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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 180
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LARGE CITIES
. TO DOT ALASKA
SAYS F. REEDY
NATIONALLY KNOWN TOURIST DI
RECTOR ARRIVES SEWARD
WITH BIG PARTY
HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN
Says Alaskan People do not Realize
the Great Value of Their
Natural Scenery
“If you want to live before you die,
travel. Shuttlecocking between your
office and your home; between your
church and your cluz, isn’t living. It
is merely existing, which is as differ
ent from living as fruit is from the
leaves of the tree,” stated Frank
Reedy, who for the second season in
succession has arrived in Seward with
the largest party of tourists from the
States. This year Mr. Reedy, promo
tion director, traveler, teacher and
student in Mexico, National Parks and
Alaska, a resident of Dallas, Texas.
has'*reduced the size of the party to
90 in order that the journey might be
more comfort and interest to all
concerned. Accommodations along
the route of travel in the Territory
are such that this number of visitors
can b§ taken care of in a satisfactory
manner, where a larger party, such
as he conducted through this district
last year, are more or less subject to
inconvenience and the traveler of to
day demands service above all other
things.
Leave on Special Train
The party of ninety which arrived
in Seward this morning on the Admi
ral Watson of the Pacific Steamship
Company departed for the Interior on
a special train at 9 o’clock. They will
return to Seward next Tuesday, em
barking at this point that day on the
Admiral Watson for the South. The
travelers are all prominent residents
of Missouri, North and South Caro
lina and Arkansas.
The special train, on which banners :
on each side were attached bearing the j
words, “Frank Reedy National Tours’* j
was run down to the Seward dock at j
which point it was boarded by the par
ty. As the train pulled out, an elec- |
trie rear light placed in a painted 1
frame, with the words “Texas Spe- ]
cial,” was noted on the observation
car, creating as they say in the mo
nies, atmosphere. The observation
car, Denali, two coaches and a baggage
car made up the special.
Itinerary of Party
The itinerary includes an all night
stop at Curry tonight, arriving in Fair
banks tomorrow night. Side trips
will be made out of Fairbanks, includ
ing short trips down the Richardson
Highway, out to the placer camps on
Goldstream, Skoogum, Cleary and El
dorado, the Alaska College and other
<* points of interest. Sunday night they
return to Curry and part of the fol
lowing day will be spent in Anchor
age. On Tuesday they depart from
the Inlet town for Seward where the
Admiral Watson will pick them up
and whisk them south.
Alaska the Greatest Wonderland
In a statement this morning to The
Gateway, Mr. Reedy said: “These
"tourists appreciate the fact that Alas
ka is the greatest wonderland in the
^ world. And many of them have trav
eled the world over many times. No
one knows that fact about the country
less than Alaskans themselves. Living
in the Territory they do not realize
the contrast. It is marvelous. Many
changes are taking place and I, my
self, expect to see the day when at
least 25 large size totvns and cities,'
in addition to the towns now here,
will rise up in various districts. The
latent resources of the country have
not been touched. This is my twelfth
to Alaska and my third to Sew
ard. You can say I plan to bring to
Seward next year a much larger party
than has heretofore been personally
Atheist Brings Suit
To Bolster Evolution
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23 (JP)—
Loren H. Wittner, who brought suit
in the District of Columbia courts to
prevent the payment of salaries to
teachers in schools where evolution
is taught, contrary to the teachings
of the Bible, says he is an atheist and
brough the suit as a means of giving
science its day in court.
CANNIBALISM IS
PRACTICED BY
ESKIMO TRIBES
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask., July 23
0P)—A tale of cannibalism with its
grisly horrors is reported from the
district north of Fon du Lac, caused
by the worst famine in years. H. C.
Twigge, manager of a trading post in
the far north, who arrived here yes
terday, said the provincial police are
investigating a report that Eskimos
killed and ate a man, woman and
child of the Chippewa Indian tribe last
winter. An old trapper said he found
the bones w'here the body had been
boiled and eaten.
DAWES WELL BE
INDUCTEDtNTO
SIOUX TRIBE
DENVER, Colo., July 23 (/P)—With
two speeches to be delivered in this
city, the attendance of one and pos
sibly tw'o rodeos, laying a corner
stone and a week spent on a moun
tain ranch, Vice President Charles G.
Dawes is booked for a busy time while
in Denver. He spoke last night on
the proposal to change the Senate
rules, “the reestablishment of a ma
pority cloture provided by the rules
of the Senate in the first 17 years of
its existence, thus checking inttoler
able evils which have arisen because
of its absence. We should return to
the first principles of the American
government and not depart from
them,” was the keynote of his ad
dress.
OnxFriday Mr. Dawes will be in
ducted into the Sioux tribe of Indians
together with Mrs. Nellie Ross, gov
ernor of Wyoming.
Grand Commander of
Knights Templar Dead
SPOKANE, Wash., July 23 (IP)—Asa
C. Jewett, grand commander of the
Knights Templar for Rhode Island and
Massachusetts died at Glacier Na
tional Park today, while en route to
the triennial conclave at Seattle.
The body w'ill be returned to his
dome in Newton Center, Mass., and
the remainder of the delegation will
continue on to Seattle.
The steamer Northwestern of the
Alaska Steamship Company is sched
uled to arrive in port from the South
Saturday.
SOFIA, July 23. (IP)—Study of the
German language will be obligatory
in Bulgarian primary and grammar
schools during the coming year. This
has been announced in a governmen
tal decree by the Bulgaria premier.
conducted through the Territory.”
Railway Officials Accompany Party
J. T. Cunningham, head of the trans
portation department of the Alaska
Railroad; George Jenkins, train mas
ter; G. C. Dickens, chief clerk of the
transportation department, and Rob
ert S. Bragaw, jr., official photogra
pher for the railroad, are accompany
ing the party of tourists on their in
land journey.
NEW ENGLAND TO
BUILD PLANT AT
KODIAK LN1926
SID BETTMAN STATES SURVEY
CONTROVERSY SETTLED AND
COMPANY WILL BUILD
POPULATION GROWING
Road Commission Engaged on Five
Miles of Road This Season and
Business Is Good
Sid Bettman, former United States
Commissioner at Kodiak, who recently
returned to Seward in greatly improv
ed health after spending a month in
the Anchorage hospital, states that he
has heard that the government has ac
cepted the survey of the New England
cold storage company and that the
construction of the large plant is a
certainty next spring. A controversy
arose over the survey of the company
which took in part of the Indian
graveyard. Relatives were communi
cated with and the matter settled
satisfactorily, it is stated.
The outlook for the future at Kodiak
is very encou,'0", ' suit of the
removal of tmo — Mr. Bett
man said, and as a result the resi
dents of the thriving island town are
intensely encouraged.
Many New Residents
Many new people have taken up
residence at Kodiak with the result a
conservative estimate of the popula
tion is placed at 50^. Carl Armstrong
is managing the Three Saints Bay
herring plant which concern is now in
operation, and W. J. Erskine is oper
ating his herring plant on the Kodiak
wharf. The Kadiak Fisheries Com
pany have practically rebuilt their
cannery which in recent years has
been deteriorating.
New Road Being Built
The Alaska Road Commission has a
crew of men constructing a $30,000
road from the town to the head of the
bay, a distance of five miles. The
town of Kodiak is building a road thru
the community which will connect
with the new road. Another road will
be constructed later by the commis
sion to the cannery road, or Mill Bay.
This also will be five miles in length.
Bettman Resident Alaska 30 Years
Mr. Bettman, who is now deputy
collector of customs at Kodiak, said
that while he was in the hospital at
Anchorage, numerous oldtimers and
friends of his visited him, much to his
appreciation, giving him an opportu
nity of renewing acquaintances with
many whom he had not seen for years.
Mr. Bettman came to Alaska thirty
years ago, and has resided here con
tinuously since that time. He left to
day for Kodiak on the Admiral Wat
son.
Worst Fire In History
of Regina, Sask., Today
REGINA, Sask., July 23 (/P)—One
of the city's worst fires destroyed the
plant of the Canadian Oil Company
Ltd., today. Damage is estimated at
$150,000. Five firemen were injured
while fighting to prevent the spread of
the flames to surrounding tanks.
Chinese Bandits Kill
Morgan Palmer, Amer’n
PEKING, July 23 (fi>)—Morgan Pal
mer, an American, was killed by Chi
nese bandits at his ranch on the Sun
gari river near Harbin, and Dr. How
ard, an eye specialist of the Rocke
feller hospital was captured at the
time.
Palmer formerly lived at Platts
burgh, New York, and was an engi
neer. He later joined the Red Cross
in Siberia and China, and saved many
lives in the Chinese famine of 1920.
He was unmarried.
Negro Leper Will Be
On Trial for Murder
NEW ORLEANS, La., July 23 (fl>)—
George Beaurepaire, a negro leper,
charged with wife murder, is expected
to go on trial soon. The prisoner has
been confined in a glass cage with
speaking tubes connecting it. The
trial has been postponed from time
to time for fear of spread of the dis
ease.
NEW UNION DEPOT
COVERS 30 ACRES
AT CHICAGO, ILL
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CHICAGO, July 23 (&)—'The new
$60,000,000 Union station opened here '
today covers thirty acres of ground,
and accommodates four roads, with
300 trains leaving daily. The main
waiting room is so large that three
regulation baseball diamonds could be
laid off in it.
The owners of the station are the
Pennsylvania, the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy, the Chicago, Milwau
kee and St. Paul, and the Chicago &
Alton.
BRITISH PROGRAM
INCLUDES BUILDING
MANV SHIPS WAR
LONDON, July 23 (>P)—Prime Min-!
ister Baldwin announced in the House 1
of Commons today that the govern- j
ment’s naval construction program
for the coming year includes two
cruisers, the keels of which will be
laid in October, two cruisers to be
started near February, and three each
year thereafter, making four cruisers
| to be constructed this fiscal year, and
three next.
The government has also decided
upon the construction of nine destroy
ers and six submarines together with \
certain auxiliary vessels, beginning
the fiscal year of 1926 and 1927.
This program will be continued dur
ing the normal life of the present par
liament. It is understood that this
program prevented the resignation of
the Lords of Admiralty.
Stubbs Brings Back
North Seattle Goats i
- i
D. E. Stubbs, engaged in fox ranch
ing near the McKinley near the Mc
Kinley National Park, arrived in Sew
ard this morning from the States on
the Admiral Watson. Mr. Stubbs brot
back with him three goats which were
forwarded to his farm this morning.
AIRPLANES TRANSPORT GOLD
LONDON, July 23. (/P)—Britain’s
air transportation company, The Im
perial Airways, which came into ex
istence May, 1924, recently complet
ed 1,000,000 miles of flying. During
the past 12 months airplanes carry
ing $10,000,000 worth of bullion, 15,
000 passengers and 1,000 tons of
freight have flown across the chan
nel at 100 miles an hour.
RUMANIA EXPECTS
A WHEAT SURPLUS
BUCHAREST, July 23. (JP)—A de
crease of 8,000,000 acres of grain
sown land in Rumania in the present
year is shown by government sta
tistics recently issued. Despite the
decreased sowing, the crop' condi
tions are reported as excellent, the
weather thruout May having been
exceptionally favorable.
Agricultural experts are predicting
that the 1925 wheat crop, will leave
a large exportable surplus.
HUGE QUARTZ
PROPERTY MAY
BE DEVELOPED
PREDICTED IF ENGLISH CONCERN
TAKES OVER GROUND 5,000
MEN BE EMPLOYED
GROUND NEAR SEWARD
Estimates of Diamond Drilling Are
Approved by Fairbanks Office,
Says Seward Visitor.
Of great importance to Seward
is the announcement that an in
fluential group of English capital
ists are considering the purchase
of the quartz property at Mile
43 1-2, of which John Howe, sr.,
John Howe, jr.; and John Mack
witz, all well known in Seward
are the owners. News of the pos
sible entry into this field by the
same company interested in the
Fairbanks distrcit, was brought
to Seward the first of the week by
P. J. Lynch, of the Seattle firm
of diamond drillers, Lynch Bros.
Mr. Lynch came to Seward from
Seattle for the purpose of await
ing at this point, the approval of
his company’s estimates for drill
ing the prospect. The Fairbanks
office has approved of them, he
.states, but the sanction of the
London office must be seured,
which may take some time. Pro
viding no -ply is received prior
to Sunday by Mr. Lynch he will
depart for his Seattle office to
await further developments.
Conservative mining men who
have visited the property have
pronounced that the vein of" ore on
the ground is the largest they have
even seen. It literally splits the
mountain in twain. It is believed
to be the largest, at least, on the
Pacific coast, as far as local knowl
edge is concerned. The lead is 150
feet wide with stoping ground run
ning up 2,000 feet. The vein has
been traced for a distance of 7,500
feet, with an average width of 150
feet. It is stated the milling prop
erty is similar to the famous Tread
well mine in Southeastern Alaska,
and could, very easily, be opened as
a quarrying proposition.
The ground lays at a nice loca
tion on the old Alaska Central rail
road; a siding is already in; ample
water power is available with a river
running thru the property, ideally
located for carrying away the tail
ings; a fine townsite adjoins the
ground, in fact as Mr. Lynch said,
it is one of the most natural mining
projects, really made to order, that
he has ever visited.
The permanency of the vein is in
dicated by the three miles of black
slate, with the vein matter lying di
rectly between, and to the South,
graywhack. The ore is highly min
eralized, backed with a blue clay
wall. The analysis show copper, sil
ver and gold, but mostly gold values,
ranging from $2 to $47 per ton. In
numerable analysis have been taken
from all portions of the exposed vein
and reveal there is ample $6 rock
and plenty of high grade ore. The
owners have driven in two short
tunnels, one to a depth of six feet
and another 20 feet, and a cross-cut
of 30 feet has been made. Develop
ment work has proceeded with regu
larity "with Mr. Mackwitz now on the
ground.
The prediction was made provid
ing the English concern takes over
the property that within a period of
two years, owing to the magnitude
of operations which would be con
ducted, that close to 5,000 men would
be employed by the company.
Mr. Brownell of The Liberty says
that tonight’s show comes well rec