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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 114.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926.
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AMUNDSEN ATTEMPTS
SECURE A FREIGHTER
TAKE I0R9E TO ITALY
TELLER HARBOR LOCKED WITH
SIX FEET OF ICE: WILL BE
OPEN IN JULY
V EXPLORER ASKS: “WHERE AM I”
Dirigible Forced to Ascend To High
Altitudes Account Fogs; Could
Not Discern any Lands.
NOME, May 19. UP)—It is said |
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Amundsen is endeavoring to obtain a :
Norwegian freighter to go to Teller
and take the Norge to Italy. The
harbor of Teller is locked with six
feet of ice. It usually opens July 1.
Whether Amundsen knew where he
was landing when he alighted at Tel
ler on Thursday was the subject of
discussion here. Tom Peterson of
Teller, related that as Amundsen
stepped out of the Norge, he asked:
“where are we. What place is this?”
Peterson replied it was Teller and
Amundsen said, “so this is Teller!”
Other members of the expedition de
clared they know their position at all
times. Amundsen and Oscar Wisting
are the only two men who ever visit
ed both poles. They also traveled to
gether through the northwest and
northeast passages. When Amundsen
was in Nome on a previous trip, he
declared when he was a youth he de
cided to visit both extremeties and
said thru passages which he later dis
covered. While still a young man he
ran away from a Norwegian medical
school to join a whaler crew. Nowr
that his life work has been attained,
it seems “certain Amundsen will nev
er again subject himself to the rigors
of the Arctic and antarctic climates.
He is G4 years old. Alaskans are glad
to hear Wilkins will keep up his
r* plans of exploration work regardless
of the Amundsen flight. The Norge
followed a direct course but due to
heavy fog banks, was forced to go to
such a high altitude that it was im
possible to see if any land existed.
MAY CAPTURE KODIAK
BEARS FOR CITY ZOO
YOUNGSTOWN REPRESENTATIVES
COMING SEWARD, WESTBOUND
FOR LIVE SPECIMENS
SEATTLE, Wn, May 19. (£>)—1T. B.
Bakody an'd H. C. Linn, representa
tives of the Youngstown, (Ohio) City
JVj
Z jo, arrived here en route,to Alaska to
capture and bring back alive two Ko
diak bears. Arrangements have been
made with native hunters to assist
in the capture. The men left last
night for Victoria, but will leave for
the North early next week.
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
Ketchikan—Halibut, 14 and 1-2 and
8 cents; salmon 16 and 1-4, 14 and
5 cents.
HARDCASTLE.
\ A newsy newspaper, The Weekly
Gateway.
A Coolidge Vision
STATES ARE SHEET ANCHORS OF OUR
INSTITUTIONS; GOVERNMENT SHOULD
RESIST THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES
President Coolidge Addresses College of William &
Mary at Williamsburg—“There Should Be No
Extentions to States by Government.
WILLIAMSBURG, Pa., May 19. (AP).—President Coolidge at the
College of William and Mary, asked the States to discharge their func
tions so faithfully that instead of an extension of the Federal gov
ernment there can be a contraction. Speaking at the Sesquicenten
nial observance of the adoption of the Virginia resolutions for inde
pendence of the American colonies, Coolidge said:
'‘By providing of regulations of internal concerns each colony
by their colonial legislatures, resolutions made plain the declaration
was an unassailable fact that the States are sheet anchors of our in
stitutions. The Federal government ought to resist the tendency to
be loaded wih duties which the States should perform themselves.
No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which didn’t result
in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction and decline^The doc
trine of the States’ rights is not a privilege to continue in wrongdoing,
. but a privilege to be free from interference in well doing. ..Direct pri
; maries and direct elections bring to bear upon the political fortunes
i of public officials a greatly disproportionate influence. Organized mi
i norities is artificial propaganda by paid agitators and selfish interests
; who seek to impinge upon the members of legislature bodies and force
» them to represent special elements rather than a great body. Their
i i constituency, when they are successful, and minority rule is estab
, lished and, results in extravagance on the part of the government. We
f must keep all parts of the country in harmony by refusing to adopt
legislation which is not for the general welfare. Our country ought to
i be done with sectional divisions. All actions should be based upon
*. geographical lines. George Washington warned us against that
I * danger in his farewell address.”
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I PUBLISHER IN NOME
SCORES “SCOOP" IN
SECURING PICTURES
PHOTOS REVEAL LITTLE ICE ON
ON UPPER STRUCTURE OF
THE DIRIGIBLE NORGE
■ONE, SHOWS AIRSHIP ARRIVING
Number Painted on Norge So Plain
Doubt Expressed About the
Storm or Fog.
NOME, May 19. (JP)—The great deal
of stress seems to make the copy
wrighted story the only reason the
Norge landed at Teller and not due to
fogs, storm or ice forming on the
Norge.
The pictures taken at Teller shows
the Norge arriving and landing with
a group of people standing on the
ice alongside the car, and the crew
emerging, and also shows its deflate
on the partial deflation carried on, and
numerous other scenes with the read
ing number on the Norge so plain one
wonders whether there was any storm
or fog. Maynard, the published, pos
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CABINET WELCOMES PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
Journalists of twenty-one Latin American nations met in Washington re
cently on the occasion of the first Pan American News/paper Congress. They
were addressed by President Coolidge and witnessed the laying of the cor
nerstone of the American Press Club building in Washington. The above pho
to shows a few of the- cabinet members wTho welcomed! the delegates. Left to
right: Sec. of the Navy Wilbur, Sec. of War Davis, Sec. of State Kellogg, At
torney-General Sargent, and Dr. L. Rowe, Director of the Pan American union.
sessas the pictures’ negatives, and
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has the pictures displayed in the Nug
get windows and serves to attract |
crowds day and night. The pictures
are so plain one can almost count the
pebbles in the beach. The ribs of
the structural work is plain thru the
covering and shows no ice on the up
per structure.
Weekly Gateway—3 per year.
BUREAUCRACY RUNNING ID. ID STRONGLY
ENTRENCHED HNVNK PROGRESS OF
TERRITORY, ASSERTS FORMER GOV. S, C. BONE
CHAOTIC SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATION HIN DERS
DEVELOPMENT—INNUMERABLE BUREAUS IN
ALASKA PRODUCE COMPLICATED. INEFFEC
TIVE AND EXPENSIVE ADMINISTRATION
000LIDGE TfiUGHEO KEJ TO TROUBLE m’ ^EECH
SCOTT C. BONE WILL TAKE UP HIS PERMANENT
RESIDENCE IN LOS ANGELES—STATES CONG
RESS LIBERAL WITH APPROPRIATIONS FOR AL
ASKA RAILROAD, ROADS AND TRAILS
LOS ANGELES, May 19. (AP).—Former Governor
: Scott C. Bone of Alaska announced he has decided to nske
his residence in California after spending a winter here.
! He said Alaska is heavily handicapped by “a cha tic sys
tem of administration,'7 and declared President C »olidge
| touched the key to Alaska’s troubles in condemning >u
| reaueracy in his Virginia speech. Bone said: Tp there,
! in Alaska, the innumerable bureaus produce a eornplicat
j ed, ineffective and expensive administration. It is a case
of bureaucracy run mad. The system is so strongly en
trenched that efforts to bring about coordination success
fully is resisted. However, in spite oi all this. Alaska is
j progressing.” Bone said the present congress has Veen
| liberal with the Territory for maintenance of the Alaska
| Railroad, and in continuing the appropriation for road
| and trail building.
AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE Of
| TRACT DEEPS TO ININS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19. (.Zp,
, —The Senate adjourned following 'he
: House resolution authorizing the is
suance of deeds to Indians and Eski
mos for tracts reserved for them in
Alaska and to provide a survey for I
| subdivision of such tracts and of In
i dian or Eskimo towns and villiages.
Read the ads every day.
NOMINATIONS LP AGAIN
WASHINGTON. D. C. May 19.
(AP)—Chairman Cummins of the
Senate Judiciary Committee asked
President Coolidge to give further
consideration of the nominations of
Judges Reed and Ritchie and Attor
ney Arthur Shoup.
Coolidge is expected to refer the
matter back to the Department of
Justice for further consideration.
COFFEE FASCINATES
ELSLWORTH MAKES ADDITIONAL
DISCOVERIES UPON VISITING
NOME RESTAURANT
COFFEE SURPASSES BEST EAST
Reindeer Steaks Likened To Tender
Caribou Meat By Crew of
the Airship Norge.
NOME, May 19. (jT*)—Amundsen and
Ellsworth are still hunching at the
North Pole, which restaurant was es
tablished in Nome consequent to the
discovery of gold. Amundsen said he
could get a better cup of coffee at the
North Pole than at the Waldorf-As
toria in New York. He said the As
sociated Press dispatch from Rome
containing Nobile’s account of the
flight was correct and was just what
he would have said.
On the voyage from Spitsbergen to
Alaska Amundsen kept telling Ells
worth about the wonderful Spanish,
omelet at Nome. Ellsworth haid he
never saw an omelet to compare with
ham and eggs. When they arrived
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