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—It was revealed in the tes
timony here today that the United States Shipping' Board
is paying the Sinclair oil interests ten million dollar^ each
rear for oil from the Teapot Dome fields.
Another development of the oil scandal is that Sena
tors Lenroot and Smoot, members of the Senate investi
gating committee held a secret meeting with former sec
retary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, the result of which
was never transmitted to the Senate committee.
Declared an Outrage
Senator Moses caused to be read into the Congres
sional Recor!, Senator James A. Reed's speech, charging
Wm. G. McAdoo with selling his information to the Do
heny interests, whereupon Senator Pat Harrison intro
duced into the record Senator Hiram’s Johnson’s speech,
in which he held President Coolidge responsible for the
present oil scandal. Senator Moses is a New Hampshire
Republican, while Senator Pat Harrison is a Mississippi
Democrat. Both are evidently trying to discredit oppos
ing political candidates for the presidency.
Simultaneously with the action of the above Senator
Kenneth McKellar, a Tennessee Democrat in a speech on
the floor of the Senate declared it an outrage that punish
ment is not being meted out to rich criminals. Then came
rhe announcement of Special Prosecutors Pomerene and
Roberts that they intended to prosecute all persons taint
ed with the oil scandals in the courts of the country within
; few days.
Reed Says Coolidge Should Resign
HANNIBAL, Mo., Feb. 27.—Senator James A. Reed,
a Missouri Democrat, addressing a mass heretoday assert
ed that if thecabinet was not purged soon it would be
time for President Coolidge to resign. He charged that
Hoover’s control of food products during thewar deprived
the farmers of five billion dollars.
BUFORD ON RUN TO
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
The steamship Buford which was
on the Frisco-Nome run last season, is
making an excursion trip to the South
Seas under command of Capt. Johnny
O’Brien, the well-knwon Alaskan na-;
vigator, who will be in command of
the vessel on the Nome run this sum
mer. The Buford has been overhaul
ed and rebuilt.
E. Coke Hill and wife, who are now
in California, will return on one of
the next boats to Ketchikan where
Mr. Hill and family will locate. The
mail contract from Nenana to Flat
has been sub-let.
REPORTED STANDARD OIL
WILL ENLARGE PLANT
It is reported that the Standard Oil
company will enlarge its plant by add
ing another large tank this spring.,
It is also reported that W. E. Moul-|
tray, local manager, will put in most
of his time this summer looking up
business for the company.
'CqPVftl.QHT^HARKIft 4 EWINQ..WA9H
REPRESENTATIVE FROM TEXAS
Representative John Nance Garner,
of Texas, ranking Democrat on the
Ways and Means Committee.
ANDERSON HAS NOT YET
PURCHASED STEAMSHIP
Information received here is to the
eifect that Oscar Anderson, Jack
Collins and Gus Gelles, of the Evan
Jones Coai company, who are in Se
attle for the purpose of purchasing a
freighter to be used in carrying coal
to the States and to Alaskan ports
l ave not succeeded in picking up a
vessel suitaoie for their needs, but
are looking around, and may be suc
cessful. The vessel will carry freight
only.
WILD LIFE FEATURED
E. P. Walker, chief of the biologi
cal survey in Alaska, is preparing an
exhaustive account of wild life in Al
aska, and has been assured by the
department at Washington that his
report will be placed in pamphlet
form.
SPRING IS DETAINED
It is reported that the spring climate
due to arrive here on the last boat
has been shunted to sections in the
states where bad weather prevailed.
Alaska will receive a consignment of
spring weather on the March boats.
Dave Clough, of the firm of Strand
& Clough, operators and owners of
valuable claims on Crooked creek, in
the Tokotna district, will start north
early in April, according to word re
ceived here. He will be met at Ne
nana April 1, by Henry Martella and
dog teams.
NOME MAN DEAD
Ad Orlander, Nome’s undertaker,
died January 19th, death resulting
from a complication of causes. He
was a Mason and a Pioneer.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hinde, who re
turned from Anchorage on Saturday’s
train, were guests at the English-Mc
Nally wedding which took place at
6:30 o’clock Saturday morning. Mr.
Hinde attended the groom and Mrs.
Hinde was oneof the bride’s matrons.
After the ceremony an elaborate wed
ding breakfast was served at the Fris
co Cafe. The newly-weds will remain
in Anchorage for a few weeks, leav
ing on a wedding trip to Europe in
April. The bride was formerly as
sistant cashier in the Bank of Seward,
while the groom was secretary to Col.
Mears. . '