^ciuarft Daily (Oatnua.*
VOLUME XVIII
NUMBER 257
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20,1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—Isaac Hambur
ger, secretary to Judge Francis Cush-1
man, and Mrs. Violet Davis were shot |
and both dangerously wounded this
afternoon by Policeman S. H. Short,
as they were about the streets t
of this city. Short was chasing a
trio of shoplifters and firing at them
as they ran. The streets were ciowd
ed at the time, and several narrow j
escapes were had from the flying bul
lets. Short turned in his star soon
after the affair.
Hamburger and the woman were
taken to the hospital, where it was
stated his condition was most serious.
At the time Hamburger was shot he
w'as sitting with Judge Cushman, who
narrowly escaped being hit by another
bullet from the policeman’s gun.
Mrs. Davis was holding the hands
of her son and niece, who were walk
ing down the street with her.
Scarcely three blocks from the
place where Policeman Short shot and
seriously wounded Isaac Hamburger
and Mrs. Davis, Gordon B. O’Hara, a
Federal officer, fired four shots at a
fleeing bootlegger suspect, said to be
Fritz Shaddock.
Isaac Hamburger was a resident of
Alaska for many years, first at Nome,
and later at Valdez, where he acted
as stenographer for Judge F. M.
Brown. Mr. Hamburger went to Cali
fornia two years ago, and engaged in
the fruit business. Later he was en
gaged as secretary and court stenog
rapher by Federal Judge Cushman.
He was a man of more than ordinary
abiility and has a bost a friends in
the territory.
ALASKA IN PORT,
ON WAY ANCHORAGE
The steamship Alaska arrived in
port last night about 8 o’clock and
sailed at 11 for Anchorage. The ves
sel brought the following passengers
for Seward: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ja
cobson, L. V. Ray, Wm. Holbrook, R.
F. Ragland, Mrs. and Mrs. L. D. Hen
derson, J. R. Fremming, J. C. Hepfin
ger, R. Olsen, Mrs. O. R. Adams, Don
Arled, Ethel Cather, John F. Carroll,
A1 F. Davis, S. Finkelstein, E. D.
French, H. V. Hoben, Alex Felton, R.
I. Trumen, Sgt. H. Thorne, Miss W.
F. Thompson, Marion Thompson.
GASBOAT ROLFE OVERDUE
The gasboat Rolfe which left here
shortly before the big storm is over
due, and some fears are expressed for
l the safety of the boat and crew. Capt.
Foster was a passenger on the Rolfe,
en route to Nuka bay, and the vessel
also had a quantity of furniture for
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Dawson, Nuka Is
land. From Nuka Island the Rolfe
was supposed to proceed to the hali
but banks for a load of fish.
WORK TRAIN FROM MILE 18
The work train is now running as
far as Mile is, and within a day or so,
will be able to run to Mile 40. Repairs
are handicapped by a lack of men.
GRAND JURY WILL INVESTIGATE
* CONDITIONS IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—A grand jury
has been called to investigate condi
tions in Seattle and King County. It
will report to Superior Judge Dyke
man.
John Nelson, water superintendent,
is the owner of a very sore hand. He
ripped the back of it while repairing
the water main during the recent
flood and it is now causing him a
great deal of inconvenience.
Mr. H. V. Hoben, who has been in
eastern Canada for the past several
months, at the bedside of his moth0”
who was seriously ill, returned on the
Alaska. He reports he is very glad to
get back to the Northland.
UNEMPLOYED STORM BAKERIES
BERLIN, Oct. 20.—Thousands of
war cripples and unemployed veter
ans today stormed the bakeries in the
suburbs of Neukoelin.
^ TODAY'S FISH PRICES
Seattle—Fresh halibut 21 cents.
Juneau—Fresh halibut, 13% cents
and 8% cents.
56TH ANNIVERSARY
ALASKA PURCHASE
SEATTLE, Oct. 19.—The fifty-sixth
anniversary of raising the American
Flag at Sitka was observed here last
Thursday, Alaska Day. The program
included speechmaking, and an out
door ceremonial arranged by Young
Men’s Business Club, which is spon
soring a movement to make Alaska
and her marvelous resources better
known to the world. Chief among the
events was an address on Alaska and
what it meant to the states.
Secretary Work Hears of
Damage Alaska Railway
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Secre
tary Work has been advised from
Anchorage that a heavy rainstorm,
with a tide six feet above any record
level had crippled 100 miles of Alas
ka railroad between Seward and An
chorage, and from Anchorage north.
NO ONE NAMED TO WRITE
BIOGRAPHY PRES. HARDING
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—No one
has been designated to write a biog
raphy of the late president, according
to a formal statement by Attorney
General Daugherty today. He declar
ed that Mrs. Harding had made no ar
rangements as yet for the compilation
of such biography.
BRITISH COLUMBIA STATIONS
CAPTURE 454 WHALES IN 1923
VICTORIA, Oct. 20—Three British
Columbia whaling stations bagged 45-1
whales during the 1923 season.
HENRY FORD JOFULAR
CHOICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Senator
I Moses, chairman of the Republican
! senatorial campaign committee, who
! has just returned from a swing thru
the country', said he heard more men
speak favorably for Henry Ford for
the presidency on his trip west than
for any other man in the country if
he accepts the nomination which the
Farmer-Labor party will offer him.
The outlook will be most unhappy
i for the Republican party as any Far
mer Labor electoral vote will seri
ously cut down the Republican total in
the electoral college.
AIRPLANES CARRY
BOOZE FROM SHIPS
BOSTON, Oct. 20.—Airplanes are
used extensively by Boston rum run
ners in the transportation of liquor
from ships outside the three-mile lim
it to hiding places on Cape Cod. This
airplane whiskey is extensively sold at
$12 per quart.
NEW COAL COMPANY
ENTERS LOCAL FIELD
The Brown & Hawkins Corporation
have installed platform scales and
are building sheds preparatory to en
tering the local field in handling fuel.
Mr. Hawkins states that he has a car
of washed coal on hand, received on
the Northwestern, and expects to re
ceive another hundred tons on the
Alaska. As soon as the railroad is re
paired a large consignment will be re
ceived, all washed and free from
rock. Bunkers will be erected later to
take care of vessels desiring cargoes.
ROOT MAY SUCCEED HARVEY
AS AMBASSADOR ENGLAND
LONDON, Oct. 20.—The Foreign of
fice has received the intimation that
Elihu Root may succeed Ambassador
Harvey.
It w'as stated that Root would suc
ceed Harvey as ambassador to the
Court of St. James if he can be in
duced to accept the appointment. His
appointment is a tremendous political
surprise.
It is stated that Mr. Root is seri
ously ill at his home in New York,
with aggravated kidney trouble.
G. A. R. COMMANDER DEAD
ABERDEEN, Oct. 20.—H. S. Cragin,
department commander for Washing
ton and Alaska, G. A. R., is dead in
this city.
MELLON TALKS ON DEBTS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Secretary
Mellon today called the debt commis
sion to meet Saturday but declined to
disclose what subjects would be con
sidered.
REFUSE ENDORSE
1 KLUX KUU
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—A ter
rifle verbal battle by pro-Ku Klux
and anti-Ku Klux Klan members, over
passage of resolutions during which
the press of the country was charged
with trying to split the American Le
gion over the Klan question raged for
several hours in the afternoon session
of the American Legion today, result
ing in the adoption of the Michigan
resolution which avoids using the
name of the hooded order, nine hun
dred and thirty-three delegates made
it known that the American Legion
objected to the order of the Klans.
While the session did not denounce
the Klans, a resolution which calls a
spade a spade was carried, voting
down the pro-Klan reso-ution of the
Oklahoma ueiegates.
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Secretary Davis Hies
Cheyenne to Chicago
CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—Secretary of
| Labor Davis arrived here this after
: noon by airplane from Cheyenne,
whence he came to see Lloyd George,
whom he at once called upon.
Davis Passes Omaha
OMAHA, Oct. 19.—Secretary of La
bor Davis, flying from San Francisco
to Chicago, to greet Lloyd George, ar
rived here at 11:30 a. m. yesterday
and departed for Chicago at 11:55 a.
m., with D. C. Smith of Omaha, as pi
lot. Davis arrived at Cheyenne by
| train at 5:50 o’clock this morning and
i after a heavy breakfast took off in an
air mail train piloted by Frank R. Yae
ger. Four mail pilots carried Davis
i from San Francisco to Rock Springs
in 5 hours, 54 minutes yesterday, ex
| elusive of stops.
—
English and American
Horses Rave Today
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Papyrus, the
crack stallion of Benjamin Irish, win
ner of the $250,000 Epsom Dowu meet
ing is now a favorite over Gev, the
American champion, in the betting on
| the $100,000 International race of a
I mile and a half at Belmont Park this
j afternoon, involving the world’s three
; year old thoroughbred championship.
I The odds are now Papyrus, 7 to 10,
! and Gev 7 to 5.
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COMMITTEE WILL IMPEACH
WALTON TWELVE CHARGES
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Oct. 20.—
I it is stated that a committee working
on charges of impeachment gave out
today that twelve had been found on
which action will be commenced. It
will formally report Monday.
P. A. F. COMPANY
IS FINED HEAVILY
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—The Pacific
American Fisheries Company, thru
E. E. Armstrong and Casper C. Carl
son, its employes, was fined $15,551
in the Federal court here yesterday,
for using fish traps in forbidden wa
ters, namely near Ikatan and Volcano
Bay between the hours of 6 p. m. Sat
urday and 6 a. m. Monday.
It is the first prosecution under the
government ruling making it a misde
meanor to operate traps between
those hours.
WIVES FAIL TO LEAVE
INSURANCE TO HUSBANDS
ATLANTA CITY, Oct. 19.—Eighty
seven per cent of married women who
take out life insurance name some
one other than their husbands as ben
eficiaries, Dr. A. C. Vandervoort, of
Philadelphia, told an assemblage of
insurance men here recently.
The women evidently went on the
theory that their husbands can take
care of themselves after their wives
are gone, Vandervoort said.
Bradley E. Haley passed through
Seward last night on his way to An
chorage to take a position with the
Times.
Do you want the future revealed, or
do you nqed advice in your love af
fairs? Consult the fortune teller at
the A. B. Hall on Hallowe’en. tf
NEW MANAGER LOOKS
FOR HEAVY TRAVEL
OVER urn m
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—“The
fact that no surtax is charged upon
tourist travel in the Alaskan wonder
land found so attractive by the late
President Harding has diverted the
tide of pleasure seekers from Europe
to such a degree, that there were not
half enough boats to meet the tourist
demand from the United States to
Seward this year,” said Lee H. Landis,
general manager of the Alaska Rail
road this afternoon.
He later declared that President
; Farley of the U. S. Shipping Board,
had promised Landis full co-operation
in supplying ships to Seward to han
dle the increasing tourist travel the
coming summer.
Henry Ford Will Receive
Nomination for President
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.—Henry
Ford will in all likelihood get the
Presidential nomination ot the prohi
bition party according to Virgil G.
Henshaw, chairman of the Prohibition
Natoinal committee, who issued a call
today lor a national conference at
Washington, D. C.
ALASKA DAY ONE OL
DEST CELEBRATED
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—Seattle this
year held one of the best Alaska Day
programs since she began the observ
ance of the anniversary of the pur
chase of the Territory. \Y. T. Perkins
in a speech at Seward monument, in
Volunteer Park, spoke in the highest
terms of the statesmanship of the
former secretary.
B. C. Forbes frankly confessed that
he knew but little about Alaska, but
declared that the center of the world’s
activities has crossed the Atlantic,
and is now crossing the continent,
headed towards Alaska and Siberia.
In making the principal Alaska Day
address, Falcon Joslin said' that the
salmon packing industry amounted to
$34,000,000 this year, anu that this
fish was but one of several varieties
of the many successful fishing indus
tries. He said that the herring pack
had jumped from nothing to 130,000
barrels this year. The United States,
which uses a million barrels of her
ring annually, gets most ol its suppi..
from Scandinavian countries. If Alas
ka should produce the total supply it
would add twenty million dollars an
nually to her wealth. The halibut in
dustry was worth five billion dollars
a year to Alaska he said.
MRS. COOLIDGE NAMED AS
PRESIDENT GIRL SCOUTS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Mrs. Cal
vin Coolidge has succeeded Mrs. L. K.
Harding as President of the Girl
Scouts of America.
WEALTHY VIOLATORS
PROHIBITION LAWS
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Nine men,
including Harry Foley, former secre
tary to Senator Edwards of New Jer
sey, and now state superintendent of
weights and measures, wrere arrested
late to day charged with bribing or
attempting to bribe, prohibition offi
cers with a present of $8,000 not to
report violations of the dry law.
MANY RESERVATIONS IN LOCAL
OFFICE ON STEAMER ALASK9
Many reservations from interiorites
have been made on the steamship
Alaska, Agent J. H. Flickinger report
ing the following: Harper Workman,
Peter Gallagher, F. E. Parish, Pete
Paterno, A. Liston, M. V. Berrisford,
W. H. King, Harry Hanson, Alex
Sloop, E. C. Cornell, O. S. Risbold, J.
Beaten, A. Light, A. L. Hanot, A. G.
Francis, Andrew^ Simons, Fr. Julius
Jette, J. W. Carroll, A. H. Wagner,
Jack Faran, Mr. Lenwick, Vance Mc
Donald and wife.
DEPOSITS IN WASHINGTON
STATE BANKS $142,000,000
OLYMPIA, Oct. 20.—Deposits in the
different state banks in Washington
aggregate $142,000,000.
NOTICE TO PUPILS
There will be no school Monday.
TWENTIETH CENTURA
FUNERAL BY AIR
PARIS, Oct. 20.—The first aerial
funeral cortege arrived in Paris this
afternoon, consisting of twenty planes
draped in black and flying long black
streamers of mourning, following the’
air hearse containing the body of Alex
Manyrole, a pioneer flivver flier, who
crashed to his death at Lympne.
The cortege left Croydon, England,
with the hearse plane covered with
wreathes of flowers, including those
sent by British and French ministers.
The dead aviator will be buried to
morrow at Beval de Graceholme.
Senator Smoot Against
Passage of Soldier L o,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—A hall
billion dollars cut in the tax revenue
is planned by Senator Smoot, of Utah,
who is the ranking republican on the
Senate Finance Committee, he reveal
ed at the White House today.
Smoot said that the cut could be
made if congress refrained from pass
ing the soldier bonus bill. Federal
affairs will not admit of the passage
of a bonus bill, after a conference
with President Coolidge and Secre
tary Mellon.
PRESIDENT JAMES A. M’CREA
OF PENNSYLVANIA RY. DEAD
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20— James A.
McCrea, president of the Pennsylva
nia railroad died here this afternoon.
Deceased was 46 years of age, and re
puted to be one of the foremost rail
road men of the century.
NO CLOSED SEASON THIS
WINTER ON HALIBUT FISHING
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—The State
department issued today a notice that
there would be no closed season for
halibut fishing in the winter of 192S
24. This applies to Alaska.
Pistol Duel Over Liquor
Raid Brings One Death
REDDING, Calif., Oct. 19.—James
\\ hite, deputy fish and game commis
sioner, residing at Castella, is dead,
and John Vail of Oakland, a prohibi
tion officer, was badly wounded as a
result of a pistol duel between the
two men in the Castella Hotel, owned
by V hite, which was raided yester
day.
A Good Man Be Spoiled
If Henry Ford Elected
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Discussing
presidential possibilities, friends of
Henry Ford declared that it would
spoil a good man and useful citizen if
the nation sent Ford to the White
House.
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ATTORNEY DECLARES GRAFT
RAMPANT IN DRY QUARTERS
NEW \ORK, Oct. 20.—Discussing
shocking conditions respecting prohi
bition enforcement and the arrests
last night of prominent citizens, Fed
eral Attorney Hayward said today
that $700,000 has been given to drv
agents as bribes since this‘latest con
spiracy was unearthed. He further
asserted that state officials of New
Jersey and possibly Pennsylvania, to
gether with politicians arid'persons of
supposedly high standing were in lea
gue with bootleggers and conspirators
to violate the laws.
ALAMEDA SAILS TODAY
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—The Alameda
sailed this morning with 89 passen
gers. The l olio wing were for Seward:
Mrs. K. Bailey, Mrs. S. Townsend.
George Schmitt and wife. B e. Bor
set, Francis Shea, Mrs C. E. Shea,
David Dunbar. A Jasmes, S. Ander
son, Mrs. Eagles!y, Mrs. H. A. Stan
ton, Mrs. R. J. McKauna, Alfred Ros
ness, J. Flooem
PLENTY OF COAL FOR SEWARD.
Hoben & Davis will receive 200
tons of coal from Canada on one of
the next boats, and four cars will be
brought from Anchorage on the steam
ship Alaska. A carload was received
on the Northwestern, assuring plenty
of fuel until the railway is repaired.
If you never have any luck fishing
go to the A. B. hall Hallowe’en and
your hook will not come up empty, tf
Mr. A1 Davis, who has been in Se
attle the past two weeks, returned to
Seward on the Alaska.
Mr. S. L. Colwell, of Seward, who is
engaged in the mercantile business at
Seldovia, with Mr. Chambers, under
the firm name of Colwell & Chambers,
received word on the last boat that
the recent high tides and heavy gale
played havoc in Seldovia, his firm
sustaining damage amounting to near
ly $5000 from high water and rain.
The heavy wind blew a house off
Lookout point, into the bay. It is said
this building belong to the mission.
Several houses in Seldovia were also
unroofed by the gale. The tide came
up into the streets and warehouses,
from six inches to 2y2 feet in depth,
damaging stocks and fixtures. Water
was six inches deep over the hotel
floor.
H. H. Malcolm and crew on the
cannery boat Agram were reported
missing as were five other boats. It
is reported that the Agram has since
returned to port. Several boats were
forced ashore in Seldovia Bay, among
which was the Polar Star.
Ed Dwyer and wife, who iun a fox
ranch on Smith Island, are reported
to have lost their house and a year’s
supplies, swept into the Inlet. The
Dwyers have been on the island about
two years.
James Cleghorn, who started the
first store in Seldovia, reports that
the storm and tide were the worst he
had ever experienced in his thirty-two
years’ residence in Seldovia.
It was leared that considerable dam
age was done at Homer, as boats ar
riving at Seldovia report seeing quan
tities of wreckage, chickens, cats, and
dogs floating in the slough nearby.
It is reported that the restaurant or
David Gaydon was swept away. Mr.
and Mrs. Harrington, and Postmaster
Norton are believed to have suffered
property loss, although no word had
been received from them at that time.
AIRPLANE MAIL LINE
TO PEKING, CHINA
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2..—A sixt;
five hour air mail service trom N-w
York to Peking, was the prediction
this afternoon by General William
Mitchell of the Army air forces. He
said that it would take four hours
from New \ork to Lake Athabasca,
Canada, and 61 hours from there to
Peking via Nome and the Amoor
river.
EUROPE HUNGRY
AND STARVING
CHICAGO, Oct. 20-—Iu an address
at the International amphitreatre last
night, Lloyd George said that Europe
“is like a ragged and starving man,
standing in front of a plate glass win
dow of a well stocked store. His need
of clothes is infinitely greater than
that of the well-dressed man who is
making extensive purchases inside.
His need for food is more urgent than
that of the well fed gentleman who is
consuming a good meal, for he can
buy neither food to satisfy his hunger
not clothes to cover his nakedness.”
Lloyd George left for Springfield,
this morning.
Visits Tomb of Lincoln
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 20.—Lloyd
George placed a wreath on the tomb
of Abraham Lincoln today, with the
“reverent homage due the memory of
one of the world’s greatest men.”
KENNECOTT BREAKING UP
VANCOUVER, Oct. 20.—Lloyds sur
veyor wirelessed from the scene of
the Kennecott wreck that the vessel
is destroyed and is rapidly breaking
up with her cargo of copper ore and
canned salmon falling through her
bottom.
Remember the Hallowe'en festival
on the 31st at A. B. hall by the La
dies’ Auxiliary of the Seward Ameri
can Legion. Two hours of fun and
merrymaking until 10 o’clock when
dancing will begin. A nominal admis
sion will be charged. tf
DANCE TONIGHT A. B. HALL
The Seward Orchestra will give an
other of its popular dances at A. B.
hall tonight. All are invited. A good
chance to dance to your favorite mu
sic.