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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 123.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MAY 29. 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BANK SLAYER SHOT
IN BARRICADED HOME
BY DETECTIVE SQUAB
WILLIAM DAVIS IN CRITICAL CON
DITION AS RESULT ENDEAV
OR TO ESCAPE
OFFICERS CHARGE HOUSE
I -
Robert Segal, Rooming House Propri- :
etor, Is Seriously Wounded
In the Affray.
WINNIPEG, Mau., May 29. (JP)—
The slayer of Maurice Garvey, aged j
19, in the holdup yesterday in the
Branch Bank of Canada has been
identified as William Davis, 25 years
old, who served time as a robber at
Stillwater, Minnesota, Stoney Moun
tain, Manitoba and Burwash, Ontario
penitentiaries.
Two others have been arrested as
accomplices of Davis’s, who obtained
$2,000 which has been recovered.
Two hours after the holdup Chief
Detective Smith lead a squad to the
house of Davis which was barricaded.
Davis fired from the upstairs, then
ran to the doorway on the first floor
where he was wounded. Smith and
Detective Morris led the charge n.
the house. Davis ran out the back
and across open,ground under a heavy
fire. A bullet felled him as he was
jumping into a parked automobile.
Davis and Robert Segal, rooming house
proprietor, who was wounded in the
cross fire are both in a critical con
dition here.
10 LADIES IKK
LONG TREK BY CANOE
AND SAIL ID SEWARD
EN ROUTE ON JOURNEY FEW
MEN CAN BOAST OF HAVING
MADE HERSCHEL ISLE
WINNIPEG, Mau., May 29. (JP)—
Traveling by rail and canoe from Ed
monton, Alberta, on a trip which will
take them through Northern Canada
to the mouth of the Mackenzie river,
Miss Clara C. Rogers of Trure, Eng
land and Miss Gwendoline Dorian
Smith of the Isle of Wright, left
here for the West. From Edmonton
they will go by railroad 700 miles
north to Athabasca lake, thence by
canoe 1200 miles to Herschell island.
They will paddle from Fort Mac
Pherson to Peel river 160 miles south
to Herschel, whence Indian guides
will take them by canoes up the Peel
river, over a 100-mile portage, down
Rat river to Porcupine river by the
Yukon to the Tanana, thence to Ne
nana and down the Alaska Railroad
to Seward. From this latter port
the girls will go to Vancouver, B. C.
ROADHOUSE BEING ERECTED
The roadhouse which is being con
structed out at Mile 18, Seward-Ke
nai lake road, will be much appreciat
ed by motorists and tourists. It is
understood meals will be served at
all hours and a small line of candies
and soft drinks sold.
Mrmarial lag
Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and in every
city and hamlet in these United States, their cit
izens will gather to pay honor to the memories
of those who have given their sendees and their
lives for their country'. Since the late war Me
morial Day has a double meaning, the veterans
of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War
and the World War, joining in paying tribute to
those residents of the Silent City', who were com
rades in arms and participated in those conflicts.
But the thought strikes us that while it is
just and proper to pay honor to the dead, we are
lax in our respect to the living veterans. The
maimed, the aged, and the helpless veterans a~e
crying for assistance from all parts of the coun
try. Scandal after scandal kas arose over treat
ment of the disabled veterans of the World War.
Thousands of men are helpless cripples today,
with little to look forward too until taps are
sounded over their last resting place and the
citizens honor them for perhaps the first time
by participating in memorial services over their
graves.
The living should be honored before the
dead. Every comfort that can be devised should
W cheerfully tendered, and help extended un
solicited to the maimed and helpless. Let this
memorial day sendee open your eyes to the needs
of the living, and force Congress to give the heir
that is due them. They will rest easier in their
last sleep if they are shown their sendees were
appreciated by their fellow citizens.
CORDOVA LEARNS OF
CABLE HEADQUARTER
MOVE 10 SEWARD
—
ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION WILL
OPERATE TELEPHONE AND
RELIEF STATIONS
CORDOV, May 29. (JP)—It is learn
ed here that preparations are being
made to transfer the Signal Corps
headquarters to Seward fom Valdez
next fall. The Signal Corps will aban
don all telegraph stations along the
Richardson Highway which the Alas
ka Road Commission will operate as
telephone and relief stations for their
own convenience and transmit local
business to the nearest radio station.
Radio stations wrill be placed at
Copper Center and Richardson sta
tions.
HAS OWN STORAGE PLANT
The halibut schooner Radio, Capt. j
Gus Angelson, one of the finest ves- j
sels of its type to have arrived in
port this season, discharged 14,000
pounds at the local San Juan plant, j
The Radio has its own cold storage
plant, one of the few vessels thus
equipped in the local trade.
NO PAPER MONDAY
In accordance with the custom
in previous years, tomorrow, be
ing a National Holiday, The Gate
way, in line with other papers of
the Territory, will join In ob
servance of Memorial Day. The
holiday falls on Sunday, so there
for no paper will be issued on
Monday.
The Bank of Seward and the
Postoffice will also be closed.
BODY OF UNKNOWN IS
FOUND HINCHINBROOK
—
THOUGHT MAN MAY BE ONE OF
SEVERAL REPORTED AS
MISSING LAST WINTER
CORDOVA, May 29. (£>)—The
body of an unknown man was found
at Hawkins cut-off, on Hinchinbrook
Island in a decomposed condition. It
is thought possibly he was one of the
several reported missing last winter.
The inquest will likely be held when
the body is brought into Cordova.
NORTHWESTERN MIDNIGHT
The S.S. Northwestern is due to ar
rive in port at midnight, according to
the latest news from the vesseL
REWARD IS OFFERED
FDR NEWS REGRESS
FAVOR AND HIS 1
PLANE WILL BE DIS»A-C*-EC
ALONG COAST VANCOUVER
ISLAND IN SEAPCS
SEATTLE. May 2$. —Lee James,
automobile dealer offered SlW for
information as to the whereabouts of
Aviator Favor and his mechanic, nam
ed Swinhart. He declared he believ
ed Favor met with disaster. James,
who financed Favor, left for Vancou
ver tonight to send an airplane along
the west coast of Vancouver Island.
He declared “we had a contract with
the Carlisle Packing Company and
had already received S3W* advance
payment. Favor never would have
jeopardized the contract and a $€,
500 plane by carrying contraband”
CEDAR WAS IN PORT
The lighthouse tender Cedar arriv
ed in port during the wee sma’ hour?
of the night and ea7ty this rooming
left for Cape Aialik to pick up the
whistling buoy which was reported
had broker loose from its naoor.rrs.
and was crashing up again?.; the rocks..
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