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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 93.
SEWARD,
ALASKA, SATURDAY, April 24, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HUGE CRM HEIRS
CONCLUSION THREE
WEEKS DISCUSSION
OE VOLSTEAD ACT
NO REPORT OF MERITS OR DEME
RITS OF PROHIBITION WILL
BE MADE, CLAIM
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24. (/P)
—Chairman Harreld predicted the
committee would make no report on
the merits or demerits of prohibition
but only on “whatever legislation is
recommended for its enactment.”
The capitol’s largest committee
room was used on the closing day and
couldn’t receive the crowd which gath
ered to see the conclusion of three
weeks of tempestuous discussion. An
drews again urged the passage of ad
ministration measures to strengthen
the Volstead Act, and said “we are
concentrating on the padlock for dis
tributors and getting results. The
policy of employing skilled operators
and paying better salaries is effecting
an improvement in the personnel.”
NEW YORK HOUSE SAYS
SEWARD GATEWAY IS
COMMENDABLE PAPER
FEW PAPERS IN LARGER TOWNS
THAN SEWARD EXCEL
LOCAL DAILY
A few weeks ago The Gateway man
agement sent east to the Intertype
Corporation of New York, several
copies of late issues of The Daily
and Weekly Gateway, solely for one
reason, that of obtaining their opinion
of the local effort. The fact that the
Intertype Corporation are recognized
national authorities on publications
lends much to the letter which fol
lows:
The Seward Daily Gateway
Gentlemen:
The Gateway is commendable ;n
every way. The first page makeup is
interesting and well arranged, and the
press work is exceptionally good. The
matrices and type are well selected
and intelligently handled.
A great many papers reach our
desk, mostly from towns larger and
closer to the printing centers than
Seward, but few of them excel yours.
We are sorry to have missed re
ceipt of that special issue you refer
to. We like to study the makeup and
text of the good papers putside of
New York City and will appreciate
the favor if you will send us a copy
of the forthcoming special.
Yours truly
Intertype Corporation
DETROITER TAKES 10
THE 1 ON SUH
WILKINS AND EILESON STILL UN
HEARD FROM; COMMUNICA
TION MAY BE BAD
FAIRBANKS, April 24. (/p)—Nana
announced the plane Detroiter’s de
parture has been postponed until Sun
day due to the necessity of installing
a new compass. Captain Wilkins is
still unheard from. Operator Mason
said bad communication conditions
may* account for the silence of Wilkins
and radioman Waskey.
YUKON ARRIVES FROM SOUTH
The S. S. Yukon arrived in port
this afternoon at an early hour, many
passengers disembarking and with a
large general cargo. The vessel will
hardly be able to depart for the south
on schedule time, at midnight, owing
to the lateness of her arrival.
LAYS CONCRETE WALK
Pete Ogle, proprietor of Ogle’s gar
age, has laid a concrete sidewalk from
the main entrance of his building to
the corner, making quite an improve
ment on the already fine looking prop
erty.
WILL MAKE HOMESTEAD
SUOVEYS ON PENINSULA
E. D. Calvin, cadestral engineer in
the office of public surveys at Juneau,
is expected to arrive in Seward from
Moose Pass where he has been making
surveys on four or five forest home
steads in the Kenai peninsula dis
trict. Following his local work he
will go over to Kodiak to work on
homesite surveys and also on several
light house reservation sites. Dur
ing the past week Mr. Calvin has been
over in Cordova making an official
survey for the proposed city park site
naer Eyak Lake.
SEWfflWsCOUTS
10 ASSIST CLEANUP OF
COOPERATION OF SCOUTS ASK
ED; DID WONDERFUL WORK
AT BASE BALL PARK
Among the local organizations who
are expected to come to the front next
week, “Cleanup Week,” is the local
troop of Boy Scouts. It is one time
of the year that they are afforded op
portunity to assist in civic work to
the best of advantage. With this in
mind L. V. Ray made the statement
this morning to The Gateway that he,
personally, would appreciate very
much their cooperation all through
next week.
If a Scout sees an unsightly looking
bit of ground, street or yard, cans,
papers or any kind of trash laying
about, it is suggested they take it up
on themselves to tidy things up a bit.
If, in passing someone’s yard, and it
needs cleaning, the scout should call
at the house and ask if assistance
may be given in making things order
ly, and if permission is granted, either
the Scout should immediately start
on the job or notify a few other mem
bers of the troop to help.
The scouts made a great record at
the baseball park two weeks ago. It
is hoped their w'ork this coming week
will at least be as helpful as it was
then. The scouts all over the United
States will win a warm spot in the
hearts of millions of citizens by just
this kind of cooperation. It is a cer
tainty the scoiits of Alaska are not
going to play second fiddle to state
troops.
DEVASTING FLOODS CAUSES A
HEAVY LOSS PROPERTY;
THREE LIVES LOST
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 24. (£>)—
Deaths reported, reached three from
the tornado which swept southeast
ern Oklahoma yesterday. Floods are
continuing to wreck Texas pspperty,
creating heavy damage. The storm
yesterday loosed roofs and felled poles
at Hannibal, Missouri.
OKLAHOMA, April 24. (JP)—Mr.
and Mrs. Monroe Jackson, were kil
led when a tornado, the worst in a 100
years, lifted their farmhouse and car
ried it away in the air.
BASEBALL
National League.
Philadelphia 2, Boston 1.
New York 6, Brooklyn 3.
St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 3.
Cincinnati 1, Chicago 18.
American League.
Washington 9, Philadelphia 6.
Chicago 1, St. Louis 2.
Detroit 3, Cleveland 5.
Boston 1, New York 3.
Pacific Coast League.
Seattle 5, 7; Hollywood 8, 2.
Los Angeles 1, Sacramento 0.
San Francisco 2, Oakland 5.
Portland 4, Missions 5. (14 innings.)
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS
The Daily Gateway, on Mon
day afternoon, will appear in
a new spring dress. The four
page paper has been discon
tiinued, now that winter is
over, and beginning on Monday
an eight-page five-column paper,
will be presented, subject to
your approval. We hope you
will like it.
CHICAGO.—Providing water and
“set-ups” for whiskey cocktails is not
a violation of the dry lanv, a IT. S.
Commissioner ruled yesterday.
LONDON.—Bare knees, rolled hose
and a total raiment weighing a maxi
mum of 30 ounces is to be the sum
mer vogue for women.
ROME.—At Mussilini’s orders, work
men will begin to beautify the city
April 21st, clearing the slums and ex
cavating the forum of the ancient
Roman amphitheatre.
NEW YORK.—James A. Cox, form
er Democratic candidate for president
says he is glad to be out of public
life because its an age of intellectual
dishonesty and hypocricy.
PARIS.—The Duke and Duchess of
Guise, new pretenders to the throne
of France are en route to the Orleans
Chateau in Sicily, the traditional home
of French pretenders.
MEXICO CITY.—The Mexican Arch
bishop made public a letter from the
Pope, deploring the action against the
church of Mexico, but instructing the
Clergy to avoid political participation.
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Elsia Schild
kraut who lost her-American Citizen
ship by marriage to Joseph Schild
kraut, won it back by a Court de
cree.
BERLIN.—The German National As
sociation for the revaluation of the
mark for the U. S. post war loans to
Germany are endangered, unless Ger
many increases her sales.
Tony J. Dimond, grand president of
the Grand Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska,
addressed the members of the local
Igloo at Odd Fellows hall last even
ing choosing as the text of his re*,
marks the report of the recent Grand
Igloo annual meeting at Valdez. Mr.
Dimond’s talk was of some length
and was received with much interest
by the large attendance present.
A long discussion took place be
fore the lodge regarding the Morning
side sanitarium after which a com
mittee was appointed to iinvestigate
certain problems brought to their
attention. The committee selected
were C. Crawford, J. Paulson and
F. Logerquist.
The business meeting adjourned
to Fisher’s Cafe where the evening
was rounded out by a splendid ban
quet.
PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT
There will be a public dance this
evening at Odd Fellows hall under the
auspices of the Jolly Four orchestra.
Owing to the early arrival of the S.
S. Yukon a large crowrd is looked for.
DNDREWS AGAINST SHE
mmrnmi beer
WASHINGTON, April 24. (£>)— Dry
Czar Andrews told the Senate Prohi
bition Committee that he does not
advocate the sale of non-intoxicating
beer.
CHOIR ORGANIZED
A union choir was organized last
evening in St. Peter’s Rectory to sing
in the Episcopal Church at eleven-thir
ty on Sunday mornings and at seven
thirty in the evenings at the Metho
dist Church. It is expected that this
attraction will prove an added induce
ment tending to increase church at
tendance in Seward.
LAST SURVIVOR OF
JOHN BROWN BAND
DIES AT SALII
CIVIL WAR VETERAN WAS A
MEMBER OF BAND OF ANTI
SLAVERY RAIDERS
LIVED LIFE ON HOMESTEAD
One of the Ten Picked Men Select
ed for Famous Harper’s
Ferry Raid
SALINA, Kansas, April 24. (/P)—
Luke F. Parsons, last survivor of the
John Brown bands in the Civil war,
died yesterday.
The celebrated band of anti-slavery
raiders led by John Brown has now
with the death of Luke F. Parsons,
probably all passed to the grave. So
far as known, Parsons was the last
survivor mong Brown’s associates.
He was with John Brown in the
Kansks-Missouri border warfare of
the middle fifties and was one of the
band of ten picked men organized by
Brown in Kansas for the movement
into Virginia, known as the Harper’s
Ferry raid, but was not with Brown
at the time of the actual raid, there
by doubtless escaping the fate that
overtook that zealous leader.
Like Brown, Parsons came from
New England. He wras born at Brook
ville, Mass., June 28, 1831, and ar
rived in Kansas early in 1856, the
country then being in a tumult of free
state agitation. John Brown accom
panied, or preceded, by his five sturdy
sons and a few otiher anti-slavery
zealots, soon made* his appearance
from Ohio and raised his standard,
to which numerous of the Kansas set
tlers, including Parsons, flocked. In
the skirmishes which followed, cul
minating in the battle of Osawatomie,
Parsons participated equally with
Brown and his sons'.
In the fall of 1857, Brown deviulged
to a few trusted friends his plan for
1 freeing the slaves by raising the
standard of revolt in Virginia. From
among the men who had fought with
him in Kansas he picked ten who
were to accompany him on his haz
ardous expedition, Parsons being one
of the number. Brown took his men
to Springdale, Cedar County, Iowa,
paying all expenses from his own
purse, "where the winter was spent
in drilling and laying secret plans. In
the spring, the company proceeded
to Chatam, Canada, and thence, after
a time, to Cleveland, Ohio, on their
way, the men supposed, to make the
actual raid.
At this point, however, Brown’s
supply of money gave out and he
was obliged to postpone the consum
ation of his plans. Instructing his
men to seek work in the vicinity and
hold themselves in readiness for the
call at any moment, he departed and
nothing was heard of him for several
months. Concluding that the move
ment had been abandoned, the men
finally scattered, Parsons joining an
expedition bound for the Pike’s Peak
gold fields. It was while journeying
across Iowa that word came that
Brown had called his men together,
but it was then too late for him to
turn back. News of the disaster at
Harper’s Ferry on October 16, 1859,
and the hanging of John Brown reach
ed him before the end of that year.
Following the Civil war, in which
Parsons served as a Union soldier,
he took up a homestead near the
town of Salina, Kansas, and remain
ed there until his death.
FAIRBANKS ICE GOES OUT
The ice in the Fairbanks slough
went out yesterday afternoon at 12:03
o’clock, according to advices received
this morning. The Nenana ice is still
intact but according to records from
former years the ice in the Tanana
river generally begins to move from
12 to 48 hours later than that at Fair
banks. On some occasions, however,
it has held back from a week to ten
days.
PLANTING GRASS SEED
One of the first to begin cleaning
up around their premises along the
main avenues is Oscar Dahl, proprie
tor of the Seward hotel, who began
early this morning to rake up debris
to the side of the hotel and to prepare
a garden plot. When completed Mr.
Dahl will have a strip of lawn on each
side of his hotel.
MEL CUSTMESON OF
DAWSON DIES ARIZONA
Northerners will learn with regret
of the death of Axel Gustaveson, more
commonly known to his many friends
as “Gus,” who crossed the last divide
recently, in Tucson, Arizona. Last
fall Mr. Gustaveson left Dawson on
account of his health and upon ad
vice of the doctors he journeyed im
mediately to Arizona, where, it was
thought, the climate would be bene
ficial to his condition. The old-tim
er continued to lose ground, however,
and although he was active and about
right up until the day before his
death, pneumonia set in and another
sourdough of the north went “west.”
TO ESTABLISH PUNE
SERVICE OUT SEWARO
REPORT AVIATORS WILL ARRIVE
SEWARD FROM SEATTLE
ABOUT MAY 1
Seward will be the headquarters of
an airplane service unless all local in
formation is wrong. When aviator
Merrill left Seward last Fall for the
states, a few months after Ray J. Da
vis, owner of the plane which was
wrecked to the westward, departed
for Portland, it was learned later that
their former plans about returning to
Seward had been abandoned. From
several sources throughout the past
winter word has drifted into Seward
to the effect Merrill and Davis were
returning and would establish a ser
vice radiating out from this point. It
is stated they will arrive early next
month with a large three engined
plane.
The formation of this new commer
cial airplane service, which is said
to be called The Alaska-Oregon-Wash
ington Airplane Company was made
possible by the hearty cooperation
and support by several of the big cal
mon packing concerns, namely, the
Alaska Packers Association, Libby,
McNeil & Libby, Northwestern Fish
eries Company, A. P. Products Co.,
Kenai Red Salmon Packing Co., Union
Fish Co., and the Carlisle Packing Co.
The main service of this company
will be between Seward and Koggi
ung, on Bristol Bay, where a weekly
round trip schedule will be maintain
ed, beginning early in the season. The
route will be from Seward to Lake
Tustumena, on the Kenai Peninsula,
and down the Kusilof River to Cook
Inlet, and thence to Seldovia. From
that point the route will be to Illiam
na, across Lake Iliamna and down
the Kvichak River to Koggiung. Mail
passengers will be taken, particularly
for the cannery interests.
A two-passenger plane will also be
stationed at Cordova for service in
that district. One of the large planes
will depart from Seattle for Seward
May 1, and will carry passengers for
that point. The other plane will be
shipped north to the Bristol Bay dis
trict about May 15 and will be as
sembled there. The larger machines
will be of the hydroplane type, thus
making possible to make landings on
lakes and rivers.
SEATTLE CAPITALIST
URGES MILWAUKEE
FEATURE ALASKA
RAILROAD PLANS EXTENSIVE AD
VERTISING CAMPAIGN EM
BRACING COUNTRY
SEATTLE, April 24. (/P)—A. S. Ker
ry, capitalist, urged featuring the scen
ic beauty of Alaska at a luncheon giv
en to Chicago and Milwaukee offi
cials and advertising experts of the
Milwaukee railroad. The officials
plan an extensive advertising cam
paign featuring the country the Alas
ka railroad serves.
NEW YORK.—Gifford Pinchot, jr.,
has entered the silk scarf manufac
turing business, saying he was tired
of being economically unproductive.
FOUR PLANES WILL FLY FROM
SAN DIEGO TO SEATTLE ON
MAY FIFTEENTH
SEATTLE, April 24. (/P)—Lieuten
ant J. H. Chapman, commander of the
Sand Point station, Announced the
leaders of the Alaskan photographic
mapping expedition will arrive in Se
attle between May 3 and 15. Four
planes will fly from San Diego to Se
attle where pontoons will be substit
uted for wheels. The Alaska work as
outlined will be suspended in Septem
ber, when low clouds will not be of
hindrance and will be resumed the
following year. Officers selected for
the work will be on a two-year peri
od but he said more than twro years
will be required.
ALASKA NORTHBOUND
WITH 270 OH BOARD
MANY FOR SEWARD
I __
ALASKANS WHO LEFT, NEVER
MORE TO RETURN, NOTED
AMONG RESERVATIONS
SEATTLE, April 24. (£>)—The S.S,
Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
sailed from Seattle this morning for
Alaska with 270 passengers aboard.
Bookings thru to Seward are:
Mrs. K. O. Bryan, Miss G. Stuart,
W. T. Duner, J. W. Edmunds, Frank
Maki, wife and daughter, B. Isabel,
Gunn Buckingham, George E. Edge
comb and wife, Mrs. Flora Thomas, F.
H. Lounsbury, Mark Stines, A. Stines!
Dr. H. A. Blyth and wife, Mrs. S. V.
Ouziman, Minnie Peart, Otto Boehm,
wife and daughter, James Sherlock,
Jack McCord, C. Johnson, W. J. Lori
more and wife, J. W. Farrol, Emma
Anderson, J. M. Cruikshank, C. W.
Gees, E. L. Gartlett, Joe McNeil, O.
A. Pirtchett and wife, Frank McCafer!
ty, S. E. Hodge, and wife, J. Mina
lack, Guy Turnbow and wife, H. O.
Roberts, Mrs. A. H. McDonald, Mrs!
G. O. Metcalf, Mrs. E. R. Jesson, Mrs.
Thomas Youll, F. M. Murlock and wife,
J. M. Roddy, Emily Rudburg, Tom
Pastonick, A. F. Hurter, Claud Blake,
Victor Sorenson, A. Holfden, Annette
Barkland, Mabel Waslik, Dan C. Kel
ly and twenty steerage.
BASEBALL WORK CREWS
ASKED TO BE OK TAP
TOMORROW MORN, AT TEN
The call to arms has once more
been sounded and tomorrow morning
at 10 o’clock strong arm gents, includ
ing the Boy Scouts, are asked to re
port at the baseball field to assist in
the final work of leveling down the
diamond, removing rocks and in gen
eral, prepare the ground for the op
ting of the season which is coming
at express rate speed.
Thomas Dyer, erstwhile White Sox
star, who has been in charge of the
revamp work, will have the biggest
roller in town on hand, but a couple
of horses will be pressed into service
to manipulate it about and not man
power. *
The more the merrier and the easier
it will be for the rest of the gang. Re
member the time, 10 a. m. The last
time sandwiches and coffee were on
tap and who knows but what it will
be repeated.
The Admiral Watson is expected
back from the westward sometime
Tuesday and will lay over until Wed
nesday night in order that Interior
travelers, on the regular passenger
train, will have an opportunity to
make connections for the south.
The S. S. Kittiwake, of the Bureau
of Fisheries, arrived on Cook Inlet
last week from the Cordova headquar
ters, where the vessel will take up
its patrol duties for the coming sea
son.