; Heumrd Daily Gateumy
Volume 20. number 188
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST !• 1925
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PRICE TEN CENTS
YUKON BRINGING
BIG LIST TOURISTS
i —
-? FEW OLD TIMERS AND INTERIOR
ITES NOTED ON LIST—HAS
BIG FREIGHT CARGO
EATTLE, Aug. 1 (£>)—'The steam
- Yukon sailed at 9 o’clock this
•uorning for Seward and way ports,
carrying 250 passengers and a big
cargo of miscellaneous freight. Her
passengers for Seward are: G. E.
Phill, George W. Phelps, C. M. Schon
acker, G. F. Forbes, J. F. Forbes, J.
H. Scarborough, J. H. Green and wife,
Mrs. M. Taher, W. S. Campbell and
wife^ Mrs. L. S. Johnson, W. S. Garri
son and wife, C. B. Burke and wife and
son, Miss R. West, Miss R. A. Felt,
Miss E. Smith, Miss L. E. McIntosh,
J. Jette, L. Larid, Annie Forbes, Mrs.
* G. F. Forbes, Miss E. Rhodes, Mrs.
Peaii Harrison, H. E. Dillon and wife,
Miss B. Belling, Miss E. Gerahardt,
Robert C. Marcuis, J. M. Clark, J. F,
Collins, J. F. Shoemaker and wife,
Miss H. Shoemaker, Mrs. M. E. Mur
ray, C. E. Pueto and wife, Richard
Pretz, Phillip Pretz, C. B. Wreden,
Sidney Sharp, Mrs. O. W. Peoples,
Mrs. C. W. Wreden and daughter, E.
Bower and wife, Lois Dillworth, Ma
•n Dillworth, Charles N. McCune
’ wife, Harry S. Redpath, Lieut. K.
Mncke, Mrs. M. Bayers, Miss Helen
* '-rell, Miss Mary McCormack, Miss
, ith Steward, Mrs. A. Danielson and
.jaby, C. C. Georgeson, W. It. Hutchin
son and wife, Dorothy Webb, Dr. Nel
lie Mark, Mrs. McClure, F. Wojack,
E. H. Senbois. J. A. Farquason and
wife and son, G. L. Sines and wife,
Mrs. O. Flanagan, Mrs. Gregevine and
three steerage.
RENO GOLD MINES
BEEN PURCHASED
NELSON, Nev., Aug. 1. (IP)—Jo
seph Pheby and Nathal L. Bell have
purchased the ReDO Gold Mines Ltd.,
and have leased and bonded other
R^no property of Sheep Creek camp
for $52,000. The purchasers announc
ed they will form a company to ini
tiate development immediately.
MacMillan Party Sends
In Concern By Radio
CHICAGO, July 31 (IP)—The flag
ship Peary, of the MacMillan expedi
flon will attempt short wave broad
casting of the human voice from be
yond the Arctic Gircle for the first
time Saturday morning at 10 o'clock
p. m. central time, when MacMillan
will talk, an orchestra will play
church music, and several Eskimos
will sing.
Negotiations Come To
Halt Over War Debt
LONDON, August 1. —The Daily
Telegraph said that preliminary nego
tiations for the settlement of the
^rench war debt to England had bro
ken down.
GEOLOGISTS TO COLD
BAY MONDAY’S STARS
Westward ho! Bound for the Cole
Bay oil fields, H. S. Forgeron anc
•Charles L. Lake, geologists for th(
■Superior Oil company, who recent
!y returned to Seward from the Inis
iJn oil region, depart from Sewarc
?on Monday on the steamer Starr
They will make an investigation o
the Cold Bay field for their com
pany after which they will visit th<
Yagataga field, from which poin
they depart for the California offic<
turn in their reports. While it
reward the geologists are guests a
the Hotel Van Gilder.
BOBBED HAIR WAR
CLOSES SCHOOL
VIENNA, July 31. (/P)—A fight over
bobbed hair recently necessitated
the closing of the university here for
a short time. Nationalistic students
in an encounter with the social dem
ocrat faction pulled the hair of the
girl students of the latter group and
berated them for wearing it bobbed.
The girls were finally rescued by
their brother students and 16 of the
reactionaries were arrested.
ACCEPT OFFER CARRY
BODY TO UNITED STATES
TOKIO, Aug. 1. (£>)—'The Ameri
can embassy has accepted the offer
of the Japanese Navy cruiser, Tama,
to carry the body of Bancroft to
the United States.
Government Will Try To
Check Further Smuggling
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 1 (.tP)—
Assistant Secretary of Treasury An
drews today began repairing his
trenches against smugglers along the
northern border of the United States.
The first step authorized is the ap
pointment of 100 additional customs
inspectors along the western half of
the border in the hopes of checking
smuggling of merchandise, livestock,
dairy and other farm products, as well
as liquor and narcotics.
California Commandery
Wins Competitive Drill
SEATTLE, Aug. 1 (£>)—California
Commandery No. 1 of San Francisco,
won first prize in the competitive drill
at the Knights Templars conclave.
Woodlawn No. 77, of Chicago was sec
ond.
C. P. R. Steamer Beatrice
On Rocks Near Skidagate
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 1 (£>)—'The
Canadian Pacific steamship Princess
Beatrice, went ashore south of Skide
gate channel, Queen Charlotte Islands.
Her passengers have been landed.
Skidegate channel lies between Gra
ham and Moresby Islands, in the
Queen Charlotte group.
English Girl Defeats
American Girl Champ
SEABRIGHT, N. J., Aug. 1
Miss Elizabeth Ryan of England and
California, defeated Helen Wills 6-3
and 6-3 in the finals women’s singles,
in the Seabright invitation tourna
ment. The court was drenched and
soggy from a 24 hours’ rain. Miss
Ryan discarded her shoes and played
' in her stocking feet after the first
game. The softness of the turf per
mitted little rebound of the ball and
seemed to aid Miss Ryan’s sharply
angled shots and well placed drives.
The English player displayed greater
court generalship that Miss Wills.
Coolidge Withholds
Tax Reduction Plans
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Aug 1 (JP)—
! President Coolidge is withholding his
■ decision on tax reduction until the
■ treasury department can advise him
l on the state of the Nation’s finances,
• and he has an opportunity to obtain
! the views of additional party leaders
■ in Congress.
; He believes it proper for the presi
: dent and the treasury to make recom
s mendations and advise congress, but
t he is determined to give the Ways and
; Means Committee a free hand in the
formulation of the bill.
THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS LOSS
IN FOREST FIRE
-
I FORESTRY OFFICIALS RETURN
FROM BIG BLAZE IN THE
HOPE REGION.
FOUR MEN TRAPPED
Another Fire Now Burning At Ptar
magan Lake, Near Lawing—
400 Acres Swept.
The cost of the devastating forest
fire in the Hope region, of the last
two weeks is placed roughly at $6,
000, according to W. J. McDonald,
forest supervisor of the Chugach Na
tional Forest, who arrived in Sew
ard two days ago, accompanied by
ee C. Pratt, deputy inspector and
John G. Brady, district ranger in
charge of this district of the forest.
Supervisor McDonald and Mr. Pratt
are departing this afternoon on the
gas boat Shamrock, Captain Walter
B. Harris, for their Cordova head
quarters. Tom Murray,, ranger in
the Cordova district is a member
of the party.
Four Men Trapped.
Four men nearly lost their lives
when they became trapped when bat
tling the forest fire. Fortunately
they escaped without injury. The
fire started, presumably from a care
less smoker in the forest, it is stat
ed, July 11, at a point approximate
ly one mile below Hope. 1c spread
rapidly two or three miles through
an old burn and continued to within
a distance of one mile of Gull rock,
on Turnagain arm.
Burns Virgin Timber.
The total distance swept by the
fire is placed at seven miles. Black
smoking ruin was left in its wake,
acres of fine virgin timber going up
in smoke, with the exception of some
green timber left standing at the
West end. At the height of the fire
there were over 50 men fighting the
fire, Mr. McDonald stated. A 70-mile
gale, sweeping down the Arm, dur
ing the fire, fanned the burning for
est to a terrible heat, and where
the fire fighters had subdued certain
portions, whipped up the smoulder
ing areas again, spreading the blaze
broadcast.
Wild Game Suffer.
Much wild game undoubtedly were
destroyed. Moose and other animal
tracks were discerned leaving the
woods, and Ranger Annabelle, dis
covered two lynx kittens, which he
now has penned at his station in
the district.
Another Fire In Forest.
A second fire is now burning at
Ptarmigan lake, seven miles from
Lawing station, Mr. McDonald re
ports. For fire guards are station
ed at the scene now and providing
the weather conditions remain as
they are, the blaze will be extin
guished without much further loss,
for it is fairly well under control.
This fire started a week ago last
Friday and the burnt over area is
given at about 400 acres, 15 per cent
of which was virgin timber. At the
Hope region fire, a portable fire
gas pump and 1,000 feet of hose was
used and great execution was render
ed by it in mopping up spot fires.
To inspect Knights Island.
From Seward, the forestry officials
will go to Knights Island where the
Alaska Railroad tie camp and saw
mill is located. Oscar Anderson of
Anchorage recently secured a lease
of this outfit, and a large tie con
tract from the railroad, and has al
ready started operations. It is for
the purpose of checking up on oper
ations, to note the fall of timber
and to assist the crew in getting
the right kind of a start in the
woods, that the officials are making
this visit, it is stated.
NEW YORK’S FIRE FIGHTING
SYSTEM IMPRESSES CHIEF
VISITING FROM BERLIN
BERLIN, Aug. 1. (TP)—Returning
from a visit to New York, recently,
Director Gempp of the Berlin Fire
department praised a number of the
feature of fire-fighting systems he
observed in America. He lauded the
fire alarm system of New York City
and said that the precautions taken
in America for storing oil and gaso
line are well worth emulating in
Germany.
What impressed him most was his
observance that, for the most part,
New York firemen have their own
automobiles.
“Of Berlin’s 1700 firemen,” he
pointed out, “not one owns an au
tomobile. Among our firemen are
many volunteers and persons partly
invalided by the war, while in Am
erica they are full-time, paid men.”
JUDGE DENUNCIATES
WOMAN AS BEING A
BRAZEN ADVENTURESS
BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 1. (TP)— Ida
M. Blanderburg, of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
whom Judge Prest of Boston, yester
day, announced a brazen adventur
e3s, ordering her and John W. Crab
tree, known as her brother held for
appearance on Tuesday on a charge
of perjury which came about in her
fight for the three million dollar es
tate of the late Lotta Crabtree.
It has been announced that she
will carry her fight to, the highest
court in the land, after the Judge's
denunciation. Her attorney with
drew from the case. Ida reiterated
time and again that she is the daugh
ter of Lotta, who left an estate
largely for the benefit of World war
veterans.
BOWDOIN AND PEARY
FIGHT FREE OF ICE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug 1. (IP)—
Tlie Peary and Bowdoin, MacMillan’s
exploration vessels, have fought their
way free of the ice pack in Melville
Bay and were expected to reach Etah,
Greenland, their main base today.
WIRELESS RESERVATIONS
AT VAN GILDER HOTEL
Wireless reservations from the
steamship Alaska at the Hotel Van
Gilder, include suites for Mr. Pass
field and son; Mrs. B. B. Mozee and
child; Gustav Pihl, Mr. and Mrs. Mal
forti, Mr. and Mrs. Buckhart and two
daughters, E. H. Wrightson and fam
ily; Bruce Dodson and M. Weaver.
British Subject Killed
During Factory Riot
PEKING, Aug. 1. (IF)—-A Nanking
report said that one British sub
ject was killed during a riot in the
factory of the International Export
Company after a race dispute last
night.
MacMillan Worried
In Icebound Channels
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 1. (IP)
—The Donald MacMillan expedition
is worried over the time being lost
while being blocked in the ice at
Melville Bay, about fifteen miles
southeast of Cape York. The mes
sage said: “a miniature pressure of
ridges are slowly rising about the
Peary, while jagged ice is whispering
ominously at the instusion of the
steel shell amid the shifting of the
ice, while polar bears shot flurries
of snow.” The expedition is expect
ed to reach Eham August first.
POLICE ASKED TO
STAND GUARD
AT RESERVOIRS
LOS ANGELES FEARS FARMERS
WILL AGAIN CUT AQUADUCT
AND WASTE WATERS
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 1 (/P)—
The Water and Power Commissioners
of this city and county have request
ed that the police department furnish
sidearms and ammunition for twelve
men, explaining they are sending aa
armed force by automobile to the Ha
waiee reservoir, in Wens valley, where
the ranchers last year seized the head
gate and guarded it while Owens riv
er spilled into the desert for several
weeks.
It is pointed out that another short
age of water exists owing to dry
weather and every precaution will be
taken to conserve the supply.
Bartley Howard, of the coal min
ing firm of Howard & Jesson, re
turned to Seward today on the Alas
ka. Mr. Howard has been in the
States for the last month purchas
ing machinery and equipment for
his company, the Alaska Matanuska
Coal Mine Company, located at Moose
Creek.
PROPOSE FURTHER
SLASHES IN TAXES
SWAMPSCOTT, Aug. 1. (JP)—A tax
plan, proposing the reduction of the
maximum surtax rates from forty
to fifteen per cent, the slashes mak
ing a normal income rate. The abol
ition of the inheritance, gift and
miscellaneous taxes have been laid
before President Coolidge by Chair
man Madden of the House Appro
priation committee. Chairman Mad
den predicted the surplus for the
fiscal year, just ending, is eight hun
dred and seventy million dollars.
Klansmen Turn Out
In Memory of Leader
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 1. (£>)—
Klansmen of three Ohio cities held
memorial services for the late Wm.
Jennings Bryan, closing each with
the burning of memorial crosses. In
Dayton, O., the cross said: “In mem
ory of the greatest Klansman of our
time. He stood as an armagedon
and battled for the Lord.”
Toledo was another of the large
cities which honored the memory of
the Commoner with services.
Detroit Visited By
Torential Rains
DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 1. (/P)—The
heaviest rainfall here in years came
down yesterday and caused damage
estimated between $500,00 and $1,
000,000. Industrial plants and sew
ers in the residential districts suf
fered when the floods washed out
pavement from many of the streets.
YESTERDAY'S GAME
COAST
Salt Lake 7, Sacramento 3.
Oakland 4, Los Angeles 3. 1
Portland 2, Seattle 4. . ^ ]
Vernon 1, Frisco 4. i
AMERICAN
Boston 7, Cleveland 2.
Washington-Chicago—rain.
Phil.-Detroit—rain.
New York-St. Louis—lain. , '
NATIONAL
St. Louis 4, Brooklyn 9. .
Chicago 3, New York 4. , .
Cincinnati 4, Boston 3.
Pittsburgh-Phila.—rain. ^