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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 265.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1924.
PRICE TEX CENTS
MRS. HARDING NOW
HOVERING BETWEEN
LIFE AND DEATH
MRS. HARDING AND HUSBAND
INAUGURATED CUSTOM VIS
ITIN TOMB SOLDIER
MARION, Nov. 11.—Mrs. Harding
was reported today as hovering be
tween life and death by Dr. Carl W.
^ Sawyer and little hope is held for
her recovery.
While mistress of the White House,
Mrs. Harding with her husband, the
late Warren G. Harding, inaugurated
the custom of visiting the tomb of
America’s Unknown Soldier on Ar
mistice day, and she had been look
ing forward to celebrating the signing
of the armistice again today.
JESSE LEE HOME MAY
BE REMOVED SEWARD
At the Seward Chamber of Com
merce meeting today the chief topic
of interest was the removal of the
Jesse Lee Home, to either Seward or
Seldovia, some time this coming year.
Rev. R. V. B. Dunlap told the cham
ber that the Methodist conference at
» Kansas City had recently voted to re
move the home from the far west to
a point where it would be more con
venient to transportation and where
it would not be so expensive to keep
up. Rev. Dunlap stated that two
large buildings would be erected Here,
if the Home selects this site, and that
these would have a central heating
plant, with shops for manual training,
the crafts and other work. Accom
modations for 100 children and some
eight teachers would have to be pro
vided. He favored the acquisition of
about 40 acres of land close to town,
with sufficient water power for use
by the home in lights, power, etc.
There should also be enough tillable
land to provide vegetables, and keep
the cattle necessary. At the present
time, the Rev. Dunlap said, it cost
the home about $25,000 per year to
operate, and this would mean a big
addition to Seward trade. A school
would also be necessary with four
teachers.
The chamber talked the matter
over at some length and President
Hinde appointed a committee con
sisting of Messrs. Dougherty, McMul
len and Urbach to look over proposed
sites and see what ground could be
secured. Jos. Hof man, who, was pres
^ ent at the meeting tendered 40 acres
of good land near the Nash home
stead, and following adjournment of
-the meeting a prominent citizen of
fered to donate 50 acres of fine land
tor the school. This land is on the
edge of town, on a good auto road
and close to the railroad. In case
the proposition is accepted it will give
Seward nearly 200 more inhabitants
and add greatly to the volume of
# trade. The Rev. Dunlap stated that
a committee would arrive in April
to look over conditions.
A communication was sent to a
colony in Connecticut desiring to lo
cate in Seward, offering favorable lo
cations.
A communication was rceeived from
A1 Sollers, of Grant Lake, offering
this same colony an excellent water
power site, sawmill and two quartz
mines. Mr. Sollers desired the cham
ber to conduct negotiations for him.
The Standard Oil company sent a
communication to the Chamber ask
ing for information relative to the
city, its population, and the number
of vessels plying to, and from this
port. This is to be used, in compiling
its annual statistics.
The San Francisco chamber sent
a request for the names of coffee
users, to be turned over to a large
importing house.
The question of advertising in the
Alaska Weekly was taken up once
more, the committee reporting no ac
4, tion taken as yet, altho several fa
vorable responses had been received
from merchants and business houses
Manager Mel Holben of the Grill
sprung a surprise in the meeting to
day by serving a chicken dinner to
the members. Practically every seat
in the hall was filled, the attend
ance being larger than for some
time. The meetings are increasing in
f attendance and much interest is man
ifested.
H. O. Roberts, manager of the Ko
diak Fishing and Packing company of
Seward and Uganik was an arrival on
this morning’s boat.
NO TRACE FOUND OF
GASOLINE BOAT SPRAY
VICTORIA, Nov. 11.—No trace has
been found of the 36 foot gas boat
Spray, with Sam McPhee, one of the
two members of the crew aboard, re
porter missing yesterday off William
Head, and it is believed the vessel
has been driven to sea. Stanley
Featherstone, the other man on the
launch, went ashore to get help and
when he returned the Spray was
gone.
HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE
AND JUMPS IN RIVER
FIRES RIFLE BULLET INTO BODY
OF WIFE—RAN FOR CON
GRESS IN 1922. ,
EVERETT, Nov. 11—Mrs. Percy
B. Tyler, forty-four, was fatally
wounded by a rifle shot fired by her
husband in front of their residence
here last night.
Tyler, who ran for congress on the
Farmer Labor Ticket in 1922, escaped
from the police and in a letter told
his brother in law T. R .Spangler, they
would find his body in the Snohomish
River.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
BRITAIN AND MEXICO
ARE BEING PATCHED UP
MEXICO CITY. Nov. 11.—The Mex
ican Foreign Secretary-General, Aaron
Saenz, is unofficially informed that
preliminary steps have been taken
to bring about the resumption of
diplomatic relations between Britain
and Mexico, through the friendly of
fice of the United States Govern
ment.
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SIREN BEING INSTALLED
H. E. Ellsworth and a crew of men
I are installing the big siren on the
Are hall tower today. This will be
a great advantage in case of fire, as
I th ebell cannot be heard at all times,
and the siren is loud enough to serve
i Gabriel on the day of judgment.
OLDTIMERS DIED WITH
OLD-FASHIONED ILLS
THE SAME AS TODAY
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—S. Elliott
Smith, egyptiologist of the University
| of London, told the Academy of Med
icine last night that examination of
mummies showed that the Pharoah of
Exodue had hardened arteries; Ram
ess the Fifth, something like small
pox, and further stated that cancer,
rheumatism and nastoditis were com
mon 4,000 years ago, but that gout
and leprosy were almost absent.
SHERIFF FINED FOR
GIVING GIRLS PARTY
CHICAGGO.—When a sheriff takes
two or more pretty women prisoners
from their cells in jail to a dance, and
the party become tanked up enough
to become hilarious, it constitutes a
contempt of court, according to Judge
Frank Carpenter, who imposed a fiine
of $250 and a severe reprimand upon
Sheriff Ed Ahlstrom, of Lake county.
The gii’ls, Margaret Dorland and
Marjorie Moberly, were brought here
fiom Davenport, la., as witnesses in
a white slave case. They were sent
to jail for safe keeping. Recently
they were seen at a roadhouse dance
and when they were brought into
court federal officers made affidavit
that Sheriff Ahlstrom had taken the
women in his auto to the dance, when
they were supposed to have donned
their nighties and been in dreamy
land.
Judge Carpenter told Sheriff Ahl
strom that jail etiquette does not re
quire him to exert himself to be nice
to prisoners, especially if said prison
ers have vampish ways and a perfect
36 figure. “A sheriff who goes gad
ding about with girl prisoners com
piitted to his care by a federal judge
is not building confidence in the
courts,” said the judge.
The sheriff admitted the fine was
just but said he had received his mon
ey’s worth in entertainment.
T. G. Allison, an oldtimer from the
Hope district, now registered from
Moose Pass, is registered at the Sex
ton.
STANDARD OIL EMPLOYE
FORCED TO AID BANDITS
IN ROBBING GAS STATIONS
FORCED AT POINT OF GUN TO
DRIVE BANDITS TO SEATTLE
AFTER ROBBING STATION
SEATTLE, Nov. 11.—While two
bandits kept him covered with revol
vers, Lester W. Mitchell, employee of
the Standard Oil Company in Renton,
was forced to act as their accomplice
in the robbery of two gasoline filling
stations, and later as their chauffeur,
drove them to Seattle where they
made their escape.
Mitchell reported the theft to the
police but so far no trace of the ban
dits has been found.
ARMISTICE DAY BEING
CELEBRATED IN STATES
SEATTLE, Nov. 11.—Armistice day
is being celebrated here today and all
over the United States, with banks and
public offices closing.
WEALTHY MUSICIAN SHOT
BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANT
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11.—Harry I.
Katz, wealthy musician, was called to
the door of his luxurious apartments
in the Ambassador Hotel last night,
and shot to death by party unknown.
BUTLER WILL BE NEW
SENATOR FROM MASS.
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—
Butler, chairman of the Republican
committee and captain-general of the
Coolidge Campaign throughout the
nation, will be new United States sen
ator from Massachusetts, according to
semi-official information.
Borah wjll take over the chairman
ship of the foreign relations commit
tee, which was also held by Lodge,
| and Curtis will probably succeed to
! the republican leadership in the Sen
i ate.
OLDTIMER FROM TELLER
ARRIVES ON CORDOVA
Chas .Dinton, an oldtimer from St.
Michael, Nome and Teller, arrived on
the Cordova this morning and will
leave on one of the next trains for
Fairbanks where he will spend the
winter. Mr. Dinton came directly from
Teller where he went to look after
a shipment of 400 reindeer, to be tak
en out on the Apollo. Owing to this
vessel getting fast in the ice an be
ing forced to turn back, the deer were
placed in cold storage until next year.
Mr. Dinton has been connected with
the Pacific Cold Storage Company for
a number of years, and is well known
throughout the north. He was at
Teller when the U. S. coast guard Mo
jave arrived in port, after breaking
ice for ten miles or more. He states
that the stores at Teller were practi
cally out of flour, potatoes, sugar,
butter and other staples, and for a
time it looked as if the people would
be on a starvation diet this winter.
The Mojave landed 36 tons of sup
plies and a quantity of coal placing
the camp out of danger from want
until next spring. The camp was very
quiet when Mr. Dinton left, a little
mining and dredging going on. The
freezup was quite early this year, ice
forming on the 13th of October.
The cutter Mojave searched diligent
ly for the Silver Wave, adrift on the
ice field, but failed to find any trace
of the boat. The crew got safely
ashore with the mails and started
down the coast for Teller. The Mo
jave reached port October 25, convey
ing the party to Nome. %
The gas boat Meteor left St. Mich
ael several days before the Cordova
left for Seward and the states, going
outside to have diesel engines install
ed.
EIGHT VETERAN ELKS
SUCCUMB TO POISON
FROM APPLE CIDAR
LYNCHBURG, Va., Nov. 11.—Eight
veteran Elks, residents of the Elks
National Home of Bedford, near here,
died late last night at the Home
from what is thought to have beer
fresh cidar and which is alleged to
have been poisoned by arsenate, a
chemical used for tree spraying.
ASKS INJUNCTION TO
PREVENT DESTROYING
THE “WASHINGTON”
CHARGES WILBUR IS LETTING
NAVY FALL BELOW TON
NAGE AGREED UPON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—
William B. Shearer, of New York, na
val expert today asked for an injunc
tion in the District Supreme Court,
to prevent Wilbur, Secretary of the
Navy, from destroying the battleship
Washington, one of the vessels to be
scrapped under the Washington Arms 1
Conference Treaty.
Justice Witz issued a restraining
order and ordered Wilbur to appear
Friday to show cause why the in
junction should not be granted.
Shearer charged that the navy de
partment is permitting the strength
of the navy to fall below tonnage
stipulated in the arms treaty.
ISAAC SOLOMON HAS
LATEST METHOD OF
MAKINGEASY MONEY
NEW YORK, Nov. 11—A man who
called himself Reverend Isaac Solo
mon, walked into the Lutheran church
of the Redeemer today and asked per
mission to address a Sunday School
class. His request was granted and
after a short talk he passed the col
lection plate, put the proceeds $312 in
his pocket and walked out of the build- i
ing.
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STORY OF PURCHASE
OF ALASKA GIVEN OUT
BY CORNELIUS COLE
SEATTLE, Nov. 11.—Information
that the purchase of Alaska was com
pleted only after a San Francisco
company had been offered a lease of
the Territory by Russia, and partly
j as a consolation to the company, was j
revealed in an interview with Cornel
ius Cole, one United States Senator,
and who died recently in California at
the advanced age of 102 years, was
revealed today by Prof. Esmond C.
Meany, of the University of Wash- j
: ington.
The interview was obtained a year
or so ago by Victor Farrar, a former
member of the Washington faculty,
and now studying for a doctor’s de
gree. Senator Cole told Farrar that
in March, 1867, he negotiated with
Baron Stoeckl, minister plenipoten
tiary from Russia ,for the lease of Al
I aska by the San Francisco company.
PLAN MONUMENTTO
WOMAN WHO GAVE
LIFE TO SAVE BABY
SAN BERNARDINO Calif., Nov. 11
—Mrs. T. H. Kelty, who while lying
at the bottom of a ravine last week
slashed her breasts and wrists to sus
tain the life of her five-year-old niece,
died Sunday night in a hospital here.
Her husband died 12 hours after their
automobile had plunged over a cliff
in the mountains near here and the
shrubbery hid them from searchers
sent out when they failed to return to
town. The groans of the injured wo
man finally attracted the relief party
the next day.
The Santa Monica Chamber of Com
merce telegraphed the San Bernardino
chamber yesterday that a fund had
been started to erect a monument to
the heroic woman.
FORMER CORDOVA MAN
KILLED, STUNT FLYING
Dick Kerwood, a former Cordova
resident, was instantly killed while
engaged in movie stunt flying near
Hollywood last month. Kerwood fell
while lowering himself on a rope lad
der beneath a plane. He fell into a
canyon and his body was not recover
ed until after a long search. The
dead man was 32 years of age and
was well known in the Third division.
FISHING BOAT BURNS
PRINCE RUPERT, Nov. 8.—The
fishing boat Azores, commanded by
Capt. W. Edwards, burned to the wa
ter’s edge in Queen Charlotte Sound
last week. All members of the crew
were saved.
MAN, LOST ON MOUNT *
JUNEAU, RESCUED BY
PARTY OF SEARCHERS
Hazen Fuller, employee in the
Stroller’s Weekly plant, stranded on
Mt. Juneau recently, was rescued
by a party composed of George Jor
genson, R. R. Brown, John Krugness
and Arthur Kunas. Except for sev
eral bruises and numerous scratches
from devil clubs he was none the
worse for his experience.
STRICT ADHERANCE TO
FISHERIES REGULATIONS
WILL BE CARRIED OUT
INSTRUCTIONS TO ARREST ALL
FISHERMEN NOT COMPLY
ING WITH NEW LAW.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—
The treaty between the United States
and Canada to prohibit fishing for
halibut in the North Pacific will be
rigidly enforced and all violators will
be prosecuted to the fullest extent
of the law.
This warning was issued today by
Henry O’Malley, United States com
missioner of fisheries.
A joint commission of two repre
sentatives of the United States and
two representatives from Canada will
meet in Seattle on November 20, to
discuss joint action for the treaty’s
enforcement.
In United States waters, it is said
that Alaska salmon warden’s services
will be used for the enforcement pur
poses. All enforcement officers, with
their vessels have been ordered to
every port in Alaska where cold
storage plants are situated, with in
structions to arrest every fisherman
who brings in halibut during closed
season.
PETER WRANSTEDT,
HOT SPRINGS PIONEER,
LEAVES FOR OUTSIDE
Peter Wranstedt, a Hot Springs
pioneer, arrived in Seward on Satur
day’s train, and left for Portland, Ore
gon, to join his family who have
been living there for the past year or
so. Mr. Wranstedt declared that he
would remain in Portland, but like all
oldtimers he hated to leave Alaska.
He stated that lots of winter mining
would be carried on in the Hot
Springs district, and that probably 150
persons would winter in the camp and
on the near-by creeks.
TAXES DELINQUENT SATURDAY
Taxes for the year 1923 are delin
quent Saturday night at six o’clock
and unless paid by that time will be
come delinquent and the penalty be
added. Miss Sylvia Sexton is treas
urer and may be found at her office
at Sylvia’s parlors at all times during
business hours.
PIONEER FATALLY INJURED
J. W. Smart, a pioneer of the Yu
kon, who lost a hand several months
ago at Dawson in a wood saw, died
recently. Smart was 81 years of age
and with his son, had lived on the
Yukon for 18 years.
RESIDENTS OF TELLER
SAVED, STARVATION
TELLER, Alaska, Nov. 11.—The U.
S. coast guard Mojave which left 36
tons of provisions at this port Octo
ber 10, saved the town from starva
tion this winter, it is stated here to
day, as stocks were practically ex
hausted and the citizens were depend
ing on the arrival of the gasboat
Apollo for their winter’s supplies.
The Mojave cut its way for miles
thru ice fields and saved the people
from starvation.
CONCRETE NOW FREE
FROM L W. W. MENACE
CONCRETE, Nov. 11.—Concrete is
free from I. W. W.’s and their menace
of armed strife,, tonight for the first
time in three weeks.
Miss Jennie Peterson, a former res
ident of Seward returned this morn
ing from Uganik.
Messrs. Rylewod, H. O. Roberts and
G. Carlson were Uganik passen
gers on the Cordova to Seward.
ELEVEN PRECINCTS GIVE
SUTHERLAND GOOD LEAD
IN THE FIRST DIVISION
EIGHT MORE PRECINCTS TO BE
HEARD FROM—PAUL WILL
GET LARGE VOTE
JUNEAU, Nov. 11.—Eleven pre
cincts have reported recently and the
present standing of candidates in the
first division are: Sutherland 2502,
Boyle 2004, Rustgard 2355, Roden
1884, Hunt 2007, Walker 2080, Grant
2004, Hardy 2054, Connors 2034, Fer
guson 2009, Christensen 1939, Paul
1931, Hem 1871, McCloskey 1318.
Forty-three precincts have reported
to date in this division with eight
more to come including two indian vil
lages, which are expected to give the
Hunt-Paul ticket a big vote.
PROPAGANDA IN
JAPAN BRINGS A
PROTEST FROM U.S.
MUKDEN Nov. 11.—Anti-American
propaganda printed in the Japanese
press here in which it was asserted
that Americans had landed arms in
China, and American soldiers were
fighting in the Peking armies, resist
ing the offensive of General Chang
Tso Lin, Manchurian leader, today
! brought a protest from Capt. Nodman
: Baldwin, official American military ob
setvor here.
As a result the Japanese consul at
Mukden has warned all Japanese
! papers here to suppress false reports.
| General Chang told Capt. Baldwin he
I did not believe the reports, but added
; that he was not in a position to reg
I ulate the Japanese press, adding his
; troops were being moved south over
I the Japanese controlled Manchurian
, railway.
TVip AmpriVsn nAFir»PV rtmnfoH Ailt
the reports in Japanese papers call
ing him a spy in the employ of the
Peking government. He pointed out
to General Chang that although he
was attached to the American lega
tion at Peking he had never met Gen
eral Wu Pei Fu, military head of the
Central government.
Emphasizing his protest, Capt.
Baldwin said that every move he has
made in Mukden has been shadowed
by the Chinese detectives in the Chang
Tso-Lin forces . He cited stories in
the Japanese press here purporting to
| be dispatches from Tokio and Peking
I in which it is stated that American
soldiers were fighting in the Central
government ranks and that tanks were
being operated by Americans in the
Peking field forces.
Americans Neutral
Augumenting his recital of the ac
tivities of the Japanese press here,
Capt. Baldwin showed General Chang
how the propaganda affected visiting
Americans by detailing the experienc
es of the “Wanderweir* world tour
ists, who were accused of being Am
erican Spies refused passports on the
ground they were not American citi
aens.
Captain Baldwin said America was
absolutely neutral in the Chinese in
ternal war situation and told General
Chang that the propaganda circulated
by the Japanese press was seriously
affecting American interests in Man
churia, because of the gullibility of
the Chinese public.
NEPHEW OF “TEDDY”
VIRTUALLY SELECTED
ASST. SEC’Y OF NAVY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—
Theodore Douglas Robinson, of
New York, a nephew of the late Pre
sident Roosevelt has virtually been
selected for the office of Assistant
Secretary of the Navy.
RED CROSS WORKERS OUT
The several committees collecting
for the Red Cross are out today and
are meeting with good success, prac
tically every citizen responding to
the appeal. Seward wrill probably be
100 per cent, loyal , to the Red Cross.
PRESIDENT WILL TAKE
IN LIVE STOCK SHOW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—
President Coolidge will leave the
capitol, December 3, for Chicago,
where he will attend the National
Livestock Show.