Hewsrd Essle GMUIEIY
VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 111. <
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 9 1924.
PRICE, TEN CENTS
BUILDS FINE YACHT
TO COME NORTH
ON HUNTING TRIP
EASTMAN, OF KODAK FIRM, IS
KUIDING YACHT IN WHICH
TO CRUISE ALASKA
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Built especially for uje in Alaskan
waters by big game hungers ar.u other
spout-men, a $40,000 p^wer yac'nt, 86
feet long, is now taking form on the
Martir.olich yard ways in Vashon is
land, says the Seattle Times.
7 he vessel is to b * Launched the mid- i
die cf May and to be r< udy to go into
cornu.•£sion the latter part of June.
Her l:r.es follow th«- ca.vnery tender
type, 'he constructior. being unusually
heavy because of the requirements of
noit ie<r waters.
The yacht is being built for the Al- j
aska Coast Hunting aid Cruising Co., j
of Ev n’.e, Ore. Campbell Church of |
that * ,who is one of the principal ;
owner- of the company, is now in Se- j
attle '.nferring on deiai's with L .E.
deary, naval architect, who design-j
ed the new yacht. The plans call t">J j
a beam of 18 feet C inches and a
aft cf 7 feet. 'The yacht will be
equipped with a 110 horsepower Die
sel eng'ne. She will have a cruising
radius of 3,500 miles.
Geo:ge Eastman cf the Eastman
Kodak tmpany of Rochester, N. Y.,
has taken the firs charter on the ves
sel. She will be turned over to him
shortly aftr completion and he will
then leave for Alaska waters with a .
party of friends. The Eastman charter
covers July, and dmir.g that month the j
party will hunt and fsh. At the ur.d j
of the summer, the •. cht will be turn :
ed over to other «•] » tsmen who hove
taken a charter for two and a h- '< j
months during the eutrtmn. On l'.a- !
cruise she will go to the Alaska per
insula where t ie 'aery will hunt fer j
bear and big game. Another charter
for two and one-half months for hunt-1
ing in the same region has already
been closed for next spring.
Mr. Church is well-pleased with the
progress of the yacht. He is well
known in the Northwest and Alaska as
a Kg game hunter. He hunted on the
Alaska Peninsula last year, returning
with a number of trophies.
The vessel withh have stateroom ac
commodations for eight persons. The
forecastle has accommodations for a
crew of three, with five extra bunks
far guides and packers.
ARMS CONFERENCE
MADE HARDING A
WORLD BENEFACTOR
WASHINGTON, May 9.—The call
ing of the arms limitation conference
by President Harding constituted him
one of the world’s greatest benefac
tors President Coolidge declared last
night, addessing the National Press
€lub.
JUDGE CLEGG WILL
SAIL NORTH JUNE 1
Cecil H. Clegg, district judge of
* the Fourth Division who recently un
derwent a severe operation for goitre
at the Mayo clinic at Rochester will
return home about June 1. Mr. and
Mrs. Clegg are now in Colifornia,
where they are enjoying the sunshine
and taking a rest. The department
of Justice has extended his leave of
absence another month.
rhc operation was a most difficult
one, as it was a double goitre and
had to be removed from under the
breast bone.
The Cleggs will return on the
steamsh^ Alaska, sailing about May
Si from Seattle.
DRYDEN TO OPEN UP
SECOND HAND STORE
W H. Dry\Ien leased the Loch un
building yesterday from the Seward
Real Estate Company for one year
and will conduct a second hand store
in the new local ion. He plans to open
the new- place about May 15th.
REAL RAINFALL REPORTED
FROM VICINITY SITKA
Weather reports for yesterday- from
Sitka make other Alaska towns look
like arid spots, as 3.48 inches ol
rain fell in 24 hours and it is still
falling.
A One and .46 inches of rain fell in
Juneau yesterday.
ALASKA CABLE IS
BUILT FOR ACCURACY
WASHINGTON, May 9.—Major
General George O Squier told those
at the annual meeting of the Na
tional Academy of Sciences that the
era of cable development is opening
which will give speed and accuracy
unthought of at the present time.
Major Squier said the United States
Signal Corps development of work in
connection with the new Seattle
Ketchikan cable has been carried out
in the past year in the laboratory of
William Brude, at Springfield, Ohio,
in accordance with the key plan based
upon radio engineering principles ap
plied to ocean cables has resulted
in a marked progress.
He declared there was no real com
petition between the radio and cable.
He called the radio one broadcasting
one way service and said the aable
is needed for point to point, two
way service.
ANTI-PROHIBITION
PLANK DEMANDED
IN REP. PLATFORM
NEW YORK, May 9.—Nicholas
Murray Butler made a flat footed
declaration in favor of an anti-prohi
bition plank in the Republican plat
form, asserting that the party will
lose eleven of the larger states unless
such plank is inserted.
EMBATTLED FARMER
OF WISCONSIN DEAD
MILWAUKEE, May 9.—John Dietz,
defender of Cameron dam, died here
iast night.
Cameron became a national celeb
rity when he stood off a sheriff party
attempting to dispossess him ot his
home wounding several of the posse.
DINER SERVICE CUT
OUT ON NORTH END
Announcement is made that the
Alaska Railroad on the initiation of
its new schedule of three trains a
week, beginning May 18th, will elimi
nate the diner between Curry and
Fairbanks.
Train No. 2, leaving Seward for
Fairbanks three times a week will
arrive in Nenana at 6:10 a. m. stop
ping one hour and twenty minutes
to allow passengers to breakfast.
Leaving Nenana at 7:30 a. m. the
train will reach Fairbanks at 10.15.
Train No. 1, southbound for Sew
ard will leave Fairbanks at 6:00 p.
m. stopping at Nenana a half hour
and leaving for Curry at 9:15 p. m.
Southbound passengers from Fair
banks will be forced to lunch before
taking the train.
POSTALRATES ON ~
PAPERS BE REDUCED
WASHINGTON, May 9.—The Sen
ate accepted as an amendment to
the lax reduction bill a proposal re
ducing the postal rates on newspa
pers sent as second class mail mat
ter to the level existing before.
TACOMA BUTCHER
JUMPS INTO SOUND
EVERETT, May 9.—W. R. West
lake a Tacoma butcher, mailed a
registered letter containing $500 to
a relative and jumped in the Sound,
drowning himself.
INDIANA YOUNGSTER IS
REGULAR CASH REGISTER
ANDERSON, May 9—Although our
financial advisers continually point
out that the one sure way to fortune
and a life of east is started by saving
pennies, physicians are agreed that it
is not a good idea to use the baby for
a savings bank .
Parents of Buddie Kistler, 3, took
him to a physician to remove a penny
which had lodged in his throat. When
this way done, the doctor shook out
four dimes that Buddie had swallow
ed. Buddie’s appetite has returned.
LARSON CHARTERS ROLPH
P. C. McMullen filled a large cider
today for Ne's Larson who is going
into the halibut fishing game for
himself, havin' chartered the gas
brat Rolph. Mr. Larson will leave
for the banks tomorrow night.
REMOTE NIPPON TOWN
AWAITS ARRIVAL OF
U. S. GLOBE FLYERS
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VILLAGE OF MINATO WILL GIVE
CEREMONIAL WELCOME TO
U. S. AVIATORS
TOKYO, May 9—Minato, a village
of ten thousand souls, where Japanese
whalers put out on their quest for the ,
ocean’s big game ,is preparing for the
arival of the American round-the
world flyers, an event as yet un
equaled in the history of that place.
When the American Army officers and
enlisted men, in the American air-1
planes arrive in this little Japanese
village some time in June, the event
will mark the first ceremonial wel
come that Minato has ever given to
representatives of a foreign country.
The American round-the-world air
flight may have attracted attention j
throughout the United States and in
Europe; certainly it has attracted in
no place any awed interest than in
this most provincial Japanese sea
coast town, the first hopping-off place
for the island of Japan proper, that
the Americans will use.
“When we visited Minato recently,”
said Clifford C. Nutt, of the American
Army in the Philippines, detailed to
make arrangements for the landing of
the American airmen in Japan, “the
Governor of the provinc/ and the town
authorities were most cordial to us.
The people with whom we talked of
the coming trip of the American avia
tion party discussed it as an event
about which they would tell their in
fants, for, they said, it was the first
time that ever a semi-official foreign
party had paid their village notice. It
is safe to say that the American air
men will give the village of Minato the
greatest thrill that it will experience
for many months.”
All Plans Laid
Co-operation with Lieutenant Nutt
in his arangement work in Japan are
the American Embassy staff in Tokyo,
including the American Military At
tache, Major P. R. Faymonville, Major
General Yasumitsu, head of the Jap
anese air forces, Colonel Shioden, of
| the army, and Commander Hara of the
navy, the latter three having given
the American lieutenant a banquet
shortly after his arrival, and others
in the Japanese army and navy who
j are necessary in arranging for sup
plies and landing places for the Ameri
: can visitors. During the month of Apr.
; Lieutenant Nutt visited Minato, the
: place where the American aviators
will land in Japan proper, Kasumigau
ra, a field near Tykyo, and fields near
Oska and Kagoshima. He reported
that at all these places he found sat
isfactory facilities for receiving the
American planes.
Many matters were to be discussed
after the arrival of Lieutenant Nutt
in Tokyo, among these being the con
dition of the harbors in such places
as Minato, the likelihood of serious
storms hitting the landing places at
the time of the arival of the Ameri
can aviators, whether the route from
Japan to China would go thru Ko
rea, or directly across from Japan to
China. All these matters have been
successfully settled now, and it only
remains for the American and Japan
ese departments managing the flight
to approve ,and Japan’s share in aid
ing America in the great flight will
j nave Deen accompnsnea.
Interesting Stops
The American aviators will find an
interesting crowd of spectators in at
least one place which they will make
on the round-the-world-flight. Leaving
Atka, the planes will proceed to At
tu, which is the last of tl^e American
Aleutian Islands. From there they will
proceed to Parumusriru, where they
will find a number of semi-aborigine
types. Here, as well as in Minato, Jap
an, where the aviators will visit later,
there will be exhibited the greatest
of interest in these wonderful birdmen
from the “Great White Man’s Coun
try,” but the degree of intCligence ex
hibited will not be so great as will be
that at the Japanese villages. From
Parumushiru the flight will proceed
to the village of Bettubu, in the South
Kuriles, and from that place to Japan
proper. Japanese destroyers, carrying
all necessary provisions will meet the
American aviators for the first wel
come of Japan, at the Japanese is
land possession. Lieut. Nutt the Amer
ican army man making arrangements
in Japan, will find it impossible to
get to this place because of the danger
in not getting back to Japan in time
to meet the aviators here, so this de
RECORD MADE BY
DEISEL BOAT ON
LONG TRIP NORTH
The log of the diesel engined boat
Dr. Martin, which arrived in Seward
Saturday, piloted by Capt. E. S.
Hayes of Seattle discloses a remark
able performance for the new Mianus
engine, and discloses the surprising
economy of operation from Seattle to
Anchorage, where the boat was plac
ed on flat cars and taken to Nenana
to be sent to the lower Yukon.
The actual running time of the Dr.
Martin was 185 hours and five min
utes, the log showing the distance
traveled to be 1765 miles, or an av
erage run of dVz miles per hour. The
fuel used was calol diesel oil of
which 782 gallons were consumed.
The oil cost three cents per gallon,
compared with 15 cents tor gasoline.
The total cost of the trip for fuel
oil was about $23.50, or 15 cents an
hour. The engine was 80-horse pow
er, four cylinder, and was installed
in the boat a fewr days before start
ing from Seattle north.
Capt. Hay^s and Engineer Thomas
Oakes kept a careful record of the
mileage for the company, as this is
the first engine of the kind installed
in a 65 foot boat on the Pacific
coast and the long run gave an op
portunity for a severe test.
During the entire trip in all kinds
of weather the engine never faltered
or skipped and showed unusual pow
! er. The Mianus is a full deisel of
j the two-cycle type, eliminating all
I cams, rods, and gears, and is really
nothing but a cylinder and piston,
i The charge enters at the top of the
i cylinder, following the piston down,
! and exploding under compression at
| the top of the stroke. No elaborate
' heating system is required to start
I the motor, less than 30 seconds be
ing required to get under way. i he
i compression is 360 pounds to each
! cylinder, and no valves or by-passes
! are used, the engine once the oil
j charge is adjusted, running until the
| fuel is cut off.
The motor, which is a new depart
ure, is made in Mianus, Connecticut,
I by the Mianus Motor Company, and
; costs about $100 per horsepower for
! the smaller sizes and $80 for the
larger. It is made in sizes irom
714 to 300 horsepower.
CAPTAINS FOR RIVER
BOATS ARE NAMED
FAIRBANKS, May 5—Harry Wat
son, assistant superintendent of river
transportation, arrived in Nenana last
Saturday from Anchorage. He states
that the first boat of the season for
down river will leave Nenana as soon
as the river is clear of ice. The run
will be the same as last year, from
Nenana to Holy Cross, where con
nections will be made for the lower
Yukon river points, St. Michael and
Nome with the N. C. Company’s ships
: and ior the Iditarod with the steamer
St. Joseph, operated by Ira Wood.
S. E. Lancaster has been appointed
pcit captain and J. T. Gilbert port en
gineer. The personnel of the crew is:
Str. Jacobs—captain C. W. Adams;
pilot, James Crowley; mate William
Harnett ; chief engineer, Thomas Hyde
and purser R. Session
Str. Davis—H. G. Locney, pilot C.
A. Livingstone; mate, Fred Racey;
chief engineer Ln Dow; purser Wil
liam Abbot.
PAYMASTER MISSING;
SEARCH BEING MADE
BREMERTON, May 9.—Lieutenant
Lester B. Karelle, paymaster of com
missary stores in the nav> yard is
missing and his accounts are being
audited.
FIRE MEETING TONIGHT
A fire meeting will be held at the
fh*e hall tonight at 8 o’clock. All
members requested to attend
J. H. WALKER, Chief.
tail of the arrangements will have to
be left solely to the Japanese.
To Crocs Japan
From Minato the flight will proceed
across Japan to Kasumiguara, outside
of Tokyo, to Osaka, then to Kago
shima and from there across to China.
Arrangements for entertaining the av
iators during the brief period of their
stay in Tokyo have not been made yet
due to the desire of the Japanese not
to embarras sthe American visitors,
provided their time for flight across
Japan will permit of no entertaining.
PENNILESS AMERICAN
IS HEIR TO FORTUNE
PARIS, May 9.—Dr. Orlando Ellis,
of Cleveland, Ohio, a dentist, penni
less and ill. who has been trying to
raise fare home to America, received
word today that he was heir to an
estate of $100,000 through his grand
father's will. Ellis came to Europe
several months ago to receive treat
ment from specialists having never
recovered from the effects of wounds
and gassing he received during the
war.
Dr. Ellis spent his last cent on
physicians and uanded in Paris broke.
He tried to raise boat fare by selling I
his war medals and souvenirs.
When things appeared to be the
blackest the doctor got the joyful
news that he had inherited a half
share of a $250,000 estate and the at
torneys requested his immediate re
turn.
SOLDIERS’ BONUS BILL
WILL COST NATION
OVER SIX BILLIONS
WASHINGTON, May 9.—The sol
diers’ bonus bill will cost the nation
' six billions seven hundred millions
over a period of sixty years, treas
ury actuaries reported this afternoon
i to President Coolidge who is expect
j ed to veto the measure
SMITH AND COMPANIONS
MAY LEAVE FOR ATTU
ATKA ISLAND, May 9.—Comman
der Smith of the round the world
squadron and companions plan to
hop off for Attu island, the last stop
I on the American continent today.
KOYUKUK TO HAVE
NEW RADIO PLANT
After years of effort the people of
Koyukuk district have been granted a
radio, to be operated by the govern
ment to keep them in touch with the
outside world. A wireless man will
leave for the Koyukuk when naviga
tion opens with the necessary appa
ratus.
The station is to be established at
Wiseman after investigation by gov
ernment men.
The Koyukuk is at present one of
the most isolated districts in the ter
ritory. Messages must be sent over
a hundred miles to the Yukon and
; in tlie summer it is hard to get to
i a station. The community could die
; from an epidemic before help could
be received.
Authorization for the establishment
1 of a wireless is the first recognition
| received from the government with
; the exception of the building of a
i few trails.
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FUGITIVE BANKER
ARRESTED SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 9.—Laurence A.
O’Brien, fugitive vice president of
the First National Bank of Bay
Point, California, was arrested here
today on a charge of embezzling sev
enty-five thousand dollars.
LONDON 229 YEAR
ROAD BAN LIFTED
LONDON, May 9—After a ban ex
tending over 229 years taxicabs will
now be allowed to use the roads in
Hyde Park for getting to and from
other parts of London,
i The law which prohibited the use
of the roads in the park is dated 1695,
and the terms of the notice read, “Sev
eral persons of quality were affront
ed by persons who rode in hackney
carriages, wearing masks, etcetera.
Complaint thereof being made to the
Lord Justices, an order was made that
no hackney carriages be permitted to
go into the said Hyde Park.”
SEATTLE PAINTER
KILLED BY CAR
SEATTLE, May 9.—James Halmar,
a painter, committed suicide this
morning hurling himself in front of
a street car rather than testify in a
divorce case.
WATSON OUT KETCHIKAN
The Admiral Watson sailed north
from Ketchikan at 1 o’clock this
morning.
BAG LIMIT CUT
TO ONE MOOSE AND
SEASON IS CHANGED
SHEEP AND GOATS ON EAST SIDE
OF PFNINSULA PROTECTED
AS FORMERLY
Advices were received today from
Ernest P. Walker, chief of the bio
logical survey, with headquarters at
Juneau that new game and fur reg
ulations have been issued by the de
partment, involving several important
changes. The most important of these
requiring immediate publicity are as
follows:
The bag Emit for moose south of
latitude 62 is reduced from two to one
animal and the season opens Septem
ber 1.
Protection of sheep and goats on
the east sid eof Kenai peninsula is
continued as before.
Mr; Walker states that guides and
those planning trips should took cog
nizance of these new regulations.
Fur bearing regulations continue
the closed season on beaver and mar
ten.
A number of other minor changes
have been made in both game and
fur taws which will be given full pub
licity within a few days.
Latiitude 62 is north of Anchorage
in the vicinity of Talkeetna, cons -
quently the regulations apply to ti
whole of the Kenai peninsula.
CHARLES EMSWILER
WILL RUN GAS BOAT
ON NUXA BAY ROUTE
Charles Emswiler, the original dis
coverer of the Nuka Bay properties,
will run a gas boat to the new camp
from Seward this season, carrying
miners and prospectors and their
| outfits. He has an advertisement to
I this effect in this issue of the Gate
I way, and will make trips at any
! time, if arranged for before hand.
Mr. Emswiler made the discovery
of gold bearing ores at Nuka Bay in
1917, and spent several years trying
to interest capital in the property,
before disposing of it to Frank Skeen
who uncovered the rich ledge now at
tracting so much attention.
Mr. Emswiler will use the gas boat
I May on the route, the vessel carry,
ling four passengers and their outfits.
He looks for a very busy season.
NEW ALASKA CABLE
WEIGHS 3502 TONS
SEATTLE, May 9.—The new cable
brought in by the Dellwood today
will leach 950 miles and weighs 35f*2
tons. It is unusually heavy and of
the latest type of construction.
CONGRESSMEN STAGE
HEATED FIST FIGHT
WASHINGTON, May 9.—Represen
tatives Blanton of Texas and Hammer
of North Carolina engaged in a fist
fight in the committee room of the
House today following remarks by
the Texas solon. They were sepa
rated before any damage was done.
PLANE WILL BE USED
IN SEARCH FOR MARTIN
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9.—Lieu
tenant Earl P. Tonkin will take flight
Saturday for Seattle where he will
take the cutter Bear direct to Chig
nik to direct the search for Major
Martin and Sergeanc Harvey, the
missing aviators.
OUTSIDE MAN IN JAIL
DELIVERY UNDER ARREST
COLORADO SPRINGS, May 9—
Charles Ridge, said to be wanted as
the outside man who engineered the
Denver jail break last week, has been
captured.
S. O. S. SENT OUT
Mayor L. V. Ray and other Sevr
ardites attending the term of court
at Valdez yesterday sent an S. O. S.
to Secretary Hannon asking that he
maintain a cable service to the Gla
cier city wrhile court was in session.
Mr. Hannon cabled the Gateway’s
service to the marooned attorneys.
FATHER TURNELL COMING
Rev. Fr. Turnell will arrive on Sat
urday night’s train and will hold
mass Sunday morning at 9:30.