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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 113. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1925. PRICE TEN CENTS.
HINDENBURG ASKS
FOR PEACE AMONG
GERMAN PEOPLES
‘LET US STRIVE THROUGH HON
EST AND PEACEFUL WORK TO
GAIN RECOGNITION OF OTHER
NATIONS.
BERLIN, May 13. (£>)— Hindenburg
issued a manifesto to the German peo
ple yesterday, saying: “Let us strive
through honest and peaceful work to
gain recognition of the other nations.,
to which we are entitled to, and free
Germany from the unjust stain which
still lies on it.”
In the chamber he referred to the
“Republican constitution of August 11,
1919”, saying “The Reichstag and the
Reich President belong together as
both are elected direct by the peo
ple.”
RUSS. LEADER SUICIDES
MOSCOW, May 13. (/P)—General
Boris Savinkoff, notorious anti-Bolshe
vik leader, and former military gover
nor of Petrograd, and assistant minis
* ter of war during the Kerensky re
gime, suicided yesterday by throwing
himself from the window of his cell.
RUM RUNNER
NOW OUT ACTION
VICTORIA, May 13. (/P)—Customs
agents declared the seizure Saturday
of the schooner Liro de Auga when it
returned from Southern waters, out of
fuel, and asked for a tug, wrhich the
customs office sent and towed her in
from Quarantine, wrould end rum run
ning from British Columbia to Am
erican ports.
The Liro left Vancouver on January
22nd with six thousand cases of whis
key, consigned to San Jose, Costarica.
The customs report said “hardly a
drop of water remained on the ship.
The men hadn’t had a proper w’ash
^‘for days.”
The schooner will be held for in
frengement of customs regulations.
ASHES WALTON
TO BE SHIPPED
TO WISCONSIN
SERVED MANY YEARS ON ALASKA
RAILROADS—CONNECTED WITH
GUGGENHEIM MINES IN CHILIE
.... SEATTLE, May 13. (/p)—The ash
es of Mark Walton will be shipped to
Fall River, Wisconsin. Walton spent
most of his life as railway storekeep
4, er at the last station on the Copper
River railroad, Mile 146. After that
he had charge of supplies at the Gug
genheim mines near Rancaguay, Chile.
In recent years he was in the lum
ber business in Port Angeles with his
brother.
Walton was connected with many
railroads in the states, in the earlier
days of his life, serving the Milwau
kee road in Milwaukee; Illinois Cen
tral at Chicago; Great Northern at
Spokane and Everett; White Pass at
Skagway and Lake Bennett.
His ashes will be scattered over the
graves of his father and mother.
NOTED WRITER DIES IN EAST
BROOKLYN, May 13. (JP)—Miss
~*5ttny Lowell, whose freedom of vocab
ulary and newness of structure, made
her verse a revolution in art, died at
her home yesterday of pneumonia, at
the age of fifty-one.
Miss Russell was a cousin of James
Russell Lowell and a sister of Abbott
Lawrence Lowell, president of Har
vav T
RUSSIA FORBIDS
ZANNI TO ALIGHT
ON HER LANDS
ARGENTINE AVIATOR SAYS WILL
NOT BOTHER HIM AS CAN AL
WAYS LIGHT AT SEA—STOP 2
JAPANESE PLANES.
TOKIO, May 13. (#*)—Major Zanni,
daring Argentine flier, who contem
plates a round-the-world flight, said
Russia, which warned him not to light
on Siberian territory, wouldn’t ham
per his flight, that he would light at
sea if necessary.
Russia forbade two Japanese air
planes to pass Moscow on a proposed
flight from London to Tokio, but the
planes will proceed to Moscow, it was
announced, hoping to receive permis
sion to come further.
NUMBER CHANGES
MADE IN MAP OF
THE TERRITORY
SEVERAL HUNDRED NEW TRIBU
TARIES ADDED TO COLVILLE—
REAPPEARANCE OF ICY BAY IN
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
WASHINGTONN, D. C.( May 13. (JP)
—A number of topographical discover
ies made by government geologists ex
ploring for oil, have been shown in a
new map of Alaska issued by the De
partment of the Interior through the
Geological survey. Several hundred
new tributaries of the Colville river,
and changes in the basin have been
charted.
The eastern mouth of the Chipp
river, fifty miles wide, found at the
extreme northern part of the terri
tory, with an upper river fifty miles
long, named Ikpikpuk, have been de
fined.
The map shows the reappearance of
Icy Bay, eight miles wide at the north
ern end of Malaspina glacier, along the
St. Elias range, which appeared twice
before, later filling up entirely.
The rampart mountains crossing the
northern part of the Territory, six
hundred miles long have been named
Brooks Range.
The discovery of Aniakehak crater
six miles in diameter and half a mile
deep, forty miles from Chignik is also
disclosed on the map.
LONDON, May 13. (#•)—'The British
Labor party has accepted the official
invitation of Russia to send a deputa
tion to tour Russia to study the possi
bilities of increasing the Anglo-Rus
sian trade.
WOULD CHANGE
NAME OF POLAR
• SHIP TO PEARY
CHICAGO, May 13. (£>)—McMillan
entered an official request to change
the name of the polar ship to Peary,
in honor of the first discoverer of the
north pole.
His ship is scheduled to leave Bos
ton June 17th, on the first stage of the
trip which will culminate in an air
dash for the pole. McMillan was a
member of the Peary expedition.
LARGE EXPORTS OF OIL
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 13. (Jp)
—The Russian information bureau
stated Russian exports of petroleum
were 554,000 tons in the six months
ending April 1st, exceeding the pre
war volume and nearly doubling the
exports for the same period of last
year. Improved machinery has been
purchased in Ann ien.
FIRE AT MAYO HAS BEEN
CONTROLLED; WOMEN AIDED
EDMONTON, May 13. (£►)—'The fire
which started Saturday night and for
a while threatened to destroy Mayo,
was controlled Sunday night after the
destruction of several buildings.
Many of the women of the town aid
ed the fire fighters.
GOOD PRICE WAS OFFERED
FOR MILWAUKEE ROAD
CHICAGO. May 13. (£>)—The Daily
News said James J. Hill.offered a good
price for the Chicago Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad, before its failure,
but the elder J. P. Morgan answered
a brusque ‘ no”. Shortly after that
the difficulties of the road began, then
freight rates and economic troubles
added to its downfall.
HERO OF VERDUN DEAD
PARIS, May 13. (^—General Chas.
Mangin, hero of Verdun, died today.
CLAIM GERMANS
ARE NOW AIDING
RIFF TRIBESMEN
GERMAN SUBMARINE RECENTLY
LANDED EXPLOSIVES COAST
RIFF—CLAIM GERMAN TROOPS
IN FRONT LINES OF REBELS
TANGIER, May 13. (£>)—'The Havas
agency has been informed that a Ger
man submarine recently landed explo
sives, telephonic material and food
on the coast of Riff, whose chieftain
Abd el Krim has been invading the
French zone in Morocco; and Germans
dressed as Riffians using oriental
pseudonyms have been observed on
the Riff line.
BEAR WILL SAIL
SATURDAY FOR
NORTH PATROL
SEATTLE, May 13. (/P)—The cut
ter Bear, which arrived here last Sun
day, will sail Saturday on her annual
patrol of northern waters.
The Bear has one of the two figure
heads left on coast guard vessels, ac
cording to the best information ob
tainable aboard the Bear; the other
being on the Alexander Hamilton, a
| .coast guard training ship stationed at
! Norfolk.
The Bear’s figurehead was a labor
of love by a Scotchman, who helped
build her. The figure head is a nice
looking bear with the its paws appeal
ingly folded under her bowsprit.
The Bear is expected to take the
northern patrol next season also be
1 cause her successor won’t be complet
ed until then.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MOSCOW, MaMy 13. (£>)—'The Fed
eral Executive Committee of the Three
Hundred which compose the all-Rus
sian Soviet congress, was elected yes
terday. Included in the three hun
dred are such well-known Russian
leaders as Kalinin, Rykoff, Stalin,
Zinocieff, Trotzky, and Tomsky.
ODUNA SAILS WITH
BRIDGE MATERIAL
SEATTLE, May 13.—The freighter
Oduna sailed for Southwestern Alas
ka Tuesday, carrying large amounts
of material for the reconstruction of
bridges on the government railroad,
near Seward and Anchorage, and for
other government work. She also
had on board a quantity of cannery
material.
TWO HUNDRED
LEAVE SUNDAY
FOR CASSIAR
THREE BOATS LADEN WITH SUP
PLIES AND GOLD SEEKERS ON
WAY TO NEW PLACER FIELDS.
SECOND TRIP BE LOADED UP.
JUNEAU, May 13. (/P)—Special Dep
uty Collector of Costums, M. S. Whit
tier, returned from Wrangel yesterday
and said about two hundred left on
three boats Sunday for the Cassiar,
via the upper Stikine river. The
boats were loaded to capacity with
freight.
About twenty-five mushed up the
Stikine on the ice this winter, said Mr.
Wrhittier. The boats are expected to
load to capacity on the second trip.
GUNNAR KASSON
FARES POORLY
IN SOUTHLAND
GUNNAR KASSON OUT OF FUNDS
IN LOS ANGELES CITY—CLAIMS
CONTRACT BROKEN— NO DOG
BISCUIT FOR BALTO.
LOS ANGELES, May 13. (£>>—'The
same old hard luck story comes up to
day from Los Angeles, of the oldtimer
going outside only to be bunkoed by
his slicker city friends.
Gunnar Kasson found little fame and
no fortune since his arrival in Los An
geles. Balto and the rest of the team
are related in a complaint filed with
the state labor department in which
Kasson alleges he was lured to Los
Angeles by Sol Lesser, operator of a
string of movies and offered two hun
dred dollars weekly for a period cov
ering ten weeks.
So far Kasson has only received six
hundred dollars, and as a result is out
of funds. Kasson is asking for enough
money to return to Alaska. Balto
and the rest of the team are short on
dog biscuits, the dispatch states.
PUBLISH CORRESPONDENCE
RELATING TO WRANGELL
OTTAWA, May 13.—H. R. Manion,
Conservatist member of parliament,
introduced a measure yesterday to
publish all correspondence relating to
Wrangell Island.
LORD MILNER DEAD
LONDON, May 13. (/P)—Lord Mil
ner, former secretary of war, died at
his home near Canterbury of sleeping
sickness.
RIVER NAVIGATION
IN INTERIOR TO
START MAY 22ND
The Alaska Railroad announces the
sailing of their first vessel for down
river on May 22nd. All is now in
readiness for a busy summer. The S.
S. Jacobs has been overhauled and
new quarters added. The steamer
Davis has also been repaired and will
be ready to leave at her appointed
time. 9
Below is a schedule of sailings:
Steamer Jacobs will leave Nenana
Friday, May 22nd, at 6 p. m., making
Ruby.
The steamer Davis will leave Nena
na Wednesday May 27, at 2 p. m. for
Holy Cross.
Commencing Wednesday June 3rd
the steamer Jacobs will leave Nenana
every Wednesday at 2 p. m. making
the transfer with the Steamer Davis
at their meeting point.
TWO DEAD AT
HOTEL, RESULT
OF INFIDELITY
HUSBAND OF SEATTLE WOMAN
STEPS FROM STRAIGHT AND
NARROW TRAIL—HIS COMPAN
ION KILLED BY FRIEND
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 13.
Mrs. John S. Loughren and Andy Nel
son of Seattle, arrived here today and
found Loughren and Mrs. Ollie Wick
in a room together. Nelson remain
ed in the room with Mrs. Wick while
Loughren and his wife walked down
the hall. Nelson then shot and kill
, ed the Wick woman and himself.
Neilson had phoned Mrs. Loughren
at Seattle and informed her that her
husband had gone to Vancouver with
another woman, who was found in a
room near Loughren’s.
Barred From Canada
VANCOUVER, May 13. (£>)— John
F. Loughran and Mrs. Mabel Meyer,
were deported and barred forever from
Canada. Loughran, Mabel and Mrs.
Olive Wick came here Sunday from Se
attle. The police conducted the sur
vivors of the Seattle excursion, to the
i border.
OWENS ARRESTED ON
CHARGE MANSLAUGHTER
j EUGENE, May 13. (/p)—Owens,
I whom the coroner’s jury exonerated of
j the killing of John Poto, has been ar
, rested and is now awaiting the action
j of the grand jury. He has been for*
j mally charged with manslaughter.
SUIT AGAINST
FORD DISMISSED
JACKSON, May 13. (^P)—Governor
Whitfield, of Mississippi repudiated
the suit which state revenue officers
filed against Ford, asking twelve mil
| lion penalties for an alleged breaking
! of the state anti trust laws.
! The suit was dismissed.
SCHOONER BOXER
SAILS TUESDAY
FOR WESTWARD
CARRIES LUMBER AND SUPPLIES
FOR NEW GOVERNMENT INDUS
TRIAL SCHOOL—MANY TEACH
ERS ABOARD.
SEATTLE, May 13. (JP)—'The U. S.
Board of Education schooner Boxer
sailed Tuesday for the West Coast
of Alaska, carrying eighty thousand
feet of lumber for the new government
industrial school at Kanakanak. With
the lumber shipment for the school
goes medical kits, mail, farming and
industrial equipment.
On board the Boxer are teachers
Robert M. Barton and wife, of Port
land who will teach manual art in the
Kanakanak school. His wife is also
a registered nurse. Miss Bell Reed,
matron, commercial teacher and lin
guist.
Carl R. Trowbridge will be station
ed at the Ogiak Bay school. Victor
Rivers of Seattle, who is also aboard
the Boxer, will have charge of con
struction of the Kanakanak school.
R. A. Jones of Mt. Vernon, will help
build the school and then in August
will go to the reindeer station at Kul
ukak. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ford of
Bellingham go to Ugashik; Reuben
Bergman to Good News Bay; Thomas
Calkin, superintendent of the south
western district, is homeward bound
on the Boxe making the trip north
from Kanaka „o Nunivak island, Net
son Island, and Hoo jr bay.