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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 221
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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
SEATTLE POLICE MAY
HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED
BON MARCHE ROBBERY
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF IN
VESTIGATION FINDS QUEER
HAPPENINGS
SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—Whether the
members of the Seattle police depart
mA-iit were accomplices in the $22,900
robbery of the Bon Marche, was a
subject of investigation by the King
County prosecutor’s office and the
city police today. Joe Neal, one of
the five persons now charged with the
robbery was formerly a policeman,
jhuI it is believed he was assisted by
officers of the force in his getaway.
TACOMA GIRL KILLED IN CRASH
TACOMA, Sept. 23.—Miss Royal
Bangs was crushed to death and Miss
Marie Ensley and Willard were seri
ously injured in an automobile and
Motorcycle crash yesterday. The
Bangs girl was hurled fifty feet from
the motorcycle.
ST. PAUL ROAD MUST INSTALL
AUTOMATIC CONTROLS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23.—
Tire St. Paul, Minneapolis Railway
was denied exemption from the Inter
state Commerce Commission orders of
January, 1924, requiring it together
with other roads to install systems of
automatic train control.
DAVIS CARRYS FIGHT
INTO HEART OF MO.
FARM DISTRICTS
EASTWOOD FARM JUNCTION,
Sept. 23.—Democratic Presidential
nominee Davis is carrying his fight
into the heart of the Missouri Agri
cultural district. While attending a
gigantic barbecue at the family home
of Doctor Arthur W. Nelson, Demo
cratic Candidate for Governor, he as
sailed “Special privelege and corrup
tifl'i in office.’’ He denounced Fall,
Forbes, Daugherty, Denby and others
connected with the recent government
oil scandals in the Republican admin
istration.
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FAWCETT WITHDRAWS NAME
OLYMPIA, Sept. 23.—Mayor Faw
cett of Tacoma telegraphed Secretary
of State Hinkle to withdraw his name
as a nominee of the Independent Party
for Lieutenant Governor, leaving only
two candidates for the position . The
party professed themselves as follow
ers of Lafollette.
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C’OOLIDGE WILL SPEAK IN
PHILADELPHIA SEPT. 25
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25
President Coolidge has accepted the
invitation to speak in Philadelphia on
September 25, at the 150th anniver
sary of the first continental congress.
WILBUR RECALLED EAST
BY PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23.—Secretary
|£}urtis Wilbur of the Navy, who has
been on an inspection trip on the
West Coast was hurriedly recalled to
Washingtoft by President Coolidge to
confer with the Chief Executive on
Departmental matters especially the
n<«t budget allowance for the Navy.
Wi’our left by airplane for Riverside
to connect with a fast Union Pacific
train eastbound, abandoning the re
* mainder of his western tour.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Pentz arrived
the other day in Fairbanks and Mr.
Pentz will take care of machine com
position on the News-Miner. Mr.
Pentz is a special writer and left Se
attle some months ago in a row boat,
accompanied by his wife and baby,
and a goat. It is the intention of Mr.
Pentz to write a series of articles for
the Seattle Star and while in the in
terior divide his time with the News
Miner.
Steamship Adm. Watson
Sails With Light List
SEATTLE Sept. 23.—The steamship
Admiral Watson sailed this morning
for northern ports with 21 passen
gers, including A. E. Morse, for An
chorage, and C. W. Coombs, U. G.
Crocker, and Rev. F. B. Drane and
jtife for Seward.
SECRETARY OF NAVY
TO STUDY VALUE ARMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sqpt. 22.—
Secretary of the Navy, Wilbur, at the
suggestion of President Coolidge, wrfl
; begin a comprehensive study of the |
relative value of each arm of nation- !
al defense, to make a program for the ;
future board of expense, which will j
later take up the work after the j
White House conference on the mat- ;
ter. T]he Secretary desires discussion
on his speeches on the subject.
HIGH WINDS IN ANCHORAGE
Heavy winds at Anchorage shatter- j
; ed the large plate glass window of the j
i H. Seidenvberg store, and tore tar j
: paper from several roofs. ,
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WALTER HAGEN DEFEATS
BARNES IN N. Y. TOURNEY
FRENCH LICK, Ind. Sept. 22.—
Walter Hagen, of New York, added
another title to his fame by defeating
Jim Barnes of New York, two ug> in
the 36 hole finals for national profes
sional golf championship.
COMMANDERS FOREIGN
LEGATIONS PREPARE
TO GUARD SUBJECTS
PEKING, Sept. 23.—Commanders of j
the foreign legation guards are mak- j
\ ing arangements today to defend Chin i
! Wung Tao, port of Peking, from a
threatened aerial bombardment by the
| Chang Tso Lin troops.
! FOREST FIRES STILL
RAGING IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23—Three
j forest fires are still beyond control |
; in the San Gabriel Canyon and raging
! on the edge of Monrovias watershed. |
The old mining town of Alleghany in ;
Sierra county is threatened by fires, j
DENY INJUNCTION TO ALLOW
OIL COMPANIES TO OPERATE
OMAHA, Sept. 23—Application for j
a temporary injunction in Nebraska!
restoring the twelve oil companies to i
their original status, enabling them to '
continue operations, was denied by the
district court.
CHECK IMPERSONATOR
ARRESTED IN CALIF.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23.—Fred L.
Peters, a check writing impersonator
and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., were sen
tenced to ten years in Leavenworth
Penitentiary for forging a govern
ment check. They were arrested in
San Francisco last July after a na
I tion-wide search, where Government
agents said Peters borrowed the name
| of British naval officers to aid in
his operations.
VETERANS BUREAU
BEEN CLEANED UP
ST. PAUL, Sept. 23.—The United!
! States Veteran’s Bureau has been 1
I cleaned up but it cannot be forwarded |
| another step in its work unless the
| public confidence in our work is pre
! served and there is a cessation of i
| turmoil and senseless condemnation,
declared General Frank D. Hines, now
( director of the Bureau in an address
i before the Convention of the Ameri
! can Legion .
BODIES OF 59 VICTIMS
MONDAY’S STORM FOUND
ST. PAUL, Sept. 23.—The bodies of
59 victims of Sunday’s and Monday’s
storms in Minnesota and Wisconsin
have bee nrecoveied. The list of in
jured runs over a thousand. Many
bodies are yet to be recovered.
MOTHER WILL WORK
TO SAVE LIFE OF SON
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CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Gaining re
newed hope from the life sentences
imposed upon Nathan Leopold, Jr., and
Richard Loeb, slayers of Robert, Mrs.
Mary Grant, mother of nineteen year
old Bernard Grant, has begun anew
her fight to save her son' from the
gallows.
Young Grant, whose hair is now
snow white since he was convicted, is
under sentence to be hanged October
17th, for the murder of a Chicago po- :
1 iceman during a holdup.
COMPLETE RETIREMENT
UNITED STATES DEBT
IN 25 YEARS POSSIBLE
SECRETARY DEWEY OF TREAS
URY DEPARTMENT TELLS
HEARERS IN SPEECH
CLEVELAND, Sept. 23.—The com
plete retirement of the debt of the j
United States government in twenty- |
five years is now contemplated by j
the Treasury Department, Assistant
Secretary Dewey of the Treasury dis- j
closed in a speech before the annual
convention of bankers today.
ASSASSINATION WILL BE
BENEFIT TO POLITICS
ROME, Sept. 23.—The assassination ;
of Casalini is expected to benefit the
Central Italian political situation in
the sense it will convince both the j
Fascisti and the opposition that the I
time has come to end all violence.
ROOSEVELT BE CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR NEW YORK
WINCHESTER, Pa., Sept. 23.—
The nomination of Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy Roosevelt, has been
virtually assured as the Republican
candidate for governor, according to
state leaders. Mr. Roosevelt has sig
nified his intention of accepting the
position.
FOLLOWERS ROOSEVELT
RESENT USE OF NAME
“PROGRESSIVE” BY RADICALS
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Fifty fol
lowers of Theodore Roosevelt, when
active in politics, at a meeting here
expressed their sentiments as “re- j
senting the attempt to appropriate the j
name “Progressive” for the Radical
movement which is repeated in the
candidacy of Senator Lafollette.”
The declared Lafollette refused to
aid Roosevelt’s movement “when it
would have been a decisive success.”
Those present at the meeting who
signed the statement included Chester;
Rowell of California.
PROSPECTORS BUSY
IN KENO HILL CAMP
. At no time in the history of the
camp have the prospects for the fu
ture been brighter than at the pres
ent time, and, in order to convince
the people of this fact, it is only ne
cessary to make a survey of the field;
and see what is going on in a quiet
way.
The completion of the Treadwell
Yukon Company’s 600-foot shaft on
Keno Hill marks one of the greatest
engineering feats in the history of
Yukon. So accurate were the plans,
that the drillers in the 200-foot raise
struck the peg in the center at the
bottom of the 500-foot level, thus!
linking the 600-foot shaft to th*
3,000-foot tunnel.
On Galena Hill during the last
month there has been more actual
work done in a miner-like manner,
says Stroller’s Weekly, than has been
done altogether in the last three years
tnd the result is that many tons of
high-grade ore may be shipped from
Galena Hill this coming winter.
Rodolph Rosmusen, on the Silver
Basin, has done considerable work
on his claim this summer. He has
something which bids fair to be one !
of the biggest mines of the district.
Cunningham, Stewart and Hollen
beck, on the Lake group, have un
covered a massive body of high-grade
ore. ^
Greaves and Gammon’s ground, [
adjoining the Lake group, has made
a marvelous showing. Water is be
ing used to remove the overburden.
They have discovered a vein of ore
that will put them in the millionaire
list.
Silver Hill, on the right limit of
Beaver River, is showing up good,
and four men are working.
Three men working on McKay Hill
have uncovered a large body of
lead ore.
Six men are working on Grey
Copper Hill with very good results.
Five men who are prospecting at
the head fo Forty-Mile, on McQues
tion, are meeting with encouraging
prospects.
Four men are working at the
head of Hobo Creek, on the divide
between McQuestion and the Klon
dike.
SEATTLE CHAMBER WILL
ESTABLISH NEW DEPT.
SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—The Cham
ber of Commerce announced a plan
to establish a mining department un
der the joint direction of the State
development committees of the Cham
ber and the Alaskan government,
which will be a central agency for
installing mining properties. It is
hoped that in time it will conduct an
investigation of the vast mineral de
posits which hitherto have been un
touched in this state and Alaska which
includes clay, limestone and grey
marble. It was pointed out that where
as gold was once the‘principle output
of Alaska, copper has outstripped it.
COOLIDGE ASSURED OF
VICTORY IN NORTHWEST I
CHICAGO, Sept. 23—Congressman :
Johnson from Hoquiam declared the
prospects for Coolidge’s and Dawes’;
victory in the Pacific Northwest seem
better that the corresponding stage of
Harding’s campaign. He said “the
sober sentiment of the northwest was
swinging more and more toward the
president. I just completed a tour
of my state and the President’s decla
ration for common sense in govern
ment has gripped the popular fancy of
the people.”
SEATTLE POLICE CHIEF
GIVES TESTIMONY AT
CITY COUNCIL ENQUIRY
SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—Chier of Po
lice Severyns testified at the council
inquiry yesterday that he didn’t know
“whether many bootlegging places
were closed while Mrs. Henry Landes
was acting mayor, and chief of police,
when Brown went to the Democratic
convention in New York.”
He explained: “I wasn’t curious
and didn’t care.” Severyns said the
people had just the kind of a police
department they wanted and said it
“was not better or worse than the
general public.”
WORLD FLYERS REACH
SAN DIEGO YESTERDAY
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23.—The around
the.world flyers landed in Rockwell
field yesterday at 11:30 amid the
blowing of industrial whistles and the
salute from ships in the harbor. The
first ship to land was that of Lieut.
Smith, followed by Lieuts. Nelson and
Wade in the order named. The fly
ers were given a tremendous ovation.
They were guests of the San Diego
Chamber of Commerce last night.
COAL VEIN NEAR POLE
25 FEET IN THICKNESS
WISCASSET, Me., Sept. 23.— Mc
Millan reports having found a coal
vein 25 feet thick in Elies land near
the North Pole.
PEOPLE WANT MERCH/ XTT
MARINE SAYS WE& jONES
SEATTLE, Sept. 23—The American
pegple are moving for a merchant
marine as far as talk goes, but when
it comes to real action and expendi
tures for this cause they are plainly
disinterested, declared Senator Wesley
L. Jones, addressing the John Paul
Jones Navy Post No. 49, of the Am
erican Legion last night.
PHILIPPINE SENATORS ARE
AGAIN IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23.—
Senators Quezon and Osmena of the
Philippine Islands arrived here after
a five months’ sojourn in Europe dur
ing which they were received by the
Pope at Rome. Before proceeding
to Manila they will interview political
leaders on the Philippine Indepen
dence question, saying that as far as
complete independence is concerned
they are just marking time since the
three major political parties have
committed themselves toward it.
PIONEER OREGON JUDGE
PASSES- AWAY IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Sept. 23.-^Tulius A.
Stratton, 80, former pioneer of Ore
gon, where he was superior judge for
many years, died here last night.
ADM. EVANS DUE TOMORROW
The steamship Admiral Evans will
reach port some time tomorrow, sail
ing about nine p. m., after the arrival
of the train.
EARLY CLOSING WOULD
RUIN HERRING INDUTRY
WAKE FIELD SAYS PROPOSAL TO
CLOSE HERRING INDUSTRY
SEPT. 15 IS MENACE
The proposal to limit herring fish
ing in Alaska to the three months
between June 15 and September 15,
is carried into effect, will ruin the
herring fishing industry in Alaska,
declared Lee H. Wakefield, who was
in Juneau recently. Mr. Wakefield
said to a representative of the Ju
neau Empire, that the herring fishing
industry in Alaska has not reached
the point where conservation should
be needed. If it has, he says, Alaska
will never have a herring industry
Mr. Wakefield says the only con
servation that ought to be required
would be to compel herring packers
to establish product plarts where
i.H* waste and the fish that are too
small to ) ack could be utiuzoJ.
•'the average pack of herrag in
Alaska, s-; M Mr. Wakefield "is o»nj
ahoui 50 "GO barrels a yea:, while
s-avolhlng I!ke 2,000,000 banels a y< ar
are taken firm the North sea If Al
aska waters cannot supply many linn s
as ri’iu h I rrring' as are now belna
taken there will never be a herring
industry in Alaska.”
Mr. Wakefield says the best period
of the year for herring fishing comes
after September 15. The best part
of the pack, he says, is put up in
the latter part of September and dur
ing October.
"If the regulation for closing in
September goes into effect,” said Mj;.
Wakefield, "my present judgment is
that I shall take all the herring I
can this season, and not open up
next year.”
Mr. Wakefield has five stations at
which he is packing herring and sal
mon in Alaska. He has one at Port
Walter and one at Red Bluff Bay in
Southeastern Alaska, and three out
at the Westward on Kodiak Island,
Afognak, and Sawmill Bay.
THE FOUR BODIES OF
VICTIMS OF LAKE HAVE
NOT BEEN RECOVERED
SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—The bodies ot
four victims of the treacherous wat
ers of Lake Washington, drowned last
Sunday, have so far not been recov
ered.
ENGLAND WINS YACHT RACES
OYSTER BAY, Sept. 23.—England
won the International six mile yacht
racing cup from America taking the
seventh of the final series, making
Great Britain four to America’s three
races.
GERMAN BUSINESS INTERESTS
EXERTED INFLUENCE TO
HAVE PROTOCOL ACCEPTED
GENEVA, Sept. 23.—Bemstorff told
the Federated League of Nations So
ciety that the German people as a
whole believe the London Protocol
was accepted because big German bus
iness interests exerted their influ
ence in favor of its acceptance.
His countrymen were thunderstruck
that the pfesent discussion of securi
ties at Geneva seemed directed against
Germany, as this is extraordinary be
cause Germany is now disarmed.
He declared he believed that Ger
many would want to reopen a dis
cussion of securities at some future
time from the viewpoint of security
for Germany against other powers,
and thought that Germany would be j
undisposed to join the League unless
tho powers fully and spontaneously;
recognized Germany’s position as a I
world power.
MINISTER CONFESSES
MURDERING HIS WIFE
MT. VERNON, Sept. 23.—The Rev.
Lawrence H. Hight, a Methodist min
ister for a local church here, confess
ed last night to the murder of his
wife, and naming Mrs. Elsie Sweet as
his accomplice in the crime. He de
clared that it was his infatuation for
the misguided member of his flock
that was the motive for his poisoning
Wilfred Sweet, husband of the wo
man, and Mrs. Hight, his wife.
Mrs. Sweet was later arrested and
after an all-night third degree by the
sheriff confessed she was in the plot
to poison hen husband and Mrs .Hight.
MANY ATTEND FUNERAL
OF FASCISTI DEPUTY
ROME, Sept. 23.—The streets of
Rome were packed by a throng on one
quarter of a million people at the
procession of Casalinis’ funeral which
wound its way through the working
classes’ quarters of Rome toward the
cemetery. More than thirty thous
and followed the body of the Fascisti
deputy who was assassinated and the
ceremony was the most impressive
since the famous march to Rome by
the Fascisti army two years ago.
UNIVERSITY STUDENT KILLED
SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—Harold W.
Sparks, 24, a student at the University
of Washington, and a boy scout work
er, was killed yesterday by falling
over a precipice on Mount Kaletan,
near North Bend, which he was climb
ing with two friends, Blanche Vance
and Ted Lewis. He was the son of
William A. Sparks, auditor of the Se
attle post office.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO
LA FOLLETTE CAMPAIGN
COMING IN STRONG
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23—
I Contributions to the Lafollette cam
j paign are coming in in encouraging
i amounts according to Matthew Woll of
the American Federation of Labor,
who declared the Dawes speech in
Milwaukee was a circus performance
and brought more votes to Lafollette
and his running mates.
TYPHOONS DAMAGE SHEDS
LONDON, Sept. 23.—A Lloyds’ dis
patch from Kobe says typhoons have
extensively damaged cargo sheds and
docks at Kobe and cotton stores at
Osaki.
HUNDRED FIFTY FILIPINOS
WILL SAIL FOR HAWAII
MANILA, Sept. 23.—One hundred
and fifty laborers recruited here will
i sail tomorrow on the Siberia Maru
for Hawaii. They were approved of
by the Bureau of Labor and the Phil
| ippine legislature decided it would be
illegal to prohibit their emigra'J^i.
Labor troubles in the Islands are the
cause for their being transported to
Hawaii.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAN
ON HIS WAY TO KODIAK
S. W. Old, a member of the geo
logical survey, who was here last
year is in town on his way to Ko
diak. Mr. Old has been spending the
season in the Interior, in the Ruby
and Nixon Fork district. He states
that game, especially moose is plen
tiful in the district, and the residents
will have plenty of meat for winter
use. A heavy rainfall was experi
enced the past summer, as well as
extreme cold weather, frosts killing
the truck patches on the river.
Eugene Mangin, night clerk at the
Curry Hotel, who spent a day or so
in Seward, the first of the week, left
yesterday on his return.
T. G. Allison left yesterday morning
for his mining ground at Canyon
Creek.
A1 Sollers is busy building a road
from the railroad to his sawmill on
Grant Lake.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Kurtz will re
turn from Anchorage on tomorrow’s
train.
Mrs. Leon Urbach will arrive from
Anchorage on tomorrow’s train. She
has spent the past few weeks in the
hospital there.
A. E. Rucker and wife, who spent
the past week at Fairman’s camp on
Quartz Creek, returned Monday. Mr.
Rucker reports the Moose Pass road
a wonderful piece of work, being as
smooth as the Kenai Lake road. Hen
ry Couillard had put up about thirty
tons of hay and some vegetables but
the season was a poor one for grow
ing. Considerable game was seen
Along the trail.
A CORRECTION
In the list of prizes given by the
Woman’s Club yesterday for the best
gardens, the special Gateway prize of
$5.00 was awarded to Edith McIntosh.
The committee in charge today tele
phoned that this was a mistake, as
the prize went to Miss Edith Guest,
who will receive the money by calling
at the Gateway office.