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DAILY AND WEEKLY
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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 151.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FOUR YEARS QUEST FOR SPECIMENS DATING
BACK TO PRE HISTORIC ERA HAS BEEN j
SUCCESSFUL—OTTO W. GEIST, COLLECTOR
FOR THE ALASKA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
AND SCHOOL OF MINES, IN SEWARD EN
ROUTE TO FAIRBANKS WITH FIVE TONS OF
SPECIMENS.
Ethnological, anthropological and geological specimens
numbering between 25,000 and 30,000 recovered
for College museum—President Bunnell sponsored
the expedition—Mr. Geist donated his services—col
lection is a gift to Alaskans—government depart
ments praised for cooperation.
A WHITE ESKIMO
Aghvook, a member of the Es
kimo tribe on St. Lawrence Is
land, arrived in Seward on the
M. S Boxer. No more will Ag
vook eat seal skins full of Eski
mo ice cream or whale meat two
years old, even though both are
delicious to his way of thinking.
For with Aghvook’s arrival in the
city he cast aside his guise and
garb of an Eskimo to reappear
as when he left here years ago; as
Otto W. Geist, collector for the
Alaska Agricultural College and
School of Mines.
And such strange tales of the
customs and conditions of that
kindly tribe he brings back.
Sponsored by President Chas. E.
Bunnell of the Alaska College, Mr.
Geist has concluded four years
of wcrk along arehaelogical, eth
nological and geological lines for
the College and has collected
between 25,000 and 30.000 speci
mens for the museum most of
which date back to pre-historic
ages. During the last two years
lie has harvested approximately
five tons and it is doubtful, he
states, if the collection is equalled
by any museum in the world. To
Alaskans, to whom the work has
been dedicated, the collection is
invaluable. Dr. Bunnell gave the
money for the expedition and Mr.
Geist donated his time.
BEGAN INDEPENDENTLY
In 1926, after he had been out
in the field collecting specimens
for himself Mr. Geist approached
Dr. Bunnell on the subject of
using his collection as a nucleus
of museum specimens for the
College, for the people of the
Territory. Dr. Bunnell enthusias
tically agreed it was a most wor
thy idea but did not see how it
could be financed. Mr. Geist in
formed Dr. Bunnell if he would
defray expenses he, Mr. Geist,
would donate his services. The
1927 expedition was such a suc
cess that Dr. Bunnell commission
* ed Mr. Geist for a two-year quest;
this has been completed now.
The collection was gathered at
points from the Aleutian Islands
to the mouth of the Yukon River
and practically every village was
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COMMITS SUICIDE
ROCHESTER. N. Y., Nov., 19, (/P)
—Robert Searle, president of the
Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.,
committed suicide by inhaling gas
in the bathroom of his home in
Rochester. Stock market losses,
said to have exceeded $1,000,000,
were blamed for the action. It was
officially anounced Mr. Searle end
ed his life while temporarily de
langed mentally.
LOST FIRST FIGIIT IN HIS
LIFE; FAMILY AT THE
BEDSIDE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 19, (/P)—
James W. Good, Secretary of
War, died last night after blood
poisoning finally overcame his
courageous resistance.
Mr. Good, before lapsing into
final unconsciousness, turned to
his physician and sad feebly:
“I never lost a fight in my life
and am not going to lose this
one.”
Mrs. Good and their two sons
were at the bedside at the time
of death.
President Hoover was among
the first to learn of his death
and with his wife went to com
fort Mr. Good's widow. The fun
eral will be from the East room
of the White House Wednesday
morning at 11 o'clock. Burial will
be made in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The Senate adjourned its night
session. President Hoover post
poned the business conference
scheduled fc Wednesday until
Thursday night.
INVESTIGATE CRASH
WASHINGTON, Nov., 19, (IP)—In
vestigation of the stock exchange
to determine the cause of the re
recent crash in prices was introduc
ed by Senator Borah of Idaho, a
leader of the republican independ
ents, in answer to a charge of some
bankers that the democratic-re
publican coalition majority in the
senate on the tariff bill was respon
sible for the condition.
■IT TICES TO
SIM SSHQRE, ORES
EUREKA, Nov., 19, (/P)—In his
attempt to sail from Juneau to
New York in a 16-foot skin boat
Alfred Voight’s voyage was in
terrupted when high seas forced
him to desert his craft and swim
! ashore, 30 miles north of here
Voight immediately began plans
to rescue his craft and continue
his journey.
—
SWEPT NORTHWARD TO NEW
FOUNDLAND, NOVA SCO
TIA; MUCH DAMAGE
BOSTON, Nov., 19, (£>)—A quake
shook the eastern coast line of
Rhode Island and northward to
Newfoundland, at 3:35 p. m.,
yesterday and continued at in
tervals until four o‘clock.
In Nova Scotia, where the most
severe and only serious damage
was reported, several houses and
buildings were damaged.
A house was torn from its |
foundations and a long iron i
bridge near Cape Breton, was I
knocked out of alignment. Build
ings were shaken, pictures ratt- j
led, doors slammed and furni- j
ture danced in New England.
NEW YORK, Nov., 19. (A5)—Three '
persons were injured and hundreds ;
of others narrowly escaped when j
a cable broke, hurling a half ton j
block of granite into Wall street.
S rORMY
LAKE'S
CHI CAGO
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IRE COSTS
MUCH
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Lake Michigan's fury in the October storms will cost Chicago millions
in repairs. At upper left is shown the way the paving was torn along the
shore. Similar damage is illustrated at upper right. Boats washed ashore
(lower left) added to the damage. Lower right shows how cars had to bat
tle water on Lake Shore drive.
DOGTEAM, DRIVEN BY NATIVES
BROUGHT NEWS WRECK
TO VESSEL
NOME, Nov., 19, (/P)—'Word of
the wrecking of the all-metal
cabin plane of the Alaska Air
ways, Inc., piloted by Col. Carl
Ben Eielson, who was ice-bound
on the Siberian coast for eight
days, has been received by the
Swenson Fur Trading vessel, the
Nanuk, whose valuable cargo of
furs and pasengers Eielson has
been flying from North Cape, Si
beria, to Nome.
Only meager details of the
wrecking of the plane was re
ceived but it is believed that a
dogteam, driven by natives and
traveling along the coast, brought
the news to the ship as the ra
dio operator on board the ship
reported that Olaf Swenson, head
of the company, who is aboard
the ship, is sending a dogteam
from the vessel to the scene.
Not a word of the fate of Eiel
son, nor his mechanician, Bor
land, was recieved.
Pilot Frank Dorbandt, with
another cabin plane, broke an
axle in an attempt to take-off
from Teller with a heavy load
of gasoline to fly on the rescue
mission. Repairs are being made
to his plane while the arrival of
another Alaska Airways plane
is being awaited.
A blizzard is raging at Teller
and Nome and conditions are
regarded as serious.
HOPE PROMISED SLASHING OF
TAXES WILL PREVENT BUSI
NESS DEPRESSION
NEW YORK, Nov.-, 19, (/P)—While
the stock market continued to
stagger under continuous waves of
selling, both the stock exchange
and the United States government
acted to put a check to the unpre
cedented wave of liquidation.
Following a conference of Presi
dent Hoover, Secretary Mellon, and
Federal Reserve Commissioner
Young, the administration issued a
statement in which it virtually
promised with the tentative ap
proval of democratic and republi
can congressional leaders reduc
tion of one percent in corporation
and private income taxes.
The promised slashing of taxes,
it is hoped, will prevent a business
depression from following the stock
crash, and at the same time help
stabilize prices.
SAN FRANCISCO STOCK MAR
KET REPORT
Bank of America California 100;
Trans-America 4314; Honolulu oil
30; Hawaiian Sugar 4014; Rich
field Oil 2814; Richfield (Ffd) 22V2.