; BEIily GEIIPUIUY
VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 122
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1924
PRICE, TEN CENTS
NUKA BAY MINE ALL
THAT WAS CLAIMED
BY ITS PROMOTERS
W. H. Brockwav, a Spokane min
ing engineer who was employed to
expert the property of the Alaska
Hills Mines Corporation at Nuka Bay,
returned from the new camp and in
company with E. W. Barnett, presi
dent of the company, left for An
chorage. They will leave for the bay
again this week with Capt. Emswiler
taking a load of supplies.
^ According to Capt. Emswiler the
camp is showing unusual activity, a
number of prospectors being on the
ground. A new bunk house is undei
construction and mining operations
will start about June 1, the newly
purchased mill being ready for opera
tion in sixty days.
This property, which is undoubted
ly one of the best discovered in the
history of coast mining, will cause a
large camp to spring up at Nuka Bay.
As soon as the snow gets out Of the
hills a large number of prospectors
will start to work in the district, the
outcroppings showing a continuation
* of the vein for many miles. In fact
this mineralized vein extends north
to the Hope district, numerous prop
erties being located on it at different
points.
FORDS BID MUSCLE. .
SHOALS REJECTED
SENATE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Henry
Ford’s bid for Muscle Shoals was re
jected this afternoon by the Senate
Agricultural committee in executive
session.
FATHER GIVES BLOOD TO
SAVE LIFE OF BABY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22—An op- j
evation calling for an injection of a
quantity of the father’s blood into the J
heart of his baby in a desperate at
tempt to save the life was successful
ly performed today at the University
of California hospital. Three surgeons
attenoed the case, which is said to be
the first known operation of its kind.
TWELVE SHOTS FIRED
BY LIQUOR VIOLATOR
AT FEDERAL JUDGE
BUTTE May 22.—Called by Federal
Judge Pray to stand up tor sentence,
after having been convicted on a
charge of bootlegging, John O’Leary
' drew a revolver and fire twelve shots
at the judge and four prohibition offi
cers. He missed every time, wound
ing himself the twelfth shot.
The court room was crowded and
pandemonium reigned for a time, the
spectators jamming the exits and hall
ways.
FRENCH AIRMAN WILL
CONTINUE HIS FLIGHT
TOKIO, May 22.—Lieut. Doisy, the
French airman, whose machine was
wrecked at Shanghai will resume his
flight to Tokyo in a borrowed Chi
nese airplane.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL
John Brady and L. C. Pratt, both
members of the Forestry Service, left
for the hatchery this morning where
they are engaged in surveying the
boundaries.
W. R. Shellhorn, bookkeeper for the
local light plant, was an Anchorage
passenger this morning.
Joe Wilson, Jr., left for Moose Pass
this morning to begin work on his
property.
Gus Manthey left for Anchorage
this morning on a short business trip.
Wellman Holbrook of the forestry
service is now at Kenai preparing for
a trip of Classification of the Chu
vgach National Forest.
George Colwell, roadmaster, and WT.
Horn, maintenance of way engineer,
are on a trip- of inspection over the
Alaska railway.
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(K Joe Wilson, Sr., will leave Monday
for his mining property on Canycn
creek.
G. 0. P. Chairman
COPYRIGHT CLINEOIN8T. WASHINGTON
WOMAN CONFESSES
TO THROWING ACID
COLUMBUS, May 22—Mrs. Grace
Delby, aged 35, surrendered to the po
lice Iasi- night and confessed that she
threw acid in the face of George Hack
ney, aged 31, at a moving picture last
night. Hackney died of heart failure
superinduced by the shock. She told
the police that she did not intend to
kill her sweetheart but merely disfig
ure him. She has four children and
the dead man also has four.
OUTLAW PROVES AID
TO AMERICAN TOURISTS
AJACCIO, May 22—They call him
“Romanetti, the Corsican bandit.” But
he isn’t a real bandit. He is merely an
outlaw.
There is a price of 20,000 francs on
his head, but the entire population of
this island, outside the administration
officials and the police are his devot
ed friends. He simply settled an “af
fair of honor” in the Corsican fashion.
Since he dashed out into the wild
forests and mountains after slaying a
man who falsely accused him of steal
ing a cow, Romanetti has killed seven
gendarmes.
He also can put, if he wants to, sev
eral more notches on his gun, repre
senting the result of his intervention
in favor of a group of American tour
ists who were attacked in the moun
tains by what he called “bandit col
lectors.”
They were out for money. Romanet
ti considered this contemptible so he
killed one of the trio and forced the
others to fight a duel with him, two
against one. He killed them both.
Romanetti himself has several farms
under cultivation in the names of
trusted friends, and sells large quan-1
tities of butter, milk and cheese to j
French buyers.
He was able to give his daughter in
marriage to a wealthy landowner last j
year, complying with the French tra
dition that the bride must bring to
her husband cash or property the equal
of his.
COOLIDGE TAKES
ANOTHER TREATMENT
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22— j
Coolidge submitted to another chlor
ine gas treatment for his cold. He was
in a gas filled loom fifty minutes this
afternoon.
ICE IN YUKON BROKE
AT GIBBONS LAST FRIDAY
The ice at Fort Gibbon on the Yu
kon broke last Friday and on May 19
at Rampart. The ice broke at Nulato
May IS.
MORE INDICTMENTS
AGAINST TEX RICKARD
NEWARK, N. J., May 22—Tex
Rickard and Jasper Mann, confiden
tial representatives of E. B. McLean,
the Washington publisher, were in
dicted by an Essex county grand jury
an the chage of illegal transportation
af the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films
from New Jersey to Washington City.
Pilot A. M. Sampson made a trip
this week from Fairbanks to Brooks
carrying passengers and freight. The
trip was made in a few hours time.
JOE ULMER TELLS OF .
WINTER TRIP TO FAR
REGIONS OF KOBUK
Jos. Ulmer, who has been on a re
connaissance survey for the Alaska
Road Commission, arrived in Seward
Wednesday from a trip through the
district from Betties to the mouth of
the Kobuk river on Kotzebue Sound.
Mr. Ulmer came to Seward for the
purpose of securing a team of horses
and will return to Nenana from which
point he will leave for the Kusko
kwim with the team to take charge of
road work in the Tckotna district.
Mr. Ulmer stated that the recent
trip was one of the hardest he
had ever made, no roadhouses exist
ing in the district traveled, and the
party composed of Mr. Ulmer and an
Indian guide being compelled to
camp out in bitterly cold weather. At
Shangnuk Mr. Ulmer ran into weather
registering 70 degrees below zero and
was' compelled to lay up ten days
with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferguson,
before the weather moderated suffi
ciently to travel.
He returned to the railroad section
in time to attend the meeting of the
grand igloo of Pioneers, and later
mapped some country along the rail
road. The account of his trip as
given -to the Gateway, follows:
With Tokotna as a base camp, the
road commission have quite an elab
orate road program mapped out for
this season, Joe said. Under the sup
ervision of Ross Kenney, of the road
commission, the roads in the Kusko
kwim district will be joined with one
another and a few new trails con
structed.
Ulmer left Wiseman in the Koyukuk
district March 10 and mushed into Ne
nana with dog's in sixteen days. The
going was pretty rough, he says, for
the trail was beginning to break up in
many places and in spots the snow
had completely disappeared .
At Kobuk Ulmer ran across a num
ber of oldtimers ,well known in Alas
ka. Among those were Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Llody, who are placer mining on
Dan Creek. Frank Ferguson is in
stalling a hydraulic plant on Califor
nia creek and will operate this sum
mer. Lots of work is under way on
Squirrel creek on the old diggings.
There appears to be more activity
in the Koyukuk than has been for
many years past. What the country
needs, says Joe, ia more prospectors,
for it is a big mineralized belt extend
ing for a distance of 300 miles from
Squirrel river to the Chandlar.
The first snow of the winter fell at
Alatna January 1, and shortly after,
Ulmer and a Kobuk guide went up the
Alatna for 40 miles then cut across on
an Indian trail to the Kobuk river,
crossing Lake Gotwals. In blazing this
trail, Ulmer had to work with a com
pass on account of the driving snow
which fell every day while he was in
that section. When he reached the Ko
buk he was forced to double back to
Alatna, 63 miles in order to replenish
the supply of dog feed and food sup
plies. At Kobuk it was 55 below and
when he reached Alatna it was 63 be
low .Going straight down the Kobuk
river to Shungnak village he ran into
still colder weather for here it regis
tered 71 degrees blow.
“It was so darn cold,” Joe said, “the
Indians told me after I arrived at the
village that they could hear the bells
on the" dog team while I was over two
miles away on the trail.” Napoleon,
the native guide who accompanied Joe
froze his face.
Ulmer said that there were rive dog
teams behind him on this trail and
not one of the drivers reached the In
dian village with a dog for a wave of
distemper was rampant throughout
the district and dogs by the scores
died from the scourge. Two dogs in
Joe’s outfit died of distemper while on
that trip.
Ulmer met the Arctic geodetic sur
vey party in charge of Dr. Smith at
Alatna. They were all in fine health
and anxious to reach their destination.
Upon their departure from Alatna
they followed Ulmer’s trail, which he
had broken, for forty miles. From Al
atna Joe went to Betties then to Wise
man and then to Nolan. Here he met a
few miners all o fwhom are getting
along alright. Most of them have
been busy all winter taking out win
ter dumps.
On the Kobuk he met quite a num
ber of friends. C. R. Patterson pros
pected and trapped all last winter. H.
Brown is running a store there and
Fred Johnson is prospecting in the dis
trict. At Wisewan he met Pingle, Sam
Dow, John Wooll, Jack Holzer, Carl
Frank, Fred Swift, Ben Sirr, Jim Stev
ens and Joe Mathews. All of these
UNITED STATES SENATOR
ENDORSES K. K. K.;
DELEGATES CHEER
INDIANAPOLIS, May 22.—Address
ing the Republican State convention
here this afternoon, United States
Senator Watson, himself a member of
the klans, declared that he had no
objections to any man belonging to
the K. K. Klan and was loudly cheer
ed by three fourths of the delegates.
Indiana has over 400,000 members
in the invisible empire, and an anti
klan man has no chance for election.
WAR DEPARTMENT
ASKS VETERANS
REFRAIN WRITING
WASHINGTON, May 22.—The War
Department has issued a statement,
pointing out to former service men
the futility of writing for a bonus
payment at the present time. Print
ed instructions will be distributed,
containing information relating to
j the bonus and the application blank
i itself will contain instructions as to
how it should be filled out.
NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE
WILL START SUNDAY
OVER ALASKA RY.
The new train schedule which was
I to have started last Sunday, will be
! inaugurated Sunday, May 25. This
I schedule will allow passengers to stop
i over a day in Seward, taking Mon
day’s train. The schedule provides
1 for trains Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays^ trains going straight through
| to Fairbanks, arriving at 10:15 the
| following morning after leaving Sew
! ard.
Regular trains will leave Fairbanks
■ Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at
6:00 p. m., coming straight thru to
Seward. A dining car service will
be operated between Seward and
Curry. From Curry on passengers
will eat breakfast at Nenana a stop
of one hour being made. Sleepers
will also be a part of the train equip
ment.
The new service will give Seward
three trains a week instead of two,
as at present.
SIDES OF HAWAIIAN
VOLCANO FALLING IN
HONOLULU, May 22.—The sides
of Killauea volcano are falling in and
the- fire pit has been greatly enlarged.
Huge columns of flame are shooting
from the crater, illuminating the dis
trict for miles around.
LATE HOTEL ARRIVALS
Van Gilder—J. B. Reher, J. P. Wil
liams, L. C. Pratt, John G. Brady, j
Col. Engl. Mason, Mrs. H. L. Hugg, j
Joseph Ulmer, Mrs. Hardy, Geo. B. j
Hall.
Sexton—H. E. Kristiansen, Harry
Johnson, Gust Grapsos, James Vauros,
James B. McKee, Chas. W. Erickson,
Mrs. J. P. Keeley.
Seward—Niels Christensen, J. E. Me
Fadden, Cassius Brown, W. A. Baker,
Leon Chatriand, Mrs .V. Gibson, W.
G. Hughes.
Overland—A Hubbard, W. J. Czu
bay, J. A. Wedett, R. H. Nelson, N.
D. Morgan, Mrs. C. Woodhouse, Ed
Sellers, O. A. Christensen.
The Railway launch Sunflower will
make an emergency trip with mail
from Nenana to Circle as soon as the
river clears of ice.
men are mining and prospecting on the
old placer grounds and doing fair. No
new ground is being worked anyplace.
The last winter was a poor winter
for trappers throughout the entire dis
trict and very few good catches are re
ported. No reason is given for the
scarcity of fur excepting that it just
happened to be one of the lean years.
A splendid specimen of green jade
was picked up in the Colville River
country and presented to the Alaska
Agricultural College and School of
Mines at Fairbanks, by Mr. Ulmer up
on his arrival there recently. He also
presented the Alaska Museum at Ju
neau with a* unique dog harness made
from Caribou skin. One of the features
of this harness is that it has rope
sewed into it.
Since Ulmer departed last fall he
has traveled 1350 miles, of which over
700 miles was mushed on snow shoes.
Succeeds Daugherty
vCOPVAIQMT UNDERWOOD A U*Ot*WOQO. H. V.
MAJOR MARTIN REGRETS
LOSS OF HIS CHANCE
ABOARD “CATHERINE D”, May
22—“I will never forget that my won
derful opportunities were forever
shattered in the tangled wreckage of
the flag plane “Seattle” which was de
molished on the barren mountain and
waste land in the western end of the
Alaska peninsula,” said Major Martin
in a message to army headqurters to
day.
Martin and Harvey regret the acci
dent but say they are fortunate to be
alive. They are being well taken care
of on the fisihng steamer, due to ar
rive in Bellingham Sunday.
DONALDSON LEAVES ON
LONG TRIP TO ARCTIC
Leaving Seward after taking on a
cargo of oil at the local clock of the
Standard Oil companv, Captain Alex
ander Allen and wife, and four pas
sengers left on the eras schooner Don
aldson on his annual trading trip to
the Arctic. The Donaldson was pur
chased from the U. S. government a
year or so ago, but Capt. Allen, and
converted into a gas schooner. The
vessel was formerly a post launch
at Fort Liscum, where it was used
to convey officers and men from the
Post to Valdez. The Captain and
passengers will be among the first to
enter the ice pack this year.
The Donaldson will be remembered
as the craft that was chartered by
Noyes, the explorer, to rescue the
expedition left on Wrangell island,
about 200 miles north of Siberia. The
vessel also was chartered by Stef
fansson the explorer, and later oper
ated on the Nome to St. Michaels
run.
The Donaldson will return to Sew
ard again next , spring, Capt. Allen
spending his winters in the States.
YOUNG MEN’S CLUB
TO SAIL ON ALAMEDA
SEATTLE, May 22—One hundred
and twenty members of the Young
Men’s Business Club are booked on the
Alameda for a pleasure trip begin
ning Sunday to Southeastern Alaska.
At Sitka they will ,on the invitation of
the mayor, take charge of the decora
tions and program on May 30.
WILL DRIVE REINDEER
HERD TO BROAD PASS
Soon after the ice goes out of the
Yukon, it is the intention of George
Ashenfelter, who arrived in Anchor
age last fall from Council, to leave for
the Seward Peninsula country where
he has a herd of about 1000 reindeer.
He proposes to drive the entire herd
across the country to the Broad Pass
district where splendid grazing ground
is available. His herd at the present is
grazing with the Council herd and No.
4 and 5 Igloo herds. The crossing of
the Yukon will be made at Kaltshak.
Mr. Ashenfelter is under the im
pression that several other private
owned reindeer herds will make the
drive to the Broad Pass country at the
same time he makes his.
CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCHOOL
The members of the Catholic Sun
day School are asked to meet at the
home of Mrs. Gus Manthey, Saturday
afternoon at one o’clock 2t
AMERICAN FLYERS
MAKE GOOD TIME IN
PREVAILING WEATHER
KAUMIGAURA, Japan. May 22.—
The three American flyers arrived
this afternoon from Hitokappu Bay,
from which point they hopped off sev
en hours earlier. It had been origi
nally planned that the jump from
Vetorofu island to the main island of
Japan, and the furthef hop to Kasu
migaura should occupy successive
days, but Lieut. Smith, in command
of the air squadron decided to try
to do both today and succeeded.
The flyers were given a rousing
welcome upon their arrival here. To
morrow they expect to fly to Tokio,
where they will have audience with
the emperor.
ALASKA SHOULD BE
ALLOWED TO EXPORT
LUMBER ANY PLACE
SEATTLE, May 22.—Alaska should
be allowed to export its lumber
wherever there is a market, the Alas
j ka Committee of the Chamber of
1 Commerce declared in a resolution
j adopted at a dinner meeting of the
I Rainier club last night.
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NOISELESS AIRPLANE IS
NOW A REALITY
—
:* DAYTON, May 20—A noiseless air
plane, long the dream of aviators, be
came a reality today when McCook
field flyers announced the successful
tests of a device which eliminates the
drone of engines. The device is at
tached to the engine and silences the
exhaust. Aviators and experts are jub
ilant ever the successful test.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION
BILL PASSD TODAY;
GOES TO PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. May 22.—The Na
val appropriation bill carrying $275,
000,000 was passed by the Senate this
afternoon and now goes to the Pres
ident for his signature.
BROADCASTING STATIONS
CONDUCT FIDDLER’S CONTEST
CHIAGO, May 22—Old-time fiddlers
of the middle west, playnig tunes pop
ular in the eighties and nineties will
compete in a radio fiddler’s contest
here. The contest will continue for 3
months, starting tonight and will be
conducted by the broadcasting station
W. L. S., playing each Saturday night.
WEALTHY ALASKAN
DEAD IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 22.—C. M. B. Stew
art, a weathy Klondike and Nome
operator, with extensive holdings in
Seattle, died last night following an
illness of three months.
Stewart first went to Nome in 1902
later removing to this city.
SELDOVIA GAS BOAT WILL
BE SALVAGED BY OWNERS
The pas boat Onyx which was sunk
on the rocks in Iliamna bay last fall,
will be floated, Ralph V Anderson of
Seldovia and a crew of men being
engaged in raising the craft.
THINK WHAT HE’S MISSED
LIBERTY, Mo., May 22.—Gus Bish
op of this city, 70 years of age, claims
to have never chewed gum eaten ice
cream, seen a motion picture, rode
on a railroad train or in an automo
bile, worn a collar or necktie, talked
over a telephone, seen a building over
four stories high or moved, as he
lives in the house in which he was
born. The world moves slowly in
Missouri.
PIONEER LIVES IN SEATTLE
Mrs. Ostrander, widow- of Judge
Ostrander of the law firm of Ostran
der and Donohoe, in Valdez and
Cordova, now makes her home in Se
attle. She owns a business block in
Cordova and has other interests iu
the Territory.
RED CROSS MEETING
Friday evening, May 23, at 8 p. m.
at the Fire Hall, business of impor
tance. Every member and citizen re
quested to attend. The question to
come before the meeting is whether
or not Seward is to have a permanent
nurse.