Hemard Baily Gntemsty
VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 81
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1923.
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L. V. RAY ELECTED MAYOR OF SEWARD;
RACE WAS NIP AND TUCK TO FINISH;
STRONG COUNCIL ELECTED AT POLLS
INCREASE TOilEIH
ILJSKI COAL 8y
PR (HIE MIIS
784,403 TONS PRODUCED IN THE
TERRITORY INCLUDING THE
MATANUSKA OUTPUT
WASHINGTON. Apr. 4.—-Increased
production of coal in Alaska b> pri
vate operators is the outstanding fea
ture of the report of coal and oil act
ivities in 1931’ on Alaskan public lands
received today by Secretary Work
from B. S. Stewart, supervising min
ing engineer for Alaska.
The production of coal in the terri
tory amounted to 84,403 tons, 1932.
including 53,638 tons of coal produced
at the Matanuska mines.
SAN FRANCISCO. Apr. 4.—News
papers of tlii.- city today chronicle the
marriage of George Hearst, eldest son
of William Randolph Hearst. the
American newspaper magnate. The
bride was Miss Blanche Wilbur, a
daughter of O. K. Wilbur, of Idaho
Falls, Idaho. Both are students at
the University of California.
In securing the marriage license the
groom gave his age as 21, the bride’s
age is given as 19. Those who know
the contracting parties state that the
bride’s age is correct, but that the
groom will be 19 April 23.
The parents of the groom, now in
New York City, have both telegraphed
their congratulations.
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WITHSTIND AI L FUMES
NEW HAVEN, Apr. 3.—The 'perAc
tion of a new style gas mask is an-^
nouneed by Brigadier General Araas
A. Fries, chief of the chemical war
fare service of the army. The new
mask, it is stated, will give protec
tion against all forms of poisonous
gasses
VICTOR I1E5 GUILTY
ATLANTA, Apr. 4.—Victor E. Innes
was today found guilty in the United
States District Court on the charge of,
using the mails to defraud, and was
sentenced to^erve five years in the
Federal penitentiary.
Innes will be remembered as having j
been on trial previously for seven j
days on a charge of being implicated)
in the mysterious disappearance of j
Mrs. Eloise Nelms and Dennis and;
Beatrice Nelms, who Jiave been miss
ing for ten years and were believed to;
have been murdered by him.
ESSEN, Apr. 4.—The French occu
pied the government owned mines at
Essen and Emschelippe but found
parts of the machinery missing so:
they arrested the mine directors. Sev-;
era! thousand workmen walked out in
protest when the plants were seized. !
SUPERINTENDENTS confer
KANATAK, Apr. 4.—Both superin
tendents have left the- seepage for the
town of Kanatak and are in a confer
ence over the oil situation.
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CLOSE ONE UNTIL
FIIU BALLOT
VOTERS OF SEWARD CHOOSE L.
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V. RAY AS HliAD OF CITY’S
ORGANIZATION
Election day has come and gone and ,
with the dawning oi' today’s sun the,
municipal governing E>ody has three;
new members and a new mayor, like-!
wise two new officials in other capaci
ties. |
From tlte time me polling booths J
were declared open until the closing'
hour a steady flow ol' voters to the!
city hall was noted. The weather man
was on his good behavior and granted
to the citizens a perfect day, which
was taken advantage of as nearly a
registration ypte was cast, approxi
mately ninety per cent of the regis
trants casting their ballot. The reg
istration was 31.3; the ballots cast 281.
Possibly fifty or sixty persons did not
register for various reasons.
in the race for the mayoralty it was!
noted that both candidates ran practi
cally neck and nook until the final 50
votes, when Ray increased his lead
slightly, pulling out in the finish by an
even 2" votes to the good. Supporters!
of both candidates were on their toes
whenever a change iu position was
noted, and until the finish neither can
didate had over an eight-vote lead
over the other.
Iu the couacilmanie race the first
three men on the ballot were neck and
neck, all winning out with only nine
votes- difference between the high and i
third high man.
A. E. Rucker and H. L. Smith foi
the city attorney's office ran about
even until half of the vote was count
ed when Smith gradually forged ahead
maintaining his lead until the close.
Ira S. Bailey and Donald H. Tyerj
lor treasurer of (the school board, ran
about even for the first 75 ballots, j
when the Bailey support became evi |
dent, he winning out by a 3-2 ratio.
For the office of ctiy treasurer Miss
Sylvia Sexton, unopposed, polled a
very strong vote; Wm. H. Whittlesey
for clerk, also had a vote of confidence
expressed in the votes cast in his
favor.
Tne Returns
For Mayor—
For Councilinen- -
Stephen Adelman .. 1*6
P. C. McMullen ..-. 173
C. E. Orlander ...,.-.-. 167
Peter H. Peterson.-. 146
W. I. Whiting .-. 88
For Treasurer—
Sylvia Sexton. ..-.—. 242
For Municipal Clerk—
Wm. H. 'Whittlesey.. 235
City Attorney—
Aaron E. Rucker... 109
H. L. Smith .-.-.—. 116
Treasurer, School Board—
Ira S. Bailey .....-.. 156
Donald H. Tyer ...-. 98
Promptly at seven o'clock the polls
were declared closed and the count
ing of the votes commenced. At 8:25
the 2S1 ballots had been counted and
the results checked. Noteworthy in
the voting was the fact that only one
ballot was rejected by the judges on
account of technicalities. Three chal
lenges were made at the booths.
Some voters with a probable sense i
of humor cast votes for others than
appeared on the t.cke*; as follows:
Peter Ogle, for treasurer, 1 vote.
Jennie Paulson, for councilman, 1.
Martin Lanning, treasurer, 1.
Jos. Hoffman, city clerk, 1.
L. V. Ray, city attorney, 1.
The civic body of the year 1523 will
be constituted as follows: Mayor, L.
V. Rav; couticilmen, H. E. Ellsworth,
Chas. Cooper, Chas. Krefting (hold
overs from the 1922 council); Stephen
Adelman, re-elected, P. C. McMullen,
C. E, Orlander; treasurer, Sylvia Sex
ton; clerk, Wm. H. Whittlesey; attor
ney, H. L. Smith.
SEATTLE, Apr. 4—Bound for tilt
mouth of the Columbia river where at
noon Thursday she will begin her seal
protection cruise which will cany her
to Dixon Entrance, the cutter Snoho
mish, Lieut. Commander Waesehe
sailed from Seattle today.
SEATTLE, Apr. 4.—Stimulated by
discovery in Los Angeles of a woman
who was a grandmother at -the age o;
30, the Post-Intelligencer made a can
vass of th«i city this morning announc
ed that Mrs. Ada Emery, of this city,
34, has a granddaughter at Quine \
Wash., five months old. Mrs. Emery
her daughter, her mother and hei
grandmother were all married a* th*
age of 16.
LONDON. Apr. 4.—The latest Reu
ter’s report from Essen shows that
the bloodshed today outside tlie big
Krupp plant was caused when Ger
man workmen resented French prod
ding with bayonets and a stand-up
fight occurred with the French sol
diers. The Germans were fairly well
armed and had the French whipped to
a standstill when reinforcement ar
rived and rescued them. Eleven sol
diers were killed and 35 wounded.
EX-MISER WIS TOO”
CHILDISH FOR ill
LONDON Apr. 4.—'The London
Times states that the ex-Kaiser’s wife
found that she could not put up with
him any more and had to go to Ger
many on the few months’ vacation, k
was reported that the Kaiser is get
ting more childish still and at times
has the hallucination that he is still
kaiser of Germany.
SEATTLE, Apr. 4—To study Alas
kan governmental problems, George L.
Boyle of Washington, D. C\, personal
representative of Secretary of the In
terior Work, will leave for the North
within a few days.
Mr. Boyle said: ‘‘The fact that I
have been sent here indicates that
Secretary Work intends to carry out
the work initiated by his predecessor”
said Mr. Boyle. Mr. Boyle will also
visit the Indian School at Chemewa,
Ore., and the California experimental
station of the Bureau ot Mines at Ber
keley.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 4.—The na
tion’s present business boom is on a
sound foundation Secretary Hoover
said today and there are good reasons
to expect a long continuance of pros
perity.
SNOW FALLING AT BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Apr. 4— Snow
began falling at noon today the tem
perature being 26 above and dropping
fast. Much suffering is reported in
the negro quarter of the city.
SENATOR CHAMBERLIN INTRODUCES
j NEW FISH MEMORIAL IN SENATE;
! UNDERSTOOD REPLACE GRANT MEMO.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Apr. 4.—Jas.
Co.-., former Democratic candidate for
president in a speech here iaot nigh*
attacked the Harding administration,
saying it was responsible for the prac
tically bankrupt condition of the tar
mers of the West and Northwest.
STOLEN GOODS ARE
j SEIZED III TACOMA
; TACOMA, Apr. 4.—Following con
, fessions of Carl Oscar Wideburg who
on Thursday of last week took his life
; by hanging in the Coquille, Ore., jail,
i that he had sent considerable stolen
1 goods to Tacoma, Pierce county depu
! ty sheriffs yesterday arrested Virge
' Palomi and seized about $1000 worth
of silken garments, silverware and
1 household goods.
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POSSIBLE TO P!1 FUSE
BERLIN, Apr. 4.—Foreign Minister!
i Rosenberg declared today that Ger-i
1 many will do everything possible to (
: insure payment of the reparations as,
i they come due and as they might be
determined by an International Busi
nessman’s Commission, but that tin
1 evacuation of the occupied territory is
necessary as a preliminary to negotia
! tions. He said that Germany had al
! ready informed the European govern- j
ments of his decision.
RADIO STIITION PI INNED
MIAMI, Fla., Apr. 4.—The construe
\ ition of a huge radio station and ter
i minal, claimed to be the second larg
I est in the country, was started today
at Hialeah near here by the Tropical
Radio Telegraph Co. The station is
to handle all North American and
'Central American and West India
i
: business.
YAKIMA, Wn., Apr. 4.—The Indian
Commercial Club dratted a letter pro
testing to Secretary of the Interior
Work which in a manner is a reply to
the American Legions’ resolutions
against the Japanese land holders on
Indian lands. The Indians assert that
the whites are arguing the point with
out paying any attention to the wishes
of the Indians, who should be the first
to be considered. The letter says the
Indians favor restrictions in immi
gration but would not have the Japa
nese immediately barred from tribal
lands.
TIMBER HIS III!
WH O Will M
SASKATOON, Sask., Apr. 4.—Carl
Lynn, world war veteran aDd one of
the best known trappers and mushers
in the North country is believed to
have lost his life in a fight with a
pack of timber wolves 2q0 miles north
of Isle a la Crosse, two hunters re
ported here today. They said they
thought he had been killed by the
pack after he had killed six of the
hunger-crazed beasts. Lynn was an ex
pert rifleman and during the war
served as a sniper.
THIRD DIVISION MEMBER AT
TACKS FISH RESERVES AND
INTROODUCES NEW BILL
JUNEAU, Apr. 4.—Viciously attack
ing all reserves in general and the
fish reserves in particular, Senator E.
E. Chamberlin ot' the Third division
yesterday introduced in the Senate a
new fish memorial which it is under
stood is intended to replace the Grant
memorial which was recently passed
by the House. Chamberlin in his at
tack declares that the reserves were
made by an unwarranted suspension
ot the laws through a fiat in the exe
cutive department which controlled
the Bureau of Fisheries; that the cre
ation of the fish reserves was an arbi
trary act which Alaskans ought not to
be expected to tolerate without mak
ing a protest, and, furthermore, they
were monopolistic in their character.
“The entire waters of certain dis
tricts of Alaska have been divid
“ed among certain persons and
“corporations for their exclusive
“fishing,' was the assertion of
Senator Chamberlin, “and does
“not tend to conserve the salmon
“supply.”
The Chamberlin memorial suggests
as a remedy that the Alaska legisla
ture be allowed to control'the fisher
ies and enact laws for their admini>
tration and asks for an imemdiate abo
lition of the fisheries reserves.
In the House Staser, of the Third,
submitted a memorial asking that
Delegate Sutherland and Secretary
Hoover get together on the fisheries
question. This was tabled without a
record vote being taken.
the House passed four minor bills
from the Senate and killed one code
amendment.
A hearing held in the Senate this
afternoon on a proposed herd law bill
designed to prevent livestock from
running at large on public highways,
was reported on unfavorably as re
gards the whole territory. An effort
will be made to have this measure
made into a “local option” herd law.
which could be acted on by farmer*
and communities.
PLANS ARE WORKING
Plans for the coming baseball sea
son are going along one. Members o;'
the association are at work promoting
the interests of the organization and
both teams, legion and town boys, are
shaping up for a coming contest. Pres
ident Barndollar has appointed a com
mittee on grounds and another on
equipment. In connection with equip
ment it is requested that all persons
having uniforms, bats, gloves or other
baseball material which belongs to the
Seward aggregation to notify the Gate
way office where the same may be
picked up and the matter will be at
tended to. It is the desire to have all
this material in the hands of the as
sociation within the present week in
order that an estimate as to the needs
of the organization can be made.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
As guests of Capt. and Mrs. O. A.
Johansen last evening gathered at the
Johansen home a coterie of friends
for the purpose of extending felicita
tions to Mr. Harold E. Wilson, whose
birthday it was, and a bon voyage to
Mrs. Wilson who will leave on the
Northwestern for the states. Those
assembled in addition to the host
and hostess and the guests of honor,
were, Mr. ajid Mrs. Elwyn Swetmann,
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Urbach, Miss Inez
Waugh and Miss Stella Fuller. An
elaborate dinner served at 6:30 inau
guarted the pleasantries following
which bridge was played until near
the midnight hour, when a dainty
luncheon was served. Congratulations
and well wishes were exchanged at
the conclusion of the evening’s pleas
ures.
MOSCOW CATHOLICS ASK THEY
BE PERMITTED TO INTER
REMAINS WITTH RITES
LONDON, Apr. 4.—A dispaltli to
the Times from Riga dat*d Tuesday,
says: ‘‘The Soviet government denies
that Vicar General Butchkavh li has
been shot, but says the execution has
been postponed.”
Catholics Would Bury Gs-d
MOSCOW, x\pr. 4.—A request mu'e
by the Roman Catholics oi Mo »c > -
for permission to buy Vita.
I Buchkavich in accordance with the
tiles of the Church has not yet be-*u
answered by the Soviet authocuiiM.
‘■Brutal Crime Against Huma.o't/’
NEW YORK, Apr. 4.—*‘Thc civilizr-l
worl'I should withhold communication
from Russia until Bolshe\iki mi.- is
over".i»iown,” Bishop William t\ .Man
ning. of the Protestant Eonsi-op.il di
ocese oi New York deflated toda in
a statement in which he fund -:n*i d
the execution in Moscow o. Vicar G* n
er:il Buchkavich as “a bin -il - - ime
R7S‘i:i't religion and humaai'v.”
TAX! mmm
ANO ROBBED BY THUGS
SEATTLE. Apr. 4.—George Marsh,
driver of a taxi cab was robbeu and
perhaps fatally beaten by bandits last
night. After the robbery the victim
was left on the Pacific highway be
tween Seattle and Tacoma.
Later—Marsh, the bandit victim,
succumbed to his injuries.
DRY OFFICER MAY ACT
AGAINST LIQUOR BUYERS
WASHINGTON, Apr. 4—Prohibition
officials themselves must take what
ever action appears necessary in con
nection with the discovery in a recent
bootleg raid here of a list of Wash
ington residents which included the
names of several officials of the state
department and of many officers of the
army, navy and marine corps.
After a preliminary inquiry today it
was indicated that the state, war and
prohibition departments would take
action against any liquor buyer where
the evidence so warranted.
BLUE SKY LAW EFFECTIVE
DESPITE Ml APPOSITION
OLYMPIA—The blue sky act pass
ed by the eighteenth session of the re
cently adjourned legislature became a
law today without the signature of
Gov. Louis F. Hart. In a statement
today the governor voiced objections
to the bill which excludes metalifer
ous mining stocks from its provisions,
but conceded that he must yeld to the
judgment of more than two thirds of
the members elected to the legisla
ture.
NOTICE TO MASONS
Stated communication of Seward
Lodge No. 219 F. & A. M. Wednesday
evening. April 4. Work in the Third
degree.
CHARLES E. SMITH,
2t ■* Secretary.
RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, Apr. 4.—The
storehouse of the General Electric Co.
located here was totally destroyed by
fire today. Damage $50,000.