seinen-d Daily Gan-may
VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 24
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 28,1924.
PRICE TEX CENTv
MOSCOW, Jan. 27.—Nikolai I.enine
was entombed Sunday in the Red
Square in this city. Leon Trotzky
was absent from the funeral of his
chief owing to a severe illness. Half
a million Bolsheviki passed the bier,
while the body lay in state in the big
government building. The funeral ser
v vice was short and several hundred
* thousand persons shivered in the cold
while the interment was going on.
The mercury registered 30 below
zero.
FRANCIS G. P.-LW ORAL
•SEATTLE, Jan. '/'—Francis G.
Drew, a well known bus1'ness man of
Beattie died here yesterd«*y.
ANCHORAGE RESERVATIONS
* ON STEAMER NORTHWESTERN
Anchorage and Interior people tak
ing passage on the Alaska Steamship
Company’s Northwestern, which sail
ed this morning, were. \V. F. Thomp
son, Miss Janice Meredith, F. K.
Chapin, wile and two children, Ken
neth Loimes O. W. Ross, Jerry Al
ien, M. Hoskins, F. C. Ferrell, wife
and tour children, Mrs. E. W. Barnes
and YVm. Hoskings.
G. 0. P. STATE CENTRAL BODY
MEETS AT SEATTLE FEB. 12
^sPOKANE, Jan. 28.—The republican
slate central committee will meet in
Seattle February 12, it was announc
ed here today by Charles Hebberd,
state chairman.
The time and place of the repub- j
licau siate convention to name dele-;
gates to the republican national con
vention will be decided ai this meet -
ing, which was set in view ot the i
annual meeting ot the King County
Young Men’s Republican club on
Lincoln’s birthday, Mr. Hebberd said,
tibbi.hint? lt$pl of
REAL ESTATE MEN MEET
AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 28.—The meet-!
ing of the National Association of
Real Estate Boards opened here to
day with representatives of real es
tate boards in all sections of the coun
try in attendance. The program for
todays meeting included addresses oi
welcome, a response by L. F. French,
of Denver, president; five-minute re
ports by vice-presidents, reports of di
visional chairmen and reports ol com
mittees.
RAILWAY AND WATER
SHIPMENTS DISCUSSED
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 28.—Although
railway officials insist that waterway j
transportation is not practicable, they
acknowledge its practicability by the1
lower freight rates which they estab
lish between water points. Congress
man C. A. Newton, of Missouri, declar
1 here today before the National
Drainage congress.
A. T. Dusenberv, consulting engin
eer of New Orleans, urged co-opera- ,
tion between the various organiza
tions pngn'Ted in the field of national
development.
PORTLAND POSTAL CLERK
HELD FOR ROBBING MAIL
PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 28.—Miss
Katherine A. Stanford, 45, a clerk in
tfce dead letter division of the direc
tory section of the Portland office,
was arrested by postoffice inspectors
the other day on a charge of robber>
of the mails. She confessed, the in
spectors said.
For some time letters in the direc
tory section have been disappearing
from the postoffice. Working on the
theory that Miss Stanford was open
ing the letters in search for monev,
the officers arranged for a decoy let
ter*<o pass through her hands. When
she was arrested, the proper serial
numbers were found in her possess
sion, it was said.
$»OME IGLOO ELECTS OFFICERS
'igloo No. 1, of Nome elected Chas.
D. Jones, president and E. E. Grimm,
secretary, at a recent meeting.
Deputy Marshal Willard Scott of
Kodiak, and Mrs. Balton of Anchorage
were outgoing pasengers on the
Northwestern with a number of in
sane prisoners.
BUSINESS SECTION OF PORTER
IS PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT
TACOMA, Wn„ Jan. 28.—The town
; of Porter Wash., in eastern Grays
Harbor county, lost practically all of
its business section in a fire last eve
ning. The fire started in the Odd Fel
fellows’ hall.
The building, with all the iodge
records, was burned with a loss of
$8,500. The fire spread and the J.
F. Butler building and store were Ce
! stroyed, loss $2,000, along with the
; George McMasters building and store,
; loss $2,500, and the Malone building
j and barber ship loss $2,500. The
| R. E. Lemon and W. H. Ray stores
were damaged. The total loss is
placed at about $25,000, with about
$5,000 insurance.
Neighboring towns were asked to
I send fire fighting apparatus, but help
j did not arrive in time to save the
! business section.
SECRETHf DENBY
IS IDES PROBE
FALL OIL LOSES
WASHINGTON, Jan. .27.—The na
val affairs House committee began an
investigation today to determine by
what authority Secretary Denby of
the Navy department turned over the
naval oil reserves in Myoming to Al- ‘
bert B. Fall. The latter's appear
ance before the Senate committee has
been postponed until Tuesday on ac
count of his alleged serious illness.
It is declared that Secretary Denby
and Attorney General Daugherty will
both resign from the cabinet as a re
sult of the Teapot Dome scandal.
President Coolidge has ordered the
employe ) .t of special counsel to en
gage in the prosecutions of all found
guilty of fraud in the leases.
SENATOR REED CANDID VTE
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27.—Senator Reed
announced today his candidacy for
orepident on the democratic ticket.
Fred Kiel’s cabin twelve miles up
river from Nenana was burned to the
ground this week. Mr. Kiel was home
at the time, but the flames had gained
such headway that he was unable to
save anything except a few pieces of
clothing. The cabin was situated at
the mouth of the'Totatlanika and ser
ved as a comfortable roadhouse on
the Nenana-Fairbanks winter trail.
Jim Fullerton, Iditarod merchant,
arrived in Nenana the other day en
route to Fairbanks on court business.
He will leave shortly for the Outside
on an extended buying trip. George
Hammond of Flat accompanied Mr.
Fullerton od the trip which was made
from Tocotna with the Grant team.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Dykeman, who have
been living in one of the Paulson a
partments have moved into the Kref
tiug cottage just vacated by Sergt.
and Mrs. C. E. Smith.
HARRY ST. GEORGE LEAVES
BOAT ACCOUNT OF ILLNESS
Advices received on Lie Northwest
ern stale that Harry E. St. George,
Fairbanks banker, who passed thru
Seward recently on ids way to Cali
fornia, suffered a paraiy.ic stroke
and was taken off the Victoria to the
hospital at Juneau.
Carl Hogstrom, aged 34, of An
chorage, slashed his tin oat with a i
pair of steel shears in the city jail
last week, and died later of the ef
fects and from the prolonged de
rrauch. The coroner s jury returned a
verdict of death from causes un-1
known.
II- gstrom was arrested Wednesday !
night on complaint of women of the
restricted district that Hogstrom was
drunk and was attempting to pawn
his watch to get h pistol or knife
with which to comma suicide.
REBELS KILL AMERICAN
1AMFICO, Jan. 2 —Charles Un
ierwo'd, a widely known American,
was shot and killed ,o.iay by Mexican
ny Mexican rebels.
; WASHINGTON, Jar 2'*.—Both the
t'V'C. five and legiritive branches of
!:he government toity moved toward
the annulment of the naval oil leases
of the Sinclair and Doheny interests.
Will Prosecute Cases
V •'■-.SHINGTON Jan. 2" - President
•lochdgt today was in communication
5 7 i'ig distance te' ■; !m-1 with sev
era' attorneys with the view of ei;
ta'j.riy special counsel to prosecute
toe • :! land cases.
FORTIER CALLED BY
GRAND JURY TO TELL
OF BERNARD KILLING
The federal grand jury at Fair-i
banks is getting ready to investigate!
the shooting last October of John Ber
nard, who was killed by Deputy Mar- j
shal James Hagan, of Neuana, when :
Hagan and H. Seneff, a dry law* agent,
raided a cabin near McKinley Park
station.
This was the indication today, when
a subpoena to Cordova was telegraph
ed from Fairbanks, summoning Alb j
ert F. Fortier called “Hootch Alb-1
ert” to testify before the grand jury, j
Fortier was at the raided cabin when |
Bernard was killed by a shot from Ha
gan’s pistol.
Fortier left on the first train. ac-j
cording to the instructions of U. S.
Marshal G. B. Stevens of Fairbanks, j
At the time of Bernard’s death, the
coroner’s jury at Nenana exonerated
Hagan from blame in connection with
the shooting. Later Fairbanks busi
ness men took up the case and de
manded a further investigation.
LAW IS ATTACKED
EIT SUM OF
PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
COMPULSORY SCHOOL RULE IN
OREGON UNDER FIRE
PORTLAND, Jan. 2S—The United j
States district court here was crowded
yesterday when argument began on
the motions of the state to dismiss
injunction suits against the Oregon
compulsory school law. Circuit Judge
Cilbeert and Circuit Judges Wolver
ton and Bean, sitfing en banc, heard
the arguments filed by the Hill Mill- '
tary academy of Portland and the So- j
ciety of Sisters of the Holy Name,
which is represented by the parochial
schools of the state. .
The law which is to go into effect
in September, will abolish all private
schools of every nature, including
several schools for girls and numer
ous military academies.
E. COKE HILL ON
WAY TO CALIFORNIA
E. Coke Hill and wife, of Fairbanks
Alaska, arrived in town Saturday and
left on the Northwestern for Califor
nia to spend the remainder of the
winter, returning to Fairbanks in the
spring. Mr. Hill has the government
contract for carrying U. S. Mails be
tween Nenana and Flat, but has turn
ed it over to T. J. DeVane of Ruby
until his return. Mr. Hill believes
that the good old dog team and sled
will carry the mails for some time yet
in the interior despite the new air
plane being put on by the postoffice
iepartment. “I am not a candidate
tor any office in Alaska,” said Mr.
Hill "but am going out to feast my
eyes on tbe sunshine and pulchritude
it Long Beach.”
DEAD ON THE TRAIL
Charles Smith, father of Norvin E.
Smith of Nenana, dropped dead on the
:rail yesterday, on his way to Hot
Springs.
In company wtih Jack Spenser he
left Nenana Wednesday and had pas- .
sed the cabin of George Morrell, who
is cutting wood ten miles below Ne- ,
nana when Spencer, who was in the ,
lead,'turned and saw him lying on the ,
:rail dead. ,
4 Mr. Smith, who was an old time mi
aer of the Hot Springs district was
brought back to Nenana yesterday i
tor burial. j
.Vi PENS, Jari_ k'7 A great mlm
'>ev cf persons were ftozeil to (ieath
;n the tremendous blizzard which
s v»i't over Greece Sunday. Sivty
perse us perished in teal.* at Salonika
a; r t
FRIENDS FEAR TRAPPER
DEAD LONG OVERDUE
It is evident from particulars gath
ered regarding the strange disappear
ance of James Carse, a trapper who
endeavored to run the Yentna river
last Judy, in a small boat, loaded to
capacity, and who has failed to show
up any place in this district, that he
perished in the high and swift waters
of the Yentna. All hope for the safe
ty of Carse has been given up by S.
YV. Jensen, a trapper and prospector
at Clearwater, who arrived in Anchor
age Wednesday.
PKOVUNLNT DALLAS M_N
VISITORS 1,'i SEWARD
Frank Reed>, president and gen
eral manager of Frank Reedy's Amor
can lours, Inc., of Dallas Texas, ac
companied by Judge O. O. Touch
stone, returned on Saturday s train
and left today for their home in the
Southern metropolis. Mr. Reedy in
an interview stated that he would
head a party of about lpu tourists on
a visit to Alaska this summer, the
Admiral Evans being chartered lor
the trip. Mr. needy and Judge Touch
stone were greatly enthused over the
scenery in and about Seward.
BANDITS HOLD UP THE
MISSOULA POST OFFICE
BUTTE, Jan. 27.—Bandits held up
the Missoula, Mont., post office this
morning ami secured $.'15,000 in cur
rency consigned to the Missoula
Bank.
COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES
DEFICITS IN GOLD SILVER
SEATTLE, Jan. 27.—As a repre
sentative oi the Senate committee i
created to discover the causes for the
continuing decrease in the production
of gold and silver, Fletcher Hamilton
will hold a hearing here February 4.
GOVERNMENT LOST MONEY
ON SALE OF WAR SUPPLIES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—The gov
ernment lost 62 per cent on all sur- j
plus war material sold from the time
of the armistice to January 1 the war i
department announced.
BALLAINE IN THE
PREVENTATIVE LINE
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Jan. 28.—The
designation of an impartial business
man to investigate the alleged endea
vors by certain interests to better the
successful operation of the Alaska
Railroad is asked of President Cool
idge by John E. Ballaine of Seattle.
The President took the request un
der consideration. Ballaine. charges
that hostile interests are diverting
traffic from the road, and that the
road would pay under present meth
ods of operation.
ADMIRAL WATSON ARRIVES
ON WAY TO SEATTLE
The steamship Admiral Watson ar
rived in port yesterday about noon
on her way south. She brought the
ollowing passengers for Seward;
Bud Bergh, Oscar Erickson, David
Bewick, A. E. Moorhead.
For Latouche—Chas. A. Johnson.
For Juneau—Mrs. L. E. Hughes and
wo children, H. B. Systad.
For Seattle—Jesse Blinn, John
Brodkorf, W. J. Golney, J. W. Blinn
ind wife, H. W. Friis, Ben Kraft, O.
r. Dahl and wife, A. W. Lipke and ■
vife, O. Shuros, O. Brusseth, O. Erick
son, H. Christensen, A. Arneson, M.
Bugland, A. Askovold, Bert Vig, Ai
red Anderson, John Boe ,and Bar
Peterson.
Passengers leaving on the Watson
'rom Seward were Wayne Blue, C. E.
Smith and wife, and several others.
BOOTLEGGERS THINK THEY
CAN DEFEAT HIS DISGUISES
CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—The presence
here of Izzy Einstein, government li
quor agent extraordinary, has no ter
rors for Chicago’s saloons, cafes and
soft drink parlors, proprietors of
which are confident they can detect
his famous disguises.
Cafe and saloon men have hired de
tectives who have been trailing Izzy
for weeks and carefully tabulating
and reporting his various roles, the
report goes.
They said Izzy donned disguise No.
37 Thursday night. Half an hour af
ter the prohibition agent registered at
a hotel, an apparent opera songstress
came down the elevator and inquired
of beliboys where she might obtain
liquor.
•'She’ was Izzy, they said.
"Tomorrow night he’ll probably be
done up like a poor but honest coal
| heaver,’ 'an informant said “But it’s
all the same to us; he won’t get by.”
ing of the Federal Banking Board,
was found dead in bed this morning
in the home of her close friend, Miss j
Ale ion, daughter of the Secretary o' !
the Tieasury. Deuf.n wa; the result j
(.i heart trouble.
'lie coroner’s jury later returned a;
o.dtct that Miss Haukng wa - a sui-j
c'oe.
DE HAVILhND AIRPLANE
ARRIVES ON NORTHWES I ERN
The ije Havilunu pia..c which is
being shipped from fcaa Francisco to
Nenana b> the po&tofuc1 depa: tir.onv,
arrived on yesterday’;!' boat Ben
Eileson of Fait banks will be t he avi
ator. Aviator T. L. Lewis flew the
machine lrum San Fivnv.soc to Camp
Lewis wucre it was dismantled and
boxed, lin- macsin* weighs 1> tom
crated.
TWO PICTURES ARE
SHOWN ON SCREEN
SEATTLE, Jan. 28.—By merely
changing the color of glasses in a
motion picture show in the future film
fans will be able to view two separ
ate pictures in the same screen pre
dicted Professor F. A. Osborn of the
University of Washington, in a lec
ture to the home economics students
on the effect of color.
“With the development of motion
pictures in color it will be possible to
show two pictures on one screen at
the same time,” declared Professor
Osborn. “The spectator will take his
choice and will be furnished with col-|
ored glasses that will react to one or
the other color schemes.”
INDIAN INDICTED FOR
MURDER OF P. HUNTINGTON
Alfred Grant, an Indian, has been
indicted by the federal grand jury at
Fairbanks on a charge of murder in
the first degree. Gran; is accused of
Killing Percy Huntington, a fisher
man. at a camp near Tanatii last
year.
NORTHWESTERN 1LS ;
1 SOUTHBOUND TBIP1
i
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The steamship Northwestern sailed j
this morning, upon her return from i
Halibut Cove, with the following pas- 1
sengers: ji
For Seattle—F. H. Chapin, wife and i £
lild, Josephine Chapin, Janice Mere- 1
ith, C. W. Ross, J. K. Lohnes, Mor-; t
m Hoskins, Wm. Hoskins, Fred C. i
errell wife and baby, Mrs. E. W.
arnes, Elizabeth Ferrell, Helen V.
arrell, W. F. Thompson, Jerry T.
lien. Jay C. Snodderly, Sam Beck,
ames Ferrell, W. D. Douglas, Wil
ird Scott, Mrs. J. K. Balton, Mrs.
rilliam Hughes, Jim Kucil, Jas. J.
eenan, Mrs. W. H. Wagneer, J. J.
uinan, H. R. Edwards, Mrs. Thomas
iten, Ella Wilson Hill, E. Coke
ill. Four steerage.
For Juneau—Wm. Sequin.
For Cordova—Chas Garwood.
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CHARGES MADE
OF FRAUDS 1
TEXAS LAND CASES
WASHINGTON T 27.—Charges
vero made today tha'. if R. Ci eager,
’•(‘pu'ii i an national c anmitteenian for
Trxe.s, has exercised a politic.d pd!
w t! the attorney gneral and post
mastei general to stiNe an inouiry in
md frauds.in Tcixa5, wore mail0 to
day in a resolution introduced by
Senator Heflin.
WM. HIRSCH BELIEVED
PERISHED IN CABIN FIRE
Reports received in Nenana from
Tolovana state that William Hirsch’s
cabin, located about 59 miles up the
Tolovana river, burned to the ground
and that no trace can be found or
the occupant, who, it is believed per
ished in the flames.
On Sunday, January 13, three na<
ives visited the cabin and said Hirsch
then appeared in good spirit. When
thej returned a week later they found
pinned to a tree about forty yards a
way from the cabin, it was dated the
13th and is very rambling in its word
iug, tlie writer speaking of thought
transference. The natives say that a
heavy snow had laden and that no
tracks could be tound leading from
the cabin.
SENATOR CAPPER EXPLAINS
PACTS TO SECRETARY DEN BY
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27.—Senator Cap
per ot Kansas declared today vvhi.e
Secretary Donby did not seem to un
derstand it, it was apparent to the
public at large that the Doheny and
Sinclair interests had swiped a quar
ter ot a billion barrels ox’ government
oil through the hail leases.
SELDOVIA RADIO OPERATOR
AND WIFE GO TO STATES
Radio Operator A. W. Lipke and
wife, of Seldovia, passeil through
Seward on the Admiral Watson e..
route to the Outside on a month’s
absence. Mr. Lipke stated that he
had closed the radio station at Sei
dovia, which has been doing commer
cial work, and would purchase new
and more powerful apparatus.
The Seldovia station has been a
great aid to fishermen at the west
warti ort.
WOMAN WANTS SCANDAL
MONGERS PROSECUTED
Mis. E. A. Williams of Anchorage
wan;? scandal mongers prosecuted by
law. She says the aeport that the
h< a-e occupied by the family of Harry
Kavanaugh, slain Anchorage police
man, had no bottles nor booze about
it nor had there been any evidence
3f booze being maue Anchorage in
habitants were intimating that the
former police officer was engaged in
ihe booze business wnich was deeply
"esented by friends
WILL ATTEMPT TO CHECK
UNAUTHORIZED RUM RAIDS
MARION, 111., Jan. 28.—State mali
. men stationed at Marion and Her
rin following the request of Sheriff
George Balligan to Adjutant General
Black to send aid in “maintaining pro
eetion of life and property,” in the
•ecent trouble arising from liquor
•aids of the last few weeks have set
led down for an indefinite stay in
illiamson county, occording to their
ifficers.
Three peace conferences held with
n the last few days have apparent
y accomplished little, acocrding to
tatements by Sheriff Galligan and
law Sterns, exalted cyclops of the
Cu Klux Klan, which organization
s alleged to have played a consider
able part in the raids. Sterns said
ast night that he did not expect “any
oluntary disarmament of the Klan,”
nasmuch as they expect trouble.
Victor L. Armitage, federal prohi
'ition enforcement officer who. it is
lleged, deputized S. Glenn Young,
!ry worker, permitting him to make
aids in the county, is to meet W. H.
tnderson, Chicago, division chief of
ederal prohibition enforcement, in
last St. Louis today to explain the
ntire situation.
Wehn questioned as to knowledge
>f the whereabouts of Young, who is
eported missing, he declined to make
Ay statement
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