VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 94 ~ h*i1 k/J./O I
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
LUDENDORFF IS
ADVOCATING TO
GIVE RESISTANCE
'VIOLATION OF PROHIBITION LAW
CHARGED BY SPOKANE MEM
BER ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
SEATTLE, Apr. 16—Charges that
“a large quantity of good wine was
shipped from a California hospital
a few months ago and delivered to
someone in the Whitehouse” were wir
ed yesterday from Spokane to Wayne
B. Wheeler, general counsel for the
anti-saloon league at Washington. The
message was sent by Herbert C. Har
. ris of Spokane, who is urging Attor
ney General Daugherty to call a spe
cial grand jury session to probe con
ditions being aired by Mrs. Miles
Poindexter in her newspaper letters
on Washington's official and social
life.
Harris stated that an American Le
gion Post in California has all the
facts regarding the shipment.
HEIRESS TO MILLIONS HAS HER
OWN WAY IN MATRIMONIAL
- VENTURE
LONDON, Apr. 16.—Secretly mar
ried Thursday in Lewisham registry
office, Mathilda McCormack, heiress
to the Chicago harvester king’s mil
lions, and Max Oser, the Swiss riding
^master, are believed to be in Scotland
on their honeymoon today.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Apr. 16.—
*Mr. and Mrs. Max Oser bought a farm
near Yverdon, Switzerland, and will
spend six months of the year on the
farm and the remainder of the time
in the United States.
AMUNDSEN OFF ON LONG
• TRIP TO NORTH POLE
NOME, Apr. 16.—Raold Amundsen,
the Arctic explorer, left here yester
day for Cape Wainwright by dog
team, from which place he will hop off
by airplane June 1 for his flight to
the North Pole.
COAL PRICES MAY INCREASE
It is rumored that the price of coal
in Anchorage and Seward may soon
be increased, owing to a recent order
of the Bureau of Mines which com
pels coal producers to use giant pow
• der instead of black powder, as for
merly.- The Healy River Coal corpo
ration will slightly increase the cost
Of its fuel, although it is stated that
the price will later be lowered. This
company states that as soon as other
chambers l^ave been made in the large
seams, which will be an expensive
matter at present, the pi ice of their
production will be brought below the
present scale.
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Leopold David, Anchorage attorney
and former mayor of the Cook Inlet
city, was numbered among those whc
left for the westward on the Starr. He
is on his way to Seldovia to make s
business call.
FRENCH BAN LIQUORS
COLOGNE, Apr. 16—The French is
sued an order today banning the im
*portation of any kind of liquors intc
rhe Ruhr district.
Ill COMING WHEN
GERMAN NATION BE
CALLED FIGHT
GEN. LUDENDORFF SAYS LAND
MUST STAND TOGETHER
INDIVISIBLE EMPIRE
MUNICH, Apr. 16.—“The time is
coming when the whole German na
tion will be called upon to free the
land of its enemy and when all will
stand together with their lives and
fortunes for the sacred honor of the
Fatherland,’’ said General Ludendorft
in a speech before the Ansbach fas
I cis*i last night.
DUNKIRK, Apr. 16.—“Germany will
wait in vain for France to falter for
a single moment,” declared Premier
Poincare in a speech here today.
“France will evacuate the Ruhr only
on receipt of payments due her.”
George A. Parks, chief of the field
division for Alaska of the Generai
Land office, arrived in Seward on the
special and left for his headquarters
in Juneau.
Jack Malloy, oldtimer of the inte
rior, who arrived from the States on
the Alameda was among those leav
ing for Anchorage this morning.
Mrs. A. E. Rucker left this morning
for Anchorage to pay a few days’ vis
it with friends.
John Dahl, laboratory man for Dr.
J. H. McCallie and who recently re
turned from a visit to the States, left
for the Cook Inlet metropolis this
morning.
Adolf Olsen, former Anchorage bus
iness man was among those who left
this morning for Kanatak.
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Sigurd Burvick and J. L. Cook were
passengers on the Starr for the Port
O’Brien district where they will spend
the coming season fishing.
The large brindle dog owned by
j Jack Prosser, at (the depot, had an eye
torn out this morning in some man
ner. Dr. Baughman sewed the injur
! ed optic in place and the canine pa
tient is resting easily at the home of
j its owner.
Pete Dybwad, Kodiak resident, left
for that place this morning on the
Starr after spending a few days in
Seward.
Victor Engblom and Iver Strom
were among those listed for Port
i O’Brien on the Starr. *
W. A. Shields left for Seldovia this
morning on the Starr, going to Kach
emak bay to spend the summer.
W. W. French left this morning for
Kanatak where he will engage in a
survey of oil locations.
Nick Bruhn, who last summer lo
cated numerous oil claims in the
i Chignik section left for that place this
‘ morning on the Starr.
G. H. Spangler, engineer in the em
ploy of the Alaska Road commission,
left this morning for Kanatak to com
mence survey work.
TICKETS GOING FAST
Wm. Gagnon, who has charge of the
ticket sales on the Nenana ice pool
in Seward, reports that the guessing
coupons are going fast, over half of
those sent here being disposed of al
reary. Mr. Gagnon states that the
pool will close in Seward next Wed
nesday at four o’clock sharp in order
that he might forward the guesses to
Nenana, the pool at that place clos
ing on the 20th, next Friday.
TRADE LIES
GOVERNMENT FINDS ITSELF UN
ABLE TO SELL SHIPS WITH
OUT HUGE SACRIFICE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 16.—A deci
sion was reached today by President
Harding and members of the Shipping
Board at a foreign trade conference
today to proceed at once to the con
struction of the Board’s proposed for
eign trade lines and then offer these
lines and ships for sale to private
owners, under authorization of the
merchant marine act of 1920, condi
tioned on a suitable guarantee of con
tinued service. The program further
decided on provides that if the gov
ernment finds itself unable to seP
ships and lines without justifiable
sacrifice, the Secretary will then pro
ceed to direct government operation.
STARR TO WESTWARD
1TR TARGE LISTING
The steamer Starr pulled away from
the Seward dock this morning for the
westward shortly after 8 o’clock with
about 200 tons of freight and (the fol
lowing passengers: Leopold David,
G. H. Spangler, Mrs. Nellie Don Car
los, D. E. Stubbs, Meta Anderson, Mel
Horner, Nick Bruen, W. W. French,
Chas. Huff, Martin Moses, J. L. Wal
ler, John Fox, Adolph Olsen, Sigurd
Burvick, J. L. Cook, Pete Bybwad,
Victor Engblom, Iver Strom, Pete
Nikoloff, W. A. Shields. Many of
those on board were going to the
Chignik oil fields, others to Kanatak.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
Seward Post, American Legion, will
hold an important meeting Tuesday
in the Elks’ clubrooms. All members
requested to be prompt.
Duke E. Stubbs, interiorite, who re
cently located in Seward, left this
morning for Chignik where he will do
some survey work.
Wm. Brabazon, formerly of the for
estry service at Girdwood, arrived re
cently from the States. He left this
morning for (the north.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP 1.INER
BE LAUNCHED THURSDAY
—
TACOMA, Apr 16—With Miss Fran
I ces Nowell, a student at the Univer*
; sity of Washington as sponsor, the
j passenger liner, Alaska, will be sent
; down the ways at 6:00 p. m. Thurs
day.
Miss Nowell is a daughter of Mr.
I and Mrs. Willis E. Nowell, of Juneau,
Alaska.
HEAVY SNOW AT KENAI
George Palmer, who resides at Ke
nai, is authority for the statement
; that there is more snow at that place
at the present time than comes within
| the memory of the oldest native on
Cook Inlet. It is stated that there yet
remains over three feet of the white
and beautiful on the ground.
P. J. Bonner, who was in cnarge of
the steam shovel operations between
Mile 327 and McKinley Park, has re
signed his position and will leave for
Portland, Oregon, to accept a position
with a company there.
Mrs. Nellie Don Carlos, who has ex
tensive oil holdings in the Chignik
district, left on the Starr this morn
ing for that place.
BILL HATCHERY
FOR SEWARD UP
(MEGGERS BATTLE
ID ENTIRE GREW
WIPED DIIT
VESSEL FOUND LYING AT AN
CHOR WITH SAILS SET AND
SIGNS OF BATTLE
NEW YORK, Apr. 16.—A bootleg
gers’ battle in which the entire crew
of a two-^asted schooner was proba
bly slain and its cargo of rum pirated
is the explanation of a ship discovered
today. The vessel was abandoned
with sails set and anchors out, off
Point Outlook, and was boarded by
Capt. Ryan of the coast guard cutter
Manhattan. Ryan found the deck of
the schooner strewn with evidences
of battle, hundreds of empty cartridge
shells strewn over the decks telling
of the slaughter.
H. S. Balderston, accompanied by
his daughter, Miss Betty, arrived from
Anchorage Saturday evening. Miss
Betty will visit among friends for the
next few days.
The steamship Alameda pulled into
port this morning about 9:30 and aft
er a short stay at the local dock went
to the San Juan plant to take on
board 92 boxes of fish, after which the
vessel departed for the States. The
following is the booking out of Sew
ard:
For Seattle—Bishop P. T. Rowe,
Mrs. C. Shea and two children, Mrs.
C. C. Anderson, A. Horton, Win. A.
Adams, John S. Adams, W. C. Boe
shore, Mrs. M. S. Kennedy and child,
Harry Morgan, Mrs W. A. Coghill,
Miss Neva Winthrop, A. B. Funk, Ar
chie McDonald, Mrs. A. McDonald,
Walter McDonald, Gladys McDonald.
Mrs. K. McGinnis, Alvin Gustafson,
R. H. Dodson, Frances Shea, Pauline
Kennedy.
For Juneau—Alfred Smith, D. M.
Botliwell, Geo. L. Johnson, Col. J. G.
Steese, Geo. A. Parks.
Ketchikan—Geo. Waltz, Mrs George
Waltz, F. B. Stanley, C. M. Sharpe,
Jos. Ulmer.
Cordova—Mrs. Geo. M. Armstrong,
Joe Meherin, Don Arled, Clyde Ihrig.
Latouche—Werner Kuni, Ivar Pe
ters, G. McConaughy, J. Linehan, Rev.
R. V. B. Dunlap.
FISH TAX BILL GKRRY
In a wire received here Saturday by
Mayor L. V. Ray, from Senator A. J.
J. Dimond, the latter states that he
believes salmon tax will be increased
considerably over previous years, but
will not be as high as at first propos
ed by the committee. Continuing Mr.
Dimond say’s the object of the gradu
ated feature of the proposed tax is to
limit the catch and thus preserve the
fish.
“I believe ^ the herring tax will not
be increased but may be lowered and
perhaps wholly eliminated,” says Mr.
Dimond. ‘‘It is impossible to get more
definite information at this time eith
er from the legislature generally or
from Third division members.
Martin Moses, visiting in Seward
for the past few days, left this morn
ing for his home at Unalaska.
J. L. Waller, Anchorage attorney,
was among those leaving for Seldo
via on the Starr this morning.
John Fox, who recently arrived
from Fairbanks was among those who
engaged passage on the Starr for Kan
atak.
Ml CONTROLLER
BILL IS «
POSTPOilED
—
DAY’S BILL REQUIRING PAYMENT
OF CANNERY HANDS EACH
MONTH IS AMENDED
(By Special Corespondent)
JUNEAU, Alaska, Apr. 16.—The Al
drich bill, creating a Territorial con
trol board, which has been on the sen
ate calendar for three days without
action, was brought up Saturday am.
again sidetracked, when Aldrich re
quested its continuance until today,
with chances for its passage admit
tedly slim.
Senators Ayer, Chamberlin, Dunn
and Dimond are opposing the Shepard j
pension bill for pioneers, also sched- j
uled to come before the Senate today, j
The Ayers bill providing for a co j
operative arrangement between the j
Territory and Federal government for
mining inspection under Supervisor
Stewart passed its second reading. Its
passage in the Senate is vertually cer
tain.
Day’s bill requiring payment of per
sons in private employment in United
States money was amended in the
Senate to require monthly paydays o:
cannery employes, although Senator
Dimond warned the members it woulr’
probably be unconstitutional.
The House passed the Ayer bill
asking $100 bounty on killer whales.
The House and Senate are still
deadlocked over the women jury bill
neither being willing to recede.
Action on Hunt’s resolution empow
ering the Attorney General to make a
legal fight against fish reservations,
was deferred when a substitute was
offered, and both were carried over
until Monday. The substitute does
not change the effect of control, but is
directed against the Bureau of Fish
eries instead of the president.
The Senate passed House Bill 18
advancing the closing period for fil
ing for candidates in the primaries to
the first Tuesday in February and
House bill 4, liberalizing the present
board of children’s guardians act pass
ed the Senate.
Senator Chamberlin introduced Sen
ate Bill 100 raising the salary of the
Commissioner of Education to $5,000
per year.
Hunt introduced a memorial asking
the removal of the headquarters of
the Alaska division, Federal Bureau of
Education from Seattle to Alaska.
Raelston introduced in the House a
bill appropriating $125,000 for th*
Territorial fish commission, authoriz
ing the construction of four new fish
hatcheries, one at Seward, one near
Chitina, and the other two in the First
division. This bill calls for the expen
diture on construction of the Seward
and Chitina hatcheries of a sum not
to exceed $10,000 each and operation
and maintenance for the next two
years not to exceed $7500 each.
The Ways and Means committee re
ported favorably a bill authorizing the
construction of a library and museum
building at Juneau, appropriating for
ty thousand dollars.
The Decker bill lowering the legal
rate of interest to eight per cent was
defeated in the Senate.
Bill 51, protecting the brands on
foxes and Bill 85 requiring the filing
of affidavits of annual labor on min
ing claims 90 days after June 30th,
instead of the end of the calendar year
passed the House.
BERNHARDT TROPHIES SOLD
TO PAY ACTRESS' DEBTS
PARIS, Apr. 16.—All gold and sil
ver trophies acquired by the late Sa
rah Bernhardt in her long career on
the stage have been sold by her son,
Maurice, and the proceeds used in pay
ing on her many debts.
Mel Horner was among the Starr
passengers this morning; going to the
Chignik oil fields.
REPUBLICAN IRISH INTENDED TO
RELEASE PRISONERS AND
KILL HIGH OFFICIALS
LONDON, Apr. 16.—Documents re
vealing plots involving wholesale de
struction of life and property in Lon
don are in possession of Scotland
Yard as a result of raids last niglut on
residences used by Irish men and wo
men suspected of being Republican
supporters..
Among the plans were plots to at
tack and destroy London’s light and
power sources, underground stations,
etc., and to release Irish prisoners
from London prisons and murder nu
merous high police officials.
H IS FULL! IN
Mil SUITES OF
UNION TOOHY '
BLIZZARDS RAGE IN MANY PARTS
OF NEW YORK AND ILLINOIS
WITH HEAVY SNOWFALL
SEATTLE, Apr. 16.—With the mer
cury about 80 in the shade here today
snow carried on the wings of a strong
northeast wind is reported in New
York and other northeastern states.
Snow Falling in Chicago
CHICAGO, Apr. 16.—Snow fell over
the country today, it being spring
in name only. From the great plains
to the Atlantic a strong wind drove
scouring snowflakes that fell to the
greater part of two or three inches.
NEW STRIKE REPORTED
AT LUCKY SHOT MINE
Arrivals from Anchorage on Satur
day’s train report that an exceedingly
rich vein of ore was uncovered recent
ly at the Lucky Shot mine in the Wil
low Creek district. The oie is stated
to be richer than anything yet found
in that district although the assay
valuation is not given.
DEMI ELUDES
FREE SUITE TROOPS
LONDON, Apr. 16.—DeValera has
again eluded the Free State troops,
under General Prout, who have been
searching for him in the Tipperary
mountains.
MINING TRANSACTION IN
THE WILLOW CREEK DISTfttCT
It is reported that a mining tran
saction of considerable magnitude was
recently consummated at Anchorage,
the property to exchange hands being
the well-known Drumheller claims on
Craige creek, in the Willow creek
district. The purchasers were M. J.
Comoy and associates of Anchorage.
An initial payment of $10,000 was re
ported to have be?n made. A $4500
gold brick from this property was
brought to Anchorage recently.
Frank Wells, who is interested in
quartz in the Chulitna district, left
Anchorage recently to open up some
promising claims on Honolulu creek.
It is reported that the Fink &
Campbell interests, of Spokane, will
open up the Spokane claim on Iron
creek, a tributary of the Talkeetna.
Chas. Huff was a westward passen
ger for Sanak on the Starr this morn