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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 45.
SEWARD, _ ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1926.
PRIC^TEN CENTS
Incompetency Blamed Bristol Bay Conditions
Yakutat
Visited
By ‘Flu
JUNEAU, Feb. 24. (AP).
ln response to an appeal from
the little Indian village of Yak
utat, where 18 cases of in
fluenza are ravaging homes,
the cutter Unalga, which is ly
ing in port here expects to
depart tonight with a physi
cian and medical supplies.
Yakutat lies approximate
ly 250 miles south of Cordova
on the Gulf of Alaska. Per
sons landing there are usually
boarded onto a skiff and tak
en ashore in that manner as
no docking facilities are there.
IDAHO PHYSICIAN
PREDICTS WAR IN
EUROPE EMMINENT
JUST A MATTER OF RECUPERA
TION OF MAN POWER—ENG- —
LAND IS RESTLESS
SPOKANE, Wn, Feb. 24. (#>)—Dr. J.
TJpham, president of the University of
Idaho, in a chamber of commerce ad
dress here yesterday, declared that
war in Europe is inevitable, and will
•come as soon as the Nations have re
cuperated their man power.
Dr. Upham recently returned from
an European tour and stated that “not
one o fthe European countries is har
boring war or desires it, but each
feela it is merely a matter of time un
til the storm breaks which means an
insufficient man strength will be avail
able with the exception of England,
where unrest is cause from prevalent
public strikes which has been the
means of avoiling work. Prosperity
prevails even where dissolution has
been a outstanding factor since post
war period.”
SCHOOL PROBLEM
AT LOCAL HOME
IS DISCUSSED
■EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LOCAL
CHAMBER TO ASSIST REV.
DUNLAP.
A school building for the Jesse Lee
Home in Seward was one of the im
■portant discussions at yesterday’s
meeting of the local Chamber of Com
merce, held at the Grill, at which time
R. V. B. Dunlay, supt. of the Home,
addressed the large gathering relative
to the school and hospital problem.
Mr. Dunlap first read a letter he
received from Lester D. Henderson, in
response to a letter he wrote recent
ly. One paragraph of the letter fol
lows:
“You state-that your present school
rooms are crowded and that you are
in need of a new school building. The
Territorial school law provides that
this office may appropriate not to ex
ceed $2,500 for the erection of school
buildings in districts outside of in
corporated cities. If the Governor ap
proves, this amount could be made
available this spring, providing the
Missionary Society, which operates
the Jesse Lee Home, sees fit to pro
vide the additional amount which will
be needed. This is the most which
we can possibly do for you at this
time. The Legislature convenes again
in March, 1927. Whether or not they
will make a special appropriation for
the type of school building which will
be needed for so large an enrolment
is a matter for conjecture.”
In his talk before the Chamber mem
bers, Mr. Dunlap pointed out the two
large dormitories at the Home had
been converted into class rooms, 34
children being in the grade and the
primary grade in the other. The total
number of pupils attending school is
S5. Due to the fact school is being
held in these rooms the Home is
crowded and already children seeking
admittance to the Home are being
, turned away. The total number of
I children now living at the Home is
199. The building of a school building
| would relieve the congestion immedi
' ately and permit the acceptance of
additional children in the Home to
the total number of 125. Four chil
dren arrived at the Home the other
day from Chignik, and in the mail, re
ceived from the westward on the S.S.
Starr, Mr. Dunlap said he had also
received a communication from Unga
urging the admittance of six more
■children who are in dire circumstanc
es.
There are now three pupils at the
Home who next year will be ready
for high school, he said, and the Home
j should really have a junior high school
as well. He was doubtful if the Home
| would be able to procure both a school
.and a hospital building this year so
j in this connection made the sugges
j tion that the Seward Chamber body
i take up the matter of obtaining a
| school building for the Home.
P. C. McMullen, president of the
local chamber, in reply to Mr. Dun
lap, stated he would ask the execu
tive committee to work with him on
ithe school problem, and between them,
! make an effort to secure an appropri
ation for a building.
JACK MTADDEN OF
NOME PASSES
WAS FOREMAN OF BIG HAMMON
DREDGING COMPANY AT
TIME OF DEATH.
NOME, Feb. 24. (Jp)—Jack McFad
den, foreman of the Hammon Dredging
company, died yesterday.
He was found Monday night lying
in the snow with both hands and one
foot frozen. The temperature is 25
below zero.
Physicians expressed the belief he
fainted due to kidney disease.
MRS. COOLIDGE CONFINED
TO HER BED; HAS COLD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 24. (/P)
—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has been con
fined to her bed with a severe cold
since yesterday.
STEEL HEAD GETS
LEAD NOMINATION
TACOMA PRIMARIES
TACOMA, Wn„ Feb. 24. (^—Mel
vin Tennant, prominent steel manu
facturer of this city received 15,707
votes for nomination as mayor of this
city yesterday at the primary election.
Angelo Fawcett, incumbent, was sec
ond with 10,218.
With a preceding registry of 40,
014 persons, 33,288 voters went to the
poles.
Ed Buretto, master musician, and
band leader, who may decide to lo
cate permanently in Seward, will give
a concert this evening at the Seward
hotel. Miss Kathryn Schultz, who is
expected to arrive ini Seward this eve
ning from Anchorage, will accompany
Mr.j Buretto at the piano.
The local Masonic Order will hold
an initiation tonight after which the
members will adjourn to Fisher’s Cafe
where a banquet will be served.
AGE-OLD MEAGER FEE STANDS
BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT;
INDIANS RAILROADED TO JAIL
For the Past Fifteen Years, Says the Gateway’s Special
Correspondent, Commissioners Have Been Appoint
ed Without Any Knowledge of Law.
MARSHAL GENERALLY APPOINTS OWN MAN
Correspondent Thinks If Laws Were Amended Whereby
Commissioners Should Have Passed the Barr, Much
Good Would Accrue In Regard To Conditions.
(By Special Correspondent)
One of the worst defects in the pres
ent Territorial form of Government
for Alaska, is the allowing of meagre
fees to United States Commissioners,
instead of paying them a salary suf
ficient to live on. In the towns, the
young lawyers get along all right as
they can pursue their practice in the
higher courts. But in the outlying dis
tricts where there is no litigation to
pay a lawyer, and the commissioner’s
fees for a year amount to very little
no person with any legal qualifica
tions can be obtained to fill this high
ly important office. And the Courts
are and should be the great bulwark
for the protection and safe guarding
of human rights and liberties.
As it is now, the U. S. Deputy Mar
shal generally directly, or indirectly
recommends the person who is appoint
ed commissioner. And where there is
a corrupt Deputy Marshal, as is of
ten the case in these places beyond
the pales of civilization, the Marshal
recommends a person who will be sub
servient to his orders, the chief aim
with the Deputy Marshal, not to en
force the laws fairly and impartially,
but to fill the jails with prisoners with
the least friction and resistance, so
they will have plenty of boarders for
which Uncle Sam pays well for the
feeding, and in addition have guards
to do the cooking and work.
At Nushagak, for the past fifteen
years, not one of the U. S. Commis
sioners ever studied law a single day
before receiving their appointment.
Think of a court passing on the liber
ties of the people, and absolutely ig
norant of the rules of court procedure
and the nearest appelate court fifteen
hundred miles away. Scores of men
have been imprisoned with no counsel
for their defense, with commissioners
ofttimes who did not know the dif
ference between a law passed by the
Alaska Legislature and an act of Con
gress. There have been cases at Dil
lingham, where the Deputy Marshal
was obliged to prompt1 and inform the
Commissioner repeatedly what to do
next during a trial. Think of this
Judge being virtually appointed by the
Deputy Marshal and the Marshal being
only interested in getting prisoners
and, making a rake-off.
Arrests are made without warrants,
houses are searched without search
warrants and in cases of misdemean
ors, jury trials have been refused, and
all kinds of high handed measures
have been practiced. Natives are im
prisoned for long periods for brewing
a mild sourdough drink, while the
guard of the jail goes on hilarious,
frequent drunks. No wonder the young
half-breedj generations coming on here
in Bristol Bay have such little res
pect for our government. No wonder
that the Cannery Superintendents who
come here during the fishing season,
when speaking of the Nushagak Com
missioner’s Court, refer to it as the
greatest “Kangaroo Court” on the face
of the globe.
By all means let Congress amend
the present law relative to U. S. Com
missioners for Alaska, and word the
law' so that no one is eligible to ap
pointment except a person who has
j been admitted to the bar.
DUNLAPSPEAKS
ON HOSPITAL FOR
LOCAL HOME SITE
ENCOURAGING LETTER READ AT
YESTERDAY’S MEETING OF
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
That Seward is well on the way to
secure a hospital is assured in recent
correspondence received by R. V. B.
Dunlap, supt. of the Jesse Lee Home,
from Mrs. W. H. C. Goode, secretary
of education of the Woman’s Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, whose home and
headquarters are at Sidney, Ohio.
In her last letter, dated February
5, Mrs. Goode said she had brought
the matter up, of securing a hospital
for the local home, at a recent meet
ing of the Board of Trustees who were
greatly interested in the proposition
and several of the members stated,
upon their return home, would try and
interest individuals to make worth
while gifts.
Mrs. Goode stated in her letter that
the Society is, naturally, more inter
ested in procuring a hospital for the
children of the home than for the citi
zens of Seward for the children are
missionary dependents. It would be
the purpose to be especially equipped
for the care of the tubercular children
and for the care of infectious diseases.
It should have an operating room, Mrs.
Goode continued, equipped to care for
outside cases and an obstetrical ward
, and a few private rooms in order to
minister to the community needs and
yet, take care of their own.
The letter from Mrs. Goode was read
at yesterday’s Chamber of Commerce
meeting by Supt. Dunlap, following
Big Game Hunters
Make Arrangements
for Spring Hunting
Andy Simons, AAlaskan guide and
big game hunter, during his recent
trip into Seward, stated he has a par
ty booked for spring who will hunt
for bear on the peninsula for about
six weeks. Garrett Eddy, millionaire
and natoinally known shipbuilder of
the Pacific coast, will head the party
and it is believed Joshua Green, Se
attle capitalist, will also be a mem
ber. Mr. Simons said he was also lin
ed up, as well, with another party for
a hunt in the fall.
Burlington Route
Has Alaska Tours
Attractive booklets outlining new
Alaska escorted tours over the Bur
lington Route have just been re
ceived by The Gateway from the
Great Northern Railway. The tours
commence at Chicago and include
the Pacific Northwest and Rainier
National Park. Two parties will
sail from Seattle on July 10 and Aug
ust 7 and ‘will reach Cordova on July
15 and August 12, taking the trip tc
Miles and Childs Glaciers. If time
permits while the boat is in Seward
the visitors will be enabled to visij
Spencer Glacier.
which he urged upon the members the
necessity of their cooperation. The
need for a regular hospital and staff
for Seward, aside from the presen
ward at the home, was emphasizec
by Mr. Dunlap, and at the same time
he pointed out the financial value «
hospital would mean to this communi
ty.
MRS. LANDES LEADS
SEATTLE PRIMARY
FOR MAYOR’S SEAT
MAYOR BROWN TAGS ALONG IN
SECOND PLACE; ALASKAN
FOLLOWS IN THIRD
SEATTLE, Wn„ Feb. 24. (fP)—The
vote for mayor in the primary elec
tion held in this" city yesterday result
ed in Mrs. Landes receiving 25,869
votes. Dr. Edwin Brown, incumbent,
received 24,797. Tom Kennedy, well
known Alaskan, received 19,943 votes
and Clifford Clark, the butter and egg
man received 925 votes; John Carroll
was given 6,702 and John B. Shorett,
754 votes.
Comptroller Carroll was re-elected
for his sixth term, and Treasurer Ter
ry for his seventh term. Both men
were unopposed.
Tom Kennedy, Alaskan
Tom Kennedy, Sourdough of the
days of ’99 'was one of the candidates
in the Seattle municipal primary elec
tion who was out for nomination as
mayor. Many oldtimers remember him
as a lad in the engineering and audit
ing department of the White Pass &
Yukon Railway; at Dawson, on the
Klondike Mines Railway Survey or
prospecting in the Forty-mile region.
He made good in those days and
he has made good since. As Corpor
ation Counsel for the City of Seattle
he has a record of a heavy reduction
of the expenditures in the face of
greatly increased volume of business
—a record of having prevented the il
legal expenditure of large sums of
Seattle money in the face1 of much po
litical pressure—a clean, hard-hitting
businesslike record.
Work To Be Started
Yagataga Oil Field
The General Petroleum Company,
which has an option on several oil
claims in the Yakataga field, expects
to resume operations there in May.
Last summer a driller, caterpillar,
casing and gas rig were landed on
the ground, while the balance of the
equipment, including supplies, camp
outfit and wireless set were beached
at Icy Bay, about six miles from
Yakataga. Active work will begin
as soon as the weather permits and
it is believed that by August 1, drill
ing will start.
Ashes Former Resident
Be Scattered Over Baj
The ashes of the late Mr. Juante, i
former barber of Seward who diet
in December at Oakland, were bro>
back north by T. W. Hawkins anc
turned over to the local Igloo, Pio
neers of Alaska.
The Igloo is meeting this eveninj
at Odd Fellows hall fpr the purpos<
of arranging services which at this
time it is believed will be held Sun
day. Definite announcement will h
made tomorrow.
Byrom Elmes, alias Joe Bush, o
baseball fame, traveling engineer fo
the Alaska Railroad, came into tow:
last night from the Anchorage head
quarters.
Miss Lavonia Stotko, who has bee:
employed at the Seward Grill for som
months past, was a departing passer
ger on the S.S. Victoria, for Ketch:
kan.
FLANAGAN CALLED
TO GRAND JURY TO
EXPLAIN MISSIVE
PROHIBITION OFFICER FLANAGAN
GIVES GATEWAY TIP OF
HIS RESIGNATION
NO JOB FOR A MARRIED MAN
Plucky Agent Has Many Arrests To
His Credit In Third and
Fourth Divisions.
CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. 24.
Frank H. Foster, United States At
torney for the Third Division, who was
narffed in the letter of Prohibition
Agent D. W. Flanagan, which was
read to the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee at Washington, as a member of
the’ alleged Cordova bootlegging ring
has invited Agent Flanagan to ap
pear before the Cordova Grand Jury,
which convenes March 1, and testify
regarding the spurious letter.
Hands In Resignation
Mr. Flanagan arrived in Seward last
Sunday from Southeastern Alaska, de
parting the following day for the In
terior. During his brief visit here he
stated to The Gateway he had ten
dered his resignation, effective Feb
ruary 14, to Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews,
assistant secretary of the Treasury de
partment, Washington, D. C.
!
:
Always On the Go.
In a letter, a copy which he permit
ted The Gateway representative, to
read, he gave as his. reasons for re
signing from the service, that nearly
all the prohibition work by agents in
Southeastern Alaska, is confined to
the territory, which enables the agents
to maintain homes and enjoy the com
forts of home life, and which, also
made for less traveling expenses. But
in this district, to the westward and
the interior, an agent must travel al
most continually in order to cover the
field and that only the larger towns
could be visited about twice each year.
Due to the resulting conditions, it is
impossible for an agent to locate at
any particular town for any length
of time or for a period of not more
than six weeks.
In 1924, Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan made
their home in Seward but at no time
was he able to remain at home for a
period longer than thirty days. There
fore, Mrs. Flanagan accompanied him
on numerous trips, but the subsist
ence allowance and small salary does
not enable an officer a continuation
of this form if married.
Produced the Goods.
r Between May 1, 1923 and January 1,
1926, Mr. Flanagan states in his let
ter that he has produced 50 per cent
: of all the Alaska cases reported, al
; though five other agents were on the
[ job. He was given the hardest as
. signment and worked alone most Of
the time. He traveled over 30,000
: miles and about 90 per cent of his
> cases resulted in pleas of guilty be
j ing entered.
A large part of his work during the
i last two years has been devoted to
this division, the Third, but he esti
mates 90 per cent of his work, during
E his connection with the department,
r has been in this and the Fourth Divi
i sion.
Carried Out Duties
He has always been a firm believer
in the activities of the department, he
l said, and in acknowledgement, not
3 only from heads of the Alaska depart
- ment, but from high officials at Wash
- ington, D. C., he received numerous
compliments.
GOVERNOR HARTLEY BELIEVES STUMPAGE RATES
SHOULD BE PUBLISHED IN STATE OF WASHINGTON
YAKIMA, Wn., Feb. 24. (AP).—J. J. Donovan, a prominent Bellingham
' lumberman and president of the Washington State Chamber of Commerce
declared here today that, “Governor Hartley, of Washington, is crazy when
L (he talks about the state lumber steals. There is no whiter man in the State
1 than Clark Savage, secretary of State. The State would be laying itself
5 wide open to suits in publishing the stumpage figures, unless it included
1 a strong proviso in the announcement that the amounts are only estimates.”
Donovan said that he voted for Hartley, and added, “but never again."