," Hewnrd Dale Gntemny
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX. NUMBER 206.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MURDERERS AND
INSANE BROUGHT
FROM WESTWARD
EIGHTEEN PRISONERS INCLUDING
FIVE INSANE ARRIVE ON
THE STEAMER STARR
Annual Cleanup of Criminals
Six Guards and Deputy Marshal Ac
. company Yearly Harvest from
the Canneries
In custody of Deputy U. S. Marshal
A. C. Dowling and with six guards,
Larry Lombard, P. T. Padden, J. S.
McHale, Theo Russell, Ed Ross and
Ed McMahon, eighteen prisoners in
cluding five insane, were brought to
* Seward last evening on the steamer
Starr from westward points. Upon
arrival at the local port they were
lodged in the government jail where
they will remain until transportation
is arranged to Valdez and to Morn
ingside sanitarium in Oregon.
Those reported insane were Josef
Selig, an Austrian, taken into custody
at Naknek; Dan Fausto, a native of
San Salvador, from Naknek; Carl
Prinze, a Dane, from Naknek; John
Matteson. a negro, extremely ill, from
Naknek; Andrew Larson, a Scandina
-4 > vian from Dillingham. Larson was
accidentally struck on the head by
a boom. It is believed that through
an operation he will regain his san
ity. John Matteson, the negro, is a
pitiful case. So weak is the patient
that he is absolutely helpless. He
was undwx a phjar~u*n's care during
the trip to Seward and was removed
from the vessel on a stretcher, with
Dr. Baughman in attendance. All of
the insane were transported into the
country as cannery hands, it is said.
Mexican Wields Wicked Knife
Manuel Morales, a Mexican, who
last year served six months in the
Valdez jail for a cutting affray is in
\ the toils of the law again, charged
with assult with intent to kill, lie
has been at? Naknek again this season
and while in the act of bringing in
a load of canned goods which he re
ported he had found floating about in
the ocean presumably from a barge
which was wrecked in that region. He
was stopped by Bray who accused the
Mexican of having stolen the provi
sions from his boat. It is stated that
Morales then attacked Bray with a
fishknife. Bray in fending off a blow
with an arm, received a stab wound
which penetrated to the bone. He
* ' was also stabbed several times in
the back before Morales could be
stopped. Altilia Castillio, a witness
for Morales, being held by the mar
shal. Castillio is reported as being
a degenerate.
Bites Man on the Nose
Choo Doo, a Chinese, was arrested
on complaint of narcotic inspectors,
who recently made a trip to the west
ward. It is said a complete smoking
outfit for opium was found in his pos
M session. Choo Doo is being held for
the grand jury.
Joe Torres, who was sent to prison
four years ago, has been arrested
charged with an assault in which he
seriously battered his antagonist. He
drew a sentence of 300 days in jail
from the commissionoer’s court to the
westward.
Robert McKay, with a piece of lead
/ half as large as a man’s first, wrapped
in canvas, set out to settle a griev
ance against a man named Stein. He
' hit Stein a glancing blow, felled him
,to the ground, after which he jumped
tonto the prostrate man and was in
sthe act of biting Stein’s nose off when
he was pulled away. McKay is charg
he was pulled away. McKay is held
for assault with a dangerous weapon.
Assaults Own Sister
A half breed native, Mike Ander
son is alleged to have attacked his
> 16-year-old sister. He is charged with
a statutory crime. A child was bom
y
to the sister last winter and Ander
son, it is stated, threatened to kill
those who knew of the affair snd told
on him.
Held for Triple Killing
John Kiglonok, from Ugasiv.k, is
charged with the murder of John
Notshatt, reported accessory to the
crime With Mike Equana, who was
the murderer of Frank Fleckenstein,
jail guard and son of Deputy Marshal
Fleckenstein, who later shot and kill
ed Equana, an Eskimo. Kiglonok and
Equana were together at the time
Notshatt was murdered, it is claimed.
Kiglonok declares that his gun went
off accidentally. Anna Sinotok, the
widow of Mike Equana, is a witness
in the Kiglonok case. She is about
to become a mother.
Charged With Killing Jones
Axel Jones, one of the prisoners, is
charged with the murder of X. B.
Jones, a trader and trapper at Ugashik
rapids last winter. Jones body was
found floating in the rapids by an Es
kimo boy, who went to Kanatak and
reported the incident. The body
showed that Jones had been badly
beaten apparently with an axe or a
pick handle. Annie Jones, widow of
X. B. Jones, who was at Kanatak at
the time the body was found, is being
held as a witness for the government.
The marshal could not get word to
a deputy before the ice went out, in
May, so many particulars in the cas«
could not be obtained. Two men ac
companied the widow to Jones cabin
at Ugashik rapids, -where the remains
were interred. This was before Eas
ter. In June Axel Johnson appeared
before the U. S. Commissioner at
Koggiung, and asked for a warrant
for fhe arrest of Jones, whom he is
alleged to have killed two months
previoivdy for shooting at him. rfe
was immediately placed under arrest
charged with the murder of Jones.
E. Sanchez, another prisoner, stab
bed a man in the back and is charged
with assault with a deadly weapon.
Witnesses in this case are Librario
Castro and Refugio F'arazon.
GOLDMINEAT
KATMAI BELNG
OPENED AGAIN
ASSISTANT MANAGER OF WEST
WARD GOD MINE IS BUSI
NESS VISITOR IN TOWN
Ned Smeaton, assistant manager
of the Katmai Gold Mine at Uyak, ar
rived in Seward last evening on
board the steamer Starr. Mr. Smea
ton reports construction work has
been completed at the mine, with a
new pipe line installed and the big
compressor in operation. Every house
in the mining community now has
electric lights and running water. Un
watering has been started and the
crew will be ready to “sink” within
the next fifteen days.
This property has been closed since
1915, and is being reopened now for
the first time since then. A new or
ganization has taken over the old
Amook Gold mine, J. V. Smeaton of
Passiac, N. Y., president and the
largest stockholder in the newly or
ganized company. Together with a
Mr. Fox, a consulting engineer, ad
ditional men for the mine and a big
quantity of supplies are due to ar
rive in Seward shortly from the
States. Ned Smeaton is a guest at
the hotel Seward.
INVESTIGATE DAM LEASE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21. (/p)—
An investigation will be made of the
attempt to lease the power of the
Hetch Hetehy dam, in Yosemite Nat
ional Park, to a San Francisco power
company. The investigation will be
undertaken by the Senate public lands
committee immediately with a visit
to San Francisco by George K. Bow
den, special counsel for the commit
tee.
TWO CHILDREN
DIE STARVATION
IN TIPPERARY
DUBLIN, Aug. 21. (/P)—Two child
ren have died of starvation, and a ter
rible state! of affairs exists at Clonmel
the largest town in Tipperary, ac
cording to statements made by Coun
selor Ryan, at a meeting of the Clon
mel Corporation late Saturday even
ing.
Counselor Ryan, in telling of the
death of the two children, to the Cor
poration, asserted that discontent of
the present ruling party would issue,
if aid was not forthcoming.
NO WATER FOR PROHI’S
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21.
—Employees of the offices of the pro
hibition directors will have to drink
something else besides water, if they
wait for the government to pay for it,
Comptroller McCarl has ruled; say
ing that the money appropriated by
Congress for the enforcement of the
National Prohibition Act, is not to be
used for the purchase of water.
PREDICTS WAR
BETWEEN BRITISH
AND RUSSIANS
WILUAMSTOWN, Pa., Aug. 21. (&)
—Felix Vandel, of Paris, predicted a
war between England ant, ♦tussia is
inevitable, unless England abandons
her whiskey and opium traffic in the
Orient. He stated the war would be
in the near future.
SEARCH FOR TRUSTYS
.EVERETT, Wash., Aug. 21. (/P)—
The Monroe Reformatory Officials
and guards, together with county of
ficials, are searching for Clarence H.
Fosberg and Charlef Metford, 21 and
23 years old who were “trustys” at
the institution, who took advantage
of the smoke pall yesterday to walk
away from the place. Fosberg was
serving a sentence for larceny and
Metford for second degree burglary.
DARROW VISITING WITH SON
IN COLORADO TOWN
GREENLEY, Colo., Aug. 21. (jp)—
Clarence Darrow, who defended John
Scopes, in his historic evolution trial
at Dayton, Tenn, arrived here to spend
a vacation with his son, and to get
away from newspaper men, so he said.
Dayton has been disappointed at the
shortness of the trial and that the
real value of the case will be in keep
ing other states from enacting anti
evolution laws.
ATTORNEY AND BRIDE
ARRESTED ON YACHT
NEW YORK, August 21. (/P)—Judge
Albert Fink, a prominent Chicago At
torney and his bride, formerly Miss
Lucille Roades, wrere arrested on the
second day of their honeymoon, by the
coast guard, who charged them with
having liquor on their yacht “Strol
ler.”
GANGSTER HUNT
UNDER WAY IN
SEARCH FOR MEN
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21. (JP)—A
gangster hunt has been under way the
past week in this city upon complaint
of Mrs. Emma Skillinger, 21 year old
bride, that she was kidnapped, rob
bed and assaulted, and left naked un
der a tree, by six men and a woman.
CHINESE THROW SICK MEN
OUT INTO THE STREETS
PEKING, Aug. 21. (/P)—Reports tc
the British Legation indicate that the
Boycott of the British Missionaries is
general, and also effects other nation
alities. Reverend White, a Canadian
Episcopal Missionary, with several
other missionaries, has been compel
led to hastily leave his charges and
seek protection in Peking.
At Honan striking students drove
the patients from several hospitals in
to the streets. Many of the patients
who were seriously ill, and unable to
walk, were carried out by the stu
dents and thrown into the streets.
AMERICAN FLIERS
WILL FLY UNDER
TRICOLOR SOON
FEZ, Aug. 21. (iP)—American avia
tors forming the new “Lafayette Es
quadrille” to fight for the second time
beneath the Tricolor of France, will
soon have the opportunity to taste ad
venture.
STARTS CAMPAIGN AGAINST
IMMODEST DRESSING
PARIS, Aug. 21 (/P)—The Vatican is
intensifying its campaign against bare
arms and immodest toilettes in the
churches, and many parishes will ex
pell women dressed thus, as “manne
quins selling their wares.”
WILL SETTLE DISPUTE
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (JP)—Jack
Kearns announced in Chicago recent
ly that he would attempt to settle his
and Dempsey’s troubles in New York
State, when he reached the metropo
lis.
ODUNAINPORT
FROM NOME WITH
MANY ABOARD
BIG FREIGHTER CARRYING HUN
DREDS OF TONS OF WHALE
PRODUCTS FOR SOUTH
Twelve days out of Nome the big
freighter Oduna of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, Capt. H. Anderson in
command, arrived in port last evening
at 5:30 o’clock. The Oduna had on
board 1300 tons of fish meal and whale
oil from the whaling station at Aku
tan, besides a number of passengers,
who with the exception of one, Miss
May Stewart, continued on south with
the vessel which departed at 7:30
p. m.
The Oduna took north from Seat
tle a full cargo of general freight to
the Kotzebue Sound district. From
Seward the freighter goes to Crab Bay
and Saw Mill Bay to pick up cased
salmon, thence to Latouehe for a load
of copper ore, thence to Cordova,
Ketchikan and Seattle.
From Seward one carload of cased
salmon from the Gorman plant at An
chorage was put aboard the vessel.
Capt. Anderson is well known in
Seward having made this port many
times. This is his second trip here
this season. Early last spring he
commanded the freighter Latouehe,
which is now commanded by another
skipper by the same name. W. D.
Haymen, the purser on the Oduna, is
also well known to many residents
of this town. He was formerly the
purser on the old Dora, which in the
earlier days plied here from the
South.
The following passengers from the
North were included in tile passenger
listing: Miss May Stewart, Seward;
Mrs. Anna Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. H.
L. Stfoll and son, Mr. and Mrs. D. W.
Kram, Miss Alice Riner, D. Protopa
pas, J. H. McQuire, John S. Bailey.
18 CHILDREN ARE
DROWNED ON
BATHING BEACH
BORDEAUX, Aug. 21. (Jp)—'The bod
ies of thirteen children, between the
ages of nine and fourteen years, who
were drowned at noon yesterday, at
the bathing beaches at Harnolot, a
few miles south of here, when a raft
j they were on was washed out to sea,
have been recovered and carried to the
little chapel near the beach.
Five other children who were on
the beach are still missing, and are
believed to have been swept to sea.
STILLMAN BOY HURT
j NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (jp)—Doctor
David Bull of the Presbyterian Hos
pital, flew by airplane to the lodge of
Mrs. Anne Stillman, at Grand Anse
to treat her son, Alexander, 14, for a
broken arm received in an accident
there.
EVELYN HOBBS RETURNS
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (JP)—Evelyn
Hobbs, 19 year old society girl, who
disappeared from her Park Avenue
home,. Saturday, has mysteriously re
turned after foiling the searchers, as
she was garbed in her brother’s hik
ing clothes.
SYRIAN REBELS
| MASSACRE 106
! FRENCH TROOPS
PARIS, Aug. 21. (JP)—Rebels in the
northern part of Syria, have massa
cred a French Column, killing one
j hundred and six of the troopers, ac
cording to an official announcement
received here yesterday. Sixty per
sons escaped the massacre. A deatch
ment sent to relieve the column in
distress was captured.
WILL OF EARL OF YPRES
LEFT TO HIS SOLICITOR
LONDON, Aug. 20. (£>)—1The will of
the Earl of Ypres has been filed for
probate the estate being left to Ed
ward Geoffre, his solicitor, no men
tion of his widow or two sons and a
daughter, being made.
WILL MARRY SOON
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (£>)—Consu
elo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Vanderbilt will be married to Earl
C. Smith, son of Sydney J. Smith, and
Mrs. C. Whitney Carpenter, early next
January, at St. Patricks Cathedral.
Smith is a Yale man. Miss Van*
derbilt is recovering from an opera
tion at Newport.
NO CLUE FOUND OF GIRL
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (£>)— No clue
has yet been found as to the where
abouts of Miss Eleanor Hobbs, daugh
ter of Elon St Claire Hobbs, who dis
appeared yesterday.
Privately Owned Reindeer
Herd in Fine Condition
States Company Manager
Davis Runyoyn of Seattle, superin
tendent of Waechter Bros., which com
pany conducts a cold storage, and
meat markets at Dawson, Kokrines,
Fairbanks and Nenana, stated that
during his recent visit in Seward,
while en route to the States, that the
reindeer herd of 5000 at Kokrines,
the property of the company, was in
fine shape. In passing through Sew
ard he had just completed a twa
months trip of inspection of the vari
ous plants of the company and ex
pressed himself as very well pleased
with general conditions.