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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 227
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEATTLE DETECTIVES
GET WALKING PAPERS
AFTER CROSS EXAMS
ALLEGED to be implicated in
bon MARCHE ROBBERY;
INVESTIGATION FOLLOWS
SEATTLE, Sept. 26— Detectives J.
F. Majenski and Rosa Watson of Se
attle were summoned to headquarters
and dismissed from the Palice depart
ment late yesterday afternoon upon
4^;he return of Captain of Detectives
Chas. Tennant, their chief, for their
alleged connection with the bandits
who were responsible for the recent
Bon Marche hold-up. While at head
quarters, both men were stripped oi
their badges and arms and thereupon
Chief of Police Wm. B. Severyns an
nounced that developments in the po
lice bandit inquiry had proved so scan
dalous that an investigation will fol
low imediately into the entire per
sonnel of both the uniformed and
plain clothes divisions.
Severyns said the action which will
be taken in the sliake-up will be to
put to an end, once and for all time,
the scandalous activities of some of
the members of the department, and
purge the department of its crooks and
dishonest officers.
TWO SEATTLE MEN
GET 5 YEARS EACH
PENAL SERVITUDE
SEATTLE, Sept. 26—Lee H. Waite,
former ambulance driver of this city
and Dewey Gillman were tried in the
Superior court on a charge ot at
tempted robbery this afternon and
were found guilty and given the min
imum penalty which is five years in
prison.
ENGLAND INSTALLS LARGE
NUMBER SODA FOUNTAINS
LONDON, Sept. 26.—England is
said to be buying mdfre American soda
fountains now than are being sold
in America. Figures available for
the first four months of 1024 place
~ the number of fountains sold and set
up in England at 37,920. .
So popular is the soda becoming
here that it is now a common sight
to see fountains in chemists’ shops,
(drug stores), a daring innovation.
^ Many of the small villages also have
soda fountains, not as competitors of
the public houses, but installed in
them.
FOREIGNERS ROUTED
TIENTSIN, Sept. 26.—Americans
and other foreigners at Shanghai and
Kwam are camping at the sea shore
five miles from that city, having been
driven from their homes by daily
bombardments of the Chang Tso Lin’s
artillery.
DEATH OF SCARBOROUGH
AS TOLD BY CAPT. LARSON
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Charles W. Scarborough, former
photographer at Cordova, who left
Seward about two years ago with
Capt. Alexander Allen for Northern
ports to take moving pictures of wal
rus and wild game, met his death by
freezing last November, while a mem
ber of the schooner Duxbury, Capt.
C. K. Larson, with which party Mr.
Scarborough had gone into the Arc
tic to take pictures. Rumors of his
death reached here a month or so
ago, but were not verified until re
cently when Capt. Larson wrote the
following account from -Flaxman Is
land, under the date of February 28.
The Nome Nugget published the re
port thusly:
Flaxman Island, Feb. 28, 1924—
This is the first opportunity of get
ting any mail out to notify you of
the sad mishap of losing one of my
party, Charles W. Scarborough, the
photographer. Three of us w’ent up
Canning River on a hunting trip and
we were returning with a load of fresh
meat. We had traveled three days
down river which wras slow going, on
account of overflow’s on the ice and
a heavy load. We camped on Nov
ember 26, about forty-five miles from
the mouth of the river. Scarborough
spoke of going straight to Flaxman
Island the next day, which he said
could not be as far as we said it was.
He was warned by myself and part
ner not to try that, not even to leave
the sled as some accident might be
fall him. He had gotten his feet wret
the day before this in the overflow’s.
On the morning November 27th, we
AGED WOMAN SWIMMER IS
TURNED BACK BY SWELLS
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 26.—
Mrs. Anna Van Skike, who started an
all-night swim around Venice pier up
the coast at nine last night, celebrat
ing her 64-th birthday, turned back
after going several miles because of
heavy ground swells caused by pleas
ure boats operating on the bay. She
will make the swim some morning
next week after the speedboats have
stopped mnning.
OUTGOING PASSENGERS ON
THE ADMIRAL EVANS
The following local passengers sail
ed on the Admiral Evans for the fol
lowing ports: A. Inglekard and vrife,
Joe Richardson, H. C. Welch, R. H.
Graham, Joe Morland for Seattle.
Mark Adams and E. Edwardsn, for
| Cordova.
J. P. Hannon for Valdez.
Charles Marshal for Latouche.
Ed. Shureoff for Ketchikan.
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GERMANY DRAWS UP
APPLICATION TO ENTER
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
BERLIN, Sept. 26—The Greman
government today began drawing ut
a memorandum setting forth the con
ditions under which Germany will ap
ply for membership in the League ol
Nations.
I
EFFECTIVE WAY TO PRESERVE
I BUTTS OF TELEGRAPH POLES
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 26—An ingeni
ous method to save telegraph poles
from rotting has been successfully
tried here. Before being planted, ths
poles are drilled longitudinally witl
a small center holes, and then the op
ening at the bottom is plugged. This
hole runs to a point about a foo
above ground when the mast has beer
i set up. The pole erected, a small sids
hole is drilled aslant one foot abovs
ground to meet the center hole. Creo
sote oil is poured in the center bob
and the outside opening closed. Line
! men refill from time to time.
HUNTER WINS FIGHT
WITH OREGON BEAF
BANDON, Ore., Sept. 26—Whil<
hunting deer on the Hughes brothers
S ranch near the mouth of Sixes river
Dr. R. V. Leep, of this city, was at
tacked by a large black beai\ Hi;
first shot pierced brain’s nose, but i
took two more to stop him. He wa:
only a few feet from the doctor wher
he dropped in his tracks. The beai
had been on the ranch for more that
two years, living on hogs and sheep
and it is estimated he had cost th<
Hughes brothers several hundred dol
lars.
left out tent early in the morning t<
get the benefit of the morning moon
Scarborough left about twenty min
utes before the sled. About thre<
hours after we left camp a wind cam*
up which turned into a blinding bliz
zard which made traveling with th<
sled slow although the wind was near
ly at our backs. We could not se<
where we were going traveling only
by following the ice. Evidently Scar
borough never stopped. He tried t(
make Flaxman Island camp for w<
never saw him again.
We were four days getting to th<
mouth of the river with the sled. We
then went down to the East Fori
which is better going on account oi
the ice to travel on. At the mouth
of the river we met Keesik, a Native
boy, so we left our sled and went ovm
to his place that night. Keesik hac
been down the coast that day, which
was the first good day we had since
the storm started. He told us oi
seeing tracks which were those oi
a white man who seemed to have
frozen feet because he was taking
very short steps.
Scarborough had missed Keesik’s
cabin on Konganevik Point, although
he found the other cabin about nine
miles below there, where he had gone
inside and tried to start a fire with
some yarn which he had torn from
his mitten strings, but he failed tc
get the fire started, probably because
his hands were too cold or his match
es wet. From the cabin his tracks
were followed right straight out or
the ice to an open lead where nc
traces of him could be found. Mr. Lar
son concludes his letter by stating
that had Mr. Scarborough followed
the beach he would have found a
cabin in either direction in ten miles.
! SERVICE AND MUTUAL
CONSIDERATION ARE
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
COOLIDGE SPEAKS BEFORE CON
VENTION OF THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION DRUGGISTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26.—
Service and mutual consideration were
set up today by President Coolidge,
as the guiding principles' in relation
between the government and business
in a talk to the delegates to the con
vention of the National Association of
Retail Druggists.
LUMBERMAN IS RESCUED’
BY LOGGER FROM FIRES
IN ORE. TIMBERLANDS
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j OAK RIDGE, Sept. 26.—Edgan G.
| Balderee, owner of the Salmon'Creek
i logging company was cut off and ovei
come by flames while fighting a for
est fire two miles from here late yes
| terday, and as rescued by Charles M
1 Fick,(a workman, who succoded ir
bringing him out, badly burned aboul
: the arms and face.
The fire ,though still dangerous, is
| believed to be under control, after 20(
1 men fought it all night.
islandIoTsaTjuan
GROUP REPORTED BE
VERY PEACEFUI
—
I SEATTLE, Sept. 26.—One of th«
! possessions of the United State;
I little heard of in the East is th(
1 group of islands known as the Sar
Juans, in northern Puget Sound
I which came to this country as i
.! result of the decision of a Europeai
11 monarch in 1871, placing the boun
darv line between Canada and th<
United States just far enough nortl
. to make these islands a part of th*
i state of Washington.
R. M. Dyer, president of the au
tomobile club of Washington, give;
a description of this group of 171
islands, lying between the mainlanc
of northwest Washington and Van
couver Island, Mr. Dyer says;
; “It almost appears that natun
located them to be stepping stone;
, for a gigantic race which witl
’ seven-league strides would wamle:
across from Vancouver Island t<
. the mainland. They vary in siz<
. from 58 square miles to the area o
. a city lot, or even smaller, som<
, being separated by narrow chan
L nels which barely leave room fo
. the passage of small vessels. Man:
( are rugged in appearance, litth
i more than massive rocks projecting
, ■ from the depths of the sound.
; Others have fertile valleys when
contented people live in a sunshim
belt surrounded by mountains am
seas, and raise fruits almost tropi
, cal in their nature. The islands con
taining good homes, excellent road;
| and prosperous towns, v^iere delin
quent taxes are unknown and ni
bonded indebtedness exists.”
San Juan, Orcas and Lopez, thi
! three largest islands of the group
comprise about three-fourths of th<
entire area. The most rugged ii
contour and picturesque in outlim
is Orcas, which attracts thousand:
, of vacationists to its mountains ant
, beaches every year. Mount Consti
tution, rising to an altitude of 2,
> ooo feet, offers attractive view:
, to the tourists. This mountain, witl
• two lakes, a number of mountaii
! streams and wooded hills, formed par
of the estate of Robert Moran, a re
; | tired Seattle shipbuilder, who set a
J side 2,700 acres as a gift to the stat<
of Washington, to be known as Morar
! State Park. The islands abound ir
' wild game and bird life, while botl
! fresh and salt water fish are found
JUNEAU FISH PRICES
Halibut quoted here at 12 and sev
en cents. Salmon at 15, 10 and 5.
NAVY DEPARTMENf TO
STUDY DEVELOPMENT
AND MAINTENANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26.—
How the naval development and main
tenance plans for the next few years
should be shaped in the three branch
es, which includes submarine, surface
ship and aircraft, have been referred
to as a concrete problem for study
and recommendation to the general
board of the United States Navy de
partment.
STARTS 42-DAY FAST IN LILLE,
EXHIBITED IN GLASS COFFIN
PARIS, Sept. 26.—M. ,Succi, the
I professional faster, has announced he
will set a world’s record for fasting j
by going without food for forty-two !
days. The performance will take place j
in Lille.
M. Succi, dressed only in a bathing ;
suit, will place hirnself in a glass j
' coffin, which will be exposed to the |
view of the public in a cafe in the
center of the town. In the casket will
be a medicine case containing opium,
strychnine and cocaine, and several
litres of water.
M. Succi is well known for fasting i
performances, but he has never before |
attempted a long fast, the usual ex
hibition lasting only a week or ten
days.
WOMEN LAUNCH MOVEMENT
II PROHIBITION IN GERMANY
BERLIN, Sept. 26.—Welfare work
i ers who have visited the United
I States within the last few months,
chiefly for investigating the question
of prohibition, returned recently and
have announced that a movement,
sponsored principally by women,
would soon be launched here to make
Germany dry as quickly as possible.
Meetings with this end in view have I
, been held in Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg
and, it is said, even in Munich, the
home of famous brews. Most of these
meetings it is announced have been
private, the purpose being to arouse
the attention of the women whose in
fluence is to be used eventually in in
itiating the movement thruout the
| country.
The main speakers at these meet
ings were the women prohibitionists
who told of their visit ro America
and gave their views on the situation
1 there.
| ARGENTINE AVIATOR
NARROWLY ESCAPES
DROWNING IN HARBOR
HONGKONG, Sept. 26— Major Zan
ni, Argentine aviator who is on his
round-the-world flight, narrowly es
caped being drowned in a collision
between motor boats in the harbor
here today. Zanni was a a point of
exhaustion when picked up.
HER JAW AGAIN IN PLACE
( NUTLEY, Sept. 26.—Mrs. Anne
Whitmore returned to her home at 14
' Franklin Avenue today with her jaw
again in place after treatment at a
local hospital.
Mrs. Whitmore yawned after a nap
and found she could not close her
mouth. She tried to call her son
but was unable to make an intelligible
sound, so had to get up and make
signs to him. A physician was called
and she was taken to the hospital.
1 Ketchikan Eagles are starting the
construction of a new Airie. It is es
timated that the value of the building
when completed will be in the neigh
borhood of $20,000. The contract was
* let to local contractors of that city.
, DUFRESNE RETURNS FROM
DIOMEDE ISLANDS
s (From Nome Nugget).
i Frank Dufresne, fur warden for
[ this section, returned from his recent
- trip to the Diomede Islands and Tel
■ ler on the gas schooner, Hazel, of
; the United States Biological Survey
i the fore part of the week. Mr. Du
i fresne reports among the most inter
esting features of the trip, the dis
■ covery of L. J. Palmer of the Biolo
• gical Survey who is in charge of the
‘ Hazel, of a wild potato found on the
Diomede Islands, which, it is believ
ed, will develop into something worth
cultivating. This specimen, which is
a real tuber, and used for food ex
tensively by the natives of the Dio
medes as a food, has been, or will
shortly be, submitted to the Depart
ment of Agriculture, which Depart
ment, beyond a doubt, will put experts
to work on it. Mr. Dufresne and Mr.
Phillips, who accompanied him, got
some fine pictures of the Diomede Isl
ands and the bird life thereon, both
movies and stills. The party thoroly
explored both Islands, perhaps more
thoroughly than ever before. They
picked up the Missionary ship New
York wtih the Reverend Mr. Hojer in
charge. The New York was totally
disabled, having lost both anchors and
dories, and the Hazel towed the New
\ork to Teller. Mr. Dufresne an
nounces that the business of his po
sition will keep him in Nome for the
greater part of the winter.
ROUND THE WORLD AVIATORS REACH CRISSY FIELD;
SACRAMENTO NEXT STOP THENCE TO EUGENE, ORE.
SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.—Nearing Seattle, the spot which
they started on their round-the-world flight, Lieutenants Smith,
Nelson and Wade, with their mechanics, landed in Crissy Field, at
2:45 yesterday afternoon, having flown from Santa Monica in five
hours. The entire city turned out to see the intrepid flyers who
sailed out of cloudless sky from the south, over the city, and drop
ped by the Golden Gate at the Army aviation field.
One hundred thousand people were massed about the aviation
field when the flyers landed and 35,000 autos occupied every avail
able parking space within the Presidio.
Lieut. Smith responded to the greeting by city officers, and the
flyers repaired to an elaborate banquet provided for the distinguish
ed guest. In his response to the greeting by city officials, Lieut.
Smith said his greatest desire was to get away some place and rest,
lie described some of the hardships encountered, and said that world
flying was a too strenuous game to be followed as a business.
The next stop from San Francisco will be Sacramento.
MAN’S STOMACH IS GONE
BUT HE IS ^BLE TO EAT
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Ferdinand
Bittner is in a hospital here after un
dergoing a successful operation foi
the removal of his stomach. Doctors
say that he will recover and eventu
ally be able to eat liquid and juicy
foods just the same as if he had a
stomach. At present he is being
fed through a tube. Doctors whc
operated on Bittner for stomach ul
cers found that he also had cancer o!
the stomach and decided to remov<
the stomach, connecting the esophagus
to the upper end of the small intes
tine.
TROTSKY’S AID ENDS
HIS LIFE IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, Sept. 26.—Russian com
munist circles were shocked when in
formed of the death by suicide of M
Glassman, one of the most valuec
aids of Leon Trotzky.
He was secretary and confidant tc
the Soviet War Minister for six years
No motive was assigned by the au
thorities for the act, which was com
mitted during Trotzky’s absence ii
the country.
Glassman, who was only 27 year:
old and very talented, had an im
pressive military funeral.
La Follette Group Denied
a Place on Calif. Ballol
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.—By j
vote of four to three, the Californu
Supreme court today denied the La
Follette group electors a place on tin
balot in this state.
FAMOUS CROOK LEAVES
LEGACY TO'HIS FRIENDS
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 26—
An inheritance tax of $2,705 will be
collected by the state from the es
tate of \ Clark Parker, internationa
crook, who died in Pasadena in Jan
uary, 1922, leaving property in Calif
ornia valued at $269,672, it was learn
ed.
Parker moved to Pasadena in 191(
and was seventy-eight years of age
when he dropped dead, following e
heart attack. He was once knowr
to the police at “Bill, the Brute,” anc
“English Bill;” and created a Eu
ropean sensation by robbing the Bank
of France of $247,000.
His holdings in eastern cities were
said to exceed $1,000,000 at the time
of his death. His California estate
was left to fifteen former friends
who received bequests ranging from
$500 to $5,000 each. He left the Ode]
Fellows, Elks and the Masonic lodges
of Pasadena $53,673 each, while the
Al. Malakai Temple, in Los Angeles,
was given a special bequest of $25,
000.
The notorious criminal quit his
criminal career and reformed. He
lived as a recluse and devoted much
of his huge fortune to various phil
anthropies.
La Follette-Wheeler out
For Working-Girl Vote
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26.—
A drive to capture the vote of the
working women and girls for the La
Follette-Wheeler teiket was. started to
day by the American Federation of
Labor.
J. P. Hannon sailed on the Admiral
Evans for Valdez, where he goes on
business connected with the Pathfind
er.
;5 BEAUTIES REMAIN;
NEW YORK GIRL ONE
“MISS MANHATTAN” THE ONLY
SURVIVOR IN THE CONTEST
WHOSE HAIR IS BOBBED
TO FACE LAST YEAR’S WINNER
Miss Chicago, Miss Santa Cruz, Miss
Philadelphia and Miss Los
Angeles the Others.
. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 26—
“Miss Manhattan,” personified by Bea
trice Roberts of the Endicott Hotel,
New York, was one of the five sur
vivors of seventy-three contestants in
the inter-city contest to determine
who shall be crowmed “Miss Ameri
ca,” the nation’s most beautiful bath
ing girl. The five girls will have to
compete with “Miss America” of 1923
and 1922, who in every day life is
Mary Katherine Campbell of Colum
bus, Ohio.
Those besides “Miss Manhattan,”
who will stand for the final judging
to come off soon are “Miss Chicago”
(Margaret Leigh); “Miss Santa Cruz”
(Faye Lanphier); “Miss Philadelphia”
(Ruth Maleolmson); and “Miss Los
Angeles” (Lillian Knight).
If one of these wins over the pres
ent title-holder, Miss Campbell, she
will be crowned “Miss America” for
1924 at th eclose of the Atlantic City
pageant which is to be held in the
near future. If Miss Campbell wins
again tshe will be given permanent po
, session of the $5,000 trophy. “The
Golden Mermaid.” This trophy is
awarded to the girl who can win the
. title in three consecutive seasons.
EARTHQUAKE RECORDED ITALY
FAENZA, Italy, Scot. 26—The seis
mograph at the observatory of Raph
ael Bandandi at four this morning
registered a violent earthquake which
lasted for two hours. The center of
the disturbance seemed to be about
7,000 miles toward the East.
ALASKAN KILLS BEAR
WITH KNIFE AND DOGS
(Kusko Times)
Arthur Berry, like many another
fellow', is one of those w'ho is always
seeing something when he hasn’t his
gun with him. And, speaking of
bears, here’s a thriller, as related by
Mrs. Berry, w'riting from Medira, in a
letter to Robert Shively:
“Arthur w'as out on the road yes
terday with Rex and Jimmie and saw'
a bear standing in the trail, about
tw'o miles from here ,but, of course,
didn’t have any gun along,” wnrites
Mrs. Berry. “Rex and Jimmy gave
it a great chase. He went out there
again today and before he left, said,
‘there won’t be any use to take a gun
along today, as the dogs chased eveiy
thing aw'ay yesterday.”
“Jack, John and Rex, the dogs, went
with him and they caught a black
bear at almost the same place. She
would weight about 200 pounds, and,
of course, he didn’t have any gun,
and it w'as too far to come back and
get the gun. He didn’t w?ant to dis
appoint the dogs. He had his big
Marble knife w'ith him, and so cut a
dry spruce pole and tied his knife to
it, and while the dogs were fighting
the bear he w'ould jab it with his
knife. Arthur said things were pretty
I lively for about ten minutes. He
made ten good cuts on Mrs. Bear,
most of them behind her shoulders and
once in the throat. Rex w'as game,
would bite the bear and then jump
back. Arthur was gone from the
hoifse only two hours wrhen he came
back with the bear hide in a sack on
his back.