VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 135.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1924.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
C00L1DGE SIGNS BILL LIMITING SALMON
FISHING IN SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
PRESIDENT TODAY SIGNS BILL ESTABLISHING RESERVE
AND CLOSED SEASON ON SALMON—SEVERAL
AMENDMENTS MADE TO BILL
WASHINGTON, I). C., June 7—The long drawn out fisheries
eont rowrsy was ended today when President Cooli.;ge signed the bill
to establish fisheries reserves in Alaska and to effect measures to con
serve the salmon fisheries of the Northwest. This bill was bittlerly
J'o^uht by Delegate Sutherland and others who insisted that it ga\t*
what is called the Big Four a monopoly on the fishing industij of
Alaska, shutting out the smaller concerns. The Sutherland amend
ment was passed by the House, but with further amendments which
would have prohibited purse seines as well as traps', throwing the fish
ing into the hands of the gill netters.
It was contended by the Canners that this provision would have
cut the Southwestern Alaska pack less than half, with a reduction of
about one-third in Central Alaska and a slight curtailment in west
ern Alaska. In all the Sutherland amendments would have elimi
nated about 157 traps out of 397 in the territory and 319 out of 318
purse seining areas.
When first introduced in the Sen
dee the bill was referred to Senator
Wesley Jones of Washington, who has
had considerable experience in fisher
ies legislation. It was reported out
April 28 with the destructive amend
ment eliminated with some modifica
tion in the section providing a week
ly closed season iu Bristol Bay.
The presentation of the bill in the
senate was made the occasion for a
bitter attack by the Hearst publica
tions, which quoted extensively from
the statements from Delegate Dan
Sutherland, and Senator King of Utah.
These articles contained an amazing
mass of misrepresentations, conceived
T.ith the idea of involving Secretary
Hoover in a fisheries scandal, provok
ing several clear-cut and forceful re
plies from him.
President Coolidge has taken an ac
tive interest in the bill and urged its
prompt passage.
ALBANIAN FIELDS
STREWN WITH DEAD
RESULT OF BATTLE
LONDON, J-ine 7.—The battlefields
iif ore Tirana, the Albanian tap.t'i,
, m strewn with dead, as a result of
a desperate bavt1 j between government
forces and roc deviations. The o ’..-uni
ties reach into the thousands.
WASHINGTON TREATY
WITH CANADA SIGNED
COT ,U MB o' . ,r. • 7— It was an
n^i Iced tod-./ that the treaty .tesigne i
to suppress snuggling of liquor and
iii.jcotics across the Canadian boun
dary, had beer signed. The prohibi
ts n convention went on record as fav
, r^ng the election -'f officers who will
=t«. that th» buv-i are upheld.
GENERAL MAUN CRAIG
CHIEF OF CALVARY
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WASHINGTON, June 7.—Brigadier
General Malin Craig now in. Manila,
las been named chief -f cavaairy by
’resident Coolidge.
Missouri Man Choice
For Dry Presidency
COLUMBUS, O.; June 7.—H. I\
"arris, of Clinton, Mo., was nora
lated for the presidency by the Prohi- j
ition National convention.
ecretary of Senator
Dill Has Much Booze
LAYTON, O., June 7.—The motor
•ip of 'Frank Bell, secretary of Sena
>r Dill, en route to Seattle, was brot i
. an abrupt hall today when officers |
und eight gal lour cf whiskey in his j
ir. Bell Wr. fined $100.
ritish Naval Fleet
Greeted by Aviators
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HONOLULU, H. T., June 7.—Thirty
nerican air planes greeted the big
•itish naval squadron which arrived
re today on its way to Vancouver,
itidcflColumbia.
YUKON SAILS TODAY
WITH 342 PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, June 7—The Yukon left
this morning with 312 passengers on
board including 46 excursionists. In
the list are crews for the cannerier
at Crab Ba,y, Sawmill Bay, Port Ash
ton, Drier Bay, and fifty Latouche
miners. Seward cabin passengers are
as follows:
R. F. Mellor, M. Woldson, Barnes,
Jerry Celleban, William Blackwell, J.
Kerch, Jack McCord, A. Allen, A. J.
Ringland and wife, George F. Fisher,
Miss V. Roberts, Miss C. Davis, 1.
Seligman, Mrs. F. Ward, Mrs. W. R.
Shellhorn, I). W. Branch, W. Shell
norn, Mrs. S. W. Brandt, B. Bortz, S.
Enon, Margaret Collins, G. W. James
and wife, Miss D. Bellson, Miss and
Master Arakoff, Donald and Herbert
Brandt. Edith McGragor, Mrs. A. B.
Agater E. Nightengale, and wife, Mrs.
G. Seifert, F. C. Dillon, Julius Ander
son, A. Wentzel, H. S. Earner, Clark
Vistal, Mrs. M. Hadley, F. Hasleman,
H. E. Crouse. W. Seerik, Master Hunt
and Isabel Rounstein, Mrs. Bortz,
Miss Bortz, Mrs. R. B. Huntley, Roy
Hunter, Dr. Boynton and wife, B. E.
Robinson and wife, Mrs. H. C. Arak
off and nine steerage.
CHICAGO SEWERS ARE
FLOODED BY BEERi
CHICAGO, June 7—Geysers of real
beer, spurting five feet into the air
for more than an hour last night and
flooding the sewers in the vicinity of,
the Manhattan brewery, furnished the
basis for police investigation today
that advance warning had been given
of a contemplated raid. More than i
one hundred thousand gallons of beer
was drained from brewery vats. An
alysis showed a high alcoholic content,
officers said.
Concerted drive by police and fed
eral agents to close every brewery in
northern Illinois which is manufactur
ing beer of illegal alcoholic content
has resulted in prices having jumped
from $45 and $50 a barrel to $65 and
up to $100, police say. It is also re
ported that a defense fund of $150,000
was being raised for those arrested.
American Films Barred
In Japanese Theatres
TOKIO, June 7.—Gangs of Japanese
tonight forced several motion picture
theatres showing American films to
close. Anti-American feeling has
reached a serious pitch heere ,and jin
goists are working to plunge the na
tion into war with the United States.
Japanese troops are in readiness to
march to the aid of city officials in
case any serious disturbances arise.
AMERICAN AVIATORS
HAVE REACHED AMOY
AMOY, China, June 7.—The Ameri
can round the world flying squadron
arrived here today from Shanghia,
no unusual features being encounter
ed on the trip. Chinese officials are
giving the Americans every courtesy,
and at the rate of progress Lieuten
ant Smith expects to each England by
July 4th, where a stop will be made
to place the planes in firstclass con
dition for the flight over the Atlantic.
Seattle Labor Council
Opposes Klan Measure
SEATTLE, June 7—Reiterating the
position taken by the American Fed
eration of Labor at its annual conven
tion in Portland last summer, the Se
attle Central Labor council Wednes
day evening went on record against
the Ku Klux Klan anti-private school
measure No. 49. The labor men declare
they are unalterably opposed to the
law which would compel, under jail
sentence, every parent to send his or
her children to the public school, be
cause such a measure would be anoth
er restriction of individual freedom.
The measure was denounced as un
American, unconstitutional and calcu
lated to cause dissention and strife.
THREE-TOED HORSE MAY
HAVE BEEN A VICTIM
OF FOOT-MOUTH MALADY
SPOKANE, Wash. ,June 7—The
theory that the prehistoric three-toed
horse, known to have roamed the Am
erican continent in great numbers at
one time, may have been exterminated
by the foot and mouth disease, has
been advanced by Professor T. A. Bon
ser cui*ator of the Spokane public mu
seum and head of the department of
biology at the North Central high
school here. According to Mr. Bonser
the only logical explanation of the ani
mal’s complete extinction is that an
epidemic swept over the continent.
Many Liquor Dealers
Escaped Prosecution,
Probers are Informed
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7—
When the Harding administration
took office in 1921 prohibition agents
were engaged in cleaning up the liquor
situation in Washington, the senate
Daugherty committee was told today,
but thirty-four persons and places pur
veying intoxicants all escaped pi’ose
cution .
H. J. Burton, former agent for the
prohibition unit, but now in the ser
vice of the Governor of Ohio, testified
he was one of the men assigned to
the work late in February, 1921, a
few days before the inauguration.
With five associates and the local
police he made the arrests, he said, and
sei'ved warrants on “bootleggei's op
erating mainly through the hotels.”
All the cases were good enough for
conviction, Burton asserted, but the
persons arrested were allowed to for
feit small bonds and in some cases to
return to their occupation undisturbed.
FRISCO NEWSPAPER
HAS BEEN
SOLD
SSAN FRANCISCO, June 7.—The
San Francisco Bulletin, long the prop
erty of R. A. Crowthers, has been
purchased by Wallace M. Aleexander,
the Hawaiian sugar king, and a cor
poration of rich San Franciscans.
FLOATING HERRING
PLANT SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, June 7.—In tow of the
tug Forest T. Crosby, the barkentine
Bianca, sailed from Prince William
SSound to become a floating herring
plant. The vessel will be anchored
near Latouche.
Courtland Dines Says
He’s Confirmed “Bach.”
SAN FRANCISCO, June 7—Edna
Purviance, film beauty, contrary to re
ports, is not going to marry Courtland
Dines, wealthy Denver clubman, who
was shot by Horace Greer, chauffeur,
in the presence of Miss Purviance and
Mabel Normand in Los Angeles New
Year’s Day.
Dines, who is here to visit his fath
er ,a hospital patient following a fall
on the Del Monte golf club, declares
he never expects to marry. He says
not even the most beautiful woman in
the world could become his bride and
that he is a bachelor for life—abso
lutely.
MEXICANS KILL U. S.
MINING OPERATOR
NOGALES, Ariz., June 7.—Charles
F. Sturtevant, an American mining
man, was shot to death at Mazatlan,
Mexico, yesterday, the assassins es
caping.
PARENTS OF MURDERERS
WILL NOT INTERFERE
WITH PUNISHMENT SONS
CHICAGO, June 7.—The statement
that their millions would not be used
to -avc Nathan Leopold and Richard
Loeb, self confessed slayers of Rob
ert Franks, the 14 year old boy whose
body was found concealed under a cul
vert In South Chicago, was made to
day by the fathers of the accused, who
said the law must take its course.
Despite the high social positions of
the accused youths, public sentiment
is so strongly in favor of their being
made to suffer for their crimes, that
the prosecutor today said unusual
speed would be made in the trial.
Young Loeb who has been in a hos
pital in a state of collapse following
his arrest for the murder, has been
retained to the jail.
Miniature Toronado
At Spokane Carries
Small Building Off
SPOKANE, June 7—A, miniature
tornado played a freak trick yester
day when it lifted a 60-foot frame
building into the air and deposited it
possibly seventy-five yards away with
out injuring other property except two
power lines which stood in its way.
The garage stood in the rear of the
officers’ barracks at Fort Wright. Two
officers were inside the garage paint
ing a car.
ASKS WEALTH TO SHARE
IN WAR CONSCRIPTION
SPRINGFIELD, June 7—An amend
ment was adopted by the Methodist
conference, demanding the conscrip
tion of wfealth and labor as a counter
part of any future conscription on hu
man life in war.
HENRY FORD SUED
FOR ELEVEN MILLION
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7—
Claims against Henry' Ford for eleven
million were presented by Edward E.
Huff who asserted that he was the in
ventor of a magneto used for automo
biles. Huff states that Ford argeed to
pay him $2.50 for each magneto used,
but that he only received ten thousand
dollars. He claims that he should have
been paid for the use of the magneto
on 4,500,000 automobiles.
C00L1DGE EXERCISES
HIS POWER OF VETO
WASHINGTON, June 7.—The pos
tal salary' increase bill was vetoed by'
President Coolidge today with the de
claration that government extrava
gance must stop.
Congress Will Adjourn
Tonight at Seven O’Clock
WASHINGTON, June 7.—Congress
convened an hour earlier today to
make ready for the adjournment set
for 7 o’clock tonight.
U. S. WRIT, FOUR FEET LONG
AMAZES CANADIAN COURT
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 7—The
endorsement of a writ in a Supreme
court action in Canada is usually four
short lines typed on the back of the
document. Judge the surprise, there
fore, when the Supreme Court Regis
trar at Victoria, B. C.. received a writ
with an endorsement running to a
lineal measure of four feet two inches.
The action is one by the Hin I Rolfe
Company as plaintiff against the Bar
quentine Fuako Company, of San
Francisco, as defendant over $1.0,812 in
a disputed account.
FAMOUS LAVA BEAR IS
CAUGHT IN OREGON!
BEND, Ore, June 7—The Lava bear j
made famous by Irvin S. Cobb, on his
tour of central Oregon three years
ago has been captured alive. The first
living specimen in captivity so far as
known, is in the possession of Alfred
Andrews, Silver Lake trapper.
The Lava bear, Andrews says, is a
dwarf grizzly. His specimen is about
two years old, but is only 30 inches
long and 18 inches high. The species
has long been thought to be extinct.
Andrews has been seeking a specimen
of the bear for nine years.
Gateway Be Enlarged
Within Short Time
Owing to greatly increased foreign
advertising space and also an increase
in local advertising due to many new
business houses starting up in Sew
ard, The Gateway will be enlarged as
soon as the chases can arrive from the
states to an tight page five-column
paper giving our readers about double
the reading matter now given.
During the past months the daily
has been compelled to turn down ad
vertising and throw it to the Saturday
paper often at a loss ,on account of
lack of space. The change will be ben
eficial to advertisers in that it will
make for better position ? for the ads.
This size paper will continue thru
the summer months and probably thru
the winter if advertising continues as
it is .That Sew'ard is growdng is evi
denced by the/ increasd circulation of
the Gateway whch has jumped up sev
eral hundred to the westward and
probably fifty in the town since the be
ginning of the year.
The management has no desire as
yet to make money with the paper, but
lather prefers to build up a large
plant capable of handling the larger
kinds of jobs now' going out of the
territory, or badly botched by being
run on inferior machinery. The Gate
way plant at the present time is one
of the best, if not the best in the Ter
ritory, and better than anything found
Outside in towns of less than twenty
thousand population. During the past
year about $8,000 new machinery has
been installed. The run of wrork secur
ed from Outside the town has placed
many hundreds of dollars in Seward,
and the popularity of our work and
our prices are steadily increasing our
output.
The enlargement of the Gateway
wall giv us opportunity to elaborate
on stories and news service now held
down to skeleton form, and will also
give us room foi better display of ad
vertising.
We thank you for your patronage
and believe that you will not be dis
appointed in the newr and larger Gate
way.
ARMY WILL NOT
ABANDON OLD POST
ON LYNN CANAL
SECRETARY WEEKS ADVISES JU
NEAU CHAMBER THAT ALL
TROOPS BE KEPT THERE
JUNEAU, June 7—After careful
consideration the War Department has
decided not to abandon Chilkoot Bar
racks and to retain there, at least for
the present, the troops detailed to the
post, the local Chamber of Commerce
was informed today by ware from John
W. Weeks.
The proposal to abandon the Haines
Post was made known to the cham
ber early this year and it at once pro
tested, wiring direct to the War De
partment and sending 'copies to many
members of Congress and other com
mercial organizations.
Japanese Cabmel Has
Tendered Resignation
TOKIO, June 7.—The Kiyoura cabi
net tendered its resignation today, the
aged premier indicating that he ac
cepts the responsibility for the diplo
matic blunder in connection with the
exclusion of Japanese from the United
States.
Amendment to Dial
Bil! Been Defeated
FASHINGTON, June 7.—The Dial
amendment to the omnibus pension;
bill increasing pensions of Spanish |
American war veterans was eliminated
in confereyce today because President
Coolidge has expressed his unalterable
opposition to the bill on account of its
increasing the expenses of the govern
ment.
NEW YORK, June 7—Although she
is unmarried and declares that she
probably never will be married, Miss
Estelle Scheyer, who has come from
Germany to lecture at Smith college
on art, attaches the prefix “Mrs.” to
her name when she travels. A recent
adopted German law permits it. It is
of great help to the unmarried women
in the business field to be know as
“Mrs.” she says, and saves her con
siderable annoyance when she travels.
CLOSED SEASON FOR
HALIBUT FISHING IS
SIGNED BY COOLIDGE
FISHING BE PROHIBITED FROM
NOVEMBER 18 TO FEBRUARY
15 OF EACH YEAR
WASHINGTON, June 7.—President
Coolidge signed the bill today to reg
ulate halibut fishing in North Pacific
waters ,a closed season being estab
lished each year between November
IS at. ! February 15, u-uer the Sen
ate bill passed yesterday ofte'T.oon by
the House. The bill is designed to
protect halibut during the spawning
season :n the Territorial waters of
Canada and the United Stales, as des
ignated by the recent fisheries treaty
signed at Ottawa.
Tiie Canadian senate on April 10
passed a bill repealing Secti a Nine
of the act to provide a close 1 season
on 1 atdfic halibut, c';c same bill hav
ing V en passed by Urn House of Com
mon.-. Section Nine w’as held objec
tion;.\oi« by the Uni.M States and was
the roly obstacle to the unqualified
ratification of the bd;but treaty by
*.•'( United States S°raee While the
urgeu. need of legislation on this sub
ject was universal’,, recognized the
two countries hitched over the manner
in which legislation v\ a • tc be en
force.!. For man, years an effort
lias been made to establish a closed
season as it is dec.aied the supply of
fish '•'ill soon become extinct unless
protected.
MANY STEAMERS TO
RUSH JAPANESE TO
AMERICAN SHORES
TOKYO, June 7.—The problem of
returning Japanes residents of the
United States at present in Japan to
America before the exclusion act be
comes effective July 1, has caused the
government to arrange with the ship
ping company for three special ships
to reach America before that date.
REPLY TO PROTEST
WILL BE MADE SOON
WASHINGTON, June 7.—The reply
to the Japanese p’otest against the
excius'oi. was nea’t • ready today and
wi1! l e handed to .he Japanese am
bassador by the Secretary of State.
Seattle Corporation
Pays Taxes to City
SEATTLE, June 7.—The Puget
Sound Light and Power Co., whose
Seattle properties were recently seiz
ed for unpaid taxes, paid $650,000 ac
crued taxes and interest this morning
under protest.
ROBINSON CRUSO’S OLD
MUSKET SOLD AT LONDON
LONDON, June 7—Roibnson Crusos
old flintlock musket, believed to be the
authentic weapon carried by Alexan
der Selkirk during his four year exile
on Juan Fernandez Island, which in
spired De Foes’ celebrated story, was
sold at auction yesterday for 250 lbs.
sterling. The gun bears the inscription
of Selkirk.
CIGARETTE HAT ALLOWS
GIRLS TO CARRY OWN
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7—
The “cigarette” hat, latest novelty in
feminine headgear, made its appear
ance on the bobbed haired members
of the younger fashionable set today.
The hat, shaped like an inverted
flower pot, has on the right side a skill
fully concealed pocket for cigarettes,
while on the left is another pocket in
which a handkerchief or matches may
be carried.
The cigarette had is intended to
solve the problem of where to carry
your own.
Former Resident of
Dawson Dies in South
SEATTLE, June 7—C. M. Stewart,
formerly a resident of Dawson but for
18 years a resident of this city, died
here. He was head of the C. M. C.
Stewart Company, producers'of medi
cal sulphur compounds. He was a
Mason City, Iowa druggist when the
Klondike rush started in 1897 and he
joined the stampede, going to Dawson.