VOLUME XVIII
NUMBER 255 _ ^ [„
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
Frday, uctoDer 12, about 2 o'clock
w .iu the afternoon, a heavy gale struck
the town of Kanatak, accompanied by
an unusually high tide, which, la*ned
by the storm, piled the seas in with
overwhelming force. The lower side
of front street was badij damaged,
the buildings, some twenty in number
being moved from their foundations,
and deposited by the waves across on
second street. Armstronfl and Hin
ton’s big warehouse was moved tiom
its foundation and swept over on to
the Nielson lot between first and sec
ond street, together with the launch
Blazer and the company s barge.
The Associated Oil Company’s big
100 ton barge now lies alongside of
Charles Madsen’s store.
The Ocean View House, owned b>
Billy Rexshaw, was moved up me
credit about 1000 yaius.
( win. Lee's barn was blown away,
with all his feed and harnesses, entail
ing great loss.
Mrs. Beede’s bath-house was moved
over into the creek. It broke in two
and sbe lost all she had.
Bradshaw’s restaurant was moved
across the street and damaged.
The cabin of Tom Dodge was moved
back from the street and damaged.
Larson’s lumber yard was not dam
aged.
Mr. Evans lost twenty tons ot coal
piled upon the beach, and Armstrong
and Hinton lost 40 tons.
g Chas. Madsen was the heaviest los
er his stock being damaged badly by
water. Several tons ot sugar were
saturated with salt water.
Gabe Santos and Bob McIntosh were
not damaged, and Chas. Bowker es
caped by having his building on high
ground.
The U. & I. lunch room, and the
Kanatak Drug store wrere damaged.
The wind blew a heavy gale dUiing
the his tide, piling the waters up to
a height never before seen^by the old
est inhabitant. Debris was piled high
f over the sidewalk on Front street and
' it is estimated that it will take at
least $50,000 to repair the damage to
buildings and stocks.
Damage Along Coast
At Chignik part of the cannery was
washed away, the high tides and seas
doing damage estimated at $20,000.
At Uyak drift and debris are piled
high over the wharf and about the
cannery.
The Heimrich cannery lost the Chi
na building, about a foot of water go
ing over the cannery floor.
. SENATOR INESLET *5
LEAVES FOR WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—Senator Wes
ley Jones departed lor Washington
early today because he had to see the
commerce commtttee which will be
charged with the duty of preparing a
pprogram dealing with the Alaskan
fisheries. He wants to be on ground
well before the session of congress
opens.
* OVERCOAT OF B. C. FORBES
( STOLEN WHILE AT LUNCHEON
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—The overcoat
of B. C. Forbes was stolen this after
noon from his chair on the mezzanine
floor of the Washington hotel while
the noted financial writer was at
luncheon.
FORMER MAYOR SALT LAKE
K$ILLED WHILE HUNTING
^ SALT LAKE, Oct. 18.—Edmund A.
Bock, former mayor of Salt Lake, was
accidentally shot and killed while
hunting ducks near here today.
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mbeven ill from
I SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—Thirty-seven
persons, women and men delegates
1 to the King county Parents-Teacliers
| Association fell violently ill, presu
mably from eating creamed peases at
'a luncheon at the Ronald scliool
| house north of the city. All will re
I cover.
FLOOD WATERS DRIVE MANY
FROM HOMES IN THE STATES
—
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 18
Fifteen thousand residents were driv
i en from their homes on the south
side of the city today by flood ^ya
| ters from the North oFrk of the Ca
nadian river. Continued heavy rains
have swollen the rivers in Oklahoma
' to the danger point.
ffitiili :
ns STMoe
SURE TO COME
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Predict
ing the approach of the day when
Congress will give full recognition to
Alaska’s claims to statehood, Gov
ernor Scott C. Bone today sent a mes
sage of felicitations and cheer to the
Young Men’s Business Club and those
participating in “Alaska work.” in Se
attle. He said in part: “I truly be
lieve that the population tide is now
turning and that Alaska within a few
Wears w-ill be able to present irresist
ible claims to congress for statehood.
Administrative reforms are impending
which w-ill hasten the realization ol
I Alaska’s dreams.”
GEN. El M. JOHNSON,
WORLD IRE DEAD
SCOTLAND NECK, Oct. 18.—Gen
eral Evan M. Johnson, aged 70, of the
Seventh division in France during the
wTorld w-ar, died in Paris Saturday.
OFFICIAL SOCIETY INTERESTED
IN MRS. HARDING’S MOVE
TO NATIONAL CAPITAL
!
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Official
society of Washington is displaying
much interest in the announcement of
Mrs. Harding that she will spend the
winter and spring here. She will live
in a ten room apartment near the
home of Woodrow Wilson.
GOVERNOR GENERAL WOOD’S
MESSAGE RECEIVED IN SILENCE
MANILA, Oct. 18.—When Governor I
^General Leonard Wood completed1
•reading his 50,000 wTord annual mes- j
sage to the Filipino legislature today j
there was no sound of approval or of I
disapproval, and he marched out in!
.deathly silence.
TROTZKY HAS CANCER STOMACH
MUNISH, Oct. 18.—Dr. Saurbach, a
! noted German surgeon, is proceeding
to Moscow by airplain to treat Leon
j Trotzky for cancer of the stomach.
! HGED TEXICIUIS: FIGHT
DEADLY REVOLVER DUEL
JEFFERSON, Texas, Oct. 18.—B. B.
Rogers, 64, and W. B. Proctor, 69,
sheriff and constable respectively, of
Marion county, fought a pistol duel in
the streets of the town today, and
both are dead. The row started over
the right to serve court papers.
COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOD. N. '
MRS. WOODROW WILSON VISITS THE WHITE HOUSE
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the former President of the United States,
who for the first time since she herself was “First Lady ol the Land,”
stepped across the threshold of The White House to pay a personal visit to
Mrs. Calvin Cooliuge, wife of the ne w President.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The air
service is occupied with the prelimi
nary details of an around the world
airplane flight next summer. It has
announced a tentative route covering
29,000 miles. The route as prest plan
ned is from Washington to Dayton,
Cheyenne, Salt Lake, Boise, Seattle,
Yakutat, Alaska, Aleutian islands,
Attu Island, Japan, China, India, Tur
key, London, Aberdeen, Scotland, Ice
land, Greenland, Eastern Canada, New
York and Washington.
WOULD ENFORCE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Criticis
ing the speech of Governor Pinchot
of Pennsylvania for calling upon the
President to handle the prohibition
laws of Pennsylvania, Henry J. Allen,
former goverenor of Kansas, in a
speech delivered here last night said:
“If I ever run for governor of the
commonwealth and there was a city
in that commonwealth which openly
defied me with the dictum that all sa
loons would not close, that city would
awaken next morning to the sound of
bugles and its citizens would go to
bed to the music of taps. The troops
would remain there until the laws
were obeyed and all saloons were
closed.”
Pinchot in his speech had called on
the Federal government to handle the
situation in Philadelphia where 130
saloons were openly defying the law
and refusing to close.
One of the best dances of the season
will be given by the Seward' Orchestra
in A. B. hall Saturday night.
Boys* Slickers and Rain Hats at
Brown & Hawkins. tf
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Wealthy
Americans who violate the eighteenth
amendment and those constitutional
provisions designed to protect our
pproperty,” declared Borah this after
noon, “are both traveling the road
of lawlessness and sowing the seeds
of destruction and undermining the
whole fabric of law and order.”
The Senator spoke before the Citi
zenship conference, on “Shall the Con
stitution of the United States Be Nul
lified.”
BOY SCOUTS PLACE WREATH
ON SEATTLE STATUE SEWARD
SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—Boy Scouts of
this city today placed a wreath on
Seward’s statue in Volunteer Park as
a special feature of Alaska Day.
Alaska W eek is being observed in
Seattle under the auspices of the
Young Men’s Business Club. The at
tendance at the exhibit of Alaska
products is very gratifying.
JAMES CAR RUT HER.3 IN PORT
The Canadian steamship James Car
ruthers which is in port today taking
on coal, hails from Prince Rupert.
The Carruthers was built in Grimsby,
England, on the east coast, on the
river Humbrey, which is the largest
fishing port in the world, having a
fleet of over 3000 fishing steamers.
The Carruthers took on four carloads
or 120 tons of coal to be used in her
boilers.
Dance Saturday night, A. B. hall.
H. S. Balderston, president and
manager of the Bank of Seward, ar
rived from Anchorage on the North
western and will remain a few days
on business matters.
Dan Ross, deputy marshal at Una
laska was a passenger for Seward on
Hhe Starr, taking the Northwestern
for Valdez.
School Shoes for boys; made of
leather. Brown & Hawkins. tf
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18.—Plans
for the marriage of Scott C. Bone, jr.,
to Lora Culberson, an Omaha school
teacher, became known here today. s
,Mr. Bone is a son of Governor ana
Mrs. Scott C. Bone of Alaska.
GERMAN MOB TRIES FORCE
WAY INTO STOCK EXCHANGE
LONDON, Oct. 18.—A mob tried to
force its way into the Berlin stock
exchange this morning, says a dis
patch from the German capital, and
also tried to storm the city hall but
; the police mastered the situation aft
i er fierce fighting in which many of the!
! rioters and many police were injured.
COOLIE TO SEE
i
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The na
tion looks to President Coolidge to as
sert and maintain the majesty of the
Maw, the Citizenship Conference de
clared today in a message to the
American people. The convention ap
proved of ways and means for the en
forcement of the eighteenth amend
ment and prohibition act.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL KILLED
BY TACOMA INTE R U RBAIM
SEATTLE, Oct. 18— Revera Thomp
son, 17, a high school girl, was run
down and killed by a Seattle-Tacoma
interurban train.
Nels Eckern, 34, a mechanic, was
run down and killed by an auto.
COOLIDGE WILL CONFER
SATURDAY WITH GOVERNORS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—President
Coolidge will confer Saturday with
the governor’s of various states on
prohibition enforcement.
SECRETARY OF LABOR DAVIS
TRIED TO FLY TO CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18.—Secre
tary of Labor Davis attempted to fly
to Chicago today to meet Lloyd
George, but was forced down soon aft
er leaving the field on account of a
heavy fog. «
MASONS WILL GIVE DANCE
AND LUNCHEON NOV. 28TH
On Wednesday, November 28th, the
combined lodges of Masons and East
ern Stars, will give a dance and buf
fet luncheon to their friends, in Odd
Fellows hall. It will be an invitation
affair, and one of the best of the sea
son. The date is the evening before
Thanksgiving.
TODAY IS “ALASKA DAY”
Today is Alaska Day, and it is be
ing celebrated in the schools of the
city by special exercises.
LLOYD GEORGE CANCELS
DINNER BECAUSE OF ILLNESS
CHICAGO, Octfl 17.—Lloyd George
cancelled a dinner engagement at the
Chicago club tonight because of ill
ness. The dinner was to have been
given by Charles G. Dawes.
CANADAIN STEAMER COMES
GRIEF GOING TO KENNECOTT
SEATTLE, Oct. 16.—The Canadian
salvage steamship, Algerine, proceed
ing to the wreck of the American mo
tor ship Kennecott, on a reef at Gra
ham Island, was half wrecked in the
Queen Charlotte group and is being
towed to Esquimult for repairs.
SAN FRRANCISCO, Oct. 18.—De
velopments arising in the convention
of the American Legion reveal that
many delegates to the American Le
gion convention are members of the
Ku Klux Klan, and trouble is antici
pated in case any ,resolution censur
ing or denouncing this unpatriotic or
ganization are introduced on the floor
of the convention.
A purely American immigration bill
administered solely by Americans, is
needed in the United States, Secre
tary of Labor Davis told the delegates
in a speech today, adding that Amer
ica must be for America against the
world.
The committee on resolutions and
American Legion policy are confront
ed with a resolution which would
place the Legion on record as con
demning the Ku Klux Klan and oppo
nents are attempting to reach an
agreement in committee on resolu
tion so it will not reach the floor.
Victoria threw the American Legion
conventtion into an uproar this after
noon smashing all precedents by in
viting the order to meet on Canadian
soil in order that American veterans
might fraternize with the old Cana
dian comrades in arms.
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SEATTLE, Oct. IS.—Nellie Brown
Lowe, a former Seattle school teach
er, whiskey smuggler and bootlegger,
was bound over to the Federal court
on a charge of violating the National
prohibition act. She told the arrest
ing officers that she had turned law
breaker to support her son.
coolioISlItke
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—President
Coolidge in a reply to Gov. Pin'hot’s
demand that he take charge of en
forcement of the dry laws was to the
effect that he had no intention of per
sonally taking charge of prohibition
enforcement as this was a matter de
volving upon the officials of the sepa
! rate states.
B. L. Schneider, superintendent of
the experiment station at Matannska,
was a through passenger on the boat
last night for 'he States, where he
will visit relatives in Detroit. Mr.
Schneider states that he experienced
a good season this year. M. D. Snod
grass, of Fairbanks, will be in charge
of the farm until he returns.
Paul Denhart, one of tne old timers
of the Caribou creek district, was a
through passenger on the Northwest
ern last night on his wav 10 the big
Outside to spend the winter.
RUSSIA DELIVERS 400,000
TONS OF RYE TO GERMANY
BERLIN, Oct. 18.—Russia is deliv
ering four hundred thousand tons of
rye to Germany, from this year’s crop.
The oil tanker Standard Service ar
rived in port today and is filling the
tanks of the local plant with fuel oil
and by-products.
Mackinaw Coats for School Boys;
the kinds that stand the rough wear
Brown & Hawkins. tf