VOLU ME 20. NUMBER 81
SEWARD, ' ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 23. 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
SHEPHERD MAY
BE RESPONSIBLE
NUMBER DEATHS
CHICAGO, March 23.—Judge Harry
4 Olson is now investigating the fourth
death in connection with the recent
conviction of Shepherd of the death
of William McClintock; that of Otto
Graf, a druggist of Salina. Kansas. 20
years ago. Graf was a brother-in-law
of Shepherd. Charles Wyrick, Chi
cago business man. and a son of for
mer Clergyman of Salina told Olson
he recalled Shepherd in Salina. He in
former Olson that Graf died suddenly
of heart disease but that Shepherd
was blamed for his death as he took
over the drug business of Graf in Sa
lina.
Julie Graf, a sister of Otto then
married Shepherd when he was ex
pected to die with an injured neck. A
Sanila barber was the father of Julie
and Otto.
Planned Murder of McClintock
CHICAGO. March 23.—Fairman in
I today’s questioning stated that in the
Autumn of ’23 Shephard referred to
McClintock’s approaching majority,
remarking to Shepherd that McClin
tock’s marriage would leave Shepherd
out, whereupon Shepherd remarked he
would have McClintock draw up a
will adding “the girl must be taken
care of or she will cause talk.” “Some
of these typhoid cultures could be used
to settle the whole thing.”
ROBARTS HALL
BURNSTOGROUND
ANCHORAGE, March 23— Robarts
bowling alley, pool and dance hall, one
of the first buildings to be erected in
P Anchorage, and valued at fifteen
thousand dollars, burned to the ground
Friday night, the firemen hardly sav
ing the adjoining structures.
Robarts was the scene of all social
events in the early days, and lately
was used as a pool room, cigar store
and an arena for all the Anchorage
boxing matches.
Mr. Robarts carried seven thousand
dollars insurance on the place.
Persons Do Not Become
Unconscious When Fa!!
From Great Altitudes
NEW YORK, March 23.—After a
test in parachutes at Mitchell field
here today, army officers said the
theory that a person falling from a
areat height loses consciousness dur
• ing the descent, has been disproved,
two enlisted men, after a parachute
drop of a thousand feet, saying they
didn’t lose consciousness before the
chute opened.
STR.ALASKAHAS
HEAVY LISTING
SEATTLE, March 23—The steam
ship Alaska sailed at nine o’clock Sat
urday morning for Seward carrying
one hundred and sixty-one passengers,
those listed for Seward being B. W.
Schlener, R. Annabel, D. Lawson, Mrs.
K. M. Dougherty, Mrs. H. L. Lien, A.
Benson, Mrs. D. Everett. Joseph Ster
ling, Frank McGibney, and wife, Miss
* G. Roberts. L. Caldwell, H. H. Black,
and wife, Louis Hertle, B. Donnelly,
and wife, W. S. Christionson and wife,
*• Mrs. B. Hamilton, William Mellish, E.
f E. Gaskill. George Fuller, Joe Peacock,
) - L. W. Rogge, A. G. Rogge, Leonard
Williams, T. Jonseth, Eugene S. Bail
ey, D. S. McDonald, O. M. Sw'anson,
Chester King. Fred Kling, J. S. Ander
son, wife and two babies, J. Hustaf
son, Helen Burkhart, W. Wheeler, F.
J. Rickert, Henry Barnes and ten
^ steerage.
ILLNESS OF FORMER EMPRESS
RECALLS MEXICAN TRAGEDY
BRUSSELLS. Belgium, Mar, 23.—
The aged empress, Charlotte Marie
Amelia, widow of Ferdinand Maximi
lian Joseph of Austria, is reported ill
with grippe, but passed a satisfactory
night.
The husband of Empress Charlotte j
attempted to found an empire in Mex
ico and was defeated and shot by the
Mexican government.
EASTERN STAR WILL INITIATE
The local order of Eastern Star will i
initiate candidates this evening and i
after initiation will hold a social ses
sion. All members are invited to be
present.
BORAH WILL TRY
PREVENT STATES
JOINING LEAGUE
PHILADELPHIA. March 23.—Borah
in an address last night stated he
would use all his influence to prevent
the United States from entering the
World Court under the Geneva proto
col, adding he didn’t oppose the Unit
ed States entering the court provid
ing the court could consider disputes
without political pressure, as the U.
S. Supreme court does.
WATCHMAN HELD UP; $40,000
IN SIL£S HAULED AWAY
NEW YORK, Mar. 23.—A watchman
at Twenty-sixth street pier of the Le
high Valley Railroad, on the Hudson
river, was held up Saturday night and
silks valued at S40.000 hauled away.
FIVE SOVIET OFFICIALS
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
MOSCOW. Russia. Mar. 23.—Five
Soviet government officials were re
ported killed when a military airplane
bound from Tiflis to Suchun. caught
fire and fell.
UNEMPLOYED
MANITOBA HELD
UP AT CALGARY
EDMONTON, Alberta, Mar. 23.—
The 120 unemployed men who on Sat
urday began a march from Calgary to
Ottawa, where they will camp by the
! parliament buildings until their de
I mand for jobs are complied with, ar
j rived last night on a freight train,
j which they boarded yesterday morning
j ing at Airdrie, 20 miles from Calgary.
The men marched into Airdrie and
spent the night quietly, but when they
saw snow on the ground they boarded
a freight train. The train crew of five
men protested, but acquiesced. The
police arrested the men and placed
them in the police staiton here with
out resistance. They are charged with
trespass on railway property, and will
probably be given jobs with their
board.
FAIMAN ADMITS HE DENIED
KNOWING TYPHOID POISONER
CHICAGO, Mar. 23.—Dr. C. C. Fai
man on the stand atTa hearing today
concerning the admission to bail oi
Wm. D. Shepherd, admitted he had
repeatedly denied to investigators
that he knew Shepherd, and did not
reveil the fact until 1 o’clock on the
morning of March 12.
JEWELER SHOT IN LEG WHEN
EMPLOYE FIRES AT ROBBERS
CHICAGO, Mar. 23.—H. S. Boynton
a jeweler in the suburb of this city
was shot in the leg as an employe
fired at robbers who were fleeing with
goods valued at $10,000, after intimi
dating four employes, three womer
customers and two children.
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GRAND IGLOO OF
PIONEERS MEET
JUNEAU TODAY
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska. Mar. 23.—A ref
erendum vote by the Pioneers of
Alaska, canvassed by the Grand Igloo,
in session here, showed that its mem
bers favored extending the time of
eligibility for membership, to persons
arriving in the Territory prior to
December 31, 1905. Only three Igloos,
Fairbanks, St. Michael and Tanana,
out of 18 voting on the question, re
turned a majority against it.
The Grand Igloo passed a resolu
tion urging the removal of restrictions
on the sale of salmon caught on the
lower Yukon River; one condemning
the contract system of caring for Alas
ka’s insane persons, and urging di
rect control by the government in an
institution to be established in the
Territory and a third resolution urg
ing the Bureau of Fisheries to employ
pioneers as stream w'atchmen instead
of bringing in non-residents for such
work.
The final session of the Grand Ig
loo is scheduled for today.
THIRTY LOSE LIVES WHEN
TWO MAIL TRAINS COLLIDE
NEW ORLEANS, March 23—Thir
ty persons lost their lives in a
wreck early today when two fast
mail trains of the Southern Pacific
colided during a fog at Richoc, Lou
isiana.
VANCOUVER CONSUMES LARGE
QUANTITY OF LIQUOR
_
| VANCOUVER, March 23— More
beer w'as consumed yesterday than
in any day for years, on account of
eighteen hotel proprietors being giv
en a license to sell the beverage by
the glass.
NO LEGISLATION
PASSED TODAY
(Special to The Gateway)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Mar. 23—When
the Legislature completed the twen
tieth day of its session Saturday, but
one bill, the deficiency appropriation,
had become a law. Thirty-four bills
and two memorials had been intro
| duced up to that time, the lightest leg
islative load on record.
Saturday, the Senate passed the Jen
sen resolution, inviting Chas. E. Bun
nell, president of the Alaska college,
to appear before the Legislature and
make known the needs of the college.
; BON MARCHE ROBBER
SEVERELY BEATEN WHEN
CAUGHT THIEVING IN JAIL
SEATTLE, March 23.—J. M. Doo
ley, one of the four Bon Marche de
fendants w’ho was convicted of the
robbery, was severely beaten and
manhandled in the county jail by six
ty prisoners, who caught him stealing
from his cellmates the second time.
EIDER LEAVES FOR SEWARD
TO MAKE REPAIRS TO BOAT
DUTCH HARBOR, March 23.—The
Eider left here for Seward Saturday
to make repairs to her engines. On
the boat is Dr L. Van Volkenberg,
scientist in charge of the govern
ment fox farms on the Pribilof is
lands.
COOK INLET KID WINS
BOUT OVER M’CARTHY
ANCHORAGE, March 23.—“Kid Mc
Carthy” Bortz, is out of the hospital
today where he went Friday night
when the “Cook Inlet Kid”, Walter
Cleghorn, kayoed him in the third
round.
WINS BET COULD DRINK
PINT OF WHISKEY; FOUND
DEAD IN HIS BACKYARD
YONKERS, New York, March 23
Barney Williams was found dead in
his back yard here today after win
ning a bet he could drink a pint of
whiskey without stopping.
LEYDEN, Holland, March 23.—This
old-world town has just celebrated
the 350th anniversary of the found
ing of its famous university.
Upon Queen Wilhelmina was con
ferred the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws, and the women stu
dents presented her with the first
tulips of the season.
LOWELL CREEK
PROJECT READY
FOR CONGRESS
(From Juneau Empire)
The project for the control of Low
ell Creek, Seward, for the protection
of government property and the town
from floods and overflows is now in
shape for Congressional action, ac
cording to Colonel James G. Steese,
President of the Alaska Road Commis
sion. The report of Col. Steese re
commending the expenditure of $120,
000 for a flume to divert the waters
of the creek has finally been approved
by the War Department and the De
partment of Interior and a favorable
report to Congress has been ordered
by the House Committee on Territo
ries.
“Chairman Curry of California is
strongly in favor of the work and will
push the bill introduced by Delegate
Sutherland,” said Col. Steese. “Had
Mr. Curry not been confined to his bed
by illness during all of January and
February, I believe the bill could have
been pushed through this session in
spite of the legislative jam.”
“The first report on this project was
submitted in 1918 by Walter W. Lu
kens, who was then employed by the
City of Seward. In 1922 the Alaskan
Engineering Commission made an ;
elaborate report, signed by Col. Mears j
recommending a rock fill dam. tunnel
and flume, at a cost of $340,505, for
the first construction. The House
Committee on Territories held hear
ings in 1923 and 1924, at which Gen
eral Richardson, Major Gotwals and
myself appeared. Finally at the sug
gestion of Mr. Curry, the Secretary
of Interior asked us to make a new
report at the expense of the Alaska
Railroad. This was done last fall, and
has now finally been approved. It con
templates that the work shall be done
under the supervision of the Alaska
Road Commission.
“During the past ten years the City
of Seward has expended S42,000; the
Seward Light & Power Co. an equal
amount, and the Alaska Railroad over
$41,000, or a total of over $125,000, to
repair flood damage due to the va
garies of this stream. In addition to
the City, the Light Plant, and the
Alaska Railroad, government prop
erty pertaining to the Department of
Justice, the Alaska Road Commission,
and the Signal Corps lies within the
endangered area.”
U. S. Must Be Prepared
For Coming Wars Says
Retired Rear Admiral
NEW YORK, March 23.—“There
will be an increasing probability for
a foreign war within the next twen
ty years, therefore the United States
must always maintain a state of rea
sonable preparedness for war”, Rear
Admiral Fiske, retired, declared in
an address at the political club of
the Columbia University. He ex
plained that the increasing foreign
trade in the next twenty years means
“increasing liability of conflict with
competing nations, because of the
enormous amount of money involved”
826 KILLED, 2930
INJURED IN STORM
CHICAGO. Mar. 23.— Revised
tornado casualties, today are giv
en as 826 dead and 2930 injured.
It is estimated the dead will run
up over 1.000 when all reports
are in.
M URPHYSBORO, 111., March 23 —
Because most of Murphysboro’s
churches were wrecked or damaged
in the recent tornado, union services
were held yesterday morning in two
protestant churches “to pray for the
patience and strength to rebuild the
community and to ask for light to
see the glory to come from all the
grief ”
M URPH YSBORO, March 23.—S. J
Howell, contractor, who had driven
an ambulance for twenty-six consec
utive hours, took advantage of a lull
in the rescue work to gain a few
minutes sleep in a casket in one of
the morgues. He was awakened by
the touch of a hand on his arm and
the sound of a woman’s voice saying
“is this one of the bodies.” He leap
ed to the floor assuring the fright
ened onlookers that he was very much
alive.
FIVE PERSONS LOST
IN TENEMENT FIRE
NEW YORK, March 23.—Five per
sons including two women and two
children lost their lives in a fire
which destroyed a tenement house
occupied by eleven families, early
today. Officials say the fire was
the work of pyromaniacs who set fire
to a baby carriage in a ground hall
way.
RANCHER KILLS 2;
COMMITS SUICIDE
MILES CITY. Mont., Mar. 23.—A
searching party which visited the
ranch of J. W. Stacey, a one-armed
man, near Mizpah, on the Powder
River, found the bodies of John W.
Kemp and son. James, killed Satur
day. when the Kemps went to Stacey’s
ranch to get a load of hay. Stacey
committed suicide after the double
murder.
BLANCHE COLEMAN GETS
SIX TO TEN YEARS IN PEN
SEATTLE, March 23.—John Sou
das, pardoned murderer of Blanche
Coleman, was sentenced from (5 to 10
years for breaking jail in 1917.
GEN. PERSHING TO
HEAD COMMISSION
WHITEHOUSE, Washington, D. C\,
Mar. 23—The Whitehouse announced
today that General John J. Pershing
had been made head of the commis
sion which will oversee the Tacna*
Arica plebiscite under the Chilean -
Peruvian arbitration award. Pershing
recently visited South America.
BODIES TAKEN FROM MINE
FAIRMONT, W. Va., Mar. 21.—Sev
en bodies have been recovered from,
the mine in which an explosion oc
curred last Tuesday. A recheck of
the missing men show that thirty are
yet trapped in the workings.
Chamber of Deputies
Give Vote Confidence
PARIS, Mar. 21—The Chamber of
deputies today gave Herriott and his
cabinet a vote of confidence by 327 to
95 on the government’s policy in re
gard to religious questions.